The biting cold winter snow flutters and falls into the world again.

Kaifeng Prefecture was once again trapped in a icy and snowy way. The snowflakes seemed to be dancing with the wind, floating in the air, slowly falling down.

Another night of snowfall turned the entire city into a white area.

Pan Qiaolian leaned against the window, watching the snowflakes falling outside the window, and the snow in the yard getting thicker and thicker, but she thought of the past when she was young, she made snowmen and played snowball fights with Brother Dawu. It seemed that it happened yesterday, but it was many years in the blink of an eye.

At that time, she just thought that Brother Dawu was the best, but later she realized that the relationship between the two was just a mirror and water moon. Now... Brother Dawu is about to become an official soon.

This time it was the Queen Mother Xuanzhao! He also sent the middle-level official in the palace to Daming Mansion. When he brought Brother Dawu back, he would go to the palace to paint the Queen Mother and the official painter.

With Brother Dawu's painting skills, it will be sooner or later to be awarded an official position after the two portraits are completed. Moreover, his paintings are no longer cheap now. The portrait has been opened to three to five thousand pieces, and it is easy to earn tens of thousands of pieces a year.

If you get to Your Highness Duan again, then you will be a god-like life in the future. You live in Kaifeng Prefecture for half a year, live in Yuntai Mountain for half a year, and sell a few paper paintings a year...

Thinking of the happy and carefree days in the future, Pan Qiaolian couldn't help but laugh and slowly turned around.

In the room, Mr. Pan sat aside with a smile on his face, looking at his own girl.

"Brother Eleven, I'm afraid I'm not suitable to meet His Highness Duan?"

King Duan had already sent someone to find Pan Qiaolian, saying that he wanted to meet the real person in "Photo of Pan Qiaolian".

He didn't say anything else, but Pan Qiaolian still vaguely felt something was wrong.

After all, now is the critical moment for Prince Duan to choose a concubine! Although the final decision was made about choosing a concubine, Queen Mother Xiang had always favored Prince Duan, which is known to everyone in the Kaifeng Prefecture's powerful circle. Therefore, as long as the woman Duan likes meets the requirements of being a princess, the Queen Mother will not refuse to agree.

Except for a poor family, Pan Qiaolian meets all other conditions. She is a daughter of the Pan family and is in good health. She should have no problem having children. She is also beautiful and has rich family. She is not the kind of declining nobleman.

When you have money and the generals add up, they are almost the same as the old party. The foundation of the old party is the wealthy literati and official in the northern part. Although the generals are not the most senior Jinshi civil servants in the literati class, they are undoubtedly also members of the literati.

Pan Qiaolian is not very interested in becoming the official concubine of Prince Duan. If Prince Duan cannot become an official family, he is just a wealthy idle person encircled in Kaifeng Prefecture. He can't compete in martial arts with great martial arts, and who is not a prince of the Song Dynasty has many wives and concubines?

If he became an official family... Haha, for some reason, since Emperor Renzong, the lifespan of the Song Dynasty has not been very long.

Emperor Yingzong died at the age of 45 and Emperor Shenzong died at the age of 38. The current official family is sick in his twenties and is almost out of reach.

In addition, the struggle in the palace is becoming more and more cruel, and even the empress of the main palace has been deposed by the official family...

This Yanfu Palace is the den of a dragon's pond! If there is no means to stab a tiger and kill a bear, it will not end well when you enter. It is better to be a wealthy idle person with Brother Dawu.

How come Pan Xiao'an doesn't know the girl's thoughts?

Marrying King Duan is not good for Pan Qiaolian, but it is of great benefit to the Pan family!

Official Pan picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of the tea.

After pondering for a long time, he smiled and said, "Your Highness Duan just had the intention to compete with Wu Dalang... As a young man, how could he be so easy to convince people? If you don't let him see his true face, how could he know Dalang's power?

But what you said is right, female aphrodisiacs... well, they are not suitable for showing up in public. But there is no way to adapt. You can dress up as a man to meet Duan Wang. Don’t have a private meeting alone, you can meet His Highness Duan Wang at the Xiyuan Elegant Festival.

This talented woman from the Kaifeng Prefecture official and noble family dressed in men's clothing to attend the poetry gatherings is a common occurrence. Even if she spreads it, it is a good story."

Now the Northern Song Dynasty was still open-minded, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were not in the Ming and Qing dynasties when Neo-Confucianism was flourishing. Women of the literati class had not been completely locked up in the back house. It is also uncommon for talented women to disguise men and participate in various literati gatherings.

Moreover, Pan Qiaolian herself has a very active personality. Even after marrying Wu Haogu, it is impossible for her to stay away from the door, let alone now?

However, Pan Qiaolian thought about it and replied, "I'm afraid it's not very suitable, right?"

Official Pan laughed: "Why is it not suitable? Eighteen, have you actually met His Highness Duan?"

"Have you seen it?" Pan Qiaolian smiled, "Did you see it when you were a child?"

"No, just a few days ago."

"How many days ago?"

"Zhao Xiaoyi is King Duan?"

"He is His Highness Duan?" Pan Qiaolian was stunned.

Pan Xiao'an smiled and said, "When we met again, you were still Pan Xiaolang and he was still Zhao Xiaoyi. Is that good?"

"That's it... OK."

Pan Xiao'an breathed a sigh of relief. What he could do now was to create conditions for his sister to meet Duan. If Duan didn't like him... then he had no choice but to take advantage of that boy Wu Haogu.

...

Wu Haogu was wearing thick fur, his body shrank into a ball, rode on a castrated horse, and walked well in the snow.

It was snowing heavily and the weather was very cold. If it were a eunuch like Liu Youfang, he might have to rest in Huazhou for a few days.

But Tong Guan is not a literary eunuch. He is a military eunuch who is not afraid of hardship or coldness. Other eunuchs regard serving in the frontier army for five years as a chore, but since he entered the palace, he spent most of his time in front of the frontier army, and I don’t know how many colder and harder chores he did.

Moreover, his body was not as strong as a castrator. In such cold weather, he didn't even need fur. He could walk forward through the snow with a cotton robe and a wool cloak.

Wu Haogu looked at the back of the official Tong, and couldn't help but wonder: If this guy doesn't castrate himself and enters the palace, he can have a dignified way to join the army, and he might become a famous general, right?

Among the people in the group, the one who can compare with him is Ma Zhi, who has grown up in western Liaoning since childhood. The snow in Kaifeng Prefecture is nothing to Ma Zhi.

Tong Guan and Ma Zhi, both of them still walked together, and they were like good friends who got the same one-on-one.

The content of the conversation between the two was about the Liao Kingdom.

According to Ma Zhi, there is a civil war in Liao Kingdom now, and there is an external war that is about to break out.

The civil war was caused by the Northern Shubu chief Mogus and the Khitans fighting to death on the grassland. In history, this war had to be fought until Mogus's son Maerhusi - called Buyi Lu Hei Khan, the grandfather of the Khitans later destroyed by Temujin - was killed by the Khitans. It was already 1110 AD.

The imminent foreign war was between Goryeo and Liao, or to be precise, the war between Goryeo and the Nao Ren under the Khitan rule.

Because the Khitans had to concentrate on dealing with the rebellion of Beizhubu, they relaxed their control over the tribe of Naoji. The Wanyan tribe, who served as the governor of Naoji for generations, wanted to take the opportunity to rise, while the Goryeo of Wang was also ready to take the opportunity to attack the northern expedition to seize the tribes of Changbai Mountain.

Therefore, the war between the daughter Zhijiedushi and the Goryeo Kingdom, who belonged to the Liao Kingdom, was about to break out.

What? Wu Haogu, who was riding a horse and following Ma Zhi and Tong Guan, kept listening with his ears on his back. When he heard that the Goryeo Kingdom was going to fight with the Jurchens, he was really surprised.

Now, more than ten years have passed since the rise of the Jurchens. The Jurchens should be very powerful, right? Maybe they can't push the Khitan, but how could Goryeo Kanzi be the opponent?

This war must have not happened in history, right?
Chapter completed!