The Shen family is a typical wealthy family.

The Shen family lived in Changzhou for many years. In the year of Chen, he became an official in the court for many years and finally settled in Changyang. He had two wives and two concubines. The original wife gave birth to the eldest son Chen Xi, and died soon afterwards. Later, he married Deng and gave birth to one boy and two daughters. The man was the second son Chen Tai, and the rest of the children were born from the concubine. Chen Tai's wife Zhang had the eldest son Zhao and the eldest daughter Juan, and he had four concubines with his fifth son Chen Qi. In addition, there were four concubines. Chen Mei's biological mother died of childbirth and was adopted by Shen Zhang since childhood. The other brothers of Chen Tai all had wives and concubines, and had a lot of children. They lived together in the same mansion, with nearly 600 slaves.

Chen Ning was ordered to pay homage to his grandfather Chen Nian on the 23rd day. His father Chen Tai and his mother Chen Zhang, four uncles and his wife, met Chen Tai, the relatives of Chen Tai, and his elder brother Chen Zhao, and his younger brother Chen Qi and his half-siblings, cousins, changed their words one by one. His boudoir name should be changed back to the word "Juan" into the genealogy, but the emperor said that the word "Ning" means peace and peace, which is very good, so there is no need to change it.

So Chen Ning was lucky enough to stay away from Chen Juan, who had a very popular atmosphere.

On the 24th, I worshiped the Kitchen God. The New Year atmosphere became stronger and stronger. Every household was busy preparing for the Spring Festival. However, this had nothing to do with the daughters of wealthy families. At most, they sat in the boudoir to choose a few new clothes and a few new jewelry to wear for New Year's Eve.

Chen Ning sat in her upper room and joked with a group of sisters. She was behind Mrs. Shen's yard in the Shen family. It was Chen Qi's yard. Chen Zhang did not want his daughter who had finally lost and recovered, so he moved Chen Qi to live with him and moved his yard to Chen Ning.

For an outsider and a widow, she is not very popular with these ladies in the deep cabinet. However, the fact that she is about to enter the palace to be a concubine is enough to make them flatter and please them, not to mention the legend of the goddess circulating on the streets and alleys.

The one who came to her today was Chen Zhao's wife Fang Yujiao, Chen Tai's concubine Chen Mei, and Chen Xi's daughter Chen Ling. Originally, Fang Yujiao and Chen Mei were always with Chen Zhang. It was only because Chen Zhang took medicine to sleep that they had the time to go to her house with Chen Ning and said that she would have sex with her family and care about whether her diet and daily life in the Shen family was safe. Chen Ling was bored and had already run to her yard.

The four of them talked and laughed, and life was better. However, Chen Ling was just fourteen years old, and she was the most innocent and curious. She was eating melon seeds, her big eyes turned, and asked with a slightly red face: "Second sister, does the emperor look good? Does it look good as Brother Xiaoyu?" Brother Xiaoyu is Chen Ling's cousin, and she has been staying in the Chen Mansion because she went to Changyang to study.

Chen Ning and Chen Mei were both stunned. Fang Yujiao first spat: "What a shameless girl! This is also what everyone can ask?"

Chen Ling pouted and twisted his body, staring straight at Chen Ning.

Chen Ning chuckled, "But Er."

Chen Mei had a complicated expression, and Chen Ling's face was unblocked with disappointment. She supported her cheeks and pouted and said, "What should I do? I like those who are good-looking, but my father wants me to enter the palace talent show with my sixth sister next year." The sixth sister is Chen Mei.

Everyone looked different.

Chen Ling was still spontaneously saying, "I don't want to go, I want to marry Brother Xiaoyu."

Fang Yujiao said: "The orders of parents and the words of the matchmaker. Where do you marry whoever you want?"

Chen Ning asked, "Do your brother Xiaoyu like you?"

Chen Ling suddenly felt energetic, "I like it, he got off the school and brought me the candy man back."

Chen Mei scratched her face and smiled and said, "I don't know how to be ashamed."

"Then does he have a fiancée at home?"

"No." Chen Ling shook his head.

Chen Ning said: "If you really like it, I will beg for you." Now Chen Xi should also look at her with a slight face, "Don't enter the palace, there is nothing good there." Fourteen years old, the shameless emperor can also speak out!

"Second Sister." Fang Yujiao hurriedly stopped him.

"That's right, sister six, let's not go to the palace." Chen Ling did not forget to bring a companion.

"I..." Chen Mei was a little embarrassed.

At this time, Eunuch Hong smiled and led a group of eunuchs carrying boxes of big and small sizes in. After seeing Chen Ning, he asked the three of them again. Chen Mei and Chen Ling were kept in the deep pavilion since childhood. There were no men in the house. When they saw several eunuchs, they wanted to hide in the inner room.

"Don't panic, two sisters. These are all slaves in the palace, so it's not a problem." After Eunuch Hong said that, he turned to Chen Ning and said, "Madam, the Lord asked the servants to use these things to ask the wife to take a look."

"What?" Chen Ning frowned slightly.

Eunuch Hong immediately signaled a slave to step forward, opened the box of rosewood, and there were three exquisite small boxes inside. Eunuch Hong opened them one by one, and the girls looked curiously and found that there were four small fragrant cakes.

"These four are royal tribute incense. The emperor ordered the servants to order all of you to taste it. If you like it, you can make the wedding incense."

Fang Yu took a small breath.

Chen Meiqi said: "There are still such rules?"

Eunuch Hong smiled and said, "I have been in the palace for many years and have never heard of such rules. This is the grace given by His Majesty," Mrs. Yan is truly favored by the emperor.

Chen Mei's expression changed.

Fang Yujiao thought, where could the woman take charge of this bridal chamber? What's more, it was a royal wedding. Although it was a marriage to a concubine, it was also a great grace.

Chen Ning didn't appreciate it and said lightly: "I don't understand these things, let Your Majesty take the initiative by himself."

Eunuch Hong seemed to have expected Chen Ning to say this, and said in embarrassment: "Madam, this is Your Majesty's will. If you don't make any decisions, these servants may be punished again when they go back."

The eunuchs in the room immediately knelt down in unison.

Chen Ning grinded his teeth, told them to get up, raised his eyes and said, "Eunuch Hong, if this trick is used too much, my heart will be hardened. Who will suffer the loss then?"

"Madam, I am kind and considerate of us servants. All the servants remember their grace." Eunuch Hong was stunned and said with a hurry. He had never seen such a straightforward and compassionate master. Even if he was kind as Queen Mother Jingmin, he would not blink.

Then he said, "Come on the way, your sister-in-law and sister are here, so I will make a decision together. Wouldn't that be great?"

Fang Yujiao hurriedly said, "Second sister, we have also taken advantage of your blessing. Would you like to smell the royal tribute incense?"

Chen Ning had no choice but to look at the eunuch behind him again, and a foreboding arose in his heart, and asked vigilantly: "It's just this fragrance?"

Eunuch Hong said slowly: "When you go back to your wife, Your Majesty also ordered you to take candles, vases, incense burners, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and the wife will take charge of them one by one."

What is he trying to do! Chen Ning sneered in his heart, can she choose this person?

Seeing her face unhesitated, Eunuch Hong took the lead and said, "I've just lit a fragrance for you and smelled it?"

Chen Ning suppressed his displeasure under the urging of Fang Yujiao and Chen Ling and nodded.

In Shen Ning's initial understanding, ancient spices were just modern perfumes. But when I was immersed, they discovered that they did not regard spices as something that only adds personal charm, but an extremely elegant attitude towards life. There are literati general ten virtues of fragrance: to touch ghosts and gods, clear the body and mind, drive away poison gas, eliminate sleepiness, live alone as friends, take a break from busyness, use more, use less, use less, and use it for a long time. It is better to use it often. In the room, incense is fumigated, wear sachets, simmer in clothes, bathe incense soup, drink fragrant tea, etc., almost every aspect of daily life is inseparable from burning incense and spices. Even if farmers leave their wives' house, they will try their best to make the simplest spices for lavender for major festivals.

She has a recipe for incense that Li Ziqi personally matched, and the fragrance is as fragrant as snow, but she doesn't wear it on weekdays, for fear of seeing things and thinking of others.

Eunuch Hong immediately ordered people to destroy the incense of the incense burner and lit the first cake incense.

The eunuch in charge explained: "This is the jade flower fragrance of Wen's family in Yizhou. The emperor and empress used this clan to incense when they were married." Yizhou is famous for its spices, and this Wen family is the first spice in Yizhou. Two secret recipes have been seen in the eyes of the royal family and become the royal fragrance. My sister-in-law couldn't help but concentrate and smelled it lightly. It turned out that the strong fragrance was really dark, and the house was filled with instantly.

"It smells so fragrant!" Chen Ling shouted in surprise. She likes incense the most on weekdays, but there is no fragrance as strong and transparent as it is.

However, when Eunuch Hong saw Chen Ning's face was light, he bowed and ordered someone to pinch the fragrance, and then burned the leaves and went to the house to smell the fragrance.

"Second sister, Yuhuaxiang is so good. Do you don't like it?" Chen Ling wished that the little fragrant cake was his own and asked Chen Ning.

Eunuch Hong smiled and said, "There are three cakes behind this. It's not too late to talk about it after several ladies and ladies." He paused and said, "Madam, this second cake is the fragrance of the country's tribute. The fragrance has been floating for more than ten steps, and it has not been dyed for many years. The Empress Dowager liked this fragrance the most back then."

Just as someone was waiting to light incense, Mrs. Chen came in from outside in a cloak and holding a hand stove.

Eunuch Hong hurriedly led the eunuchs to pay her respects.

Chen Zhang was notified by the manager when Eunuch Hong led the people into the inner courtyard. She didn't know what was wrong with looking for her daughter in the palace, so she hurriedly got up and rushed here, but found a group of little eunuchs holding wooden boxes waiting aside.

"What are you doing?" Could it be the reward from His Majesty the Emperor?

When Fang Yujiao saw her mother-in-law coming in, she hurriedly got up and untied her cloak for her, helped her sit on the warm kang, and stood by herself and smiled and told the whole story.

When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was surprised and happy. She turned to Chen Ning and said, "Ning'er, this is a great grace. Have you kneel down to thank the emperor for your kindness?"

Eunuch Hong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty has given me that since I am not by my side, there is no need for a great gift." When he returned to Shen Mansion, Dong Yuheng did give instructing me. He laughed and said that this little woman always kneeled down like a death-threatening thing. If this matter also made her kneel in front of the servant, good things would become bad things.

This is clearly explained in detail, and it is not just the word "super heart"? Chen Zhang saw that his daughter was so favored by the emperor, and he was extremely happy. He was granted the title of concubine as soon as he entered the palace, which was unprecedented in Emperor Guangde's harem. I am afraid that Ning'er gave birth to a son and was the honor of the imperial concubine, and he could not say that he would become the imperial concubine in the future.

"Since this is the case, Ning'er should be more grateful and choose carefully."

"Mom, I don't understand these things. You can choose them for me. My daughter will listen to my mother." Chen Ning's words are easy to say, and she also thought about it. Since she is in a difficult situation, she has to take on this responsibility. The affection of a loving mother makes her fake daughter unable to bear it!

"Oh, how does this make it."

"I have a high vision, so I believe in it." She looked pretty and coquettish.

Chen Zhang had always thought that Chen Ning had resentment, and Chen Ning had been cold before. She had been careful, for fear that she would make her daughter unhappy. She didn't expect her to be so intimate tone. Mrs. Chen's heart suddenly melted and she kept saying, "Okay, mom, I will help you choose, mom."

Mrs. Chen was so happy that she was dizzy. Fang Yujiao felt that it was inappropriate and didn't dare to say anything. Eunuch Hong, a slave, naturally had no way to say it, especially the master said that the wife was afraid that she was angry and wanted to make her happy and everything went as far as she wanted. In this way, he would have no way to speak.

At night, the eunuch in charge returned to the palace to report the matter in Antaitang. Dong Yuheng frowned slightly, "Is it all Mrs. Chen?"

"This... back to Your Majesty, there are two choices that Mrs. Yan personally chose."

"Oh?" Dong Yuheng became interested, "What are the two?"

"The incense and carpet paintings of the wedding."

"What incense did she choose?"

"Mrs. Yan chose Hehexiang."

The emperor was unhappy, and the fragrance of Hehe was rich, but he didn't like the fragrance. Eunuch Hong also knew about this. Could it be that she knew that he didn't like this fragrance, so she deliberately chose it? "Why did you choose this fragrance?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, Mrs. Chen originally chose Yuhuaxiang. The lady agreed, but she heard that Eunuch Hong said that this incense needs to be delivered from Changzhou quickly. The lady changed her mind. She heard that the incense in the palace was Shang Yuhehexiang, so she immediately chose this kind."

"So that's it." Dong Yuheng nodded, "Then what style did you choose for the carpet painting?"

"Mrs. I chose a hundred years of good matches that don't need to be rushed to make." The eunuch looked at the Shengyan and added, "Mrs. Chen was happy about the dragon and phoenix, but what was left in the palace was a rotten hole, and the embroiderer needed to embroider heavily."
Chapter completed!