The cold and biting winter snow, fluttering, once again sprinkled on the world.

Kaifeng Mansion fell into a group of ice and snow again. The snowflakes, like goose feathers dancing with the wind, floated in the air and fell slowly.

Another night of snowfall turned the whole city into a white patch.

Pan Qiaolian leaned against the window, watching the snowflakes fall outside the window, and the snow in the courtyard was getting thicker and thicker, but she thought of the past when she was a teenager and built a snowman with Brother Dawu and had a snowball fight. It seems like it happened yesterday, but in the blink of an eye, it's been years.

At that time, she was just ignorant and thought that Brother Dawu was the best, but later she knew that the relationship between the two was just a mirror, and now she ...... Brother Dawu will soon be an official.

This time it's the Queen Mother's call! He also sent the lieutenant in the palace to the Daimyo's mansion, and when he brought his brother Dawu back, he was going to enter the palace to paint the queen mother and the official's house.

With Brother Dawu's painting skills, after the two portraits are completed, it will be sooner or later. And his paintings are not cheap now, a portrait of a paper has been opened to three or five thousand yuan, and it is easy to earn tens of thousands of yuan a year.

If you are next to His Royal Highness King Duan, then it will be a fairy-like day in the future. Half a year in Kaifeng Mansion, half a year in Yuntai Mountain, a year to sell a few paper paintings......

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

In the room, Pan Daguan sat on the side, with a smile on his face, looking at his sister-in-law.

"Brother Eleven, a slave and a woman, I'm afraid it's not suitable to meet His Royal Highness King Duan, right?"

King Duan had already sent someone to look for Pan Qiaolian, saying that he wanted to see the real person in "Pan Qiaolian's Photo".

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

After all, now is the critical moment for King Duan to choose a concubine! Although the matter of choosing a concubine, it was the Empress Dowager Xiang who made the final decision, but the Empress Dowager Xiang has always favored King Duan, which is known to the elite circle of Kaifeng Mansion. So as long as the woman that King Duan likes meets the requirements of being a princess, the Queen Mother will not refuse.

And Pan Qiaolian met all the other conditions except for a small number of people. She is the daughter of the Pan family, and her health is also very good, there should be no problem with having children, she is also beautiful, and her family is rich, not the kind of declining aristocracy.

Rich and Jiangmen together, they are almost a faction of the old party - the foundation of the old party is the wealthy scholars in the north, and although Jiangmen is not the most senior Jinshi civil official in the scholar class, he is undoubtedly a member of the scholars.

Regarding becoming the concubine of Duanwang, Pan Qiaolian is not much interested in it now. If King Duan can't become an official, he is just a rich idler who is trapped in Kaifeng Mansion. It's not much stronger than martial arts, and who of the princes of the Great Song Dynasty doesn't have a group of wives and concubines?

If you become an official...... Hehe, for some reason, since Emperor Renzong, the longevity of the Great Song official family has not been very long.

Emperor Yingzong died at the age of forty-five, Emperor Shenzong died at the age of thirty-eight, and the current official family is only in his twenties and is sick and crooked.

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

This Yanfu Palace is the Longtan Tiger's Den! If there is no means to stab the tiger and kill the bear, it will not end well if you go in, it is better to be a rich idler with Brother Dawu.

How can Pan Xiao'an not know the girl's thoughts?

Marrying Duanwang is not good for Pan Qiaolian, but it is a huge benefit for the Pan family!

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

After pondering for a long time, he smiled and said, "His Royal Highness King Duan just has a mind to compete with Wu Dalang...... Young people, how can they be so easy to convince? If you don't let him see his true face, how will he know how powerful Da Lang is?

But you're right, women...... Well, it's not a good place to show up. But it's not that there is no way to be flexible, you can dress up as a man to meet Duanwang. Don't have a private meeting alone, you can meet His Royal Highness King Duan at the West Garden Elegant Collection.

It is also a common thing for the talented women of the official eunuchs of Kaifeng Mansion to dress up as men to participate in the poetry gathering, which is to spread it out, and it is also a good story. ”

Now it is still the Northern Song Dynasty with open folk customs, not the Ming and Qing dynasties where science flourished, and the women of the scholar class have not been completely imprisoned in the back house. It is not uncommon for talented women to disguise themselves as men to participate in various literati gatherings.

And Pan Qiaolian herself is also an active character, even after marrying Wu Haogu, it is impossible to go out of the door, let alone now?

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

Pan Daguan laughed: "Why is it inappropriate? Eighteen, you have actually met with His Royal Highness King 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 the king of Duan?"

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

Pan Xiao'an smiled: "When we meet again, you are still Pan Xiaolang, and he is still Zhao Xiaoyi, is this good?" ”

"That's ...... All right. ”

Pan Xiao'an sighed, what he can do now is to create conditions for his sister to meet with King Duan, if King Duan doesn't like it...... Then he can't help it, so he can only cheap Wu Hao Gu that kid.

……

Wu Haogu was dressed in a thick fur, his body shrunk into a ball, and he rode on a castrated, well-behaved horse and hurried in the snow.

The snow was heavy and the weather was cold. If it is replaced by a eunuch like Liu Youfang, he may 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 and cold. Other eunuchs regarded serving in the frontier army for five years as a chore, but since he entered the palace, he has spent most of his time in front of the frontier army, and he doesn't know how much he has done colder and harder errands.

And his body is also strong and not like a eunuch, in such cold weather, he doesn't even need a fur, a cotton robe, a wool cloak, and he can brave the snow to move forward.

Wu Haogu looked at the back of Tong Daguan, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart: If this product is not castrated into the palace, but can have a dignified way to join the army, he can probably become a generation of famous generals, right?

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

Tong Guan and Ma Zhi, the two are still walking side by side, as if they are good friends who see each other one-on-one.

The content of the conversation between the two is still about Liao.

According to Ma Zhi, there is now a civil war in Liao, and at the same time there is a foreign war that is about to break out.

The civil war was fought to the death of the Khitans and the Khitans of the Northern Blockade chieftain of the steppe, and the war was fought until the Khitans were killed by the Khitans by the Kham's son Marhusi, known as the Buluhei Khan, who was later destroyed by Temujin.

And the imminent foreign war was between Goryeo and Liao, to be precise, between Goryeo and the Khitan women.

Because the Khitans wanted to concentrate on dealing with the rebellion in the north, they relaxed their control over the daughters. The Wanyan Division, which has served as the envoy of the Zhijie of the daughter for generations, wants to take advantage of the opportunity to rise, and the Wang Goryeo is also ready to move, wanting to wait for the opportunity to go on the Northern Expedition to seize the Nuzhi Changbai Mountain Tribe.

Therefore, the war between the Liao State's daughter, the Zhijiedu Envoy, and the Goryeo Kingdom, is about to break out.

What the? Wu Haogu, who was riding a horse and following behind Ma Zhi and Tong Guan, had been listening with his ears pricked up. When he heard that the Goryeo Kingdom was going to war with the Jurchens, he was really taken aback.

Now that it has been more than ten years since the rise of the Jurchens, the force of the Jurchens should be very strong, right? Maybe you can't push the Khitan yet, but how can the Goryeo stick be an opponent?

This war must not have happened in history, right?

Otherwise, even if Wang's Goryeo does not destroy the country, it should be beaten as "Southern Goryeo", right?