Chen Nian's appearance is outstanding to begin with, and after being influenced by Yang Zhao for these years, she has a quiet temperament. Now with this pink peach blossom headdress, she looks even more beautiful.
Shen Nian was stunned.
She couldn't let go of the pink beads and the hanging tassels on the headdress, her eyes sparkling: "Sister-in-law, this is the first time that Nian Nian feels that she is so beautiful."
In fact, she knew that she looked good, but it was the first time she wore such a beautiful headdress, and she was very happy.
Yang Zhao looked at her through the bronze mirror with a gentle smile: "Our sister Nian is really beautiful. I'm afraid that even the queens and princesses in the palace are not as pretty as our sister Nian!"
The queen or princess in the palace?
Shen Nian subconsciously turned around to look at Yang Zhao, “Sister-in-law, have you met the Empress and Princess in the palace?”
"I've seen them, but many of them...are not as pretty as our Sister Nian!"
"However, it's a good thing that the Second Master no longer holds an official position. Otherwise, Nian Jie'er would have been sent to the imperial selection in two years. The imperial palace is not a good place..."
But Shen Nian didn't listen to anything else.
The only word left in my mind is "draft"!
Selection? If she could enter the palace for selection, with her beauty...
Something seemed to be breaking ground in Shen Nian's heart.
Yang Zhao glanced at her, the smile in his eyes deepened. He stopped talking about this topic and said to Dong Shuang, "Leave this headdress to Sister Nian, and put the rest away. However, it seems to me that it's still a little short of what you have. Go to my storehouse and see if there's any other dowry you can use. Then, take it and exchange it for silver..."
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When Shen Nian returned to the Second Courtyard, he went straight to the main house to find Song and told her everything he had seen in Qin Garden.
"Mother, my father and brother are both lying in bed and can't get up. Even if they weren't injured, given our illegitimate status, do you think the old lady would be able to pay for our second wife to get an official position?"
Song's face looked grim: "But there's nothing I can do."
"Of course there's no way! Mother, don't you have a lot of money saved up? And your dowry is also fine. When the government raided our house, they didn't confiscate the dowries of our female relatives."
"Now, convert all your dowry into silver. I'll give it to my sister-in-law and ask her to find an official position for our second wife. Otherwise, our second wife will never have a chance to succeed."
When Song heard that her daughter was actually eyeing her dowry, her face suddenly changed: "How can there be no future for her? Sister Nian, you are too serious. Your father and brother are truly talented. There will always be opportunities in the future..."
"mother!"
Shen Nian was really going to be pissed off by this shallow-eyed mother.
"Didn't you send someone to secretly inquire? My sister-in-law said privately that our Shen family was exiled, and the emperor will not use us again in the future. If we miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to enter the court again in the future."
Song was about to say something when Aunt Yu beside her started to persuade her, "Madam, I think what Sister Nian said makes sense. After all, the Yang family is a noble family and they must know more than others. It is definitely right for us, the Second House, to follow the First House."
"Besides, Yang has always liked our Nian Jie'er. Even if it's just for Nian Jie'er's sake, Yang will definitely help our second wife a little. If you can really find an official position for the master or the eldest young master, you won't have to rely on the first wife's face all the time in the future, right?"
The last sentence hit Song's heart.
"But, but if I really give the dowry away, what I will have in the future..." Song was still a little hesitant.
Shen Nian suppressed her irritation and analyzed the pros and cons for Song: "Didn't mother say before that we have to rely on father and brother from now on? As long as father or brother get an official position, your dowry can be redeemed slowly. But if we miss this opportunity, father and brother will really have no future. How can they protect our second branch in the future?"
How can she marry into a good family in the future?
A person born out of wedlock, without any official position, and previously exiled for being a criminal, Shen Nian could imagine how low the family she would marry into in the future even if she used her toes to think.
She doesn't want it!
She looked down upon none of those lowly families. If she was going to marry, she had to marry someone of higher status. Moreover, her sister-in-law had said that with her beauty, she could outshine all the ladies and princesses in the palace.
If her second wife didn't give birth to someone with an official title, then she wouldn't even be eligible to participate in the imperial selection in two years!
Thinking of this, Shen Nian quickly softened her voice and coaxed Song: "Mother, as women, we should all regard our husbands as our God. Isn't that what you taught me? My sister-in-law sold all her dowry and shops to get an official position for the eldest wife. She is such a shrewd person. Even she is eager to hold silver and money to seek an official position. There must be a lot of connections here."
"Besides, if you can find me an official position, I'll definitely remember your kindness and won't let those little bastards in the backyard get ahead of you anymore..."
Song's heart was shaken, but she finally gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll sell the dowry I have on hand later."
"Don't look back, hurry up and let Aunt Yu go now."
"So anxious?"
"Do you think only our second branch heard the news? Those people are very cunning. I'm afraid someone has already thought of exchanging the dowry. Let's quickly exchange the silver and money. Then I will go to my sister-in-law and cry. She will definitely get an official position for my father. She loves me the most..."
At night.
As Dong Shuang removed Yang Zhao's red hairpin, she whispered, "Aunt Yu from the Second Courtyard left home shortly after the Sixth Miss returned, secretly visiting the large pawnshop west of the city. People from the Third and Fourth Courtyards followed suit, and as for the East and West Courtyards, they seemed to have heard the news as well, and they sent out the male steward from the outer courtyard a while ago."
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