March 20th, the 19th year of Jiayou.

According to the lunar calendar, today is a good day for everything.

Early in the morning, there was movement in the imperial city. When the sun rose to noon, the east gate of the imperial city opened, and the grand procession of carriages and ceremonial processions headed towards Jiuqu Garden.

After leaving the imperial city and crossing the stone bridge, you will see the archway of Jiuqu Garden.

After entering the archway, everyone got off the carriages and, led by a young eunuch who was guarding the palace, the much-reduced team followed the winding corridor and marched through the gardens full of pink peach blossoms and green willows for about half an hour before arriving at a large, bright lake.

By the lake, on a platform made of white jade, there is a toad statue facing the lake. In the mouth of the toad, there are thick and thin fishing rods. Dozens of young eunuchs are guarding these fishing rods, each watching the fish floats on the water without blinking.

The platform had nine steps. Yinyuan was wearing a light white Taoist robe, cloud shoes, his hair was tied up in a bun, and he wore a lotus crown commonly used by Taoists. He sat steadily on a cloud bed carved out of white jade.

Behind him stood four little palace maids dressed as boys, holding a whisk, a jade chime, a long sword and a ruyi respectively. On both sides were crane-shaped incense burners spewing green smoke that lingered around the cloud bed, making Yinyuan look even more like a god descended from the sky.

Yinqi was wearing a bright red cassock, a band on his head, and holding Buddhist beads in both hands. He sat cross-legged on a large cushion next to the cloud bed, reciting scriptures in a pretentious manner, looking like a high monk.

These two uncles and nephews, who are the most noble in the world, might have been frightened by ghosts some time ago, so whenever they feel like it these days, they play all kinds of games in Jiuqu Garden.

Footsteps were heard, and a group of young eunuchs guarding the palace came over with 1,800 beautiful ladies.

These beauties were sent to the imperial city in mid-February. After several rounds of screening, they carefully learned the various rules and etiquette of the palace. After numerous eliminations, those who were finally able to stand here were the top girls in the entire Haojing City.

Long and short, thin and plump.

These carefully selected beauties, wearing identical aqua blue pleated skirts and having identical hair buns, lined up in neat rows, swaying gracefully like willow trees by the water.

The eunuch in charge of ceremonies was shouting and directing the ladies to kowtow to Yinyuan according to the palace rules.

Yin Yuan sat on the cloud bed, looking down at these beautiful ladies from a high position. Suddenly, he sighed heavily towards Yin Qi beside him: "Uncle, do you know what I am thinking about now?"

With saliva on the corners of his mouth, Yinqi looked at these beauties with a smile, his eyes rolling around and no one knew what he was thinking.

Hearing Yinyuan's words, Yinqi murmured: "Of course, how can I give them one by one..."

"Am I such a person?" Yin Yuan rolled his eyes at Yin Qi and murmured, "I was thinking, fortunately I am not a complete tyrant, and I will not waste too much energy on these beauties after choosing them."

Yinqi looked at Yinyuan with sidelong eyes, with a look of disbelief.

Yin Yuan also glanced at him: "Think about it, there are so many lions, tigers, leopards, bears, crickets, and so many interesting things in Jiuqu Garden... Can I waste all my limited energy on them?"

Yinqi's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "That really makes sense, doesn't it? Then why are there so many beauties here?"

Yin Yuan waved his hand generously: "Uncle, just pick more to take back... I think their families can understand that if they can't become imperial consorts, becoming princesses is also good. Tsk... these girls, also... also... also..."

As he spoke, Yinyuan's eyes were scanning these beauties one by one.

When he said this, his eyes fell on a concubine standing at the back, and then he couldn't take his eyes off her.

After these careful selections, the beauties sent to Jiuqu Garden all had certain standards for their height.

According to their age, the height of these concubines was generally between six feet eight inches and seven feet three or four inches. If they were too short, it would be a hindrance to the height of possible future princes and princesses; if they were too tall, it would be an offense to the emperor. You can't be the same height as the emperor, right?

Among this group of beauties, there was a girl in the last row, the first one on the far left, who was the farthest away from Yinyuan. She was over eight feet two inches (about 190cm) tall.

With such a figure, she was more than a foot taller than ordinary concubines, standing out from the crowd and giving Yinyuan a great visual impact.

This beauty is especially so because she is not only tall, but also has perfect body proportions. Despite her height, she has such a slender waist, such straight and long legs, and such a well-proportioned figure.

The beauties selected into Jiuqu Garden were all very young, ranging from twelve to fourteen or fifteen years old.

These little girls all have fair figures and are as skinny as bean sprouts.

However, this tall beauty has perfect breasts that stand out from all other women. Even among the concubines in Jiuqu Garden, her breasts are unique and incomparable.

Yin Yuan swallowed.

What was even more surprising was that this concubine was so beautiful and had such a good figure. She also had an inexplicable charm radiating from her bones, like a big magnet, firmly attracting Yin Yuan's attention.

Just by seeing her, Yinyuan felt hot and weak all over, with heat surging all over his body, making him upset and restless.

Yin Yuan looked at the concubine for fifty, six, seven, eighty, or ninety times, and was just about to wave his hand to ask her to come forward a few dozen steps. When she walked in front of him, several pairs of huge golden swallowtail butterflies flew from nowhere and flew to the side of the concubine, dancing around her.
"Ah, ha!" Yin Yuan stood up and exclaimed subconsciously.

Before these beauties were sent to Jiuqu Garden, they had to bathe and change clothes. All procedures were monitored by the elders in the palace. The bathing products and clothes they used were all of uniform standards, and it was absolutely impossible for them to hide anything with anything.

These swallowtail butterflies did not go to other concubines, but flew around this tall concubine. Yin Yuan could imagine it - this concubine must have a natural body fragrance, which even the swallowtail butterflies could not resist!

"What a natural beauty... I only want this one, okay?" Yinqi also stared at the concubine.

"Haha, don't even think about it!" Yin Yuan cursed in a low voice: "As an uncle, you are competing with your nephew for a woman. Aren't you afraid of being scolded to death by the world if it gets out? Especially, this is a concubine selected for the emperor. If you dare to touch her, you are usurping the throne. If it were Taizu or Taizong, you would be tortured to pieces!"

Yinzhi cursed.

It seems that all the promises made by Yinyuan just now have been dissipated like a wisp of air in the wind?

Looking at the tall concubine, Yinyuan suddenly felt that the remaining thousands of concubines were also boring.

"You, the tallest one, come here! Come forward, let me take a closer look!" Yin Yuan waved at the concubine, "Walk slowly, be careful, don't be nervous, watch your step, don't sprain your ankle!"

The beautiful girl lowered her head slightly, with an indescribable shyness and charm, and walked towards this side step by step, as lightly as a water lotus floating on the waves.

When she reached the bottom of the steps, Xiu Nu timidly bowed to Yin Yuan: "I am Bai Shuang, the humble lady, and I pay my respects to Your Majesty. May Your Majesty live a long and healthy life!"

"Bai... Baishuang?" Yinyuan's face twitched and he took a step back.

Yin Yuan knew about the drastic changes in Bai Changkong's family and Bai Lu's transformation into a ghost.

This incident caused such a big fuss that Bai Changkong tried his best to hide it from the world, but Lu Yi had already compiled the details into a memorial and handed it to Yinyuan.

According to the intelligence, there was a distant niece who was said to have lost both her parents and traveled thousands of miles from Bai Changkong's hometown to Gaojing to seek refuge with Bai Changkong.

The information from the Guard Palace Supervisor gave an even more detailed explanation - Jia Yu originally wanted to disgust Bai Changkong, so the name he put in Chu Xiu's book was Bai Lu.

However, Bai Changkong gave a large sum of money to General Le Wu, and the general then colluded with Yu Sandou and changed the name in Chu Xiu's booklet to Bai Shuang.

Anyway, they are all girls from the Bai family. Before their names on the Chuxiu booklet are officially announced, it doesn't matter who fills in the name.

"I never expected that she would be such a beautiful woman!" Yin Yuan was a little distracted.

Such a beautiful woman, but unfortunately she is Bai Changkong’s distant niece.

But then, Yinyuan's heart beat violently a few times - 'Hey, she's Bai Changkong's niece'?

In a flash, Yinyuan sighed again and said to Yinqi: "What a pity, she is just his distant niece..."

Yinqi rolled his eyes at Yinyuan fiercely: "What a pity, but, even if Bai Changkong has a distant aunt or something like that, considering his age... hehe!"

The two 'hehe' sounds are very hurtful.

Yinyuan thought about Bai Changkong's age and shook his head vigorously.

He walked down the steps, moved closer to Bai Shuang, and sniffed hard. Sure enough, he smelled a rich, subtle, cool, natural body scent that was a bit like ambergris and musk, but more elegant and timeless.

"Such a beauty... Alas!" Yin Yuan looked up at Bai Shuang, who was half a head taller than him, and murmured, "No wonder you were sent here despite your height. You are Bai Changkong's distant niece, so I have to give you face no matter what."

"Lao Yu, Lao Yu, you don't need to look at the other concubines. Send them to serve in various palaces and pavilions according to the rules."

"This white frost..."

Yinyuan waved behind him, and the four girls behind him walked down one by one.

He took a look, took the red jade ruyi inlaid with seven treasures such as gems, pearls, agate, tortoise shell, etc. from a female leader, rubbed it, and handed it to Bai Shuang.

"Hey, from now on, you are my Imperial Concubine, and your status is equal to that of Concubine Qi."

"Well, I have to think of a good title for you. Those words like 'virtuous and kind' are too vulgar and unworthy of you... You come from the family of Bai Changkong, the vice-chancellor of the Imperial College. Chancellor Bai is a great scholar of literature and education."

"Bai Shuang, from now on, you will be my imperial concubine, 'Concubine Wen', hehe, 'Concubine Wen', 'Wen'! It's wonderful!"

I don’t know what Yin Yuan thought of that was so funny, he just kept laughing in a very obscene way.

When Bai Shuang took the red jade ruyi, Bai Lu appeared out of nowhere at the highest point of the Imperial College Library in Kunpengfang and let out an extremely shrill scream towards the sky.