Chapter 994 - 996: Unfilial Son (7)
Cai Wei slowly walked to a chair and sat down, she looked at the two women and asked, "What are your names, and how old are you?"
The maid in light green clothes bowed and said softly, "Replying to Miss, I am Madam Lian, and I am sixteen years old this year."
The other, wearing a floral open-collared shirt, also bowed and said tenderly, "Madam Lian pays respects to Miss. Replying to Miss, I am seventeen years old!"
In her memory, the girls at Shouma Pavilion were mostly young, referred to as concubines, generally around thirteen or fourteen years old, with many around ten, and even seven or eight years old was not unusual. However, they all had to be pure, beautiful, and clean, with agile minds. After entering Shouma Pavilion, they began to learn singing, instruments, and poetry, specifically studying how to please men—essentially, they were being cultivated as qualified concubines or first-class maids. Lady Mu Bai and Lady Li, however, had selected girls who were two to three years older than usual. It seemed they feared choosing girls too young for their father to handle, which would make it impossible to drive a wedge between him and their mother!
Cai Wei laughed coldly, "What delightful girls in the prime of your beauty, do you know what this old man bought you for?"
Madam Lian said tenderly, "Grandmother instructed us to wait upon the House Masters..."
Cai Wei asked, "Then do you know who I am?"
Madam Lian said, "I heard that Miss is King Qin’s unfinalized Royal Consort. Yesterday, when King Qin proposed, the entire Capital was stirred!"
"Hehe——"