Chapter 4 "Touching the Dragon and Talking about the Empress Dowager Zhao"
Shangguan Wan'er came quickly, this is not in ancient times, there will be some delay on the road, modern planes and cars are very convenient, in the morning, after the order of the Empress Wu, before noon, people have already arrived at Jinghu Villa.
The first thing she did when she arrived here, Shangguan Wan'er did not summon Zhang Yizhi immediately, but asked her to remove the body of the martial steward's son blocking the gate of the villa immediately.
As for what to do with this corpse, Shangguan Wan'er didn't care at all, because in her opinion, no matter what the outcome of her meeting with Zhang Yizhi this time was, Steward Wu and his dead son had become pawns that all parties were ready to abandon together.
To abandon a child is to have the consciousness of being an abandoned child!
Of course, the more important reason is that Jinghu Villa has a special meaning for Shangguan Wan'er, this royal manor under Li Xian's name is where Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xian met for the first time.
That year, Shangguan Wan'er was eighteen years old and Li Xian was twenty years old.
After many years, the revisit to the old place made Shangguan Wan'er full of emotion for a while.
After walking along the gravel path by the mirror lake and adjusting her mood, Shangguan Wan'er turned back to the villa, and was greeted by the two maids left by Li Bao'er by Zhang Yizhi's side, Fei'er and Xiaogu.
Fei'er is the woman who rescued Zhang Yi from the lake, and Xiao Gu is the bun-faced girl who is with Fei'er, and she has been taking care of Zhang Yi for the past two days.
As soon as they met, the two saluted Shangguan Wan'er together.
"Aunt Shangguan is good!"
Shangguan Wan'er raised her hand and motioned for the two of them to be exempt.
For the two maids beside Li Bao'er, Shangguan Wan'er had already found out their details before she came.
Fei'er's surname is Li, and her great-grandfather is Li Yuan's cousin, which is a close branch of the Li Tang royal family, but by the time Fei'er's father's generation arrived, the family had completely declined, so she had to send Fei'er to Li Bao'er as a maid.
Some declining families send their daughters to noble daughters as maids, which is very popular in the upper class society of the Tang Dynasty, because there is no such relationship between master and servant in modern society, including the eunuchs in the palace have been abolished at the beginning of Li Zhi's succession. Fei'er is nominally Li Bao'er's maid, but in fact she is similar to a female companion, the most important thing is that she can receive the same education as Li Bao'er when she goes to Li Bao'er's side as a maid.
Emperor Taizong implemented reforms from top to bottom and learned from the West, one of the most important is to vigorously develop education, so far the education system of the Tang Dynasty has been very complete, free compulsory education has been implemented to high school, but this is only for civilians.
For the wealthy class, public primary and secondary schools are not their best choice, and those famous private schools are the places where they want to send their children to students.
And when I got to the upper class, I didn't go to the private school, and I directly hired my husband to teach my children at home.
This piece of the best quality educational resources will only be in the hands of the nobles of the upper class, and those declining families send their daughters to the noble daughters, in order to enable their children to receive the best quality education.
In order to prevent the monopoly of educational resources, Emperor Taizong carried out a top-level design at the beginning of the reform, and the education at the university level returned to the state government, and the college entrance examination became a channel for the vast majority of civilians to change their own destiny, just like the imperial examination in the past.
Fei'er and Xiaogu were sent to Jinghu Villa not so much to take care of Zhang Yizhi, but to come here to concentrate on preparing for the exam, because both of them have to take the college entrance examination to be held in June next year.
Then Xiao Gu's situation is different from Fei'er, she is an orphan adopted by the royal family, and she has been by Li Bao'er's side since she was a child, unlike Fei'er who was sent by her family when she was twelve years old, strictly speaking, she is Li Bao'er's most intimate maid.
These thoughts flashed in Shangguan Wan'er's heart, and then she asked Fei'er and Xiaogu about Zhang Yizhi's situation.
"Master Ma is in the study, and it is generally not disturbed at this time. ”
As soon as Xiao Gu said this, he was glanced at by Fei'er, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to continue, while Shangguan Wan'er on the opposite side was angry and funny, and a catastrophe was already coming, and Zhang Yizhi was still putting up a shelf in front of him.
Originally, I wanted Xiao Gu to call Zhang Yizhi directly, but after thinking about it, I felt that I was too petty, what was the comparison with a "dumb person" who refused to speak?
On the other hand, Shangguan Wan'er is also very curious, at this time, Zhang Yizhi still has the leisure to read and practice calligraphy?
This is the common problem of Wenqing, if it were someone else, I am afraid I would not think like this.
"Take me to the study, and I'll say a few words to the colt and leave. ”
Xiao Gu and Fei'er didn't dare to disobey, turned around and led the way, leading Shangguan Wan'er to the study.
As soon as the three of them arrived at the door, they happened to see Zhang Yi standing in front of the desk putting down the brush in his hand, picking up a piece of rice paper full of writing in front of him with satisfaction, blowing the ink that had not dried on it, and admiring it seriously.
Xiao Gu was about to make a reminder, but was stopped by Shangguan Wan'er on the side.
Aside from the content on the rice paper, that handwriting alone has successfully attracted Shangguan Wan'er's attention.
Because Emperor Taizong loved calligraphy, everyone in the upper class of the Tang Dynasty was proud to write a good hand, Shangguan Wan'er was not only a good learner, but also a good hand, so she was selected by the Empress Wu as a close female official, but Zhang Yi wrote this regular script, from the glyph to the style is Shangguan Wan'er has never seen.
First of all, the shape of this character is full of muscles, graceful and dignified, and then carefully look at the trend of the pen of this word, the edges and corners are clear, the bone strength is strong, and it seems to be a style of everyone.
Even Shangguan Wan'er, who has a very high vision, has to admit that this is really a good hand!
Of course, it was not only Shangguan Wan'er who was surprised, but also Fei'er on the side, she only knew that Zhang Yi liked to read, but she had never seen Zhang Yi write.
Fei'er didn't have a very intuitive understanding of how high Zhang Yi's handwriting was, but judging from Shangguan Wan'er's expression, it was obvious that this character was excellent.
Zhang Yi, who was concentrating on appreciating his works, did not know that an uninvited guest came to the door, in his previous life, his favorite thing in his spare time was to practice calligraphy, and the most copied was Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan's regular script, I dare not say that I have exhausted the essence, at least six or seven points of heat is there, in order to write this article, he has been practicing since yesterday, but this body has not practiced much before, and the strength of his hands and wrists is not enough, so the words written are not really satisfactory to Zhang Yi.
But even so, this calligraphy is still quite amazing in the eyes of outsiders.
Yan muscles and willow bones can be said to be the highest level of regular script, and this time and space Tang Dynasty has moved to modern times, even if there are Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, it is only in the era of Wu Zetian at this time, and both of them are still early from being born!
"Master Pony is so Yaxing!"
The sudden sound behind him startled Zhang Yi in narcissism.
When I turned around, I found that Fei'er and Xiaogu were standing at the door with a cheongsam beauty, Fei'er's pretty face was cold and there was no superfluous expression, but Xiaogu secretly winked at Zhang Yi.
In fact, there is no need to remind Xiao Gu, Zhang Yi was already attracted by the unique temperament of Shangguan Wan'er at first sight.
There is no doubt that Shangguan Wan'er is a great beauty, and among the people Zhang Yi has seen, Li Bao'er can outperform, but Shangguan Wan'er's real attraction is not her appearance but her temperament.
Under the backdrop of this temperament, even the faint crow's feet at the corners of the eyes seem to have a unique charm, of course, without this, Zhang Yi is really a little unsure of Shangguan Wan'er's age.
Pretty woman, age is a difficult question to guess.
And when Zhang Yi observed Shangguan Wan'er, Shangguan Wan'er was also observing Zhang Yi.
Sword eyebrows and starry eyes, face like a crown of jade, just looking at this appearance does have a bit of a "human-like" demeanor, but the body is a little thinner, and it looks a little sickly.
Coupled with the handwriting just now, if there is no autism, it is hard to say whether she is worthy of Li Bao'er, the first beauty of the Tang Dynasty, but it is more than enough to be a Tang Dynasty horse.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and saw that Zhang Yi was still in a daze, Shangguan Wan'er remembered that Zhang Yi couldn't speak, so she walked straight to the desk, pointed to the article that Zhang Yi had just written, and said, "Can I take a look at what Master Ma wrote?"
Zhang Yi didn't know that the person standing in front of him was the famous Shangguan Wan'er, but he could vaguely guess that she should be from the palace, so he raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation.
Shangguan Wan'er was not polite, she picked up the rice paper and read it carefully, originally she just wanted to read the words, but after only reading two lines, a pair of beautiful eyebrows slowly frowned, and it seemed that she had encountered great confusion.
"What's your name when you're writing this?"
Zhang Yi was about to answer, but suddenly remembered that he was now a "dumb", so he gave up his intention to speak, and instead picked up the pen and wrote the words "Warring States Policy - Zhao Ce - Touch the Dragon Said Empress Dowager Zhao" on the rice paper on the side.
This font is no different from the font of the article in Shangguan Wan'er's hand, but the doubts in Shangguan Wan'er's heart have not been reduced by half a point.
She naturally knows about "Warring States Policy", but hasn't this book been lost a long time ago?