Guarding the Dragon (5)
Rui Shen rushed into the hall like a gust of wind, and pounced straight in the direction of the magpie, "Magpie-" in a childish and cheerful tone.
When the magpie saw Rui Shen rushing over, he was afraid that he would fall, so he hurriedly took two steps forward to pick up the little one in his arms, and said with concern, "My little highness, you can be careful." What should I do if I fall? ”
Granny Liu came out of the inner room, saw the interaction between the master and servant, and didn't say a word, even the salute that should be prudent was saved.
Rui Shen came back early from outside today, and she had no excuse to punish him for not having dinner.
Rui Shen has long been accustomed to Grandma Liu's neglect, and he doesn't care at all, but he just said to the magpie excitedly, "Magpie, magpie, you can find me a few books." I also want pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. ”
The magpie listened to his request and asked curiously, "What book does Your Highness want?" Do you want pen, ink, paper, and inkstone? What are you going to do? ”
"I want to read and write." Prudence replied.
The magpie looked at Prudence in amazement.
Grandma Liu snorted softly beside her, and then called, "My Highness, how can you be so dignified and think of reading and writing again?" Why don't you just play around and don't come up with something weird to toss people around? You don't have the things you want in this temple. Where did you get the magpie for you? ”
Prudence looked at the magpie, and his little face collapsed in an instant. Grandma Liu is right, because of the queen's jealousy, there is no such thing as a book, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone in the palace where Rui Shen lives.
Granny Liu looked at the cautious face full of disappointment, and she didn't restrain herself, and added a few more words, "Besides, we don't have a mother to take care of us here, and the monthly food and clothing are tight, and I don't have money to buy it for you." ”
The more the magpie listened, the more he couldn't listen, the money here of the prudent prince was in the hands of Grandma Liu, and it was true that the monthly life was tight. But if you want to say that you are tight because of the lack of money, the magpie doesn't believe it. Everyone knows that this money is not for Grandma Liu to pinch off half of Thailand.
Now that the prince said that he wanted to read and write, Mrs. Liu looked so anxious, as if she wanted to ask her for money. Besides, even if she is really asked to pay for it, how much can it be spent?
Granny Liu looked at the magpie with a dissatisfied look, and also glared back, "What are you doing with me like this?" Could it be that I'm still wrong? You don't belong to the family, you don't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and you don't know that there are many places in this palace that need to be spent. Forget it, I told you, you don't understand. Don't hurry up and get ready, and wait for His Highness to have dinner. ”
After the order, Grandma Liu turned her face away from the magpie and turned around and left the hall.
The magpie watched her leave all the way with a calm face, and then looked at Rui Shen and asked him softly, "Your Highness really wants to read and write?" ”
Rui Shen nodded, but he couldn't hold back his disappointment and said, "But we don't have it in the palace, and we don't have the money to get it." ”
The magpie didn't answer him, but asked him again, "Is Your Highness going to the academy?" ”
Rui Shen shook his head, "No. He leaned close to the magpie's ear and whispered, "Aunt Lian said she wanted to teach me." ”
The magpie was surprised, the one in the cold palace was always there?
Thinking of his aunt Lian saying that she would teach him to read and write, Rui Shen was happy again, but he was soon awakened by reality. Bian Bian said, "Then I'll tell Aunt Lian next time that I can't let her teach me to read and write." ”
The magpie looked at such prudence, and only felt very distressed. Obviously, they are all princes, and they are the sons of today's saints, why are the other princes living so well, but the eleventh prince is living so hard. Even the most basic reading and writing are so difficult, and the more the magpie thinks about it, the more unwilling he feels for prudence.
"Your Highness doesn't have to be sad, you don't have to worry, give the slave maid three days, and the slave and maid will definitely get what His Highness wants."
"Really?" Prudence's eyes sparkled.
The magpie nodded affirmatively, "Your Highness, leave it to the slave maid." ”
"Magpie, you're so nice. I like you so much, magpie. Prudence happily threw herself into the magpie's arms and coquettishly coquettish.
The magpie hugged the prudence, and the smile on his face was also very gentle.
Since Grandma Liu was unwilling to come up with the money, and she didn't make any effort to help Rui Shen get books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, Magpie had to pay out of her own pocket and let the eunuchs in other palaces help get a complete set of enlightenment books, as well as the four treasures of the study.
When Rui Shen got the things, the whole person happily held the book and was reluctant to let go.
The magpie looked at such prudence and felt that no matter how much money he spent, it was worth it.
The next day after Rui Shen got the things, he took them all to the cold palace to show Lian Yin, "Aunt Lian, these are all magpies for me to show you, do you think it's feasible?" ”
Lian Yin looked at the books, the enlightenment of the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules" were all listed, she nodded, and picked the "Three Character Classic" first, "Then let's start with this one." ”
Prudence rejoiced.
In his imagination, Aunt Lian would sit on her lap with him very gently, and she held up the book to teach him to read and read word by word, but the discrepancy of the facts made Rui Shen a little stunned and dumbfounded.
Aunt Lian, who has become a gentleman, is like a different person, not only is she not gentle at all, but she will punish him at every turn. Whenever the imperial brother couldn't memorize the text, the Taifu would always beat them on the palm board, but Aunt Lian directly punished him to go outside the house to squat and walk.
The length of time to squat on the horse depends entirely on how many texts he can memorize, and if he misses a word, he will squat on the horse step of incense.
And in terms of writing, too, if the writing is ugly, you will also be punished for squatting. And what's even worse is that Lian Yin will carry the small desk outside, so that he can continue to practice calligraphy while squatting.
All in all, all the punishment is the squatting step.
Rui Shen really wants to say that reading and writing is not fun at all.
But even if he cried into a little tear in his heart, he still reincarnated in the squatting horse step every day, and he was more reluctant to connect with his aunt than the squatting horse step.
Rui Shen has studied with Lianyin for nearly two years, and in the past two years, Lianyin has not only taught him the "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text" and "Zidi Rules", but even taught the Four Books and Five Classics in advance.
Time flies and flies, but it's a new year.
After the new year, Rui Shen will be eight years old. But the queen's side still didn't plan to let Rui Shen go to school, and the queen still intended to drag it out, but Lian Yin didn't plan to let the queen do this.
After practicing calligraphy on this day, Lian Yin touched Ruishen's little head and said, "Ruishen, you should go to the school to learn some articles from Taifu." ”
Rui Shen looked up at her when he heard this, with a look of disapproval, "I have Aunt Lian to teach me." ”
Lian Yin shook his head, "Rui Shen, Aunt Lian asked you, do you plan to do this for the rest of your life." I still want to be like other princes, learn knowledge, learn the things of the previous dynasty, and learn to ride horses and shoot arrows. ”
Rui looked at Lian Yin steadily, in fact, he wanted to answer whether he wanted to answer or not, he just had to accompany Aunt Lian. But he knew that Lian Yin would definitely not like this answer, and the only way to please Aunt Lian was to nod along with Aunt Lian's words.
He hesitated for a moment and nodded. (To be continued.) )