The one hundred and ninth round
Zhou Caiwei saw that Zhao Yifei also answered the source, and she was even more sure that she was inseparable from Mrs. Zuo Xiang. Otherwise, with her illiterate, she has never read a female book, how can she know the source of this sentence, it can be seen that Mrs. Zuo Xiang must have missed the question for her, and she wrote the answer well, and asked her to write it many times one stroke at a time, and firmly remember how to write.
The reason why she is so sure is because the first Concubine Yingchuan once commented: "This Miss Zhao of Anyuan Bofu also answered the source of the two sentences correctly, but the word 'training' in the "Internal Training" and the word "誡" in "The Girl" are all written incorrectly. ”
"Besides, your writing is too ugly, how can a little girl who was born so beautiful write so ugly? Don't patronize reading women's books, but practice this word when you are free! ”
Zhao Yifei was so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head in front of everyone for a long time.
Concubine Yingchuan saw that the first level had been completed, so she asked the Empress Dowager Sun and said: "Queen Mother, since the test has been completed today, and the mother is tired this morning, it is better to ask the mother to drive back to the palace, so that she can rest and rest, and then do the second level tomorrow." ”
Empress Dowager Sun said in a strange manner: "Why, it is rare for this palace to come to your Yingchuan Palace, and the concubine doesn't even give this palace a lunch?" ”
Concubine Yingchuan hurriedly said: "It's not that the courtiers don't have such filial piety, but I'm really afraid that the chefs in the house are not skilled, and the meals made by the imperial chefs in the palace are more delicious and delicious, but they have wronged the mother, so they don't dare to show ugliness in front of the mother, and ask the queen mother to be considerate." ”
People say that the dishes made by their own chefs are unpalatable, do you have to taste how unpalatable this dish is? Empress Dowager Sun had to glance at Concubine Yingchuan again, and drove back to the palace to eat the imperial meal with her son, and took away the four girls from her grandson's family by the way.
Seeing that Concubine Yingchuan didn't even stay for a meal, the other three ladies got up to say goodbye, and also took away their own girls by the way.
Concubine Shen was busy with Mama Wen to give each lady a thank you gift, and also gave each lady a pair of good study treasures.
After personally sending the Empress Dowager Sun and them out, Concubine Yingchuan came back and said to the rest of the ladies: "All the daughters have actually been stubborn in our house for half a day, I think they are all tired, I have ordered someone to order you to wait outside the mansion sedan chair man, you hurry up and go home to rest!"
Yingchuan Palace's ladies and gentlemen, including Zhou Caiwei, did not leave any of them, and sent them out of the palace with a thorough number of courtesies.
Cai Wei knew that Concubine Yingchuan did not leave anyone to eat in the palace, because she was afraid that if someone had too many hands and would cause some trouble, she would not keep herself, so as not to look at herself differently and arouse the jealousy of others.
Naturally, she still took the carriage of the Yingchuan Royal Mansion when she came, and Mrs. Luo had already ordered Mama Wang to wait for her and Yifei at the door, and took them to the Xuhui Courtyard to ask about the situation in the morning.
When Cai Wei and Yi Fei both passed the first level, they were both happy and disappointed in their hearts. For Yifei's granddaughter, although she doesn't like it very much, she also hopes that she can have a good future, but for Caiwei, it is precisely because she likes this granddaughter too much that she likes her smart and beautiful very much, and hopes that she can lose the election of Princess Yingchuan so that she can be worthy of her grandson Zhao Yicheng.
The reason why she likes Cai Wei so much, in addition to Cai Wei's rich dowry, is also because she thinks Cai Wei is kind-hearted, knowledgeable, smart and well-behaved, and has great ideas. It is said that a virtuous wife and a good husband have few disasters, and she more or less knows what kind of person her brother Cheng is, so she wants to marry him a good wife, so as to persuade and restrain him.
In this way, one day she will let go, and when she thinks of having such a reliable person as Cai Wei by her side, taking care of and reminding him, she can also walk with peace of mind.
Cai Wei saw her grandmother looking at her and sighed, vaguely guessed the old lady's thoughts, although she knew that her grandmother's love for her was nothing more than that, but in the end it was still a little uncomfortable, and when she finished eating with the old lady, she excused herself to be a little tired, and she had to prepare for the second day's examination, so she returned to Qiutang Courtyard.
No, her second aunt Zhao Mingxiang brought her two daughters and was waiting for her in the courtyard, and called her to the upper room to ask for a long time, while congratulating her with a little sour congratulations on passing the first level, and complaining about her daughter Wu Wan on the other hand, "I said that I would also register for you to run for the election, you don't live or die, I knew that there would be such a topic today, I taught you to read those women's books, if you go, this first pass will be passed." ”
"As long as this passes the most difficult level, the next few levels will definitely be extremely easy to pass, how good it would be if this was really chosen, but you girl who wants to die or live just refuses to agree, you have to look at that crooked neck tree and hang yourself!"
Cai Wei couldn't help but laugh secretly in her heart, I don't know how her aunt would feel if she knew that her talent, the youngest son of Yushu Linfeng, had become a crooked neck tree in the mouth of her own sister-in-law.
However, she also looked at Wu Wan a little differently because of this matter. At the beginning, Wu Wan and Yifei were both interested in Zhang Yun, the fourth son of the Zhang family, and Zhang Yun was obviously more affectionate to Yifei, who was born more beautifully, as long as he was a clear-eyed person, he could see it.
Later, as soon as Yi Fei saw that she could climb the high branch of Dingxi Houfu, she immediately left Zhang Yun behind, which shows that she does not fancy Zhang Yun but his identity and status.
In order to show her unswerving and loyal to Zhang Yun, she would rather die than agree that her mother would register for her to run for the princess.
It seems that this Wu Wan is really moved by Zhang Yun, but I don't know if her infatuation can come true?
Wu Wan saw that her mother had taken this matter out again and counted her down, so she said impatiently: "Okay, okay, Sister Wei is tired all morning, mother should let her go back to the house to rest!" ”
After speaking, she didn't wait for her mother to agree, so she pulled Cai Wei up and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the room and rest!" If you stay here any longer, your ears will be calloused! ”
Wu Juan saw that Cai Wei was forced out of the bright room by her sister-in-law, timidly saluted her mother-in-law, and came out after them, she said goodbye to Cai Wei and Wu Wan, and the two of them went back to the West Wing together.
When she saw Cai Wei smiling at her, she turned around and went into her own bedroom, and hurriedly said: "Sister Wei, I just heard my mother say that the next few levels are very easy to pass, and my sister is so smart, it must be all on the comments, besides, my sister was originally married to His Royal Highness the King of Yingchuan, and when I look back and wait for my sister to become a princess, don't forget me, why don't you take me into the palace for a while?" ”
Cai Wei hurriedly covered her mouth and said: "This eight words have not been skimmed, sister, don't talk nonsense, most of the things in this world are changing rapidly, and there is never a perfect word, and these big words can't be said casually." If you talk like an aunt, will the next four levels be so easy to pass? I don't know what weird questions Ming'er will give? ”
In fact, the question that came out on the second day was not strange at all, but decent. The topic is from the Duchess of Weiguo, each lady has a silk in front of her, a plain pa, and a variety of needles and threads, you can choose to use the things on these cases, whether it is embroidery or tailoring clothes, to complete a female red within an hour, and then by the five main choices one by one, still give "up", "middle", "down" three comments.
Yi Fei was overjoyed when she saw that this second level was such an extremely easy question to test female popularity. Although her mother-in-law, Aunt Liu, would not teach her to read and write, she taught her that needlework must be done meticulously and finely, and there are more tricks, so that she can embroider some purses, fan covers, etc. to please men. So she can be regarded as having a skill in this female celebrity.
She immediately cut a piece of the silk from it, intending to sew a sachet out, and she picked the thread with her hands and looked at Cai Wei defiantly.
has lived in a mansion for more than three years, and she naturally knows that this female celebrity is Zhou Caiwei's weakness, and she can do some forehead wiping and the like at most, and she can't even embroider. When her sister Yizhi got married, she asked Cai Wei to help her embroider the dowry, but she embroidered a mandarin duck into a wild duck.
Yi Fei swept the other dozen or so ladies again, and saw that everyone's faces were full of bamboo, and they began to cut and cut, threading needles and needles, but Zhou Caiwei was still sitting motionless, contemplating her eyebrows there, and couldn't help but feel happier in her heart. This topic is not difficult for these ladies, but I am afraid that everyone can come up with a good female celebrity at this level today, and when the time comes, it will only make Zhou Caiwei's lame female celebrity skills more pitiful, see how she can get five more "upper reviews" in this level?
Concubine Yingchuan saw that Cai Wei didn't do it for a long time, but she was thinking about something there, and she couldn't help but be a little worried about her, seeing that two quarters of an hour had passed, she was still there bowing her head and thinking hard, and from time to time she made a few strokes on the cloth.
Seeing that another stick of incense had passed, Zhou Caiwei suddenly smiled, took the silk with one hand, unfolded it and folded it a few times, then picked up the scissors and cut a few cuts, picked out the thread and began to sew it up.
Although she is not good at embroidering flowers and making sachets, the most basic sewing of this female red is still very good, and she put away the needle and thread in less than half an hour, and she has already made a straight coat.
As soon as she was done, the time came, and the palace maids presented the fourteen beautiful female reds to the five main candidates, and saw that most of the women chose to embroider a flower or a bird, or make a purse sachet or something, all of which were small and delicate female red. Only Zhou Caiwei made a dress and came out.
Empress Dowager Sun was the first to provoke and said: "Zhou girl, come and take a look yourself, you look at the needlework of the other dozen or so ladies, one is more delicate than the other, and then look at the clothes you made, such a simple tailoring, that is, the village girls will do it." ”
Cai Wei smiled slightly, stepped forward and said, "Please also ask the Queen Mother to ask a female official sister to try on this dress, and you will know where the trick is?" ”