Chapter 75: Torture

The main hall of the independent small courtyard is divided into two spaces, one large and one small, with light gauze screens and curtains, the large one for the companions and the small one for the princess.

At this time, the grandmothers, eunuchs and palace maids around Su Baiyu had already helped her lay out all the things she wanted to use, Su Baiyu looked at the qiē in this room, and suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with having a strict status and rank.

"Mama Li, can this screen be replaced with the kind of effect that I see them very clearly, but they can't see when they look at me?" When Su Baiyu adjusted the embroidery frame, he asked softly in the ear of Mama Li, who was teaching needlework.

Mama Li was slightly stunned, smiled clearly, nodded, and remembered it in her heart.

To say that this kind of fabric is either nothing, or rare, it is all as a tribute, but since the princess wants to change, it is not impossible to change, this yard is also the princess's own yard!

Hehe, this little master wants to see the excitement......

The assistant teaching grandmother who was in charge of the courtyard of the fifth princess Bai Yu sat on the empty seat next to the screen curtain, looked at Su Baiyu with a smile and looked at the embroidery there with a smile, and then turned her head to look at the noble girl Qiqige who seemed to have a needle on her buttocks, and couldn't help but smile in her heart.

"Can you be quiet?!" Shuyu Gege lowered his voice, glared fiercely at Qiqige beside him, raised his eyes and glanced at the white feather of the fifth princess behind the screen, and saw that the fifth princess didn't seem to hear it, and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

It's impossible to say that she didn't get nervous when she entered the palace, even if she was a royal Gege, but in addition to attending a large-scale ceremonial ceremony on weekdays, it was really the first time she came in! Especially now that there are no relatives around, before entering the palace, his Marfa was told thousands of times, so he was afraid that he would make a mistake and cause trouble!

But......

I heard that this fifth princess doesn't seem to be very favored......

"What do you care about me?!" Kikige roared back without showing any weakness, the whip on her wrist already in her hand. His eyes were bulging, and he looked like a fried kitten.

Shuyu pursed her lips, muttered a "barbarian", lowered her head and embroidered again.

At this moment, Qiqige was enraged, the whip in his hand shook, and hit Shuyu's embroidery frame with a snap, the tip of the whip rebounded, almost hitting Shuyu's face, and his voice was also raised: "Who do you say is a 'barbarian'?!" Don't think I don't understand what you're saying?! My Manchu is good! ”

"Gege~~~ Whisper~~ How can you be noisy with the princess?!" Kikige's grandmother immediately panicked. Hurriedly hugged Kikige, who jumped up, but he didn't expect that he would panic and knock down the embroidery frame in front of Kikige. The wooden embroidery frame fell to the ground with a bang, and the cold sweat of the grandmother suddenly came down, holding the struggling Qiqige, and turning her head to look at the white feathers of the fifth princess behind the light gauze screen.

Su Baiyu had actually heard the noise and commotion behind the screen a long time ago, but she didn't care at all. I think when she was embroidering cross-stitch at home, the radio or TV has always been turned on very loudly, although there has been no such treatment in recent years, but it makes her feel a sense of pleasure that she has not seen for a long time, and the corners of her mouth can't help but hook.

But......

You can't just say nothing, can you?

That doesn't seem to be good.

"Xia Mo, let's play a tune. It's a little bit more lively. Su Baiyu raised her head, rubbed her right wrist, and asked Mama Li to help her change the thread. Mo Xiang stepped forward to help her with a massage, picked up the tea bowl with her left hand and drank a sip of warm and mellow milk tea, and said with a smile to Xia Mo, the palace maid who was good at playing the pipa.

Xia Mo and the surrounding grandmothers, eunuchs, and palace maids were all slightly stunned, and quickly glanced at the people who had gradually quieted down behind the screen, and the corners of their mouths were slightly hooked. This little master...... It's to take advantage of the excitement to be more lively~~~~

As soon as Xia Mo's eyes lit up at the mention of playing the tune, he hurriedly saluted. Turning his head, he went to get his pipa, confessed and sat on the brocade stool, tuned the tune, and with five fingers, the warm and cheerful music fluttered.

"This ...... Mama, what is the princess doing? How do you listen to the tune? Kikige, who had been forcefully suppressed by the grandmother and had warned her in her ear, was dumbfounded, and she thought that the princess would blame them! I didn't expect ......

Isn't that obvious?

The princess means: make trouble! Let's make trouble! Let's make a fuss! It's good to be lively~~ Since it's noisy, it's good to quarrel to the end!

Qiqige's grandmother looked at her little Gege without tears, and couldn't help but feel a little frightened, this fifth princess doesn't look young, but she is not an ordinary person......

Oops~~ Why did you forget?! This one was raised by the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang herself! Can this be worse?!

Not only is Qiqige's grandmother awe-inspiring, but the others are not fools, and the auxiliary parenting grandmother can't help but nod secretly, and secretly muttered in her heart: Concubine De, you can rest assured, little princess, you can't suffer a loss! Hehe......

Although Shuyu Gege was still a little confused, he also knew that he might have upset the princess, so he hurriedly began to embroider flowers.

Wu Yashi * Ruifang has been concentrating on embroidering, as if nothing has happened around him before, but the corners of his mouth can't help but hook slightly.

Liu Jia's * Siqin, then squinted her eyes slightly, her eyes were rolling wildly, and the hand holding the needle was mechanically interspersed, and she didn't know what she was thinking, the music sounded, she was slightly stunned, pursed her lips, turned the red sandalwood ring bracelet on her wrist, and began to embroider again.

"Okay, Gege, take a rest, after half an hour, the princess will learn the pipa for half an hour."

As the thick curtain fell, the assistant nurturing grandmother stood up and said to the four little Gege, who had long been unable to sit still.

"Oops...... It's finally time to take a break...... This princess can really sit still! Mama, help me rub it, my legs are numb! Kikige suddenly softened in her chair, saying that she couldn't stand it anymore, so she asked her grandmother to rub it for her, and then jumped up and ran out to play.

This is not only her voice, Shuyu Gege has long been impatient, you must know that they are only seven or eight years old now, it is the time when they love to play, love to make trouble, and can't sit still, and they are the most favored eldest lady in the family on weekdays, where will it be like now, a whole half an hour of quiet embroidery?!

"Mama, I can't play the pipa~~ What should I do? I have only studied the guqin. Liu Jia Siqin pitifully came to the side of the auxiliary parenting grandmother and stuffed a bulging small purse into the past.

The assistant parenting grandmother quickly put away the small purse, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's okay to listen to it, if you want to learn, you can learn it in the afternoon." ”

“…… Oh......" Liu Jia Siqin opened her mouth, didn't dare to say anything, turned around and went out.

Alas, I just listened to the music played so well by the palace maid, and then I listened to the five princesses playing...... What a torture......

Shuyu sat bitterly, and subconsciously looked at Qiqige sitting next to her, but found that Qiqige had fallen asleep on the chair, and couldn't help but laugh with a snort.

Liu Jia * Siqin sat upright, with a very serious, attentive, and fascinated expression, but if you look closely, you can find that the corners of her mouth twitch slightly, she wants to laugh but doesn't dare to laugh, if she wants to despise it, then she doesn't dare to do it, she is very aggrieved.

Only Wu Ya Ruifang, sitting leisurely, holding a small embroidered bandage, and embroidering a handkerchief with no match.

Su Baiyu didn't care about them, he played the piano very seriously......

Two hours of class time, three quarters of an hour of rest, embroidery, pipa, calligraphy, guzheng, Su Baiyu arranged a full schedule, I feel very fulfilling, but the four companions are miserable, listening to the five princesses play the piano is really torture......

Their torture has just begun!

"Yu'er, how did you feel this morning?" The old lady of Xiaozhuang hugged Su Baiyu and asked with a smile.

Su Baiyu blinked his eyes and thought for a while before saying, "Identity!" Yu'er felt that her identity was the best deterrent to them, even if it was Shuyu and Qiqige, they didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of Yu'er. ”

"Yes~~~ This is the respect of the princess. Many times, identity and status determine your advantage, no matter how noble they are, they can't be honored by you, you are the princess of the Qing Dynasty, you are kind to them, and it is natural to punish them. It's good to understand this. The old lady of Xiaozhuang smiled, patted Su Baiyu, hummed a Mongolian ballad, and coaxed her to sleep......??

"Yu'er, how are those companions of yours?" The fourth elder brother Yinzhen sat on his big black horse with his little sister in his arms, and asked in a low voice.

Su Baiyu smiled and said playfully: "Each has its own merits!" Very interesting four people. Fourth brother, you have something on your mind~~"

"Hmm...... There is one thing that I can't figure out, Huang Ama issued a decree today, so that the lowly woman must wrap her little feet...... Originally, a few days ago, Huang Ama wanted to break the bad habit of Han women binding their feet, but it caused a lot of trouble among Han people...... Yu'er, what do you mean by Huang Amma......"

Yin Zhen didn't really want to get any answer from this little sister, but he really couldn't figure it out about this matter, and he was very uncomfortable in his heart.

Bound your feet......

I see......

This foot-binding is not just a matter of bad habits, it seems that there are some other sayings such as "hair can be shaved, clothes can be changed, and footwraps cannot be removed", but Su Baiyu can't remember it, but she knows that it also involves the kind of faint resistance to Manchu rule in the hearts of Han people.

Kangxi, as the emperor, of course wanted to take down this Han people's insistence on the position, and Su Baiyu hated the binding of small feet, and even more sneered at the perverted preference for small feet of Han doctors, so it was also good to do his part to break this oppression of women as soon as possible......