Chapter Twenty-Three: The Northern Rhino Garden's Debate on "Rites" 1

Wu Yiding's heart was pounding, and his little face burned like a flame.

When she came to the garden at night, she never expected that the students in the family school were scattered, how could there be a son in the garden?

Unexpectedly, in a sword skill competition, Wu Yiding found that this young man is not only kind-hearted, but also has a solid foundation in martial arts, and his swordsmanship is also very sharp, and although this boy is gentle and elegant, the sword in his hand is by no means an ordinary sword.

In the past, Chaoge Wangcheng didn't know how many famous swords were folded under the throat sealing sword, and the throat sealing sword was the top of the sharp weapons, but this time, no matter how hard Wu Yiding used to split, sharpen, and slash, the opponent's sword was not damaged.

Back in the corner courtyard, You Yan thought that he was in a hurry, the long halberd waved, slow and weak, as soon as he saw Wu Yiding falling from the wall courtyard, he rushed over and asked this and that in a low voice. You Yan is worried about the little master, and her concern and concern make her entangled, this little master, who grew up like her childhood playmate, has a bright mind and is studious by nature, and has already become a bosom friend, confidant, and best friend with herself.

"Are you alright, Long'er?" You Yan saw that Wu Yiding was not as excited as he usually looked after visiting the tiger baby, so he followed her closely and asked anxiously.

"The tiger baby has grown taller! Hey, sleepy, sleep, sleep. Wu Yiding's heart was like a deer bumping into his arms, and he didn't want to pay more attention to Youyou, so after going to bed, he covered his head with a quilt and fell asleep like he was very sleepy.

"Okay, okay, people have been waiting for you in the snow for most of the day, and you don't feel sleepy, who provoked us Long'er, and even I ignored it? Well, sleep, sleep! You Yan saw that Wu Yiding no longer paid attention to her, so he had to cover the quilt and lie down to rest.

Where can Wu Yiding sleep?

Touching his cheek with his hand, his little face was very hot, and the figure of "Childe" kept appearing in his mind, especially the one before the competition, and the face that was finally reflected under the palace lamp, vague and misty, but so clear. It's him? Could it be him? He is? Yes, yes! When hunting in the mountains, yes, yes! In the hunting ground of the Wang family, the son stumbled and fell off the cliff, so, is he a soldier? Wrong. Is it the prince? It's not like it, the prince has a large team of men and horses to protect it, it's not like, it's not like! Childe, the nobleman's accompanying childe, yes, a little like it.

Wu Yiding thought like this, and stroked his waist with his left hand, hey! Suddenly, her little face became hot again. He, this man, he just circled, one hand around himself, but the sword in the other hand was already on his neck. Isn't he going to catch himself, to compare his sword? Maybe it'......

Wu Yiding thought like this, and he shouted to himself again in his ears: "Compete in five days." ”

"Why five days later, tomorrow, every day, I am short of an opponent." Wu Yiding thought in his heart, smiled, but felt that he was very abrupt, a girl's family, is there such a shame? Hi!

Thinking like this, in a daze, Wu Yiding smiled sweetly and fell asleep.

The prince rode back to the prince's mansion and lay on the bed, unable to sleep.

When he used his sword to encircle the "black shadow" and leaned down to smell the fragrance of snow lotus coming from Wu Yiding's hair, the sword in his right hand was unconsciously put down. "Doubt, pity, waiting", so that the young prince was already unguarded, Wu Yiding escaped from control, and when he looked up and spoke to him, through the faint light of confusion, he clearly saw an incomparably handsome face.

Yes, yes, that's him!

It's only been a few months, oh! Yes, it's been almost a year since he hunted in the mountains, has he grown so much taller? When the prince thought of this, he didn't smile, didn't he also grow a head taller, and he also performed the gift of the crown? But, he? Boy? Is there such a good-looking, scented boy? He is obviously younger than himself, why is his skill so profound?

After Luo Youweitong served the prince to bathe in fragrant soup, the prince kept walking back and forth in the bedroom, recalling the scene of the sword competition in the garden just now, and it was difficult to sleep.

A fair, softly contoured face, clear, bright, almost talking, looking at himself like that, a boy? No, not necessarily.

The prince analyzed it like this: In troubled times, the sword soldiers have just stopped, and it is not safe for a girl to walk outside, so she pretends to be a boy, yes, yes!

Thinking of this, the prince hurriedly took out the gilded medicine bottle, guessing and analyzing it in his heart. If the other party is a girl, yes! Nangong Courtyard, Family Study, and North Rhino Garden, it is reasonable.

Thinking like this, Ji Chen's heart became more and more inventive.

"Long'er", "Long", yes, tomorrow let people go to the tutor's place to check, don't they all understand?

The prince analyzed it like this, and his heart was happy.

"Five days later, I wonder if she heard what I said. Her martial arts skills are so profound, and her swordsmanship is also at stake, it would be great if she could meet and learn from each other every day. Thinking like this, the crown prince seemed to have found the answer, and was overjoyed, lying on the bed, playing with the medicine bottle in his hand for a long time, always shaking Wu Yiding's slender and light figure in front of him, as well as her heroic posture when she danced the sword, especially those bright eyes.

The prince thought about it, and fell asleep soundly.

Seeing that the winter solstice is approaching, Aunt You Xi, You Ji, and You Yan divide their labor during the day, respectively, Wu Yiding, Wu Geng Shadow Pulp Laundry, Sewing Shoes and Socks, three meals a day, and thoughtful waiting.

You Xi was worried that the two little masters would be worse on the day of the winter solstice, so he showed Wu Yiding some of the documents he brought out of the royal city when he fled from the court song in the past. Although Aunt You Xi, You Ji, and You Yan are not weak in kung fu, they can't read a few words. Wu Yiding accepted the following papers, and when he looked at them carefully, he found that these were all things that his father had read every day in the past, and the theories on the art of war written by Wu Ding and Fu Shuo were not touched at all with the "Zhou Li" etiquette that was to be tested on the winter solstice.

Although Wu Yiding didn't need these documents at the moment, he didn't want to brush off Aunt Youxi's good intentions, so he pretended to be happy and accepted them one by one.

These documents, although not needed in front of them, but also Wu Ding's cherishment, she collected them and hid them in the closet, and when the winter solstice is over, the cold and snowy days are far away, and they can also be read every day.

In the past two days in the corner courtyard, Wu Gengying, Wu Mu Nu, and Wu Yiding recited "ceremony" loudly under the corridor courtyard. The corner courtyard has the sound of children reading, which adds some vitality. Several aunts, seeing that the New Year is approaching, are happy in their hearts, sewing and washing for the little master, and they are diligent.

At night, waiting for the lights to go out, Aunt You Xi reversed the gentleness and tranquility of the day, used a branch as a sword, and strictly trained the Liuyang Bagua swordsmanship of Wuding.

In the past, when it came to Aunt You Xi and Master Hu Lun, although the little Wu Ding didn't understand the tacit understanding between them, he only knew that when Master Hu Lun taught him swordsmanship, Aunt You Xi was always by his side, sending fruits and snacks, and occasionally meeting with Master Hu Lun. Now that I think about it, Aunt You Xi must have some relationship with Master Kulun. Aunt You Xi taught martial arts to practice swords at night, which was fierce and serious, and changed from being an aunt's smoothness. In addition to concentrating on learning swords, pulling the bow and releasing arrows, shooting hundreds of shots, even if shooting arrows in the dark, arrows can be fired without missing arrows.

Every morning, Aunt Si Zhao said loudly to the outside of the courtyard in the courtyard: Whose naughty boy shot me on the bamboo pole for drying clothes. Wu Yiding and You Yan only secretly laughed, thinking: In the future, when you practice shooting at night, you can't use bamboo poles as targets.

Time flies, two days of free and idle corner courtyard, feel warm, the days of "home" pass in a flash, this day five watches, Wu Gengying, Wu Yiding, Wu Mu Nu three, get up early, finish breakfast, take the carriage, through five or six horizontal and vertical roads, seven bends and eight turns, into the North Rhino Garden, through the embroidered lotus pond along the corridor, into the home school.

The temple man and the groom were driving the carriage in front, and in the car, Wu Mu Nu suddenly held Wu Yinding's hand, unexpectedly broke her palm with force, took it in front of her eyes and looked at it again, and then put it down, lowered her voice and said: "No wonder Aunt Si Zhao's clothes pole cracked again and again, it turned out that you did it." I said, how can you have so much brute force to save the son, it turns out that you are moving stones every night and smashing my bamboo poles. If you are really my royal sister, I advise you to live in peace. A girl's family, who does not honestly learn women's virtues and is familiar with etiquette, but goes over the wall and over the room, shoots and practices targets, what is this like? Who will want you when the time comes, and who will dare to want you? It's also clever in family learning, don't offend the princess, it's not as good as yours! Reading on the same surname of "Wu", I advise you to go back today, and in the future in this Zhou Wangcheng, everyone will follow the destiny of heaven and do it for themselves! Wu Mu Nu's eyes widened, chattering, and in the tone of the eldest sister, she taught Wu Yiding a lesson.

Wu Yiding was shocked, but he didn't expect that the "Sister Wang", who seemed to have no brains and loved to cling to power, was so meticulous. In order to dispel her doubts, and worried that she would be targeted by the martial arts girl every day in the future, she smiled at the martial artist against her will, bowed her head, lowered her voice, and said, "Thank you eldest sister for your concern, sister I have been taught." ”

Seeing Wu Yin's respectful attitude, Wu Mu Nu stopped talking. Wu Gengying was silent on the side, stuck out his tongue at Wu Yinding, and pretended to be a strange one.

In the prince's house and family study, the students are of different ages, the longest is the eldest son of the king, Ji Hanrong, who has reached the age of eighteen, and the younger one and a half years old has the prince's fourth uncle's son, and Jiang Ziya's grandson.

Bo Bird has been taught by Ji Dan since he was a child, he is knowledgeable, elegant and humble, and worships the Xiqi Rou Sword Master Meng De as a teacher, Bo Bird Wuji is solid, gentle, and indeed a beautiful person in the family study, he is over seventeen years old, and he is naturally a handsome son.

is seventeen years old, and the second prince Ji Yinghou, Jiang Ziya's grandson, and the last son, Xiao Gou is also at this age. As for the foreign clans, among the barbarians who were merged by the Zhou Dynasty, there were also several princes and princesses, the oldest of whom were only in their teens, and the younger ones were only five or six years old. The crown prince of the royal family, Ji Yu, is also nearly seventeen, he is one year older than his brother Tang Shuyu, and Uncle Ji Han, born to Lan Concubine, is half a year younger than Tang Shuyu.

Compared with the princes and sons, princesses, daughters, daughters, and daughters, and the age is younger, the longest princess should be the daughter of Mrs. Huagui, Princess Sakura, who will be sixteen soon, in the family study, Wu Mu Nu is also this age, and the younger one is Wu Yiding, she is only fifteen years old, Princess Baozhu, Princess Wanwan, Princess Ruiduo, these princesses are young. Among the nobles' daughters, Ran Meier was older, only seventeen years old.

Because of the preparation of the winter solstice palace, the outstanding princes and princesses in the palace of Li Shi's performance, the original "ceremony" examination was to invite the princes and princesses' mothers, presided over by the queen, but because of the feast on the day of the winter solstice, the "ceremony" here, Li Shi's concert invited the saint, King Wu of Zhou let the prince preside, and Li Shi's served as the main judge among the four masters.

There is a large hall called the micro hall in the family study, the micro hall is exquisitely arranged, there are the statues of the monarchs of the dynasties, the legendary deeds, the four walls of the micro hall are printed with the famous words of each family, the back row of wooden chairs surrounds a circle, the ring is about ten meters wide, the person who takes the test draws the exam questions, and then answers to everyone in the middle.

After the bamboo bang rang three times, all the students walked into the micro-hall one after another. The micro-hall is spacious, it was built according to 100 people at the beginning, and now the family school and the prince's house school add up to no more than 50 people, so the micro-hall is even more empty.

The chairs outside the ring are divided into several rows, and the front row is close to the person who defends the ring, and it is next to the examiner, so it is a good position. Wu Yiding understood that he was the daughter of the dead country, and he consciously sat in the back row, and most of the people in the front row were princes, princesses, and children of important ministers and wealthy families.

"Princes, princesses, sons, and daughters, carve a year of study, and the winter is coming. It is a great honor for us to preside over the defense ceremony today, it is the prince who listens to the political prince today, and I am the prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Master Li stood in the center of the ring, said slowly, and finally asked everyone to knock on the wooden pole to greet the prince.

The prince is the prince of the country, and he came to the scene of the family study examination, and the audience was respectful, got up and bowed, and bent down to give a big salute.

The prince wore a light purple robe, with a fine-grained belt around the waist, dark leather boots, and a gilded jade crown on his head. I saw that his eyes were like bright stars, his lips were like roses, and his teeth were like scallops and shining jade. The prince was followed closely by Luo You and Wei Tong, the two of them bowed their heads and chests, and their hands were flat, respectfully holding the copy for the prince.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's winter examination, with courtesy, those under the age of 11 present are not included in the debate, the rest of the roster is in the seal, not ranked, no matter the order, those who are drawn, please answer. Master Li, Master Chen, Master Wu, and Master Dusk, I respectfully ask the four masters to judge the score for everyone." The prince's speech was clear, the words were correct and round, and with a raise of his right hand, he invited out the other three masters.

"The winter solstice is approaching, and this test will determine whether you are eligible to participate in the Winter Solstice Festival epidemic feast tomorrow. Everyone, do it yourself! After the prince finished speaking, the students habitually knocked on the wooden bon, and shouted three times in their mouths, "The prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" In order to show recognition.

Li, Chen, Noon, and Dusk sat down on the upper seat, and the prince lived in the main position of the micro hall, with a copy in front of him and a cylindrical box on the case, all of which were lists of students over the age of eleven. The prince stood still on the main seat, glanced around at the students, he was calm, and reached out to draw lots in the wooden box.

"The second prince Ji Yinghou." Wei Tong unfolded the sign and preached loudly.

Ji Yinghou is seventeen years old, a full year older than the crown prince Ji Yu, I saw him wearing a light blue cotton coat, a jade crown on his head, a slender figure, and full red lips. Hearing his name, he seemed to have a bamboo in his chest, walked into the ring without hurry, first bowed to the prince and several teachers, and then bowed to all the students, and talked eloquently.

"Rites, I have five rites in my Great Zhou: Naiji Ceremony, Fierce Ceremony, Military Ceremony, Guest Ceremony, and Jiali. Etiquette is the way of heavenly art, and it matches music. If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand. The so-called 'Cang Yu is really to know the etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know the honor and disgrace', I Da Zhou for the etiquette of the people, etiquette to the people, the state of etiquette is orderly, and courtesy is pro. ”

Ji Yinghou was generous and generous, talking endlessly, with the classification of "etiquette", talking about the national economy, people's livelihood, and people's support, I saw that he was imposing, gentle and moderate, and after finishing his words, he bowed respectfully to the prince, and saluted the whole audience, and then retreated.