Back in the palace, the princess first sued her son in front of her father, told them about their siege of Ouyang Xiu, and also recounted Ouyang Xiu's question, but omitted the section where she threatened Liu Ji and others. Deng Du smiled at me when he heard this, but he didn't add much to it.

When he learned about Ouyang Xiu, he couldn't help sighing: "These Luodi scholars are also arrogant. Attacking the examiner, this is not the first time. It is said that Ouyang Xiu had just returned home from the Gongyuan the day before yesterday, and someone threw a scroll of documents into his courtyard from outside the wall, and when he picked it up, he saw that it was actually a ...... of 'Sacrifice to Ouyang Xiuwen'."

The princess raised her eyebrows and said: "This kind of troublemaker, it is better to catch one of them and make an example of him, at least, break one of his legs, or imprison him for a year and a half, it is estimated that they will be honest." ”

"In this way, they will even be even more verbal and written, and even the ministers of the DPRK and the central government will help to describe your father as a tyrant who wants to silence his tongue and burn books to pit Confucianism." Jinshang smiled and shook his head, and taught earnestly: "Daughter, there are two things in this world that must never be touched, and you have to take a detour when you see them, one is a hornet's nest, and the other is a bunch of readers." ”

The princess thought about it for a moment, and suddenly smiled and bent over: "Really, today's appearance of Master Ouyang is not like stabbing a hornet's nest!" ”

After laughing, she didn't forget to speak for Ouyang Xiu: "There are too many people offended by Master Ouyang this time, tomorrow will be the roll call, and another batch of people who participated in the palace examination will fail to make the list, it is difficult to guarantee that this kind of thing will not happen again in the future." Daddy has to think of a way not to let him get stung by a wasp again! ”

Imakami thought for a moment and smiled, "Well, I've been thinking about it. ”

The next day, we found out what an extraordinary decision he made to protect Ouyang Xiu: all those who participated in the palace examination this year were given Jinshi and rank, and no one was left behind.

As a result, hundreds of names were sung one by one, making the roll-call ceremony particularly long. The palace relatives upstairs in Taiqing were not interested, and several yawned and complained in a low voice that they were too tired to stand, and that this year's champion was not very good-looking.

This year's champion is Jian'an Zhangheng, he is about thirty years old, old and solemn, but in terms of demeanor, he is naturally far less than Feng Jing in the past.

As far as the princess and I are concerned, there are also unexpected highlights in the roll call: the second person in Jinshi is the green-shirted scholar who defended Ouyang Xiu the day before - Meishan Su Shi.

The princess seemed to have a good impression of him, so when the Jinshi thanked the queen in front of the Taiqing Tower, she specially ordered someone to give him more cakes.

Seeing this, the queen asked: "Has Hui Rou also heard of Su Shi's name?" ”

The princess said no, and perhaps it was not easy to elaborate on the antecedents for a while, so she simply found a reason: "I look at him pleasing to the eye." ”

This remark immediately attracted the laughter of the palace people, and she didn't bother to defend herself, she was selfless in her heart, and her expression was quite calm.

The queen smiled, also looked at Su Shi, and said: "This Su Shi is clever and thoughtful, and his style is similar to that of Master Ouyang. He has a younger brother named Su Zhe, who was also promoted together today. Now the brothers have a good reputation in the capital, your father couldn't help but be overjoyed after reading their palace examination article a few days ago, and specially said to me: 'Ouyang Xiu really knows people, this tribute has selected a lot of talented people in the article, among which there is a pair of brothers, named Su Shi and Su Zhe, are all materials for slaughter, and Su Shi's article is even more gratifying. It's just that I'm old, so I may not need these two people anymore, but it's not bad to leave them to future generations. ’”

The princess said curiously: "Daddy likes it so much, why doesn't he order Su Shi to be the champion?" ”

The queen said: "I don't know about this, just go back and ask your father yourself." ”

Later, the princess really asked about it, and Imakami smiled and sighed: "This thing is a misunderstanding." The examination papers of the palace examination will be read by the examiner first, and then submitted to me for approval according to the ranking recommended by the examiner. At first, Ouyang Xiu reviewed the articles of the palace examination, and saw Su Shi's article and praised it greatly, and intended to make him the first person, but at that time, the name of the test paper was vague, he didn't know who the author was, and he felt that this style of humanity was exactly the kind he liked, and he was worried that this article was written by his protégé Zeng Gong. When I read the papers, although I felt that the second person's article was better than the first person, but I thought about it, since Master Ouyang made such a decision, he must have his reasons, if there is no big mistake, I should respect his opinion. Therefore, in the end, according to the ranking suggested by Bachelor Ouyang, Su Shi was wronged and made an example. Unexpectedly, after the roll call, Jinshi entered the palace to thank him, I saw Ouyang Xiu staring at Su Shi, his face was stunned, and I asked him the reason, and he told me this in a low voice, and we were speechless for each other, and we were all quite sorry......"

The princess of the dynasty was first sealed with a two-word reputation, and when she descended or the new emperor ascended the throne, she changed her name to the country when she pushed her into the ranks, and the courtesy and courtesy were increased. In June of this year, Princess Fukang was named the princess of Yanguo. At this time, Ouyang Xiu was the most important Hanlin scholar in today's school, and after Zhigongju, Jinshang entrusted him with an important task, ordering him to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and leading the doctors of the Rite Academy to formulate rituals for princess ceremonies and weddings.

The reason why the wedding ceremony was to be redrafted was because the present dynasty wanted to marry a daughter with an unprecedented grand and solemn ancient ceremony, and the details of the princess canonization ceremony had to be carefully designed, so no princess in the previous dynasty had ever performed the canonization ceremony.

Therefore, the matter of the princess's canonization ceremony was inevitably criticized by the ministers, especially after the concubine was appointed as a virtuous concubine, and the virtuous concubine resigned from the ceremony, and now she was invited by her.

Hu Su, a scholar from Hanlin, said: "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, she has entered the two eldest princesses of Chu and Wei, and she has never performed a canonization ceremony. What's more, the virtuous concubine is also ranked by the special ceremony, if the canonical ceremony is not done, the line between the mother and the son is not good, and the etiquette is especially incommensurate. The book is in the annals of history, and future generations will ridicule it, and they will definitely say that His Majesty is biased towards the near and the beauty of the saintly virtue. ”

But this time, Imami did not accept his advice, and still ordered to prepare for the princess's canonization ceremony, and unabashedly showed his preference for his daughter to the world.

Soon it was July Ding You, the day when the princess of Yanguo was canonized.

According to the new ritual formulated, it is a hundred officials to worship the table to congratulate the Wende Palace, the household servant, the governor Wang Yaochen and the privy deputy envoy, the Ministry of Rites Lang Tian Guo served as the envoy, from the Wende Hall to the inner east gate, before the appointment of the matter into the knowledge to go to the Yifeng Pavilion, please the princess to wear jewelry, the clothes of the Zhai, the envoy and then in the inner east gate announced that the princess was given the seal, and then the matter was sealed inside, and the seal was given to the princess, the princess bowed to thank the seal, and the promotion was ordered to congratulate the woman, and then went to the palace to thank the parents.

That day, the women in the palace came to the outside of the Yifeng Pavilion early, lined up in turn, waited for the princess to come out, received the seal in the court, and came to the pavilion on time when they entered the palace, and invited the princess to wear jewelry and make a fuzhai, and then the princess did not appear for a long time, and they were surprised and raised their voices to invite twice, but they did not see her reaction.

Concubine Miao Xian was in charge of the inner women in the court, and it was inconvenient to leave without permission, so she showed me and asked me to go in and have a look.

Before I entered, I asked the maids standing by the princess's door, and they said that the princess had already dressed up, but for some reason she lay down lazily and refused to put on her dress.

The princess was wearing a plain yarn with a shirt lined with Zhai, lying sideways on the bed, her hair in a bun carefully combed by the secretary, but it was still unmessy.

I went over and whispered to her, but she didn't turn around, but said sullenly, "I don't want to do the canonization, go out and tell them, let them disperse." ”

Naturally, I didn't obey the order, and said, "The princess wants to be exempted from the canonization, so she resigned before. Now that all the ministers and wives are in place, it is rude for the princess to close the door and not come out. ”

"Didn't you say I had the strength to quit before? It's Daddy who doesn't agree. She looked at me sideways, her eyes dark, "I just don't want to go out, you let them go, I don't care, it's a big deal, you can help me write an apology chapter and give it to Daddy." ”

I smiled and said, "The minister is just a chamberlain who serves the princess's daily life, and drafting the chapter is not in the responsibility of the minister." ”

Hey? Didn't you ask me to make you a Hanlin scholar? The princess got up, made a blessing to me, and said, "Please ask Liang Neihan to draft a letter of apology for the position." ”

I responded to her words: "The princess's edict is unreasonable, and the minister does not dare to draw up the seal on behalf of her, so I would like to return the prefix and hope that the princess will forgive her sins." ”

She stroked her palms and smiled: "You have even learned the stinky temper of the minister of the DPRK and China!" ”

I didn't laugh. She still didn't give up, and suddenly said: "Didn't you say that it's all fun to catch a knife and ghostwrite an essay for me?" You also said that you are willing to do all the things I want you to do for me......"

Our relationship has changed subtly since I said these words to her that night, and we seem to be closer than before, but we have both tacitly agreed not to discuss it again, and this is the first time she has mentioned my words that day. As these words recurred, the warmth of the two of them on a rainy night was like a spring breeze blowing through my heart, and the tranquil joy was as drunk as wine, but fortunately, what little reason I had left could still remind me to reject her inducement.

"Oh? Did the minister say so? I asked casually.

"Of course, of course you did!" She was immediately sure.

I smiled thinly: "When did the minister say that?" ”

"That night, it was raining, I was crying, and then you came in......" She was slightly stunned, probably aware of something, so she stopped talking, and there was a layer of crimson faintly revealing on her face as clean as fine porcelain.

I deliberately ignored her strangeness and said lightly, "Really? I don't remember. ”

Then he turned his head and summoned Xiao Jing'er and Jiaqingzi by the door, and ordered, "Serve the princess to change her clothes." ”

"Did I say I wanted to change my clothes?" The princess rejected.

I replied with a smile: "Princess Yanguo's book was written by Ouyang Neihan, and the princess will definitely be interested in going out to listen to it." ”

"It's just some beautiful words, what's there to hear?" The princess sighed, and although she said so, she still let the maid help her to the dresser, put on the crown of nine phoenixes and four phoenixes, decorated with nine jewelry flowers, and then put on the dark green Zhai with big sleeves, tied with white jade double wear, and added pure Zhu double ribbon......

Finally put on the layers of grand costumes, she looked at herself in the mirror, and suddenly smiled at me behind me in the mirror: "Look at me like this, like the grinding and drinking music at the mercy of others on the day of Qixi Festival?" ”

I'm speechless.

She turned to me and said in a calm tone a sentimental remark: "They also used me as a clay puppet, wrapped up in a big colorful gift, and then it was time to give it to the silly rabbit." ”