Chapter 136: Etiquette and Female Virtue
In ancient times, there was a saying:
The woman married for three months, the ancestral temple was not destroyed, and she was taught in the Gonggong, and the ancestral temple was destroyed, and she was taught in the clan, and she was taught to be a woman's virtue, a woman's words, a woman's appearance, and a woman's merit...... So the woman is also obedient.
Often some female officials have to teach her some women's virtues, women's words, women's appearance, women's skills, often holding a women's precept in their hands or a women's training may be a women's rules, but it is most likely to hold three books at a time, forcing Midsummer to memorize and copy.
"Why did Princess Ben learn this? What's the use of all this? Princess Ben didn't understand. ”
There was a touch of doubt in Sheng Xia's eyes, she just lifted the pen and put it down before she started writing, it was funny that she had never learned the Tao of these women in the Central Plains, and now she came to Mobei to learn these.
"The crown princess, this wife naturally wants to learn some women's obedience and the like, if you don't learn this, you will lose our royal face, these are naturally good for the crown princess."
The female officer was about forty or fifty years old, and the corners of her eyes were already full of wrinkles, and she always spoke softly, but all the words she spoke were not well written.
"It's true, but it's funny, I didn't write about these things when I was in the Central Plains, and you are so bold to let Princess Ben copy these."
Sheng Xia held her chin with a smile on her mouth, the tone and tone of her speech were still calm, she was not angry but slowly put it away, picked up the books on the table and pushed the door open and patted the ash in her hand.
"This princess has never been wronged, if you let this princess suffer a little grievance, now this princess will not lose a book......"
When Sheng Xia said this, she opened her teeth and claws to scare the elderly female officer, and with the sharpness of an eagle in her eyes, the female officer who was still domineering suddenly weakened.
Gu Jing's knife was half drawn, and the light on the blade flashed excessively, shining on the female officer's eyes, and the female officer subconsciously stretched out her hand to cover her eyes, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Crown princess, Xia Guan is a little unwell now, so he will retire first."
The female officer found a reason and rushed out of the door, not forgetting to pick up the three books on the ground - "Female Virtue", "Female Training", and "Female Rules".
Midsummer picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and ate it, and found that the taste was a little wrong but it was also delicious, a trace of doubt flashed between the quiet and beautiful eyebrows, she turned her head and asked Gu Jing who put away the knife beside her, "Gu Jing, did you make this osmanthus cake?" Why does it taste different from the previous one? ”
Gu Jing shook his head and didn't forget to take the food plate, "The princess still don't eat it, spit it out, this is sent by the prince of the Shengguo...... He also made it himself, and he was afraid of poison. ”
"It's okay, it's okay to die." Midsummer said coldly and took a piece of osmanthus cake and ate it, she really couldn't understand what the sick prince was thinking, did she want to poison her with osmanthus cake?
"Hehe, that bastard's cooking is pretty good...... Princess Ben actually finished eating......"
Midsummer unconsciously ate the whole plate of osmanthus cake, and the glimpse of the empty plate surprised her, this osmanthus cake is really so delicious?
Gu Jing watched that she had eaten so many osmanthus cakes in midsummer, she didn't like sweets, even if he made them, he only ate a few pieces at a time, did she really like the osmanthus cakes made by that man so much?
Gu Jing only felt that the whole person with mixed tastes was sour and sometimes bitter, but he didn't know how to express it, after all, he was just a guard who had been with the princess for many years, so he could only ask lightly, "Princess, do you like this very much?" ”
Midsummer didn't deny it at first, but when he noticed that there was a lot of emotion on Gu Jing's face, he still spoke, "Osmanthus cake is osmanthus cake, people are people, how delicious the osmanthus cake is, how annoying the person is." ”
The haze in Gu Jing's heart was swept away, and he added, "If the princess likes to eat osmanthus cakes, I will study it again, and the prince of Shengguo will follow him...... I believe that I will be able to make the osmanthus cake that the princess likes. He smiled as he spoke, a rare smile he had seen in front of a princess, and a smile from the bottom of his heart.
Midsummer nodded and looked at Gu Jing's smile in a trance, and realized that he hadn't seen Gu Jing like this for a long time, Gu Jing was always happy and was notoriously hot-blooded stupid.
But when she is a princess, Gu Jing's whole person will become very boring and unwavering, but it is obvious that she regards Gu Jing as a friend, not just a guard.
The female official who wanted to teach her to be a good wife and a prince never came again, and Midsummer didn't know that the female official had found Yelu Nanfeng.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you have to take care of the newly married princess, the whole person has no merits, the virtuous and virtuous lady that a woman should have is not seen at all, and she is even rude and willful like a shrew, look at what the books of the lower officials have become!"
The female official was full of complaints about the number of the crown princess, and she was still looking at the books that she picked up after being thrown by the crown princess outside the door, and wanted the prince to rehabilitate her, the female official who taught the harem women.
"You are also the old minister of the harem, it is indeed her who is wrong, but she doesn't want to, forget it, she is already ugly, and you naturally don't care about her with such integrity."
Yelu Nanfeng is still writing to annotate government affairs, these are all handed over to him by his merry father, he has a lot of government affairs and all kinds of messes to clean up, but he didn't expect to be entangled by this verbose old female official.
The female official didn't expect that Yelu Nanfeng actually had some feelings for Princess Naxichu, and she was not deaf and could hear the meaning of the words, so Yelu Nanfeng let her let go of the unruly princess.
But the female official was unwilling, she had taught the noble ladies of the family and the harem women for many years, and she had never met such an unruly person as Princess Naxi Chuxia.
"The state-owned country has family rules, since it is a woman, you should cultivate "Female Virtue", "Female Rules", "Female Training", prince, you don't want to protect the princess, these three books are copied three hundred times each, and if the princess does not copy it, then the next official can only tell the king."
The female official said strongly, and put the three books in her hand on the table with a bang, she couldn't deal with Midsummer, but it was more than enough to treat Yelu Nanfeng, who didn't know that although Yelu Nanfeng was the prince, he was not favored, but it was only because he was alone that the prince's position was his turn.
"Okay, you go back first, the crown princess will copy these, if she doesn't copy the book, the prince will divorce her."
Yelu Nanfeng bit his lip, but he really couldn't help this old poisonous woman, after all, the other party was the leader of the female officials in this palace, and he was also a celebrity in front of half of his father, but he didn't get angry, endured the unhappiness in his heart, and had to follow the other party's wishes.
Sure enough, he is not favored or treated, no matter who can step on him, he knows that his position as the crown prince is not stable, if his uncertain father is angry, not to mention the throne, it is difficult to survive.
"I like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be so happy, I'll pick it up tomorrow."
The lady was ecstatic, just like looking at the moon falling in the sky, just like seeing how the princess who was so self-righteous in front of her was eclipsed, and she seemed to have foreseen the princess's begging for mercy.
After the female official left, Nanfeng flipped through the books on the table, weren't they all Han books? The women of their prosperous country couldn't help themselves.
He opened the book and looked at a few lines, and suddenly felt a little tightness in his chest, and when he looked down horizontally and vertically, he saw two crooked words squeezed out of these books: imprisonment.
"If she can copy it, then it must not be her, and she is also crying Prince Ben, marrying a wife and marrying Prince Dekeben has married a young master."
Yelu Nanfeng had to shake his head, how could the unruly and proud princess let go of persistence and freedom, how could she be forced to be old and pedantic, he slowly put down the book and looked at the mountains of government affairs, and could only insist on dealing with it.
He wrote from morning to night, and finally finished correcting those folds, but there was still no respite, he studied the ink and copied the "Female Virtue", "Female Training", and "Female Rules".
Originally, the word was quite delicate and capable, but when it was written, the more dragons and phoenixes danced, and even Yelu Nanfeng himself couldn't understand the word, and he didn't care about what the general called the guards, maids, and servants in the house.
"Come and help Prince Ben write this, I'm afraid Prince Ben won't be able to finish writing it alone."
Yelu Nanfeng beckoned hundreds of people to come to the house, and they handed out paper, pen and ink one by one, regardless of whether they were men, women, children, or whether they could write.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, why did you write this, aren't they all written by women? I heard that a female official was not sent to teach the crown princess, why did he become His Royal Highness the crown prince to write this? ”
The commander of the dark guard, who had been with Yelu Nanfeng for many years, asked blankly after taking the pen and paper.
"The crown princess is reluctant to write, so naturally the prince writes it."
Yelu Nanfeng replied, his fingers were already calloused, although he had all kinds of resentment in his heart, but the pen in his hand was still copying the "Female Rules", this was the first time he felt that these rituals were harmful.
I don't know how those women memorized it or how they copied it? But I think if I copy it myself, then I can not copy it in the middle of summer, maybe it can make her happier, right?
He knew that he had broken her wings by trapping Midsummer, and the person he hated the most now should be him, but he couldn't let her go, if she left, she might never be able to find her back.
By the time Yelu Nanfeng and the people in the house finished copying together, it was already the next morning.
"You go and see what the princess is doing, and then give her this token, and tell her to go out if she wants to, but you have to follow."
Yelu Nanfeng rubbed his face to make him less sleepy, and instructed the commander of the dark guard beside him.
Although he didn't want to let her go, he knew that his East Palace was a huge cage imprisoning Midsummer, and he would rather hate Midsummer than have her depressed all day long.
When the guard came back to restore his life, he wanted to speak and stopped, just looked at him and didn't speak, and Yelu Nanfeng knew that something was wrong at a glance.