"Boom! Thundered! ”

The thunder in the sky became louder and louder, one after another, like the earth shaking the sky, and like ten thousand horses galloping.

It was only a few breaths before the sunny sky became gloomy, and the thick clouds shrouded the sky, thicker and denser, and even the sky seemed to be pressed low......

The surface of the lake became dark, as if night had fallen in advance.

Feng Congyan's face changed in an instant, and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a while, and Duanmufei's words echoed in her ears again: "...... It's going to rain in a while, so my cousin and I won't go boating......"

In the continuous rolling thunder, the air also became solemn.

The other girls on the two canopy boats were also shocked, and their faces were discolored.

"It's going to be a thunderstorm!" The little girl in pink blurted out in a panic.

As if echoing her, a silver-white lightning bolt suddenly tore through the sky above, "Zilala", the dazzling lightning seemed to slash at their heads, illuminating the surroundings, and then the wind blew fiercely.

The purple-clothed girl hurriedly instructed the rowing waiter: "Quick! Hurry back to shore...... Yes! ”

Her words ended with a sigh of exclamation, and the other girls whispered nervously, and the canopy they were in swayed from side to side with the strong wind, like a swing, and the waves rattled around them.

The girls staggered left and right, hugging each other in twos and threes.

A few of the little attendants hurriedly began to row back, but at this moment the two boats were already in the middle of the lake, and even if they rowed hard, the boats would not be able to reach the shore for a while......

"Zilala!"

A few more bolts of lightning swept across the sky, and suddenly, the gloomy sky seemed to be torn open.

Like a bean-sized torrential rain pouring down, the wind was fierce, and the torrential rain fell overwhelmingly, smashing on the canopy of the ship, crackling, like a waterfall that flowed straight down to 3,000 feet, quite a bit of thunder.

"Quick! Fast forward to the tent! ”

I don't know who shouted, the girls couldn't wait to get into the canopy, however, at this moment, the canopy shook so badly that even if they were holding on to the railing, they felt as if they were going to be thrown out at any time, and those girls didn't dare to let go at all, so they could only move their bodies slowly and step by step.

In a short time, the rainstorm soaked their dresses, and everyone was so embarrassed that it took half a cup of tea to hide under the canopy.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the wind was blowing harder and harder, the thunder was louder and louder, and the lightning was like a dragon shuttling through the thick clouds, as if it were about to split the canopy of the ship in the next moment.

The surface of the lake rose and fell wildly with the raging storm, and the two canopy boats swayed with the wind and waves, swaying like swings, as if they were about to capsize at any moment.

The eldest of these girls on the ship was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and most of them had grown up pampered, and they had never traveled far away.

"Sister Li, will the boat capsize......" The little girl in pink's dress was wet and sticky to her body, her sideburns were still dripping, and she was so frightened that her eyes were hazy with tears, and her whole body trembled slightly, just like a canopy in the wind and rain. She can't swim, so what if the boat capsizes?!

Miss Li gently patted her on the back to soothe her.

"Madam, the slave maid will wipe you, be careful of catching a cold...... "Mrs. Zhang's eldest maid took out a cyan handkerchief and carefully wiped the rain on her master's body.

Mrs. Zhang silently looked at the hazy gray-white rain curtain outside the canopy, and her face was a little strange.

Naturally, she didn't forget the reminder that Duanmu Fei reminded her in front of the Qinglan Palace, and a subtle feeling appeared in her heart: Did the fourth Duanmu girl say it casually, or did she still understand astronomy?!

"Whoa!"

The rain is even more intense!

Not only on this Tianlai Lake, but also the entire Ningjiang Palace is shrouded in this sudden rainstorm, including the cool hall of Hanxing.

"Scarlet cousin, you touched yourself!"

Han Xing's crisp and delicate voice sounded in the hall.

Four or five girls were sitting around a square table, playing leaf cards, Dangui sat behind Yunhua, shook her head and muttered disagreeingly: "Sister Yunhua, I told you, the previous one should be played Wuwen, you have to play 40,000 yuan, otherwise you would have touched it a long time ago." ”

Yun Hua didn't speak, Lan Tingyun had already laughed out loud: "Every time Dangui plays cards, it's an afterthought!" ”

The other girls laughed out loud at one sentence, almost drowning out the crackling rain outside.

Dangui touched his nose, looked at Duanmu Fei, who was sitting opposite Yunhua, and said, "Sister Scarlet, don't you really know how to play the leaf card?" You've won three games in a row. ”

Duanmu pursed his lips, smiled very cutely, and said while trimming the leaves: "Sister Dangui taught well, famous teachers make high apprentices!" ”

Dangui listened to it with great satisfaction, and tilted his small chin proudly.

"Cousin Scarlet learns everything quickly, and the last time I learned Shuanglu, I won Junran in the first set, and I won the palace in the second set." Han Xing recalled the scene when he played Shuanglu with Duanmu Fei, and sighed again. Anyway, as long as it's a brain-using thing, Cousin Scarlet learns very quickly, it's just a matter of learning and applying it, drawing inferences from one another.

Yunhua glanced at the triumphant Dangui, shook his head secretly, looked at Duanmu Fei again, and asked, "Sister Scarlet, is there any trick to this leaf card?" ”

Several other girls also looked at Duanmu Fei curiously.

Duanmu Fei nodded solemnly, "Arithmetic, everything in this world is inseparable from arithmetic." ”

"For example, this leaf card has four suits: Wenqian, Baizi, Wanguan and 100,000 Guan, and the number of cards of each suit is also fixed. According to the cards in your hand, the cards played and the cards played by others, you can speculate on the remaining cards and the cards in the hands of others, and calculate various probabilities in combination to avoid risks......"

"For example, Sister Yunhua has just made a four-article, and Cousin Hanxing and Sister Lan have also made a four-article, which means that there is only one four-text left, and it is difficult to get together the three, four, five, and six......

Duanmufei talked endlessly, and the other girls seemed to understand a little at first, but then they heard it in a fog, and they couldn't keep up with Duanmufei's train of thought at all.

After a while, Dangui summed up matter-of-factly: "In short, it is necessary to count cards." ”

She sighed, "My eldest brother also has "Nine Chapters of Counting" there, and I have also flipped through it...... I recognize all those words, but when they are connected, I don't recognize them, and they look like books from heaven. ”

Yunhua and Hanxing nodded with concern, these noble girls have also learned superficial arithmetic, after all, when they marry in the future, they will have to manage the internal affairs of the house, and trivial matters can be managed by the housekeeper and grandmother, but they can't be ignorant, and they are fooled by the people below.

Han Xing was dizzy when Duanmu Fei said the numbers and probabilities, and changed the topic with a smile: "Cousin Scarlet, let's play something else, right?" ”

Dangui casually pinched a two-finger-sized leaf card and played it in his hand, "What else can you play, such a heavy rain ......"

The girls all looked up through the half-open windows to look out of the hall, and the courtyard was in a storm, and the flowers and trees were swaying wildly in the wind and rain, and the room was silent.

Han Xing stretched her hand out of the window and let the raindrops hit her fingertips, "Cousin Scarlet, you are amazing!" ”

Saying it was raining, it rained right away, so funny.

"Where, where." Duanmu replied modestly and continued to sort out the leaf cards.

Dangui thought of something, looked at the direction of Tianlai Lake, and said, "I don't know if they have ...... back" The "they" in her mouth of course refers to those who go boating.

Lan Tingyun blinked, "I'll send someone to ask later, "Anyway, it's just a little rain left and right."

She curiously leaned over to Duanmu Fei and asked, "Fourth Duanmu girl, how did you know that it was going to rain soon?" ”

Before Duanmu Fei could speak, Dangui had already said in a matter-of-fact manner: "Arithmetic, everything in this world is inseparable from arithmetic. The same is true of the astrology. ”

Duanmu Fei nodded solemnly, looking at Dangui with bright eyes, looking like he had found a soulmate.

She was about to talk to everyone about astrology and arithmetic, but Han Xing already felt that her head was starting to hurt, and she suddenly could understand why Cousin Scarlet was always reluctant to accompany her to the study before. I'm playing on my head.,What kind of homework!

"Yingluo." Han Xing called, and a palace maid in Tsing Yi stepped forward to standby, "You send someone to the other side of Tianlai Lake to take a look, if there is a boat in the lake, quickly ask the Inner Court Division to pick up all the people ashore." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Yingluo bent her knees to receive the order and hurriedly retreated.

"Since we can't go out, let's just play pitcher." Duanmu Fei sorted out the leaf cards and proposed with great interest.

There was silence all around.

The skills of Duanmu Scarlet Pitcher The girls present have also seen it, Yunhua looked around, and immediately felt "worried" about the vase decoration and flower bonsai here.

Several girls quietly exchanged glances, and Han Xing summoned another palace maid and ordered: "Congzhen, you go and 'clean up' the west side hall, we have to 'throw pots'." ”

Han Xing deliberately increased the volume slightly in some words, and Congzhen immediately understood that she had to quickly clean up the things in the West Side Hall, the "destructive power" of the fourth girl of Duanmu was too strong.

It's just a few glances, and a few people present feel a little intimate with each other.

Han Xing cleared his throat and took advantage of the time to chat with Lan Tingyun: "Tingyun, this palace remembers that you are very familiar with Wei Ruxian, right?" ”

Lan Tingyun's eyebrows moved, and he immediately knew what Han Xing wanted to ask, and Dangui and Yunhua also looked over curiously, only Duanmu Fei was confused and blinked stupidly.

Dangui said: "I heard that she 'divorced' not long ago? ”

Speaking of the word "divorce", Dangui's tone seemed meaningful.

Lan Tingyun hooked up a disapproving smile, directly pierced the fragile layer of window paper, and said sharply: "I was robbed of my marriage!" ”

The Lan family and the Wei family are world friends, and Lan Tingyun knows much more about Wei Ruxian's marriage than Han Xing and Dangui.

Wei Ruxian and the youngest son of the Pan family, Pan Wugongzi, have been married since childhood, and they were only waiting for Wei Ruxian's filial piety to expire, and then they were officially married, who knew that Liu Rong's niece Liu Yingshuang met Pan Wugongzi in Banyue Lake last month and fell in love with him at first sight.

Liu Yingshuang's temperament has always been coquettish, since her aunt Liu Rong gained power, she almost wanted to get wind and rain, there was nothing she couldn't get, she went to Wei Yongxin and begged hard, wanting to marry instead, and kept saying that when Wei Ruxian's filial piety period expired, Pan Wugongzi was eighteen, wouldn't it delay the good years of Pan Wugongzi and delay the heirs of the Pan family.

Wei Yongxin felt very reasonable when he heard it, so he agreed.

However, the divorce did not go well.

“…… Wei Ruxian has not agreed to withdraw from the marriage. Lan Tingyun said with a complicated expression, and she didn't know how she felt in her heart.

She knows very well that with Wei Ruxian's usual character, it is not easy to persist until today, and I am afraid that this marriage will have to be withdrawn sooner or later.

Dangui and Hanxing also knew this, if Wei Ruxian's temperament was tough enough to withstand things, then Mrs. Wei would not die in vain.

Dangui sighed with a sigh: "Although Lord Wei spoiled his concubine and killed his wife, and was blinded by a prostitute, if Wei Ruxian directly killed a concubine by virtue of her identity as the eldest daughter, although her reputation was somewhat hindered, no one could say that she was not." Even if no one in the house is willing to listen to her, she can go to the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother to avenge her mother......"

These things were originally the private affairs of the Wei family, and the Wei family themselves did not say anything, and others naturally only pretended to be deaf and dumb, just as if they didn't see anything.

"What did the Pan family say?" Yun Hua remembered something and interjected, "I remember that Master Pan has just returned to Beijing after his term of office, right?" ”

Duanmu Fei, Han Xing, and Dangui looked at each other, feeling that Yunhua had asked the point.

Normally, even if a person with a little bit of rules regrets marriage, he will not abandon the eldest daughter of his in-laws and marry a niece of a concubine!

"Lord Pan returned to ......Beijing two months ago," Lan Tingyun replied, and talked about the Pan family, who had previously served as a fellow of the five products in Zhongzhou, and after returning to Beijing, he was still waiting for a vacancy.

Mr. Pan is not in Beijing all the year round, this Pan Wugongzi was brought up by his grandfather and grandmother in Beijing since he was a child, there is a way to be a next-generation parent, Mrs. Pan and his wife are very fond of this young grandson, and they feel that their young grandson can read, and he is young and young in Xiucai, everything is good, and he has always spoiled this grandson.

Since Pan Wugongzi met Liu Yingshuang in Half Moon Lake, he was shocked, and felt that Liu Yingshuang was born worse than those ladies, but her talent and appearance are outstanding, especially compared to Wei Ruxian, I don't know how many times better.

Pan Wugongzi made a fuss at home, and after not eating or drinking for a day, Mrs. Pan and his wife compromised.

As for Master Pan, he also has his own calculations.

The Pan family has been declining in recent years, and the scenery has long been gone, and the title has only been passed on to Mrs. Pan's generation. Master Pan has been in Beijing for two months, and he has not waited for any good errands, and he also wants to curry favor with Wei Yongxin, hoping that he can promote the Pan family.

After all, it is good for the two families to get married, and no one in the central capital knows that Wei Ruxian is not favored by her father, and her life is not as good as a concubine, marrying Wei Ruxian is not good for the Pan family at all, and Wei Ruxian's temperament is weak, and after passing the door in the future, I am afraid that she will not even be able to manage her own yard.

The Pan family had already sent someone to reply to Wei Yongxin, saying that everything depended on the Wei family, and that he was respecting the Wei family.

In this case, in fact, even if Wei Ruxian really insists on refusing to withdraw from the marriage, she will not be able to marry the Pan family in the future!

While talking, Congzhen came back with a smile, saying that the west side hall had been "cleaned up", and Duanmufei couldn't wait to beckon everyone to go to the pot together.

Duanmu won three games by playing the leaf card, and soon lost twice as much, but she was still complacent about losing, and felt that she had improved again.

The other four girls were not good at dampening Duanmufei's enthusiasm, and they all pointed at her intentionally or unintentionally, and after four or five rounds, Duanmufei had indeed improved a lot, and she could get into seven or eight by throwing ten arrows.

"Cousin Hanxing, when I become more proficient, you can teach me to play with piercing ears and arrows." Duanmu Fei's little face was flushed, and his eyes were shining, so that Han Xing couldn't say anything to refuse for a while, thinking that it would be better to go back and play the leaf card again.

She was struggling, and Yingluo, who had been out for nearly half an hour, finally came back, with a little wetness in her hair, and said: "Back to Your Highness, the Inner Court Division has brought the two boats of people back to the shore." ”

So, the girls in the house couldn't care about throwing pots anymore, and Dangui couldn't wait to ask, "How are they?" ”

Yingluo replied respectfully: "Just now the wind and waves were also strong, and the hull of the boat shook badly, and a girl was so frightened that she fainted in the canopy, and Miss Feng and another girl were a little seasick, and she vomited just now...... "This filth is all over the body, and you can imagine how embarrassed it is." "The people have all been sent back to their homes."

Since everyone is fine, the girls are not too relieved.

"Cousin Scarlet, when will this rain stop?" Han Xing asked with great interest, "After the rain, the blue sky is like a wash, the water and the sky are the same, it is the most suitable for boating!" ”

Duanmu Fei looked at the dense rain curtain outside the window, pretended to raise his right hand and calculated, and then said seriously: "I'll pinch my fingers, and the next quarter of an hour will be almost there." "She looks like a little magic stick.

"Then let's hurry up and get ready, and go boating." Han Xing hurriedly instructed the palace maid to prepare some melons, fruits, snacks, tea, and a small red clay stove, thinking that he would later ask the Inner Court Division to prepare a smaller painting boat, so that they could watch the sunset first, and then enjoy the moon and the lake.

Under Han Xing's order, the palace maids in the Qingliang Hall moved neatly, and after a quarter of an hour, the things were ready.

Look outside the hall again, the rainstorm has stopped, only a few raindrops are still falling under the eaves, the sky is so transparent and pure, and the sun appears in the blue sky, sprinkling a golden light.

"It's really sunny!" Dangui looked at the raindrops under the eaves and said happily.

"That's nature!" Han Xing glanced at Dangui, and his eyes seemed to say, can Cousin Scarlet be wrong?!

Dangui didn't care about Hanxing, he looked at Duanmu Fei with burning eyes, his eyes as if looking up at the vast stars.

Yun Hua couldn't help but laugh when he watched from the side, feeling that Duanmu Fei seemed to have gained another "believer" today.

While beckoning everyone to go rafting, Han Xing remembered one more thing, and casually instructed Yingluo with a smile: "Yingluo, you ask the imperial dining room to prepare some ginger soup and send it to the palaces...... Don't let the guests catch a cold. ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

So, after a stick of incense, a piece of ginger soup was sent to all palaces and courtyards, including Mrs. Zhang's residence.

"Ahh

Mrs. Zhang was also drenched in the heavy rain on the boat before, and she had just bathed and changed her clothes, but she still sneezed three times in a row, as if she had caught a cold.

Her personal mother was about to tell the maid to prepare ginger soup, but who knew that this ginger soup would come by herself.

"Madame, hurry up and drink some ginger soup, so as not to catch a cold." Mama said with concern, and personally sent the bowl of ginger soup to Mrs. Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang slowly drank the ginger soup, and the big girl on the side had already changed into new clothes and came back, thinking about everything that happened just now, and said with a little incredulity on her face: "Madam, did you say that the fourth girl of Duanmu happened to be blindfolded, or did she really calculate it?" ”

The eldest girl swallowed her saliva, she had heard that some Taoist priests and Taoist women with advanced Taoism could pinch and calculate, but she always felt a little mysterious, and she didn't expect to witness it with her own eyes today.

Mrs. Zhang drank most of the bowl of ginger soup, put the bowl down, and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief.

She probably also knew that the maid was thinking wrong, and said with a smile: "In the history of the former dynasty and the opposition, it is recorded that there is a Qin Tianjian named Ji Yuesheng, who can accurately estimate the weather changes, and even accurately determine the time and moment of snow on a certain day, how long the snow will fall, the snow cover, and so on. ”

Duanmu Fei can be calculated so accurately, I am afraid that he has studied the astronomical calendar and astrology very thoroughly.

Interesting.

Mrs. Zhang hooked her lips with great interest, and muttered to herself: "I have never seen such a girl, I heard that she is not yet twelve years old......" Mrs. Zhang's eyes sparkled, and she wanted to see more and more what kind of works she could draw when Duanmu Fei splashed ink to her heart's content!

"I've seen the master."

Outside the door curtain, there was a respectful salute from the maid, followed by a curtain sound, and a middle-aged man in a cerulean straight shirt walked in quickly, only to see that he was tall, gentle and elegant, and his gestures revealed a gentle spring breeze.

Master Zhang heard that his wife was taken back to the shore by the Inner Court Division during the heavy rain while rafting, so he rushed back to take a look, but he didn't expect his wife who had just been drenched in the rain to look very good.

"Sir, come and admire this painting." Mrs. Zhang smiled and beckoned to Master Zhang, motioning him to look at the painting on the desk.

This painting is the ink landscape painting that Duanmu Fei helped her revise before.

When Master Zhang saw it, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, and saw from the brushstrokes of this mountain and tree that it should be his wife's handwriting, and couldn't help but praise: "Ruoyun, your painting skills have improved again, and this waterfall is the finishing touch!" Set off the static with the movement, and show the movement with the static. ”

Mrs. Zhang pursed her lips and smiled, and asked deliberately: "Master, what do you think of the waterfall diagram compared to Miss Chu?" ”

Master Zhang thought about it carefully, considered the words and said: "Each has its own merits, and Miss Chu's picture is better from beginning to end." ”

Mrs. Zhang smiled, and a happy and brisk laugh escaped from the corners of her lips, "Even when I saw that waterfall picture, I couldn't help but feel 'jealous', Duanmu Fourth Girl has excellent painting skills, and she is young, so she still has a little spirit, and when she sees that waterfall picture, she will definitely be provoked to be competitive." ”

As soon as he heard "Duanmu", Master Zhang knew that it must be a girl from the Shoufu family, and said with a smile: "Ruoyun, it's been a long time since you've been so interested in a girl." ”

"It's been a long time since I've seen such a spiritual girl." Mrs. Zhang's expression couldn't hide her appreciation, and then she contemplated again.

The problem is that the waterfall picture is the posthumous work of the eldest girl of Chu, and it is not easy for me to borrow it from the Chu family.

She had to think about it, no matter what, she must make Duanmu Fei the first student of their women's school.

Thinking about it, Mrs. Zhang's eyes shone like jewels, and her spirit was flying.

She has always felt that women are not inferior to men, since men can go to school and take the imperial examination, women can do the same.

Women's education is only the first step, and when women's education has reached a scale, has prestige among the people, and cultivates some girls who are not inferior to those talented scholars, she can ask the imperial court to open the same imperial examination for women.

Accumulation of steps or thousands of miles, these things may not be effective in a few years, but what about ten, twenty, thirty years?!

If you want to reach that step, the first and most important point is to ask the students of women's studies to be good enough, like Duanmu Fei, it is simply a treasure of women's studies!