Kangxi saw that Mingzhu was serious, and said with a smile: "Get up, I just said it casually." ”

After speaking, he picked up the cinnabar royal pen, approved a few lines of small red characters on the fold, closed the fold, handed it to Mingzhu and said: "First act according to the current method, but we still have to discuss a more appropriate method, the autumn harvest is imminent, it is the time of the busy farming, pass on my word, and strictly order any official not to disturb the people with any excuse for the autumn harvest, otherwise they will be severely punished." ”

Mingzhu slowly stood up, carefully took the fold, and made a promise.

After Kangxi finished speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, the tea juice was slightly cold, raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows and said: "I am a little tired, you kneel down, pass on my message, and let Wei Dongting hand the sign in later." ”

"Huh!" Mingzhu retreated to the door of the room, and was raising his legs towards the threshold, Kangxi called him again, Mingzhu hurriedly turned around and stopped, Kangxi asked: "I see that Rong Ruo's complexion this year is much better than in previous years, and the cold disease last winter has healed, right?" ”

Mingzhu heard the emperor ask about Rong Ruo's body, her heart was warm, and she replied with a smile: "Emperor Lao is worried, the dog's body this year is indeed much better than in previous years, in early spring, the queen mother rewarded a lot of ginseng, and the conditioning has improved greatly!" ”

Kangxi nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "I see that Rong Ruo's pain of losing his wife has also been relieved a lot, you see if there is a suitable woman among our Manchu nobles, I want to give him a marriage." With a new person, the old pain is forgotten faster. ”

Mingzhu was stunned when she heard this, firstly, she didn't expect Kangxi to suddenly mention this, and secondly, there was really no suitable daughter-in-law candidate at the moment, and she was hesitant.

Kangxi He said with a smile: "This is also in a hurry, I just want to mention it, Rong Ruo's temperament is different from the ordinary Eight Banners nobles, and the Fujin candidate still needs his own liking, pay attention slowly, you go!" ”

"Huh!" Mingzhu withdrew. Passing by the respectful room, he found the chief eunuch Li Dequan and instructed Wei Dongting to hand over the sign. Straight through the end gate, out of the noon gate, get on the horse and go home.

Mingzhu sat on the horse, still pondering in his heart: Now the emperor suddenly remembered to ask about Rong Ruo's marriage, could it be that the emperor has already chosen someone in his heart? Besides, what does it mean to ask whether Wang Zhaojun should marry and marry far away, and this is not next to anywhere? Mingzhu only felt that the holy will was unpredictable, and her head was tangled in a mess, and the more she thought about it, the more messy it became.

Not long after, he had returned to the mansion in Houhai, Mingzhu turned over and dismounted, and a small servant had already run over to lead the horse and wait. Mingzhu was about to change out of court clothes first, so he walked straight to the inner hall.

Passing by the garden, I saw from a distance that in the Lushui Pavilion, Rong Ruo was chatting with a young man, and there were bursts of laughter from time to time, Mingzhu asked his attendant: "Who is Xingde with?" ”

The attendant replied: "Back to the master, that is the young man Huai, who has often come to the mansion to play chess with the prince recently. ”

Mingzhu knows the character of his son, and he has always liked to associate with those literati and Qingke, and he doesn't care too much. When I only made a detour to pass by the Lushui Pavilion, I glanced at this Huai Gongzi.

Mingzhu saw that although this Huai Gongzi was a man, he was a little delicate between his eyebrows, his face was fair, his eyebrows were beautiful, and his figure was quite thin, so he didn't like it in his heart, and secretly thought: A man is born so weak that he can't be reused. suddenly remembered that Kangxi said that he would give Rong Ruo a marriage, and couldn't help but glance at the Huai Gongzi again, frowning slightly.

Rong Ruo and Huai Sleeve were arguing about the origin of a Chu Ci, and when they saw Mingzhu coming, they hurriedly got up and saluted, and gave Mingzhu a brief introduction to Huai Sleeve.

Bosom sleeves bow to the pearl. Mingzhu didn't speak, just nodded and left.

Huai Sleeve looked at the back of Mingzhu walking away, and thought: It turns out that this is Mingzhu, the famous prime minister of the dynasty. Although Mingzhu and Rongruo are close relatives of father and son, their temperaments are very different. Rong Ruo is handsome and free, humble and bright, but the prime minister of the pearl is not smiling, deep and introverted.

When Huai Sleeve was in the General's Mansion, he heard some discussions about the prime minister from Amma. Ama also praised the Ming Dynasty for being a good learner, acting extremely tactfully in the officialdom, and being called "Laughing Pearl", but the official voice doesn't seem to be very good......

"It's really strange for you, if you don't read those "Women's Precepts" and "Internal Training", you just read these four books and five classics, so you can't compete with your future husband?" Rong Ruo saw Amma walking away, and continued to tease Fang Cai's words.

Huai Sleeve turned his head, gave him a roll of the eye, and argued: "It is those books that are specially designed for women to read, the number of rules and etiquette, and the rotten articles that are the most harmful to women!" ”

Rong Ruo raised half of her eyebrows and listened to her continue with interest.

Huai Sleeve opened his mouth without making a defense, and asked Rong Ruodao: "Do you know why since ancient times, men and women always say that they are not in the same place?"

Rong Ruo listened, frowned and thought about it, and shook his head again. He hadn't really thought about it.

"So, do you know why women can't figure out what men are thinking?" Huai Sleeve then asked.

The more Rong Ruo listened, the more he didn't understand, and continued to shake his head.

Huai Sleeve put on an old master's demeanor, stroked his smooth chin and filled his beard, shook his head and said: "The fundamental problem is that they have different ideas, think about it, what is the education that women have received since childhood?" Three from four virtues, abide by women's morals. ”

Rong Ruo nodded and asked rhetorically, "Are these wrong?" ”

"That's right." Huai Sleeve also nodded, but then said: "The root of the problem is: they only know what they should do, but they don't know what their husbands are thinking, and this is the biggest problem!" ”

Rong Ruo was puzzled: "It's good to know what you want to do, why do you want to know what others are thinking?" ”

Huai sleeve waved his hand again and again, and said: "Big mistake! Think about it, what is the root of communication between people? It's intellectual insight, isn't it? Huai Sleeve asked rhetorically.

Rong Ruo nodded.

Huai Sleeve continued: "Since it is a thought, you have to keep the thoughts or insights of the two people as close as possible in order to have an effective communication effect, right? ”

Rong Ruo retorted: "Since ancient times, men are in charge of the outside, women are in the house, as a daughter's family, as long as you take care of the things in the family, husband and children, this is already a complete merit, thinking about the troubles of those countries, the strategy of peace and stability, and you can't enter the court as an official, it's useless to think about it!" ”

"This is obviously the imprisonment of your bearded men to women's thoughts, and what you say is high-sounding, you don't let women enter the court as officials, how do you know that women can't?" Huai Sleeve was not convinced, and retorted loudly with his eyes wide.

"The women have gone to settle the country, who will go to wash and cook?" Rong Ruo asked with a smile.

"Could it be that a girl is born with to do laundry and cook!" Huai Sleeve argued anxiously, and blushed slightly.

"Of course not, there is a more important point," Rong Ruo said.

Huai Sleeve asked, "What?" ”

Rong Ruo smiled slyly and said, "Continue the incense." ”

Huai Sleeve suddenly heard Rong Ruo's words, his face turned red to the root of his ears, he lowered his black wings deeply, and stopped speaking.

Rong Ruo also realized that his words just now were a little abrupt, and he actually forgot that his sleeve was his daughter's body, and both of them were silent for a while, and their eyes fell on the green lotus in the pond.

"You ......"

"You ......"

After a moment of silence, the two wanted to break the silence, but they opened their mouths at the same time, and they looked at each other and laughed.

"You speak first." Rong Ruowen looked at his sleeve.

Huai Sleeve lowered her face slightly, thought for a moment, and asked the question she had been thinking about in her heart.