Chapter Forty-Eight: School Begins
Sheng Mingzhu didn't go to Sheng Qian's study, so he saw another acquaintance first.
She actually wanted to recite a poem, the cool breeze and night dew, and the person's posture was also elegant. It's a pity she doesn't have much ink in her stomach.
It's late autumn, and it's still a little cold at night. Guan Ping sat on the cool stone bench in the courtyard of the Sheng family, his eyebrows seemed to be in the night, he was wearing a serious official uniform, and he also wore a black sand feather hat on his head. is like a scholar who has abandoned his pen and followed the text, even if he is full of killing, he still has charm.
"Mr. Guan......" Sheng Mingzhu walked over. He was dressed in dark clothes, and his waist looked thin when the breeze moved. For a moment, Sheng Mingzhu really wanted to touch it.
He raised his eyes to look at Sheng Mingzhu, and the blade was hidden in his eyes. The gray coat retreated behind him.
Sheng Mingzhu stood on one side and saluted sideways. Guan flattened her eyes, it wasn't like she hadn't seen her for a long time, she was wearing the shawl he gave her, and the red color lined her eyebrows lightly, "This shawl is very suitable for you." β
Sheng Mingzhu lowered his head and smiled.
Guan Ping's hand pressed on the jade wrench of his thumb, "I heard that you were beaten a few days ago?" β
The gray-clothed face twitched, he felt that the topic that his adults were looking for was not very good.
Sure enough, Sheng Mingzhu's face changed, she was not a virtuous person, and she pretended to be in front of everyone for a long time now, "Mr. has smart ears and eyes, and even knows what is going on with his youngest daughter?" β
"Why don't you know, I'm waiting for you to come to my house every day?" Guan Ping stretched out his finger and looked at the stone table in front of him, the gifts should have been received, but no one had ever visited, "The capital is indeed a flower world, right?" β
Sheng Mingzhu straightened her hair and looked at the soles of her feet.
"Or do you dislike my bad reputation?"
Guan Ping looked at her, her appearance was no different from before. The melon seeds had some flesh on their faces, and their eyes moved slightly. She really didn't want to be associated with the famous governor of the capitalβbut only on a day-to-day basis. When it comes to playing tricks, Sheng Mingzhu is naturally no match for Guan Ping, she knows that he did it on purpose.
But there is still a little bit of guilt. After all, he was pretty good to her.
"Meow~" where did the cat's meow come from. Sheng Mingzhu shuddered for a moment, then looked at Guan Ping, he loosened his cuffs, and a palm-sized plush ball probed out of his brain, and his turquoise eyes were looking at Sheng Mingzhu curiously.
"Uncle Guan, can I hug it?"
Guan Ping held it up, Sheng Mingzhu cautiously reached out and took it, rubbed her face with the hairy ball, and looked at her Uncle Guan again, "Have you named it now?" β
The treatment was promoted from Mr. Guan to Uncle Guan. Guan Ping touched the cat's head, and flicked it lightly, and the little hairball stretched out its claws to hook his fingers, and bit it with a dissatisfied face, "I've been waiting for you to name itββ"
"Fluffy, called pom-poms?" Sheng Mingzhu snatched his words, hugged the cat, and couldn't help but look at Guan Ping, staring at it. This uncle has brought this cat all the way over, can't he just be hungry for her?
"Liked it very much?"
Sheng Mingzhu nodded, looked at him pitifully, and almost didn't give him a damn. Guan Ping got up, and he didn't want to return to the cat, he was very tall, his waist was thin and long, and he looked a little lonely. Soon he turned his eyes back to look at Sheng Mingzhu, "If you have time in the future, take it to the mansion to see me." β
Sheng Mingzhu nodded. Guan Ping was leaving, and she asked again, "Mr. Guan came to the house late at night, in order to give me this cat?" β
Guan Ping didn't answer her words, as if he didn't hear it.
An evil and arrogant, an elegant and deep, very different character.
Thinking like this, Sheng Mingzhu kicked Guan Ping out of his suspicion list, and soon went to Sheng Qian's courtyard again, and after telling the future queen who the queen was, the two fell silent together.
"What do you think about this?" Sheng Qian asked first.
Sheng Mingzhu was silent for a while, moved an oil lamp to the table, the candle flame shone on her face, and the shadow was full, "Take advantage of the now, the gods and ghosts are unknown, Dad, is it too late for us to hug the Jiang family's thighs?" The eldest brother-in-law is still the Jiang family, and the building near the water is the first to get the moon. β
Although Sheng Qian was intent on moving, he still shook his head, "The eldest princess has a hard temper and is not useful. "Even if you hug your thighs, you still have to raid your house in the future.
"Besides, you also said that the two positions of the emperor and queen are already hanging and unstable."
Sheng Mingzhu glanced at Sheng Qian and asked, "Dad, what do you think?" Who is likely to rebel?"
Sheng Qian hurriedly blew out the only light on in the room, "This question is not good, don't ask it in the future." Sheng Mingzhu didn't let him answer, but the stalemate, Sheng Qian thought for a while, "Now that the family is big, it is impossible for the Wang family." They just want to maintain the face of the family and sit on the post of prime minister for hundreds of generations, and although the Wang family has clan power, they have no military power. β
The biggest difference between Wenchen and military generals is this, Sheng Qian calculated carefully, "Now the only ones who have military power are the eldest princess and the Sheng Guo Mansion." "The emperor naturally doesn't count, Sheng Qian thought about it again, "Speaking of which, the Sheng Guo Mansion has a million soldiers...... Nannan, do you think it's your grandfather thinks that our yard is too small...... "Sheng Qian can't say anything about it."
If there is a real rebellion, how can it end up like this?
It was not hot in the house, but Sheng Mingzhu's heart was like being roasted, and it was uncomfortable for anyone to know that their future was like that, she slapped it a few more times with a fan, and suddenly remembered what her father said just now, that her grandfather held millions of military powers.
I'm afraid of a ball, it's a big deal to end up in the end. She didn't believe that her grandfather didn't love her!
Thinking about the man in the dream, she was very disgusted, "Dad, I remember the man in the dream, who has a pair of long, snake-like eyes. The back is also very long, and the face is gloomy...... "After speaking, he looked at Sheng Qian again, "Dad, do you understand?" β
Sheng Qian shook his head, but he also wanted to know who the biggest leg would be in the future. It's best to get it dead, if you really can't get it dead, you can still hold it, so he handed Sheng Mingzhu a pen, "Nannan, you draw it." β
Sheng Mingzhu glanced at her father and took the pen. On one side, Sheng Qian lit the lamp again, spread out the rice paper for her, Sheng Mingzhu dipped in ink, and then ended with a very elegant action.
Sheng Qian watched from the side, the father looked at his daughter differently from a man to a woman, he felt that such a beautiful and lovely daughter, scolding Fang Xuan was all elegant, as if he was drinking tea in Autumn Mountain, until he lowered his eyes and looked at the picture.
The eyes are like those of a snake, and the face is gloomy...... The back is also very long.
"Nannan, your scroll is extraordinarily freehand."
Sheng Mingzhu also looked at it, the man was like a strand of smoke and dust on the painting, and he was about to pounce on him with his teeth and claws. Sheng Qian reversed the rice paper, "If you don't remember his face, do you remember the clothes he once wore?" Describe it to me. β
She couldn't remember many things in her dreams, she couldn't remember the emperor's face, she couldn't remember the man's face. Lord Jiang was just crying so badly that day, her makeup was spent, and she put on a little snack, "There is a white dress with ink plum embroidered on the corner." β
"What about the body? How tall? β
"Seven feet?" It seemed to be a little taller, "Eight feet, or higher." Sheng Mingzhu compared her height, three or four heads taller than her, and thought about it again.
Sheng Qian nodded, continued to paint, and asked a few more detailed questions. Soon Sheng Qian put away the pen, and the man on the scroll only had his back, his long and straight black hair was tied up on the crown of feathers, his face was blurred, only a pair of eyes, and he turned his head slightly, as if with blood, full of hatred and plunder.
"That's it." Sheng Mingzhu nodded.
"It's hard for others to know about this thing," Sheng Qian thought, "I'll tell someone to go down and look for it, saying it's a distant relative." Baby, this thing is the same as usual, rotten in the stomach. β
Sheng Mingzhu made a closed expression, indicating that he knew.
But her movements were too big, and the pompom that was originally hidden in the cuffs couldn't help it, bumped into her arm, and fell out with a poof, with a soft howl, Sheng Mingzhu's whole heart hurt, and she hugged it again and kissed it, and Sheng Qian looked at it suspiciously, "What is it?" β
Sheng Mingzhu rubbed the pom-pom paws, the cat didn't know why, obviously she didn't see her, and she wasn't afraid of life, her slightly barbed tongue slid across her fingertips, and she replied to Sheng Qian with a smile, "Mr. Guan came out of my father's place just now, and I saw him on the road, so I gave it to me?" By the way, Daddy, why did he come to Sheng Mansion? β
"Daddy has something serious to do with him." Sheng Qian said a word.
Sheng Mingzhu sighed and asked again, "What does Dad think of him?" β
Guan Ping's ruthless methods have long been reported, and the methods are not seen by many serious scholars, especially the torture he used to extract confessions. Sheng Qian thought for a while and said, "Maybe the means are a little closer, and they have taken the interests of some people, and they seem to be a robber." "But today's Great Wei also needs such a hero.
Sheng Mingzhu didn't ask again, she didn't want to put too many men's things in her brain.
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After Sheng Qian took Sheng Lingzhu to the Song Mansion that day, the old painting style of the Song Pavilion, who was originally unwilling to break the rules and let the two of them go to school, changed sharply. not only agreed to Lingzhu's enrollment, but also said that if she went to school, she would be able to take one with her.
"Mother, don't worry, Grandpa Ge said that you can take my sister in."
The spirit bead gradually grew bigger, and the meat buns on the face were a little less, and they began to appear beautiful. Now he is drinking porridge with a bulging mouth.
Sheng Mingzhu was wearing a white shirt, and because he was going to the academy today, he couldn't comb too cumbersome hair accessories, so he only hung a glass lock on his head. The clothes were cardigans, she walked over in a hurry, and pinched the bun face of Lingzhu with one hand, "Who brought it in?" β
"As the elder said, a good one comes with a bad one."
Sheng Mingzhu found that on Lingzhu's bun face, there was no trace of the original cute sister, "You are proud now, don't come to me if you are bullied in the future." β
Sheng Lingzhu felt that she was really a little angry, so she pulled her sleeve, "Sister, don't be angry, it doesn't matter if you don't learn or don't know, you look at the rich businessmen in our state, how many illiterate people there are." There is me in our family, and you and the second sister in the academy are better than who wears better clothes. β
She is so sensible, but Sheng Mingzhu has begun to have lung pain.
Yun Niang stopped the two of them with a smile, "What's the troubleβ" and instructed Mingzhu again, "I heard that the young lady of the Liu family is also in the academy." Although she was looking for trouble, this matter was a big trouble. Although Aunt Zheng's death is not what we mean, it is pitiful in the end, she lost her biological mother at a young age, don't mess with her, you know? β