When everyone heard the sound, they saw a woman wearing a lotus blue crane, wearing a hat, and a curtain hanging down to cover her face, standing there, followed by several servants, and a small sedan chair parked on the side of the road not far away.

When the man saw that the person who came was either rich or expensive, his attitude suddenly converged a lot, and he bent down and lowered his head and said, "Okay, good!" From now on, my niece will be yours. You see, do you give silver, or do you give silver tickets? ”

The woman nodded, and an old servant immediately handed over a silver ticket behind her, and the man took the silver ticket, looked at it carefully, and was overjoyed. The old servant led him to the porter again, and Qi Ruren found pen, ink, paper, inkstone and red ink, and asked him to write the deed and press his handprint.

The man sold his niece, and wanted to go up and tell his niece a few words, serve the nobles well, and don't forget the family when he is developed in the future, but he was stopped by a few domestic servants and couldn't get close, so he had to turn around.

Here, Zhang Weizhao bowed to the woman and said, "Thank you to the girl for your help!" ”

The person who came turned out to be Yu Miaoqing, who had not been seen for many days. Yu Miaoqing smiled and said, "Ah Zhao doesn't have to be polite. You might as well call me Miaoqing. ”

Zhang Weizhao smiled and nodded. Before the two of them had time to continue talking, the girl who had just been bought by Yu Miaoqing ran over and knelt at the feet of Miaoqing and Zhang Weizhao, and kowtowed again and again: "Thank you, Miss!" Thank you, Chief! ”

Yu Miaoqing said: "From now on, you will follow Zhang Daoyi to learn your skills hard, and you will be self-sufficient in the future, so you don't have to look at people's faces in everything." ”

The girl said yes again and again.

The old servant took the deed of sale, Yu Miaoqing motioned for him to hand it directly to Zhang Weizhao, Zhang Weizhao took it, picked up the girl, and handed the deed of sale to her: "You are a free man, not a slave of anyone." Now you are still young and need protection and care, so you have to live in the school to learn literacy, and in the future, when you are older, you can go wherever you want, and you can do whatever you want, understand? ”

Yu Miaoqing heard this next to her, and said in her heart Zhang Weizhao was dreaming again, even if she is a noble daughter from a big family, she can't go wherever she wants, and she can do whatever she wants, how can this little girl whose parents are dead achieve this realm? Telling her like this is nothing more than creating a lawless you. It's good for you, relying on the favor of the queen mother, the crown prince and the emperor, you do whatever you want, but so what? Haven't you been kicked out of the palace yet? She doesn't have the capital like you, and if she does what you do, she may die a miserable death.

It turned out that when she accompanied the Queen Mother together in Changle Palace, Yu Miaoqing had a good impression of Zhang Weizhao, especially her talent. Later, so many things happened, she watched coldly in the queen's palace, and only felt that Zhang Weizhao was too flamboyant, and completely lost the subtlety and restraint that a girl should have, and she couldn't help but feel disgusted.

Although Yu Miaoqing thought so in her heart, she still had a very warm smile on her face, standing there waiting.

The girl listened to Zhang Weizhao's words, nodded again and again, and then was taken by Qi Ruren and Huang Chef Niang to eat and bathe.

Zhang Weizhao invited Yu Miaoqing to speak in the room.

Entering Zhang Weizhao's studio, Yu Miaoqing removed his hat and looked left and right. It is a two-entry room with several tables and chairs on the outside. In the middle of the room was a large box with clean fine sand. The shelves against the wall are full of dolls, and the floor is covered with thick blankets. Yu Miaoqing said in her heart, it's okay to take in these poor children, you still have to get so many toys, and the blankets are also of good materials, I'm afraid it's too extravagant.

Yu Miaoqing didn't know that this was Zhang Weizhao's sand room, which was moved here from Xuanmiaoguan. As for the blanket, it was donated by Dong Zhenzhen, not Zhang Weizhao.

Because the room was not large, Yu Miaoqing's entourage did not follow up. Zhang Weizhao invited Yu Miaoqing to sit down, poured her a cup of tea with a coarse porcelain teacup, and put it on the table in front of her.

Yu Miaoqing smiled and thanked her, glanced at the cup of tea, but did not touch it.

Zhang Weizhao said: "Thank you for your help just now." I will record the twenty taels of silver in the donation booklet, and I won't pay you back, how about it? ”

Yu Miaoqing smiled: "That's exactly how it should be. As he spoke, he took out another envelope and put it on several cases: "This is donated to the school, let's talk about it." ”

Zhang Weizhao solemnly thanked him. Immediately opened the envelope, and inside was six hundred taels of silver tickets. She took out the donation booklet, recorded the six hundred and twenty taels, and asked Yu Miaoqing to sign her name.

Yu Miaoqing signed as he said. Then he said, "I have a reluctant request. ”

Zhang Weizhao said: "Please speak." ”

"I want to come to you to teach children how to draw."

"You want to teach drawing?" Zhang Weizhao was quite surprised.

"You can naturally teach it yourself, but you're too busy to find the effort. So it's not a bad thing to have one more person to do your best, don't you think? Yu Miaoqing said with a smile.

Zhang Weizhao shook his head and said, "You are not suitable to teach painting here." ”

Yu Miaoqing's smile froze on her face, she originally thought that this proposal would make Zhang Weizhao nod her head and thank her again and again, but who knew that she actually rejected her, or when she had just donated so many silver taels. Could it be that Zhang Weizhao is so wary of her? Don't you want her to go in and out of here at all, so as not to run into the prince?

"Why did Zhao say that?" She said with a gentle smile.

"It's not a fitting place for who you are." Zhang Weizhao said very directly: "School teachers and students have to eat and live together, and there is coarse tea and light rice here. You won't get used to it. ”

"Thank you Ah Zhao for your thoughtfulness. I don't need the school to provide me with meals, I can bring them myself. ”

"I don't want students to see that having a teacher is a special case, and that there is such a big contrast to their lives. Maybe in the future, when they grow up, they will eventually face the reality that they may not be able to buy someone else's cup of tea after a month of hard work. But, right now, I don't want them to have that kind of gap. I want them to know that even if they get a limited amount of money from their hard work, they are unique and irreplaceable in this world. In this way, they will not be able to despise themselves and look down on themselves if they encounter anything in the future. ”

Yu Miaoqing heard Zhang Weizhao say it so high-soundingly, and the anger in her heart deepened, is it my fault that I am from a rich background? It's an excuse for you not to let me come. But remembering her aunt Queen Yu's advice, Yu Miaoqing gritted her teeth and said, "I can also eat the same meals and drink the same tea as the students." As he spoke, he picked up the coarse porcelain teacup in front of him and took a sip. In fact, although the tea is rough, it can still be swallowed. Just thinking of this tea bowl, I don't know who used it before, and I feel sick for a while.

Zhang Weizhao took a sip of tea with a bitter expression on her face, and was quite speechless in his heart, and then said: "There is one more thing, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult for you." In school, you will inevitably meet all kinds of people, such as the vendor who delivers vegetables and rice noodles to the door every day, the old man who delivers carbon, all kinds of people who come to donate silver clothes, and even the neighbors who are curious to visit. Even if your parents could tolerate you being in the same room with these people, would your sisters, friends, and relatives be able to tolerate the discussion if they made fun of you for it? ”

Hearing this, Yu Miaoqing's face changed color. This is really what she is afraid of. Her cousins and cousins, who spent their days singing poems and enjoying the scenery, had to mingle with a group of poor girls among the peddlers and pawns to teach a group of poor girls to paint, and she could almost imagine what kind of eyes they would look at her and what piercing words they would use to talk about her.

She wanted to say that I could bring more servants to escort me, and whenever I came to teach, no idle people were allowed to enter the hospital, but she knew that Zhang Weizhao would not agree. Therefore, I wanted to open my mouth several times, but I didn't know how to refute Zhang Weizhao.

Zhang Weizhao said: "Everyone is born with a different mission, and what they can do is also different. You have already done a lot of help to the school today, if you want, you can also come to the school in your spare time, but staying here as a teacher for a long time is really not for you. ”

Yu Miaoqing had nothing to say. After a few more words, he got into the sedan chair and left.

On the second day, Yu Miaoqing entered the palace to see the queen.

"Is she really leaking a drop of water and resolutely refusing to let you go to school?" Empress Yu asked.

"Yes!"

Empress Yu nodded and said, "It seems that she is not only aggressive, but also very guarded. ”

Yu Miaoqing said: "What my aunt said is true. ”

Empress Yu reclined on the lavender cage and fell into deep thought.

Everyone in the harem has been panicking lately. After many years, Jin Guifei resumed the special favor of the pepper room, and the emperor did not set foot in the harem at all in the past two months, except for Jin Guifei's Anxi Palace. What method did Jin Guifei, who is over half a hundred years old, use to fix her favor? It is with pills. Li Tianshi offered the Qiankun Rejuvenation Pill, and the emperor and Jin Guifei took it at the same time. It is said that taking this elixir can not only make people regain their youth, but also promote interest and make the pleasure of the boudoir more enjoyable.

Before, although the emperor favored Jin Guifei, he would always go to other concubines once in a while. From time to time, there are young concubines who can take away a point or two of favor, although there are not many, but it always makes everyone miss a little. But now, I don't even think about it. Concubines with children are better, and those concubines who don't have children are just throwing their good years within the walls of the Forbidden City?

Queen Yu's heart also felt quite uneasy. She is not worried about the emperor's exclusive favor of Jin Guifei, anyway, no matter who the emperor favors or not, the indifference to her is the same as always, and Queen Yu has long looked down on her over the years. Her uneasiness stemmed from concerns about the emperor's health.

From the second half of last year to the beginning of this year, when the emperor took the pill refined by Zhang Weizhao, he was indeed more energetic day by day, his face was ruddy, and his eyes were bright.

But this time the emperor took Li Tianshi's elixir, although his face was also red, but it was a flush from his cheekbones; His eyes were bright, but his eyes were straight. Empress Yu felt that this was not a good sign.