On the afternoon of the second day of Qixi Festival, Empress Dowager Liu rewarded Zhang Weizhao with a lot of things. First, because Zhang Weizhao rescued Renhe in time, and secondly, it was naturally because the makeup that Zhang Weizhao painted for the Queen Mother yesterday made the Queen Mother feel very glorious.

In addition to gold and silver bills, the Queen Mother's reward this time also included several silk and silk of various colors, which were suitable for autumn clothes. Although the Queen Mother is now the most noble woman in the world, she has not yet departed from the background of a peasant girl in her heart. She felt that the reward was only real money. What is the meaning of rewarding paintings, paintings, antiques, and curiosities, whether you can eat them, wear them, or exchange them for money?

I have to say that the queen mother's style is too much in line with Zhang Weizhao's wishes. Zhang Weizhao happily rewarded him and put it back in the house.

Zhang Weizhao knew before entering the palace that although the risk in the palace was high, the income was also high, but he didn't expect it to be so high. If she continues like this, she will quickly accumulate a fortune. By the time she left the palace, she would not only be able to print books and train doctors and nurses, but she would even have the money to open a large pharmacy or a small hospital.

Zhang Weizhao went to thank the Queen Mother. When I entered the hall, I saw that the Queen Mother was half-leaning on the soft couch listening to the peony reading book, and when she saw Zhang Weizhao coming in to thank her, she was asked to get up without courtesy, and let people give her a small pier to sit and listen to the story together.

Peony read "Jin Yu Slave Stick Beat Bo Qinglang" today.

The story is about a man surnamed Mo who was rescued by a beggar leader when he was destitute and married his daughter Jin Yunu to him. After he won the fame examination, he felt that his wife was from a low background and was not worthy of being an official's wife, so he pushed his wife into the water on the boat. After entering Beijing, an official surnamed Xu wanted to marry his daughter to him, and he happily obeyed. When the candles were spent in the cave room, he was severely beaten. It turned out that the official's daughter was the Jin Yunu who fell into the water, who was rescued by the official and accepted as a righteous daughter. Under the persuasion of the officials, the husband and wife reconciled and died well.

When the queen mother heard the end, she found that at the end of the story, Jin Yunu and the scumbag were accompanied to old age, giving birth to children, and she was very impatient, and said: "This kind of self-developed and official, I think that my wife is from a poor background and a scoundrel who murdered his wife, what do you want to do with him to rebuild the old friendship?" It should be beaten to death with a stick, so as not to see this disgusting thing on the second half of his birthday. ”

Although the queen mother was relieved, the palace maids who accompanied her in the palace did not dare to echo loudly. Just because of this great Yan custom, women are strongly advocated from the beginning, no matter how scoundrel this man is, no matter how cruel he is to himself, women can only endure and avoid, tolerate with gentleness, and influence with righteousness. Even if she is angry with her husband, she can't repay it and is dissatisfied. This is the way of women.

The way of women and the way of kings and ministers are the same, the so-called husband and wife, father and son, and ministers, women, sons, and ministers must be unconditionally subordinate to their husbands, fathers, and kings. If you follow the queen mother and say that a woman can beat her husband to death, is it true that a courtier can also rebel against an unscrupulous king?

People who can stand in the palace are human spirits, so naturally they will not make such mistakes in tongue. Therefore, when the Queen Mother was so angry that she scolded people, she was submissive, and no one dared to answer.

But Zhang Weizhao is not among them.

Zhang Weizhao said: "The Queen Mother is very right! This book must have been written by a man, for men. Naturally, it is especially kind to men. If a woman were to write this story, it would have ended differently. ”

The Queen Mother thought about it and felt that what Zhang Weizhao said was very reasonable.

"It's just," said the Queen Mother, "how can a woman write a story?" There are few women who can read and write. Even if it is a general text, at most it is just a few lines of sour poems and writing a family letter, but can you still make up a story at length? ”

Zhang Weizhao replied: "Although I did not become a female writer at this time, but in Europa, the far west, there are women who write stories and become a generation of writers. ”

"Really?" The Queen Mother's curiosity suddenly rose.

So Zhang Weizhao gave an example to the Queen Mother, saying that in England in the Atlantic State, there was a woman named Austen, and she wrote a book called "Mrs. Ban's Marrying a Daughter".

The so-called "Mrs. Ban's Marrying a Daughter" is actually "Pride and Prejudice". It's just that Zhang Weizhao thinks it's better to choose a Chinese name to make people understand. The names of the five daughters of the Bennet family were also changed by her to Ben Jenny, Ben Li Bai, Ben Mary, Ben Kai Lin and Ben Lidi.

Austen lived in England at the end of the eighteenth century, three hundred years later than the Great Yan Dynasty.

But since the Heimlich maneuver of the twentieth century can be used, there is nothing to tell a story.

Sure enough, both Chinese and British old ladies are extremely enthusiastic about the marriage of their children. So when Zhang Weizhao said the first sentence at the beginning, "All rich bachelors always want to marry a wife, this has become a universally recognized truth." The Queen Mother had already listened to it.

The two bachelors in the story, Mr. Bentley and Mr. Daxi, one is richer than the other, and the other is higher than the other. The women next to her flocked to her, but Elizabeth was not willing to bend her knees and flatter her, showing weakness and flattery, but her intelligence and wisdom won the favor of Daxi.

The Queen Mother praised Mr. Darcy for his vision.

The palace maids around him also unconsciously put down the work in their hands and gathered around to listen.

You must know that most of the dramas and stories of Da Yan at this time are not long, the framework is simple, and the content is nothing more than promoting loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness. This is because the people of the world attach great importance to Bagu and poetry, and most of the people who write drama books and books are street performers or low-level literati, and the overall level is not high. Moreover, these drama books and scripts are all written by male literati, and most of the people who watch plays and listen to stories on the street are men, which do not meet the tastes of female audiences.

Pride and Prejudice is a world-class literary treasure, and in the 21st century, it is the most famous book that has been transformed into a film and television drama, even surpassing Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet".

There are many vivid details in this story, Zhang Weizhao is eloquent and eloquent, and he tells this story in a relaxed manner, and after a while, the Queen Mother and a room of palace maids have become fans of Austen.

Only except for peonies.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was completely attracted by Zhang Weizhao's story, and she was no longer interested in the book she was holding in her hand, Peony quietly withdrew from the hall and rushed to the tearoom angrily.

Peony was preparing refreshments with a small palace maid teahouse, and when she saw Peony coming in with a severe frost on her face, she took the little palace maid away, came over and asked in a low voice:

"Sister, what's wrong?"

"Humph! It's not the Taoist doctor, when I first entered the palace, I didn't forget to advertise that I was an outsider, and I had a different face from you slaves and maids who served people, and now I was not rushing to be a slave and maid, and I wanted to reward more than anyone else. "Peony has a deep grudge.

Among the four palace maids in charge of Changle Palace, peony and peony are better, Xiangyu and narcissus are close, and the four palace maids form two factions. Therefore, if the peony has any ideas, it will not hide from the peony.

"She just relies on her medical skills, she has traveled a lot, and she knows more about wild roads. I don't think her little tricks will last long. She is so ignorant of restraint, once the queen mother and the crown prince are disgusted with her. Have a good life with her! There is also a lot of resentment in Peony's words.

"She is young, her eyelids are shallow, and she has never seen the world, so she regards this Changle Palace as her Taoist temple. What the Forbidden City was, I looked at her and didn't even understand. We'll see. Peony sneered a few times and took the refreshments.

In fact, there was no conflict between peony and peony and Zhang Weizhao. It's just that Zhang Weizhao came, no matter what he saw and acted, he showed his difference from them everywhere, which made them very unaccustomed to it. What's more, Zhang Weizhao got closer to Xiangyu and Narcissus, because Zhang Weizhao has been very prominent in Changle Palace recently, and even Xiangyu and Narcissus have been more embarrassed in front of the Queen Mother, pressing Peony and Peony, making them even more jealous.

Why do peonies, peonies, fragrant jade, and narcissus always compete openly and secretly? There's a reason for that.

Before the first emperor Chen Huaishen's expedition to Wara, Empress Dowager Liu was promoted to a concubine because of her meritorious service in giving birth to a child, and she naturally had useful grandmothers and palace maids around her. But when the first emperor was defeated and captured by Wara, and the new emperor Chen Huaijue ascended the throne, most of these old people were sent away. When the first emperor returned to the court, Liu was sent to Nangong to be imprisoned with the first emperor, and the cronies around him died and the exiled people were exiled, and there was no one left.

After the first emperor re-ascended to the throne, Liu was named a noble concubine, and all the newcomers were summoned around him. When the first emperor died and Chen Jianjun succeeded to the throne, Liu was respected as the queen mother, and there were more people serving around him.

It's just that these people are not called out from childhood, and the Queen Mother is always not so wishy-washy, going back and forth, changing a lot.

Peony, peony, fragrant jade and narcissus are all selected into Changle Palace in recent years, and because of their strengths, they stood out from a group of small palace maids and stayed by the queen mother's side to serve.

Although these have their own functions, none of them are particularly valued by the Queen Mother. Only in the past year, Peony is the oldest among the four palace maids, has a stable personality, and has read books for several years when she was young, is good at writing, can settle accounts, and faintly has the momentum of becoming the palace maid in charge of Changle Palace.

Peony also took a gentle and steady route, but she couldn't compare to the peony, so she gave up the idea of competing with the peony, and followed the peony in turn.

Xiangyu and Narcissus are lively and playful styles, and they are younger, and they have long been unaccustomed to seeing the peony on the surface and taking care of the overall situation.

Helplessly, Peony has the advantage of being older and steady, and always has to press them.

But not long after Zhang Weizhao entered the palace, this pattern changed. Zhang Weizhao's actions are unexpected, which is incompatible with Peony's old Cheng Zheng, which makes Peony unaccustomed to it.

Xiangyu and Narcissus took the opportunity to show favor to Zhang Weizhao and took care of them everywhere.

As Zhang Weizhao became more and more blue-eyed by the Queen Mother and the Prince, Xiangyu and Narcissus also became proud, and privately demonstrated to the peony, which made the peony angry.