Zhuo Zhaojie since the Zhuo family courtyard in Yongxingfang, smell the 'chicken' and get up, the sunset is resting, hard work, she is not bad, and now there are Wen Zhizhi, Min Pinghou personally supervised and guided, compared with the previous careless schoolwork, there has been obvious growth in the past few days.

The afternoon light was warm and quiet, as usual by the window of the study, Min Pinghou temporarily put down the official document, looked at the latest poems of his grandson' and bowed slightly, but he refused to praise the younger generation easily, although he was still satisfied with the progress of Zhuo Zhaojie, but he did not forget to teach her a few more words, so he still said lukewarmly: "Your talent is good, but you can't be proud, and your grandfather is kind, and it is inconvenient to be a strict teacher because of the identity of the foreign family, and he connived at you to get by, if you grow up in Chang'an, you will not be able to make you so wasted!" ”

The implication is that Zhuo Zhaojie is only able to achieve today's results by relying on talent, and Min Pinghou is still not satisfied with this.

Zhuo Zhaojie after so many days also probably understood his grandfather's personality, Minpinghou believes in teaching his son to be strict, is a person who rarely will be kind to the younger generation and Yan Yue', Zhuo Zhaocui has also been here in the past two days, it is said that Zhuo Zhaocui as a grandson is taught by Minpinghou himself, there should always be a special decency, but Zhuo Zhaocui in front of Minpinghou is not afraid to come out, that cautious and cautious appearance is not as casual as Zhuo Zhaojie's ignorant fearlessness.

Of course, Min Pinghou is not a junior who is not treated with Yan Yue, for example, Shen Dangu.

At this moment, Shen Dangu stood in front of the case, taking Zhuo Xiang's place, calmly studying an inkstone, his expression was focused and his demeanor was upright, and he was not affected by the lecture of Minping Hou to his grandson's daughter, and his wrist was as stable as a mountain.

After Minping Hou finished training Zhuo Zhaojie, he changed his kind tone and asked Shen Dangu: "Take the poems you wrote the day before yesterday, let Xiao Qiniang take a look, and learn a little!" ”

Shen Dangu smiled slightly and said: "The prince and the marquis are falsely praised, and the poems and writings of Dangu are also mediocre, not as good as the princes!" ”

"It doesn't matter." Min Pinghou shook his head and said, "No matter how mediocre you are, you are much stronger than her after all!" That's more than enough to teach her! ”

Shen Dangu put down the ink at this time, went to a shelf next to him and took out a piece of poetry, but did not hand it directly to Zhuo Zhaojie, but first to Min Pinghou, Minping Hou beckoned Zhuo Zhaojie to come to his side, and explained Shen Dangu's poem, Zhuo Zhaojie lowered his head with his hands behind his back, listening attentively, and Shen Dangu returned to his original position and continued to study the ink.

This scene looks from the window, in the window lattice where the camellia is in full bloom, although it is separated by Minping Hou, the young man is as warm as 'jade', and the young 'woman' is absolutely 'beautiful' in the city, as if it is a picture scroll framed by the window lattice, so harmonious and natural.

Zhuo Zhaocui, who came over with Chenguang, stepped into the courtyard and saw this scene, although Shen Dangu and Zhuo Zhaojie did not look at each other, his eyebrows were still deeply wrinkled, and he thought, is his grandfather going to use this method to slowly match Qi Niang and Shen Dangu? It's strange that my father and mother want me to come over a few more times in the past few days.

He entered the 'door' and didn't dare to interrupt Marquis Minping to teach Zhuo Zhaojie, so he stood aside and waited respectfully.

After half an hour, Min Pinghou finished explaining, and asked Zhuo Zhaojie to continue to complete the homework assigned by Wenzhi, and the two ancestors and grandchildren discovered Zhuo Zhaocui, Zhuo Zhaojie called a starling, and Min Pinghou had frowned and asked: "You only came yesterday, why did you come here again today?" Didn't I say it, I want to guide Xiao Qi Niang these days, let you have more snacks for yourself, if you don't understand, please ask everyone in the Guozi Prison? ”

Zhuo Zhaocui said respectfully: "Back to my grandfather, I got an invitation sticker, and I came to tell my grandfather." ”

Min Pinghou asked, "Whose is it?" ”

"The 'flower' meeting will end the day after tomorrow, and this year's leader will also be elected, and the king of Yanchang County invited me to go with Dangudi, so I came to ask my grandfather's meaning." Zhuo Zhaocui said.

Minping Hou snorted slightly: "Where are you going?" ”

"It's still the Tianxiang Pavilion that I went to on the first day of the county king." Zhuo Zhaocui said, "It is said that the king of Zhending County has also invited people to go with him, such as today, the incense hall has specially vacated the private room on the last day, which is exclusively for the two county kings and the guests invited by the two county kings. ”

"Grandfather, I want to go too." Zhuo Zhaojie had been listening quietly, and suddenly said, "It's the first time I've seen this 'flower' meeting, and there was such a big scene on the last day, please grandfather let me see it!" ”

Zhuo Zhaocui frowned and said, "Qi Niang, don't talk 'messy'!" You are working hard with your grandfather now, how can you slack off? "Don't think I don't know what you're up to! It's just that he hasn't seen the Ning family since he was detained here for a while, and he wants to meet him while the 'flower' will meet? I don't know the height of the sky, the little lady, isn't your grandfather really angry with you? If you are told to go, and your grandfather knows what you have done, how can your grandfather spare you!

Zhuo Zhaocui secretly scolded her sister in her heart for fainting, how could she hide her allergies from Pinghou with such a little caution, isn't this afraid that Minping Hou is not disgusted enough with her grandson'? Not to mention the elders of the older generation like Min Pinghou, even Zhuo Zhaocui himself can't get used to Zhuo Zhaojie and Ning Shaobi's dealings!

I didn't want Min Pinghou to look at Zhuo Zhaojie, but he didn't get angry, he just said, "You go?" On such an occasion, if everyone wants to see the talent of the first talent 'girl' in Jiangnan, how should you deal with it? ”

Zhuo Zhaojie bit his lip and said, "Those are just what others say, and I have never said that myself." She wanted to say this sentence for several days, and she didn't say that she didn't like things like poetry and books, but in the past, she followed You Ruoheng to learn, it was all out of interest, and she learned leisurely and indifferently, and there was no pressure, and now although Min Pinghou also taught her personally, it was to let her keep the title of the first talented 'woman' in Jiangnan - in fact, is there such a name, and what is the meaning of Zhuo Zhaojie himself?

She is the granddaughter of Minping Hou, born with a 'flower' appearance and moon appearance, only these two points are enough to ensure a lifetime of wealth and glory, and add a name, but it is just to add some 'flowers' to the already 'flower' brocade on the top of the flowers, there are more conspicuous points, no she is still like a pearl in the palm of the hand surrounded by a brocade, a high 'door' and a noble 'daughter'.

So Zhuo Zhaojie felt that there was no need for him to suffer these hardships.

What's more, it is really a very tiring thing to work hard under the name of the first talented 'woman' in Jiangnan, if you continue to bear this name, you will be late to fight with Su Yuyan and these people, Zhuo Zhaojie is not a person who is afraid of things, but she also doesn't like to be plain and troublesome, she has no ambition to be a talented 'woman', why should she provoke the enemy for no reason?

But Min Pinghou said lightly: "Do you want to clarify now? It's already known to everyone in Chang'an before it goes to clarify? You can afford to lose this face, you ask our family up and down can afford to lose this person! ”

Zhuo Zhaojie choked suddenly, thought for a while, and said, "Do I have to recognize this name?" ”

"It's not a question of whether you admit it or not." Minping Hou snorted, "How many talented people and 'women' are waiting to step on you to become famous overnight in Chang'an, how many people have asked Xiao Hachiro to see and post outside the Hou Mansion these days?" ”

Zhuo Zhaocui advocated that Zhuo Zhaojie should not go to the Tianxiang Pavilion, and then he said: "There are many people who are rushing to see you in the past few days, not only scholars, but even many children of people who have 'friendship' with our family, and they have also found various reasons to come to see you, and the six ladies of the Chunyu family have come." ”

Zhuo Zhaojie was annoyed when he heard this, and said: "It's hard for me to be afraid of them, and I don't dare to go out of the 'door' from now on?" ”

Minping Hou said coldly: "If you can not lose the face of the Zhuo family, I don't bother to care about you!" As he spoke, he threw the red pen that had reviewed Shen Dan's ancient poems on the table, and looked like he was already angry.

Seeing this situation, Zhuo Zhaocui was shocked, and hurriedly apologized for his sister: "Grandfather, Xiao Qi Niang is young and ignorant, I hope that my grandfather should not worry about her!" ”

"It's inexplicably tight." Zhuo Zhaojie grew up in her friendly and close You family since she was a child, and she never felt the deterrence of the strict elders, and she was not as afraid of Min Pinghou as Zhuo Zhaocui, although she also felt that Min Pinghou was angry, but she still refused to give up this opportunity to go out, and insisted, "Most of it was deliberately done by someone, the people behind the scenes tried their best to hold me so high, but they never 'showed' their faces, naturally they didn't have a good heart, if they went along with their wishes, wouldn't they fall into someone's plan?" Besides, I'm really not the No. 1 'girl' in Jiangnan, why do I have to follow the rumors to occupy this title? Even if everyone in Chang'an already knows about this, it's too late for me to come out and clarify now, but so what? I'm telling the truth, so what's there to be afraid of? ”

Zhuo Zhaocui frowned and said, "What do you know when you're young?" Do you think people outside will reason with you like this at home? Don't say it, just say Pan Niang, last year's banquet she and the Su family's eight ladies lost the poem, this was a very common thing, but some people 'privately' talked about her only shallow learning and died in the Red Feather Poetry Society, nothing more than greedy for the princess's power, occupy the position and do not leave, and said that she is mediocre, but she still wants to fight with Su Ba Niangzi, it is simply self-inflicted, she is still born and raised in Chang'an has a group of handkerchiefs 'handkerchief' people...... If this matter hasn't made a big fuss, it's okay for you to come out and clarify, and now it's clear, some people ask you what you were doing a few days ago! Most people will think that you are deliberately waiting for things to get big and everyone knows your reputation, so you come out to speak, so as to not only keep the truth that will be exposed in the future, but also be able to spread the name of Chang'an! Maybe you want to make a name for yourself! ”

"So what?" Zhuo Zhaojie said disdainfully, "When have there been fewer villains like this throughout the ages?" They say theirs, I've passed mine, and no one says it to your face anyway! Isn't it embarrassing not to let others talk about it? ”

Zhuo Zhaocui frowned and said, "How do you know that no one said it to your face?" Do you think that the nobles are not so suspicious of you? Isn't that what Grandfather is doing for you now? ”

"If you are suspicious, you will be suspicious!" Zhuo Zhaojie pursed her lips, compared to being detained in this 'yin' courtyard and working hard, but also being urged by Wen Zhizhi and Min Pinghou, the two demanding and strict masters, to be a little uncomfortable, the so-called long pain is better than short pain, she would rather ask for a simple, seeing that Min Pinghou has been listening silently, she is even more courageous, and said, "Grandfather is also a marquis, and the nobleman doesn't give me face, is it difficult not to read a little bit of grandfather's feelings?" Even if I speculate in the bad place in person, there is always a way to divert the topic, anyway, I don't have to meet nobles every day! ”

"What about the little ladies sneering at each other during the feast? What about the criticism of the scholars who seek fame? You don't know anything, it's true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers! Zhuo Zhaocui said impatiently.

Zhuo Zhaojie said disdainfully: "What a joke! Will they laugh at me, won't I laugh at them? Could it be that they have a long mouth? As for the scholars, dignified men, who do not want to study hard to gain fame and fame in order to glorify the 'door' lintel and serve the country loyally, but instead keep their eyes on a 'female' stream, what can this kind of person do? What is there to be afraid of this kind of unproductive scholar? It's just a group of pedantic people, and they call a few little guys to catch them in the corner and beat them one by one, and they are more well-behaved than anything else! Starling, you're too forward-looking! ”

She said these words neatly, and the more she said it, the more justified she became, Shen Dangu couldn't help but look at her a few more times, her lips squirmed, and she wanted to say something but stopped.

Zhuo Zhaocui said angrily: "What are you talking about? Scholars are courtesies of the state, you ......"

"That's it!" When Min Pinghou heard this, he stroked his beard thoughtfully, and said lukewarmly, "You are so vigorous and unavoidable, obviously you don't care at all, but let me ask you, have you ever encountered such a situation?" ”

Zhuo Zhaojie thought for a while and said: "I haven't met it, but my granddaughter' thinks that she is frank in her heart, and even if she encounters it, she can deal with it decently." ”

"Haven't you ever experienced it, and you know you can handle it properly?" Minping Hou sneered and said, "When I went to the Hou Mansion to bring you over, I just asked you that your song Yu Ji's 'Yan' outfit can attract praise from the scholars, did you do it yourself, but you were so angry that your eyes immediately turned red, and you bumped into your own grandfather, if it was a different person, I'm afraid you should call the little guy to fight and give you out of anger, right?" Do you look like this? ”

…… In the end, ginger is old and spicy, Zhuo Zhaojie was speechless when asked.

She was disappointed, and suddenly Shen Dangu said: "Junhou, in fact, it doesn't hurt for Xiao Qi Niang to go to Tianxiang Pavilion together, there are eight lang and the ancient lady to take care of it, and the people who are in the same private room that day must be people from our side, naturally no one will make things difficult, even if I meet the king of Zhending County, there is also the help of the ancient lady." ”

Min Pinghou really treated Shen Dangu very differently, and when he heard this, his expression eased, and said: "If there is an accident, you lose face, don't expect me to help you when you come back!" ”

Zhuo Zhaojie hurriedly said: "I will definitely not embarrass my grandfather." ”

Shen Dangu's speech is actually more effective than that of his own grandchildren's grandchildren', Zhuo Zhaojie remembered that he had heard Zhuo Zhaocui vaguely mention the grievances and entanglements between Pinghou and his own grandmother when he was young, and now his step-grandmother Shen, and he couldn't help but have a ridiculous thought: Could it be that this Shen Dangu ...... In fact, he is not surnamed Shen?