Chapter 11 The school of the year, shocked to see the old ruins
The green beast is half-squatting in the corner of the screen, the copper lips are cold, but the dark fragrance is still hovering in the bedroom, looming, and the warbler outside the window whispers, talking about the elegance and calmness of the early morning, tactful and clear.
Mama Song had already left, the solemn atmosphere earlier was swept away, the eldest princess half leaned on the chaise longue couch, looked at Yijing and seemed to come out of the blue gauze cabinet with palpitations, and after frowning slightly, she felt that her granddaughter's cautious appearance was really making people laugh, so she beckoned to her.
Qiu Yue walked out of the room with interest, leaving only the two masters in the house.
"Grandmother, grandma was reprimanded, I don't know if I will blame my granddaughter for being troublesome." Yijing fiddled with the jade fly tied on her skirt and said in a low voice.
"You were not afraid of the sky and the earth in the past, why are you afraid of Mama Song today?" The eldest princess shook her head: "Does she dare to accuse you?" ”
"Mama doesn't." Yi Jing hurriedly waved her hand, although she wanted to slash Mama Song with a thousand knives to vent her anger, but she couldn't play the trick of filth like a child: "I just know that my grandmother always believes in Mama, so my granddaughter also respects her, if it weren't for this time...... I learned that my grandmother, niece, and grandson had done all the bad things...... The granddaughter only feared that he had ruined her grandmother's reputation. ”
The eldest princess was very pleased: "You have done a good job, firstly, you know how to plan for the maids around you, and secondly, you are also concerned about the reputation of the family." ”
"But the granddaughter didn't understand why Mama Song didn't tell her grandmother early when she knew that her nephew was not doing well." Yijing said again, in fact, what she didn't understand in her heart was how her jealous grandmother let go of Song Er's matter so easily.
"You're still young, and you can't figure out some things." The eldest princess sighed: "Mama Song has always been so strong, her temperament is a little lonely, if it weren't for this, she wouldn't have made the decision not to marry for life, Song Er is her junior in the end, there is blood kinship, and it is inevitable for her to protect her shortcomings, Mama Song's father is a hero, originally after these heroes, there are also many arrogant and domineering people, as long as they don't cause a big mess, even the saint is not good to pay attention to, although Song Er is notorious, those imperial historians are not impeached because of this, which shows that he still knows some measure, whether it is a fight or a brawl, It is not a big crime to treat slaves and maids harshly, as long as the elders in the family know that they are powerful and suppress him. ”
The Dalong Dynasty has only been established for thirty-seven years, and it has been at war with the Northern Plains for more than 20 years, and it must rely on the noble family, so there are many arrogant and domineering people in these wealthy families, because of the merits of their fathers and ancestors, bullying happens from time to time, and it is not uncommon in Jinyang, not to mention Ninghai, which is far away in the south, generally as long as it does not provoke people's lives, the official office is the attitude of calming people, not to mention that the eldest princess is a little helpless about this situation, and even today's saints are quite difficult.
Many things have to be done gradually, the country and the people are not created overnight, and the rule of the Qingming Dynasty requires the continuous struggle of many generations of monarchs.
is like a gentleman like Mama Song's nephew, of course, she is not a good match, but there is still a distance of 108,000 miles from the crime that deserves death and everyone is condemned, and the eldest princess has warned Mama Song not to be tolerated, saying that she will never condone the position of evil and bullying the people, which is already considered righteous and just.
After all, it is a matter of the Song Baihu family, and the local government doesn't ask, and the eldest princess can't overstep her responsibilities.
These truths are very complicated to talk about, and the eldest princess didn't plan to talk to Yijing in detail, but Yijing reminded her in these few words, and she also understood her grandmother's embarrassment.
In his previous life, he hadn't heard of any major disasters in Song Er's life, and Mama Song's series of evil deeds had nothing to do with the gentleman in Ninghai, as long as Chun Du could get rid of the poisonous claws of the evil wolf, Yijing would have achieved its fundamental purpose.
Mama Song is not only her grandmother's personal maid, but also a member of the Feifeng Department, she herself has the merit of killing the enemy in the establishment of the Dalong Dynasty, a nephew who is not a good nephew is arrogant and aggressive, it is naturally nothing, and the mistreatment of slaves and maids is not even a violation of the law, those maids report that they are "sick and dead", even if there is evidence that Song Er killed the slave, at most he was punished with whipping, and he could also be exempted with ransom. It's not even a crime.
With these alone, grandmother naturally would not punish Mama Song seriously.
In addition, Mama Song coped with it appropriately, and her grandmother would not even be defensive against her, but she was somewhat warned to restrain herself.
Although it is a small victory, the harvest is really limited, which makes Yijing's heart secretly heavy, Mama Song is just a faceless subordinate, and she is so difficult to deal with, not to mention those who are hundreds of times more valuable than Mama Song's identity.
When she returned to Luqing Garden, without waiting for Yijing to explain, Qiuyue had already told Chun Du what Mama Song had said, and the poor maid was frightened, and sat with her chest covered for a long time, before she cried bitterly and thanked Yijing for saving her life, not complaining about Mama Song's ruthlessness - what is called liking her temperament too much, what is not being angry after being rejected, just because she likes it too much, and she is not angry, she almost ruined her lifelong happiness!
In vain, she has always respected Mama Song, and never dared to offend her lightly, but in the end, she almost calculated it like this.
The spring twilight who was still a little sorry for Mama Song last night, at this time there was only hatred and fear for her in her heart.
How can you not be glad that thanks to the little master's inquiry and planning, she was rescued from the edge of the cliff, and saw Mama Song's ugly face clearly, Chun Du secretly made up her mind that she would only be loyal to Yijing in the future, and she could no longer trust anyone except her.
Even those in the know, such as Qiuyue and Qiushuang, also have a new understanding of the little master, and agree that there will be a bright future with Wu Niang, which is ten times more attentive and careful than usual.
For example, Qiu Yue, who was very conscientious and closely monitored the sound of the warbler under punishment, but sometimes she was too busy, so she actively turned her brain and developed a small work - the little girl bell who had been slapped a few times by the warbler, and her face was red and swollen and had not disappeared.
"Bell has a grudge against Yingsheng, and it must be safer to hand over this task to her than to others." Qiu Yue was very proud of her strategy, and Yijing also praised her: "At a young age, she has the ability to discern people, not bad, very good." ”
After a few more days, Yijing was still going to the racecourse to receive the training of the little aunt Lianniang, and then went to Yuanying Hall to report the results, and returned to Luqing Garden to quietly embroider the birthday gift for his grandmother, while thinking about the next plan. Mama Song was reprimanded that day, and she has converged a lot in the past two days, and Hongyu has never come to Luqing Garden again, but Yijing guessed that Mama Song would definitely not give up the plan to let Hongyu be transferred to Luqing Garden, she was not sure how much she hated Chun Dusk in her heart, and she couldn't say that she was planning other calculations, but the enemy didn't make a move, and Yijing couldn't think of a way to deal with it, so she had to endure it for the time being.
On the surface, the wind and waves were calm, only the spring twilight swept away the usual tolerance and weakness, racked his brains to draw up a charter and rules, and after handing them over to Yijing, he convened a small meeting of the maids and sisters-in-law, and strictly applied for rewards and punishments one by one, quite a bit of iron-faced selflessness and resolute appearance, so that all the servants were cautious, and no longer dared to have the second-class maids to push the errand to the third-class maid at will, and the older of the third-class maids to the younger ones of this kind of incident.
Not only was Yijing very satisfied, but even the eldest princess praised her again and again after hearing about it: "Chun Du has always been cautious and steady, but her temperament is somewhat soft, I was still a little relieved, I didn't want her to change her temper, very good, so it should be." ”
Mama Song was laughing on the side, somewhat sneering, secretly complaining that she had seen the wrong person, and only said that the Chundui family was easy to bully, and she was careless for a while, and almost suffered a big loss at their hands! Although the eldest princess treated herself as usual, and there was really no mustard, Hongyu's plan to transfer to Luqing Garden had to be slowed down...... In short, these days are too unsmooth, accidents have happened one after another, and the red rain can be slowed down, that silver hairpin...... If anything happens to this bone eye, it will be difficult to protect his status, and he will have to implicate his adopted son.
This is something that Mama Song can't accept no matter what.
But the world is impermanent, and it will never be transferred by people's will, but after a few days of calm, Mama Song encountered an unexpected trouble, and at the same time, it also made her see another opportunity-
This morning, before dawn, there was a torrential rain, which moistened the grass and soil, and then stopped. At the beginning of the morning, the sunlight penetrated the clouds on time, but the rain on the banana leaves still remained, reflecting the bright glow, like the pendant collar worn by a fairy, accidentally left behind.
The fresh breeze is mixed with the rich smell of the moist earth, which makes people feel refreshed.
Yijing leaned on the windowsill with his arms upright, greedily exhaling the muddy fragrance that still smelled of rain in the early summer morning, his little face resting on the palm of his hand, and a pair of crystal clear black eyes, in the distant background of the morning glow, glowing with dazzling brilliance.
A kingfisher stopped on the top of the bamboo, raised its head and sang early, and suddenly flapped its wings and flew, knocking away the rain on a bamboo leaf, and the cool water droplets poured on the beautiful face, which made her retract from the windowsill, and told Qiu Yue to find a neat riding outfit and prepare to go to the horse farm.
Chun Du finally couldn't help it, so he reminded: "Wu Niang, you have missed several classes of Mr. Wei due to illness, but at this time, you are already well, and you go to the horse farm every day to practice riding and archery...... Today is the day of my husband's lecture, if you are still absent from class...... "You can run a horse alive, but you are on sick leave in school, this is really a bit unreasonable."
Yi Jingfang is often shocked - cardamom back then, there was such an important thing!
The former dynasty family, it attaches great importance to women's knowledge and recuperation, most of them are set up in the home with women's learning, in today's Dalong, but where the Gaomen Wang clan, women are also more enlightened and literate at an early age, although they are not allowed to enter the clan school, each province has also set up a west seat, teaching women to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the so-called women are not talented, but it is emphasized that women can not show their talents in front of their husbands, but to be gentle and obedient, but not to respect women when they are illiterate, but also since the time of Gaozu, the Empress Dowager Xiande especially encourages both talent and virtue, The Fang Lin banquet held in the palace every year is to let the nobles of the various provinces show their talents, and the winners are rewarded a lot, or enter the eyes of the royal family, and there are many people who are selected as concubines, so that both the family and the nobles attach great importance to the knowledge and education of women, and the wind of comparison is winning day by day.
The Weiguo Mansion also invited Xixi to teach a few little ladies, but it was not strict, one day to lecture and two days off, very relaxed, only to lecture Mr. Wei Yuan, a famous genius in Taizong, when he was famous for a song "Praise Ting", the name spread all over the north and south of the river, Yijing has always admired him, if he was not sick and couldn't come to bed, he would not miss Mr. Wei's class, but since he was preparing to get married, he stopped class, and he naturally won't go to school anymore when he became a princess.
So he hurriedly asked Qiuyue to take back the prepared riding clothes, put on a set of large-sleeved cherry yarn skirts, and waited for Qiushuang to pack up the pen, ink, book and inkstone, and the three masters and servants went to Fufeng Hall.
Chun Twilight chased after him again and handed a thin jacket to Qiu Yue: "After all, it's summer, the weather is hot, especially at noon, don't teach Wu Niang to toss back and forth, I will tell the kitchen to send lunch to Fufeng Hall...... Be careful when taking a nap, don't just want to be cool for a while, you don't have anything on your body, this is the most likely to catch a cold, you have to be optimistic about Wu Niang. ”
Yijing instructed again: "Send Cherry to the racecourse to take a day off for me in front of my little aunt, but I have to explain that it is because I am listening, not because I am deliberately lazy, and when I come back, I will go to Yuanying Hall, and I will also talk to my grandmother, and say that when I get out of school, I will go to accompany her old man to eat." ”
The three of them walked out of the Green Garden, talking and laughing and going to Fufeng Hall.
Fufeng Hall is located on the edge of the mirror pond, in fact, it is a square courtyard, if it is winter, of course, listen to the lecture in the hall, but if it is summer, the place of listening to the study will generally be set in the water pavilion near the pond, the beautiful scenery at this time the old place revisited, there is really a feeling of being in the world.
A secluded pond shines in the distant glow, and the weeping willows of the four embankments are more slender than the slender.
The morning breeze is still shallow, the breeze is fresh, with the fragrance of magnolia flowers from nowhere, the mirror pond willow pavilion Fufeng Hall, in May of that year, the cardamom is just right, in front of the flat knee black case, the sound of reciting the book, the wind and the sun are beautiful and the white clouds, everything is so bright, no shadows, no worries, such an age, just like a splendid album, a stroke of a painting to achieve the brightness.
Who would have thought that such a short period of time would be so short?
Who knows that the golden branches and jade leaves will suddenly wither overnight?
The beautiful scenery suddenly stopped, at this time the Fufeng Hall was already in sight, in the pond water pavilion, vaguely visible in the list of cases, the reed mat was spread, the girl's thin shadow was bathed in the golden rays of the morning sun, quiet like a magnolia flower that would bloom, she sat in front of the desk, seemed to be flipping through a book, very focused, the breeze swept across the pool, through the water pavilion, but saw the green sleeves rolled and danced, the yellow silk was light, the girl was still in a good posture, as if a string of copper bells rang under the eaves, and it never entered her ears.
At this time, they were still young.
Yijing thought with emotion, and the corners of her lips slowly smiled.
"It's Liuniang, she really arrived first." Qiu Yue looked at Yijing's expression, and her tone seemed to be a little vigilant: "Wu Niang still strolls around the mirror pond for a while, and when all the ladies arrive, it's not too late to go to Fufeng Hall." ”
These words made Yi Jing slightly stunned, and he immediately realized it.
Liuniang is a typical nerd, in the past, she was the most silent, so that the sisters in the family felt that she was arrogant, and Yijing was the most impatient with her, so the two sisters had disputes from time to time, and the relationship was very tense.
Although Liuniang is still two years younger than Yijing, and she is the biological son of the Duchess Huang, but after the disputes, the people who were punished were all sisters, and Liuniang became more and more dislike Yijing, and she didn't want to take care of her at all in the past.
Of course she didn't know that Yijing had no problem with Liuniang.
In her previous life, she married into the palace of the king of Chu, and Liuniang also went to visit Yijing twice with her mother, and somehow she gained insight into the warmth between Yijing and Yuzhou, when she scolded Yijing fiercely and warned her to end this dangerous entanglement, but these words were naturally taken as a deaf ear by Yijing.
Liuniang, who has always been at odds with her, is really someone who really cares about her.
After that time, Liu Niang often went to the Chu Palace's mansion to persuade Yijing, and also threatened her that if she couldn't break this evil fate, she would tell her mother about it!
Yijing still remembered the last time Liuniang came to the Chu Palace, and she wanted to speak and stopped, and took her hand and sighed before leaving: "The fifth sister is a smart person when she is young, but she can't be so confused anymore, you must know that her words are against your ears...... Some people say good things, but they don't necessarily mean what they say to you...... The hearts of the people in the world are sinister...... I wish we were still in the boudoir, not knowing the years of sorrow...... Fifth sister, it's too late to turn back at this time...... My sister said all this, and the fifth sister thought twice. ”
But she never really took Liuniang's words to heart, and finally came to a desperate situation.
Fortunately reborn, goodbye Liuniang, how can Yijing have a little bit of mustard for her?
Therefore, he didn't pay attention to Qiu Yue's kind suggestion, and Yi Jing didn't speak, just walked straight along the willow embankment to the water pavilion, Qiu Yue and Qiu Shuang looked at each other, and hurriedly followed Yi Jing with a cautious face.
Liuniang's maid Xiao Seal, when she saw Yijing getting on the wooden ladder of the water pavilion, she also became nervous, and when she saw Yijing coming to sit next to Liuniang, she almost didn't rush forward to stop between the two sisters.
Yijing was full of smiles, glanced at the book in front of Liuniang, as if it was an anthology, and asked, "What is the sixth sister reading?" ”
Liu Niang first raised her eyes and glanced at the beautiful scene, as if she was puzzled by her friendly attitude, and after thinking about it, she said a word full of vigilance: "Book." ”
Qiuyue and Qiushuang were secretly anxious, thinking that Yijing would inevitably be dissatisfied with Liuniang's perfunctory attitude, and this dispute was inevitable.
Yijing didn't get as impatient as usual, smiled unabated, and still said softly: "I heard that my sister has been practicing calligraphy recently? I have a lot of calligraphy there, there are calligraphy of famous masters in the previous dynasty, and there are also contemporary Southern Confucian Ding Changsu, when my sister is free, she will come to look for me, I found out and gave it to you. ”
Banniang chatted with Yijing the day before yesterday, and said that Liuniang was very hard, and she got up to practice calligraphy at the beginning of the dynasty, and she had to practice for an hour.
Liuniang was even more puzzled, this time she stared at Yijing for a while, and then hesitated and said, "Thank you, Fifth Sister." ”
The three maids looked surprised, and when they looked at each other, they were reborn into another person.
Yijing looked at the contents of the book again and asked, "What book is my sister reading?" "I thought to myself, you're going to have to say a few more words now, right?
But I didn't want Liuniang to just close the title page and push it in front of Yijing, but there was not a single superfluous word.
Yi Jing looked at the page, on the dark cyan front cover, there was a column of four characters written in block letters, but it was a collection of Mingshan anthologies, and there was a column of small characters on one side - Sha Ting Kelu.
My heart trembled violently, and my eyes seemed to be glued to the name, and I couldn't move away.
Satinker ...... In her previous life, her husband, the prince of Chu, wrote the words and painted scrolls with this seal, Sha Tingke, which is Yu Feng's number.