Chapter Eighty-Five: The Female Bachelor
When she was stopped by the eunuchs beside the Queen Mother in the Xi'an Gate of Xiyuan, Han Ruowei secretly said in her heart, "It's here after all."
Listening to the eunuch outside the sedan chair shouting, "Mrs. Baoping Hou has not come out to pick up the Empress Dowager's decree?"
She settled down in her heart, and then lifted the sedan curtain and walked down, kneeling on the ground upright.
"Courtier's Command."
The eunuch preached a word of mouth.
It's long.
Because the Queen Mother's dictation is a whole "Internal Training", a total of 20 chapters.
Wearing a first-class coat with a golden embroidered cloud on both shoulders, Han Ruowei knelt on the ground, and could still feel the coldness of the blue-striped stone ground.
The Zhai crown on his head was heavy, and there was a warm ivory wat board in his hand, listening to what came from the top of his head, "Beauty is flawless, it can be a treasure; The virgin is pure and virtuous, and she can match the Beijing room", Han Ruowei remembered the scene not long ago when she discussed the selection of female masters with some palace officials in the Qionghua Palace.
That's great.
Xu Gong is no longer in his prime, but he is dignified and steady, his words are kind, and he is a beauty.
Zhang Nushi, no, Zhang Wu has been promoted to the newly established Shangwen Bureau since the Wuying Palace, the official residence of the seven products, should be called Zhang Dianxue, although Zhang Dianxue has suffered a lot, the skin color is inferior to ordinary palace people, but there is a splendid body and bones, and he is also a beauty.
Sitting and talking with the beauties, it was not about the trivialities in the back house, but about how to make the palace maids studious and progressive, Han Ruowei only felt that she was almost about to become an immortal.
Not to mention that there is also a queen mother who is extremely beautiful and gradually giving birth to vitality on the side.
Zhang Dianxue said that the palace maids should learn the Analects for the first time, but Xu Gongling said that the palace maids should be prophets, and the queen said, "It's all right".
Zhang Dianxue said that the palace maids should be able to send letters home every month after learning to learn characters, but Xu Gongling said that the palace should be cautious in dealing with foreign letters, beware of villains slandering the palace, and the queen said, "It all makes sense".
In the end, the three beauties looked at her and asked her if she had any ideas.
Oh, even if you are a god, how can you be so happy?
Han Ruowei looked at this beauty, wanted to say okay, see which beauty, wanted to say what should be, and after a little entanglement, she said: "Zhang Dianxue is familiar with the classics, and Xu Gongling is good at palace affairs, I think it is better to compile the stories of women in some history books into a book first, whether it is the rules or the truth, they are all included, but it can be easier to learn." As for writing letters outside the palace, since you have to write letters, you also have to send letters, and it is important to take care of the matter of sending letters, so it is better to set it in the palace rules, and if anyone makes a mistake, it will be dealt with according to the rules, and the fault lies with everyone."
After speaking, Han Ruowei saw the queen smiling at herself:
"The second aunt also said that she was clumsy, but I think the second aunt is very safe, and I really found the right person when I found you."
Thinking of the queen's smile, Han Ruowei only felt that the floor tiles under her knees were no longer hard, and the cold wind blowing on her body didn't seem to be so cold.
The sound of the eunuch reciting the "Internal Training" continued.
"Moreover, a woman is virtuous and leisurely, and her words are not good, and it is better to say more than to lose too much. Therefore, the "Book" rebukes the morning of the chicken, the "Poem" has the thorn of the sharp order, and the "Rite" is strict with the ring."
It's better to say more than you lose? ….
This is clearly to shut her up.
Looking at the blue striped stone in front of her, Han Ruowei smiled.
She has been silent in front of the Queen Mother for decades, so what? The Queen Mother called her "Han" one by one, Cining Palace is so big, the Queen Mother only allows one person's voice, and that is the Queen Mother's own. As the queen mother, she should be a role model for women in the world, but what about the queen mother? What did she do?
Xun's family, born soft and beautiful, like the magnolia flower that stands on the branches after the new rain, as the wife of the four products, the general's wife, was beaten to death by her husband, and was naked at the time of death. The queen mother ordered at Xun's funeral to reprimand Xun's incomprehension of women's morality, and even let her husband kill his wife, and said that Xun's mother was not strict with her daughter.
Xun's mother lost her daughter in old age, and she was already extremely sad
, got this reprimand, and went without surviving it for a year.
The Xun family is also a generation of scholars, and there are also officials and children in the court, because of the queen mother's decree, the daughter who has not yet married will not be able to marry from now on, and no one knows if there are more unjust souls in the boudoir.
The Queen Mother did all this just to let the historian remember her "strictness", so that she could get a nickname corresponding to the first emperor a hundred years later.
Queen Mother, why can't she be quiet? Queen Mother, why can't she shut up?!
"The body is supple, chaste, obey the discipline of the three subordinates, be careful about the difference between inside and outside, and respect it, and the only one ...... in the end" The eunuch's sharp voice came into her ears, and Han Ruowei remembered the day when the queen asked her to assist the palace maid in the study.
That day, as usual, she had wooden words written all over her face, and even a little apprehension.
She is really panicked, His Majesty is arresting prostitutes in Manyan City, who doesn't know that those Qinlou Chu Pavilions are her husband Cao Fengle's second home? Your Majesty has a total of two uncles, and the trick of killing chickens and monkeys can be used more than once!
Unexpectedly, the queen took the book out and smiled at her.
"Second aunt, read this book to me."
Han Ruowei glanced at it, it was a "Mencius" that had been annotated, where could she bear the queen's smile? I talked about it for most of the hour.
When she came back to her senses, the queen had already smiled and put a waist card in and out of the West Garden in her hand: "Uncle, please help the female officials prepare for the palace maids to enter the study."
What is Seling Zhidi? This is the color of the Lingzhi dizzy!
When the Queen Mother knew about this, she was furious and summoned her to Cining Palace several times, of course Han Ruowei knew that she would go to Cining Palace and shed her skin without dying, so she blindly pretended to be stupid and delayed, and finally dragged it to today.
The eunuch was still reading "Internal Training", and Han Ruowei couldn't listen to it anymore.
She doesn't regret it.
Kneeling in the crowded Xi'an Gate, her hands were covered with frost, and the brocade clothes, jewels and jade crowns were overturned on the ground, and she didn't regret it!
She served as an archway for the Cao family for twenty-four years.
There are so many beauties in the world, and when will she live for those beauties? Her husband wandered around the flowers all day long, thinking that he was a seeker, and how could he ever be sincerely laughed at by beauties, but he was just an ordinary man who coveted the beauty of beauty's skin. ….
For the sake of those beauties inside and outside the palace, what is she doing even if she suffers some pain?
The torture and suffering she suffers today is nothing but ......
Suddenly coming back to her senses, Han Ruowei suddenly found that the little eunuch who read "Internal Training" to her had knelt on the ground in a panic.
"What is this doing? Lady Yue, hurry up and help Mrs. Baoping Hou up."
Hearing the clear voice, Han Ruowei's heart was relieved, there was already a woman dressed as a female official to pick her up.
Han Ruowei still struggled and knelt down again: "The courtiers have seen Your Majesty."
"Flat."
As she spoke, Shen Shiqing had already strode in front of the eunuch who was still arrogant.
Thinking of the scene I had just seen, my heart was filled with anger.
Mrs. Baoping Hou Han is thoughtful, both the queen and Xu Gongling praise her, such a good talent has to kneel in front of the gate of Xi'an to listen to internal training, she still has a good life!
Out of Xi'an Gate, the small officials in Yanjing City are full of small officials, how could the Queen Mother let a person suffer such humiliation? !
"A chicken."
"Emperor, the slave is here."
"This eunuch humiliated Mrs. Decree in public, obstructed my government affairs, and dragged it down to ask for clarification."
"Yes!"
As soon as the eunuch of Cining Palace begged for mercy, he was kicked to the ground by the second dog who was also following the emperor, and was immediately gagged and dragged down.
The other little eunuchs and little palace maids of Cining Palace knelt on the bluestone road and trembled, but no one dared to move.
Han Ruowei lowered her head and saluted His Majesty again: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"You don't have to thank you, I should apologize."
Shen Shiqing's eyes were heavy, looking at the eunuchs and palace maids who were kneeling all over the ground.
"The Queen Mother is not going to punish Mrs. Baopinghou, but she can only punish Mrs. Baopinghou. She wants to punish me, she can't afford to punish me, she wants to punish the queen, she can't punish her, Mrs. Baoping Hou has blocked the disaster for the two of us today."
With that, she smiled.
But these words were simply heart-wrenching words in the ears of others, and everyone knelt on the ground, including a chicken:
"The Emperor is angry!"
Anger?
How can Shen Shiqing calm his anger?
In these days, she is not unaware of the twists and turns between the Queen Mother and some imperial histories, if she just uses means against the "Emperor" with open fire, she can still look up at the Queen Mother, but I didn't expect that the Queen Mother would love soft persimmons.
"Ze was the palace maid and blessed the harem, and it was the queen mother who jumped out to oppose it, as the master of the harem."
With a raised brow, Shen Shiqing looked into the distance, and looked into the distance, the "Shouxin Pavilion" on the side of the Taiye Pond was faintly visible through the layers of trees that had lost their leaves.
"High lady, the purpose."
Shen Shiqing motioned to the female official to help Han Ruowei, who was kneeling on the ground again, and took a deep breath.
"Doesn't the Queen Mother like to let people kneel and listen to the 'Internal Training'?" The virtue of a woman is great; It is important to be vigilant. From today onwards, the Shouxin Pavilion on this hillside has been changed to 'Duanji Palace, which is headed by the female officials of the inner study to handle official business, and the first one is the Duanji Hall Scholars, and there are two co-organizers of the University Scholars, who are in the same cabinet, and the Duanji Hall Scholars are the five grades, and the co-organizers of the University Scholars are from the five grades. ….
Gao Wanxin lowered her head and took what His Majesty said to heart word for word.
Only she knew that her hands were shaking.
His Majesty the Emperor, who was dressed in a sable coat outside the dragon robe, tilted his head and looked at the pavilion bathed in the skylight.
"The Marquis of Baoping, Mrs. Han, as a first-class edict, self-denial and prudence, auxiliary to the queen, both talent and virtue, Kuang Fu Inner Court, is actually the pillar of the dynasty, and ordered her to temporarily act as a co-organizer of the Duanji Palace, preside over the Duanji Palace, and wait for her to assist the queen in sorting out the inner study before making a reward."
Han Ruowei still remembered that she was going to kneel down to thank her, but she couldn't kneel, she tilted her head slightly, and saw that the daughter-in-law who was holding her had frozen in place.
She tugged and dragged, and the lady came back to her senses and knelt on the ground with her.
His Majesty didn't care about the disgrace of these two people: "Han Ruowei, Master Han. I will hand over the Duanji Hall to you, and it is up to you what you can do. Lady Yue, you have been in the palace for a long time, you are well-trained, your affairs are smooth, and you are temporarily leading a Duanji hall to walk, you are the eldest female official by my side, if you have any difficulties, come and report to me."
"Yes!"
The wind blew from the pool of liquid.
Shen Shiqing raised his hand and brushed a strand of mink hair that had been blown onto his cheek.
"From today onwards, if you preside over the admonition and restraint of the palace and the wife, there is no need for the queen mother to send someone to read the "Internal Training".
From today on, Han Ruowei is both a wife and a courtier, much faster than she expected, if the Queen Mother makes a few more troubles, maybe she will be able to form an all-female cabinet by the end of the year.
He also ordered someone to send Han Ruowei home, but Shen Shiqing simply didn't sit in the sedan chair, and walked to the Qionghua Hall where the queen was located.
"Your Majesty, I don't know if the minister has a word to say or not."
"Senior female officer, do you think that I have taken advantage of the topic today, and I have gone too far?"
"Since Your Majesty has already let the female official go to the Wuying Palace, it is not surprising that the minister has taken such a step."
Since serving by His Majesty's side, this is the first time that Gao Wanxin has followed His Majesty in the first place, she lowered her eyes and said in a cautious tone:
"Chen is just worried that in this way, Master Han will become the target of public criticism. Although she has a life to protect herself, and she is the wife of her uncle, she has a lot of constraints after all......
"Senior female officer, since you have already guessed that I have already chosen the Han family, you should understand that no matter who sits in this position, it will be difficult to escape the attack of hundreds of officials.
The woman is like a beggar in the trouble, the beggar shrinks in the corner and cowers into a pitiful state, naturally some people are willing to show their kindness for a while, but if a beggar takes out the money and walks to the stall to buy steamed buns, he becomes a thief in the eyes of others. Even in the eyes of the most kind-hearted people, the beggar should have nothing, no matter how the money came from, the beggar is rich, and the beggar is a thief. Women have rights, and women are thieves. Do you think that in the eyes of those imperial historians, if you are as noble as a queen, you are not a thief? The queen, you, the daughter-in-law, Xu Gongling, Zhang Dianxue...... You are all thieves. Only when you work together to let the world see that women should have the right to do so, you will not be beaten and killed like a thief, and the most important thing is what you do and how you do it, not who is the wife."
Stepping on the dead branches, Shen Shiqing, the biggest thief in the world, said with a smile:
"Until then, there is something, I will stand in the way for you."
Gao Wanxin paused, raised her head slightly, and she saw His Majesty's back.
Not far away, Han Ruowei was also looking at His Majesty's back.
Yue Suniang wanted to send her out of the palace, but she heard Han Ruowei be surprised:
"I just found out today that our Majesty actually gave birth to a pair of beautiful bones."
"What are you talking about, Master Han?"
Han Ruowei smacked her lips and withdrew her gaze: "Just praise Your Majesty for being handsome, handsome, tall and handsome."
Shen Shiqing had just reached the halfway point when the four rats hurriedly chased after him.
Glancing at him, Shen Shiqing asked:
"What's going on in the West Factory?"
The four rats lowered their heads and whispered:
"Emperor, the younger children and grandchildren of Xichang are not well taken care of, and the prince of Ning An, with the assistance of the Marquis of Baoping, escaped from Beijing and went to the Zhuangzi where Shen Niangzi is."
Shen Shiqing stopped and couldn't help but sigh.
"Is Xie Lin Encore okay?"
The four rats raised their eyes and looked at the emperor in some surprise, and their voices were a little quieter:
"It's not good, the intestines are about to be beaten out, and I was forced to write two IOUs of 100,000 taels of silver...... The children and grandchildren who went to chase people were also taken by Shen Niangzi's subordinates, and knowing that they were from the West Factory, Shen Niangzi released them back. Also, there is a message to be transferred to the emperor."
Shen Shiqing rubbed the corners of his forehead:
"What did he say?"
"Mrs. Shen said that the money this time is hers, and she will not divide the account, and she is going to choose a day to go to Ning Anbo's Mansion to collect debts."
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