Chapter 12 The Beginning of Love
When Xiao Min found out that he couldn't break free from Lu Bingzhen no matter what, he was first incredulous, and then stunned and angry. "Dog minions, don't come and pull this crazy girl away, otherwise the prince will be injured, and the father and queen mother will want your life."
Hearing such a threat, a group of attendants wandered, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was their own master, and they relied on for their survival. But this ninth lady of the Lu family is also a person of noble birth who can decide the life of the palace attendant at will.
For the palace attendants, this Nine Ladies is also an existence that cannot be offended.
What's more, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not designate someone to climb the tree to fetch kites. In other words, to stop the nine ladies of the Lu family now, it means that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will still order them to climb the tree, and climbing the tree may really cost their lives.
The palace attendants and brothers who can serve by His Royal Highness the Prince's side are all human spirits, and they can figure out the joints with a little brain. They pretended to be diligent to persuade Lu Jiuniang to let go, so as not to blame His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but there was no movement in their hands.
In this way, Lu Bingzhen dragged Xiao Min up to the third floor of the Warm Pavilion in the side hall quite smoothly, and from here it was still some distance to see the kite that was hanging.
The kite was actually on a higher level.
Xiao Min still kept shouting in his mouth, and even started to make various threats, Lu Bingzhen was unmoved, and kicked off the fence on the third floor of the warm pavilion with one kick.
This is directly exposed in front of Lu Bingzhen and the crown prince Xiao Min, and after there is no fence, it seems that the warm pavilion is invisibly higher.
Xiao Min, who had been shouting, instantly became dumb, and Lu Bingzhen was still pulling him to the edge of the warm pavilion.
It wasn't until Lu Bingzhen felt Xiao Min's hand tremble that he stopped, "If you want them to climb a tree to pick up kites, then they will have to pick up kites on branches that are higher than this warm pavilion, and the risk here is far better than you and me standing on the edge of the warm pavilion." “
"How can human life be sacrificed in such pleasures, if human life is precious?" Xiao Min was naturally unconvinced by these righteous and awe-inspiring words, but Lu Bingzhen was also very patient and refused to let go of him, until Xiao Min finally compromised and no longer ordered the palace attendant to fetch the kite, and Lu Bingzhen finally let go of her.
It's just that Xiao Min still glared at Lu Bingzhen hatefully before running away, as if to say, "You wait, sooner or later, one day I will make you regret treating me like this." “
And Lu Bingzhen, who faced all this, was completely unmoved, and Xiao Min seemed to be younger than her and more naïve than her, which made Xiao Min's teeth itch even more. Because of this, Xiao Min angrily ripped off Lu Bingzhen's jade pendant.
This is the end of Lu Bingzhen's memory of this matter, but it is far from the case for the other party.
After this incident, Xiao Min began to pay special attention to the nine ladies of the Lu family. He originally thought that there was any difference between the nine ladies of the Lu family and him, not all of them were stepping on the pinnacle of the empire's power, enjoying the group of ordinary people who couldn't turn over in this life and worked hard for them to death all their lives.
It's just that between the two, one of them is still wearing the skin of family etiquette.
With such thoughts, Xiao Min secretly paid attention to Lu Bingzhen, who was exiled with his parents.
But as she got to know Lu Bingzhen more and more, Xiao Min saw that she followed her parents to help the victims after the disaster, rescued abducted children, sponsored students to go to school, and even opened a free school everywhere she went, although all of this was in the name of her mother Li.
But Xiao Min has gradually grown into a strategic, indistinguishable prince, and can naturally distinguish which of them are Lu Bingzhen's many strokes.
Especially before entering Beijing, Lu Bingzhen's Chang Ping position in Lingzhou made Xiao Min's case even more amazing.
Changping is to buy a large amount of rice grain in the year of the bumper rice grain harvest, so as to avoid the low price of rice due to the large influx of rice grain into the market, so as to avoid causing grain cheapness and hurting farmers, and at the same time storing a large amount of grain.
In the years when the rice grain harvest is poor, Chang Closed sells a large amount of rice and grain, firstly, to avoid starvation caused by insufficient supply of rice grain, and secondly, to stabilize the price of rice and grain.
This is easy to say, but it is rare for someone with such a mind to come up with such a method.
With such long-term attention, to Xiao Min, Lu Bingzhen seems to be a confidant who has been friends for many years. He also gradually fell in this process, and bowed down to Lu Bingzhen.
But all this is just an illusory bubble that only exists in Xiao Min's heart, and Lu Bingzhen never knew Xiao Min's attention and even admiration.
What's even more cruel is that the family has the practice of never marrying a woman into the East Palace. Xiao Min could only hold such a hopeless crush and poke and poke an olive branch to Lu Bingzhen, but there was no response.
In the Lu family, after the end of the Shangyuan Festival, all the little Langjun and the little ladies naturally have to go to the family school to study. The family atmosphere is developed, and the books read between men and women are similar, and they don't pay attention to any male and female defense, but it's a pity that women can't take the imperial examination when they also study.
Since the establishment of the new dynasty, the imperial examination system has replaced the probationary system as the main way for scholars to seek officials.
The Lu family school is very famous in the whole capital and even in other places, it not only has a variety of books and classics handed down by the Lu family for hundreds of years, but also invites famous teachers from all over the world to give lectures to the children of the family. Almost all the Lang gentlemen who have learned from the Lu family's school can be named on the gold list.
However, not everyone can enter the Lu family's school, as a century-old family, the Lu family has its own pride.
As a result, in recent years, the magnates in Beijing have followed suit and opened a family school, although it is not as famous as the Lu family school, but they have also cultivated a lot of Jinke scholars by being willing to spend money and people.
The women's school is for many little ladies of the Lu family to learn all kinds of classics and housekeeping affairs, and also accepts some little ladies of the family who are good friends with the Lu family. Occasionally, the daughters of powerful people come to study at the girls' school, but the number is very small.
But Lu Binghui did not appear in the girls' school, she was studying with her two uncles and grandmothers at the moment, and Mama Xu beside her was even more inseparable. She was a little tired of reasoning with her every day, but she was afraid of her grandfather's words that day, lest she be sent out to marry at will.
In the end, it was his own granddaughter, Lu Zhi still put aside the idea of marrying Lu Binghui directly under Lu Qi's persuasion.
Lu Qi and his wife were afraid that Lu Binghui was still a little lady and thin-skinned, so they only said that it was because Lu Binghui was the oldest in the family and had to learn all kinds of housekeeping things, so they no longer went to the girls' school.
What she didn't know was that the life she was tired of at the moment was the last ray of life that Li fought for her. In such an era, if the family gives up, Lu Binghui's life will definitely be ten million times more difficult than now.
In Lu Bingzhen's eyes, life in the boudoir is as plain as flowing water.
When she got up at the beginning of the morning, Ice Cutting and Melting Snow had already burned charcoal pots in the house, burning the whole room warm, and she only needed to freshen up and put on makeup under the service of Melting Snow and a group of little maids, and then change into homely clothes.
After that, Lu Bingzhen would lead the maids to greet Lu Qi and his wife, and most of the time Lu Qi and his wife would stay for breakfast together. After breakfast, because the weather was still cold recently, Li specially instructed the servants to prepare a warm sedan chair for the little ladies.
The servants carried Lu Bingzhen, Liuniang, and Qiniang to the girls' school with a warm sedan chair.
The teacher of the girls' school is the maiden aunt invited by the Li family. This lady surnamed Li was widowed after marrying in her early years, and she did not want to marry again after the edict, so she taught the little ladies in the women's school when she had nothing to do.
Because of her outstanding writing and knowledge, many people want to invite her to teach at home. She was able to come to the Lu family's girls' school because she and the Li family were from the Li family in Longxi, and she turned down many people's invitations for the sake of relatives, and made a special trip to Beijing to come to the Lu family's girls' school.
When I was in class at the girls' school, most of the mornings were about all kinds of scriptures and historical poems, and Mrs. Li would also talk about her experience and opinions when she went out with her husband, which also made the little ladies have some understanding of the outside life.
Lunch is a meal specially sent from the kitchen at home, Mrs. Li serves alone, and the three little ladies eat at the same table. Eating silently, sleeping silently, most of this time is silent.
After dinner, Mrs. Li took the little ladies to arrange flowers and make tea, and sometimes when the weather was good, she would go horseback riding and pitching pots.
Among these coursework, what interests Lu Bingzhen the most is arithmetic. At first, Lu Bingzhen just calculated the account books by himself, and also helped his father calculate the number of acres. Later, she slowly began to get into pure arithmetic, and she has recently been asking Mrs. Li about the nine chapters of arithmetic.
The little ladies have two days off every ten days, but these two days are not completely rested.
The Li family will teach Lu Bingzhen all kinds of housekeeping directors and other things, because it is troublesome for the two uncles and grandmothers to teach Lu Binghui, so Liuniang and Qiniang also learn about the housekeeper directors on the Li family's side.
Li gradually discovered that his daughter's best thing was to settle accounts, and no one could fool her about money. When you encounter a variety of difficult things, you can immediately understand the priorities.
However, at the same time, Ah Rui is also very bad at personal things, such as how to arrange guest seats, how to send congratulatory gifts, how to arrange banquet dishes, and so on.
As for Liuniang and Qiniang, they are the opposite of A Rui, probably thanks to their wise grandmother, the two little ladies are very familiar with human relations, and sometimes they can even guide A Rui.
Liuniang has a lively temperament and Qiniang has an introverted temperament, but it is the same sparse atmosphere. The two will neither laugh at Ah Rui's rustiness in human relations, nor will they be jealous of Ah Rui's agility in accounting and calculation.
Originally, it was just for the sake of relatives to take care of the two little ladies, but now the temperament of the two really makes the Li family have some liking, and they are ready to ask their mother's family to choose a good husband for the two little ladies.
When Li revealed this meaning to his two uncles and grandmothers, the two old men were naturally grateful. With the help of Li's aunt, Liuniang and Qiniang can naturally marry into a better family.
You must know that the same Fan Yang Lu family is also divided into main branch and side branch. The main and secondary branches do not necessarily refer to blood, but to power. For example, Lu Qi's branch, four generations and three dukes, is naturally the main branch without doubt.
The current patriarch Lu Zhi is also Lu Qi's father, and he was not the eldest son back then, he was the second son in the family. But Lu Zhi was smart and enlightened when he was young. At least when he was a young man, Lu Zhi was even more learned, and once overwhelmed the crowd at the Beijing-China Poetry Conference, and Lu Zhi's poems are still circulating on the market today.
After middle age, Lu Zhi began to show his skills in the officialdom and became the minister, continuing the glory of the previous generation, and creating a good story of four generations and three princes of the family.
It can be said that it was Lu Zhi who single-handedly brought his branch to the pinnacle of the family, and it was also because of his birth that he could still retain the glory of the Fanyang Lu family as a family after the imperial examination system replaced the inspection system.
Therefore, Lu Zhi ordered a ban at home, and no one dared to question his decision.