The little princess' mind was read, and the court and harem were eating melons

This brings us to what Wang Xuan said.

Xie Wei's excellence was obvious to all. After the next exam, he had been winning first place smoothly. He was only one step away from winning six prizes in a row, but he just stopped.

Although he told others that the time was not right, Xie Wei's father and teacher said that he still needed some experience, which was why he had not yet taken part in the imperial examination.

If this news had not come out after Li Qingyi said those words to Xie Wei, Li Qingyi might not have thought too much about it.

One day a few years ago, Li Qingyi suddenly had an extra half-day holiday because her teacher fell ill. She simply told her martial arts teacher that she could make up the difference and go out of the palace to play.

However, because the incident happened suddenly, Li Qingyi had not made an appointment with her good friends outside the palace in advance. After leaving the palace, she realized that she might be alone that day.

Not to mention Wang Xuan, she is a very busy person. She is busy with business and social matters. If you don't make an appointment with her in advance, it is generally difficult for her to make time for you.

Although Li Zhu was also in Beijing and was willing to accompany Li Qingyi around when he was free, that was only in private. It just so happened that he... was not free that day.

Not to mention Chen Qicong. Since he chose to marry Wang Xuan, the two of them only have two options to cultivate their relationship.

One, one inside and one outside. Either Wang Xuan returns to the family to be a housewife, or Chen Qicong takes a step back to be a househusband. However, doing so may still result in one party being too busy to spare much time at home.

Second, a win-win situation for both parties. While working hard on their own careers, they also look for suitable opportunities for cooperation, try to unify their steps as much as possible, and make time to cultivate their relationship in their careers.

Chen Qicong could not choose the former. Although he did not have such deep feelings for the Chen family, if he gave up the identity of the head of the Chen family, Chen Qicong could ensure that he would not be dragged down, but he could not ensure that the next head of the Chen family would continue to treat those relatively less "useful" members of the Chen family well.

At least, when Chen Qicong was in this position, his bottom line of principles could ensure that the clan members would not live too badly under his protection, nor would they be forced to sell their children at a "fixed price".

Even if there really are parents who are not satisfied with their current lives and want to do something by taking advantage of the control that parents have over their children in this era, Chen Qicong will be able to slap them back if he finds out.

So, when Wang Xuan was busy, Chen Qicong didn't have much free time either, and he had to find opportunities to get close to her when Wang Xuan was busy.

Li Qingyi has a good relationship with Wang Xuan, but with Chen Qicong...how should I put it? It can’t be said that their relationship is bad, but she is definitely not as close as Wang Xuan. Besides, it is not appropriate for her to be too close to Chen Qicong.

At the same time, over the past few years, Li Qingyi didn't really want to look for Chen Qicong when he had nothing to do, because most of the topics between the two were about Wang Xuan, and Chen Qicong... he was a man who showed off his wife.

Yes, Chen Qicong is a man who shows off his wife.

Whenever Chen Qicong was alone with Li Qingyi, two out of three sentences he would spend sharing Wang Xuan's recent achievements with Li Qingyi, including but not limited to how much money Wang Xuan had made, how many people she had helped, which unscrupulous businessmen she had cheated, and so on.

When Wang Xuan was around, Li Qingyi would eat dog food from the two of them at close range.

Because generally speaking, when Wang Xuan was present, it was basically Li Qingyi and Wang Xuan who were chatting, and Chen Qicong rarely spoke, but he kept moving.

Either she massaged Wang Xuan's shoulders, or she served her tea, snacks, or things...

Oh, and sometimes he would be close to Wang Xuan. Although they didn't kiss in front of Li Qingyi, the atmosphere that dyed the whole space pink was really hard to bear.

Li Qingyi could understand. It was rare for two busy people to have some free time. It was normal for Chen Qicong, as a husband, to want to spend more time with his wife.

But it is very harmful to her as a single person!

However, it is precisely because the two have been married for so many years and still get along in an intimate and warm way that Li Qingyi occasionally thinks about what kind of life she would live after getting married.

Of course, there is no fixed object for that assumption.

In short, Li Qingyi would never go to see Chen Qicong when he had nothing to do.

In addition to his students in his previous life, Li Qingyi also had other friends outside the palace. After all, the definition of the word friend is very broad, and if he just wants to play together in his spare time, there are still many candidates.

But unfortunately, they were all busy that day.

This was actually also Li Qingyi's doing.

As we all know, before Daning, as long as the family had the conditions, they would find a way to send the men in the family to school.

Not everyone has the goal of becoming an official, but as long as the conditions permit, men will definitely arrange study courses, while women will decide depending on the circumstances.

Some people even think that this is evidence of the woman being spoiled, which is really laughable.

By the time of Daning, for various reasons, there were female officials and generals active in the court when the country was founded. However, due to the inertial thinking influenced by the long years in the past, until the age when Li Qingyi was born, there were still very few women who took the initiative to enter the court as officials.

That is to say, until a few years ago, female officials were always regarded as special existences in special periods, rather than the norm.

Can Li Qingyi and Wang Xuan accept this?

That definitely won't work.

Therefore, Li Qingyi and Wang Xuan took a series of actions to stimulate girls to study and make progress.

Ah, that’s volume in a nutshell.

The leader is Li Qingyi. After all, she can be said to be a genius in some aspects - she is not very good at politics, but studying is her forte!

Then the other princesses in the palace, and even the princes were involved.

Then, this trend spread from top to bottom, sweeping across the entire Beijing aristocratic circle.

You have to roll it!

The reason is very simple. If the ladies are not ambitious, they may have nothing to talk about with the princesses who are obsessed with reading, and they cannot enter this small circle!

As for those young talents... After all, we haven't reached a society with gender equality nowadays, and women are still looked down upon to some extent, but it's much better than in previous dynasties.

In this situation, if a man is not as knowledgeable as a woman, it would be somewhat embarrassing.

The result was that Li Qingyi did not make an appointment in advance, and everyone was either in the academy or taking classes at home and had no time.

Coincidentally, Xie Wei was free that day.

So Li Qingyi and Xie Wei made an appointment to go shopping and eat together.

Then there was the sentence Li Qingyi casually said to Xie Wei: "Will you take part in the next imperial examination? If you win the first place, shouldn't your family arrange a marriage for you?"

"As for marriage, I think it would be more appropriate to get married after the age of eighteen."

"But it's also a good omen to have both the first place in the imperial examination and the wedding night. Double happiness is also a good omen."