Dizi Policy

Chapter 21: Hu Mei Xia Shi, Prince's Temperament

Many people in the mansion are unhappy with the fact that Li Jingchen accompanied the prince to read, but there are exceptions, that is Ma Shi, the eldest wife, who has a smile on her face in recent days, when dealing with the affairs of the mansion with other wives Fortunately, he talked a lot, and even ordered the kitchen to make more good food for the young master and lady of the second bedroom. In front of everyone, he said that the third young master must study hard, practice martial arts hard, and consume a lot of energy. any shortage.

As soon as Li Jingchen stepped into the mansion at night, someone heard this word, and casually threw a piece of silver weighing one yuan over.

Zhang Xiaoyuan nodded and bowed, and squinted his eyes with a smile, "Third Young Master, go slowly." Thinking in his heart, there are so many young masters in the mansion, that is, the Third Young Master is the most generous, and treats them as servants with kindness, unlike the two in the big house The concubine's young master just doesn't give some money, and he looks down on people, his eyes are growing on the top of his head, and he treats these gatekeepers like watchdogs, which is annoying.

"Xiaoyuan, how much did the third young master give?" The middle-aged servant at the gate glanced at Zhang Xiaoyuan's hand.

Zhang Xiaoyuan spread his hands, "One penny, I'll buy some wine and food for all the uncles and brothers later, and we'll have fun at night."

"Okay, I want more pork head meat, I like this, the third young master is better!"

Others are not without pandering.

Li Jingchen went directly to the old lady's Songtao residence, had dinner there, and told the old lady when this day happened, and then took his younger siblings back.Even though Li Jingchen has a lifetime of experience, he still doesn't dare to say that he will be invincible and able to do everything. The old lady can see through and understand many things, so every day after returning home, he will report what happened in the palace. Tell the old lady in every detail, and the old lady will also mention something about Li Jingchen, but more is to let Li Jingchen see and think for himself, and will not explain things thoroughly, and the old lady will also explain the things in the capital, Some things that happened in the mansion were extracted and analyzed by Li Jingchen. Behind the princes in the palace were the shadows of various families in the capital. You should be more careful when reading.

At night, Li Jingchen took his younger siblings back to Wuhengyuan. After he entered the palace to study with him, he wanted to discuss with the old lady and let his younger siblings live in the old lady's Songtao Residence, but the two younger ones disagreed. , they can no longer be with their brother all the time during the day, and they don't want to miss it even more at night.

The Chunlan under the middle corridor of Wuhengyuan bloomed quietly, exuding a burst of fragrance under the bright moon and starry sky. Li Jingchen, who saw his siblings sleeping peacefully, stood on the corridor and looked up at the starry sky. Looking at the night sky quietly, in the last life, because of the title of Marquis of Yangling, he has been ignoring not only his family but also such a beautiful scenery!

"Master, the hot water is ready." Standing behind Li Jingchen, Yingluo said gently.

Xia Shi was the first-class girl that Li Jingchen begged from the old lady at the beginning. She didn't have this name at first, but after following Li Jingchen, Li Jingchen changed the name of Li Jingshen's girl to Qiu Wei. Qiu Wei looked more cautious, Steady, Li Jingchen was relieved to put it next to his younger brother, but he still let Nanny Liu watch it for two months, and found that Qiu Wei was really honest and duty-bound, so he gradually relaxed his vigilance towards Qiu Wei.

Compared with Qiu Wei, Xia Shi is more gentle and beautiful. His almond eyes seem to contain a pool of spring water. As soon as he came to Wuhengyuan, he made up his mind about Li Jingchen's preferences. He learned that Li Jingchen likes quiet and well-behaved girls. , She changed from her delicate and pretty dress in the past, and her dress is much more plain and elegant.

Li Jingchen looked back, just in time to see Xia Shi standing quietly and considerately behind him. From his angle, he could just see Xia Shi's delicate collarbone at the slightly open neckline and the soft and boneless nape of his neck, under the cold moonlight It looks more fragile and white.It is indeed a stunner, but it was sent to the wrong place, probably the old lady did not expect that the girl she accidentally gave to Li Jingchen turned out to be from the Dafang aunt Liang's family!

Xia Shi noticed Li Jingchen's gaze, shyness and admiration appeared in the movement of the eyes, and the slightly raised eye tails were charming, but she was still jerky, showing embarrassment in shyness, awkwardness in admiration, but charming As if born to the bone, if Li Jingchen was really a 12-year-old boy, he might be fascinated by Xia Shi, but he is not.

Picking up the corners of his mouth, he smiled lightly, with just the right amount of flirtatiousness, and it was provocative. This skill was learned in his previous life from those dandies from aristocratic families in Xishi.Li Jingchen just glanced at Xia Shi lightly and walked in, but Xia Shi blushed all of a sudden, the young master smiled really nicely just now.

An Mei saw clearly what happened in the corridor, she bit her lip and stomped her feet. Xia Shi, a vicious girl, hooked up with the young master whenever she came, but she was a young girl with a thin skin. She was too embarrassed to say. "Master, Xia Shi is not good, just ignore her." After hesitating for a long time, An Mei followed Li Jingchen and said this in a coy manner.

Li Jingchen was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled brightly, "Yes, I understand. From now on, An Mei, you will only keep an eye on Xia Shi, and don't leave her behind wherever she goes."

"...Mmm." Even though she didn't understand why the young master gave such an order, An Mei still complied.

The water temperature was a little hot, but it was more comfortable. Li Jingchen stretched his body in the water and closed his eyes. His left hand was soaked in the water. The place where he was beaten was hot and painful. He had been studying with the Tenth Prince in the palace for five days , he was beaten ten times at most, and at least five times a day. Once Qi Chengxuan answered wrongly or did not answer well, it was Li Jingchen who was punished.

Li Jingchen frowned, Qi Chengxuan has a very bad temper, and sometimes he deliberately pretended not to know, causing him to be punished. Of course, all the mistakes were made by Qi Chengxuan on purpose, but sometimes they were very clumsy, so that Li Jingchen could see it on purpose, look at Li Jingchen When punished, she would wink at him.With such a master with a bad temper, Li Jingchen felt that life was so dark.

"Ugh."

The prince's study is not as leisurely as outsiders imagined. The East Study Room starts very early every day. Just after five o'clock (yin time, three to five o'clock) and it is still dark, the princes will go to the East Study Room with lanterns to go to school. , morning literature class, studying the Four Books and Five Classics, the knowledge of the philosophers, etc. At noon, the guards brought meals, and the teacher and the prince shared the table. After eating, there was a half-hour break. After the break, the afternoon martial arts class began. Learning martial arts riding and archery didn't begin to complete the day's studies until dusk in the afternoon.Rain or shine, cold and heat never stop, it is a hundred times harder than children from ordinary families.

As a result, it is even more difficult to be a companion. You have to get up and freshen up at about the first hour of Yinshi, and wait in the study room when the princes arrive at the east study room.Accompanying reading sounds nice, but in fact it is not just accompanying reading, but also serving as servants of the princes, serving tea and water, carrying bags and boxes, and of course there are eunuchs to help, but no one is allowed in the study Those who wait to enter can only be served by the accompanying readers.

If you meet a good master, you will be more brisk, but if you meet those who are eccentric and tricky, you will suffer.It just so happens that Qi Chengxuan is the latter, and today Li Jingchen must go to the East Study Room early, and he also explained that he must be earlier than anyone else, Li Jingchen can only get up two quarters of an hour earlier than usual, the sky is dark , so heavy that he wanted to tuck into his clothes and go back to sleep.

Blown by the chilly wind early in the morning, Li Jingchen shivered, completely lost sleepiness, and walked slowly inside behind Bao Datong.Since the first day, Bao Datong waited for Li Jingchen at the gate of the palace every day, and took him in.Li Jingchen glanced at Bao Datong, and he didn't know what method the Tenth Prince used to accept this person, and made Bao Datong follow him willingly, maybe it was bloody horror, thinking of this, he thought of lying on the ground that day and his head was blown Qi Chengxuan has been cold-blooded for a long time!

"Li Xiaowei, please come inside." Before he knew it, he had arrived at the East Study Room. At this moment, except for the eunuchs and maids who waited on him in the morning, the surrounding area was quiet.

Li Jingchen cupped his hands, "Thank you, little eunuch, for leading the way."

"If you can't do it, if you can't do it, it's what a slave should do." Bao Datong avoided it, shook his hand and said, "Leader, go in, the Tenth Prince is waiting!"

"Yeah!" Li Jingchen straightened his clothes and walked in, and saw a dark shadow in the dark study, looking furtive.Li Jingchen became vigilant, and retracted his feet when he stepped in. There were many dirty things in the palace, and he didn't want to be involved in it.

Unexpectedly, the sneaky black shadow saw Li Jingchen, his eyes became brighter in the darkness, and the black shadow said displeasedly: "What are you doing hiding, come in."

Hearing that it was the voice of the Tenth Prince, Li Jingchen frowned, not knowing what he was doing so sneakily!Sighing in his heart, he and Qi Chengxuan are like grasshoppers on the same rope now, no matter what Qi Chengxuan does, he will have a share.

Li Jingchen walked in and was about to salute, but was interrupted by Qi Chengxuan impatiently waving his hand, "Stay at the door, if someone comes, just cough."

"...Yes." Li Jingchen walked to the door helplessly, watching if anyone was coming, and at the same time, he didn't forget to see what Qi Chengxuan was doing inside.

The princes read pens, inks, papers and inkstones directly in the study room, and they don’t have to carry them with them like they are reading with them. At this moment, Qi Chengxuan came to the table of the seventh prince Qi Junchi, picked up the seventh prince’s newly acquired Duan inkstone and turned it over. I opened it for a while, then put it down, only to hear a sneer and a slight murmur in the darkness, "It's nothing special!"

Li Jingchen was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect that Qi Chengxuan spent so much effort just to look at a Duan inkstone.Yesterday Qi Junchi brought a Duan inkstone that the emperor rewarded him. Although he didn't show off anything, the arrogance revealed in his words and gestures cannot be ignored, especially when the topics raised during class breaks were always related to the inkstone.To say that the Seventh Prince’s square inkstone is really amazing, it is said that it belonged to a great writer in the former dynasty, it is light in weight, hard and soft in texture, feels lonely and unremarkable to the touch, and feels like a child’s skin when pressed, it is soft and tender but not slippery Hands are particularly easy to grind ink, and in addition, the lines on the Duan inkstone are beautifully carved, and the skill is so ingenious that it is not ordinary at first glance. Being able to get such an inkstone shows the emperor's love for the seventh prince.I don't know why the Seventh Prince didn't take such a good inkstone back home but put it in the study.

Frowning slightly, Li Jingchen thought that Qi Junchi, the seventh prince, was the son of Concubine Shu Liang, who was the daughter of Duke Cheng, and also the elder sister of Liang, the big concubine in the mansion. He also had a younger sister, Xiaoli Princess.

Before he could continue to think, Li Jingchen was teased by Qi Chengxuan, and said impatiently: "Why are you in a daze, hurry up and go in when they are almost here."

Being dragged by Qi Chengxuan, Li Jingchen had no choice but to walk faster, amused in his heart, just to see a piece of inkstone tossing so much, but also a little distressed for Qi Chengxuan, an unfavored prince is no different from an unfavored bastard in an aristocratic family. is even worse.

When they reached a corner, the two hid. Qi Chengxuan leaned against the wall with arms folded and closed his eyes to rest. Li Jingchen saw that he was fine, so he closed his eyes slightly. The surrounding was quiet and cool, and the two waited for the time to come.

"Hey, isn't your family quite rich, and get me a Duan inkstone like that tomorrow." Qi Chengxuan said suddenly, with a nonchalant tone.

The corner of Li Jingchen's mouth twitched, and he asked for a famous antique inkstone from the previous dynasty, why didn't he grab it.Li Jingchen didn't dare to say these words, so he suppressed his temper and explained to Qi Chengxuan, "Your Highness, the Duan Inkstone of the Seventh Prince is an ancient relic from the previous dynasty, and it is very rare. I have a small business, so I can't get such things."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Qi Chengxuan seemed to realize suddenly, when Li Jingchen thought he had given up on this idea, he said again:

"Then get me a good Duan inkstone, this should be able to do it?"

The tone sounds like they are negotiating, but in fact it is not the same thing at all.Under Qi Chengxuan's squinting eyes, Li Jingchen could only say: "This minister can get it, and I will bring it to His Highness tomorrow."

"Well, that's it. It's time, let's go!" After speaking, he took the lead and walked forward.

Li Jingchen gritted his teeth with hatred, who said that the tenth prince is pitiful, he wants to take back his words, there is still a good Duan inkstone in the warehouse, it is still his mother's dowry, alas, I can only take it out.Li Jingchen gritted his teeth, but he didn't know that Qi Chengxuan, who was walking in front, curled up his mouth, looking particularly bewildered with the interest in success and the joy of conditional satisfaction.

The author has something to say: Oh my god, I actually got motion sickness again, I felt so uncomfortable yesterday, so I didn’t update, crying

Note:

1. The regulations on the prince's reading are based on the prince's reading in the Qing Dynasty, not created by himself.

2. The story of Duan inkstone comes from Baidu Encyclopedia. Duan inkstone is one of the four famous inkstones in my country. It is soft, lonely to the touch and has no delicate sound, and it is like a child's skin when pressed. It is soft, tender and not slippery, and it is not damaged, and it is suitable for ink. Since its appearance in the Tang Dynasty, Duan inkstone has been favored by literati and scholars. With texture Gorgeous, each with its own name, the processing skills are becoming more and more complicated, and the status is getting higher and higher, so that it has risen to the top of the stone inkstones in our country, and it will last forever."

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