A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks of the Imperial Examination

Chapter 74: Princess

For whom?

Xiao Jingduo did not answer, but asked, “What day is it now?”

“May 24th.” Qiu Ju didn’t know why, and answered honestly.

“May, it should be in time.”

“What?”

“Have already embroidered most of it, and it is estimated that it should be finished in a few days.”

“It’s great.” Xiao Jingduo was overjoyed, and sooner than he expected, Xiao Jingduo said, “You guys are done with the fan, and you have a few days left to help Miss Chen.”

“Slave understands.”

Sure enough, as Qiu Ju said, at the end of May, Chen Zi and several people completed the first screen and started to embroider the second screen. I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, the Hebei Road painted by Xiao Jingduo went round and round, and finally returned to his own hands.

For this reason, Xiao Jingduo specially instructed: “This picture should not be sloppy, I would rather not embroider it and not embroider it badly.”

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Qiu Ju and others sighed after seeing the original painting: “This… how to embroider this?”

After seeing the original painting, Qiu Ju and the others did not dare to start. Finally, she frowned for a long time and said, “You come to embroider the inscription and the city wall. I’ll try.”

Also thanks to Chenci’s outstanding needlework, this embroidery took almost a month, and when she finished embroidering, Xiao Jingduo, the original creator, looked at the screen and sincerely praised: “Ingenious and perfect!”

Behind him, a scarlet flag rattled, and the word “Xuan” on it almost broke free and rushed straight to the viewer’s eyes.

Although there are not many colors in the painting, most of which are black, but the black is divided into many layers, all relying on different shades of ink to outline the difference between the characters. Xiao Jingduo was worried about whether it could be embroidered, but now it seems that he is overthinking it.

Although there is only one kind of black thread, but with dark green, dark brown and other colors, it shows different levels.

Xiao Jingduo admired the women’s skillful hands from the bottom of his heart: “Very good, even better than I thought.”

Hearing Xiao Jingduo’s affirmation, all the girls in the room let out crisp laughter. Because of their good workmanship, they didn’t waste much material, so a lot of silk was left over. Qiu Ju asked, “Lang Jun, what should I do with these remaining things?”

“This is given to you by the governor, so you will naturally handle it.”

The girls exclaimed: “That is to say, these things don’t need to be sent back? Are they all ours?”

Xiao Jingduo smiled and nodded: “Yes. You are the heroes. After the double-sided embroidery is delivered to Chang’an, you will be rewarded more.”

“Wow!” This time, these women did not care about watching the embroidered screen, and they all turned to the silk side. This is the silk produced in the authentic Chengdu Prefecture. It is hard to buy a thousand dollars on the market. Now there are so many left, and they don’t even want them. Even if they are divided equally, they are enough to make a suit!

The women were chatting about fabrics and new clothes, Xiao Jingduo was not interested in these, and the departure day was just around the corner, so he left with the finished product first.

The Qianqiu Festival is just around the corner, except for the time for framing and transportation, there is not much time left for them. Xiao Jingduo personally brought the embroidered screen to Chengdu House, and the governor saw the two screens he brought and was full of admiration: “Hebei Road is very good, not only the characters are lifelike, but also the artistic conception is also expressed. , your subordinates are really capable!”

“The Inspector’s Muse.”

The Inspector and Xiao Jingduo said some polite words back and forth, and finally slowly got to the point. The governor was a little worried: “In August, Chang’an was full of envoys sent from all over the country to celebrate birthdays. Although we have a great idea on this screen, but there is no way, it’s not easy to get ahead.”

Xiao Jingduo paused and said slowly, “Perhaps, I can point a way for the governor.”

“Oh? I’d like to hear more.”

“His Royal Highness Princess Qianning.”

Now Xiao Jingduo said that he might be able to take the road of His Highness Gan Ning?

This is really…why didn’t you say it sooner!

Xiao Jingduo can’t say much, and can only briefly mention two sentences: “I used to be with the county master when I was young, no, the princess has several relationships.”

The Inspector took two steps on the ground with his hands behind his back, and finally made up his mind and said: “Although it’s nothing, it’s better than nothing, let’s try it.”

The team escorting the birthday gifts is about to set off. The core of this birthday celebration is ten huge screens. In addition, there are many Shu brocades, Nanzhao jades, gold and silver statues, etc., but Undoubtedly, the most important thing to pay attention to on the road is this screen.

I won’t say how the governor of Chengdu Prefecture gave him thousands of instructions. The day before departure, Xiao Jingduo specially found the person who escorted the gift and solemnly gave him a sandalwood box.

“This is…”

“Excuse me, when you handed the greeting card to Princess Ganning, attach this box by the way, that is, Xiao Jingduo wished Her Royal Highness’s birthday.”

Chang Shi, who was in charge of escorting the birthday ceremony, did know that Xiao Jingduo had said that he knew Princess Gan Ning, and maybe he could do something with Princess Gan Ning. For this reason, Xiao Jingduo also wrote a letter in his own hand. The invitation letter from Jiannan Road was handed to the princess together. But the new emperor ascended the throne, the emperor and the courtiers, and the forces in Chang’an were also purged. Many people could not get through the original way. At this time, many people must be staring at the most favored princess. Princess Ganning didn’t know how many invitations she would receive in a day. The escorting envoy really didn’t think Xiao Jingduo’s invitations were useful, let alone handing over such a big box.

Hand it to the princess, I don’t care!”

Xiao Jingduo smiled: “It’s nature.”

Under the attention of Xiao Jingduo and the Inspector, the team escorting the birthday gift squeaked and set off. With the expectation and yearning of officials at all levels in Jiannan Road, they meandered slowly through the Qinling Mountains and headed for Chang’an.

It is not far from the estimated time. It was August when the people from Jiannan Road arrived in Chang’an, and Chang’an was still hot. , traveled through mountains and rivers, just to participate in the Qianqiu Banquet of the new emperor of Shangguo.

The envoys of Jiannan carefully sent people to the Princess Ganning Mansion to deliver the greeting cards. When they saw the flow of people in front of the gatehouse of the Princess Mansion, they lost hope.

“Changshi, what now?”

“It’s okay, the governor also wrote letters to other prime ministers, let’s try elsewhere.”

“Do you still want to hand the princess a greeting card?”

Chang Shi paused for a moment, touched his chin and thought for a moment, then said, “Hand over, we’ve come here, it’s okay to give it a try.”

The princess lived in the palace before she left, and generally did not have a title. They were all ranked according to their ranks, such as the third princess and the fourth princess. , then the title will be given. Normally, only the princess and her husband or married people can get the title, but there are exceptions to everything. If the princess is so favored, that she is so favored that the emperor can ignore the rules, then you can have the title and enjoy the title at a young age. For example, this one, Princess Ganning.

Princess Ganning has not yet engaged, so the princess mansion should not be set up, and the first emperor died in March. This generation can’t be so presumptuous, and we have to keep filial piety for one year, so it can be expected that Gan Ning is not engaged now, and will not be engaged in the next year, so the Princess Palace is not in a hurry, and it is too early to give the Princess Palace appointment. .

But whoever asked Xindi to go to his daughter, when he saw that the best house in the west of the city was vacant, he immediately allocated it to Rong Ke, for fear of being robbed by others. Therefore, Princess Ganning had her own Princess Mansion early on. Although she did not live in the Princess Mansion, the mansion was fully furnished. The concierge was in charge of receiving the pilgrimages, which were then delivered to the palace every evening.

Today, after the people of Yonghe Palace received the greetings from outside the palace, they forwarded it to Rong Ke as usual. The people from the Princess Mansion put the pilgrimage in a box, and after sending it into the palace gate, it was handed over to the Yonghe Palace by the servants. The servant respectfully handed it to Xia Lan with both hands: “Officer Xia, this is today’s invitation. I wonder how your Highness is today?”

Xia Lan is a high-ranking female official in Yonghe Palace, and she has to be reused by Princess Gan Ning. No one dares to offend easily when walking in the palace. Even in front of the queen, she has a lot of face, so even if the emissary who transmits the letter is more senior than Xia Lan, she is not in the slightest. Don’t dare to put on the spectrum of the predecessors.

The servant wants to have a few more words with Xia Lan, almost so that Xia Lan can say a few good words for him in front of the princess. It would be better if he could be transferred to Yonghe Palace. Xia Lan just listened, the smile on her face was always kind and decent, and suddenly the palace servants behind her ran up and said to each other: “His Royal Highness is back!”

Xia Lan immediately cheered up, hurriedly said “excuse me” to the waiter, and quickly ran outside the Yonghe Palace, hurriedly greeted him: “Your Highness.”

The maids on both sides saluted one after another, a girl dragged a long skirt through the middle of the maids, with a calm face and picturesque eyes. Seeing that Xia Lan came out later than usual, she asked casually, “Who were you talking to just now?”

“It’s the inner servant who delivered the letter. He sent the invitation to the princess’ mansion to the side door. I was talking to him, which was a delay.”

“Okay, send in the invitation.”

“No.”

Rong Ke immediately brought many palace maids into the main hall to change clothes, Xia Lan stood outside the hall holding a letter box, and when she heard the summons in the hall, she walked in quickly with her head down.

Rong Ke has taken off her heavy palace clothes and put on a light wide-sleeved palace skirt. Now she is reclining on the couch, flipping through books one by one.

Xia Lan swept this scene, and even after watching it many times, she was still amazed. Rong Ke is thirteen years old this year, with a taller figure and more beautiful eyebrows. The Rong family is so beautiful. The eldest princesses are all big beauties with thin waists, long legs, and gorgeous looks. Even the saints and the late emperors are also famously beautiful men. They almost look better in the palace than concubines. Rong Ke was lovable when she was a child, and many people couldn’t help but want to pinch her face when they saw her. Now, as she gets older, the little princess who used to be like a snow dumpling has also revealed her girlish beauty.

Originally Rong Ke wore red and purple clothes, and the bright colors complemented her beauty. Xia Lan originally thought that such a beautiful beauty was suitable for wearing flamboyant colors, so as to complement each other, but now Rong Ke Shou filial piety, only wearing light clothes, Xia Lan felt that she was wrong.

Rong Ke has a snow-skinned body, extremely dark eyebrows and eyes, and a delicate jaw. Once she puts on light-colored clothes, the collision of colors becomes more and more obvious, which is simply breathtaking. Wearing extremely bright red and extremely clear white, Xia Lan was full of admiration in her heart. She was really beautiful and looked good in everything she wore.

Hearing Xia Lan’s footsteps, Rong Ke didn’t look at him, and stretched out his hand in Xia Lan’s direction.

Xia Lan sat down on her knees not far from Rong Ke, opened the lock, opened the wooden cover, and presented the neatly sized prayers of various colors.

Rong Ke picked up the greetings from it, and quickly swept them one by one. Now Rong Ke doesn’t know how many posts he receives every day. It stands to reason that people should sift through them before handing over important posts to Rong Ke, but Rong Ke does not allow people to make up their own minds. He must get all the posts and choose them for himself.

Xia Lan originally thought that there were no important people in today’s letter, but unexpectedly, Rong Ke turned halfway through, suddenly stopped, and tapped the envelope with her long fingers, and then quickly opened it Opened the paint seal.

Xia Lan felt strange, this was a letter of greeting from Jiannan Dao, the princess and Jiannan Dao had never communicated, so why would she only pay attention to Jiannan’s letter?

“It really is him.” Rong Ke smiled lightly, folded the letter, and put it back in the paper cover, “Besides this letter of worship, is there any other words to pass in? already?”

“Yes, the long history of Jiannan Road said that they carefully painted a screen to congratulate the saints and want to ask for a public theme.”

“The screen?” Rong Ke thought it was very interesting, “Although this gift is appropriate, it is not a wonderful thing, why is it worth him to send a message back? Well, I will go to the palace tomorrow to see it. .”

Xia Lan almost thought she heard it wrong: “His Royal Highness, how can I trouble you to go out of the palace in person, why don’t you let the servants see it and come back and tell you?”

“No need, I just went to see the Princess Mansion. I haven’t seen it much since it was built.” Rong Ke said, “Send the letter out, and let the people of Jiannan Road send the congratulations tomorrow. When I go to the Princess Mansion, I also want to see what kind of screen is worth so much trouble.”

“Yes.”

Several people from Jiannan Road ran for a day in Chang’an, and now they have time to rest for a while, a few people sat in the official post and discussed with a gloomy face: “Changshi, several prime ministers, we all I sent a greeting card, do you think there will be an echo?”

“How do I know this?” Chang Shi was worried, shook his head and said, “Forget it, just wait.”

“Changshi, do you think it’s possible for the princess?”

Changshi has no hope for this at all: “I don’t think so, it’s not like you haven’t seen how many people are lined up in front of Princess Ganning’s mansion today, according to me, I’m afraid our invitations will be sent Before the princess, he was thrown by the people below.”

“Didn’t magistrate Xiao say he has a solution?”

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“Alas.” Everyone sighed.

They were falling down when suddenly someone shouted from outside: “Changshi! Come out!”

Changshi trembled with fright. He patted his heart and asked angrily, “Why are you so surprised, what’s wrong?”

“His Royal Highness Princess Qianning sent someone here, saying that we will send things to the princess’ mansion tomorrow.”

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