Chapter 1321 Apprenticeship Banquet, Master, November
There have been no major events in Nanchen Palace for a long time. For Nanchen Palace, their major events are basically going out to fight, and they rarely even spend the Spring Festival in the palace.
But today is different. Today is a very important day for Nanchen Palace.
The noble daughter of the Qinghe family wants to become a disciple of King Xiao Nanchen, which means that there is a connection between the Qinghe family and the Nanchen palace. This is a matter of great significance to both parties, as well as to Beichen.
It is taken very seriously.
The people of the Yang family lived in the inn, so early in the morning Zhou Chen sent Zhou Tianxing to lead people to welcome them into the house.
Today, Zhou Chen put on a white gown. Even ordinary clothes made him look very dazzling.
Live the Qi and nourish the body!
His original body, as King Xiao Nanchen and a son of the royal family, originally had a noble temperament, but Zhou Chen has lived for hundreds of years, been an emperor, a prince, and a top elite in all walks of life, and the aura he has cultivated is stronger than his original body.
It's just that he rarely shows it.
Except for Zhou Tianxing who went to pick him up, the other nine disciples were also at the palace and had prepared early to attend today's apprenticeship banquet.
In the TV plot, of the ten disciples, except for the first four who appeared more often, the remaining six barely appeared. When he first watched the TV show, Zhou Chen had never even seen them, let alone knew their names.
But now, he is very familiar with these disciples of his. The last six disciples may not be as outstanding as the first four, but they are also talented generals in the army. After all, they are valued by King Xiao Nanchen and accepted as disciples. They are influenced by them.
Even if you are inferior, you cannot become mediocre.
In fact, all the senior brothers and sisters are also very curious about Yu Shiyi, who is about to become his junior sister.
The ten of them are all orphans and were adopted into the palace, but Shiyi is different. She is the noble daughter of the Qinghe family and the only daughter of the Wushui family. In terms of status alone, she is compared to the royal princess.
Not bad either.
They were all working in the army to make a living, and they rarely had contact with a famous family like the Yang family, let alone a noble girl like Yang Shiyi. How could they not be curious.
In the main hall of the palace, Zhou Chen sat quietly, while Hong Xiaoyu and other disciples gathered together and discussed in low voices the apprenticeship banquet to be held later.
There are not so many rules in the palace, and these disciples are treated as family members, so they have a very good relationship with each other, no different from brothers and sisters. They respect their master extremely, but they are not as strict as other famous families.
Soon someone came to report that General Zhou had entered the palace with people from the Miao family.
This time, Sanniang Yang of the Yang family came in person with her daughter and nephew. As the master of the palace, Zhou Chen, in order to show respect, naturally came out of the hall to greet him in person.
As soon as they walked out of the main hall, they saw Zhou Tianxing leading the family members, and Zhou Chen led his disciples to greet them.
As a family of scholars, the rules of the Jiao family are strict. You can see the difference from their words and deeds. Only Sanniang, Feng and Shiyi looked straight at each other and held their heads high. The rest of the guards and maids were all low-minded.
Keep your head down and follow with small steps.
Fortunately, this is not the first time Zhou Chen has traveled through ancient feudal society, and he has long been accustomed to these rules and behaviors.
When the two parties met for the first time, Sanniang immediately led others to salute.
"King Xiao Nanchen."
Zhou Chen also returned the gift: "Madam."
Sanniang looked at Yu Feng beside her, and introduced to Zhou Chen: "This is Yu Feng, Sanlang from my brother's family. Sanlang, please pay your respects to His Highness."
Niao Feng immediately bowed: "Your Highness."
"No need to be polite, Madam. Please come inside."
Zhou Chen led several members of the Yang family into the main hall. After he sat down at the main seat, Yang Sanniang sat down on the left hand side, and the others stood on both sides.
Ji Shiyi, who was dressed in green, walked slowly in from the door with a plate holding a handful of celery, lotus seeds, red beans, dates, longan and dried meat.
These are the traditional etiquette for apprenticeship. Just like the modern apprenticeship requires gifts, it is also the same in this era. As a prominent family, the Yao family is naturally the most particular about these etiquette, and everything is in order.
Ji Shiyi carried the plate and walked to Zhou Chen. He bowed first, then walked to Zhou Chen's case, knelt down and raised the plate with both hands.
Zhou Chen took the six rites and put them on the table, while Shiyi started to kneel down and worship.
After the ceremony, she still knelt on the ground, straightened her body, smiled without showing her teeth, and looked at Zhou Chen respectfully.
Zhou Chen looked at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl in front of him. In this era, a woman of Shi Yi's age could actually get married.
However, he comes from modern society. In his eyes, Shi Shiyi is still a little girl. In later generations, she has just entered junior high school. Even though she is relatively mature, her physical age can tell her immatureness at a glance.
"Shi Yi, you are called Shiyi at home, right?"
It is appropriate to nod slightly when speaking.
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "It just so happens that I already have ten apprentices. I will call you Eleven from now on, okay?"
Jian Shiyi nodded happily, but then became a little confused. He didn't know what to do after he finished his apprenticeship, so he couldn't help but glance at his mother behind him.
After getting her mother's signal, she was ready to kowtow again, but was stopped by Zhou Chen.
"Okay, there are not many rules in Nanchen Prince's Mansion, so you don't have to worry so much about these etiquettes. Get up first."
Yang Shiyi immediately stood up happily, and then Zhou Chen pointed to the ten disciples next to him and told Yang Shiyi that these were her senior brothers and sisters. Yang Shiyi immediately saluted respectfully, and the ten senior brothers and sisters did not show off and returned the salute one after another.
At this moment, someone came in and announced that someone from the palace had come and brought a gift from His Majesty.
Zhou Chen frowned lightly. After all, he was not the original Zhou Shengchen. He had no respect or loyalty to the little emperor who was far away in Zhongzhou.
But at this time, of course he would not show it, and said very calmly: "Let them come in."
Just like in the plot, it was the great eunuch Zhao Teng who brought the ban sword and Huang Yue given by the emperor.
When Zhou Shengchen went to Zhongzhou to see off the late emperor, the young emperor had given him these two items, but Zhou Shengchen rejected them, so he sent them again this time.
When Zhao Teng said, "I am the emperor, and I should accept the gifts given by the emperor," Zhou Chen sneered disdainfully in his heart. He knew that the little emperor was a cowardly person and was unlikely to say such a thing.
, it is estimated that this was done deliberately by Zhao Teng and others.
But he accepted Ban Jian and Huang Yue without saying anything.
Zhao Teng continued: "Your Highness, Your Majesty also sent a painter this time to make a portrait of Miss Yu, which will be sent to the East Palace in the future."
Hearing this, Zhou Chen felt unhappy. After so many years, he was used to being domineering. Shi Shiyi was his mission target and the person he valued. Who did Liu Zixing dare to covet Shi Yi?
But this matter was an agreement between the Emperor and the royal family. Although he became the master of Emperor Shiyi, he was not qualified to make decisions for Emperor Shiyi. What's more, Emperor Shiyi's mother was present at the scene and she didn't object. Naturally, he had no objection.
The reason was objection.
However, after traveling through time, he has decided to change the tragedy and will not make Shi Shiyi as miserable as the original plot, but all this needs to be done slowly.
After Kao Shiyi left with the painter, Kao Sanniang deliberately stayed and talked to Zhou Chen, saying three things in total.
The first thing is to ask Zhou Chen to allow two thousand soldiers of the Yang family to stay and protect Yang Shiyi.
The second thing is to hope that Zhou Chen can allow Kaojia Sanlang Kao Feng to stay in Xizhou and join the army.
The third thing is about Shi Shiyi's loss of speech. He also told the whole story. The implication is that he doesn't want to leave his daughter and hopes that Zhou Chen can take more care of her.
Zhou Chen naturally understood what Sanniang meant, so he replied solemnly: "Madam, please rest assured, now that Shiyi has become my disciple, I will do my best to teach her and take good care of her."
Hearing this, Sanniang was very grateful. Since her daughter was born, this was the first time that mother and daughter had been apart for such a long time. As a mother, she was naturally extremely reluctant to let go, but no matter how reluctant she was, she couldn't change it.
In the afternoon, Kao Sanniang was about to leave. Kao Shiyi and Kao Sanniang's mother and daughter were reluctant to leave, and they parted with tears.
Outside the palace gate, Miao Shiyi bid farewell to her mother, shedding tears with great reluctance and unable to look away for a long time.
Zhou Chen did not rush her. After she recovered a little, he said, "You are new to the palace, I will take you to your courtyard."
Jian Shiyi couldn't speak, and he was not familiar with Zhou Chen yet, so he just nodded lightly.
Zhou Chen took Kao Shiyi into the palace, passed through the pavilions one after another, and came to the courtyard belonging to Kao Shiyi.
The palace is very large, and the courtyard belonging to Yang Shiyi is also one of the best. It is very large and has just been decorated in the past few days. Everything is basically new.
After sending Shi Shiyi to the hospital, Zhou Chen said, "Eleven, you have come a long way, so you should have a good rest in the past few days. When I figure out how to teach you, I can start teaching again."
Nao Shiyi saluted and nodded in agreement.
"There is a library in the backyard of the palace. You are from the Qinghe family, so you should like reading. If you feel bored, you can go to the library to read."
When she heard this, her face immediately lit up with joy. She really liked reading, because when she was in the mansion, she couldn't seem to find any other entertainment besides reading.
Zhou Chen took out a key from his arms and placed it in front of Miao Shiyi.
"Today I accepted the apprenticeship ceremony from you, but I did not give you the apprenticeship ceremony. I usually don't live in the palace for a very long time. In the past, when I was not in the palace, the door of the library was locked. This is the collection of books.
The key to the building should be regarded as today’s apprenticeship ceremony.”
At first, Jian Shiyi was too embarrassed to accept it, but when he heard that it was an apprenticeship ceremony, his face suddenly brightened, he took it with respectful hands, and then bowed to Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen stretched out his hand to support him and said softly: "Do you still remember what I told you when I became a disciple? There are no rules in the Nanchen Palace. You don't need to salute all the time. You have also forgotten the rules in the Yang family. In the palace, you don't have to do that.
Be restrained, just relax."
"Also, I heard that your aristocratic family has strict rules, and there will be some kind of morning and dusk pilgrimage, but our palace does not like these, so you don't have to abide by these rules."
Kao Shiyi suddenly looked confused and couldn't understand Zhou Chen's words. She usually said hello morning and evening when she was at Kao's house.
Paying homage in the morning and dusk, isn't this a rule and etiquette that all disciples should abide by?
Zhou Chen saw her doubts and said with a smile: "I am the biggest in the palace, so my rules are the rules of the palace. Since you have entered the palace and become my disciple, you must listen to me. That's it.
After getting off, you should have a good rest first."
After giving a few instructions to Shi Yi, he left Shi Yi's yard.
Kao Shiyi looked at Zhou Chen's back blankly, her little head still very confused. Before becoming a disciple, her mother told her a lot of things to pay attention to, especially in terms of rules and etiquette. As the daughter of the Yao family, her words and deeds represent the Yao family.
, so she always pays attention to her behavior.
But what Zhou Chen said just now confused her. She didn't know whether she should listen to her mother or her master.
Returning to the main hall, I found that Hao Feng had been waiting for a long time.
"Your Highness."
Looking at Yu Feng, Zhou Chen said: "Do you really want to join the army?"
Nianfeng replied without hesitation: "Yes."
"You are Saburo Kao. If you want to join the army, there are many places to choose from. Why do you have to come here for Eleven?"
"It is true that I can't let go of my sister, but I also admire His Highness and the Nanchen Royal Army. I want to be one of them and follow the Nanchen Royal Army to protect our home and country and protect the border."
Zhou Chen nodded and said: "It's rare for you to have such an ambition. I have agreed. From now on, you will follow Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu will leave it to you to make arrangements."
"Yes, Master."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Zhou Chen, who has watched the entire plot, naturally knows what kind of person Feng is. He is a true gentleman and very capable.
In fact, with the identity of Iesaburo Fengfeng, it is really easy to become an official. It may be difficult to be like his father Guangguang, but it is still relatively easy to be a powerful official. At least it is better than joining the army.
Enlisting in the army is much better.
But Feng Feng is still willing to join the army, which also shows that he is determined and has his own ideas, which is rare.
At night, Zhou Chen was meditating in his study. It had been a few days since he came to this world, so he naturally did not forget to practice.
It is impossible to cultivate internal strength in modern society, but this world is ancient. Although Zhou Shengru's world is not even a low-martial world, he feels that there is still a high possibility of cultivating internal strength.
Just like in the world of Zhifu, it does not belong to the world of low martial arts, but he still developed Yangzhou's slow inner strength, and he believes that it is also possible in this world.
It has to be said that his physical talent after traveling this time is really outstanding. In just a few days, he has already felt the sense of Qi. He is sure that he will be able to develop his internal strength in a few days.
Even in the world of martial arts, such a speed would be considered an outstanding talent. In this ordinary world, he would definitely be considered a gifted person and a martial arts wizard.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and then someone approached the study, but before he came in, he was stopped by Zhou Tianxing, who was guarding outside.
"You are not allowed to break into His Highness's study."
"I have something to ask you to see Your Highness."
Hearing the sound, Zhou Chen in the study said loudly: "Tian Xing, let her come in."
Zhou Tianxing outside immediately accepted the order: "Yes, Master."
Cheng Xi quickly walked into the study room. When he saw Zhou Chen, he immediately knelt down with a look of fear on his face.
"Your Highness, the girl is missing."
Hearing this, Zhou Chen was not surprised. He knew that Shi Yi should go to the library to read.
Cheng Xi said in fear: "Your Highness, the daughter of a prominent family has disappeared late at night. If word spreads, it will damage the reputation. I dare not make it public, so I can only come to look for Your Highness."
Zhou Chen said calmly: "Don't panic, Shiyi won't wander around. You go back first, and I will look for her. She will go back soon."
"Your Highness..."
Cheng Xi was still worried, but Zhou Chen just looked at her and said, "Calm down, nothing will happen. You can go back first."
Seeing what Zhou Chen said, Cheng Xi did not dare to disobey, so she could only suppress the worries in her heart and left the study.
After she left, Zhou Chen stood up and felt funny in his heart. He had just given the key today and Shi Yi went to the library. It seemed that he really liked reading.
After walking out of the study, he went straight to the library in the backyard. He had spent a lot of time in the library in the past two days, so he was very familiar with it.
Walking into the library, as soon as I got to the second floor, I saw Jian Shiyi sitting there, lighting a candle and reading the slips seriously.
Zhou Chen walked behind Shi Yi and deliberately made a noise. Shi Yi heard the sound and stood up in a hurry. When he saw it was Zhou Chen, he breathed a sigh of relief and saluted Zhou Chen.
"I just gave you the key today and you came to the library. Is it because you missed home?"
Ji Shiyi nodded slightly.
Zhou Chen could understand her mood. After all, she had never left home, and she was only a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl. Suddenly living in the palace, she would naturally feel uneasy. It was normal to miss home and her relatives.
Shi Shiyi was reading a book to distract himself.
Zhou Chen has experienced this kind of mood more than once. He felt it more deeply than Shiyi, but he has experienced it more, so naturally he can control his emotions easily.
He slowly explained: "Your senior brothers and senior sisters have always regarded the palace as their home. Although they call me master, we all get along with each other as family members. You can be like them and don't have to be so formal."
Maybe his explanation had an effect, because Jian Shiyi nodded with a smile on his face.
Zhou Chen said: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest, otherwise your maid will have to go find me again."
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Shiyi realized immediately. It turned out that it was her maid Chengxi who went to find Zhou Chen, so Zhou Chen came to look for her. This made her very embarrassed and waved her hands at Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, let's go, I'll take you back."
After extinguishing the candle, Nao Shiyi followed Zhou Chen step by step and left the library.
Zhou Chen didn't leave until she was sent back to the yard and handed over to Cheng Xi.
Cheng Xi was relieved when she saw that Kao Shiyi was safe and sound. She was responsible for taking care of Kao Shiyi. If anything happened to Kao Shiyi, she could only die to apologize.
Not bad, not bad, luckily nothing happens...
He thought that after being reminded by himself, 漼Shiyi would give up the morning and evening rituals, but what Zhou Chen didn't expect was that in the early morning of the next day, when he was preparing to exercise at the palace's martial arts arena, 漼Shiyi would take the maid Cheng Xi away.
Came over.
Just as Yu Shiyi was about to kneel down and bow to An Xing, Zhou Chen stopped her first.
"Eleven, have you forgotten what I said to you yesterday? Our palace doesn't like this, and you don't need to ask for greetings in the future. If you have anything, just come to me directly."
Shiyi looked anxious, thinking that Zhou Chen was angry. Of course she remembered what Zhou Chen said to her yesterday, but after discussing it with Cheng Xi, she finally decided to come to pay him respects.
She couldn't speak and could only look at Cheng Xi anxiously.
Cheng Xi could only explain on behalf of his master: "Your Highness, these rules are all enjoined by the madam and must be followed."
Zhou Chen said calmly: "I don't care about your rules, but when you enter the palace, you should abide by the rules of the palace. Eleven, it's still what I told you yesterday. The rules of the palace are military orders, everything else is fine.
Forget, you don’t have to follow so many rules whether it’s morning and evening pilgrimage, or food, clothing, housing and transportation, you can do whatever makes you feel comfortable, do you hear me?”
Seeing Zhou Chen's serious expression, Nao Shiyi didn't dare to disobey, so he immediately nodded in agreement.
Cheng Xi opened his mouth, but when he saw Zhou Chen's majestic and solemn expression, he immediately didn't dare to speak.
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