Concubine Yu, who knows her daughter Mo Ruomu, does not think that Princess Yongping will not be able to defeat the Hong family if she is cunning. To say the least, even if she really cannot defeat Princess Yongping, there is still her and the emperor behind Princess Yongping. If
Such a background is nothing compared to the lack of a Hong family who supports her daughter's father, so Princess Yongping should simply not worry so much and just marry her.
She also knew that even though Zhu Ying and Princess Yongping had not gotten along since they were young, Zhu Ying had always been the one who won with brute force and never disdained conspiracy. Therefore, Zhu Ying was not aware of that casual thought at all.
First of all, for Princess Yongping who is unwilling to be an ordinary housewife, what a great opportunity it is.
Zhang Shou was not surprised that Concubine Yu agreed to the matter on behalf of Princess Yongping. He even agreed with a smile. After a while, he saw Zhu Ying and Princess Yongping coming in one after another. Zhu Ying came in one after another.
There was a proud smile on her face, and Princess Yongping still had the same calm expression, but her eyes were clearly filled with a gleam of extreme joy.
"Thanks to my affection and reason, this girl Yongping reluctantly agreed!" Zhu Ying raised her head slightly, as if I had made a great contribution, and she walked up to sit next to Concubine Yu without noticing.
Then he smiled and said, "Ms. Yufei, when Yongping becomes the headmaster of the female school, you can also help her! That Madam Hong is quite capable, and it would be shameless for Yongping to be compared to her...
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Princess Yongping saw Zhang Shou's words to Zhu Ying but smiled without saying a word. She immediately knew that people must have seen her intention of refusing to welcome. However, since Zhang Shou did not expose it, she was of course happy to let Zhu Ying go.
Even though Zhu Ying was talking about Hong's ability, she didn't take it too seriously.
Not to mention her poetry and calligraphy, even if she is an illiterate princess, how can she control a common girl?
When Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying left Yonghe Palace, they were not empty-handed. Concubine Yu gave Zhu Ying a pair of pearl hairpins. Zhu Ying often visited the palace and had a close relationship with her, so naturally there was no reward.
. Even Zhang Shou received two books as gifts from Concubine Yu, but they were not ancient books, but printed by the Sili Supervision and Economics Factory... "New Lectures on Gurdjieff's Arithmetic"!
To be honest, Zhang Shou was a little confused when he took the two thick books before, but Concubine Yu, who personally sent him and Zhu Ying out, said with a smile: "This is what you gave Jiuzhangtang before."
When the students were giving lectures, Lu Sanlang took the notes. After the emperor ordered someone to get them from Lu Sanlang, he asked the Secretary Li Supervisor to print them, saying that they would be suitable for those self-taught students outside."
"If it weren't for the fact that the arithmetic calculations you taught to the students at Banshan Hall were too superficial, the emperor originally planned to ask the Li Jianjing Factory to print two volumes of Ji Jiulang's lecture notes so that the children among the people could read them. Later, thinking about it,
People who can afford it are either not interested or disdain this level of superficiality, but the children who really should learn these things cannot afford it at home."
You actually printed the handouts without my permission... Where's the royalties? Where's the copyright fees? This is blatant piracy, isn't it?
Zhang Shou has an extremely strong urge to complain. Although the environment for publishing books these days is better than that of the Tang and Song Dynasties, bookshops will state the copyright on the title page before printing a book, and even say that piracy will be prosecuted, but in general,
Unless they are really popular celebrities, most people will not only get no royalties for publishing books, but also have to pay for printing the books, and they don’t care at all whether the printing is pirated or not.
Because most people print and distribute them to relatives and friends. If the bookstore really prints hundreds more copies of the book you want to print 100 copies of, and even sells it in the end, then the book publisher will feel that the book is a thousand miles away.
Bole was overjoyed when he saw the appreciation. Of course, even if the bookstore makes a profit from selling the extra printed books, it won't share more with you...
The problem is, Zhang Shou cares about him, because with Lu Sanlang, a student who runs one of the largest bookshops in the capital, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to print his books, or losing money if he can't sell them, not to mention that he has a lot of books.
Lu Sanlang's marketing skills were even better. In the blink of an eye, the emperor became a bole and asked the Li Supervisory Factory to print his lecture notes first.
Then Concubine Yu gave it to him as a gift... Just thinking about it, Zhang Shou felt that he was at a loss.
In order to avoid being noticed by Mrs. Tai, Zhu Ying asked Zhang Shou to ride into the palace together in a sedan chair. However, when she left the palace, she had even been to Yonghe Palace of Concubine Yu, and was even surrounded by a group of palace people.
After watching the crowd, she completely put all her worries behind her. After leaving the East Sixth Palace, she casually stopped a chamberlain who was just passing by and asked him to order someone to prepare two horses.
Zhang Shou was a little dizzy in the sedan chair, and of course he was unwilling to ride a horse. Although the poor chamberlain was stunned at first, and then had to agree with a grimace, he pretended not to have seen it. When he left the Xuanwu Gate in the north of the palace, he saw
In addition to Zhu Hong's guards from Duke Zhao's Mansion, there were also two horses that looked like divine horses waiting there, and they couldn't help but marvel.
But before he could make fun of Zhu Ying's reputation in the palace, Zhu Ying suddenly quickened her pace and rushed in front of the two horses like a gust of wind. After going back and forth in this way, the eldest lady was exposed.
With an ecstatic expression: "It's actually Fei Bai and Xiao Hong! I asked the emperor for it last time, but he refused to give it to me. I didn't expect the emperor to be so generous this time!"
Standing behind the two horses is a rich man with a round face and small eyes. At first glance, he looks like a middle-aged man from a wealthy family. However, in this three-acre area of the imperial city to the north of the palace city, the largest government office is the Sixth Palace.
Bureau and the bureaus under the supervision of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, so unless it is Daotou Qing who has never been in the palace, he will never misunderstand his identity.
Of course Zhang Shou also recognized the other party, because he thought that he had met this person when he first went to the office of the Secretary of Ceremony to look for someone. This middle-aged man who looked like a rich man was Lu Chan, the attendant of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
It was only later that he learned that Lu Chan, who always smiled and was known as the Smiling Tiger, was quite difficult to deal with. However, he clearly remembered that he had gone to Cangzhou before, but he didn't know when he came back quietly.
When he walked up to Lu Chan, the ceremonial supervisor had already narrowed his eyes with laughter: "Dr. Zhang, the emperor said, you leave the group of students who have just been admitted and stay with the eldest lady for two days in a row.
Come to the palace to help, you have merit and hard work, so these two thousand-mile horses carefully selected and presented by Shaanxi Shepherd Superintendent Le Yuan will be rewarded to you and the eldest lady."
When Lu Chan said this, he saw Zhu Ying already petting the two horses, looking like she couldn't put them down, so he said meaningfully: "The total number of tribute horses sent by Changle Garden this time is only eight. Your Majesty."
I just rewarded the Duke of Zhao and Duke of Chu with two horses each a few days ago, and I kept two for myself. The remaining two have been kept in the stables, and today they finally have owners."
Zhang Shou couldn't help but feel moved in his heart. In this way, there would be two horses each for the emperor and the Duke of Chu, and two horses each for the Duke of Zhao and Zhang Yuan. There was no problem in this calculation. After all, Zhu Ying was going to marry him. Zhu Ying's
The horse was his horse. Thinking about this very simple arithmetic problem, he suddenly laughed.
"If I hadn't known that Eunuch Lu, you were still in Cangzhou before, I would have thought that you were the one in charge of these tributes, so well aware of them."
Lu Chan's face suddenly froze. At this moment, could he say that he was indeed the person in charge of tributes from all parties in the Li Jian, so he was so familiar with the condition of these eight royal horses? Even the emperor rewarded Duke Zhao and Chu
The time of the four horses was still imprinted in his mind? He couldn't help but coughed and avoided the question in embarrassment.
Zhu Ying was finally happy enough at this time, and floated back again with light steps. She glanced sideways at Lu Chan and said nonchalantly: "Ah Shou, I just saw it. That Fei Bai has a docile personality.
I'll give it to you. That little red horse is obviously a bad-tempered one, so I'll train it for a while before sending it to you. These two horses will be ridden by you and Ah Liu later."
Zhang Shou was very sure that the only person who would directly give ownership of the things given by the emperor in such a nonchalant tone before it was too late for others to offer them was Miss Zhu in front of him. He was about to refuse, but Zhu
Ying was ahead of the curve.
"Don't be polite to me. I have a lot of horses of all kinds at home. I asked the emperor for them before, and I wanted to give them to you! I know Ah Liu's skills and he will have no problem training horses, but he is impatient and spends all his time.
If I follow you, I may not have this time. I have nothing to do, and I just want to have a good time with Xiaohong!"
This time, Lu Chan finally seized the opportunity and said with a smile: "Dr. Zhang and the eldest lady will soon be a family. The emperor rewarded these two horses. He didn't tell you how to use them. Dr. Zhang, please don't let me down."
It’s only because of the eldest lady’s good intentions.”
Zhu Ying glanced at Lu Chan with satisfaction, and then saw Zhang Shou smiling helplessly at her. He didn't say yes or no, but asked as if he was curious: "What are the names of these two horses?"
Call them Fei Bai and Xiao Hong?"
Thinking of these two names, Lu Chan suddenly had a headache. Who would have thought that Zhu Ying would actually say openly: "Yes, that's the name I changed in front of the emperor. This Feibai has pure white fur, and its hooves are like flying when it's having fun."
, so I called her Fei Bai. As for Xiao Hong, she has a bad temper and the sound she makes seems to be banging and banging all the time, and she is the youngest, so I just casually called her Xiaohong."
"It's just a matter of naming the horses, as long as it's simple and easy to understand. I hate it the most when it comes to convoluted names based on citations from scriptures. I've forgotten what their names were originally. What, Ah Shou, do you think the names I gave are bad?"
Zhang Shou couldn't help but feel ashamed. He shouldn't have thought about whether the eldest lady was interested in famous people's Dharma stickers in Feibai style, so he chose such a name. Although Zhu Ying's handwriting was indeed better than his, it was only relative.
It was hard for him to imagine that this out-of-the-box young lady would make a special brush in order to write in Fei Bai style, and then learn Fei Bai style which was no longer a trend.
So, after he shook his head and saw Zhu Ying glaring at him angrily, he said with a smile: "I just thought that the girls around you are named Zhanjin and Liuyin, but they actually named the horses so simply.
one."
"Isn't gold and silver a symbol of wealth? Besides, when they came to me, I was still young, so I named them Xiaojin and Xiaoyin. As for Zhanjin and Liuyin, they were changed by my mother. They were catchy.
They all like it, so I just called it that." Zhu Ying said confidently, "Anyway, I have been very vulgar since I was a child, and I can't be elegant!"
Zhang Shou has long been accustomed to Zhu Ying who can openly admit that she is vulgar. He would only have a headache if his fiancée was a woman who was as elegant as a chrysanthemum on the outside but pursued fame and fortune in private.
Just like the Hong family with lofty ambitions, or Princess Yongping who is unwilling to be lonely... He can only say that he admires them and hopes that they will get their wishes. The rest... Haha, he is not suitable for associating with them because he has no ambition!
"I'm just curious to ask, Fei Bai and Xiao Hong, these names are quite good. It's up to you. Fei Bai belongs to me, and Xiao Hong belongs to Ah Liu. I will tell Ah Liu later that he owes you a big favor, so let him do it well.
Think about how to pay it back!"
Zhang Shou shrugged indifferently: "Fortunately, Yingying, you gave me a name. You are always much better than Ah Liu. He is not a Liu in the family, and he has no relationship with Liu, but he said that he wanted to give it to himself back then.
When I changed this name, it was because I saw six wild horses passing by... When I saw six wild horses, I called him Ah Liu. If there were countless horses, would I have to call him Duoduo?"
"I think it would be scary to ask him to name his horse."
She was originally worried that Zhang Shou would have any opinions on the aesthetics of her name, but when she heard this, Zhu Ying was immediately led astray by Zhang Shou, and she burst into laughter for a moment: "When you say that, it's really possible!
But anyway, I’m going to give it to Ah Liu later. If he likes it, I can change it to whatever I want!”
Lu Chan watched with dumbfounded eyes as Zhu Ying took Zhang Shou to try the horse, called a few Zhu family guards who were waiting to join him, and then walked away like that. During the whole process, he didn't even ask him a word, nor did he.
I know whether I should feel ignored and depressed, or I should feel depressed because people don't care about his trip to Cangzhou or Zhu Tingfang.
But all in all, he can only be described as depressed. Thinking about how long he had left the capital, such a series of events had happened in the capital. Thinking about his previous wish to go to Cangzhou to do a career, he just felt that he was too naive.
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And when Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou rode side by side and finally left the Bei'an Gate of the imperial city, Zhu Hong, who had been silent just now and did not bother the young couple at all, finally said: "The eldest son is back, Dr. Zhang.
Do you want to go to the mansion with the eldest lady and meet the eldest son?"
"Huh?" Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying exclaimed almost at the same time. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Ying immediately shouted angrily: "It's such an important thing, Zhu Hong, why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Seeing the same puzzled expression as Zhang Shou, Zhu Hong said awkwardly: "When we were waiting at Xuanwu Gate, Eunuch Lu specially informed us. I saw that the eldest lady and Dr. Zhang met Eunuch Lu who had just returned from Cangzhou.
, seemed not surprised, thought you all knew it."
I noticed that the two of you have been talking about horse management there, and you were even discussing the horse raising issue with great interest along the way, so I asked about it, but I didn’t expect that you just found out about it!
Zhang Shou was dumbfounded at this time. He was very curious about how Lu Chan could come back at this time, but since he had been in the palace for two consecutive days, he never expected that Zhu Tingfang, who had previously said he was coming back, would be like a magic weapon.
Tianxiang, back to the capital!
Although now even if he sees Brother Zhu again, he feels that he will not be questioned again. After all, he has worked with him once in Cangzhou, but think about it, he still let two people go in Jiuzhangtang.
In the morning, he said bluntly to the students in Gezi: "I still have to go back to Jiuzhangtang. Yingying, please tell Brother Zhu for me when you see me, and go over to see him when I am free in the evening."
So, when Zhu Ying, who readily agreed, returned to Zhao Guogong's mansion and learned that her eldest brother was rushing over behind Qing'an Hall, she saw Zhu Tingfang's long face as soon as she saw him: "Zhang Shou has left Zhang Chen and the others for several days.
He ignored me and even avoided me now, what does he want to do?"