Hello Chang’an

Chapter 111 Women’s Teacher

"Do you recognize Minister Wei?" Chang Sui Ning had just been "frank" with the other party. At this moment, Chang Suining had no scruples when asking questions, and no longer needed to think about whether there would be any flaws in his words.

This sense of relief made her somewhat regret not revealing her "illness" to Wei Shuyi earlier.

"Of course I recognize her." Wei Shuyi looked at the woman getting off the sedan chair and said, "This lady is the wet nurse of the... prince of the county."

He paused for a moment when he mentioned the word "prefecture king", and then fearing that Chang Sui Ning, who was suffering from brain disease, would not be able to understand, whispered: "That is the deposed emperor at the beginning."

Chang Suining nodded clearly.

The other party was the wet nurse of the deposed emperor Li Bing, and she naturally knew this identity.

But what about after Li Bing was deposed?

Let’s look at the other party’s clothing, which seems to be quite satisfactory and not flashy, but from the look, steps and spirit, we can tell that he is now worthy of the title of “scenery”.

After Li Bing was deposed, he was buried with the rites of a county prince, but the wet nurse of the deposed emperor could still appear in front of others with dignity, and was honored as "Madam" by Wei Shuyi. In addition to the "generosity and kindness" of today's saints, I'm afraid there's another way to say it -

Sure enough, I heard Wei Shuyi continue to say: "This lady is extraordinary... When the prince was still an emperor, this lady followed her and became famous. Even the concubines in the harem respected her."

Chang Suining was not surprised.

Li Bing lost his mother when he was young, and was brought up by this wet nurse. Moreover, this wet nurse was never a soft-tempered person. When Li Bing worked hard to be a foolish emperor, this wet nurse controlled most of the affairs of the harem. Nothing could be further from the norm.

Wei Shuyi said: "No one thought at that time that when the court situation was in chaos, it was this lady who was the first to come forward and ask for the 'saint' to be deposed."

"In the early dynasty, in front of hundreds of officials, he risked his life to ask for the dethronement of the emperor. Every word of his heartbroken words, he shed tears to state the crime of the emperor's ignorance -"

From this, the curtain was truly drawn on the abolition of Li Bing.

"That's it." Wei Shuyi didn't need to say more about the rest of the words. Chang Sui Ning guessed it: "It is reasonable for a person who understands the righteousness and cares about the country and the court to be praised and treated well afterwards."

It is within the common sense of the Ming Dynasty and the common sense of the people in the world.

I just don’t know if the other party’s overly courageous move of risking his life to dethrone the emperor was an act of assessing the situation, or was he guided by an “expert”?

No wonder she views such righteous people with a villain's heart, because she has a little understanding of whether righteous people are righteous.

What kind of character Li Bing's wet nurse was, she had learned a lot about it with Ah Xiao when she was young.

Or in other words, being able to carry Li Bing, who had been motherless since childhood, to survive to the end in the **** battles between the princes. Apart from the fact that Li Bing was indeed a loser and no one cared about it, it also showed that this person was the best at it. It is to study the way of survival - of course, this is not wrong.

"That's right, he was praised by the saint, given a royal title, and respected by the world." Wei Shuyi said with a smile: "After he left the palace, he still served the deposed emperor and never left him until the deposed emperor passed away."

"This move is even more praised... and because she has lived in the palace for many years and has set an example for women in terms of virtue, appearance, appearance, and merit, she is regarded by the world as the teacher of women in the world, and everyone respects her as Mrs. Jie."

"Teacher of women in the world?" Chang Suining repeated, looking at the figure of the woman who had entered the building, he said, "Why did I alarm this Mrs. Xie?"

Wei Shuyi smiled and waved his folding fan: "It is said that Mrs. Jie is also good at poetry. The permanent poetry society invites the female relatives of the capital to come. Maybe they are also here to support her?"

He dared to say the word "pleasure", and Chang Sui Ning seemed to dare to believe it: "Very good, then my apprenticeship banquet today will add to my glory."

Wei Shuyi smiled and pointed his folding fan downstairs: "Aren't you going to greet me?"

Chang Suining nodded: "Such a person should be welcomed."

Wei Shuyi followed her and said with a smile as he went downstairs: "You must know that in Beijing, if anyone can get a compliment from Mrs. Jie in front of others, his reputation will spread, and he will be one step ahead when choosing a son-in-law." layer."

Chang Sui Ning is noncommittal.

She has no interest in choosing a son-in-law.

When she reached the second floor, she first found her own seat and sat down.

Seeing her sit down, Wei Shuyi raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you going to go down?"

"Didn't you come down from the third floor already?" Chang Sui Ning asked while adjusting his clothes, "Isn't such sincerity enough?"

Wei Shuyi was silent.

Not enough for ordinary people.

For Mrs. Chang, it was even a bit much.

So he nodded sincerely: "It's enough."

Chang Suining looked downstairs.

More than 200 people came today. If they all came downstairs to greet them, she would be exhausted.

What's more, she has no interaction with this uninvited Mrs. Jie, and her purpose of coming here is unknown.

…

"Ma'am, please stay."

The book boy in front of the poetry desk on the first floor saluted Mrs. Xie, who was nearly sixty years old.

"The seats in the building are full today and no guests have left yet, so it is no longer inconvenient to receive you all. I hope you will forgive me."

Mrs. Xie's calm expression did not change.

A maid beside her raised her eyebrows slightly and asked in a loud voice: "I am about to turn my wife away from the building. Have you asked the host of today's apprenticeship banquet?"

The two bookboys were only twelve or thirteen years old, and neither of them recognized the person in front of them. They looked at each other after hearing this, and one of them said: "Please tell me your identity, Madam. Let the junior go up and ask, and then I can talk to Madam."

The servant woman said with a straight face, "My wife is Mrs. Daoshengfang Neijie."

The book boy was slightly surprised, he had also heard about it, and after saluting, he went upstairs to ask.

There were many people upstairs and it was noisy. It took the book boy half a quarter of an hour to find Chang Sui Ning who had just come down from the third floor to ask, and then went back downstairs.

"Back to Madam, Mrs. Chang invites you to come in." The book boy saluted.

Looking at the empty stairs behind Shutong, the maid beside Mrs. Xie frowned slightly.

After waiting for so long, Mrs. Chang didn’t even go downstairs to greet her personally when she heard that her wife was coming?

It should be noted that her wife's status and reputation are so important that even those first-class ladies who ask her to teach the girls in their families the rules and etiquette, they all do so in person.

The servant woman was unhappy: "Madam..."

This lady from the Chang family is so rude and rude!

I have recently heard that this girl acts arrogantly and arrogantly, and now it seems that it is indeed true.

There was no expression on Mrs. Jie's face, she just glanced at the thick stack of poems on new paper on the poetry desk in front of her.

The book boy said hurriedly: "Ms. Chang has told me that Madam does not need to compose poems and can go in directly."

Mrs. Xie nodded slightly and walked upstairs.

Her appearance was obviously unexpected, and many female relatives gathered around to greet her and salute her.

In addition to Duan's mother and daughter, Yao Xia and others who were invited earlier, the female relatives who came today also came with them later. Some of them really liked poetry, and some wanted to make friends.

But the female family members were only a minority, and the two hundred or so people only accounted for a few dozen. The movement at this time was far less than the sensation when Taifu Chu suddenly appeared an hour ago.

But Duan didn't come forward to say hello.

Wei Miaoqing even frowned secretly.

Two or three years ago, her mother took her to participate in Mrs. Jie's poetry party. She was thirteen or fourteen years old at the time. She accidentally fell into a flower bush while chasing a butterfly and pricked her palm, which offended this lady. Mrs. Xie’s admonishment. He said with a straight face that as the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Wei, her temperament was too out-of-touch. If she was not restrained, she would not be worthy of being a wife of everyone in the future.

Amidst the echoes that sounded euphemistic and kind, the mother said doubtfully, "No, it's not summer yet, how can there be cicadas and flies noisy?" Then, ignoring Mrs. Xie's sinking face, she pulled her around. Just left.

On the way back, my mother said a motto - If I had known this, the dogs wouldn't have come.

Since then, Mrs. Xie has never invited her mother to a poetry gathering. On weekdays, she and her mother would avoid Mrs. Xie, who was a good teacher.

But I didn't expect to bump into it here today.

As soon as he saw the other party, the scene of being reprimanded in public that day appeared before Wei Miaoqing's eyes. He was embarrassed and angry: "Mother, let's go back?"

"Why are you going back?" Mrs. Duan glanced at Mrs. Xie, who was a generation older than her, and said, "We are serious guests with invitations. Why should we avoid these uninvited people?"

Wei Miaoqing thought it right and sat up a little straighter.

The Master of Women in the World has a great reputation, but Chang Sui Ning specially gave her grandma an invitation, but she didn’t expect to give one to Mrs. Xie!

Wei Miaoqing thought about it, then subconsciously looked at Chang Sui Ning, and suddenly felt that the other person was much more pleasing to the eye.

Seeing the person coming, Chang Sui Ning also stood up and walked to Mrs. Jie. While giving a gift, he said, "I've heard Mrs. Jie's name for a long time."

Mrs. Jie looked at the girl in front of her calmly. This was almost her habit after leaving the palace. She would look at and even examine every female family member who appeared in front of her, and then make an evaluation in her heart.

Compared with the many female relatives she had seen before, the one in front of her was very different, and different from what she had imagined.

Her imagination came from what she heard -

Arrogant, sensational, restless, and the most beautiful woman in the capital.

The skin and bones are indeed rare beauties, but they don't put much thought into their clothing. There is not even a trace of makeup or powder on their faces, and there is no decoration at all.

The hands raised during the salute were not armored and even had thin calluses.

Compared with these external appearances, what caught her attention more was the girl's temperament and attitude.

Seeing her coming, there was no fear, no joy, no uneasiness.

Nothing at all.

Mrs. Jie withdrew her gaze, looked at the noisy literati around her, and said with a smile: "I heard that Mrs. Chang from the Hussar General's Mansion is holding a poetry party here today. I came uninvited. I just hope that I have not disturbed the elegant and talented guests. good."

If she were an ordinary "sensible" young lady, she would have thought of how to respond to these words. She was just trying to apologize for not sending the invitation.

In other words, these words were thrown out to give Chang Sui Ning the opportunity to follow up with this sentence. With the word "double dignity", she gained the dignity of being respected by the younger generation, and Chang Sui Ning gained the dignity of being a sensible and humble younger generation.

But unfortunately, Chang Suining never believed that unconditional self-deprecation and humility was a virtue worth spreading.

If she ever depreciates and humbles herself, it will definitely be an act, and it will be profitable.

"This was just an apprenticeship banquet, but by chance it became a poetry gathering -" Chang Sui Ning turned his head and told a servant: "Take Mrs. Xie to her seat."

The servant responded "yes" and made a "please" gesture to Mrs. Jie.

Seeing Mrs. Xie being invited to take a seat and Chang Sui Ning returning to her seat, Wei Miaoqing was quite surprised: "She actually ignored him?"

"I made an exception and invited people here and treated them politely. How can I call them dry?" Duan said: "According to this, wouldn't all the guests in the building be left dry today?"

Wei Miaoqing whispered: "But Mrs. Jie's brain is different from ordinary people... Everywhere she goes, isn't she surrounded by her master's family?"

"Then there's nothing we can do." Duan sighed softly: "No one asked her to come."

When Mrs. Xie sat down, she glanced at the young girl's figure, and a trace of slight displeasure flashed in her eyes - it was indeed consistent with the rumors, but she had not been wronged.

When he looked at the little girls who were following Chang Sui Ning and chattering non-stop, he frowned slightly.

At this time, the maid beside her lowered her voice and asked for instructions: "Madam..."

Mrs. Jie's eyes were slightly cold and she nodded slightly.

She didn't think of this strategy at first, but she was so strange and obviously would not accept anyone's discipline. Moreover, she acted in such a flamboyant manner. If things continued like this, it would definitely disrupt the culture of women in the capital.

…

In the Manna Hall in the palace, Emperor Shengzhen also heard about today's grand event of climbing the Tai Tower.

"There hasn't been such a lively poetry gathering in the capital for a long time. It's not a bad thing." The Holy Book Emperor sat behind the dragon case and said as he put down his ink pen.

In prosperous times, there are grand occasions, and she is naturally happy to see them.

But we also need to distinguish what kind of grand occasion—

If the person organizing this poetry gathering today was an official in the court or a member of the clan, she would naturally not be happy to see it.

A young lady's apprenticeship banquet led to this poetry meeting, which perfectly avoided everything she was taboo about.

It's not that she is a woman, but she despises women, ignores women, and does not use women as a threat - it is precisely because she is a woman that she knows how difficult it is for women to do things.

Even though she has made it this far, the road ahead is still unknown.

She sat in this position because she had to meet the right time, place and people in addition to being careful every step of the way...

Every step she took along the way was something that no woman could ever try to imitate.

Even if a particularly outstanding woman appears, she can no longer become her true enemy.

Therefore, she can view this rather tolerant poetry gathering with appreciation.

"It is a rare event for all the scribes to gather together. Luo'er went to see if there are any good poems and articles on my behalf." The Emperor of the Holy Book told Mingluo: "There is no need to announce it, and there is no need to use my name. , so as not to disturb the scholars.”

Mingluo responded knowingly: "Luo'er understands."

The pen in the hands of a scholar can often be used as a sword.

When my aunt first came to the throne, she borrowed this knife.

People who have used it know better to be vigilant.

The Poetry Festival is a good thing, but if there are unsightly things that undermine the power of God, it cannot be called a grand event - if there are such ignorant people, it will not end well.

And the person who facilitated this poetry meeting will inevitably be implicated.

Mingluo covered his eyes and thought before exiting the Manlu Palace, then changed into his official uniform and left the palace.

…

The fireworks had stopped, and suddenly there was a cry outside the Dentai Tower.

Goodnight everybody.

(Today I discovered another benefit of raising a cat: Yesterday my mother came to visit me at home, and my uncle and uncle drank with me. He was a drinker. In the middle of the night, I felt nauseated and ran to the bathroom to vomit, but I couldn't vomit. It was very painful. Afterwards He told me that he had an idea at that time and went to the cat litter box to smell it (now this lazy cat has evolved to have no shame and does not even bury the cat poop). So, after smelling it, my uncle was rewarded What I wished for...

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