Zhen Guo Princess GL

The next day was my mother's birthday, this year it was even bigger than before, and I got up earlier than usual to arrive at Zhenguan Hall before the concubine entered the palace.

At that time, the mother was still sitting in front of the makeup mirror, Tuan'er was combing her hair, and Wan'er was reading the gift list at the side—she was chanting, "One side of the prince's treasure mirror, twelve volumes of the new translation of the Brahma Sutra, two celestial horses, gold and silver utensils All kinds of things, ten things step by step, hundreds of kinds of longevity brocade", suddenly heard my mother laughing and asked: "What did Princess Changle enter?" Without thinking, she said: "Princess Changle entered and copied a hundred volumes of Buddhist scriptures."

Mother raised her eyebrows and said, "No more?"

Wan'er said: "It's gone." Picking up a scroll from the side scrolls, she ordered the two palace servants to unfold it in front of her mother, she squinted her eyes and said to me, "Sizi's gifts are getting more and more stingy. "

I was wearing a big dress, so I couldn’t rush to my mother casually, so I lifted up my skirt and gave my mother a blessing, and said with a smile: “It’s all Buddhist scriptures hand-copied by my son, a baby that can’t be bought with any money, how can I be stingy?” ?”

The mother smiled and said, "Then someone praises his calligraphy as precious? You don't have to be ashamed." While talking, she smiled more kindly, and told her left and right: "Find out all these Buddhist scriptures, and hand them over to me in the evening."

Just as Tuan'er was about to respond, Wan'er bowed and said: "The things that the prince, King Ji, and Princess Changle have entered are all in the side hall. If your majesty wants it, you can present it now."

After hearing this, the mother ordered people to bring all the scrolls.In a short while, some palace people came in with a few tables and tables, and many people brought the Buddhist scriptures, scrolls, calligraphy and paintings presented by Li Sheng, Li Rui and me, and first spread out the scriptures I copied.

My mother first glanced at it casually like a joke, and when she saw that each column of Sanskrit was accompanied by a series of Chinese characters, she showed surprise and ordered someone to take a closer look at the scroll—this was my own idea, Guy Because everyone presents Buddhist scriptures to their mothers, Li Sheng and Li Rui often copy Buddhist scriptures by hand to celebrate their mother's birthday. It is quite difficult to be successful in order to have people and people. After thinking about it, I came up with a tricky way, which is like learning from the books of later generations, copying the original text and all the translations that may be found on the market in one place, which is convenient. My mother's study also showed that I was really sincerely reading the scriptures and praying for blessings.

My mother really liked this arrangement, and read a volume carefully, reading a few words in her mouth unconsciously, and asked me when she was covering the volume, "Did you do all these yourself?"

I smiled and said, "I entrusted Pei Lansheng, Fang Qi and the others to find the scriptures, and I also borrowed a lot from the prince's brother and Secretary Sheng. The transcription and compilation were all done by myself, and the proofreading was commissioned by Cui Mingde."

The mother smiled and said: "You don't like to study, but you came up with such a clever way to study."

I said: "I don't like reading, it's for myself, I want to study, but it's for A Niang, how can it be the same?" As soon as the voice fell, my father said: "I'm afraid it's because you don't like reading that's why you don't like reading." Think of some way to be lazy, in the name of your mother, get out quickly, stand on duty, don't be lazy." Looking up, I saw my father wearing a crown, helping Yang Zigao come over.He is obviously not as energetic this year as last year, he often stays in bed, even I only see each other every three to five days, today he is dressed grandly, and his steps are even slower, after walking for a while, he stopped and asked: "Where is the prince? "

Gao Yanfu said: "The prince came here in the morning, but now he has gone to the front office."

Father nodded and sat down beside Mother.I saw that he seemed to have something to say to his mother, so I resigned first and went to the place where the imperial concubine stood. My father ordered that all the wives and daughters of the clan and all the wives and daughters of the fifth rank and above enter the palace to celebrate, so the palace is full of darkness. There are people standing all over the place.

Except for me, only my great-aunts, aunts and a few cousins ​​were allowed to enter the hall and wait for a short rest.

There are not many of my aunts and grandmothers alive, and the one closest to us is Princess Qianjin.The other great-aunt, Princess Yan'an, has a normal relationship with us, but is very close to my father. After the Xuanwumen incident, my great-grandfather was quite discouraged about political affairs, so he left all political affairs to his grandfather and concentrated on giving birth to children in the inner court.These two aunts and grandmothers were born in the later years of Gao Zu, and they are not much different from their father's age. They are called aunts and nephews, but they are actually like sisters and brothers.Princess Yan'an was born tall, and she has the best relationship with her father. She is usually a little self-reliant on the lessons of her elders. Li Rui and I don't like her very much. On the contrary, Princess Qianjin is humorous and lively, and she often brings many small things to me and Li Rui. Rui, so close to my mother and us.There are other aunts like Qinghe and Xin'an, needless to say, one is the youngest daughter of the first emperor, and the other is the youngest daughter of the empress dowager, so whenever there is a banquet, they must be among them.

There is one more thing about this princess of Yan'an. On the day I was born, my father happened to receive the good news that the army had repelled Tubo, so when my father was happy, he named me "Taiping" and wanted to make me Princess Chang'an. Because the ministers Saying that Chang'an County is an important place in the capital, it cannot be easily granted to a minister, so my mother said that she would change her title to Princess Changle, but she had the same title as this aunt—now that filial piety is emphasized, I am a junior, and I should have let my aunt However, my mother directly made a decree to change this aunt to Princess Yan'an. There was no Changle county in this dynasty, but my mother directly drew one from a wealthy place in Jinzhou and named it Changle. When I grow up to ten years old , I selected 350 large households of more than seven Ding from Changle County as real seals, which broke the Gaozu's rule that "princess seals are limited to [-] households". Last year, when I became a monk, my father added another [-] households. I am also from a family of four or five. Seriously, although my seniority is low today, I have the most seals among all the eldest princesses, eldest princesses and princesses.Although Princess Yan'an sealed [-] households as the eldest princess, they are all three families, and Dingkou is not as good as my junior, so this aunt is a bit colder to me than other juniors. .In fact, none of us live on these closed households. Even if the rent is adjusted to three bolts of silk every ten years, not counting last year's severe drought, silk is cheap and rice is expensive, and it is only calculated as half a bolt of silk. The annual household income is only five or six thousand guan. Last year, I got that amount of silk and satin rewards scattered, not to mention those rewards of gold, silver and coins. It’s even more displeasing to my eyes—that is, last year when my mother asked about the price of goods, and today I saw Princess Yan’an again, I seriously thought about it and calculated my income. Sad, but because of Lady Yang and Wei Huan.Mrs. Yang has been stealing property for many years, only to steal tens of thousands of coins, but she paid the price of being killed with a stick; Wei Huan's father's salary for one month is not enough for me to reward a small palace official.They are still the people I think and read, the people on the cusp of my heart, and the family is also an official family.Like those ordinary palace people and people, the situation will only be worse.In the distant future, although there is a gap between the rich and the poor, and there are class gaps in society, but after all, most people still have enough to eat. I wonder if most of the people here can have enough to eat?What kind of life did they live?Will young people be like me in later generations, lazy and skating all day long, only caring about playing games, will their parents also worry and teach "find a good job, marry a good man/wife, and have children quickly bring us"?Even if I can't go out of the palace now, when can I go out, instead of going to those noble mansions, go to the market place, and see how ordinary people live in this era. Speaking of it, Wei Huan seems to be He said that he would take me to Dongshi for a stroll, but he never did.

I stood in the palace in a daze, although I was perfunctory with my relatives on the surface, my heart gradually drifted outside the palace wall.