In charge

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.There is no curfew this night, and people in the capital, regardless of age or gender, will go to the streets to enjoy lanterns and guess lantern riddles.

How many boys and girls are holding the beautiful dream of "on the willow's head on the moon, after the dusk." The streets are crowded with people.

It is rare for Shu Yunci to go out of the palace to hang out.She put on a pink jacket, a bright red cloak, and buckskin boots. Matched with her complexion like the first snow, although the facial features are still too immature, everyone can see at a glance that this is a rare beauty. Given time, all living beings will be turned upside down, and the country will be overwhelmed with a smile.

On the most prosperous South Street in the capital, all kinds of lanterns are hung in front of the shops.Men and women who guessed the lantern riddles correctly, took the lottery given by the boss, and were very happy.

Si Ping's eyes dare not leave Shu Yunci in the slightest.To be honest, she is not afraid of Shu Yunci's danger, after all, there are not many people who can beat Shu Yunci now, she is afraid that someone will make a wrong calculation and anger this little princess.

Recently, because of Jiang Fengmin's lack of news, Shu Yunci's temper is getting worse and worse.Except for the silk bottle, no one dared to serve Shu Yunci up close.

"Princess, you see so many lanterns, which one do you like? Let's buy it and play with it." Seeing Shu Yunci's unhappy face, Si Ping could only talk to tease her.

"It's so ugly!" Shu Yunci frowned, "It's not as good-looking as mine, so I don't want it for nothing!" She was in a bad mood, and she was not polite at first, but now she opened her mouth to release poison.

Si Ping almost came up to cover her master's mouth, she was afraid of causing public anger in the street, so she hurriedly dragged Shu Yunci away.

Ankelai, the largest restaurant on South Street, was already fully booked early today.The private rooms on the second and third floors have already been booked out, and they are basically full at the moment.

Shu Yunci came to the restaurant, looked up at the surging crowd inside and outside the building, and finally calmed down a little. "The happiness of the common people is the blessing of the superior."

She walked upstairs, Xiao Er saw her small figure, followed by only a girl dressed as a maid, hurried over to say hello: "Little girl, I'm sorry, the restaurant is full today, look..."

Si Ping rushed forward and said, "We have an appointment."

Xiaoer immediately pushed away half a step upon hearing this, "Please."

In an elegant room facing the street on the third floor, fine sandalwood was burning.At this moment, the door of the room was pushed open suddenly, and Shu Yunci walked in.There were also two people in the room, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl and a maid.

The girl was wearing a white jacket, and her pretty face was flushed red by the brazier in the room, but some deficiencies could still be seen on closer inspection.Seeing Shu Yunci, she got up and saluted, "I've seen the princess."

"Excuse me. You came early." Shu Yunci sat opposite the girl, watching her pour him a cup of hot tea.

The girl signaled her maid to add some silver charcoal to the brazier. "The princess invites you, how dare you be late for the grand speech?"

Si Ping helped Shu Yunci take off his cloak, and stood at the door with Shengci's servant girl, without further words.

Shu Yunci looked at Sheng Ci's expression, "How is your health recently?"

Sheng Ci smiled and said, "It's okay."

Shu Yunci raised his hand behind him, and the silk bottle immediately took out a small porcelain bottle from his bosom and handed it to Shu Yunci.

"This is the medicine made by Lian Jun. She has been suffering for it for half a month, and she has lost a lot of weight." Shu Yunci pushed the medicine bottle in front of Sheng Ci.

Sheng Ci was not polite and took the medicine bottle. "Is Lian Jun still useful?"

"You're never wrong about anyone. She's a great helper, and she's got a lot of skills and a lot of intelligence."

It wasn't Shu Yunci who took a fancy to Lianjun, she was too busy and didn't have the time or energy to pay attention to a little medical girl.But Sheng Ci will take note.The daughter of Zhongshu Ling's family is not as weak as she looks.

The three daughters of Zhongshu Lingsheng's family are all outstanding, and they are all good matches that the noble families in Beijing are competing for.Few people would have noticed that there was a Fourth Miss in Sheng's family.This fourth young lady has been suffering from insufficiency since her mother's womb, and she is bedridden with illness for more than half a year, so even though the grand occasion has come to an end, no matchmaker has come to propose marriage.Sheng Ci is a concubine's daughter, her mother was originally in poor health, and passed away within a few years after giving birth to her.She lived alone in the gate of the Sheng family's mansion, and she was not as good as the eldest and third sisters who were born on the same day, and also not as good as the second sister who was born to Aunt Chen, her father's favorite.In the Sheng family, Sheng Ci is like an invisible man.The eldest lady of the Sheng family has never treated her harshly, and naturally she has not paid much attention to her.

Such an environment made Sheng Ci very satisfied. She needed a relatively relaxed environment, so that she hardly paid attention to what she learned every day.

A concubine who is not in good health, instead of learning how to do needlework every day, she actually learns some ways of court.In the eyes of ordinary people, this may seem shocking.Fortunately, she has a good friend who is as shocking as she is—Princess Shu Yunci of Zeyin.

Shu Yunci met this young lady of the Sheng family when he followed Emperor Yuanming to visit the Sheng family.That year Shu Yunci was seven years old and Sheng Ci was 11 years old.When no one was paying attention, the first thing Shu Yunci said to Sheng Ci was: "Sir Sheng has not let you show up, is he trying to hide you for the emperor?"

At that moment, Sheng Ci felt his brain explode.She is indeed not favored in the Sheng family, but how can an unfavored young lady learn the way of court?Her father, Sheng Tong, had a talent for understanding people and saw early on that this daughter was different.He is an eclectic person, although Sheng Ci is only a concubine, he is not willing to bury talents.Sheng Ci was interested in the way of government affairs, so he chose some books and quietly handed them to her.

Sheng Tong knows very well that the backyard is the world of women.If he doesn't want Sheng Ci to be the target of public criticism, the best way is to let Sheng Ci continue to be an invisible person.Both father and daughter teach and learn in secret.Year after year like this, others felt that Sheng Ci was pitiful, but Sheng Ci felt the greatest care from his father.Sure enough, as Sheng Tong hoped, she had her eyes on the court situation, and she was not at all interested in the competition for favor in the backyard.

Of course, Sheng Tong has his own purpose in raising his daughter in this way.He hopes that Sheng Ci can enter the palace in the future, assist the emperor, and show his strengths.

Sheng Ci did not express any objection to this arrangement.For a person like her who has the whole world in mind, little things of love and love are never taken to heart.If entering the palace can display her ambitions, she is willing.

The 11-year-old Sheng Ci didn't know how to answer the question from the seven-year-old Shu Yunci.

"Women in the harem are not allowed to discuss government affairs indiscriminately, this is the ancestor's precept." Shu Yunci grinned, extraordinarily soft and cute. "You won't do anything if you enter the palace."

Sheng Ci smiled wryly, after all, he thought too beautifully.She wanted to deny Shu Yunci's thoughts. After all, this kind of thinking was fine, and it would be easy to cause disaster if it was brought out.

"Do you want to follow me? I want to be a queen in the future. If you are really capable, I will make you a prime minister." Shu Yunci said such domineering words in an immature voice, feeling a sense of joy inexplicably.

At least Sheng Ci smiled.She coaxed Shu Yunci, "Princess Zeyin is really ambitious, but the servant girl only knows how to needle and thread, and she doesn't know the way of the court."

Shu Yunci was silent for a while, "That's why I misjudged the person. Sis, if you want to save the world, you can only help me become the queen." After she finished speaking, she ignored the grand speech, turned around and left.

At that time Sheng Ci didn't dare to take Shu Yunci's words to heart.In the following one or two years, Shu Yunci's excellence was obvious to all courtiers.Even Sheng Tong said that if Princess Zeyin was a man, she would be the master of this country after all.

The delay of Emperor Yuanming's failure to establish a crown prince made many people wonder whether the emperor really wanted to pass the throne to Princess Zeyin?According to the historical records of the Yin Kingdom, it is not without precedent that a woman is the emperor. If Emperor Yuanming did this, there is evidence to follow.

Two years ago, the well-thought-out Shengci surrendered to Shu Yunci.The two girls are going to create a new world side by side.With the teaching of Sheng Tong, Sheng Ci is quite knowledgeable.It was she who recommended Lianjun to Shu Yunci.

"The third prince took advantage of the New Year and contacted many courtiers. My father also received the post. He said he was sick and sent my eldest brother to go." Sheng Ci held the teacup in his hands so that he felt warmer.

"You don't need to worry about this matter. The third brother violated the taboo of the emperor, and he will not be tossing for a few days. I heard that the Ministry of Industry has internal strife for dredging the river in the spring. What do you think?" Shu Yunci asked.

"This is a fat job. The two Yuanwailang are rushing to go, and the food is really ugly. Is the princess going to intervene in this matter?" She felt that Shu Yunci would not ask about irrelevant matters for no reason.

Shu Yunci shook his head. "I haven't planned to suppress the courtiers yet. If this matter is so outrageous, the emperor will definitely take care of it. But what about after it's done? There will always be someone who wants to take this job. I hope it's someone who can really do things."

Sheng Ci understood that Shu Yunci was testing her.Although she surrendered, it will take time to test her ability.They don't need to intervene in this matter of dredging the river from the beginning to the end. They are all learning now, and want to know whether the solution and the candidate they came up with can be far from Emperor Ming's.

When Sheng Ci arrived, some tea was on the table, and he dipped his finger in the tea and wrote the character "Ding" on the table.Shu Yunci looked at it and nodded, and stopped talking about it.The two talked about other matters in the court, and they had such discussions almost once a month. Most of the time, they just talked but didn't do anything, and found out the gains and losses from Emperor Yuanming's final handling method to make up the gap.

I have to say that even if you are very talented, you need to put in far more effort than ordinary people.

Before leaving, Shu Yunci once again told Sheng Ci to remember to take medicine and pay attention to his health.

Sheng Ci nodded with a smile.There was noise outside the window, she got up and gently opened the window, a gust of cold wind blew in, choking her to cough.

"Miss, it's windy, let's go back home." Her maid Xun Xue said.

"Go back." Sheng Ci put on his cloak, wrapped himself tightly and went downstairs.

When I came downstairs, I saw the little red figure in the crowd, stopping in front of a small stall.Standing in front of a small stall selling porcelain dolls, Shu Yunci stared at one of the porcelain dolls, which somehow resembled Jiang Fengmin.In the end, she still grabbed the doll with her hand, and it was considered a New Year's gift. If that guy didn't come back, she would smash the porcelain doll first, and then go to Lingguo to smash that guy.