Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Ten years, whether it is long or not, is not short.

For a pirate leader who once roamed the oceans, ten years of life on land is maddeningly long.To her, the life of not being able to set sail and ride the wind and waves is just a pool of stagnant water.The husband who was robbed and the son born with him could not make her smile—her heart was always in the endless turbulent waves, and was always in the promised land behind the thousands of miles of waves.

But luckily time passes.Ten years flew by, just like her previous two or thirty years.

Shi Yunniang was fiddling with the small bicycle boat in front of her.

This is the wedding gift sent from Bianliang City when she was newly married.The person who came to give the gift was a white-faced, beardless middle-aged man with a high-pitched voice, who looked like an eunuch.

The eunuch ordered someone to present the brocade box containing the gift, saying that it was a wish from their boss Zhao, and asked Mrs. Lu to accept it with a smile.Yunniang put away the brocade box properly, and entertained the eunuch to live in Xingkong Island for a period of time - of course she knew that she was trying to find out the truth, to see what she, Shi Yunniang, was up to.

It wasn't until she and Lu Fang's son Lu Zhen was born that the eunuch returned to Beijing with suspicion.

There is a bicycle boat in the brocade box.

Not the big ships that sail the canals, but small, wooden replicas with gold lacquer on the hulls.There is an iron spring at the bottom of the boat, which can drive the wheels on the side of the boat to rotate after being tightened, and can sail more than ten meters in the pool.

So Shi Yunniang understood—the emperor understood her after all.

With this feeling of almost gratification, she has been the hostess of Sunken Island for ten years.

There was a voice from outside the door, and her son walked in with the voice: "Mother."

Shi Yunniang put down the bicycle boat in her hand: "I'm back."

Lu Zhen wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, and ran to her side with a smile on her face.

"Well, have you seen what their new lighthouse looks like?"

A few years ago, Lu Fang's friend Bai Jintang founded a shipyard for self-propelled boats on Sunken Island, and built a port outside the island by the way.

As time goes by, more and more self-propelled boats go out from the sunken island, and the scale of the port is also getting bigger and bigger.Gradually, many merchant ships from overseas did not land in Quanzhou Port, but diverted to the empty island, entered the Yangtze River west, transferred from Yangzhou, and went straight to Bianjing along the Grand Canal.

Some people suggested before that it is better to build a high platform outside the port of Sunken Island, and light a torch at night to act as a lighthouse, so that ships entering the port in the middle of the night can find their way.

Lu Fang and Bai Jintang pooled their money and invited a master who is proficient in ventilation and water geology to choose a site. Today is the day when the lighthouse will be completed.

Lu Zhen's eyes brightened: "I see! A Niang, that tower is so tall! It's higher than a mountain! They say that if a torch is lit on the tower in the middle of the night, ships ten miles away can see it!"

Shi Yunniang smiled and said: "With this lighthouse, there must be more and more merchant ships coming to our port."

Lu Zhen rested her head on her lap: "Aniang, it's a pity you didn't see it."

After he was born, Shi Yunniang never went to sea again.Lu Fang kept secret about Shi Yunniang's past, so Lu Zhen didn't know how glorious his biological mother had been.

Shi Yunniang stroked his broken hair: "Aniang will see it."

In Yuchen Palace, Zhao Yiyi told Zhao Xu, who had grown into a young girl: "After you go out, get along well with your classmates, respect your teachers, and don't always be a princess. Make more friends and broaden your horizons, especially with female classmates. It is also the first time for them to go out of the house and go to school with a man for the first time. They are also very nervous. You are a princess and their role model. It is because of you that their father and brother will Allow them to go to school. Only if you do well, they can stay in school. Only if you do well, there will be a steady stream of women who can go out to study in the future. You are a role model for future generations and have a great responsibility ,so--"

He held Zhao Xu's shoulder very seriously: "Restrain your faults, no matter how many handsome men there are in the school, you are not allowed to go up to him and ask him to be your husband!"

Zhao Xu twitched the corner of his mouth: "Father, my daughter knows."

Zhao Yiyi said: "You said you knew it before, but why did your uncle tell me that you want to accept your cousin as a son-in-law?"

Zhao Xu said, "Daughter knows I was wrong."

Zhao Yunxi's marriage was finally settled after going through many difficulties and obstacles. He married the daughter of a founding hero's family.When Zhao Yiyi took Zhao Xu to the Eighth Prince's Mansion to visit Niangniang Di, he happened to see the wet nurse taking out the little prince, who was as white and tender as a ball of snow, to bask in the sun.

Zhao Yiyi ignored him, so Zhao Xu went up to tease the children.After making her giggle, she turned her head and said to her uncle Zhao Yunxi, "Uncle Huang, can my younger brother be my husband from now on?"

Zhao Yunxi was so frightened that he wrote a ten-thousand-word long speech overnight and presented it to Zhao Yiyi, asking him to restrain the princess's words and deeds. How could a girl say such unethical and absurd words?

Zhao Yiyi had to explain to Zhao Xu that her uncle's son was her cousin, and a cousin could not be her husband.

"Father, don't worry," Zhao Xu said solemnly, "My daughter is here to set an example for women all over the world, and she will never do anything that will damage the royal dignity."

Seeing her upright and serious expression, Zhao Yiyi felt a little relieved: "It's good that you know."

Zhao Xu is now 16 years old, and he has become more and more graceful, more majestic and restrained, dignified and quiet, and quite the air of a master.Sometimes when Zhao Yiyi looked at her, he felt like being pushed forward by the waves behind him.As expected of the 666 Holy Monarch appointed by the system, he is different from ordinary people.

After growing up in the court to the age of 16, Zhao Yiyi deliberately sent her to study.Now Yan Shu's Qingbei University has become famous all over the world and has become the first-class institution in the Song Dynasty.Students graduating from Tsingbei University every year enter all walks of life and become outstanding people, making the atmosphere of the world a new one.

It's just that this kind of school never accepts female students.

Until Zhao Yiyi and Yan Shu proposed that the princess should be sent to Qingbei University to study.

Qingbei University did not confiscate royal family members for admission.From the fourth year of running the school, one after another, children surnamed Zhao entered the school either incognito or openly.Yan Shu treated them no differently from ordinary students.

However, the princess is not an ordinary Zhao family child.

She is the emperor's direct blood, and she is a woman.

Over the years, the emperor's close ministers have more or less noticed the strangeness about the candidate for the crown prince.

The emperor is not good at women, and there is no other woman in the harem except a queen.The queen gave birth to only two imperial heirs, a boy and a girl.The prince was named the King of Chu, and the princess was named the Princess of Qin.

Logically speaking, when there is only one prince, it is a matter of certainty who will reserve the position.But the emperor not only didn't set up a heir, but also didn't care about His Royal Highness Chu. On the contrary, he had a good eye for Princess Qin and raised him himself.Now the courtiers are not sure whether the emperor wants His Royal Highness King Chu to be the heir.

If so, why are you so indifferent?If you don't like it, why don't you open up the harem and have a few more princes?

And the few people who have won the most sacred heart have figured out an extremely incredible clue from the emperor's attitude towards the princess of Qin.

The emperor's attitude towards the princess is not the doting that ordinary fathers treat their married daughters, but the emperor's respect and cultivation of the prince.

After learning the news that the emperor was going to send the princess out of the palace to study, Yan Shu was basically sure of this.

Although this matter has never happened in ancient and modern times, the emperor really wanted the princess to be the heir apparent.

Therefore, Yan Shu accepted the princess's enrollment without hesitation, and spread the news that the princess was about to enroll.The rich and noble families in the capital were knowledgeable and interesting, and they also sent their girls to Qingbei University to study.

Although women should put their chastity first and should not show their faces outside.But the princess has come out to study, who cares about this?How much honor is it to be a classmate with the princess?

But there are also more old-fashioned families who usually look down on the increasingly indulgent atmosphere in the world. When they see the princess coming out to study, they just sigh angrily and don't allow the girls in their family to go out.

Therefore, when Zhao Xu entered Qingbei University on the first day, he only saw a dozen or so female students in his class - that's all the female students.

Judging from their attire, they were all daughters of aristocratic families, and several Zhao Xu even met them at the Eight Princes' Mansion.

Her father did not like to feast and laugh, and her mother never set foot outside the palace.In Zhao Xu's more than ten years of life, only at the Eight Princes' Mansion have he ever seen a banquet with staggered cups and cups and fragrant clothes.

She likes this excitement very much.

Fortunately, although her father would not hold a banquet for her in the palace, he never restricted her from going out of the palace to have fun, as long as she brought Liu En with her.And Liu En will not restrict the princess's actions, but just hide in the dark to protect her.

Following his father's instructions, Zhao Xu got to know more than a dozen female classmates before class.

All the male and female students in the same class knew who she was, and they were all cautious when talking to her.The female students were bolder because they were the same girl as her, while the male students wanted to lower their heads to the ground, not even daring to look at her.

Zhao Xu really wanted to say that Bengong doesn't eat people, so Mr. Xiaolang raised his head to let Bengong take a good look.Thinking of my father's instructions, I endured it anyway.

While speaking, a melodious bell rang.Zhao Xu heard from his grandfather Kou Zhun that Qingbei University had to ring the bell twice in the morning, the first time to tell the students to return to their seats, and the second time to tell the teachers to enter the room.Even if the teacher has arrived in the classroom ahead of time, he has to wait outside the door. This is to prevent students who come late to enter the door after the teacher and appear disrespectful.

The bell had to strike eighteen in total, and by the fifth ring, the students had already returned to their seats.

Zhao Xu's side was free.

Obviously, on the first day they met, no one dared to rush to the princess.

Zhao Xu was just about to grab a male classmate with a good-looking appearance to sit next to him, when he saw another person running in from outside the door, he walked in a hurry, scanned the room, saw that there was an empty seat next to her, and sat down, muttering He said, "My friend, is there no one here? Excuse me, let me sit here."

Zhao Xu sized him up and saw that he was a young man in his twenties. He looked neither too good nor too bad. He thought that Ben Gong came to school and not to choose a concubine, so this appearance was fine.So he said: "There is no one here, you sit down."

The man was startled when he heard her voice: "Friend, are you a woman?"

Zhao Xu looked into his slightly confused eyes and realized.

This man, like her father, is a close looker.It just seems to be more serious than her father, but it's so close that you can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman.

The man took out a transparent lens the size of an egg from his arms, put it in front of his eyes, glanced at her, and bowed again and again: "My friend, I'm sorry, I have weak eyes and offended you. Can I sit here?"

Zhao Xu nodded: "Sit down. They are all out to study, so there is no distinction between men and women. My name is Zhao Mingxu, what do you call me?"

The man said: "Friend Zhao, you have the same surname as the official family."

Zhao Xu thought to himself, not only do I have the same surname as him, but he is also my father.Why don't you know that Princess Qin is coming to school?

The man said again: "My surname is Wang, and my name is Anshi. The teacher never gave up, and I gave him the name Jiefu. I will call it according to Zhao's friend."

Zhao Xu nodded: "Brother Wang."