[Red Mansions] Guide to "The Empress of the Wise"

When the parents returned home, the fifth girl’s life, to be precise, did not change much in terms of material life, but the feeling of being depended on and supported in her heart was so good. Wang Ziqi said in school, “The fifth sister smiles all day long.” .Please be accompanied by the princess, and the fifth girl does not need to get up early on purpose, avoiding the old lady, and there are people who care about life everywhere. No matter how old Madam Xu is, she is still a support person, and the teaching of the princess is strict and tender. .If you do something wrong, she will stop you. If you do something right, you don't need to praise her. Just looking at her smiling face, you feel that all your hard work has paid off.

This afternoon, the fifth girl was practicing calligraphy in her room, and the spring equinox came to report that the princess was looking for her.

The fifth girl walked quickly to the main hall and greeted the princess.

The princesses are sitting on the top seats, and next to the left sits a middle-aged woman in a light-colored Taoist robe, with gentle eyebrows and amiable eyes.

"Mother, you are looking for me." Miss Wu has always been reluctant to call her cold mother or wife, and always uses the affectionate word "Mother".

"Wu'er, here we come. Aren't you looking forward to worshiping a teacher? This is a young lady from the Kong family in Shandong. You can call her Aunt Kong. If you want to be a teacher, you must ask Aunt Kong to nod in person!" the princess said to her. Fifth girl introduced the strange woman.

"Aunt Kong is well."

"Girl, you don't need to be too polite. When we meet for the first time, it's a small show of respect. Please don't refuse." Aunt Kong took the maid with her, but she took the things out of her sleeve pocket by herself.

The fifth girl approached in small steps, stretched out her hands, bowed her head and took it respectfully, and glanced at it when she took it back, it was a piece of fine jade pendant.At this time it is not popular to praise the gift face to face, the fifth girl silently put the jade pendant in her hand, and smiled sweetly at the princess.

"Aunt Kong, this is my youngest daughter. She looks like a normal person, but she is hardworking. Please don't give up." The princess spoke very politely to this aunt Kong.

"The princess is self-effacing, wisdom is a gift from God, hard work is the right way." Aunt Kong nodded to the princess, and then asked the fifth girl: "I don't know what the girl has learned now?"

"I only learned three hundred poems. I saw my mother and aunt were practicing calligraphy. Why don't you ask my aunt to point out my work just now, and ask my aunt not to blame me for being disrespectful." Seeing that the princess did not stop her, the fifth girl obviously wanted to hand over the matter to her. Give her entertainment.

Aunt Kong nodded, and the fifth girl motioned for Chun Equinox to pick it up.

"Aside from practicing calligraphy, what else does the girl do on weekdays?"

"I'm a female worker, and I also like to read books." Miss Wu thought for a while and answered carefully.

"What books does the girl like to read?"

"History."

"Why?"

"Read Shi Mingzhi."

"What is the current ambition of the fifth girl?"

Aunt Kong pressed her every step of the way, but the fifth girl hesitated a little on the last question, and finally decided to tell the truth: "Living freely, no one can... force me in the name of proper etiquette." Oppression?enslavement?Miss Wu changed her mind and finally changed to a more neutral word.

"Okay." Aunt Kong still kept smiling calmly, nodded to the fifth girl and then looked at the princess.

"Wu'er, go back and practice calligraphy." The princess sent her away directly.

After the fifth girl left, the princess asked, "What do you think?"

"The ambition is higher than that of a man." Aunt Kong didn't pretend to be with the princess either. When the dynasty was just changed, clans like the Kong family needed to express their views, so Aunt Kong never married, but her reputation was flawless.

"Oh, it's me and Xingjian who have been away for the past two years, which made the child too scared." The princess blamed herself when she thought about Miss Wu. She was prepared at the beginning, but she didn't expect Miss Wu's thoughts to change so much.

"No, even if you are all here, Miss Wu's appointment will not change." Aunt Kong disagreed that Miss Fifth was afraid, and emphasized: "She knows what she wants."

"He knows what he wants." This evaluation is too high. It is said that Aunt Kong is good at judging people. Back then, the empress was only the daughter of a petty official. Aunt Kong said something precious when she passed by.Others didn't take it seriously until the current empress married Jinshang, and Jinshang ascended the throne again.At that time, he was just the son of a rebel army whose future was not promising. Aunt Kong had this vision when she was only a double ten.

Aunt Kong knew that she was well-known, so she didn't speak lightly. She was her female crown layman on weekdays, and it was rare for ordinary people to say a word.

The princess shook the fifth girl's work in her hand, and asked, "Is it still in your eyes?"

Aunt Kong sighed, and said, "This ambition is higher than mine. I don't seek fame and wealth, and I have been honored by the family's millennium inheritance. Your daughter, what are you going to do?"

"If she has a heart, I will fulfill her." The princess said decisively: "I asked you back then, with the reputation of the Kong family and your intelligence, you can live a happy life by marrying anyone at will. Why don't you marry?"

"Yes, I answered that people should live according to their own will in this life. I am already sober, so I don't want to live in a muddle." Aunt Kong felt something in her heart.

"I also want my daughter to live freely." Is the princess's ambition small?

"I see." Aunt Kong nodded, "You are busy these few days, I will go back and pick a good day to find you." Of course, this good day is a good day for apprenticeship.

Aunt Kong sat down for a while and then went back. Wang Shouzhong and the princess had just returned, and it was a time when human relations were complicated.

In the evening, Wang Shouzhong sent a servant back to report that he wanted to drink with his colleagues, and that he would not come for dinner today. The princess took Wang Zisheng, Wang Ziteng and Wu girl to dinner.

After a quiet dinner without eating or sleeping, Wang Zisheng returned to the outer courtyard, and Wang Ziteng returned to his room to study. According to his age, Wang Ziteng should also move to the outer courtyard, but there are many things to do when he just came back. He dragged it down only if he didn't want to do it himself.

The fifth girl went back to her room and changed into her pajamas and half-lyed on the bed to read. This behavior of disrespecting book learning has been said many times by Madam Xu.

When the princess came in, the fifth girl thought it was Mother Xu, and she was so frightened that she hid the book under the quilt.

"It's mother~" Fifth Miss said shyly.

"It's not me, what are you hiding?" The princess smiled and came over to sit by the bed. She had already removed the gorgeous headgear, and only held her dark black temples with a long jasper hairpin. She asked her daughter gently.

"Mother, it's the biography of the courtier." The fifth girl showed the book to the princess.

"You're not afraid that you won't be able to sleep." The princess smiled. There are always some cruel officials in the biography of courtiers, and those cruel criminal laws are described in detail. Normal people can't be scared when they read it, let alone a five-year-old girl. Not an appropriate bedtime read.

"Mom~ I'm just looking around, I'm not serious about learning, I can't change my habit of reading in bed." The fifth girl tugged at the princess's sleeve and acted like a baby.

"How old are you, what's wrong with you that can't be changed, don't you want to fix it?" The Princess cast a glance at her, not dwelling on the topic, and asked, "How do you feel when you met Aunt Kong today?"

"Very good, better than I imagined." The fifth girl and her own mother were telling the truth.

"Where's the good?"

"Gentle and amiable, but there are hills and valleys in the chest." The fifth girl looked up at the princess and asked her to continue, trying to word it accurately: "Aunt Kong respects me and doesn't treat me like an ignorant child; she treats people sincerely, and her daughter also comes back. Only then did I find out that the jade pendant had the private seal of the Kong family; the most important thing is that Aunt Kong has a good relationship with my mother, and I believe my mother will not harm me."

"Sure enough, you are a villain. Ordinary people don't know your Aunt Kong's identity. Who would say that she has a chest? It seems that my daughter also has the ability to understand people. It just happens to be a good pair with your "magic fortune teller" Aunt Kong." Master and apprentice." The princess joked.

"Is Aunt Kong good at divination?" The fifth girl saw that Aunt Kong was wearing a Taoist robe, and thought that her job was to do religious work.

The princess told the story of Aunt Kong's relentless decision on the fate of the empress. The fifth girl was originally a staunch materialist fighter, but was deeply transformed into an idealist loyalist by reality. I believed half of it.

Any judgment, plus the name of Bodhisattva and God, seems to become more mysterious and powerful. The main thing the princess wants to say is not this: "Your Aunt Kong thinks you have the potential to be a teacher. When you are done with your family these days, you Let’s formally worship her as master.”

"Then do I want to become a monk as well?" Miss Wu didn't make up her mind to fall into Sanqing's embrace.

"Naturally, I don't need it. I'll draw a small courtyard in the mansion, and your Aunt Kong will live in so that I can teach you." The princess said.

"Thank you mother, mother is so kind." Miss Wu thanked her sweetly.

"Just invite you master." The princess smiled and nodded the tip of Miss Wu's nose.

"Of course it's good. My grandmother didn't allow me to read herringbone. My grandfather promised me to ask for a master, but he never invited me. I haven't told my mother that I want a master, so you can ask for me. I know, mother." Good." The fifth girl raised her head and spoke very seriously in an innocent and childish tone.

"Good boy, good boy." The princess embraced the fifth girl in her arms, feeling sore in her heart. How much hardship did this child endure to be so easily satisfied? "What do you want to learn in the future, and what do you want to use to tell mother directly, you know?"

"Understood, I also have a mother." The fifth girl responded crisply.