The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(193)

Nowadays, officials and students pay attention to these kinds of relationships: fellow townsmen, classmates, and fellow teachers.

As mentioned in "Students' Discussions", students are from all over the world, some are hundreds of miles away, some are tens of thousands of miles away, and they speak different languages ​​and have different names. But once they pass the imperial examination, there is a so-called chief examiner, who is called the teacher; there is a so-called co-examiner, who is called the room teacher; the people on the same list are called classmates; the sons of the same year are called nephews; the sons of the teacher and the room teacher are called brothers; the teacher and the room teacher call me, who is called the disciple; and the disciple's successor is called the grandson; the grandson calls his teacher's teacher, who is called the grand master.

This is enough to show a glimpse!

The relationship between the teacher and the students, between the same year and the same year, is several generations old, and the interests are huge.

Therefore, if a civil official can be appointed as the chief examiner of the imperial examination one day, even if he is a deputy examiner, it will be enough to add a lot of capital to him.

Think about it, all the students who were selected in this subject are his own students, what a glorious scene!

Whenever the Spring Examination is approaching, the gate of the mansion of the examiner who is suspected to be appointed is full of carriages and horses, and the other one that attracts everyone's attention is the officials of the Ministry of Rites. Because in addition to the chief examiner who is appointed by the current emperor, most of the other examiners are from the Ministry of Rites, who are very popular.

Coincidentally, Prince An is the head of the Yizhiqingli Division of the Ministry of Rites, and the Yizhiqingli Division is in charge of the imperial examination.

The popular Prince An, coupled with the popular Ministry of Rites, is clearly the coldest time of the year. However, Prince An's mansion is crowded with people, and there are countless people who are rejected every day. Prince An looks like he doesn't want to have a deep relationship with these people

Of course, this is just on the surface. In fact, what should be done is done in private, and Prince An's disciples come forward to socialize. Even the shrewd Prince An could not hold his temper after such a few incidents. The imperial examination was held every three years, and it was a good time for him to recruit a large number of young officials.

When the snowstorm hit, Prince An’s mansion opened a porridge stall to distribute porridge. There were more and more comments in the market that Prince An was a virtuous prince. Some people even said that the former crown prince was just the eldest son, and his talents and virtues were not as good as those of the second prince, Prince An. If a crown prince was to be appointed, Prince An should be appointed.

For a while, such calls became louder and louder.

There were old ministers in the court who wrote to suggest that Emperor Hongjing should decide on the crown prince as soon as possible, which would be a blessing for the country, but Emperor Hongjing was unclear and kept suppressing it. With this wave of calls, some people in the court actually made suggestions to Emperor Hongjing.

Chapter 150

However, there were only two or three shrimps who dared to raise the issue in the court, and there was no minister of weight.

Before the topic was raised, it was suppressed by the snowstorm in the capital. But it can be seen that Prince An's family is restless, just like the hot oil, the white foam has already appeared, and there is no telling when it will explode.

All the commotion outside has nothing to do with the Prince Jin's Mansion.

After the snow stopped, Prince Jin began to report to the Ministry of Works every day. In his spare time, he drank tea, read books, and taught Yao Niang to practice calligraphy at home, which was quite interesting.

Nowadays, Prince Jin is more and more like a teacher. The first thing he does after returning from duty every day is to check Yao Niang's tracing. He even set a rule that there will be punishments for failure to complete it. This punishment may be a few more large characters, or it may be something else.

At first, Yao Niang just thought he was joking. She was not lazy, but she was not so serious about studying. It was also because Yao Niang seemed to be the mother of two children, but in fact she was not even eighteen years old, and still had the mentality of a child. Many times, she was interested in certain things on a whim. When she was no longer interested, she would turn around and forget about them. However, she would always remember them, but she would inevitably be disturbed by trivial matters.

Especially when the King of Jin was not around, she had to accompany Xiaobao and Erbao. Several maids would come to talk to her, and a day would pass by with them. Today, she always thought about tomorrow, and tomorrow was still tomorrow. Sometimes, she did not finish writing the big characters that the King of Jin assigned her, and when she came back to check, she was punished to write a few more sheets, and she would keep a count. The more she kept a count, the more she kept a count, and she accumulated more than a hundred.

That day, the King of Jin came back from his duty. Yao Niang was playing leaf cards with several maids, and Xiaobao was sitting aside watching.

Since he was back, the leaf cards could not be played naturally. He changed his clothes and came out to ask Yao Niang how many sheets she had written. Yao Niang was guilty and did not dare to speak. The King of Jin ordered Hongchou to take the big characters she had written to see.

Hongchou left hesitantly, and soon came back with a stack of rice paper. It looked like a thick stack, but in fact, only two sheets were written, and only half of one sheet was written. One character was written halfway and then stopped abruptly, obviously because he was interrupted by something and forgot about it.

The face of the King of Jin suddenly turned cold, and several maids were so scared that they lowered their heads and dared not say a word. Yao Niang winked and waved her hand on the edge of her skirt, and the maids retreated one after another.

She smiled brightly and moved lightly to the past, thinking that she could get a smile and coax a few words, but the King of Jin snorted coldly and went out with a cold face. Not long after, he came back with a ruler.

The main room of Rongxi Courtyard was quiet. Several maids stood outside the door, wanting to go in but not daring to. They stood there with their necks hooked, but their ears were perked up to listen to the movement inside.

"Do you think I am just playing with you? If you want to learn, you should be diligent and serious. You coaxed me to teach you, so it was not a joke!"

From then on, Yao Niang realized that King Jin was really not joking with her. Those big characters that were saved must be written, and the punishment must be taken.

Originally, she thought that King Jin was joking with her, but it was just a joke. The key point is that King Jin is too unruly as a teacher. He would have punished her, but he just likes to make some fun.

In the bedroom, he always likes to ask Yao Niang to do some tricks to make up for the number of big characters. Yao Niang will never be serious with him.

Now this guy has turned his face with his pants, Yao Niang is resentful in her heart, and can only blame herself for her bad luck.

Yao Niang still remembers how some students were punished for being disobedient when Su Xiucai was in the school when he was a child. Seeing that Prince Jin was holding a ruler, she timidly and honestly stretched out a hand.

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Prince Jin was so angry that she laughed. Did she really think that he wanted to beat her with the ruler? Then she thought, if he didn't beat her with the ruler, what was he doing with it.

In fact, Prince Jin was also confused by Yao Niang's attitude recently. Although he was taciturn and cold, he was serious about doing things. He was also studying in the upper study room when he was young. Influenced by those university scholars who taught the princes, he thought that it was okay not to learn, and if he had to learn, he should do his best to learn well.

The reason why the King of Jin is both civil and military is precisely related to this effort.

As for the despicable things he did, which misled Yao Niang, he had completely forgotten it at this moment. Even if he hadn't forgotten, he would not admit it.

He glanced at her coldly, "No need to hit her hands, your hands still need to practice calligraphy." Besides, he couldn't bear to do it.

"Then where to hit?" Stupid Yao Niang forgot to observe her expression before speaking, and thought that the King of Jin was serious with her, so she asked honestly.

This is an invisible demonstration to the King of Jin. I know you can't bear to hit me, so we are still playing around.

The King of Jin's eyes moved and glanced at the big kang.

"Climb there."

Huh?

The more surprised she was, the more the King of Jin felt like he was going to move, and his eyes circled around the kang again.

Yao Niang reacted subconsciously and shook her head: "No, Xiaobao is here!"

"He doesn't understand."

By the way, Dad, do you really think I don't understand?

Xiaobao, who didn't understand, seemed to be attracted by Huahua. He turned his head and played with Huahua, "You give me a paw, I give you a paw." Huahua was a smart cat, and she didn't want to show her paws to Xiaobao. She played with Xiaobao with her little paws, but couldn't scratch him.

On the other side, Yao Niang saw that her son couldn't save his mother, and she became anxious immediately. But no one in heaven or on earth could ask her for help, and under the pressure of King Jin, she could only bend down on the kang.

The room was heated by the ground heating, and it was as warm as spring. Yao Niang was already wearing thin clothes.

A water-red jacket with a fitted waist and lilac-colored wide-leg satin pants made her figure look slender and plump. She was obviously the mother of two children, but she didn't look fat at all, except that her breasts were bigger and her hips were rounder than before, and there was no change at all.

At this time, she was lying on the edge of the kang, and from the back she was an amazing arc. Because her hips were round and round, her waist looked even more slender. In fact, the King of Jin also knew how dramatic Yao Niang's waist was, and he could pinch it with one hand.

Yao Niang didn't wear a skirt today, and she was lazy these days. It was cold and no one came, so she preferred to wear loose pants in the room. Because of the arc of leaning down, the satin pants fit her curves, and there was an obvious sunken line in the middle. Especially she seemed a little embarrassed and a little scared, and couldn't help trembling a little, looking like the best water tofu against the light.

The King of Jin's throat was greasy, and he felt that he was asking for trouble, but he didn't forget his dignity as a teacher. He put his hands behind his back and walked forward seriously.

He tried to make himself look normal and said: "Considering that you are a beginner and have poor self-control, you will be fined two feet. But you are not a first-time offender, but you knowingly violated it, so you will be fined three feet."

As he said that, he swung the ruler up.

With a snap, it didn't hurt, but it frightened several people's brows.

Yao Niang looked back at him, her lips trembling. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes were full of the meaning of "you really hit me". This posture and this look made King Jin's eyes darker, and there was a turbulent tide in them.

"I am punishing you."

He was trying to convince her, and also to convince himself, so he heard four consecutive hits, quick and fast, all the sounds of the ruler hitting the skin.

Yao Niang wanted to cry, but before she could cry, King Jin suddenly asked: "What did you learn when you were in elementary school?"

This was too abrupt, Yao Niang was subconsciously stunned for a moment, and answered honestly: "I only learned "Meng Tong Xun" and "Three Character Classic", and then my father didn't want to teach me anymore. Later, "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Classic" were all taught by myself, and I also read some miscellaneous books, which don't count."