Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Chapter 358

The crown princess sent a message to all the officials and officials in Beijing, and wanted to choose a companion for the princess to read.As long as there are girls from five to 15 years old in the family, all the girls' characters must be brought into the palace to participate in the selection of flower fairs accompanied by the princess in the imperial garden.

There are too many people involved in such a project.With the help of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after finally determining the number of people participating in the flower festival, it was decided to divide the flower festival into two days.The Ministry of Etiquette thoughtfully suggested to the East Palace, should it be a day for the family members of honored nobles and one day for the family members of civil officials?

The answer given by the crown princess is that it can be divided into two days, half of each day.

For this matter, Mrs. Shi specially entered the palace and suggested to her daughter.

"Niu Niu, can't you, a nobleman and a civil servant, be separated for a day? Your brother and sister-in-law are all saying at home that they are afraid that girls from noble families will be arrogant, and girls from Qingliu will look down on those from noble families. If there is a fight , you won’t be able to handle it.”

"Whoever dares to fight, let the sage and prince talk to his father."

This... can this matter be done like this?Mrs. Shi choked on her daughter's words.

"Mother, the official's assessment officer, there is still a strict inner curtain. It is the parents' fault if they fail to teach their daughter well."

Mrs. Shi found out that her daughter had become more and more dignified since she gave birth to the grandson of the emperor.Even as a mother, I feel a little scared when I see my own daughter talking this time.

Seeing her mother's expression, Shi Shi couldn't express her actual purpose, so she could only comfort her with nice words.

"Mother, this matter must be arranged in this way. My daughter knows that you are doing it for my own good, but I really can't be honored every day. Don't worry, there are saints and princes supporting me. My daughter has prepared everything When you are ready, the honorable family members and the civil servant family members will break their heads and lose their own face. Neither the saint nor the crown prince will blame their daughter."

Seeing her daughter saying this, Mrs. Shi had no other choice.He only asked his daughter if she wanted to bring all the granddaughters with her.

"Bring all of them. Don't miss one if you are old enough. Wear light clothes, so you can walk easily."

No matter how much, the princess can't say more.She asked someone to bring the little suckling pig and show it to her mother.

Seeing her grandson, Mrs. Shi's heart almost melted.

"The grandson of the emperor looks good, and there are many places like you."

"There are many places like a daughter. The prince often said that his son is like his mother, and he is very lucky." Shi Shi hugged her son and teased him, "Come on, little suckling pig, recognize it. This is your grandmother. It's your grandmother."

Old Mrs. Shi laughed, "He is so young, how can he call people. You have to wait until the birthday is over. At that time, you will call grandma, and it is too early to talk."

The princess only left her nanny to serve her.She put her son into her mother's arms, "Mother, hug him, he is kissing you."

Mrs. Shi carefully hugged her grandson in her arms, her face was full of glory, "Oh, I have lived for decades, and I never thought that I could hold the grandson of the emperor."

Both the Crown Princess and Gu Shi laughed.

Mrs. Gu joked, "Old lady, I have never thought about it. Now it's every day, and I have to hug the emperor's grandson."

"Oh, my good grandson! Whenever, let your mother take you to your grandmother's house for a walk, visit the house, ah."

"Mother, this will have to wait until he grows up, and he will go by himself."

Shi was melancholy, now that she entered the palace, it was hopeless to want to go back to her mother's house.

"How is the crown prince treating you?" Mrs. Shi asked, looking at her daughter's expression.

"Okay, mother, don't worry, the prince is treating me well."

"Then you are?"

"Mother, my daughter just wants to go home and have a look. I'm afraid it's hopeless."

"Alas." Mrs. Shi was also depressed when she heard her daughter say that. "You will be fine in the palace. Even if you don't go home, mother will be at ease. In a few days, I will ask your sisters-in-law and your nieces to bring in, and you can meet again."

Shi Shi nodded, that's all he could do.

"Niu Niu, don't miss it. There are those who married recently, but later followed their husbands and became officials all over the world. They didn't see their natal family for many years. I still want to see you here, just I can see you. Even if you marry into a similar family in Beijing, if your mother still wants to see you, why not come to the house?!"

Shi Shi smiled, yes, there is no queen in the palace, and he is in charge of the palace affairs by himself, which is really more comfortable than marrying an ordinary family in Beijing.

Mrs. Shi was in the East Palace, and Mrs. Shi, who was visiting her, hugged the little suckling pig and laughed at Yan Yan.As for Zhang Zan of Yushitai, the corners of his mouth were already blistered with worry, and his throat was red and swollen from being angry.

Zhang Zan didn't know what to do.He was serious, but not pedantic.Since the prince told him that footbinding would restrict women's movement, etc., he told his mother about it when he got home.

Mrs. Zhang understood, she regretted it, and cried that she had harmed her daughter.She made a statement on the spot, and tomorrow she will post a post to Rongguo Mansion to tell her daughter to let go.

After the eldest son left, Mrs. Zhang cried for half the night again.When Zhang Ying returned to her room, she saw that her wife's eyes were red and swollen from crying, so she couldn't help asking.

"What's the matter? It's a girl, so what happened?"

Except for the daughter, the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law in the family, even the second son and his wife are also quasi-adults, and there is no one in the family who can make the old wife sad.

"Master Xiang, back then I asked Zhen'er to bind her feet, but now I see that I made a big mistake."

Mrs. Zhang wiped away her tears and continued: "The crown prince and Zan'er said that for the good of our daughter. As a mother, I will go to Rongguo Mansion tomorrow to give the girl a foot."

"Well, let's go."

Zhang Ying has always only cared about his son's study, and left all other housework to his wife.As for the daughter, she completely let go of her to his wife.He had an objection to binding women's feet.A good natural foot can walk freely, but it is considered beautiful if it is forced into a pointed look? !

I didn't see anyone whose ears were a little bigger, so they cut off a piece.

Zhang Zan solved the matter of letting his mother put his sister's feet.But the matter that the crown prince entrusted to him was completely at a loss, and he had no way of doing it.

No?Ok?Certainly not.

If the crown prince dared to come to him, it was the sage who agreed.He was so suffocated that he got angry for three days, and he couldn't think of a way.

Zhang Ying saw that the eldest son, who had always had his own ideas since he was a child, and who had always been prudent, now had a difficult look of finding no way out. She endured it for three or four days, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and called Zhang Zan to the study.

"Zan'er, tell me what's going on, it makes it hard for you to do this."

"Father, the prince visited his son a few days ago, and asked him to ask men who like footbinding, what's so good about footbinding? Also, anyone who thinks footbinding is good can write books in various forms such as poems and fu. The prince will choose the best ones. whoever, shall be rewarded."

Zhang Ying frowned, giving a reward?He heard from his old wife that it was the prince's idea to let his daughter go.

"Tell me, what else?"

With a bitter face, Zhang Zan said to his father with difficulty: "The prince said, he said, the reward is to reward the well-written poems and fus, and share the benefits of footbinding with the woman. And let the son not tell it."

Zhang Ying laughed, and Zhang Zan stared blankly at his father.He soon discovered that his father was really smiling, the kind of laughter that came out of his heart, and he was really happy.

"Father? Are you still laughing?! The prince is obviously trying to dig a hole and frame someone! You..."

The old father was happy, and Zhang Zan didn't want to spoil his father's interest.Only after my father had laughed enough and finished laughing did he ask cautiously.

"Zan'er, my father has taught the crown prince and Enhou for many years. When they were young, my father thought they were pure-minded, the heart of a child. But in the past few years, my father has been worrying day and night. Such a pure-minded person In the future, he will not be able to ascend the throne and become a saint; such a pure person will not be able to deal with those old and cunning people in the courtiers. Fortunately, the prince got married a few years later, and let him watch politics in the court for a few years. Looking at it now Come on, the prince is no longer the ruler of the original pure mind. Good, good, good!"

Zhang Ying praised three times.

"Zan'er, you have to have a plan to be able to sit in that position. But the emperor's mental skills can only be taught by a sage. As a father, if you teach the prince more scheming, if the prince uses it on the sage, As a father alone, death is not a pity, but I am afraid that the whole family will be affected."

Zhang Zan listened silently.

"Zan'er, it's not bad that you have the temperament to go to Yushitai. But father thought that you would choose to go to Imperial Academy."

"Father, my son wants to do something practical."

"I understand, I understand. The Ministry of Households is doing practical things, the Ministry of Industry is also doing practical things, and there is also the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Why don't you go?"

"The prince also said that his son should go to the Ministry of Punishment."

"The crown prince has spoken, so you should go to the Ministry of Punishment. First understand Yushitai, and then go to the Ministry of Punishment."

"Yes, my son understands."

Zhang Zan knew that the prince's words meant that he should go to the Ministry of Punishment.

"Then what are you going to do with the matter that the crown prince entrusted to you?" Zhang Ying stroked her long beard and asked her son.

"Father, my son can't figure it out." Zhang Zan asked his father for help.

"Go to the Ministry of Rites, the Hanlin Academy, and the Imperial College, and ask for the poems and prose that the prince wants. Then secretly disclose the fact that the prince asked your sister to let her go."

"Father, this involves my sister's reputation."

Zhang Ying hated that iron could not be made into steel, so he hit his son. "Time, you have to grasp the timing of the disclosure. The Crown Princess invites all the family members of officials and eunuchs into the palace, and then you think about your sister's matter together."

Zhang Zan looked up for a moment, "Father, the prince and his wife are going to make a fuss about those female relatives?"

"Yes. Girls from honorable families basically don't have their feet bound. Girls from aristocratic families basically have their feet bound. It's a pity that our family doesn't have girls of the right age, otherwise we can let them enter the palace to find out."

Zhang Zan's daughter is not yet five years old, so she is not eligible to enter the palace.Therefore, this time, the female family members of the Zhang family do not need to enter the palace.

"Father, my son understands."

"It's good to understand. You have to do what the prince told you. It's only been a few years since you became an official for your father. You have fallen into the eyes of the prince. When you rush up, you will be able to serve your father." You can go home and rest."

Zhang Ying closed her eyes and stroked her forehead wearily. Although her son is the number one scholar, it is because he spends too much time studying and is not as flexible as his second child, Zhang Yu.Forget it, if the boss is flexible, he won't be the champion.