Volume 1 Princess Taiping Grows Up Chapter 51: Night Tour of Kyushu Pond
Wu Zetian, who was sitting behind the desk, thought for a moment and said, "This jingle is easy to remember and is suitable for children's enlightenment."
Li Zhi nodded and spun the health ball in his hand a few times: "Mei Niang and I have the same idea."
Li Yuechen pretended not to understand what they were talking about. Seeing that the tea next to them had already boiled, he poured a cup for each of them.
Li Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Chen'er, since Shangguan Wan'er is editing the book with you, how about I let her be your real companion?"
"Great!" Li Yuechen clapped her hands to express her congratulations. "She is the same age as the child, and we have a lot of fun playing together!"
Wu Zetian next to her didn't say anything and had no objection to it.
Li Zhi nodded, called Zhang Chengxin, drafted an imperial edict, and asked Li Yuechen to take it back later.
After playing with his parents for a while, Li Yuechen took the imperial edict and turned around to leave.
After Li Yuechen left, Li Zhi, who was sitting on the recliner, grinned and said, "I didn't expect that this Hundred Family Names could solve the problem of dissemination invisibly."
"Yes." Wu Zetian nodded with a smile, "It's simple and catchy, and much easier to spread than the "Clan Records"."
At this point, she suddenly shook her head again: "But I always feel that... Chen'er has always had little interest in literature. How could he write such an article suitable for enlightenment?"
"Heh..." Li Zhi suddenly grinned, "Didn't they say that the first part was written by her, and the second part was written by Shangguan Wan'er? In my opinion... it's hard to say how far back this 'first part' refers to!"
Wu Zetian thought about it and sat down next to Li Zhi: "No wonder Zhinu let Shangguan Wan'er be her study partner. With such a talented woman by her side, it would be good if Chen'er could control his temper."
Li Zhi opened the folded scroll in his hand again and began to read: "Come to think of it, Chen'er's handwriting is almost mature. I should take this manuscript to the court to show them."
"This seems a little inappropriate, right?" Wu Zetian was a little worried. "Chen'er's handwriting is not mainstream. If it causes criticism from them..."
"Hmph! What qualifications do they have to criticize my daughter!" Li Zhi put down the scroll in his hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip.
Wu Zetian thought about it and realized it made sense, so she stopped talking.
…
On the other side, Li Yuechen returned to Anfu Hall and saw Shangguan Wan'er sitting at the table with Zheng, writing something.
Li Yuechen raised the imperial edict in his hand and called out, "Zheng, bring Wan'er over here."
When Zheng saw what Li Yuechen was doing, she quickly pulled Shangguan Wan'er over and made her kneel down.
Who knew that Li Yuechen didn't read it at all, but put the imperial edict in her hand: "From today on, Wan'er will be my study partner."
“…”
Zheng didn't react at first, and he put it in her hand without saying anything.
But then she immediately said, "Thank you!"
"No need to be polite." Li Yuechen waved his hand and left.
After Zheng opened the imperial edict and quickly read it, she hugged her daughter next to her and said, "Okay, okay..."
"Mother..." Shangguan Wan'er didn't know what had happened to her mother and asked with some confusion.
Zheng touched her head and whispered to herself, "In the future, you must accompany the princess wholeheartedly. His Highness seems to like playing with you very much. If you can build a good relationship with His Highness in the future, this deep palace will not be able to trap you."
Li Yuechen had just returned to the inner hall and lay down when he suddenly thought of a question.
Now that the Hundred Family Surnames have appeared from my hands, what will happen to the original author?
But then he shook his head and stopped thinking about it. If we really talk about the butterfly effect, history had already begun to change from the moment he made the health ball.
After touching the loose second tooth, Li Yuechen decided to just live her life well.
As for the rest of the shit, I won’t live to see that time anyway, so who cares!
…
A few days later, it was another day for court.
Li Yuechen did not come to listen to the news today, but practiced martial arts in Anfu Temple.
After listening to the court report, Li Zhi, who was sitting on the dragon chair, took out the sutra written by Li Yuechen and said, "Some time ago, Taiping wrote a jingle about the Hundred Family Names. I feel that this article is very suitable for children's enlightenment. Now I invite you to appreciate it."
As he said this, he handed the sutra scroll in his hand to Zhang Chengxin and asked him to take it down and show it to the ministers.
Zhang Chengxin came before the ministers and with a pull of his hands, he completely opened the folded scroll for the ministers to see.
The first thing that catches your eye is the sharp font that looks like a knife edge.
This font, which was completely inconsistent with the current mainstream, immediately made a group of ministers want to curse.
So what if it's beautifully written? Calligraphy has always been about roundness. What do you want to do with such a sharp font?
But if you think about it carefully, this is the handwriting of the emperor's daughter. Her father didn't say anything, and he has no right to teach the princess a lesson.
So I suppressed my anger and started reading.
To put it bluntly, Hundred Family Surnames is not an article with profound meaning. In the final analysis, it is really just a jingle.
However, these ministers saw something different.
The surnames of the emperor and empress ranked first and second, while the surnames of the aristocratic families were basically ranked at the end.
The main article is not long, just a few hundred words in total, and it takes only a short while to finish reading it.
Lu Chen was the first to speak up: "May I ask Your Majesty why my Lu family is ranked so far down? Is it to suppress my Lu family?"
Li Zhi smiled as he held the health ball in his hand, "How old is the princess now? Don't you know? You're talking about suppression, but it's just for the sake of rhyme!"
“But…but this…”
Li Zhi made her speechless. The emperor had already said so, and if she continued to insist on it, it would be tantamount to taking her anger out on the princess.
Let’s not talk about whether it’s a good thing for an adult to fight with a little girl of six or seven years old. After all, children speak without restraint, and it will definitely be embarrassing.
And what qualifications do you have to vent your anger on the emperor's daughter? Even though those old guys in the Censorate dared to criticize the emperor, they definitely didn't dare to criticize the emperor's daughter!
Besides, she is a princess, so there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with putting her parents, master and grandmother's surnames in front. On the contrary, it should be a manifestation of filial piety!
In the end, although many ministers were dissatisfied, no one said anything.
Li Zhi was very satisfied with this situation. He was in a good mood and the smile on his face was brighter than usual.
After retiring from court, the smile on his face remained as he left side by side with Wu Zetian.
Seeing him so happy, Wu Zetian couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle.
…
The weather has entered the end of May and it has become unbearably hot.
After all, if we follow the future Gregorian calendar, it is almost August now.
In this kind of weather, wearing long sleeves and long pants every day was a little unbearable for Li Yuechen.
My greatest joy every day is lying on the floor in a spread-eagle position, which is a little cooler, but I have to change positions after a while.
Or you can run to Linbo Pavilion at dusk when the sun is almost setting, soak your feet in the pool and play in the water.
Shangguan Wan'er and her two sisters would play like this with her almost every night, which did help to cool her down.
The only good thing about this era is that the aromatherapy industry is developing very well. You don’t have to worry about mosquitoes when you light incense at night, and the smell is quite good.
Especially the silver sachet, when you wear it on your body, there is a scent of incense wherever you go.
In recent days, Li Zhi would take Wu Zetian for a stroll in the Yaoguang Palace every night, enjoying the scenery and feeling the evening breeze blowing from the Jiuzhou Pond.
Li Yuechen would often bring her two sisters over to play with them and enjoy the cool air.
That night, the family played shuttlecock on the platform of Yaoguang Hall, enjoying the evening breeze.
Li Zhi's health has recovered well recently. He tied up the hem of his clothes and had a lot of fun playing with his family.
Princess Yi Yang kicked the shuttlecock over, and Li Zhi imitated the move his daughter had once demonstrated and kicked it out with a big flower.
As a result, he obviously used too much force and the shuttlecock got stuck directly on the beam.
"Mistake, mistake..."
Li Zhi smiled and waved his hand, asking the eunuch next to him to take it down.
The eunuch was not tall, so he had to step on the fence and grab the pillars to get it.
The fence was made of wood and painted red. Probably because he didn't step firmly, his foot slipped and he fell directly down.
“Ah—plop!”
At the sound of an incomplete scream and something heavy falling into the water, everyone on the platform came over to the fence and looked down.
Li Yuechen instinctively felt that something was wrong. The foundation of the Yaoguang Palace was very high, nearly ten meters. Falling from this height would be dangerous even if it fell into the water.
When they came to the fence and looked down, they saw the eunuch in the pool below struggling with his arms, his head looming above the water, and it was obvious that he could not swim.
Li Zhi immediately turned his head and said, "Someone who can swim, go and save them!"
The palace maids and eunuchs nearby all took a step back. In this era, people who did not live near rivers or the sea were basically landlubbers.
Li Yuechen felt helpless as she took off her shoes. How stupid of her to let them fall.
Wu Zetian saw her movements and immediately shouted, "What are you doing, you little bitch?"
As Li Yuechen shouted, he trotted over before Li Zhi could even shout.
Li Yuechen's white and tender little feet stepped on the fence, and then she turned in the air, made a beautiful turn, and then dived down headfirst.
She had already inquired about it when she came to Dongdu. The depth of the middle of Jiuzhou Pool is about ten feet, so this height is no problem.
When Li Zhi and the others came to the fence and looked down, Li Yuechen had already dived straight into the water, making incredibly small splashes.
In less than five seconds, everyone saw Li Yuechen appear from behind the struggling eunuch, put one arm around his neck, and swim backwards towards the shore with the other hand.
The eunuch was held around the neck by Li Yuechen's thin arms. He felt very tired and subconsciously raised his hand to grab her arm and tried to pull it apart.
However, he found that although the arm was slender, it was extremely strong. He was unable to pull it open and could only cough continuously because of the strangulation.
Li Zhi and others hurriedly got down from the side and trotted to the shore.
Several eunuchs and palace maids quickly jumped into the water and helped Li Yuechen, who had already swam to the shore, to pull up the eunuch who was about to be strangled to death.
Li Yuechen shook her wet hands and pushed her messy hair behind her head. It felt so damn cool!
"You damn girl!" Wu Zetian walked over quickly, looking like she was about to take action. "You dare to do anything, right?"
“Don’t hit me, don’t hit me…” Li Yuechen turned around and jumped back into the deep water, “Mother, if you hurt the child, no one will care about you anymore.”
"You stupid girl! Come up here!" Wu Zetian roared.
Li Zhi waved his hands: "Alright, alright, Chen'er, isn't this okay? Alright, Chen'er, come up quickly!"
Li Yuechen then swam up slowly again. Just as Wu Zetian was about to come over, she was stopped by Li Zhi.
He squatted down and asked, "Chen'er, how do you know the nature of water?"
"This... the weather is hot, just go play in the water more often." Li Yuechen explained casually, "Besides, grandpa, it's really cool to soak in the water in the summer!"
"You, don't be so reckless next time! Do you hear me?" Li Zhi scolded.
"Yes, but parents don't have to worry since they know that I can swim." Li Yuechen replied.
Wu Zetian said gloomily: "You silly girl, you jumped down without making any noise. You want to scare me to death, right?"
"I didn't mean it." Li Yuechen came up to her and explained with a smile, "It's mainly because if he drowned, it would be a disgrace to the royal family!"
At this time, the rescued eunuch also recovered.
He took two steps forward, knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Highness, for saving my life! Thank you, Your Highness, for saving my life..."
"Alright, alright, get up!"
Li Yuechen was really not used to others kowtowing to him, so he waved his hand and said, "Go back and change your clothes, or you'll catch a cold!"
"You still have time to care about others?" Wu Zetian yelled, "Look at yourself!"
"Don't worry, mother. I'm strong and won't catch a cold." As he said this, Li Yuechen raised his arms and showed off his biceps.
After all, I have been exercising hard every day for so many years, and I have eaten a lot of meat and fish every day, so I have enough nutrition.
If this can't make your body fit, just find a white silk and hang yourself on a tree in the southeast.
"Yeah." Li Zhi nodded, "If you know how to swim, it would be nice to be able to swim in this pool in the summer!"
"Your Majesty!" Wu Zetian reminded with a stern face.
Li Yuechen struck while the iron was hot: "Grandpa and Mom, why don't I teach you two how to swim? It's very cool!"
"Huh?" Wu Zetian was suddenly stunned. Why did this damn girl keep coming up with one thing after another? She was just teaching her a lesson, and she even wanted to teach her how to play in the water.
However, Li Zhi looked thoughtful. After all, it was really hard to live in the summer without electric fans and air conditioners.
Seeing that he was actually thinking, Wu Zetian felt that this father and daughter were hopeless.
"That makes sense. We should definitely try it ." Li Zhi nodded.
Li Yuechen jumped twice on the spot: "Okay, I will ask the Clothing Bureau to make a swimsuit tomorrow."
"What is this swimsuit?" Li Zhi asked.
"The clothes you two adults are wearing are too complicated and not suitable for swimming. I will ask the Clothing Bureau to make some clothes that are convenient for swimming." Li Yuechen said with a smile.
"Okay, then I'll wait and see!" Li Zhi said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, you..."
Li Zhi waved his hand: "It's okay, let's try it first!"
In the end, Wu Zetian just sighed and said nothing.
"Okay, it's getting late. Chen'er, go back and take a shower, change clothes, and rest early."
With Li Zhi's order, tonight's activities came to an end.
