Chapter Seventy-Five: The Concubine Bows
When I returned to the palace, all my daily life had to be restored, first of all, I went to the Wenhua Hall to study.
Zhu Cihong has delayed a lot of classes in the past two months because of his orders to pacify the people and go out of the city to fight, even though he has studied a lot beyond the curriculum, but Emperor Chongzhen still ordered the resumption of daily teaching in the Wenhua Palace.
The Wenhua Palace is still in the southernmost part of the Forbidden City, not far from the Noon Gate, and the Zhongcui Palace is equivalent to the northernmost part of the Forbidden City, with a difference of more than 700 meters between the two places, and Zhu Cihong has to delay for an hour every time he goes back and forth.
The holy will was difficult to violate, he had to go, and after cleaning up for a while, Zhu Cihong took Wu Zhong and Qiu Zhizhong to Wenhua Palace.
As soon as I stepped out of the gate of Zhongcui Palace, I heard a crisp laugh coming from the south courtyard wall.
Zhu Cihong was curious and said, "Who is laughing?" ”
Wu Zhong replied: "Back to the master, it should be Tian Guifei of Chengqian Palace." ”
"Oh, it turned out to be her ......"
Zhu Cihong has long heard of the name of Tian Guifei, she is the same as Queen Zhou is the old person of Xinwangfu, Emperor Chongzhen canonized her as a concubine after ascending the throne, and changed the name of Yongning Palace to Chengqian Palace for her to live, just next to the Qianqing Palace, it can be seen that Emperor Chongzhen favored her.
However, Zhu Cihong has never seen her, but I heard that she looks very standard, and she is especially good at music.
Tian Guifei's piano skills are very workmany, tuning the strings and rhyme, playing a high rhyme, suddenly the tartar is like playing a big music, and suddenly it is as thin as a whining sheng reed. At the end of the day, the aftermath lingered, and the beams did not disperse, and Zhu Cihong, who was outside the wall, sometimes couldn't help but sigh.
Although she was often heard playing the piano, Zhu Cihong had never seen this legendary concubine who was only separated by a wall. The rules in the palace are very strict, and he basically can't see the concubine on weekdays, let alone have a chance to meet the concubine.
"Let's go!" After listening for a while, Zhu Cihong left with the two eunuchs, and no matter how much the concubine was, it would not be his turn to put his beak.
As soon as I got out of Zhongcui Palace, walking in the alley to Wenhua Palace, suddenly a spherical thing flew out of Chengqian Palace, hit the palace wall, and almost hit Zhu Cihong after rebounding back.
The spherical object rolled to Zhu Cihong's feet in the middle after colliding with the palace wall twice, Zhu Cihong looked at it, this thing was wrapped in leather, and there seemed to be stuffing inside, he picked it up and pinched it, feeling that it should be something like rice bran.
"Isn't it just a football?" Zhu Cihong was curious, looking back and forth at the "football" in his hand.
Seeing that the young master was almost injured, Wu Zhongden shouted: "Who lost the juju?" Almost injured His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! ”
Just as Zhu Cihong was studying this "football", a gorgeously dressed beauty and several palace maids came running in the alley, and the girls were looking at Zhu Cihong with a bow in their hands in surprise.
Although the person at the head is a woman, she is actually in her twenties, she is tall, with rich flesh and bones, and although she is dressed in an emerald green palace dress, it is still difficult to hide her concave and convex curves.
When the beautiful woman approached, Zhu Cihong saw his face clearly, she had a charming appearance, a straight nose, bright phoenix eyes, and a unique temperament.
Seeing the beautiful woman at the head coming forward, Wu Zhong immediately saluted and said, "The slave has seen the noble concubine!" ”
Zhu Cihong stared at the gorgeously dressed beautiful woman for a few moments, and said in her heart, it turns out that this is Tian Guifei? It's so good-looking! The face is completely without any makeup, and the whole is naturally plain.
Although he was amazed by the beauty of Tian Guifei in his heart, it was impossible for him to look at the emperor's concubine, not to mention that the rules in the palace were very strict, and he was not allowed to look at the concubine, and the most important thing was that his small body was not allowed.
Zhu Cihong has grown so big, and he has only seen three women in the palace (except for the palace maid), the first is Concubine Liu, the concubine of Emperor Wanli, who is over eighty years old this year, the second is Empress Yi'an, the empress of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the third is his old lady, Empress Zhou.
The first two are respected elders, Empress Zhou has taken him to visit him a few times before, but for the other two wives of Emperor Chongzhen, Tian Guifei and Yuan Huang Guifei, Zhu Cihong has never seen them.
This Tian Guifei is the fourth woman he has ever seen, Zhu Cihong didn't dare to look at it, so he had to bow his head and bow slightly: "Cihong has seen the noble concubine." ”
The most important thing in classical China is filial piety, whether the other party is the biological mother or not, as long as it is the father's woman, it is part of filial piety to meet each other on weekdays.
Tian Guifei also bowed slightly, and replied: "I have seen the prince, the palace is just bowing, unfortunately flew out of the palace wall, disturbed the prince, and I hope the prince will forgive me." ”
The status of the crown prince is extremely noble, if it is not in the palace, when attending the state ceremony outside, the concubine has to salute the crown prince first.
Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "The noble concubine is serious, and Cihong is fine. ”
Zhu Cihong gave the juju to Wu Zhong, and then asked Wu Zhong to hand it to the palace maid beside Tian Guifei.
Tian Guifei glanced at Zhu Cihong seriously, surprised at his demeanor, and then stopped staying, and walked away with a slight bow, returning to Chengqian Palace.
Zhu Cihong said curiously: "The concubine will still kick the bow?" ”
Wu Zhong said with a smile: "I don't know, the concubine Niangniang not only can bow, but also good at riding and shooting, the slave maid heard that the concubine Niangniang can stand on the horse pedal with one foot, and wear Yang in a hundred steps, that is, the brocade guards can't help but cheer, and the juju is the mother's specialty, the mother can bow on the horse, the return strategy is like a lingering, the famous ride is unsurpassed, His Majesty praised the concubine's demeanor Anya, the crowd can not reach, if the gallop field, the women will not let the eyebrows. ”
"Playing football can still go to the battlefield, what about calves......." Zhu Cihong muttered.
This Tian Guifei is versatile, both civil and military, it is really amazing, she is a cheap father, there are not many women, but all of them are superb, whether it is appearance or talent, they are all a must.
Zhu Cihong suddenly asked: "My fourth brother Cihong's biological mother is her, right?" ”
Wu Zhong didn't understand what the crown prince meant, but he still replied seriously: "Yes, young master, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince is the ..... from the Chengqian Palace."
Zhu Cihong just asked casually, he seemed to have seen the content of the fourth prince Zhu Cizhi in the book of later generations, Yongwang Zhu Cizhi, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, lived in seclusion among the people, at the age of seventy-five, in the forty-seventh year of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi (1708) in Wenshang County, Shandong Province for the Qing court, the whole family was beheaded.
This old brother was originally well hidden, and he also changed his name to Wang, and when he gave his own children, he had to start according to the royal generation, and he also liked to add the five elements unique to the Ming royal family, which attracted the attention of others.
Zhu Cihong stopped talking and took Wu Zhong all the way to the side hall of Wenhua Palace.
Today's lecturer is Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Mr. Jiang's class is really bad, but his writing is a mess.
This Mr. Jiang's calligraphy has reached the best state of hand, his characters not only have the righteousness, Zhong Xuan, Suo Jing, Huangxiang and other people Wei and Jin Dynasty romance, but also have the dignified and round strength of Yu Suiliang, Yang Ning's tolerant and empty style.
There is even Sun Guoting's Hui Hui Disc Song, Huang Tingjian's thin and graceful, and Zhao Mengfu's beautiful and demure style.
One person blends the style of several people into a point, between the dot paintings, fine to the beautiful, the strokes roll, the return is free, the posture is changeable, and it is quite interesting.
Zhu Cihong was in Jiang Fengyuan's class, half of the time listening to the class, half of the time practicing calligraphy, Jiang Fengyuan also liked to hear it.
The crown prince is very intelligent, he understands what he says, and saves a lot of time, which is used to practice calligraphy and learn his own calligraphy style, which is very good.