When Xiao Min found out that he couldn't break away from Lu Bingzhen no matter what, he was in disbelief at first, then shocked and furious. "You dog slaves, come here and pull this crazy girl away, otherwise this prince will be injured and your father, the emperor, and the empress will kill you."
Hearing such a threat, a group of attendants became hesitant. His Highness the Crown Prince was their master and the one they relied on for survival. But this ninth lady of the Lu family is also of noble birth, and can decide the life of the palace servant at will.
For the palace attendant, this ninth lady is also a being who cannot be offended.
What's more, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not designate the person to climb the tree to get the kite just now. In other words, stopping the ninth lady of the Lu family now means that His Highness the Crown Prince will still order them to climb a tree, and climbing a tree may really cost one's life.
The palace attendant brothers who can serve His Royal Highness are all human beings, and they can figure out the joints with just a little thought. They pretended to be diligent in persuading Madam Lu Jiu to let go so as not to blame His Highness the Crown Prince, but there was no movement on their hands.
In this way, Lu Bingzhen successfully dragged Xiao Min to the third floor of the side hall Nuan Pavilion. From here, it was seen that the kite was still some distance away.
The kite was actually higher up.
Xiao Min still kept shouting and even started making various threats. Lu Bingzhen remained unmoved and kicked down the fence on the third floor of Nuange.
Now several feet high in the sky were directly exposed in front of Lu Bingzhen and Prince Xiao Min. Without the fence, it seemed that the Nuan Pavilion was invisibly higher.
Xiao Min, who had been shouting, became silent for a moment, but Lu Bingzhen was still dragging him to the edge of Nuan Pavilion.
It wasn't until Lu Bingzhen felt Wei Wei's trembling coming from Xiao Min's hand that he stopped, "If you want them to climb a tree to pick up a kite, then they have to pick up the kite from a tree branch higher than this Nuan Pavilion. The risk here is, Far better than you and me standing on the edge of the thermal pavilion."
"Human life is precious, how can it be sacrificed for such fun?" Xiao Min was naturally unconvinced by these righteous words, but Lu Bingzhen was also very patient and refused to let him go, until Xiao Min finally After reluctantly compromising and no longer ordering the palace attendants to fetch the kite, Lu Bingzhen finally let her go.
But Xiao Min still glared at Lu Bingzhen hatefully before running away, as if to say, "Just wait, sooner or later I will make you regret treating me like this."
Facing all this, Lu Bingzhen was completely unmoved. Xiao Min seemed to be younger and more childish than her, which made Xiao Min even more angry. Because of this, Xiao Min was so angry that he tore off Lu Bingzhen's jade pendant.
Lu Bingzhen's memory of this matter ended here, but for the other party involved, it was far from the case.
After this incident, Xiao Min began to pay special attention to the ninth lady of the Lu family. His original intention was to think that the ninth lady of the Lu family was different from him. They were not all standing at the pinnacle of the empire's power and enjoying the life of a group of common people who would never be able to stand up and work for them until death.
It's just that between the two of them, one of them is still wearing the skin of family etiquette.
With this idea in mind, Xiao Min secretly began to pay attention to Lu Bingzhen, who was traveling with his parents to various places.
However, as Xiao Min got to know Lu Bingzhen more and more, he saw her helping victims with her parents after the disaster, rescuing abducted children, sponsoring students to enter school, and even setting up volunteer schools wherever she went. Although all of this was in the name of her mother, Li. Down.
But Xiao Min gradually grew into a prince who was strategizing and difficult to distinguish between joy and anger. Naturally, he could tell which of them were Lu Bingzhen's handiwork.
Especially before entering Beijing, Xiao Min was particularly impressed by the Changping warehouse that Lu Bingzhen set up in Lingzhou.
Changpingcang purchases large amounts of rice grains in years with good harvests to prevent local rice prices from falling due to a large influx of rice grains into the market, thereby avoiding low prices and hurting farmers, and at the same time storing large amounts of grains.
In years with poor rice harvests, Changpingcang sold large quantities of stored rice to avoid starvation due to insufficient rice supply and to stabilize rice prices.
This matter is easy to say, but it is rare to find people with such a mind, and even have such amazing wisdom to come up with such a method.
With such years of attention, to Xiao Min, Lu Bingzhen seems to be a close friend who has known him for many years. In this process, he gradually fell and surrendered to Lu Bingzhen.
But all this is just an illusion that only exists in Xiao Min's heart. Lu Bingzhen never knew Xiao Min's attention and even love from the beginning to the end.
What's even more cruel is that the aristocratic family has a custom of never marrying a girl into the East Palace. Xiao Min could only hold on to such hopeless secret love and extend an olive branch to Lu Bingzhen, but there was no response.
In the Lu family, after the Lantern Festival is over, all the young men and young ladies will naturally go to school to study. As the aristocratic family atmosphere developed, men and women read almost the same books, and there was no particular emphasis on the protection of men and women. It was just a pity that women could not take the imperial examinations when they read the same books.
Since the establishment of the New Dynasty, the imperial examination system has replaced the imperial examination system and become the main way for scholars to seek official positions. Although there are other tributaries of Yin Guan, the overall number is very small.
The Lu Family School is famous throughout the capital and even around the world. It not only has various collections of books and classics passed down by the Lu family for hundreds of years, but also invites famous teachers from all over the country to give lectures to the children of the family. Almost all men who have studied in the Lu family school can be named on the gold list.
However, not every husband can enter the Lu family's school. As a century-old family, the Lu family has its own pride.
As a result, in the past few years, the dignitaries in Beijing have followed suit and opened private schools. Although they are not as famous as the Lu family's private schools, they have also cultivated many Jinke scholars by being willing to spend money and people.
The girls' school is here for the many young ladies of the Lu family to learn various classics and housekeeping duties. It also accepts some young ladies from aristocratic families who have good relations with the Lu family. Occasionally, the daughters of powerful people came to study at the girls' school, but the number was very small.
However, Lu Binghui did not appear in the girls' school. She was currently studying with her two great-aunts, and Aunt Xu was never far away from her. She was a little tired of having to reason with her every day, but she was afraid of what her grandfather said that day, fearing that she would be sent away to get married at will.
After all, she was his own granddaughter. Under Lu Qi's persuasion, Lu Zhi temporarily suppressed the idea of marrying Lu Binghui directly.
Lu Qi and his wife were concerned that Lu Binghui was still a young lady and had a thin skin. They only told the outside world that it was because Lu Binghui was the eldest in the family and had to learn various things about housekeeping and management that they stopped going to a girls' school.
What she doesn't know is that the life she is tired of now is the last glimmer of hope that Li is fighting for her. In such an era, if Lu Binghui was abandoned by her family, her life would definitely be millions of times more difficult than it is now.
In Lu Bingzhen's eyes, life in the boudoir is as ordinary as running water.
When she gets up at the beginning of every day, Cai Bing and Rong Xue have already burned a charcoal pot in the house, keeping the whole house warm. She only needs to wash up and put on makeup under the service of Rong Xue and a group of maids, and then put on homely clothes. of clothing.
After that, Lu Bingzhen would lead the maids to greet Lu Qi and his wife. Most of the time, Lu Qi and his wife would stay with them to have breakfast together. After breakfast, because the weather has been cold recently, Mrs. Li specially ordered her servants to prepare warm sedans for all the ladies.
The servants carried Lu Bingzhen, Liu Niang and Qiniang to the girls' school in a warm sedan chair.
The teacher of the girls' school is Li's aunt from her mother's family. This lady surnamed Li was widowed after getting married in her early years. After being granted imperial edict, she did not want to remarry, so she spent her free time teaching young ladies in the girls' school.
Because of her outstanding literary talent and good knowledge, many people want to invite her to teach. She was able to come to the Lu's girls' school because she and the Li family came from the same family in Longxi. Because they were all relatives, she turned down many invitations and made a special trip to Beijing to attend the Lu's girls' school.
In the girls' school, most of the morning lectures were on various classical and historical poems. Mrs. Li would also talk about her experiences and insights when traveling with her husband to various places, so that the young ladies would have some understanding of life outside.
Lunch was a meal specially delivered from the kitchen at home. Mrs. Li had a separate meal, and the three ladies ate at the same table. No words are spoken when eating, and no words are spoken when sleeping. Most of the time this time is silent.
After the meal, Mrs. Li and her ladies would arrange flowers and order tea. Sometimes when the weather was nice, she would ride horses and throw pots.
Among these subjects, the one that interests Lu Bingzhen the most is arithmetic. At first, Lu Bingzhen only did the accounting by himself and helped his father calculate the number of acres. Later, she gradually started to get into contact with pure arithmetic. Recently, she has been asking Mrs. Li about the nine chapters of arithmetic.
Ladies have two days off every ten days, but these two days are not a complete rest.
Li would teach Lu Bingzhen all kinds of housekeeping and management matters. Since she had to trouble her two great-aunts to teach Lu Binghui, Liu Niang and Qiniang also learned housekeeping and management from Li.
Ms. Li gradually discovered that her daughter was best at settling accounts, and no one could fool her about money matters. When encountering various difficult things, you can immediately understand the priorities.
However, Ah Rui is also very bad at dealing with people, such as how to arrange the seats for guests, how to send congratulatory gifts, how to arrange banquet dishes, and so on.
As for Liu Niang and Qiniang, they are exactly the opposite of A Rui. Probably thanks to their wise grandmother, the two young ladies are very familiar with human relations, and sometimes they can even guide A Rui.
Liu Niang has a lively temperament, while Qi Niang has a reserved temperament, but they are both open-minded and generous. The two of them would neither laugh at A Rui's unfamiliarity in dealing with people, nor be jealous of A Rui's agility in managing accounts.
Originally, it was just for the sake of relatives to take care of the two young ladies, but now the temperament of the two really makes Li feel a little like it, and she is even ready to ask her mother-in-law to take good care of the two young ladies. Choose a good husband with your eyes.
When Mrs. Li revealed this meaning to her two great-aunts and uncles, the two old men were naturally extremely grateful. With the help of Aunt Li, Liu Niang and Qiniang can naturally marry into better families.
You should know that the Lu family of Fan Yang is also divided into main branch and side branch. The main branches and side branches may not necessarily refer to blood relations, but mostly refer to power. For example, Lu Qi's branch, the Four Generations and Three Dukes, is naturally the undoubted main branch.
Today's patriarch Lu Zhi is Lu Qi's father. He was not the eldest son back then, but the second son in the family. But Lu Zhi was smart and enlightened when he was young. When he was still young, Lu Zhi had learned a lot about others. He once defeated all the others at the Beijing Poetry Festival, and Lu Zhi's poems are still circulated in the market today.
After middle age, Lu Zhi began to show his talents in the officialdom and became a public minister. He continued the glory of the previous generation and created the story of four generations and three princes of a wealthy family.
It can be said that it was Lu Zhi who single-handedly brought his family to the top of the family, and it was also because of his extraordinary emergence that he could still maintain the glory of the Fanyang Lu family as a powerful family after the imperial examination system replaced the imperial examination system.
Therefore, Lu Zhi issued orders and prohibitions at home, and no one dared to question his decision.
