Wang Zhixi naturally knew that Wang Yunhe's words were extremely well written. Even though she still didn't understand the time and effort Wang Rong spent on calligraphy, when his aunt said she wanted to hand over the Buddhist scriptures, he didn't stop her from going to Wang Rong and asking her to copy the Heart Sutra. Wang Rong He was not a petty person.
Wang Zhixi placed Wang Rong and the book she had written on the ground and then covered them with a piece of paper. However, if this were to continue, the following scriptures would be invaded by the ink and become useless. Wang Zhixi did not mind letting the palace maid throw it away.
But someone picked it up and placed it back on Zhou Yuting's table.
"Who do you think wrote this?" Zhou Yuting asked. The front hall staff were so nervous, yet Zhou Yuting lived in a private room, with only her bed covering her entire appearance. As for its master, no one cared who she squeezed in with.
"It was written by Wang Zhixi's beautiful sister who was called ugly by His Majesty." The palace maid lowered her head and said, "Wang Zhixi's performance was far worse than hers. She wanted to gift the two empress dowager with this set of scriptures, but she deliberately asked for a sample and placed it under a piece of paper to write it down word by word. "It's obvious that you think sister's calligraphy is better."
Zhou Yuting carefully read the Buddhist scripture that had been scrapped. Although a few characters had already been stained by the ink and curled into a ball, she could not see it clearly. But it does show that the pen is strong, and that it is not something ordinary handwriting can contend with.
Zhou Yuting caressed the scripture and muttered, "He can still operate like this?"
"Please help me ask if this Miss Wang is willing to make a copy of the scripture and lend it to me for me to study. The conditions are easy to negotiate." Zhou Yuting said to the palace maid.
The palace maid returned to report not long after she left for the rear hall. With a troubled look on her face, she said, "Miss, Miss Wang, you really aren't listening to all this nonsense. You aren't willing to copy another book."
Zhou Yuting's face was gloomy, even if she were to use her meals and life's inconvenience to threaten Wang Rong, the time of the scripture ceremony was right in front of her. At this moment, it was very likely that the fox didn't hit her and instead fell to the ground. After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yuting made a decision in her heart. She asked palace maid to come over and say it like this, then gave her a heavy bag, "When this is done, you will have to pay for it."
"Don't worry young lady, the safekeeping has been completed." palace maid promised.
All of the written records of the Imperial Consort Candidate s were handed to their aunt in Chuxiu Palace first, and then, their aunt personally delivered them to the Tzu Ning Palace. When they reached the outer walls of the palace, her aunt suddenly stopped the procession. She looked straight ahead, not looking behind. Behind her, a palace maid hurriedly found a tray filled with eunuchs that she had memorized long ago.
After finding the scripture of Wang Rong He, he quickly changed the label on it to Zhou Yuting's, and then placed Wang Rong He's label on Zhou Yuting's book. The whole process was very quick and light. When palace maid came to stand behind his aunt, she called him to leave, but in just a short moment, it was as if they had never stopped.
The Empress Dowager Chen and the Empress Dowager Li were sitting facing each other and drinking tea in the Palace of Tzu Ning.
"Why did you suddenly think of letting Imperial Consort Candidate copy the scripture?" Empress Dowager Chen asked.
"It is a scripture sent over by His Majesty. Elder sister didn't notice any clues." The Empress Dowager Li said.
Empress Dowager Chen put down her tea cup, "I really don't know what to say about your thoughts. I can understand that you were so cautious when your Majesty was still the crown prince, but you had no other choice. Now that the emperor was doing well, the whole dynasty was praising him. The king is also very filial. If there is anything good, they would think of us. Just accept the good intentions and try to find out what is behind it. "
"That's a private lesson." The Empress Dowager Li said solemnly.
"That is the Imperial Consort Candidate. Speaking of which, they are all His Majesty's women, where did this private lesson come from?" Empress Dowager Chen shook her head and said. |
Empress Dowager Li still could not relax her gloomy face. palace maid looked at each of the scriptures Her Majesty had sent over, and in the end, could not find three. She could only present them to the empress dowager together. "Why are there three?" Empress Dowager Li asked.
"These three handwriting looks alike. The servants really can't tell, so they can only show it to the empress dowager and ask her to tell." Aunt Yaoyu said.
"And you can't tell?" The Empress Dowager Chen curiously said, "Take it over to take a look. Yo, there's even a copy of the Buddhist Scripture inside."
The Empress Dowager Li asked Yao Yu, "Which three?"
"Reporting to the empress dowager, they are respectively the capital's largest administrative group's Liu Jing, the capital's safe house's Wang Zhixi and the capital's chessboard street's Zhou Yuting." Yaoyu said.
"Then invite all three of them." The Empress Dowager Li said.
The empress dowager suddenly called Liu Jing over. Wang Zhixi, Zhou Yuting went to the Ci Ning Palace for an audience.
"It can't be. It's only been a short while, and he already picked three?" Yang Jingru said, "He asked us to copy the scriptures without any reason, and immediately summoned people to meet him after handing it over, why do I feel like we're looking for someone?"
"It's a good thing that we still have Sister Liu in the rear hall. If we really had to choose between the three of them, our face would have already fallen." Cui Ruo said.
Wang Zhixi wrote according to her writing style, it seemed very normal. Liu Jing had worked very hard, she had copied and scrapped many pieces of paper, and now that she had seen the finished product of the paper, she felt that there was a huge difference between her writing style and the one she had given her. But what about Zhou Yuting?
What about her book? She copied it with her right hand? If she was the one who wrote the scripture the Emperor had given to the Empress Dowager, would the Empress Dowager not look for her?
Wang Rong suddenly sighed as she covered her face. Could she have been thinking too much? This is so embarrassing.
"Sister Wang, what happened to you?" Cui Ruo asked.
"I'm fine." Wang Rong He lowered his hand and calmed himself down, saying, "Just wait until Jing Er comes back, then we'll know what's going on."
When they thought about the last three choices, they were both excited and could not believe it. If such a good thing really fell to them, Zhou Yuting's eyes flashed with light, even if it wasn't the third choice, they would have more opportunities to see the empress dowager than the other Imperial Consort Candidate, so they had to make full use of it.
After greeting them, the Empress Dowager Chen shouted and even let them take their seats. "Don't be nervous, it's not a bad thing, seeing that you guys have copied your books well, that's why I called you over to meet me."
The three stood up again to thank the empress dowager's praise.
"Why did I think of copying the Buddhist scripture?" Empress Dowager Chen asked.
"Reporting to the empress dowager, this young girl's family is poor and has not studied much. She did not know much about Chinese characters and was afraid of offending the Bodhisattva so she went to the Qin'an Hall to request for the Buddhist scripture to be learned."
"Clever." Empress Dowager Chen said. Furthermore, you did not have any foundation at all previously, so you can see how sincere you are now. "
"You often go to the Qin'an Hall's Buddhist Hall?" Empress Dowager Li asked.
"To reply the empress dowager, when I first entered the palace, I attended lessons, so I didn't go outside Chuxiu Palace. Later on, aunt said that I could go walk around Gonghou Garden, and found out that there was a buddhist hall in Qin'an Hall that I could enter, so I went there a few more times." Zhou Yuting laughed and said, "I said that I'm not afraid of the empress dowager's jokes. After entering the palace for so long, I've missed my parents.
"It is perfectly justified for your daughter to miss your parents. How could I laugh at you?" Empress Dowager Li said as she played with the tea cup. "Then normally, you guys will copy the scriptures and worship it in front of the Buddha?"
The three of them showed varying degrees of doubt, but Zhou Yuting's reaction speed was rather fast as she laughed, "The buddhist hall doesn't allow incense to burn, it's fine if you write a scroll of scripture to worship Buddha."
Empress Dowager Li stopped talking and said a few more things. On the other hand, Empress Dowager Chen was happy to chat with Imperial Consort Candidate, they chatted for the time of two cups of tea. It was getting late for palace maid, so the two empress dowager gave each of them some brocade and ordered them to withdraw with their accessories.
Empress Dowager Chen changed to tea to moisturize her throat. Do you think you're overthinking it? No matter which one of them it was, it didn't look like they were giving a scripture to His Majesty. Furthermore, who would give away their lover's Buddhist scripture when they are young? "
"His Majesty loves calligraphy. Maybe he accidentally went to the Qin'an Hall and found these Buddhist scriptures and brought them back. However, the person who copied the scriptures and placed them in the buddhist hall does not know about them." Empress Dowager Chen said unconcerned.
"Elder sister, who do you think is the real author of that scripture?" Empress Dowager Li asked.
"Liu Jing, who can't even write a single word, is naturally not one. Everyone said that the words were suitable for a person. Although it was a Buddhist scripture, one could still see that the person who wrote it had a generous heart. Zhou Yuting looked like a straightforward and generous person, the words resembled hers the most. " The Empress Dowager Chen said.
"Actually, I think the three people who came today are the last three people here." The Empress Dowager Chen said.
"Elder sister, this is too careless." The Empress Dowager Li said.
"Jokes, jokes, I think you're too serious all day." Empress Dowager Chen laughed.
The three replied with Chuxiu Palace, and naturally many people came forward to ask about what had happened. Wang Zhixi's excuse was that she was tired, so Zhou Yuting carelessly wiped her hands, "Seeing the reward I brought back from the Tactics of the Peace Palace, are you still going to ask what happened? "Of course it's good news."
All the Imperial Consort Candidate s were envious and jealous, flattering him.
When Liu Jing returned to the rear hall, no one was around him. Wang Rong smiled and said, "The gods are all listening attentively outside the palace, if you hadn't said anything, you would have rested. Today, other than you, the rest of the people in the rear hall won't be able to rest well."
"It won't just be me, you can also rest well if you're not the same." Liu Jing looked at her.
"Not necessarily." "Both Wang Rong and Wen Yan's smile became even wider." I know how to gossip too. "
Liu Jing laughed, "It's nothing much, just that we copied the books well, called over a reward and gave it some encouragement, then chatted for a while. The main reason was that Zhou Yuting and I were responding, but the empress dowager and I were just saying a few words."
"The empress dowager didn't ask about anything else. She just said what she did at the Chuxiu Palace, and what she did at home. If the empress dowager had done the same thing in her daughter's room, she would say a few more words of interest." Liu Jing said, "After talking about the time of two cups of tea, the empress dowager got tired, so we came back and gave each of us a piece of silk and two hairpins."
"No matter what, this is the first time you're sitting here in the Palace of Tzu Ning chatting with the empress dowager. Don't you have any other thoughts?" Cui Ruo asked.
"The empress dowager is more harmonious, the empress dowager is more serious. Un, I feel that they're looking for someone, saying something about whether or not we'll copy the scriptures and put it in the Qin'an Hall, who would do that?" Liu Jing asked, but she was looking at Wang Rong and, if someone were to look for the words, both hers and Wang Zhixi's words would be affected by Wang Rong and. Although she didn't know why Zhu Yuting's word was inside, but there was a high chance that two of the three would have words.
Wang Rong Yun was also shocked. "There's such a thing?"
Liu Jing didn't think about it when she couldn't tell, and it had nothing to do with her. She only smiled and said, "However, I can foresee that there will be many scriptures that will be imparted by the Qin'an Hall in the future."
"The Imperial Consort Candidate s in the front hall have been going to the Qin'an Hall for a long time. Yang Jingru said.
Wang Zhixi rolled over and closed her eyes as she pretended to sleep. However, she was thinking the same thing as Liu Jing.
Could it be Wang Rong?
But if it was her, why wasn't she called?