Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 160 Walking in the Inner Court (Part [-])
Expecting a few casual words to make the imperial concubine feel that Gao Yushi kissed her like a mother and child, only a fool would have such a dream.In fact, the conversation between Concubine Li Gui and Gao Yushi was quite boring, basically in a simple question-and-answer mode, but it seemed that because of this, it was more like "calling for the right".

Concubine Li Gui didn't take an additional examination of Gao Yushi's knowledge, which made Gao Yushi lose the opportunity to pretend to be aggressive.Originally, he thought that if Concubine Li Gui wrote a few couplets like the nobles in some novels such as Unofficial History and Romance, and then he would write a few high-quality couplets, and then find an opportunity to exaggerate the story and spread it. Shilin's reputation is bound to be better.Anyway, I have memorized "Li Weng Conversations" by heart.

However, reality is not as full as pretentious novels. Although Concubine Li has tried her best to read some books in the past few years, it is mainly out of the consideration of arming her mind with knowledge to deal with possible court struggles. If you really want to talk about knowledge, After all, where is the foundation, how strong can it be?
People in this day and age have a natural inferiority complex in terms of knowledge towards civil officials who were born as Jinshi. Whether it is Cao Gan before or her Li Guifei, it is no exception.They subconsciously feel that Gao Yushi's background, under the background of generations of family education and the precepts and deeds of the elders, Gao Yushi, even if he is younger, has the same knowledge.

What's more, Concubine Li Gui just saw a "highly pragmatic masterpiece". Although I only saw the first chapter of "Longwen Whip Shadow" for the time being, it has already made Shen Shixing, the champion of the year, and the other six elders who passed by the pavilion very excited. The prince who was carefully selected was full of praise for the lecturers. Wouldn't it be like playing with an ax in front of Lu Ban's gate and wielding a knife in front of Guan Gong when he was tested for these things?It would be safer to hide clumsiness.

So Concubine Li Gui just asked some personal matters about Gao Yushi's personal affairs. The details made Gao Yushi feel that he was overly influenced by the history books, and the history books were too exaggerated for the current Concubine Li Gui and the future Empress Dowager Li.Because Concubine Li Gui asked him some questions today, no matter how you look at them, they seem too trivial——

Gao Aiqing is very knowledgeable, at what age did she become enlightened?
Gao Aiqing's handwriting is really good, and coincidentally, she is also working with the prince on Zhao Ti, do you know other styles of writing?

It is really rare to hear that Lingtang stayed in Xinzheng to raise his children. Gao Aiqing must have benefited a lot too?
Although Mr. Gao, Mr. Shen and other lecturers have made the final decision on the prince's study, but Gao Aiqing, since you are pretending to be a bachelor's student, if there is something that the prince does not study hard, you should advise him in time. Gao Aiqing, do you understand?
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I asked a lot of questions like this, but no matter how I looked at it, it seemed almost nonsense, without any oil or salt.

As Gao Wushi responded, he pondered in his heart, if the imperial concubine's questions were a hammer here and a stick here, and eight poles couldn't hit the same thing, was she just asking nonsense, or was she implying something?
In the end, it was Long Qing who relieved him, and said to Concubine Li Gui with a smile: "Concubine Ai, if you keep asking this question, you will have to ask Gao Aiqing how old she was when she was weaned."

If it weren't for worrying about "the king's disgrace", Gao Wushi would have burst out laughing when he heard it, and Zhu Yijun was obviously holding back his laughter.

Concubine Li Gui was a little bit ashamed, but she wasn't afraid of Long Qing at all, she gave her man a blank look, and said angrily: "The emperor wants me to come and see again, but he thinks my question is too trivial, well, I won't ask."

Long Qing said with a smile: "Don't be annoyed, my concubine, I'm just joking. If my concubine wants to ask, Gao Aiqing will have more time to come to the palace in the future, you can call him to ask at any time." After speaking, he turned to Feng Bao and said, "Feng Bao, you will pass on my words later, Gao Aiqing is the prince's companion to read, and should always be by the prince's side, so he is specially allowed to walk in the imperial court."

Feng Bao was stunned for a moment, and thought: To walk in the imperial court is to enter and leave the palace freely, isn't this a bit too much?The Gao family boy is young, but he is also a foreign minister after all, so he is forbidden to enter and leave the palace at will...

Seeing that he stood still without answering, Long Qing frowned and said, "Why, do you have objections?"

"Slaves, how dare you." Feng Bao quickly lowered his head, bowed and said, "Slaves are afraid of the court's comments."

"Then add a deadline. Before the crown prince gets married, he will be in the high-ranking and pragmatic inner court." Long Qing waved his hand and said, "There is nothing to say now, right? Hmph, they want to talk about world affairs, and they have to dictate the rules of my family." Is it done?"

The reason is of course, after all, no matter what the emperor said, he would not have the hobby of wearing a cuckold for himself. If Gao Yushi hadn't been young, how could he have given such a privilege?It is appropriate to set a time limit before the prince's big wedding. After all, the prince usually gets married relatively early, and Gao Pragmatic was not very old at that time, so what could happen?

Taking a step back, even if Gao Yushi had the right to enter and leave the palace, wouldn't he still be running around in the inner court?Could it be that the middle officials in the inner court are all decorations and won't send people to follow?

At this time, the crown prince Zhu Yijun found an opportunity to talk to Gao Wushi, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Gao, in terms of your status as a fake bachelor's student, you should be regarded as a lonely teacher, but you are working with Gu Listening to Jing Yan's reading, this is more like a classmate, which one do you think is the right role?"

Gao Wushi could be a little less formal when facing Zhu Yijun, so he smiled and said: "The prince is joking, the fake bachelor's degree is just Your Majesty's grace, making the status of the minister look noble, but it is not true. Ruomeng The crown prince will not give up, so the minister and His Highness are naturally classmates."

Long Qing and Concubine Li nodded silently as they listened to each other. They both felt that this little guy, Gao Pragmatic, would not say anything else, at least not the kind of frivolous kid who would dare to open a dyeing workshop if he gave three points of color. It is much more reassuring to help the children of Wuchen Xungui.

Zhu Yijun was also very happy - what made him happy was different from his parents, what made him happy was that as a prince, he could have a classmate, which was really rare.Immediately, he nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay, classmates are great. I won't have the opportunity to take part in the imperial examination in the future. It's hard to judge how well I learned, but it will be different if you are here. The two of us You must study hard, it is best to have a similar level of knowledge in the future, and then you go to take the scientific examination, so that you can compare your grades alone, and you will know how well you have learned!"

In fact, he didn't finish his sentence, but Gao Yushi knew in his heart that the reason why Zhu Yijun was so happy was "new experience".After all, as a prince, you can only study alone alone, but now you can have multiple companions. This is an unexpected new feeling-the prince is also a human being, which child would like to play alone?
On the contrary, it was Zhu Yijun who said this, Gao Yushi was a little surprised.

It seems that Zhu Yijun, at least at this stage, is very willing to study and make progress.

(End of this chapter)