I do fortune-telling in ancient astrology

Chapter 24
The two ladies were talking in the front hall, and Lin Xingwei took Cao Ruicen to read idle books in his study.

Cao Ruicen didn't like reading very much, after flipping through for a while, he sat down by the brazier to warm himself up.

She said: "My mother said that the princess is very capable at home. She can cook, be a female celebrity, and write beautiful plum blossom seal characters. She insisted on asking me to learn from you."

Lin Xingwei looked at her in surprise, and asked: "Uncle Cao and Aunt Ouyang, what kind of female teachers can't find, and you still ask me to teach you? I always learn from Aunt He and the others..."

"The female teacher invited five or six to teach the girls and daughters-in-law of our family, but I am not interested. I can't remember the score when I learn piano, I can't learn fingering, and I can't remember the score when playing chess. Being trained by a female teacher, as for the chef either igniting a fire and almost burning down the house or accidentally scalding himself..."

"I don't like to study and often go away, but my sisters-in-law are very active in studying." Cao Ruicen pouted and pouted the charcoal fire with his head drooping, "I remember that the princess didn't care about these things before. If you are interested, how can you learn it so quickly?"

When she was complaining, Lin Xingwei envied Cao Ruicen. It's not that Mrs. Hou couldn't afford a female teacher, it's just that the widow's family didn't like strangers to live in.

Before, my uncle and the queen's aunt asked Lin Xingwei to study with the girls in Taiwei's mansion, but Mrs. Lin refused to let her go, and Mrs. Hou was not happy about it. She was always afraid that they would covet something on Lin Xingwei.

Therefore, the chef girl Hong only learned a little from the servants in the mansion, plus a little of her own creativity, and she was praised by the whole family.

Cooking skills do not need to be particular about knife skills, and there is no need to carve flowers on radishes, as long as they are cooked crisply and have salt and flavor, and the appearance is not that bad.

As for the embroiderer, Mrs. He provided the template for the pattern and taught her to trace it on the fabric with blackened bamboo. There were only a few stitches. It is not excellent, but because of the meticulous stitching done by Mrs. Bihe, it has been greatly praised by the two aunts.

It took the most time to learn plum blossom seal characters. Before writing characters like plum blossoms, she first practiced the obscure and difficult seal characters for a long time, and then tried to draw horizontal and vertical arcs. It took two months of practice before she mastered them. Only after mastering the knack of "starting the pen against the front, running the pen at the center, and closing the pen at the back", the character is like a plum blossom that can be seen well.

It would be great if she also had a female teacher, it would definitely be better than now.

Lin Xingwei showed Cao Ruicen the plum blossom seal characters and embroidered handkerchiefs she had written. Cao Ruicen frowned in distaste.

Cao Ruicen can tell the difference between good and bad, so Mrs. Hou must also be able to tell the difference. Maybe she felt that her daughter had suddenly become motivated and eager to learn, and she couldn't bear to hurt her self-confidence, so she didn't tell the truth.

"I thought it was so good. The princess's plum blossom seal characters are not as good as my eldest cousin's. The peonies on this handkerchief are also crudely embroidered. My maid's embroidery is more delicate than this."

Cao Ruicen's eyebrows brightened suddenly, and he said, "Why don't you come to my house and learn carefully from my female teacher?"

Lin Xingwei immediately became excited, but then hesitated, "If I live in the Cao Mansion, what will my mother do?"

"That's true. Aunt Su will be alone after you leave." Cao Ruicen said blankly.

The two girls thought about it for a while, and decided to let Lin Xingwei go to school, go to Cao's mansion to attend classes during the day, and go home at night.Not right now, it's almost the New Year's Eve, and the family has to prepare a lot of things. Lin Xingwei needs to help, but it will have to wait until the new year.

After the two of them ran to ask the two wives, Mrs. Ouyang agreed without thinking, "Ah Cen is lazy all by himself, and refuses to study with his sisters-in-law. My daughters-in-law are also busy with housework, and I don't care about attending classes." Not very serious, the female teachers complained that the lectures are not motivated, so there are several female teachers in the family, if Princess Ning attends the class, it would be great."

Mrs. Hou still wanted to politely decline. Mrs. Ouyang was so enthusiastic that she had nothing to say. She promised that Lin Xingwei would go to Cao's residence to study after the Lantern Festival.

After Mrs. Ouyang and Cao Ruicen had lunch in Nanyang Marquis Mansion, the sky cleared up. Cao Ruicen invited Lin Xingwei to go horse racing on the school grounds, and Lin Xingwei followed happily.

Using his father's name, Cao Ruicen took Lin Xingwei to the school grounds of Habayashiwei, and told Lin Xingwei to relax. She had been to this place many times with her brother, and she had become friends with several military leaders.

I don't know if her parents know about the fact that she and Juntou became friends.

Lin Xingwei followed behind Cao Ruicen. He didn't know whether it was the cold wind or the solemn armor. He always felt that it was chilly from the inside out.

Sure enough, a soldier with shiny armor came out to meet them, and took the two little girls of Cao Lin to a small school yard at the west end, and brought two tall bay red horses.

"What are you doing over there?" Lin Xingwei asked, pointing to a large number of soldiers who were practicing on the East End Colonel Field. They looked messy and uncoordinated.

The head of the army chuckled: "Returning to Princess Youning, these are newly recruited from various places this winter. Many of them are criminals who were punished and sent to the army. They will be sent to the battlefield in the next year. General Wei is training them intensively."

He added: "The teams on the left are the new Habayashi guards. Time is running out. General Wei put them together for training."

Cao Ruicen also explained: "General Wei has contributed to the murder case of King Chu's son, and His Majesty has appointed him as Habayashi Zhonglang General, in charge of the entire Habayashi Guard."

Cao Ruicen clung to Lin Xingwei's ear, and asked with a low laugh, "General Wei is over there, the county chief, why don't you go and have a look?"

"What are you looking at? Didn't you see that he was busy? It would be embarrassing if he was kicked out." Lin Xing glanced at her and climbed onto the horse.

This was the second time for Lin Xingwei to ride a horse. The first time he rode a horse was at Luting Mountain during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Last time a cousin took her, but this time she was alone.Cao Ruicen had already gripped the horse's belly and started running, and Lin Xingwei asked Luo Fu to help her lead the horse for a slow walk behind.

After Cao Ruicen trapped her, he walked over slowly and walked side by side with Lin Xingwei, and asked, "Why does the princess look so preoccupied?"

Lin Xing stroked the mane on the horse's neck slightly, and said: "General Wei said yesterday that he questioned Chen Xinan for the case of King Chu's son. Hasn't he already closed the case and received a reward? What else do you want to ask?"

Cao Ruicen said: "Maybe he wants to know some details about Prince Chu's family. The murderer is the cousin of King Chu's son, the son of his uncle. His son is incompetent. He also wanted the help of Prince Chu and his son to recommend him as an official, but was rejected. Later, harboring a grudge, he colluded with knight-errants and followed Prince Chu to Luting Mountain on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, murdered Prince Chu in front of Yuelao Temple, and fled in the chaos."

He said again: "It is also General Wei who is very powerful. Within a few months, he not only arrested all the murderers, but also found out that behind this group of so-called knight-errants was a group of rebels living in Kai County. General Wei wiped out this group of rebels in one fell swoop." Army, this is how you get so many rewards."

Lin Xingwei said leisurely: "Sister A Cen knows so clearly about General Wei, and I even heard about his award from Huang Xuan."

He lowered his head sadly and sighed: "Don't talk about me, my mother has Taiwei Mansion behind me, I don't know that he won the reward for solving the case."

Cao Ruicen hastily comforted him: "General Wei's award has only come down not long ago. Not many people already know about it. I only found out after hearing it from my father. Princess, don't think too much about it. Let's go on a horse race. Hiss...it's so cold. !"

This is a well-trained military horse, Luo Fu let go, and Lin Xingwei followed Cao Ruicen's example, loosened the reins, tightened the horse's belly, stretched out his hand to pat the horse's back, and started to run lightly.

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