The struggle of the eight blessings of rebirth

Chapter 238 Victory lies in mentality

"Huang Ama forgives my daughter-in-law's innocence, so my daughter-in-law boldly guesses." Minzhi was speechless.Kangxi didn't seem to hear it: "Zhe'er, come in." Minzhi looked at Hongzhe and Hongwang in surprise as they led Hongyan in through the side door and knelt beside her.The old man beckoned: "Come on, sit next to me and listen with Huang Mafa. Guo Luoluo, you can speak now."

The embarrassing words in Minzhi's heart lined up: "Huang Ama, you are... well, so, my daughter-in-law has overstepped, please forgive Huang Ama." Minzhi kowtowed to Kangxi again, and then said seriously: "In this big competition, everyone's eyes are on Jiangnan Province, and Jiangnan Province's eyes are all on Yimen. Huang Ama, when you talked about the flood in Jiangnan, my wife admitted that she had a relationship with Mr. He's daughter. I exchanged letters, and I deeply admire their disaster relief activities. However, every citizen of the Qing Dynasty would do these things when encountering them, but Yimen was the first to bear the brunt."

Kangxi narrowed his eyes: "Are you justifying yourself?" Minzhi shook her head and continued: "The daughter-in-law is in the palace of the capital, and she doesn't know much about Jiangnan affairs. It's too late. The daughter-in-law did not expect that this incident would make Yimen bear the shackles of fame and become the object of everyone's attention. The daughter-in-law really doesn't understand this. The daughter-in-law has always believed that being kind to others is a quality that everyone is born with. I didn't think about it, but it brought a lot of trouble to Yimen."

Kangxi didn't answer, but the three children listened carefully. Of course Hongyan didn't understand, but Hongwang and Hongzhe occasionally showed expressions of thought.

Minzhi sighed, and kowtowed to Kangxi again: "My daughter-in-law doesn't know the academic level of the Yimen students. It is not unconditional for a famous teacher to produce a high-ranking apprentice. If it is really not at that level, it is possible to fail the exam. It is possible that the level of the test does not meet the standards of the marking teacher, the standard of the topic, or the surface of the test is not clean, or for various other reasons.

The daughter-in-law felt that there was only one explanation for being admitted. He was indeed talented, and there were too many reasons for not being admitted.Huang Ama asked his daughter-in-law to guess the results of Yimen this time, and the daughter-in-law could only say that theoretically it should be passable.After all, Mr. He's prestige is there, Huang Ama once praised him, but the exam is really hard to say, maybe the results are not satisfactory, it is unknown. "

"Finish?" Kangxi picked up the tea bowl and took a sip: "Zhe'er, what did you mean by what your mother said, did you understand?" Hongzhe jumped off the chair and saluted Kangxi: "What my mother said, grandson I understand." Min Zhi gratefully looked in Hong Zhe's direction, then lowered her head again.

"Then tell me, what do you mean by your mother?" Kangxi had a kind face, as if he was really a kind old man.Hongzhe bowed: "Huihuang Mafa's words, what Er Niang means is that there are many factors that determine whether you can pass the imperial examination. Talent and learning are important, but there are too many factors that restrict the use of talent and learning. Therefore, Yimen's grades this time may be good or not. No matter which one, Er Niang thinks it's normal."

After saying these words, Minzhi wished she could jump up and hug her son and kiss her, boy, you are so talented! Of course Hongzhe couldn't look at Minzhi's expression, but he added: "Ama said that Mr. He is his teacher, and Erniang certainly hopes that Mr. He's students can have good grades." "

Kangxi smiled: "Zhe'er is right, Huang Mafa wants to reward you. Guo Luoluo, since you mean that you can accept good or bad exams, then let me tell you that this time Yimen's grades can't be worse. It's bad, only one person is on the list, and it's the No. 60 seven candidates." Minzhi let out a sigh of relief, she was really bad, if it was good, the old man wouldn't have called her here to talk nonsense.

Kangxi saw his daughter-in-law relieved, and curled his mouth: "Okay, get up, give me a seat." Minzhi resisted the urge to gnash her teeth: "Thank you for your kindness." Mother, someone from the palace came over long ago to help her up and put her in the chair.

"I just said that Yinhu left Beijing for this matter. You said that it is possible to pass the exam well or fail, but he thinks that the exam is not good because someone violated the rules in the examination room. He proposed to find out The truth, I didn't stop him, and let the third and fourth brothers go with him." Seeing that Minzhi sat down firmly, she was quietly rubbing her knees, and dropped another bomb.

Unexpectedly, Minzhi just looked at him with a slight difference, and then lowered his eyes: "It turns out that our father came out of Beijing for this matter, and my daughter-in-law thanked Huang Ama for our father's kindness. With the third and fourth brothers here, we must There will be results soon."

A boring game in Minzhi's eyes finally came to an end when the Huangmen official newspaper came in and said that the Queen Mother was treating guests to dinner. Minzhi still didn't figure out what Kangxi wanted to know. If you can't grasp the key point, it will show the benefits of confinement in the Buddhist hall. Whatever you ask, she will always pause for five seconds, and then answer you slowly, with a buffer of five seconds, what you say That's called smoothness, that's called cloud and mist.

In the end, the old man gave up and stopped asking questions to make things difficult for her. Instead, he asked Hongwang and Hongzhe to copy a section of the "Three Character Classic" in front of Minzhi and annotate it, and then asked her to correct it while he watched it.When she saw that the writing posture of the two children was exactly the same as that of Yinhu, even the angle of the head was tilted at the same angle, she was immediately very pleased.

When they finished writing, and then read their handwriting, Minzhi was speechless. The two children actually wrote Huang Tingjian's cursive style by hand. Minzhi is embarrassing. In her opinion, children's calligraphy is the same as learning, focusing on the basics. If you really want to learn running script, you should also learn the characters of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi.

If you really aim at Huang Tingjian, you should learn facial expressions first. Huang Tingjian's calligraphy evolved his own style from there.Looking at the two children's writing now, Minzhi feels deeply regretful, this is simply copying the same pattern, without any charm.In front of Kangxi, it's hard for her to say that your education method is wrong and you are too eager for success.

I had no choice but to say euphemistically: "This is the first time Erniang saw your handwriting, and it really surprised Erniang. Huang Tingjian's running script is very difficult to learn. After a few years of practice, you will be able to resemble it. It's really amazing." It's easy." But he sighed in his heart, Kangxi's requirements for the younger generation are not generally high, no wonder he didn't like Yinhu's calligraphy back then, this girl's starting point is too high, and she is just cursive at first, but it's really hard for the two children. It takes at least half of your life to practice calligraphy well.

But when people stay by Kangxi's side, how to teach him, the old man has the final say, and the people around him, even their own parents, can't intervene.Min Zhi expressed 12 points of sympathy to the two children.

Time flies, and as soon as November passes, the Long Solstice Festival is just around the corner.This is another important festival in the palace. Kangxi stayed in the Changchun Garden, completely ignored the affairs of the Forbidden City, and entrusted Tong Guifei and Concubine Deyi to deal with it.It looked like he had lived in Changchun Garden this year.

Minzhi began to think about Yinhu who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River. She didn't know how complicated the relationship between the officials of the two rivers was, but she knew that Yinhu and Yinzhen would go together. If something tricky, it would definitely be another shocking case. There is a famous line in a public service advertisement: "If there is no business, there will be no killing." She thinks it can be changed to, if there is Yinzhen, there will be killing. If there is killing, it is not enough, but also ransacking the house and even sitting.

Yinzhen's consistent style is that he would rather kill ten thousand by mistake than let go of one.Yinhu followed him, either as a coolie (take the scapegoat) or as a lubricant.However, this time there is still Yinzhi, the youngest is used to reception in public relations, Yinhu should be able to relax a bit, right?

Her idea is very simple. Apart from Yimen, Yinhu's network in Jiangnan is only the military general Erji. The other governors, governors, Daotai and so on have nothing to do with him. Is it really annoying? After all, a little smallpox vaccine was wasted in the end, and he just took advantage of Yinzhen's hand to vent his anger.

She didn't expect that those things were already in the past tense, and the officials in Jiangnan had changed a lot. Now Yinhu has become a sandwich biscuit, and it's wrong to help anyone.

On the seventh day of December, there was a lot of auspicious snowfall in the capital. Minzhi was holding her youngest son and a bunch of little uncles and was talking with the Queen Mother by the stove. The Qing Dynasty was considered rare.But seeing the increasing gray hair of the queen mother, all Minzhi can do is to stay beside the old lady, laughing with her to relieve her boredom.

The old lady is in a good mood and her spirit has grown up, but her body is so weak that she can't sit for a long time. She can only lie on a soft bed with a cashmere mattress and a duvet sent by Minzhi. Talking, talking about when she was young, talking about things on the grassland, about the empress dowager, about Shunzhi, the old lady narrated, and Minzhi listened with her, from time to time she made a look of admiration and yearning.

The old lady's cardiopulmonary function is not good, so she can't use the stove, and she is afraid of inhaling too much carbon gas, so she can only cover it with Tang Pozi. After thinking about it, I knit a few pairs of modern-style cashmere socks for the old lady and put them on the feet. Fortunately, there is no embarrassment of foot wraps and crescent bends, and the old lady is very satisfied.

So Minzhi grew a mind, and every day when chatting with the queen mother, she would go there to knit wool with that sewing basket, and small things like gloves, scarves, socks, etc. were baked one by one, and distributed to a group of small children. , the old lady looked fresh, and let the nuns around her learn from her, and passed the time with nothing to do.

The wool is all produced in Zhuangzi, and the quantity was originally limited. As a result, the Queen Mother ordered the Guangchu Division to go to the grassland to buy wool.Minzhi was delighted to hear it, Xiaojiu, this is another good business.

(End of this chapter)