Splendid Book

Chapter 50 Lost Tribute
Because of Ye Ling's words, Shen Changle didn't go anywhere for the Double Ninth Festival, but stayed at home.On the contrary, the second elder brother and the others went up the mountain together. It is said that there were a lot of people climbing the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival, and it was very lively.

Within a few days, the girls' school started.But Shen Changle is not alone, and I don't know how the second uncle persuaded his father to let him go out, intercede for Shen Yue, and enter a women's school.In fact, in the capital, there are naturally many honorable girls who failed to pass the women's school exam, but they just insisted on their own status, even if they failed to pass the exam, they would not bother to use extraordinary methods.So on the contrary, Shen Yue took advantage of the loopholes. She naturally didn't care about face, so even if she went through the back door, she naturally didn't care.

Just for this matter, Shen Jin often sarcastically sarcastically in front of her.

But Shen Lan got the advantage, so she had to be mentally prepared to bear the ensuing criticism.Besides, Shen Jin didn't dare to satirize her too much because of her elders.But the students in the women's school are different. Others are admitted based on their real knowledge, so they mostly look down on this kind of humane students.

Early in the morning, she and Shen Lan greeted the old lady, and went to the academy in a carriage outside the hanging flower arch.

Probably because the freshmen were enrolled, the entrance was extremely lively. After entering the gate, many girls were looking for people they knew.The academies in the capital all have uniform clothing, and those men's academies can tell which academies they belong to just by their clothes.So female students naturally have uniform clothes. Although Shen Changle saw Shen Jin wear it in his previous life, he didn't feel so uncomfortable when he got it in his hands.

Because the clothes of the female students are light blue skirts with pure white tunics inside.Although the style is simple, but fortunately, it can still be read.Because female students are not allowed to wear jewelry, it saves me some time to get up in the morning.

After entering the academy, they were led to the hall where the exam was held before. All the female students stood in turn, and the teachers at the front were the teachers of the female school.Most of them are female gentlemen, but there are also a few old gentlemen with white beards on their heads.

Ye Ling had already been standing beside her, and now she was standing in the hall, if not for the silence everywhere, she might pull herself to talk.

Because it was a freshman admission, the grand ceremony was presided over by the head of the mountain himself.All the students stood quietly, even one as lively as Ye Ling didn't dare to move.Fortunately, the ceremony was not long, and after the end, they followed the husband to visit the women's school.

This was the first time for freshmen like them to visit a women's school, and the ones who came back to take the exam were only in the main hall and cafeteria.Because the students' homes live far away, all students eat their lunch in the academy.

After contact, everyone has a general understanding.Because Shen Changle is No.1 in the entrance examination, many people will show kindness to her.On the contrary, those few who came in with favors were obviously more or less ignored by everyone.

"Sister Le, didn't we agree to climb the mountain together on the Double Ninth Festival, why did you miss the appointment?" Ye Ling pouted and asked a little unhappy.

Ever since she saw Shen Changle in the morning, she has been holding back and not speaking.It is really difficult for her to endure until now.

Shen Changle looked aside embarrassedly, but Ye Ling held her arm again, not letting her escape.Shen Changle was really afraid of her, and immediately explained: "I didn't feel well that day, so I didn't go out."

Ye Ling pouted, apparently not believing her excuses.

Fortunately, they will have their lunch break soon, and Ye Ling can't talk anymore.In the afternoon, everyone will meet in the school building, and they will have classes here in the future.The standard of classes in women's schools is also novel, because in addition to the courses that everyone must take, you can also choose courses that you are interested in.

Shen Changle didn't choose too many. She has been learning the piano since she was a child, especially the guqin, so naturally she would not leave the guqin behind.There are also books and paintings. This is the basic homework, so she also chose it.After all, she wasted a lot of time choosing it, but Ye Ling was even more straightforward. After seeing the courses she chose, she chose them for herself.

Although Shen Changle was dumbfounded, she said confidently, "I'm best friends with Sister Le here, so of course I have to be with you."

Shen Changle was persuaded by her honest reason.

When school was over, Shen Lan went to the official room, so Shen Changle stood in the yard waiting for her.Ye Ling next to her is persuading her to go shopping with her, after all, there are quite a lot of things to buy on the first day of school.Because there is a gentleman in the women's school who is a master of incense making, there is also an incense making course, which Shen Changle didn't want to choose.But Ye Ling was interested, so she made a fuss to let her attend class with him.

In the end, Shen Changle was so troubled by her that he had no choice but to take another incense making course.

"Let's go to the bookstore. I saw a kind of seed material earlier, and I just wanted to wait for Brother Lanting to come and beg him to make me an engraved seal," Ye Ling said lively, holding her arm .

When Shen Changle heard the name Ye Lanting, her body couldn't help but tremble. She and Ye Lanting had no predestined relationship in the previous life, and it is not a good relationship in this life.So all these years, she has been treating him coldly, almost never replying.But she seems to be unable to escape this fate, let her be familiar with Ye Ling, and she likes to talk about Ye Lanting very much.

Just when Shen Changle was thinking about how to evade, Shen Lan came back.

It's just that she hurried over with her head down, and when she walked past them, she just said in a low voice: "Let's go back."

After finishing speaking, she left without waiting for others.Seeing her appearance, Ye Ling couldn't help snorting, and said angrily, "Sister Le, I said she is the most arrogant and rude. Let's wait for her here. Look at her attitude."

Shen Changle pulled her arm, feeling a little embarrassed.

When a few people arrived at the carriage, Ye Ling knew that she would not go shopping with him, so she boarded her carriage in disappointment.After Shen Changle got into the car, he saw Shen Lan's eyes fixed on the car window, with her back half turned to her.But even so, Shen Changle still caught a glimpse of her red eye sockets.

After the carriage drove, she thought about it, and asked softly, "Second Sister, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing," Shen Lan immediately replied stiffly. After listening to it, Shen Changle knew that she must be in a bad mood, so he couldn't say anything more.

Although Shen Lan said so, it was obvious that her situation was not much better.After a few days, after everyone got to know each other well, everyone knew who came in because of favors.But among these, Shen Lan has the lowest status, not to mention that she is just a little concubine.

Even a concubine can come to study in a women's school, without thinking about it, she must be favored at home.Among the women's schools, almost all of them are prostitutes in the family, and they are the most favored.Within a few days, even Ye Ling secretly asked Shen Changle if Shen Lan was very popular with her father at home.

Although Shen Changle denied it, everyone is not stupid, so they can naturally understand.What's more, after a little inquiring, you can know that the second wife of the Shen family is strong and weak, and the wife only gave birth to a daughter from the first wife, while Shen Lan's mother, Aunt Han, gave birth to two sons and a daughter.Although these female students did not know Shen Hui well, this did not prevent them from defending Shen Hui.

So among this group of freshmen, Shen Lan was almost isolated.Shen Changle often asks her to be with him, after all, they are all girls of the Shen family, if Shen Lan is really independent of everyone and she turns a blind eye, I am afraid that the last big hat of fraternity should be put on her head .

But Shen Lan didn't accept her kindness, and walked alone.

Naturally, Shen Changle had no choice but to hope that these people could get along with each other for a longer period of time, so that they could develop some classmate friendship.But if it is said that the classmates really bullied Shen Lan, it would not be so.But among the little girls, a few sour words can make you wish you could get on the ground, not to mention there are so many people who don't want to talk to you.

Shen Lan had been alone for half a month, but she slowly got better.They were freshmen, and they were unified into the yellow character class. In the same batch of freshmen, there was a girl surnamed Fang. Although her family background was not very prominent, she couldn't stand up to her elder sister, who was the emperor's new favorite.She herself is quite up-to-date, although she was the last few to get in, she still got into the women's school by her own ability.

I don't know how Shen Lan got through this girl Fang Ya's way, and became familiar with her.Because Fang Ya was usually generous and outgoing, and her sister was the emperor's new favorite, and there was news that she was pregnant recently, so she suddenly became the hottest figure in the class.

After all, there is a world of difference between the pregnant concubine and the non-pregnant concubine.If she can get a boy in one fell swoop, at worst she will be a prince in the future, even if she has a daughter, she will still be a princess, and she will be a real support.

So after Shen Lan and Fang Ya got closer, the situation in the girls' school got better.

They went to school for more than half a month, the original excitement gradually faded away, and life became more orderly.Because women's studies need an assessment system, no one dares to treat their studies perfunctorily.

The class was held this day, because it was an incense making class, so they changed the place of the class.Because Ye Ling was going to the official room, everyone was already seated when they arrived.Shen Changle quickly took Ye Ling's hand, went in and sat down.

The teacher who taught them how to make incense was Mr. Su who taught piano art in the girls' school.She is a master of piano art, but she is extremely talented in making incense.So she set up a special course on making incense. The spices used by noble women are extremely precious. Some people make incense by themselves because they are not used to the spices outside.

In addition, spices are extremely expensive things. Some spices only have such a small box, but they are worth hundreds of taels of silver.Therefore, the cost of learning how to make incense is not small.Some female students, although they are also born in officials, have no permanent property in their families, so naturally they dare not take this course.

In the first few classes, my husband only taught them to identify the basic spices, and taught them to make the most basic spices.It's just that making incense is very particular about talent, and it's really a delicate thing, so many people feel a little powerless after using it a few times.

This time, as soon as the class started, Mr. Su lit a kind of spice and asked them to smell the spice and guess which ingredients it contained.After smelling it for a long time, everyone couldn't figure out what to do, but Shen Changle could smell it immediately, not because she was gifted, but because she was very familiar with this spice in her previous life.

At that time, she had already entered the palace, and the palace was filled with this kind of fragrance all day long, fresh and elegant.

After the fragrance dissipated, Mr. Su looked at them and said with a light smile: "But can anyone tell me what kinds of raw materials are in this spice?"

The little girls looked at each other, but no one dared to speak.

Mr. Su smiled faintly, looked around, and saw Shen Changle sitting in the back row, looking deeply at the incense burner, this is really an incredibly beautiful little girl.Mr. Su likes Shen Changle very much, and because she performed well in the past few times, he looked at her and asked softly: "Changle, I wonder if you can tell me?"

Shen Changle didn't expect that she would be called by name, so he quickly stood up and said softly: "Sir, the student is bold. The raw materials of this spice should be agarwood, sandalwood, borneol, carapace, horse teeth whistle..."

With a smile on Mr. Su's face, she said the ingredients. After she finished speaking, Mr. Su asked with some relief and regret, "Is there any more?"

Shen Changle frowned slightly, in her previous life, she specially called the palace servant who made her incense to ask, and she only mentioned these few ingredients.

"Very good, you have already mentioned most of the raw materials, which is excellent as a beginner," Mr. Su encouraged her with a smile, but finally she said: "But you forgot a spice, musk .”

As soon as her words came out, the little girls in the room were a little disturbed.They are not all little girls who are ignorant of the world, many of them have read poetry and books, and they know more or less about these spices.So most people know that musk is extremely unfavorable to pregnant women.

Mr. Su naturally noticed the situation in the room, she waved her hand and asked Shen Changle to sit down.Returning to the front again, she stood beside the censer, her palms flapping slightly on the censer, although the fragrance was not as strong as before, but she closed her eyes slightly, as if she was sniffing the fragrance.

"Actually, all the spices are not harmful, only the human heart is harmful. You come to learn how to make incense for tasting and improving your self-cultivation. Of course, it also allows you to identify these spices. You just need to remember that all The spices here are all wonderful and moving," Mr. Su said lightly as he looked at them.

Shen Changle was still immersed in the previous surprise, obviously the palace man said that there is no musk in this spice, but why the exact same smell is present in Mr. Su's ingredients?
So, that palace man lied to her back then?

Shen Changle couldn't help laughing, she wasn't pregnant, it was unnecessary for this palace man to lie to her.But when this thought flashed across her mind, it was like a flash of lightning flashing across her mind.She herself knew that she was not pregnant, but what if someone suspected that she was pregnant?Or someone else just in case?
Back then, she was the only concubine in Ji Yu's harem.In addition, Ji Yu was honest with all women except her, so if there was a real happy event in the harem, it would only come from her.

But what no one knew was that Ji Yu had never touched her at all, so how could she be pregnant?

Shen Changle's thoughts turned quickly, she thought of Ji Yu first, but she immediately denied it.Others don't know that she won't be pregnant, but he must know.The two of them slept under the quilt for more than half a year, making Shen Changle wonder if there was something wrong with his body.Fortunately, once later, when Ji Yu hugged her, she could clearly feel a change in a certain part of his body.

If it wasn't Ji Yu, then who could it be?

Queen Mother?That's impossible, Ji Yu is her own son, she has no reason to do this.

But she couldn't think of someone else for a while, of course she also thought of it, could it be Ji Chang.But Ji Chang was just a prince, and the spices came from the House of Internal Affairs as a tribute, so he couldn't interfere at all.

Just because of this incident, Shen Changle was in a daze until Ye Ling pulled her arm and pulled her back from her thoughts.

"Look at how proud she is, isn't it spice?" Ye Ling snorted, and whispered something in Shen Changle's ear.

It turned out that Fang Ya brought a kind of spice, which was said to be rewarded by the emperor to Concubine Fang, and Concubine Fang rewarded her in turn.It is said that this kind of spice is extracted from some kind of sea things that seep out of the South China Sea. Because it is extremely difficult to catch, this kind of spice is paid to the capital every year for the royal family. It is not even available in the market. .

Before, it was Mr. Su who encouraged the girls to bring some spices that they made themselves over for a discussion.I didn't expect Fang Ya to bring such precious spices here, even a master incense maker like Mr. Su had never seen it before.

So she was also excited for a while, holding the exquisite gold-plated box, and looked at it excitedly for a while.

In this class, Fang Ya stole the limelight, so after class, many girls gathered around her, asking questions about this and that.

Not to mention that Ye Ling couldn't look down on her proud appearance, even Shen Changle didn't want to hear the flattering voices in this room, so she left quickly.

During the lunch break, when Shen Changle was about to take a rest, Shen Lan came over with some embarrassment, saying that she forgot to wear her books, could I lend her her textbooks for use.Before Shen Changle could speak, Ye Ling immediately said from the side; "But Sister Le also needs to use it herself. Mr. Rong is the strictest, and it's not like you don't know it."

"Third sister, I didn't do it on purpose, but I was really in a hurry today, so I forgot." Shen Lan showed an embarrassed expression on her face, and finally she begged softly: "No one wants to read a book with me. , you can lend me your book."

Seeing her like this, Shen Changle knew she was telling the truth, so he had to lend her the book.Fortunately, she can still watch it with Ye Ling.

As a result, Fang Ya rummaged through her bookbag for a long time before class, and suddenly shouted, "My spices are gone."

Before everyone could recover, she burst into tears, "That was given to my sister by the emperor. It's a tribute. I lost the tribute."

With such a shout, everyone became anxious.

(End of this chapter)