Royal Kindergarten

Chapter 64 Studying?

Xiao Ziyi walked around the long desk, walked to the side of the emperor, and looked down at the scrolls spread out on the table.

"This... is this my concubine mother?" Xiao Ziyi's eyes widened in surprise, because what she saw was clearly a man's dress...well, barely considered a beauty in men's dress.

"Yeah, look how much you look alike, it's almost printed out of the same mold." The emperor's eyes fell on the scroll, his eyes shot out a look of nostalgia, and even his voice eased up.

a mold?Xiao Ziyi had a disapproving expression on her face.In the extremely abstract painting method of Chinese ink painting, she didn't see how similar the person in this painting was to her.But if you look closely, the person in the painting has a heroic look between his brows, he looks like a handsome young man, definitely different from ordinary women.

"Father, my mother and concubine...why are you wearing men's clothing?" Xiao Ziyi asked puzzled.It stands to reason that the portrait of a normal concubine should be the charming one standing among the flowers with a fan, right?
The emperor replied in a low voice: "Your concubine mother is the most daring woman I have ever seen. Hehe, do you know who is the youngest number one scholar in the Great Zhou Dynasty so far?"

Xiao Ziyi's face was full of black lines, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be my mother and concubine?" A trick of a woman disguised as a man?There really is such a drama?

The emperor nodded with a smile on his face, as if he had returned to that time again, and said slowly: "She was raised as a man since she was a child, and her talent has already been famous in the capital. At the age of 19, she was in the big exam, and she was in the palace exam. Confucianism kills all directions. Hehe, when you were talking in the hall today, I almost thought Yun'er was back."

Xiao Ziyi heard the emperor's voice full of nostalgia, and remembered that when she was talking nonsense just now, many old officials looked at her in shock. It turned out that what shocked them was not what she said, but her appearance.Most likely it reminded them of the chic figure of her mother and concubine back then.

"My concubine and I... do we look alike?" Xiao Ziyi couldn't help asking.

"Very similar, very similar." The emperor said very similar twice, his eyes moved from the painting to Xiao Ziyi's face, and said softly: "So the first time I saw you, I knew it was my Ziyi." Yi is finally back." The emperor was not good at saying such gentle words, so he didn't say any more.

Xiao Ziyi still looks at the ink painting in front of her with embarrassment, but she can't see any similarities between herself and this abstract portrait.But if her concubine mother looks very similar to her, then the eunuch Shen Bao just now cannot be a relative of her concubine mother.Because he is nothing like her.But it shouldn't have nothing to do with the way he looked at her.

"What's the matter?" the emperor asked when he noticed Xiao Ziyi had a strange expression on the ink painting.

"It doesn't look like it at all!" Xiao Ziyi pulled out a piece of paper next to her, then picked up the brush next to it, dipped some ink that was still wet, and began to draw on the paper.With big eyes and a small nose, in a few seconds a beautiful cartoon girl appears on the paper.

Xiao Ziyi threw the brush away, smiled with satisfaction and said, "This is just like me! Hehe!"

The emperor held it in his hand and looked at it for a while. He obviously couldn't agree with this aesthetic point of view beyond the times. He shook his head and sighed, "Zi Yi, there is still a scientific examination this year. Ce'er said that he wants to participate in it incognito."

Xiao Ziyi raised her eyebrows, what did the emperor say all of a sudden? "Father, you don't want me to go too?"

The emperor smiled inscrutably and said nothing.

"Uh, father, Ziyi doesn't understand anything. Everything she said in the hall just now is sophistry, and it can't be put on the table." Xiao Ziyi was ashamed. Although her father seemed quite serious, in fact It's quite tolerant of weird things.

"I didn't say that." The emperor smiled slightly, and said cunningly: "I just thought, if Zi Yi and you are bored in Changle Palace, you can go to the Imperial College with Xiao Ce. But of course you have to wear men's clothing. You can do it." His companion is named Xiao Zisu."

Xiao Ziyi was in a cold sweat, she just graduated from university!Having just survived so many years of study life, should I continue to jump into another endless fire pit?And there are no weekends and winter and summer vacations, so she doesn't want to!While thinking about it, Xiao Ziyi shook her head like a rattle, and repeatedly declined: "Father, Ziyi doesn't want to go." She knew that it was useless to say anything in front of this treacherous and cunning emperor. It's better to say honestly that she doesn't want to.

"Why? It's fun to play with a few children in Changle Palace?" The emperor slowly rolled up Concubine Yun's painting scroll, bowed his head and said calmly.

Xiao Ziyi was startled when he heard the words, and began to think quickly in his heart what the emperor meant by the words.To study with Xiao Ce?What is Xiao Ce's position in the emperor's heart?Or are you dissatisfied that she has too much contact with Xiao Zhan, which affects Xiao Zhan'er's homework?
It's simply too complicated!Xiao Ziyi thought for a while and felt that her head was extremely big, and she had to answer the emperor's question, so she could only bite the bullet and say: "Father, Ziyi hates studying."

"Hate it? Hate studying and read with your hands all day long?" the emperor asked back, turning around and solemnly putting the rolled scroll on the bookshelf behind him.

"Father, Ziyi likes reading, not reading!" Xiao Ziyi pouted, seeing that she couldn't beat him, so she used the method of coquettishness.Not to die.This time she offended Xiao Ce to the core, she didn't want to argue with him all day long, she was exhausted!It's better than Zhan'er who accompanied her!

The emperor turned his head, looked at the cute expression on Xiao Ziyi's face, couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, it's up to you. But you have to correct your typos when you have time, and you can't put Zhan'er and the boy from the Nangong family Is there a typo too?"

Xiao Ziyi's face was full of black lines, what a typo!That's simplified characters!But what the emperor said let her know what she and Nangong Xiao did when they exchanged topics.Xiao Ziyi rolled her eyes wide and changed the topic: "Father, why did you name Zisu for Ziyi? Is there any special meaning?"

The emperor said indifferently: "Zisu is my name, but no one knows it." After the man is 20 years old and crowned, he can get his own name, but for the emperor, no one can say his name, let alone his name. .

Xiao Ziyi was speechless, not knowing how to respond.Tears, she doesn't want to study!
"Ziyi, when the weather is warmer, you can go back to your mother's house to have a look and visit her grave." The emperor didn't force her, and his tone became soft, and he said in a low voice.

Xiao Ziyi was full of doubts, was her mother and concubine actually buried at home, not in the imperial tomb?But doubts are doubts, she obediently agreed.

(End of this chapter)