Chapter 118 Flower Appreciation Party

The next day, Fu Rushuang and Fu Xuechen sisters followed Xie to the palace and found that the flower appreciation ceremony held by Concubine Xie was quite grand, and it was not only the female members of the Fu family who were invited to come.

In addition to them, there are also Concubine Xie’s mother’s family, the Minister of Works Xie’s family, the Guan family of Zhenxihou, etc.

The wives of each family can form two tables of mahjong together, not to mention that each family has at least a young girl. Now the older ones are together, the younger ones are together, and the younger ones are together, and the two are very lively.

Fu Xuechen was amused to find that even Princess Zhiling came to join in the fun.

"I didn't skip class! The Imperial Concubine was very nice to me. As soon as I told my mother, the mother agreed to bring me with me." Princess Zhiling explained seriously.

"Okay, okay, I understand, no one said you skipped class?" Fu Xuechen was actually very happy.

Almost all the "big" girls over fifteen or sixteen years old came to this flower viewing meeting. She was the youngest. After saying hello to her, the "big" girls ignored her. If she had not Princess Zhiling, she would have been bored to death.

May is the time when the flowers are blooming in full bloom, such as peonies, peony, roses, pomegranates, etc. are filled with these beautiful flowers everywhere inside and outside the Yanning Palace.

After the ladies appreciated the flowers, they accompanied Concubine Xie to chat and chat in the house, and drank tea to start the game. Some of the young girls accompanied their ladies in the house, while others visited among the flowers in the courtyard outside.

Only Fu Xuechen and Princess Zhiling were unique and teasing the cat brought by Princess Zhiling on a grassland.

"Sister Xuechen, I heard that you are learning calligraphy and painting with Mr. Zhu Jiuniang, and learning Guzheng with Yan Jiao's apprentice. Is it true?" Princess Zhiling asked curiously.

"Yes, the tuition fee is getting high." Fu Xuechen was in pain for his mother.

Princess Zhiling was very excited: "I am also learning to draw with Mr. Zhu, so are we sisters?"

Fu Xuechen teased her: "Is that so? I've just started learning! Then I should call you senior sister!"

"Hihehehehehehehehe..." Princess Zhiling smiled unhappily: "I saw your brother Fu Yuchen before, and I thought that others were so pretty. As his twin sister, Sister Xuechen, you must be the same as your appearance! I did not read it wrong! But Sister Xuechen, you are much more interesting than your brother!"

Fu Xuechen was a little sweaty, but he didn't expect that Princess Zhiling could be a face-controller at a young age. She should look at her face first when making friends.

"It's a pity that I still have many shortcomings in my painting skills now, and the painter is still reluctant to do so." Princess Zhiling looked at Fu Xuechen carefully with a gaze of appreciation, and said regretfully: "Otherwise, I must draw my sister's beauty before I can be content!"

Fu Xuechen also asked her curiously: "What has Your Highness learned to draw?"

"Many!" Princess Zhiling felt a little proud: "I started learning to draw because I liked it at the age of seven. Now I can draw many kinds of flowers! Lotus, plum blossoms, cereals, etc., as well as birds, cranes, magpies, swallows, etc.."

"Do you want to see?" Princess Zhiling suddenly said.

Fu Xuechen looked at her as if she was asking for praise and smiled and said, "Yes! If possible, why not look?"

"Then sister, please go to my house and sit down!" Princess Zhiling was so happy that she sent the palace maids around her to the house to report to her mother's mother. She couldn't wait to pick up the cat and took Fu Xuechen back to Lianxiu Palace where Concubine Yi was.

Concubine Yi, the head of the palace, was accompanying Concubine Xie at this moment. Fu Xuechen avoided the trouble of paying homage and directly followed Princess Zhiling into the side hall of Lianxiu Palace where she was.

Princess Zhiling quickly brought out a large number of scrolls and put them on the table. These were old works that she was satisfied with and left behind. Those who were dissatisfied had long been thrown away and burned.

Fu Xuechen found that she had marked the year, month and day on the scroll, so she opened it one by one in the order from front to back. She also attended the art interest class in her previous life. Her appreciation level was not bad, and she also liked to appreciate paintings.

Not to mention, painting is a thing that depends on talent but age. Although Princess Zhiling is not old, she is very talented in painting. Her paintings are full of naive aura, simple flowers and cute birds. Even ink and water, landscapes also paint her with aura of mist.

Fu Xuechen was not hesitant to praise him, and all kinds of appreciation and praise came out like money.

In her opinion, Princess Zhiling is the kind of person who came from a family of big painters in later generations, who had been personally guided by a master since she was a child, and she had talented people in the painting world. She could participate in international painting competitions and win awards in childhood. If she could collect her paintings, after hundreds of years, in the future, these would probably become precious cultural relics.

Princess Zhiling was excited and shy when she praised her. The key point is that others praised her for the sake of flattering her. She just flattered her without knowing anything. Fu Xuechen praised her, but she could say everything to the point and scratch her itch.

This is not simple! It shows that Fu Xuechen really understood her paintings. She did not hide them from her eyes. She was praised by her sister of similar age. Princess Zhiling only felt happier than her husband's praise.

"Sister Xuechen, which one do you like? I'll give it to you that one!" Princess Zhiling generously promised to give it to her with a painting, and also specially prepared a pen and ink to leave a seal for Fu Xuechen.

"Then I will thank Your Highness! Then... this one?"

Fu Xuechen was also happy and bluntly picked a picture of cats rushing to butterflies under the crabapple flowers. There were both beautiful flowers and butterflies, and cats full of childish aura. The composition was interesting and the content was rich.

"Sister is so good at choosing!" Princess Zhiling took a breath in secret. It took her ten days to go from conception to inspiration to detailed description and forming this picture!

However, she has the skills of painting, and she can create new paintings at any time. Therefore, Princess Zhiling has nothing to hesitate. She really picked up the pen and signed the painting, and gave it to Fu Xuechen with a seal.

Fu Xuechen was also happy to get the painting he liked. He grabbed Princess Zhiling in his arms with both hands and hugged her excitedly: "Thank you, Your Highness! You are so cute!"

Princess Zhiling has not been hugged intimately by her mother, grandmother and other people other than the nanny. She was slightly surprised, then giggled, took the opportunity to carry her back, and took a deep breath of the body fragrance on the other person.

The nanny and the palace maids in the palace all looked at each other. This was the first time they had met those who were rash and dared to hug the princess for the first time. However, looking at the intimacy between the two, it seemed that it was not a bad thing?

Fu Xuechen quickly let go of Princess Zhiling and smiled and said, "In a few days, I will give the princess a painting of mine!"

"Okay!" Princess Zhiling laughed in her heart. Fu Xuechen had just started to learn painting with Mr. Zhu. What kind of good painting can a beginner draw? But looking at the other party's confident appearance, she still responded with a smile.

Fu Xuechen glanced at her, knowing that she had no expectations for her, and just verbally agreed to show kindness. Humph! She really just learned Chinese paintings, but she also learned sketches, comics and watercolors in her previous life! Wait!

The two chatted in the room for a few more words, and then left Lianxiu Palace and returned to the flower viewing party.

"Sister Xuechen, since my sixth brother and your brother left Mingde Hall, the classroom has not been fun anymore!" Princess Zhiling chatted: "Recently, my fourth brother is planning to advise my father to expand the number of people who are accompanying him. You said, if I ask for my father, is it possible that I can let my sister be my companion? "

Well? The number of people who study in Mingde Hall is going to expand? That's right! The princes who study in the past only chose a few people. It is probably because Emperor An of Yuan had just established a country and various systems were not yet sound. So if the princes feel that there are too few accompanying students and want to add a few more companion seats, Emperor An of Yuan of Yuan may be able to agree.

But as a princess, she became classmates with Fu Yuchen, and both brothers and sisters went to the palace school?

I don’t want this? I feel that what Master Mingdetang teaches is really boring to learn. Why not learn calligraphy, painting, embroidery of the guzheng with the female gentlemen?

Fu Xuechen was so flexible! He immediately smiled and said, "I can't ask for you as a companion for Your Highness, then I can't ask for anything! But if I go to school with Your Highness in Mingde Hall, I will become classmates with my brother, which is not very good!"

"Hmm? What does Sister Xuechen mean?" Princess Zhiling didn't understand.

Fu Xuechen said: "The gentlemen in Mingde Hall are all bachelors in the court. They teach the princes and the nobles' knowledge in order to let the nobles understand the ancient and modern principles, understand the sufferings of the people, and know how to govern fiefs."

"Your Highness the Princess is a woman. According to the rules, even if you have a fief in the future, you can only enjoy the fief of the fief, and you cannot personally take the vassal and manage it. Then, what are you doing to learn the things that govern the country?"

"It would be better for Your Highness to write another letter to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to set up a girls' school, just like the Imperial College, which specifically recruits daughters from civil and military officials like Cui Xiaoyue, like me, and invites the girls' gentlemen to teach us Qiqin, calligraphy and painting, needlework, and cooking and accounting, etc.?"

"At that time, Your Highness Princess, you don't have to feel wronged about taking classes with Your Highness the same class as Your Highness. Wouldn't it be better to have more female students of similar age to Your Highness to go to school together and learn the courses you like?"

Fu Xuechen actually had the idea of ​​establishing a girls' school in this Darong Empire in this time and space. Today, he was just right to ask Princess Zhiling to ask the princess Zhiling to try it. Is it okay? Wouldn't it be better to ask the princess to go to Emperor Yuan'an to try it?

Princess Zhiling was stunned. She called Fu Xuechen, who was so stupid!

But after carefully following Fu Xuechen's thoughts, the more I thought about it, the more I felt moved - I was right! Since the father did not object, and even supported his daughter to go to school and listen to the lectures with his brothers, why can't I ask the father to simply set up a separate girls' school, imitate the Imperial College system, specialize in accepting girls, and teach homework suitable for girls?

It was so easy for Fu Xuechen, who had the vision of later generations, to incite an ancient person with a narrow vision! Seeing Princess Zhiling's heart-warming look, she chuckled and added fuel to the fire to describe the benefits of girls' schools in the Republic of China to the other party.

There is no restraint of men and women, everyone is competing, you can play with a few friends who are in harmony with each other every day, there are colorful extracurricular activities, and the graduation is awarded with certificates of different majors and different levels, etc. Princess Zhiling is about to cry!

During the following flower viewing session, Princess Zhiling had no time to play. She just pulled Fu Xuechen and the other two to hide under the shade of flowers, chatting constantly about the site selection and establishment of the girls' school, the recruitment and treatment of the female gentlemen, the curriculum settings of the female students, and the rules and regulations of the girls' school, and the attitude of wanting to be able to enter the school immediately.

Those young girls who were brought to the flower viewing party by their elders at home just don’t like to pay attention to Fu Xuechen, a "child" who is several years younger than them. They are still willing to get close to Princess Zhiling, who is also a child.

However, Princess Zhiling was discussing the establishment of the girls' school with Fu Xuechen. Before that, she did not expect the news to leak, so she ordered the palace maids around her to stop anyone from approaching her, which made the "big" girls sigh.

The two little girls were talking nonstop, even the Concubine Xie and Concubine Yi in the house noticed it, and were surprised. I don’t know where these two people came from, so I’ve been talking for a long time, right?

When Concubine Yi saw the scroll of the painting in Fu Xuechen's hand, she called her personal nanny to ask, and then she realized that her daughter had even given the little girl of the Fu family a proud work, and she couldn't help but laugh.

"Zhiling is not casual about her paintings. She is called burning all the time when she is not satisfied. She only keeps satisfied. Apart from giving it to the elders in the palace as birthday gifts, this is the first time I have seen her willing to give her paintings to others!"

Concubine Yi couldn't help but gossip with Concubine Xie: "The friendship between these two girls is really extraordinary! I think even Zhiling and the two companions around her have never seen such a relationship? It's really a bit strange."

Concubine Xie said regretfully: "It's a pity that the little girl of the Fu family has a twin brother who has chosen to study as my Liu'er. It is unlikely that the emperor will agree to the Fu family that the prince and the princess will be accompanied by the Fu family. Otherwise, the little girl of the Fu family would have the chance to be selected as the princess for studying."

Concubine Yi thought about it, shook her head and smiled, "It's okay! If these two people were really allowed to be together in Mingde Hall, there would be so much to say when they got together like today. It's not surprising that Zhiling's homework would be delayed!"

After staying with Concubine Xie for dinner, Concubine Yi said goodbye and led Princess Zhiling back to Lianxiu Palace.

But halfway through the way, Princess Zhiling proposed to visit the prince's fourth brother who was injured two days ago.

Concubine Yi didn't think much: "Okay! You have always had a better relationship with the Fourth Prince than other Princess. It's also worth visiting him. Mother's mother has some excellent ginseng here, so you can take a box of it!"

"Thank you, Mother! Then I'll go see my fourth brother now!"

Princess Zhiling was very happy and did not return to Xiu Palace. For ginseng or something, Concubine Yi would find a way to ask the eunuch around her to send her to the prince's place in the name of Princess Zhiling.
Chapter completed!