Scheme of the Official Descendant

Ren Yaoqi couldn't help begging for mercy with a wry smile: "The princess should spare me, can I admit my mistake? I shouldn't be ignorant of the heights of the world and make fun of the princess."

Xiao Jinglin curled the corner of her mouth quietly: "No! You have to learn!"

"Your stick... I can't handle your gun, how can I learn it?" Ren Yaoqi protested wanting to cry as she looked at her frightened smile.

Xiao Jinglin was very proud to see Ren Yaoqi like this. Ren Yaoqi had practiced the piano with her for so long, and her image of being wise and martial has almost completely disappeared.

Ren Yaoqi can't bear to tease her on weekdays, who made her inferior to others?

However, Princess Xiao is a martial arts practitioner, and her master taught her a truth early on: it doesn't matter if you lose for a while, while trying to improve your own martial power, you should also wait for the opportunity to find the enemy's flaws, and then find the place from other places. Come on, this is the so-called being able to bend and stretch.

Xiao Jinglin thought about it for a while, and said compassionately: "You can't handle the gun, so practice the sword."

Then, without waiting for Ren Yaoqi to protest, she happily instructed Hongying, "Go and get that 'snow cloak'."

Not long after, Hongying came out holding a brocade box, and when she opened it, there was a snow-white dagger about 3 inches long.

Xiao Jinglin raised her jaw towards the dagger in Hongying's hand: "Take it and try."

Although Ren Yaoqi didn't practice martial arts or understand weapons, she also had a woman's appreciation for beautiful things. This sword looked very delicate, so she really took it from Hongying's hand.

"Huh? So light?" Ren Yaoqi took the sword into his hand only to find that its weight was equivalent to that of a bamboo sword, and he couldn't help being a little surprised. In her impression, weapons are very heavy, and she couldn't dance with the one his father practiced back then. This sword looks like iron, not iron, like jade, not jade, and I don't know what material it is made of.

"This is a tribute from a small island country in the south to the imperial court. It is said that it is made of a special stone on their island. The emperor gave the sword to the prince, and the prince gave it to me. I tried it, and it is still It's very sharp, if you're willing to practice swords with me, how about I give it to you?" Seeing that Ren Yaoqi liked this gaudy and impractical sword, Xiao Jinglin began to lure her.

Ren Yaoqi hurriedly said: "It is not only a gift from your son, but also a tribute, how can I take it."

Xiao Jinglin didn't care and said: "The imperial court rewards a lot of tributes every year to show their kindness, can't they all be offered up? The prince just likes to give these fancy things that are not useful, but I don't want to put them here. Come on." His tone was extremely contemptuous.

Xiao Jinglin had no power over her elder brother who was far away in the capital. It has always been not very popular. Those who despise other women's wives are not as good as the sick second brother.

Ren Yaoqi couldn't answer the conversation anymore.

Xiao Jinglin handed the spear to Hongying, and took the short sword from Ren Yaoqi. Holding a sword flower casually, after thinking about it, she couldn't hide her contempt and looked at Ren Yaoqi: "I know you must be afraid of being rude in martial arts, and fighting and killing is not good. How about this, I will teach you a dance It looks nice."

Saying that, Xiao Jinglin flicked her wrist and danced in the courtyard.

It's different from the sharpness and chill when she was wielding a gun. Xiao Jinglin seemed to let Ren Yaoqi see more clearly, her movements were extremely slow, but smooth and sensitive, harmoniously combining swordsmanship and feminine beauty, with an indescribable elegance.

Following her movements, the fallen leaves in the courtyard were also lifted up by her sword wind. It added a bit of magnificence and mystery to this sword dance.

Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but be engrossed in watching it, until Xiao Jinglin stopped her movements before stroking her hands and praising: "Is this the sword dance? It's so beautiful."

Xiao Jinglin didn't appreciate it when she heard the words: "I know you like this kind of soft and impractical trick. But this is swordplay, not sword dance, but I changed it a little bit. I slowed down the movement. Although the enemy It’s not very useful when you’re in bed, but it’s enough to strengthen your body. You are born weak and weak, and it’s good for your body to practice this on a daily basis.”

What else did Xiao Jinglin want to say, Da Sujin, the servant girl next to the princess, came in. Said Mrs. Xu has come, the princess let Xiao Jinglin go.

Xiao Jinglin could only stop talking. He said to Ren Yaoqi: "That's it. From now on, practice the sword with me for half an hour every day. Put this Xueyi sword with me temporarily, and take it back when you learn it."

Ren Yaoqi knew that although Xiao Jinglin asked her to practice swords for the sake of teasing her, it was more for her own good. Her physique is poor. Although she can't tell it on weekdays, she catches cold easily when it's cold in autumn and winter, and it's not easy to recover when she gets sick.

So when Xiao Jinglin said that, Ren Yaoqi didn't refuse.

When Ren Yaoqi went to Jiuyang Palace with Xiao Jinglin, the princess was talking with a middle-aged woman who seemed to be in her early forties.

Knowing that the woman should be Mrs. Xu, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help being a little surprised. Mrs. Xu Ouyang should be over fifty years old, but she doesn't want to look very tender.

Ouyang's appearance is not too good, just delicate. Moreover, her face was a little pale, but the color of her lips was a little dull. It could be seen that her health was not very good.

However, Ouyang has an elegant and gentle temperament from a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River.

Ouyang's temperament is different from that of Aunt Fang, Mrs. Fang and other girls from Jiangnan. She has an extra demeanor of "poetry and calligraphy in her belly", which makes her six-point appearance a little bit more attractive. Points, and with the growth of age, the charm becomes more and more precipitated.

In her previous life, Ren Yaoqi often heard Mr. Pei mention his dead wife. She was also curious about what kind of woman, who is as elegant as Mr. Pei, could make him sigh "except Wushan is not a cloud", and in his wife's Did not remarry after death.

Now that she saw Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu's image overlapped with her imagination about Mrs. Pei in her mind.

Although Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Pei are twenty years apart in age, they are not siblings of the same mother, but there should be similarities. It's a pity that at this time, Mrs. Pei has passed away for nearly two years, and she has no chance to see Mrs. Pei's demeanor again.

After meeting Li, Ren Yaoqi had been betting on Ouyang Shi for a while, so Ouyang Shi looked at her. After Ren Yaoqi came to her senses, she was quite embarrassed, but Ouyang showed her a tolerant smile and said, "This is the fifth girl of the Ren family? Just now I heard the princess mentioning you, saying that you are playing the piano Very well."

Ouyang's voice was a little low. The tone of voice is extremely soft and gentle, making people feel like a spring breeze, and it is easy to make people feel good and trust.

"It's just that I learned more time when I was at home, the princess is absurd." Ren Yaoqi said.

Xiao Jinglin said from the side: "I think you play very well."

Although Princess Xiao was occasionally dissatisfied that she had lost her masterful demeanor in front of Ren Yaoqi, she still gave Ren Yaoqi, a close friend, a lot of face in front of others.

Unexpectedly, Ouyang smiled and teased her: "In the eyes of the princess, I'm afraid it's better to play better than you? It's okay if you don't praise it, but I want to let the fifth girl play a song if you praise it so much." gone."

Xiao Jinglin was not angry when she heard the words, but smiled instead, and winked at Ren Yaoqi, bringing some of the liveliness and agility of a girl her age which is rare.

Ouyang was a little surprised when he saw it. Can't help but look at Ren Yaoqi again.

However, Ren Yaoqi could also tell from Xiao Jinglin's attitude that she had a different attitude towards this Ouyang family than she did towards other wives in the back house.

If other wives were present, Xiao Jinglin would only put on a cold face of not getting close to strangers. It made people feel that Princess Xiao was not easy to get close to, and made those who wanted to get close to him retreat.

The concubine smiled and said: "Sir, I will talk after listening to them play, but I can talk about it first. If Lin'er can't pass this test today, I will have to practice four times a day for the next two days." time."

Xiao Jinglin's face froze.

Ouyang looked at Xiao Jinglin with a smile. Said to Wangfei: "Wangfei specially asked me to be this villain today, right? This is not good."

Ren Yaoqi was a little surprised when she heard the princess address Ouyang's family. A woman would only call her a teacher respectfully to a teacher who has taught her.

Is it possible that Ouyang and the princess should be mentors and apprentices?

When everyone moved together to make the side hall of Ren Yaohua's piano room, Xiao Jinglin whispered in Ren Yaoqi's ear: "My mother and concubine once worshiped under Mrs. Xu when she was young, and her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting all follow Xu Madam learned it. When Madam Xu was young, she was a well-known talented woman in Kyoto, and the former emperor once praised her as the number one scholar."

Only then did Ren Yaoqi understand.

Today Ouyang was specially invited by the concubine, and every year the Yun family's daughter banquet will let all the daughters of the family perform their talents. In the end, several ladies with outstanding talents will be selected.

And Ouyang Shi is one of the people who appraised the talents of the ladies, and because of her status and knowledge, her opinion is the basis for other wives who participated in the appraisal.

Others to avoid suspicion. Naturally, Ouyang's family would not be invited into the mansion at this time, but the Yanbei Palace does not need to pay attention to this rule.

Apart from the personal relationship between Princess Yanbei and the Ouyang family, the Qianjin Banquet is the same as the Dragon Boat Race on the Su family's Dragon Boat Festival last time. As long as there are people from the Yanbei Palace, this crown will come from the Yanbei Palace. This is a convention that everyone knows.

And the princess invited Ouyang to listen to Xiao Jinglin play the piano, but she didn't want Xiao Jinglin's level to be too far away from the position of the crown and be teased behind her back.

After all, fame is for others to see. The real ability is your own.

Xiao Jinglin has practiced the song "Moon Full Guanshan" hard these days, and she is already very proficient in playing it. As soon as she picked the strings, Ouyang couldn't help but nodded when he saw her raising her hand to play the piano.

Ouyang knew exactly what level Xiao Jinglin's piano skills were before. Looking at her appearance today, she knew that she had worked hard these days.

Of course, Xiao Jinglin's level cannot be compared with a real master, but at least she won't lose face at the Qianjin Banquet.

As soon as Xiao Jinglin closed the song, Ouyang smiled and said: "It seems that I will not be able to be a bad person today, and the princess's piano skills have improved a lot."

Although Xiao Jinglin didn't express anything on her face, Ren Yaoqi could tell that Princess Xiao was silently proud of herself at this moment, because Princess Xiao took a special look at her.

Ouyang seemed to see what Xiao Jinglin was thinking, but she changed the subject and said in a gentle voice: "It's just that the princess must understand that playing the piano, like many things in this world, cannot be accomplished overnight. A stopgap measure is only a stopgap measure after all. , Practical and stable is the way of long-term survival. You must not think that there are shortcuts to take and neglect the basic skills. Otherwise, once you meet a real master, you will suffer a big loss."

Xiao Jinglin hurriedly put away her self-satisfaction when she heard the words, and listened to the teaching with a nod: "Yes, ma'am, Jinglin will follow the teachings."

The princess is also very satisfied with her daughter's performance today, thinking that as long as her daughter calms down and is willing to learn, it is not a dead wood.

As a mother, the princess still hopes that Xiao Jinglin can learn some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and understand some ways of living in the inner house like ordinary women, because no matter how strong her daughter is, she will still marry a woman in the end. The rest of my life will still be spent in the inner house.

Princess Yanbei understands the truth of being close to Zhu Zhechi, and knows that Xiao Jinglin's ability to calm down and play the piano is largely due to Ren Yaoqi.

After watching from the sidelines for a period of time, the concubine felt that although the third lady of the Ren family was only born in a businessman, but because of her part of the royal blood, she didn't have the petty air of an ordinary businessman's family background. , rare and versatile, able to do everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

When Princess Yanbei was young, she also considered herself a talented woman, and she didn't quite agree with the idea that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, so she had a good impression of intelligent girls.

But no mother would hate her daughter's contact with a child like Ren Yaoqi. So Princess Yanbei has been very kind to Ren Yaoqi these days.

The princess wanted to praise Ren Yaoqi, so she smiled and said: "Lin'er has passed the test of Mr. Yaoqi, and Yaoqi will also play a song. As long as you get a compliment from Mr. Ren, whether you can get a good reputation at the Qianjin Banquet is second .”

Mrs. Xu smiled and shook her head, looking at Ren Yaoqi gently and encouragingly.

Ren Yaoqi pursed her lips and smiled, stood up and saluted before sitting down on the piano table.

She didn't choose too difficult or obscure pieces, and only played an ordinary piece of "Flowing Water". When she sat on the piano table, the elegant and quiet temperament on her body became more and more obvious, and she looked like a pleasing landscape painting.

Ren Yaoqi's fingering is also proficient, the overtones are light and clear, the scattered sounds are calm and thick, and the notes are sometimes soothing, sometimes intense, and sometimes dignified.

Ouyang Shi tilted his head slightly and listened carefully, and silently moved his fingers to beat the time.

When Ren Yaoqi finished the song, Ouyang smiled and looked up at her.

Ren Yaoqi stood up and bowed her head to listen to the teacher.

"How old are you this year?"

"It's twelve years old." Ren Yaoqi just passed her eleventh birthday in May. Girls of this age usually don't celebrate their birthdays, and they are afraid of losing their luck, so Ren Yaoqi didn't say anything. However, according to Yanbei's rules, when people ask about their age, they usually answer the false age, that is, they are considered one year old when they are born, and one year is added to each passing year.