Chapter 9 Gifts Even after becoming a princess, she still has to do her homework

After returning from the Imperial Garden, there were a few more boring procedures before it was time to receive gifts.

This is one of Yun Xi's favorite parts. After the birthday banquet, she asked the people in the princess's mansion to transport the gifts sent by various clans back.

She couldn't wait to open her presents.

When Yun Xi returned, she was only accompanied by Ji Xun and Yuan He. Ever since she knew about her restricted plot, she tried to keep her travels as simple as possible, bringing as few people as possible.

Ying Nanfeng did not come back with them. It was heard that the Fourth Princess Yun Yi found the injured Ying Nanfeng by the lake and volunteered to take him to the Fourth Princess's Mansion.

After finally getting rid of a huge danger, Yun Xi felt much better.

When opening the gifts in the warehouse, Yun Xi's face was full of joy, and she specially asked Ji Xun to come and help.

As the most beloved eldest princess of the Wei Emperor, many young men from aristocratic families wanted to make her acquaintance and vied with each other to send her all kinds of rare treasures to please her.

The thousand-year-old ginseng from Nanling, the blood jade from Kunshan, the red coral from the East China Sea...it's a dazzling sight.

Yun Xi was counting inside, while Ji Xun was guarding outside. He leaned against the door, gazing at the crabapple blossoms in the courtyard, seemingly lost in thought.

After a moment's silence, he pulled out the white peony from the scabbard and held it in his hand to play with and admire it.

"Ji Xun." Yun Xi called him from inside the house, "Come in."

He heard the voice, turned around, and saw Yun Xi sitting on a big box and smiling at him.

Yun Xi was born with fair skin and white teeth, and her eyebrows and eyes curved when she smiled, which made Ji Xun think of the blooming white peony.

He walked in without changing his expression, knife in hand, "What is the matter, Your Highness?"

"Look here and see if there's anything you like. I'll give it to you." Yun Xi said generously.

Ji Xun glanced at the items, which were all valuable treasures. He asked, "What if I say I want them all?"

Yun Xi raised an eyebrow: "It's not impossible, but I hired you for two hundred taels of silver for a month. If you want so much, then you will probably belong to me in your next life."

Ji Xun did not continue speaking. He glanced at the gifts in the room again. Most of them had been opened, and there was a dazzling array of things. More than half of them were things that only women could use.

Suddenly, his gaze rested on a rosewood box for a moment.

Yun Xi followed his gaze and saw a jade pendant in the rosewood box. The jade was carved with two flying and circling green phoenixes. The workmanship was extremely exquisite and gorgeous, and it didn't look like the work of a jade craftsman from the Great Wei Dynasty.

Ji Xun stared at the jade pendant in silence for a long time, then raised his hand and touched the double ring clasp of the jade pendant.

"Your Highness, can I have this?"

Yun Xi also looked at the jade pendant and didn't find anything special. "I didn't expect you like jade. Since you like it, of course you can take it."

She thought he would pick the gold and silver ones.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Ji Xun put the jade pendant in his arms.

Seeing that he had made his choice, Yun Xi finally began to reveal her purpose: "We agreed at the banquet that I would give you the 100 taels of silver tomorrow. Now, can you do me a favor?"

As the saying goes, a man who has eaten someone's food will be soft-hearted and a man who has received someone's money will be short-handed. Although Ji Xun was a bit stupid, he understood this point: "What are your instructions, Princess?"

Yun Xi grabbed his sleeve and took him to the study, pointing to a pile of books and a stack of rice paper on the table.

"I noticed that you have beautiful handwriting. Can you help me copy the book?" Yun Xi winked at him.

With his brain, Yun Xi didn't expect him to help her with other homework, so she could only do some simple copying from the book.

The reason she asked him for help was because she had owed too much homework at the Imperial Academy. The day before yesterday, Yuan He told her that she had to go back to the Imperial Academy within seven days.

Now that the birthday party is over, she doesn't have much time left to hide.

Although she wanted to complain about having to do homework as a princess, if she didn't finish it, it would likely trigger the next restricted plot.

Because her teacher is one of Yun Xi's biggest romantic partners in the original novel.

Zhou Changsheng, a renowned teacher at the Imperial Academy, became the head priest of the Chang'an Imperial College at a young age. While he appeared gentle, he was in fact ruthless in punishing his students.

[However, facing the emperor's most beloved eldest princess, ordinary rules could not restrain her, and only some special "teaching" methods could be adopted.]

Ever since crossing over, Yun Xi had never been accustomed to writing with a brush, and she was often reprimanded for her ugly handwriting. Master Zhou had punished her by making her copy the Four Books and Five Classics, and she had to hand him a copy with neat handwriting to pass.

She always felt that the man was deliberately making things difficult for her, not only asking her to copy books, but also asking her to do other homework, which was twice as much as others.

And the result of all this will lead to the final indescribable content.

Facing that person, Yun Xi had no idea what to do. After all, it was her father who assigned her this task. For the time being, she could only complete the task carefully.

Ji Xun walked to the desk and put down the machete: "How much do you want to copy?"

Yun Xi smiled slightly, picked up a stack of blank papers two fingers thick and placed it in front of him: "Just fill these papers with copy."

Ji Xun stared and fell silent: "..."

Yun Xi knew that this was too much, and touched the tip of her nose a little embarrassedly: "Ji Xun, I know you are the most obedient."

She really couldn't find anyone else. There was no one else in the princess's mansion who could both read and write beautifully.

"How about I let you pick two more gifts?" Yun Xi said.

Ji Xun did not answer. He hooked a small wolf hair brush with his slender fingers, took out a piece of paper and began to copy.

He lowered his eyebrows and stared at the paper, skillfully picking up the pen and dipping it in ink. The blue veins on his hand bones were faintly visible, and his look of concentration was pleasing to the eye.

Yun Xi knew that he would not refuse her, so she went to do other homework contentedly.

An hour later...

Yun Xi put down the notebook in her hand. Her eyes felt a little tired from reading. She stretched her waist and caught a glimpse of Ji Xun who had already copied a small stack of papers.

"So fast?" Yun Xi leaned over to take a look suspiciously, "Write more beautifully."

She looked closely and found that every piece of paper Ji Xun wrote was filled with neat and beautiful characters, which seemed different from the last time he wrote. This time, the characters he wrote were thin, elegant and subtle, like those written by a woman.

"So you can know two different fonts?" Yun Xi asked in surprise.

Yun Xi was worried at first that his writing was too elegant, but now she was completely relieved.

Ji Xun didn't stop writing, and said calmly, "Your Highness, where are you at?"

Yun Xi shoved the notebook under the table awkwardly: "Right away, let's start right away."

It wasn't her fault. Her homework consisted of obscure classical Chinese texts, and she felt drowsy the moment she opened them, and could only use her storybook to stay awake.

I didn't expect that an hour had passed in a blink of an eye.

"Don't worry, I will write these myself." Yun Xi said.

"Have you ever thought about this question, Your Highness?" Ji Xun reminded her, "The handwriting on your two homework assignments is different."

Anyone with eyes can see that this was written by two people.

Yun Xi: "Copying books is one thing, doing other homework is another. Would you use all your life's skills to deal with a beggar on the street?"

Ji Xun thought about it carefully and said, "Perhaps. Underestimating the enemy is a very dangerous thing."

"Oh, I was just giving an example." Yun Xi said, "When the time comes, I'll just fool him in front of my teacher."

"for example?"

Yun Xi: "For example, you teach me to write a few words now, and when I get to the Imperial Academy, I write them in front of the teacher and show them to him."

Yun Xi had considered this. She was too free to do other homework anyway, so she simply pulled out a blank piece of paper and said to Ji Xun, "Teach me how to write. I learn quickly."

Ji Xun put the wolf hair brush aside without thinking and moved closer to Yun Xi.

Yun Xi originally wanted him to write and then follow his trace, but she didn't expect him to suddenly approach her and was stunned for a moment.

His strong chest pressed against her back, and she could hear the sound of deep breathing in her ears. His big hands, which were slightly cooler in body temperature, held hers, and their actions suddenly became intimate.

Yun Xi was stunned. Ji Xun held her hand and wrote the word "yun" with the tip of his pen moving across the paper.

But because she didn't come to her senses, the word was written crookedly and had no aesthetic appeal at all.

It was the first time that Yun Xi was so close to a member of the opposite sex, and she couldn't help but feel her cheeks slightly hot. She subconsciously raised her eyes to see Ji Xun's reaction, but found that he looked calm, as if he was completely unaware that anything was wrong.

At this moment, Ji Xun also noticed her abnormality, his eyes turned and met hers: "Your Highness is absent-minded."

Yun Xi's breath caught in the sight of the beautiful face so close to her. She then looked away in panic, "You... did you teach others this way before?"

Ji Xun was confused: "I've never taught anyone before. What's the problem?"

"Don't you think it's weird now?" Yun Xi's face grew hotter as she felt his heartbeat in her chest.

"I don't remember a lot of things," Ji Xun said, "but my impression is that this is what teaching people to write is like."

In his vague memory of the past, when he was a child, there was someone like this, holding his hand and teaching him to write stroke by stroke.

"All right."

As she spoke, Yun Xi tightened her grip on the pen. After a moment's thought, she added, "Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch each other?"

Ji Xun said expressionlessly: "I didn't kiss the princess just now."

Yun Xi suddenly felt that she was overthinking it: "...I think you should read more books. Also, if someone wants you to teach something in the future, you are not allowed to agree."

Ji Xun nodded, and answered the first half of her question truthfully: "I have read some books."

Yun Xi raised an eyebrow and asked with interest, "For example?"

Ji Xun was about to open his lips.

"Wait." Yun Xi interrupted him, "That martial arts collection doesn't count. Forget about it right now."

Ji Xun paused as he was about to say the name, then continued, "I've seen all of these on the princess's desk before."

Yun Xi tilted her head to look at her desk, which was filled with difficult-to-understand ancient Chinese classics. She casually pulled out a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and Ji Xun began to recite it from the first sentence.

Yun Xi tried a few more books, and he could still recite them fluently and explain their meaning. Yun Xi believed it.

But at the same time, she also began to doubt Ji Xun's identity: "You said you lost your memory, but you still remember the books you read before. There shouldn't be any books for you to read in the slave market, right?"

"Ji Xun, are you hiding something from me?"