After the beginning of winter, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who had finally finished the matters of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors and bestowing awards, had no time to catch their breath before they had to start the ceremony of enthroning the princess.
So there was something that could not be avoided, which was to ask someone to teach Qingtian the rules.
However, this matter got stuck as soon as it reached Prince Rui and could not proceed any further.
"Why are you asking me to learn some rules? I didn't learn any rules when I was little, and I was fine, wasn't I?" Prince Rui glared at the official from the Ministry of Rites. "Qingqing is only a little girl, and you're asking her to learn some rules. Just because she's not your own daughter, you don't feel bad for her, right?"
Prince Rui himself had never studied the rules seriously, but when he was in the palace, he often saw princesses born to other concubines learning the rules.
Those maids were very fierce, and learning the rules was tiring.
He couldn't bear to let his precious daughter suffer this.
The people from the Ministry of Rites broke out in a sweat after hearing this. Thinking of what their Shangshu had told them before they left, they quickly said, "Your Highness, the princess only needs to learn and practice the etiquette required for the enthronement ceremony.
"We still have plenty of time now, so we can study slowly and will definitely not tire Her Royal Highness the Princess.
"Otherwise, if something goes wrong during the enthronement ceremony, it will easily affect the princess's reputation. Don't you agree?"
Prince Rui was silent for a moment after hearing this.
He was not really moved by the words of the Ministry of Rites official.
But he suddenly thought that his royal brother made an exception and made Qingtian a princess, which was also a sign of his love for Qingtian.
If there are any mistakes or omissions in the enthronement ceremony, it would be tantamount to bringing disgrace to the emperor's brother.
Fortunately, there wasn't much that needed Qingtian to do at the enthronement ceremony.
With Qingtian's intelligence, he will definitely learn it quickly.
"Okay."
Hearing that Prince Rui had finally given in, the officials from the Ministry of Rites felt like shedding tears for themselves.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Prince Rui continue, "But my promise is conditional."
The official from the Ministry of Rites, whose heart had just been at peace, began to lift again. He said cautiously, "Your Highness, you, you can speak freely..."
"The place to learn the etiquette must be in the palace, and it must be in the presence of me or the princess."
"Of course, it should be like this without you saying it, the Emperor has also specifically instructed us to do so.
"Usually, we learn etiquette in the palace, taught by the maids appointed by the Empress.
"However, after learning all the rules, you still need to go to the palace to go through the procedures in advance."
The official from the Ministry of Rites thought to himself that the Emperor treated Princess Qingtian more seriously than his own daughter.
Who knows who will be so unlucky to be assigned to teach the rules by then.
Children always have to suffer when they first start learning rules. Not to mention the many princes and princesses in the palace, even the crown prince cried and shed tears when he was learning the rules.
At that time, the nanny who teaches the rules will not only have to bear the anger of Prince Rui and his wife, but will also have to bear additional pressure from the emperor.
However, what the officials of the Ministry of Rites did not know was that in the palace, not only did the emperor love Qingtian, but the queen was no less fond of him.
The Queen directly picked two senior maids from the palace and sent them to Prince Rui's mansion, and gave him all the necessary instructions.
When the two maids arrived at the palace, they not only did not act in a domineering manner, but were also extremely gentle and patient towards Qingtian.
They originally thought that they would be facing a spoiled little princess, but unexpectedly, Qingtian was more well-behaved than any child they had ever met.
Not only is he very polite in his dealings with others, but he is also very smart and can grasp anything he learns very quickly.
Even the most boring and difficult posture exercises, she would do them seriously, over and over again, without any slackness or perfunctoriness.
The two maids, who had been in the palace for many years and had taught many princesses and even princes, both praised Qingtian highly.
After the first practice, Qingtian did not show any abnormality. He followed Princess Rui and obediently sent the two maids away.
It was not until the evening when Birui was washing Qingtian's feet that she suddenly gasped and subconsciously wanted to pull back her right foot.
"What's wrong?" Birui asked quickly.
It was a sunny afternoon this afternoon, so I walked back and forth many times to practice my walking posture.
So Princess Rui specifically instructed Birui to soak Qingtian's feet tonight and then rub them to relieve her fatigue.
"It hurts a little here." Qingtian pointed to his right foot.
Birui quickly checked carefully and found a blister on the side of her right little toe.
"Oh, it must be painful. Why didn't the princess tell you this afternoon?" Birui felt so distressed that she didn't dare to soak Qingtian's feet anymore. She quickly ordered someone to call a doctor.
"No need to call a doctor, it's nothing. I used to get blisters from it all the time, but it will heal on its own in a few days."
Although Birui had heard about what Qingtian's life was like before, she had never seen it with her own eyes.
When she started working as Qingtian's personal maid, Qingtian had already been taken care of by Mrs. Ye and was fair and tender, without any of the scars and calluses she had before.
Hearing Qingtian say this, Birui felt a lump in her nose as she recalled the suffering she had endured outside the Great Wall and how she had fled famine to get to Beijing.
"Princess, we must call a doctor to apply medicine to you. You can't walk around for a few days. Let's get better first."
After Birui said that, she took out the shoes that Qingtian wore that afternoon and threw them away.
I didn't walk much in the afternoon but my feet were already blistered, so there's no need to keep these shoes.
This is because the princess and the little princess are kind-hearted, otherwise the shoe maker would have been punished.
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