"These are the gifts from grandma to the children. Even Xiaowu has one. I'll get Xiaoxier and Wen'er's first. They'll see them when they come."
Su Xingyi opened two small boxes as he spoke.
Xiao Xier's was a drawer of top-quality oriental pearls, a drawer of hairpins, and golden step-shakes.
Su Ningwen is a drawer full of beautiful jades of various sizes, a priceless inkstone, and a jade pen with the words "Miaobi Shenghua" engraved on it.
"Xiao Yu, will the children like it?"
"Of course! Your grandmother selected them very carefully. Did you tell her about the children's talents, so she gave Wen Ge'er the inkstone and this wonderful brush?
Su Xingyi nodded. "Grandma cares about me so much. She asks about the children in great detail."
"Then let me guess, will the gift that grandma gave to Ang'er be a set of painting tools?"
Su Xingyi smiled and shook his head, gesturing with his hands, "It's a pair of large golden bowls! There are beautiful patterns on them!"
Xiao Lingyu was shocked!
It turned out to be a golden rice bowl!
Queen Dongjun is really good at giving gifts!
"What about Brother Jie? Could it be Jin Abacus?"
"You guessed right, but there's also 'cabbage' made of white jade, and a giant golden toad! Oh, and my grandparents also said that Brother Jie can go to Dongjun to do business without any worries!"
Xiao Lingyu was so shocked by the generosity of the Dongjun royal family that she was speechless. Her prince had a powerful background!
"Grandma said that when Xiaowu is born, she will send him many gifts. She will send gifts every year on his birthday, and all four children will get some..."
Xiao Lingyu could imagine how favored Princess Fu'an was back then.
"Xingyi, do you know who your biological father is?"
Su Xingyi was silent for a moment. "Last time when Xiaojiu and Yunxiao's identities were revealed, you told me that they originally came to Beiyi to pay homage to Empress Fu'an. Feng Jinyu and I have the same father."
"Then..." Xiao Lingyu opened his mouth, not knowing how to ask.
Then close the open boxes on the table one by one.
Thinking that his four children would all trace their roots back to their ancestors, he would also trace his roots back to his ancestors.
"So do you want to go and meet your father?"
"No!" Su Xingyi sat over and took Xiao Lingyu in his arms. "No one is more important than you and the children. However, I will investigate the truth behind my mother's difficult labor and find the person who persecuted her. I will personally kill him/her to avenge my mother. However, not now. I will wait until Xiaowu is born safely, and then I will start investigating this matter."
Seeing that he had his own plans, Xiao Lingyu said nothing more, "Then do as you wish."
Xiao Lingyu saw that the two children usually came at this time after finishing their homework, but now they were nowhere to be seen.
After half a cup of tea, no one showed up, so he sent someone to invite the brother and sister over.
"Mother, we are here."
"Why are you so late today? I remember I didn't assign you too much homework!"
The brother and sister looked at each other. They were busy preparing a birthday gift for their mother!
"Mother, the Imperial Examination results have been announced, and Third Brother is about to go to the provincial examination. I saw that she was studying so hard, so I stayed to study with her, and now I'm late."
Xiao Lingyu looked at Xiao Xier and said with a smile, "This is unlike you. You finish your homework and run off to play!"
My mother is really hard to fool!
"Mother, I just think I should study more so I can take the imperial examination like my third brother. But why can't women take the imperial examination? Can't they become officials?"
Whenever this topic comes up, Xiaoxi's sense of women's rights always comes up.
"Mo Shu, all of you go out first."
"It's the princess."
The servants outside also left.
"Brother Wen, tell me, how can a woman take part in the imperial examination?"
Su Ningwen recalled the last time he took the Imperial Examination, all the people in the circle were men, and there were no women at all!
My mother is a woman. She was able to become a princess because the emperor personally bestowed her the title. She is a first-rank princess and has the same important status as a first-rank official.
A princess is equivalent to an official, so it seems that women can be officials!
Nowadays, only men can take the imperial examinations, which is a system stipulated by the imperial court.
If women were allowed to take the imperial examinations, this system would have to be changed, which would be difficult.
"Mother, women are no worse than men, they just don't have the opportunity to take the imperial examinations. If women want to take the imperial examinations and become officials like men, unless the court allows it, otherwise women will be..."
Heretic.
When this word came up, Su Ningwen felt that many things were very unfavorable to women!
Why does it feel like the man is suppressing the woman!
Unless a woman who wants to serve as an official in the court is born in Nankun!
"Mother, the only one of the Four Kingdoms who can now allow women to serve as officials is Nankun. Father Zilu told me about the history of the Four Kingdoms over the past hundred years. A hundred years ago, Nankun had an empress who issued a series of policies that benefited women. Not only could women serve as officials in the court, they could also become famous female generals. It is said that the Nankun court was very opposed to it at the time. Because Nankun was a woman emperor, the other three kingdoms rose up to attack her and intended to destroy her. The empress easily repelled the three kingdoms with her own strength. Since then, the three kingdoms have been scared and have not dared to offend Nankun for a hundred years. They dared only to make some small moves. Since then, no one has opposed the Nankun court, and a series of policies that benefit women have been implemented!"
Xiao Lingyu felt that this was the case where whoever had the stronger fist would be the one to be obeyed!
As the great man said, political power comes from the barrel of a gun!
Xiao Xi'er secretly rejoiced. Nan Kun was more open-minded. "Mother, I won't worry about this issue anymore. I will become a high-ranking official in the future."
She is the little Princess Nankun, and in the future she will be a prince like her father, no, a queen!
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