Jiang Shumiao arrived in the capital before the Lunar New Year and then received news that the Imperial Academy was on holiday for a month.
Jiang Shumiao was stunned.
So she didn't have to skip school in the first place; instead, she spent her vacation, which should have been filled with fun, traveling all the way to exorcise a demon?
Why did her uncle, the emperor, specifically tell her to come back to school early?
So they were all lying to her.
Jiang Shumiao got angry and went straight to the palace.
"Uncle, why did you lie to me?"
Emperor Hongde asked in surprise, "When did I lie to you?"
Jiang Shumiao puffed out her cheeks and said confidently, "The Imperial Academy will be on holiday after I leave."
"yes."
Emperor Hongde nodded. “Schools start twice a year, in the first month of the lunar calendar and in late summer or early autumn. But you will only turn three in April, so the start of the entire preschool class has been delayed. This is a special exception that I have made for you. Starting next year, things will get back on track.”
Jiang Shumiao was stunned.
"Then why did you tell me to go early and come back early?"
Emperor Hongde was even more puzzled, "The Northwest is bitterly cold, do you really intend to spend the New Year there?"
Jiang Shumiao: "..."
Jiang Shumiao belatedly realized that her uncle, the emperor, had indeed never told her to come back to school sooner.
Jiang Shumiao immediately wilted.
The Fifth Princess was overjoyed to hear of her return and kept asking her questions in a chattering manner.
"Miaomiao, did you see the great demon? What did it look like? Was it very powerful? How did you deal with it?"
In recent years, the palace has welcomed a sixth princess, who is not yet two years old and speaks with a slight stutter.
"If you have to blame someone, blame the cat...blame the cat."
Jiang Shumiao: "..."
The Fifth Princess was already seriously correcting her, "It's Miaomiao, not Maomao."
The sixth princess's big eyes were full of innocence as she clapped her hands and chuckled, "Meow meow."
Jiang Shumiao recalled when the Fifth Princess had just learned to speak.
They really are sisters.
The Fifth Princess had long forgotten her own 'dark history' and was patiently teaching her younger sister.
"Miaomiao, not Miaomiao."
"Mao Mao".
“It is ‘渺’ (miǎo).
"hair."
Fifth Princess: "..."
The fifth princess burst into tears, feeling wronged.
"My little sister is so clumsy, waaaaaah..."
The sixth princess, bewildered and somewhat at a loss, reached out to take her hand, chirping softly.
The fifth princess cried even harder.
The sixth princess panicked and started crying too.
The entire Changxin Palace was instantly filled with the sound of wailing and howling.
Jiang Shumiao quickly comforted them, "Don't cry, I'll tell you a story about fighting monsters."
The fifth princess's crying subsided considerably, but her face still looked aggrieved.
The sixth princess, having been coaxed by her mother, toddled over to the fifth princess, calling out, "Sister...Sister..."
She finally got it right this time.
The fifth princess immediately beamed and kissed her rosy cheeks.
The sixth princess was stunned for a moment, then grinned, revealing four small baby teeth.
Children are naturally curious about ghost stories, and even the eleven-year-old second princess couldn't resist gathering around to listen to Jiang Shumiao's vivid account of how she caught demons.
“That snake was exceptionally long, longer than all of you stacked together.”
The children couldn't imagine it.
So the third prince, the fourth prince, the fourth princess, the fifth princess, and the sixth princess immediately decided to conduct a human experiment. They lay on the ground with their heads and feet touching, forming a curved line.
The fifth princess was still asking, "Miaomiao, is it really that long?"
The Empress Dowager, the Empress, and a room full of concubines: "..."
They said they didn't understand the world of children.
Just then, Emperor Hongde arrived and saw this scene, his face full of question marks.
"What are you doing?"
All the concubines in the room rose to pay their respects.
The princes and princesses, who were treated like royalty, also got up from the ground. The fifth princess skipped over and said, "Miaomiao said that giant python is longer than all of us combined. Father, is there really such a long snake?"
Little Douding kept asking questions.
"Brother Crown Prince said that monsters eat people. Did the snake grow this long because it ate people?"
Grandmother said that we shouldn't be picky eaters and should eat more so that we can grow tall.
Emperor Hongde was a little bewildered by his daughter's divergent questions.
He coughed lightly and looked at Jiang Shumiao, "Miaomiao, don't tell these ghost stories to the children in the future, it will scare them."
Jiang Shumiao turned her head and asked, "Are you scared?"
Except for the Crown Prince, everyone else shook their heads.
The fifth prince said childishly, "Miaomiao can catch demons. She is more powerful than demons, so we are not afraid."
Emperor Hongde was speechless.
He patted the two children's heads and told them to go play by themselves.
The Third Prince continued, "Miaomiao, the snake was so big, how did you defeat it?"
Jiang Shumiao spread out her right hand, "Just like that, one slap and you're back to square one."
Everyone looked on in amazement.
"It still wanted to eat me, so I rolled it into a ball. But the snake had scales that were hard and barbed, so it wasn't good to kick it like a ball."
Jiang Shumiao's tone was full of disdain and regret.
"But I used it to make armor for my sister; it's impervious to swords and spears."
The second princess stammered, "You...you've plucked all the snake scales off?"
"yes."
Jiang Shumiao nodded, "That stinky snake was wicked; it ate many people. So I skinned it, removed its bones, and boiled it into snake soup, which I then distributed to the people. This is what they call 'evil begets evil.'"
The younger ones all nodded.
Jiang Shumiao didn't stay in the palace for long before returning home.
Fuqu immediately saw through the trick.
It seems that the master has evolved into a celestial body.
Killing a demon has this kind of benefit?
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