"So that means Consort Ping might not actually know how many times you were injured, and how serious those injuries were, right?" Jingrou's eyes lit up. Although Consort Ping was a bit too eager for her daughter to succeed, surely she wouldn't be so crazy as to sacrifice her daughter's health?
Mingxuan hesitated and raised her head. The little girl was already very insecure because of her mother's previous behavior. At this moment, she pursed her lips, said nothing, but nodded hesitantly.
Jingrou tilted her head. "Perhaps things aren't as serious as we think. If we want to resolve this, we can take our time to plan it out..." Jingrou thought that if only Consort Ping brought up this matter, it probably wouldn't be very effective.
They could only help Mingxuan, but Jingrou felt that she couldn't just come here and do nothing.
If she can help more people, then that is where her value lies.
The girls weren't thinking that far ahead yet; all they were thinking about was how to help Mingxuan... they hadn't thought about anyone else.
They offered suggestions all at once, but after a while the embroiderer returned, and they had to go back to embroidering. However, they were distracted for the rest of the day.
Although we didn't reach a conclusion in the end, we all agreed that no one should tell anyone about this.
Although Mingying and the other princesses were young, they weren't the type to chatter and gossip, so Jingrou trusted them to a certain extent.
Jingrou also had a lot on her mind.
Jingrou has already decided that the next skill she needs to master is embroidery. Since she is currently staying in the palace and has to embroider things every day, it's the perfect time for her to learn this skill.
She spends all her time in the palace, so it's not very realistic for her to pursue any other hobbies.
Moreover, she had gradually developed an interest in this thing, instead of being completely at a loss at first.
Thinking about it carefully, if I could embroider something for my family or myself, I don't need it to be lifelike or have superb skills. Just as a skill, it would be quite nice.
Anyway, she's still too young for that. She shouldn't even think about things like horseback riding and archery, which are good for her health. We should wait until she's a few years older before considering it!
However, there's been no clear path to completing the other tasks.
She spends all her time in her study, surrounded by children. What merit could she possibly have?
She could only receive a little bit of it occasionally when she accompanied Consort Yi during meals. She still didn't understand how it worked, let alone contact anyone else.
But with so many people in the palace, she had to be careful with every step she took; it wasn't good for her to casually come into contact with other people.
Life in the palace was not as complicated or troublesome as she had imagined.
To put it bluntly, she's still just a child, and no one would bother her. The atmosphere in the study is also quite nice.
Although Lord Ma was determined to teach the princesses well, he still had some worries from time to time, fearing that the old nanny might come looking for him again, or that she might alert her master.
He muttered this to himself several times before his young page overheard him.
The young pageboy was repeating what the people around him were saying when Minghui's maid overheard him.
After Minghui found out, she naturally told Jingrou and Wenying about it.
Several young girls were indignant. Suddenly, a nanny appeared out of nowhere and said that she would teach them about female virtues and teachings.
Only Minghui had read about female virtues. She described it to the young girls, and they all shuddered. Things like the Three Obediences and Four Virtues were too early and too terrifying for them.
“Lord Ma wouldn’t do that… Look at what we’ve been learning lately, nothing has changed…” Mingying said weakly.
Jingrou knew this too, but right now it was just a nanny putting pressure on Lord Ma. What if there were other people later? And the nanny must be following someone else's orders, so who sent her?
In fact, Jingrou probably had a guess. In any case, it couldn't escape the mothers of these princesses. Only they were closely related to the girls in the study, so they would pay attention to this matter. Otherwise, who would care about what the girls were learning?
Even if the officials of the Qin Dynasty wanted to ruin someone, they should have targeted the princes, not the princesses, right?
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After Consort Ping sent her nanny back, she kept a close eye on what was happening in the study. She found that the man was stubborn and had not changed at all, which made her very angry!
In her opinion, her daughter only needed to know a few words so that she wouldn't be completely illiterate, so why did she need to learn so much more?
For example, when my mother was told by the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's nephew that she intended to select a girl to enter the palace, my mother forced her to study Han Chinese culture for several years. But what was the use in the end? Even if she could read and write, she still could not win the emperor's favor.
Mingxuan is seven years old now. When he is about twelve or thirteen, he will be betrothed to a Mongol, and he will probably have to leave the capital in a year or two.
Time is so tight
It's only been four or five years. Time is so precious, how can we waste it on this!
What's the use of learning those poems, classics, and the Thousand Character Classic? You'd be better off learning how to serve your husband and make your life better!
If the Emperor wants Mingxuan to stay in the study for several years, wouldn't all these things be delayed?
She was both anxious and helpless.
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