Chapter 531 The Heartless Top Scholar 5
Yuan Xihua was fond of martial arts, so Ning Yan took out two swords from her divine palace. She gave one to him and kept the other for herself. She also told Yuan Xihua that the two swords were a pair, one male and one female, and would never be separated.
It also made the other person happy.
Officials in Fengyu are entitled to a three-day holiday upon marriage. After the three-day holiday, Ning Yan changed into her official robes and went to work.
She is quite different now than when she was first assigned to the Hanlin Academy. She has the easiest job, and all the officials treat her very politely. She is invited to lunch and dinner.
However, Ning Yan rejected him.
She has to support two men, and as a lowly sixth-rank official, she doesn't have much salary. She has to work hard to get promoted.
So, she spent the whole day studying the ancient books collected in the Hanlin Academy. Some of these books were incomplete, so Ning Yan began to look for documents and supporting evidence to complete them.
She is especially qualified to speak on matters related to medicine and divination.
After several hours of busy work, she felt that her wrists had become thicker.
Her diligent writing also caught the attention of Scholar Bian.
She stood quietly behind Ning Yan, watching her fill in the pages of those ancient books one by one, adding evidence and illustrations. Ning Yan would write a page and set it aside to dry, and she would pick up a page and examine it carefully, becoming more and more excited as she looked.
But she didn't disturb Ning Yan. Instead, she ordered someone to rewrite the parts that Ning Yan had already repaired. After her shift, she went to find the head of the Imperial Hospital, and the two of them went to study the prescriptions together.
After finishing her shift, Ning Yan declined her colleagues' invitations and went home obediently. On her way, she bought two jade hairpins worn by men and put them in her bosom.
Inside the Ning Mansion.
Yuan Xihua's servant whispered in his ear, "Master, you should go and stand guard in front so that the master can invite her to your courtyard when he returns. Otherwise, if that master intercepts her, the master will care less about you in the future."
"Shut up, how dare you discuss the mistress and the prince?"
"Alright, you can leave now. Let Qiusheng come and serve me."
The servant was dumbfounded. He never expected that his attempt to teach his master how to win favor would backfire and make him disliked. What was he going to do now?
In His Highness's Wutong Courtyard, the servants around the Third Young Master were also talking about this matter, but in a slightly different style.
"Lord Ning will definitely come to see Your Highness first. Your Highness should hurry up and get ready."
The Third Prince studied the sheet music that Ning Yan had copied for him bit by bit. Hearing this, he became a little impatient and said, "Alright, what's there to tidy up? My wife said she doesn't care about these things and tells me to do whatever I want."
Even the wife doesn't mind, so why are you all begging me?
Go and collect ten strokes of the cane.
The wife said he was naturally beautiful. What does it mean to be naturally beautiful? It means he was good-looking from the start and didn't need to dress up.
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As soon as Ning Yan returned to the manor, she immediately asked the servants, "What are my two husbands doing?"
"Yuan Fulang is in the kitchen overseeing the dinner, while His Highness the Prince is playing the zither in the Wutong Courtyard."
Ning Yan went directly to wash up and change her clothes, and then went to the study to take out a map of the Phoenix Feather Kingdom.
In this world, women are in charge and men give birth. Phoenix Feather Kingdom is surrounded by many small countries, so there is constant friction in the surrounding areas.
War consumes food, weapons, and silver. After looking through those ancient books today, she thought about writing a book about exploration, about how to find gold, silver, and iron.
Of course, it's all for the sake of getting promoted.
She has to save face for her two men.
Having made up her mind, she began grinding the ink and started writing as soon as she picked up the brush.
A quarter of an hour later, a servant came to deliver a message: "Sir, it's time for dinner."
Ning Yan put down her pen, washed her hands, and went to the dining room, where both of her husbands were already there.
Ning Yan walked over with a smile, took out two boxes from her bosom, and handed them to the two people respectively.
"I bought this at the Treasure Pavilion on my way back. Take a look, do you like it?"
Upon hearing this, the Third Prince immediately pulled over the box and opened it. He looked good in red and had fair skin, so Ning Yan bought him a white jade hairpin. Yuan Xihua was a bit more serious, so she bought him a black jade hairpin.
The third prince, being a bit naive, immediately took it out and put it in his hair. Ning Yan sincerely praised, "It looks good, very good."
Those five words made him so happy he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
Yuan Xihua slowly took out the black jade hairpin and put it on his head, then stared intently at his wife with his beautiful phoenix eyes.
"Xi Hua is just perfect for black. My taste is definitely top-notch."
Yuan Xihua was speechless. "You have to praise yourself as well when you praise someone else."
"Tell me, don't you think I have good taste?"
The Third Prince readily chimed in, "It is indeed excellent."
It doesn't matter how much money he spent; after all, he's seen all sorts of good things. What matters is that it suits him perfectly.
Ning Yan was satisfied and sat down to invite the two to eat. She first put a piece of chicken leg, which Yuan Xihua liked, on her plate, and then put a piece of tender steamed fish on the plate for the Third Prince before eating her own.
She secretly rejoiced that there were only two men; if there had been more, she would have spent the entire meal serving food to the men.
After the meal, Ning Yan said she was going to the study, which made the Third Prince a little unhappy.
"If you two have nothing to do, you can come to the study to keep me company."
The third prince was delighted: "I'll go."
Yuan Xihua waved his hand in refusal: "I need to go back to practice my sword. You can go ahead."
After he left, the Third Prince took Ning Yan's hand and walked with her towards the study. "Aren't you afraid someone will enter your study?"
"I'm not afraid of the two of you coming in. You can go anytime you want."
The third prince was happy, and he was even happier when he got to the study.
Because there were only two maids serving in the study.
When the young maid saw the master of the house arrive, she immediately lit a candle.
Ning Yan sat down at her desk and started writing; she really had something to do.
So, the Third Prince picked out a book from the bookshelf and sat down in the chair next to it to read. He was very careful when turning the pages, afraid of disturbing his wife.
Ning Yan wrote for an hour and a half, only getting up once to walk around and stretch her limbs before continuing to write.
Writing with a brush in ancient times was incredibly slow; a single mistake could ruin an entire page. If she had a computer, she could finish it tonight.
I glanced at the water clock; it was already 10:15 PM. I put down my pen and looked up to see that the Third Prince had fallen asleep in his chair.
She placed a large bed in her study when she was setting it up. It wasn't that she had any ulterior motives, but rather that she didn't want to mistreat herself. If she was in a hurry, she could just sleep here. A small bed wouldn't be comfortable to sleep in.
Now that the Third Prince was asleep, she simply carried him to the bed, washed up, and went to sleep herself.
He hadn't slept well for the past three days, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen asleep while reading.
Over the next few days, Ning Yan devoted herself to completing the medical books and ancient texts. After half a month, she finally completed a medical book called "Mian Shi Fang".
Meanwhile, thanks to Grand Secretary Bian, the Imperial Medical Academy was also verifying the supplementary prescriptions one by one.
The somewhat impatient Grand Scholar Bian reported the matter to His Majesty.
The Emperor had already read through the "Mian Shi Fang" and found the handwriting to be neat and clear, in standard printed form. The top scholar she had personally selected was indeed quite capable. "Minister Ning is indeed worthy of being a top scholar. It is quite unexpected that you have such a deep understanding of pharmacology."
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