Chapter 28: Difficulty in Passing
After hesitating for a while, Zhong Min took the copied materials and returned to the study again, only to see that Xiao Mingzheng and Luo Jiaxing had already started playing chess.
She knew nothing about Go, so she had no interest in it. All she cared about now was whether these copies would pass the test.
Seeing Zhong Min standing aside, holding something in her hand but not making any noise to disturb him, Xiao Mingzheng put down the chess piece in his hand and motioned for her to bring the thing over.
Seeing this, Zhong Min took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and stopped thinking about it, and handed the thing directly to Xiao Mingzheng.
Xiao Mingzheng couldn't help but frown when he opened it. After casually flipping through a few pages, he looked up at Zhong Min and asked, "What did you write it with?"
Luo Jiaxing, who was standing by, couldn't help but turn his head to take a look when he saw this, but he couldn't help but force a smile.
It turned out that Zhong Min had been punished by Xiao Mingzheng to copy the "Nujie". Copying the "Nujie" was fine, but the most important thing was the strange calligraphy. It looked like it had been drawn with a stick dipped in ink, without any trace of calligraphy. However, Luo Jiaxing thought the calligraphy was strange but not ugly. On the contrary, it had a rather sharp and imposing aura.
Seeing that Xiao Mingzheng had indeed asked this question, Zhong Min simply took out her homemade chicken feather brush and said, "Your Highness, this is what I wrote with."
"Didn't Uncle Li give you a brush?" Xiao Mingzheng couldn't help but feel surprised when he saw what was in Zhong Min's hand.
"Your Highness, I don't know how to use a brush. The words I write with a brush are completely unrecognizable." Zhong Min said truthfully, "I used this and just wrote directly. The handwriting is a little ugly and it took a little longer, but after rushing through the night, I finally finished copying it three times."
After hearing the explanation, Xiao Mingzheng finally understood why Zhong Min looked like that. However, he really didn't expect that she couldn't use a brush. This seemed a little unreasonable.
"Take it back and rewrite it!" After taking another look, he handed the things back to Zhong Min.
"Ah? Why?" Zhong Min was immediately anxious upon hearing this. As she took the copy, she couldn't help but argue, "Your Highness, I didn't miss a single word. Why are you asking me to rewrite it?"
Xiao Mingzheng stopped looking at Zhong Min and turned back to playing chess. "You made twelve mistakes in total. Tell me if you think it's acceptable or not."
"No way, I drew them carefully one by one, how could there be any mistakes?" Zhong Min blurted out, and picked up the copied "Female Commandments" in her hand and started to read it.
But it was useless to read. She didn't even recognize the characters, and there was no way to compare the correct and incorrect characters, so how could she tell them apart? Damn it, the person behind her must have been too sleepy and carelessly missed some strokes. Even so, there was no need to rewrite everything. That was truly inhumane.
Before she could finish her internal complaints, Xiao Mingzheng instantly stopped moving his pieces, turned his head and said to Zhong Min, "Did you draw this? Can't you read?"
"Ah..." Zhong Minyi immediately realized that she had let something slip in her haste. She immediately regretted it and after hesitating for a moment, she could only say, "Your servant, I don't know if I could read before, but since I fell on my head last time, I can't read anymore."
"No way, didn't you say that you liked reading books like military books when you were a child? How could you not recognize words? Could it be that you fell on your head and forgot all the words you knew?" Luo Jiaxing finally couldn't help it. Zhong Min was really too interesting. She actually said that she couldn't use a brush and couldn't recognize words. In the end, she came up with the idea of using chicken feathers to draw the words three times according to the template.
After hearing Luo Jiaxing's unintentional words, Zhong Min felt even more embarrassed. Yes, it was hard to believe that a person who claimed that he loved reading military books since childhood could remember so many books he had read before after losing his memory, but he could no longer recognize those words and could not even use a brush.
But the fact is indeed so, of course the reason is different, and it is obvious that she cannot tell the real reason even if she is beaten to death.
"I don't know what's going on, but I guarantee that what I said is true and I am not lying." She sighed secretly and had to muster up the courage to assure Xiao Mingzheng and Luo Jiaxing.
Damn Xiao Mingzheng, wouldn't he think she was playing tricks on them? Honestly, she had no choice. She didn't want to be illiterate, she wanted to write beautiful calligraphy, but reality was always cruel. She didn't have the luck of time-traveling heroines in novels and TV shows, not only having a distinguished family background but also inheriting all the memories and skills of the original owner.
She didn't get any spatial treasure that could make her worry-free. She was just a little person with nothing, a little person who had to worry about her life all the time.
Xiao Mingzheng was silent for a moment, seeing Zhong Min's confident yet slightly helpless expression. Although Zhong Min's handwriting was done with a homemade chicken feather brush, which lacked the ability to create subtle strokes, the structure was rigorous, the handwriting possessed its own unique characteristics, and even had a subtle air of sharpness.
It was obvious that even if he was copying, such a stroke of calligraphy was definitely not something someone who had never written before could create. And Zhong Min didn't seem to be lying. Besides, lying like that wouldn't do her any good. Even if she truly couldn't read, he wouldn't have the opportunity to let her see confidential documents she shouldn't have.
If falling on the head could cause such strange changes in a person, then he was really curious about what kind of person Zhong Min was in the past.
Seeing that Xiao Mingzheng remained silent, Zhong Min gritted her teeth and shamelessly pleaded for herself, "Your Highness, please don't ask me to rewrite it. You don't know how much effort this takes to write. I have to dip my brush in ink every two strokes. I spent an entire night rewriting it three times. If I were to rewrite it again, I don't know how long it would take to finish it."
She suddenly felt really pitiful. It was just a few pieces of cakes. If she had known it would be so troublesome, she might as well have just spanked her hands with a few dozen sticks. Corporal punishment is better than making her copy books. Of course, the premise is that she shouldn't do something as perverted as Concubine Zheng who used needles to prick her.
Seeing Zhong Min's pitiful expression, Luo Jiaxing became even more curious. Seeing that Xiao Mingzheng hadn't said anything and had already shifted his gaze to the chess board beside him, he whispered to Zhong Min, "What rules did you break yesterday?"
Seeing this, Zhong Min glanced at Xiao Mingzheng first. Seeing that he ignored her, she blinked twice and replied to Luo Jiaxing innocently, "Yesterday, without permission, I tried some of the cakes in the study. I originally wanted to test the poison for the prince, but I was so hungry that I accidentally tried a few more pieces."
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