Chapter 386: contact

Li Wei was struggling to figure out how to solve the situation in front of him, and there are a lot of clues, but what is missing now is evidence. There can be no conviction without evidence.
"Manny, Chunrong from the sewing room is here."
Li Wei asked: "What is she here for?"
"Didn't the girl ask her to measure you the day before yesterday?"
Things have been messed up these past two days, Li Wei cheered up and said, "Let her come in."
Chun Rong held a box with a measuring tape, fine charcoal strips for recording, and a booklet in it.
Li Wei got up, Chun Rong stepped forward and curtled, "The empress mother, you are offended."
Chun Rong took out the measuring tape and Li had a small size, Li Wei stretched his arms and chatted with Chun Rong.
"Wan Su is your master?"
Chun Rong was stunned when she heard that the queen mother mentioned her master's arrival, and hurriedly replied: "Back to the queen mother, yes. Wan Su is a slave master."
"Oh, she has mediocre needlework skills, what can she teach you?"
Chun Rong replied cautiously: "Sister Wansu taught her slaves to read and read, so the slaves worshipped her as a teacher."
When Wan Su entered the mansion, she was also a little maid who knew nothing. When her mother saw that she was honest and smart, she was short of people at that time, so her mother gave Wan Su to her. She said that Wansu could read and write.
"How long did you work in the needle and thread bureau before?"
"Hui Niangniang, the maidservant has been in the needle and thread bureau for more than half a year. She specializes in sewing."
"The technique must be good. Will you describe it?"
"meeting."
Li Wei thought about it for a while and said, "Take a few pictures and show me some other day."
Chun Rong carefully agreed, she had already noted the size of Li Wei. It is written down in the booklet. Li Wei sat back on the couch, holding a tea cup in his hand, and secretly looked at the little girl. He was only fifteen or six years old, and he had a braid, which was slightly tied with white cotton rope. A small face, and white eyes. Looks very alert. It's just a little petite, and it doesn't stand out among these women in the palace.
Li Wei remembered the set of transcripts, and she asked, "Chunrong, are you familiar with the people in Xukun Palace?"
Chun Rong said: "Get to know, I can't say that I am familiar. But when I was in the needle and thread bureau, I had a few times with sister Ziling next to Empress Qi Taifei."
"Then you keep in touch with Ziling, the closer the relationship, the better, can you do it?"
Chun Rong didn't know what the queen mother had in letting her have a relationship with a maid from Xukun Palace, but she didn't question too much, so she had to do it: "The maidservant will do what the maidservant ordered."
"I see you are also quite smart, I believe you can do this well, and I will reward you heavily after it is done."
"Queen Mother Xie." These three words were extremely heavy to Chun Rong.
At this point, Li Wei thought that Princess Qi was pretending to be sick, but what was lacking was evidence, so she wanted Chunrong to get closer to the reality of Xukun Palace. As the saying goes, knowing oneself and one another will never end in battle.
Soon it came to the ninth day of March, and Li Wei increased his vigilance since opening his eyes. From sitting and walking, to eating and drinking, I was sweating everywhere. Until bedtime, nothing happened.
This day has passed smoothly, but it does not mean that it will pass safely in the future.
The Wenhua Hall has been cleaned up, and Li Wei personally went to see it. The furnishings are not much different from those in the study room. The environment is excellent, but the teachers are very different. Later, with a stroke of his pen, Li Wei ordered those bachelors of the Hanlin Academy to come to the Wenhua Pavilion to teach the princess to study Confucian classics. The usual counseling is also a few talented female officials selected by Li Weiqin from the harem.
On the day before the formal start of classes, Li Xing took a small sedan chair to Chongqing Palace, and she was selected as a companion to Shujia. At the same time, he also came in to accompany Li Wei.
"From today onwards, you will live in the West Wing. Food and clothing will come out of my case."
Li Xing responded with a yes. She brought in two maids and asked the maids to make arrangements for her.
Shujia followed the little emperor and called Li to act as his aunt, and the two quickly became acquainted. Li Xing even read stories to Shujia, who likes her aunt very much.
On the day of formal schooling, Li Wei personally sent the two to Wenhua Hall. On the first day of school, Li Wei invited a fellow of the Hanlin Academy of Zhan Yunbai to sit here.
Zhan Yunbai once taught the first emperor, but now he has to face a bunch of female dolls. The youngest nine princesses are only four or five years old, and he is also quite a headache. But too late to the town, bite the bullet and get it.
Li Wei got up first and spoke to the princess and the ladies of the family.
"Kaiwenhua Hall allows you girls to come to study. I really hope you can learn something. In the future, courses will not only cover the Four Books and Five Classics, but astronomy, geography, arithmetic, painting, and chess may be involved. Of course, these things will also be involved. Make certain adjustments according to each of you’s interests and specialties. Anyway, my original intention is to hope that you will learn knowledge well, be sensible and civilized."
Then Zhan Yunbai was secretly surprised by the words of the Queen Mother. Didn't he just teach a few poems and just a few classics? These requirements of the Queen Mother are too high for the girls. Could it be true that the upbringing like a prince is also ridiculous and inconsistent with the ancestral system. But these thoughts circled in my mind several times, and because of the identity of the queen mother, I dare not say it.
Since then, every day when the princess goes to school, Li Wei must go to visit one or two in person, and sometimes he will personally inspect. The princesses were very interested in studying at the beginning, and they all worked very hard. Even the daughters of the aristocratic families who accompanied them also worked very hard to make progress. Everyone hoped to earn an excellence in front of the Queen Mother.
One day after class was over, Shu Jia rushed towards Li Wei's arms as soon as he entered the house. Li Wei grabbed Shu Jia's hand and took a look. The little hand was stained with ink and was so dark that the maid took her down to wash her hands.
Li Wei asked Li Xing to sit in front of him and asked what her husband taught today. Li Xingdao: "Mr. taught "The Doctrine of the Mean."
Li Wei did not continue to investigate Li Xing's homework, but asked her about Shujia's study. Later, I said to her: "In addition to reading, what else do you want to learn, is it to draw or play chess and piano?"
Li Xing knew that his sister wanted to cultivate her, so he said: "Draw a picture."
"Well, I will ask you a teacher to teach you well, and you will learn well."
Li Xing took the opportunity to flatter him: "Your paintings are very good, the queen mother, why don't I follow you to learn it?"
Li Wei shook his head and said, "No, I can't teach you. I'd better ask a teacher to come in and teach you, so that the princess will follow along."
The voice hasn't settled yet, and the outside informs that Mrs. Dun is coming, and Li Wei hurriedly said please.
Soon Concubine Dunn brought Xiaoliu Fukang to visit Li Wei. Seeing that Xiaoliu's complexion was good, Li Wei turned his head and said to Concubine Duna: "This child looks stronger."
Princess Dun accompanied with a smile and said: "The concubines let him play with the eunuchs every day according to what the Queen Mother said, but they are getting more and more skinny."
Li Wei praised: "This is very good. When you get better, you can go to school like your brothers and sisters."