After Fang told the master and servant of the Liu family in detail what to pay attention to in life in the mountains and forests, Liu Chengzhi asked Rongmu to write down the things he needed to purchase one by one, and asked Rongmu to go to the city to report on his mother's situation, and asked him to bring back the things he needed to purchase. Because neither the master nor the servant could cook, although Tingyun Xiaozhu also had a stove, he still decided to go to the Bai family to get a house. When Rongmu came back, he also brought the old lady of the Liu family's instructions: live a quiet place and concentrate on studying. It is okay to ask the master and servant to get a house with the Bai family, but they have to pay the meal, and they must not be more than five taels of silver per month.

"Our family of three can't ask for one tael of silver for dinner, but they only need five taels. Do you really want to raise the playboys as pigs?" Ruyi Rongmu gave Fang a silver ingot, saying that it was the meal money for the year.

So, the master and servant of the Liu family were officially settled down. In the morning, Bai Nianshi wanted to teach the children of the book club. In the afternoon, Liu Chengzhi came to the Bai family courtyard to listen to the Master's lecture. In this quiet mountain village, life seemed to be slower, but it was just right for him to calm down and read.

The 18th year of Wanli, spring is here

On the solstice of spring, it is the best time of the year. There is a custom of flying kites and digging wild vegetables among the people.

After noon that day, Liu Chengzhi did not return to the bamboo forest because he was going to attend classes in the afternoon. He sat in the Baijiayuan basin and basked the sun. The cabbage and pea flowers in the vegetable garden were blooming, mixed with the pine fragrance from the forest. The warm and fragrant wind slapped on people's faces, which made people drowsy. While he was squinting his eyes, he saw Ruyi taking the pen and ink to sit down in the grass pavilion in front of the door and writing intently.

Liu Chengzhi was curious about what she would write, so he stood behind her and looked quietly. She wrote the "Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" on the best Shu paper, with a beautiful hairpin and a small calligraphy of flowers, full of ink, and a gust of wind blew, and Ruyi felt that the bangs on her forehead were in trouble, so she tweeted it with her hand, and accidentally turned her head to see Liu Chengzhi beside her, and was stunned for a moment.

"Miss Ruyi is such a talented girl!"

"Young Master Liu praised it... In addition, when you entered the village that day, you saw me climbing a tree..." A pair of big eyes flashed and looked at Liu Chengzhi with a little shy look.

"I was so offensive when I first met the girl, I hope he could not let me go!" Liu Chengzhi smiled and said, "I won't talk nonsense about my daughter's reputation."

"It's great!" Ruyi smiled so hard that her eyes turned into two crescent moons. She suddenly felt that she had exposed her teeth when she smiled, so she quickly rolled up her sleeves and covered her face.

Liu Chengzhi thought that although this girl was handsome and cute, she was also polite and looked cautious, which was really funny.

"What's so good?"

"Father!"

"Teacher!"

"We are saying that the handwriting of Ruyi Girl is so well written."

"This girl has been smart since she was a child. Mr. Chen from the same village is my friend and is good at calligraphy and painting. So she learned some fur from him since she was a child." Bai Nianshi was wearing a blue sermon robe that had been washed a little white, stroked his beard, and couldn't help but reveal some pride in his tone.

"Ruyi! Ruyi! Go and fly kites with me!" The three of them were discussing their calligraphy experience. They saw a 16 or 17-year-old girl in a red coat and green skirt with a silk silver butterfly on her temples. She wore a pair of embroidered shoes and walked into the yard with three-inch golden lotus.

"I won't go anymore, Cui'e, I'm going to copy scriptures for Master Huixin of Wolong Temple." Ruyi subconsciously pulled her skirt down to cover her feet.

Liu Chengzhi saw this action. He looked at Qin Cui'e's feet and looked at Ruyi's feet again, as if he understood... Ruyi's feet were really much bigger than the three-inch golden lotus.

The Ming Dynasty women regard foot binding as beauty. They started to bind their feet when they were young. Sometimes they had to break their foot bones. The pain was unbearable. The foot binding was not only small, but also had to be arched, wrapped in a horn-shaped horn, which was only three inches long, and called "three-inch golden lotus". When they walked, they were trembling, their limbs swayed, "the pale yellow bow-like shoes were small, and their waists were afraid of wind blowing down." Many literati and scholars praised this weak and sick beauty. A Ming Dynasty woman could get married at the age of fourteen, but Ruyi is now eighteen, with a innocent family background and such talent. Several matchmakers came to see her and wanted to talk about marriage, but after seeing these big feet, they became difficult. When Ruyi was five or six years old, Fang also had her feet.

After pestering for a day, Xiao Ruyi said that the pain was unbearable. Bai Nianshi felt sorry for her daughter, so she taught Fang to put on the foot binding cloth. Seeing that her little feet were bruised, she made her looser. Unexpectedly, the girl was very alert. She removed the foot binding cloth at night and tied it up loosely during the day without notice. When she was in her teens, Ruyi's feet gradually grew up. Fang discovered the clue and wanted to wrap her up again. She said that her feet would not grow up like this, so she was no different from the village servant. Ruyi cried and made a fuss. Bai Nianshi felt sorry for her daughter and said, "Let her go, let her go, be a mountain village girl or a first-class imperial edict for the rest of her life, it is all fate."

"Hello Mr. Bai!" Qin Cui'e swept her mood. Seeing that Mr. Bai was there, she could only exchange a few greetings before leaving: "This is..."

Qin Cui'e saw Liu Chengzhi wearing a square scarf and a straight piece of sky-blue silk. She was so elegant and gentle. However, her body didn't look like a scholar, but she looked like a troop. The jade pendant with her waist didn't look like an ordinary family.

"This is my newly acquired disciple, Liu Chengzhi, the second son of the Liu family in Hangzhou."

"I've met Mr. Liu."

“It’s polite.”

"You girl, you have to work hard on the spring solstice, who will you show it to?" Cui'e pulled Ruyi aside, blamed her quietly, and looked at Liu Chengzhi with a clever smile and said, "Is it because...he?"

"You slutty girl, don't talk nonsense!" Ruyi pushed her with a little shame, and moved to this mountain village when she was five years old. Because of her age, the two of them played together as young as they were young and became friends who could speak. Cui'e naturally spoke more without any restraint.

"Okay, if you don't go, I'll go by myself, but... I'm going to have two months to go on my birthday, so you have to draw a bellyband for me." Cui'e said a little domineeringly.

"Okay, okay, my aunt..."

Capital, Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Li sat on the Grand Master's chair, watching the palace maids fly kites in the yard in this beautiful spring scenery, sometimes high and sometimes low. Although there are many rules in the palace, they are laughing in the yard at this time, and the Queen Mother did not blame him.

"It's only because it's more troublesome, it's so popular..."

Eighteen years have passed since the death of the late emperor. The emperor has stopped attending court since November last year. All the decrees are issued in the form of an edict. Apart from paying homage to the public every day, the mother and son have nothing to say. The emperor had nothing to say when he came to the Cining Palace, but he was very happy to be with Concubine Zheng's place all day long. Now the eldest prince Chang Luo is nine years old, and he doesn't plan to establish a prince... Half a year ago, the Empress Dowager's youngest son, Prince Lu, was a vassal, and the palace was even more empty...

"Oh, it's not good!" One of the red kites broke its string and drifted, and the February kites broke its string and flew towards the Imperial Garden.

"Look carefully and don't fall on the roof, it's unlucky." The empress dowager stood up and looked.

If the big red kite falls on the roof, it will be water. People here go to look for the kite, and someone comes to report it. The emperor comes to pay tribute to the empress dowager.

"It's time for the time, what am I asking for?" The Empress Dowager came to pay her respects at this time when she saw the emperor coming to pay her respects, so she was naturally a little angry: "Xuan."

I saw Wanli following the ceremonial guard, and his fat body staggeringly, with his left foot high and his right foot low, making it very difficult to walk.

"My son suffered from leg injury this morning, so he came to pay his respects."

"Since the emperor is ill in the dragon body, he should be resting, so he should not run to Zheng every day, and alcohol and sex hurt his body."

"My son knows."

"Do you know? What do you know?" The Empress Dowager said slightly: "Ai family asked you, you became the crown prince at the age of six, and the eldest son of the emperor Chang Luo is now nine years old. Why don't you make him the crown prince?"

"He was born to a palace maid." Wanli leaned forward and calmly said.

"You were also born to a palace maid!" This sentence angered Empress Li. She was over forty years old and her well-maintained face also showed some fine lines due to anger.

Wanli was shocked and hurriedly knelt in front of the empress dowager with the support of the eunuch Gao Huai, and did not dare to show up.
Chapter completed!