Chapter 12 Kwong Man Tong

Kwangwonkan is the academy of Tingjing.

Mingqi officials and nobles often sent their sons and daughters to Guangwenkan, where all the teachers were famous scholars or talented men. The young children of the nobility were proud to be enrolled in the Guangwenkan.

Shen Miao also studied at Guangwenkan.

Unfortunately, Shen Xin and Mrs. Shen are military generals, and the elder brother Shen Qiu is a headache when he encounters reading. Shen Miao since childhood raised in the side of Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Shen is a songstress, can not read a word. Shen Miao’s enlightenment or Shen three Mrs. Chen Ruoqiu teach, Chen Ruoqiu from a family of books, but at the beginning of the teaching Shen Miao as much as the obscure textbooks. The child’s family is already playful, teach to teach, but teach Shen Miao completely disgusted with reading and writing.

Chen Ruoqiu see Shen Miao do not like to read, but also never forced, teach her to pay attention to food, clothing, living a full life of a young lady. Later, when the age to go to the Guangwen Hall, Shen Miao how can not keep up with the knowledge of Mr. lectures, than the students of the first state is not as good, and then became the bottom of the pile. Over and over, Shen Miao is even less like to study, but also became Dingjing famous ignorance stupidity.

Among the three first-born girls of the Shen family, Shen Yue was the most talented, and she was good at everything, including zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Although Shen Qing was not as outstanding as Shen Yue, she also did well, especially in embroidery, and she also excelled in calligraphy and arithmetic. As a person who would marry into a family and become the main mother in the future, the better the books and calculations, the more the in-laws would be pleased, so Shen Qing was also able to get a competent name.

The more Shen Yue and Shen Qing excelled, the more Shen Miao appeared to be useless. Even Shen Dongling, the concubine daughter of the eldest house, was inferior.

On the carriage, Sting asked, “Girl, why don’t you travel with the first and second girls anymore?”

On weekdays, Shen Miao always have to ride with Shen Qing and Shen Yue in the same carriage, Shen Miao is to feel that there are their own sisters accompanied by the courage. And Shen Yue and Shen Qing, about because, there is a stupid sister to set off, they will naturally appear more excellent it.

But nowadays, Shen Miao didn’t even want to make false pretenses.

“Where are the peers who are not already under one roof and who walk the opposite way?”

Sting spat out her tongue, wondering why. Her own girl’s words were becoming more and more incomprehensible to her, but she felt that this was quite good. Shen Miao’s nature has always been too weak, everything is taken by the second room three rooms to do the main, now fell into the water once, like to have their own ideas, so it is right, the first daughter of the big house serious, on the status of the status than who is not short, which can be the same as a maid.

In the other carriage, Shen Yue lifted the curtain and peeked behind, softly saying, “Big sister, fifth sister is following behind.”

“She’s deliberately being nasty with me.” Shen Qing snorted coldly, in front of Shen Yue, she never hid her contempt for Shen Miao: “Let her be, it’s not me who will lose face in the end anyway.”

Shen Yue worried: “But she was already suffering from a wind chill, and besides, this matter of His Highness Ding Wang is …… again.”

“Shen Yue?” Shen Qing said, “How do I not know what’s in your heart? Don’t pretend to be a good person here. If you really care about her, you can go sit in her carriage, so why talk to me.”

Shen Yue bit her lip, lowered her head, and didn’t speak anymore.

But the carriage traveled for a little more than half an hour, and finally arrived at Guangwen Pavilion.

The hour was still early, and the teacher had not yet begun his lessons. The students of the second year of the State Council had come in various numbers and were sitting and talking in the school hall. Shen Yue and Shen Qing had just arrived, and immediately some girls greeted them warmly.

In Guangwen Hall, among the women, Shen Yue was the most talented, beautiful, modest and gentle, and naturally sought after by all. Although Shen Qing was not as talented as Shen Yue, she was capable and smooth, and the circle of noblewomen also liked her very much.

A pink girl said, “Mother Yue, why don’t you see Shen Miao today?” On weekdays, Shen Miao was like a maid following Shen Yue and Shen Qing around, and it was a bit strange to see no one today.

“I’m afraid I don’t have the face to come.” The young girl who said this has a delicate look, but her voice is a bit big, with some mocking look on her face: “I heard that peeping at His Highness King Ding fell into the water, is it that the wind chill is still not well or is it that you don’t have the face to see people ah.”

“Pailan, it’s not that ……” Shen Yue shook her head.

“You are too protective of your sister,” Yi Peilan said: “that a stupid person, not at all like your Shen family out of the girl, you still always protect. But she also really let people eye-opening, usually look at the timid glutinous, a encounter with His Highness King Ding is full of brave, do not know, thought it is which family small family taught out of the uneducated girl.”

This then said some heavy, Shen Qing smiled and said, “Fifth sister is just a momentary naughty.”

“I think it’s because General Shen and Mrs. Shen aren’t around to teach and raise them,” another young girl with a fallen horse bun said, “Neglecting to teach them, so naturally they don’t even know the propriety, righteousness, honesty, and shame that a girl’s family knows.”

“Caixuan is wrong,” Shen Yue spoke softly and gently, “Although Great Uncle and Great Uncle are not in Dingjing, but Fifth Sister was also raised by Grandmother, and my mother and Second Aunt also taught at times, and were not negligent in their discipline.”

The implication is that it is all about Shen Miao’s natural lack of shame.

Sure enough, as soon as Shen Yue’s words came out, Yi Peilan said: ”It’s really strange, the same family raised them, Yue Niang Qing Niang, you and Shen Miaoke are really worlds apart. This is probably what sir said: rotten mud can’t help the wall.” As she said this, she cackled and laughed, and the circle of noblewomen surrounding this side all laughed. Even some of the young boys couldn’t help but look sideways.

The next moment, I heard someone shout, “Look, Shen Miao is here!”

The crowd looked toward the door with a sense of amusement.

I saw the doorway slowly walked a girl, wearing crimson crimson pick silk double areole cloud goose dress, outside draped in a deep orchid forging embroidery cloak. This color is too old for a woman, especially Shen Miao was born round and sticky, if not careful, she will be like a child who stole the clothes of the elders.

Her footsteps are very slow, the corner of the skirt does not move, step by step, although light but extremely weighty, I can not say why, I feel that for no reason there is a kind of graceful atmosphere feeling. And chin slightly lifted, between the eyebrows since the waves, so that the puppy-like eyes will also become a bottomless pool, all the power is contained in them, as if the collection of claws and teeth of the beast.

The features were still pleasing, cute because of their roundness, but now there was not a trace of stupidity to be found, because they had not yet grown up, and with their dignified manners, they were unexpectedly not out of place.

It is not like a young girl, but like …… those noble ladies in high positions, or, the father who is the head of the house kills and kills.

The schoolhouse grew quiet.