Professor Li’s Married Life Chapter 74:

There are envoys coming to court, whether the emperor and officials are busy, and what they are thinking, others don't know. Anyway, the common people are very happy and lively. If you ask them why they are so excited, no one can tell why. .

In a word, I want to watch the excitement. I heard that the prince and princess from the Yan Kingdom are here this time, and I don't know what kind of battle it will be.

It is the nature of this person that once the life is getting more ordinary, and then something happens, he is eager to join in the fun.

Not surprising.

No, since the red list notice was posted, the people in the capital gradually knew about this matter.

Following that, from the beginning of July, there was a commotion on the streets.

It is similar to the kind of prosperity brought about by various festivals. There are a lot of food stalls outside, clothes and jewelry stores are changing one after another, jugglers on the street, dragon and lion dancers, and stage singers all come out, two performances a day, in the morning One game one afternoon.

Gu Qingci felt that it was a rarity. He went out twice and found it very interesting.

Looking back, she asked Mammy Zhang if the west side of the city was the busiest side.

Aunt Zhang has been eating rice for more than ten years, she is a servant, no more rules than girls, she can't go out casually, she knows more.

So he said with a smile: "The east of the city is also lively. It is said that the peddlers from the west brought a lot of good things and replenished a lot of goods. Before I passed by the teahouse, it was full of people, and the storytellers all said it was from the Yan Kingdom. As for the story, I guess I want to take advantage of this time to make more money."

If you want to know that the kingdom of Yan is coming to the DPRK, wouldn't it bring many people? I also heard that they also have a Cuju team composed of noble girls led by a princess. They are all rich people, and they don't kill for nothing.

Originally, the Cuju show in Beijing has been on the decline for many years, and no one plays it.

But since knowing that Princess Yan is going to compete with them, and thinking about the women's Cuju event headed by Princess Kangtai,

Many people slowly realized the taste, and it turned out to be the meaning of the superior.

For a while, the wives of many honorable officials couldn't help but feel a little sad, why didn't they figure out the holy will earlier, but let the team of more than a dozen girls take the lead, and entered the eyes of the emperor and queen, and relieved the emperor The urgent need is not to let Daye Chao's face be thrown outside.

People from other countries invite you to compete, but you can't get out here alone, but thinking about it, you feel embarrassed and lose face. In the end, people may say, isn't Cuju the first thing you play in the Central Plains? Why are you now? I can't do it myself, do those mean...

What does it mean? I'm not going to think about it later. In short, Daye also has a Cuju team now.

The emperor now looks at Princess Kangtai and Gu Qingci and the dozen or so of them, and thinks that these girls are lively and cute, um, they are better than those sick people who are not sick.

As the emperor's vision changed, so did his taste. In recent days, all the beauties whom he favored in the harem have become lively and cheerful beauties.

No one in the harem is a human being. With the change of the emperor, the concubines also changed. Now people don't sing poems or paint.

Everyone put on lively and nifty clothes, and played polo today and played polo the next day.

In short, the demure and weak women who were as bright as flowers shining in the water before have changed their appearance unconsciously.

Not to mention, after the loss of a group of concubines who were always crying and weeping, the emperor came to the harem for more days. He felt that the weather was good and his mood improved.

The words and deeds or preferences of the emperor have always been able to affect the subjects and then expand to the capital.

Otherwise, the joke that "the king of Chu is so thin and the harem starved to death" would not have been passed down.

There are those rigid and old-fashioned people who insist on following the "ancient ritual" that the screwdriver has been handed down from generation to generation.

Men teach their wives to obey the three principles, the four virtues, the three cardinal principles and the five constant principles, and not allow anything out of line. The husband and wife then educate their daughters, saying with a straight face that "a woman who has no talent is a virtue" and "a woman should be virtuous and pure".

These rules and regulations only make women concentrate on serving their parents-in-law, husband and children, and raise them into a puppet on a string, who can move as you want. When the daughter grows up and gets married in the future, she will hand over the end of the string to her husband, and the daughter will continue to be controlled by someone else. Day after day, year after year, the girl's life will probably be under the control of others. Next, no thoughts of my own.

At night, when the two talked about this, Li Cheng hugged Gu Qingci and told her these principles, teaching her how to be a human being with self-respect and not to be ruled by others.

Gu Qingci is a person who can't bear to be wronged. Hearing this, he became angry at first, and said that it is not like this. Girls who often go to literary and poetry clubs do not cultivate their virtues.

"I was in the way of many wives before, and I didn't let their girls play with me." Gu Qingci said with a snort.

The overall social environment is like this. It seems that the Gu family has been regarded as a rare family that does not restrain children. In this way, Gu Qingci grew up in the inner courtyard of the Guan for the first ten years. Go out with your mother.

"It's a good thing now." Li Cheng smiled.

The reason why Cuju has gradually declined in the aristocratic circle is because of the influence of those who advocate the old rules.

Don't talk about women in Cuju, even if men go to play, those people think it's inappropriate, how can a son of a family do such an insulting thing.

One by one, there are more people pointing and accusing, and gradually no one plays these things.

Nowadays, most of the sons and young masters of noble marquis families are more delicate than girls, and they wear powder on their faces and take off their clothes and gowns.

In the past two years, literati and military generals have become more and more disdainful of each other.

Try when you meet.

The literati opened their mouths with the famous phrase of insufficiency and scheming, or they said that people have simple minds and well-developed limbs, and military commanders are not fuel-efficient lamps. flower.

Don't look at Gu Qingci, Princess Kangtai, and the others who play Juju every day, but there are actually quite a few people who gossip secretly.

Calling them crazy or stupid, if a delicate girl is not kept in the house properly, she will be dirty and sweaty, and she will be kicked to show people after that, she is crazy, is she not famous?

However, once in front of the princess, there is another rhetoric, praising the heroine of Princess Kangtai, her heroic appearance and so on.

Until the last rehearsal on the outskirts of Beijing, the emperor suddenly appeared, and it was the first time that people could clearly see the emperor's attitude. In front of so many people, the emperor praised the group of girls and gave them rewards.

This made many people really sad.

But at the same time, he hugged his daughter and comforted himself secretly, they are just a bunch of rude girls, what's the use of praise from the Holy One, no man likes such an unruly girl.

It's just a self-comfort, which can make my heart feel better.

As for whether it's because men only like those who are quiet, gentle, delicate and frail, I'm afraid no man dares to represent it.

Well, the heart of a man is also a needle in the sea.

After Cuju became popular, there are actually many subtle changes.

Taking Fengtai Academy as an example, a gentleman has six arts, rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. There is a saying in "Zhou Li·Bao Shi" that raising the sons of a country to teach them is the six arts. None of the six arts can be left behind.

The two disciplines of archery are generally regarded as a way to strengthen the body. After all, students study all year round. If they don't pay attention to their own exercise, they will have a weak body, and they may not be able to withstand it in the examination room. pass.

After all, this is an era when a single wind and cold can kill a person.

Students from good families have been exposed to these two courses since they were young, and they are not unfamiliar with them.

It is more relaxed in class, and it is over when the students are laughing and chatting.

Just a month ago, the master who taught riding and archery suddenly added a course of Cuju to the students.

Men are better at Cuju than women, and they are no strangers to it, and some of them have even played it before.

After all, they have advantages in nature and physical fitness, coupled with the current limelight, I heard that many girls in Beijing are playing this game. When I got up, I felt novelty, how could such a delicate and soft girl play this? At the same time, he thought that they knew how to play. As a man, he must not lose his position. In case the woman I want to marry in the future is a woman who can play Cuju, on the other hand, I don’t know how to do anything. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to throw home.

Thinking a little further, these young students are more interested in Cuju.

Therefore, this campaign did not arouse any bad opposition in the academy, and it was carried out normally.

Li Chengze naturally also joined. In his previous life, he played from middle school to university, and he was no stranger to football, so in the eyes of others, he got started very quickly.

Many students are scolding their mothers in their hearts, feeling jealous and sad, angrily thinking what's going on with this one, it's fine if you are a dark horse that rushes out quietly in your studies, why are you on Cuju? Can also come out on top!

Of course, the time passed without resentment.

On this day, the prince of Yan Kingdom, who had been waiting for a long time, together with the princess, brought a few envoys, led a mighty carload of tributes, and 3,000 troops to Beijing.

Of course, the 3,000 elite soldiers did not enter the city, and were allowed to stay outside the city to settle down.

Prince Yan and Princess Yan can only bring two hundred soldiers by their side, the rules are like this, and no one talks about it.

The minister of Honglu Temple received this group of people from Yan Kingdom, and after paying respects to each other, he immediately led the group to live in the Sifang Pavilion.

Yan people's chariots and horses came all the way, and saw that Daye Shangjing was very lively. Whether it was a wine house, a teahouse, or a large stall outside, it was all bustling with people, and the surrounding area was full of cars. There is an endless stream of horses.

Many people stood on both sides of the road and looked at them, as if they were comparing the difference between the people from the outer dynasty and the people from this dynasty.

In short, looking up, it is a scene of prosperity, which is what King Yan thought in his heart.

As for the princess, she only had a lofty face, and she didn't care about the look outside.

When she was young, she spent a year in Daye. She only felt that now that the army of Yan Kingdom is strong and strong, she would feel proud when she came here again. Afterwards, she brought her own people to fight with the noble ladies of Daye. It's better to put down the face of Emperor Daye and praise her Yan Kingdom's national prestige.