There have been no major events in Nanchen Palace for a long time. For Nanchen Palace, their major events are basically going out to fight, and they rarely even spend the Spring Festival in the palace.
But today is different. Today is a very important day for Nanchen Palace.
The noble daughter of the Qinghe family wants to become a disciple of King Xiao Nanchen, which means that there is a connection between the Qinghe family and the Nanchen palace. This is a matter of great significance to both parties, as well as to Beichen.
It is taken very seriously.
The people of the Yang family lived in the inn, so early in the morning Zhou Chen sent Zhou Tianxing to lead people to welcome them into the house.
Today, Zhou Chen put on a white gown. Even ordinary clothes made him look very dazzling.
Live the Qi and nourish the body!
His original body, as King Xiao Nanchen and a son of the royal family, originally had a noble temperament, but Zhou Chen has lived for hundreds of years, been an emperor, a prince, and a top elite in all walks of life, and the aura he has cultivated is stronger than his original body.
It's just that he rarely shows it.
Except for Zhou Tianxing who went to pick him up, the other nine disciples were also at the palace and had prepared early to attend today's apprenticeship banquet.
In the TV plot, of the ten disciples, except for the first four who appeared more often, the remaining six barely appeared. When he first watched the TV show, Zhou Chen had never even seen them, let alone knew their names.
But now, he is very familiar with these disciples of his. The last six disciples may not be as outstanding as the first four, but they are also talented generals in the army. After all, they are valued by King Xiao Nanchen and accepted as disciples. They are influenced by them.
Even if you are inferior, you cannot become mediocre.
In fact, all the senior brothers and sisters are also very curious about Yu Shiyi, who is about to become his junior sister.
The ten of them are all orphans and were adopted into the palace, but Shiyi is different. She is the noble daughter of the Qinghe family and the only daughter of the Wushui family. In terms of status alone, she is compared to the royal princess.
Not bad either.
They were all working in the army to make a living, and they rarely had contact with a famous family like the Yang family, let alone a noble girl like Yang Shiyi. How could they not be curious.
In the main hall of the palace, Zhou Chen sat quietly, while Hong Xiaoyu and other disciples gathered together and discussed in low voices the apprenticeship banquet to be held later.
There are not so many rules in the palace, and these disciples are treated as family members, so they have a very good relationship with each other, no different from brothers and sisters. They respect their master extremely, but they are not as strict as other famous families.
Soon someone came to report that General Zhou had entered the palace with people from the Miao family.
This time, Sanniang Yang of the Yang family came in person with her daughter and nephew. As the master of the palace, Zhou Chen, in order to show respect, naturally came out of the hall to greet him in person.
As soon as they walked out of the main hall, they saw Zhou Tianxing leading the family members, and Zhou Chen led his disciples to greet them.
As a family of scholars, the rules of the Jiao family are strict. You can see the difference from their words and deeds. Only Sanniang, Feng and Shiyi looked straight at each other and held their heads high. The rest of the guards and maids were all low-minded.
Keep your head down and follow with small steps.
Fortunately, this is not the first time Zhou Chen has traveled through ancient feudal society, and he has long been accustomed to these rules and behaviors.
When the two parties met for the first time, Sanniang immediately led others to salute.
"King Xiao Nanchen."
Zhou Chen also returned the gift: "Madam."
Sanniang looked at Yu Feng beside her, and introduced to Zhou Chen: "This is Yu Feng, Sanlang from my brother's family. Sanlang, please pay your respects to His Highness."
Niao Feng immediately bowed: "Your Highness."
"No need to be polite, Madam. Please come inside."
Zhou Chen led several members of the Yang family into the main hall. After he sat down at the main seat, Yang Sanniang sat down on the left hand side, and the others stood on both sides.
Ji Shiyi, who was dressed in green, walked slowly in from the door with a plate holding a handful of celery, lotus seeds, red beans, dates, longan and dried meat.
These are the traditional etiquette for apprenticeship. Just like the modern apprenticeship requires gifts, it is also the same in this era. As a prominent family, the Yao family is naturally the most particular about these etiquette, and everything is in order.
Ji Shiyi carried the plate and walked to Zhou Chen. He bowed first, then walked to Zhou Chen's case, knelt down and raised the plate with both hands.
Zhou Chen took the six rites and put them on the table, while Shiyi started to kneel down and worship.
After the ceremony, she still knelt on the ground, straightened her body, smiled without showing her teeth, and looked at Zhou Chen respectfully.
Zhou Chen looked at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl in front of him. In this era, a woman of Shi Yi's age could actually get married.
However, he comes from modern society. In his eyes, Shi Shiyi is still a little girl. In later generations, she has just entered junior high school. Even though she is relatively mature, her physical age can tell her immatureness at a glance.
"Shi Yi, you are called Shiyi at home, right?"
It is appropriate to nod slightly when speaking.
Zhou Chen smiled and said: "It just so happens that I already have ten apprentices. I will call you Eleven from now on, okay?"
Jian Shiyi nodded happily, but then became a little confused. He didn't know what to do after he finished his apprenticeship, so he couldn't help but glance at his mother behind him.
After getting her mother's signal, she was ready to kowtow again, but was stopped by Zhou Chen.
"Okay, there are not many rules in Nanchen Prince's Mansion, so you don't have to worry so much about these etiquettes. Get up first."
Yang Shiyi immediately stood up happily, and then Zhou Chen pointed to the ten disciples next to him and told Yang Shiyi that these were her senior brothers and sisters. Yang Shiyi immediately saluted respectfully, and the ten senior brothers and sisters did not show off and returned the salute one after another.
At this moment, someone came in and announced that someone from the palace had come and brought a gift from His Majesty.
Zhou Chen frowned lightly. After all, he was not the original Zhou Shengchen. He had no respect or loyalty to the little emperor who was far away in Zhongzhou.
But at this time, of course he would not show it, and said very calmly: "Let them come in."
Just like in the plot, it was the great eunuch Zhao Teng who brought the ban sword and Huang Yue given by the emperor.
When Zhou Shengchen went to Zhongzhou to see off the late emperor, the young emperor had given him these two items, but Zhou Shengchen rejected them, so he sent them again this time.
When Zhao Teng said, "I am the emperor, and I should accept the gifts given by the emperor," Zhou Chen sneered disdainfully in his heart. He knew that the little emperor was a cowardly person and was unlikely to say such a thing.
, it is estimated that this was done deliberately by Zhao Teng and others.
But he accepted Ban Jian and Huang Yue without saying anything.
Zhao Teng continued: "Your Highness, Your Majesty also sent a painter this time to make a portrait of Miss Yu, which will be sent to the East Palace in the future."
Hearing this, Zhou Chen felt unhappy. After so many years, he was used to being domineering. Shi Shiyi was his mission target and the person he valued. Who did Liu Zixing dare to covet Shi Yi?
But this matter was an agreement between the Emperor and the royal family. Although he became the master of Emperor Shiyi, he was not qualified to make decisions for Emperor Shiyi. What's more, Emperor Shiyi's mother was present at the scene and she didn't object. Naturally, he had no objection.
The reason was objection.
However, after traveling through time, he has decided to change the tragedy and will not make Shi Shiyi as miserable as the original plot, but all this needs to be done slowly.
After Kao Shiyi left with the painter, Kao Sanniang deliberately stayed and talked to Zhou Chen, saying three things in total.
The first thing is to ask Zhou Chen to allow two thousand soldiers of the Yang family to stay and protect Yang Shiyi.
The second thing is to hope that Zhou Chen can allow Kaojia Sanlang Kao Feng to stay in Xizhou and join the army.
The third thing is about Shi Shiyi's loss of speech. He also told the whole story. The implication is that he doesn't want to leave his daughter and hopes that Zhou Chen can take more care of her.
Zhou Chen naturally understood what Sanniang meant, so he replied solemnly: "Madam, please rest assured, now that Shiyi has become my disciple, I will do my best to teach her and take good care of her."
Hearing this, Sanniang was very grateful. Since her daughter was born, this was the first time that mother and daughter had been apart for such a long time. As a mother, she was naturally extremely reluctant to let go, but no matter how reluctant she was, she couldn't change it.
In the afternoon, Kao Sanniang was about to leave. Kao Shiyi and Kao Sanniang's mother and daughter were reluctant to leave, and they parted with tears.
Outside the palace gate, Miao Shiyi bid farewell to her mother, shedding tears with great reluctance and unable to look away for a long time.
Zhou Chen did not rush her. After she recovered a little, he said, "You are new to the palace, I will take you to your courtyard."
Jian Shiyi couldn't speak, and he was not familiar with Zhou Chen yet, so he just nodded lightly.
Zhou Chen took Kao Shiyi into the palace, passed through the pavilions one after another, and came to the courtyard belonging to Kao Shiyi.
The palace is very large, and the courtyard belonging to Yang Shiyi is also one of the best. It is very large and has just been decorated in the past few days. Everything is basically new.
After sending Shi Shiyi to the hospital, Zhou Chen said, "Eleven, you have come a long way, so you should have a good rest in the past few days. When I figure out how to teach you, I can start teaching again."
Nao Shiyi saluted and nodded in agreement.
"There is a library in the backyard of the palace. You are from the Qinghe family, so you should like reading. If you feel bored, you can go to the library to read."
When she heard this, her face immediately lit up with joy. She really liked reading, because when she was in the mansion, she couldn't seem to find any other entertainment besides reading.
Zhou Chen took out a key from his arms and placed it in front of Miao Shiyi.
"Today I accepted the apprenticeship ceremony from you, but I did not give you the apprenticeship ceremony. I usually don't live in the palace for a very long time. In the past, when I was not in the palace, the door of the library was locked. This is the collection of books.
The key to the building should be regarded as today’s apprenticeship ceremony.”
At first, Jian Shiyi was too embarrassed to accept it, but when he heard that it was an apprenticeship ceremony, his face suddenly brightened, he took it with respectful hands, and then bowed to Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen stretched out his hand to support him and said softly: "Do you still remember what I told you when I became a disciple? There are no rules in the Nanchen Palace. You don't need to salute all the time. You have also forgotten the rules in the Yang family. In the palace, you don't have to do that.
To be continued...