Ordinary clear day

Chapter 12 Doubtful History
Time flies, three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and now Shu Ning is six years old.Although she has always tried to keep a low profile, but she has an adult soul, no matter how hard she tries to pretend, she will leak her secrets. Fortunately, her performance is not too outrageous, and her family only thinks that she is slightly smarter than ordinary people.

In fact, she was able to avoid arousing the suspicion of her family, thanks to a cousin.Wanning, the second daughter of the eldest uncle in the Earl's Mansion in Beijing, is his only daughter-in-law. She is beautiful, intelligent, versatile, and will please the elders since she was a child. Although she is only two years older than Shuning, she is already a well-known daughter in Beijing. She is a child prodigy and talented girl, and her reputation spreads so much that even the nobles in the palace know about it. The Empress Dowager once asked someone to bring her into the palace to see her.The whole family has only good things to say about this little lady.

Because this elder sister is so outstanding, Shu Ning, who is much smarter than ordinary little girls, is inconspicuous.Even Zhang Bao and Tong Shi, who knew that their daughter was better than other families, felt sorry for her not being as good as Da Fang's Wan Ning, which reassured Shu Ning a lot.On the contrary, Duan Ning, who loves his sister like his life, dismisses the second cousin's reputation. When someone asks about it, he only says: "My younger sister is the strongest." Others just think that he loves her younger sister and laugh it off.

In fact, there is a reason why Duanning has such confidence in his sister.Since he handed over the pointer to his mother, he never asked about his younger sister's studies. After a while, he was surprised to find that his younger sister Shuning had already started reading books for adults and practiced writing big characters every day. She is not yet four years old.

Shuning is very self-disciplined in her academic arrangements.

Zhang Bao was busy with errands every day, so he got up at five o'clock and arrived at the Yamen at Maoshi.The whole family followed him to get up early, and even Duanning got up early because he wanted to study.Originally, Shu Ning was the youngest and could sleep later, but she still woke up at the fifth watch.After waking up, do some exercise first, such as stretching your legs and twisting your waist. After washing up, you will first go to the upper room to greet your parents, and then the whole family will have breakfast.After dinner, Zhang Bao went to work, Duanning went to review his homework, and then went to the teacher's house in an hour.Tong went back to her room to arrange the housework for the day, and Shuning followed her mother back to the room, first reading by herself, and asking her when she didn't understand.

When Tong was a child, he studied with his biological mother for several years. He was one of the few educated women among officials and eunuchs, who could answer general questions.Shuning studied for an hour or two, and when Mrs. Tong arranged the housework, she would start to learn the rules.Every day, I have to learn how to walk and salute, what to say when I meet people, the rules for eating and drinking, and so on.This will take at least an hour, followed by lunch.After that, Mrs. Tong will take a nap, and Shuning will also take a lunch break.After getting up, I went for a walk in the yard, and practiced calligraphy for a while.

The time to practice calligraphy gradually increases with age.When she got tired from practicing, she would learn needlework from Ermo in the room, or talk to her mother.Duan Ning came home from school at [-]:[-] a.m., while Zhang Bao didn't come back every day until [-]:[-] o'clock. The family chatted for a while after eating, and then Zhang Bao began to teach his children Manchurian and Mongolian characters.After one watch, the whole family will rest.

Shu Ning lived an extremely fulfilling life every day, but learning the rules bothered her a little.Tong's demands on her daughter are extremely strict in this respect.She was originally a concubine, and she was not valued by others since she was a child. She was also looked down upon by her husband's family after she got married. Now she is away from home, and sooner or later she will return to the family. Therefore, she attaches great importance to the upbringing of her children, and she must educate her son to be an all-rounder in civil and military affairs, and her daughter to be a perfect lady.

But these things are very painful torture for Shu Ning, who is a modern soul.However, she still has no way to resist her mother's request, and although these things are cumbersome, it's good to get used to them, and gradually no longer reject them, even because she practices every day, those movements and various precautions have already been engraved into her bones Here, a conditioned reflex is formed.The excellent performance in etiquette brought her an advantage: as long as she followed Tong's eyes, she would basically not be hindered in doing what she liked.She likes to go to her father's room to flip through books, but Tong just told her not to break or mess up the books, and let her go.

In this situation, Shu Ning got the chance to read the history books alone in the study.

Zhang Bao is a scholar, and most of his daily contacts are civil officials. He has lived in Fengtian for several years, and his family already has a large collection of books.In addition to the Four Books and Five Classics and various constitutional books, even the history books are the most.Shuning usually uses an easy-to-understand book as a cover, but secretly consults those large tomes.The more she read the history recorded in the book, the more confused she felt.This world seems to be very different from the history she used to know. It can be said that the development of history has diverged many times, but the strange thing is that it always turns back to the original road.

For example, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period was no longer a mediocre man in history, but a very shrewd and capable generation of Mingjun, who did many things and greatly changed the century-old disputes during the Three Kingdoms period.But his successor, because of partial listening and partial belief, led the courtiers to monopolize the power. After decades of chaos, the Sima family successfully launched a coup and created the Jin Dynasty.

For another example, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, although Empress Wu still interfered in the government, Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, did not get seriously ill, nor did he hand over the government affairs to his wife, so the female emperor did not appear.Prince Li Xian, who was supposed to be dead and inherited Gaozong's throne, passed the throne to his younger brother Li Dan because he didn't have a son, and then Li Dan's son Li Longji became the prince, so the track of history is turning slightly After turning a corner, turn back to the original road again.

For another example, during the Shenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's reforms should have led to factional struggles in the court, but unexpectedly did not produce serious consequences, and even the national power at that time was greatly enhanced.Among the political celebrities at that time, there was also a son-in-law named "Wang Jing'an", who invented powerful firearms, which greatly increased the combat power of the Song Dynasty army and wiped out Xixia.As a result, the Song Dynasty prospered for hundreds of years and was called "Shenzong Zhongxing".It is a pity that the next emperor did not live long. The next emperor died of illness suddenly before giving birth to a son, so he had to choose a successor from the clan.At the same time, Mongolia rose, and finally destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.Soon after, the Southern Song Dynasty was established.

This sort of thing happened several times.Although Shu Ning is not a student majoring in history, she has read a lot of time-travel novels, and she has begun to feel a little numb.It seems that what she traveled through was not the real Qing Dynasty in history, but a historical Qing Dynasty similar to a parallel world.In this world, time travel often happens.Although most people don't know it, time travelers have traversed almost every period of history.But no matter how they change the world, history will always return to its original track.There may be some imprints and some changes, but the general trend is the same.

Shuning didn't know how to describe her mood, at the moment she could be said to be both sad and happy.Sadly, what little knowledge of history she has seems to be unreliable.No one knows what will happen in the future, history will change, although it will return to the right track later, as long as there is a time traveler, it is possible to change, and there are often time travelers (she herself is one); hi What's more, she doesn't have to worry about what she does will change history and lead to bad results.

She had heard a theory before that when a traveler returns to ancient times to change history, there will be a series of reactions, which will lead to changes in everything later, and even affect the birth of the traveler himself, then he will completely disappear in this world.This kind of theory has a certain influence on Shu Ning, but now she doesn't have to worry about it anymore, even if she lets go and does what she wants, she doesn't have to worry about it affecting her future self (not in a world at all. , what are you afraid of).

In the study room, besides the history books, there are also a few books about people's livelihood and customs of various places. Shu Ning has also read them, and they have solved a few questions that have been kept in mind.For example, glass was originally invented by the king's son-in-law in the Northern Song Dynasty. The craftsmanship has always been kept secret by the royal family. Although it was lost due to the war, it was revived in the Ming Dynasty.According to legend, it started from the Jiangnan area, then spread to Shandong, and then flowed into North Zhili.It was a luxury item at first, but as more people made it, it became cheaper and cheaper, and it developed to the point where ordinary people can afford it.But after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, many glass craftsmen fled to the south, and due to various reasons, they lost a lot, and now they have become precious things, only rich people can afford them.

It sounds like "Five Good Families of the Ming Dynasty".

But she was already numb, and had no intention of delving into it.

Frequently flipping through books has changed Shuning's temperament a lot.She can no longer pretend to be childish in her behavior to win the trust of her family.Fortunately, the family thought she had read too many books, so they didn't become suspicious.Tong also felt that her daughter was well-educated because her daughter became more stable, and her words and actions were organized. She was very proud of herself and had no doubts at all.Duan Ning felt a lot of pressure when he saw that his younger sister tended to overtake him in learning, so he had to study harder to maintain his dignity as an older brother, which the whole family liked.

The family did not become suspicious, which made Shuning feel more relaxed.She decided to do something to improve her usual life a little bit.The first thing to do is to organize the books in the study.

Zhang Bao didn't tidy up the study room. He always put the books he liked on the shelf he liked, and put the rest by category without memorizing them carefully. When he needed a book, he often had to look for it for a long time.Shuning followed the method of the library she had seen in the past, arranged the books on the shelves according to the categories, and then arranged the books according to the stroke order of the first letter of the title, made some small notes, and numbered them with the combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches and Chinese numbers , glued to the spine.In addition, I made a big notebook, and wrote the titles and serial numbers of all the books by category in neat lowercase letters.In this way, if you want to find any book, you can check this index booklet, and then look for it on the bookshelf according to the number.After reading the book, you can also put the book back according to the number.

Zhang Bao and Duanning were not used to this method at the beginning, but after a few days, they found its convenience.Even Ma San'er, who is in charge of cleaning the study, no longer worries about misplacing books on the wrong shelf because he doesn't know what the contents are. He only needs to put the books according to the number.

Zhang Bao felt that this method was more and more useful. One day, when he was handling paperwork in the yamen, he had an idea and thought that he could use the indexing method in his study to his official business.

(End of this chapter)