Zhou Qing he stood up and said, “Your Majesty, Please Forgive me for my love for my daughter. In order to prevent my daughter from being laughed at for growing up in a private school, I specially wrote an article to help Shiwei enter Qingming Academy.
As for the two poems that Shiwei wrote just now, they were also written by me in order to make my daughter famous. These two poems are now in my daughter’s study. I don’t know if it was taken out by a servant girl in the study and given to an outsider.
If His Majesty doesn’t believe me, he can send someone to search my daughter’s study.”
Lu Chen said, “Aunt is really unwilling to give up until she reaches the Yellow River. The snow has sealed the mountain. I and the Crown Princess, Ju Yue, have just left the mountain this morning. When can I get the poems in Aunt’s study?”
Zhou Qing said, “Your Highness, I didn’t mean that. It’s just that I did write these poems.”
