Chapter 85 Gold and Jade Beads

The ghost vine rose so fast that it directly blocked the White Tiger Gate.

There were so many green plants, and it was so messy that it was not refreshing at all. How could it still be called White Tiger Gate? So the female official in charge of the palace summoned all the maids from the imperial garden to come and repair the vines without destroying the vines.

Yun Qing and Sun Qiaoer finally finished their work and had the opportunity to take a break and have lunch.

Fortunately, the food in the palace was pretty good, with vegetables, meat, and enough rice, which made Sun Qiaoer's resentment a little lessened.

After that, they were taken to their residence by the steward. Forget about the East and West Eighteen Palaces, it was a palace garden next to Taiye Pond and the Imperial Garden, called Jinlin Garden.

Sun Qiaoer said that this was a good omen, "Golden scales are not just things in the pond. They can turn into dragons when encountering storms. Well, we can turn into phoenixes too!"

Yun Qing looked at Sun Qiaoer in surprise, "I didn't expect you to say such bold words?"

Sun Qiaoer, "I didn't say it. It was His Majesty who said it. He was only fifteen years old when he said this, and he had just taken charge."

Yun Qing said oh, and the two of them entered Jinlin Garden. They saw the same batch of unsuccessful ladies. They were all arranged to live here. They were treated better than ordinary palace maids. They all lived in two-person rooms. Yun Qing and Sun Qiaoer Naturally it is one room.

But compared to them, everyone else seems relaxed and comfortable.

The two teachers who went to Tianlu Pavilion spent a long time reading there because the princesses were not there.

Those who become female officers and bodyguards currently undergo pre-job training, focusing on visiting the palace and remembering the names of places.

Those who belong to the Royal Song and Dance Ensemble are even more relaxed. I heard from the seniors that they only need to work during holidays or major celebrations. His Majesty usually has no need for dance music at all.

There are also some who have become palace maids, but they are not like the two of them who first cut the branches and then provided vine supports. They have been busy until now and are free, so they can relax.

Returning to his room, Sun Qiaoer angrily said, "I feel like we are being targeted!"

Yun Qing looked indifferent. Master said that labor is also a kind of practice, and she encountered a bottleneck in practice. If she hadn't entered the palace to guard the two lives, she might have changed her identity and escaped into the world to polish her skills. state of mind.

Sun Qiaoer made the bed, "No, I have to ask my aunt to help arrange an easy job!"

Yun Qing: Here we go again~

This time she added, "The poppy has a relatively low status in the palace and has little say. If you go to her, it's just to make things difficult for her, unless she can conceive a dragon seed."

Thinking of this, Yun Qing hurriedly contacted Chu He again and asked her to keep an eye on her to see if there were any concubines who were pregnant recently.

Chu Ke responded, and then told what he had just seen and heard.

A magical purple plant that lifts up the floor tiles!

Yun Qing's heart suddenly started to stir. She had learned from the mistakes of Liang Shenghua, which made her wonder, could it be some top-notch treasure of heaven and earth? Could this Dayue Palace be her blessed place?!

This is the first time Yun Qing has seen a treasure of the level of Liangshenghua. If it is still a material of this level, then the harvest this time will be too great.

She is not an unreasonable person. She discovered the two-life flower by herself, so it should be hers.

What, the palace belongs to the little emperor? So Liangshenghua should belong to the Hu family? To put it this way, this land used to belong to her Zhao family.

However, this purple plant was indeed discovered by the little emperor, and I would make a deal with him when the time came. Anyway, he wouldn't be able to use it as a mortal in the world.

Yes, deal! It’s just like before, but the specifications have to be mentioned. You can’t use tea leaves, seeds and other things to deal with him, or you may bleed some.

Yun Qing's heart became completely eager, and she couldn't wait to explore the truth now.

"Qiao'er, do we still have any work to do in the afternoon?"

"Aunt Wang didn't say anything. She said she would come to us if she had any work." After that, Sun Qiaoer added, "Xiaoyun, I want to go out and talk to them. How about we come together?"

Yun Qing declined politely, "I'm too tired today. I want to take a rest. You can go on your own."

"Okay."

Watching Sun Qiaoer go out, Yun Qing took out a piece of talisman paper and put it in the quilt. With a little finger, she appeared in the quilt, with her eyes closed as if she was sleeping.

With this substitute, she can walk around the palace casually.

Yun Qing disappeared through the door and walked out, only to see Sun Qiaoer chatting animatedly with other beautiful ladies.

"The Imperial Garden is huge!" Sun Qiaoer gestured, "It's full of flowers, plants and trees that I've never seen before, but those are just fine. Do you know what's over there on the west city wall? An old vine, just like that. One tree actually covered the entire west wall..."

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Yun Qing had kept her head down before. This was an old rule in the palace, and it also meant keeping a low profile. But now she was walking invisibly in the palace, and she felt that both the palace maids and the female officials were holding their heads high, which was very different from the atmosphere in the previous palace. Same.

When she arrived at the Bagua field, the place was already surrounded by palace guards on three levels inside and three outside. A small, weak purple sapling was in the middle.

Generally speaking, even if Yun Qing doesn't know a spiritual plant, he can judge whether it is valuable based on the vitality of his spiritual energy.

Yun Qing landed directly next to the purple seedling. When he took a closer look, he was disappointed.

It has no spiritual energy and vitality, and is not at all the natural and earthly treasure that I imagined.

Maybe it's just a stubborn little sapling. If it hadn't grown into purple, no one would have given it a second glance.

Now that they were all out, Yun Qing went to the bottom of the Taiye Pond to take a look at his two-life flower. This vigorous and vigorous spiritual energy fluctuation was worthy of being a top-notch treasure, even if the strange ghost vine lying on the palace wall was different. Of the same kind, they are far inferior to these two flowers.

But when will you mature~

After getting out of the water, Yun Qing saw many palace ladies holding boxes walking in a line on the road, and they were all big red boxes.

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"Here it comes, here it comes, the betrothal gift from His Majesty is here!"

Yang Qingchuan shouted at Ziweizhai, the door opened, and a group of palace maids walked in holding or carrying red wooden boxes, and were guided into Jin Yuzhu's room.

The nine beautiful ladies all stared with envy. They saw that His Majesty's betrothal gift had almost filled the room, leaving almost no room for them to stay.

How much the emperor likes her!

Does the emperor just like tall people?

Some people began to think about it, thinking of Otun Ying, who was like a conjoined conjoined emperor, who was 1.8 meters tall! And Xiao Guoer, the concubine, wore high heels that looked like stilts all day long. There must be some truth in this.

In addition to sending a lot of boxes, a person was also sent.

Looking at the dark-skinned maid in front of her with thick arms and legs, Jin Yuzhu was surprised, "Why don't you leave when you put your things down?"

"If you want to reply to me, I will be your personal maid."

Cainv and lady have different monthly salaries, but both have only one personal maid.

It seemed that this was him. Jin Yuzhu asked, "What's your name?"

"The previous name is not important. Please give me a new name."

"Didn't your previous name sound good?"

The simple little girl smiled and said, "It's like this. The other maids in the mother's family are all newly chosen, usually with some elegant words, and they are all related to each other. For example, the four maids under Xian Fei are Mei Xiang,

Lanzhi, bamboo greens, chrysanthemum silkworms, Concubine Shu had spring flowers, summer cicadas, autumn moons, winter plums, as well as Miao Zhaoyi’s roses, peonies, peonies, poppy grapes, cherries, and General Aotun’s Dafang and Xiaofang.

…”

"What, that big man is also the emperor's woman?"

"Oh, that's not true."

"I remember that the four maids accompanying the emperor are named Hearts, Spades, Red Diamonds, and Clubs. What is the connection between these?"

Yaoji, who knew everything, shook his head this time, "This slave doesn't know."

Jin Yuzhu said, "Okay, but everyone has several maids, we only have one, so there is no need to be too particular."

"No," the maid said, "I am the only one now. If the queen ascends to the throne in the future, there will be eight maids. Of course, we must plan early."

Jin Yuzhu is so funny, she is still a queen, you should follow Bai Buling.

"Okay, okay," Jin Yuzhu didn't have any culture. She couldn't think of any elegant words about plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums in spring, summer, autumn and winter. She thought of the time in Jiutong Mountain when she and her brothers blocked the road and robbed, with the bags on their heads.

They all look like mahjong tiles.

It seems that this mahjong was invented by the Dog Emperor.

“Then you call me ‘Yao***.”

"ha?"

"It's the Yaoji in Mahjong. Don't you understand Mahjong?"

"Understand, understand!" Yaoji did not dislike the tacky name, and looked at his boss with a hint of appreciation, "My dear, you are really amazing. Even the Queen Mother knows that she likes to play mahjong. I will play with her more often in the future.

It will definitely please her."

Jin Yuzhu curled her lips and expressed that she had no such idea. The old lady found it difficult to deal with at first glance, so she opened a box casually.

"Ah, what is so dazzling!" She squinted her eyes and saw a pile of gold that looked like jujubes.

Jin Yuzhu's breathing became rapid, "Is this real gold?"

"real."

"Solid?"

"Probably."

I picked up one of the golden jade beads and weighed it. It was absolutely solid and pure gold!

She couldn't count how many there were, so she asked Yaoji to help her count them.

The Yaoji replied, "Eight."

"So much!" Holding the gold and jade beads in one hand, the Dog Emperor is so rich!

Then she opened three similar wooden boxes, and Yaoji helped her count them clearly.

"18 golden peanuts, 28 golden osmanthus, and 38 golden lotus seeds."

Jin Yuzhu shook the golden peanut, "It's actually hollow, stingy~"

Yao Ji knows his stuff, "Mom, there are peanuts inside, and the peanuts inside are also made of gold. Think about how difficult the craftsmanship is. To put it bluntly, even though the golden peanuts are small in size, they are valuable.

I’m afraid it will be higher than a big date.”

Jin Yuzhu made sense when he thought about it. When making weapons, swords are sometimes more expensive than knives, but the material of one knife can be used to make two or three swords.

The "Zao Sheng Gui Zi" alone is enough to attack Jin Yuzhu, a poor robber, not to mention several large boxes.

One of them opened and revealed a jade bone fan. The fan bones were polished into pieces using high-quality Hetian jade and spliced ​​together to form a jade bone fan. It also had carved copywriting. It looked like a priceless treasure at first glance.

There are also some jade combs, jade bracelets and other jewelry in the box next to it.

And that phoenix crown, why are there so many pearls, of different sizes, the big one is as big as an egg, how big must the giant clam be!

Jin Yuzhu looked at the gold, jade, pearls, and the treasures in the big boxes. She felt her heart pounding. She had thought about robbing the palace before, but if she wanted to break through the sky, she couldn't think of more loot.

These things before my eyes!

Now, the emperor gave it directly to himself?!

If he took all these royal betrothal gifts out of the palace and claimed to the outside world that he had looted the palace, some people would believe him.

But she can't leave yet, Chu Ke is still in the palace, and she still has something to say to herself.

Tonight is an opportunity to get close to the Dog Emperor and find a chance to be alone with that sword!

Just as he was thinking about it, Yaoji handed Jin Yuzhu the list of betrothal gifts. It was said to be a list, but it was actually a booklet with many pages. It was written in great detail and the handwriting was very graceful.

"Did you organize these?" Jin Yuzhu asked as he looked through them.

Yao Ji nodded shyly.

"You are really capable. How many years have you been in the palace? What did you do before?"

Yao Ji, "It's been three years. I used to do farm work in the imperial garden, digging the soil, weeding and so on. Today, two new palace maids came to replace the slave. This slave has the opportunity to serve the empress. I will definitely become a slave in the future."

The empress’s right-hand man.”

Although this girl is naive and naive, she is very energetic. She was originally a peasant girl. She was recommended by local officials to work in the palace because of her filial piety. In addition to the busy work in the imperial garden, she also insisted on self-study, and then she got the job of serving the new nobles.

opportunity, she is a typical example of self-improvement among palace ladies.

Jin Yuzhu was very satisfied with her, especially because her skin looked very friendly. Jin Yuzhu's skin used to be a little dark and rough as well.

After all, what she ate was just a bowl of rice. It was normal to be exposed to wind, sun and rain. Later, Chu Hao gave her a pill. After one night, she became so white that her mother could not even recognize her. If she still had a mother.

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Chu Ke also helped her get rid of the scars on her body, using medicine from the Lily Sect.

Alas, I think of Chu Ke again. Although the two of them didn't get along for a long time, they truly "shared weal and woe and depended on each other for life and death."

Yaoji woke her up from her memories and said, "My dear, would you like to try on the wedding dress? You are so stunning, you will definitely be gorgeous when you put it on."

The phoenix crowns and harems were also brought. They are really beautiful. The daughter of the leader of the Salt Gang became a monk in the past. All the prominent figures from several provinces came here, and even some high officials. But the one worn by the gang leader’s daughter is the same as this one.

Compared to heaven and earth.

She wanted to try it, but she still shook her head.

Why are you wearing this, as if I, Jin Dabiao, are in a hurry to get married? Just leave it there and talk about it tonight!

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In Jinlin Garden, after Yun Qing came back, she put away the talismans and opened the window. She saw a few beautiful girls who had just returned, with joy on their faces. Then Sun Qiaoer asked them where they had been and why they had come back.

One of them said proudly, "We were called by His Majesty."

This greatly stimulated Sun Qiaoer. She had never seen the emperor up close until now.

Yun Qing leaned against the window and listened for a few words. It turned out that those beautiful ladies were from the Southeast Province. They were called by the emperor to ask about Taimu Temple because he saw on the map that there was Taimu Mountain in the southeast.

Yun Qing was very satisfied. The little emperor still cared. Although the master boasted that his master was very famous and powerful in the southeast, southwest and south Vietnam, in fact, few people outside the southeast knew about it.

Even though they were all in the southeast, only two of the beautiful ladies had heard of Taimu Empress. One of them lived not far from Taimu Mountain and told her in more detail. For this reason, the young emperor rewarded her with a golden gourd with a hollow shape. Yes, about as long as an adult man's finger.

Soon Qiaoer opened the door and came in with a smile, "Yunyun, you're awake!"

"Well, what are you so happy about?"

Sun Qiaoer said hehely, "Our day of success is not far away. Don't you know it? Chu Ke and Xiao Bai were both selected. Chu Ke is now an eighth-class prostitute, and Xiao Bai is a ninth-class lady, and His Majesty is getting married tonight. I’m so confused!”

"so what?"

"They are our friends!" Sun Qiaoer sat in front of her, "Xiaobai and I had agreed before that we should never forget each other as long as we are rich and noble. If nothing else, it is always possible to transfer me to her side as a personal maid. Yeah."

"We were friends before, and now we have to serve her, are you willing?" Yun Qing was a little curious about this child's thoughts.

"What's the matter? A grown-up woman can bend and stretch. In the past, Concubine Shu was just a palace maid." Sun Qiaoer thought about it and felt that she would become a great person.

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At the same time, Hulu was summoning Xiao Wulang in the Sixiang Hall. He was previously responsible for the search for immortals in the southeast region.

While waiting for Wulang, Hulu found out what Taimu Empress was through the beautiful women in the southeastern province.

Xiu Nu calls her the patron saint of Mount Taimu. Local people who go to the mountain will worship Taimu Empress for peace. Sometimes she is also responsible for marriage and seeking children, and even works part-time as the God of Wealth. In short, she is very versatile.

In fact, there are many folk gods of this type, and their spread varies. Taimu Empress is only considered average, and the Xiao organization will also start with them when looking for immortals.

After all, for this kind of myth and legend, if even one out of ten is true, it would be considered a meritorious service. But unfortunately, if only one out of a hundred is true, it would be good. The number of liars far exceeds that of monks.

Xiao Wulang did not mention this name in his previous report, just because there are too many such gods, and it is still impossible to determine whether they are true or false, and they are still under investigation.

But now, Hu Lu can conclude that it is true, that Fairy Zhao is either a descendant of Tai Lao Empress, or Tai Lao Empress herself!

After hearing Xiao Wulang's detailed report, Hu Lu was even more inclined to the latter. Fairy Zhao was Taimu herself!

The earliest myth and legend of Taimu Empress should be more than 400 years ago, during the most prosperous period of the Daqian Dynasty. Therefore, among the many pseudonyms about Taimu Empress, several of them are surnamed Zhao, which is the national surname of Daqian.

Moreover, from Fairy Zhao's words, Hu Lu guessed that she should be a golden elixir monk with a lifespan of five hundred years, which happened to be the same as the Taimu Empress who lived more than four hundred years ago.

In the truth pieced together by Hu Lu, a little old lady who was more than 400 years old who cultivated immortality decided to go out to complete her final journey when her life was approaching. She happened to take off Yingzi's mask and keep it for herself.

But after all, she is approaching her end. Hu Lu even believes that if she can only live for 500 years at most, he hopes to send her away!

If the old lady has no descendants, then with her legacy, hey, she has no talent, but Ping An and the others do!

No, I have to find a way to condom her next time I see her. If that doesn’t work, I’ll find a godmother first. At her age and mine, it’s not a loss~

But I don't know when they will meet next time. Hu Lu looked at the Dao Dao Sword in his hand, and he felt that it was not as close to the fairy sword as to connect with her sword.

"Xiao Jianjian, just tell me your name. We will have a long life in the future."

Chu Ke, who couldn't bear it any longer, finally spoke up, "Now that you are dead, your worldly connections will be destroyed. Just call me Sword Spirit."

The voice was clear and sweet, and by listening to it one could tell that the girl was not bad looking, and she was not too old either. Hu Lu sighed and said, "You are such a beautiful woman, how could you be so evil~"

Chu Ke said, "Don't pity me. I can practice as a ghost, but you can't practice as a human. Who is more pitiable?"

Hulu: It hurts my heart, damn you!

At this time, Hong Tao came in and announced, "Your Majesty, your wedding dress has arrived. Please take a bath and change your clothes and wait for the auspicious time."

Alas, it was time to be the groom again. Hu Lu smiled and asked, "Sword Spirit, would you like to take a bath with me?"

Chu Hao: "Your Majesty, are you going to cut the bird?"

Hulu turned around and left, "See you later!"
Chapter completed!