Although there is Qionghua Island in Taiye Lake in Xiyuan, with countless exotic flowers, plants, birds and animals, except for emperors like Zhu Houzhao who loved to travel, most emperors of the Ming Dynasty only went to Kunning on weekdays.
Qiongyuan at the back of the palace.
Qiongyuan is located outside Kunning Gate, the north gate of Kunning Palace. Inside the garden is a rockery built by Suzhou famous craftsmen using Taihu stones, called Duixiu. On top of the rockery is a small octagonal pavilion, Yujing Pavilion. If
Standing in the pavilion, you can have a panoramic view of Qiongyuan's scenery, such as Wanchun Pavilion, Qianqiu Pavilion, Duiyuxuan, Qingwang Pavilion, Jinxiang Pavilion, Yucui Pavilion, Lezhizhai, Quliu Pavilion, Four Gods Temple, Guanhua Pavilion
The palace... all the pavilions, terraces and pavilions can be seen at a panoramic view, coupled with all kinds of exotic flowers, Qiongyuan is the most colorful place in the palace where trees are hard to find everywhere.
At this moment, under the rockery named Duixiu, Zhu Houzhao, wearing a black gauze top hat and a blue collared shirt with no flowers on the back, was coaxing Zhou Qiniang with a coquettish face: "Just for a moment, I won't delay your time."
What! If you don’t know the scenery of Yujing Pavilion, you won’t want to go up there. There happens to be no one here. If you miss this village, there won’t be that shop.”
"You go to Kunning Palace to camp all day long, and you are not afraid of Eunuch Li punishing you!" Zhou Qiniang was really helpless towards Zhu Houzhao. To say that Zhu Houzhao did what he said, she gave herself a job that was envied by everyone in the palace, even though it was not
What she wanted most, she was naturally grateful, but she couldn't bear the little guy's obsession with brown sugar.
At this moment, she scolded Zhu Houzhao sternly, but she didn't take it seriously at all. She could only relax and said: "Brother Zhu, it's not that I don't want to go up and see. I am a new palace maid in Kunning Palace. I must know my duty. This
How can I go up to the Yujing Pavilion where the Queen Mother and the ladies enjoy the scenery? If someone sees me, I will be punished by myself. If someone sees you here, won’t I have to take you with me to be punished?"
Zhu Houzhao was dumbfounded by what Zhou Qiniang said. He thought to himself that he had asked Liu Jin and others to guard the gates of Qiongyuan. At present, except for the two of them, not even a ghost could be found here. Thinking of this, he rolled his eyes and suddenly
She turned around and climbed up the steps of the rockery. When Zhou Qiniang came back to her senses, she found that Zhu Houzhao had already gone up a long way. She was startled and shouted twice in a low voice. Seeing that the person did not listen to her at all, she
As soon as she stamped her feet, she hurriedly picked up her skirt and gritted her teeth and chased after her. When she finally climbed to the highest Yujing Pavilion, she was already dripping with sweat and panting. When she saw Zhu Houzhao leaning on a pillar and laughing at her, she couldn't help but get angry.
He came to a certain place, stepped forward and started training him again.
"Be careful if others see you, come down quickly!"
Zhu Houzhao didn't care about this. He dragged Zhou Qiniang to the side with one hand. He pointed down and said: "Seventh sister, look, that is the fish pond. The koi in it are all rare species in the world. The pavilion above is floating green."
Pavilion... By the way, there is a fish pond here!" He said as he dragged Zhou Qiniang to the other side, pointing to the small pavilion built in the middle of the fish pond, connected by a curved bridge on both sides, and said, "That is Chengdu Pavilion.
Ruiting, the fish down there are the most interesting. They will come together as soon as they see someone feeding them, and they are no longer greedy..."
Zhou Qiniang was involuntarily dragged by Zhu Houzhao to look at this and that. Although she was still a little uneasy in her heart, although she was considered the elder among the palace maids who were selected this time, after all, she was just over sixteen years old, and she suddenly saw such a beautiful scenery.
, I had forgotten those rules before I knew it, and I just felt that my eyes were a little too busy.
Fortunately, she had always had strong self-control, and in the end she chose to ignore Zhu Houzhao's eloquent introduction, took a look at the opening, and dragged him down.
"Seventh Sister, I haven't finished explaining to you yet. There is Qin'an Hall to the north..."
"What Qin'an Palace? I just know that if you continue to act nonsense, you will not only get slapped with a slap in the face!"
After dragging Zhu Houzhao for a few steps, Zhou Qiniang was wearing embroidered shoes after all, and going down the steps was more inconvenient than going up. She let go of her hand without knowing it, and walked down carefully holding the skirt with both hands.
Halfway through the journey, when she was feeling frightened, a hand suddenly stretched out from beside her to hold her arm steadily. When she turned to look at Zhu Houzhao, who had a well-behaved face, she couldn't help but swallow the scolding that came to her lips.
But she still had to glare at him.
"If you do this again in the future, I won't dare to see you again!"….
"No, no... Seventh sister, please calm down. From now on, I will listen to you and never dare to do anything willful again!" Zhu Houzhao quickly apologized with a smile on his face, and then whispered softly, "I wasn't thinking about you.
I just entered the palace, and I have lived in such a depressing place for so long, so why don’t I take you here to relax while there is no one in Qiongyuan?"
"I understand your kindness, but you have to think about yourself. There are so many little father-in-laws in the palace who want to win over Eunuch Li, but you are already in the ceremonial department, so you should work hard to make progress.
.You have the temerity to come to a place like this. If someone sees you and files a lawsuit, how can you get better? What’s more, when you sued Eunuch Chen before, you offended so many people..."
Seeing Zhou Qiniang's finger, he quickly put it on his forehead. Zhu Houzhao's face was submissive, but his heart was filled with joy. Finally, after Zhou Qiniang's lesson was over, he quickly helped the person and continued to walk down, looking good.
When Yi arrived at the foot of the mountain, he saw Zhou Qiniang sweating profusely. He inevitably apologized again and again...
When he sent Zhou Qiniang to the west gate of Qiongyuan, which was deserted, and saw her waving her hand to drive him back, he still didn't move at all. Only when she finally disappeared did he sigh.
"Star, Your Majesty..."
This low voice made Zhu Houzhao jump out of his wits. When he turned around, he realized that Liu Jin had slipped out at some point. He couldn't help but snorted angrily: "Why are you in such a hurry? Be careful if she sees you.
All your previous efforts have been wasted!”
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, this slave is being watched. If she comes back, she will immediately report the news." Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao's radiant look, knowing that the little emperor was most likely sincere, and couldn't help but secretly congratulate herself
He got ahead of Li Rong and immediately helped Zhu Houzhao through Qiongyuan to the east gate of Qiongyuan. He said again, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I have asked Eunuch Gao and Rong Shangyi to say hello. I will treat you well."
Take care of Miss Zhou and wait a little longer
Please ask Rong Shangyi to persuade the Queen Mother to transfer people to Xiyuan. Then there won’t be as much trouble as we have now."
"You can do it!"
Zhu Houzhao nodded with a smile on his face. When he changed his clothes at the concierge at the east gate of Qiongyuan, he deliberately made a big circle back to Chengqian Palace. He had just sat down and drank two sips of tea to moisten his throat, when a young eunuch suddenly bumped into him.
He opened the curtain and entered the house. He knelt down on the ground and said angrily: "Your Majesty, it's bad, something big has happened!"
puff
Zhu Houzhao was so frightened that he sprayed the little eunuch in the face with a sip of tea. He recognized Ruisheng and saw the pitiful appearance of the man kneeling on the ground. He put the tea cup down and laughed and cursed: "I've taught you this so many times.
, Don’t do things rashly, thanks to Liu Jin being by your side, who else wouldn’t scold you to death?”
"Your Majesty, I forgive you, I just forgot..."
Seeing Rui Sheng kowtow in silence, Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao's face that didn't look angry at all, immediately drank him up, and said angrily: "It's not your first day with the emperor, why are you still so headless?"
Brain! What on earth happened?"
Ruisheng raised his eyes and glanced at the little emperor, calmed himself down, and then whispered: "The Shouning Hou Shizi snatched a person out of the Dongchang, and he was escorting the person to kneel at Dong'an Gate, saying that he was
Please ask the emperor to seek justice!"
"What?"
Zhu Houzhao, who originally thought that the ministers had done something wrong, was stunned. He glanced at Liu Jin and saw that Liu Jin also had a look of astonishment on his face. He immediately stood up and said, "Stop talking nonsense and take the couplet with you."
have a look!"
Although the outside of Dong'an Gate is not like Chengtian Gate where the five government offices, six ministries and major government offices are gathered together, and the number of people coming in and out is not as many as the left and right gates of Chang'an, it is still an important route to and from the palace. In addition, Shouning Hou Shizi and other people
It's too much
It's so dazzling that people passing by will glance there, but they don't dare to watch. Even the guards at Dong'an Gate stood upright, but kept glancing in that direction.
Face these
With curious eyes, Shouning Hou Shizi Zhang Zong said that he was already kneeling so hard that his knees, waist and legs hurt everywhere. If he hadn't been holding on in his heart, he would have been unable to hold on. He didn't know how long he had been suffering, but he finally saw it.
Not far away from Dong'anli Gate there is a
Pedestrians came out quickly, and although the man in front couldn't see his face clearly, just by looking at his clothes, he knew that he was the current emperor of Zhengde. So, almost without thinking, he pressed his hands on the ground and fell deeply down: "Please make the decision for me, your Majesty!
"
If it was just that Shouning Hou Shizi escorted someone to kneel down at Dong'an Gate, Zhu Houzhao would not have come in such a hurry, went to Dongchang and snatched someone out. He never imagined that Zhang Zong could do such an action.
.this
After a while, he walked quickly to Zhang Zongshuo. He just looked at his hands behind his back for a long time, and suddenly said angrily: "Get up! After all, he is also a cousin of Lian, and even Dongchang dared to fight him, which is considered a line.
Hey man, don't do that now
You look like you have no future!"
Zhang Zong said that Xu Xun had said that Zhu Houzhao liked tough guys. Hearing that the little emperor's tone didn't seem to be very angry, he immediately got up and mustered up the courage to look at the emperor. After seeing Zhu Houzhao examine him for a while,
He raised his chin and nodded lightly. He no longer hesitated and told the story from beginning to end. At the end, he pointed at Zheng San, who was on the ground like a puddle of mud.
"This is the servant who handled the matter for my father. My family searched all over the capital to find him, and even went to the Shuntian Prefecture Office, Daxing County Office and the Wucheng Army and Horses Division to report everything. Who knew that this person would actually know how to do it?
In Dongchang! Your Majesty, Dongchang is keeping this
A person who keeps this secret clearly has ulterior motives!".)