Meng Xinzhu smiled and said, "People also have words. If they are soft, they will be spoken, and if they are strong, they will be spoken out. Don't pay attention to their words. How we lived before and how we live now, whether the emperor comes or not, will not change anything."
"Your Majesty, is it true that the Emperor will not come?"
Meng Xinzhu closed the page of the book, "Didn't Zhuyuan live a life without an emperor for ten years?"
"That's because the emperor has not paid attention to the Bamboo Garden. Now that it has received the emperor's attention, how can we go back? Isn't it true that people go to higher places and water flows to lower places? Your Majesty, please forgive Ru'er for being bold. Your Majesty, now
You shouldn't be reading here, but should go and regain the emperor's attention. Concubine Yue can dote on you, so why can't the empress? The empress is also capable of this, isn't she?" Ru'er said with a frown.
Meng Xinzhu stared at Ru'er for a long time and couldn't help but sigh. Hongde and Long Qiu were right. Zhuyuan had broken his silence, which meant that it was destined to be unable to be silent. People had been living a dull life.
People will get used to it, but after going through ups and downs and then returning to normalcy, people will not adapt.
She put the book on the hammock and stood up slowly, "I want to go for a walk."
Eunuch Chen glared at Ru'er and hurriedly followed Meng Xinzhu.
Meng Xinzhu left the Bamboo Garden and walked straight towards Leng Palace. Eunuch Chen followed behind. After a while, he said: "Your Majesty, please don't blame Ru'er, she..."
"I know that she has also been wronged. In fact, her words are not unreasonable." Eunuch Chen raised his head and looked at Concubine Zhu, secretly wondering if the empress had figured it out.
But he didn't hear what Meng Xinzhu was thinking: "It's just a pity that I'm not the concubine she imagined."
In the past, when I visited the Imperial Garden, I always went to the east of the palace, where the scenery was the best and there was Lake Kangding.
The northern area of the palace is remote and does not have any good scenery. The only advantage is that there are fewer people and it is very quiet.
Meng Xinzhu stopped in front of the cold palace. This was her second time here. Looking at the closed door, she couldn't help but think of Concubine Zhu. When she agreed to Concubine Zhu's request, she did not expect that she would reach this point.
It really echoes the old saying - changes are greater than plans.
Walking through the cold palace, Meng Xinzhu stood in a bush. This was probably the most remote place in the palace, and no one was there to manage it. Meng Xinzhu's eyes were attracted by an old plum tree in the bush. Among the four gentlemen, she was the most
What she likes most is bamboo, followed by plum blossoms. Gently stroking the plum branches, she couldn't help but say: "There are several plum blossom branches in the corner, and Ling Han is blooming alone. I know it's not snow from a distance, because there is a faint fragrance."
"It turns out that the empress also likes plum blossoms," Eunuch Chen stood next to her. "There is a plum garden next to Kunyue Palace. In winter, the plum blossoms bloom beautifully. In the past, the empress was weak and could not go out to the bamboo garden, but now the empress can enjoy them.
It’s time to enjoy the plum blossoms.”
Winter? Meng Xinzhu was stunned. It is already the end of summer, and there are still four or five months before winter. Will he stay in this palace for so long?
Eunuch Chen continued: "In winter, in addition to plum blossom appreciation in the plum garden, there is also the most beautiful scenery in the palace, which is the frozen Kangding Lake."
Meng Xinzhu turned around and said, "Lake Kangding is frozen? Are you saying that the entire Lake Kangding is frozen?"
"Yes. Every time Kangding Lake freezes over, the emperor will take his concubines on an ice cruise to the lake."
Oh my God, such a big Lake Kangding can be frozen, and the ice is thick enough for people to walk on it. How cold must it be in winter here?
Meng Xinzhu shook her head. Although she liked the snow in winter, she was most afraid of the cold in winter. Recalling the cotton clothes she had seen in Concubine Zhu's closet, she couldn't help but frown. Concubine Zhu was born in the south, and she was
I'm afraid she's not used to the cold weather here. And it's hard for her to imagine how many pieces of clothing she would have to wear to maintain her body temperature. It seems that no matter whether she may stay until winter, she still needs to make some preparations for overwintering.
Already.
Back in Zhuyuan, Meng Xinzhu took out the pearl. She looked at it carefully. Even in modern society, this pearl is the best quality that is hard to find. "Xiao Chenzi, take care of this."
"Your Majesty, this is a reward from the Emperor."
"So what, since you gave it to me, I'll handle it." Meng Xinzhu smiled, "You handle it, I don't care how much it's worth, I just need to get a dozen or twenty kilograms of wool back."
"
Eunuch Chen looked at Concubine Zhu in astonishment, exchanging pearls for wool. What kind of business was this? He left with a confused look on his face.
Xiao Zhao outside the wall of Zhuyuan Courtyard also had a puzzled look on his face. What did this Bamboo Concubine want to do? What did she want the wool for? He knew that the emperor had been neglecting Zhuyuan recently, and everyone in the palace had another target to fawn over.
However, the Bamboo Concubine did not seem to be affected at all. As she said, she lived how she lived before and how she lives now. Does she not care about the emperor so much?
Hongde Longqiu finished approving the last memorial of the day and stretched himself. He took out the bunch of hair curlers from his sleeve. He hadn't seen Zhu Fei for ten days, and he didn't even let Eunuch Ming see it.
See how she is doing.
Thinking of her being lukewarm to him before, I decided to let her calm down this time. Although I was cruel, I still felt a little disappointed. Now I can only hold her hair curlers every day to relieve my longing for her. There is another
It’s been such a hard month!
Xiao Zhao quietly walked into the imperial study room. Knowing that Concubine Zhu ordered Eunuch Chen to exchange pearls for wool, he ordered his men to come forward, buy the pearls, and hand over ten kilograms of high-quality wool and the remaining silver to Eunuch Chen.
He really wanted to see what strange move Zhu Fei would make next.
The emperor was sitting on the dragon throne, looking at the bunch of hair curlers again, which was what he often did before finding the Bamboo Concubine. Xiao Zhao couldn't help but shook his head, if he missed her so much, why didn't he see her? On the other hand, the Bamboo Concubine was on the other side.
It didn't matter, but the emperor couldn't let it go.
"Xiao Zhao, where are you coming from?"
"Back to the emperor, I have just left the palace to do something."
Hongde Longqiu nodded, "Follow me to Yuekang Mountain."
"yes!"
Yu'er was sitting alone in the garden. She had also heard about what happened in the palace. She couldn't imagine what the life of Zhu Fei, who was suddenly left out, would be like now, and she couldn't help but sigh.
"Yu'er, why are you sighing here alone?" The tenth prince walked towards her with a smile.
"I'm thinking about the emperor's sister-in-law. Why do you think the emperor suddenly ignored her?"
Hongde Longhao raised his eyebrows, "I'm not the emperor, how could I know?" He had already heard Meng Xinzhu's "eating" discussion from the Nine Emperors Uncle that day. The emperor's sister-in-law's remarks once again made him admire from the bottom of his heart.
I believe that the emperor's brother should feel the same way, but why didn't he like me more and instead suddenly became cold? Has the emperor's brother already discovered that something is wrong?