Chapter 325: Peony's Ambition
The huge plaque with three big characters of "Furong Fang" in the book is hung under those glazed tiles, of course, these words are not Chinese characters, but Lu Tao can know what is written on it without guessing, in front of the door are the maids standing in two factions, wearing light clothes on them, pink and light green are intertwined, it looks as if an early spring style appeared out of thin air.
Peony didn't enter through the main entrance, she walked around the hibiscus workshop and came to the back door.
Thinking that the guard had lit up a wooden sign, the guard got out of the way and let Peony take Lu Tao into the huge courtyard of Furong Fang.
The sharp-eyed Lu Tao clearly saw that the sign shown by Peony was not the same as the wooden sign she had shown to the soldiers defending the city before, but unfortunately Lu Tao didn't recognize the text on it, and he didn't know what it meant.
Of course, none of this is a problem.
Soon, Lu Tao followed the peony and went around to a garden, which was blocked by the overlapping canopy and buildings on the outside, and could not be seen from the outside, so Lu Tao always felt that the area of Furong Fang was much larger than what he observed outside.
In the pavilion in the center of the garden, there was a middle-aged man standing there, he seemed to see the peony first, stepped forward a few steps, bowed and saluted: "Great master!"
"Hmm. Peony agreed, but did not stop, but directly crossed the middle-aged man and came to the pavilion in the center of the garden and sat down.
The middle-aged man didn't dare to ask anything, but stood still in the pavilion with Peony's pace, lowered his head slightly, and seemed to be waiting for Peony to say something.
Lu Tao didn't know why this middle-aged man would call Peony the big boss, he also followed Peony to the pavilion in the middle.
Peony glared at Lu Tao, Lu Tao was stunned, and looked back inexplicably: "What's wrong?"
"Why don't you put those two baskets of coal down yet!
Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, and rolled his eyes in his heart: Didn't you let me pick them?
Although the middle-aged man lowered his head, Lu Tao could feel that the other party was secretly looking over through the afterglow, as if he was looking at Lu Tao, and shook his head, Lu Tao didn't know what the situation was for the time being, so he could only take off the flat shoulder on his shoulder and throw it aside, waiting for Peony to explain the current situation.
Peony watched Lu Tao put down the two baskets of coal, and refocused her eyes on the middle-aged man, she opened her mouth and asked, "Yongfu, do you have a clue about what I asked you to check?"
The middle-aged man lowered his head even harder: "I'm sorry boss, I only found out that it was the soldiers of the third battalion of the Imperial Forest Army who were mobilized that night, but those soldiers were only responsible for cleaning the periphery, and they were really transferring troops, and only the emperor could mobilize the Imperial Forest Army......"
"Hmph!" Peony snorted, "Don't you want to tell me that it was actually my father who planned all this, do you?
“...... I think...... It's unlikely......." The sweat on the middle-aged man's face flowed down his somewhat pale countenance, and then dripped down his smooth chin.
If we can't find out who is behind the scenes, we will always be in danger!"
"Yes, big boss!" the middle-aged man bowed down.
Peony nodded, and then his tone softened slightly: "You deal with the people on this sign and the people who kept vigil last night, let them disappear for a while and come back, by the way, find two more people to pretend to be me and him, and hide outside for a while with empty frames, if someone comes to ask, you should know what to say, right?"
The middle-aged man took the wooden sign handed over by Peony, turned his head and glanced at Lu Tao again, and lowered his head, it seemed that even if Peony did not explain the cause and effect to him, he also figured out the ins and outs.
"In this case, first find suitable clothes for me and him, and then prepare two suitable eunuch clothes. ”
The middle-aged man took the task given by Peony, bowed to Peony and withdrew, so in the pavilion in this garden, only Lu Tao and Peony were left, and there was no third person.
Lu Tao was finally able to ask Peony a question, he looked left and right, and asked, "This is your property, and that person just now is also your person?"
Peony nodded: "Of course, didn't I say it? Since I was born, I have never been treated by my father, but this also gives me the right to enter and leave the palace freely, relying on the background of the royal family, I have established a set of my own power, the house you saw earlier is, and so is the Furong Fang here." ”
"The heirloom jade seal ......"
Before Lu Tao finished speaking, she was interrupted by Peony, and she said: "That's right, just like you said, I have never been willing to be just a princess that no one cares about, I still want to sit in the position above the ten thousand people, at the same time, the royal power is only imprisoned in a Wuyang City, which is also intolerable to me, whether it is my father or my brothers, they are cowardly and incompetent, so the task of reviving the royal majesty can only be completed by me, and it must be completed by me!"
Peony's words were sonorous and powerful, and the color emanating from his face was full of unparalleled brightness, and this confidence was by no means something that could be cultivated overnight.
Before Lu Tao could ask anything more, just after leaving, a middle-aged man named Yongfu walked back with two maids, he bowed his head to Peony, and said respectfully: "Big boss, the clothes are ready." ”
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Lu Tao never knew that "the clothes are ready" here, and the meaning of "the bath water is ready", when he saw the hot water coming out of the half-human-high wooden barrel, and the pair of slender jade hands of the maid in front of him on his collar, he actually refused.
It's not that he is so tall, it's just that he has never had such experience, and he doesn't know what it's like for others to help him take a bath, and more importantly, Lu Tao is afraid that he will react, which makes the situation he wants to be in even more embarrassing.
"Wait, wait!"
So, while saying wait, Lu Tao took two steps back and let go of the hand that the maid was about to touch him: "I'll just take a bath myself!"
The maid who brought Lu Tao to this room was stunned for a moment, and whispered in a voice like a mosquito and a fly: "But...... The big boss ordered that you must serve the good son, you ......"
Big boss? Lu Tao remembered that the middle-aged man didn't call the big boss of Peony? Who was the big boss in the mouth of the maid? Moreover, Lu Tao was embarrassed about what kind of son he had become.
Suppressing this embarrassment, Lu Tao shook his head: "I'm not used to having others watching when I'm taking a shower, and I don't like others to help me undress, so you just wait outside." ”
"But......" said the maid cautiously, "if it is seen by the great master...... I will receive punishment ......"
After a pause, the maid spoke again: "Childe, my skills are very good......
Technique?What technology?Is it the technique of rubbing the back of a guest?
Lu Tao waved his hand: "Don't say it! If there is any problem, I can help you solve it to the big boss, in short, I really don't like that there are people next to me when I take a shower, so you better go out first." ”
The maid hesitated for a moment, but finally bowed and said, "Yes, childe, I will put my clothes here, and if you need any salary, just pull this rope." ”
Lu Tao looked in the direction of the maid's finger, and sure enough, at the head of the bed in this room, there was a red rope, and the conspicuous red rope went around the head of the bed and extended all the way to the door, presumably at the other end of the rope, there should be a bell or something.
Nodding, the maid finally reluctantly left the room, so there was only Lu Tao left in the room, and there was a wooden bucket of warm water.
Of course, Lu Tao would not refuse to take a good bath, especially after soaking in the lake water for so long last night, the clothes on the night watchman next to the big bed in Furong Fang were not very clean, which made Lu Tao, who had to take a bath almost every day in modern society, feel very uncomfortable, he took off his clothes three times and twice, and sank his body into the hot water.
The slightly hot hot water washed away the dirt and discomfort on Lu Tao's body almost instantly, Lu Tao almost moaned, and finally thought that there was a girl outside the door who didn't look very old, and the moaning was firmly held in his throat, and he picked up a piece of soap from the table on the side of the barrel, Lu Tao put it in front of his nose and smelled it, but he couldn't smell any fragrance, on the contrary, there was an indescribable strange smell from the soap into Lu Tao's nostrils.
It seems that although people in this world have figured out how to make soap, they can't add too much fragrance to it, so maybe perfume is some kind of special luxury in this world.
Lu Tao's thoughts drifted away, if you want to make money, making perfume should be regarded as a relatively simple way, after all, a simpler perfume only needs alcohol and those ubiquitous flowers, but I don't know what kind of wine in this world is, what is the alcohol content, and finally, of course, Lu Tao also needs a set of distillation devices that can turn wine into alcohol, which is probably the biggest problem.
Shaking his head and throwing these reveries out of his mind, Lu Tao stood up and hit the soap on his wet body, the slippery feeling brought by the soap was no different from the soap that Lu Tao had used in modern society, and in an instant, Lu Tao felt that his body became more refreshing.