Zheng Lang's case was not investigated as quickly as the case of King Qi and Pei Yan, firstly because he was not as important as King Qi and Pei Yan after all, and secondly because his mother's birthday was imminent.

This year's mother's birthday was more grand than usual, not only many places have offered auspicious rui, but also no matter whether it is far from the state or near the county, regardless of Beijing officials and foreign officials, all of them have given generous gifts.

My gifts have been prepared long ago, and in addition to the usual gold, silver, and jade, there are twelve chaise longues of all kinds, twenty of each, for my mother, or for my mother, or for my own use in the palace. Today's chairs are still mainly low, numbered Hu bed, the size is many, there are as big as a bed, there are only one person to sit upright, but there is no previous life that can accommodate people half lying and half sitting style, I found a craftsman to design a batch of chairs, generally like the beach lounge chair, the inside of the car arc, carved dragon and phoenix in the middle, extremely gorgeous, and asked people to draw all kinds of peonies, as if to make two hundred and forty peony pillows, and the chaise longue together with the mother.

At first, I thought that the most difficult part of this matter should be the pillow, after all, whether it is painting 240 peonies, embroidering them on cloth as they are, dyeing them in bright colors, choosing the right material... It was not an easy task, but the most difficult part of this matter was the chaise longue, and the craftsmen took a lot of effort to imagine what the chair would look like, and it took a lot more effort to create a perfect streamline. At the beginning of each year, I began to think about the next year's gift, so I worked on these 240 chairs for more than a year, and I finished the work before my mother's birthday this year.

My mother, as before, ordered my gift to be shown to her alone, and when she saw the chairs and pillows, she couldn't take her eyes off them, so she first tried them, and then she fell down comfortably in the chairs, squinting and laughing: "This thing is better for summer coolness, than a hu bed—does it have a name?"

I said, "Not yet, please give me a name." ”

She smiled: "It's so comfortable to lie down, it's better to call it a 'Changle bed'." ”

I said, "This thing has a place to lean, it looks more like a chair than a bed, and I thought it could be called a 'long music chair.'" ”

The name "chair", I often use it on weekdays, and I often call it this way, but I have never used it on the official face, and I am often regarded as a "leaning son" when I write, my mother knows about it, and after a little thought, she smiled and said: "The word 'chair' is good, and this thing is called a long music chair." Because I really like it, I immediately asked for 20 chairs to be placed in various places in Luoyang Palace, and ordered this thing to be set up in Shangyang Palace and other places in the palace.

Not only the recliner, even the gorgeous pillow is also quite popular with the mother, the current pillow is mostly in the shape of a long strip, or round or square, thick and thick, the spirit is insufficient, I ordered someone to make it, then it is soft and square, when you want to rely on it can be rolled up behind you, you can also use it as a cushion when you want to pad, the best thing is that it is extremely soft in your hands, and the mother laughs at me for being a little daughter, and I can't do without these hugs, I can't do without these hugs, and I have a pillow in my hands, and my hands are repeatedly kneaded, and I am willing to let go for a long time.

Mother both liked, the practice of the recliner and pillow was naturally confiscated, handed over to the Shaofu, I naturally did not have any opinion, but Ah Huan served in front of the palace, from a distance to me a look, I retired and went around to the remote place outside the hall to wait, after a while, Ah Huan also came out, and said softly to me: "You have such a good idea, why don't you ask someone to step up and make another batch, take these objects to buy and sell, this is a good thing that the A family said personally, within a few days the bento spread all over the two capitals, the princes and nobles, will definitely compete to follow suit." I'll do it for you, there will always be a profit of one or two hundred thousand. ”

I didn't care much and said: "I'm not short of money, what do I do to earn this?" and now there is no "copyright protection" to say, and there is no shortage of skilled craftsmen in the princes and nobles' homes, although my idea is new for a while, it will be imitated after a while, maybe it will be imitated better, and it is not interesting to make one or two sums of money in a short time, not to mention that I am really not short of money.

Ah Huan glanced at me: "It's a shame that you still read so many books with the scholars in vain! Don't you know the old classics that Wang Jian asked the King of Qin for a reward?"

I was stunned for a moment before I reacted, what she said was telling me to make a profit-seeking appearance, to defile myself in order to protect myself, these officialdom methods are becoming more and more familiar to her, I don't know if this is a fortunate thing or a misfortune, but if this thing can make my mother like me more, I will definitely do it, because I am really afraid.

Ah Huan saw my decision on his face, and said, "That's right." It's not that I told you to kill people and set fires, but just to make money, what is there to hesitate about? You don't want the money you earn, donate it to the temple to help the poor, and the real copper money is not more useful than your whim of compassion?"

I knew that she was busy, and even I was busy again, but I still stood reluctantly for a while, looking at her walking out of sight, and then went all the way to find Feng Shiliang: "The chair dedicated to the Queen Mother, Ah Niang said that she liked it very much, and she had asked people to place it everywhere in the palace." You order the house to do some more, do as much as you can, don't be so exquisite, just the same. It's done, let Liu Houde find a store to hang out and sell - let me meet the person I'm looking for first. ”

Feng Shiliang bowed down when he heard this, and he couldn't stop worshipping, I asked him strangely, but I heard him say happily: "The princess is filial piety and serves the queen mother wholeheartedly, and the queen mother can also understand the princess's filial piety. ”

I frowned, and was about to scold him, when I suddenly understood what he meant, glanced at him, and said softly: "How many people in the house have been taken into custody with the horses?"

Feng Shiliang got up and said: "Not much, but more than ten families, most of them are the servants of the original Zheng family, and there are a few people who go out with the horses on weekdays and see more guests, but I heard from their families that the imperial history is quite polite to the people of the Horse Mansion." ”

I nodded lightly and said, "Tell the palace that everyone will double the amount of food this month, and whoever goes out with me from the palace, regardless of the age of men and women, will be given an extra silk horse each." In the future, every year in the month of the Queen Mother's holy birthday, it will be handled in this way. Go for it. ”

This time, Feng Shiliang was not as surprised as Fang Cai, so he only responded and left.

After he left, we remembered that we had no time to discipline the house, so we called him again, and waited for the afternoon to go back to the house, and gathered everyone, one announced the matter of increasing the salary in February every year, and the other added instructions: first, not to discuss the affairs of the palace, second, not to discuss the affairs of the court, third, not to discuss the affairs of the clan, fourth, not to discuss the affairs of Zhuwu and Zhuyang, and fifth, not to discuss the affairs of Zheng Lang and Zheng Bo. Later, Song, Liu and a few other people were called, one said that the recliner was quite popular with the Queen Mother, Liu Houde and other relevant people who supervised the creation, all had heavy thanks, one said that it was now more and more, and ordered them to strictly restrain the house, and then said that it was the matter of selling chairs, Liu Houde knew the most about this, saying that he knew a few old and honest shops, and his net worth was innocent. After a long time in business, Feng Yongchang also argued that he had people he knew, and I didn't care about the money, but I was afraid that any random people would find a way to join me and do evil in my name, so I set a time for them to bring their respective people to meet and then make a decision.

During the whole month of February, I was extremely diligent and careful, and I personally handled everything regardless of palace affairs or household affairs, and I did not dare to slack off. Just after February, the ruling of Zheng Lang's family came down, Zheng Lang was executed, because his parents had passed away, and his mother was a princess, so he did not go back to his ancestors, but only punished his eldest son Zheng Hong, and even more than ten people in his family abandoned the city with more than ten people who conspired against him. Zheng Bo deserved to die, because he was the princess's son-in-law, his death was commuted, and he was exiled to Qianzhou.

Mother did fulfill her promise and did not condemn Zheng Bo to death, but before he was exiled, she routinely gave him a hundred canes, and Zheng Bo was sent out less than ten days before he had a cane sore attack and died on the road—she specially ordered this to be concealed, and it was only after a long time that it was slowly revealed to me, for before that, I had seen Zheng Lang abandoned in the city, and I was a little frightened, and I fell ill a little.

This illness was unplanned and expected, because I had specially bypassed my mother's obstruction to see the execution. 166 Reading Network