Chapter 25: Rumors
The next day, the palace was like an explosion, and the news that Su Wanxi had been promoted to imperial concubine within a few months of entering the palace spread to every corner of the palace for a while.
When the queen heard the news, Xiao Zhaoyi was named the imperial concubine before she was even pregnant, which was really unreasonable. Early in the morning, the queen wanted to go to the Funing Palace to ask Shen Wen to take back her fame, but who knew that there was no one in the Funing Palace, and the emperor actually went to the early court today.
The emperor was very pleased with the emperor's early visit, but what he never expected was that Shen Wen only listened to the ministers' recital, and then promulgated a new tax policy, ordered the levy of labor, and announced the decision to build a new palace. Many ministers are very opposed, but Shen Wentie is determined that this matter must be done.
He has reigned for more than 20 years, and he has never done anything that touches the interests of the people, and now he only wants to build a few palaces, but he is blocked by everyone, and he is really depressed in his heart, and he is more determined to pay attention to the fact that this matter must be decided, so as not to disappoint Su Wanxi with him.
Shen Wen forcibly decided on this matter, and he didn't want to listen to the minister's opposition at all, and refused to summon anyone after returning to the Funing Palace, and the queen and the crown prince visited twice and three times, but they were all turned away.
Rumors in the palace have also spread since then, the emperor loves Concubine Su and wants to build a palace for her, and such words have gradually spread.
The next day, Fleur was in the center, and Su Wanxi stood in front of the bookcase, on which a lot of rice paper and a ruler were presented. Wanxi looked at the blank rice paper thoughtfully, and held the pen for a long time.
Approaching noon, the midsummer day was getting hotter and hotter, Su Wanxi held a pen in one hand, and twisted a fan from the desk with the other hand to fan it slowly.
Chun Qu and Qiu Lai were guarding the door of the study, and Qing'er brought in a bowl of black soup from outside the door, respectfully presented it to Wanxi, and said, "Niangniang, your summer soup is here." "The people in the entire Fuyuan House didn't expect that Wanxi was still Su Zhaoyi last night, and today she has become Su Guifei.
Su Wanxi looked at the medicine, then put down the pen and Luo fan, took the black bowl, and drank it in a big gulp, as if there was nothing unusual about drinking water. After drinking, he put the bowl back on the plate and waved his hand to order Qing'er to go down.
Qing'er watched Wanxi finish drinking it in one gulp, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva. After entering the palace, Wanxi gave her two prescriptions, and told her to go to the two imperial doctors to grab the medicine, and then talk about the two prescriptions of medicine to boil together, saying that it is a decoction to reduce fire, and it doesn't matter if you drink it occasionally.
Qing'er found that every time Wanxi went to bed on the second day, she would ask herself to boil a bowl, Qing'er wanted to drink some decoction after coming to bed, which was also considered to strengthen her body, and once she secretly took a sip curiously, the medicine was simply bitterer than Coptis chinensis, so she often drank such bitter medicine, she might as well be on fire! But every time I saw Su Wanxi drink so indifferently, as if she didn't know the taste of food.
Su Wanxi saw Qing'er's surprised expression, and didn't speak, this is actually Juezi soup, she used to drink this thing, she has long been used to the bitter taste, and now drinking it is also regarded as white water.
Su Wanxi is now thinking about designing the palace, and Shen Wen has promised her to repair the palace, so she has to design it well. For example, the people of Lin'an live a little richer today, and other places often suffer from natural disasters every year, and occasionally there is no harvest, this is Shen Wen also increased taxes and labor into the palace, and the people must be bitter and resentful of this emperor.
At noon, Su Wanxi's design has some eyebrows, spring and autumn have prepared lunch, called Wanxi to eat, and it happened that the prince arrived outside the door, Wanxi hurriedly went out of the study and closed the door in person.
"I've seen Concubine Su!" Shen Jingyuan saw Wanxi coming out of the room, still standing at the door of Furui Ju and refusing to come in, and saluted her from a long distance.
Su Wanxi stepped forward under the scorching sun and said, "The prince must have something to visit today, right? Why don't you come in and sit down, just have a meal together, and take your time." ”
Shen Jingyuan's face was cold and said: "No, Jingyuan is here to say that you are a noble concubine, so as not to attract gossip." ”
Su Wanxi didn't know if Shen Jingyuan really said this for herself, or if she wanted to express something else, but she knew that he must feel uncomfortable in his heart, after all, he was now enshrined as the imperial concubine, which showed that the emperor favored him.
"Do you really want this palace to stand under this scorching sun and talk to you?" Wanxi frowned lightly and held her forehead with her fingers.
Shen Jingyuan was dull for a moment, then waved his hand to signal Xiao Anzi and the others to wait outside, and walked straight to the side hall where the guests were received.
Everything in Furui is simple, clean and bright, Shen Jingyuan originally thought that his father was so fond of Su Wanxi, and rewarded her with countless gold, silver and jewelry, and her palace should also be richly decorated.
"Come in autumn, make a pot of jasmine tea. Su Wanxi said, and asked the rest of the people to sit down with Shen Jingyuan at the door of the side hall.
"I heard that my father is building a lot of construction for you?" Shen Jingyuan was straight to the point and unequivocal.
Su Wanxi's face was innocent, staring at Shen Jingyuan and said, "Those gossips in the palace, don't you also believe them?"
Shen Jingyuan was reluctant to look at her, and deliberately avoided her gaze and said, "Whether it is a rumor or not, I came today to ask for something." ”
Su Wanxi looked at his expressionless face, and secretly laughed in her heart, treating me so deliberately and indifferently, I want to see if you can escape this pomegranate skirt that kills people.
"The prince has something to say. She said, sighing slightly, as if very sad.
Shen Jingyuan's eyes were slightly gloomy, and then he said: "The emperor is very kind to Concubine Su, and I hope that the concubine can admonish her father a lot, build a lot of construction and work for the people and lose money, and for the sake of the country, I hope that my father will think twice." ”
Su Wanxi sneered secretly, it turned out that she wanted to persuade Shen Wen to give up her decision to build a palace. Oh, I really don't know what kind of funny expression Shen Jingyuan would have when he learned that it was the pillow wind he blew for Shen Wen.
"The palace understands what the prince said, and I was just going to ask the emperor to tell him about it. I know that many people in the palace are rumored to be for me, and I can't argue. Su Wanxi said, hanging her head aggrievedly.
As he was saying this, Qiulai served jasmine tea, and then bowed his head to pour tea for Shen Jingyuan.
Shen Jingyuan got up and saluted slightly: "Jingyuan retreats." With that, he strode away, completely ignoring Wanxi's expression.
Seeing Shen Jingyuan striding away, Su Wanxi's eyes were slightly gloomy.
Why do you ignore me like this? Are you trying your best to cover it up? Heh, Shen Jingyuan, Shen Jingyuan...... Don't you really want me? Heh, don't worry, I'll let you see what you really are.
The tea was not cold, the figure had passed away, Su Wanxi looked at the tea on the table, and her heart was quite unpleasant.
"Niangniang, are you going to Funing Palace? "When Qiu Lai came in, he happened to hear Wanxi say that he was going to ask to see the emperor.
Su Wanxi didn't have much expression, but said lightly: "No, there is still something to do in this palace." With that, he walked straight to the study and continued to design.
The construction of the palace did not stop because of anyone's dissuasion, and Shen Wen insisted on going his own way, and a few days later began to forcibly requisition labor.
And Su Wanxi took out the design sketch in just two days, and asked to see Shen Wen in the name of dissuasion, but in fact, she showed him the design sketch and continued to fan the flames. Shen Wen treated her dotingly, and Wanxi was afraid that she would be infamous for seducing the king from the government and the opposition, so she told Shen Wen that the construction of the palace must not be said to be her attention, Shen Wen also agreed, and promised that if anyone dared to say that she had brought disaster to the country and the people, she would be beheaded and confiscated from her home, leaving no one alive.
At the end of summer, Shen Wen requisitioned countless laborers and began to build the "Nine Palaces" with great fanfare, among which the "Furong Pavilion" and "Xianglan Pavilion" were the core of the whole project, and the construction of the entire palace was all adopted by Shen Wen with Su Wanxi's opinions.
Hibiscus Pavilion pre-height 50 zhang, imitation of the king of Shang Xuan star picking tower made, its hand can pick the star or one of them, the second is the whole attic a total of 30 floors, each floor of the interior has to be planted with a kind of strange flowers and plants, for viewing. Exotic flowers and herbs are difficult to survive and take care of, and now they have to be transplanted indoors in large quantities, which is really difficult to reach the sky.
And the Xianglan Pavilion is even better. Although the pavilion is not high, it can require the curtain to be made of shark silk, the gold and jade glaze is the tile, the four layers of heavy eaves, and the four corners are decorated with night pearls. The tables and chairs in the pavilion are all made of warm jade, and the candlesticks and wine glasses are made of gold. The whole pavilion is intricately colored and gilded, fine and gorgeous, and extremely luxurious.
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