Chapter 118: Noble Zeng Lan Palace
On the morning of this day, Yunyang was talking to Yu Lu in the dormitory, twisting colored threads and twisting brocade, preparing to make a cage. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, Sui Su walked in from outside the hall and replied: "Yu Niangniang, five pieces of Song Jin material have been sent to Zeng Lan Palace." Listening to Pi Fang, today is Xie Ronghua's birthday. ”
"According to the palace rules, the Inner Government Bureau should send Fu Lu Li and birthday money, and they went to ask for it, but they actually said that this month's astigmatism has been astished, and they will send it next year. Do you say angry people are not angry? ”
After hearing this, Yunyang put down the needle and thread in his hand and said: "I have long wanted to see Xie Ronghua and have not been available, today is her Qianqiu Festival, and it is a good day to visit." ”
She ordered Suisu to put a brown moire four-eared poppy into the brocade box as a birthday gift, remembering that it was nearly a year now, so she let Yinlu fill two boxes of dried fruit preserves, and finally prepared a box of gold water chestnuts for Xie Ronghua to reward the palace people for the festival.
After the four brocade boxes were wrapped, Yunyang asked Sui Su to send them to Zeng Lan Palace first, and he redressed himself in front of the rhombic glasses before leaving the palace.
The location of the Zeng Lan Palace where Xie Ronghua lives is very remote, built on a vacant land behind Penglai Mountain directly north of Tianyuan Pond, with a length and width of only more than ten zhang each.
On the way to Zenglan Palace, Yunyang lifted the curtains of the sedan chair and saw that both sides of the road were mottled with green moss, withered grass and vines, and few people seemed to move.
Xie Ronghua has been out of favor for a long time, and it is conceivable how much the palace people neglect her. Thinking of the **** reward in Qiao Palace, the magnificence in Longkang Palace, and the beauty of Jinxin Palace, the cold and warm jumped in front of me, which made people feel emotional.
When he was about to arrive at Zeng Lan Palace, Yun Yang saw two young women standing at the gate of the palace from a distance, one was Pi Fang.
The other is twenty-four or five years old, tall, with a goose egg face, phoenix eyes and peach cheeks, dressed in a lotus lotus half-worn plain Huaiwenqi cotton robe, with a comb on his hair and a silver gilt inlaid jade peony insert.
Although her clothes and costumes are not outstanding, what is rare is that she is dignified and steady, and she has a calm temperament, which is very rare among the women in Hanyang Palace who are quick-eyed and agile and dexterous.
Yunyang concluded that this was Xie Ronghua.
Seeing that Xie Ronghua and the palace people were already waiting, although they had not yet arrived at the palace gate, Yunyang got off the sedan chair and walked over. Seeing Xie Ronghua, Yunyang first bent his knees and saluted: "My sister is happy on the Thousand Autumn Festival, and my sister is here to celebrate her birthday." ”
Xie Ronghua hurriedly returned a big gift: "The position of the concubine is much higher than mine, how dare I accept the gift." ”
Yunyang shook her hand and said, "My sisters, don't be born because of these false names. ”
Xie Ronghua nodded yes.
Getting closer and taking a closer look, Yunyang felt that Xie Ronghua was beautiful and peaceful, and there was an indescribable kindness in his heart.
The two entered the palace gate hand in hand, and Yun Yang raised his eyes to look at the courtyard in the Zeng Lan Palace, which was small and arranged like an ordinary house. But when she looked closely, there was a lot of mystery inside, and her palms were sweaty.
The first thing Yunyang saw was a green plum planted in the courtyard, the color of the green plum was novel, and the most strange thing was that the petals of this plum blossom were not one, but three layers overlapped, with a total of fifteen petals. Yun Yang couldn't help but ask, "Is this Futumei?" ”
Xie Ronghua said: "Exactly."
Yunyang looked at this plum blossom that carried the affection of Emperor Wen of Sui and Dugu Jialuo, and couldn't help but feel emotional.
Yunyang stopped under this plum tree: "It is said that this Futu plum has long withered, isn't there a second one here for my sister?" ”
Xie Ronghua walked over and shook his head and said, "Definitely." When I first lived in Zenglan Palace, I saw a dead tree in the courtyard, and the palace people wanted to remove it, I was afraid that it still had a glimmer of life, wouldn't it be a pity to dial it? ”
"I often let people bury shrimp surimi and bear white under the plum tree, diligent in watering, but I didn't expect it to sprout branches and spit out leaves the next spring, and after flowering, it is this Futu plum."
After appreciating Qimei, Yunyang saw a log on the side of the palace wall, covered with residual snow, but despite this, it can also be seen that this wood is the head and tail of the tiger, the color is like mud gold, and when he walks in and takes a closer look, he sees that the veins on its surface are like deerskin, and the fine hairs can be seen clearly.
Yun Yang looked surprised, because she knew that this was also a thing of her homeland - according to legend, the Song royal family was not yet subject to the feudal state. There was a white-haired old man with fairy wind and bones who came to the house and said to the patriarch, wait by the East China Sea in five days, and there is a gift from heaven for you.
After speaking, he turned into a wisp of smoke and left. The patriarch did not dare to slack off, and led people to the East China Sea five days later, and sure enough, a big log floated from the direction of Penglai Immortal Island on the sea.
The patriarch ordered people to scoop up this piece of wood, and found that this wood was a tiger's head and crane tail deer skin, and the sound of knocking was like a bell, so he named it Xianshan Wood.
Soon after getting the immortal mountain wood, the Song Kingdom was enshrined as the head of the Seven Pillar Kingdoms, and this immortal mountain wood naturally became the heirloom of the Song royal family, and it is said that it has been hidden in the royal temple of the Song Kingdom, but I don't know why it appears here today?
Xie Ronghua saw that Yunyang recognized the Xianshan wood, so he explained to her: "This wood was also found when I first moved in. At that time, it was placed in a corner of the palace wall, and it was already covered with dust. I saw that it was not rotten or beetle, and it came from the Immortal Mountain, so it must need to absorb the aura of the sun and the moon, so I didn't move it and let it stay there freely. ”
The two walked as they talked, and within a few steps they had come to the entrance of the main hall. Yunyang looked up and saw the green tiles on the top of the hall, and couldn't help but smile dumbly, and said to Xie Ronghua: "Are all the rare treasures gathered here in my sister?" ”
During the reign of Emperor Xian of the Song Dynasty, in order to build the Jintai Palace, he ordered the imperial workshop to supervise the construction of a batch of 50,000 colorful tiles. The Imperial Workshop used seven-colored gemstones to grind into powder, mixed with red clay and fired to make colorful tiles.
There is nothing special about this tile during the day, only when the moon is full, the moonlight is sprinkled on the tile, and the tile will reflect colorful light. The reason why Yunyang is instantly recognizable is because the shape of this tile is different from ordinary tiles.
This tile is trapezoidal, and after firing, the craftsmen rounded the lower right corner. This design is the result of repeated experiments by craftsmen, and only when the tiles of this shape are overlapped to form the roof of the main hall, the reflected colorful light can be bright and not dispersed, and gather in one place, like a pool of colorful pond water.
When Emperor Song Xian saw this scene, the dragon's heart was happy, and said that the neon in the sky was bred by this pool, so he named this tile Nichi tile.
It is said that the Song Kingdom only used 45,000 Nichi tiles when building the Jintai Palace, and there were 5,000 left, and Emperor Song Xian was reluctant to use them anymore and put them all into the warehouse. Now that the Jintai Palace has been destroyed in the war, where did the Nichi tiles of the Zenglan Palace come from?
Seeing that Yunyang had questions, Xie Ronghua explained: "When I first entered Zenglan Palace that day, due to disrepair, there were many rain leaks in the palace, so I reported to the Inner Government Bureau and asked them to come to repair it. ”
"It may be that they found these neon pool tiles from the warehouse, felt that the shape was irregular, thought they were defective, so they all shipped them to me and rebuilt the roof of the temple."
Yun Yang listened, nodded and said, "I see." ”