The wind spirit couldn't dodge, so he had to follow the palace maid up the stone steps, bypass the inner prison that slipped underground, and step into the hall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Inside the temple was also kneeling a prisoner, dressed in the same clothes as those outside, but a little older. Yang Shufei did not see the expected anger, and sat tepidly on the backrest brocade couch in the center, in front of the couch set up a high desk, and a few kneaded peony flowers lay in the ebony tray on the desk.

Feng Ling stepped forward and bowed to her: "Feng Ling is late, Madam forgive me." ”

The inner prison knelt at the feet of the Wind Spirit, who saw that his back was stiff, and seemed to be trying to control himself without looking back at her.

"Look at the flowers." Yang Shufei didn't care about her belatedness, and the annoyance in her soft voice didn't mean to her: "What do you think? ”

Feng Ling stepped forward and took a crumpled one of the pink, green, yellow, and purple flowers and held it in the palm of her hand to look closely, except for the petals that were rubbed, there was nothing abnormal, she put down the flower, and replied: "It's just an ordinary peony, only the color is more than the outside, and the outside is mostly pink." ”

"Don't you feel small?" Yang Shufei asked.

"The wind spirit has no knowledge, this flower shape is not small, and when the hairpin is put on the head, it almost covers half of the bun." The wind spirit is like this. The inner prisoner, who was kneeling at his feet, sighed heavily.

Yang Shufei sighed faintly: "This year's drought, don't say the peony flowers in the palace, I heard the sage mention a while ago, the field is already green and yellow, the palace women don't know the people's suffering, but they still complain that the peony flowers are small this year, and they all reprimand the inner supervisors of the peony garden for being lazy and not using meat and bone broth to water the peonies." ”

Feng Ling was shocked to hear it, she was rich in her family, although she had never been through the famine and famine, but she had seen it once or twice on the way to business, the scene was very unforgettable, and then she heard that the palace was watered with meat and bone broth peony flowers, and she thought "sin" in her heart, and the extravagance was so prevalent, if you didn't see it with your own eyes, you heard it with your own ears, it was really unbelievable.

"Do peony flowers need to be raised with meat and bone broth?" The wind spirit still didn't dare to believe it, and went straight to ask the underground inner prison.

The old eunuch knew that she was hand-picked by the saint to stay in the palace, and she was willing to ask, he was like grasping a life-saving straw, and hurriedly responded to her: "Lady, the old slave has really used the meat and bone broth, but no matter how much meat and bone broth there is, it can't withstand the dry day of this year, the rain is not good, and the flowers will not bloom much." But all flowers, trees, and fruit trees have a big year and a small year, and they can't be pointed to as big years every year. ”

Feng Ling nodded: "That's right." She raised her head and pleaded with Concubine Yang Shu: "The old inner eunuch is right, the natural disaster is like this, and I can't complain about the inner eunuchs who raise flowers." Moreover, this peony is really not small. ”

Concubine Yang Shu snorted coldly: "You and I know what the use of this reason is, but the concubines and women in this inner garden don't agree." This morning's complaint, tomorrow night's complaint, I want to treat those flower-raising inner supervisors as flesh and bones and flower fat, and I can't calm everyone's mouth, and I can't use these big beans to disturb the holy driver. ”

Feng Ling didn't know that the peony flower was so important to the women in the palace, so important that he wanted to risk people's lives to urge them to bloom a flower that could satisfy them, and he didn't think it was ridiculous.

"Wind Spirit has a way to get the best of both worlds." She couldn't bear to see the innocent prisoner being punished, and thought that Yang Shufei also got her good character, so she was invited to discuss the matter, or was it another temptation. The Wind Spirit didn't care what she was going to try, her mind was racing, and she had a plan for it.

Concubine Yang ordered someone to give a soft pestle to sit on the side of her brocade couch for Feng Ling, and she wanted to pull her hand again, but Feng Ling's reaction was much faster than her, and she had already reached over and took two peony flowers in her palm, and took advantage of the situation to avoid Yang Shufei's tired pat.

"It's not difficult, it's just to borrow the prestige of the lady in the inner palace. Now the palace ladies are all looking at the lady's horse, what the lady wears today, tomorrow there will be someone to follow suit, even if you can't learn the lady's fifty percent of the style, but you can also get some brilliance. Feng Ling praised her first, but it was not all false compliments, this time I saw a lot of palace women in the palace, with her sense of smell of many years of fabrics, it is not difficult to detect this.

Concubine Yang nodded her forehead with a sneer, and said with a smile in a crisp and soft voice: "Speak seriously, don't patronize those nice ones." ”

Feng Ling "giggled" and said "yes" with a smile, and continued: "Madame only needs to order people to go to the peony garden to buy flowers with great fanfare every day, and pick out the small ones to buy, and then order the female officials in Shangfu to wear these small peonies, or decorate them on the skirt, or not on the placket, and then fiddle with them by the Shangfu Bureau, and the palace family will wear them when they come to greet them." In this way, the price is higher than the day for several days, and the wind spirit dares to assert that within a few days, the palace relatives will rush to the peony garden to ask for flowers. But please give the order of the lady, not to take it in vain, and set a price for those flowers, which can only be set high, and must not be cheap. ”

Why is that? The flowers of the peony garden have always been only used as rewards and gifts, and there has never been a bargaining statement. Yang Shufei frowned and shook her head.

Feng Ling's heart was excited, and when she asked, she couldn't help but sit upright: "This entry is naturally not for your own use." Madame thinks about it, didn't the sage mention a while ago that the drought was a disaster, the fields were green and yellow, and the hungry people increased greatly, and the lady handed over all the surplus to the household department, and opened a porridge shed for the hungry people on the outskirts of the city. To put it mildly, it means that Mrs. cares about the country and does her best for Datang, which is exemplary. ”

Yang Shufei stared at the outside of the hall in a daze, as early as when Li Shimin casually mentioned the drought in front of her, she had this thought, but after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't find a natural and unpretentious way.

She couldn't help but look at the woman sitting on her knees, and she told herself this method first, not in front of the emperor, that is, she had decided to stand on her side and use it for herself.

Concubine Yang Shufei pulled up the silk handkerchief to cover her mouth and laughed, her heart was uncomfortable, and she said to the old inner supervisor who was still kneeling in the hall: "You don't have to kneel here and beg me to save you, there are nobles who come to save you, don't hurry up and thank her first." ”

"How dare the wind spirits." Feng Ling hurriedly opened half of his body sideways and waved his hand: "Moreover, if this matter can be done, the most important thing is to borrow the example of Mrs. Feng, if you change to Feng Ling to buy flowers, it will never be possible." ”

Concubine Yang Shufei pondered her method carefully, whether she had ever used her to do things, and she didn't know if she could do it, so she secretly thought that she would simply leave her with all the burdens to bear, good as it is, and bad will have nothing to do with her after all.

"We who have been in the palace for many years do not understand those things of buying and selling, since you are a female businesswoman, you are familiar with this way, and you have to work for you once, in the end to pick up this matter, if you can really raise money, you will go to the household department to receive this merit." Concubine Yang involuntarily picked up Feng Ling's hand again and patted her on the back of her hand.

Feng Ling endured the discomfort on the back of his hand and the ecstasy in his heart, and agreed: "The money is from the ladies in the palace, and the face is borrowed from the lady, what is the merit of the wind spirit?" Madame don't mention the merit or not, Feng Ling only knows how to run errands to the household, and I don't know what merit to receive. ”

Yang Shufei scolded her with a few words of flamboyance. Feng Ling's heart was overjoyed, and he finally had the opportunity to step out of the Chengtian Gate and go to the household department, which was in Shangshu Province with the military department, and it was a big step closer to the delay. (To be continued.) )