Chapter 204: Portrait
Su Yingtong went to Qingqiu Garden, the princess was chanting in the Buddhist hall, and her mother was going to report to the princess, but Su Yingtong stopped her, "I'll wait for my mother." ”
Mom asked Su Yingtong to sit in the hall.
Su Yingtong looked at the lonely back of the princess in the Buddhist hall and shook his head, "I want to take a look here." "Mom asked someone to bring a stool, and Su Yingtong sat down.
The princess treated the old prince like that when she was young, although she doesn't have a word of regret now, she should also regret it in her heart.
It is indeed painful for the other party to know his own mind when he dies.
The princess stopped for a long time, she moved her knees, supported the ground and wanted to stand up, and then stretched out a pair of hands to help her up, she glanced at it, and a smile appeared in her desolate eyes, "Ying Tong, you are here." ”
Su Yingtong only felt sad when she looked at the princess's eyes, she helped the princess to sit on the chair and brought tea to the princess: "Mother, Yingtong should come over more to accompany you." ”
"The palace is handed over to you, you are also busy, don't worry about me, it's good that I am clean and pure."
"I just instructed the people below to do things every day, how busy I can be, and my mother shouldn't be annoyed by me."
The princess smiled, the princess Xiangyuan was looking for was really good. "Okay, I'm glad you're here, too."
Su Yingtong chatted with the princess for a while, and then asked: "Mother, next month is the 60th birthday of the queen mother, will you enter the palace?" "Mother and the Queen Mother are the same generation, although they are not used to it, but it is the Queen Mother's birthday, and my mother should go, right?
How do you know that the princess just shook her head indifferently and said: "I won't go, you can congratulate the queen mother on my behalf." ”
Su Yingtong is strange, the Queen Mother doesn't look like a kind person, why is her mother not afraid of offending the Queen Mother?
The princess saw Su Yingtong's doubts, and she smiled: "It's just some personal grudges, and the queen mother is even more unhappy when she sees me." ”
Su Yingtong naturally didn't want to ask about the privacy of her elders, so she thought about it and asked, "Mother, do you know what the Queen Mother likes?" I plan to send a special congratulatory gift to the Queen Mother. "The Queen Mother has no shortage of gold and silver, and if she wants to please her old man, she must have special thoughts.
The princess also knew what Su Yingtong meant, although she and the queen mother had grievances, but the next generation should not be involved, she couldn't bow her head in front of the queen mother, if her daughter-in-law could repair some relationship with her, it would be good.
She thought for a while and said: "The Queen Mother has a deep affection for the former emperor, but the former emperor was not good to the Queen Mother before, and the only regret of the Queen Mother is that she and the former emperor I did not leave anything that the two of them could think about, and she only left a portrait of the former emperor painted by the painter in the palace." ”
"Is there only one portrait of the emperor painted by the painter in the palace?"
"There are also Guanhua Temple, and the portraits of the emperors of the past dynasties are hung together, and in the royal Buddha hall, there are high monks chanting every day."
Su Yingtong thought for a while, "My sketch...... It's a special way to paint, and it's okay to paint, if I can draw a picture of the Queen Mother and the Emperor in the same frame, does my mother think the Queen Mother will like it? ”
The princess thought about it carefully, although the former emperor was already a person who returned to the west, and it didn't seem appropriate to send these on his birthday, but the identity of the former emperor was different, so he didn't have to care about these vulgar meanings, and it was the most touching of the queen mother's mind...... "Your painting is okay, do you have any paintings for my mother to see?" ”
Su Yingtong asked Qingmei to go back to the courtyard and get the portrait of Xiao Zhao she painted, when the princess saw Xiao Shizi full of charm on rice paper, her eyes flashed, and her fingers didn't even dare to touch it, for fear of damaging such a god-like painting.
"It's so good, Ying Tong," the princess looked at Su Yingtong's eyes even more lovingly, she wanted to speak and stopped, and only after half a sound did she make up her mind, she said, "Can you help my mother also paint a portrait of the old prince?" When she said this, the princess's eyes were shining brightly, and she was a little excited, as if she had suddenly returned to the time when the old prince was still there, and the one in front of her was her husband.
This is the first time that her mother has shown herself so clearly in front of her, she misses the old prince.
Su Yingtong nodded and said, "Of course, mother, I'll help you draw it, and then I'll paint the Queen Mother." ”
The princess, who has always been indifferent, also showed a little embarrassment, looking forward to seeing such a painting, but insisted on her mouth: "It's still important to get down to business, I painted the queen mother first, don't worry." Fingers crossed nervously, and I could see that I was looking forward to the sketch I was about to see.
Su Yingtong snuggled up to her, "Okay, mother." ”
My heart is becoming more and more sad, and a portrait of my mother is so satisfied, you can imagine how much she misses the old prince.
After chatting with the princess for a while, Su Yingtong went back to the courtyard, just as Ye Yitian was looking for her to report the matter, he handed the princess a few pieces of paper, "Princess, this is the news sent back by the people in South China, this is the prince's letter." ”
Su Yingtong took it with a little anxiety, and thought in his heart why Gong Jingyu had been to South China for several days and had not heard any news of him, so he came to the family letter.
The brown envelope was written in vigorous and powerful characters "Wife Yingtong personally opened", Su Yingtong took the envelope in his hand and swiped his fingers across the handwriting, eager to open it immediately to see what the palace mirror domain wrote for her, but looking at Ye Yitian standing in front of her, she still couldn't help it, she put the envelope on the table, looked at the pages full of words, Chen Li sent it back, explained the details of wiring with Master Na, and Gao Lifeng wrote, opened a restaurant in South China, used the method she taught to come out with new dishes to taste, and also set up a membership card, Seven days before the opening of each consumption of one or two thirty dollars will be sent a new dish, the total consumption of one hundred taels can be registered as a VIP member of the restaurant, and then the dining can be booked in the VIP room of the restaurant, and enjoy a seven-fold discount, in case of festivals, you can also get a beautiful gift from the restaurant.
These small tricks are not strange in the modern market economy, but in this era is a precedent, coupled with the large number of wealthy businessmen in South China, the natural market demand is also large, since the opening of the daily full, now it is less than ten days, has registered almost 100 VIP members.
The letter was not detailed, Su Yingtong asked Ye Yitian to send the messenger in, and asked him: "What is the situation in South China, you can tell me carefully." ”
Gao Lifeng guessed that the princess should be very concerned about the affairs of South China, and specially sent someone who followed him to deliver a letter, so that if the princess had any questions, she could answer them in detail.
The man was nervous when he saw the princess, but he spoke fluently.
Su Yingtong listened and slowly grasped the situation in South China.
At the beginning, the Song family was not taken seriously, their Song family had a hundred years of roots in this industry, how could they let other restaurants steal the business lightly, but when they saw that the guests who came to try the dishes at Xinghua Inn every day lined up on the street, they began to be afraid. (To be continued.) )