Volume 3 & The Imperial Flower Chapter 32 The Gardener and the Princess
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, overseas Shi Tuoguo paid tribute to a funeral flower, although the name is not good, but the funeral flower after the formation of the legend has the ability to pass through yin and yang.
Emperor Chongzhen loved it very much, so he raised this pot of flowers in the palace, and then his little daughter was born, he renamed this pot of flowers Emperor Tibetan Flowers, and rewarded it to this little princess.
"Father, why hasn't this pot of flowers bloomed yet? I've grown up, and it's still like this, so I don't want to save face!" muttered a little girl, looking unhappy.
"Hahaha, I've been raising it for several years, and I haven't seen any signs of flowering, if you can make him bloom, my father will reward you...... Well, I'll go out of the palace with you to play. Chongzhen looked at his little daughter dotingly, and all the unpleasantness in the court dissipated, and now he is just a father.
"Then the father is going to talk about it, I must raise him to bloom, and then I can go outside the palace to play!" After saying that, the little girl jumped out and played by herself.
It is also strange to say that the emperor Tibetan flower has been raised in the palace for several years, and Xiao Zhaoren is already six years old, and this pot of flowers still has not been able to bloom. The gardeners in the palace also put a lot of effort into it, but it still had no effect.
The first thing Xiao Zhaoren did when he woke up every day was to see if the Emperor Tibetan flower had bloomed, but every time he was disappointed. And her wish to leave the palace has never been realized, so Xiao Zhaoren follows the gardener every day to see how they take care of these flowers.
Gradually, Akihito learned a lot of skills and skills in raising flowers from those florists. Every day after that, she would take care of the flowers herself.
At this time, although the Emperor Tibetan Flower has not yet taken shape, it can already feel the changes in the outside world, and every time Zhaoren takes care of it, it will make the Emperor Tibetan Flower Spirit feel a sense of warmth.
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"What, this flower hasn't bloomed yet?" Emperor Chongzhen was furious, "Pull out all these florists and behead me!"
The Imperial Guards outside the door: "Obey!"
In Princess Zhaoren's back garden, a group of royal forest soldiers rushed out and arrested those florists everywhere, and the gardeners in the entire harem were panicked for a while.
"Your Majesty, this is to put the charge of not blooming on the head of our craftsman. ”
"Isn't it, isn't that the gardener Sun from that yard? Now, his old mother at home is not alive and angry. ”
"Yes, the old man has such a son, and it will be a problem to provide for the elderly in the future!"
"In the future, who will dare to work in Princess Zhaoren's garden?"
Hiding in the shadows, Princess Akihito heard these gardeners talk about herself like this, and she felt very uncomfortable.
She wanted to beg her father to let the gardeners go, and that they were not to blame for the flowers, and that they should not be condemned.
However, Xiao Zhaoren waited outside his father's study for several hours, and he didn't have time to meet him.
The little eunuch who was waiting for Emperor Chongzhen said softly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the emperor has been busy with state affairs these days, and he has no time to see you at all!
Zhaoren replied: "No, in a few days those gardeners will be beheaded, I can't wait!
The eunuch on duty sighed secretly, shook his head, and did not speak again.
Zhaoren still didn't wait for her father to see her, and she fell ill after returning to the palace. The next day, the gardeners were beheaded, and Princess Akihito's condition worsened.
After that, for three days in a row, Princess Akihito was not able to get up. The tea was not eaten, and the maids in the palace could only inform Emperor Chongzhen of the princess's illness. However, now that the war in the country is tight, Chongzhen can't be separated at all, so he can only let the best imperial doctor in the palace send him for diagnosis and treatment.
In this way, after another three days, Xiao Zhaoren's condition was finally under control, and Emperor Chongzhen finally felt better.
In her dazed sleep, Xiao Zhaoren saw her father come to see her, and said that he would take her outside the palace to see her in order to make amends. But when he woke up from the dream, everything was illusory, and his father never came.
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Since then, Xiao Zhaoren has carefully cared for the imperial flowers every day according to the flower raising techniques he learned before, day after day.
A year later. The Imperial Flower has finally improved a little, it has grown flower bones, oh oh, it is one step away from flowering.
Xiao Zhaoren was very happy, she wanted to go to the palace to find her father, but she was worried that her father would not want to see him.
And at this time, the father finally came, and without the words of the eunuchs, he came. She saw that her father's body had lost a lot of weight, and his skeleton was not as good as before.
His face was pale, but he was carrying a sword in his hand. I saw that the blade of the sword was stained with blood, dripping on the ground drop by drop.
Zhaoren, who had just run out to greet his father, was really frightened by this scene, "Father?...... You're ?......."
I saw that Emperor Chongzhen didn't speak, his eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't see any expression on his face.
At this time, the palace maids outside the door, the grandmothers and eunuchs who took care of Zhaoren, were seen by Chongzhen one by one and fell to the ground. The next one is Zhaoren.
"Father?...... Father ...... "Xiao Zhaoren stepped back step by step, she looked at Chongzhen, her own father in disbelief. The last time I saw him, he was still so majestic and heroic, and now he has become like this.
She just looked at her father's sword, and even felt the blood flowing from her neck, it was a warm thing, and with it the strength of her body, this feeling was really indescribable.
Before closing her eyes, Xiao Zhaoren saw that her father finally smiled, and she wanted to laugh at this time, but she couldn't laugh.
She also saw that the emperor Tibetan flower finally bloomed, it was a bright red and bright red flower, and her father could finally take her to play outside the palace, but she would never see it again in her life.
The bright red on the Dizang flower is not a flower, but Zhaoren's blood, what she saw before she died was not an illusion, the Dizang flower finally bloomed, even if it has not yet taken shape, but the spiritualization has begun.
Later, King Li Zicheng broke through the Forbidden City, and Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide on the coal mountain, and since then the emperor's Tibetan flowers have begun to wander into the world. In search of Akihito's reincarnation, it wanders everywhere.
Since then, there is no more Princess Zhaoren in the world, and there is no other Emperor Tibetan flower.
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In this way, more than 300 years have passed, and the emperor Tibetan flowers have been well raised by Sister Gui in the restaurant. It knew that Sister Gui was a flower lover, so it was willing to stay here.
On this day, when the restaurant was about to close, two young men who looked like gangsters came in.
"Hey, lady, get me out!" one of them, dressed in a cowboy, started yelling before his ass was hot.
Sister Gui came out of the kitchen and saw these people, her heart sank, "I'm afraid these people aren't the bastards on this street?"
That's right, Sister Gui guessed right, they are here to collect protection money.
"Oh, big brother, why are you here?What do you want?It's all free today......" Sister Gui thought to herself that more things were better than less, and if she greeted them well, she would naturally not be looking for trouble again.
However, after these people were full of food and drink, they still asked Sister Gui to pay the money, and said that the new Gui restaurant would be covered by them in the future.
But Sister Gui has a hard life, so how can she have extra money for them. She said hesitantly: "Big brother, you see, we are also a small business, and we can't make a few dollars a day, and there is really nothing left of this water and electricity, rent, and employees' salaries."
The thug pushed Sister Gui and shouted: "Why, I have money to pay salaries to employees, but I don't have money to pay us protection money?!!"
"This ...... This ......," Sister Gui couldn't answer.
After that, the little gangsters provoked many times, but Sister Gui just didn't give money.
How can this work? The money they earned, it was not spoken, it was typed. So, as soon as the gangster gave the order, the men began to destroy the contents of the restaurant.
It was at this time that the Emperor Zanghua decided to help Sister Gui, and it condensed a terrifying appearance of a lion's head, and roared at those gangsters, scaring these gangsters into urine, and at this point, the name of Xingui Restaurant became loud on this street.