Chapter 585: Female Officer
Zhao Xiu heard the girl's report that Gao Zhen was coming, and he was overjoyed, so he wanted to see him.
She quickly glanced at Mama Gong and Mama Zuo, and had already come up with several reasons in her mind to deal with it, no matter what, she had to move the two Mama to let her go!
Unexpectedly, Mama Gong and Mama Zuo were particularly eye-catching today, and they didn't say anything more about "homework is important", but took the initiative to provide convenience for Zhao Xiu: "Since there are distinguished guests in the house, then the girl will go back first." Today's lesson, Ming'er will continue, and the girl will memorize these rules and regulations tonight. β
I didn't expect them to let go so easily, Zhao Xiu was still stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted.
These two grandmothers were sent by the Queen Mother, and they seem to be old acquaintances with Gao Zhen, and they have long known about the friendship between Zhao Xiu and Gao Zhen's childhood sweetheart, and they know better that they are close to each other and will get married next year. They will stop her from seeing Mrs. Tao and Tao Zhuohua, and they will stop her from seeing Mrs. Cao, but they will never stop her from seeing Gao Zhen!
So Zhao Xiu happily went to see Gao Zhen.
Gao Zhen was talking to Zhang, Zhao Wei had gone to the Criminal Department today and was not at home, so naturally only Zhang came to greet Gao Zhen. In fact, Gao Zhen is very satisfied with this, if Zhao Wei is at home, maybe he won't be able to enter the back house. This brother-in-law is now more and more enthusiastic about preventing him from meeting his rightful fiancΓ©e, and he also calls it "so polite". If he Gao Zhen is a person who pays attention to etiquette, how could he have already recognized Zhao Xiu as his wife?
Zhao Xiu entered Zhang's courtyard, and only went up the steps outside the door when he saw Gao Zhen in the house. Gao Zhen's gaze turned to the moment he saw her. The whole face glows. He immediately stood up, a smile on his face. Zhao Xiu's eyes stared at his face, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled.
Walk inside. Zhao Xiu had already glanced at him several times, but he hadn't forgotten the etiquette, first greeted Zhang, and then saluted Gao Zhen.
Gao Zhen stood up straight, staring at her with two eyes, but his body made a regular salute: "Sister Zhao is good." My sister hasn't seen her for many days, I don't know if it's always good? β
Zhao Xiu pursed his lips and smiled: "I'm fine." Thank you for your greetings. β
Zhang coughed lightly, and the two quickly withdrew their gaze and lowered their eyes. Zhang's can see clearly. He said dryly, "Let's all sit down and talk." Dongshuang lowered his head and quickly brought tea to Zhao Xiu.
Zhao Xiu knew that the Zhang family had the meaning of warning, and hurriedly used the skills taught by Mama Gong, and sat next to him steadily, with a dignified and decent smile on his face. His gaze also stayed on Zhang's face as much as possible. It's just that from time to time I lean to the side and turn around Gao Zhen.
Gao Zhen also glanced at her from time to time, but his body was facing Zhang, and he continued the topic that Fang was talking to Zhang: "Father can now walk alone in the daytime, and he doesn't need to be supported, but when the candlelight is dim at night, he can't see clearly. But it's much better than it used to be. β
Zhang was so happy that he recited the Buddha: "Buddha bless." Good people are rewarded! The prince can regain his sight, it is really the first happy event in the world! β
Zhao Xiu was also very concerned when he heard this: "Did Doctor Ye say it?" If the prince continues to rule like this, to what extent can he recover? Can you use your eyes like a normal person? β
Gao Zhen sighed and shook his head: "That's impossible, it's an unexpected joy to be able to recover to this point." Dr. Ye also asked his father not to use his eyes too much, so as not to hurt his eyes too much, which would be even more difficult to treat. However, he also said that if he was equipped with a crystal mirror, his father should be able to recover to the point where he could barely read and write freely, but it should not take too long. β
Zhao Xiu hurriedly said: "Then let people go!" But the thickness and curvature of this crystal lens are different for each person's needs, and they have to be slowly sharpened one by one. Besides, the crystal is too troublesome to grind, isn't there transparent glass now? Let people try to make a batch of glass lenses of different thicknesses, so that the prince can try them on one by one, and he can always try out the most suitable lenses. β
Gao Zhen said with a smile: "This is natural, I have already ordered it to go down, but they use crystal instead of glass, saying that the best crystal is more pure and flawless, but the glass always has to be mixed with some color, not as clear as crystal." Moreover, the crystal is cold and non-toxic, so it can be relieved and brightened, and it is more beneficial to the eyes of the father. β
Zhao Xiu was dumbfounded, although there are a lot of glass products now, there are still some gaps in the process compared with later generations, but in the eyes of people in this era, crystal is a better glasses material than glass, even if it is more complicated. She is not a professional craftsman, so she has no say in this, so it's better not to talk too much.
She asked Gao Zhen: "The prince must be very happy, right?" Reading and writing may cost your eyes, but if you are traveling in the mountains and rivers, it is no problem. β
Gao Zhen smiled: "How could my sister know? My father thought about going to Xiangshan to see the red leaves a few days ago, saying that he hadn't seen it for many years. If it weren't for Dr. Ye's sudden illness, our father and son had to return to the capital, and this son might have quietly arrived at the foot of Xiangshan. β
Zhao Xiu was a little surprised: "Doctor Ye is sick?" Zhang was also very concerned: "It doesn't matter, right? β
Gao Zhen smiled meaningfully: "It's just that I occasionally feel the wind and cold, and it was a little dangerous, but now it's no big deal." However, he is still recuperating in the hot spring village, and I am afraid that it will take a few days to return to the capital. β
Zhang was easily coaxed: "Amitabha." Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, you will get a wind chill if you are not careful, so the prince of the world should be more careful. β
Zhao Xiu heard that something was wrong, and she asked Gao Zhen: "Doctor Ye is sick, so he stays in the hot spring village to recuperate, which is understandable, but why should the prince and you rush back to the capital?" I didn't hear you talk about it before. β
Gao Zhen winked at her: "Because my father suddenly missed the emperor's grandmother, I came back to visit her old man." β
Zhao Xiu felt that something was even more wrong, because King Guangping had never entered the palace after returning to Beijing, and the Queen Mother heard that he had also decreed that he should rest in the palace and recuperate, and he didn't have to enter the palace to ask for peace.
She couldn't help but glance at Gao Zhen again, and when she saw him glaring at her, she calmed down. There must be something greasy here, but there is no need to say it in front of Zhang.
But...... Now that it is not as good as before, the Zhang family will never let her send away guests. Where did she have the opportunity to talk to Gao Zhen alone?
Zhao Xiu bit her lip and couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Gao Zhen didn't know if he could see her anxiety, but he always had a calm smile on his face: "After returning to the palace today." Mr. Wang told me that my yard is almost trimmed, and I only need to transplant flowers and trees, so I want to ask Sister Zhao, what kind of flowers do you like? β
Zhao Xiu wondered in his heart, what words to plant in the yard were as early as when they discussed how to arrange the yard in the correspondence. A consensus has already been reached, why did he ask again today? Her heart moved, and she turned her head to look at Zhang.
Zhang thinks this kind of question is very constructive. He nodded with a smile and said, "Your yard, you can make your own decisions." In fact, our sister Xiu has always been easy-going, she likes all kinds of flowers and trees, and the prince only arranges it according to his own wishes. β
Gao Zhen smiled and said, "It can't all be as I want." Sister Zhao also wants to live in that yard. Why don't I have someone send the flower and tree atlas to Sister Zhao for a look. How about letting Sister Zhao pick a few of her favorites and ask them to plant them? β
Zhang naturally nodded, Zhao Xiu had already guessed Gao Zhen's intentions, and agreed with a slightly red face.
Gao Zhen only sat in Jiannanhou Mansion for more than half an hour, then said goodbye and left, and did not win the treatment of Zhao Xiu's send-off, so he could only sigh and leave.
The next day. The Guangping palace sent a booklet of flowers and trees, and there were as many as four books. The size of the sixteen openings is full of white sketches of flowers and trees, one page and one flower, with text descriptions, very detailed. The booklet also includes a simple color illustration of which flowers were planted in which position, what effect it looks like when the flowers bloom in spring, and what it looks like after they wither in autumn and winter.
After turning a few pages, Zhang couldn't help but sigh: "I really deserve to be a craftsman of the Internal Affairs Office, I am really meticulous." But he was impatient to turn the pages one by one, and only let his granddaughter pick it up by herself.
Zhao Xiu found Gao Zhen's letter sandwiched in the fourth album, in which he told the truth about Dr. Ye's "illness" and the emperor's intentions, as well as Gao Zhen's complaint against the emperor in front of the queen mother. Gao Zhen confessed these things to her, not to make her worry, but to make her mentally prepared. Today's Guangping Mansion has become a thorn in the emperor's heart, and the Jiannan Marquis Mansion, which is about to become the in-law of the King of Guangping, may also be implicated, so she reminded Zhao Wei to be cautious in everything she says and does on weekdays.
Zhao Xiu's heart sank, and he was more bored. What did King Quang Binh do? The emperor can't tolerate him, he used to just think about it, but now he has to do it? It can be seen how quickly people's hearts have become. When I rescued him in Jiangnan back then, why didn't I see that he was such a person? Didn't the ministers of the court find out? No one came out to give a lecture. In the past, when Zhao Wei and King Guangping were involved, the imperial historians were so active, but now they are pretending to be quails!
This is still the brother of the same brother who has been of great help to the emperor, and other people who are more distant in blood will not have to live? But Zhao Xiu didn't see the emperor kill the Marquis of Shanyin, and the King of Jinyang is now alive and well, they were all once the emperor's competitors, but nothing happened, but the king of Guangping, who was the best for the emperor, was suspicious, isn't this a pinch to find a soft?
Zhao Xiu was angry in his heart, but suddenly heard a surprising news: the emperor came to the Guangping palace and visited his compatriot brother in person.
Zhang was very surprised and a little moved: "The emperor really cares about the prince." β
Zhao Xiu sighed twice, a little worried in his heart. The emperor must have come to calculate something, right? Dr. Ye is not in the palace, but the emperor poisoned him, but he has a criminal record......
Of course, the emperor did not come to poison his brother, and he did not get his hands dirty. He just came to "care" about his brother's body, and learned that his eyes could see clearly for only one or two hours a day, and he couldn't read and write freely, so his heart was much more settled, but he didn't forget to comfort King Guangping: "Brother Huang, don't worry, take care of it, take medicine according to the prescription, your eyes will definitely get better, just as good as in the past!" β
King Guangping looked at him with a smile: "Emperor Xie has made a good speech." β
The Emperor was not very accustomed to his brother's gaze, he had not seen it for a long time, and there seemed to be something indescribable in it, a kind of ...... Something that would make him ashamed of himself.
He turned his gaze away, smiled and motioned to the palace maid behind him to come forward: "This is the former female official Xiao Shi, who is both beautiful and thoughtful. I am worried that there is no confidant around the imperial brother to take care of him, and I want to give the Xiao family to the imperial brother as a side room to take care of the imperial brother's daily life, and I hope that the imperial brother will not refuse. β
King Guangping and Gao Zhen were stunned, no one expected that the emperor would say such a thing. (To be continued......)