Chapter 473: Returning Home to See and Hear
That night, when Zhao Hongrun was having dinner in Ningxiang Palace, he found that his father had a calm face, and from time to time he looked at him with a strange gaze.
This made Zhao Hongrun feel very strange.
And after he returned to King Su's Mansion and listened to the Zongwei Sect's announcement that several purple bamboo forests and spotted bamboo forests had been added to the mansion, and the golden-scaled fish in the pond had also increased a lot inexplicably, Zhao Hongrun finally understood the meaning of his father's eyes.
"Hey, it's too smart......"
Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun happily walked into the depths of the mansion.
You know, he has long been thinking about the purple bamboos and spotted bamboos in the imperial garden, first of all, this is a tribute that money can't buy, and secondly, Miss Su loves bamboo the most.
It's just that now that he is the king of Su, he can no longer ignore the honor as before, which is too cheap.
Unexpectedly, his father knew that he was at a loss this time, and sent these things to the door by himself.
This is simply an unexpected gain, Zhao Hongrun is ready to think about it before going to bed tonight, how to trick Miss Su, who still lives in a water pavilion, into the house in the name of "ornamental bamboo".
Well, by the way, I also think about how to explain Una's matter to Miss Su.
But now, he went to the inner garden first, ready to see if Una's new home was settled, and asked if there was anything he needed.
You must know that Una is a girl of the Wei people, and the people of the Wei people eat and live in the felt tent on weekdays, sleeping on thick and soft cashmere blankets, and may not be able to adapt to the bed of Wei, after all, the so-called bed of Wei is actually a combination of wooden boards, bedding and bamboo mats, and the difference between winter and summer is only the thickness of the bedding under the bamboo mat.
However, to Zhao Hongrun's surprise, when he stepped into the inner garden, he found that the inner garden was very quiet, because it stands to reason that after learning that he returned to the house, Princess Yulong, Mi Rui, and Yangyu Xing, who stayed in the house, should all come out to ask for gifts.
Zhao Hongrun also specially selected a few exquisite bone carvings in Yucheng.
Immediately, Zhao Hongrun summoned the maids of the inner garden and asked about the whereabouts of the other party's three daughters.
The maids and servants of Su Wang's Mansion are all relatives of Su Wangwei, and there is no problem with loyalty, and Zhao Hongrun trusts them very much.
"If you go back to Your Highness, the princess and the princess went out of the city to hunt, oh, Miss Mi Rui also went together."
"Sixth Uncle?"
Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself, and asked curiously, "When will you come back?" ”
The maid thought for a moment when she heard this, and said, "This is not certain, sometimes three or two days, sometimes seven or eight days......"
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun became more and more surprised, and asked in surprise: "Does Imperial Sister Yulong often go out of the city to hunt with King Yi?" ”
The maid nodded, and said with a smile: "The princess loves Princess Yulong, since the defeat of His Royal Highness, the princess saw that the princess stayed in the Su Wangfu and was bored, so he invited the princess to the Yiwang Mansion many times, and took her to hunt outside the city, every time the princess returned to the house, she was always elated, and sometimes brought back many gifts to the slaves and maids......"
"Sixth Uncle...... Love Yulong?'
Zhao Hongrun was speechless in shock.
Because according to what he saw with his own eyes, his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanyan seemed to have a prejudice against Princess Yulong, and he had never had any intimacy with Yulong in the past, why did he not see each other for a few months, and the relationship became so good?
"Something isn't right......
Muttering to himself, Zhao Hongrun asked again: "What about the little girl?" Did you go with you, too? ”
"Is Your Highness asking the little lady?" The maid asked suspiciously.
Hearing the title of "little lady", Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little tight, because this is the honorific title of the people of Suwangfu's people, who made that girl always think of himself as his Zhao Hongrun's woman?
God is pitiful, Zhao Hongrun has never touched her.
But Zhao Hongrun didn't bring up this matter yet, otherwise, the little girl who was still smiling just now would have to cry, and the victim had a paranoia attack immediately, and nine times out of ten she would beg Zhao Hongrun to let her family go or something.
In short, for this little girl, Zhao Hongrun is quite right.
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded sullenly.
Seeing this, the maid showed a bit of "sure enough" on her face, and then replied respectfully: "Your Highness, the little lady has gone to the shop." ”
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked puzzledly: "Shop?" What shop? ”
"Isn't Your Highness still unknown?" The maid said in surprise: "The little lady pooled money to open a shop on the street to sell bronze utensils from the Chu State......"
Zhao Hongrun became more and more surprised when he heard this, and subconsciously said: "What does she do when she opens a store......
As soon as he said this, he was suddenly stunned, because he remembered that when he led his army to Sanchuan a few months ago, he seemed to have forgotten to leave money for the palace.
Yes, the subordinates in King Su's mansion are all domestic servants, most of them are relatives of Su Wangwei's family, loyalty can be guaranteed, but they are not domestic slaves, in other words, every month of the year, Zhao Hongrun has to pay them money.
Moreover, it also takes money to run the entire Su Wang Mansion, after all, even if Zhao Hongrun took away one hundred and fifty Su Wang Wei before the expedition, there are still dozens of Su Wang Wei who are used to watch the family care home, and there are a number of domestic servants, don't these people's three meals a day cost money?
However, Zhao Hongrun, who has lived in the Imperial Pavilion of the Deep Palace for a long time, has forgotten this, he has not considered that in the past, when he lived in the Wenzhao Pavilion, those little eunuchs who were responsible for trivial internal affairs were all responsible for their wages by the internal attendants, and he Zhao Hongrun only needed to use his prince to support himself and Shen Yu and other ten guards.
But now that he has moved out of the palace and opened the palace to be crowned king, the inner chamberlain will not be responsible for the daily expenses of his palace.
It's funny to say that the dignified King Su, the King of Su, who took care of Sanchuan in an orderly manner, actually forgot to reserve money for his livelihood in his palace, and the people in the Su Palace's mansion have not starved to death so far.
But after thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun thought of the reason why his Su Wangfu had never fallen into that kind of embarrassing situation.
"That little girl...... Could it be that for the past three months, he has been supporting the expenses of the entire palace alone?"
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly and asked, "Shop...... Where is it located? ”
"On East Street, there is a shop with a plaque of 'Su's Chujin', which is a shop opened by a little lady." The maid replied respectfully.
『Su Clan Chujin ......』
Zhao Hongrun memorized the name of the shop, turned around and left.
With mixed feelings, he felt the need to visit the store himself.
But after walking a few steps, he bumped into Shen Yu, the sect guard who was coming from the palace, and saw the latter holding a stack of invitations in his hand, and asked suspiciously: "Your Highness, do you want to go out?" ”
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, caught a glimpse of the stack of invitations in Shen Yu's hand, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?" ”
"It's an invitation sent to the concierge, and it's been a day or two." As he spoke, Shen Yu handed the invitation in his hand to Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun spread out an invitation card and glanced at it.
The content on the invitation is very cumbersome, and the whole article is polite, flattering, and climbing, but to sum it up, it can be summed up in one sentence: please Zhao Hongrun to his house for a banquet at any time that is convenient.
I have to say that since Zhao Hongrun was crowned king, invitations like this abound, after all, everyone in the Liang family wants to have a relationship with this Su Wang, but unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun is not as fond of making friends as his sixth uncle Zhao Yuanyan and his sixth brother Zhao Hongzhao, and he has always been grateful for this kind of invitation.
But this time, Zhao Hongrun also had to be cautious.
Because on the signature of this invitation, the words "Chengling Wang Wenshen" are famous.
Although Zhao Hongrun had no impression of this guy, as soon as he saw the other party's word "Wen Shen", he knew that this was a prince of the royal family with the word "Wen", and Zhao Hongrun, who was born as a son of the "Hong" character of the royal family, was a generation shorter, and he had to call the other party an uncle.
Looking at the rest of the invitations, the content is much the same, all of them invite Zhao Hongrun to take time to attend a banquet in their mansion in Daliang.
And its signature, "Jiyang Wang Wenzhuo", "Zhongyang Wang Wenhuo", and "Yuanyang Wang Wenkai", are all uncles who are a generation higher than Zhao Hongrun.
"He invited me to a banquet instead of visiting me...... Have they already purchased a mansion in Daliang? Muttering, Zhao Hongrun snorted lightly and muttered, "It seems that these people are ready to fight a protracted war with me...... Hmph, that's pretty smart. ”
After that, Zhao Hongrun shook his hand casually and threw the invitations into the flower garden on the side.
Shen Yu's eyes widened when he saw it, and he said in his heart that this was an invitation from the princes.
Thinking of this, Shen Yu hurriedly stopped Zhao Hongrun, who was about to leave, and persuaded, "Your Highness, you ...... This...... The princes took the initiative to show goodwill, why did you ......"
"Gestures? Not necessarily. Zhao Hongrun glanced at Shen Yu, then shook his head, and said with a sneer: "Shen Yu, in the eyes of this king, this is a soft threat from those people to this king. …… They were not stupid, they had already guessed that the king was going to delay, so they sent these invitations to tell the king that they had set up a mansion in Daliang, and if the king could not satisfy them, they would have time to spend with the king. ”
"Yes...... Is that so? Shen Yu was taken aback, then frowned and said, "In other words, isn't the prince of the outer seal not allowed to buy family property in Daliang?" ”
"So, this is what they deliberately did to show this king, so as to show their attitude of 'not reaching the goal, never leaving the capital', if I am smart, I should bow my head at this time and open Sanchuan to them, in this way, these people will not go too far, perhaps, this king can also get a batch of valuable gifts......" Speaking of this, Zhao Hongrun restrained the smile on his face, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and said coldly: "But this king doesn't!" ”
Shen Yu peeked at His Highness, and then lowered his voice and asked, "Then ...... Your Highness plans to do so?"
I saw Zhao Hongrun snort coldly, and said indifferently: "Consume!" …… This king wants to see what tricks these people can play! With that, he waved his sleeves and walked towards the door.
"Go, Shen Yu, follow me out of the house."
Shen Yu glanced at the invitations that Zhao Hongrun had thrown in the flower garden, hesitated, and finally didn't pick them up, but chased after them quickly.
"Your Highness, where are we going? Did you go to a water pavilion to see Miss Su? ”
"No, go to East Street...... Find a shop with a plaque that says "Su's Chujin". ”
"Huh?" (To be continued.) )