Chapter 233: The Beauties Discuss the Villa
These answers have long been prepared, and Zhou Lichun replied without thinking: "After Miss Kong Mei arrived in Shanghai, she called herself Mrs. Zhao and frequently participated in charity......
"Mrs. Zhao!"
"Mrs. Zhao!"
"Mrs. Zhao!"
The three words 'Mrs. Zhao' seemed to be a thunderclap, constantly echoing in Li Yunzhong's ears, and as for Zhou Lichun's other words, Li Yunzhong didn't pay attention to a word.
Zhou Lichun didn't know what he had said wrongly, looking at the emperor's shocked appearance, he stammered and reminded: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? ”
Li Yunzhong asked as if grasping a life-saving straw: "Mrs. Zhao! Is she good at writing songs and lyrics, and has also written many alternative songs! ”
Zhou Lichun was confused, looking at Li Yunzhong's crazy and excited appearance, muttering that if he said no, he would be beheaded immediately, and subconsciously replied vaguely: "Yes!" Wechen has seen Mrs. Zhao play and sing many exquisite songs, if the emperor is interested, Wechen will invite Mrs. Zhao over. ”
Li Yunzhong closed his eyes, and the emotions in his chest were unpredictable, excited, scared, and expectant...... Mixed in.
"Where is she now?"
Zhou Lichun's face was ashamed, and he replied: "Since the minister placed Mrs. Zhao in the emperor's courtyard, who knew that within a few days of living, Mrs. Zhao moved out, and Weichen didn't dare to stop it, and then ...... Later, Weichen allocated 100,000 taels of silver...... handed it over to Mrs. Zhao, and Weichen made his own decision and asked the emperor to atone for his sins. ”
Li Yunzhong nodded and praised: "You are very good, don't say 100,000 taels, even 1 million taels, I won't blame you, and you will leave her new address later." I'm going to talk to her tomorrow. ”
Li Yun is thirty percent sure that Zhao Yali is Kong Mei. I don't know how she got here, but what happened to her was absurd enough. There are more absurd things, and he will be convinced.
Zhou Lichun, who calmed down, suddenly came up with an intuition, today's emperor is not normal, the previous paragraph, he will be obedient to him, and he is still grateful to him, showing the means of the king, but the latter paragraph is incoherent, upside down, with the respect of the emperor to a woman is not called to come and go! Or do you need to visit in person? Could it be that this Mrs. Zhao has a leg with the emperor. However, the people of Shanghai all think that Mrs. Zhao is his confidante of Mayor Zhou, which is troublesome, and he has to explain it clearly to the emperor, so as not to lose his holy will in vain.
"Emperor Qi, Weichen has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not!"
Li Yunzhong took a deep breath and nodded.
Zhou Lichun stopped the language and said carefully: "Because Weichen often ...... More than a few times, the one who went to visit Mrs. Zhao's house was followed by those unscrupulous reporters. They spread rumors in the newspaper and said something they didn't know what to say, but in fact, Weichen had no other meaning, just because Mrs. Zhao was the emperor's woman. That's why Wechen went to visit. ”
"I've gotten it!" Li Yunzhong understood what he meant when he heard half of it, and closed his eyes again, feeling funny in his heart. Are you a half-hundred-year-old man very attractive?
Zhou Lichun was stunned for a moment, not understanding what the emperor meant. Blame or don't take it to heart.
After a while, Zhou Lichun reminded: "Your Majesty! The annex has arrived! ”
Li Yunzhong opened his eyes. With the support of the guards, he got out of the carriage, turned around to greet Su Sanniang and the others, and entered the villa group together.
Xu Yuexiang lived in Hunan in her early years, and has been living in the palace since marrying Li Yunzhong, she has never seen this kind of Western-style villa in her life, and she followed Li Yunzhong step by step, stretched out her little head and said to Li Yunzhong: "Husband! It's so weird here, we're going to live here, huh? ”
Li Yunzhong touched her forehead and said with a smile: "Yes! This is all modeled after European-style villas, and the average prince in Europe can't afford to build such a home, of course, this place is not as good as the palace, so you will live there! ”
Xu Yuexiang was depressed, and she let out an 'oh' sound, she didn't want to live here.
"All of you go down!" Li Yunzhong instructed the guards in the house, and he always felt that being an eyesore here was a bit of an eyesore.
"Yes!" The guards slung their spears over their shoulders and rushed out.
Su Sanniang and the others had no scruples, and looked at the decoration of the house unscrupulously.
A 1,000-square-meter hall is a little empty, with calligraphy and paintings on the surrounding walls, supported by eight gold-dusted columns, where the ball is held, and the second floor is the bedroom.
Fu Shanxiang looked at the calligraphy and paintings one by one, and took them down when he was interested, looking at her happy appearance, obviously planning to pack them and take them away.
Hong Xuanjiao strolled through the hall, studying the materials used in the villa, and when she saw the precious stone, she squatted down to check it, muttering to herself and calculating the cost.
Su Sanniang was very interested in the sofa, touched it, looked up and smiled: "Husband, these ...... It's just right for a daughter to play on it, is this called the name above? ”
"Sofa! It's called a sofa. Li Yunzhong burst into tears, worried about these expensive sofas.
Xu Yuexiang touched the gold-colored columns, turned her head and asked, "Husband, are these pillars made of gold!" You see that these are hundreds of thousands of taels of gold, aren't you afraid that people will steal them? ”
"It's all stones! It's just a layer of gold dust on the outside. ”
"Oh!" Xu Yuexiang immediately lost interest and agreed weakly.
Seeing the appearance of the girls as if they were countrymen entering the city, Li Yunzhong covered his face and said secretly: Fortunately, he called the guards out of Lu, otherwise if it was rumored, what prestige would he have.
Hong Xuanjiao came to sit down beside Li Yunzhong with an ugly face, and complained: "Husband! It is resplendent with gold and precious stones, and the ornaments are decorated with gold and silver, ivory and agate...... It must have cost a lot of money! ”
Li Yunzhong sneered: "It's not much, it's just a million taels!" ”
The women exclaimed, put down the affairs at hand, and all gathered around Li Yunzhong, complaining.
Su Sanniang's face was serious: "Hmph! It's too extravagant, it only cost 500,000 taels to expand the palace that year, but I didn't expect that it would cost 1 million taels to build a few houses here, which is almost catching up with the three years of taxes paid by a government. ”
Xu Yuexiang glanced around, couldn't see where a million taels were needed, and said while nodding her head: "Husband must have been deceived!" ”
Fu Shanxiang bit his lip, raised the calligraphy and painting in his hand, and whispered: "Maybe it's true, these calligraphy and paintings are all made by famous artists, and they are worth at least 100,000 taels of silver." ”
Li Yunzhong raised his hands, signaled quiet, and hurriedly told the cause and effect of building this villa, and finally explained: "These calligraphy and paintings were hung up later, and they were not included in the initial expenses. ”
Hanging these calligraphy and paintings, Li Yunzhong still doesn't know how to say, it must be Zhou Lichun's private behavior to please himself, if Li Yunzhong chooses, eighty percent is also a Western oil painting, what Mona Lisa's smile, Van Gogh's sunflowers...... Sit back and wait for the appreciation.
Hong Xuanjiao is in charge of the daily spending in the palace in the harem, and has been careful in budgeting, at first glance, when she heard that foreigners were opportunistic and embezzled big men and silver, she scolded fiercely: "These foreigners are just bastards, and they are wantonly corrupting under the pretext of building a house for their husbands, hum!" They embezzled at least 500,000 taels, no...... It's 700,000 taels! ”
Xu Yuexiang nodded her head and agreed: "Sister Hong is right, foreigners don't have a good thing, one million taels of silver is tens of thousands of catties, and you have to pretend to be ...... Hundreds of large boxes! It's a pity that the foreigners have gotten it! ”
Li Yunzhong touched Xu Yuexiang's forehead, he was very worried that Xu Yuexiang nodded all day long, whether there would be something wrong.
Su Sanniang saw that Li Yunzhong had no intention of pursuing it, and smiled gently: "Forget about this matter, after all, it's been a long time, we are new to here, so let's familiarize ourselves with the surrounding environment." ”
Li Yunzhong held Su Sanniang's jade hand and praised: "It's still the queen's generosity, in fact, it's not that I don't want to pursue this matter, the Han regime was not stable at that time, and the attitude of the foreigners was very important, maybe they only sent 2,000 soldiers and horses to drive me to Nanjing, and then wipe it out." ”
Xu Yuexiang spit out her fragrant tongue, made a grimace and said, "It turns out that the husband is also bribing foreigners!" ”
Li Yunzhong's face changed, and he smiled again: "Not bad! Although the possibility of foreigners sending troops at that time was less than one percent, who can say for sure what is happening in the world, five years ago I was just a charcoal farmer, but now I am the lord of a country! (To be continued......)