Chapter 9 Chinese Cars and Light Riding The road is slow
Xue Ke looked at Mr. Qin Chuan's article and the response theory written by the prince, the prince's writing is like his person, serious but not blindly easy-going, clear but not sharp and pressing, quite a simple style. Although the views in the article are not completely consistent with Mr. Qin Chuan, Xue Ke feels that with the amount of Mr. Qinchuan, it is not at all slack. Xue Ke flipped through the itinerary of the next two days, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought when he saw a little girl named Wu'er in the carriage group taking half a day off for two consecutive days because of his mother's illness.
On this day, the prince said while having breakfast: "Mr. Qin Chuan has already set to enter Beijing at the end of this month. There was obviously a lot of joy on his face.
Xue Ke had slowly gotten used to the prince chatting about the current political situation at breakfast, and raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What arrangements does the emperor have? ”
"I have asked my father to go to Xihuamen to greet him, I think that Mr. wants to open the altar to preach, he can't be in too remote places, but Mr. is a master, and he doesn't like to be sent to, and it is not suitable to live in the market, so I want to arrange to live in Tsinghua Garden, which is quiet and convenient, and Mr. also has more than a dozen high-level disciples, and it is also spacious there."
Xue Ke nodded and said, "Your Highness is very thoughtful. After drinking two mouthfuls of porridge, he said, "Your Highness, the concubine has something to ask for." ”
The prince paused and looked at her intently.
"The concubine's mother's birthday is coming, the concubine always dreams of her mother in the past two days, and her heart is quite uneasy, in the past, my mother always took me to the Pudu Nunnery in Miaofeng Mountain in western Beijing to incense, so the concubine thought, if His Royal Highness agrees, the concubine wants to go to Pudu Nunnery."
When the prince heard her mention her mother, he couldn't help but feel gloomy in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "It's Lonely's negligence, Mu Xiu and I will accompany the girl over at the end of this month." ”
Xue Ke chuckled and said: "That's not necessary, His Highness has a lot of affairs, Mu Xiu has never been idle, the concubine thinks it's better to walk with His Highness, that Miaofeng Mountain is from Xihua Gate, and it is not far from Tsinghua Garden." ”
When the prince heard this, he was very proper, and said, "It's okay, you can rest in the nunnery after the incense, and Mr. Lonely will come to pick you up." ”
Mama Zhang looked at Xue Ke, who was constantly moving around and calculating, and muttered in her heart: "This Tang girl is sven on weekdays, and she doesn't move all afternoon when she sits in the courtyard, why is she so happy to go out?" ”
Not only Mama Zhang was surprised, but the people in the East Palace were even more busy, everyone knew that this Tang girl was going out, picking up the carriage, and re-making the carriage, and even the incense decorations in the carriage were changed one by one.
Xing'er listened to the report of the subordinate, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, and the subordinate complained: "Chief manager, how big is this Tang girl, even our prince is not so particular." The little cubs on these two doors have thin legs. ”
Xing'er put away the surprise in her heart, and said with a straight face: "Don't chew your tongue indiscriminately, the girl is also what you can arrange?" Do what the girl tells you, be careful of offending the girl, the prince will not be the first to spare you. ”
The man responded bitterly.
Xing'er entered the study, and the prince was handling official business, without raising his head: "What did the girl propose again?" ”
Xing'er said with a smile on her face: "The girl wants the stable to pick a few good horses to the yard today, and the girl wants to personally choose the horses that pull the carriage." ”
The prince couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and thought about it in his heart, I am afraid that it is because she has not gone out for a few months because of a girl's family in the East Palace, she is a playful character, and she is a fun-loving age, but she is a little sad when she thinks about it, and instructs: "It's rare that the girl is in high spirits, you let the stables lead the Tianshan horses on the Xinjiang tribute last time to the two tame past." ”
Xing'er's unprincipled favoritism towards his master is almost commonplace for this Tang girl, but that Tianshan horse is a first-class good horse, the last time the seventh prince heard the news and proposed to change a dancing girl for a horse when he was blasted out of the East Palace, this time it was used to pull the carriage? I don't know if this horse is aggrieved or not.
Seeing that the day of going out is getting closer and closer, this Tang girl has more and more requirements, and even the food and tea on the road are all over the place, and she went directly to the stable on this day.
Steward Lu is the eldest of the four housekeepers in the East Palace, I am afraid that he is sixty years old, he was originally a member of the army, loyal and honest all his life, not good at talking, I don't know why Huang Da Butler sent him to serve this Tang girl, although Tang girl no matter what the requirements he did not compromise, but this honest man also secretly sighed in his heart that this girl's requirements are simply not exquisite, it is a bit tricky.
Steward Lu followed behind Xue Ke, looking at the sudden new carriage, Xue Ke got into the carriage, turned around, got out of the car and nodded: "Steward Lu, I am very satisfied." ”
Steward Lu exhaled a long breath when he heard himself and the people around him, as long as this one didn't toss.
"Another point, the incense in this should not be too strong, it will smell uncomfortable if it is thick."
The road steward nodded busily on the side.
Xue Ke moved his toes and said, "The most important thing is that there can't be those miscellaneous smells in this carriage, road steward."
The road steward hunched over and stepped forward to listen.
"From now until tomorrow morning, you will keep my carriage for me, and no idle man shall come near, lest it smell of it."
Rao is the well-informed housekeeper was also stunned by this request, and remembered the advice of the general manager of Huang Da and Xing, and responded: "Rest assured, the old slave will guard the carriage from now on to ensure that the girl's carriage does not stain the smell of inferiors." ”
Xue Ke smiled: "That's very good." ”
A group of subordinates were indignant, and some people hurriedly moved the reclining chairs for the road steward, muttering: "This girl is so angry, she actually asked you to guard the carriage for him, and the prince can't agree to it if he knows it." ”
Steward Lu shook his head and said, "Don't say it, the big guys are scattered, don't really get contaminated with any smell, the girl will not be easy to get along with at that time." ”
The crowd whispered and cursed and dispersed.