Chapter 17 Is it okay for the queen to be called Elizabeth?
"Queen, I heard you say that white is like a white cloud under the blue sky, leisurely, with a very pure beauty, so that the eunuchs are busy for you. Why haven't I had a feast on my eyes, and you've changed to red? The sharp gaze came straight in, as if there was a chill in it, which caught people off guard.
"Red has the delicacy of roses, but also the madness and domineering of roses. Westerners believe that the love between men and women is the most beautiful, and they all take giving roses as the most precious gift. The flower language of red suggests, the warm emotion will never change. Wanrong said lightly.
"So I'm going to have to like red, too?" Pu Yi's gaze looked at the queen tightly without warmth.
"Red, always give you hope, just like the rising sun, like life, flowing blood. I have no reason to reject festive, auspicious, wishful, warm, unrestrained colors. If the emperor doesn't like it, I can also dislike it. Wanrong said shyly.
"Auspicious color, who wouldn't like it, ridiculous!" As soon as Pu Yi's words fell, Wanrong raised his head in surprise, and the dull voice of his disdain for red on the wedding night and the footsteps of his departure seemed to ring in his ears again.
"Of course, I also like white, it has a pure and lofty atmosphere, and the disturbed heart calms down at once, but sometimes, the atmosphere is too calm, and it is easy to make people sentimental." Gracefully and carefully.
"I just like white, which can make the messy thoughts stop all at once." Pu Yi can say happily.
"Your Majesty, tomorrow is a thank-you dinner for you to meet with envoys from various countries and dignitaries in political circles, and I have ordered the preparation of luxurious jewelry and costumes for the queen and the imperial concubine." A tall eunuch asked the emperor for instructions.
"The queen and the princess?" Pu Yi looked at the eunuch, then at Wanrong and said, "In the future, there can only be one woman by my side for major international and domestic dinners." That's only the Queen. ”
"The minion understood." The eunuch bowed his head and retreated.
The "giggles...... graceful laughter is like a bird floating in the air, so happy and carefree.
Wanrong found out afterwards that in fact, the emperor had already spoken fluent English, but he just intended to laugh with her. Every time she thinks of this scene, Wanrong always feels that it was her happiest moment.
"Guess what your English tastes like?" Pu Yi asked very seriously about the grace that had penetrated into his heart.
"My English smells of roses and flaming candles." Wanrong also responded with a serious face.
"Why does your English taste like this?" Pu Yi asked rhetorically.
"Because I always have rose petals in my English books, and I always like to light red candles when I learn English. What do you say your English tastes like? Wanrong asked in a daze.
"Your English is pure Beijing, and my English is a mixture of Beijing and Western, so it's a bit weird. At the beginning, I had to speak English several times before the foreign guests could understand it. Now my English is more foreign. A French envoy once asked me how many years I had been studying in England. So I would love to study abroad. ”
Pu Yi's words made Wanrong laugh.
"But when you study abroad, you have to have an English name."
"I'm going to study abroad, and you have to go too. The two of us are in the same school, but we don't want anyone to know that we are the emperor and the queen. After a few years of studying, we either stayed in the UK or returned home. ”
"Even in the UK, if you call you Puyi, it is disrespectful to call me Wanrong. So we had to give ourselves an English name. ”
"Okay, I'll take you to my master, Johnston from England, who is a lovely old master."
A tall figure was looking at a book in Yuqing Palace.
"Teacher Zhuang, let me introduce you, this is my newlywed wife, Queen Wanrong."
When Wanrong was surprised, the back of the great man wearing the hat of a Qing Dynasty official and wearing the costume of a Qing Dynasty official turned around, his high nose bridge, and his deep-seated eyes shone with an ice blue luster, like a touch of pure blue in the sky, which was refreshing. And the white face glows with a soft sheen.
After Teacher Zhuang bowed to the queen, Wanrong also bowed to Teacher Zhuang.
"Beautiful, the country is fragrant, and she has an innate queen's bearing. What a blessing! Teacher Zhuang's straightforward appreciation made Wanrong lower her head and be embarrassed.
"Teacher Zhuang, just now the queen said that if we study abroad, we should have our own English name. It is also much more convenient in foreign countries. Pu Yi suppressed his face, his dark black glasses made it impossible to see his expression, and there was a sense of mystery all over his body.
"The kings of England are generally baptized at the age of 7 and take their Christian names after entering Christianity. For example, names such as William, Henry, Edward, Richard, etc., all represent saints, heroes, etc., so there are many kings who call them by this name. The queen of England is called Elizabeth, I think the emperor is Henry, and the queen is called Elizabeth, okay? ”
“Elizabeth!”
“Elizabeth!”
“Henry!”
“Henry!”
Three voices echoed in Pu Yi's study......
That night, the emperor stayed in the Kunning Palace, and the two of them made a fuss about speaking English in bed all night, and it was not until the middle of the night that the two fell asleep deeply.