Chapter 116: Storytelling
"I did it all with your Shen Sanfu body, but it was just a prison escape, so what's the big deal?"
Hearing that Zhao Surui was so arrogant, Shen Shiqing was silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say:
"Your Majesty, if you weren't from a royal family, I'm afraid that you would be able to keep the world's headhunters awake at night with your own strength."
This doesn't sound like a good thing, but Zhao Surui is also used to Shen Sanqu's yin and yang weirdness towards him, today Tu Nan has something to do, Ah Chi bought him a steamed leg of lamb from Xinghualou and came back, Zhao Surui ate a round belly, and collapsed on the bed from time to time smooth his stomach, as if he was a puppy cub who had eaten enough to dry his belly.
"Hey, hey, Shen Sanfu, no matter how weird you are, you still have to get me out in the end. Do you still think that I have to stay in prison and wait for you to save me?"
Saying in his heart, Zhao Surui's heart suddenly lit up.
That's right, why did he stay in prison honestly waiting for Shen Sanfu to save him? He should have been arrogant everywhere, but he was the emperor, how could there be a reason to go to jail if he killed someone who deserved to be killed?
Hmph, it's all because Shen Sanfu has a set of power tricks, and he actually got around him.
Shen Shiqing leaned his arm on the wall of the car and said with a smile:
"Your Majesty naturally doesn't need me to save you, and it's not Your Majesty who I want to save."
She didn't know that when Zhao Surui heard this, she sat up from the bed:
"Shen Sanzhu, who else are you saving me?"
Shen Shiqing, who was busy all day, rarely wanted to look at the excerpts, and what she said to Xu Gongling made her heart stir, closed her eyes, and she said slowly:
"Your Majesty, I am saving Shen Shiqing, who is weak and powerless, not an emperor who is wise and martial arts."
"Tsk, if you were in this body, you wouldn't be able to kill people in the court, only I can do this, and only I can go to prison, and you Shen Sanfu is the one who saves me."
Shen Shiqing didn't understand what was to be entangled in this, and skipped this matter, she asked Zhao Surui:
"Why did Your Majesty suddenly remember to pay tribute to Aunt Yao?"
Zhao Surui didn't relent:
"Shen Sanfu, let me ask you, if the woman next to you also killed such a traitor in the court, you would also try your best to save her? If you weren't the Emperor and only happened to know about it, you would have saved her?"
Shen Shiqing neither said yes nor no, she glanced at the ivory lamp that flickered lightly with the royal drive, and asked with a smile:
"Your Majesty, how many people can kill people in front of the court like you? How many people can have the support of the people of Xichang, and they will not be killed on the spot after killing someone? Or can you even be like you to be kind enough to compliment you on patrolling the city?"
"Hmph, it's sophistry again!"
Zhao Surui rolled his eyes, saw some preserved fruit and melon seeds on the small table on the side, he walked over with his shoes on his feet and picked and picked, took a handful of preserved peaches wrapped in powdered sugar, and then sat on the chair.
The chair was the same as the one he had in prison, it was brought over from the house by Ah Chi with someone, and the cushions on it were too late to buy new ones, it was the powder cushion he was used to in the Shen Mansion, and he sat in it, and when he crossed his feet, he kicked out all the shoes on his feet. ….
"You think I'm you? No one will use it, since your Shen family and Chu Jiyuan are good friends, I naturally want to show my face. Aren't you going to reuse Chu Jiyuan and let him sort out the accumulated accounts of Taifu Temple? Also gave him an errand for the right capital imperial history? Then I naturally want to let him know that now his good niece is suffering and suffering, borrow his hand to deal with the Xie family, and then let him find a way to get me out of prison, in case you Shen Sanfu suddenly change your mind and want to keep me locked up, I also have someone available in my hand, what is this called, this is called must not let yourself be isolated and helpless, do you think I am as stupid as you were at the beginning?"
After saying that, he put a piece of preserved peach in his mouth and chewed it.
The royal car passed through several palace gates, and entered the palace city from the Xuanwu Gate, and the miscellaneous servants, eunuchs and palace maids on the road knelt on the ground.
Shen Shiqing picked up the curtain with her fingers and glanced at it, and asked out loud:
"It's already the second watch, why are there still so many palace people at the palace gate?"
The three cats who were waiting for the driver had been following the driver, he glanced at it, and said with a smile:
"Back to the emperor, this is to make room for the female officials to be elected, the Langxia family is connected to the Renshou Palace, and the eunuchs lived before, and the queen said that the back of the Renshou Palace will be vacated to the female officials and palace maids, and they are afraid of delaying the errands everywhere during the day, so they are taking advantage of the night to move everything quickly."
"A place for the ladies and ladies to stay?"
"Exactly, the back of this Renshou Palace was the office of the female officials when the grandfather became the grandfather, and then there were fewer female officials, and this place gradually vacated, and when the first emperor arrived, there were hundreds of female officials left in the palace, and the palace maids were crowded in the ear rooms of the palaces, and the rough ones were even worse, even the area around the Langxia family where we eunuchs lived was far worse. In the past, when the queen mother took advantage of the queen mother's birthday, she said that she would renovate the place where the palace ladies lived, so that there would be a window in those shops, but the queen mother refuted it, saying that she couldn't spend it."
After speaking, the three cats pouted themselves.
If it weren't for the fact that the emperor did not allow the queen mother to use the internal money for military expenses, the queen mother also wanted to give up a golden body to the Buddhist temples in the capital, so that the palace maids could live better to spend a few dollars?
In the past, of course, the three cats did not dare to say it in front of the emperor, and the courtiers said that the queen mother was eccentric, but he felt that the queen mother was not partial at all, but loved to dream.
Prince Duansheng is benevolent and filial, and likes Miss Lin, who was not the queen's mother back then, but the queen mother didn't allow it, he just kept refusing to get married, and he didn't dare to embarrass the queen mother at all. What about his emperor? Since he was a child, he has not been the kind of person who follows the rules, his temperament has risen, and no one will give him face, and the Queen Mother has had a smooth ride all her life, so she naturally doesn't like this little son.
When Prince Duansheng was still there, there was still a first emperor on the queen mother's head, and if something happened to her mother's family, she had to ask the first emperor, where was she really willing? She dreamed that she would be satisfied when she became the queen mother, but the one who could make her happy go, leaving their emperor to inherit the unification.
One of the queen mother's dreams is gone, so she changed it, and she hated that it was their emperor who died in Huaishui back then, and it was precisely because of this fateful mind that the queen mother was already unsatisfactory and felt that it was all because Prince Duansheng was not there, because their emperor did not die...... If you want to make him, the cat master, the queen mother is really a good life, and she has had enough of her brain as a dog's brain, and she doesn't want to eat serious food, just thinking about eating. ….
How good is the emperor's ascension to the throne to the queen mother? That's really about bringing the Queen Mother to the Buddha table and offering it, but let the dog go to the table of the Eight Immortals, and the dog only remembers to eat, and the dog has to dislike not serving on the table.
Now that the emperor has figured it out, he doesn't care about the face of the queen mother, he can't wait to go to Cining Palace to soak cat feces and then dig up the soil to bury the entire Cining Palace.
"Emperor, now that the queen is in power, she has cut the amount of money in her palace to buy things for these female officials, and the palace praises our mother's kindness."
The three cats were talking, but they saw that the emperor had been lifting the curtain and looking out.
Not only did he look at the kneeling people nearby, but he also looked into the distance.
The long sandwich road leads to the back of Renshou Palace, where a small palace maid carries a lamp in front, and a few people in the back push a car with a soft cover to go inside.
Obviously, it was so far away, and the lamp was the size of a soybean, but Shen Shiqing still felt that he saw the light illuminating the face of the little palace maid, a small round face with a smile.
Full of joy.
Just for a short moment, the car driver continued to drive south, withdrew his hand, the curtain slid down, Shen Shiqing rubbed his fingers, and said with a smile:
"Your Majesty, rest assured, I understand this. Naturally, I will not put myself in a situation of isolation and helplessness again."
"Ouch, I just said casually and made Shen Sanfu think about it for so long? You've really grown."
Saying this, Zhao Surui pulled a piece of the preserved peach as if it were dried meat and put it in his mouth with his teeth.
Then I heard Shen Shiqing say again, "Since Your Majesty is going to worship Aunt Yao, why don't I tell Your Majesty about Aunt Yao's personality?"
Zhao Surui didn't have anything important to tell Shen Sanrui, so he was naturally willing, so he listened to the story to relieve his boredom
Phew.
I can't stop listening to it.
Although Shen Sanqu spoke slowly, she was very eloquent, and she told the story of the Yao family not from Yao's life, but from two catties of meat.
It is said that Yao's usual frugality, and finally bought two catties of meat, so he divided the meat into six parts, two parts of the fat took the oil, and the remaining dish of oil residue was stored, and three of the remaining four parts were smeared with salt and dried under the eaves to think about stewing meat to eat in the future, and the remaining part was cut with minced meat and added home-grown leeks in the backyard to wrap dumplings.
It was the winter solstice, and the whole family celebrated the festival happily.
The Yao family has arranged every piece of meat left, and if you count it, you can eat it until the New Year.
The next morning, I saw a cat trotting all the way on the eaves with her dried meat in her mouth, but the cat was too small, and when she jumped over the eaves, her mouth loosened, and the strips of meat fell to the ground.
Yao looked at the piece of meat for a long time, and finally picked it up, soaked it in water, washed off the salt, and dried it under the eaves again.
The rest of the meat was hung on high ground.
In the afternoon, the kitten returned to its hometown, and wanted to repeat its old tricks, so it jumped up and bit on the meat strips, and the rope that did not want to skewer the meat was replaced with hemp rope.
The cat held the meat in its mouth, and the meat hung on the cat, and they refused to let go.
Zhao Surui has seen wild cats, but he has never seen such an interesting one, and he is happy to listen to it.
"Your Aunt Yao did it on purpose? So you can get that cat back?"
"Yes and no."
The royal car stopped in front of the Qianqing Palace, and Shen Shiqing walked into the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace and took off the big hat casually. ….
Everything in this warm pavilion had already been arranged according to her preferences, and smelling a faint fragrance of contemplative incense, she sighed lightly, and continued:
"The cat had a wound on its front leg, and Aunt Yao saw it, fished it and bandaged it first."
"What happened to the meat that was bitten by the cat?"
"That piece of meat, of course, is for the cat. Aunt Yao cut off a corner of the remaining three pieces of meat and fried them with the cabbage, and no one else in the family even found that a single piece of meat was missing. Aunt Yao was very proud, and said that she had secretly feasted on the guests, and named the kitten 'Friends on the Eaves Tree.'
Zhao Surui laughed: "Your Aunt Yao is really interesting, much better than the man in her family who eats ancient food."
Shen Shiqing also smiled.
When the third watch arrived, her heart was interrupted, and she sat on the bed and looked at the "Merchant" in her hand.
"Three cats."
"Emperor, the slave is here, what do you want to use? The slave stewed a fat chicken on the stove and added some winter bamboo shoots to make noodle soup."
Shen Shiqing smiled and waved his hand: "You brought the eunuch palace maid who was on night duty outside."
"Slave and maid, thank the emperor for his favor!"
Seeing the three cats saluting to himself, Shen Shiqing asked him with a smile:
"Three cats, do you know how to make a person's heart work for you?"
The three cats replied cheerfully: "That's not easy? Get some of the man's favorite food, so that he will never be able to live without our craft again."
This was deliberately flattering, but it still made His Majesty nod:
"It's a way to do what it likes, but it's not enough."
Shen Shiqing, who had been the emperor for a few months, sat on the dragon bed, her fingers moved lightly, as if she was slowly crushing something, and finally became what she wanted.
Whether it's cinnabar, malachite, even if it's as hard as gold, grind it into fine powder, water flying method, glue flying method, take the finest powder, and eventually become the color she lays on rice paper.
"Not only do I want to do what I like, but I want to make it what I like."
With that, she smiled and put the book down.
"Torture is a terrible law, but it is not a common force. The way of a merchant is ultimately the way of a minister."
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