Chapter Seventy-Seven: Magnolia in Bloom
"Do you have any ideas?" Mu Jingzhao raised his eyes to look at her, as if waiting for Jiang Ning to say an answer.
Jiang Ning was stunned, she originally said this, she just wanted Mu Jingzhao to give some ideas, after all, as the king of a country, with his support, many things will be much easier.
However, what she didn't expect was that the other party didn't have any idea at all.
It was like two people carrying water, Mu Jingzhao suddenly let go, and Jiang Ning couldn't pick it up alone, so he was also deflated.
"Nope." Jiang Ning suddenly didn't have the heart to continue, she lowered her eyes, and said in her heart that she and Mu Jingzhao were not close allies in the first place, and it was him who others wanted to assassinate, he didn't care about it, and he didn't have to worry about it.
Perhaps, if he is killed because of this, his great revenge will be indirectly avenged. This thought flashed briefly in Jiang Ning's mind and was instantly suppressed.
Mu Jingzhao carefully observed her face, and after a long time, he said lightly, "In that case, our next assassination will be arranged on the day of the concubine's birthday." ”
Jiang Ning nodded, and no longer spoke,
Mu Jingzhao uncovered the seat diagram on the table and handed it to Jiang Ning, who took it casually and swept it in front of him.
It's just a very rough schematic diagram, marking the location of each person in each family with the same order as Mu Jingzhao's dictation.
Her memory was not bad, and a verbal description and a diagram were enough for her to memorize completely.
She folded the icon in her hand and put it away.
In the following time, Mu Jingzhao explained to her in detail more things that need to be paid attention to about the concubine's birthday banquet and left.
He never spoke again about the construction of the levee.
Since he didn't mean to take the initiative to mention it, Jiang Ning didn't continue to struggle.
In order to prepare for Liu Jinfu's birthday, Jiang Ning specially searched for 100 magnolia flowers in full bloom from all over the country, and quickly transported them to Kyoto overnight.
Because Liu Jinfu's birthday is in early April, and the season of magnolia blooming is in February and March, it took a lot of effort for Jiangning to find these 100 magnolias.
It took dozens of days of hard work and countless manpower and material resources to move the hundred magnolias to the imperial city two days before Liujin Jinfu's birthday.
These magnolia flowers were transplanted to the Imperial Garden, which is closest to the Frost Palace.
The flowers were so full of flowers that it seemed like a pink cloud had fallen outside the Frost Palace.
In this way, if you are in the Frost Palace, you only need to open the window and you can see the endless magnolia forest outside the window.
Hundreds of magnolia forests, neatly planted in the corners of the palace walls of the Frost Hua Palace, are like a streamer that quietly connects the imperial garden.
Among the magnolia bushes, there are cobblestone paths that lead to the depths of the magnolia forest.
The cobblestones, Jiang Ning originally wanted to continue to follow the stone path in the original imperial garden.
But in the end, at Mu Jingzhao's suggestion, she finally added it to the point where the sedan chair could pass.
Dozens of meters along the stone path, at the end of the magnolia forest, is the koi pond in the Imperial Garden.
Originally, the koi pond in the imperial garden was built quite simply, just a simple pond, in which a few lotus plants were planted, and there were several pavilions distributed on the shore for the masters of the palace to enjoy the shade and feed the fish.
According to Mu Jingzhao, this koi pond existed here long before the first emperor ascended the throne, when the first emperor rebelled, everyone in the palace was in danger and unable to resist, so they began to wreak havoc in the palace, which was bound to destroy everything of the ancestors, and did not want to let the "anti-thief" anti-thief take advantage.
As a result, no part of the palace was spared.
Koi ponds are included.
According to Mu Jingzhao, when his father led his soldiers into the imperial city, all the pavilion boats by the koi pond were knocked down, and the pond water was verdant, and the dead koi fish were densely spread all over the surface of the pond and constantly emitted a foul smell.
Later, the new emperor ascended the throne and renovated the palace inside and out.
However, due to the fact that no matter whether it is the first emperor or successively, there is no leisure and elegance of raising fish to watch the scenery, so the rest of this koi pond is a little more casual.
Until Mu Jingzhao ascended the throne, the koi pond maintained a rather primitive form.
Until Jiang Ning began to prepare for Liu Jinfu's birthday this time.
Jiang Ning naturally didn't have the energy to completely renovate the koi pond, she just built a bridge in the middle of the koi pond to cleverly connect the two ends of the koi pond.
In the center of the arch bridge is a gazebo in the shape of a hollow square. The pavilion is hollow in the middle and is sheltered by a tiled roof, under which is a spacious terrace enclosed by a fence on all sides.
At the edge of the terrace, there is a rockery that is full of people, and the mountain is dotted with flowers and plants, leading the water of the koi pond to the top, and the water gushes out from the top of the rockery, and flows down, and the sound of water gurgles down the palm-wide groove on the ground and flows through the entire pavilion.
In the middle of the terrace, in the open air, is a large square flat land, surrounded by fresh flowers and flowers, reserved for stage performances.
The positions of the people of the three major families are divided according to the family, and each is placed on one side of the pavilion, completely abandoning the inherent distinction between dignity and inferiority.
On the day of the birthday banquet, Jiang Ning got up early in the morning to stare at the arrangement of his subordinates, for fear that something would go wrong.
At this moment, she is holding a handful of magnolia branches and carefully pruning.
She wants to put the magnolia flowers in separate bunches into vases and place them on the sides of each guest for decoration.
Originally, she hoped that this pavilion could be hidden among the magnolia bushes, so that during the banquet, she could enjoy the flowers and eat at the same time.
If there is a breeze, the magnolia petals can fall from the hollow position in the middle of the pavilion, supplemented by singing and dancing performances, just thinking about it, Jiang Ning feels deeply relaxed.
Then, in the end, she listened to Mu Jingzhao's suggestion and renovated the koi pond while building the pavilion.
After all, it wasn't her silver that was spent.
Now the pavilion in the middle of the koi pond is naturally less interested in watching Mulan, so she came up with such a method.
Jiang Ning raised his head and yawned a big while cutting the flower branches.
These days, she prepares these things, I don't know how many days, she hasn't had a good night's sleep.
Finally, on the day of the birthday banquet, Jiang Ning felt that his nerves had been tense for an unknown number of days and finally relaxed.
Jiang Ning rubbed his eyes and continued to cut the flower branches twice, but those eyes seemed to be overwhelmed by the sense of sleepiness and couldn't lift their eyes.
Her eyes were blank, and her eyelids continued to force open and slowly droop, over and over again, and finally, her eyelids sank and closed, and her head tilted weakly to the side.
The scissors in Jiang Ning's hand instantly fell out of his hand, and they fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
Her body trembled with the crisp sound, then she opened her eyes and sat up straight.
Rubbing his eyes casually, Jiang Ning looked left and right, and found that he had also taken a nap, and the little eunuch had put things in the wrong place again.
She sighed helplessly and shouted at the little eunuch, "You, it's you!" ”
The little eunuch paused, and he hesitantly stretched out his finger and pointed to his face.
"Yes." She nodded, and stretched out her hand to the vase holder he had placed in the middle of the fence, "How many times have I told you, don't put it in the middle, don't put it in the middle, if you accidentally touch it, you will fall directly into the pool." ”
Xu saw her serious expression, the little eunuch nodded and bowed, and suddenly lost the appearance of the hippie smile in the past.
"Put it in the corner."
The little eunuch responded again and again, and stepped forward to pick up the vase shelf.
It wasn't until the other party finally put the vase shelf back in place that Jiang Ning finally exhaled, sat down again, and fell asleep with his head propped up.
(End of chapter)