Chapter 32: Imperial Bearing
Ren Baqian followed the green kite into the palace.
The empress still reclined on the couch.
It seems that every time I see this person, she likes to recline very much.
In other words, Ren Baqian suddenly noticed a problem, that is, the width of the couch is very wide, and people can't lean on it normally, and it is far away, so it will definitely not be comfortable to sit up.
This discovery made Ren Baqian think of something, but he quickly restrained his thoughts and began to continue to talk about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" not far below the empress.
After two rounds of talking, it was already dark, and the empress asked him to stop.
"You disappear every three days, what are you doing?" the empress asked lazily with squinting phoenix eyes.
When Ren Baqian heard this, his heart suddenly pinched, and the sweat on his back and forehead came down at once.
Although he had known that this day would come, he still wanted to hide it for a while. Because he disappeared once in three days, he couldn't explain it clearly. And when discovered, the higher your status, the more secure your safety is.
The people who found out about Da Yaoguo before were all rude and straightforward people, and he was a little relieved, thinking that maybe he wouldn't be discovered too soon.
No one should have found out when I was in prison, but I didn't expect to be noticed after leaving twice.
Although the empress looks lazy now, Ren Baqian has the slightest doubt that she will be pulled down and cut down if she can't answer well.
"You two go down. The empress waved to the maid beside her.
Then there was silence in the hall.
The empress lay on the couch, supporting her head with one hand, waiting for Ren Baqian's answer.
The sweat on Ren Baqian's head couldn't stop dripping, and he kept asking himself: "What should I do? Is it telling the truth or telling a big lie? How can I make the person in front of me believe that I don't show too many feet?"
Ren Baqian hesitated for a long time, but he was still ready to tell a big lie. If you really can't hide it, confess it.
"Your Majesty......"
"Forget it, I don't want to hear the words of deception. I know that you have secrets, everyone has secrets, and when you appear, you are very unexpected, and there will naturally be more secrets than others.
It doesn't matter if the origin is unknown. I don't care where Huaguo is.
But you have to show your worth, and I can use you if you have the ability. I can give you what you want.
Let's go down!"
When the empress had just spoken, she suddenly spoke.
The content of the words made Ren Baqian not know whether to be happy or sad.
I am happy to listen to the empress, and I will no longer investigate his origin and disappearance every three days, and I can put my mind at ease in the future.
Even if she disappeared suddenly, the empress would not say anything, as long as she showed her ability and value. I don't have to rack my brains to figure out how to hide my whereabouts in the future.
And sadly, who said that Da Yaoguo is full of muscles? The empress seems to have seen through herself, and she can even detect that she wants to lie.
This made Ren Baqian feel a little terrifying.
It's like when you're playing a game and suddenly the natives in the game point out that you're not from this world, it's a frightening feeling.
When I returned to the animal garden, I was blown by the night breeze, and I was a lot more sober, and I felt a little better.
In any case, the empress did not pursue it, which is also a good thing.
But I'll have to work harder in the future.
As soon as he returned to the house, he licked and rolled and hugged his legs, making a humming sound in his mouth, and did not let go of his claws.
Ren Baqian squatted down and touched the two little guys, although there were still some heart palpitations, but they also roughly calmed down.
First I fetched a basin of water for the two little guys, and then went to fetch some bamboo leaves, and the two little ones sat in the bamboo leaves and grabbed the bamboo leaves on the ground and began to eat.
Only Ren Baqian went back to the room to rest.
I thought about the empress's words again and again before falling asleep.
When I got up the next day, I took a look at the sweet potatoes, which had already been processed and were waiting for them to sprout.
Ren Baqian first found the stone steward and took him to see the land, which was used to grow sweet potatoes.
In the vicinity of the animal garden, a flat open space has been cultivated, on which some fruits and vegetables are planted. Most of the food eaten by the miscellaneous servants in the animal garden is grown here, and there are some old people and women who take care of it here on weekdays, and they are all the families of those miscellaneous workers.
"What do you think of it here? The vegetables are also cooked, so I'll let them pick them. The steward said before leading him to a field.
"If you go again, you don't have to be so big, just one acre is enough. Ren Baqian said.
After walking half a circle, I saw a small piece of land at an oblique angle, about more than one acre, the location was a bit off, and the land was not the best. But Ren Baqian didn't mind. Anyway, sweet potatoes do not have high requirements for land, and it is better to be a little biased.
"That's it. ”
"This land is average, and the harvest can be a little worse. Steward Shi persuaded.
"It's okay, it's okay here. Ren Baqian smiled. The location of this place is relatively remote, but it is just right, and no one will pay attention to what is planted.
"Can you use these two?" asked him, pointing to the land not far away, remembering the spices he had brought back.
Steward Shi looked in the direction he was pointing, patted his chest and said, "No problem." Although there are not many beast garden lands, a few plots of land can still be evenly distributed. ”
After determining the location, the stone steward hurried out to get the matter of the shaved ice shop.
The other two shops have also been discontinued, and now all three shops have to be cleaned, and a carpenter has to be hired to make the bar and benches.
The method of making ice has been handed over to the stone steward, and it is very simple, as long as you know where to find saltpeter.
As for making fruit shaved ice, it's even simpler.
The follow-up should not require Ren Baqian to participate, just divide the money.
The land was chosen, but the sweet potatoes had not yet sprouted, so Ren Baqian went to the handyman who knew how to work as a carpenter when he had nothing to do, and asked him to make a chair that looked strange in the eyes of the other party according to his own requirements.
Ren Baqian was going to make a sofa, which was remembered when he saw the empress's couch. A sofa that can sink the whole person into it is definitely much more comfortable than a couch.
Such a thing, naturally, is to make one for the empress first, and then get one for yourself.
Then he began to look all over the animal garden for the filling of the sofa, cotton or poultry feathers and the like.
Although there is no cotton, there are many things like poultry feathers in the zoo, and a lot of them can be cleaned up every day, and they are all burned as garbage.
After letting people keep it for themselves, when Ren Baqian looked for nitrated leather, he found that Da Yao's people didn't know how to make nitrate, and the leather was taken from animals and dried, and then sold in bundles to merchants who collected leather.
Naturally, the prices are outrageously low, and the price of buying nitrate leather from merchants is a bit prohibitive.
An ordinary sheepskin, the leather of a giant sheep that pulls a cart, was sold to them for only one tael of silver, but the nitrated sheepskin was sold for ten taels a piece.
The profit in this is crazy to think about.
It's no wonder that foreign merchants flock to Da Yao, even if it's a hot place, and there's nothing to enjoy. Several times or even more than ten times the profit can make most people take risks.
Ren Baqian calculated that he would go back in one day, and he was not in a hurry, so he simply waited until he went back to check how to make leather on the Internet.