The girl who wears fast

Chapter 21 The Prime Minister's Tool Man Stepwife (21)

The emperor also heard about the flowers in the Baihua Pavilion. One day after discussing important matters with Luo Changqing, he suddenly asked with bright eyes: "I heard that the Baihua Pavilion was opened by your wife?"

Luo Changqing nodded: "Indeed."

"It is said that there are many rare flowers and plants, many of which are not found in the local area. I wonder if there are any rare chrysanthemums?" The emperor likes chrysanthemums the most, and his imperial garden is also full of rare chrysanthemums, but he has never seen them. After passing the chrysanthemums in foreign lands, I want to see them.

"This... I don't know. If Your Majesty wants it, just ask someone to go to the Baihua Pavilion to buy it." Luo Changqing said indifferently. He didn't pay much attention to Xu Shichu's affairs, so naturally he didn't know her Baihua Pavilion. Are there exotic chrysanthemums.

"Even if there was one in the Baihua Pavilion, it would have been robbed long ago! It is said that your wife's garden is full of varieties. You can go back and help me and find your wife directly. Why should I go to the Baihua Pavilion to snatch it from others? If your wife Yes, remember to bring me a few pots back." The emperor ordered bluntly.

So Luo Changqing received such a decree, left the palace and returned to the mansion, so he had no choice but to look for Xu Shichu.

The last time he came to Xu Shichu's yard was the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when it was dark, he didn't even pay attention to whether the flowers in the yard were blooming or not.

But today he came during the daytime, so as soon as he entered Xu Shichu's courtyard, all kinds of gorgeous and eye-catching flowers greeted his eyes, a large area, a sea of ​​flowers at a glance, the scene was even spectacular and stunning.

Luo Changqing was stunned for a moment, stood by the road and looked at the flowers around him.

He is usually not interested in flowers and plants. When he sees rare ones, he will at most appreciate them and then turn his head and forget them.

But Xu Shichu's sea of ​​flowers didn't love flowers like him, but he also felt a kind of shocking beauty.

Beauty does not lie, it is a subjective feeling of people.

The same thing, in the eyes of different people, is not necessarily beautiful or ugly. For example, the rocks on the mountain, the proud scribes will think that it stands still despite the wind and rain, and it is a kind of unswerving. Proudly beautiful; but in the eyes of the vulgar and humble woodcutter, it is an ugly rock that cannot be trampled on. How can it be beautiful?
No one can say that this magnificent sea of ​​flowers in Xu Shichu’s garden is not beautiful. The bright colors, petals of different shapes, and the faint fragrance of flowers give people an extremely shocking enjoyment of beauty. I want to turn into a butterfly or a bee, fly to the flowers and roll around.

Luo Changqing stopped and watched for a while before going in to find Xu Shichu.

But Xu Shichu was reclining on a hanging chair suspended by two adjacent trees. The base of the hanging chair was made of woven bamboo, but it was covered with soft cloth cushions. Xu Shichu stretched out from time to time when lying on it. When the legs in socks shake the hanging rope, the hanging chair will shake gently, comfortable and leisurely.

Luo Changqing looked at her weird hanging chair again and again, wondering what was going on in her mind, how she came up with some weird ideas, but she could still make her life more comfortable.

Looking at the hanging chair, Luo Changqing thought that he would have someone make one for himself, and it would be another fun to lie under the tree and read a book when he rested.

Seeing that the male master was coming, the maidservant beside him hurriedly saluted him.

Xu Shichu lazily opened his eyelids, saw Luo Changqing standing there tall and tall, and couldn't help but said: "My lord, the Prime Minister, has nothing to go to the Three Treasures Hall. He came to see me again today. It can't be because of some serious matter. Bar?"

Luo Changqing raised his hand and clenched his fist to cover his mouth, and coughed lightly. He really came to Xu Shichu because of something. Even though his skin had already been tempered enough, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty at this moment.

"I haven't been here for a while. I didn't expect that your yard has been turned into a garden. It's a world of difference from before." Luo Changqing said.

Xu Shichu immediately stared at him keenly: "Are you also here to make an idea of ​​my garden?"

Luo Changqing's eyes shifted, and he said, "I don't have any. I'm just asking you on behalf of Your Majesty if you have chrysanthemums from foreign countries? It's rarer, not from the local area. Your Majesty loves chrysanthemums very much."

Xu Shichu didn't expect that the reputation of her garden would spread to the palace, she answered plainly: "Yes, but I use these flowers to make spices or sell them, so..." She hinted He looked at Luo Changqing with his eyes.

Luo Changqing understood her eyes, and immediately said: "Don't worry, I will pay for it."

Xu Shichu nodded in satisfaction. Although she didn't mind giving the emperor a pot or two, but if she gave it this time, what if the emperor takes a fancy to her other flowers next time?Then should she send it or not?She would be at a great loss if she gave it away, and she would offend the emperor if she didn't give it away, so it's better to sell it to him sternly and selflessly from the beginning, so that he can't blame him even if he is dissatisfied, right?
When Xu Shichu got off the hanging chair, Zhichun helped her put on her shoes, and she took Xu Shichu to the chrysanthemum area: "Come with me, you can choose by yourself."

"I'm not too sure which ones are local and which ones are foreign. You can see which ones are not available in the palace and pick which ones." Xu Shichu said, as long as she gave money, she was quite generous.

"This kind of petal is divided into two colors called purple jade mandarin ducks, the one that looks like a flying dragon and a phoenix is ​​called Panlongwufeng, and that is called jade thread and silver needle...the one over there is Qiushui Hongxia... on the far side Balls as big as a baby's fist are called pingpong chrysanthemums..."

Xu Shichu introduced those chrysanthemums to Luo Changqing one by one, including how to cultivate, branch, deworm and fertilize.

Luo Changqing listened with gusto, planting flowers was not one of his specialties, so he listened attentively, and when Xu Shichu talked about what he was good at, he began to eloquently: "These chrysanthemums grow like this after many years of cultivation and even grafting. As it is now, it will be very different from their original and most primitive varieties..."

"Didn't you say that these flower seeds were all bought from foreign merchants? How do you know that they have been cultivated and...grafted for many years?" Luo Changqing frowned suspiciously and looked at Xu Shichu.

Seeing his clear black eyes, Xu Shichu felt guilty for a while, and hurriedly said: "The businessman told me that he sold the flower seeds to me in order to succeed."

Luo Changqing didn't know whether he believed her words or not, but he didn't ask further, but asked another question: "What is grafting?" He could vaguely understand the meaning of the word, but the specific meaning seemed to be separated by A layer of fog, and can not understand clearly.

"Grafting means to connect the branches or buds of a tree or flower to another tree or flower, so that the two kinds of flowers or trees grow into one kind, and the grown flower or tree can combine the two kinds of flowers or trees. The shape merges into another shape or has both shapes at the same time." Xu Shichu didn't quite remember the exact meaning of grafting, so he briefly explained it.

(End of this chapter)