Empress, she doesn't want to fight

Chapter 49

After Jiang Man received the imperial decree of promotion, he gave generous rewards to the people serving in Yufu Garden, and took Wan Dong to the Star Picking Tower together.

The Zhaixing Building is located in the southwest corner of the entire imperial city. It was built by the first emperor to enjoy the moon and stars with Fei. It is the tallest building in the entire imperial city. Standing on it, you can see more than half of the capital. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people will be taken to the Zhaixing Building to watch the lights, and enjoy the bustling and prosperous scenery of the capital by the way.

All the concubines were waiting in front of the Star Picking Tower. After Emperor Yong'an arrived, everyone saluted Emperor Yong'an and went to the Star Picking Tower together.

This is Jiang Man's first time to go to the Zhaixing Tower in the five years since she entered the palace. It's not that going to the Zhaixing Tower has an impact on the rank of concubines, but because whether or not she comes to the Zhaixing Tower is entirely voluntary.Of course the other concubines were unwilling to let go of any chance to meet the emperor, but Jiang Man in previous years would hide whenever she could.

The Zhaixing Tower is the tallest building in the entire imperial city. Standing on the platform of the Zhaixing Tower, the view is really very wide. You can have a panoramic view of half of the capital. , From a distance, it looks very lively.

Jiang Man stood in front of the railing for a while, wanting to enjoy the beautiful scenery in front of her, but people kept coming to say some sour words, which really disturbed people's good mood.

After dealing with the imperial maid who said congratulations but her tone was full of sourness, Jiang Man looked at Hu Jieyu who was walking towards her again and Chu Baolin who was looking to come over to find trouble, and ran away quickly. It wasn't that he was afraid of Chu Baolin, it was just that he was too lazy to deal with it and didn't want to fight with this person.

Chu Baolin walked to the place where Jiang Man was standing just now, and found that Jiang Man had disappeared, stomped his feet angrily, then turned around unwillingly, and went to look for Emperor Yong'an again.

She originally hoped that she would have a share in this year's promotion. After all, she was really favored for a while before, but who would have thought that it would all be in vain, and look at her when she was favored, even if she was pregnant, she didn't get it. Jiang Man, who is valued by the emperor, was promoted to two ranks in a short period of time just because her sister took the lead in donating money. She really couldn't be reconciled.

Jiang Man didn't care whether Chu Baolin was willing or not, she was already planning to go back with Wan Dong, although the scenery on the Zhaixing Tower was very nice, but if she was not in a good mood, the beautiful scenery would be useless, she might as well go back early and rest.

But after coming down from the Star Picking Tower, Jiang Man discovered that there was a building standing in a corner not far from the Star Picking Tower. Although it was not as tall as the Star Picking Tower, it was not short either.

Jiang Man hesitated for a moment, and walked towards that building. This building was not as gorgeous as the Zhaixing Building, and it looked a bit old. Jiang Man stepped on the wooden stairs, and the stairs made creaking noises.

Wan Dong looked around with some doubts, "Master, why don't we go up?" This place looks like it has been abandoned, and the stairs seem to collapse at any moment.

Jiang Man comforted Wan Dong and said: "It's okay, don't look at it looking dilapidated, but look at the wood of the stairs under our feet, they are all made of high-quality red sandalwood, and they are strong."

Jiang Man shook her head distressedly as she spoke. An inch of red sandalwood is worth an inch of gold. I don't know which emperor built it here. It is really a waste of money to use red sandalwood for stairs.

Jiang Man's consolation worked, although Wan Dong was still carefully watching Jiang Man's feet all the way, but he didn't try to persuade Jiang Man to go back.

On the way to the highest point, Jiang Man discovered that although this building is not as high as the Zhaixing Tower, the view is better than that of the Zhaixing Tower. You can see more than half of the capital from the Zhaixing Tower, but standing on this building can almost You can have a panoramic view of the entire capital city.

Jiang Man leaned on the pillar beside him in satisfaction, quietly watching the night view of the capital city lit up like daylight.

That side seems to be South Street, this side should be East Street, next to Sixi Street, Sixi Street is connected to Bali Lane, and the Jiang family's mansion is located in Bali Lane.

Jiang Man was watching intently, when she suddenly felt a tug from Wan Dong, she came back to her senses, and saw that Emperor Yong'an had approached with Zhao Quanfu, Jiang Man hurriedly stood up and saluted, "I wish Your Majesty Shengan."

"Aifei, please get up." Emperor Yong'an went to help Jiang Man up and said, "Aifei can pick a place."

Jiang Man's mind turned rapidly, how could Emperor Yong'an appear here, and what did Emperor Yong'an mean by this?
"Back to the emperor, I didn't choose this place on purpose, I just felt that the building was too noisy to enjoy the scenery, so I decided to go back to Yufuyuan, but after walking two steps, I saw this building again, and I fell in love with it. Yuan Ye’s beautiful scenery of fiery trees and silver flowers, I thought that even if I didn’t see it clearly from the Zhaixing Tower, I could still see a little bit of it. Who knew that the view here was better than that of the Zhaixing Tower, but I didn’t expect it to be I have disturbed the emperor's interest, and I ask the emperor to forgive me."

Emperor Yong'an laughed when he heard the words, "My concubine is not interested in disturbing me. If I really want to talk about it, it's because I disturbed my concubine's tranquility."

Jiang Man smiled slightly, "It is a blessing to meet the emperor as a concubine."

If someone else said this, Emperor Yong'an could still believe it a little bit, but the person in front of him probably didn't mean what he said, after all, this was a person who had never actively appeared in front of him after five years in the palace.

Emperor Yong'an didn't expose her, smiled, stood where Jiang Man was standing just now, looked into the distance and asked, "Does Concubine Ai know what this building is called?"

Jiang Man shook his head honestly.

"This building is called Siwanglou. It is said that Emperor Gaozu won the world at the beginning of the year and the capital was not stable. Emperor Gaozu ordered people to build this Siwanglou so that he could have a panoramic view of the entire capital."

"When the first emperor built the Zhaxing Tower for Fei, he originally wanted to tear down the Siwanglou. It was I who contacted several old ministers at that time to advise him, so that the late emperor changed his mind and built the Zhaixinglou not far from the Siwanglou. Star Tower."

Jiang Man didn't think that this Siwanglou was so meaningful, she hurriedly lowered her head and admitted her mistake: "Is it a concubine or not, I shouldn't go to the Siwanglou casually."

Emperor Yong'an shook his head, "It's nothing, there is nothing that can't be climbed in this Four-Watched Tower, but since the construction of the Star-picking Tower, very few people have come up this Four-Watched Tower."

If it is really impossible to let other people go in, someone downstairs will definitely stop it. Since there is no one guarding the downstairs, it means it is not a forbidden place.

Jiang Man came up directly because of this.

Hearing the sadness in Emperor Yong'an's tone, Jiang Man said: "The existence of Siwang Tower is more meaningful than Zhaixing Tower."

Emperor Yong'an smiled, and did not continue the topic, "Did Aifei go to the Lantern Festival in the capital before?"

"I went there when I was young." Jiang Man said: "When I was six years old, I heard my step-sister and my step-sister boasting about how fun the lantern festival was. My heart was longing for it, and I asked my father to take me Watching the Lantern Festival with my elder sister, but my elder sister and I were not liked by my father since we were young, so my father would naturally not agree. After reprimanding me, he took my stepmother, younger siblings and the others out, and my elder sister took me out of the house when she found out."

(End of this chapter)