Song of Peach Blossoms: Alluring Princess

Chapter 343 Some people are happy and some are sad

The Fanghua Palace is not as magnificent as other palaces, but it is small and exquisite, and among all the palaces, it is closest to the Central Palace of Yangxin where the emperor usually rests.When Su Tiange got off the chariot, Ding Xiang was standing at the entrance of the hall with a flustered expression. Seeing Su Tiange, she almost forced a smile from her face.

"Girl." Ding Xiang walked over quickly, holding Su Tiange on her arm, trembling a little.

"Don't be afraid." She reached out and patted the back of Ding Xiang's hand.

The two followed the servants into Fanghua Hall, one of them was standing in the yard with his back to the door, and turned around when he heard footsteps.The dragon robe on his body shone yellow in the sky, Xiao Xuan walked towards her with a smile, "Tian Ge, come in quickly, I will show you Fanghua Palace, this used to be your aunt's residence."

Su Tiange was stunned for a moment. If she had been in the past, she would probably have smiled and said, "Then I'd like to take a closer look." But now... she lowered her eyebrows and bowed her head to salute, "The daughter of the people has seen His Majesty..."

The arm was supported by Xiao Xuan, "You and I don't have to be so formal, come quickly, the previous carvings are a bit worn out, and I ordered people to redecorate them. According to your preferences, come and see " After that, he had already held her hand, and waved the other hand behind him.The servants who followed hurriedly bowed and retreated, and the maids who were originally standing at the entrance of the main hall also bowed and retreated to both sides of the palace gate.

"His Majesty……"

"Tian Ge, I asked you to come here just because I wanted to talk to you. I have been in great fear for the past month." Xiao Xuan said in a low voice, his tone was exhausted.

"It's better to be obedient than to be respectful." She said softly, and he laughed, as if all the hard work of this month was healed by this sentence.

The four carved doors are half open, and one is pushed open, and there is a screen with a breeze and a bright moon, and the word "nin" is still written in the lower right corner.Under the screen is a soft armchair covered with suede, and even the four corners of the table are also covered with suede.There is a tea tray on the table in the middle, and a clump of white magnolias is inserted in the flower cup, and the crystal dew swirls on the petals.

"The painting was made by me, but the characters were carved from the screen of the tea house. Your legs and feet cannot touch each other, so these tables and chairs are all specially made, and here, come and take a look." Xiao Xuan pulled Her hand walked over a beaded curtain, "The bed is also shorter than before, which can save a lot of trouble."

Maybe there are still some changes that he didn't mention, after all, how can a palace that has never been inhabited for more than ten years have such a situation today.He knew that she could think of hundreds of reasons to refuse, so he chose the simplest and most effective way to keep her from speaking.

"I tried the new Mingqian tea in the palace yesterday, and it tastes pretty good." He pulled her to sit on the soft couch and started to make tea.

"A few days ago, I chatted with Miracle Doctor Xue. He also said that this year's Mingqian tea seems to be quite expensive, and it seems that there are not many good quality teas in the tea houses. Now I am lucky."

Xiao Xuan smiled and poured her a glass of water, "Taste first."

Qianqian took a sip, her eyes lit up, "It really is good tea."

"Tea is good tea, but it's not easy here. Now that you're here, you can help me out with ideas." From the beginning of the district, a large area of ​​mountains and slopes were destroyed.As a result, after a year of hard work, the harvest is even a problem for living, and it is far less prosperous than the past when planting mulberry and tea.

The people complained a lot, and the prefect of Hangzhou wrote dozens of advices to the court, detailing why returning mulberry trees to farming would bring such bad effects in Hangzhou.He also boldly put forward suggestions, hoping that the court would let the people of Hangzhou continue to plant according to the previous method.

"This Li Zhifu is a talented person. I used to go to Hangcheng when I was in the drug store business in Suzhou City. There is heaven and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou. It is by no means empty words. Although it is a land of fish and rice, not all land is suitable for growing rice. In order to alleviate the food crisis, the imperial court proposed to return mulberry to farming, but it depends on the specific geographical conditions. Certain mountain forests and slopes in Hangzhou are indeed more suitable for planting mulberry and tea.”

"So I plan to send someone down to have a look, and then make a decision. Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?"

"I have no idea about this for a while. I don't know about the new candidates for the imperial examination in the past two years."

"There is one person you must know, Wang Lang, the Minister of the Household Department. You found this person from Fengcheng, and he did a good job in the Household Department. So this time I plan to let him go to Hangzhou as an imperial envoy."

The conversation became speculative, and the atmosphere seemed much more harmonious, even Xiao Xuan's laughter could be heard in the room.Gong'e standing in the yard glanced at each other and heaved a sigh of relief, they all turned their heads to look at Ding Xiang, as if silently asking Ding Xiang, who is your girl?

Ding Xiang is half happy and half sad, the girl and the emperor can still have a long talk about friends as before, but the sad thing is that the people in the palace are not friendly to the girl.She set off almost half an hour earlier than Su Tiange, but it took almost half an hour to get from the palace gate to Fanghua Hall. During this half hour, she was first taken to meet the empress dowager.

The empress dowager didn't like her or she didn't like her girl, this was her first impression when she saw the empress dowager.The Empress Dowager didn't say anything, but just asked her if she had brought enough things. If there was a shortage, she could go to the House of Internal Affairs to get it, and she said that it was the Empress Dowager's permission.

Every sentence is out of consideration for her daughter, but she can still tell the difference between sincerity and hypocrisy.

Coming out of Fu'an Palace, she met a chariot, and she knew the person sitting in it. She had seen it when she followed the girl to Prince Zhan's mansion.

"My maidservant has seen the king... Your Majesty." Ding Xiang bowed on her knees, appearing incoherent because she couldn't find a suitable title.

"Who is the Daoist of this palace? It turns out that she is a girl from the country, no wonder she doesn't know how to be polite. Let me ask you, you, a slave, have entered the palace, where is your master?" My mother who was sitting on the chariot, because Angry, a trace of flush appeared on his pale face.

"The girl will be here in a while. The holy decree said that the girl should come into the palace to explain the knowledge of pharmacology to the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital, so..."

"It's a joke, no matter how poor the medical skills of those people in Tai Hospital, it's not her turn to explain the pharmacology. Do you think she seduced the Holy Majesty? Tell me!" My mother tapped her palm on the back of the chair vigorously as she spoke. Ding Xiang knelt down on the ground and dared not speak.

"My lady, be careful with your words, isn't it disrespectful to tell a slave about this?" The Empress Dowager said loudly while standing in the courtyard of Fu'an Palace, her voice was not loud enough for people outside to hear clearly.

"You still haven't brought your master in, don't you all have brains?"

The flustered maid in the palace carried her chariot into the gate of Fu'an Palace. Ding Xiang didn't get up until the gate was closed, exhaled, and hurried to Fanghua Palace.

Girl, we'd better leave quickly.

(End of this chapter)