Chapter 65 The old man who skipped meals
Empress Dowager Lu looked at her, “I suspect you’ve had this idea for a long time.”
Zhao Su was not modest: “The garden, there are already two sizes in the palace, and now the good courtyards are empty and uninhabited, and there’s no one to appreciate them when they’re set up with some flowers and plants. Might as well open up into a vegetable garden, both harvest, but also to experience the joy of farming!”
Empress Lu finished the last mouthful of corn thick soup, “Where do you fancy?”
Zhao Su picked up a goat’s fat jade chess jar on her blog shelf and played with it in her hand, “Isn’t there an empty courtyard outside the dining room of Ci Ning Palace? I think that’s quite suitable, it’s close by and there’s no shortage of people to take care of it. At that time what vegetables are planted inside a little!”
Empress Dowager Lu said, “That’s fine, you do it!”
Zhao Su froze, “How can I? I’m a scholar, and I’ve never planted a field before!”
“That’s right, you still have to be a detailer.” Empress Dowager Lu nodded, “Then you have to find a few courtiers who know how to grow vegetables. –Gao Shu!”
“I’m here!”
“Go and see who in the palace has grown vegetables, summon them to Ci Ning Palace.”
After Empress Dowager Lu ordered, she took a look at Zhao Su still playing with the jar, “Like it?”
“……”
“Take it if you like it!”
Zhao Su just thought that a jar of this size would be quite suitable for pickling some sweet and sour rakkyo, and before she could say anything back, Empress Lu wielded her big hand!
…… So this was a piece of vegetable land in exchange for the suggestion?
“After spending most of the day in Qianqing Palace, did you fish out any news?”
Zhao Su sighed, “The Emperor let me make her a pill to eat, then warned me that he’s my master. It also said ……”
“Said what?
“The Emperor said that he asked me to make him lunch, and I politely refused the Emperor because I was thinking of the Empress Dowager’s side. In case he orders me to do so again tomorrow, then I definitely won’t be able to come and cook for the Empress Dowager.”
Let you two fight!
Empress Dowager Lu said, “He has so many imperial chefs, what’s the point of grabbing with me?”
“Yes.”
Empress Lu was full of displeasure.
A moment later she said: “Shi En’s wife used to be my female officer, in recent years, she served Weng Gu in her ancestral home, but almost to the capital, when she will come to see me, and then I find an opportunity to ask about this case in name only.
“In addition, there is also Fang Qingxue is also worth paying attention to, these days you stay in the Qianqing Palace, just pay special attention to it.”
When Zhao Su heard the words female official, she immediately said, “Mrs. Shi is Cheng Yunxiu?”
Most of Empress Dowager Lu’s sidekicks she still had an impression of.
Empress Lu said, “Yes, it’s her.”
When Cheng Yunxiu was young, she went to the capital alone to avenge her father’s death, and by chance she followed Empress Dowager Lu, not realizing that she would be Shi En’s wife. It was no wonder that Empress Dowager Lu would give Shi En the errand of the Flower Moon Society.
The evening sun was already filling the sky as she carried the pickle jar out of the palace gates.
“Zhao Su!”
Just after crossing the threshold, a person immediately flashed by, glaring at her with a face that could sink to the point of wringing out water, then looking her up and down, “You really have replaced me.”
Zhao Su fixed her eyes on her, wasn’t this Yu Qingping who had already changed back into her daughter’s costume?
“What do you mean by replacing you? If you hadn’t committed a crime and lost your job, how would this have fallen on my head? I haven’t blamed you yet!”
Originally, Zhao Su still had a hint of apology for her losing her job, but she couldn’t be happy when Yu Qingping directly put the blame on her head! Even if she had added oil and vinegar to make the emperor fire her, then who hadn’t made her develop a bad heart to harm others, had they?
“I only know that the person who benefits now is you! The person who will directly benefit from me leaving the Prohibited Guards Department is you!”
Yu Qingping spoke word by word, gritting her teeth, “In the past days, I didn’t even see that you had such a deep heart! Are you proud of stepping on me to get to the top? The emperor can’t even tolerate me, I’d like to see how many days you can stay in Qianqing Palace!”
“Even if I can only stay for an hour, it’s none of your business, big sister, and how do you know I want to stay in this position? Maybe if the Emperor removes me, I’ll be happy instead?”
Yu Ping pursed her lips, obviously not believing it.
Zhao Su didn’t want to say more to her, beckoning for the carriage, holding the pickle jar and about to go up.
Yu Qingping blocked in front of her, “Do you know how much loss you caused me by doing this?”
Zhao Su rolled her eyes, but based on her experience from past novels, Yu Qingping was taking the bull by the horns, and continuing to fight with her in this situation would only worsen the situation, and she certainly didn’t want to see Yu Qingping carrying a knife to chop her up.
Holding down her mood, she said: ”Miss Yu, I will sincerely tell you a few things. First of all, I entered the palace as a guard out of the Emperor’s will, not for my own reasons. You should recognize all the palace people in Qianqing Palace, so you can go to them and ask for confirmation.
“Then, what you rare does not mean that I also rare, everyone values different things, don’t take the loss caused by your own reasons, and forcibly impute it to my head.
“You should understand that the emperor cannot be a monarch who lets people sway him, why did he remove you from your position, perhaps you understand better than I do?”
The emperor was so dark hearted that he couldn’t possibly be brainless enough to listen to a few instigations from her and remove Yu Qingping, so it was only possible that the emperor was already dissatisfied with her, only to meanly lend her a hand in getting the person fired.
Yu Qingping heard here suddenly lost his mind, staring at her in a daze without making a sound.
Zhao Su to say all said, and do not want to stay, so that she has the opportunity to make a demon, then holding the Empress Dowager given pickle jar sat on the car.
Yu Qingping gritted her teeth and looked at her carriage on the street, and only after a long time did she loosen her clenched fists ……
……
Today is the first day of Zhao Su’s promotion to the imperial guards on duty, small orchids and small chrysanthemums early in the morning to welcome the marquis at the corner of the door.
When they looked up and saw the carriage arrive, the two of them immediately dashed up: “Miss!”
When Zhao Su jumped down and saw the silks and pickle jars held out by the guards who followed her, the two maids froze. “Is this a reward from the Emperor?”
“Thinking about it!” Zhao Su said, “The Empress Dowager rewarded it.”
That’s fine. It’s all for nothing anyway.
The maids held the satin and jade jars and beautifully accompanied her into the hanging flower gate.
Along the way, they greeted her with warmth, which made Zhao Su very happy. When she returned to Qiyu Courtyard, the little maid who boiled water, Yulu, waited under the door with tea, while the little maid who tied the curtain, Jinfeng, brought cushions.
As soon as Zhao Su sat down, two more maids immediately came over to pound her legs and beat her fan!
–Why don’t they say that they all want to be the local master?
Who doesn’t want to be served like this!
Out of humanity, she still asked, “If you’re too tired, rest.”
“The girl is away from home all day, the slave girls aren’t tired! It’s the girl who’s tired, we get one or two silver dollars a month, we can’t even spend it all!”
The little maids were honest.
“How come the girl came back a little later than scheduled? This evening was a farewell for auntie, and table young master also came over, waiting for the girl to start dinner.”
Xiaolan handed tea to her, the distance from the palace to Marquis Qingyun’s residence was not far, the approximate time was calculated.
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