Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 342
On the third day after the folk artists entered the palace, the koi from the south were also brought into the palace and put into Chenghu Lake in the imperial garden.

"Xiaobai, do you still remember the poem my mother taught you to recite yesterday?" Jiang Changning asked.

"The koi are dancing on the ice in the forbidden marsh, and the oriole is singing in the warm wind of the imperial forest. Before Jin Yu went down to the Yingchun Pavilion, I folded the first branch of the famous flower." Little Bailang said back.

"Exactly, not bad, not bad, let's go, mother will take you to see the live koi." Jiang Changning said.

The mother and son were dressed neatly, and the group went to Chenghu Lake.

The spring is bright and the breeze is blowing. It is a good season for traveling.

It's a pity that I live in the palace now, and I can't go out at will. The only thing I can enjoy is the scenery of the palace.

When they arrived at Chenghu Lake, the little eunuch brought fish food and asked Jiang Changning and Xiaobai to throw it into the lake to feed the fish.

Xiaoqian is still young, so she can only watch it, and can't do it herself.

"Mother, that yellow croaker is biting the red croaker." Xiao Bai said.

Jiang Changning took a closer look and saw that the golden koi was chasing and biting a small goldfish. Then she remembered that there was a group of goldfish in Chenghu Lake.

I still vaguely remember an article I read saying that goldfish and koi cannot be kept together.

It seems that koi will bite goldfish and compete with goldfish for food.

"Hurry up, have someone pick up the goldfish and put it in a tank." Jiang Changning ordered.

Everyone didn't understand why the empress would do this, but as a servant, she couldn't question her master's decision, and did as she said.

After a while, the eunuchs were shaking their boats and fishing for goldfish on the lake.

Jiang Changning took his two sons to watch the excitement, and felt that the sun was very hot, "Xiaobai, take your brother to watch, mother is tired from standing, go sit in the pavilion over there."

"Mother, please help yourself, my son will take good care of my younger brother." Xiao Bai replied obediently.

Jiang Changning patted his head, told Xiaochun and Banqin to keep an eye on the two of them, and went to the pavilion by the water to sit and rest.

After sitting for a while, a few butterflies flew into the pavilion, and Jiang Changning suddenly became interested, "It's been a long time since I played with butterflies."

"The maid asked them to get the Butterfly Net." Xiulan hurriedly said.

"Don't bother, I'll use a handkerchief." Jiang Changning didn't really want to throw the butterfly down, she just wanted to move, after all, she'd been lazy for too long, and she was almost like a salted fish.

Using a handkerchief to catch a butterfly is basically impossible, and it will only make the butterfly fly away.

A few butterflies didn't fly too far, they flew to a flower bush and stopped on the flower.

Jiang Changning unfolded the veil and was about to cover it when he heard a voice, "Is that Chaoyun really beautiful?"

Zhao Yun?

This name, Jiang Changning had seen on the list of folk artists entering the palace, should be a dancer.

She turned her head to Xiulan and the others, made a silent object, and stood beside the flowers.

"It's beautiful, as expected of the number one dancer in Beijing." This court lady had obviously visited Chaoyun.

"Is it more beautiful than the empress?" The curious court lady asked a question that made Xiulan and others feel embarrassed.

Jiang Changning smiled, and used his eyes to stop Xiulan and the others from moving. She still wanted to listen to the corner.

Maid No. [-] was silent for a long time before she said: "You shouldn't ask such a question, a dancer can be compared with the empress."

"I'm not trying to compare her with the Empress Empress, but the Empress Empress is the most beautiful person I've ever seen." Maid No. [-] defended.

Palace No. [-] was silent again, "They are different. The empress is beautiful and noble, just like a fairy. Although Zhao Yunmei is beautiful, she is just a mortal woman."

"I understand." Maid No. [-] said.

The two maids chatted for a while, and then left with the flower basket. They came to cut the flowers.

Jiang Changning chuckled, "The reputation of Chaoyun's beauty will soon be known to everyone in the palace."

"It's my servant's negligence, I'll investigate now." Xiulan bowed her knees and left first.

When Jiang Changning returned to Chenghu Lake, he saw that the eunuchs had fished out all the goldfish and put them in the peace tank. He greeted his son and said, "Xiaobai, Xiaoqian, we are returning to the palace."

Back at Qiyuan Palace, Jiang Changning helped Xiaobai to write some calligraphy, and then told his two sons a story with his arms around Xiaoqian.

At this time, the people from the Mercy Palace came and took the two little guys away.

Jiang Changning brought the account book and looked through it.

Half an hour later, Xiulan came back, "Your Majesty, this servant found out that it was a maid from Gantang Palace who took Chaoyun's money and helped her to praise her beauty in front of several maids."

Jiang Changning smiled, "You have met her, isn't she beautiful?"

"It's not beautiful, it's ugly." Xiulan said in a muffled voice.

Anyone who is not stupid knows the purpose of Chaoyun asking the maid to publicize her beauty.

"Xiulan, it's not good to lie, that girl Chaoyun is a stunning beauty." Jiang Changning laughed.

"Who is the stunning beauty?" Emperor Xuanzhi walked in.

Xiulan's expression tightened, it's over, it aroused His Majesty's interest.

Jiang Changning smiled, "I'm talking about a dancer called from the people to perform on the Longevity Day. It is said that she is beautiful and beautiful."

Xiulan was shocked, why did the empress praise Chaoyun?
"The rumors are unbelievable, not to mention that she is a dancer with broken flowers and willows. She is not qualified to be called a beautiful woman." Emperor Xuanzhi said as he picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea.

Jiang Changning did not continue to discuss Chaoyun with Emperor Xuanzhi, but talked about the previous incident, "Koi and goldfish cannot be put in the same lake, the koi will bite off the head of the goldfish, and I will let people catch all the goldfish Come out and keep them in the tank."

"Well, fine." Emperor Xuanzhi didn't say anything in front of Jiang Changning.

When he returned to the imperial study room, he reprimanded Chang Youzhong, "How do you do things? You don't even know that all the koi bite goldfish, and the queen has to worry about it."

Chang You accepted the scolding obediently, then turned around and called the little eunuch who kept the koi and goldfish, and scolded him, "Take good care of it, if something goes wrong, our family will skin you."

Frightened by him, several young eunuchs knelt on the ground, "We must take good care of them."

It's just that in previous years, koi carps would get sick and die after not being kept for long.

This time, I hope they can die more slowly.

The maids of Gantang Palace had been changed, and Chaoyun immediately discovered the situation. At night, he asked the maid who brought in the hot water, "Where did the elder sister of the palace lady go?"

"She didn't learn the rules well, so she went back to Gongnufang to learn the rules again." The maid replied.

Chaoyun rested his chin on one hand, leaning on the table, thoughtful.

Her posture was seductive and beautiful, but the maid turned a blind eye and left with an empty bucket.

After Zhaoyun took a bath, she went back to her room. Seeing her smiling and happy, Yaoniang asked curiously, "Chaoyun, did anything good happen?"

"I succeeded." Chao Yun said with a smile.

Yao Niang was taken aback, "What succeeded? What did you do?"

Chaoyun didn't want to talk to her in detail, so he lay down on the bed, put on the quilt and was about to fall asleep.

Yaoniang looked worried, "Chaoyun, we are just lowly dancers, offended."

"Shut up, don't disturb me." Zhao Yun interrupted her impatiently.

Yaoniang thought for a while, got off the bed, put on her outer clothes, and went to the other dancer's room, she couldn't just watch Chaoyun die.

(End of this chapter)