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Chapter 8 There are a lot of small bridges and flowing water, and the rockery koi is not bad

"Mrs. Zhou, Concubine Jing invites the Second Miss to come over to the residence." Steward Wang handed over the invitation card, and Qiu Xiang presented it to Cheng Ruoxi.

Cheng Ruoxi took the invitation and was a little puzzled:

"Steward Wang personally came to deliver the invitation. Do you know why it is necessary to invite the little girl to come to the house so formally?"

"Mrs. Zhou, it should be related to garden construction." Steward Wang replied directly.

"Oh?" Cheng Ruoxi waited for him to continue.

"My concubine has explained that if Madam asks about the reason for coming to the mansion, she must explain it directly. After all, the second lady has not yet been in the house, and she frequently goes to Prince Jing's mansion by herself, and there may be villains who talk about it." Steward Wang lowered his head and said carefully. explain.

"Your Majesty, please consider for us." Cheng Ruoxi was obviously thinking about other things in his mind, but he didn't show it: "Is it related to garden construction? You know, Steward Wang, that my Zhou Mansion has always only provided building materials for the Wang Mansion."

"Yes. But yesterday, the crown prince met Prince Jing specially, saying that the second lady is very talented in building gardens, and asked the second lady to be responsible for the construction of the palace gardens by name," Wang Butler said: "So the princess asked the second lady to come over. Mansion, in fact, is the meaning of Prince Jing and the Crown Prince, to discuss the details of the garden construction."

"Is it paid?" Cheng Ruoxi replied.

"Of course." Butler Wang was stunned for a moment, then said.

"Okay," Cheng Ruoxi smiled, and then said: "Please Wang Steward to report to the princess, Yuncheng will definitely arrive at the mansion on time."

"Yes." Steward Wang lowered his head and said, "The old slave will retire."

"Qiuxiang," Cheng Ruoxi said, "Send Steward Wang out." Then he winked.

Qiuxiang nodded and led Steward Wang out of the mansion.At the end, he handed Steward Wang a purse.Butler Wang accepted it with a smile.

"Yun'er, you really have a way." Cheng Ruoxi smiled and walked into Zhou Yuncheng's yard, where she was immersed in the design.

"What are you talking about?" Zhou Yuncheng was a little confused.

"Prince Jing's residence has come to invite you," Cheng Ruoxi said, "Didn't you leave the opening?"

Zhou Yuncheng took the invitation from Prince Jing's mansion and asked Cheng Ruoxi what happened.

"I just told him, and I thought he didn't listen carefully." Zhou Yuncheng recalled the day she introduced the garden plan to Luo Tian, ​​and felt that he didn't listen attentively.

"Anyway, it doesn't take much effort to get what we want," Cheng Ruoxi said.

"Don't Prince Jing and Concubine Jing care about anything? Luo Tian said that he wanted me to repair the garden, and they agreed?" Zhou Yuncheng looked at the design drawing on the table that he had drawn all day, speechless.

"Luo Tian is the lifeblood of Prince Jing and Concubine Jing." Cheng Ruoxi said, "He can't get anything he wants, even the ones in the palace."

"I remember that year when he was still young, maybe six or seven years old. When he entered the palace with King Jing, for some reason, he fell in love with a luminous pearl that had just entered the palace as a tribute. That luminous pearl was very big and very rare. Your Majesty the Emperor So I promised it to the very favored concubine at that time, Concubine De."

"But Luo Tian fell in love with it, so he insisted on it. Although the emperor was in a dilemma, he still gave him the Ye Mingzhu. In fact, if it was another concubine, it might not cause any trouble. However, this Concubine De, her own brother, is Zhenxi. General. In fact, her younger brother also paid tribute to that luminous pearl, and it was originally sent to the palace in favor of my older sister."

"This is terrible. It was born to cause trouble in the court. General Zhenxi made trouble for Prince Jing's residence in various ways, and finally kicked him on a rock."

"Kicked on a rock?" Zhou Yuncheng was puzzled.

"That's right, Mr. Zhenxi's accountant suddenly turned his back on the water," Cheng Ruoxi said: "He directly reported him for embezzling tax money, privately supporting the army, etc. Longyan was furious. Although General Zhenxi was not imprisoned by the nine clans, he was also The whole family has been executed. Concubine De, naturally entered the cold palace." After Cheng Ruoxi finished speaking, she looked at Zhou Yuncheng.

"It's not that he wants the wind to get the wind and the rain to get the rain," Zhou Yuncheng said, "but it's also a pawn to be used, right?"

"You are thorough." Cheng Ruoxi smiled.

"Then he was born like this, son Luotian?" Zhou Yuncheng said, pointing to his brain.

"It doesn't seem to be true," Cheng Ruoxi said, "We hadn't arrived in Luojing at the time, so we didn't really know about it."

"It is said that it was when I was very young, that is, two or three years old. Not long after Prince Jing continued, that's it," Zhou Yuncheng said, "It's true that the stepmother is not as careful as the real mother."

"Isn't Luo Tian the son of Princess Jing?" Zhou Yuncheng asked.

"That's right," Cheng Ruoxi said, "The current Concubine Jing is the follow-up after the former Concubine Jing died of illness. It is said that her background is not very good, but no one dares to say the specifics. But there are rumors in Luojing that Concubine Jing loves her eldest son Luo Tian to the bone. She said that she blamed herself for Luo Tian's sudden illness. Since then, she has taken good care of Luo Tian, ​​and everything is according to Luo Tian's wishes. "

"What is the disease?" Zhou Yuncheng asked.

"I don't know," Cheng Ruoxi went on to say, "Although he is young, Luo Tian is extremely smart. When he was one year old, he could walk like flying, and he could speak and answer people fluently. When he was two or three years old, he could already recite poems and compose Fu, and he was very sensitive to arithmetic. Good. But after the continuation, all the previous skills suddenly disappeared, and he was blah, suddenly asking for this and that, and his voice was much higher than before."

"Children, there are great individual differences in development." Zhou Yuncheng said.

"You seem to be very good at it," Cheng Ruoxi said with a smile, "Have you had any children before?"

"Mother and fetus are single." Zhou Yuncheng said.

"No wonder it suits my taste." Cheng Ruoxi said.

"Well, since that's the case," Zhou Yuncheng said, "I went to Prince Jing's Mansion as a matter of course. By the way, if I want to do something, will they give me money?"

"Hahaha," Cheng Ruoxi laughed a few times this time: "Of course, we businessmen don't do business at a loss. Brainwork is the most valuable. You can talk about it. If you can't talk about it, I will replace it."

"Reliable." Zhou Yuncheng also laughed.

The next day, Zhou Yuncheng arrived at Prince Jing's mansion on time.

"Yuncheng," Princess Jing saw Zhou Yuncheng, and pulled her very kindly: "Probably, Butler Wang has already talked to Mrs. Zhou, do you understand?"

"Back to Princess," Zhou Yuncheng said, "Mother told me already."

"That's fine, but for this matter, we have to ask your wishes. If you don't want to, we can't force you." Princess Jing said: "It's a man's business that the mud is flying around. If you don't Wish, it's normal."

"I am very honored to be favored by Prince Jing's Mansion," Zhou Yuncheng said.

Concubine Jing was not surprised by her words. After all, everyone knew that Prince Jing's son would definitely get what he wanted, and it was absolutely impossible to head-on.However, what Zhou Yuncheng said next caught her off guard.

"As long as the price is right, our Zhou Mansion can accept anything."

Princess Jing looked at Zhou Yuncheng in surprise. This was very different from the reckless, ignorant, and always thinking of climbing the dragon and the phoenix Zhou Yuncheng she had come into contact with before.Although I specifically told Steward Wang to remember to pay for Cheng Ruoxi's message before, it was because Cheng Ruoxi was a very famous businessman, and he couldn't afford it without profit.But she had met Zhou Yuncheng a few times before, this second young lady of the Zhou family always held it up in front of her, pretending to be a lady, desperately trying to wash off the brand of a businessman on her body.Now, openly bargaining with her?

"That's natural." Concubine Jing had a lot of mental activity, but she didn't hesitate: "Although you and Tian'er have a marriage contract, after all, you haven't married yet, and your brothers are still clear."

"Thank you, Princess, that's fine." Zhou Yuncheng was still shocked when he heard the engagement.Then I thought again, now I can only take one step at a time.According to what Cheng Ruoxi said, Prince Jing's mansion spoiled Luo Tian lawlessly, and there was no need for him to make trouble.

Then they began to discuss Zhou Yuncheng's charging standard seriously.Princess Jing originally wanted to calculate the price according to the construction time, but Zhou Yuncheng offered to ask her to delay the construction period and increase the price, and then suggested that the price should be charged according to the size of the garden.Princess Jing also thought it was reasonable, so the matter was settled.

They discussed this matter for a long time, and before they knew it, Prince Jing had already returned, and Luo Tian also heard the news and ran over.

"Zhou Yuncheng!" After knowing her name, Luo Tian didn't call her pretty sister again: "Why didn't you tell me when you came!"

"Look at you," Princess Jing said, "Miss Zhou is here to discuss the construction of the garden, what are you doing here?"

"I asked her to repair the garden, so of course I should be notified." Luo Tian gave Princess Jing a white look, and then ran to Zhou Yuncheng with a smile: "How is it? Have you figured out how to build it? You told me about me last time." When the small garden was missing something, I figured it out, you build the big one first, and if it’s really as good as you said, I’ll let you fix it where I live.”

"Didn't they all start experimenting at a young age?" Zhou Yuncheng was puzzled,

"That's different. It's my son's garden, so it must be the most important." Luo Tian said with his head bent.

"Okay~ okay~" Princess Jing said dotingly: "You have the final say."

However, Luo Tian didn't answer her words, instead he pulled Zhou Yuncheng to pass by Princess Jing:
"Let's go, go to the garden and tell my son how you plan to repair our garden."

Hearing that Zhou Yuncheng was going to talk about how the garden would be designed, Concubine Jing went to invite Prince Jing to the dusty garden.

Zhou Yuncheng was pulled by Luo Tian and walked along the bluestone corridor to the entrance of the garden.She saw this small one-hundred-acre garden that she had reviewed countless times in her mind two days ago.

"In such a large garden, it is too wasteful to simply build a pavilion and have flower gardens in other places."

"My initial idea is that the pavilion has already been repaired, don't waste it, keep it."

"Chinese gardens pay attention to five steps, one scene, and ten steps to one painting. We can take the pavilion as the center and extend outward. The middle circle is used as the lake view, pavilions, and rockeries. In this part, we can You can also raise some fish."

"Further outside, we can build some small gardens, that is, gardens within gardens. They can be divided by rockery and potted plants. If possible, some decorative false walls can also be built."

"Another point is that in order to have a better view of the scenery, a viewing corridor should be built around the lake. The corridor should not be like this entry corridor. It is just such a monotonous tone of blue bricks and stone tiles. Try to add some bright colors, so as to complement each other with the green plants and red flowers."

"And the connection between the promenade and the central pavilion is to use exquisite and varied landscape bridges."

"As for the plants, I've seen them before. There are many kinds of plants used in Prince Jing's Mansion, but most of them are precious flowers, which is of course very good. However, as I said before, there are no layers and the flowering periods are similar. We can try Add shrubs to enrich our vision. And pay attention to the seasonal collocation of plants, try to make the whole garden beautiful in four seasons."

Zhou Yuncheng finished speaking in one breath, looked back at the stunned people, and made a summary:

"In short, there are a lot of small bridges and flowing water, and the rockery koi is not bad."

After finishing speaking, she looked at everyone with a smile, wanting to see the reaction of Party A's fathers.In fact, she still has several versions in mind, but this one is obviously the most effective, and the visual shock will definitely be the strongest at that time, so Zhou Yuncheng herself prefers this version.She thought: Anyway, this is roughly the case first, and there must be specific adjustments in the follow-up.

Everyone looked at Zhou Yuncheng who was talking eloquently, and they were dumbfounded.Zhou Yuncheng was wondering whether the plan was unsuccessful, but Prince Jing took the lead in applauding, and the rest of the crowd also reacted and followed suit.

And in Luo Tian's eyes, there was radiance, as if he saw the brightest star in his life.

(End of this chapter)