Concubine's Handbook of Good Life in Ancient Times

Chapter 109

Thinking about it this way, the emperor felt that he was really great, and that he was worthy of being the Mingjun of the prosperous age.

If Shu Ning had his heart and heard the emperor's inner thoughts, she would be absolutely embarrassing.Your Majesty, is it really okay for you to praise yourself like this?Is it really good to have such a thick face?
Fortunately, Shu Ning didn't, so she didn't know what the emperor was thinking, let alone that the emperor had ruined her beauty of this fairyland-like valley in his heart.

The wooden house is cleaned every day, and the emperor arranged for people to guard it here, so they only need to carry their bags and enter the house.Naturally, Shuning lived with the emperor in the wooden house in the middle. She went around a few times in it. The wooden house was built exquisitely, and the furnishings inside were all items from the palace. There were woolen blankets on the floor, so it was absolutely comfortable enough to live in. .

However, although the wooden house is exquisite, it is not as interesting as the flowers in the valley. She asked the person who guards the valley for a bamboo basket and wandered among the flowers.From time to time, she picked some edible flowers. Of course, she was very careful when picking them, so as not to damage the overall scenery.

When Mei Qiu comes back, let her help me make desserts with flowers.

"I really don't know what's going on here? It's so unscientific to let hundreds of flowers bloom at the same time."

It’s not the later generations. Modern technology allows flowers to bloom out of season against common sense. In ancient times, even if there were greenhouses, it could only make flowers bloom earlier, but it couldn’t make flowers bloom constantly like in the valley.

After picking half of the basket of flowers, Shu Ning felt that it was almost done, so she stopped.Her original intention was to use flowers to make desserts, but she didn't want to destroy the flowers.

Like rose cakes, lilies, peach blossoms, chrysanthemums, osmanthus, etc., can be made into desserts.If it weren't for the special valley, these flowers can be found here, but in other places, only dried flowers can be used.

Chrysanthemum clears the liver and eyesight, rose nourishes yin, lily and lotus nourishes the lungs and relieves heat, aloe vera whitens...

These flowers are all good things. The whole valley is like a natural treasure house. Most of the flowers produced in it are usable. Let Mei Qiu see if there is anything she and Mei Dong need. The emperor asked for some to take back to the palace.

"Ah~"

Just when Shu Ning finished picking the flowers and wanted to find a place to sit down and rest, a snake jumped out from the flowers, which gave her a big jump.

The snake was also startled, and turned its head to let her bite.Shu Ning was between life and death, but her movements were not slow, she used the basket to block it, and the snake bit the basket.Shu Ning let go of her hands in fright, the basket fell to the ground, and the flowers in the basket were scattered all over the floor.

The snake didn't bite, and didn't seem to give up, let go of the basket and swam towards Shuning again, propping up its head and half of its body, intending to give her a second blow.

Fortunately, at this time the guards heard the sound and rushed over. One of the guards drew his sword and directly hit the snake's Qicun, and by the way, pierced it directly with the sword.

"Poisonous snake?"

The guards looked at each other, this snake was obviously a poisonous snake, it could be seen from the head of the snake.Moreover, the guard opened the snake's mouth and found that there were poisonous fangs inside, which was regarded as stabbing a hornet's nest.

Although the emperor rarely came to this valley, since sending people to take care of it included cleaning up these snakes, insects, rats and ants from time to time, where did this snake come from now?
The person who took care of the valley was brought out by the guards, and a dozen or so people knelt in a ball.

The emperor asked Mei Qiu, who came from the outer valley, to serve the frightened concubine Jia to rest in the wooden house, and asked Mei Qiu to give her some tranquilizing medicine, so that people rushed to the palace to catch it and fry it.

Although Shu Ning always thought she was brave, she was almost bitten by a poisonous snake. As a woman, it was hard not to leave a shadow in her heart, and even when she fell asleep, she kept having nightmares.

"Don't ~ don't ~ go away go away..."

Shu Ning sat up screaming, the emperor, who was talking to Eunuch Su outside, hurried into the inner room and caught Shu Ning who almost fell from the bed to the ground.

"My concubine, what's wrong?"

The emperor carried him back to the bed, but he didn't let go, because Shu Ning hugged his neck tightly, and it was difficult to let go.

"It's terrible, it's terrible..."

Shu Ning kept repeating the words so terrible, making the emperor sigh, patted her on the back lightly, and took the medicine that Mei Qiu brought in, "Aifei, can you drink the medicine first?"

At this time, Concubine Jia couldn't stand the scare, and the emperor's voice was extraordinarily gentle.Coupled with the fact that the emperor was born with a good voice, his voice was thick and thick, and even though he deliberately lowered the volume, Shuning gradually calmed down under his comfort.

He looked up at the emperor, then at Mei Qiu and Su Gonggong, finally let go of his hands, picked up the medicine bowl and drank the warm medicine in one gulp.

Mei Qiu knew her master well, she never drank the medicine one gulp at a time, she thought this way of drinking was simply tormenting the patient, so she always drank the medicine in one go, which could save herself from suffering a little.

Unlike the pretentious way of drinking like the women in the harem, it opened the eyes of the emperor and Su Gonggong.The concubines in the harem would act coquettishly to the emperor at this time, and asked the emperor to agree to some of their demands. Some concubines even took this opportunity to compete for favor. However, Concubine Jia's reaction was completely opposite to theirs. Not only did she not act coquettishly, but she was also very straightforward.

Dear, have you lost a chance to win the emperor's sympathy and favor?

Eunuch Su quietly looked at the emperor's face, and found that the emperor actually had a satisfied smile on his face.Why are you satisfied?Is it because the concubine Jia didn't use her illness to repay the emperor's favor like other empresses did?It seemed that he had discovered something terrible. Eunuch Su was in a bad mood.

Thinking back to the emperor, although he comforted those concubines who were sick and acting like a baby, there seemed to be a hint of impatience in his eyes. It seemed that the emperor really didn't like the concubines' jealousy methods used on him.

The emperor doesn't like it, even Eunuch Su understands now, so what about Concubine Jia?Has she always been like this, or is it because she has seen through the emperor's heart?Su Gonggong, who couldn't help but think too much, thought.

If Mei Qiu beside him knew what he was thinking, he would just look down on Eunuch Su and tell him that you were thinking too much.Their master has always been like this, drinking medicine is more enjoyable than drinking water.They would not use sick medicine to play tricks, that would be too small for their master.

Shuning handed the empty bowl to Mei Qiu, and Mei Qiu handed her the white water she poured earlier to rinse her mouth.

"It's so bitter, Mei Qiu, did you add Huanglian to me?" How could it be so bitter.

"No."

(End of this chapter)