The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 213

Qin Chuyu brought his friends into the palace this time with the consent of the Crown Princess's sister-in-law. The Crown Princess's sister-in-law has already helped him with everything and will not reveal his identity.

There are three doors in the main entrance of the palace, the largest and highest middle door in the middle, generally only the queen mother, the emperor, the prince and his wife are qualified to enter and exit from the middle door.

Qin Chuyu is the direct prince and the younger brother of the crown prince, and he can also walk through the middle door.

Xu Porridge is one year younger than Qin Chuyu. He is seven years old this year. He has never been to the palace, but he knows that his father goes to the court every day and goes through the side door.

When he entered from the middle door, he instantly felt that he could have a blast with his father when he went back.

Xiao Jingkong didn't understand this, he only thought that the palace was so big, even the door was so big, like a gigantic monster, opened its bloody mouth, and they walked into the belly of this monster.

Weirdly fresh.

The carriage drove in all the way and stopped outside the East Palace.

The East Palace is the crown prince's bedroom, and ordinary princes are not qualified to live in the East Palace, but who made Qin Chuyu small? Where he likes to live, the emperor doesn't take too much of the rules to restrain him.

Qin Chuyu jumped out of the carriage first, and then the two friends also jumped out of the carriage.

Long before he went to pick up his friends, Qin Chuyu had already planned this trip with the assistance of the princess's sister-in-law - the emperor's bedroom was not allowed to go, but the prince's brother's east palace could play casually, and then they could go to the imperial garden. Hide and seek, go boating in Taiye Pool.

The subordinates have also received instructions long ago, and if they can't come out to be an eyesore, they won't come out to be an eyesore.

Qin Chuyu took the lead on the path of the East Palace and said proudly: "How is it? My home...cough! The palace is very big, right? This is the East Palace, where the prince lives, but Zhao Kingdom is the smartest, the cutest, and the smartest. The Seventh Prince also lives here."

It's me, Qin Chuyu!

The corner of the mouth of the palace servant who was doing the sweeping not far away twitched. Your Highness, Seventh Highness, you have never been so stinky before.

"Ah!" Xiao Jingkong sneezed.

The East Palace is very large, with a main hall, two side halls, and several small courtyards. One of the small courtyards is Qin Chuyu's exclusive small world.

Qin Chuyu himself was tired of playing, and Xu Congee also had these in his family, and even more tricks than Qin Chuyu's. The truth was that in order to prevent the prince from playing with things, there were actually fewer toys in the palace than in the folks.

Xu porridge is not too greedy.

Xiaojingkong is even less greedy. The swings that the master made for him in the temples are all swinging from the end of the mountain to the other end of the mountain! There is also mountain climbing. He and Jiaojiao climbed real mountains. Is a small rockery easy to climb?

"Let's make a house!" Xiao Jingkong said.

Little Clearance has been obsessed with architecture lately.

Xu Porridge nodded. Although he was seven years old, he really wanted to play in the mud.

Qin Chuyu, who actually wanted to take his friends to a rockery cave: "...Okay!"

Qin Chuyu went to the small firewood room to get three buckets and three small shovels, and happily went to dig mud!

The mouths of the palace people twitched for a while, is it really good for a dignified prince of a country to dig mud with others?

"Why don't you go and report to the Queen? That's too much of a nonsense," said a little palace maid.

The little eunuch thought for a while, the Crown Princess told them not to interfere with His Highness the Seventh Highness, but digging the mud... It was indeed a bit of a mess, and the Queen turned around and blamed it. The Crown Princess was fine, but their servants were going to suffer.

After thinking about this, the little eunuch decided to go to Kunning Palace.

However, it was said that after Concubine Shu returned to the palace from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, she immediately called a few eunuchs and asked them to cook a pot of glutinous rice soup according to the method said by Nursing Jinyu, and brought a bag of mortar that was usually used to repair walls.

After mixing the two evenly, Concubine Shu ordered someone to bring some green bricks and paste them with glutinous rice mortar.

In order to compare the effect, Concubine Shu also had a few bricks pasted with ordinary mortar.

"It's going to be done in a while, you can try it with a hammer." Concubine Shu said to the palace servant.

"Yes!" The two little eunuchs responded and hurriedly brought their hammers over. After the mortar in the blue bricks dried, they slammed the hammers violently.

The result is that the glutinous rice mortar is indeed more resistant to smashing than ordinary mortar.

Whether there are more and longer-term effects is not clear for the time being, but in terms of firmness, glutinous rice mortar is far better than ordinary mortar.

After all, Concubine Shu is not a virgin woman. She has been floating in the deep palace for so many years. How could she not understand how much benefit this mortar will bring to Zhao Kingdom once it comes out?

Not to mention the distance, it is said that the border has been disturbed recently. The reason is that the city wall of the border has suffered a heavy rain, and the built city wall has collapsed in several places.

The city walls of Zhao Kingdom were too fragile and had to be rebuilt every few years. Even so, it was still easy to collapse.

The Turks were covetous and attacked several times by pretending to be horse thieves. If things go on like this, the border is bound to fall into a greater crisis.

Zhao Kingdom is not a powerful country, and the battle with Chen Kingdom a few years ago has already damaged Zhao Kingdom's vitality.

The imperial court is discussing how to repair the city wall as soon as possible. If there is such a special mortar, wouldn't it mean that the city wall will never collapse?

This credit is no smaller than the bellows!

Concubine Shu's heart was filled with excitement, and she couldn't wait any longer: "Where's the Fifth Highness? Haven't you been there yet? What did he do?"

A eunuch said: "His Royal Highness has left the palace. He said that he invited a friend to recite poems and write poems. I guess he will only return at night. At this moment, Eunuch Li has already gone out to find the Fifth Highness. I just don't know—"

I don't know if I can find it.

His Royal Highness is the master, and he cannot explain his whereabouts to others. Eunuch Li can only try his luck according to the route that His Highness used to go.

Concubine Shu thought for a while, whether he was present or not, it was just what he did after all.

"Where is Your Majesty?" Concubine Shu asked.

The eunuch said, "In Taiye Pond."

Concubine Shu helped the fringe on her bun: "Yo, why didn't your majesty go to the queen's place today?"

The eunuch said with a smile: "Xu is tired of staying in the Queen's Palace, come out to get some air, your Majesty can stay here with the Empress."

To say that the most favored concubine in the harem is Concubine Shu. She has never fallen out of favor since she entered the palace. That is to say, after His Majesty came back from Jiangnan, he became obsessed with alchemy. May have five or six days of the month to rest in her palace.

After hearing this, Concubine Shu smiled lightly: "Okay, let's go."

"Yes!" The eunuch gave his servant a wink and took a bucket of glutinous rice mortar to Taiye Pool.

The weather is fine.

When Concubine Shu arrived at the pavilion in Taiye Pool, the other concubines also came.

It's nothing to be surprised. Your Majesty hasn't come to the harem for so long, and suddenly who doesn't look like a fly is staring at the seam of the egg?

To the surprise of Concubine Shu, the Empress and Concubine Zhuang were actually there.

These two people do not need to compete for favor in the harem, not to mention that His Majesty has been to the Queen's Kunning Palace for the past few days, why does she have to come out and divide the emperor with the concubines at this time?

Concubine Shu didn't come to compete for favor today, so she didn't mind the crowd.

She stepped forward and bowed to the emperor and Empress Xiao: "Your Majesty, Empress."

Empress Xiao seemed to be in a good mood and glanced at her with a smile.

The emperor raised his hand: "Be flat."

Concubine Shu met with Concubine Zhuang Gui again.

Concubine Zhuang Gui got up and bowed slightly.

Afterwards, Concubine Yu and other concubines all bowed to Concubine Shu again.

Concubine Yu voluntarily gave up her position, and Eunuch Wei went to bring another chair for Concubine Yu.

Concubine Shu was not in a hurry to sit down, but stood in front of the emperor and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, my concubine has something for Your Majesty."

"Oh?" The emperor paused while drinking tea.

Concubine Shu asked the eunuch to bring up a few separate and glued blue bricks.

Everyone looked at these blue bricks with a surprised look.

The emperor's face was inexplicable: "Concubine Shu...do you want to offer bricks to me?"

Concubine Shu covered her face with a handkerchief and smiled: "It's not the brick, it's the mortar in the brick."

She explained how the fifth prince came up with the idea of ​​making mortar with glutinous rice last night.

After speaking, she couldn't hide her smile and stood there, waiting for the emperor's praise.

But the emperor did not.

There was an eerie silence in the pavilion.

Everyone, including Empress Xiao and the concubines, all changed the way they looked at her.

Concubine Shu didn't understand what happened, she looked at Empress Xiao, Concubine Zhuang Gui and the others: "You... what's the matter?"

Queen Xiao frowned slightly.

Concubine Zhuang Gui covered her face with a handkerchief and laughed.

Concubine Shu looked at Concubine Zhuang Gui with a serious look: "What are you laughing at?"

Concubine Zhuang couldn't help laughing, pointed to a bucket at Concubine Yu's feet, and said, "Are you talking about this kind of mortar?"

Concubine Shu looked startled.

That color looks like glutinous rice mortar!

How could this be?

She looked back at the eunuch she brought. That's right, the barrel of mortar is in his hands. Where did this barrel of mortar come from?

As soon as my thoughts flashed, I heard a small voice.

She turned around, only to find that on the bridge deck of Taiye Pond, three Xiaodouding were squatting on the wooden bridge and (huò) mortar!

The three of them were having fun, not knowing that they were being watched by the emperor and his concubines.

The cause of the incident has to start with the eunuch in the East Palace secretly reporting to Empress Xiao that Qin Chuyu was playing in the mud.

When she heard that her precious son was squatting on the ground and rubbing mud like a wild country boy, Queen Xiao almost lost her breath.

She angrily went to find her son. Unexpectedly, the three were no longer in the East Palace. It took a long time to find him near the Qinzheng Palace.

At that time, Qin Chuyu and his friends were carrying small buckets to paste the wall for the emperor.

Empress Xiao looked at the large Coiling Dragon Stone wall of Qinzheng Hall, which was covered up in a mess, and almost collapsed on the spot: "What are you, what are you doing?"

Xiao Jingkong was painting the wall with a small brush, and turned around and said to her, "The wall is cracked, paste it."

Gu Jiao always repairs roofs and walls for the neighbors, and Xiao Qingkong's hands are itchy.

But at home there is no wall to paste.

There are so many broken walls here, he wants to paste them.

Empress Xiao: That's not a crack! It's texture! It's a relic of history! It is the rock handed down by Emperor Taizu, who is said to have blocked a landslide for him!

So it is also known as - Panlong Stone!

What's even more tragic is that they not only smeared the Panlong Stone Wall, but also smeared the Emperor's Lookout Wall. On the way, the three of them saw the wall and smeared it all the way.

Thanks to Xiao Qingkong's good looks, Empress Xiao didn't faint on the spot.

Empress Xiao couldn't even bother to teach her son and his little playmates, so she hurriedly had the mortar on the Coiling Dragon Stone dig out.

To say that the mortar is actually quite easy to pry, it can be pryed off with a dagger or a shovel.

Empress Xiao realized that her son had caused a catastrophe, and thought for a while that she could not find someone to blame, but unexpectedly the emperor came.

The three were caught!

Queen Xiao was scared to death!

Who knows that the emperor did not punish the three children.

The little genius doctor's younger brother, the emperor was of course reluctant to punish him, even though he looked at the pasted dragon stone, the dragon egg was in pain to death.

But soon he found that the mortar was not right, and it was not simple, strictly speaking.

How can there be such a strong mortar?

Xiao Qi didn't have such a brain. The emperor skipped Qin Chuyu and asked Xiao Jingkong and Xu Congee, the youngest son of the Minister of War, "Where did your mortar come from?"

Xiao Jingkong tilted his head and said, "We made it ourselves!"

The emperor was surprised: "Will you still do this?"

Xiao Jingkong said seriously: "Jiaojiao often does it! I have learned it!"

The emperor looked at Xiao Qingkong and then at the pasted Coiling Dragon Stone, and suddenly laughed like a fool.

Empress Xiao seriously suspected that he had gone mad due to stimulation.

And then is now.

The mortar for the three diced beans ran out and they came here to make new ones.

The glutinous rice soup was requested by Qin Chuyu from the imperial kitchen. They just mixed this stuff into the mortar, which was roughly the same as what Concubine Shu said.