After dinner, Mingruo took a walk in the backyard to eat. She saw the big red rooster pecking happily in her newly opened small medicine garden.
Mingruo walked over quickly: "Big red."
The big red rooster stopped pecking at the leaves of Andrographis paniculata for a moment, and then went back to catching it.
"Chicken with medicinal herbs, stewed in soup is particularly nourishing..." Mingruo looked thoughtful, "Lithospermum, let's stew chicken soup for the prince tomorrow to replenish his health."
"Yes, Princess." Zicao agreed with a smile.
"Oh~" Dahong screamed, and suddenly ran out of the small medicine garden with his wings flashing and ran towards his chicken coop.
"Haha." Zi Su pursed her lips and smiled, "Princess, I think this chicken is about to become a sperm. Last time you said that if it crows before dawn, we will do 'one chicken, three meals', and it is waiting now.
It won’t start until daybreak.”
"Well, Dahong is a good boy. Tomorrow you can find someone to dig up some earthworms for him to eat." Mingruo also felt that the big red rooster was quite spiritual.
"Your Highness, Butler Zhou has brought the hanging chair you requested. Where do you want to put it?" Jixue came over and asked.
"Move it to the corridor of the study room and place it next to the pot of red sandalwood."
"My slave understands." Jixue took the order and left.
Mingruo also wanted to see Lu Qiaojiang's craftsmanship, and then followed him.
Mingruo discovered that there was a lotus pond under the back window of the study room, and it was connected to a corridor. The layout was somewhat similar to the balcony of his apartment.
Therefore, Mingruo renovated it according to her own balcony - changed the rear window into a Japanese-style sliding door, encircled a section of the corridor, and covered it with tatami-like straw mat cushions. On one side, there was a low table and two
Just a futon, a hanging chair on the other side, and some mosquito-repellent green plants in the middle, perfect!
When Mingruo walked into the study room, housekeeper Zhou happened to have arranged the hanging chairs and potted plants.
"Princess." Butler Zhou stepped forward and saluted, "Look at this hanging chair, I'm satisfied with it."
What Mingruo drew for Lu Qiaojiang was a kind of rattan eggshell hanging chair that was very common in later generations. Lu Qiaojiang thought that this kind of furniture was very novel, so he asked some questions about the connection between the base and the chain, and happily put it into practice.
Mingruo was very satisfied when he saw the highly restored hanging chair: "It's very good."
"Lu Qiaojiang said that if the princess likes it, he will build another one to relieve the prince's boredom." Butler Zhou said with a smile.
In Mingruo's mind, she pictured Si Haochen's height nestled in a hanging chair - the picture was too beautiful for her to dare to think about.
"This hanging chair is not suitable..." Mingruo thought for a while, "I have one here that is more suitable for your prince."
Mingruo sat at the desk, drew a drawing of a rocking chair and gave it to Butler Zhou: "This is called a rocking chair. It can be placed in the yard for the prince to sit and bask in the sun."
"Princess, the legs of the chair you drew are round, can it be placed stably?" Butler Zhou asked worriedly.
"Yes, the bottom of the wooden horse your young prince plays is also round." Mingruo followed the instructions.
"That's right." Butler Zhou nodded repeatedly, "That's the truth."
Mingruo sat in the hanging chair and tried it: "Zisu, measure the size tomorrow and sew some soft cushions and put them in the hanging chair."
"My slave has taken note of it."
Mingruo sat swaying in the hanging chair, looking at the familiar environment in front of him, and finally felt that Zhuyuan felt a little like "home".
"Princess, there is one more thing I want to ask you for." Housekeeper Zhou was hesitant to say, "The prince allocated Caixia Residence for Concubine Xue to live in, and the old slave also led people to clean and decorate it again. However, in the afternoon, Miss Xue
I went to see it and was dissatisfied with everything. I said that the furnishings and entertainment in my yard could not be worse than those in my cousin’s courtyard... My cousin lives in the Empress Dowager’s Juyuan, so the furnishings are naturally very expensive...
…”
Ming Ruo rubbed his forehead. The head of the house should indeed take care of the jealousy among the concubines in the house. But he only had a name and no real power, so it was useless to tell himself: "Ahem, you should go talk to me about this matter."
The prince said."
"The old slave told the prince, and the prince asked the old slave to go back and report to the princess, saying... let the princess decide what to do." Housekeeper Zhou looked at Mingruo with a pious face, waiting for Mingruo to guide the work.
Ming Ruo frowned, what on earth did Si Haochen mean?
She could clearly feel that Si Haochen was unhappy with Divine Doctor Xue threatening him with Flame Heart Lotus Seeds to marry Xue Wanwan. But he didn't want to give Divine Doctor Xue face, so he told Xue Wanwan directly - if you don't keep it, you'll get lost.
What can I do if Butler Zhou comes to me now? I want money but I don’t have money, I want things but I don’t have anything, what can I do?
Housekeeper Zhou was a little worried when he saw that Mingruo hadn't spoken a word: "Miss Xue said that she would go to Caixia Residence tomorrow morning to see if she was still not satisfied. She would easily forget things when she was angry, and she would forget to put away the Flame Heart Lotus Seeds if she didn't know.
Where are you!"
"..." Xue Wanwan's saucy moves were refreshing to Mingruo. Her father had already made Si Haochen so angry. Was she going to die to offend Si Haochen? Jin Thigh probably had never been so angry in her life.
Too much, haha.
An idea flashed in Mingruo's head, and she smiled and snapped her fingers: "Yes."
Didn’t Xue Wanwan like the furnishings of Concubine Shen’s Juyuan? There is no shortage of things at the same level in the Eastern and Western Palaces!
"Princess?" Butler Zhou saw the princess's sparkling eyes and immediately became energetic.
"I heard from Mr. Bai that there is a warehouse in the palace dedicated to storing things rewarded by the palace."
"Yes." Butler Zhou seemed to have thought of it, and his face became happy, "What the princess means is..."
"You take people to the warehouse to pick out the toys according to the number of ornaments in the concubine's house. If they really don't match, just pick up the ones that are flashy and look valuable." Mingruo felt that she could do it.
If she could be the owner of that warehouse, she didn't know what the other warehouses in the palace were like, and she didn't bother to find out.
"Okay, I'll do it now, old slave." Butler Zhou got this good idea and left happily.
The prince is very taboo about the things that are rewarded by the palace.
But the prince arranged Concubine Xue Fang in the most remote courtyard farthest from Meiyuan. Doesn't it mean that Concubine Xue Fang did not like the prince?
The Caixia Residence is only separated from the courtyard where the servants live by a wall. The prince will definitely not go there, so... according to the princess, it is really appropriate to use the things that the palace rewarded are piled up and waiting to get moldy.
But that's it.
When Si Haochen listened to Bai Shen talk about Ming Ruo's good idea for Housekeeper Zhou, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He originally thought that if Housekeeper Zhou went to report the matter, the little girl who wanted to run away would ignore the matter, but he didn't expect that she was so smart. Emperor Danxu had given him a lot of trouble over the years, but only the princess who gave him a marriage,
It was becoming more and more to his liking.
"Your Majesty... what if any of those things have been tampered with by the emperor..." Bai Shen felt that before he got the Flame Heart Lotus Seeds, he must not break up with Doctor Xue.
Si Haochen clasped his fingers on the table: "Those are gifts from the emperor..."
