Chapter 1,726 If you don’t think about it, you will never forget it.
The palace maid holding the lantern extinguished the palace lantern in her hand and put it aside, and the two of them stepped forward to return to life together.
Princess Changle listened quietly and didn't say much. She just nodded lightly and said, "I understand."
The two palace maids got up and went to the bedroom, laid out the bedding and lit incense.
The palace maid holding the lamp couldn't help it. Seeing that there was no one around, she lowered her voice and said, "Tell me, does our highness have a crush on the prince's consort?"
The other maid was silent for a moment and said faintly: "So what if I fall in love with him? He is the consort of His Highness Gao Yang. Our Highness will never compete for a man with his sister, or two women will serve the same husband together, right? If it were an ordinary family,
It's okay, but in the royal family... it's absolutely impossible."
"Sigh... Our Highness is really a miserable man."
"Who says it's not the case? The eldest grandson's consort looks gentle and gentle, but who knew he was so cruel that he could actually do such a thing as kidnapping His Highness? His Highness must have been heartbroken. It is really pitiful for a woman to commit herself to such a man."
"What a pity for a person like Your Highness who is of the same appearance and character. Do you think this is called jealousy of beauty?"
"Who knows, it would have been great if there had been no eldest son-in-law, and His Majesty had directly betrothed His Highness to the Prince-in-law. The Prince-in-law and His Majesty are really a perfect match. One is strong and the other is soft. Both are smart and have complementary personalities.
Needless to say, the children born in the future will definitely be good-looking and smart... Oops!"
The palace maid was spreading the mattress while whispering. Suddenly she turned around and saw the slender and graceful figure of her Highness standing quietly at the door. She was so frightened that she screamed and rolled down from the bed.
He knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and begged with a trembling voice: "Your Highness, I know my mistake, I know my mistake, please spare me this time..."
The other palace maid was also trembling with fear, kneeling like a quail without even raising her head.
At this moment, what they said was not just as simple as being a frivolous prince-in-law. It was harsher, and could almost be considered as damaging the reputation of their own princess, even if she was beaten to death...
Princess Changle stood quietly and said in a clear voice: "No one opens his mouth twenty, go to the female officer to receive the punishment yourself, and it will not be the same next time."
"Thank you for your forgiveness, Your Highness, I will never dare to do that again..."
As if they had been granted amnesty, the two little palace maids quickly thanked them, got up and ran out to receive their punishment.
Princess Changle turned around and walked back to the soft couch to lean on. She picked up the book she had read earlier, but she couldn't read even a single word...
The candlelight reflected on her face, and her extremely beautiful face seemed to be dyed with a light layer of rouge, adding a bit of charm, and her expression remained unchanged, showing no joy or anger.
But my heart was already dejected.
She didn't take it to heart when the palace maids gossiped and said random nonsense. Even if these people didn't say anything, there would always be people outside who would say that she didn't care about those rumors.
It was just the word "child" that the palace maid said just now, but it hurt her deeply...
She is a woman, a woman who has no worries about food and clothing, and a woman who is single after getting divorced.
In the dead of night, loneliness is always the most difficult to swallow...
Princess Changle sat up from her knees, hugged her knees and lowered her chin, her long eyelashes drooped, and her eyes stared at her crystal-clear toes.
The shadow of the candle flickers red, and the night is as cold as water.
*****
Fang Jun returned to the mansion, jumped off his horse with the brocade box in one hand, threw the reins to the servant who came forward, and asked, "Your Highness and Lady Wu are at home?"
"Yes, His Highness has not been out all day. Mrs. Wu came back from the dock in the afternoon. She originally wanted to wait for you to have dinner with her. However, she heard that Erlang, you were summoned by His Majesty to enter the palace, so she had dinner early. At this moment, she is backyard."
Fang Jun nodded and said: "There is no need to inform the two ladies. I will go to the study to deal with some things first, and you will bring the dinner to the study."
"Here."
The servant respectfully agreed and handed the horse over to the young boy to lead to the stable, while he himself went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Fang Jun came to the study, waited until the maid came to wash his face and hands, then dismissed the maid, then sat down in front of the desk, placed the brocade box on the desk, and opened it gently.
The brocade box is covered with yellow silk, and a diamond-shaped peace charm is quietly placed in the middle, tied with a red string.
Looks a bit old...
Fang Jun reached out and took it out, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it. A light fragrance like orchid and musk lingered in the tip of his nose. He couldn't help but laugh. His mood was as clear and bright as the sun breaking through the dark clouds and shining on the earth. After playing with it for a while, he Put it back into the brocade box with great care and put it on the top shelf of the bookcase.
The servant brought dinner, a plate of mutton fried with cabbage, a cup of chicken soup with ginseng and wolfberry, a plate of beef with soy sauce, a plate of vinegar and celery, and a steamed carp. Fang Jun was in a good mood and had a big appetite, so he had two big bowls of rice. In my lower abdomen, I ate all these dishes to a great extent.
He ordered people to take away the leftovers, brewed a pot of strong tea, and spread out a thick book bound on the desk. It was a difficult problem encountered by the Ministry of Works and the general supervisor in the process of designing and expanding Wulu Temple. , who said that it was Fang Jun’s idea to mainly use stone buildings?
Of course you have to fill the hole you created...
Historically, the expansion of Wuluo Temple was completed by Prince Li Zhi, and Wuluo Temple was renamed Daci'en Temple to commemorate the nurturing grace of his late mother, the eldest grandson of the Empress. Now Li Zhi is still imprisoned, but this matter has not been forgotten, and It was Li Chengqian who was in charge, and Li Ke was responsible for specific matters.
That day, his bad words prevented His Majesty Li Er from trying to expand the Wuluo Temple with money from the treasury. Naturally, he had to come up with a cost-effective and clever way to replace it. Otherwise, not only would the emperor who refused to suffer losses be unable to spare him, but even Li Ke, who was in charge of the construction, would never finish with him...
Fang Jun’s idea is to replace all the main buildings of Daci’en Temple with stone buildings in the future.
Comparatively speaking, the value of stone is only one-tenth of that of precious wood. The difficulty lies in quarrying and transportation. However, the project of Da Ci'en Temple is huge and it is a key royal project. A river canal will be dug to connect Da Ci'en. It is completely feasible for the temple to be connected with the Qujiang River to form a waterway that connects the inside and outside of Chang'an. In this way, one only needs to quarry the stone in the mountains near Chang'an, and then transport it to the city of Chang'an with the help of waterways extending in all directions, which is convenient and fast, saving time and effort. .
Furthermore, the Qianling Mausoleum project is now nearing completion, and outstanding stonemasons from all over the world are about to return to their places of origin. We can take this opportunity to order them to build the Daci'en Temple. Otherwise, if the construction is mainly made of wood, carpenters from all over the world will have to be recruited, which will consume a lot of money. Not to mention how long it will take, huge wages will still need to be paid.
In this era, carpenters were highly skilled craftsmen, while masons were completely outclassed...
Compared with wooden buildings, stone buildings are less magnificent, more simple and heavy, and can withstand natural disasters and man-made disasters. There has always been a lack of stone buildings in Chinese culture, mostly because of different aesthetics and clever skills. It is impossible for craftsmen to carve out the complicated and gorgeous patterns in stone like wood. The rough and tall architectural styles in the West are simply perfunctory and miserable in the eyes of the Chinese people...
However, rare things are valuable, standing out from the crowd is called excellence, and chicken standing out from the crowd is also a style.
Thinking about it, after thousands of years, such a temple with a stone architecture as the theme may become an alternative scenery among the countless luxurious palaces throughout the ages.
Fang Jun did not need to design the entire temple building. That was the responsibility of the Ministry of Works and the General Supervisors. He only needed to design the quarrying and transportation problems that the Ministry of Works and General Supervisors encountered during the design.
Just come up with a solution.
It's completely a side task...
After working for a while, I drank tea to refresh myself, put down my brush, walked to the window and opened it, and a stream of cool air poured into the house.
The moon is bright in the sky and there are few stars.
In a few days, I will set off south to participate in such a major event as the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo. I can't say how excited I am, but there is always some unconcealable meaning.
After traveling so far, from a good-for-nothing who was destined to be cuckolded and ridiculed for thousands of years and finally sentenced to death for treason, he rose step by step to become a hot figure who could single-handedly stir up the chaos in the court. His fate has been pulling at him, constantly.
forward.
However, for him, no matter how big an official he is, how much money he makes, there is only one real purpose - to leave something of his own in this prosperous era.
A leopard dies leaving its skin, and a flying goose leaves its voice. If he waits until the day he dies in this era, and finds that he is just greedy for pleasure, and has failed to live up to the second life given to him by God and has not done anything meaningful for his family and country, how can it be said?
Can you feel at ease?
For those who only live once, if they look back on the past and do not regret for wasting their years, and do not feel ashamed for doing nothing, then this life will be considered a life well spent.
For him, although he may not necessarily devote this God-given second life and all his energy to the most precious cause in life - fighting for the liberation of mankind, he still has to do something that he has never thought of in his previous life.
Something that can't be done, right?
So this time, his goal was not just to annihilate Goguryeo's miserable navy, but also to do something big that would make people in the era he lived in cheer up and applaud...
There are some things that every Chinese descendant will do if given the chance.