Standing in the pavilion next to the pond, Miss Su looked at the golden-scaled tails jumping out of the water for fish food, and was stunned by the beautiful scenery.
Indeed, when the golden-scaled tail leaps out of the blue water in the sun, the beautiful sight of golden light is the reason why the golden-scaled tail is highly regarded and became a tribute to the emperor.
This is not a precious thing that ordinary people can obtain. Even in the houses of famous families, or even in the houses of Zhao Hongrun's brothers, there will not be too many of them.
After all, unless Emperor Wei rewards a fish like this, getting it in any other way will risk violating the prohibition.
On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to get one or two from Emperor Wei's reward, I believe it will be like a treasure, and you will feed it carefully. It is not like Zhao Hongrun's pool in Prince Su's Mansion. You can tell at a glance that there are hundreds of them. Ten items.
Looking at those golden-scaled tails that were particularly eye-catching in the sun, Zongwei Shen Yu secretly sighed: I hope Your Majesty will not get angry because of this...
As for the reason, it was simply that Mu Qing and others had confessed to him that they followed His Highness's order and secretly fished some golden-scaled tails from the imperial garden in the palace.
There was no way, Zhao Hongrun had limited funds to renovate his Prince Su's palace. Although Meng Wei, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, had other ways to get the pines and cypresses, the precious ornaments placed in the pool had always been a luxury item. The price of silver scales has to be calculated in silver, not to mention the more highly regarded fire (red) scales and gold scales. The former is a frequent visitor to the pools in the palaces of princes and princes from well-known families, while the latter is even more difficult to obtain. The extravagant imperial tribute, in this regard, Meng Wei was helpless.
However, Zhao Hongrun has a solution. Anyway, there are many golden-scaled tails in his father's fish pond. It's not a big deal to catch some. You can't leave the pond empty, right?
In this regard, Zhao Hongrun can be said to be righteous. After all, in the first father-son war, the furious Emperor Wei made a mistake and gave the entire imperial garden to Zhao Hongrun, and at the same time cut off Zhao Hongrun's princely salary.
Therefore, the "ownership" of the Royal Garden is still in the hands of Zhao Hongrun. Who asked his father and the empress to come and forget to take it back?
As the saying goes, if you have the right to use it, it will become invalid after it expires. Therefore, Zhao Hongrun unceremoniously asked Mu Qing and other clan guards to secretly catch golden-scaled tail tails in the fish pond in the imperial garden. Look at the fish that were sent to Prince Su's Mansion and put into Prince Su's Mansion. In the pool.
By the way, even for precious bamboos such as purple bamboo and spotted bamboo, Zhao Hongrun asked the Zongwei to bring over shorter young bamboos.
He did intend to get the finished bamboos, but the bamboos were too long and were inconvenient to pass through the palace gate. Therefore, Zhao Hongrun had no choice but to give up.
There was no way, after all, Zhao Hongrun's 50,000 taels of silver was only enough to renovate Prince Su's Mansion, but he didn't have enough money to acquire these precious and rare objects. If he wanted to get them, he could only use other means.
"Huh? This is... purple bamboo? Huh? This one that looks like tear stains... could it be Bamboo?"
No, Miss Su also discovered the bamboo forest next to the pond. There was a patch of low purple bamboo and mottled bamboo in the bamboo forest. She was shocked and had a look of surprise on her pretty face.
In response to this, Zongwei Shen Yu could only laugh or cry.
Going north along the corridor of the courtyard, you will see a garden full of dwarf trees. The vegetation here is mostly dwarf trees and flowers, and there are no tall pines and cypresses.
Shen Yu took a closer look and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: after all, the plants and trees here are relatively common, and they don't look like they were stolen from the palace garden.
The short tree was okay. He was afraid that Mu Qing and others would steal the precious flowers from the imperial garden without knowing the importance of the matter, which would be fatal.
After all, there are many flowers, which were cultivated by Emperor Wei himself. To steal the flowers and trees cultivated by Emperor Wei is simply treason!
But thinking back carefully, His Highness once did this kind of thing: cut off the stems of the peonies cultivated by Emperor Wei himself, put them in a box as a gift, and gave them to Emperor Wei. This so-called good intention, which was full of malice, was not something that was expected at the time. The accident made Emperor Wei almost furious. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking.
Besides, who else in the court dared to take advantage of the flowers, plants and trees cultivated by Emperor Wei himself?
Time flies so fast, more than a year has passed in the blink of an eye...
Shen Yu sighed in his heart, especially when he saw His Royal Highness in front of him walking hand in hand with his beloved woman in the corridor, this feeling became even stronger.
You must know that when the clan guards like them were arranged to be with Zhao Hongrun, Zhao Hongrun was only ten years old at the time. Now, five years have passed in the blink of an eye. The Eighth Prince, who was a brat at the time, now has a woman he likes.
"Hello."
Shen Yu grabbed a Zongwei and asked in a low voice: "Do you think our Highness is much more stable than before?"
The person he pulled was Gao Kuo. Gao Kuo looked at Shen Yu doubtfully, and then looked at Zhao Hongrun who was walking in front of them. He lowered his voice and said strangely: "You want to say that His Highness has a woman." Will it become more stable after that?”
"I didn't say that." Shen Yu quickly distanced himself from the relationship. After all, he knew very well his brother's ability to exaggerate the truth, and he didn't want to be fooled by these guys.
However, what surprised Shen Yu was that Gao Kuo did not joke with him about this matter, but nodded and said with some emotion: "After all, His Highness is an adult!"
The adult age for civilian men is thirteen years old, while the age for young masters from upper-class aristocratic families is twenty years old. However, for the princes, having their own palace after leaving the cabinet is the true standard for adulthood.
After all, after leaving the palace and setting up a palace, you have to move out of the palace and live alone. You have to arrange many more things than before. At least for the convenience of daily life, the chamberlain will no longer be responsible for taking care of the prince who leaves the palace.
This also means that the Zongwei have to be responsible for more and more things. They have to assist His Highness to support the entire palace, whether it is the people in the palace or the income and expenses of the palace. I believe these are enough to give them a headache.
While they were secretly having a headache about this, Zhao Hongrun was still leading Miss Su and the maid Lu'er to visit the entire Prince Su's Mansion, back and forth, left and right, and it could be said that he introduced Su to the master and servant in all aspects. Approximately of the royal palace.
In the end, Zhao Hongrun led Miss Su and Lu'er to the main room of the North House.
Since the renovation of the palace had just been completed, the palace had not yet recruited any servants or maids. Therefore, the clan guards temporarily acted as waiters, brewing a pot of tea and delivering it to the front hall of the main house.
"How does it feel?"
Zhao Hongrun poured a cup of tea for Miss Su with his own hands and asked with a smile.
"I'm a little tired..." Miss Su took the tea cup moved and replied honestly.
This made Zhao Hongrun dumbfounded. After all, that was not what he was asking about.
"No, I mean. How is this palace?"
Miss Su was stunned when she heard this, a little embarrassed. After taking a sip of tea, she nodded softly and said: "I can only say that this is a royal palace..."
"It feels a bit perfunctory." Zhao Hongrun deliberately pretended to be dissatisfied.
"No..." Miss Su said softly with her red lips slightly parted.
She couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. After all, her clear identity and poor background meant that it would be difficult for her to get enough respect in this palace. This was what she had worried about in the past.
It is true that Miss Su had guessed in the past that her beloved was actually King Su Hongrun, but from her true heart, she did not hope that this was the truth. After all, the higher the social status of the beloved family, the greater the power.
For her, it's actually not a good thing.
If possible, she would rather that her beloved husband is just an ordinary citizen, because only in this way can she be considered a good match when she marries him, and will not hear some unpleasant gossip.
Unfortunately, her expectations were dashed. The family of her beloved husband turned out to be the most powerful aristocrat in the Wei Dynasty, the Zhao family with the surname Ji. What's more terrible is that her beloved husband turned out to be the one who defeated Chu Yang.
City King Xiong Tuo and the hero of the 160,000-strong army. Su Wang Hongrun.
The combination of the two has undeniably brought great psychological pressure to Miss Su.
She already thought that she was just an ordinary concubine, and her background was not so innocent. She was once trapped in a waterside pavilion and other fireworks and willow alleys.
Given her status, she was just a concubine at best. How could she have the courage and stance to evaluate this Prince Su's Mansion?
If Zhao Hongrun hadn't given various hints to comfort her, I'm afraid she wouldn't have been able to say even that compliment that Ai Lang mistook as perfunctory.
"You really don't have anything to say?" Zhao Hongrun looked at Miss Su and said something that made the latter feel at a loss: "You are the hostess!"
Mistress... mistress? Me?
Miss Su looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise. Her heart was beating fast, but for some reason, the sadness in her eyes became more obvious.
At this time, Lu'er seemed to have guessed the disappointment in her young lady's heart, and cautiously interjected to test: "Mistress...only the main wife deserves this title, right? You can't marry my young lady..."
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Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, and after carefully looking at the expressions of the master and servant, he suddenly understood.
He did not coax, he nodded and said truthfully: "To be honest with Miss Su, I really can't marry you as my wife..."
Hearing this, Miss Su's eyes couldn't help but dim. At this moment, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and explained: "It's not for other reasons. In fact, neither I nor my brothers can choose what they really like.
I believe you can understand that a person is the main wife."
"Marriage?" Miss Su cautiously asked.
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded heavily.
Seeing this, the maid Lu'er was in disbelief. She opened her eyes wide and said in disbelief: "You... you are Prince Su, Prince Su Hongrun..."
Her words seemed meaningless, but Zhao Hongrun understood it, shook his head and said lightly: "Even so, it can't be changed."
As he said, this is the only thing that Emperor Wei will never allow, because in a sense, the princes, like the princesses, will also become victims of marriage, but the princes are boys, and they
Although they have sacrificed their spot as the main wife, they can still choose other women they like, which is more free than princesses.
"If possible, I would naturally like to marry you as my wife, but... alas! But no matter what, I can assure you that I will treat all the women in the house equally, no matter whether I am a wife or a concubine, I will never let you
You have been wronged in the slightest"
After hearing this, Miss Su's gloomy eyes gradually became brighter.
On the side, Lu'er looked at Zhao Hongrun doubtfully and asked strangely: "The women in the house... besides my young lady, do you have any other women?"
Eh?
Zhao Hongrun's expression froze. (To be continued.)