That night, when Zhao Hongrun was having dinner at Ningxiang Palace, he noticed that his father had a sullen face and looked at him with a strange look from time to time.
This made Zhao Hongrun feel very strange.
And when he returned to Prince Su's Mansion and heard from the imperial guards that several purple bamboo forests and mottled bamboo forests had been added to the palace, and the number of golden-scaled fish in the pond had also increased inexplicably, Zhao Hongrun finally understood the meaning of his father's look.
Already.
"Hey, the agency is so clever..."
Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun happily walked deeper into the house.
You know, he has long been thinking about the purple bamboos and spotted bamboos in the imperial garden. First of all, these are tributes that even money cannot buy. Secondly, Miss Su loves bamboos the most.
It's just that now that he has become King Su, he can no longer disregard his respect and etiquette as he did in the past. It would be too priceless.
Unexpectedly, his father realized that he was in the wrong and delivered these things to his door on his own.
This was simply an unexpected gain. Zhao Hongrun planned to think hard before going to bed tonight on how to trick Miss Su, who was still living in a waterside pavilion, into coming to the house in the name of viewing bamboo.
Well, by the way, let’s also think about how to explain Oona’s matter to Miss Su.
But for now, he came to the inner garden first, ready to see if Oona's new residence was settled properly, and to ask if there was anything he needed.
You must know that Oona is a girl of the Yi people, and the people of the Yi people usually eat and live in felt tents and sleep on thick and soft cashmere blankets. They may not be able to adapt to the beds of the Wei State. After all, the so-called beds of the Wei State
, is actually a combination of wooden boards, quilts, and bamboo mats. The difference between winter and summer is only the thickness of the quilt under the bamboo mat.
However, what surprised Zhao Hongrun was that when he walked into the inner garden, he found that the inner garden was very quiet, because logically, after learning that he had returned to the house, Princess Yulong, Mi Rui, and Yang stayed in the house.
The tongue apricot should come out to ask for gifts.
Thanks to Zhao Hongrun, he specially selected several exquisite bone carvings in Luocheng.
Immediately, Zhao Hongrun called the maids from the inner garden and asked about the whereabouts of the three girls.
The maids and servants of Prince Su's Mansion are all relatives of Prince Su's guards, and there is no question of their loyalty. Zhao Hongrun trusts them very much.
"When I return to Your Highness, the princess and Prince Liu went out to hunt in the city. Oh, Miss Ji Rui also went with them."
Uncle Six?
Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself and asked curiously: "When will you come back?"
After hearing this, the maid thought for a while and said, "It's hard to tell. Sometimes it takes three or two days, sometimes it takes seven or eight days..."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun became more and more surprised and asked in surprise: "Does Princess Yulong often go out to the city to hunt with King Yi?"
The maid nodded and said with a smile: "Prince Liu loves Princess Yulong very much. After His Highness went to war, Prince Liu saw that the princess was bored staying in Prince Su's Mansion, so he invited her to visit Prince Yi's Mansion many times, and even took her to the city with him.
Every time when the princess returns home, she is always in high spirits, and sometimes she brings back many gifts for the slaves and others..."
Uncle Six...loves Yulong?
Zhao Hongrun was shocked and speechless.
Because according to what he saw with his own eyes, his uncle Zhao Yuanli, the Sixth Prince, seemed to have a prejudice against Princess Yulong. He had never been close to Princess Yulong in the past, so why did his relationship become so good after not seeing each other for several months?
Something’s not quite right…
After muttering to himself, Zhao Hongrun asked again: "What about the little girl? Did you go too?"
"Is it the young lady that His Highness is asking about?" the maid asked doubtfully.
Hearing the title "Little Madam", Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little tight in his chest, because this was the honorific title given to Yang Yan Xing by the servants of Prince Su's Mansion. Who told that girl to always think of herself as Zhao Hongrun's woman?
It's so pitiful that Zhao Hongrun has never touched her.
But it happened that Zhao Hongrun hadn't mentioned this matter yet, otherwise, the little girl who was smiling just now would burst into tears, her persecution paranoia would immediately break out, and she would most likely beg Zhao Hongrun to let her family go.
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In short, Zhao Hongrun is quite helpless with this little girl.
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded dully.
Seeing this, the maid's face showed a look of surprise, and then she respectfully replied: "Your Highness, the young lady has gone to the shop."
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked in confusion: "Shop? What shop?"
"Your Highness, you still don't know?" the maid said in surprise: "The young lady raised money to open a shop on the street, selling bronze vessels from the Chu Kingdom..."
Zhao Hongrun became more and more surprised when he heard this, and subconsciously said: "What is she doing when she opens a shop..."
Just as he said this, he was suddenly stunned, because he just remembered that when he led his army to conquer Sanchuan a few months ago, he seemed to have forgotten to leave money for the palace.
Yes, the servants in Prince Su's Mansion are all domestic servants, and most of them are family members and relatives of Prince Su. Their loyalty can be guaranteed, but they are not domestic slaves. In other words, Zhao Hongrun has to pay them money every month and every year.
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Furthermore, running the entire Prince Su's Mansion also requires money. After all, even if Zhao Hongrun took away 150 Prince Su's guards before the expedition, there are still dozens of Prince Su's guards in the mansion who are used to look after the family and the courtyard.
There are a lot of domestic servants. Don’t these people have to spend money for three meals a day?
However, Zhao Hongrun, who has lived in the Prince's Pavilion in the deep palace for a long time, has forgotten this. He has not considered that when he lived in Wenzhao Pavilion in the past, the eunuchs who were responsible for trivial internal affairs were all paid by the eunuchs. Zhao Hongrun
He only needs to use his princely salary to support himself and ten other clan guards including Shen Yu.
But now that he has moved out of the palace and created a palace to become a king, the chamberlain will not be responsible for the daily expenses of his palace.
It's funny to say that King Su, the majestic King Su who managed the Three Rivers in an orderly manner, actually forgot to reserve money for his own palace for livelihood. Unfortunately, the servants in Prince Su's palace have not yet died of hunger.
But then he thought about it, and Zhao Hongrun thought of the reason why Prince Su's Mansion had never been in that embarrassing situation.
That little girl...could it be said that she has supported the expenses of the entire palace by herself in the past three months?
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly and asked: "Where is the store... located?"
"On East Street, there is a shop with the Su family's Chu gold plaque. It is the shop opened by the young lady." The maid replied respectfully.
Su Clan Chu Jin...
Zhao Hongrun remembered the name of the store and turned around to leave.
He felt quite complicated and felt that he needed to go to the store in person.
But after walking a few steps, he bumped into Zong Wei Shen Yu who was heading towards the palace. He saw the latter holding a stack of invitations in his hand and asked doubtfully: "Your Highness, do you want to go out?"
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, glanced at the stack of invitations in Shen Yu's hand, and asked doubtfully: "What is this?"
"It's an invitation sent to the concierge. It's been a day or two." As he said that, Shen Yu handed some of the invitations in his hand to Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun opened an invitation and took a look at it.
The content of the invitation is very complicated, full of politeness, compliments, and relationship building, but in summary, it can be summarized in one sentence: Zhao Hongrun is invited to come to his house for a banquet at any convenient time.
It has to be said that since Zhao Hongrun became the king, invitations like this are everywhere. After all, everyone in the Daliang family wants to have a relationship with King Su, but unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun is not like his uncle Zhao Yuanli, the sixth king, and
His sixth brother, Zhao Hongzhao, loved to make friends and was always insensitive to invitations like this.
But this time, Zhao Hongrun had to treat it carefully.
Because the signature on this invitation is famously written with the words Chengling Wang Wenshen.
Although Zhao Hongrun had no impression of this guy, when he saw the other person's name Wen Shen, he knew that he was a prince of the royal family with a literary seniority. Zhao Hongrun, who was born as the legitimate son of the royal family's original Hong generation, was a generation shorter than this person.
You have to call the other party uncle.
Looking at the other invitations, the content is similar, they all invite Zhao Hongrun to take time to have a banquet at their residence in Daliang.
As for the inscriptions, Wang Wenzhuo of Jiyang, Wang Wenxuan of Zhongyang, and Wang Wenkai of Yuanyang were all clan uncles a generation above Zhao Hongrun.
"They actually invited me to a banquet instead of coming to visit...Have they already purchased a residence in Daliang?" After muttering, Zhao Hongrun snorted and murmured: "It seems that these people have already done their job.
Prepare for a protracted war with me...Huh, that's quite smart."
After saying that, Zhao Hongrun flicked the invitations and threw them into the flower garden aside.
Shen Yu's eyes widened when he saw it, and he thought to himself that this was an invitation from the princes.
Thinking of this, Shen Yu quickly stopped Zhao Hongrun, who was about to leave, and persuaded: "Your Highness, you... these... princes have taken the initiative to show their kindness, why should you..."
"Showing goodwill? Not necessarily." Zhao Hongrun glanced at Shen Yu, then shook his head and said with a sneer: "Shen Yu, in my opinion, this is a soft threat from those people to me... They don't do that either.
Silly, I have guessed that I am going to delay, so I sent these invitations to tell me that they have bought a residence in Daliang. If I cannot satisfy them, they have plenty of time to spend it slowly with me.
"
"Is...is that so?" Shen Yu was surprised, then frowned and said, "By the way, aren't princes who have been granted a foreign title not allowed to buy property in Daliang?"
"So, they did this deliberately to show me the king, so as to show their attitude of never leaving the capital until they achieve their goals. If I am smart, I should lower my head at this time and open Sanchuan to them. In this case, this gang will
People don't go too far, maybe, I can also get a batch of priceless gifts..." At this point, Zhao Hongrun stopped the smile on his face, a cold look flashed in his eyes, and said coldly: "But I
The king just doesn’t!”
Shen Yu glanced at His Highness secretly, and then lowered his voice and asked: "Then His Highness plans to..."
Zhao Hongrun snorted coldly and said calmly: "It's a waste!... I just want to see what tricks these people can play!" After that, he waved his sleeves and walked towards the door of the mansion.
"Let's go, Shen Yu, follow me out of the house."
Shen Yu glanced at the invitations that Zhao Hongrun had thrown in the flower garden, hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't pick them up, but quickly chased after them.
"Your Highness, where are we going? Are we going to a waterside pavilion to meet Miss Su?"
"No, go to East Street... and find a shop with the Su family's Chu gold plaque hanging on it."