Xiao Chenzi was making gestures when he turned around and saw Ji Ling coming. He immediately slapped a fat eunuch on the buttocks who was bending over and blocking the way in front of him.
The fat eunuch staggered and hurriedly dodged away.
Xiao Chen Zi stepped forward, stepped forward in a few steps, flicked his sleeves with great movement, saluted Ji Ling, and said with a smile: "My slave Chen Bailing pays my respects to the noble Ji, and the noble Jin is safe!".
The surrounding servants all saluted and said: "I would like to pay my respects to you, your honor! May your blessing be with you!"
Ji Ling stretched out her hand to help her and said: "Eunuch Chen, get up quickly!" She turned around and looked at the scene in the yard, and saw that the eunuchs were carrying craftsmen's goods and holding in their hands.
There were many boxes, so he asked: "This is...?".
Xiao Chenzi rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "In reply to your words, my master, Eunuch Su, asked me to apologize to you! He had to accompany the emperor today, and he couldn't escape, so he had to ask me to make this trip.
No, according to the emperor's decree, master has prepared a dining room for you in the east courtyard!"
After Ji Ling heard what he said, he immediately thought of what he had said to Yin in the middle of the night, "I want a big dining room!"
Yin, he still remembers it!
She pursed her lips, but still couldn't hold it back, lowered her head and smiled secretly.
Xiao Chenzi observed the words and expressions, and then he said with a smile: "I brought people here in the morning. It just so happens that you, the noble, are not in Jingyang Palace. But the emperor feels sorry for the noble and ordered the master to act quickly. It is best to get it done in these few days! Servant
Not daring to delay, I boldly thought of moving these things at the entrance of the courtyard first, so that they would not be too eye-catching, and secondly, it would be faster to handle."
What he meant by "piercing the eyes" naturally meant "piercing" Maobin's eyes.
There is a dining room in the main hall of Jingyang Palace, but the furnishings in the dining room are simple. Secondly, because Mao concubine has been a vegetarian for many years, the cook only cooks vegetarian dishes.
If it is tidied up in a big way now, it will indeed be in stark contrast to the dining room of Maobi's main palace...
Ji Ling nodded and said with a smile: "Eunuch Chen, you are right. After all, you are doing things safely."
Xiao Chenzi bowed and said with a smile: "Where, where! I am good at making opinions. If you don't blame me, you are giving me the greatest face. I have no time to thank you!".
After he finished speaking, he shook out a piece of rice paper with a yellow silk edge with a swastika pattern rolled out from his sleeves. He held it forward with both hands and said respectfully: "Your Majesty Ji, this is a drawing of the structure of the dining room. The emperor has already seen it.
Yes, I want you to take a look at it again. If there is anything you don’t like, you can make the decision and modify it!"
Qixi stepped forward and took the drawing. When she saw that the brushstrokes on it were fine and the lines were clear, and every furnishing was clearly marked in small characters, she had put in a lot of effort and couldn't help but let out a "yeah" and said with a smile: "
Master, this is really dazzling!".
Ji Ling took it, held it in both hands, and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.
It turns out that this drawing covers the entire east side courtyard of Jingyang Palace!
On the paper, there is a line of small words marked next to the location of the main entrance of the east side courtyard.
Ji Ling identified them one by one and read them together. It turned out that there were fourteen words written: "The fragrance of wild lotus winds around the hanging whip sleeves, and the gentle breeze of the willows makes the flute boat play."
At this time, Xiao Chenzi laughed and joked: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, you still need a couplet at the entrance. He will inscribe it in his own hand some day!"
Ji Ling:...Fourth Master of Literature and Art...
Continuing to look up along the drawing, you can see that when you enter from this door, you will see a round and square courtyard, surrounded by a small corridor. The east side is wide and has two rooms, one large and one small: the big one is the main house of Ji Ling.
The smaller front room is the back room where she sleeps, puts on makeup, changes clothes, and takes a bath.
On the south and north sides of the east side courtyard, there are a row of penthouses, four on each side, making a total of eight penthouses. The two penthouses facing each other closest to the door are the duty rooms for the slaves in the east side courtyard.
Now this drawing shows that all the three wing rooms in the row on the north side will be opened up, and a shed will be added under the courtyard wall at the door, thus forming an "L" shaped large dining room building structure, connecting the east and west, in one go.
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The servants' duty rooms were all moved to the row of wing rooms on the south side.
Ji Ling saw that in the large dining room, in order from west to east, the area closest to the door was marked "Firewood Storehouse", which should be the place where firewood and charcoal are piled, followed closely by the "Vegetable Storehouse".
There are "meat warehouse", "dried meat warehouse", "dessert and porridge room", and the one closest to my main house is the "tea and fruit room".
The dining room will inevitably be choked by fireworks, so the drawing design places the tea and fruit room closest to the owner of the main room. First, it blocks the fumes, and second, the aroma of the fruit tea can be smelled by the people in the main room, which also makes the body and mind happy.
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Ji Ling finished reading it carefully, took a breath, and said with a joyful smile: "Eunuch Chen, please thank the emperor for me. I would like to say that Mr. Jingyang Palace is really grateful for the emperor's kindness! This dining room is really great, where else can I find it?"
You can’t find any shortcomings!”
Even if there are shortcomings, this is a drawing that the emperor has personally reviewed. Only a fool would dare to find fault with it!
Xiao Chenzi responded with a stack of words, waved his sleeves, and directed the eunuchs to carry the heavy boxes in, and took out a long bright yellow royal slip from his sleeves.
At this time, the courtyard was full of rewards. Xiao Chenzi had nowhere to stand, so he could only lean against the wall. He cleared his throat, deliberately lowered his voice slightly, and sang the report: "The Emperor bestowed iron cloud lacquer, bean paste, nanmu heart, and red sandalwood."
Two small wooden tables with folded legs are for Mr. Jigui!".
Ji Ling quickly knelt down, and all the slaves behind him also knelt down.
I listened to Xiao Chenzi calmly and continued to sing in a unique tone: "The emperor gave eight square plates of iron cloud, silver, gold, lacquer and elm rosewood to noble Ji! The emperor gave six small purple begonia dishes with silver covers to noble noble Ji!"
The emperor gave a nine-piece set of silver sunflower boxes and bowls to the auspicious nobles! The emperor gave a set of twelve green land purple dragon bowls to Ji...".
Ji Ling originally thought that the rewards were just tableware and utensils, but he heard later that there were actually rice noodles, grains, oil and wax, pounds of salt, honey, icing sugar, etc.
Yin was so attentive, which she never expected.
After about a cup of tea.
Xiao Chenzi: My throat is so dry...
Ji Ling: My legs are so sore...
After finally finishing the report, Xiao Chenzi swallowed, shook his hands, held up Yu Dan in both hands and presented it to Ji Ling, Qixi hurriedly took it.
When Xiao Chenzi reported it just now, Ji Ling had already asked Qixi to rush to pack a purse, and then he signaled her to stuff it into Xiao Chenzi's wallet.
Xiao Chenzi was not polite. He turned his sleeves, took the purse, and bumped it secretly in the armhole. He suddenly smiled happily: "The noble man appreciates you! You look up to your slave like this!" He paused and continued:
"If Lord Ji doesn't have any advice, we must follow the emperor's wishes and clean it up as soon as possible. I am afraid that the dust will fly up and pollute the noble, so I ask the noble to stay out of the way."
