Chen Ming'an was the Imperial Scholar whom Princess Ronghua, Zhu Huaizhen, had set her eyes on in the Golden Imperial Hall.
However, he refused the bestowed marriage, saying, "Your Hi...
Chapter 8 Fireworks
After Zhu Huaizhen compromised, he put forward various demands.
For every meal, I have to eat fresh river food from Taohuawu, and it has to be different every time.
Wow, dishes like squirrel fish, fried eel paste, Farewell My Concubine, steamed whitebait egg, Huadiao wine-cooked crab, and three-shrimp noodles were served one after another, making Zhu Huaizhen smile from ear to ear.
It’s great to be alive. While alive, I can eat the river seafood from Taohuawu.
Otherwise, if she died, all the mandarin fish, eels, turtles, silverfish, crabs, white shrimps, etc. in Taohuawu would be given to Chen Mingan and Zhao Lian'er, the couple.
Only clothes with light and shiny brocade should be worn.
The floating brocade is so bright that the purple sea remains unstained by it, and the five-colored silk is woven into dragons and phoenixes, which is extremely gorgeous.
To be honest, ever since Zhu Huaizhen made up her mind to help Chen Ming'an climb to the position of Prime Minister, she had no extra money to buy floating brocade. The only piece of floating brocade she had was cut into a dress for the palace banquet.
She remembered that once, her mother, Concubine Xue, gave her a piece of batik brocade with the fragrance of her favorite flowers.
The fragrance of flowers is soft, light and romantic, just like love.
So she held the batik brocade tightly and slept with it all night.
The next morning, she asked Tu Mi to secretly sell the batik brocade to subsidize Chen Ming'an to take care of his official social activities. She secretly shed tears because she really couldn't bear to part with it.
Utensils must be made of anything other than rosewood.
A rosewood four-piece cabinet with a high relief of the words "Auspicious and Abundant", a rosewood table with animal-faced unicorn patterns, a rosewood waisted armchair with zodiac animals inlaid on a burl wood core, a rosewood cloisonné enamel screen with a blue ground and inlaid flowers of the four seasons, a large flat-top table with passionflower carved on rosewood, a rosewood waisted Arhat bed with passionflower and antique patterns, a rosewood waisted hexagonal stool with gilded copper corners and inlaid jade... In a trance, Zhu Huaizhen thought that time had gone back to the time before he met Chen Mingan.
Before meeting Chen Ming'an, she was a veritable Princess Ronghua.
You can have whatever you want and you don’t have to count your days.
For example, she suddenly wanted to watch fireworks and spent a lot of money.
In an instant, a sharp sound pierced the sky.
Zhu Huaizhen tiptoed and looked outside the iron window. It was the fireworks she had been thinking about. It was like a meteor shower, with thousands of trees in full bloom, blowing away the sad atmosphere brought by the country's demise.
May Southern Yan treat the people of Southern Wu well.
I wish Gusu would set off fireworks every New Year’s Eve.
Zhu Huaizhen clasped his hands together and knelt down devoutly.
"These are the fireworks that Brother Ming'an set off for me. Do they look good?" Princess Zhao Lian'er of Xincheng was wearing a batik dress with floating luster, and her every move exuded a faint fragrance of flowers.
Damn, this is the batik floating brocade from back then!
Zhu Huaizhen was so angry!
That bastard Chen Mingan actually bought that piece of batik brocade and gave it to Zhao Lian'er!
Without a word, she rolled up her sleeves and pounced, trying to tear the batik brocade off Zhao Lian'er's body. Unexpectedly, Zhao Lian'er fell down with ease, even crying out for help in a delicate voice.
"Zhu Huaizhen, stop!" Chen Ming'an arrived in time, took Zhao Lian'er into his arms, and pushed Zhu Huaizhen down.
Zhu Huaizhen was also unlucky. His head hit the wall and started bleeding.
"Brother Ming'an, don't blame Zhenzhen. She was probably envious of the fireworks just now." Zhao Lian'er said in a delicate voice.
"Zhu Huaizhen, put away your stubbornness and willfulness. You are no longer Princess Ronghua!" Chen Mingan slapped Zhu Huaizhen hard.
Zhu Huaizhen stared at Chen Mingan in a daze, wiped the blood that was about to flow into his eyes, grinned, and as he smiled, tears began to fall.
This couple is so boring. They are showing off their affection and even dragging her into it.
She simply fell down, covered her ears, and gradually could no longer hear any sound.