Chapter 541 The Longed-for Amusement Park
It was already dark when Su Ying returned to the palace.
Mother Zhao is now in charge of many matters in the harem and now she doesn’t even have time to follow the two treasures. There are not many masters in the harem, but there are many people in each department, and it is a big project to manage them.
When Su Ying returned to Fengluan Palace, Mother Zhao was already waiting in the side hall.
"The queen is back."
"Mother Zhao, please get up. Did you come here specially to wait for me?" Su Ying asked after looking at the booklet in Mother Zhao's hand.
"Yes, I have something to report to your Majesty."
Su Ying sat down on the chair and motioned for her to speak.
"This is the expenditure of the imperial palace last month. I brought it to you for your inspection."
Su Ying took the booklet. She had taught Mother Zhao a way of keeping accounts before, so the accounts she recorded were always clear at a glance.
"Have you checked every part of the palace?"
"Yes, they are all correct."
Su Ying looked through the account book and found that the beginning of last month was much less than the previous ones. This account will be compared with the same month last year. Mother Zhao is a meticulous person and she will make marks on the account comparisons.
"Xiao Jin is truly a good and frugal emperor." This expenditure alone is dozens of times less than last year.
"Yes, the emperor is diligent in his work and loves the people, and the queen cares about the people. This is a blessing for our Chu country."
If the situation in the palace was not special, she would have wanted to rent out the empty palaces. It was such a waste to have so many palaces empty and uninhabited.
"I remember there is an open space to the west of the palace, right?"
Mother Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there is such a piece of land. I remember that the land was intended to be used to build a waterside pavilion, but then the plan was abandoned for some reason, and the land has been vacant ever since."
Su Ying nodded slightly, "Well, let's use it as an amusement park."
"Amusement park?"
Mother Zhao had never heard of it.
Su Ying had heard of the amusement park, but had never been there. Once upon a time, it was a place she extremely longed to own.
She could see that both children were under a lot of pressure in their studies. She knew they had to learn those things, but she hoped that they would not miss out on their childhood in the process of learning.
"Yes, it's a place for children to play. I'll draw the blueprint in a while, and then you can go find a craftsman to see if it can be built."
In this era, there was no steel, so wood was enough to build an amusement park. The most it would incur was some labor loss, and it wouldn't take much effort.
After Su Ying explained to Mother Zhao what an amusement park was, Mother Zhao agreed very much. She loved her two children from the bottom of her heart.
Su Ying sat down at the table and began to draw on the paper with her homemade charcoal pencil. In fact, she didn't know much about the structure of those amusement facilities, so she could only draw their general outlines and then show them to the carpenter to see if these things could be made.
She was drawing so seriously that she didn't even come to her senses when the two children and Xiao Jin came in.
"Mother, what are you doing?"
Dabao looked at the drawing on Su Ying's drawing with curiosity. He thought it looked so strange that he couldn't understand what it was.
Su Ying raised her head and smiled, "Fun things. There is a piece of vacant land in the palace very close to the harem. I plan to use it to make some things for the two children to play with." She said the latter part to Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin's curiosity was aroused. "What's the fun stuff?"
"You'll know once it's done." Because she didn't know if it would be what she wanted after it was done.
The two babies were very much looking forward to the playground that Su Ying described, and they just wished that Su Ying could create one for them tomorrow.
At night, after washing up, Su Ying lay on the bed, still thinking about her playground in her mind. It was not until Xiao Jin asked her to breathe lightly and close her eyes that she fell into a drowsy sleep.
Su Ying didn't know how long she had slept when she heard a low voice coming from outside the door. She subconsciously reached out to the bed and found that Xiao Jin was no longer on the bed. She looked at the still dim sky outside and instantly lost all sleepiness.
After a while, the palace door was pushed open, and it was Xiao Jin who returned.
He returned to the bed and was about to fall asleep when he met Su Ying's misty eyes. "Did I disturb you?"
Su Ying nodded and moved her body back.
Xiao Jin lay down beside her, hugged her, patted her shoulder and said, "Sleep a little longer, it's still early before dawn."
Su Ying closed her eyes and mumbled, "What's wrong?"
"Prince Yu was assassinated before arriving in Jingzhou, and his whereabouts are unknown now."
Su Ying hummed lightly and fell asleep again.
Xiao Jin couldn't fall asleep anymore, he kept his eyes open until Zhang Shuming spoke.
After washing, he went to court.
When Su Ying said she wanted to build an amusement park, Mother Zhao immediately sent several craftsmen who were proficient in carpentry to her.
Su Ying felt that it was time to test their professional skills, so she took out the blueprint she had drawn.
"Look, can this thing be made into a slide? This is the staircase. After the children go up, they can slide down from here. This slide must be made relatively smooth, otherwise they won't be able to slide. Do you understand?"
The carpenters looked at the strange things drawn by Su Ying and listened to her explanation, and felt that these things should not be difficult to make.
"After listening to what Her Majesty said, we have some ideas in mind. We will go back and discuss it clearly, and then draw a detailed blueprint for Her Majesty to review."
"Okay, I believe you will not let me down."
Now that these words have been spoken, the craftsmen naturally worked with all their might.
After the craftsmen left, Zhou Qing brought some snacks into the house, "Your Majesty, please have some snacks. They are all freshly cooked."
Su Ying looked at the donkey rolls on the plate and took a bite and put it into her mouth. She loved glutinous rice food and the soft and sticky taste was so satisfying that she couldn't take a bite.
"My lady, I have heard a lot about the White Lotus Immortal."
Su Ying stuffed some snacks into her mouth and hummed, "You say."
"The White Lotus Sect has actually been around for a long time, probably about ten years. It is an organization that believes in the White Lotus Immortal. Your Majesty, you can probably understand it as believing in Buddhism or Taoism, but these people believe in the White Lotus Immortal."
After eating the donkey rolls, Su Ying took another piece of red date cake and asked, "Who is the White Lotus Immortal?"
This Zhou Qing really didn't know. He asked many people who believed in the White Lotus Immortal, but they couldn't explain it. They just said that he was a deity separated from Taoism.
"Their followers go to the church every day to pray to the White Lotus Immortal. They have been doing this for many years. When the White Lotus Immortal shows her true form, the followers go crazy and follow her all day long, hoping that she can save them from suffering."
"Where did this White Lotus Immortal come from?"
(End of this chapter)
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