After hearing this, Yu Yuanzheng burst into laughter.
These foreigners are so interesting.
But Shangguan Ziqi didn't know what they were talking about, and he tugged at his wife's sleeve.
Yu Yuanzheng suppressed her laughter and translated it for him, and Shangguan Ziqi couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Qingfeng, buy another rooster for Mr. William, and then go to the embassy to teach him how to play cockfighting."
Shangguan Ziqi is very careful.
"Yes, Prince." Qingfeng replied with a smile.
He couldn't help but smile. These foreigners were really ignorant.
No, the Crown Princess said that the cultural differences between the two countries are huge, so they find everything strange.
As soon as Yu Yuanzheng told William about Shangguan Ziqi's decision, William thanked her repeatedly.
William had only seen animal fights, but never cockfights.
Beast fighting was too brutal, so he didn't want to bring his wife to watch it. But cockfighting was different. It was just two small animals, and women wouldn't be scared when they watched it. He planned to buy a few chickens to fight in front of his wife and daughter in the future.
They were originally planning to go to the palace in the afternoon, but seeing that the officials from the Ministry of Rites were simply unable to entertain these foreigners, Yu Yuanzheng and Shangguan Ziqi had to change their plans and accompany them shopping first.
With Yu Yuanzheng as their guide and Shangguan Ziqi's familiarity with every street corner, the group of foreigners enjoyed shopping even more.
I'd go into every shop and have a look.
"Your Highness, what is this?"
"This is a toy for children, called Nine Links."
"Your Highness, this is really delicious. I have never eaten it before."
"This is called glutinous rice cake. It is made from sticky glutinous rice. After the rice is steamed, it is pounded with a wooden stick. After it cools and hardens, it is fried and eaten with seasoning."
"Your Highness, this vase is more beautiful than the one I wanted to buy just now."
"Yes, the porcelain of our Great Wei is the most exquisite art treasure in the world. When the time comes, you can buy some and bring them to your country, and present our beautiful porcelain to your king."
"Your Highness, this is so beautiful, what is it used for?"
"This is a purse, used to hold change. Look, I have one hanging on my waist. The flowers on it are embroidered stitch by stitch. It is the most distinctive craft of our Great Wei. This is the smartest crystallization of the wisdom of the women of our Great Wei."
"Oh my God. I'm going to take some of this to my wife, sisters and all the women I know."
"No, men can use it too."
......
Yu Yuanzheng talked until her mouth was dry that afternoon. She also took the opportunity to teach them the Chinese names of various commodities.
It was not easy to satisfy their curiosity, and it was almost dark when we sent them to the embassy.
Several children waited at home for the whole afternoon, all of them were eagerly waiting.
My parents just came home and I didn't spend the first day with them.
“Mom, why didn’t you wait for us to get out of school?” Sanbao looked so pitiful, with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to cry but couldn’t, which made Yu Yuanzheng feel guilty.
"I'm sorry, baby. When you get home from school tomorrow, I'll be waiting for you at the mansion." Yu Yuanzheng promised and hugged all three children.
"Mom, tomorrow is a day off, you have to stay with us for the whole day." Dabao snorted and made a request.
"Yes, Daddy will also accompany us for the whole day tomorrow." Bao was not willing to be left behind.
"Tutututut, daddy and mommy will be with you all day tomorrow."
The three children then smiled happily.
The next day, Shangguan Ziqi really did not go out and did not attend the morning court.
After waiting for the children to wake up and have breakfast, he took the mother and her four children into the palace.
I had planned to go to the palace yesterday afternoon, but I was embarrassed by the foreigners and didn't go.
The prince went alone without any hesitation.
The family of five arrived at the imperial study at the time of the early morning court session.
The prince followed the emperor in directly.
The emperor was surprised to see that they actually brought the children with them.
However, the emperor was very happy as he hadn't seen these children for a long time.
The three children greeted him in crisp voices and received great praise from the emperor, who gave each of them a small gift.
When the emperor saw Shangguanzi holding a wooden box, he raised his eyebrows.
"Did Ziqi get something and send it to me?"
"Your Majesty, it is indeed this thing." Shangguan Ziqi did not keep the secret.
"Your Majesty, please excuse me for a moment." The prince said slowly.
When the emperor heard this, he glanced at several people.
What this meant was that he should send away all the servants, including his Dragon Shadow Guards.
Yu Yuanzheng asked Eunuch Hai to take the three children to play next door.
The three children were very sensible. They knew that Master Hai wanted to discuss something, so they followed Eunuch Hai out obediently.
Eunuch Hai found some toys for the children and stood by them dutifully.
Two maids and the guard played with the children.
In the imperial study.
Shangguan Ziqi took out the small iron box from the exquisite wooden box.
The emperor recognized it at first sight, and came to see it specially during the few days he stayed in Prince Rong's mansion.
Yu Yuanzheng stepped forward and turned the lock a few times, and the emperor heard a slight "click".
"It's open?" The emperor still didn't quite believe it.
Just the day before yesterday, he proposed that the Duke of Zhenguo should think about the ton code, and now the task has been completed in just one day?
Shangguan Ziqi nodded and made a gesture of invitation, asking the emperor to open it and read it himself.
The emperor did not hesitate to open it himself.
The golden light that caught his eye startled him.
Could it be that the ancestor of the Rong Palace was also a money-loving person?
The emperor picked up the gold leaf, saw the words on it, and began to read.
Unlike Yu Yuanzheng and his wife, they looked at everything else first before reading the words on the gold leaves.
There aren't many words, and the writing is fairly large, so I finished reading it pretty quickly.
At the end, he laughed out loud.
"Oh, oh, it's too much. You, the Duke of Zhenguo, are truly a blessing to the people of Wei and to me. In the whole Wei nation, only you can open it."
Next, the emperor opened the box containing the imperial seal.
When he saw this jade seal that he had never seen before, he let out a long sigh.
"When the Wei Dynasty was first established, our ancestors sent people to find out the whereabouts of the imperial seal of the previous dynasty. Unexpectedly, it was hidden by the grandmother of our ancestors' princess in the Rong Palace.
In the dark, everything is God's will.
The empire was in chaos at the time, so much so that no one had even remembered how many princes and dukes there were in the royal family of the previous dynasty.
In the later period of the previous dynasty, the emperor had many concubines and countless children, and he only knew how to enjoy himself, making the people live in dire straits.
Otherwise it wouldn't have fallen apart.
And this escaped prince, who I don’t know who he is, took away such a valuable item from the previous dynasty and hid it.”
"Your Majesty, it is very likely that this prince is not in the palace at all, but outside the palace." Yu Yuanzheng guessed.
Since he was a hedonistic emperor, he probably left some offspring among the people. At the last moment, he gave such an important thing to her to hide, probably in the hope that his descendants would be able to restore the country.
"What you said makes sense." The emperor also thought of this possibility.
He went to compare his own seal with this one.
"Hongyi, the jade seal of the previous dynasty is more majestic and exquisite than the one of our Great Wei." The emperor was a little envious, and his eyes lingered on the jade seal for a long time.
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