Chapter 108 Good Wait
The setting sun melts gold, and by evening the sun has already returned to the mountains. Strands of golden light covered the glazed tiles of Bauhinia City, coating them with a thick layer of gold.
Several palace maids and eunuchs were cleaning the door of Hehuan Palace. It was quiet all around, with only the sound of breeze blowing through the leaves.
There was a sound of footsteps coming slowly from a distance on the bluestone slabs.
"Young Master." Little Songzi shouted inside before he even entered the house.
Then he hurried into the house, with a smile on his face: "My lady, the Emperor has sent someone to pick you up."
Chen Fu has been in a daze ever since she received the four words "一叙" in the painting, hoping that the day would not get dark.
She was still praying like a Buddha, and when she heard this, she shuddered all over and subconsciously glared at Xiao Songzi: "Why are you so loud?"
"I know I was wrong." Little Songzi did not dare to refute after being scolded. He raised his hand and touched his nose with an innocent look on his face.
On weekdays, the young lady is like a fairy and has an extremely good temper. I don’t know what happened today, I’m so irritable.
Little Songzi kept muttering to himself but didn't dare reveal a word on his face.
Touching his nose, he cautiously reminded: "The Emperor has sent someone to pick you up, you should go over now."
“Your Highness…” Shen Fu took a deep breath.
The Emperor actually sent someone to pick her up? The note was still held in her palm, and Shen Fu felt that the note was about to melt in her palm.
It seems like there’s no way to avoid this conversation in the painting?
Shen Fu felt that everything in front of her eyes was dark, and she almost fainted.
"I..." She raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, then finally stood up.
"My lady." Seeing this, Zi Su hurried forward to support her.
Chen Fu pinched Zi Su's arm tightly with her palm, her nails almost digging into her palm. After taking a deep breath, she said deeply, "Help me change my clothes."
Behind the screen, Zi Su was happily choosing clothes.
"The things in this palace are just better than those outside." Zi Su was picking out dresses in her hands, one on the left, one on the right, and she simply didn't know which one to take.
"The young lady has a lot of clothes, but they are too plain." Zi Su took a sky-blue dress embroidered with a lotus pattern and walked forward, putting it on Shen Fu's body for comparison.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a lot of good materials a few days ago. I'll have someone measure the size and send it to the embroidery room to make a few more dresses for you."
At this moment, Shen Fu obviously didn't care what Zi Su said.
She was leaning over the desk, looking at the painting.
It is said to be a painting of a bamboo forest, but it is filled with detailed and dense scenes of two people hugging each other.
But fortunately, Lin An was right. His Majesty’s painting skills are very good, and it is almost impossible to tell at a glance. You need to look carefully for them yourself.
Shen Fu's eyes widened before she found a pair that looked normal among the dozen or so little people.
In the deep bamboo forest, behind a carved red-painted railing, two people were swinging on a swing.
"This should be safe." Shen Fu stared at the slightly swaying swing thoughtfully.
"My Lord, what are you talking about?"
Zi Su looked at the full closet of dresses and was worried about what to do.
After Shen Fu confirmed it, she breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the cabinet full of clothes, he said casually, "Wear the light yellow one embroidered with acacia flowers."
"Ah?" Zi Su pouted: "This dress is from last year. What do you think, young lady?"
What does Shen Fu think?
She lowered her head, looking at the picture of 'herself' wearing a goose yellow dress and swinging on a swing, and she sighed deeply.
Where is how she was thinking? It is obvious that His Majesty has already drawn it. What if she changed into other clothes and wasn't going to be swinging on the swing later?
"This one." Shen Fuli rolled up the scroll.
There were more than a dozen such incidents, and Chen Fu couldn't even count them all.
She looked at the setting sun outside the window and felt melancholy.
If she doesn't go now that it's getting dark, she's afraid that the Emperor will find another way to torment her.
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It was dusk and the sun was setting in the west.
It was just past the You hour and it was already pitch black outside. A sedan chair was quietly carried out from the Hehuan Palace and stopped in the bamboo forest.
Chen Fu got out of the sedan chair and only then noticed the difference.
An exquisitely carved courtyard and a corridor with bamboo handrails. Every few steps you take, there is a lotus lantern every five steps and an ornament every ten steps. As you walk, you can smell the faint fragrance of lotus all around.
It can be said that everything is exquisite and amazing.
As Chen Fu walked along the corridor, she instantly realized that this must be the Emperor's courtyard in the bamboo forest.
After all, she knew in her previous life that the Emperor was always afraid of heat and spent most of the summer in this bamboo forest.
Now that August and September are the season of Tianyan, His Majesty visits the harem less often.
No wonder she was suddenly invited here.
In order to seduce His Majesty, Chen Fu didn't know how many times she had come to this bamboo forest before, but this was her first time here.
Today is a pleasant surprise.
The guards around must have greeted her in advance, and when they saw her coming, they let her pass without blinking.
Shen Fu took a deep breath, pushed the door open and walked into the house.
There was no one in the room, but there was a faint smell of alcohol. When the night is quiet, the moonlight outside the window shines into the house.
Chen Fu looked at everything in the house through the moonlight and realized that this was actually a painting studio.
The whole house is messy and unique, but there are many paintings hanging on the walls. Most of them are landscapes, magnificent and majestic. With just a few strokes you can tell that they are the work of His Majesty.
Why did His Majesty send her here?
Shen Fu raised her eyebrows, unable to detect His Majesty's intention. However, in his heart, he was paying attention to everything around him, taking in the Emperor's joys and sorrows.
Chen Fu walked to the long table and saw the scroll placed on it.
There are so many scrolls that they appear disorganized. But if you look closely, you can see the subtle differences.
His Majesty only painted landscapes and occasionally animals. The most painted animals were not lions, tigers or other ferocious beasts, but wolves.
Chen Fu's eyes moved away from the landscape paintings, and after a careful look, they finally fell on one of the injured lone wolves.
A wolf walked in the snow, with bright red blood flowing from between its teeth. There were obvious scars on its claws, and its hair was disheveled. It was clearly in a disheveled posture, but it held its head high.
His eyes were extremely sharp, and their pitch-black color was like an inky pond, so deep that one could not see the bottom.
Chen Fu stared at the picture in a trance, but these eyes gave her a sense of familiarity.
She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice the footsteps behind her.
Until she heard a sneer from behind, and the person came very close, his hot breath falling on the back of her neck.
Shen Fucai put the scroll in her hand back in panic and turned around quickly.
But as soon as she turned around, a hand from behind passed through her waist and snatched the scroll from her hand. Shen Fu raised her head in panic and bumped into those eyes that were like those in a painting.
I saw His Majesty bending over, his dark eyes sharp and deep.
He looked at the Lone Wolf picture in his hand, and then at the panicked look on Shen Fu's face: "What are you afraid of?"
His Majesty chuckled, and with his bony fingers he easily lifted Shen Fu to the desk.
The tall body bent down, and the thin lips immediately pressed down: "You came without telling me, and made me wait for you."
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