Chapter 153 A Day in Zhaohua Palace
After visiting the Imperial Garden, Xuanyuan Ling asked Zhao Hai to take the memorial to Zhaohua Palace for review. While he was reviewing the memorial, Chen Qing sat next to him reading a storybook. After reading for a while, he suddenly thought that it was already past the beginning of summer, so should he prepare for the summer?
She has always been afraid of heat. It's okay now, but it will probably get hot again in a few days. There is no air conditioning here, so she can only wear cooler clothes in the house.
As for food, last year we didn’t have much fanfare and couldn’t innovate, but this year the emperor is in the house, so we can try some new things.
So she took a pen and paper and started writing this and that.
It took Xuanyuan Ling an hour to finish a batch of memorials. Chen Qing was not bored at all, as she was writing with great interest. Xuanyuan Ling would occasionally look up and see that she was writing seriously, and would smile at her rarely.
After Chen Qing had finished drawing and writing, she was tired and began to doze off. When Xuanyuan Ling looked at her again, she found that Chen Qing had fallen asleep on the table.
Chunhua noticed that Chen Qing had dozed off early, but the emperor was still there, so she didn't dare to remind him. Seeing Chen Qing fall asleep, she felt distressed and a little nervous. She was accompanying the emperor, and it was not proper for him to fall asleep at this moment.
Just as he was hesitating, Xuanyuan Ling noticed him and walked over lightly.
Zhao Hai was also watching at this moment, and when he saw Xuanyuan Ling deliberately walking lightly, he knew that the emperor didn't think she was neglecting Shen Qing even though she was sleeping like this.
Xuanyuan Ling leaned down and picked up Shen Qing, who was half asleep and half awake, and adjusted himself to a comfortable position on him.
Xuanyuan Ling found it funny to see her childlike appearance, and also felt that when she was asleep she lost her cleverness and looked particularly adorable.
He carried her into the inner room and put her on the bed.
Chunhua hurried forward, but was a step too slow. Xuanyuan Ling put the person down and pulled a blanket next to him to cover Shen Qing.
Chunhua stood aside cautiously.
Xuanyuan Ling didn't even look at her, turned around and gave Zhao Hai a look.
Zhao Hai hurried over to get the memorial. What else could he not understand? This was because the Emperor did not want to disturb Concubine Xi's rest.
Oh, this requires a special change of place.
Xuanyuan Ling did not sleep with Chen Qing, but he did see what Chen Qing had just written. He picked it up and then moved to another place to continue reviewing the memorials.
Chunhua looked at the blanket covering Chen Qing. At this time, Chen Qing turned over and pressed the blanket down a little. Chunhua thought that this was the blanket that the emperor had personally covered the empress with. Now, she felt like she was disrespecting the emperor's grace by covering the empress with it again.
But looking at Chen Qing's cute sleeping appearance, Chunhua also smiled. It's good that the emperor is good to the queen.
Xuanyuan Ling was there reading what Shen Qing had just written silently.
The first page was a recipe. Xuanyuan Ling smiled as soon as he saw it: "Greedy cat."
Having said that, if you look closely, this little thing really took a lot of thought.
He handed the first piece of paper to Zhao Hai: "Tell the Imperial Kitchen to prepare it. You don't need to chill it for now."
It wasn't too hot at the moment, and Xuanyuan Ling didn't intend to let her eat the iced food written on it.
No, he still remembered that Shen Qing had a stomachache during her period, but he could ask the imperial kitchen to prepare other cold dishes. x
Zhao Hai quickly agreed, but before he had walked far, he heard Xuanyuan Ling shout "nonsense".
Zhao Hai paused and looked back, only to see Xuanyuan Ling with an embarrassed look on his face. He glanced away, then frowned and watched what came next.
What did Concubine Xi write again?
Xuanyuan Ling was really indescribable, he saw the picture of underwear that Shen Qing drew on the paper.
Chen Qing's painting was very detailed. She was good at drawing, and she was afraid that Chunhua and Fangyun wouldn't understand it, so she even drew the human body.
This painting is more exciting than pornographic pictures.
Xuanyuan Ling was so confused as to whether he should scold her for being so outrageous or say that her painting was quite good, especially the clothes that the person was wearing, which were simply indecent.
But how could he not react? This was what Shen Qing wanted to wear herself. You could tell from the recipe she wrote that this little thing was afraid of heat. Was this something she came up with to prepare for summer?
Is this what she's going to wear in the summer?
Xuanyuan Ling's face turned red and black as he watched. In fact, Shen Qing also drew a suspender nightgown and other things later, but he didn't see it at all. He wanted to throw away the drawing. After all, this little thing took so long to draw, he should keep the evidence and ask her to give an explanation later, right?
So Xuanyuan Ling didn't throw it away, but put it aside. He put the matter behind him for the time being and turned back to continue reviewing the memorials.
Shen Qing slept well after falling asleep, and when he woke up, he saw Chunhua standing by his side: "Is the emperor still here?"
Normally, when she was taking a nap, she would tell Chunhua and the others to rest, and she didn't need anyone to watch her while she slept. But at this moment, Chunhua was still there, obviously Xuanyuan Ling had not left, and Chunhua was going to report to her when she woke up.
Chunhua said, "Yes, the Emperor is in the study reviewing memorials. It has been more than an hour. Will Your Majesty go over now?"
It will naturally pass.
Shen Qing nodded and re-tidied her hair, but when she went out, she saw that the recipe she had drawn before was gone. No one else would take her things, so it must have been Xuanyuan Ling who took them.
Chen Qing blinked twice, then cleared his throat and said to Chunhua, "Tell them to go away later."
Chunhua was stunned, but still agreed.
As soon as Chen Qing went there, Chunhua hurried to inform Zhao Hai of the weather. Zhao Hai heard it and thought, well, Concubine Xi might be up to something. He looked at the sky and saw that it was almost dusk and there was no dinner yet. If the Emperor hadn't been reviewing memorials in earnest, Zhao Hai would have felt like he had lost track of what year it was.
Zhaohua Palace makes people corrupt, right? But they are also active when there is something to do. Whenever there is an order, the servants in Zhaohua Palace are all very active.
It’s not like Zhao Hai didn’t see the servants of Zhaohua Palace. They would gather together after finishing their own work and have snacks to eat. In those days, although Zhao Hai was the most powerful in the palace in terms of status, the servants in Zhaohua Palace were really living a comfortable life.
Moreover, he also noticed that these servants were completely devoted to Concubine Xi. He had just sent a few of them to Zhaohua Palace, but now they were being controlled by the young eunuch Wang Lu of Zhaohua Palace. It was not that he was bullying them, but now that he came, he was respectful, but he did not get close to her to show closeness.
Yes, after all, he was in front of the emperor. Although the emperor arranged the people, these people had to be loyal to Concubine Xi. He was afraid that some people would not be able to figure things out and cause trouble in the future. However, he saw that Wang Lu handled it very well.
Hey, Concubine Xi is capable, and the people under her are all capable as well.
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