Chapter 232: The Queen
Emperor Ming of Chu ascended the throne and the matter of establishing a queen was put on the agenda.
The Zheng family of Nanyang had already prepared a gentle and dignified legitimate daughter.
However, Emperor Chu Ming sent people to post a notice, telling a tear-jerking secret love story.
In that secret love, although Emperor Chu Ming was of prominent status, he lived in poverty. He did not want the young lady to suffer with him, so he never revealed his true feelings. He just wanted to see her every day.
Emperor Chu Ming saved up money for a long time and bought her a silver-gilt bridge hairpin with floral patterns as a birthday gift.
"Your Highness, the silver-gilt bridge hairpin with floral pattern was also given to you by Emperor Chu Ming." Tu Mi said angrily.
After hearing this, Zhu Huaizhen waved his hand, not caring at all, and continued to listen to her "Peach Blossom Fan".
Orioles chirp at dawn in the jade trees of Jinling, flowers bloom early in the Qinhuai waterside pavilions. Who knew the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build his red mansion, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his mansion collapse. Here, amidst the mossy, blue tiles, I once slept in a dreamlike state; I've witnessed fifty years of rise and fall. No one in Wuyi Lane is surnamed Wang, ghosts cry at Mochou Lake, and owls roost on Phoenix Terrace. Dreams of the ruined mountains are the most real, the old land hard to lose. I don't believe this map is changing manuscripts. I'll compose a lament for Jiangnan, and sing it until I grow old.
"Your Highness, do you have any countermeasures?" Tu Mi said sullenly.
Tu Mi felt disgusted by the hypocrite Emperor Chu Ming's pretending to be affectionate.
"Look at how roundabout he is, trying to figure out what he wants to give me." Zhu Huaizhen said with a smile.
After saying that, Zhu Huaizhen found something for Tu Mi to do, which was to collect various kinds of tea, such as rose and marinated melon seeds tea, salted bamboo shoots, sesame and osmanthus tea, melon seeds, chestnuts, salted bamboo shoots, sesame and rose tea, salted cherry tea, osmanthus and green bean tea, walnut and pine nut tea, candied golden orange tea, osmanthus, sesame and smoked bamboo shoots tea, coriander and sesame tea and so on.
Tsk tsk, this tea makes me feel more sleepy the more I drink it.
Zhu Huaizhen really wanted to snuggle up on the beauty couch surrounded by black lacquer and gold-painted poems, paintings and scrolls and have a good sleep, but Emperor Ming of Chu sent a young eunuch who put down the wooden box and left.
When I opened the wooden box, I saw that it was indeed a worthless straw thing.
For example, straw grasshoppers, straw butterflies, straw frogs, straw rice dumplings, straw rattles, straw lanterns, straw rabbits, straw foxes, straw ponies, straw phoenixes, etc., are lifelike.
"None of them is practical." Zhu Huaizhen took a look and was disappointed.
A straw plate will also work, to hold the fruit.
So, Emperor Chu Ming felt a little proud as soon as he sat on the throne.
Zhu Huaizhen held his rosy cheeks in his hand, thinking over and over again: "Tu Mi, find a way to sell that straw phoenix to the Zheng family in Nanyang."
Five days later, Emperor Ming of Chu sent another eunuch to deliver a wooden box.
"Your Highness, is Emperor Chu Ming going to make you the queen?" Tu Mi was a little amused.
"You're overthinking it." Zhu Huaizhen held a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and squinted his big grape eyes with happiness.
Sugar-heart abalone, pineapple sea cucumber, white shark lips, young deer tendons, claw meat, golden shark fin, ivory clam meat, spider fish glue, quail eggs, ham, pork ribs, clean winter bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms, chrysanthemum mushrooms, wild pine mushrooms, morels, snow bamboo fungus, Shaoxing wine, eighteen ingredients, eighteen delicious flavors. The moment you lift the lotus leaf covering the jar, the rich meaty aroma is so fragrant that even a Buddha would jump over the wall.
This time it’s also worthless, just a clay sculpture.
There are clay sculptures of shaking head lions, clay sculptures of cuckoos, clay sculptures of little tigers, clay sculptures of Fu dolls, clay sculptures of big eagles, clay sculptures of Maitreya Buddha, clay sculptures of Nian beasts, clay sculptures of goldfish, clay sculptures of elephants, clay sculptures of phoenixes, and so on.
Zhu Huaizhen picked out the clay phoenix as usual and asked Tu Mi to sell it to Zheng family in Nanyang.
Seven days later, the legitimate daughter of Zheng from Nanyang was made queen.
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