Chapter 234 Ambition
"Your Highness, do you look like Concubine Xian?" Tu Mi joked.
"Looks like it, right?" Zhu Huaizhen smiled, his grape eyes clear and bright.
Then she finished a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
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.
When Tu Mi saw this, she felt that it was completely unlike him.
A virtuous concubine must be virtuous and kind.
At this time, Emperor Ming of Chu came to visit with an official leather suitcase made of golden nanmu wood inlaid with various treasures.
"Tu Mi, for the sake of money, please prepare tea and cakes." Zhu Huaizhen held up his rosy cheeks, smiling like a flower, his eyes moving.
Yes, Zhu Huaizhen had already asked Tu Mi to take the last batch of gem bonsai to Changshengku and exchange them for money.
Tsk tsk, Tu Mi is so extravagant and wasteful.
The teas include Mengding Xianshan Stone Bud Tea, Dongting Biluochun, Guzhu Zisun, Huoshan Huangya, Fangshan Luya, Lu'an Xiaoxianchun, Emei Baiya, Shenquan Xiaotuan, Jinmen Tuanhuang, Mianzhou Songling, etc., with elegant style.
The pastries include tofu skin buns, yam cakes stuffed with date paste, chestnut powder cakes steamed with osmanthus sugar, lotus root powder cakes with cinnamon sugar, water chestnut cakes, chicken oil rolls, goose oil rolls, crab dumplings, steamed cheese with sugar, sugar-pickled rose stew, etc., all of which are exquisitely made.
Emperor Chu Ming probably did not expect to receive such courtesy from Princess Ronghua and was quite surprised.
However, Zhu Huaizhen didn't even look at Emperor Chu Ming, and directly opened the official leather box inlaid with golden nanmu and various treasures.
This time it is a hairpin, such as the gold hairpin with butterfly flowers, pomegranates, ruyi, tortoise shell and silk, the red gold filigree hairpin with rubies, the gold hairpin with bat pattern and trembling branches inlaid with glass beads, the nine-turn red gold hairpin with double phoenixes inlaid with jade and seven treasures, the gold filigree hairpin with double phoenixes inlaid with rubies and kingfisher feathers, the hairpin with gold pattern and silk inlaid with five treasures and oriental pearls with peacock spreading its tail, the rose quartz double crabapple and jade phoenix hairpin with trimmed wings, the burnt blue peony crystal hairpin, the gold hairpin with four butterflies inlaid with red, blue and green sapphire beads, the emerald red gold phoenix hairpin, etc., which are gorgeous and noble.
Zhu Huaizhen weighed it and felt that it was not as valuable as the gem bonsai.
"Zhenzhen, what's wrong? Don't you like it?" asked Emperor Chu Ming.
"Guess." Zhu Huaizhen smiled sweetly, her eyes bright.
Emperor Chu Ming guessed that there was a jade hairpin with a flower basket holding flowers and leaves inserted diagonally in Zhu Huaizhen's bun, which was very valuable.
So, a few days later, Emperor Chu Ming came to visit and brought a rosewood box inlaid with mother-of-pearl floral and bird patterns.
Zhu Huaizhen ordered Tu Mi to make peach tea.
Take the peach blossoms on the third day of March and the white dew on the third day of September, and set out a set of tea-making utensils including a copper wind stove, willow charcoal, wrought iron fire tongs, small green bamboo clips, locust wood water cubes, and Yuezhou jade bowls, and wait for the first boil to produce small bubbles, the second boil to produce gushing springs, and the third boil to produce surging waves.
"Zhenzhen, are you willing to be a virtuous concubine?" Emperor Chu Ming said softly, holding the Yuezhou jade bowl.
Zhu Huaizhen opened the box and took a look. They were all jade treasures, and he was very satisfied.
Haha, things like the emerald egret and lotus hat top, the emerald squirrel and grape pendant, the emerald gold-inlaid gemstone bowl, the emerald Ganoderma-style washbasin, the emerald duck holding ears of grain, the emerald cup with double dragon ears and circular pattern, the emerald flat-lid bottle with ring ears and twined chrysanthemum pattern, the pure gold auspicious jade pendant earrings, the emerald lid button, the eight-protruding halberd and pheasant pattern hoof-foot copper censer, the emerald hollow bat, Buddha's hand and pomegranate pattern ear pick and hairpin, etc., are going to make you rich.
"Why not?" Zhu Huaizhen shook his head and laughed.
After hearing this, Tu Mi was surprised and gave Zhu Huaizhen a look.
Her Highness, is he willing to sacrifice his own reputation just to satisfy the ambition of Emperor Ming of Great Chu?
Tu Mi really couldn't figure it out.
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