Chapter 128: The Sacred Heart
Yongchang imperial capital, imperial study room of the imperial palace.
Seeing Shi Fangzhen clicking on the table with his index finger, Liu Weiguo, the eunuch standing beside him, knew that the emperor was in a good mood. He pressed his hand on the hard object in his sleeve. It was really time for the jade pendant that Empress Shu Concubine was awarded.
The pilot project of Qingzhantianmu has made good progress. The three pilot prefectures have cleared more than 20,000 hectares of land and paid more than 200,000 taels of taxes. Especially in Renzhou, more than 12,340 hectares of land occupied have been cleared out. Yu Zhijie is able to do his job well. Next year, Qingzhantianmu can be fully deployed. When I have enough hands, I will teach the barbarians in the north a lesson.
Shi Fangzhen stood up and opened the window. The cold wind blew over her face with snowflakes. The suffocation in the room was swept away. Shi Fangzhen expanded her chest, stretched her waist, and smiled and said, "Go back to the palace."
Liu Weiguo carefully put on a fur for the emperor and whispered: "Today is the birthday of Concubine Shu. Long lively, look?"
"Set the Shujing Palace." Shi Fangzhen strode out of the study, without riding the imperial carriage, and walked towards Shujing Palace with great enthusiasm.
In the square in front of Shujing Palace, the second prince Shi Chongjie was wrapped tightly, like a clumsy little bear rolling and playing in the snow. A large group of eunuchs and palace maids were clamoring, for fear of bumping into the prince.
Shi Chongjie was only five years old, and he was naughty and active. He grabbed Xiao Xizi and said, "Grandpa Xi, didn't you say you could build snowmen? Buy quickly."
Xiao Xizi is a doctor of the palace sect in Shujing Palace. Concubine Huang Shu sometimes asked him to teach the second prince to read. Xiao Xizi naturally would not miss the opportunity and tried his best to please the empress and the prince. In Shujing Palace, everyone knew that Eunuch Xi was a popular person in the eyes of the empress. Xiao Fuzi did not dare to fight with him, so he begged his adoptive father Tang Wenzhong to be transferred to the inner court to serve.
The palace maids and eunuchs helped each other and built up personal shapes high. Someone found two coal balls, put two eyes on the snowman, and made a nose for a wooden vertebra, and put a bamboo broom on it to make a hand.
Shi Chongjie clapped his hands happily and circled around the snowman. Xiao Xizi's eyes became wet. He remembered the scene when his father took him to build a snowman when he was a child. People and things were no longer there. He didn't know where his father's grave was buried, and he endured humiliation and lived in silence. All this was because of Jiang Anyi.
The palace maids and eunuchs beside them knelt on the ground in unison. When a big man came, Xiao Xizi immediately knelt on the ground, lowering her head and not daring to see who it was.
"Father, Father." Shi Chongjie rushed over happily and spread his arms.
Shi Fangzhen picked up his son and smiled and said, "It's much heavier than last time. I'm playing with snow. Be careful of catching a cold. Where is your mother?"
"The father only wore two clothes when he came last time. Now he wore more clothes, it would be heavy." Shi Chongjie's slutty words made Shi Fangzhen very happy and walked towards the palace with his son in his arms.
Shi Fangzhen has three sons and three daughters, the eldest daughter and the eldest son are both born to Empress Wang. Huang Shudan has the second son Shi Chongjie, the third son Shi Chongren, and the second daughter Princess Anyang was born to Concubine Liu. There is also a young daughter who is still in her infancy, born to the newly promoted beauty He.
Concubine Huang carefully dressed up and came to welcome him after receiving the report. Concubine Huang was dressed in a big red cloud and cotton palace outfit, and her long green brocade dress looked like lotus leaves and fields, with black hair like clouds, and she was slanted with a phoenix hanging bead hairpin, looking rich and graceful, elegant and solemn.
Shi Fangzhen's eyes lit up. In his impression, Huang Fei was quiet and weak. She was a woman with a strong bookish spirit and rarely dressed up. Unexpectedly, she was as gorgeous as a new beauty and had a mature charm.
Shi Fangzhen smiled and said with a smile: "In addition to the rewards of the birthday of her beloved concubine, yesterday Hengzhou presented a batch of brocades. She chose some of the various colors of her beloved concubines to make some clothes. I see that her beloved concubine's daily clothes are a bit too simple."
"Thank you for the long live reward. The Empress sent someone to send a gift early in the morning. I dare not ask for it."
Shi Fangzhen likes Huang Shufei's ungreedy and unquestionable personality the most, and smiled and said, "The queen is the queen's intention, so I can't express it. I have worked hard to raise Jie'er, so I feel comforted."
"Father, Father, I can recite the "Thousand Characters"." Shi Chongjie was in Shi Fangzhen's arms, and when he heard his father mention his name, he quickly expressed his merits.
"Oh, let me recite it, I will reward you if I recite it well."
In Shujing Palace, Shi Chongjie's childish voice was chanting "Thousand Character Text" word by word. When the last sentence "I am ignorant, foolish, and others mocking me, and those who say words are helpful, is that I am so awesome?" After reading it, Shi Fangzhen was surprised to hold his son in his arms, kissed him hard on his little face, and asked, "Is it possible to understand?"
"Once I said, "The phoenix is singing in the bamboo, and the white horse is eating the ground. It turns into vegetation and trees, and it depends on all directions." This means that the phoenix sings happily in the bamboo forest, and the little white horse eats herbs freely on the grassland. The wise rule of the sage king and wise king has brought favors to the grass and trees, and the kindness spreads to the people of the world." Shi Chongjie explained with a stern face and a serious face.
"Hahaha," Shi Fangzhen laughed happily and said, "Jie'er is not as smart as Yu Wei'er. Tell me, what do you want your father to reward you?"
Concubine Huang was ecstatic and was still deserted on the surface, but her eyes were more hot when she looked at her son.
Shi Chongjie's eyes were bright and he smiled, "Eunuch Xi said that he had eaten candy people when he was a child, but it was delicious. My father would find someone to make candy people for his child."
"Sugar Man?" Shi Fangzhen asked in confusion: "Who is Eunuch Xi?"
Eunuch Xi (Zhang Bojin) quickly knelt down on the ground and said, "Long live the greeting of me, Xiao Xizi."
Shi Fangzhen saw Xiao Xizi's face was pretty and looked gentle. In addition, Shi Chongjie's "Thousand Characters Text" was taught by this person, so he became more fond of him and said, "Get up and reply, I ask you, what is the sugar man?" Shi Fangzhen is good at the deep palace, and occasionally leaves the palace and is surrounded by people. She has never seen such food in the market.
"Long live, Candy Man is a snack food in the market. The Candy Man heats and softens the sugar and forms into humans, animals, flowers and plants, etc., which can be eaten and played." Xiao Xizi said tremblingly that it was the first time he had been in the palace for more than two years.
Shi Fangzhen heard Xiao Xizi's description clearly, was aroused by interest and asked, "Is there a sugar man master in Yongchang City?"
After receiving the reply, Shi Fang gave a true order and summoned ten sugar man masters to the palace.
One hour later, Shujing Palace became lively. Ten sugar masters lined up and took out all their skills to serve the emperor, the twelve zodiac signs, various fruits, ingots and lanterns, gods and ghosts, fishermen, fishermen, and pagoda characters were all vivid. Not to mention Shi Chongjie was overjoyed, even Shi Fangzhen took a candy horse and licked it in his mouth.
The prince, princess, queen, and concubines in the palace were all alarmed and came to watch the fun by paying birthday to Concubine Shu. Concubine Huang was lively and celebrated her birthday happily.
Near the second update, Xiao Xizi returned to his residence with sore waist and back pain, but could not suppress his inner ecstasy. From now on, he no longer had to call Xiao Xizi. The emperor gave the surname Huang, Huang Xi, the Shangyi Bureau's official teaching, and the seventh rank.
A lingering fragrance was lit, and the bad smell in the house dispelled a little. Huang Xi fell on the cold bed. In the winter, charcoal fires were burned in every place. There were eunuchs and palace maids who were frozen to death in the palace every year.
From the seventh rank, the county magistrate who was equivalent to the county magistrate. He had not yet been selected as the seventh rank, and he was not even selected as the county magistrate. He actually got so easily. Huang Xi's tears flowed out. I don't know whether it was joy or sadness, but he could have been an official by relying on talent and learning to become an official, but he was not worth it for the scholars in the world for himself.
Chapter completed!