Chapter 45 The Garden
The green waves are rippling, the willows are green, the mountain flowers are blooming, the grass is lush, and there are many tourists. Of course, the vendors who use this good business opportunity to sell goods are indispensable. They carry loads and baskets, shuttle between tourists, selling flowers, jewelry and various foods, and people come and go, bustling and very lively.
Ordinary families will bring their own mattresses, wine and food. After the food is eaten, they will gather downstairs to the viewing building, recite poems with wine and enjoy themselves. The wealthy families should be more particular. After going outings and having fun, they will return to the courtyard after having a banquet, sit down calmly in the Liushang Pavilion, taste wine and delicacies, and mix the strings and listen to wind music.
Qingshu Garden, Furong Garden, Xinyi Garden, Shuying Garden, and Diyuan Garden, Nuanxiang Garden will be open during the solar term for people in the city to visit. The six gardens are located on both sides of the East Canal, connected by Yuexi Bridge. Although the Empress Dowager, the Emperor and the Queen will hold a banquet in Qingshu Garden today, the guards are not like Song Ruoxi imagined, with three steps and five steps, and there is no one wearing a guard uniform.
Song Ruoxi, who walked all the way from Xinyi Garden to Furong Garden, not only lamented that there were so many people, but also had a new understanding of the security of the Fujian Kingdom and the emperor's favor. Of course, this was just her belief. In fact, she ignored one thing. The three giants would have to wait for lunch before they could come. The Liushang Banquet started at the moment, and the guards only needed to clear the venue half an hour in advance.
In early March, there were only lotus leaves in the small pond in the Furong Garden. The green lotus leaves rippled slightly in the pool water. The pavilions and towers were as exquisite and gorgeous as the gardens in front of them. Song Ruoxi walked around and felt that there was nothing to see. He took Xiangxiu to Qingzhu Garden. Xinyi Garden planted mulberry, plum blossoms, and apricot blossoms, and a warm fragrance garden planted jade flowers. I wonder what kind of flowers were planted in Qingzhu Garden? From the Yuexi Bridge, I saw Chen Mo shaking the orchid fan coming towards me.
The fragrance of flowers attracts bees, the handsome men attracts beautiful women, and a bunch of girls stuffed the flowers, purses and handkerchiefs in their hands into Chen Mo's arms, and then ran away with a smile, blushing and pink, with affectionate expressions.
Song Ruoxi curled his lips contemptuously, and the devils all had a face that confuses all living beings. They deliberately looked away and pretended to appreciate the scenery outside the bridge.
Chen Mo never noticed Song Ruoxi and passed by her.
"Ouch!" When you walk, you don't look at the road. The result is that you are hit by a running child. Song Ruoxi takes his anger at others. Who is this? When you walk, you don't look at the road, you run around and bump. When you look down, you see a child of seven or eight years old sitting on the ground pitifully, quickly pulling out a smile and coming forward to help someone, "Little brother, have you fallen or hurt?"
The little boy quickly got up without waiting for her hand to touch him, and disappeared into the crowd.
Song Ruoxi was hit hard. Does her look scary?
"Girl, have you been injured?" Xiangxiu asked with concern.
"No..." A thought suddenly flashed through Song Ruoxi's mind, and he quickly lowered his head to check the purse tied around his waist. Sure enough, he disappeared. "Xiangxiu, I met a thief and stole the empty purse I just bought."
"This hateful thief, that purse cost three cents!" Xiang Xiu said angrily.
"Forget it, it's not easy for someone to do it once. It's just three cents. Just think we're doing good deeds every day." Song Ruoxi said generously.
Xiangxiu laughed and cried, "There is such a person who does good deeds."
Song Ruoxikou chants the Buddha's name and said seriously: "People who practice should have compassion, tolerance, repentance, and do good deeds. Do more good deeds and get more good results. Do not stick to the form of doing good deeds."
"Yes, yes, the girl is right." Xiang Xiu sneered at the smile, and looked like she was taught.
The master and servant continued to walk forward while talking. They didn't notice that Chen Mo, who was not far away, stopped when he listened to her and looked back at her. His expression changed significantly in his eyes and a playful smile appeared on his lips.
Watching Song Ruoxi walk away, Chen Mo strode off the bridge and walks towards a viewing building. The tourists are in the park, and there is no one in the viewing building. He goes straight up the stairs and walks to the entrance of the third floor. He pauses for a moment, nods slightly to the two men guarding the building, and then goes up.
On the empty third floor, there was only a man in a mysterious brocade robe standing in front of the window, looking into the distance, letting the warm spring sunshine shine on him.
"Mr. Chen is here late, Mr. Lao Zhen is waiting for a long time!" Chen Mo said politely.
The man turned around slowly, with the corners of his lips slightly curled, and the insignificant scar on his cheeks close to his neck moved. "Mr. Chen came here day and night regardless of his hard work. It seems that this thing is very important to Mr. Chen."
"Mr. Zhen is also a businessman. He can't get up early when doing business without profit. No one doesn't want to do this big deal." Chen Mo narrowed his eyes, "Does Mr. Zhen want to get a share of the pie?"
The man frowned slightly, "Can Zhen ask, what should the person who bought this?"
Chen Mo curled his lips and smiled, and his eyes flashed, "Surprise rebellion."
The man's expression froze, his eyes slightly stern, and he said coldly: "Mr. Chen, this kind of joke is not something you can do casually."
"With gold and silver in the account, the affairs of others have nothing to do with Chen." Chen Mo's implication is very obvious, and men don't have to worry about the deep meaning behind this.
The man pursed his lips and turned around to continue looking at the view outside the window.
"This matter will not threaten the country of Fujian, and Master Zhen does not have to bear any burden." Chen Mo walked over and stood side by side with him. The mountains in the distance and the water in the nearest were beautiful. Unfortunately, he did not belong to him, so he would go to another place to own a country, called a lonely person.
The man said nothing, looking at the eyes outside the window changing, thinking for a long time, he opened the brocade box that had been pinching in his hand, with a piece of sheepskin stacked inside, with a picture painted on it.
A hint of joy flashed in Chen Mo's deep eyes. He finally got the thing. He took out a stack of gold tickets from his arms, handed them to the man, and took the brocade box with the other hand.
The deal was completed, and the two did not talk anymore. Chen Mo put the brocade box in his arms, bowed his hand, and turned around and left. The man stayed upstairs for another stick of incense, went downstairs to take his subordinates into the crowd, disappearing without a trace. No one knew what kind of transaction would happen in the viewing building, and what kind of major events would be triggered in the neighboring countries.
The sky is as blue as washing, the flowers are as bright as fire, and the beautiful scenery of spring is so moving that some talented men can't wait to shake their heads and recite poems. The girls shuttle back and forth in the forest, laughing and talking in a delicate voice, and it's like people and flowers, and people are more delicate than flowers.
Chapter completed!