Queen of flowers - Chapter 71

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After talking to Yong Ruo, Feng Liao felt better.

After taking a nap, he took Yong Ruo around the Dustless hall and Prince’s Mansion.

The Dustless hall was a small courtyard. There was a girl and eunuch in the front yard. There was a study room and a small flower hall between the front and back yards. The main room where Feng Liao, and Yong Ruo lived was in the East Chamber.

The East Chamber was quite large. It was divided into three small rooms by a cabinet, with a small flower hall in the middle, a bedroom suite on the north side, and a living room and study room on the south side.

Although the time was short, the layout of the room was not simple.

Yujing, who was in charge of leading the house, acted as a temporary guide and introduced the furnishings to Yong Ruo.

Yujing was slightly smaller than Huarou, with a clean face, which had the rare temperament of girls in this era, and speaks very sharply.

“… beauty please see, this tall rosewood carved glass dressing mirror, and this rosewood inlaid enamel dressing table with glass mirrors, were all brought by the county king …”

“… This jade carving ornament of Bai Xuehongmei is carved from a whole piece of jade. The slave heard Mr. Jiao says that it is very rare for a piece of jade to have three colors, white, red and black. Exquisite craftsmanship, there is only this jade carving treasure. Yesterday, the county king specifically asked Mr. Jiao to find it out from the storeroom and let it be placed in the beauty house. The county king said that this jade can’t match the Beauty … “

“… Beauty, please see this book written by Zhaomei Shen Plum. It is a true story of the flower and a phoenix Chu Daoyuan. It is very hard to find … Wang Ye said to put this in the middle hall for the beauty…”

“… Beauty, look at these jewelry again, they are all the fine works rewarded by the palace …”

Yu Jing was a very talkative person. When she introduced the furnishings in the house to Yong Ruo, she emphasized the rareness of those things, and emphasized that these were all given to beauty by Wang Ye.

While listening, Yong Ruo praised them a few times and smiled at Feng Liao from time to time. Feng Liao held his hands behind his back and smiled very stubbornly.

After visiting the house, the two went outside the yard.

When she was done settling her room Yong Ruo looked back at the couplets hanging on both sides of the gate, “He fears the pond fish and the sea of ​​bitterness; he knows Muyun Mountain as a bird.”

She laughed, “I like this couplet!” She felt the yearning for freedom.

“I personally wrote it myself.” Feng Liao stared at her with clear eyes, “Why do you like it?”

“When I saw this couplet, I suddenly wanted to understand one thing, the world always remembers what they don’t have. The common people always admire riches, and Wang Ye, the rich man, is envious of the ‘Bitter Sea’ ‘Yunshan’ among the ‘free’ lives. “

Feng Liao smiled, glanced at the couplets, and said, “It makes sense! But I would not change the couplets!”

“Why change? Hanging it here to remind yourself is also good.”

“What to remind?”

“Cherish the present.”

The two laughed out of the Dustless House. First they visited the small garden, the Jiarui Garden which was located between the Dustless House and the Shou’an Hall, and then went to the Leqing Hall where the princess lived. The Princess Xing was not there, so they went directly to the Qinfang Garden, the back garden.

What made Yong Ruo feel funny but not surprised was that not counting the slave girls and eunuchs, they met three people in the Qinfang Garden.

The first one was Liu Yuzhuang, who lived in the Royal Palace.

Liu Yuzhuang was Feng Liao’s cousin. Her mother, Mrs. Liu, was the only sister-in-law of Mrs. Shen.

Shen Taifei was born in the former Shenguo government.

The reason why it was called the “former” Shenguo Government was because it had been convicted for committing a number of crimes including corruption in the army, deduction of military rations, and mutiny.

When Shen Taifei was married, she was the eldest daughter of the government, so she became the princess of Feng Liao’s dad.

When it was Mrs. Liu’s turn to marry, the Shenguo Government had ceased to exist, and Mrs. Liu was only the daughter of a criminal.

Fortunately, Feng Liao’s father was affectionate and righteous. In this case at that time, he helped the Shen family. Except for the culprit who died in the chaos, the former Shenguo and his sister-in-law, the family members of the Shen family were preserved.

Although Mrs. Liu was the daughter of a criminal, she had a sister-in-law who was a princess. She successfully married Liu Jun who was from a small landlord’s family as his wife.

This Liu Jun was able to marry the daughter of a criminal official just to get backing from the Prince’s Mansion. He was also an ambitious person, but unfortunately his official fortune was not so good.

After leaving the Hanlin Academy, Liu Jun sought an external post and became magistrate of the county and was about to be promoted, but unfortunately, his dad died! He had to return home to keep filial piety.

After he lost his job, Prince Xing offered him a good position. But acted carelessly and was involved in a major incident. He was almost dismissed. Fortunately, he had a strong backer. The official status was not lost, but he was demoted.

Thereafter, Liu Jun spent many years making good contacts. Everyone expected him to have a bright future ahead, unfortunately, his mother died again! He had to return to Shouxiao again, and he was so depressed that he couldn’t afford any illness. As soon as he was done with filial piety, he died of illness.

Liu Jun had to rely on the Prince’s palace to carry him, and he couldn’t stand upright in front of his wife. So he didn’t dare to accept the help of Prince’s family. The two houses were basically just furnishings.

(Furnishings: that has no practical effect)

Mrs. Liu did not get well after giving birth to Liu Yuzhuang, and her family did not have any other children.

Mrs. Liu picked up a son of her sister-in-law as her heir to take over everything. She also handed over some inconvenient fields and real estate to her sister-in-law to take care of. She gathered up her gold and silver and brought Liu Yuzhang to the Prince’s Mansion.

Today, the mother and daughter were living in the Baohua Building behind Shou’an Hall, and they were close to Shen Taifei.

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