Fang Shu’s colleagues in her previous life were all girls, and she opened a shop by herself as a flower shop. Few boys came to buy flowers, and they bought them for girlfriends, only once in a while. During the Chinese New Year, most of them It was a girl who came to order flowers.
For flower arranging or learning flower art, boys don't have that hobby.
There are too few men in contact, so she can't help but resist men, and she will feel uncomfortable when she gets close to him. This is a problem and needs to be corrected.
If you don't correct it, it will become a shortcoming, and it will be used by others in the future. The most important thing is, depending on the situation of the emperor, you will inevitably see ministers and messy people in the future, so you must adapt.
Fang Shu looked at the sky, "Go ahead, I'm going to chase black and white."
She has already found catnip, there is catnip, black and white smells good, as long as she is nearby, she should be able to get the bait soon, which is much better than trying to figure it out by herself, and black and white don't cooperate.
Hibiscus shook her head, "I'll go with you."
Fang Shu refused, "The sun is too strong, I will go by myself, and I will come back to replace you when I get tired."
Hibiscus considered for a while, but did not refuse.
The sun is indeed too big, of course there is another reason.
The authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear. Fang Shu once told her that she met the empress when black and white disappeared last time.
How could it be such a coincidence that Fang Shu met no one else, but it was not a coincidence, but the empress deliberately dismissed everyone and talked to Fang Shu alone.
So she suspected that it was the same this time, although she didn't know what the empress was looking for with Fang Shu? But she is not so ignorant, knowing the reason and going to disturb the two of them on purpose will only embarrass the three parties.
Fang Shu was still looking for black and white, and muttered while searching, "It's strange, why doesn't catnip work?"
This was the first time she tried to use catnip, but it didn't work, Fang Shu was a little disappointed.
Strange to say, Black and White doesn't seem to have much to do with catnip, he only smokes for a little while every day, and spends most of his time by Niangniang's side.
Is catnip fake
No way, if it's fake, I'm afraid I won't even look at Black and White, but it must be true, but Black and White is somewhat resistant to catnip.
It's still quite powerful, and ordinary cats will be hit if they get close to it.
"Black and white!"
I went to other places a little far away and asked, no one has seen black and white, where did I go
"Take a break when you're tired." A voice suddenly came from behind.
It was unusually familiar, crisp and magnetic, except for one person, not as special as a girl's voice.
"See empress." Fang Shu turned to salute.
"Get up." The voice sounded again.
Fang Shu looked up and saw that it was indeed the empress. The voice of the empress was between that of a girl and a boy, with the gentleness of a girl and the clarity of a boy, so it was easy to distinguish.
Today's empress is also dressed in full dress. As an aristocrat, even in the summer, she has to wear at least three layers of clothes to appear neatly in front of everyone. It is not easy to be a queen.
The empress is also holding a fan in her hand, it seems that God does not treat it differently, and the empress is also hot.
Fang Shu is also very hot, but she played a trick and didn't wear the innermost obscene clothes. If someone finds out, they will have to say that she is prodigal and doesn't wear obscene clothes.
Obscene clothes plus middle clothes and outer clothes, she is a court lady, and she has to wear three layers in summer, which is really hard.
One layer was lost, but two layers were not much better. Fang Shu's forehead was covered with sweat, and her clothes were already stuck to her body.
Even if she is like this, the empress must be very tired from running so far to find her. Fang Shu has already arrived in the Royal Garden, just like she was looking for black and white, it must be a lot of effort for the empress to find her, unless she follows her.
It took even more effort to follow her, because she walked around for at least half an hour. As a concubine, there was really no need to suffer this kind of trouble.
"The weather is too hot, your mother is not in good health, go back." Fang Shu boldly persuaded.
Finally, she knew why Jinxiu didn't like her, she made the mother who was in poor health bother to look for her everywhere, if she had someone close like this, she would also hate the person who took her away.
"Wipe off your sweat." The empress flipped her slender hands, and inside was a folded handkerchief.
"Your Majesty..." Fang Shu gritted her teeth, "If something goes wrong with your health, this servant can't afford it."
She used a polite tone, usually when she talked to the empress, she seldom referred to herself as a 'servant', but when she used 'I, you, her' it seemed closer. Secondly, I don't like the title of servant girl, as if she was born humble.
The empress didn't care, instead she was a little happy to hear and see her, probably really regarded her as a friend, not a master and servant.
"It's really hot today." The empress had already walked to a chair beside her and sat down, fanning herself, she didn't know if she was talking to her or muttering to herself.
"I haven't felt it in the house, but I can't stand the heat when I come out."
Fang Shu: "..."
The empress avoids the important and takes the light, but does not reply to her words.
"Niang Niang..." Fang Shu still wanted to make persistent efforts.
The empress interrupted her, "Why are you just like Jinxiu and Jinyu, like a little old woman, don't worry."
She patted the seat next to her, "Sit down, I'm tired, let me lean on your shoulder."
Fang Shu: "..."
After hesitating for a moment, he still sat down, just when he got close to the empress, a heavy weight was placed on her shoulders, and the empress leaned forward.
Fang Shu tilted her head to look, only saw a delicate hairpin, and smelled a faint fragrance and medicinal smell.
It seems that Jinxiu is not lying, the lady is really in poor health and needs to drink medicine frequently, Fang Shu sometimes goes to bed late, and will see Jinxiu coming back from the imperial hospital to bring medicine, usually avoiding people, when everyone is taking a nap at noon.
Speaking of napping, Fang Shu only discovered it recently, other palaces don't have naps, only Changchun Palace does.
I thought it was because the empress was tolerant, but now it seems that it is for the purpose of serving the medicine and dispelling the smell of the medicine during this period, about an hour is enough.
So why do you take medicine every time someone else is taking a nap
Don't want people to know, or pure coincidence
The possibility of coincidence is very small, because their meal time is before the afternoon nap, which means that the empress has eaten, and wait for them to fall asleep and take a long time to take the medicine.
There is no such reason. Generally, drinking medicine and eating are carried out at the same time. How can there be such a long interval in between
So why do it
What secret is the empress hiding
Fang Shu looked down at the empress who was leaning on her shoulder again, thinking that the empress is really mysterious, at least she can't figure it out.
"You really look like my sister." The empress suddenly looked up at her.
?
"Your Majesty still has an older sister?" I haven't heard anyone mention it before, I remember that your Empress is the eldest daughter, so it's impossible to have an older sister
However, it is also possible that she misremembered. The Song family is a big family, and the sons and concubines have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. There are at least a dozen of them. It is normal that they can't remember.
I only know that Niangniang is the most outstanding among them. It is said that she is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she is also one of the four talented women in the capital.
"Yeah." She nodded, "my sister and I are twins, born one after the other, she was the one who was going to marry into the palace, but she has a stubborn and domineering personality, and my parents were afraid that she would cause trouble in the palace, so they sent her It was me."
Fang Shu blinked, heartbroken.
Is this the darkness of the big family
Even married people can be exchanged, and children are like fish on a chopping board, they are slaughtered by others, and they have no right to choose by themselves.
Will the empress marry into the palace voluntarily? Not necessarily
I have decided that I will marry someone in the future, and I will definitely not marry into a big family. It is too miserable. I must be careful at all times, not to mention the three wives and four concubines of a man, and the children will marry others like commodities.
The most important thing is that her status is too low and she has no family background. If she really marries into a big family, she can only be a concubine.
In this era, concubines and concubines are as different as clouds and earth. After all, one comes in by eight sedan chairs, and the other comes in by a small door. The mistress has the right to concubine.
So if you want to be a wife, you can either die of old age, or you can't be a concubine if you don't get married.
In fact, born in this era, Fang Shu is already prepared to be alone for the rest of her life, why? Because everyone here has three wives and four concubines, almost without exception, especially those with a little money and power, it is impossible for anyone to be monogamous with her.
If you can't be monogamous, you can't get married if you kill them.
"How do I resemble my mother's sister?" Fang Shu asked curiously.
The empress shook her head, "Let me tell you a story."
Fang Shu listened carefully.
"Once upon a time, there was a very powerful family. The head of the family gave birth to more than a dozen children. I was very lucky. .”
"My mother has four children. My sister and I are twins. My mother said that my health is so poor because she took away my nutrients. My mother tells my sister every day to take good care of me."
"My sister doesn't like me, because when I cry, my mother will scold my sister, and I will also scold my sister when I bump into my mother. Occasionally, I can see anger and hatred in her eyes, because my mother is afraid that I will be too boring. She sacrificed her free time to be with me."
"Each time my sister is locked in the room, she always thinks about running away. Even if she can't run away, she will just read and practice handwriting and ignore me."
"She has a bunch of friends outside, like a boy, but I only have her, so I like my sister very much. In order to attract her attention, I often deliberately fall and lose things, and ask my sister to help find them."
"My sister knows that I did it on purpose, but in order not to be punished, she will still help me. At first she thought I was troublesome, but then she seemed to get used to it. She called me a little idiot while looking for me." She suddenly changed the subject, "You Is it the same?"
Um? It's really a bit subtle. I love to toss people so much, so I have been a naughty ghost since I was a child.
My sister should be bored to death by her.
"What happened next?" Fang Shu continued to ask.
"Sister yearns for freedom, likes to practice swords, wants to go to the rivers and lakes, and doesn't want to enter the palace."
"So..." Fang Shu looked at her in surprise, "You..."
Sacrifice yourself to fulfill her
"Yeah." The empress nodded, "For me, it's just a change from this cage to another one. For my sister, maybe what I get is freedom."
Fang Shu was suddenly thankful that she had finished listening, otherwise she would be biased.
These two people actually don't hate each other that much, after all, they are connected by blood. When I was young, my sister took care of my mother who was in poor health, and my mother paid her back with her whole life.
Fang Shu was shocked suddenly, "Ma'am, I heard black and white cries."
Empress straightened her head, "Where is it?"
"Over there." Fang Shu pointed along the place where the voice came from, and she also stood up, trotting over to look for black and white.
Not far away, she soon arrived at the place, and heard black and white calls again. Besides the black and white calls, there seemed to be the sound of a cat.
Fang Shu pushed through the grass and saw a scene that was not suitable for children.
Black and white have killed the emperor's little fairy!