After working hard for a long time, Rong Changan was very happy when he saw the flower pond had just taken shape. He sat on the smooth stone with Chuntao and drank herbal tea, feeling very comfortable.
"Queen, Chuntao, what are you doing?" Yan Li's cold and loud voice made Chuntao jump up from the stone.
Chuntao is a servant, so she actually sits with Rong Chang'an, who is the queen, it's really an eyesore.
Chuntao hastily bowed her knees: "I don't know the emperor is here, Chuntao has committed a crime!"
Rong Changan also bowed his knees to salute Yan Li.
Yan Li smiled tolerantly: "Since you say you don't know, those who don't know are not guilty, excuse me, excuse me!" He helped Chuntao and Rong Chang'an himself up.
Rong Changan's face was a little unhappy: "Why, the emperor's reception of foreign guests is over?"
"In order to receive foreign guests, I can't accompany the queen to the back mountain for an outing. I'm very sorry. I don't know if I have to come here now, is it too late?"
Rong Chang'an said, "You are the emperor, so what if you are in time, so what if you are not in time?"
Yan Li had already put one hand on Rong Changan's fragrant shoulder: "To make up for it, I will hold a banquet for the Queen in the back garden tonight, how about it?"
Rong Changan sighed, feeling a little dull: "Actually, I was just joking, the emperor should not take it to heart. The emperor should put the state affairs first, Rong Changan is not a three-year-old child, and would not ask the emperor to give up state affairs and come to accompany me. "
Yan Li fondly grabbed Rong Changan's hand: "I knew the queen was not that kind of stingy person! In my heart, the queen will always understand righteousness."
Having said that, Yan Li calmly saw a trace of sadness between Chang'an's brows, but he didn't know that this sadness came from her not being able to bear children for him.
"Ah, queen, why are your hands full of mud? What did you do just now?"
Chuntao chuckled: "The empress is going to retire and return to the fields, and become a gardener who specializes in planting flowers and grass!"
Yan Li looked at Rong Changan curiously: "Queen, what's going on?"
Rong Chang'an smiled slightly, and pointed to the field of flowers: "Please look, Your Majesty!"
With a flash of Yan Lilong's eyes, he saw a small chaifei, and there was a sign hanging on the chaifei, with the words "Queen's Flower Pond" written in beautiful characters.
Yan Li also smiled: "It turns out that the queen has such a leisurely and elegant way to plant flowers in the back mountain! Can I go inside and see what flowers the queen has planted?"
Rong Chang'an made a salute: "Your Majesty is just joking! The shore of the land, could it be the land of the king, the Emperor can't do it anywhere! Please!"
Rong Changan opened the firewood door, and Yan Li followed him in, and saw many signs, some with "Luoyang Red", some with "Eighteen Bachelors", and some with "Scratch the beauty's face".
Yan Li looked at it and couldn't help clapping his hands: "In a few months, if there are flowers here, I will lead a hundred officials to come here for a garden party. Queen, what do you think?"
Rong Changan said: "Aren't just a few flowers worth holding a garden party?"
"It's worth it, it's worth it!" Yan Li looked again, "Queen, the flowers you planted are indeed the best among flowers, but now is not the time to plant peonies."
In terms of arty, Yan Li knows a lot more than Rong Chang'an.
Rong Changan was slightly taken aback: "Why isn't it the time to plant peonies now? The whole year's plan lies in spring!"
Yan Li grabbed a handful of damp soil from the ground: "Peonies are suitable for dry places and dry seasons. At the turn of spring and summer, the rain is abundant and the soil is always wet. Ordinary people think this is the time to plant flowers and grass, but they don't know There are also many kinds of flowers. Like peonies, it needs to be planted in autumn, and the number of surviving plants is more. If you plant it now, I am afraid that out of twenty plants, ten will not survive."
Rong Changan's face turned red, just like the face of the beauty who scratched. She pursed her lips and snorted coldly.
"I don't believe it! I just want all twenty of them to survive!"
Yan Li was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slightly.
Rong Changan pouted and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you laughing at?"
Yan Li caressed Rong Changan's blushing face: "You have a stubborn temper! People say east, but you tend to go west!"
Rong Changan looked at Yan Li with provocative eyes: "If I planted twenty peonies and none of them survived, I would be called stubborn. If all twenty of my peonies survived, then I would not be called stubborn. That's called firmness!"
"Okay, okay!" Yan Li didn't want to make Rong Changan angry, so he followed her, "Since the queen wants to plant, then let's plant."
The corner of Rong Chang'an's playful mouth turned over: "Your Majesty, why don't we have a bet."
Seeing that she was serious about what she said, Yan Li didn't want to gamble: "Forget it, I was just talking."
But Rong Chang'an refused to let go: "No! Your Majesty, you are not joking! I want to bet against the Emperor."
Yan Li had no choice but to ask, "What does the Queen want to bet on?"
Rong Changan said: "If the peonies I planted do not survive ten, I will..."
What Yan Li most wanted to see was Rong Chang'an's sword dance: "If the queen's peonies do not survive ten, the queen will do a healthy dance for me, how about it? Dance with a sword."
"Okay! What if the emperor loses?"
Yan Li lowered his head and pondered for a while: "If I lose, what does the queen want?"
Jin Renxin's words flashed in Rong Changan's mind. If Rong Chang'an often persuaded Yan Li to accept his concubine, Yan Li would definitely not accept it considering the relationship between the two of them; why not let him accept his concubine based on this bet.
"I haven't thought about it yet, I'll tell the emperor when I think about it."
Yan Li thought, no matter what you want, Changan, even if you want the moon in the sky, I will take it off!
The two talked for a while in the back garden, and another eunuch hurried over to say something. Yan Li looked at Rong Changan.
Rong Changan already understood, and tried his best to show a bright smile: "Your Majesty, go, Chuntao and I will stay here for a while, and it's time to go back to the palace."
Yan Li said: "I want to entertain foreign envoys at the Hua'e Tower tonight. If it is convenient for the queen, come with me."
Yan Li followed the eunuch and left.
Rong Changan called the eunuch who was in charge of the back mountain, and pointed to the flower pond: "I planted these flowers, you have to manage them diligently, if a tree dies, I'll ask you!"
The eunuch knelt on the ground with a puff: "Don't worry, queen, the servant will take care of these flowers with all his heart, just like taking care of a little liver!"
Rong Changan nodded in satisfaction, walked out of the back mountain with Chuntao, and entered the palace through Jingyang Gate. But I saw a group of people walking on the main road of the palace, in the middle of a sedan chair with exquisite decoration, two maids stood on both sides of the sedan chair, and next to the maid was a servant with deep eyes and high nose who did not look like a Central Plains person.
Rong Changan thought, this group of people should be the foreign guests that Yan Li received today.
"Chuntao, can you tell which country the person in the sedan chair is from?"
Chuntao shook her head: "I only know that it is a princess, but I really can't tell which country it is from."
Rong Changan was taken aback for a moment.
If foreign envoys bring the princess, they must ask the emperor to accept the princess as his concubine. I just don't know what this concubine looks like
It stands to reason that Yan Li would not reject this princess for the sake of stable diplomatic relations between the two countries, and would accept her as a concubine, but whether he usually goes to Linxing is another matter.
Rong Chang'an hoped that Yan Li would go and visit the other concubines in order to continue the emperor's life, but he was not feeling well. If you don't want Yan Li to be lucky, on the one hand, the imperial line is declining, and on the other hand, the concubine who guards the empty boudoir alone, wouldn't she waste her youth in waiting every day? That feeling is so tormenting.