Both Dugu Mo and Shiliu couldn't help looking at Wu Zhe in surprise. ?. . I don't know if it's a coincidence or if it's a godsend. Here, just as Wu Zhe finished talking about the emperor coming back to deliver things, unexpectedly, after refusing the Chu family's visit, a eunuch came to deliver things.
"Coincidence, what a coincidence. Of course, it is also possible that the emperor arranged for someone to wait there, seeing the Chu family coming and being rejected by us, so he jumped out..." Wu Zhe tilted his head and thought for a while, then cupped his hands to Dugu Mo : "If you are really waiting there, congratulate your son for winning the favor of the emperor."
After thinking about it for a while, Dugu Mo understood the trick.
If Emperor Xuanwu is willing to set conditions when sending people gifts, it means that he already has a very strong position in his heart.
"Hurry up and pick it up, I don't know what the emperor will send." Wu Zhe urged: "Don't forget to reward the father-in-law who brought the things, and don't even forget the carriage driver."
Leopard Lao and Dugu Mo hurried out to greet him, Shiliu glanced at Wu Zhe, not knowing what was going on, and dared not speak easily to scold others.
Wu Zhe leisurely made a cup of tea by himself, sat behind the screen in the living room, and waited for Dugu Mo and others to come back.
"Eunuch Cao, please come inside."
Not long after, the father-in-law was welcomed in, and Wu Zhe listened behind the screen. What the two sides talked about was that Dugu Mo became famous, but he was actually a moral model or something polite.
Not long after, Wu Zhe finished drinking his tea behind the screen, and his father-in-law also left. Leopard Lao sent the hard work money, and the father-in-law and his subordinates left happily.
"Miss Zhou, come and have a look." Lao Bao went behind the screen and called Wu Zhe to come out.
Wu Zhe doesn't deliberately hide her whereabouts now, so Old Leopard will naturally know that she is behind the screen.
Shi Liu was reminding: "Your Highness, the emperor sent someone to send something. This imperial gift should be kept in the main pavilion, right?"
"Without an imperial decree, it's not an imperial gift." Dugu Mo muttered, reaching out to open the wooden box.
The four of them looked together.
It turned out to be a pot of flowers and plants.
A peony flower that has entered the flowering stage.
Although the flowers are of good quality, the peony flowers have obviously begun to wither, and they will wither and wither within two days.
Lost!
This is a pot of flowers!
"Oh!" Pomegranate exclaimed. It seems that things are not very good: "It's actually a potted flower?!"
Dugu Mo and Leopard watched it all the time. It was also a sudden surprise. "Probably not." Dugu Mo gritted his teeth secretly, feeling chills in his heart.
Sending defeated flowers is very unlucky. Have a vendetta or do it as a warning. Only then will there be a similar act of sending defeat flowers.
Could it be that the emperor warned Dugu Mo that he had gone too far
Unconsciously, the three turned their eyes to Wu Zhe. Pomegranate followed Dugu Mo's gaze.
"Fortunately, the emperor asked the father-in-law to cover a box and send it over, otherwise it would be terrible if it spread." Wu Zhe also seemed to be frightened, patted his chest and said: "Young master, hurry up and arrange a trustworthy person to go out through the back door of the mansion. Quietly buy a Come back with a new pot of peonies."
"Yes, yes, it's too unpleasant to spread the word!" Bao Laolian claimed.
Dugu Mo hesitated for a moment, and quickly ordered: "Pomegranate, hurry up and buy a potted peony. Be careful not to be seen by others, and cover it with something."
When Shiliu heard that she was Prince Mo's trustworthy person, she immediately responded and ran out all the way.
Dugu Mo circled around the pot of flowers. After waiting for a while, when the pomegranate was far away, he said, "Miss Zhou can tell me what this flower means."
The old leopard let out an ah, and realized that what Wu Zhe said just now was to ask Prince Mo to turn off the pomegranate.
"Actually, I thought at first that the emperor would send a bamboo plant." Wu Zhe followed Dugu Mo's example and walked around for a while before continuing: "It seems that Emperor Xuanwu is so profound, it's really not easy to guess, it's not easy Guess."…
Dugu Mo and Old Leopard waited anxiously, waiting for Wu Zhe to explain the meaning of the nearly withered peony, their eyes were full of inquiries.
Dugu Mo prides himself on his intelligence, but in front of Wu Zhe, especially under the pressure of the scheming Emperor Xuanwu, it is simply not enough.
"Why don't you ask me, why do you guess that the emperor will send you bamboo?" Wu Zhe asked with a smile.
Dugu Mo put his hands together and bowed, respectfully said: "Please enlighten Miss Zhou."
"I'm working for you, so you don't have to be polite. I'm actually a secretive person, so don't take it to heart, sir." Wu Zhe hid aside with a smile, avoiding Dugu Mo's bow.
She smiled and hid like this, and immediately let go of all the awkwardness that she had disregarded her identity before.
"I have no time to distract him these few days. I am just helping you think about the recent situation. So I came to a conclusion that the emperor will send something. My initial guess was that the emperor would send bamboo." Wu Zhe began explain.
Dugu Mo and Bao Lao listened solemnly, but they also slandered you in their hearts because you were obviously lazy, refused to do any rough work, and you were looking for excuses to think hard...
Wu Zhe continued: "Because I think that bamboo only blooms once in a lifetime, which is most in line with a certain meaning. And the name also has a related meaning."
"Meaning? Related?" Dugu Mo muttered, but couldn't figure it out for a moment.
"Let's not talk about that, let's see if this peony is..." Wu Zhe approached the flowerpot, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the stem of the peony.
The half-withered peony flowers trembled under Wu Zhe's grasp.
"I'll pull—" Wu Zhe scolded lightly.
Dugu Mo and Old Leopard watched her pull out the flowers, and wanted to speak out to stop them but held back, but the expected situation of grabbing the flowers and lifting them up with the flowerpot did not happen.
Originally, the flowers and plants are always in the flower pot, and when the stem is lifted up, the root system of the plant will firmly grasp the soil, which will cause the entire flower pot to be lifted up by strength.
But now, the entire pot of peonies was suddenly pulled out of the pot.
Dugu Mo and Bao Lao were taken aback for a moment, only to see that the root of the peony flower was actually smooth. Countless root systems that should have sprawled are not left at all.
no root
This peony has no roots!
Dugu Mo and Leopard Boss were surprised.
Before, I only noticed that it was a withered flower, but I didn't expect it to have no roots.
"My lord, do you understand it?" Wu Zhe smiled and stuffed the peony back into the flower pot.
The stem of the peony flower fits tightly where it is inserted into the soil, just enough to keep it from falling over. Apparently, this peony was planted in a pot after the root of the peony was deliberately removed.
"Peony flower..." Dugu Mo's brain turned sharply, and he muttered to himself: "You said that you thought you would send bamboo... Could it be... bamboo... pawn..."
Wu Zhe smiled: "That's right! Your Majesty is telling you that there is a person who is like a flower that has bloomed and withered and has no roots... Damn it!")