When a person who grew up in the countryside enters a city for the first time, he will inevitably be stunned by the prosperity and wealth of a big city. Even the common people in a big city will inevitably be trembling with fear and shrinking their hands when they enter a mansion for the first time. As for the leading figures in the mansion, their first time entering the palace, their performance will not be much better than that of a country person entering the city for the first time.
The Queen Mother wanted to use this simple truth to test the quality of Mrs. Hong. However, when she was thinking this, she only heard Zhu Ying laugh: "Queen Mother, this method sounds very good, but in this world, there is a kind of people who are different. To put it nicely, it is called not changing their expression even if Mount Tai collapses in front of them. To put it bluntly, it is that they don't care at all."
Zhu Ying glanced at Zhang Shou with pride as she spoke: "Take my Ah Shou for example. When a beauty like me fell from the sky, he avoided me like a snake and scorpion, and wanted to stay away from me every day! When he entered the capital, he seemed to be more interested in the city gate than my family's mansion. Later, after he entered the palace, I saw that he was also quite calm!"
Zhang Shou didn't expect Zhu Ying to use him as an example, so he could only laugh. He wasn't a real country boy, and he had seen almost everything that was available these days. Many of the gardens of later generations might be renovated imitations of antique buildings, but they were definitely not inferior to the designs of the ancients in terms of sophistication. He was almost aesthetically fatigued by the gardens of ancient streets and towns. He had even seen palaces in more than a dozen countries.
Born in the era of information explosion, he may not be as smart as those old foxes of today, but in terms of vision and knowledge, he is far ahead of them. What's so amazing about mansions and palaces? The top natural wonders and the grandeur and smallness of the earth seen from space are what make people excited, right
But the Queen Mother had no idea what Zhang Shou was thinking. Because of Zhu Ying's words, she looked at Zhang Shou again. Seeing this elegant and handsome young man smiling at himself, she couldn't help but twist the Buddhist beads in her hand and smiled along with him.
"Yingying, I think you're always praising your own vision whenever you get the chance. How many people in the world can be praised by Grand Tutor Ge? Hong is just her father bragging about her. If she can really enter the palace but turns a blind eye to the wealth and luxury, and acts as if she is alone, then it means that her father recommended the right person."
At this point, the Queen Mother said with a half-smile, "Chu Kuan did not volunteer to go to greet her today. But I heard that all the leaders of the Imperial Household Department under him went out, in addition to the two Shang Gongs and two Shang Yis."
Zhang Shou simply didn't know what to say. Even though he had experienced all kinds of strong onlookers before, the treatment from Hong's onlookers today was no less than what he had experienced before. If a person is really just an ordinary girl, under so many sharp eyes, even small flaws will be picked out as big flaws, and even if there is no problem, it will be picked out as a small flaw! To be honest, this is a bit of bullying.
He couldn't help but frown, and this expression immediately caught the eyes of the Queen Mother who had been observing him carefully.
However, the empress dowager did not expect that the person who was more directly disgusted than Zhang Shou was Zhu Ying.
"Although that old fellow surnamed Hong is annoying, why not take his daughter around the palace first and see how she reacts? A head of the Imperial Household Department is enough. Why do we have to go in such a large group?" Zhu Ying, who had just sat down, sneered and simply stood up. "How many people in the palace used to show their courtesy to the eldest prince? Why are they starting to think of other things now?"