Chapter 30 Testing
King Zhao was amused: "Why are you so easily frightened?"
Ji Yunqing said innocently: "I don't know either!"
She was easily frightened and recovered quickly. She had already started to pull the other's hand and act coquettishly: "My lord, I was just thinking in my heart, I don't know when you will come, but you came right away.
We really have a tacit understanding!"
"What a coincidence? What are you thinking about?"
King Zhao looked inquiringly into the beautiful eyes of the woman in front of him, as if he was the only one in those eyes.
I just don't know if she knew about the Wanxiang Temple incident long ago and deliberately pushed him out to take the blame.
Ji Yunqing didn't notice it at all and pulled him to the desk: "Hey, I can't write the word 'water' properly.
Please teach me quickly. If I can’t learn it today, I won’t be able to sleep.”
King Zhao took a look, picked up his pen and wrote something, then patiently guided the other party to correct his mistakes. After a while, Ji Yunqing wrote something he was satisfied with.
She happily leaned over to Prince Zhao's cheek and kissed him, her eyes sparkling: "Your Majesty, your handwriting is so beautiful. It is such a great blessing for me to meet you."
It is such a blessing for you to meet me!
The two of them were intimate for a while and had a meal together. Then King Zhao revealed his true intention.
He took out two identical jade pendants and asked, "Look, do you recognize these jade pendants?"
Ji Yunqing was very surprised when she saw the two identical jade pendants. She quickly looked at Prince Zhao and asked, "Your Highness, did you make another one?"
Isn't that necessary?
King Zhao carefully observed the woman's face and found nothing wrong, so he felt relieved.
"nothing"
He took the two jade pendants, put them in his hands and licked them, and the jade pendants immediately turned into powder.
It fell down with a whoosh.
This move shocked Ji Yunqing greatly.
"Your Majesty!"
She pulled King Zhao's palm over, observed it over and over again, and touched it curiously. The dry and rough palm was still covered with calluses and was warm.
“It’s no different, isn’t it?”
Is this the legendary internal strength?
At this moment, Ji Yunqing was extremely enthusiastic towards King Zhao.
"My Lord, are you tired? Are you hungry? Let me massage your shoulders and relax you!"
She became more and more servile: "By the way, didn't you say a few days ago that you wanted to see me do somersaults?
It is better to do it today than to wait for a day. Otherwise, I will show you the way. Can you teach me this move? It is really amazing!"
"What a puppy!"
King Zhao comfortably enjoyed the attentive service from his concubines and watched the legendary "somersault".
In fact, it was just a messy circle.
It's the clothes version.
Because Ji Yunqing discovered embarrassingly that if she really wanted to do a somersault, the amount of exercise would drive her to death.
We can only muddle through like this.
Then she looked at King Zhao expectantly, her eyes full of desire for knowledge.
King Zhao said disdainfully: "With just such a small contribution, you think you can bribe me?"
Okay, she endured it!
Ji Yunqing clenched his fist quietly.
After serving the other party diligently for a whole night, early the next morning, Ji Yunqing dragged his waist that was about to break in two and looked at King Zhao persistently.
King Zhao then showed mercy and said, "This is a child's skill. Unless you turn back into a three-year-old child, it's impossible."
Ji Yunqing: “……!”
After the people left, she angrily threw a pillow at the door, "What a bastard!"
Can’t she learn to speak earlier?
He deliberately deceived her into working hard.
For the next few days, King Zhao did not come again. However, the weather gradually became warmer, and the skilled farmer that King Zhao had found for her arrived.
This was a couple. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they lowered their heads obediently and dared not look anywhere.
The man's hands had cracks of varying sizes, his knuckles were thick, and his hands were black, which did not look very nice.
Women are in much the same situation, with mud between their fingers that cannot be washed away, and years of farming and working have caused their bodies to become somewhat hunched.
Ji Yunqing didn't despise them and directly asked them to plant the saplings.
When King Zhao sent people over, he also specially sent a few fruit trees to avoid wasting time if the seeds could not be planted.
Because we plan to plant trees in this yard, it is arranged to be quite spacious and space has been reserved long ago.
Ji Yunqing arranged to plant a jujube tree in the corner, an apple tree near the gate, a peach tree further forward, and a persimmon tree, a fig tree, and a pear tree on the other side.
If the trees are distributed in this staggered manner, they will not easily affect each other when they grow up. In summer, most of the yard will be shaded by the trees, making it relatively cool.
They were used to doing these tasks, and with the help of the servants in the mansion, they did not take too much time.
However, after the others finished their work, she kept the two of them for a while and asked them questions in detail for a long time.
Finally, she asked about the "salary" the prince gave them, and it was a little less in comparison, which she considered as her extra hard work fee.
This also resulted in the couple finishing their work early but not leaving until the afternoon.
Ji Yunqing considerately invited the two to have lunch with him, and also specifically asked about it. The two lived outside the city, not too far away, and would be returning that day. Their son worked as a guard in the mansion.
Finally, he spent money to hire a carriage from the mansion to take the two of them back safely.
After hearing the news the maid had found out, Concubine Zhao frowned in confusion.
"What's going on with this concubine Ji? What on earth is she doing?"
The two servants who worked on the farm were smelly and dirty. Even if they stayed in the yard for a whole day, let alone a few hours, she couldn't lie with her eyes open and say that Concubine Ji had an affair with them!
The maid Su Yue had not done her job well and had been tortured a lot during this period. She quickly flattered him: "Master, not everyone is as noble as you. That concubine Ji probably loves to be with people like this."
Concubine Zhao was very pleased with the words, but she still disliked Su Yue.
If she can't even get one thing done, what's the use of having her?
And there is Bihe. Concubine Zhao gets angry whenever she thinks of this matter.
She slammed the table and said, "Didn't I give you two hundred taels of silver and tell you to bribe a monk to work for us? What's the result?"
Several maids in the yard knelt down in fear.
"Master, calm down."
Bihe pursed her lips. Of the two hundred taels of silver, Suyue had taken fifty taels at that time. She just took fifty taels of silver casually and left twenty taels for her good sister Bixue, leaving only eighty taels of silver to bribe people.
Who knew that the manager of the Zhao Mansion took half of it, leaving only 40 taels of silver. He handed the matter over to his nephew, who took another 30 taels. The remaining 10 taels of silver was given to a servant in the mansion to handle.
The servant spent two taels of silver to hire an idle man on the street to go to the temple to find someone to do the work.
Who would have known that an idle man would spend three cents to buy a candied haws to bribe a little monk who was not very sensible?
However, they couldn't say any of this, and they could only blame everything on the steward who couldn't even enter the palace.
"Master, I have given careful instructions to the senior management, but who knew things would turn out like this."
"Master, it's a good thing the prince didn't find out. It's a blessing in disguise."
"At this point, the most important thing for the master is still the prince."
Concubine Zhao was angry: "The prince doesn't even come to this courtyard, what can I do?"
After she said this, she was shocked. Since he came back, the prince has never entered her yard again. She wondered if he knew something.
No, no, it must be just a coincidence, she comforted herself in her heart. It has only been a few days since she came back from burning incense, and it is possible that the prince is busy at the moment.