The weather is really nice.

Early in the morning, Zhao Surui strolled around the Shen House on Pomegranate Lane with his hands behind his back.

Compared with Sijin Zhuangzi outside the city, Shen's house is actually smaller, but exquisite. If you look closely, you can see that the stone walls and wood used to build the house are all good. The courtyards are all except for the superfluous things added by the two idiots of the Shen family. After the garden shed, the original owner's care for details was revealed. The study originally had poor lighting, but there was an extra white wall outside the north window. Bamboos were planted on both sides of the wall. The light fell on the white wall and into the house. Inside, the study room is brighter than the rest of the room. Behind the wall is a water channel and culvert. In summer, you can hear the sound of water through the bamboos without being disturbed by mosquitoes.

When he first moved in, Zhao Surui asked Peifeng to lead him around. Peifeng was taciturn and couldn't explain the benefits of this yard. He held it in for a long time and only said:

"The girl is painting here, it's very beautiful."

Hearing this, Zhao Surui rolled his eyes.

Although he could also imagine how Shen Sanfei wrote poems and painted here when he was young, Peifeng's clumsy speech really gave him a new perspective.

Even the stupidest four rats can boast about this place.

There are two paths leading out of the study, one going to the main courtyard and the other going to the small garden at the back.

Because of the neglect of the Shen family's two straw bags, the small garden that used to be filled with flowers of all colors has been abandoned and has even been trampled into the ground. If you still want to plant flowers, you have to wait until spring to completely clear the land. Just turn the plow several times.

According to what Peifeng said, in the past, when Shen Sanfai saw any beautiful-colored flowers, he would find a way to bring them back and plant them, and then find a way to mix them into color materials that could be used for painting. Therefore, there used to be no fixed scenery in this yard, only Shen Sanfai. The preference for colors at that time often led to scenes of blue flowers everywhere, red flowers everywhere, and in autumn there were even all kinds of weird and inedible little fruits.

Yes, in Peifeng's memory, the most memorable thing about those fruits is that they cannot be eaten.

Hearing this, Zhao Surui wanted to roll his eyes again.

He is the emperor, and the courtyard he lives in alone was built by countless skilled craftsmen who spent their efforts. Even if he is ignorant in these places, he still has vision. After listening to Peifeng's description, he thought about it for a moment. I know that this garden didn't look good before, it was just another kind of mess and looked bad.

In his heart, he laughed at Shen, San, Fei and Tong. Emperor Zhao De generously said that he would tidy up the small garden next year. Among other things, he must get some valuable and beautiful plants and trees to create a scene.

In this way, when Shen Sanhui comes back to his old place one day, he will find that she is also a waste when it comes to cleaning the yard, and he can laugh in front of her again.

Yes, the wise and powerful Emperor Zhaode was so "generous".

Zhao Surui reluctantly thought that the flower hall in the main courtyard of Shen's house was quite interesting. Outside the hall, rockery stones were erected in the style of southern gardens, but they were placed cleverly. Outside the west window, they did not block the light. If the window of the flower hall was open, the light spots would be It can penetrate through the hollow. On the wall of the flower hall is a picture of ninety-nine to relieve the cold. The long plum branches are waiting for someone to draw colorful petals. When the light shines on it, it seems as if the sky is dappled and beautiful. On the plum tree.

At first glance, it looked like a literati's trick, but it was so ingenious that people were amazed. After looking at it for a long time, Zhao Surui finally understood where Shen Sanfai's ingenuity in making even a small clay stove came from.

After that, he changed his place to bask in the sun in front of the flower hall.

On the road, he saw the little maid saluting him. Emperor Zhaode shook his sleeves and still held the small hand stove in his arms. He had been carrying the small stove all day long and it was shiny from being rubbed. His feet were made of lambskin boots. Zhaode

The emperor's steps have a triumphant look similar to that of a puppy patrolling its territory.

After walking around and arriving in front of the flower hall, he saw Achi and others packing things.

After looking twice, Zhao Surui saw a very beautiful mahogany box. He walked over and opened it. Inside was a very small inkstone and pen holder, carved from stone, round and cute.

"This thing looks like a child's toy."

After fiddling with it, Zhao Surui curled his lips.

A Chi said with a smile: "Miss, I don't remember. Peifeng said that you were practicing calligraphy when you were a child, and my wife found it specially for you."

"oh."

He closed the box with a "pop" and put it aside. Zhao Surui took two steps as if he was not interested, then stopped and turned back without saying a word. He just watched Achi continue to clean up the items in the Shen family's warehouse.

Old stuff.

One wooden box after another was opened, and there were neither gold or silver toys nor rare treasures. Most of them were children's toys, from polo to Chuiwan, from Go to Shuanglu, each one was delicate and exquisite. Although

They don't look very valuable, but every one of them shows their care.

——The attentiveness of parents towards their daughters.

Achi carefully counted seven or eight boxes of things and put away all the girl's old things. These things are no longer needed by the girl now, but they are also the thoughts of the master and his wife for the girl. If the girl has children in the future, they will still be

Useful.

Looking up, he saw the girl looking at something in a trance. Achi put the booklet in his hand away and walked over with a smile:

"Girl, for your birthday the day after tomorrow, should we go back to Zhuangzi or celebrate it in the old house? I have done some things in Zhuangzi before. If you plan to celebrate your birthday in the old house, I will send a letter to ask them to deliver it to the city.

Come."

A birthday?

Zhao Surui was stunned for a moment: "I remember that the winter solstice will be in three days."

"What a coincidence this year, the girl's birthday falls on the day before the winter solstice."

Achi is happy, but Zhao Surui is not. What does Shen Sanfei's birthday have to do with him?

"Let's live in the old house." He said, "Everyone who follows me will be rewarded with something."

"yes."

After giving the instructions, Zhao Surui put the matter behind him. He had done a lot of tricks to celebrate his birthday in the past. His own birthday was in the summer, and the world was full of excitement and life. It looked even worse than this miserable cold winter.

Much more interesting.

In order to make him happy, the two dogs and the three cats always went to find a juggling troupe to entertain him in Xiyuan. This year for his birthday, the two dogs simply led the elephant out and put a gold and precious stone throne on the elephant.

Sitting high up there, I watched more than a dozen dragon boats racing in the Taiye Pond, and the green peacocks flew over the Taiye Pond. Everyone who saw it said that it was the auspicious blessings from heaven that blessed the Great Yong, and that His Majesty was in good health and everything went well.

After seeing that kind of scene, what kind of situation can these little girls around Shen Sanbai bring to him?

Zhao Surui didn't even bother to guess.

He brought people into Yanjing City with the intention of destroying, smashing, and robbing Ning'an Bo's Mansion. He only waited for his men to find out the details of Zhao Qinyang's personal soldiers before taking action. Apart from this matter, he did not care about other matters.

I can't even get excited.

After entering Yanjing City, he was no longer blind and deaf. He could know more about the news in the court. He also knew what female officials Shen Sanfei had troubled. In his opinion, these were all useless efforts, and those in the court were useless. No one knows better than him how qualified the civil and military officials are. Although they usually fight with each other, once someone takes away the power from their hands, they will immediately become monolithic.

Especially those censors who make sarcastic remarks and use the faults of others to highlight their own achievements. As time goes by, their own parents are not as important as their own reputation.

It's just crazy.

He chose Qian Zhuo, who was good at recruiting people and had a good career as an official, to be the censor of Zuodu, just to prevent the Imperial Procuratorate from being overrun by a bunch of crazy trash.

Shen Sanfai asked the female officials to take the credit from the hands of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, tsk.

In less than three days, those scumbags in the imperial censor were able to recruit 1,800 men for the female officers. Every young man the female officer met when she was four years old when she went out had to have a "romantic affair."

Thinking that Shen Sanfei would be upset by those people, Zhao Surui felt that he should be happy.

But he couldn't be happy.

Probably because the skin that Shen Sanfei is using now belongs to him. How could the dignified Emperor Zhao De be stumped by a bunch of mere officials?

Lying on the recliner, looking at the ray of sunlight shining on the carved wooden plum tree, Zhao Surui smacked his mouth.

If Shen Sanfai makes him another bowl of mutton noodle soup, he won't be able to casually tell him some ways to deal with Yan Guan.

Living such a leisurely life, the day of "Shen Shiqing's" birthday soon arrived.

Early in the morning, Zhao Surui saw a complete set of new clothes placed on the fumigation cage.

It's men's clothing.

He immediately became interested, stretched out his hand and took the sash made of azure flowers into his hand.

From the shoulders to the chest of the clothes are a piece of peony wrapped with bergamot, longevity peaches and pomegranates, which are the three more patterns that mean "more wealth, more longevity, more children".

The pattern on the hem is intertwined plum blossoms and snowflake patterns, with fine stitching. The snowflake pattern is sewn with silver thread. When you look at it, you can see the luster flowing, and you can see that it has been carefully thought out.

The shoes placed under the bed are also new. They are still made of delicate lambskin and are very soft on the feet.

Brand-new clothes, brand-new shoes, and a mink fur hat. Neatly dressed, Zhao Surui stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked at it. He could vaguely see something about himself from Shen Sanfei's dull face. Divided into wise men and powerful men.

Ah Chi came in quietly carrying freshly heated hot water, only to find that his girl had woken up a moment earlier than usual and had even put on her clothes.

"This dress is nice."

So said the wise and critical Emperor Zhaode.

Naturally, Ah Chi had prepared the clothes. She had cut them and the pattern was embroidered by Qingying. Ah Chi felt sorry for his girl who had not lived for so many years. Not only did she buy new clothes and new shoes, but she also made both Tunan and Peifeng happy. Find a way to make the girl happy.

The gift from Peifeng was a whip, not inlaid with gems or anything else, but with a silver bell hanging from the handle of the whip.

Liu Tianxing hurriedly claimed credit: "Although this whip was made by Peifeng, the rope on it was made by me. My hands are all red from the rope."

Zhao Surui disliked the fact that there was not even a gem on the whip, but he still held it in his hand without letting go.

It’s not that he likes it, he just suddenly wants to ride a horse.

Standing in front of the main house and receiving birthday greetings from the servants, Zhao Surui heard Achi say that Tunan and Xia He's birthday gifts every year were in the side yard, and he had to go see them by himself.

Zhao Surui is not interested.

Zhao Surui stretched his neck without eating breakfast and went to the side yard.

Well, it’s not that he likes the gift that much, it’s just that he is too bored and everything he sees is new.

The side yard was originally a place where Shen's mother used to raise horses and work with them. In the hands of the two losers of the Shen family, the walls of the stable were torn down and opened up, and a theater troupe was set up where they could play, play, and sing. The shed where the servants of the dandy family rested. Zhao Surui had the shed dismantled and the stables built again, but it was not finished yet because of the cold weather.

As soon as he arrived at the side courtyard, Zhao Surui saw the "birthday gift".

It's a white pony.

The pony is still a little short of snow-white, with a pinch of black on top of its head, but its limbs are slender, strong, and the frame is well-proportioned and smooth. At first glance, it looks like a pretty good pony. A pair of big, watery eyes looks at people, and no matter who they look at, they feel happy in their hearts. confused.

Oh my, what a smart and cute little thing.
To be continued...