This trip to Cen Xijin was fruitful.
In addition to finding the insect caves and killing them all with the help of Cai Xin, I also found several notebooks left by predecessors, a pile of sweet potatoes that were about to become moldy, and two or three packets of unknown seeds.
The most important thing is the notes.
As soon as Cen Xijin came out of the cellar, he looked for Chow Tai Fook, the eldest and most senior eunuch of the Jianxian Pavilion, and asked him a lot about the previous owner of the Jianxian Pavilion.
It turns out that the previous owner of the Jianxian Pavilion dates back to the Xianxi period of the late emperor.
At that time, the Franconian Kingdom sent a young missionary in his twenties to Dali to preach. Only after the missionary arrived in Dali did he realize that the people here were not moved by the religion he preached. Even Emperor Xianxi only admired Taoism in his heart.
Later, for unknown reasons, the missionary entered the palace and became a court painter. He lived in Jianxian Hall for more than 20 years.
Emperor Xianxi was originally an elegant man and loved his Western paintings very much. The missionaries became Emperor Xianxi's close favorites for a time.
However, after that, Puduoya pirates began to appear slowly along the southeast coast of Dali (Puduoya, the former country of Franco). The people of Dali followed the name of the Abra people and called it Flangi. The Dali pirates formed from the country, the Spanya pirates, the Helan pirates, the Yamato pirates, and the desperadoes from the Dali country.
Among them, the Puduoan pirates and the Spanian pirates were the most powerful, and they were the first to burn, kill, and loot in the southeastern coastal areas of Dali. Secondly, the local pirates of Dali had the largest number of people. They were sometimes merchants, sometimes pirates, and maritime merchants. The phenomenon of theft occurs frequently but is repeatedly prohibited.
After Pudoya pirates again plundered the coastal villages and towns in Quanzhou, Emperor Xianxi couldn't bear it anymore and ordered strict "sea ban" measures on the southeastern coastal areas, prohibiting people from going out to sea for trade privately, and also prohibiting foreign merchants from doing business in Dali. In addition, Emperor Xianxi was also angry at the missionary who came from the Franco Kingdom, that is, the court painter who lived in Jianxian Hall.
As a result, the missionary was kicked out of the Dali Palace and returned to his home country of Puduo.
"What's the name of that painter?" Cen Xijin thought, what if this is a celebrity she has heard of?
Zhou Dafu was sitting on the threshold of the side room with his trouser legs rolled up. When he heard this, he raised his head and grinned at her and said: "The late emperor once gave the foreign painter a name and a family name. As for his original name, there is a long list. Who still remembers!"
Cultivation of worldly records...
Alas, it’s someone I don’t recognize again.
As for the few notebooks brought out from the cellar, they were presumably left by the missionary painter Xiu Shiji, but Cen Xijin could not understand the words on them.
In addition to the iron-clad fact that she is proficient in Chinese, she has only passed CET-4 in English. She has also gritted her teeth and passed CET-6 several times. Unfortunately, she was not born to learn languages. Gradually, she gave up. .
Not to mention the Pudua script...
But despite this, Cen Xijin was extremely grateful for this opportunity. At least, although she could not understand the Puduoya characters and even though the sweet potatoes were moldy, she did indeed make a judgment that this imaginary world was actually the same as her previous life. The worlds we live in have many similarities.
The world is also round.
New routes are also constantly opening up.
Crops from America are spreading to Dali one after another.
Maybe there are also five continents and seven oceans in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
The pace of human exploration will never stop no matter where it is.
It can be said that it was precisely because of this encounter in the cellar that her and the second prince's lives would be greatly changed later on.
Apart from these big principles, after crawling into the cellar, the Second Prince gradually became braver and even caught a lot of bugs with Cai Xin, which was considered a small achievement.
Because of these bugs, she can take them to Yaoguang Palace to please Chen Meiren.
Among the low-ranking concubines, Chen Meiren can be regarded as the most handsome. Her face is slightly inferior to that of the late Empress Gu, but she is not inferior to Concubine De and Xian Fei.
But what Cen Xijin didn't expect was that Beauty Chen, who was responsible for her appearance, would be so... down-to-earth.
When she came to Yaoguang Hall for the first time carrying a cage of insects, Chen Meiren was delivering her sow.
Sow...delivering...
Are you sure this is what the emperor's woman should do?
Cuihua, the palace maid of Yaoguang Palace, reported that their beauty Chen was busy at the moment and had no time to pay attention to her, so she asked her to come back in two days.
Cen Xijin returned angrily.
Two days later, when she came to Yaoguang Hall for the second time, Chen Meiren was touching the buttocks of the chickens one by one to guess the egg production.
Cen Xijin was defeated again.
It was not until five days later that Cuihua from Yaoguang Hall came with the news with a naive smile: "Sister Jin, the beauty is free today. I heard that you have something to do, and I asked you to go and reply!"
Hearing this, Cen Xijin glanced at the dying insects in the cage expressionlessly, as if sighing sadly. After a while, she nodded in a soft voice: "Okay."
When Chen Meiren has some free time, the insects they managed to catch are almost frozen to death, okay? !
The Empress Dowager Chen was devoted to this beauty Chen. Although the Yaoguang Palace was not big, it was really a good place... Of course, if there were not those roosters and sows.
According to Chen Meiren's beauty status, she should not live in the "Palace". Even Sun Guifei's sister Sun Jieyu only lives in the "Pavilion". Those who can live in the "Pavilion" are not allowed to live in the "Pavilion". Must be the rank of ninth concubine or above.
The so-called nine concubines are Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong and Chongyuan, all of whom are in the second rank. Ye Zhaoyi, who ranks Zhaoyi, is one of the nine concubines.
The concubines above the ninth concubine, Shu concubine, Virtuous concubine, Xian concubine, are all of the first rank, collectively called the four concubines, and the concubine is one of the four concubines.
Below the ninth concubine, there are nine Jieyu of the third rank, nine beauties of the fourth rank, and nine talents of the fifth rank. Together they are the wives of the twenty-seventh generation.
Under the worldly wife, twenty-seven of the sixth-grade Baolin, twenty-seven of the seventh-grade imperial maiden, and twenty-seven of the eighth-grade Cainu are the eighty-one imperial wives.
As soon as Chen Meiren entered the palace, she was named a beauty of the fourth rank. Although she was not favored yet, she was able to live in the Yaoguang Palace, which was above the second rank concubine. This shows that the Queen Mother carefully cultivated Chen Meiren.
It's a pity that this beauty Chen doesn't seem to appreciate it.
She is indeed beautiful, but she has an eccentric personality. She has no chemistry with anyone in the harem, and I have never heard of her having any close friends. Not only is she unpopular with His Majesty, but even the Queen Mother, if she does not consider the flesh and blood between them, In terms of family relationships, I'm afraid I won't like her either.
She has a charming and handsome face, but her temperament is carefree and rude. She always likes to speak in a soft local accent. She talks like a charming lady from a landowner's family in the countryside, but she acts like a rough man. A thick-footed farm woman, she can raise chickens, deliver sows, and is even good at farming.
However, don't really think that she is just an illiterate peasant woman. She is good at farm work externally and knows the art of war internally. Beauty Chen is always willing to surprise or scare others...
She can be very feminine and masculine to the extreme.
Dealing with such a woman puts a lot of pressure on Cen Xijin.
When he came to Yaoguang Hall, Cen Xijin was not amazed by its luxury and magnificence, but was surprised that all the exotic flowers and plants originally planted were replaced by winter wheat.
As for the huge strange stones used for decoration, Chen Meiren sent palace officials to drag them all to the edge of Yaoguang Hall, and chicken coops and duck sheds were built in their original place.
The rows of exquisite eaves on each corridor, which were originally used to hang parrots and flowers, are also hung with sausages, bacon, and yes, garlic in a down-to-earth manner.
It looks like Si Yuan Si.
Cen Xijin was slandering there, but Cuihua was not looking away. She was brought by Chen Meiren from outside the palace. She used to live in the same village with Chen Meiren. During these days, she saw Yaoguang Palace being raped by Chen Meiren. Transformed into this look, she just felt comfortable. She felt so kind when she saw these when she got up every morning!
There is a corridor on the left and a corridor on the right. Cen Xijin felt that his head was spinning and he was about to vomit when he arrived at the main hall of Yaoguang Hall.
She held her forehead and raised her eyes to look into the palace.
Chen Meiren was lying on the imperial concubine's couch looking out of the palace in boredom. The rare thing around her was only the palace servants but no rooster. Looking at her, she felt a sense of loneliness and coldness, just like the beautiful and lonely Moon Palace Chang'e in the portrait.
Seeing Cen Xijin walking up with his head lowered, Chen Meiren narrowed her eyes and laughed loudly: "Hey, come on!"
Cen Xijin also had a smile on her face, and there were still two clusters of blush on her cheeks. She looked very energetic. She slowly bowed according to the rules and said, "I have seen Beauty Chen. Beauty Chen is well."
"Are you okay? I'm not okay! I can only stay in the palace all day long, and I still want to go to the town to do some business!" At this point, Chen Meiren's expression froze, and finally she said He could only sigh.
Cen Xijin also knew it.
After entering the palace and becoming His Majesty's woman, you still want to go to the town to do business?
I'm afraid that she will never have such a happy and leisurely life in the future. Every day in the palace, she has nothing to do except being unable to control herself.
Fortunately, Meiren Chen is not a sentimental person. No matter whether she is ridiculed or ignored, she will live a wonderful life.
Cen Xijin had a smile on her face, but she quickly took out a small cage with branches and leaves in her hand: "Your Highness asked your servant to bring something to the flower clothes in the Beauty Palace."
After taking the small cage, Chen Meiren smiled like a flower as soon as she looked at it: "Oh, it's a bug! Your Highness the Nong family is really polite!"
Cen Xijin hurriedly took credit for the second prince with a smile: "Knowing that the flowers in the Beauty Palace like to eat the insects in our Jianxian Pavilion, His Highness personally caught these insects. After the Spring Festival, I am afraid there will be more!"
Chen Meiren is also a smart person. She rolled her eyes, covered her face and laughed: "You are so bold! You actually let your master go into the cellar!"
After saying this, Cen Xijin blushed.
