Her Majesty the Queen is a god in the entertainment industry

Chapter 156 Where Are the Antiques Belonging to Emperor Yuanzhao?
It never occurred to her that the items inside were all utensils that she had used or played with when she was young.

What's more, the queen mother kept it for her all the time!

Even if the things in it were lost after she played for a while when she was young, she replaced them with other new gadgets.

On the top of this box is an exquisite grasshopper cage, engraved with patterns that ordinary people can't understand, but the grasshopper inside is long gone.

This is what she learned from the fun-loving playboys in Beijing at that time.

Under the grasshopper's cage is a round fan that is exquisitely crafted but the size of an adult's palm. The only fly in the ointment is the green embroidered ball on the fan, and the stitches are so sloppy that one cannot bear to look directly at it.

This is the result of being pressed by her mother to learn needlework when she was young, she learned so much that her mother shook her head, and finally gave up helplessly.

Jiang Lingxi resisted the urge to hide her face, and continued to look aside.

A bamboo sword with the length of a child's arm, a small bow with almost the same proportions, and some other weapons that are also made of plants that do not have much lethality.

When she was young, she was annoyed that only her elder brother could practice martial arts with a martial arts master, so she asked a craftsman in the mansion to make a weapon for her. When the queen mother found out, not only did she not stop her, she even helped her argue with her father.

There are some rolled up papers on the bottom. Although she was stopped by the staff on the side with sharp eyes and hands before she opened the things on the top, she guessed that it was probably because she practiced calligraphy and painting when she was a child. Sometimes some works are still eye-catching.

The compliments received from elders when she was young can often make children happy for several days, and she was no exception when she was young.

However, after discovering these things now, Jiang Lingxi felt that her image of being wise and mighty in the eyes of future generations might be partially discounted.

But at the moment, she felt more remorse in her heart.

Ever since she imprisoned, exiled, and reprimanded all her brothers, coupled with the busy government affairs of the court, the longer she was emperor, the relationship with her mother became more and more indifferent.

She always thought that the queen mother should feel that the clever and sensible daughter who used to be around her knees is no longer there, and in exchange for an ambitious and majestic emperor, especially when she can even deal with her own brother without changing his face.

But looking at the well-preserved things in front of her, she wondered if she hadn't been so stubborn back then, and would have confide in her heart when she went to pay her respects in the harem, would the relationship between them have eased.

After all, they were originally such a close mother and daughter!
It's a pity that it's too late for her to think of this now.

Shen Yunqing stood quietly beside Jiang Lingxi, watching her unconsciously caressing the patterned hand on the box, she could somewhat understand her mood at the moment.

Since he entered the court, he had also seen the empress dowager who had always lived in seclusion at some large palace banquets, and he could sense the rigidity of the relationship between the mother and daughter of the Tian family.

He originally thought that the Queen Mother was complaining about His Majesty, but now he saw the items in this box and the sentimentality in His Majesty's eyes.Thinking about it now, the mother and daughter both have each other's feelings in their hearts, but they couldn't ease it until they died.

"You opened it!"

Surprised shouts from behind broke the silence in the hall, Jiang Lingxi subconsciously closed the box with her backhand, and looked back with Shen Yunqing.

I saw Fu Yunchen walking towards the box with the wind blowing under his feet, directly past the two of them, walked up to the box, opened it carefully, and asked, "Assistant Jiang opened it? I didn't expect Assistant Jiang to have this kind of skill, sorry and disrespectful. But how can you close it after opening it, even if you want to close it, don’t be so rude, if the things in this box are really owned by Emperor Yuan Zhao, then it is really too precious.”

After finishing speaking, he sighed again, "There are so few relics about Emperor Yuanzhao, especially compared with other emperors in the past, it can be said that rare things are precious."

Jiang Lingxi has now realized the reality. There is no way to hide this box and the contents of the box. She is already planning to smash the can, and hearing Fu Yunchen's words, she couldn't help raising her eyebrows.

"Are there very few relics of Emperor Yuanzhao?"

"It's not only rare, it's pitifully rare. Not to mention that no one has found the tomb of Emperor Yuanzhao so far, and there are also artifacts to play with and collect, and even some written words and paintings. I still doubt whether it is true or not. They were all taken for burial, or else they would not have found any of them."

Hearing what he said, Jiang Lingxi frowned.

When she was dying, she had confessed that everything in her funeral would be simple, even if possible, cremation would be fine, as it was better than a little decay, let alone some precious items not buried with her.

She has seen countless lives and deaths on the battlefield, so she doesn't care about death as if it happens, she only knows that death is nothing.

Could it be that the next emperor didn't do what she said at all?
Fu Yunchen's attention was on the box at the moment, and Jiang Lingxi was also lost in thought at the moment, so neither of them noticed that Shen Yunqing, who was standing on the other side, touched his nose indiscriminately.

"Let me see, what's in this box..."

The rest of the word 'what' silently disappeared after Fu Yunchen saw the things placed in the box.

Instead, "What's all this?"

Jiang Lingxi looked up at the carved beams and painted buildings on the Cuiwei Hall, and then looked down at the polished golden silk bricks under his feet, expressing that he didn't know either.

Having said that, Fu Yunchen carefully took out the things and looked at them. He hesitated until he reached the bottom scroll, but he still didn't touch it with his hands.

"I'd better take it back and test the composition of the paper first, so don't accidentally damage it, and open it after it's done. Consultant Shen, Assistant Jiang, I'll do this first, you two..."

It would take a lot of time to deal with such an object that would be damaged if it was not properly protected, and he was ashamed to let the two in front of him wait with him.

Shen Yunqing said kindly: "It just so happens that I brought Assistant Jiang here and I have other work to do, so curator Fu will do it first."

Fu Yunchen put away the box immediately, and greeted the subordinate who found the box, "Then Consultant Shen is busy with you, so I will excuse you first, and I will send you a message when the paper is finished."

It is still not 100% sure that the box and the grasshopper cage belong to Emperor Yuanzhao, especially since there is a messy embroidered fan inside. Now he puts his greatest expectations on those scrolls.

When Fu Yunchen left in a hurry with his back, Jiang Lingxi and Shen Yunqing who stayed in the hall looked at each other silently.

In the end, Shen Yunqing lowered her eyes slightly, "Should I go out first and start shopping from the main entrance of the imperial city, or start from this Cuiwei Palace?"

"Cuiwei Palace."

When she came here to pay her respects, she always came and went in a hurry, at most having a cup of tea and a snack.

Thinking about it now, it has been a long time since I took a serious look at the palace where the empress mother lived for several years.

(End of this chapter)