back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 596
After everyone left the Chuigong Hall, Zhou Zhiruo said slowly, "Your Majesty, it seems that the Empress Dowager is determined to accept a concubine for you. Sister Han, what is Your Majesty going to do?"

Lu Chengqi smiled wryly and said: "What else can I do? Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up, and the queen mother's wish is fulfilled..."

"The concubine heard that the Queen Mother has already found a concubine for Your Majesty to choose. Look, Your Majesty..." Zhou Zhiruo asked tentatively.

Lu Chengqi said sternly: "Since I promised to take Miss Feng'er as my concubine, I will do it. I am the Son of Heaven, and I speak well, how can I break my word and break my promise? If you are worried, Zitong will go with you..."

"Your Majesty, are you talking nonsense? The Empress Dowager must have summoned Her Majesty to talk about choosing a concubine. Where will the concubine go?" Zhou Zhiruo said in a low voice. Lu Chengqi's heart was broken.It's really like what Li Qingzhao wrote, "There is no way to get rid of this feeling, so I lower my brows, but it's on my heart".

With his true feelings revealed, Lu Chengqi took Zhou Zhiruo into his arms fiercely, and said sincerely: "No matter who you accept as a concubine, you will still be my Zi Tong, my queen, and my first wife!"

After Zhou Zhiruo was confessed like this, her mind went blank for a while, and she didn't turn around for a long time.It took a long time before Zhou Zhiruo hugged Lu Chengqi back.After a while, she pushed Lu Chengqi away and said, "Go to Jingfu Hall quickly, don't make the Queen Mother wait in a hurry."

Lu Chengqi nodded, and Zhou Zhiruo gently helped him arrange his clothes before urging, "Go!"

"I don't know how many lifetimes of good deeds I have practiced to get this virtuous wife..." Lu Chengqi was full of guilt, even if he knew that being an emperor would inevitably want the 72nd concubine of the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces.But he is not a sentimental person, how can he take care of it?Even Han Feng'er risked his life to break into his heart.If it was an ordinary woman, no matter how beautiful she was, Lu Chengqi would just admire her for a while.In the imperial palace, the most indispensable thing is beautiful women.How can a woman who can be selected into the palace be too poor in appearance?Living among beauties every day, he is already immune to beauties, and beauties are no longer in his eyes, maybe this is the reason why Lu Chengqi can accept Han Feng'er?
After leaving the Chui Gong Hall, Gao Hao hastily shouted: "The emperor is driving!"

In the Jingfu Hall, Empress Dowager Liu, holding a Buddhist bead in her hand, closed her eyes and chanted scriptures in front of the Buddhist altar in the inner hall.This is a habit she has persisted in for many years. She spends every night praying for Dashun and the royal Lu family.Her greatest wish is actually to let the Lu family flourish.The Lu family has been passed down for a long time for five generations. Although there are fewer disputes over the throne, it is still not safe!In case any emperor cut off the incense, wouldn't the land of the Lu family be cheaper for outsiders?Don't say that there will be chaos in the world, I am afraid that there will be alien invasion.

It's no wonder Mrs. Liu is so anxious, Lu Chengqi's health has never been very good.If there is no child and a half daughter, who will entrust the huge country!If it was like Emperor Yuanshou, he had a son only in middle age, and his son was only 17 years old after his death.At an ignorant age, power is left behind.Fortunately, with Lu Chengqi as the successor, he regained his power. Otherwise, maybe in another ten or twenty years, Dashun's national surname would not be Lu.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has arrived..."

A warm and soft voice came, and Liu slowly opened her eyes and got up from the futon.A court lady hurriedly supported her, fearing that she would fall. "Don't worry, I will definitely convince His Majesty to accept you as a concubine!" Mrs. Liu seldom promised others, but once she said it, the matter was almost settled.

"My maid doesn't dare to expect this..." the maid lowered her head and murmured.

Mrs. Liu patted her hand and comforted her: "What is extravagant hope! This is what you deserve. If His Majesty hadn't had an accident and would not remember you, you would have been a noble concubine long ago. At worst, you should be a concubine." Yu, right? I also gave birth to a child, but that child was not blessed and could not enjoy the blessings of the heavenly family. You are different. The old body is not in good health, and you will die when you are forced to give birth. You are a good fortune to have a child, my son If he doesn't accept you as a concubine, it's because he has no vision! For the sake of the Lu family, I want him to obey everything I say..."

Mrs. Liu talked a lot, but the maid didn't dare to talk to her.After helping Mrs. Liu out of the outer hall, he hastily bowed and bestowed a blessing: "The servant girl retreats first..."

"This child, what are you afraid of? Don't go down, stay with the old man, and listen to what my son is thinking?" Liu looked at her kindly, and then pulled her out of the outer hall.

In the outer hall, Lu Chengqi was waiting.When the weaving ladies saw the emperor coming, they paid homage to him first, and then they dared to continue weaving when they got the order.When Lu Chengqi saw the Empress Dowager Zunci come out, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "My son pays homage to your empress!"

Mrs. Liu said lightly: "You all go down!"

"Yes, Empress Dowager!"

After all the court ladies retreated, the Empress Dowager Liu said: "My son, let's go into the inner palace and talk!"

After finishing speaking, he was "supported" by the maid beside him and walked back to the inner hall.While walking, Lu Chengqi asked: "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with your body. Do you want to ask the imperial doctor to diagnose your Majesty?"

Mrs. Liu didn't look at him, and focused on walking, saying, "When you get old, you're useless. It's better when you're in the prime of life, you can do anything."

Lu Chengqi is not stupid, he could hear the words in her words, and thought to himself: "I am a dragon and a tiger, even in my sixtieth year, I can still 'conquer the battlefield', don't you underestimate me?"

After talking, the inner hall arrived.After the court lady brewed a cup of tea for Lu Chengqi, she respectfully put it on the tea table, then lowered her head and stood behind Zunci Empress Dowager.Lu Chengqi accepted her service calmly, picked up the teacup and took a sip, only feeling that it was different from the tea he drank in the Chui Gong Palace on weekdays.He is not a person who likes tea, and he can taste the taste in his mouth, but he can't tell the difference.

Mrs. Liu said lightly: "This is the tea made from the stream on Zigeyu Mountain." Lu Chengqi knew that the key to choosing water for this tea ceremony is that if there is good tea, the taste will be far worse if there is no good water to match it. .Tasted it today, and it really has some tricks.

Since the former dynasty, the climate in the Central Plains has changed from warm to cold, resulting in the tea industry in the south developing more rapidly than in the north, and gradually replacing the tea areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as the center of gravity of the tea industry.The royal tribute tea was also changed from Guzhu purple bamboo shoots to Fujian Jian'an tea.The most famous of these is white tea.But tribute tea is far more than white tea.The rest of the tribute teas, such as Gongxin, Shixin, Longtuan Shengxue, Yuyuan Yuya, Longevity Longya, Shanglin No.[-], Yiye Qinggong, Taiping Yawan, Longfengyinghua, Yuchuqingchang, Qiwo Chengen, Yunye, Xueying, Hollyhock, Money, Yuhua, Inch Gold, Incomparable Shouya, Wanchun Silver Leaf, Xuannian Baoyu, Yuqing Qingyun, Wujiang Shoubi, Yuye Changchun, Ruiyun Xianglong, Longevity Yugui, Xingguoyan, Xiangkou Baking, Top Grade Picking Buds, Xinshou Picking Buds, Taiping Jiarui, Longyuan Herald Spring, Nanshan Yingrui, Xingguoyan Picking Buds, Xingguoyan Xiaolong, Xingguoyan Xiaofeng, Picking Buds, Big Dragon, Dafeng, Xiaolong, Xiaofeng, Qionglin Yucui, Yuxue Chengxiang, Heyuan Jiapin, Changgu Xianchun, Shouyan Quesheng, Yannian Stone Milk, etc. are all the best.

As the emperor, Lu Chengqi drank quite a lot of tea, but it was the first time he experienced making tea with good water.But he was not obsessed with it, after all he knew that the Liu family summoned him must be for something, and it was very likely that it was related to the concubine.

"Your Majesty called my son here, didn't you tell me to come and taste tea?" Lu Chengqi asked tentatively.

(End of this chapter)