A traitor

Master Su got drunk and injured himself, stayed at home to recuperate for a few days, never showed his face in court, and never saw anyone who came to visit.

In the lotus pavilion, the lotus leaves are like the green dresses of beautiful women, layered and graceful, making people feel refreshed and happy when they see them.

Su Qinglang was sitting in the gazebo, drinking the medicinal porridge just prepared in the kitchen, when he saw the housekeeper hurriedly appearing in the path, walking towards this side.

He put down the medicine bowl, only to see the butler come to him and salute: "My lord..."

Su Qinglang lifted the hem of his clothes, tapped his legs, reached out to hold the folding fan in his hand, adjusted his posture and sat down, and asked, "How is it?"

The housekeeper took a few steps closer to him, and said in a low voice, "I heard that Mr. Wen from Xuanguo went to see Prime Minister Qin last night."

Su Qinglang snorted, raised his eyebrows and said, "This weasel really didn't have good intentions when he gave the chicken New Year's greetings. Did he think that if he found Xiangye, Xiangye would form an alliance with Xuanguo?"

The butler asked again: "My lord, can you go to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"

Su Qinglang turned sideways, unfolded the folding fan with a whoosh, and said, "No need, Mr. Xiang has always hated Xuan Guo, so it's good if he didn't kill them this time, and he won't form an alliance with them."

The butler showed a puzzled expression, and then heard Su Qinglang say meaningfully: "No matter how wolf-hearted a person is, there are taboos that cannot be touched. Not everyone can do everything for the sake of profit. The Prime Minister must be in a fit of anger , going now, wouldn’t it be asking for trouble?”

Seeing Su Qinglang's swearing expression, the housekeeper couldn't understand, but thinking of the reporter's description, when Wen Shiliang came out of the prime minister's mansion, his expression was indeed not very good.

He stood respectfully beside Su Qinglang, listened to his silence for a moment, and asked, "Is there any news from the palace recently?"

The housekeeper snorted, and quickly replied: "Wang Meiren sent someone to reply, saying that Chen Wenxuan has been coming and going to the palace very frequently recently, and each time he stays for a while before leaving."

Su Qinglang fell silent after hearing the words, and asked again: "Where is the emperor, haven't you been to the imperial concubine's palace recently?"

The housekeeper replied: "The flood in Bingzhou is serious. The emperor has been busy with disaster relief these days, and he has not asked the harem for a long time."

Hearing his words, Su Qinglang didn't respond, he sat in the pavilion holding a folding fan, as if he was thinking about something.

Then the housekeeper asked very puzzled: "My lord, why did you draw attention to Chen Yuyi, but what's wrong with him?"

Su Qinglang looked sideways slightly: "Nothing, it's just that the current imperial doctor of the empress has been replaced by Chen Wenxuan. For safety's sake, you must pay more attention. Although this imperial doctor Chen has excellent medical skills, he is a newcomer after all, and he can't compare with those in the palace. Those old people."

The housekeeper hummed, and said half with emotion: "It seems that the empress is really not in good health recently, otherwise she wouldn't call the imperial doctor into the palace all day long."

Su Qinglang became more silent, and after a long time, he sighed, with a worried and sad expression on his face.

He thought for a while, and said: "I remember, some time ago, someone gave me a pair of thrush birds, are they still there?"

The housekeeper said: "Yes, it's being raised in the backyard. It's juicy and juicy. It's in good spirits!"

Su Qinglang smiled coldly, and said: "Send it to the palace, the empress may be in a bad mood recently, maybe seeing them, the illness will be cured."

The housekeeper quickly agreed, Su Qinglang stood up, waved his fan and prepared to go back.

After walking a few steps, he stopped again and asked the housekeeper, "Is anyone here today?"

The butler thought for a while, and replied, "Except for the two boxes of snacks sent by Madam, there is nothing else."

Su Qinglang was very surprised, and said oh: "This is strange, yesterday they all slid into our house like headless flies, why are they all scattered today?"

The butler smiled and said: "Your Excellency, I don't know. Today is the celebration of Mr. Mei's housewarming. Everyone went to his mansion to congratulate him."

Su Qinglang was stunned for a moment, closed the fan and knocked it on the head of the butler, and lightly reprimanded: "Brother Mei's housewarming, why didn't you remind me?"

Seeing that he was angry, the steward was startled, and hurriedly said: "Forgive me, my lord, seeing that you are not in good health recently, and you have not seen Mrs. Mei and Mrs. Sun when they came to visit you these two days. My lord may need to rest, so I didn't dare to report this matter to my lord, don't worry, my lord, I have already arranged someone to send congratulatory gifts to Lord Mei in the name of my lord."

Su Qinglang was silent for a moment, then sighed again: "Brother Mei has no relatives or friends here, and I am the first friend he met here, no matter what, I should go to congratulate him in person."

Although the butler has not known Mei Liusheng for a long time, he also knows that the relationship between this lord and Su Qinglang is extraordinary.

So he bowed his head and cupped his hands and said, "My lord, it's the villain who made his own decisions..."

Looking at his guilty expression, Su Qinglang sighed again: "Forget it, fortunately it's today, even if it's a little late, it doesn't matter."

The housekeeper heard this and said, "Are you going to the Mei Mansion now, my lord, let someone prepare a carriage."

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he was stopped by Su Qinglang. He thought for a while, and finally said: "Forget it, there must be a lot of people there now, let's go later."

The housekeeper was startled, not knowing why Su Qinglang planned this, but when he came back to his senses, he let out a sigh and went down to deliver the thrush to the palace.

Su Qinglang waited in the mansion, saw the sun set on the western mountain, and the setting sun spread to half the sky, so he changed his clothes and went out.

Walking to the door, he thought about the two boxes of snacks sent by Erniang, thought for a while, then turned back and took one of the boxes with him.

After Mei Zhuangyuan came to the throne, because the mansion bestowed by the emperor was a bit dilapidated, it was impossible to build him a new one given the current state of the court, so he was repaired.

The old tiles were replaced with new eaves, the flying pavilion was painted with Liudan, and a craftsman was hired to re-carry the garden. Looking at it from a distance, although it is not as gorgeous as Mr. Su's mansion, it is justified.

It's just that Mr. Su is used to living in a good place, and he is best at gardening. He has always been very picky. Walking on the road, while looking at Mei Liusheng's mansion, he despises Mr. Mei's taste to a thousand miles away.

The wall leading to the garden should have been set up as a hollow carved window.In this way, every summer, the breeze blows inside the wall, and the green shadows inside the wall are graceful, which makes people infinitely reverie.

It can be ventilated and cool, and it can be quite bright, but now it has been built with solid, dry green bricks, which looks like a prison, with no artistic conception at all.

Also, on the pond in the garden, there are many rockery, strange flowers and rocks, rugged and winding, which should have been a very good scene. Why did they add a snake to the water and paved a bluestone road in the water?

Horizontal and vertical, flat and flat, without any edges and corners, it is so ugly that it can't be more ugly when matched with the rockery next to it!

However, when he saw the bell hanging from the eaves of the gazebo, he immediately became calm about the scene he had seen before. The copper bell with a bowl-sized mouth swayed with the wind and made a dull sound, which almost made him blind.

It’s a good cornice, and it’s not a temple, so why hang a copper bell on it? Those who know it’s for exorcising evil and avoiding disasters, but those who don’t know it, think it’s Mrs. Mei calling for souls...

He paused, looking at the copper bells at the four corners and sighing slightly, full of flaws and no sense of beauty, this is not building a garden, it is clearly playing around with the mansion awarded by the imperial court, and demolishing his mansion , are better looking than Mei Liusheng's.

Shaking the fan, he continued to walk forward. After a while, he stopped resolutely, glanced at the copper bell on the gazebo, hesitated for a while, and sighed again.

Just at this time, Mei Liusheng received the news, came out from the mansion, just in time to meet him, cupped his hands and said: "Brother Su is here in person, Liusheng is far away from welcoming him, please forgive me."

Su Qinglang withdrew his gaze, looked at him and said: "You are busy today, I was anxious to see what your mansion looks like, so I came in by myself, Brother Mei, don't blame me for being reckless."

Mei Liusheng smiled and said: "The humble house is so simple, Brother Su laughed."

Hearing this, Su Qinglang twitched the corners of his lips in distaste. If it was just so simple, why should he be so resentful?

After a while, he laughed and said meaningfully: "Brother Mei's garden is indeed different, very special."

As he spoke, he raised the food box in his hand and said, "This is a snack made by my second mother. It tastes good. Let me give you a taste."

Mei Liusheng was startled, then smiled slowly again, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Brother Su."