Chapter 49: God stick

Until Yuan Luo came closer, she hurriedly stuffed the book under the table. It looked like a pupil who quickly hid extracurricular books after seeing the teacher coming.
"I don't tell you why you come in, there are dead people outside." Queen Wei snorted coldly.
"It's my house in a hurry." Yuan Luo didn't let her fool around so easily. "What is the mother looking at?"
"It's nothing." Queen Wei turned her face away, full of resentment. This unruly woman, someone who knows a little about etiquette, should pretend that she didn't see it, change the subject, and don't embarrass the owner.
"Is it a notebook?" Yuan Luo asked casually.
Queen Wei gave a hum, deliberately not answering, and picked up the tea cup.
Seeing Queen Wei ignored her, Yuan Luo smiled sinisterly: "My palace understands, the mother is reading that kind of book."
"What kind of book?" Queen Wei glanced at her.
"Oh, it's the picture. I know." Yuan Luoyun said lightly.
With a "poof", Queen Wei spouted a sip of tea and stared at Yuan Luo in horror, as if she had said something earth-shattering.
Yuan Luo shook the water droplets on her sleeves and accused with a serious face: "The empress is too dignified."
This savage woman dared to say that she was not dignified, what she said just now was really un dignified! Queen Wei went crazy.
"What spring... how can you say..." Even after thinking about this word in her head, Queen Wei felt that she was going to collapse.
Does it need such a big response? Although girls in ancient times were less exposed to this, they heard that before they got married, their mothers would pull into the room and show them secretly and teach them about the boudoir.
"No!" Queen Wei flatly denied. "And the mother in this palace, who has passed away long ago."
"I'm sorry." Yuan Luo apologized reflexively.
Queen Wei glanced at her. This was the first time Yuan Luo showed weakness in front of her.
"I shouldn't mention your sadness."
"It's nothing, it's all over ten years ago." Queen Wei looked away, her mother died of illness when she was two or three years old.
Thinking about how to divert the subject. Suddenly a figure came up.
"What are you doing?" In the angry eyes of Queen Wei.
Yuan Luo turned over the table and took out the book from underneath while she was not prepared. Scanning the title of the book at a glance, I couldn't help being stunned.
"Happy Prince"?
There is still something underneath, Yuan Luo continued to bend over to search.
"Don't go over other people's things!" Queen Wei hurriedly tried to stop, but she was not Yuan Luo's opponent at all.
I watched as she took out a few books under the table and threw them on the table. Queen Wei gritted her teeth with anger.
"Niangniang wants to read a picture book, so she can tell me no. Is it necessary to have such twists and turns?" Yuan Luo looked innocent. In fact, when she came here today, she heard the report from Sixi. In Zichen Palace, there are two little maids sneaking up because they were locked by Sixi before. These two are the eyeliners sent by Kunning Palace. Yuan Luo explained not to Move them, wait until there is a movement.
Now that he finally did something, Sixi checked it out, but didn't know what the two did.
Yuan Luo came to test Queen Wei, but she did not expect the two of them to sneak in for a while, but to steal a few picture books.
Recently, she has prepared more and more picture books for Si Konglin, and most of them are her creative ideas, and specialized painters come to draw. After several times, some painters could tell stories, and several of them started to try to create short stories by themselves. Yuan Luo had read it, and left as long as he felt it was appropriate, so there were already hundreds of picture books, and all of them were thrown in the box, and they didn't look closely.
"Who likes to watch this kind of thing?" Queen Wei exclaimed angrily.
"Oh, how do you feel, these picture books are pretty good, right?" Yuan Luo laughed. It's no wonder that as soon as I walked in, I saw her eyes blushing, and when I remembered the story of "Happy Prince" in the textbook when I was a child, I used to cry.
"It's stupid." Queen Wei turned her head.
This arrogant little girl.
Yuan Luo pretended to be mysterious: "In fact, this "Happy Prince" has a follow-up story."
Emperor Wei took the bait, his eyes widened, and couldn't wait: "What follow-up story?"
"you guess."
"I think, this stone statue of the prince and the swallow have accumulated a lifetime of merits. The Buddha's mercy will surely allow the two to be reincarnated as adults, reborn in a wealthy family, and become together... that... brothers and sisters and so on. For a lifetime." Queen Wei whispered.
She has a soft voice, and her tone is full of expectation.
Yuan Luo couldn't bear to break her imagination. "Maybe they are. Or they become gods, happy to live in the sky, floating, and anything, wouldn't it be more enjoyable than being human."
"You lied to me, there is no follow-up at all." Queen Wei immediately realized the truth and sternly accused.
Yuan Luo smiled and said: "The story is illusory. What follows is only in the original heart, why bother so obsessively."
Seeing Empress Wei's expression of wanting to jump up and scratch people, Yuan Luo hurriedly continued: "Actually, these picture albums are a bit naive, and they are not suitable for the age of a lady."
"The imperial concubine poisoned the emperor with such innocent things." Queen Wei sarcastically.
"How is it poisoned?"
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"The emperor shoulders the responsibility of the world, and he has to concentrate on learning the way of governing the country every day, but you spend his time with such a desperate picture all day, saying that the poison is still mild."
Yuan Luo sighed, "The emperor is stupid by nature, you don't know it. It's fun to teach, and I think this kind of picture book is very good, and the emperor likes it because of his innocent nature."
Queen Wei curled her lips in disdain and did not refute.
Yuan Luo continued: "Compared with these picture books, there is a set of books in this palace, which is suitable for you to read."
She turned around and summoned Sixi and asked her to bring a set of books from the study of Zichen Palace.
In less than a cup of tea, Sixi went back and forth and sent a book.
"Legend of the new white lady? What is this."
"Look if you like it."
Empress Wei glanced at her, then lowered her head to turn over the pages of the book. She read the book extremely fast, and she finished the whole book in a moment.
Queen Wei raised her head with her eyes bright, "What about the follow-up story?"
The story just said that because of Fahai’s induction, Xu Xian made a glass of realgar wine to make the white lady show his true shape. As a result, Xu Xian was frightened to death. In order to save people, the white lady went to heaven and earth.
"Back, no more."
Queen Wei's big eyes showed incredible grievances, "What did you say?"
"Uh, I haven't written it yet."
Queen Wei took a long breath and calmed down: "Who wrote this script." She didn't believe it would have been written by the unlearned and vulgar woman in front of her. Yuan Luo is also literate. When she was deep in the mountains, Concubine De had taught her, but her poems and songs were far from perfect. The story in hand is fluent and extraordinary, and it is by no means written by someone who is waiting for a while.
Yuan Luo smiled: "It's a folk tale that I heard before, let the people in the book bureau organize it into articles."
Queen Wei nodded. She had heard that Yuan Luo had sent several eunuchs who were good at writing and writing in the study to serve.
Stroking the smooth cover of the book, Queen Wei noticed one more thing: "Why is it called the New Legend of the White Lady? What is the old Legend of the White Lady?"
Yuan Luo was stunned. She realized that because she was used to reading a certain version of the story, she directly named the new character. In fact, there is no original version in this era. Really dumbfounding.
Yuan Luo had to answer, "I think this story is more innovative."
"You are fooling me!" Queen Wei stared at her.
Yuan Luo has a headache for this keen little girl.
What Queen Wei is most concerned about is, "When will the follow-up booklet be finished?"
"When you have time."
Queen Wei showed an expression of wanting to scratch people again.
Yuan Luo was not afraid of her, and asked with a smile: "How do you think of this story?"
"It's quite interesting." Queen Wei reserved and authentic.
Yuan Luo understands that this is the limit of the kindness that a little girl can give. In this era, women can see very limited things, and most of them are written by men. They are naturally full of male chauvinistic ideas. In the temple, the fox fairy and the flower demon rushed to dedicate their lives; when the teenager entered Beijing to take the exam, the prime minister and daughter fell in love at first sight...
Queen Wei glanced at her and couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing for people to get these things?"
Since the last fundraising event, she has become more vigilant towards Yuan Luo's actions.
"Of course it is to make money." Yuan Luo admitted with a smile.
Queen Wei opened her eyes wide, and never expected this answer. From a family background, she has never considered the issue of money. These are all handled by the full-time female lawsuits next to her. As a famous lady, she maintains a high attitude and can't always mention the cheesy Ah Duwu.
"But... you are now a noble concubine, isn't there a case?"
"The imperial concubine's allowance for a year is only a few hundred and twenty dollars, which is not enough." Yuan Luo spread his hands.
Queen Wei calculated that the four sets of gem beads sent by her mother's family last time were all large South Sea gems inlaid, and one set seemed to be worth thousands of taels. Although you don't need to spend money on clothing, food, housing and transportation in the palace, you still have to pay for yourself if you occasionally want something fresh outside the palace.
It is said that people from the lower ranks are rushing around for the money and becoming a noble concubine. Thinking about it this way, it's a bit pitiful.
It is rare for Queen Wei to see Yuan Luo's eyes with more sympathy.
Yuan Luo was speechless after listening to the prompt tone of favorability +5.
Believe it?
Really a silly girl.
A few hundred taels a year for my own imperial concubine is not bad, but the harem was originally not to spend money, but to spend power. As the imperial concubine in power, there are many officials who vie for money and gifts every year. Although it is incomparable with the big and deep-rooted gatekeepers like Webster, it will not be short of money.
Even if you don't want to receive gifts and maintain a good reputation, you can also put in a few stewards to intervene in official businesses such as salt, iron, wine and tea, and you can make a lot of money in one or two years.
She asked her to rectify these scripts, mainly to open up a way to control public opinion.
Next, she prepared a newspaper.
The imperial court also had a report, but as the head of the staff, Yuan Luo had tried before and couldn't get in. From top to bottom, they were held by officials from the elite.