blenderwars Chapter 135 Ancestors, please spare your husband!
Chapter 135 Ancestors, please spare your husband!
Why can't Shen Shixi take the initiative?
She thought about it; how could she not take the initiative?
Must we wait for Li Yuanke to summon him?
Not only did she take the initiative, she did so for several days in a row.
However, in the following days, the two were not so intense, but since they were together, it was not possible not to do it, and they were both very eager for each other's bodies.
"I won't be coming tomorrow." Shen Shixi yawned. "It's almost the New Year, and there's still a lot to do in the palace. I'll give His Majesty the day off tomorrow."
Li Yuanke hugged her and kissed her. "Come over tonight. I won't bother you during the day. Stay here and keep me company!"
"Hmm, see! If I don't come, you can't come to see me?" Shen Shixi grumbled. "I knew it. Once you got me, you didn't cherish me anymore. Now that you have someone new, you've forgotten about me, the old one. If only I had known this would happen..."
Li Yuanke suspected she was possessed by Consort Xue. "Shut up, or I'll throw you out!"
Shen Shixi fell silent, nestled in his arms, and listened as he said, "I will be touring the thirteen border towns next March and meeting with the Wolf King of Beisha. You will come with me then."
"Oh, why didn't you say so sooner? Are you really going to take me to see the Wolf King? You know about my feud with him, Li Yuanke. Do you want me to kill him for you?"
Li Yuanke was truly exasperated with him. He snapped, "You better behave yourself! Do you think he's someone you can just kill at will? The Wolf King bullied you back then, but he got his revenge. What more do you want?"
Sensing Shen Shixi's resentment, Li Yuanke softened his tone, "You killed the Wolf King, and you feel relieved, but won't Beisha have its eyes on your Shen family? Listen to me, in the future, when Beisha is destroyed, I will help you get revenge."
"I just feel heartbroken for those bodyguards who followed me back then. They were the group that stayed with me the longest. So many of them died in Beisha because of me. I still can't bear to think about it. I also regret it so much. If only I hadn't been so impulsive back then, I wouldn't have killed them all!"
Shen Shixi started crying.
Li Yuanke held her close. She was crying so hard that he felt really sad. But after so many years together, even though he had long held the belief that bodyguards were just expendable items, he didn't dare say it to her face.
She has always valued every human life.
"It's not your fault! They have rendered meritorious service in protecting their lord, and I will reward their families tomorrow."
"No need, I've already settled everything." Shen Shixi wiped away her tears and sobbed, "Even if I can't kill him, I'll teach him a lesson and let him know that my Great Zhou is not so easy to bully."
"Arrange for someone to come up with something for me tomorrow. I need to get something really good out of it. I want to use this to scare that old geezer so badly he'll wet himself. I want to see him trembling with fear."
That old codger was only in his early thirties, not much older than Li Yuanke.
Li Yuanke, disregarding this, asked anxiously, "What do you want to do?"
However, he still found someone to help Shen Shixi.
It was Qiu Xingyan and Guo Youming, who had worked with her before. Shen Shixi handed them the blueprints and said, "Take these blueprints separately and find your own people to work on them. You are not allowed to look at each other's work, make copies, or divulge them. Do you understand the importance of this?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Shen Shixi gave the most crucial part to Li Yuanke, who couldn't understand it and asked, "What is this?"
"A powerful crossbow, a sniper type, with an estimated range of 500 paces. Its destructive power is more than three times that of the crossbows currently used in the army. I'm going to use this to compete with that wolf king and make him kneel down and call me his ancestor!"
Li Yuanke was initially terrified, then had a headache. "He is the king. The strength of Beisha is not much inferior to that of the Great Zhou. Even if he dies, he would never kneel down and call you ancestor. Ancestor, please spare your husband!"
Shen Shixi patted his shoulder and said, "It's none of your business. I asked you to find someone to do it, so just find someone. Don't worry, I will never provoke a conflict between Da Zhou and Bei Sha. I'm not that kind of person who doesn't know what's good for me."
Li Yuanke looked at her. "I must be blind; I truly didn't see that you had any sense of propriety. Why didn't you mention such a powerful crossbow before?"
"It's impossible for the military to be equipped with such powerful weapons in large quantities. If there's a rebellion, they'll be invincible, and we'll all die. Think carefully about how you want to use them, then take them and use them."
Later generations didn't say that all soldiers were equipped with sniper rifles!
Li Yuanke naturally had to keep an eye on such things, including Qiu Xingyan and Guo Youming, and he sent people to keep an eye on them to prevent the blueprints from being leaked.
The range of 500 paces would be three times more destructive than it is now, and these two figures made Li Yuanke's blood boil.
The maximum range of the hornbow today is only two hundred paces, and its effective range is less than one hundred paces.
Li Yuange took it to heart, but Shen Shixi couldn't be bothered to care anymore. She was always someone who only cared about enjoying herself and didn't want to worry about anything.
With the New Year approaching, and taking advantage of her recent stay at Qianyuan Palace, Zhaoyang Palace was thoroughly cleaned inside and out. As she wished, potted wintersweet plants that could survive the winter were placed under the eaves, filling the air with their rich fragrance.
Camellias of various colors also bloomed very beautifully.
Many flowers and plants that bloom even in the cold winter were transplanted into the courtyard and pieced together to form a beautiful pattern.
Shen Shixi set up a simple oil pressing machine and directed people to press some oil. She wanted to fry oil cakes to eat. The current oil pressing technology is too backward, and the oil yield is not high. A little bit of vegetable oil is as precious as a treasure.
Shen Shixi had a lot of soybean oil pressed out. "Send this oil pressing equipment to the East Kitchen. Bai Ping, make a note of this. Next year, tell them to plant more peanuts. We can press some peanut oil and sesame oil to eat. They're both very fragrant."
If you're particular, you use different oils to stir-fry different ingredients; but now, with these conditions, how can you be particular?
Shen Shixi even had an oven built under the eaves of the small kitchen. Anyway, she didn't need to do it herself; she just directed people. She had a lot of ideas and managed to keep the people in the palace running around in circles.
She has now been promoted to the position of the head of the palace, and Li Yuanke has assigned twenty-four people to serve her.
Shen Shixi is a kind and generous person, as long as her subordinates work diligently and have no ill intentions.
As mentioned before, this month's monthly allowance will be double, and those who perform well this year will also receive a year-end bonus, starting at six taels of silver, as well as annual leave, starting at three days.
This is equivalent to more than half a year's income.
They also receive a fair amount of tips regularly.
The key issue is the annual leave; there has never been such a precedent before.
These kinds of treatments are absolutely unheard of in other palaces.
In this entire harem, apart from Qian Yuan Palace and the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, who wouldn't want to work in Zhao Yang Palace!
"Chao En, go and collect some silver and go outside to buy some lanterns. During the New Year, we will hang lanterns all over Zhaoyang Palace, from front to back."
Also, Bai Ping, go and see how much usable fabric I have left in my storeroom. Take it out and give it to everyone as a reward. During the New Year, everyone can wear new clothes for good luck.
The entire Zhaoyang Palace was bustling with activity.
The aroma of roasted pork cracklings wafted far and wide.
The ones that weren't very good-looking, Shen Shixi had someone take them and divide them up. She fried dough sticks, twisted dough sticks, sesame balls, crispy pork, sesame leaves, fried dough twists, and also fried some lotus root sandwiches and eggplant sandwiches.
Some of these are ways of eating that don't exist in this era.
I baked several kinds of pastries and made a chiffon cake.
After the twelfth lunar month, food could be stored for a long time, so Shen Shixi made more. She took a cake with her and went to Qianyuan Palace.
Unexpectedly, he ran into Yang Tingyue at the palace gate, who was also there to curry favor.
Li Fude was refusing her, saying, "This servant greets Consort Ping, but His Majesty is currently busy with important matters. Please return first. His Majesty said he will visit you when he has time!"