Because the emperor wanted to meet with local officials in Cangzhou, he returned to the inner courtyard one step late. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the emperor came back, dinner was served, and the cook in the other courtyard was quite able to guess the sacred heart, knowing that the emperor and queen must be accustomed to eating big fish and meat in the palace, so this meal was prepared with many seasonal vegetables. Fresh and green vegetables, stir-fried carrots with tender bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs with toon, leek dumplings, and cold cucumbers are indeed appetizing.

Even if it is like meat, it is a more original method of crystal white cut chicken, salted duck, and steamed fish.

Lin Yan was indeed hungry all the way, and the dishes were indeed very appetizing, so Lin Yan ate two bowls of rice with fragrant rice. The emperor recuperated his health, and he was only willing to eat eight points full on weekdays, but he couldn't help but eat more today.

There are also Princess Rui, Princess Jun and others, who are also feasting.

Princess Jun said to Lin Yan while eating the dishes: "Queen Mother, this cook cooks delicious dishes, let him enter the palace as an imperial chef." ”

The emperor looked at her and smiled, pinched some bamboo shoots for her, and said: "Although the food is delicious, don't eat too much at once, especially if it's too much, it's good to eat eight points full at each meal, otherwise the stomach will not be able to bear it." ”

Princess Jun nodded while holding the dish.

The emperor sandwiched a circle of dishes for Princess Rui, Princess Jue and Prince Huan, and finally sandwiched a dumpling for Lin Yan, and then turned his head and said to Wan Gong: "Reward the cook." ”

Wan Gong is fair, and then passed out to the eunuch behind him: "The emperor has a decree to reward the cook." ”

Lin Yan asked the emperor about Lin Yingdao: "Where does my father eat?" ”

The emperor said, "Don't worry, he and Zhu Wei are eating in the outer courtyard, and I have already ordered the cook to make a table exactly the same as our dishes and send them to them." ”

Lin Yan listened and nodded.

After dinner, a few people moved to the side hall to eat with tea.

Princess Jue and Prince Huan are always energetic, and they run up and down the house as soon as they are full; Princess Rui pulled Princess Jun to play chess, while Lin Yan and the emperor sat on the couch together, both of them holding a bowl of tea in their hands in a lazy posture.

Lin Yan smiled and said without words: "The emperor met with the local ministers in Cangzhou today, is this the case?" ”

The emperor said in a casual tone: "Although I feel annoyed, since I have come to Cangzhou, I am not a micro-service, I always want to meet those ministers, listen to their political achievements, and say a few words of encouragement." ”

Lin Yan asked again: "Then does the emperor want to see him tomorrow?" ”

The emperor said, "Well, I want to see you." As he spoke, he put down the tea bowl, shook Lin Yan's hand again, and said, "I'm afraid you'll be very busy tomorrow, and those officials and wives are afraid that they will also come to visit you." ”

Lin Yan said with some regret: "It's a pity, I originally wanted the emperor to take us to the streets." Then he sighed: "So it's not good to be an emperor and empress, obviously planning to come out to play, but it's still controlled by identity, and can't be completely free." ”

The emperor smiled: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have taken you out on patrol with such fanfare, I should have taken you on a private visit." ”

As he was talking, there was a sudden sound of a piano outside, tinkling and dingding, like a pearl and jade colliding. Then the sound of the flute was harmonious, wisps, like crying and complaining. Then there is the sound of the pipa, melodious and resentful.

After a while the sound of the piano and flute sounded, then the voice of an extremely graceful and charming woman sang with the sound of musical instruments.

Lin Yan suddenly thought of the women who came to see her during the day, suddenly bent the corners of her mouth, and turned her head to look at the emperor.

And the emperor seemed to be attracted by the sound of playing and singing from outside, and was listening a little carefully at this time, and then frowned slightly.

Lin Yan asked the emperor with a smile: "When the emperor came back, did he see those beauties living in Xinghua Pavilion?" ”

The emperor's eyebrows were also curled, he looked at her, and said, "No, I hurried back to see you, and I didn't see any beauty except you." He smiled again and said, "What's the matter, you're jealous?" ”

Lin Yanjiao glanced at him, blinked twice, and said, "What did the emperor say?" ”

The emperor laughed and said, "Yuan Yuan is the best when he is still jealous." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and instructed Wan Gong to be fair: "You let the women who are playing and singing outside go back to the place where they should go, it's noisy at night." ”

Wan Gong said yes, and then went out, waved his hand and asked people to go and drive the women in the garden away.

The emperor turned his head to Lin Yan again and said, "If the people below want to please me, this kind of thing is inevitable. I am all good, every time I go outside the palace when I was the first emperor, I can have one or two more concubines in the harem. ”

Lin Yan said in her heart, the first emperor was amorous, there were many concubines in the harem, and there were many lowly statuses. If it is drafted into the palace, the family background is more or less passable, and those lowly concubines may come from this way. There are so many of them that have been brought back, and I don't know how many others have been left outside the palace and not brought back.

Lin Yan was half serious and half deliberately pretended to be jealous and said: "So does the emperor still want to learn from the first emperor?" ”

The emperor pinched her nose and quipped: "If I want to learn from the first emperor, can I still guard you for ten years?" ”

Lin Yan said: "Who knows if the emperor is tired of guarding now, otherwise why didn't the emperor send those women out of the courtyard." ”

The emperor said: "I love you and I know, but those people outside don't know." If I send them out, the ministers outside will only think that I think they are not beautiful enough, and in order to please me, they will do their best to find more beautiful women, and if they don't say well, they will make trouble and rob the women of the people. ”

This kind of thing did happen in the time of the first emperor, who once took a look at a folk girl when he went out on patrol, and then the folk girl was offered to him. At the beginning, the first emperor didn't know that the people's girl had a husband, because the first emperor saw that the people's daughter's father-in-law was inexplicably guilty.

By the time the first emperor knew, her father-in-law was already dead, and it was too late for the first emperor to regret it. Later, the emperor let the girl go, and she became a monk in a temple not far from her husband's tomb.

The emperor said: "I don't bother to tell them clearly, and those women live here without getting in the way, so that they can rest their minds." If you don't feel at ease, just lock them up in the Xinghua Pavilion and don't let them come out. ”

Lin Yan snorted and said, "Who said I wasn't at ease, I was very relieved." ”

The emperor looked at her and smiled, probably because he saw Lin Yan jealous, but he was in a good mood.

Princess Rui listened with one ear pricked up while playing chess, and her brows fluttered after hearing the emperor's words.

She knew that her father would not take a fancy to those little goblins, how could they compare with the queen mother.

The little prince Huan ran past and pounced on the game of Go with a "pounce", and the black and white on the chessboard were all mixed together and sprinkled everywhere, but the little prince Huan, who had done bad things, laughed.

Princess Rui glared at the little prince Huan angrily, stretched out her hand and slapped him on the buttocks, and said angrily: "Little prince Huan, look at the good things you have done, do you owe a cigarette!" ”

Princess Jue thought it was funny when she saw it, and she also ran over, and folded it directly on the back of Prince Huan, the twins were smiling, and the more angry Princess Rui was, the happier they became.

Then Princess Rui stopped playing chess and got up to clean up the twins. (To be continued.) )