Zhao Hao packed up and returned to the back hall with Wu Xi, as long as he didn't go to court, he was still wearing a loose old robe, but the cuffs were changed to arrow sleeves to prevent the wide sleeves from dragging mud and water like a broom, but the original bright red had become dull after many washes, and there was only a cowhide belt tied around his waist, and some places on it had fallen off patent leather, and a white jade ring hung on it.

At the earliest, he still thought that there was a mess of jade pendants, jade rings, fish bags and other things hanging in his waist to show his identity and show wealth, and later he learned that the original function of these things was to suppress the placket of the robe, so as not to lose spring, but he also insisted on hanging only a jade ring, so as not to walk up and clang. There is only a small golden crown and a white hosta on his head. A pair of low-waisted leather soap-soled cloth boots at his feet.

Zhao Hao's dress is much inferior to those sons and brothers who are in the middle of the road, and standing with Wu Xi in full costume at the moment is like a poor boy. But he is nearly six feet tall, and he often practices martial arts, his body is well-proportioned, and he has a bee waist, if it weren't for the tan on his face, he would be a handsome man, even if he was wearing old clothes, he still faintly revealed a non-angry and self-authoritative bearing.

"Official, please eat!" The chamberlains and palace maids who often accompanied him were already surprised, and immediately ordered to pass the meal, and it didn't take long for the little yellow door to come in with a food box, and put the meals on the table one by one.

"Is that all there is to the official's breakfast?" Wu Xi looked at a few places, and there was only a plate of pickled vegetables and vegetables, a plate of fried fish and two boiled eggs with skin, a bowl of porridge and two cooking cakes. The same was true in front of herself, she already knew that the emperor had always lived a simple life, and she couldn't help but ask when she saw such a simple breakfast.

"Back to Niangniang, if the cooking cakes are not enough, you can add more!" Xiao Huangmen hurriedly replied when he heard this.

"The queen has a meal, this fish is still the fresh fish selected by the head of the Zheng clan of the Tan tribe in Qiongzhou, and it is sent into the palace by someone who has traveled thousands of miles, this fish is rich in oil, and it is crispy and delicious when fried in oil!" Zhao Yu saw that Wu Xi was still in a daze, and fried the fish with a chopstick.

"Then let the concubines serve the official's family for dinner!" Wu Xi nodded, still a little afraid of the dried fish on the plate, and turned to say.

"I have hands and feet, do I still need people to serve when I eat? The queen is fine, don't worry about me! Zhao Yu said as he picked up an egg and rubbed it on a few times, then peeled off the cracked shell in two clicks, took a cooking cake and opened it from it, sandwiched the egg in it, and ate it in a big gulp, and from time to time took some pickles with a chopstick.

"Niangniang, let the slave and maid wait for dinner!" Watching the emperor take two bites of three and send a cooking cake with eggs into his stomach, and then took another cooking cake and fried fish to eat, and drank the porridge without a spoon at all, but directly picked up the bowl and drank it. His eating appearance was like being hungry for many days, and his rough eating appearance not only made Wu Xi stunned, but even the maid behind him woke up for a while and remembered his responsibility.

"Oh, no need!" Wu Xi remembered that Su Lan had just said that the emperor didn't need to be served by anyone since he was a child, everything was taken care of by himself, and it was not good to use people to serve him at the moment, so he waved his hand and took a cooking cake and ate it.

"To make you quicker, it's a grind all the way. Look, it's all delayed now! One of the two people was in the wind, the other was chewing slowly, silently and busy with their own affairs, when they heard the reprimand, one of them rushed into the back hall, followed by a small yellow door carrying a food box.

"See the Queen!" Chen Shujin was a little surprised to see the queen here, and after hesitating, she hurriedly saluted.

"No courtesy, has the concubine eaten?" Wu Xi said.

"Back to the queen, not yet!" Chen Shu sat down next to her and replied.

"Why did you come so early?" Zhao Hao asked with some confusion as he chewed something in his mouth.

"Have the officials forgotten? Didn't we already say yesterday that as long as we were in the palace, we would all come to my place for dinner. I didn't see the official family come in the morning, and I thought I just forgot, so I sent it to the official family, but it was still too late! Chen Shu was half aggrieved, half complaining.

"Oh, I must have drunk too much last night, and I forgot about it, I'm really sorry!" Zhao Hao recalled for a moment, patted his head and said with a smile.

"Hmph, that's it. Don't use these anymore, try what I prepared, it's not early in the morning! Chen Shu snorted, snatched the remaining half of the cooking cake from the emperor's hand, took the food box from the hand of the palace maid who accompanied him, and took out the contents one by one.

"Chicken soup wonton, mutton steamed buns, and this bee sugar cake...... It's all my favorite food, but these ......! Looking at the few meals that Chen Shu brought out, he rubbed his hands, swallowed his saliva, and said with some embarrassment.

"Know, know, every grain is hard!" Chen Shu said and brought the emperor's remaining half bowl of porridge and half a cooking cake to him, pushed the wonton and mutton steamed buns to the middle of the table and said, "I ate these for the official family, and these officials and the queen can't be left!" ”

"No need, I've got enough!" Wu Xi saw that Chen Shu took the emperor's remaining half of the steamed bun without dislike and ate it, and looked at how much was left in front of him, shook his head and said.

"In that case, I'm welcome, but I'm afraid I can't eat so much!" Zhao Hao licked his lips, but he still peeled the remaining eggs and put them on the plate beside Chen Shu before he sandwiched a steamed bun.

"The official family just ate a cooking cake and drank half a bowl of porridge, how can you not eat this little thing, the pastry can be kept for the official family to satisfy hunger at night!" Chen Shu also took the egg and took a bite of it.

"The official family has eaten a lot, how can they still eat so much, don't be reluctant!" Wu Xi looked at a large bowl of wonton in front of the emperor and five mutton steamed buns, and he was also a little worried.

"The queen doesn't know, the official family eats a lot of food, and she can eat three or four of these cooking cakes, and she will cry hungry after a while!" Chen Shu waved her hand.

"Really?" Wu Xi said with some frustration when he heard this, as the empress, he didn't even know how much the emperor ate, which was really a bit dereliction of duty.

"Of course!" Chen Shu didn't notice the queen's expression, and then said, "Speaking of which, it was ten years ago, and the concubine went to Yashan with her father to escort her, and she lived on the imperial boat that the official family was on. At that time, nearly 300,000 soldiers and civilians were hiding in that bay, surrounded by Tartars, and it was difficult to raise food, let alone meat and vegetables. The Queen Mother felt sorry for the official family, and there were still some meat dishes in the daily allocation, but the officials gave the wounded soldiers to eat, the same rice, dried fish and wild vegetables that the army ate! ”

"Dried fish? Isn't this dried fish very precious? Wu Xi asked, pointing to the fried dried fish on the table.

"The official family must be fooling the mother again!" Chen Shu picked up a piece of dried fish and looked at it, "When this kind of fish is in Qiongzhou, you can buy a big basket for ten cents, and it is even less valuable after drying, only poor people will use it to accompany rice!" ”

"Ah......" Wu Xi listened with his mouth wide open, and looked at the emperor who was immersed in eating and didn't know what to say.

"But when I was in Yashan, this dried fish was also a rare thing." Chen Shu put the dried fish in her mouth and chewed, "The official family liked to eat it when he was a child, and he was as fat as a ball, and he was hungry every day without waiting for a meal." He would go to the fire army on the ship and ask for some dried fish and dried meat, hide them in his arms or sleeves, and when he was hungry, he would sneak out two pieces to eat. Thinking about it, I was not sensible at that time, and I would often lead a group of children who lived on the imperial ship to 'rob' the official's house and rob him of dried fish to eat. And the official family has a good temper, never gets angry about it, and will deliberately take more points for us to eat! ”

"That's because I'm too fat to outrun or beat you, so I can only coax you!" Zhao Yu wiped the oil on his mouth and interjected.

"Hehe, the official family is the best at fooling people." Chen Shu said with a smug smile, "The queen doesn't know anything, the official family will fool people since she was a child, you must be careful, otherwise you won't know if you sell it!" ”

"Really? How could the official family ...... It's going to deceive! Chen Shu spoke unscrupulously in front of the emperor, but he didn't see his anger, which made Wu Xi both envious and jealous, so he also tried to say.

"The official family is the best at deceiving people." Chen Shu glanced at the emperor and said, "At that time in Yazhou, the queen didn't know how dangerous the situation was, not only Meng Yuan was pressing step by step, but there were also people in the Xing Dynasty who were dissatisfied with the succession of the official family, and arranged a large number of warships around the imperial boat to monitor, and the Shuaifu army only had thousands of people at the beginning. However, the officials were able to come and go freely in small boats, and the officers and soldiers who monitored them were subdued by the officials. ”

"The official family is incomparable in benevolence and righteousness, so it will naturally make the army surrender!" Wu Xi didn't know the reason, so she could only follow the way, and she also wanted to understand what kind of person the official family was as soon as possible.

"That's it!" Chen Dun picked up a piece of fish and said, "Of course it's not these small fish that are dried, but the giant whales in the sea." ”

"Whales?! I have read from the book that the giant whale is shaped like a hill, which can turn over rivers and seas and devour ships, can the officials tame the giant whale? Wu Xi was even more surprised when she heard this, in her impression, the giant whale could be said to be a terrifying monster, but it was used by the emperor, how could this be?

"Yes, there is less and less food in Yashan, and we are facing the danger of running out of food, let alone eating meat. However, at this time, the official family led a warship to capture a giant whale, slaughtered it, and distributed it equally to all the soldiers and civilians for consumption, even the important ministers of the court. I remember that night, the smell of boiled meat wafted through the whole bay, and the people were even happier than they were in the festival. Chen Shu looked at the little emperor and seemed to have the scene of the day in front of his eyes again, "Since then, no one has stopped the official family from setting sail again, but they are all looking forward to the official family bringing back a giant whale, and the official family has not disappointed everyone, almost every time they go out, they will drag back a giant whale!" ”

"After that, even the warships that monitor the official family will no longer follow, but I just hope that I can get an extra share, and I will slowly become a member of the official family. After returning from Yashan, I learned from my father that the official family had indeed taken advantage of the opportunity of whale hunting to not only solve the problem of eating, but also win the support of the army. However, the official family had long expected a battle with Zhang Hongfan, and actually took the opportunity to survey the terrain and hydrology in order to prepare. Sure enough, when the two armies fought, the Xingchao army was defeated, but the official family led 10,000 guards to turn the tide, used the tide of Yashan to defeat the Mengyuan water army, and killed Zhang Hongfan angrily! ”

"Zhang Hongfan was? Didn't Meng Yuan call it a battle and die! Wu Xi asked in surprise at this moment than when he heard that the emperor had killed the giant whale.

"Tartar is just for face, Zhang Hongfan was actually mad by the official's words, and he killed himself with a knife, this is what I saw with my own eyes, that's fake, the knife hanging in the official house is Zhang Hongfan's. His armor was given to Brother Ni as a reward for beheading his brother Zhang Hongzheng, to say that he was killed immediately. Chen Shu assured as an eyewitness.

"Isn't the concubine afraid of what she witnessed with her own eyes?" Wu Xi asked in a trembling voice, she was also very unhappy in her heart at the moment, thinking that Chen Shu had experienced life and death with the emperor, and she had formed a deep affection. And she can laugh with the emperor wantonly, and she can eat the rest of the official's meal without hesitation, and she thinks she can't do it at all.

"I was scared at first, but then I wasn't afraid. On that day, the dark clouds covered the sun, the black waves were surging, hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of warships fought back and forth, and tens of thousands of corpses floated in Yashan Bay, dyeing the sea water pink. can think that the official family is also on the ship, if it can accompany His Majesty to die together, it is not wronged, and he is not afraid! Chen Shuyan said.

"Uh...... I'm holding on, the concubine can't send food in the future, otherwise I'll be fat again! At this time, Zhao Hao burped without any image, rubbed his stomach and said.

"No, even if the official family is fat, the concubine can't see the official family criticize herself so hard every day!" Chen Shu heard this, but she straightened her face and said sharply.

"Okay, I'm scared of you, you guys eat too, I'm going out for a walk to eliminate food!" Zhao Hao put on a look that he couldn't afford to hide, stood up and said that he went out with a smoke.

"It seems that the official family is very afraid of the concubine, and they scared him away with a word!" Wu Xi looked at the emperor's back and said, now the emperor's performance has once again subverted the image of the emperor in his cognition, which is different from the emperors recorded in the history books.

"The official family can lead the army in and out of the enemy camp at a young age, how can he be afraid of the concubines, he is just lenient and let the concubines be!" Chen Shu sighed lightly when she heard this, "Does the queen know why the meals eaten by the official family are so vulgar, can a few mutton steamed buns make her happy?" ”

"I also want to ask the concubine, the official family is the son of heaven and rich in the world, but why is he so frugal, even if he eats a little better, he can spend a lot of silver!" Wu Xi frowned and said.

"The official family is thrifty, one is that they know that it is difficult to start a business, and a grain of rice is not easy to come by; The two are difficult in state affairs, and they should not be extravagant, if they want to be convinced by the army, the officials must lead by example! Chen Shuluo groaned, "Previously, the official family had always taken the food expenses of the control system as the standard, whether it was on patrol or in the army, and they had to bear their own expenses, and did not encroach on a single piece of national and military expenses. Therefore, in the past, the imperial history impeached the officials and wasted the country, and the ministers in the court did not believe it, and the generals in the army naturally did not believe it. But the queen presided over the Shangyuan Lantern Festival this time, but embarrassed the official family......"