The dancers retreated, not seeing the scene of Li Shimin and Li Yuan being rewarded with golden melon seeds, which made Xiao Han slightly disappointed.

But think about it.

Now the salaries of officials in the court are almost unable to pay, and a few days ago, the palace dismissed three thousand palace maids at one time, like a reward for such a face-saving thing, and there is nothing wrong with the province.

After the song and dance, the next thing is the emperor's banquet.

With a crisp bell ringing, rows of palace maids poured in from outside the hall like flowing water, and began to arrange shore tables and meals, and the originally lively hall suddenly became even more noisy.

As Xiao Han, who has eaten a lot of royal banquets in the palace, he is actually not rare at all in the palace.

Now there are so many stir-fried dishes in the iron pot outside that they are rotten streets, but the imperial chefs in this palace still stick to the three major methods of 'steaming, boiling and burning', and they refuse to improve.

You know, no matter how good an ingredient is, if you don't cook it correctly, it won't taste good.

Not to mention that in order to save money, Li Shimin greatly reduced the level of this banquet.

A pot of wine, two plates of dried vegetables, and a piece of palm-sized meat from an unknown animal, this is the first meal of the first year of Zhenguan.

After waiting for a long time, he didn't see those waiters who were shuttling back and forth to serve him food, Xiao Han finally resigned himself to picking up the chopsticks and pulling the dried vegetables in front of him.

Well, it's nice and clean!

It's definitely not the same as He Shen, what to do "look confused, eat and understand".

This damn dried vegetable is really a dried dish! Not only did there be no delicacies of the mountains and seas hidden below, but there were not even any oil flowers, it seemed that they were just thrown into the water and boiled, and then they were fished up.

"This meat? How do you feel like you've been stolen half of it? ”

After tossing the green vegetables, Xiao Han began to look at his meat again, it was brown on three sides and tender red on one side, which was obviously cut in half after it was roasted!

"Okay, stealing meat from me? Wei Xiaobao, he didn't dare to do this! ”

Just when Xiao Han was angry and was about to go to this daring meat thief to discuss the ten tortures of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, unexpectedly, Liu Hongji next to him had the first attack.

"Special mother, why is there only half of Lao Tzu's wine left? Who doesn't have long eyes would dare to steal my wine! ”

slapped the shore table violently, Liu Hongji jumped up and grabbed the little eunuch who came to deliver wine!

"Say, did you steal it?!"

Shaking the wine jug in his hand, Lao Liu's fierce and vicious appearance almost scared the little eunuch to the ground.

"My lord spares his life, how dare a slave steal something!"

The frightened little eunuch waved his hands and wanted to retreat, but with his little strength, how could he be able to withstand Liu Hongji's big hand like iron pincers?

"Where's the wine?" Liu Hongji reluctantly grabbed the little eunuch who was about to cry and asked.

"My lord, it's all half a pot, and everyone here is half a pot!" The little eunuch shouted with a crying voice.

"Fart! Your Majesty has a treat, and you don't even pour a full amount of wine?! Liu Hongji saw that this little eunuch still dared to quibble, so he immediately scolded angrily, and as soon as he used his hand, he threw him to the ground, and then picked up the wine jug on Xiao Han's table!

"Look at him, he's ...... How is it also half a pot? ”

As soon as Xiao Han's wine jug was in his hands, Liu Hongji finally found out that something was wrong!

The weight of this wine seems to be exactly the same as that of oneself!

"This may have been stolen by Xiao Han just now, this pot! Hey? ”

Liu Hongji, who did not give up, picked up a few more pots from the table next to him, but it was obvious that these wine jugs were filled with half a pot! There is no one with a full pot!

"You...... Ahem! It's okay, let's go! ”

Realizing that he was indeed mistaken, Lao Liu waved his hand, of course, if he apologized, Lao Liu couldn't say it, and even if he could say it, the eunuch couldn't stand it!

"Thank you, sir!"

The little eunuch who proved innocent wiped his tears, got up silently from the ground, cleaned up the scattered things, and was just about to leave, when a small bead was thrown into his hand from Xiao Han.

"Reward you, take it back and exchange it for some good things to make up for it, don't fall on your head when you are pushed."

Glancing at the little eunuch casually, Xiao Han pulled Liu Hongji to sit down again, but when he didn't realize it, Xiao Han even brought the meat and plates to him.

"Thanks... Thank you, Lord for your reward! The little eunuch's face was red, and he was at a loss for a long time before he remembered to bow deeply to Xiao Han, and then hurriedly retreated.

I was scolded a few times today, and I changed a bead after a fall, so this deal is not a loss.

The time when all this happened just now was very short, and there were cloth dishes and tables all around, and there was a lot of commotion, and there were not many people who really noticed this, only Li Shimin, who was on the steps of the court, sighed deeply.

"I still don't have any money!"

Indeed, the Tang Dynasty is at the beginning of Zhenguan.

Years of war have made this country poor and white, coupled with the Turkic bandits, the money in the entire treasury may not be as much as Xiao Han's family.

There is no food, no matter how full the wine, the atmosphere is naturally a little dull.

Fortunately, in this hall, there are only a few people who are really eager to eat well.

Like other people, especially those low-level officials, not to mention vegetables and meat, even if Li Shimin went outside to pull two grasses, they could swallow them with taste.

What we eat is extravagant, who cares what we eat?

In this way, a sweet meal of bitter memories was eaten for half an hour and then dispersed.

With the flow of people, Xiao Han followed Liu Hongji, who had been scolding and scolding for a long time because he had no chance to put down Wei Chigong, out of the palace gate.

"Grandma's, I don't care if I have enough wine, I can't eat enough, I haven't even seen a piece of meat, this is too picky, right?"

"Yes, it's too picky, hiccup~"

"Huh? What does it taste like? How does it smell like barbecue? ”

"Ahem, are you crazy about meat? Where is the barbecue...... Hiccup~"

"Isn't that right? It's meaty! Xiao Han, you honestly, are you ......?"

Just when Xiao Han was staring at Liu Hongji and sweating profusely, and he didn't know how to prevaricate the past, a sharp voice came over at the right time.

"Xiao Hou, Xiao Hou, Your Majesty is looking for you!"

Seriously, Xiao Han never thought that the eunuch's voice was so beautiful, it was just like a fairy sound!

"Oh? Your Majesty looking for me? Let's go over there! ”

Turning around violently, Xiao Han couldn't wait to kiss the head of this deacon eunuch at this time!

Why didn't you think this dead eunuch was so likable before?

"Wait!"

Just when Xiao Han and the deacon eunuch were about to run wildly, Liu Hongji, who was full of suspicion, finally spoke up.

"This father-in-law, how many dishes are there tonight?"

"I've seen General Liu, there are three dishes tonight?" The deacon eunuch was puzzled by the second monk asked by Liu Hongji.

"Oh? What are the dishes? Liu Hongji squinted, and there seemed to be an electric light surging in his eyes.

"Two dried vegetables, one slice of roast meat." Although the deacon and eunuch didn't understand why Liu Hongji asked this, he still answered honestly.

"Ahem, I'm also three, are you missing one? I must have forgotten to put it on you! Xiao Han's face was not red, and his heart was not beating.

"Then how can there be four plates on your table?" Liu Hongji stared at Xiao Han and squeezed out these words from between his teeth......