The rain was slightly cool, and the shade of the trees was gradually unable to resist the rain, and the raindrops soaked Zhao Wuya's white hair, as well as Begonia and Xiaoyue's clothes.

The old man grinned miserably and opened his mouth: "Xue Ling is going to enter the palace, what can I do?" I went to beg Old Man Cen, but the people of the Cen family took me away, and they told me that if I went to Cen Mansion once, they would beat me once, and I would never see Old Man Cen at all, let alone Xue Ling...... Later, Xue Ling let her maid sneak out and tell me the day she entered the palace, what about me? I could only watch Old Man Cen send her to the palace that day......

"I went crazy and broke into the Cen Mansion, but I was knocked unconscious by them, and when I woke up, I was already left in the barren mountains by them, and I really couldn't do anything......

"After a few days in the mountains, I happened to hear from the ginseng pickers that the royal family posted a notice that the emperor's birthday is imminent, and the palace will set up 'white clothes rooms' in various places, and the chefs who have been screened by the white clothes room can enter Beijing to try again, and then ten chefs will be selected to compete with the ten selected imperial chefs, and then ten people will be selected as the chefs of the emperor's birthday banquet, and the best of them can get rich rewards.

"If I can get one of the last ten places, won't I have a chance to say goodbye to Xue Ling?

"I successfully passed the white-clothed room and got a place to enter Beijing, and when I competed in the palace, I saw Xue Ling! She, she's ......"

Zhao Wuya's expression suddenly dimmed with some excitement: "She stood next to the emperor, and the emperor's eyes were full of tenderness when he looked at her, but what about me?" All I got was a squire's 'don't look away' from a guard.

"But it was at that moment, the moment the scolding sounded, Xue Ling saw me, and I was sure that we met at that moment, but, Xue Ling, she ...... Just an understatement glance at me, that's all...... In her eyes, there was only indifference!

"It's only been a few months, and Xue Ling actually looked at me coldly, I can't believe it......

"I started working harder on the recipes, and eventually, I made it to the bottom 10 spots. I knew that I must have been dazzled last time, how could Xue Ling look at me with such eyes?

"The birthday banquet of the Emperor is approaching, and the ten of us are really too busy to work, I don't have time to inquire about Xue Ling at all, but I learned from some guards and palace maids that Xue Ling is now the emperor's concubine, and the emperor has never looked at other women since he met her in the palace.

"It wasn't until the day of the birthday banquet that the Emperor proposed to let the ten of us also attend the birthday banquet, and the emperor did not object to this matter, so I was able to see Xue Ling again.

"It was at this birthday banquet that the emperor chose Xue Ling as the imperial concubine, and said that he would choose a good day and an auspicious day to hold a wedding banquet with Xue Ling as soon as possible......"

Thirty-one years ago, the palace, the birthday banquet of the emperor.

"Taking today's opportunity, I want to make Qingxuan the imperial concubine, choose a good day and an auspicious day, and I will marry her!"

On the dragon throne, the man in the yellow robe had resolute eyebrows, but at the moment he was a little drunk, took a sip of wine into his throat, pulled up the woman who served him beside him, and said.

The woman was also stunned, but after a while, she came back to her senses, and looked at the figure in a dragon robe beside her, gentle as water.

At the end of the banquet, Zhao Wuya's face turned pale, he looked at the dragon seat in the distance, and opened his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound.

The audience fell silent, and then a torrent of congratulatory compliments erupted from all over the hall.

Zhao Wuya staggered to his feet and walked towards the outside of the hall.

Listening to the noise behind him that didn't belong to him, Zhao Wuya smiled self-deprecatingly. He remembered Xue Ling's indifferent eyes that day.

"Everyone is drunk and I am sober? Bah! It's everyone who wakes up, and I'm drunk alone...... It's easy to get to the palace with all my efforts, heh, I've been deceiving myself all the time......"

"Brother Wuya?"

A familiar voice sounded, and Zhao Wuya's body trembled violently, and he turned around to hug the man.

"What are you doing?!"

But the man pushed him away. Zhao Wuya looked at this beautiful woman who made him think about it for a long time, and his lips trembled and squeezed out a few words: "Xue Ling, you ......"

"Brother Wuya," Cen Xueling's face was a little tangled, "You, you better leave as soon as possible." ”

"Xue Ling, Xue Ling! We've only been seen in months, and I'm ...... You come with me, will you come with me? ”

"Brother Wuya, this is the last time I call you 'Brother Wuya' like that," Cen Xueling said, her expression quickly returned to indifference, "Once, we did love each other, but when I came to the palace, I realized how ignorant I was before.

"I got the man that all women in the world want here, he doesn't even care that I'm not a virgin, and he takes care of me in every way on weekdays, I don't have to suffer from the wind and food and sleeping in the open, I can get everything I want, why don't I do it?"

"Xue Ling, you weren't like this before, the Xue Ling I know is not this kind of character......" He was already a little incoherent.

"It was before, and now it is now. I used to think that happiness in suffering was our happiness, but now it seems that it is only yours, not mine. ”

"Could it be that twelve years of cold and summer together can't be worth the few months that have come to the palace?" Zhao Wuya's hoarse voice revealed despair.

"It's really unbearable," Cen Xueling snorted coldly, "I said, you'd better leave the palace as soon as possible, the previous things, this palace will no longer be entangled with you, and in the days to come, this palace and you will not know each other." With that, Cen Xueling wanted to turn around and leave.

Xue Ling...... Cen Xueling! Zhao Wuya suddenly roared:

"Although I, Zhao Wuya, don't have much ability, but when you are consistent, I always thought that the world was not as big as you. We spent more than ten years together, but we never thought that it would end like this in the end! It's me who is blind, haha, hahahahaha...... Don't worry, after today, I, Zhao Wuya, won't know any Cen Xueling, I only know that there is a Cen Xueling who has nothing to do with me, and she is the future queen of my Qiang Kingdom. I'm just a prodigal son who has been in a dream for more than ten years! ”

Under Cen Xueling's gaze, he took crooked steps and stumbled into the shadows in the distance.

"Later, I still stayed in the palace," Zhao Wuya shook the raindrops on his head, "I'm cheap, I can't bear her, I feel that staying, even if I can see her from afar, I will be content."

"I became the imperial chef of the court, and the treatment was okay, once I met the emperor by accident, he had a good conversation with me, and he also greatly appreciated my cooking skills, of course, this is only for him...... Since then, he has often taken the initiative to talk to me about things in the palace...... I think this is also the reason why in the eyes of other people, I have a good relationship with the emperor," Zhao Wuya snorted undeniably, "What bullshit emperor, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be separated from Xue Ling...... Many years passed after that, until the incident in the palace on that day, when Prince Mu tried to usurp the throne, and I was implicated......"

Twenty-two years ago, at night, in front of the palace, Qiankun Palace.

"Stop!" The guards in front of the temple blocked the way.

"The food I brought to the emperor, this is his supper today." Zhao Wuya was slightly stunned, he remembered that the emperor should have said hello, and the guards should not stop him when they saw it, but since he asked so, he still answered truthfully.

"Oh?" One of the guards stepped forward and said, "Open the box for me to inspect." ”

"This big brother, you can't cook this meal until you see the emperor......" Zhao Wuya explained, indeed feeling more and more confused.

"In that case, if you leave something behind, we'll send it in."

"But the emperor has explained that his supper must be made by me and then sent to him in person, this ......"

"Give it to us if you want it!" The guard scolded in a low voice, "Aren't you trying to turn the other way around?!" ”

"Don't dare, big brothers, I'll give you things and bother you." Zhao Wuya said, handing over the lunch box.

"If it's okay, you can go back." The guard took the lunch box and said.

Although Zhao Wuya was puzzled, he didn't dare to say anything, and left after handing over the lunch box.

Late at night.

Zhao Wuya was woken up, and in his confusion he heard an unreal shout that seemed to come from a distant place.

"No cliffs, no cliffs!"

"Who?!" Zhao Wuya turned over and sat up, but saw Zhang Tielin, who was also the imperial chef, with a panicked face.

"No cliff, something is wrong, the emperor, the emperor has a big incident!"

"What's the matter?" Zhao Wuya was stunned, "What's wrong with the emperor?" ”

"I just went to send supper to the Emperor Taishang, but when I passed by the Qiankun Palace, I was stopped and not allowed to send it, I knew that it seemed that the emperor had been assassinated, and now the whole palace is in chaos, and I am still catching assassins everywhere!"

"What's the situation with the emperor?" Zhao Wuya asked.

"......" Zhang Tielin was about to speak, but the door was suddenly opened, and a dozen or so Praetorian Guards with spears rushed in, and in the moonlight, the tip of the spear glowed with a cold ghost.

They didn't say a word, and after seeing the situation in the room clearly, they directly took Zhao Wuya away in Zhang Tielin's frightened gaze.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Wuya was driven, shouting while resisting.

"Don't resist, you colluded with Prince Mu in a vain attempt to assassinate the saint, and now that the East Window incident has happened, not only you, but also King Mu's Mansion will not escape!"

"Wronged! You have wronged me, I have not harmed the Holy One! I didn't! Zhao Wuya shouted loudly, struggling even harder.

"That's it, Lord Mu tried to rebel, I was just an innocent person who was implicated, and later said that the food I sent was poisonous, and the emperor ate the food I cooked, and was assassinated by King Mu's mansion, but in the end he was saved by the imperial doctor. Later, after the matter was clarified, although they understood that I was wronged, they still expelled me from the palace......"

Zhao Wuya said, laughing silently, the tragic smile and the empty eye sockets actually made Begonia's heart tremble.

"Then why do you want to see the emperor again?" Xiao Yue asked on the side.