"Second master, are you stealing food again?" As soon as he entered the house, he saw that the prince hurriedly hid the snack plate, and asked with a straight face.

"No, who stole it!" Zhao Ta touched his mouth, his face was not red, and his heart was not beating.

"Second master, there is still a little bit of scumbag on the corner of your mouth, and there is also it on the table, you still don't admit it!" Jianxi can't do anything about the prince, but the rules in the palace are like this, the children are not allowed to eat too much, and he has to 'admonish' at any time.

"Hehe, let you see, don't tell the official, or he'll give me a lesson again!" Zhao Ta wiped his mouth, blew off the residue on the table and said with a smile.

"You're also afraid of him, let him know that I'll have to be beaten, you feel sorry for me, don't steal it!" Seeing the joy of persuasion with a bitter face.

"See, fuck who is the biggest in this house, who has the final say?"

"Of course it's you, the prince, the little ones are all waiting for you, you have the final say!" Miki said without hesitation.

"Since I have the final say, eating something is like being a thief, am I in charge, I think you have the final say!" Zhao Ta lost his temper and shouted.

"Second master, it's not that we won't let you eat, it's that the rules in the palace are like this!"

"Bullshit, is Lao Tzu in the palace now? You cook so many meals every day, just let me eat two bites of everything, and don't let me eat the third bite, just let me watch, eat half full, and wake up hungry in the middle of the night, I think you want to starve me to death! Zhao Tan said angrily, now that the amount of exercise is increasing every day, and he is not allowed to eat full, if he continues like this every day, his body will definitely not be able to bear it, and he has to find a way to find something to fill it up every day.

"Second master, there are rules for your eating and drinking, how dare we change it casually!" Jianxi said with some trepidation.

"See, the rules are all set by people, since I have the final say in the house, can't I still do this thing?" Zhao Ta said with a look in his eyes, "From tomorrow onwards, I will tell the kitchen not to make so many things that can be seen and eaten, four dishes and one soup are enough for each meal, as the king of the county, I can't even eat enough, isn't it even more detrimental to the dignity of the royal family!" ”

"This... Is the second master okay? He said with embarrassment.

"Why can't you do it, just say that I ordered it, and if anyone is unhappy, let him say to me, I don't even have this burden on you, so I can only mess around on this errand!" Zhao Ta said with a cold face.

Seeing that Zhao Ta was unhappy, he smiled curtly, and he didn't know if he was in charge of it, or if he made sense of Huang Jingchen, anyway, from the next day, Zhao Ta's meal style was done according to his instructions, and every day the kitchen would send recipes for him to review, and the snacks and fruits were even more at will, and no one nagged him anymore. Zhao Ta did this, in addition to solving the problem of eating, it was also a small temptation.

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A few days after the Tianning Festival, suddenly the palace sent someone to bring the emperor's edict and a bunch of things rewarded by the emperor's mother, but did not bring the news that he was looking forward to announcing his return to Beijing. Concubine Zheng Guifei sent 30,000 yuan of money, dozens of clothes to wear in winter, and a number of good pen, ink, paper and inkstones.

"Xigui, is there anything to say in the palace?" The attendant who came was his own person, and he dismissed the irrelevant personnel, Huang Jingchen asked.

"As you know, the emperor looked at the congratulatory table of the Second Highness, first laughed, and then wept and praised His Highness for his filial piety, passed on the word to reward the Second Highness, and scolded Yang Jian for putting His Royal Highness in danger, and the other ladies in the palace did not look good when they heard it!" Xigui looked at Huang Jingchen and said.

"Do you have any explanation?" Huang Jingchen asked again.

"This time, Niangniang asked the small one to bring the fat powder money saved, and asked the big official to buy more good land, repair the Zhuangzi, and also bring a word to His Royal Highness, so that the small one can hand it over to His Highness!" Xigui said as he took out a small scroll from his arms and handed it to Zhao Ta with both hands.

"Well, you've worked hard this time, see Xi and get some wine money for Xigui!" Huang Jingchen nodded and said.

"Your Highness Xie, the great official reward!" Seeing that Xi took out two small ingots and stuffed them to him, Xigui hurriedly thanked him, "Oh, big official, Yang Diantou sent a few wrestlers to His Highness this time, so that they can protect His Highness's safety!" ”

"Hehe, this bothered him!" Huang Jingchen said with a smile.

"Hehe, Yang Diantou was scolded by the emperor, how dare he slack off, he didn't choose people from the palace's straight class this time, but picked a few wrestlers, two of which were in the top ten in the Kaifeng Mansion Sumo Bidding Meeting, and the kung fu is amazing!" Xigui was rewarded, and he was happy in his heart, and said a few more words. ,

"Sumo wrestler?!" Zhao Ta was taken aback when he heard this, there was sumo wrestling at this time in the Song Dynasty, shouldn't it be like the super fat man who weighs hundreds of kilograms in Little Japan now, walks hard, eats and sleeps, and eats and eats.

Just as he was imagining the appearance of the sumo wrestler at this time, four big men in brocade robes walked in to meet him, and they saluted Zhao Ta in unison, "The little one brings down the mountain Panlong, (Song Hu who breaks the sky, Xue Leopard who is as fast as the wind, and Zhang Feng who whips Zhang Feng) See the prince of the county!" ”

The sound was deafening, Zhao Ta took out his buzzing ears, looked a few people up and down, and put his mind at ease, although they were burly, they were not the kind of Japanese goods with fat and trembling, they were really good meat shields to block bullets. He took a closer look, the four of them all had thick faces, tall and long, and hideous faces, although they were smiling at themselves, but Zhao Ta thought that they were still not smiling.

"Sure enough, they are all heroes, Yang Diantou's gift is not light!" Huang Jingchen couldn't help but praise and said, "Lord Wang, with these heroes to escort you, you can have no worries!" "He is more knowledgeable than Zhao Ta, the emperor often sends sumo wrestlers to escort the car or serve as attendants in major ceremonies, they are all like door gods, if there is a loud noise or commotion from the onlookers of the emperor, they give a blow, it will immediately make people bloody. The upward and downward effect has led to the fact that famous families in the city now go out to visit, and they must also bring sumo wrestlers and let them line up at the door to show their style, just like the current big-name stars, when they go out, they are not allowed to let a few bodyguards wearing sunglasses and black suits open the way, and they are embarrassed to go out.

"Yes, looking at their size, they must have eaten a lot, this..." Zhao Ta said leisurely, a few people were surprised, the prince is a money fan, but he has fun listening to the second half of the words, "Give them meat every day, and be full!" ”

"Ha Luha, the prince's temper is really an appetite for us, we are meatless and unhappy!" Knocking down the mountain, Panlong said with a smile.

"Hehe, I also like to eat meat, they won't let me eat more, you guys secretly leave some for me!" Zhao Ta laughed and whispered to Pan Long, amusing several people in the room!

The palace attendants retreated, only Zhao Ta and Huang Jingchen were left in the room, he opened the scroll brought to him by Zheng Guifei, the words were neatly and beautifully written, revealing grace and simplicity, Zhao Ta was stunned after reading it, put the scroll on the table and sat there, without speaking.

Huang Jingchen picked it up and looked at it, and read slowly: "Everyone adopts a son to be smart, and I have been mistaken by being smart all my life; I hope that the child will be stupid and reckless, and there will be no disaster and no difficulty to the minister. After he finished reading, his face also showed a confused look, this is a Buddhist poem written by Su Shi, a scholar, pondering for a moment, he didn't understand why Niangniang would give Zhao Ta such a poem, is there any other meaning in it?

Zhao Ta returned to the small study and asked Jianxi to hang the scroll on the wall, waved him out, he sat on the chair and looked at the scroll on the wall and sighed. The word "mistake" explains what happened in his life. Because he is smart, he has seen too many fools, encountered too many needs and troubles, and realized that sometimes he is too smart, and he is easy to be envied and hindered.

"Could it be that my mother saw what I meant by painting?" Zhao Ta couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook her head, it's not necessarily a good thing to have a smart mother, she gave herself so much money to buy a house and land, she wanted to be an idle prince, and at the same time advised herself not to be clever anymore, stay in the countryside for a lifetime!

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In fact, Zhao Ta understood well, many things happened in the palace that night, and the queen proposed that the prince should be established early during the birthday banquet, but the emperor rejected it. After the banquet, the emperor stayed in the palace of Zheng Guifei overnight, and the queen hugged her son and cried for half the night, and the next day her condition worsened and she was bedridden. After Wang Shufei went back, it is said that she beat the third prince Zhao Kai, punished him for kneeling for half a night, and reprimanded him for not writing good poems. In the palace of Concubine Cui De, it was reported that night that the second prince had received the emperor's approval and was about to return to Beijing and intended to be the crown prince...

For a time, rumors were flying all over the capital, and officials of all sizes in the DPRK and China inquired about the news, and it was said that the little yellow men who were on duty that night were soft in collecting money. But a few days later, news came from the palace, saying that the second prince suddenly relapsed from his old illness and was dying, and the emperor gave a large number of medicines. The news from Xiangyi also said that the palace was gloomy, the inner courtyard was tightly sealed, and all people were forbidden to enter and leave, and the imperial physician had not left the inner courtyard for many days.

"Second master, what do you want to eat, just give an order, how can you do it yourself!" The cook in the small kitchen said in fear.

"See, don't just wait to eat, quickly bring the salt!" Zhao Ta stood on a small stool, covered with sweat, waving a shovel and stirring the meat in the pot and said, "Sister Chen, you can't do this dish, I'll try it later!" He sprinkled some salt in the pot, turned his face to the cook, and looked at him sweating and looking like he was seriously ill.