Chapter 4 Seeing Xiao Qingyu for the first time
Ouch! This good thing is only available in our East Palace, and the emperor can't eat it if he wants to! Manager Xu pointed to a medium-sized meatball and said: "This is the most elite male wolf, cut it when it is alive, and then fry it, it is crispy and fragrant, and when you bite it, the aftertaste is endless." ”
Mr. Xu spoke in a loud voice, as if he was chewing on this fried croquette. Then he carefully put a ball in the bowl in front of me, and said, "Your Highness, do you want to taste what the new imperial chef has made today?" ”
"Is this wolf meat?" Oh my God! Gu Tianba actually eats wolf meat? In the past, I had a dog meat restaurant in Jiapei County downstairs, but dog lovers were sticking slogans and pulling banners, and finally had to close the door. And this meatball is actually made of wolf meat. Don't eat! Never eat.
Pushing the fried wolf meatballs far away, I scooped a spoonful of the meatball soup in the bowl in front of me, nodded and praised, "This is delicious!" ”
Manager Xu hurriedly explained to me: "Of course! That's the former head chef. He didn't steal the good things prepared for His Royal Highness in the imperial dining room, and he was able to raise this object, which was much bigger than ordinary people. ”
"Why did the former head chef of the imperial kitchen let him stay in the imperial dining room when he was secretly eating?" I asked strangely.
"He's dead!" Mr. Xu replied.
"Didn't you just say that this meatball soup was made by the former head chef? What else would he do if he was dead? "Could it be that you still borrow corpses to resurrect souls like me!
"This soup is made with the former head chef...... "Manager Xu covered his mouth and smiled shyly: "That thing on your body is made!" ”
I still don't understand, I still looked at Mr. Xu blankly, Mr. Xu's old face turned red, leaned into my ear, and whispered, "That's it...... That thing underneath the man! ”
When I heard the word "that thing" and looked at the strangely shaped balls on the table, I immediately understood what I was eating. Suddenly, my stomach was overturned. "Wow!" I threw up, tears in my eyes, and I couldn't breathe.
No wonder I let all the beautiful men eat with me, they all have the same expression of going to the execution ground, who is a normal person who touches these things! This Gu Tianba is really a superb, thinking that eating so many of these things can make up for the form, and he can become a man, it's too whimsical!
Just as I was throwing up in the dark, someone patted me on the back and handed me a bowl of water.
"Thank you!" I took the water and looked up to thank the man. I saw him dressed in white, with a temperament like jade, he was the first handsome guy I saw when I first woke up.
"Your Highness, where is it uncomfortable?" The handsome guy's voice is clear and warm, like a spring flowing through the irritable and depressed heart in the hot summer.
I am indeed uncomfortable, the iron armor on my body is uncomfortable, the food on the table is uncomfortable, the name is uncomfortable, and the identity of the prince is even more uncomfortable...... It's not comfortable anywhere! But the uncomfortable thing he asked me about now should be asking if I was uncomfortable, not what made me uncomfortable.
"It's fine." I barely managed to squeeze out a smile, "I'll just take a break." ”
"The concubine should check the pulse of His Highness!"
The handsome guy actually called himself a concubine, what is this name? Isn't he the imperial doctor who treats me, but my male pet like all the beautiful men here? Gu Tianba's male favorites actually claim to be concubines instead of ministers as women, and they are really doing a full set of dramas!
The handsome guy has a temperament like jade, with a touch of coldness, and a faint rebelliousness. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a male pet, but more like a gentleman among nobles and a king among immortals.
Taking advantage of his time to give me a pulse, I talked to him, it turned out that his name was Xiao Qingyu, a disciple of the Divine Doctor Valley, two years ago there was a plague in Tianyu Capital City, he was ordered by the master to go down the mountain for treatment, unfortunately Gu Tianba took a fancy to him, and led the troops to chase him to the Divine Doctor Valley, and surrounded the Divine Doctor Valley with an army of 100,000, and also threatened that the Divine Doctor Valley would not hand over Xiao Qingyu, so he burned the Divine Doctor Valley, and forced Xiao Qingyu to return to the East Palace with her.
It's really "not a family, not a family." "This Gu Tianba's grandfather assisted the King of Nanyang in besieging the Fengqi Imperial City, and Gu Tianba led his troops to besiege the Divine Medicine Valley. It's just that Gu Tianba's grandfather only brought 50,000 people with him when he besieged the capital of a country, and this Gu Tianba, for the sake of Xiao Qingyu, actually mobilized an army of 100,000 people, which is really better than blue!
Xiao Qingyu said that I am not in serious condition, if I am not feeling well, I should rest more. I don't think there's anything wrong with my body, and as for resting, he doesn't say I'll do the same. The main reason is that this iron armor is too heavy, and it is still summer, wearing an impermeable iron armor suit, the sweat that flows out can't be dispersed at all, it sticks to the body and is greasy, and even the prickly heat comes out.
At this time, Manager Xu happily ran in from outside and shouted in his sharp voice: "Your Highness! Your Highness! Good news, General Chonghua returned to the dynasty in triumph today, and the army has reached ten miles outside the city! ”
"Oh!" I answered. Continue to talk to Xiao Qingyu, although this handsome guy is respectful to me, and he took the initiative to come over to hand me water, but he always avoids my gaze intentionally or unintentionally. If I raise my hand or something, he will unconsciously dodge, really, I didn't plan to touch him, why did he have such an expression?
"Your Highness, don't you personally go out of the city to greet General Chonghua?" Mr. Xu asked me.
"The general is triumphant, I want to go out of the city to greet him personally?" Originally, I thought that the general's triumph was to let the minister welcome people in first, and the prince only needed to set up a banquet in the palace to entertain him, or to reward him in the court, but I didn't expect that the etiquette of Yuguo on this day would not only be greeted by the prince himself, but also greeted outside the city. In that case, let's go!
So, I said to Mr. Xu, "Then let's go!" ”
"Your Highness, you have to call yourself this palace!" Manager Xu whispered in my ear: "General Chonghua is your most important general, every time he goes out to triumph, you have to dress up and greet him in person!" ”
"Then I...... Does Hongu have to change his clothes again? ”
"Of course, His Highness is dressed beautifully enough to firmly attract General Chonghua's attention, isn't it?" Manager Xu said and covered his mouth ambiguously, "hehe", and laughed dryly.
Enigmatical! At this time, I can only use these four words to describe the manager Xu in front of me.
Changed into a black gold-threaded dragon pattern crown dress, except that I didn't wear a crown, my dress was no different from the emperor. Who let Gu Tianba be the person who is destined to return, even if she abolishes the emperor's father and sits on the throne herself, her father shouldn't say anything! What's more, it's just wearing a dragon robe.
Although I don't agree with Gu Tianba's practice of wearing a dragon robe, but this ice silk is not only gorgeous when worn on the crown made of pure gold silk, but also very cool.
In the past, in order to welcome General Chonghua, Gu Tianba would let the city gate be under martial law and not allow anyone to enter or leave, and all the people in the city would drag their families to welcome them. This welcome is originally a spontaneous form, whoever loves to come, not to pull down. The scene is full of nature, and it is something to be proud of, but forcing people to fill the scene feels no different from slapping a swollen face and filling a fat person.
Therefore, I asked Mr. Xu to lift martial law at the city gate, and let those people who were trembling on both sides of the road but pretending to be elated do what they should do.
"Manager Xu, didn't General Chonghua arrive at Shilipo two hours ago? Why can't you see the shadow now, or you can call someone to see if you are in trouble on the road and delayed. "In this era, one hour is equivalent to two hours in modern times, two hours is four hours, four hours and seven miles, that is, three and a half kilometers away, not to mention the soldiers who march and fight, even if they are four or five years old, they should have arrived a long time ago after taking a break!
"Your Highness, don't worry!" Manager Xu brought a cup of chilled sour plum soup to me, "General Chonghua has to tidy up his appearance in advance before meeting His Highness, and it is inevitable that he will be delayed for a while." Your Highness may have forgotten that General Chonghua used to arrive at this Sanli Pavilion in the dark, and it is still early! ”
"Dark?" He arrived before dark in the evening, and you asked me to pick him up early in the morning? I didn't like to wait for people before, I thought that I finally became the prince, and finally no one dared to be punctual to me, you old eunuch, let me wait for a day in vain!
However, this is no wonder to Mr. Xu. Because once before, Gu Tianba heard that General Chonghua had returned to the court, so she dressed up for a long time, who knew that as soon as she left the palace gate, she was told that General Chonghua had returned to the house, and Gu Tianba ordered to kill all the entourages except for General Manager Xu that day, which was more than 120 people. Gu Tianba doesn't like to wait for people, but who let the other party be the Chonghua general she likes! In order to see General Chonghua as soon as possible, Gu Tianba was willing to wait for as long as he wanted.
This Chonghua general's surname is Su, Su Chonghua, he was a nobody, because he was brave and good at fighting, he was very valued by the commander, and later the palace held a martial arts competition, and his commander recommended him, who knew that Gu Tianba fell in love with this young man with honey-colored skin at a glance, and a hideous scar lying on his face from his temples to cheekbones. For the first time, he was not forced to enter the palace, and he was also made a general, and he was obedient to anything he said.
And this Su Chonghua, in addition to the scar on his face, is definitely a superb beautiful man. Tianyuguo is infatuated with his daughters and countless noble daughters, but he only has a soft spot for Lin Muhan, the second lady of the prime minister's family.
Gu Tianba troubled Lin Muhan several times, but was blocked by Su Chonghua, and Su Chonghua also put down his cruel words, if Lin Muhan had three longs and two shorts, he would never return to Tianyu.
There is no way, although Gu Tianba hates this Lin Muhan to the core, but in order to show his generosity and virtue in front of Su Chonghua, he can only swallow his anger, at the beginning of the year, in order to make Su Chonghua happy, Gu Tianba also named this Lin Muhan as the county lord.
And this rape flower that stretches for hundreds of miles outside the city, it is also Gu Tianba who heard that Su Chonghua likes this flower, so he ordered all the fertile fields and land around the capital to be planted with only this kind of crop.
However, people in the Qin and Han dynasties knew how to extract vegetable oil, but people in this era did not master it, and rape flowers were just flowers planted by literati and scholars.
In other words, in order to please his unrequited man, Gu Tianba, the second goods, actually let all the land in the capital only grow this kind of rape flower, which has no other use except for good looks.
And the farming tools of this era are also relatively primitive and rude, water diversion irrigation is even more fantastical, grain production is completely dependent on the sky to eat, even if the wind and rain are good, one acre of land will produce one or two hundred catties of wheat. In the event of a catastrophe or drought, it is not uncommon for the seeds to be harvested and the grains not to be harvested.
And this year happens to be a good year for Feng Tune and Rain, but the fertile fields that stretch for hundreds of miles around Tianyu Capital City have not grown a single edible grain.