As soon as Zhu Xufu sat down, the imperial concubine had already finished saluting, and said with a smile: "The emperor came up just in time, and some of us are crying out for injustice." ”

"Shouting grievances? Who? Zhu Xu's eyes fell on Zeng Rong.

"Isn't it that Zeng was in charge, this childish person is weird, and he still remembers that the emperor punished her for kneeling last time. According to the concubine, this matter is not bad for people who have been in charge, just rely on the emperor, who has been in charge of things and is obviously meritorious, and the emperor will not reward him, and he will punish others, the little girl's family will work for the first time, can you not be frightened? After the imperial concubine finished speaking, she specially touched Zeng Rong's head to show her closeness.

Zeng Rong will argue or not, at this time, she hates herself to death, what punishment should she kneel?

But at that meeting, she was also to dispel the suspicions of Yu Meiren, but the emperor rushed over, but I was afraid that the words had already been heard, if she argued again, the emperor might have something to say.

Sure enough, after the imperial concubine finished speaking, the emperor squinted at Zeng Rong and asked lukewarmly, "Is it?" What kind of reward do you want? ”

"When I go back to the emperor, the lower officials don't dare, because the lower officials are stupid and deserve to be punished."

"A good one 'deserves to be punished,' so he kneels outside." Zhu Xu said slowly.

Zeng Rong was dumbfounded when he heard this, this person was really inexplicable, he just sent someone to bring her porridge in the morning, and he would punish her for kneeling without saying a word?

"Your Majesty, this is really a concubine's, Zeng was in charge of sending things to the concubine kindly, the concubine left her to say a few words, and the emperor wanted to punish her for kneeling, isn't it the concubine's fault? In the future, he dared to enter the Yaohua Palace of the concubines? The imperial concubine bowed to the emperor and pleaded.

"Go back to the emperor, go back to the imperial concubine, it's the fault of the lower officials, the lower officials will go outside and kneel." Zeng Rong dared to admit such a big affection, he hurriedly curtsied, and went out without even raising his head, still kneeling in front of the flower garden last time.

Zhu Xu saw that Zeng Rong had gone out, so he turned to Yu Meiren and asked her how she was doing these days, whether she was homesick, and if she was used to it in the palace.

The poppies answered one by one.

"I said I forgot something. This will listen to Sister Yu say homesickness, I just remembered, Sister Yu's home and Zeng Zhangshi's hometown are not far away, they all said that your hometown is talented, I didn't expect even a talented girl, my sister is counted as one, Zeng Zhangshi is also counted as one, and my sister is homesick in the future, Mo Ruo asked Zeng Zhangshi to go over to talk to my sister, listen to the hometown accent, and talk about homesickness. The imperial concubine winked at the poppy beauty as she spoke, and motioned for her to open her mouth to plead with the emperor.

The poppy woman hung her head, as if she was unwilling, and after a while, she raised her head, and there seemed to be rippling water in her eyes, "Back to the imperial concubine, I don't know where my hometown is?" Yu Bing just listened to her, and she didn't have a hometown accent, Yu Bing thought she was from the capital. ”

"I just remember that she is generally from Jiangnan West Road, and she just said that she only went to Beijing in the old year, and it is impossible that she doesn't know her hometown, so it's better for us to call her in, you two use your hometown dialect, right?" After the imperial concubine finished speaking, she smiled at the emperor.

Yu Bing saw that the imperial concubine pleaded for Zeng Rong again, so she had to look at the emperor Yingying, although she never opened her mouth to intercede, but the water waves in her eyes were like turning, it seemed that if the emperor didn't agree, the water waves should be turned into water droplets and rolled out.

"That's it, that's it, I'm scared of you two." After speaking, Zhu Xu shouted at the door, "Chang Dezi." ”

Zeng Rong was called by Chang Dezi and had guessed that it must be the imperial concubine who interceded for her again, and this bright and dark pull and step, Zeng Rong was really annoyed by her. Hua Heng College

But no matter how annoying she is, she can only endure it, this path is her own choice, even if she regrets it, there is no way back.

Back in the house again, Zeng Rong didn't dare to raise his head, lowered his eyes, and honestly waited for the training.

"Zeng is in charge, this palace seems to remember that your hometown is Jiangnan West Road, where is the specific place?" Seeing that the emperor didn't speak, the imperial concubine had to ask herself.

"Back to the imperial concubine, from Anzhou Mansion."

"Anzhou? I'm from Hongzhou. The poppy was slightly surprised.

"Right? Bengong is really not mistaken, the hometown of the two of you is really a place for talents, and now the two of you can talk in the local accent. The imperial concubine glanced at the emperor and said with a smile.

"We may have different dialects in the next village, I wonder if the mother of the lower official can understand what the lower officials say?" Zeng Rong said this in tongues.

Yu Meiren frowned slightly, and said in official words: "I didn't understand the first sentence, but I understood the second sentence." ”

When Zeng Rong heard this, he also repeated those two sentences in official language, in exchange for a cold snort from the emperor, Zeng Rong couldn't figure out the other party's temperament, so he simply shut up again.

"Zeng, you picked this perilla? I don't know how many ways to eat perilla in your hometown? The imperial concubine didn't seem to like it again when she saw the emperor, so she changed the topic.

"Back to the imperial concubine, Xia Guan has never seen perilla in his hometown." Zeng Rong replied.

"Haven't seen it? No, Sister Yu told the palace that she wanted to eat a dish, purple-red, and the soup would turn red after frying, the palace asked several people, all of them were perilla, and the palace also showed this perilla to Sister Yu, she said that it looked very similar, but the taste was very different, and the palace thought it was orange and Huaibei was orange, and it turned out to be not a thing. ”

"Back to the imperial concubine Niangniang, the dish that Yu Niangniang said is called amaranth, there should be no one in the capital, and I haven't seen it in the past few days."

Zeng Rong thought about it after speaking, although she had never eaten perilla, although the perilla leaves were indeed very similar to amaranth, but the taste of the two was completely different, she didn't believe that the poppy didn't smell it, but why she didn't pick on Zeng Rong was unknown.

There is also the imperial concubine, perilla is obviously used to make medicinal herbs or auxiliary materials, she actually used it as a dish to fry for the poppy beauty, and she still did it in private in the small stove room of Yaohua Palace, Zeng Rong felt that this matter would not be so simple.

"If you haven't seen it yet, it's not necessarily nothing, these days you go around the street to see if you can find this kind of vegetable, if not, give you a year to grow it yourself, if it hasn't been planted today next year, you don't do it in the inner warden, go directly to the outside of the city to find a piece of land to grow vegetables." Zhu Xu said.

"Back to the emperor, don't bother to be in charge, the concubine only occasionally mentioned it to the imperial concubine that day, the imperial concubine cared about the concubine, said that the concubine was not good, the concubine remembered that when she was in her hometown, her grandmother often ordered us to eat a leafy dish in the summer, that is, the amaranth that Zeng was in charge of, the concubine just mentioned it casually, but I didn't expect the imperial concubine to get into her heart, and found perilla for the concubine, and the concubine had never seen how the lettuce was, only saw the ripe one, so the concubine also thought that the perilla was amaranth, since these two dishes were red soup after cooking, presumably the effect was the same, Why bother to mobilize the people, isn't it the sin of the concubines? Yu Bing said softly.

Zhu Xu listened and looked at Zeng Rong, as if waiting for Zeng Rong's explanation.