Chapter 018: Lu Zhan wants to eat boiled fish
After reading the contents of the paper, the emperor raised his eyebrows and glanced at Lu Zhan. "You did it alone?"
"When the imperial grandfather gave the task, he explained that he would do it in private, and his grandson did not dare to let outsiders know, including his father and mother." Lu Zhan's jaw head.
The emperor nodded: "After this trip, it is much calmer." I remember that two months ago, you were so angry that you had to compete with the generals of the pro-army guard, and in the end you had to beat people down before you stopped. ”
Lu Zhan's face.
If it had been in the past, he might have had a small argument, but at this moment, not only could he not refute it, but he only felt that it had reached the bottom of his heart.
Wasn't he too self-conscious in his previous life, and as a result, he was a living target for seventeen or eighteen years, and he didn't wake up like a dream until he was fooled.
Now that I think about these admonitions, everyone around me has reminded me, but he has never listened to them.
When he looked up, he saw that the emperor who was bowing slightly was still holding the paper and seemed to be looking down and thinking about it, and he couldn't help but say, "Is there anything wrong with this Tang Zhen?" ”
The emperor folded the paper back into his sleeve: "No problem. After speaking, he thought for a while, and then said, "I will meet this person when I go back, can you arrange it?" ”
Lu Zhan paused: "Where do you want to meet?" ”
"It's too eye-catching to enter the palace, so it's better to be outside the palace." The Emperor paced two steps, "You find a reliable place." ”
Lu Zhan pondered, and then leaned over: "Grandson knows." When the arrangements are made, I will report to the emperor's grandfather. ”
The emperor nodded, and beckoned to him again: "Come, walk with the emperor's grandfather again." ”
……
Lu Zhan walked with the emperor for two turns, and his grandparents talked about some family and academic things, and finally came out again until an official from the court came to him.
After returning to the palace, Lu Zhan summoned Chonghua to the palace.
"The emperor wants to see this Tang Zhen. You first find someone to talk to Tang Zhen, and then find out all the people around him, and tell me if you have any doubts.
"Finally, I will go to find a reliable place, don't use the wine shop and teahouse, there are too many people, and it is better to have an inconspicuous house. Let's talk back and forth after that. ”
The emperor was reluctant to bring people into the palace because it was too eye-catching, so although the Jin Palace's heavily defended palace could ensure safety, it could not be considered.
Chonghua goes down. came back under the threshold: "Why did the emperor focus on this Tang Zhen?" ”
Lu Zhan shook his head: "I don't know." ”
Wei Chun nodded and went to do things first.
Lu Zhan sat down, got up and entered the inner hall again.
These days, he also checked He Zhen and Xu Luo by the way, and it seems that there is nothing worth talking about at present, but if the emperor doesn't ask, it doesn't mean that he doesn't.
He summoned Wei Chun and asked him to arrange for a few people to go to Xingping County. He also summoned the eunuch outside: "I will go out and take out my ivory fan painted with gold in Shu." ”
"It's time for dinner, where are you going?"
The voice of Princess Jin came from outside the door, and she was accompanied by a eunuch with a lacquered plate and a food box.
Lu Zhan gave Wei Chun a look, and greeted him to the outer hall: "Why is the concubine here?" ”
"Your father is not at home, I am not interested in having lunch alone, so I will go over and eat with you."
The mother and son sat down on the kang, and someone set up the dishes here. The princess personally served him soup: "It's all your favorite food." I was recuperating from my injuries a while ago, and I had taboos, but now I can open meat. Look, they're all thin. ”
During this time, Princess Jin had to come to Yanzhao Palace every day, but she didn't stay for long, and today was the first meal for Lu Zhan after he came back.
He got up to take the soup with both hands, and also served the princess before serving the vegetables. Princess Jin smiled: "I always feel that you have been injured and have changed a lot." ”
Lu Zhan also smiled: "How can there be?" It's not the same, headstrong and mischievous. ”
Princess Jin looked at him with a smile and shook her head, but she didn't say anything.
Lu Zhan didn't say anything, and lowered his head to drink the soup.
After returning home, Princess Jin's care suddenly brought him back to the past. Lu Zhan sensibly reminded himself that he should fully believe her, but after experiencing being plotted by Lu Yun and experiencing the death of the secret enemy, some things could not be fully explained to her after all.
"Why don't you eat fish?" In her thoughts, the princess pointed to the plate in front of him.
"The taste of this fish is a bit light, I don't like it very much." Lu Zhan put the chopsticks down. He had a cook who only cooked for him, and the princess asked him to choose it herself. He used to like the food he used to make, but now he always feels that it doesn't suit his taste. "It's a bit bland, if you can add some spicy food to make boiling, it will be very fragrant."
"Spicy? That's a folk practice. Princess Jin looked at him suspiciously, "Spicy hurts your stomach, and we don't have to eat with it." ”
When Lu Zhan heard the word folk, his hand holding the soup stopped.
He remembered that in Tanzhou, he ate all the dishes made by Song Xiang. Her cooking skills are completely different from those of the palace cooks, there is no such tactful and troublesome, often less than two quarters of an hour, a meal is made by one person, it is a very ordinary ingredient, an ordinary bowl, but the aroma of the meal can directly hook out the gluttony.
He remembered that the morning he left, she cooked noodles and mixed a few cold vegetables, and a plate of squeezed lard residue was mixed with hot oil, minced garlic and coriander, and he ate two bowls of noodles without saying a word.
These ingredients, which he couldn't even look at before, were somehow turned into delicious in her hands. The two children did not lose weight at all that year in Tanzhou, which shows that it is all due to her.
Sometimes he couldn't understand how she could cook in such a simple and straightforward way for a person who looked so thin and gentle......
"It's really not to taste, I'll find two more chefs from the Sichuan and Hunan departments to change your mouth when I go back." The princess looked at him and said.
Lu Zhan came back to his senses, nodded and took a bite of shredded chicken: "It's okay." ”
After seven years of getting along day and night, they suddenly parted ways, and they were even a little unaccustomed to the taste.
The princess smiled and said: "Hurry up and get better, Shen Shangshufu is going to hold a birthday banquet for the old lady next month, and their eldest girl was also in time last month, and her appearance is becoming more and more provocative, and she is even more smart and wise, when the time comes, you will go to the banquet with me, and meet her by the way." ”
"I'm a man, she's a girl, what am I doing with her?" Lu Zhan drank the soup elegantly.
The princess said: "The man should get married, the woman should get married, you should discuss marriage." The Shen family is a family as famous as your grandfather Yang family, and the young ladies of the Shen family are all well-read and courteous, if you can marry the Shen family, it will be absolutely beneficial to you. ”
"But don't I already have the Yang family to support me?" Lu Zhan put down his teeth, "Could it be that my grandfather has been dissatisfied with me recently?" ”
The princess took the tea and rinsed her mouth, saying, "Your grandfather can't be dissatisfied with you. It's just that if you have a family background like the Shen family as your wife, it will only be better for you. ”
Lu Zhan looked at her and muttered, "But I remember that my mother said that she hoped that I would find a woman who was in love with me." ”
"That's why I asked you to meet Miss Shen first." The princess said, "If you haven't seen it, if you don't get along, how do you know if you will fall in love?" What's more, there is no conflict between the love and the right match. ”