"Okay, okay, don't just laugh at me, we still have business." Mu Ruqing held back a smile, and a layer of red glow appeared on his face: "You said, as soon as this bait is put down today, can the big fish be baited?" ”

Liu Xin'er said firmly: "He is stupid and impetuous, and he can't help it." ”

"Yes, we're just responsible for the bait, and it depends on the decision of the palace to close the rod."

Before dawn, Mu Ruqing sent a message to the palace, and it happened that Jiang Xinyue also returned to live in the palace, so she took it with her. When the emperor heard that the news had spread all over the city, he was very satisfied, and sent two groups of his secret guards out of the palace, one to Yipinxiang to transmit the news and protect it secretly, and the other to disperse near the palace of the king of Qi, once the king of Qi moved, he immediately reported it.

The emperor's secret guards are all trained from a young age, a hundred people eat and live together and train at the same time, and the training process is also extremely strict, often it is good to leave ten out of a hundred people. And while requiring the secret guard to be strong in martial arts, he must be absolutely loyal to the emperor, and he can not hesitate to give his life for him when necessary.

Because there are many people with mixed eyes, and there are too many people who are afraid of startling the snake, there are only two secret guards who are good at disguise lurking in the backyard, pretending to be guests who have come to drink, secretly staring at suspicious people and then following them. The work of the Qi Wangfu is much more difficult, although the palace is large, there are not many loopholes, I think there are masters who have pointed out the defense in the Qi Wangfu, but if you don't enter the palace and only stare outside, I'm afraid you won't see anything.

However, this time the person sent by the emperor to lead the secret guard was none other than King Lu Gui, who was supposed to accompany his fiancée in the palace.

Although Lu Gui is easy-going and lively, he is the most unruly in his bones, he will do things for whoever he likes, and those who look down on him will never look at it. In the past, when he did not inherit the throne, he wandered outside, both good and evil, and after arriving in the capital, he was curious about the regent jade seal for King Qi to explore a pint of incense, but fortunately, he and a pint of incense are getting better and better, and after the relationship is close, he has never dealt with the king of Qi again.

This time, the emperor didn't know what benefits he had given him, so he summoned him overnight, and he agreed after a meal, so he led the team of ten secret guards to take over the task of monitoring the Qi Palace.

Although King Qi is still grounded, but in the end he is a prince, so the Qi Wangfu is not guarded, but he can't leave the palace, and the rest of the subordinates and guests still move freely, but these people are not happy, King Qi has been in the room for a long time, and his temper is becoming more and more eccentric, I don't know how many delicate jade pots have been broken these days, and the fragments swept out are piled up in a corner in the backyard, so King Qi is always angry.

A handsome maid quietly withdrew from King Qi's bedroom with ginseng soup, and saw a worried housekeeper waiting at the door, and when the housekeeper saw her come out, he immediately asked, "How is it, doesn't the prince still eat it?"

The maid shook her head, and her delicate eyebrows couldn't hide her sorrow: "Don't eat, I won't eat a word after saying all the good things, if I say it again, he will get angry and want to beat me, so I rushed in and out, I want to persuade, butler, you go and persuade me, I don't care." ”

With that, the maid pushed the tray in her hand to the butler, threw it off and left.

The housekeeper's face was not good-looking, so he shook the ginseng soup on the tray with a bitter face, opened the curtain with one hand, and walked in cautiously.

King Qi was reclining on the couch, loosely dressed, vaguely revealing a piece of his neck, and his hair was not combed up, scattered on his back. The light was dim, and his face was pale, his eyes were half-squinted, and the tails of his hanging eyes were faintly red, which was so strange that people didn't dare to look directly.

"Lord Wang, drink a little ginseng soup." The butler lowered his head, put the ginseng soup directly on the table, took a step back, and carefully observed King Qi's expression.

The anger on King Qi's face was stacked again, and he raised his arm to knock over the ginseng soup, but he was only thinking about something, so he stopped, withdrew his hand, and said in a cold voice: "Butler, this king doesn't want to drink, you can take it out." ”

The front was exposed, but the servant asked carefully, he fell from his horse and fell to his death, and he didn't have a chance to say anything before he died, and there were no other folds on the barracks these days, so no one thought that no one had found out. It's just a pity ... That's a spy who has been cultivated for many years. The butler arched his hand and comforted King Qi.

"A spy doesn't have to be so distressed, it's just that the cannon is not dead, and it will be difficult to want his life in the future, so you still have to start from Yipinxiang, but this king can't even get out of this door, so how can he take revenge!" Speaking of a pint of incense, King Qi clenched his fists, clearly hateful.

"The barbarian leader is urging him very much, if the prince can't grasp the real power, then this cooperation..."The housekeeper looked embarrassed, but he quietly looked up to observe his expression while King Qi was not paying attention.

King Qi was really a little anxious, he was actually not sure about the situation over there, his negotiations with the barbarians were all on the outside by the spy called Datou, and on the inside by this housekeeper, now that Datou is dead, there is no other credible person to exchange information for a while, as uncomfortable as suddenly blind.

"Okay, this king knows, when I get the regent's jade seal, the whole country is not in my hands, by the way, is there any movement over there?" King Qi changed the subject.

He sent a lot of spies in the house to follow Yipinxiang's people, so many actions outside were unsuccessful, Yipinxiang is so cunning, it is even more hateful, although it is under the nose after returning to Beijing, but there are those people in the palace eyeing it, and it is not easy to start for a while.

"Yipinxiang except for the Fang cannon who joined the army, everyone else has returned to the capital, and also brought back a southern chef to make a handful of Jiangnan side dishes, which officially opened yesterday, and the business is very prosperous, and it is difficult to find one." The butler tilted his head slightly and wiped the sweat beads on his head with his sleeve.

"Oh? Gangnam cook? Can this person think of a way to become one of our people? "King Qi made a calculation in his heart, if it is a newly found cook, it is naturally a little worse than them, and it is easy to separate, if Yipinxiang has his own eyeliner...

"Your Highness, you don't have to take such a risk, there is a better opportunity waiting for us." The housekeeper became more and more respectful on his face, but he was disdainful in his heart, he had not seen the unity and feelings of Yipinxiang, and they were willing to bring it back naturally not the kind of person who would easily rebel, besides, what could the King of Qi take to make the family willing to submit, and how could he bypass Yipinxiang and others to communicate with this cook alone, King Qi's intelligence is really... It's worrying.

"Tell me about it." Hearing the housekeeper say that he had a chance, King Qi was in a much better mood, and suddenly felt a little hungry, so he took a small sip of the ginseng soup in front of him and drank it.

"Yipinxiang recently promoted this Jiangnan chef at the same time, but also prepared to hold a chef competition, that is, all the registered chefs will cook on the spot, and then specially selected guests will taste it, and finally the highest votes will have the opportunity to enter Yipinxiang as an apprentice, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Do you think, if our people become the first place, and justifiably enter a pint of incense, it is much better not to have to find someone outside? When the time comes, you let yourself make a little stumbling in it, and won't the game be over with a pint of incense? ”

"Good! All right! The butler is still resourceful, just as you said, now it is too conspicuous to go outside to find a cook, so call the cook of our palace kitchen, you go and call the best cook in the house, I will personally order him. King Qi stroked his palms and laughed, as if the depression of being grounded was swept away.

"Yes, the old slave will do it." The housekeeper took a few steps back and walked out of the door, only to breathe a sigh of relief, the best cook in the kitchen is naturally the kitchen steward, but he often shows his head and goes out to order food and buy meat, if people recognize it, it is not good to make trouble in the open.

Thinking of this, the housekeeper raised his legs and walked to the kitchen in the backyard, he wanted to call another cook, named Li Binghai, who was the person who was divided in the imperial dining room back then, because of his bad legs and feet, he had never been out of the palace, and the cooking skills of the imperial dining room were naturally needless to say, no matter how powerful the folk masters were, they couldn't make the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room.

Li Binghai is also a strange person, he was originally stir-frying in the imperial dining room, and he had a good future, but one day the oil pot fell and hit his feet, and the flesh and blood were blurred suddenly, and the real iron pot was not easy to bear, although the scald was cured, but it delayed the healing of the broken bones inside, and he became a cripple, and was sent out of the palace and given to the king of Qi.

Maybe it's because of his physical disability, he is also arrogant and withdrawn, never has unnecessary conversations with people, and goes back to his room to close the door every day when he cooks dinner, no matter what happens, he has been idle in recent years, but he also has a sense of grievance and arrogance in his heart, and he never looks at the original cook of Qi Wangfu in his eyes, but his ability to give birth to him is big, and he also has such an arrogant capital, so the palace has been raising him.

The housekeeper personally went to the kitchen and called Li Binghai out, and told him the reason for the incident a few times, and repeatedly told him on the way to be respectful and obedient in front of the prince, so he opened the curtain and brought him in.

King Qi originally finished drinking the ginseng soup and sat idly reading the book, but suddenly saw the housekeeper bring in a thin cripple, and he was a little puzzled for a while: "Butler, didn't I ask you to invite the best cook, why did you get a cripple?" ”

Because of his noble status, King Qi has always been unforgiving, and when he pointed out Li Binghai's disability at this moment, Li Binghai's face was half cold. The housekeeper hurriedly explained: "My lord, this is the most powerful cook in our house, this is the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room." ”

The housekeeper kept glancing at King Qi from an angle, and King Qi finally realized it, and changed to a soft expression: "I'm really sorry, I didn't expect the master to come from such a background, it was this king who was abrupt." ”

Li Binghai's face softened a little at this time, and he saluted: "Li Binghai sees the prince." ”

The next thing was that the housekeeper and King Qi closed the door and talked with Li Binghai all day, and the next day Li Binghai put on a gray cloth burden and quietly walked out of the Qi Palace's mansion through the side corner door.