Today is June 9th, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the Dragon Boat Festival.

It's close to noon.

In the imperial garden, on the lace avenue, the feast is like a dragon, and a large group of eunuchs and maids are busy setting dishes and chopsticks for the emperor's relatives and ministers.

It's crowded, it's not lively!

Although there were many people at the table, most of them were fresh faces.

The familiar faces are none other than Prince Li, Princess Qingtian, Su Zecai, King Su, plus Cui Congwu, the secretary of the military department, Wan Gexiong, the chief of the palace guard, and Zheng Lingshao, the daughter of the Zheng Yuan of the Tai Hospital, and Zheng Lingshao, the daughter of the Zheng Yuan Master.

Princess Eldest Princess Yanmeng didn't come, because she and Princess Qingtian had a word first, Princess Qingtian hadn't found her crush yet, and she wouldn't easily leave her dormitory Yuhuan Palace before she got married.

Of the four princes and four families, only King Su came alone.

Liang Yuanjin didn't come, he deliberately avoided Princess Yanmeng, he was afraid that she would appear and meet her, which would bring trouble to himself, so far, he still has palpitations when he thinks of her "forced marriage" to him.

King Jing Yang Xuanao didn't come, he wanted to come but couldn't come, because he was taken care of by his mother, Concubine Jing, and cultivated himself at home.

King Qing and King Xi did not come from any of them, but the gift was delivered last night.

The queen mother will not come, she likes to be quiet, she has already sent Prince Li and Princess Qingtian to say hello last night.

The emperor hasn't come yet, so the ministers sitting here are all your words, and I are each shushing and asking for warmth, and they are happily talking and laughing.

The eyes of King Su and the ministers swept around Su Zecai's body from time to time, and they all sighed to themselves in their hearts: "This kid is really prosperous, the last time Concubine Li's mother Shouyan saw him, he was just a royal painter of the third princess, and when he saw him this time, he became the owner of the gallery and the future 'guest of honor' of King Xi's Mansion." ”

They didn't know that in fact, Su Zecai had broken up with Wei Xinran, and the future 'Yibin' of King Xi's Mansion was purely in the past.

After a while, King Su was chatting and laughing with the ministers at the same table, but a little eunuch who came to put the dishes and chopsticks suddenly whispered to him: "Lord Su, our chief manager has something to do with you, please move and talk." ”

King Su didn't think much about it, and then got up and moved to the side with the little eunuch.

As soon as King Su and the little eunuch left, two little eunuchs came to the table where King Su was sitting, and the two little eunuchs each whispered something to the two ministers who were sitting at the same table as King Su, and the two ministers immediately got up and followed the two little eunuchs away.

At this moment, another little eunuch flew to King Su's table.

The little eunuch was a thief, pretending to put the dishes and chopsticks in front of the table, but his hand suddenly touched the box of zongzi that King Su was resting on the table.

King Su's box of zongzi is no different from the two boxes of zongzi of the other two ministers, they are all small square boxes, looking at the appearance of the box, at most there can only be three or four zongzi in it.

In fact, all the ministers put on their desks with this type of packaging, but the color of the boxes varied.

I saw that the little eunuch was quick with his hands and feet, and suddenly used his wide cuffs to wrap the gift box one by one, and rolled it into his right sleeve, just between the lightning and flint, his left sleeve shook, and a box that was exactly the same as King Su's gift box slipped down to the table.

The whole process is effortless and in one go.

The speed of his approach was so rapid that some of the ministers sitting next to him were unaware of the anomaly.

After that, the little eunuch hurried away, as if nothing had happened.

A moment later.

The two ministers at the same table returned to their seats.

Immediately after, King Su also returned, and he walked all the way to the table and muttered: "What a bastard thing, halfway down the road, he actually said that he remembered the wrong person." ”

"The emperor has arrived—"

As soon as King Su sat down, the shouting of the chief eunuch Xiao Quanzi suddenly came.

Everyone hurriedly stood up, one by one respectful.

I saw the chief eunuch Xiao Quanzi leading a group of eunuchs and maids, surrounded by the emperor and Concubine Li.

The emperor and Concubine Li stepped into the first seat.

"To my father, my mother, please be safe!"

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live, mother,

Prince Li and Princess Qingtian took the lead in saluting.

Su Zecai and the ministers then saluted.

Concubine Li saw Su Zecai who was with Prince Li and Princess Qingtian, she was shocked and couldn't help but flatten her mouth.

Don't have anything to do with him if something happens in a while!

The emperor also saw Su Zecai, but only smiled slightly, it was not the first time they had met.

The emperor knew that he was the royal painter and good friend of his daughter Princess Qingtian, and when the Ministry of Rites asked Su Zecai to take over the position of the head of the gallery, he also readily agreed.

"Princes, please be seated." The emperor nodded to the crown prince and Princess Qingtian, and then faced the ministers, smiled and stretched out his hand to signal them to sit down, "Please sit down." ”

"Emperor Xie!" The ministers thanked him aloud and sat down as he said.

Prince Li and Princess Qingtian brought Su Zecai's gift box of zongzi and presented it to the emperor together.

After the emperor accepted it, he bowed to Xiao Quanzi.

Xiao Quanzi immediately stepped forward and said loudly: "Prince Xi, King Jing, Prince Qing and some ministers who were not able to attend, they have sent people into the palace last night to present a gift to the emperor!" Now, please all the ministers present to present the Dragon Boat Festival gift, and the gift begins! ”

The ministers sitting here talk about the dignity of status and status, and they should be King Su.

Therefore, King Su took the lead and stepped forward to offer gifts.

Xiao Quanzi took the gift box in King Su's hand, put it in front of the emperor and Concubine Li, and continued to face the ministers and shouted: "Next, please come forward in turn......

"Wait!" Concubine Li suddenly opened her mouth and drank Xiao Quanzi.

Xiao Quanzi hurriedly shut up, what Concubine Li said, it was equivalent to a holy decree.

As soon as Concubine Li's words came out, not only the emperor, but everyone looked at her with strange eyes.

What happened to Concubine Li?

What does she want to do?

I saw Concubine Li Niangniang pointing to King Su's gift box and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the four princes and the four family members, the people who can come to give gifts to the emperor in person, but only King Su is alone, which shows that King Su has a lot of heart for the emperor, and the emperor should also express it." ”

King Su looked at Concubine Li with some gratitude and a little blankness, he didn't understand why she suddenly said this.

"Reasonable, Concubine Ai is reasonable." The emperor nodded and smiled, "Then I will taste this zongzi made by King Su." ”

As he spoke, the emperor opened the gift box and took out the zongzi, but he did not untie the zongzi leaves and prepare to eat them, but looked at the zongzi strangely.

The color of this zongzi is indeed somewhat attractive.

As if to explain the question in the emperor's heart, King Su did not wait for the emperor to ask, he had already spoken: "The zongzi leaves of this zongzi meat are nine small flat long reed leaves, five wide and short reed leaves, nine small flat long reed leaves and five wide and short reed leaves, and the color of the upper section is yellow, and the lower section is red, which means that the respect of the ninety-five, the yellow sky is thick soil, and the red luck is the head!" ”

A zongzi can also make a ninety-five respect, except for Concubine Li, everyone is impressed by King Su's talent.

"Good!" The Emperor clapped his hands and laughed, "Enough novelty! ”

The emperor praised it, opened the dumpling leaves, and opened his mouth to send the dumpling meat inside.

Concubine Li saw it in her eyes, and her heart blossomed.

Thank God!

All the best, you're done!

"It's delicious, it's delicious, this zongzi made by King Su is really delicious." After eating, the emperor praised it, pointed to the only two zongzi left in the box and looked at Concubine Li and smiled, "Aifei, why don't you taste it too?" This chicken zongzi is delicious, and the insulation effect of this box is also very good, and the zongzi are hot, as if they have just been made. ”

"The concubine is not hungry now." Concubine Li shook her head and looked at Xiao Quanzi, "Xiao Quanzi, take it away for the palace, and take it back to the palace to eat." ”

"Yes." Xiao Quanzi hurriedly took the dumpling box, handed it to a little eunuch behind him, and told him to put it away.

At this point, Concubine Li's hanging heart was finally completely let go.

As long as you wait for the emperor's poisonous hair tomorrow, you can take a big step to clean up King Su's family!