Like last time, Huo Yanzhi still wandered around the Zhuangzi with a heavy face, until he was slightly sweaty before turning around, and then looked at the pile of folds that could never be seen step by step.

When it was almost time for lunch, Zhao Jiufu served the cloth dishes diligently, and Huo Yanzhi found that the dishes were much better than last time.

Once you eat it, the taste is somewhat familiar, as if it came from the same chef.

"If it weren't for what I saw today, I would have thought that everyone in Zhuangzi ate such coarse tea and light rice, and even I would have treated everyone equally." He said sarcastically.

Zhao Jiufu hurriedly explained that the last time it happened suddenly, Zhuangzi was unprepared, and he was in a hurry.

But in his heart, he said that since the death of the second princess, His Majesty's temperament has become more and more eccentric recently!

Obviously, there are so many delicacies made by the imperial chefs in the palace, but I can't swallow it, and I went out of the palace last time to eat those coarse tea and light rice, but I also ate a whole bowl and a half!

If it weren't for the fact that he saw it with his own eyes last time, Zhao Jiufu would not have deliberately asked the steward about the inside story, let alone told the steward about these trivial things.

Now it seems that this step was the right bet.

Zhao Jiufu looked at his majesty's picky face and non-stop appearance under his mouth, his heart blossomed, and he almost blurted out, wanting to ask His Majesty to transfer Zhiwei's girl back to Qiande Palace to be in charge of the small kitchen.

It's a pity that the emperor only opened Chrysostom once during the whole meal, and the rest of the time he either ate silently or frowned and pondered.

Zhao Jiufu sighed in his heart, His Majesty must still be worried about the messy things in the palace.

People say that "marrying a wife should be a virtuous man", but in his selfish heart, as a slave and maid, he really feels that the queen, the mother of the country, is really not qualified, more than upright, and not shrewd, otherwise, the palace will not be chaotic like this.

I think back then, after the collapse of the first emperor Yuan, the position of the middle palace was vacant for more than ten years, and you fought and deceived me in the harem, and that kind of chaos really made a low-level little eunuch like him frightened. Although he has climbed high enough now, he does not want to watch history repeat itself.

However, judging from His Majesty's practice of letting go of everything and handing over all the power to the Queen Mother, Princess An's Luo clan faintly intervening in the power of the harem, and the situation that the first queen and the second concubine are all dormant, I am afraid that it will be even more chaotic in the near future.

Zhao Jiufu mentioned it once vaguely, but His Majesty quickly changed the topic, obviously unwilling to talk deeply.

He couldn't understand what His Majesty was thinking, but he didn't dare to bother His Majesty with this matter anymore, and could only hope that His Majesty would cheer up from the tragedy of the second princess as soon as possible. For him, the emperor's abnormal behavior of running out of the palace within a few days has also become a representative of His Majesty's deep love for his daughter and the bitterness in his heart.

However, the courtiers and palace concubines didn't think so.

The biggest reaction is the former, especially the adults of the Yushitai, who have to make an excerpt almost every day to accuse the emperor of such irresponsible behavior.

Even though the emperor transferred two teams of imperial forest troops to garrison the Huangzhuang on a daily basis, they were still not satisfied, and used the words "the son of a daughter can't sit down" every day to force the emperor to give up this kind of behavior similar to self-exile.

It's a pity that the emperor didn't humbly accept their opinions, at first he looked at the excerpts himself, and then he threw them aside and didn't look at them, and then later, he simply lit a fire in the open space of the imperial village and burned all the same folds.

Zhi Wei unfortunately became one of the accomplices in the "suppression of the speech of the scholars", and Zhao Jiufu was the same.

In front of the raging fire, Zhi Wei, Huo Yanzhi, and Zhao Jiufu stared wide-eyed.

Unlike the panicked Zhao Jiufu, she, the "accomplice" who came in to serve tea and water and passed by the strong ding, had an expressionless face, and she didn't seem to have much psychological burden on it.

The emperor looked at her deeply, and spoke more sarcastically at Zhao Jiufu.

"Alright, don't pretend like that. In addition to God knowing, this girl and a few of them know. If any of the imperial historians impeached you, a traitor and a thief, I assure you that none of them will escape. How is it? ”

The guards present hurriedly looked at the sky, the ground, and the air, and practiced the phrase "we have no sense of existence" to the extreme.

Zhi Wei tugged at the corners of her mouth stiffly: "Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid didn't do anything, she didn't know anything." ”

Xu attracted the emperor's attention because of Zhi Wei's unruly feminine temperament, and when he was walking in the forest later, he took the initiative to ask Zhi Wei's whereabouts, and seemed to complain a little that she didn't take the initiative to follow him.

Zhao Jiufu hurriedly explained, saying that Zhi Wei went to the kitchen to work for lunch, and by the way, he paid tribute to Zhi Wei.

It was only at this time that Huo Yanzhi knew that most of the home-cooked dishes he had come to enjoy these few times were actually from the hands of that girl, and he was stunned and didn't speak.

Zhao Jiufu still wanted to wait for a complimentary evaluation, but His Majesty suddenly became stunned, and after a while, he took the initiative to ask about another trivial matter in the palace, and couldn't help but be disappointed.

"It seems that Your Majesty is really annoyed by that girl for some reason. Could it be that in the future, that girl will stay in Zhuangzi and mingle with those village girls? ”

Thinking so, he followed His Majesty forward for a while, but suddenly found that His Majesty had gone around to the back of the kitchen, and was now looking in carelessly through the back window.

Zhao Jiufu had a slight guess in his heart, glanced at His Majesty's side face suspiciously, and also looked inside.

Sure enough, he saw the slender back of Miss Zhiwei, and her black hair was wrapped in a coarse cloth with blue and white flowers, which was quite a bit of a peasant atmosphere. The two cooks beside her were dressed in the same way, as if to prevent strands of hair from falling into pots and pans or dishes.

Zhao Jiufu said secretly, this Zhiwei girl is really a careful person, not bad, but it can be of great use.

But in the next second, he saw Zhi Wei take a tender white siad from a cook, and then threw it out with a frightened face, and happened to smash it into a nearby water basin, splashing his head and face, quite embarrassed.

Flutter –

Zhao Jiufu suddenly discovered that the person who laughed was actually His Majesty!

In the kitchen, there was a small commotion because of the white sap, and the two cooks also made fun of Qi Zhiwei, who was embarrassed to defend himself, so much so that the sound of his words drowned out the sudden laughter outside the back window.

After laughing, Huo Yanzhi seemed to realize something, quickly smiled, glanced at Zhao Jiufu coldly, turned around and strode away.

Only Zhao Jiufu was left confused in place, he really couldn't figure it out, since the emperor was annoyed with Zhiwei and didn't look like he was interested in her, how could he laugh out loud when he saw the other party's bad luck?

Watching a little girl make a fool of yourself can relieve boredom and amusement, right?

Because of his previous suspicions and overthrows, Zhao Jiufu now has no hope for Miss Zhiwei's future, and can only attribute Huo Yanzhi's happiness to this reason.

After all, he couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking just now, and why Zhi Wei showed such a strange expression to a tender white siren.

Although Huo Yanzhi didn't hear what Bai Siong "said", he still had some experience in this area, and he remembered what kind of flower the screaming magnolia was when he was pampered with the little concubine, and knew that these "things" that had just been picked from the branches or rhizomes could still survive for a while.

"Eighty percent of them are screaming or scolding, right?"

His Majesty the Emperor, who rarely empathized, thought that if he turned into a white tree, and was "rudely" cut off his "legs" and sent to the kitchen, he would face the tragic situation of being chopped into shreds, and he would definitely yell angrily while he was still sane.

"Well, it's a good idea to put that girl in the kitchen, and it's better to let her wash and chop the vegetables only......," thought the evil-eyed emperor.

After the food was delivered, the emperor seriously asked where Fang Cai's "accomplice" had gone, and why he didn't come to serve him.

When Zhiwei came, the emperor began to move his eyes frantically, signaling Zhiwei to make a dish, and the little girl was turned around, and he had to find fault with the shortcomings of each dish in front of others.

Naturally, the cook himself can only honestly admit guilt, and his attitude is very sincere.

But the emperor just didn't punish him, but he kept disgusting it, and only threw down a sentence meanly when he was almost finished.

"If it's still at this level next time, you might as well wash and chop vegetables, although I am poor, I still don't lack the money to hire a cook."

Zhao Jiufu looked at it coldly, the little girl's face was red and white by the emperor, obviously embarrassed and angry by the emperor's "hooligan" behavior.

He couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to Zhi Wei, being chosen by the emperor as the target to relieve boredom, although it was an honor, it was also quite bitter.

Zhi Wei wanted to say, then please ask Your Majesty to bring your own imperial kitchen out of the palace, don't toss them as slaves and maids who are halfway monks. As a result, after coming into contact with Zhao Jiufu's eyes, she retreated again.

Every time Manager Zhao showed this kind of look, it was a strong denial and warning, and she still didn't try the dangerous operation of pulling out the beard.

On this day, Huo Yanzhi ate two bowls of rice and said twice as much as usual.

This is the conclusion reached by his henchmen, the great eunuch, after careful statistics.

When the emperor returned to the palace, Hongying came to talk to Zhiwei again.

"Why has Your Majesty been so diligent lately? I want you to serve you all the way today, tsk tsk~ You are honest, did you lie to me what you said to me last time? ”

Zhi Wei was teased for a long time, only felt exhausted, and didn't bother to explain, but only briefly described today's service process, and gained Hongying's ardent sympathy.

"Huh? I didn't expect Your Majesty to be such a picky person, but he is an emperor, and it's normal to be picky. However, I think the dishes you cook are very good, what kind of delicacies do the emperors usually eat, so that they will be picky about your dishes like that? ”

Zhi Wei pursed her lips and couldn't help but say her true evaluation of the imperial dining room in the palace.

“…… It looks exquisite, but many of the dishes are not delicious. The dishes of the nobles must be tasted by a few special people, and they can only be presented if they are not poisonous. After going back and forth, even if there is a warm box, it doesn't taste like that when you eat it in your mouth. This is true in summer, and it is even more troublesome in autumn and winter......"

Hongying's fantasy of the emperor's master's golden hoe and golden baked cake series was really disillusioned.

However, Zhiwei complained and complained, but she also knew that her cooking skills could only be regarded as average, and there was still a gap between her and the chef in the imperial dining room, and the emperor was critical of her many details, at least half of which she could continue to improve.

In the next few days, she simply buried herself in the kitchen cooking, and she could cook the same dish seven or eight times before and after, and everyone didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

Xiaoling also secretly looked for the steward and accused Zhiwei of being extravagant and wasteful, but she did not get the support of the steward, but was reprimanded a few words.

After that, everyone knew that the palace had allocated a large amount of budget to the imperial village, which was basically used for the kitchen. There is only one goal, to let His Majesty the Emperor, who is out of the palace to relax, eat to his heart's content.

At first, when the emperor appeared, everyone was still terrified, as if the emperor coughed and their sky was about to fall.

But later, after the emperor's appearance became frequent and regular, everyone calmed down a lot, what should they do, and some people with big hearts could still farm the land while greeting the emperor on the ridge with a normal face.

The vast majority of people quickly accepted the fact that the emperor had to come to the palace every few days, and only a handful began to ponder the meaning behind the move.

It was also a few days later that Zhi Wei found out that the emperor actually ran to the Huangzhuang every time he was resting.

At the beginning, she was still able to make up for her own brain is the reason for the death of the second princess, but later, when the emperor's face became more and more relaxed and his tone gradually became lighter, he still ran this way at a fixed time, and she felt that something was wrong.