The entire study room was so silent that even a pin could be heard dropping on the floor.

The emperor had a dark and calm old face, and it was obvious that I was very unhappy, and you had better not provoke me.

"Say!"

He snorted coldly, his somewhat cloudy eyes narrowed together, and he looked coldly at Zhongli lying on the ground.

Zhongli straightened up, looked straight ahead, landed on the emperor's bright yellow clothes, and after a deep groan, he spoke cautiously.

"Your Majesty, you are a golden body, and there must be a lot of hidden dangers when something like this happens in the inner courtyard of the palace. But there is no way not to hold the New Year's banquet, so can we hide these things, and then the emperor will secretly arrange them, and when the time comes, they will all be wiped out. ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows, seemed to glance at Zhongli with some surprise, and couldn't help but sneer lightly.

"Really? So what if I have an accident, according to you? ”

Zhongli also knew that he was taking a certain risk by doing this, but what could he do? Advance is death, and retreat is death.

He took a deep breath and looked at the Emperor with heavy eyes.

"Emperor Qiqi, if you are not at ease, you can ask someone you trust to follow the grass people to Zhang Luo. It's not been a long time now, but if you change the menu now, it's still too late! ”

Because Zhongli didn't dare to think about whether there were other things besides the things he found out, but there was no way, so it would be more secure.

No matter which dish was poisoned, he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than remove them all one by one.

"You're going to replace the menu now, it's a bit of a failure, right?"

There is clearly not enough time.

Zhongli shook his head gently, took a few steps forward, kowtowed his head on the ground a few times, and solemnly spoke to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the grass people once invented a dish called hot pot, I don't know if you have any impressions, Your Majesty. And the simplest thing about this pot is that it doesn't need to cook at all, you just need to make charcoal to make broth, and when the time comes, put the food in it and cook it, take it out and eat it. ”

It's not that the hot pot emperor doesn't know, they have also done it in the palace.

But if the New Year's banquet only gets these, it will be a little too chilling, he has to be very face-saving, how could he agree to make such a shabby thing? So I subconsciously wanted to refuse, but then I was moved by Ning Meng's next words.

"Moreover, hot pot cannot be a single person and a single pot, it is better to cook it together, if everyone sits together, it can not only help officials connect with feelings, but also ......"

Zhongli glanced at the emperor meaningfully, but he didn't say it so directly.

How could the emperor not know what Zhongli wanted to say, he looked at Zhongli's gaze and sank, and then suddenly shouted outside.

"All blessed, all blessed!"

Immediately, a father-in-law came in, and after listening to the emperor's orders, he stayed with Zhongli, and everything came according to Zhongli's words.

Zhongli breathed a sigh of relief with hatred.

He was busy in the palace for a long time, and when he returned home, he saw Wang Qinglin who was in a hurry, and he couldn't help but step forward to relieve him.

"Second son, if you have any orders, just say it."

Zhongli nodded gratefully, and asked Wang Qinglin to start shopping for things from his own village, then packed them up and went to the palace with him.

This matter will not be relieved to anyone Zhongli will not be relieved.

The emperor kept this matter secret, and the ingredients that Zhongli brought into the palace were all prepared by her, just in case, the emperor also sent someone to tell her that their nephew could already memorize the "Three Character Classic" backwards! The child in their sister-in-law's womb is also about to be born.

Zhongli couldn't help but smile helplessly.

Is it even that as long as you sit in this seat, you will always have this heart for others?

Before the New Year's Banquet.

Zhongli appeared in the imperial dining room in a moon-white robe, waving his hand quickly at the busy crowd.

"Stop, stop!"

Zhongli had appeared here many times before, and everyone had no special impression of Zhongli before, but now that Zhongli's identity was here, and the father-in-law in charge did not speak, they naturally stayed obedient.

"Okay, everyone, please be quiet, everyone knows that the emperor attaches great importance to this year's New Year's banquet, so we must also make this matter seamless and leaky."

Zhongli said, his eyes keenly looking at everyone's cheeks, hoping to get some unusual clues.

"Zhong Gongzi, if you have a god, Emei matter, let's talk about it quickly! It's been a lot of time, and if we delay any longer, the minions feel that we are not far from losing our heads! ”

One of the men plucked up the courage to stand up.

Zhongli nodded slightly, and then turned his head and let the group of people who had been hidden outside come out, taking over all the fathers-in-law in the imperial dining room.

And these people were directly taken away by a bunch of Royal Forest Army who rushed over, check!

Seeing that they were in various postures and movements, and there were people who wanted to escape, Zhongli exhaled a heavy breath of turbidity.

It's just that before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw someone pounce directly on her.

"Zhongli, our family killed you."

Zhongli subconsciously flashed to the side, the other party pounced, she fixed her eyes and looked, it turned out to be the father-in-law who had often seen her in the imperial dining room before, and he had been cold to her in the past, but today he probably thought it was his own ghost, right?

Zhongli shook his head at the other party with a smile and waved his hand.

"This father-in-law, this is not what Zhongli meant, but Long live the lord. You'd better be obedient lately and not get involved in something. ”

After listening to Zhongli's words, the father-in-law was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the father-in-law who was also tortured, his face changed, and he glared at Zhongli in humiliation, and then he automatically and spontaneously walked towards the side of the Imperial Forest Army and asked people to take him away.

As soon as the turmoil dissipated, Zhongli didn't have time to think too much, and hurriedly asked everyone to start chopping vegetables and arranging dishes.

Fortunately, he had the foresight to let Wang Qinglin buy a Zhuangzi near the capital very early, and planted greenhouse vegetables, intending to sell them at a good price during the Chinese New Year.

"Quick! Fast! Fast! We're going to move a little bit faster. Long live the Lord and all the masters and ladies are going to rely on us to solve the New Year's banquet today, this is a matter of glory to the ancestors, and it can be spread for a lifetime, so everyone is a little more profitable! ”

Zhongli knew better than anyone that these people had a deep-rooted monarchist ideology that the emperor was above all else, so take these to inspire them.

Seeing that their movements were swift and crisp, Zhongli breathed a sigh of relief.

Many of these people she selected were people from Zhuangzi and signed a death contract, so they were somewhat heartfelt.

And when Zhongli came, he asked them to bathe and change their clothes, and searched all over the body, and they were in a team of three and a group of five to supervise each other.

He said very clearly and clearly that if this kind of thing is not done well, it will cost his head, and it will affect the whole family and punish the nine clans.

If one person could poison the emperor, three people, five people could at least play a preventive role.

They even had to go to the toilet together.

After all, they are all foreign men to the palace.

Finally, it's time for the New Year's Banquet.

Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while.

Zhongli had people boil ginseng chicken soup as the base pot early, and the soup was boiled white and fragrant.

On other plates, there are all kinds of dishes, such as tofu and vegetables, mutton and beef. That's not all, Zhongli had people prepare skewers of mutton and beef early for barbecue.

"Zhong Gongzi Zhong Gongzi, the oven and charcoal you want have been prepared for you! The princes and ministers have already taken their seats, do you want to come over as well? ”

Past!

Zhongli is of course going to pass.

Originally, she didn't need to barbecue, but she always felt that if she wasn't there today, she wouldn't be sure.

So when her father-in-law called, she quickly followed and left.

Zhao Shan'er had long known that today's imperial meal was made by Zhongli, but she didn't expect that what came up was a hot pot, which surprised her.

It's also a little, too simple, right?

There were other ministers of civil and military affairs who had the same idea as her, and they turned their eyes to look at the high emperor and laughed, you look at me, I look at you, and they couldn't help but fall silent.

Emperor, there should be other considerations, right?

But Concubine Qi reached out and covered her lips and giggled, squinting at the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this year's imperial meal is good! Although it is simple, it is better than simple and convenient, and the concubines and sisters and sisters can sit with the emperor, do you say that it should be rewarded? ”

When she said this, it seemed that she was begging for Zhongli's reward, but in fact, her eyes were cold.

After all, who doesn't know that the imperial dining room had already presented the New Year's banquet list to the emperor before? How can it be so simple? It's just fooling people.

But the emperor was not as angry as she thought, just coldly hooked the corners of his lips and glanced at the other party, and shouted outside.

"Someone, where is Zhongli? Let him come and talk. ”

Unlike before, the seat arranged by Zhongli this time was not one person and one table like before, and the prince was high.

This time, although the emperor was still seated at the top, there were his concubines sitting next to him according to their ranks.

Below the high-ranking concubines were the prince Baylor, and the ministers who came according to rank.

Many people may find such a crowded appearance unacceptable, and some people feel refreshed, and the only thing that can reassure Zhongli is that unless someone rushes over from behind or from the side to assassinate the emperor, otherwise there are so many people in front of him, and there will be no assassin directly facing the door.

But on the side and behind it, her thoughts are simpler.

He installed his oven behind the emperor's dragon chair, which was conducive to dispersing the wind and smoke, and if there were eunuchs who often walked around to deliver meat skewers, it would disrupt people's plans.

It's just that people are not as good as heaven.

He didn't realize until after the incident happened, but it was too late to regret it.