Queen, you're good! Concubine Mao is the person who led the toss last time, and Su Guiren is also a person in his palace...... I never thought that the queen would come to repay her so soon. Or do you want to tell yourself that this palace is her world, she can make Concubine Mao and Su Guiren fall into the water with her fingers, and if she is not polite, she can directly let herself fall into the water?!

Concubine Rou clenched her fingers and left, but the tea party in Jiyue Yaotai was still lively, and it was not dusty because of the concubines. They fell into the water because of the lotus dew, which was a very humiliating and embarrassing thing, not a sympathetic thing. Zhao Shuyuan, who didn't deal with concubines in the past, also "praised" everyone: "Concubine Mao and Su Guiren damaged their bodies in order to serve the emperor, and the emperor will be very moved when he knows this...... I just don't know what the emperor will reward them? ”

Liu Jieyu next to her smiled, everyone knew that the concubines went diligently to make porridge for the emperor but did not get the slightest benefit.

Concubine Xiang, who was holding a piece of two-color horseshoe cake to her mouth, smiled and said: "It's a pity, now the emperor seems to be tired of using nectar porridge, and the palace has not moved the porridge presented by the palaces in the past few days...... "But even if the emperor doesn't reward it, the palace will reward it." Come on, go and give a box of carved wooden puppets in the treasury of the palace to Concubine Mao and Su Guiren, that is still the emperor during the Shangyuan Festival, and the palace looks like a good thing. ”

Some of the concubines were drinking tea, and they almost squirted out a mouthful of water. The carved wooden puppet that was divided at the time of the Shangyuan Festival...... Looks like a clown, right? Scolding people doesn't bring this, Concubine Xiang is really ruthless.

The most arrogant and domineering person in this palace is Concubine Xiang, but no matter who is bullied by her, she doesn't dare to say anything, and the queen and Concubine Rou can't get the slightest advantage in her hands. In the palace, because the Chu sisters and Hui Guiji, who came later, were making a lot of noise, Concubine Xiang was a little calm here. She has been pregnant for more than three months, and her slender waist and abdomen are no longer there, but her complexion is becoming more and more ruddy due to tonic and maintenance, and her beauty is not lost in the past. The concubines next to her are fighting for the night's sleep, but the emperor will always accompany Concubine Xiang during the day, and the concubines have always been very envious of her over the years. The Chu sisters' momentum and Lin Yuan's drill camp plan all revolve around Concubine Xiang, but Concubine Xiang herself is now living the most nourishing ......

Lin Yuan inadvertently glanced at Concubine Xiang, feeling a little bored. This woman is probably the most difficult person to deal with......

The tea party was lively for more than an hour before it dispersed. The queen generously rewarded everyone with tea leaves and tea sets, and the group of people resigned contentedly.

Before waiting for the dusk of this day, the imperial front came to the sedan chair and sent Lin Yuan to the Kyushu Qing Banquet. Tuoba Hong had just set up dinner here, and when he saw Lin Yuan coming, he stretched out his hand to her and said, "There are sturgeons from the North Sea today, a rare good thing." Come, use it with me. ”

Lin Yuan walked forward with thin steps to thank him, and then knelt on the right corner of the big red table with his hands. Lin Yuan glanced at a large bowl of milky white soup with fresh air in front of him, and said with a smile: "Although the palace is full of fine clothes and food, the concubine has never tasted the sturgeon, and the emperor is here, it is really a good fortune for the concubine." ”

As he spoke, he scooped up a small bowl of soup and brought it to Tuoba Hong.

Tuoba Hong, who was in a good mood, was not in a hurry to eat, but just sat and gossiped with Lin Yuan. "Don't say it's you, I can't eat it once. Beihai is two thousand miles away from Beijing, and this fish is very different from the fish in the sea to the east of us. The governor of the northern land had long thought of sending the capital to pay tribute, but the smell of dead fish was not as good as the fish in the river. Tuoba Hong smiled, with a faint pride on his face due to his own vast territory: "Fortunately, a fisherman in the folk accidentally found a way to make this fish immortal, so that we can eat it today." ”

Lin Yuan felt as if she had heard the story of the fish, but she still asked, "What kind of method is that?" ”

"I heard that there are a few catfish in the sturgeon pile!" Tuoba Hong smiled as he spoke: "Catfish eat meat, and when they get into the sturgeon pile, they drive the sturgeon to escape, and finally there is a catfish that is eaten by the catfish, but the rest are all transported to the capital alive." Although a lot of people died, the value of the living part was more than ten times more than that of the dead, and only the living could be transported into the royal family for meals. ”

After listening to this story, Lin Yuan nodded and praised this method as indeed clever, and the fisherman was indeed very genius. She knew what Tuoba Hong wanted to hear, and after thinking for a moment, she said: "The story of this fish is really an eye-opener for the concubine, being a fish is like this, and being a human being is the same." A sturgeon with a catfish as a companion is alive, and the one who can outbeat his opponent and survive to the end is also a good man. Those who have grown up under the protection of their elders all their lives are like sturgeons without catfish, and in the end they are worthless; Those that are eaten by catfish are also useless. ”

Tuoba Hong nodded and said, "That's the reason." I'm eating sturgeon and thinking about these things in my heart today. The smile on his face was a little complacent: "In the past, when I studied poetry, books, etiquette and righteousness, I only knew what the 'right path' and 'benevolence' were, but now I feel pedantic when I think about it...... If the whole world is on the right path, and there is no bad, meat-eating catfish around everyone, then our talents in Daqin will also become waste materials. Only those who are killed from the hands of their opponents are capable people. So I now feel that bloody killings for survival or profit are not only beneficial, but also essential......"

Looking at him like this, Lin Yuan nodded with him beside him, but his heart was furious. Nima's bloody killing, you should have killed a lot of people when you first ascended the throne, right? The first emperor had nine sons besides you, all of whom were alive before you ascended the throne, and four died in the first few years after you ascended the throne, so there is probably something wrong with the cause of their deaths, right? The prince is just a few important ministers in the court during the first emperor and the four major families in the capital at the beginning, all of them have died in the past few years, and once the son of heaven and a courtier, you Tuoba Hong have killed a lot of people in history, which is quite ruthless.

Oh, hehehe, you used to think it was a bit of a moral violation to kill these people, but now you've finally found the right thing. The story of your sturgeon is not so cruel, I think the story of "nine dogs and one mastiff" seems more suitable for you...... Forget it, don't guess, this kind of thing doesn't have much to do with me.

However, Tuoba Hong's reason is also right, if a prince has never had any opponents, from birth to ascending the throne smoothly, then he will grow into a little fat sheep and become the emperor after the chance of being eaten by courtiers with foreign surnames is greater...... It's a pity that the generation of Tuoba Hong's father used this principle to raise a Tuoba Hong, who has a strong ability to govern the country, which is not bad for the people of Limin. to his own generation......

Uh-huh, there are too many catfish people in the harem, and the appetite of catfish is too big...... The concubines and princes are not vegetarians, and in the end, the healthy competition turned into fighting each other, and the result of the killing so far is that only one eldest prince is alive. The emperor comrade next to him is really a little pitiful, he is a person who has run for four years, and he has no infertility problems in his body, but he is worried about not being able to give birth to a son every day!

After Tuoba Hong finished talking about the big truth, he picked up the bowl and began to eat. Because Lin Yuan was on the side, the palace maids who were in charge of the catering on the side all retreated with interest, and Lin Yuan dutifully served Tuoba Hong to eat alone. still uses the same set of rules for serving the queen mother, and stretches out his hand wherever Tuoba Hong's eyes look, and does not open his mouth to persuade food.

Naturally, the sturgeon soup that is the main dish is served a little more.

At this time, although Lin Yuan served the emperor in her duty, this was still fundamentally different from serving the queen mother in Changle Palace, she was a concubine or a slave in front of the queen mother, and she had to have an extra favorite concubine status in front of the emperor. She didn't have to be careful to serve people and didn't dare to eat herself, and while serving vegetables to the emperor, the bowl in front of her was also full of big fish and meat, and she didn't lose herself at all.

But this appearance caused Lin Yuan to stretch out her chopsticks too often - can you not be happy if one person clips two people's portions. And the sturgeon is so delicious, such a full pot of Tuoba Hong must not be able to eat it, so he simply sends bowl after bowl to his mouth. Anyway, if this thing is left, it will be a tyrannical thing.

Tuoba Hong looked at the chopsticks flying like snowflakes in front of him, and then looked at Lin Yuan, who had precise wrist strength and neat eating next to him, and silently thought that this woman looked weak, but she was actually a powerful character.

When the two of them had eaten and drunk enough, Lin Yuan burped with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "The emperor is really good to the concubines, such a delicious imperial meal can be enjoyed by the concubines, it is really a blessing from the cultivation of three lives......"

Tuoba Hong looked at the bowl of sturgeon soup left in the center, and couldn't help but reach out and scrape the tip of Lin Yuan's nose and said: "It's a blessing to be able to eat, I see that you have become more and more rounded recently, and your body must be getting healthier and healthier, I don't know when you will be able to raise an imperial heir for me?" ”

Lin Yuan licked her mouth and smiled: "The emperor doesn't say that, and the concubines also know how to work hard." "But I was secretly scolding in my heart, who wants to give birth to you now, and if you give birth, you will be taken away, so don't you look for abuse.

"Well, I and Yuan'er work together." Takubahiro was never ashamed to talk about this kind of thing. The palace people who were withdrawing from the meal next to him heard that his tone was wrong, so they all obediently sped up the speed of cleaning up, and soon finished their errands and retreated. Only the two imperial concubines remained in the dormitory.

Lin Yuan glanced at Tuoba Hong twice, and then smiled: "The emperor has already spoiled the concubine for five days." ”