"Your Royal Highness, it's time for you to eat," a young eunuch whispered in front of the prince's window.

"If you don't eat, don't eat, don't eat, it's hard to eat, let me eat that unpalatable thing, I'll kill you." ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, how can this be good without eating" ?????????????? " Roll"

"Your Highness is angry, Your Highness is angry"?? The little eunuch hurriedly knelt on the ground in fright, and his head hit the ground with a "bang" sound, "Get out"? The little eunuch knelt on the ground and crawled out backwards.

"Master, how can this highness the prince not want to eat. The little eunuch withdrew from the door and hurriedly went to find the eunuch Liu Gonggong, the head of the East Palace.

"Won't you persuade His Royal Highness the Prince? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is hungry, something went wrong, your little sixth son is careful not to eat, go around!"

"Gonggong Liu is angry, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really angry today, and the small ones are really not persuaded."

"Forget it, be steady, let's go talk to the queen's mother. Saying that, Gonggong Liu went to the Jiaofang Palace to find the queen's mother.

"Niangniang, Gonggong Liu, the head of the East Palace, asks to see you. ”

"Pass him in. ”

"Yes"

"Father-in-law Liu, Niangniang passed you in. ”

"There's Father-in-law Lao Li. "But who is this Gonggong Li, is the eunuch of the head of the six-rank guard and deputy chief eunuch in the queen's palace, and Gonggong Li is the chief eunuch of the seven-rank guard, according to the rules of the palace, Gonggong Li is older than Gonggong Liu, and the grade is also higher, Gonggong Liu should call his father-in-law respectfully, but Gonggong Liu does not have to politely call him Gonggong Liu, and call a little Liu Zi.

Then why is Gonggong Li so polite, naturally it is not Gonggong Li who is polite, it is because Gonggong Liu has been able to sit firmly in the current six-grade guard and deputy chief of the eunuch in his life, and although Gonggong Liu is only the leader of the seven-rank guard, the crown prince is now the most stable in this dynasty- It is the eldest son born to the queen, the emperor's harem is only the queen, and the emperor only has the prince His Royal Highness the Prince, once the emperor dies, His Royal Highness the crown prince will succeed to the throne indisputably, then Liu Gonggong will inevitably rise to the top, so that the deputy head of the internal affairs office, the second head of the house, the chief manager and even the governor and the attendant can be expected in his lifetime, and he doesn't want to be hated in the future to wear small shoes, so he won't take advantage of it now.

Gonggong Liu quickly took small steps and entered the door, Gonggong Liu's legs bent and knelt down, his two arms stretched out and threw himself on the ground, grabbed the ground with his head, and shouted, "The queen mother is a thousand years old, the minister is guilty, please punish the queen mother." ”

The queen's face changed, "Little Liuzi, what's the matter." ”

"The queen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is unwilling to eat, the minister is guilty, and it is not a pity for the minister to die, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not eat, how can it be good, the minister does not know how to 。。。。。 Please give the queen mother's advice" As he spoke, Gonggong Liu burst into tears.

"Little Liuzi, but you don't wait well. ”

"The queen is the sin of the ministers, the meal is not in line with the taste of His Royal Highness the Prince, but the dishes are according to the rules of the palace, and the ministers dare not 。。。。。。 ”

Although Xiao Liu Zi did not finish speaking, the queen already understood that every meal in the palace was "eating one, looking at three". Each meal is prepared by the imperial dining room, the emperor prepares four tables of dishes, each table has more than 20 dishes, a total of no less than 100 products, from the delicacies of the mountains and seas to the flavor snacks, everything is available. The concubine served 40 meat and vegetarian dishes per meal, as well as various gruel, pastries, pasta and side dishes. When it was time to start the meal, the eunuchs of each palace would go to the meat bureau, the vegetarian bureau, and the dim sum bureau in the dining room respectively and take them down from the rotating shelves according to the numbers. Each dish is served on delicate plates covered with silver lids. The eunuchs of each palace mentioned each palace with food boxes, and then arranged them in the same way, and they must not be confused. When everything is arranged, the chief eunuch shouts "bowl cover", and the eunuchs will remove the silver lid from the bowl and plate, and the little eunuch will immediately carry it away in a food box. The chief eunuch then knelt down and replied: "The food is ready!"

Then the emperor's concubine took her seat. In fact, the emperor's concubine can't taste a bite of every meal, and these dishes are changed according to the season, and the season is not changed, almost every month, every day, so it is common to get tired of eating, and the rest of the food is usually rewarded to the eunuch waiting next to him or to someone else.

The reason why there are so many necessary meals and almost all meals are the same is that there is an unwritten rule in the court, that is, when the emperor's concubine eats, no matter how much she likes to eat, she cannot take more than three bites of each dish, the purpose of which is to prevent others from knowing the emperor's preferences, so as to prevent someone from poisoning or deliberately flattering.

In this way, the eunuch waiting next to him had to constantly pour wine and vegetables for the master, and then he had to change the position of the dishes at any time, which was not easy at all. Although the prince is young, he expects to be similar

“?? Xiao Liuzi, what is the meal of the East Palace this season?"

"The queen's meal this season in the East Palace is,

Two hot pot products: eight-treasure milk pig hot pot, stewed mutton hot pot with sauce.

Four dishes in a bowl: Bird's Nest Wanzi All-Silver Duck, Bird's Nest Shouzi Wuliu Chicken Shred, Bird's Nest White Duck Silk, Bird's Nest Jiangzi Mushroom Duck Soup.

Four cups and bowls: bird's nest chicken skin fish balls, simmered fish noodles with shredded chicken, mushu meat, stewed sea cucumber.

Six dishes of dishes: bird's nest stir-fried chicken shreds, honey sauce meat, stir-fried pork stewed magnolia slices, shredded meat scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, mushroom fried chicken slices.

Two slices of dishes: hanging chicken on the stove, hanging fried duck.

Four products: white sugar oil cake longevity, peach longevity, alfalfa cake longevity, 100 longevity cake.

A table of snacks: four plates of pork, four plates of mutton, four plates of steamed food, and four plates of stove food.

There are also deer breasts, deer fetuses, pheasants, bear's paws, reed geese, swans, snow toads and the like. ”

"Alas, how can a child like to eat these foods? ”