"What time is it?" Zhuang Chenchen was a little tired, put down the pen in his hand, and pinched the bridge of his nose.

Yin Li took the hot tea and handed it to him: "It's already past the time for dinner, if the emperor feels tired, it's better to take a rest and use some soup sent by the queen first." The mother said that her stomach was warm, and she would not feel uncomfortable with dinner. ”

"Hmm." Zhuang Chenchen bowed slightly: "Bring it up." ”

Yin Li brought the soup to him neatly, lifted the lid, and a strange smell made both of them frown.

"What kind of soup is this?" Zhuang Chenchen glanced at the stew pot suspiciously?

"This is what the Queen Mother asked Bingling to prepare. It is said that it cannot be drunk cold, and the best effect is served hot. So Bingling has been guarding outside the hall, and this stew pot has only been taken out of the steamer in the small stove. Yin Li is also strange: "It is said that the queen has always known the emperor's taste, how can she be full of medicinal soup......

Before he could finish his words, he saw Lei Zhen walking into the hall with a smile. "The slave and maid greet the emperor."

"Why are you here again?" Yin Li quipped: "You've been here three times this whole day." ”

"Naturally, the queen mother was worried about the emperor, so she asked the slaves and maids to come and invite them." Lei Zhen glared at her, and when she turned to look at Zhuang Chen, there was only tenderness in her eyes. "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has carefully prepared your favorite food, knowing that you are busy with government affairs all day long, you must be hungry. Since you don't like the stomach-warming soup made by the queen's mother, it is better to move to Fengluan Hall and accompany the queen mother to dinner. ”

"The Queen Mother is so late and hasn't eaten yet?" Zhuang Chenchen asked suspiciously.

"Yes." Lei Zhen nodded vigorously: "The slave maid's persuasion is ineffective, the queen mother just wants to wait for the emperor to use some together." It may be that the emperor has rarely accompanied the Queen Mother in the past few days, and the Queen Mother misses you. ”

Zhuang Chenchen frowned, picked up the stew pot and drank it slowly.

This move made Lei Zhen embarrassed: "Your Majesty, don't you like this smell of medicine?" ”

"I hear you." Zhuang Chenchen put down the stew pot and said unhappily: "The queen mother blames me for not going to ask for peace these days." ”

"Not really." Lei Zhen immediately knelt down: "It's all slaves and maids who are clumsy and stupid, and they don't say anything well." How could the Queen Mother blame the emperor. The queen mother is just worried about the emperor's dragon body, and she is afraid that you will only care about the administration and fail to eat on time, and you will lose your body. ”

"Get up." Zhuang Chenchen frowned and said: "I drank the soup sent by the queen much better, you go back first to persuade your mother to eat." Tomorrow, I will go to the queen mother to say goodbye. ”

"This ......" Lei Zhen still wanted to persuade her, but the afterglow swept across Yin Li's face and found that Yin Li was shaking her head gently. The slave obeys. ”

"Why didn't the master go to dinner with the Queen Mother?" Yin Li waited for Lei Zhen to leave, and then asked in a low voice. "Lei Zhen has been here three or four times today. Presumably the Queen Mother has something important to say to you. ”

"I just don't want to listen to my mother's nagging." Zhuang Yanchen frowned unhappily: "The affairs of the government have already annoyed me. The queen mother still wants to stir up the harem at this time. I just want to be quiet. ”

"Yes." Yin Li didn't say anything more, but asked, "Then is the emperor going to the queen's palace for dinner at this time?" ”

"It's okay." Zhuang Chenchen nodded slightly: "I'm used to going to her left and right, and the queen has always been silent, but it's easy." ”

"Yes." Yin Li immediately took care of everything and accompanied the emperor to Fengling Palace.

At this time, Lei Zhen didn't go far at all, and watched the emperor and his party go straight to Fengling Palace, and her heart was slightly suffocated. "Your Majesty, are you so reluctant to let the queen mother? It's just a dinner, and you don't want to let your mother use it alone? Even the Queen Mother left ......"

After entering the Fengling Palace, Zhuang Chenchen felt that something was wrong.

It seems that the things in this temple have not been replaced, but I don't know why, I just feel strange.

"Master, the queen seems to have changed to a new spice." Yin Li only felt an itchy nose, and as soon as he finished saying this, he quickly turned his head and sneezed.

was reminded by him like this, Zhuang Chenchen realized that this was indeed the case. "What kind of spice is this, and why is it so sweet? Hasn't the queen always liked the cold aroma? ”

"The emperor is here." Qingli greeted him with a smile and saluted Zhuang Chen: "The queen is preparing dinner for the emperor, please come inside." ”

Even Qingli has become weird, Su Rili always calls him master, but today he has changed it to the emperor.

Zhuang Chenchen frowned, and as soon as he bought the threshold, he saw that Qingli stopped Yin Li. "Your nose is sensitive, and you can't stand this aroma, so just wait here."

Without waiting for Yin to leave, she made a look, and hurriedly had the inner chamberlain close the door of the palace.

"What is the Queen Mother doing?" Yin Li is inexplicable.

Entering the inner hall, Zhuang Chenchen felt dumbfounded. In the inner hall, the queen led ten concubines to greet her, all dressed in bells and whistles, and they looked dazzling.

"This is the dinner that the Queen prepared for me?" He was a little displeased, he originally planned to find Qingjing, who knew that this was even more lively than the Queen Mother's.

"The emperor laughed." Cen Muning said gently: "These concubines are selected by the ministers and concubines to serve the emperor for dinner. Dinner has been prepared, and the emperor is invited to come with his concubines. ”

Zhuang Chenchen couldn't bear it, but followed her into the inner room.

Indeed, the table was full of delicacies, and the wine was poured into the wine bottle. But there is no one dish, it is a simple side dish that he likes to use every day, and each dish is so delicate that people can't get off the chopsticks.

"Why did the queen change the dishes?" Zhuang Chenchen sat down and looked at Cen Muning with a suspicious face.

"Your Majesty, the concubines have already asked the imperial doctor, and these dishes are very suitable for the emperor to enjoy now. Although it is a medicinal diet, it is indeed a good medicine for warmth. Even in the hot summer, if you use some often, it will not wear out the dragon body. Please also enjoy it with peace of mind. After Cen Muning said this, regardless of whether he was happy or not, he said to those concubines: "Don't be stunned, hurry up and come over and pour wine for the emperor." ”

After saying that, the concubines gathered around, all of them greeted each other with smiling faces, and they were not enthusiastic.

"Your Majesty, these concubines are all selected by the concubines in the harem. All of them have been seen by the imperial doctor, not to mention that they are healthy, and they are also very suitable for childbirth. I must be able to add a few princes to the emperor. Cen Mu's eyebrows were full of joy: "Please also ask the emperor to choose with confidence." ”

"Your Majesty, please taste this pill-stuffed pigeon egg."

"Your Majesty, this assorted shrimp dish is also very refreshing, you can try it."

"Your Majesty, this is deer blood wine, which is the most nourishing."

"......" Zhuang Chenchen only felt dizzy, especially smelling the sweet fragrance, as if the whole person was dizzy by these fat powders.

"Get out!" He let out a cold roar, swept the dishes in front of him to the ground, and smashed them.

The concubines were stunned for a moment, and looked at him one by one with big eyes. Suddenly it was quiet.

"The emperor is angry." Cen Muning got up with Qingli's hand and saluted him. "It's all the concubines who are not good, and they failed to arrange it for the emperor, and they ask the emperor to punish them."

The concubines also hurriedly followed the queen's plea, and they all trembled.

Before the emperor ascended the throne, they were notorious, and it is expected that they had already heard of them. Now that he is angry, he must not be cautious and wait, and if he is careless and loses his life, it will be miserable.

"Arrange it well, how else do you want to arrange it, queen?" Zhuang Chenchen stared at her unhappily: "These are your arrangements?" ”

Qingli pursed her lips and lowered her voice: "The emperor and queen have indeed tried their best, if you don't like these concubines, then the slave maid will go and replace the next batch to come in......"

"Stop." Zhuang Chenchen glared at her: "What's the trouble?" ”

"The slave and maid just follow the queen mother's decree. Where do you dare to make trouble. Qingli pouted: "If you let the queen mother know, the emperor is angry with the queen mother, and she will go to ask for peace tomorrow morning, and the queen mother will have to be punished again." ”

"Green plow." Cen Muning hurriedly stopped her: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

"All down." Zhuang Chenchen was dissatisfied with those concubines, and the tone of the order was unquestionable.

The concubines felt that they were lucky to survive, and they saluted and escaped from here.

"The queen mother punished you this morning?" Zhuang Chenchen looked at Cen Muning's eyes and frowned and asked.

"Isn't it?" Qingli said quickly: "Master, didn't you see it, the queen mother asked the queen mother to say goodbye, and the queen mother didn't even look at it, and only cared about drinking tea by herself." A cup of tea has been drunk, and the queen is still holding the ceremony. Sweating from exhaustion. ”

"Green plow." Cen Mu Ning stiffened his face: "Where are there so many words, and I can't go down." ”

"Yes." Qingli saluted her and retreated unhappily.

Cen Muning sighed softly at this time: "Maybe the concubine is from Cen Xiangfu, and the queen mother has always had a lot of opinions about her father because of the relationship between the abolished emperor." The concubine's mother is so disgraceful again, the most important thing in this dynasty is the background, and there is nothing wrong with the queen mother disliking the status of the concubine. Yesterday, didn't the concubine say it, the queen mother didn't like it, and the concubine didn't care. As long as the emperor keeps his concubines around, it will be the best. ”

"To say you're stupid is to be stupid." Zhuang Chenchen said angrily: "What do you think of me? It's a nourishing soup, it's a medicinal diet, and it's so good to grow and nourish it, it's simply unreasonable. ”

"Of course, the concubine regards the emperor as the king of a country. It is also the responsibility of the emperor to reproduce heirs and stretch the country. As soon as Cen Muning's words fell, he grabbed him by the collar and slipped in front of him.

"Whoever I want to sleep with will naturally be summoned, and you don't need to be so diligent." Zhuang Chenchen was dissatisfied: "I've been tired all day, I just want to have a quiet dinner and rest, where did all this nonsense come from." And in your palace, what incense, greasy and crooked I want to bite. ”

Caught off guard, he bit Cen Muning's shoulder.

Cen Mu closed his eyes in pain, but he didn't say a word.

"Don't get these medicinal foods in the future." Zhuang Yanchen said angrily: "It's hard to eat." ”

Cen Muning pressed the tip of his nose: "That's not good, the emperor, the queen mother said that within half a year, if there are no three pregnant concubines, the queen concubine will be abolished." In order to protect their thrones, the concubines even coaxed and deceived, and all methods had to be used on the emperor. Otherwise, the queen mother's concubines would not be able to get by. ”

Zhuang Chenchen picked her up violently and lifted her horizontally: "You calculate me again, it's so high, I will throw you down." ”

He was about to let go, but Cen Muning covered her eyes in fright. Seeing that he was about to be thrown down while weightless, he couldn't bear it and caught it firmly.

"Go get something to eat."

Cen Muning was placed firmly on the ground by him, and then he opened his eyes and smiled slightly: "Do you still use the emperor to say, I have already prepared it." ”

She smiled and called Qingli: "Quickly bring these down and change them to the side dishes we make ourselves." Bring the ice bowl too. ”

Seeing her bright smiling face, Zhuang Yanchen was in a better mood.

Her side dishes have become the expectation after a busy day.