On Chinese New Year's Eve, a banquet is held in the palace.

Early in the morning, Chen Quan led his wife, two princes and a princess, to worship their ancestors, make incense to the Buddha, and pray for the blessing of the gods......

At noon, a banquet began in the palace.

Although it was a luncheon, it was already early when the banquet actually began, and it was close to the time of Shen.

On this day, in addition to the concubines, princes, princesses, and royal relatives, such as princes and princesses, they can participate in the banquet. And then there are the courtiers of the emperor's special permission and extremely family members.

Chen Quan misses the old, and in the years before he ascended the throne, he spent the New Year with his original sworn brothers.

Now that he is on the throne, he will not forget the original brotherhood.

The Tang family and the Song family naturally have a place at the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, and they are in a position under the empress.

In order to win over the ministers, Chen Quan wanted to invite those capable ministers and sages to the banquet, so as to contact the feelings between them. You know, it is a supreme honor to be invited by the emperor to the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet in the palace, and only those who have weight in His Majesty's heart have this honor.

It would be great to be able to eat with His Majesty, talk and chat.

If you change to someone with a slightly worse background, at least it will be enough for him to blow for a lifetime.

Chen Quan's hand played very beautifully, which made many courtiers who received the palace banquet grateful, and they couldn't wait to bow down and die.

said that it was a palace banquet, and the cold and hot dishes and melon and fruit snacks eaten were nothing more than a few. And because there are many people and miscellaneous things, when these hot dishes and cold dishes arrive at the banquet, they are basically half cold.

I can still eat, but no one eats at the palace banquet and loses my identity.

Everyone is nothing more than holding a drink in a reserved manner, whispering a few words with the people around them, and occasionally eating a side dish or a snack pad. By the time the feast was over, the table was still basically full.

Chen Quan was born in the countryside, so naturally there are no such rules.

He gave a banquet, what he wanted was for everyone to eat, drink, and have fun, and only then could he show the difference of his generation of emperors.

In the singing and dancing banquet, Song Yunfei led several young generals to light a fire in front of Jiying Hall and roast the whole sheep, and even the three princes stepped forward to roll up their sleeves to help. When the roasted whole lamb was sliced into slices, the three princes took matters into their own hands and gave the emperor and empress a plate of the best roast mutton to the table.

In the back, Song Yunfei will make a few small films, and divide them in turn, if you want to do it yourself, you can also eat as many pieces as you want.

This time at the palace banquet, everyone actually ate the excitement that was rare in the past.

Song Yunfei is not favored in the Song family, and his personality is a bit out of the box, but he is very loved by today's saints.

Waiting until the remaining bones of the roasted mutton were finished, Song Yunfei continued to barbecue, this method was still taught to him by Lu Yangge.

Hearing that he was going to roast the whole sheep at the palace banquet, Lu Yangge taught him how to roast the remaining lamb bones with cumin.

Unexpectedly, the head of the family would like this cumin-flavored sheep bone very much.

Although Chen Quan is the emperor, he still carries the custom of being born recklessly. For example, eating mutton, drinking mutton soup, and gnawing mutton bones in front of the ministers.

A pair of big hands washed and gnawed on the mutton bones, even Zhou Guifei on the side frowned, but Chen Quan didn't care.

When Empress Shen picked up the mutton soup and tasted it carefully, the three princes who sat down drank half a plate of mutton and a bowl of mutton soup in a row, and even if the people below were reserved, they had to eat a few more dishes in the womb.

"How about it, Yunfei's roasted mutton is not bad."

Chen Quan finished gnawing on the mutton bones, cleaned his hands and face, and bared his teeth at the people below, "This mutton bone is really good, this taste, I haven't eaten it before." Father...... I haven't had this pleasure in years. Hahaha......"

Empress Shen put down the porcelain spoon in her hand and asked with a smile, "Your Majesty, do you still like this mutton soup today?" ”

"I like it." Chen Quan picked up the empty bowl in front of him and showed it to the queen, "I drank a whole bowl, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many dishes today, I would definitely have to drink two more bowls." ”

"Your Majesty thinks it's best to drink it."

Empress Shen's eyes were slightly constricted, and her tone was gentle, "Today's sheep soup is still made by the Queen Mother's concubines, Your Majesty has been fighting in the south and the north over the years, and the concubines have not done it for many years, and their hands are a little raw." ”

Because of Chen Quan's accident, the whereabouts of the two grandsons are unknown, her eyes are broken from crying, her vision is blurry, and her health is not very good.

At the beginning of the palace feast, the queen sat down and went back to rest.

When the queen mentioned the sheep soup that the queen mother said, she couldn't help but arouse Chen Quan's memories.

When I was young, my family background could only be regarded as ordinary, and it was okay to eat enough and dress warmly, like mutton soup, which was not something that I could eat if I wanted to.

His mother had a pair of skillful hands, and often bought bits and pieces of cheap haggis and sheep's heads back to stew soup for their brothers.

Later, he married his wife Shen, and life got better and better, Shen's dowry was quite rich, and the family really lived a good life. In winter, he no longer eats cheap haggis and sheep's head, but buys mutton and comes back to stew.

When Shen was not out of the cabinet, his fingers did not touch the spring water, and later married him, and learned good cooking skills from his mother, especially her sheep soup was better than her mother.

Looking at the dignified and beautiful Shen in front of him, Chen Quan couldn't help but think of the first time he saw Empress Shen, when he had not yet reached the crown, and he wandered around the market with a few brothers all day long, idle.

The first time he saw Shen, he was shocked, and felt that this woman should only exist in heaven, how could it be seen by ordinary people like him.

Later, he married the Shen family, and his father-in-law begged the head of the Shen family to ensure that he was the pavilion chief, so that his life could be considered stable.

He caused trouble, it was Shen who cleaned it up for him, and when he was injured, it was Shen who bandaged him. The grain collected at home was sent to Qingfeng Village by him, and there was no surplus grain in the famine year, so it was the grain that Shen went to his sister's house to borrow.

As soon as he ran away from forced labor, it was Shen who went to prison for him. Even for a few years when he was not at home, his father and son were taken care of by the Shen family alone. Especially his third son Jianye, when Shen was pregnant with him, he injured the brother-in-law of the county order and was almost killed, and Shen was angry and anxious to give birth to Jianye early.

Jianye has been frail and sickly since he was a child, and he has grown so big because of the care of Shen and his mother, and it is also thanks to the Lu family who sent a lot of nourishing medicines and ingredients during this period.

Thinking of his brother-in-law Lu family, Chen Quan couldn't help but feel a little guilty about the Shen family.

At the beginning, in order to relieve Qingfeng Village, he led the Song family brothers to ask Lu Yuanshan to borrow grain. It's okay to borrow grain once or twice, but borrow it every year, and don't pay it back every year, even if you don't want to be the one who is wronged.

It happened that Yunfei was born, because of dystocia and weak health, if Yunfei was raised in Qingfeng Village, he would not be able to survive. He hid it from Shen and lied to him that the child was picked up by himself. At that time, the Shen family had just given birth to their third son, Jianye, and was unable to raise another frail child, so they sent Yunfei to the Lu family and raised it with the Lu family's Hebei.

Song Yunfei has been raised in the Lu family for several years and is physically strong. The days of Qingfeng Village are getting more and more difficult year by year, and Boss Song came up with an idea, saying that Yunfei will come back. Under the pretext of asking the Lu family to raise Yunfei, he asked the Lu family for food and money to raise Yunfei every year.

Yunfei is just a young child, how much rice can he eat, and how much silver he can use. The money and food sent by the Lu family are not those brothers who raised the cottage.

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