The table is full of zongzi, the shape and size of zongzi are different, there are rectangles, circles, triangles, quadrangular, pentagonal, as well as a variety of irregular zongzi, and the taste of zongzi is also different.

Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, the imperial dining room will carefully prepare all kinds of zongzi and send them to the emperor's table, so that the emperor can choose a few favorite flavors and shapes.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor will hold a banquet in the palace and invite the ministers of civil and military affairs to participate and eat zongzi together.

Palace maids and eunuchs also had zongzi to eat.

A small eunuch took two chairs and put them behind Si Jiuheng and Prince Shun respectively, and then quietly retreated.

Si Jiuheng saw so many different zongzi, and he didn't know where to start, he looked at the emperor, "Uncle Huang, is it like this every year?" ”

He had never picked zongzi before, and it turned out that every year's zongzi were selected by the emperor's uncle.

The emperor smiled and nodded, "The Dragon Boat Festival is once a year, festive, of course, you have to choose a few delicious zongzi for everyone to eat together, happy and happy." ”

Prince Shun nodded heavily, "I'm glad that I can eat the zongzi carefully selected by the imperial brother, and the younger brother is deeply honored." ”

Prince Shun slapped the sycophants right this time, and the emperor looked at Prince Shun's unobtrusive appearance a lot more pleasing to the eyes, "Do you want to peel the zongzi yourself or let the palace maid peel it?"

Prince Shun rolled up his sleeves and picked up a zongzi, "I'll peel it myself!"

He peeled it himself a little faster, and the palace maid peeled it too slowly.

Si Jiuheng also picked up a zongzi, "Peel it yourself." ”

Si Jiuheng didn't want to eat one after eating one, the taste of zongzi was nothing new, and it was not as good as the pastries made by Yunchu wine.

Prince Shun quickly finished eating one, and he picked up another one and ate it wildly.

The emperor saw that Si Jiuheng didn't eat, "What does Ah Heng think?" ”

Si Jiuheng: "The taste is about the same as last year, not bad, but it's not good." ”

"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that Ah Heng has ever eaten better zongzi?" ”

Si Jiuheng shook his head, "I haven't eaten it, but I've eaten better pastries." ”

The emperor was curious, "Who did it?" I asked him to be the chef in the Imperial Dining Room. ”

Si Jiuheng's mind flashed over Yun Chujiu's appearance, and he shook his head, "She is not suitable to be the head chef of the imperial dining room, Uncle Huang should not beat her up." ”

Such a living person should not be trapped in the palace, and she must not like to be restrained. He couldn't let her be forced into the palace to be the imperial chef because of his words.

The emperor connived and said: "It's rare that Ah Heng is so protective of a person, so I won't fight him." ”

Prince Shun ate a lot of zongzi, and when he was overwhelmed, he spread out on the chair and didn't want to move, "Brother Huang, I'll rest here for a while."

The emperor looked over, "You have eaten so much, you come and tell me which zongzi is delicious."

Prince Shun: "My brother thinks it's all delicious." ”

The emperor's face darkened instantly, he looked at the table, he couldn't find anything that could be thrown out, and his face was cold, "I asked you to pick a delicious one, but you said it was delicious." ”

Prince Shun's aggrieved face also dared to say, "It's really delicious, the younger brother can't lie to deceive the imperial brother, the younger brother just followed his own heart, why are you still angry, imperial brother." ”

The emperor was speechless and waved his hand, "Then I have given you all these zongzi, you can take them all back to the palace to eat." ”

Prince Shun was happy again, "Brother obeys!" ”

After a trip to the palace, he got a lot of zongzi, happy!

The Emperor and Si Jiuheng: "......"

Si Jiuheng: "Uncle Huang, do you still want to pick zongzi?" ”

Emperor: "When the time comes, I'll let the Imperial Dining Room make a few of their specialties." ”

Prince Shun looked at the emperor and laughed twice, "Brother Huang, I haven't seen the queen mother for a long time, I want to go to meet her old man and accompany her old man to relieve her boredom." ”

"Go ahead, you'd better take it easy, don't make the queen mother angry, otherwise you won't have to enter the palace in the future." The emperor was expressionless.

In the end, Si Jiuheng and his son went to Ciren Palace.

The Queen Mother just woke up from her lunch break and ate a little something, when the palace maid came to report, "Niangniang, Prince Shun and the prince are here." ”

The Queen Mother directly swept over Prince Shun and said with a smile: "Ah Heng is finally willing to come to see the old woman of the Mourning family, let him come in." ”

Si Jiuheng walked in slowly, "Imperial grandmother." ”

"Come closer and let the mourning family see." The Queen Mother beckoned, her face was full of love, and she compared with her hand, "At that time, you were so young, in a flash, you grew so tall, and the mourning family couldn't hold you." ”

Si Jiuheng walked up to the Queen Mother, "Has the imperial grandmother slept well recently?" ”

The Queen Mother rubbed her temples, "This person is old, there will always be such and such old problems, sleep early and wake up early, and you don't go into the palace to chat with the mourning family, the mourning family doesn't sleep well." ”

Si Jiuheng: "Then I will often come to see the imperial grandmother in the future and chat with the imperial grandmother." ”

The Queen Mother snorted, "You always deal with the mourning family like this, but you always can't do it." ”

Prince Shun stood on the side for a long time, and finally found what he could say, "Queen Mother, why don't you move to Erchen's mansion for a few days, and Erchen will take you to Qingli Garden, go to Qingshi Lane to eat delicious food, and go to Tongshi Street to play horse tags." ”

The Queen Mother pointed to Prince Shun, "The mourning family asked you to take good care of Ah Heng, but you know how to play, and you have lost all your family property, if Ah Heng is not sensible, the precious grandson of the mourning family will be living on the streets, why did the mourning family give birth to such a bad thing as you." ”

Prince Shun didn't dare to be angry or speak, and gave Si Jiuheng several looks: Ah Heng, save this king.

The Queen Mother had a cold face, "Don't look at Ah Heng, look at the mourning family." ”

Si Jiuheng looked at the Queen Mother, "Grandmother Huang, I think my father's proposal is good, you have been in the palace for a long time, you can go out of the palace to play." ”

The queen mother has been in the palace for decades and rarely leaves the palace, and the princes and princesses occasionally come to see her and tell her about the outside world, she actually wants to go out to see, but, "How can the mourning family go out of the palace at will." ”

Si Jiuheng thought that when he first saw Yun Chujiu, she was dressed in disguise, and she would also change her appearance, it was a human skin mask, I don't know if it is feasible for him to go to her to buy a few human skin masks.

"Imperial grandmother, you can dress up in disguise, I will find a way to get a few human skin masks for you to wear, and when the time comes, you will quietly leave the palace, not let anyone know, and let the imperial uncle send a few people to protect you in secret." Si Jiuheng said.

The Queen Mother's eyes lit up instantly, "You have a good idea, so when will you get the human skin mask?" ”

She decided, she was going to tell the emperor that she was going out of the palace to play.

Si Jiuheng paused, "I don't know, Imperial Grandmother, you wait for my news." ”

Prince Shun looked at Si Jiuheng and said cheekily, "Ah Heng, can you get a few human skin masks for this king?" ”

Si Jiuheng refused, "I can't." ”

(End of chapter)