Chapter 555: The Family Banquet
The brothers talked and laughed, and played and played, as if they were back in the past.
When he came to the gate of the palace, there was a decree from the eunuch of Kunning Palace that at noon, Queen Ma set up a family banquet in Kunning Palace to pick up the wind and wash the dust for her sons. The emperor will also go over and let them go directly to Kunning Palace.
When the eunuch of Kunning Palace walked away, the third child said sourly: "It's still thanks to the two of you, otherwise the queen mother won't give us two a pick-up." ”
In fact, he and the second child have been back in Beijing for some time, but the two of them have really made a lot of trouble in the fiefdom, and they have been reprimanded a few times by their Lao Tzu.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked them to return to Beijing for the New Year, and he also had the intention of beating them and letting them keep to themselves in the fiefdom.
"Hmph......" Zhu Di sneered, he really wanted to say, "Don't look at any good things you have done, the queen mother still invites you to dinner, and it would be good if the father didn't invite you to eat fried meat with a leather whip."
But because the second brother was also on the spot, and his work was bigger than the third brother, he didn't say anything.
But he is not in a hurry, since his father is also going to attend, he must be scolded when he sees the third child. Just watch the show then.
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The brothers came to Kunning Palace and asked the queen mother for peace.
Concubine Hu Xian was also there, and the brothers greeted her again.
As she grew older, Concubine Hu Xian also calmed down a lot, and spoke to several highnesses kindly and kindly, but her eyes never left her son. Heartbroken thoughts:
'Ouch, how did my baby lose weight like this......
"Zhu Chongba, you kill a thousand knives, let so many brothers not call, all day long catching the sixth sheep hair, you see how he is ......killed."
'My mother is not done with you! ’
"It's good to lose weight, and it's more energetic to lose weight." Queen Ma was very happy that the sixth child had lost weight, and took his hand and looked him up and down: "Your father was like this back then, except that your eyebrows were thicker than him, and he was the same as he was thirty years ago!" ”
"Huh?" The sixth man has a big mouth, he always thought that he was with his second uncle. I didn't expect the shadow of an old thief on his face.
"Ahh Zhu Yuanzhang came in from outside with his hands behind his back, and he didn't have a good airway.
Everyone in the palace hurriedly greeted the emperor.
"Get up, there are no outsiders today, no need to be formal." Zhu Yuanzhang was in a very good mood, smiling and pulling up the fourth child with one hand and the sixth child with the other, and said happily: "Today, you two sit next to us and have a good drink with Lao Tzu." ”
As he spoke, he beckoned everyone to their seats. "Sit down."
After the royal family thanked them, they waited for the emperor and queen to sit down before they returned to their positions.
The old Zhu family's family banquet is not like the royal family of the previous dynasty, one person and a small several, and the emperor and queen are high up, and the meals are shared.
Boss Zhu felt that it was too alienating and did not have a family atmosphere. Therefore, their family has always used round tables to eat, and when there are many people, they will set up more round tables. It means that the reunion is full and the circle is complete.
Zhu Zhen usually sits at the children's table, but this time he sat between Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, and became the focus of the audience, making him uncomfortable.
"Why, I haven't enjoyed the love of my parents for too long, and I'm not used to it?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him.
"How did Father see it?" Zhu Zhen felt strange.
"Isn't this nonsense, usually Lao Tzu moves two chopsticks, you can move three chopsticks. Today Lao Tzu moved three chopsticks, and you only moved two chopsticks. Zhu Yuanzhang used chopsticks like flying as he spoke, and put a piece of slippery meat into his mouth, and said proudly:
"It's not home, boy."
"That's when I just came back to let me ......" Zhu Zhen snorted, immediately changed gears, and pulled the chopsticks out of the virtual shadow.
"Damn, you slow down......" Zhu Yuanzhang was in a hurry, and hurriedly scolded and scolded him to grab food.
"......" The fourth child sitting on Zhu Yuanzhang's right hand is actually a big stomach, but he was stunned by the momentum of the two of them. I didn't stretch out a few chopsticks......
"Alas, as soon as the sixth man came back, someone went crazy with the emperor." Empress Ma sighed at Concubine Hu Xian.
"They never eat my cooking." Concubine Hu Xian said depressedly.
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After being full of wine and food, Boss Zhu stroked his round belly, and then said: "This year, we are really happy." The fourth and sixth have made a great contribution this time. In the future, I will be able to live for thousands of years, and they are indispensable for today's work. ”
"......" heard the emperor's ridiculously high evaluation, and everyone present was secretly surprised, especially those concubines and young princes.
"It's too exaggerated," Concubine Da Ding muttered in a low voice, "Isn't it just going to Zhangjiatian?" What's the big deal? ”
"We know that most of you don't understand the meaning of the Yellow Book. Let's just put it this way, without this thing, the Ming Dynasty would be a short-lived dynasty. With this thing, we have the confidence to make the Ming Dynasty the longest-lived dynasty! I heard Zhu Yuanzhang continue:
"You people, as well as the descendants of our old Zhu family, will be able to enjoy wealth for hundreds of years."
Zhu Zhen secretly slandered, and then the offspring became Daming's tumor......
"A few hundred years is not enough, at least a thousand years!" The third child over there hurriedly presented his sycophants, hoping that he would not be executed in public.
Who knew that the horse's fart was slapped on the horse's hooves, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, and snorted coldly: "A thousand years? With a few of you good princes here, we don't dare to hope for it. ”
"......" Zhu shrunk his neck, he didn't expect that such a harmonious atmosphere would also hide murderous intentions.
"Forget it, this is a family banquet for the children, can't you bear to wait for the training after eating?" Queen Ma interceded for the third child.
"Okay, let's train another day for other things, but there is one thing, we have to train at this time!" Zhu Yuanzhang gave Queen Ma face, but it was the same as not giving it to the third child.
"Yes, please ask my father to give me instructions." The third child had to leave the table in frustration and kneel on the ground to be trained.
"Let's not talk about the ridiculous things you did in Taiyuan, just talk about the incident on the road. We kindly sent Xu Xingzu, a cook who has been with me for 23 years, to you, and specially instructed you to treat him well. But you'd better hang him up and whip him on the way! Take our advice as a deaf ear! Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.
"Erchen treated him very well at first, and called him Uncle Xu, but I didn't expect this guy to kick his nose in the face and dare to disagree with Erchen." The third muttered.
"Why did he go against you?!" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his voice and asked.
That morning, Erchen remembered the sweet bean curd he had eaten in Suzhou, so he asked him to make it for Erchen. As a result, when you taste it, it is salty. The third said depressedly:
"Erchen was unhappy at the time, so he called him over and asked him what was going on, why did this king eat sweet, he had to make it salty, not only did he feel wrong, but he also said that bean curd is salty, he has followed his father for more than 20 years, and he has never made sweet bean curd."
"I said that this king wants to eat sweet, you go and make it for me, but he doesn't. In front of the palace people and the magistrates, how could the ministers hold their faces, so they threatened him and said, if you don't make sweet bean curd, I will hang you up and beat you. He said that you just burned me to death, and the bean curd can't be sweet......"
"It's really inappropriate not to beat him up for that sake." Saying that, the third child sneered: "In addition, he was in a bad mood when he left his father, and as soon as the hot day came up, he beat him ......."
(End of chapter)