When the day of departure is close to noon, the real opening of the banquet will not be until six o'clock in the unitary hour, the sun completely sets, the palace lamps are lit one by one, dotted in the Langyang court, the plum garden is full of early cherry blossoms, groups of palace maids and the snowy falling from the treetops, beautiful, worthy of all the talented people to write a poem immediately.

Rong Tang was almost so hungry that he almost fainted.

The examination of entering the palace is very strict, and the food outside the palace is not allowed to be brought into the palace, and the eldest princess Duanyi and Wang Xiuyu and other female dependents were led to the harem by the palace people to meet the queen and the queen mother; Rong Mingyu and other court officials listened to the emperor's admonition outside the Qinzheng Palace.

The banquet was held in the Shaohua Palace, and a man like Rong Tang was all taken to the side hall behind the Shaohua Hall to wait.

I don't know which chief eunuch of the Internal Affairs Office came up with the idea, to prevent them from having no stomach to eat during the palace banquet after a while, which would make the emperor unhappy, and each person only got two or two pieces of pastry, and the gap between the teeth was not enough to stuff, let alone sit and wait for the palace banquet to start all afternoon.

Rong Tang was a little devastated.

He also came to the palace banquet in his previous two lives, but either Queen Wang was worried about his initial recovery from a serious illness, and regardless of the rules that foreign men do not enter the harem, she took him to Fengqi Palace with Wang Xiuyu, and waited for the palace banquet to start while eating snacks.

Either Sheng Chengli will invite him to his palace in advance, and the treatment of the Fifth Royal Highness at that time is no different from that of an ordinary prince, and he will not starve him.

It was Rong Tang who never knew that he was hungry before the palace banquet.

Su Huaijing didn't look like he knew it, he looked at Rong Tang's hand that frequently pressed his stomach, and his face was gloomy and he was about to squeeze out the water.

The palace banquet is already restrained, every word and deed on the table, using that dish, and moving chopsticks a few times are very exquisite, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the compilation of the imperial history platform sit outside the palace banquet, recording everyone's words and deeds in real time, once the fault of non-compliance is recorded, it is good to not be able to enter the palace for the banquet in the future, and it is more likely to affect the family.

So generally speaking, everyone will fill their stomachs before going to the banquet, so as not to gobble up and lose their honor before the real banquet.

Su Huaijing has been out of the palace for many years, and this is the first time he has experienced this treatment.

Until Rong Tang quietly reached out and pressed his stomach down again, Su Huaijing couldn't bear it, and he was about to find some food for him, but he might as well be caught by Tang Tang.

Ning Xuan Wang Shizi's eyes are almond eyes, but they are not the standard appearance in the album.

When frightened, his eyes were round, like a fawn running through the jungle; But when he lay lazily on the beauty couch, picked up a fashionable book in his hand, bored while flipping through the sunlight through the window, and then casually picked up a piece of candied fruit or preserved meat and bit it slowly, the tail of his eyes was slightly bent, and the crow feathers trembled slightly, more like a prodigal son who was born to travel through flowers.

And now Rong Tang's demeanor is obviously the former, there are many people waiting in the side hall, most of them have gathered in a group, and they each occupy a place to chat and talk, so even Rong Zheng Rongyuan and the children of the family who have made good friends with Su Ri have come together.

Rong Tang didn't want to mix with them, so he and Su Huaijing found a corner and nested, and they were quiet and motionless from the moment they entered the hall, but in fact, there were constantly glances at them openly and secretly, and Su Huaijing was together, almost attracting the attention of most of the room, speculating about what they were going to do.

Rong Tang tugged at his sleeve, shook his head slightly, and dragged the person back to his seat

, The person who was secretly watching took back his inquiring eyes.

Su Huaijing's face was still gloomy, and the irritability in his heart was almost materialized in his expression, Rong Tang asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?" ”

Su Huaijing: "Go find something to eat." ”

Rong Tang's heart was slightly warm, and he still coaxed in a small voice: "Didn't you give you all to me?" ”

The number of pastries distributed by each person was limited, and Su Huaijing didn't eat a bite, giving it all to Rong Tang, but he still couldn't suppress the surging hunger in his stomach.

Rong Tang muttered: "If you want to go with your mother to see your aunt, if you don't go, you won't worry so much if you go." ”

Su Huaijing's face was stern, and he asked, "Then you fainted from hunger outside alone?" ”

Rong Tang was dumbfounded.

Foreign men are not allowed to enter the harem, except for male wives, if they are led by the main mother, they can still be half a female dependent, salute the queen mother, there is no need to sit with them outside, but Su Huaijing heard that Rong Tang could not go in, and immediately rejected this proposal.

He has the opportunity to enter the harem in the future, and it is impossible to let Tangtang sit outside alone for an entire afternoon on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Fortunately, he came, otherwise he wouldn't have known that the people from the Internal Affairs Office were doing things like this.

Su Huaijing even began to wonder whether this was the self-made initiative of the chief eunuch or the silence of Emperor Renshou.

- To demonstrate his supreme authority as emperor.

Under the whole world, it is the prince and grandson, and he has to rely on his snort for food and clothing.

Su Huaijing felt irritable, his fingers stroked his waist card, and rubbed it a few times uncontrollably.

Rong Tang seemed to be frightened by his tone just now, and didn't speak for a long time, Su Huaijing silently calmed down, and poured him another cup of tea that was almost all cold, and his mood almost turned bad again, but he still admitted his mistake gently: "I shouldn't have murdered you." ”

Rong Tang was stunned: "? ”

Su Huaijing: "The doctor said that you have to follow the doctor's instructions when you eat and take medicine, and you can't hold on and you can't be hungry, otherwise the organs will be damaged and it will be difficult to recuperate, so I'm a little nervous, not to kill you, I'm sorry." ”

Rong Tang was stunned by him, blinked his eyes, and asked after a while: "Why did Doctor Lin tell you everything, he didn't say these words to me." ”

Su Huaijing said: "The patient is too worried, and it is not good to tell you that it is not good to annoy you, anyway, I will be by your side every day, just keep an eye on it." ”

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Rong Tang looked at him suspiciously, and intuitively felt that there was something wrong with what he said, but he couldn't think of it after thinking about it for a while, so he simply gave up, scooped up the teacup and lowered his head, and then frowned and put it back as soon as he entered his mouth.

It's cold and unpleasant.

What did he do to come to this palace for a banquet, isn't it good to go back to Yong'an Lane with Huaijing to eat the big pork knuckle stewed by the chef!?

It's so angry.

Rong Tang sighed heavily, Su Huaijing was very distressed, the sun had set outside the hall, and the palace people were changing the lights, Su Huaijing took his hand and asked softly, "Shall I help you find food?" ”

Rong Tang also gently refused: "It's not good." ”

"Why?" Su Huaijing's face was a little downcast.

Rong Tang: "The road outside is complicated and there are many people, you may be arrested if you go out and walk for less than two steps." ”

Su Huaijing was slightly stunned, almost amused by his particularly serious expression, and replied: "I know the road." He said, "Don't Tang Tang know who I am?" ”

The Seven Princes of the previous dynasty,

Grew up in this palace since childhood,

Even if you have been separated for several years, there is no reason why you can't remember the road at all.

Ke Rongtang insisted: "It's not good, don't go out, the banquet will be open in a while, I'm not that hungry." ”

Said he wasn't that hungry, and then his stomach rumbled twice.

Su Huaijing probably has the heart to kill, the expression on his handsome face is dark, Rong Tang is weak-hearted, but he still insists: "Don't go out, I don't want to be alone, I'm afraid." ”

As soon as the two words of fear came out, Su Huaijing's expression froze for a moment, and then was replaced by a helpless and powerless emotion.

Tang Tang is not afraid of staying alone in this side hall, he is afraid that he will encounter some unknowable danger when he goes out.

This is the homeland that has not returned for many years, but it is also the deepest part of the imperial power.

He still doesn't know how Su Huaijing completely changed his skin and bones, so that standing on the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Renshou still can't recognize that this is his own nephew, but Rong Tang is still afraid that in the depths of this palace, there will be old people back then, with a little fleeting clues, recognize him as the former master.

Just like Ke Hongxue believes that Mu Jingxu is the first second prince.

The consequences of this adventure were too serious, and Rong Tang didn't want to let him gamble alone.

He looked at Su Huaijing directly, and after a while, the latter admitted defeat, sighed slightly, and began to look at who else in the room had clean pastries on the plate, and planned to ask for a few pieces for Rong Tang.

No matter how heavy the cleanliness habit is, compared with the nobility and filling Rongtang's belly, it doesn't matter at all.

Just as he was about to act, a little eunuch with a food box trotted in outside the door, hunched over and scanned the room, and when he saw this corner, he walked over quickly: "Ask the prince Ye'an, the master is in a hurry, His Royal Highness is worried that you are hungry, so he specially asked the servant to send you some food to cushion your stomach." ”

Rong Tang was stunned for a moment: "Who?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince." The little eunuch said with a smile, "His Royal Highness said that the prince is his cousin, and he is also the nephew of the queen's mother, his body is weak, and he can't stand the hunger for so long, so he really shouldn't press you with a number of courtesies." No, His Royal Highness personally went to the Internal Affairs Office to talk to Manager Xia, and then let the servants send in this box of things, Your Highness, take a look, they are all your favorite food! ”

Rong Tang loves spicy food, and his favorite food is a hot pot with steaming heat and spicy fragrance, but for the sake of his body, Su Huaijing has never allowed him to eat more. He didn't go out of the house often, so almost no one knew the taste of Ning Xuan's prince.

But when the little eunuch opened the food box and put the dishes on the table, Rong Tang's heart sank a little.

The dishes are very simple, there are only four dishes, simple and homely, but they are spicy rabbit head, pork trotters with salt and pepper, stir-fried pork with green peppers, goose soup with red dates, and even a fragrant rice.

That posture was not meant to cushion his stomach at all, as if it was going to kill him.

When the dishes were served, the aroma spread in the hall, and the powerful sons around them all twisted their heads, and even more so hungry that they fainted, and actually swallowed their saliva.

Rong Tang was so nervous that he looked back in a hurry, wanting to explain to Su Huaijing, but saw the shallow upward curvature of the corners of his lips and a few smiles under his eyes.

Rong Tang sat upright, did not squint, and immediately stated his position: "I don't eat, Huaijing, don't worry, I won't even look at it!" ”

Su Huaijing smiled and picked up an empty bowl, filled him with soup, and said slowly: "Why don't you eat, Your Highness the Fifth Highness has good intentions." ”

He put the bowl in front of Rong Tang, and said again and again that he didn't mind at all, and even almost forced Rong Tang to start drinking, before he took out a few taels of silver and handed it to the little eunuch: "Father-in-law is tired to return to His Royal Highness, Tang Tang and I are very grateful, this meal is very timely." ”

It's not early, it's not too late, but when people are so hungry that they can't hold it anymore, and the feast is about to begin.

I really don't know who taught this little trick to buy people's hearts.

Su Huaijing turned his head and glanced at Rong Tang lightly.

Rong Tang trembled subconsciously, feeling like the spicy rabbit head on the table.

Su Huaijing had already lowered his eyes, and with a pair of bony and slender hands, he slowly peeled off the rabbit skull and disassembled the meat inside for him.

The broken bones that were dismantled on one side happened to be completely put together into a skull, which was quite blind.

Rong Tang: "......"

I said I don't eat it!!!