The emperor put down the warm cup and glanced at Gonggong Wu who was standing beside him.

Gonggong Wu didn't care about the little eunuch who was in trouble, so he hurriedly knelt down and said: "The old slave has no way to discipline him, please long live the master!"

The little eunuch stood a little at a loss, was glared at by Gonggong Wu, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, and followed: "Please long live the lord!" The other palace maids and eunuchs also knelt on the ground.

"Get up!" The strange thing is that the emperor, who used to be furious at the mention of the queen, did not get angry today, but waved his hand to signal Gonggong Wu to step down, and said to the little eunuch with a pleasant face: "You should also get up." After a pause, he said, "Is the queen's angina better?"

The little eunuch said with a happy face: "If you go back to the Lord Banzai, since the little princess moved back to Chunhua Palace, the queen mother has been much better. ”

The emperor nodded and said, "Let's all go down!"

"Yes. The eunuchs and palace maids retreated one after another, leaving only Gonggong Wu standing in place with his waist bent.

The emperor closed his eyes and stood in place pondering for a long time, and was about to turn around, when he caught a glimpse of the motionless Gonggong Wu out of the corner of his eye, and said strangely: "What are you doing here?"

Gonggong Wu knelt down again, his whole body fell to the ground, and said, "Please long live the lord!"

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You old fellow, you also played this game with me." It's just pretending to be in front of people, you've been with me for decades, how can I doubt your loyalty. Okay, don't kneel, go out for a walk with me!"

Gonggong Wu raised his head in astonishment and said, "Long live the lord who won't go to court today?"

"What's up!" the emperor's face turned cold, he pointed to the mountain of twists and turns, and said hatefully, "Those troupes are singing for me, and none of them are willing to tell the truth, and it hurts my head to go around and around." It's better to go and see my people. Not going yet?"

"Yes!" Grandpa Wu replied and hurriedly followed.

At this time, the sun had not yet fully risen, but a faint glow appeared in the sky, gilding the entire palace with a layer of bright gold.

Vegetable vendors are always the first to get up, often getting up before dawn and toiling to bring in fresh vegetables from outside the city. Most of them were sent directly to various restaurants and inns, and a small part was divided by some small vegetable vendors, each carrying a vegetable basket back to their own corner, taking out the vegetables and placing them neatly, shouting a few times from time to time, beckoning the women who got up early to buy vegetables to choose.

There are also some small vendors carrying small baskets along the street, and occasionally they are called by the vegetable sellers to buy a shortbread or a piece of steamed cake to fill their already hungry stomachs. When the vegetable seller squatted in front of his stall, he quickly stuffed the uneaten breakfast into his arms, and enthusiastically introduced the red, green, and green vegetables while touching the scales at his feet.

The emperor, dressed as a middle-aged scribe, took Gonggong Wu, who also changed his clothes, and stood in the corner looking at this scene full of fireworks, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Wood, look at it, this is the taste of the world." ”

"Yes!" Seeing that the emperor finally smiled, Gonggong Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the hand hidden in his sleeve moved slightly, and a few idlers around him immediately walked away.

At this moment, the emperor suddenly sighed softly, then sniffed, turned his head to look, and saw a little girl with red lips and white teeth looking at him curiously with big dark and bright eyes, and holding a bite of a cake in her hand, from which the fragrance that attracted him came.

Seeing the cute appearance of the little girl, the emperor suddenly became playful, pointed to the cake in her hand, and then pointed to the jade pendant on his waist, and said with a smile: "Do you want to change?"

The little girl covered the cake with vigilance, shook her head firmly, and when she saw that the other party seemed to be coming over, she hurriedly hid behind a woman. After waiting for a long time, he didn't see the other party come to grab it, and he cautiously poked his head out. Just as the Emperor was about to grasp the bread in her hand, she screamed and threw herself on the woman's lap.

The woman, who was haggling with the vendor, looked back suspiciously, and when she saw the middle-aged man who was staring at her intently, she couldn't help glaring at him fiercely, and then pulled the little girl away, whispering something as she went.

The little girl staggered after the woman on her short legs, and suddenly turned back and made a grimace at the emperor.

The emperor suddenly laughed, and said to Gong Wu beside him: "Do you think she looks like a person?"

Gonggong Wu's heart moved, and the old eunuch who had followed the emperor for decades naturally knew that the emperor was not talking about a little princess who was about the same age as this little girl, so he immediately lowered his head and said: "The old slave is stupid!"

"Hmph, you old thing!" said the Emperor, glaring at him dissatisfied, and then rejoicing, walking up to a crowded stall, "let's buy some and try it too." ”

It turned out that there was a stall selling cakes not far away, but the business was so good that the emperor was squeezed out as soon as he approached, and some people said impatiently: "Line up!"

Gonggong Wu's eyes flashed and he was about to make a move, but he was pulled to the end of the line by the excited emperor and lined up honestly.

At this moment, a teenager pulling a cart passed by the noisy vegetable market, saw the watery vegetables and casually greeted: "Today's vegetables are very fresh." ”

"No, I just picked it from the ground. The vegetable vendor said proudly, and then handed over a handful of neatly tied cabbage, "Take a handful and eat it at home." ”

"I can't help it!" the young man hurriedly took a step back and waved his hand, "I'll buy some when I send this cart of briquettes to the Boundless Building." After saying that, he hurriedly left.

The vegetable vendor looked at the other party's departing back and sighed: "This kid is really not easy. ”

The person selling steamed cakes next to her was an aunt with a cheerful personality, and while wrapping steamed cakes for the guests, she interjected: "Yes! The mess at home is all supported by him alone." What a sin!"

"In my opinion, that Rausch Iron City should not be built. The vegetable vendor shook his head, apparently sympathetic to the boy.

The emperor, who was queuing up nearby, turned his head when he heard the word 'Tiecheng', and said with great interest: "Why is it not easy for him? I think he has strong limbs and strength, and he should have no worries about food and clothing." ”

The vegetable vendor glanced at him, and did not mean to answer, but shouted to a woman with a basket of vegetables passing by, "Fresh cabbage, tender cucumbers, sell them cheaply." ”

Sure enough, the woman came over, flipped through it casually, and said, "It's quite fresh, give me something of everything." ”

"Okay!" said the vendor, who quickly wrapped the vegetables and carefully put them into the other party's basket, "It's delicious, and I'll come back next time." ”

Seeing that the other party had finished doing business, the emperor asked again, "Hey, you haven't answered my words yet?"

The peddler squinted at him and said weakly: "Fresh cabbage, tender cucumber, do you want to have some?"

"Let go ......" Gonggong Wu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and was about to scold, but he was glared at by the emperor, and quickly stood aside, just staring at the vendor with a slightly warning gaze.

His Majesty the Emperor was obviously in a very good mood, and not only did he not mean to blame, but squatted in front of the vendor's stall, flipped over in the woman's style, and waved his hand proudly: "I bought them all." ”

The hawker looked him up and down, if he hadn't seen that the other party was dressed well, he was afraid that he would think that the other party had come to find fault on purpose, and said suspiciously: "Do you really want to buy it?"

"I ...... Really want to buy it!" The Emperor nodded.

The shrewdness of the peddler was immediately reflected, although he did not have a good impression of the well-dressed man in front of him, but it did not prevent him from doing business, his eyes rolled, a finger was stretched out, and the lion opened his mouth and said: "One or two silver, not a penny less!"

"Wood!" His Majesty the Emperor raised his eyebrows and beckoned back.

Gonggong Wu hurried over and whispered, "Out of ...... The door was in a hurry, and I forgot to bring silver taels. "Maybe only Gonggong Wu knows whether he forgot to bring it, or if he didn't have the consciousness to bring the silver at all. In the past, when he accompanied His Majesty the Emperor out of the palace, he always went to those lively and prosperous Suzaku Street, Cheng'en Street and the like, and it was the first time that he came back to such a remote small street where civilians gathered. If it weren't for the emperor leading the way, Gonggong Wu wouldn't even know the road.

His Majesty the Emperor looked stunned, smiled at the vendor with some embarrassment, tore off the jade pendant on his waist and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot to bring it when I left in a hurry today, how about I use this as collateral?"

The peddler didn't even look at the jade pendant, but just shook his head and said, "A small business, no credit." You'd better go somewhere else. After saying that, he ignored him and continued to shout at the passers-by.

Gonggong Wu stopped those figures who were about to move with his eyes, bowed down and said, "Why don't you let the old slave go to another house to ask." ”

The emperor was only on a whim, and his interest came and went quickly, shaking his head and saying, "Go to Jingzhao Yin Yamen to have a look." "Don't wait in line for pancakes anymore, just walk forward.

Grandpa Wu hurriedly followed.

The idler who had not entered the crowd before appeared again, seemingly unintentionally following behind the two.

The group was soon far away.

The vegetable vendor naturally did not know that he had invisibly offended the figure at the pinnacle of power, and he still shouted loudly. Not long after, several men with a fierce face surrounded him and set him up without saying a word.

The peddler struggled, "What are you going to do?"

But the men ignored him, slapped him on the neck, and dragged him away in a hurry.

A yellow-faced girl with an ugly face across the street watched this scene from beginning to end, and when she saw that all those people had left, she also threw down the rouge gouache she was picking in her hand, and ignored the chatter of the lady who sold things and dodged into a narrow alley.

She walked through the alley to a very small shop, looked left and right to see that no one was following, and then stepped into the shop.

A shopkeeper in the store who was cleaning with a feather duster felt someone enter the door, and said without raising his head: "Guest officer, you can look at it casually." We're all good quality here, and if you buy more, we'll give you a free paper figurine. ”