Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 112 When Did You Get Married?
"Hey, you don't know, it's her! It's the prime minister's daughter who just came back from the countryside!"

Someone became interested in gossip again: "Then how did she know the prince? Tsk tsk, it's not easy!"

"What are you thinking, look, didn't you come here with Young Master Cui?"

"Oh yes."

Zhao Xiwei stood aside, just about to find an excuse to avoid it for a while, when Li Xuanye coughed slightly, and the whispering in the room stopped abruptly.

Li Xuanye brought the teacup, and Tang Heng, a householder at the side, immediately understood, walked up to the crowd, cleared his throat, and said, "There are still tens of thousands of documents in the warehouse that have not been checked. I am afraid you are hungry after working all morning. Let's have lunch first."

"Yes." A group of small officials were overjoyed when they heard that they could go to eat early, and immediately rushed to the public kitchen with their food boxes in their arms.

Tang Heng's face was so bitter that he was about to squeeze out bile, but he still smiled and said: "Your Highness, don't take offense, this group of young people are not sensible, plus they have been busy so far this morning, they are already hungry It's..."

Li Xuanye nodded lightly, and said: "I have long heard that the public kitchens in the government office are abundant, so that all the officials stay in the public all day and night, even Mr. Tang can do it in all weathers."

As soon as these words came out, Tang Heng's back was immediately wet with cold sweat.

Today, the emperor is kind and sympathetic to the busy government affairs of all officials, so he raised the food standards of the public kitchens, and specially allocated a group of chefs from the imperial dining room. From breakfast to supper, the dishes ranged from south to north, and there were dozens of kinds of rice noodles alone. However, if the officials are busy going to the office in the middle of the night, they can also get a hearty and delicious supper from the public kitchen to take home.

Hu Cao's official duties are heavy, and he is the last to leave the office every day, so every night he can see Hu Cao's people lining up in the public kitchen to lead the supper.

Tang Heng, as the head of Hucao, must come every day.

One day when we were leaving the yamen, it suddenly rained heavily. The chef of the public kitchen looked at the sky and thought that Mr. Tang must be rushing home, and was thinking of closing the gate. Unexpectedly, a young official ran over panting and asked : "Is there any more sauce elbows? Mr. Hu Cao Tang has been waiting for a long time, just waiting for the supper to go out!"

How could even the prince know about such a trivial matter?
The more Tang Heng thought about it, the more afraid he felt, and hurriedly bowed his body to plead guilty: "Don't dare, don't dare."

As he spoke, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead like soybeans.

Li Xuanye didn't want to make things difficult for a small official, so he waved his sleeves and said, "Gu hasn't eaten today, why don't you try the food from the official chef?"

Tang Heng wiped off his sweat, and quickly ordered people to prepare lunch.

Immediately, a guard came up with a food box, Tang Heng respectfully spread the chopsticks to serve the rice, and everyone else retreated consciously.

Zhao Xiwei just stepped up, when he heard the boss raised his hand and pointed indifferently: "You stay here, I have something to ask you."

Cui Yutang's face was full of surprise, he opened his mouth but didn't make a sound, when Pei Linfeng grabbed his sleeve and dragged him down forcibly.

Only Zhao Xiwei and Li Xuanye were left in the room.

She braced herself and stood aside. Li Xuanye exudes a kind of coercive majesty all over his body, like a tiger that has lived in the mountains for a long time, but his eating appearance is elegant and calm like a cat.

Zhao Xiwei felt the pressure doubled, and couldn't help thinking about whether his words and deeds were presumptuous.If not, why did he leave himself alone? If so, when did he offend His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...

Is it not respectful enough to salute just now?
Shouldn't you have looked at him more?
or is it...

Shouldn't he be blushing inexplicably just now?
Or maybe the matter of the third lady has spread and spread to the palace! ?

She was thinking hard, when the graceful cat over there finally put down the bowl and chopsticks.

Tang Heng came over with a bent waist holding a copper basin. Li Xuanye washed his hands, and then took the white soft satin handed over by Tang Heng to wipe off the water. .

Zhao Xiwei and Tang Heng looked at each other silently, and they both saw the pressure of an enemy in each other's eyes.

After washing his hands and rinsing his mouth, Tang Heng brought up the hot tea again: "This is the scented tea given by Mr. Qiao of Honglu Temple a few days ago. I think it's not bad after drinking it. Your Highness, please try it."

Holding the tea, Li Xuanye finally opened his mouth: "What brothers and sisters?"

"what?"

Zhao Xiwei thought of 1 reasons for being held accountable, but he never thought of this, and was a little stunned for a while.

Li Xuanye, who was sitting upright on the head, lowered his eyes, tapped his fingers on the table, and his voice became a little weaker: "When did you marry Young Master Cui?"

"..." Zhao Xiwei was momentarily stunned.

Conscience of heaven and earth, it was the first time she and Cui Yutang met, but it was just Cui Yutang's unintentional remark, how could it be worthy of His Highness the Crown Prince's personal questioning!
But she naturally didn't dare to answer such a question directly, so she lowered her head and said respectfully: "Reporting to Your Highness, this is only the first time for this minister and Mr. Cui to meet each other, and they didn't know each other before. As for the elder brothers and sisters...it must be Mr. Cui's meeting with Mr. Cui. Since my daughter and Miss Yurong are on good terms, I regard my minister's daughter as my own younger sister, that's all."

Li Xuanye nodded lightly, seeming to agree with her rhetoric.

Zhao Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but seeing Tang Heng looking at him with a strange expression, he involuntarily glanced at Li Xuanye above him again, seeing that his face was still cold, his heart tightened again, and he quickly lowered his eyes eyes, waiting respectfully for him to continue to interrogate.

Unexpectedly, he didn't say anything, but turned to Tang Heng who was standing by with his hands down: "Submit all the household registration files from the third year of the Yuan Dynasty."

A layer of gratitude welled up in Zhao Xiwei's heart.

It turned out that he wanted to check the household registration of the third wife for himself!
Tang Heng had a bitter face, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Your Highness, this..."

"how?"

Tang Heng stammered and said: "There are too many files in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty... What I mean is, how can I ask Your Highness to go through such a trivial matter..."

"It's okay, Miss Zhao has plenty of time anyway." Li Xuanye raised his eyebrows and glanced at Zhao Xiwei.

Zhao Xiwei immediately understood, and hurriedly bowed to Tang Heng, saying very "intimately": "Master Tang, don't worry, this matter is related to my daughter's relatives, and my daughter must do her best."

As soon as these words came out, Li Xuanye's eyes swept over lightly, obviously without any emotion, but Zhao Xiwei still caught a touch of pleasure in his eyes, like a cat playing with a mouse.

Suddenly, an unknown feeling surged up in her heart.

"Since that's the case, I'll let someone bring up the files." Tang Heng next to her looked at her with complicated eyes, and lowered her hands.

While Zhao Xiwei was still thinking about what kind of medicine they sold in the gourd, Tang Heng came in with a thick stack of booklets in his arms.

Zhao Xi slightly widened his eyes.

so much! !

But what shocked her even more was yet to come.

(End of this chapter)