The imperial concubine became a pampered girl by relying on food

Chapter 150 Don't look at Ah Heng, look at Aijia

The table is full of zongzi, and the shapes and sizes of the zongzi are different. There are rectangles, circles, triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, and various irregular zongzi, and the tastes of the zongzi are also different.

Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, the Imperial Dining Room carefully prepares all kinds of rice dumplings and sends them to the emperor's table, allowing the emperor to choose a few favorite flavors and shapes.

After the emperor selected them, the imperial dining room began to make zongzi day and night. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor would hold a banquet in the palace and invite ministers of civil and military affairs to participate and eat zongzi together.

Palace ladies and eunuchs also had zongzi to eat.

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

Seeing so many different rice dumplings, Si Jiuheng couldn't figure out what to do. He looked at the emperor, "Uncle Emperor, is it like this every year?"

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

The emperor nodded with a smile, "Dragon Boat Festival is once a year. It's a festive occasion. Of course, we have to choose a few delicious rice dumplings for everyone to eat together. I'm happy."

Prince Shun nodded heavily, "I'm happy, I feel honored to be able to eat the zongzi carefully selected by the emperor."

Prince Shun's flattery was right this time, and the emperor liked Prince Shun's nonchalant appearance a lot, "Do you want to peel the rice dumplings yourself or let the maid peel them?"

Prince Shun rolled up his sleeves, picked up a rice dumpling, "I peel it myself!"

He peeled it faster by himself, the maid stripped too slowly.

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

After Si Jiuheng ate one, he didn't want to eat it anymore. The taste of the zongzi was nothing new, and it was not as good as the pastry made by Yunchu wine.

Prince Shun finished one quickly, then he picked up another one and ate it like crazy.

The emperor saw that Si Jiuheng stopped eating, "How does Ah Heng feel?"

Si Jiuheng: "The taste is about the same as last year, not bad, but not good either."

"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that Ah Heng has eaten better rice dumplings?"

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

The emperor was curious, "Who made it? I asked him to be the chef in the imperial dining room."

Yun Chujiu's appearance flashed through Si Jiuheng's mind, and he shook his head, "She is not suitable to be the head chef of the imperial dining room, so Uncle Huang should stop thinking about her."

Such a lively person shouldn't be trapped in the palace, and she certainly doesn't like being restrained.He couldn't let her be forced into the palace as an imperial cook just because of his words.

The emperor indulged and said: "It's rare for you, Ah Heng, to protect someone so much, then I won't make any plans for him."

Prince Shun ate a lot of zongzi, and he was full. 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, come and tell me which zongzi is delicious."

Prince Shun: "My brother thinks they are all delicious."

The emperor's face darkened in an instant. He looked at the table, but he couldn't find anything that could be thrown out. He said with a cold face, "I asked you to pick something delicious, but you said it was all delicious."

Prince Shun put on an aggrieved face, and dared to say, "It's true that they are all delicious. I can't tell lies to lie to my brother. I just followed my own heart. Why are you still angry, brother?"

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

Prince Shun was happy again, "Your brother obeys the order!"

After entering the palace, he got a lot of zongzi, happy!
The emperor and Si Jiuheng: "..."

Si Jiuheng: "Uncle Huang, do you still want to pick rice dumplings?"

Emperor: "When the time comes, I will let the imperial dining room make a few of their specialties."

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

"Go, you'd better take it easy and don't get angry with the queen mother, 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 the Palace of Mercy.

The Empress Dowager just woke up from her lunch break and ate something when the maid came to announce, "My Lady, Prince Shun and the Crown Prince are here."

The Empress Dowager passed Prince Shun directly, and said with a smile: "Ah Heng is finally willing to see this old woman of the Ai family, let him in quickly."

Si Jiuheng walked in slowly, "Grandmother."

"Come closer and let Ai's family take a look." The Queen Mother waved her hand, her face was full of love, and she compared her hands, "You were so young at that time, but in a flash, you grew so tall that Ai's family couldn't hold you gone."

Si Jiuheng walked up to the Empress Dowager, "How is the imperial grandmother sleeping well?"

The Empress Dowager rubbed her temples, "This man is old, and he will always have such and such old problems. He sleeps early and wakes up early, and you don't go to the palace to chat with Ai's family. Ai's family doesn't sleep well."

Si Jiuheng: "Then I will often visit the imperial grandmother and chat with the imperial grandmother."

The queen mother snorted, "You always deal with Aijia like this, but you always fail."

Prince Shun stood aside for a long time, and finally found something he could say, "Mother, why don't you move to Erchen's mansion for a few days, and Erchen will take you to visit Qingli Garden, eat delicious food in Qingshi Lane, go to Tongshi The street hits the horse tag."

The queen mother pointed to Prince Shun, "The Ai family asked you to take good care of Ah Heng, but you just knew how to play and ruined the family property. If Ah Heng was not sensible, the precious grandson of the Ai family would be on the street. How could the Ai family survive?" You are such a bad thing."

Prince Shun didn't dare to be angry or speak out, and gave Si Jiuheng several winks: Ah Heng, save me quickly.

The Empress Dowager said with a cold face, "Don't look at Ah Heng, look at Aijia."

Si Jiuheng looked at the Queen Mother, "Grandmother, I think Father's suggestion is good. You will get bored after living in the palace for a long time, so you can go out to play."

The Empress Dowager has been in the palace for decades and rarely leaves the palace. The princes and princesses come to visit her occasionally and tell her about the outside world. "

Si Jiuheng thought of the first time he met Yun Chujiu, she was disguised, she could change her appearance, it was a human skin mask, I don't know if it would be feasible for him to go to her to buy some human skin masks .

"Grandmother, you can disguise yourself. I will find a way to get some human skin masks for you to wear. When the time comes, you will leave the palace quietly without anyone knowing, and let Uncle Huang send some people to protect you in secret." Jiuheng said.

The queen mother's eyes lit up instantly, "You have a good idea, then when will you get the human skin mask?"

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

Si Jiuheng paused, "I don't know either, please wait for news from me, Grandmother."

Prince Shun looked at Si Jiuheng, and said cheekily: "Ah Heng, can you get me some human skin masks?"

Si Jiuheng refused, "I can't."

(End of this chapter)