175,—the twentieth cannon fodder—
Sure enough, Xuan Ye found out on the second day that Wei Xiaobao was beaten twice by Taomi, but he also knew that Taomi could not be blamed for this incident. After all, she did not know that Wei Xiaobao was boxing and wrestling with him.
"Xiao Guizi, your main task now is to serve Mr. Hai Da...?" Realizing that his title was wrong, Xuan Ye quickly changed his title.
Wei Xiaobao nodded, casually picked up a piece of pastry and ate it, "Yes, my task is to serve Eunuch Hai. If you ask me, Eunuch Hai is also strange. It was obviously him who asked me to compete with you, and he came out to look for you yesterday.
Me, wouldn't I know to go back if he didn't find me? As a result, I was rewarded with two plaques by the princess. Now my butt | buttocks still hurts. Although I have applied ointment, I don't know when the swelling will subside.
Anyway, I will definitely not be able to compete with you in the past two days, and you will not let me, a wounded person, compete with you. In that case, you will be so..."
Wei Xiaobao thought about it for a long time, but couldn't think of a word to describe it. Xuan Ye smiled and answered, "Victory cannot be achieved without force."
"Yes, yes, I won't win without force. Anyway, you can't do anything to me these two days." Wei Xiaobao held a plate and ate all the snacks in it, and then touched his butt | buttocks, which seemed not to be so.
It hurts.
Sure enough, delicious food can alleviate the pain. When he gets rich in the future, he must buy all the delicious food and eat it with his wives.
Xuan Ye saw that Wei Xiaobao ate so deliciously, so he also ate two pieces. The taste was much better than what he had eaten in the palace before, "Xiao Guizi, you are serving Eunuch Hai now, have you ever thought about it?
What are you going to do when Eunuch Hai dies?"
Wait for the old turtle to die? The old turtle has been a bastard for thousands of years. How could he die so easily? But since it is said to be what if, then he can't think about it. If the old turtle dies, he must be
He will pack his bags and go to Yangzhou. Then he will use the money he and the eunuchs won to open a brothel so that his mother will not have to accompany those men with special fetishes every day.
"If Father-in-law Hai dies one day, of course I will follow the assignment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and go to work somewhere else."
"Then what if the Ministry of Internal Affairs wants you to leave Eunuch Hai and work somewhere else?" Xuan Ye asked without noticing anything strange about Wei Xiaobao.
"How is that possible? I was brought into the palace by Eunuch Hai. I have been serving Eunuch Hai since I was a child. I will never go to serve others anywhere else while Eunuch Hai is still alive."
It's his grandfather's, and he's not stupid. The master in this palace always tells the truth. Now he can at least gamble with the old turtle, and compete with Xiao Xuanzi here. If he goes to other places, he will definitely not be as carefree as he is now.
Ah, if his fate is bad and he is assigned to Princess Jianning, wouldn't his chance of survival be even lower?
So, after all, it is safest to be with Old Turtle. Although he has some martial arts skills, he is blind now. As long as he is careful, he will not realize that he is not Xiao Guizi but Wei Xiaobao.
"Xiao Guizi, I... I really saw you right. You are indeed a man who values love and righteousness." Xuan Ye patted Wei Xiaobao on the shoulder and said.
Wei Xiaobao didn't notice the slip of the tongue that Xuan Ye had just made to reveal his identity, and smiled awkwardly, "You really know how to joke. How can you call yourself a man when you don't have all those things after you enter the palace?"
His grandfather's identity has been exposed, right? He is a real man, although I can't say it.
Seeing that Wei Xiaobao was a little distracted, Xuan Ye thought he had poked Wei Xiaobao's sore spot, and felt a little embarrassed. He picked up the snacks on the side and handed them to Wei Xiaobao, "Here, this is delicious. I used to go to the imperial dining room to eat it secretly.
eat."
Wei Xiaobao looked at the beautiful dim sum platter in front of him, "Actually, I often go to the imperial dining room to eat secretly, but I have never seen this before."
"Why, this is very common. The imperial dining room makes a lot of them almost every day. How come you can't eat it secretly?" Xuan Ye, of course, has never been to the imperial dining room, but he knows that this kind of snack is the most popular in the palace.
, almost all the proud maids and eunuchs around the master also participated.
Wei Xiaobao smiled and said, "It seems that you have never eaten good food. This plate has so little food. How can you be full? If you go to the imperial dining room to steal food, of course you have to eat something more delicious. I secretly did it last time.
I went to the imperial dining room and got a whole roasted chicken. Now that I think about it, the smell is really..."
"Is roast chicken delicious?" He has been taught not to eat too much since he was a child, and roast chicken is included in almost every dinner. Although he only eats three bites per meal, he still doesn't feel it after more than ten years.
How delicious.
Wei Xiaobao glanced at Xuan Ye strangely, and then looked at him with very pitiful eyes, "Seeing that you are so thin, you must have never eaten oil or water since you entered the palace, so you know how you can be full after eating these snacks.
I called you the next time I went to the imperial kitchen to steal something to eat. It was really pitiful."
Xuan Ye felt very funny. He clenched his right hand into a fist and coughed. No one had ever pitied him so much. This feeling was really novel. "Then it's better to choose the day. Let's go today."
Well, I'm stealing some other things by the way to help you take good care of yourself."
"Okay, okay, let's go now." He hadn't been there for a few days, and it was just the right time. Yesterday, because his buttocks were swollen, the old turtle gave him a bowl of water that had no taste at all.
The soup on the table was removed right in front of him, and he said that he couldn't eat greasy food because he was injured. He just happened to go to replenish oil and water today.
So, this scene happened in the imperial dining room. Two little eunuchs sneaked into the imperial dining room secretly and took away two roast chickens. The manager of the imperial dining room saw this scene. Just as he was about to give birth, he saw the face of the little eunuch.
It was the current emperor, and he was stunned on the spot.
Looking at the dishes prepared for the emperor in the pot, although the ancestors stipulated that there could only be two main meals a day, the emperor could still pass on extra meals when he was hungry. He wouldn't secretly come to the imperial dining room to eat, right?
How did this world become like this?
However, before the manager of the imperial kitchen could recover, he heard a eunuch outside shouting, "Princess Jianning has arrived."
What kind of day is today? Not only did I meet the rare emperor, but Princess Jianning also came to the imperial dining room.
The manager of the imperial kitchen led everyone in the imperial kitchen to kneel outside the door to receive Taomi's arrival. Even Xuan Ye, who had not had time to run away, was pulled to his knees by Wei Xiaobao.
He was extremely jealous. He was his elder brother, and now he knelt down, but what could be done? He didn't want Xiao Guizi to know that he was the current emperor, and he didn't want Jianning to know that he came to the imperial kitchen to steal food.
That's all we can do.
It’s true as the saying goes, it’s better to choose a day than to hit it. If you hit it today, you are really unlucky.
Taomi put her hand on Lan Tong's arm and walked leisurely into the imperial dining room. She paused when passing the door, and then walked in casually.
Brother Emperor, what are you doing? Are you conducting private interviews incognito to understand the public sentiment?
The one next to him must be Xiao Guizi and Wei Xiaobao. It's really interesting.
"Everyone get up and go about your business. There's no need to kneel here." As soon as Tao Mi finished speaking, she saw Wei Xiaobao dragging Xuan Ye and running very fast. The manager of the imperial kitchen also saw something wrong and blocked Tao Mi.
His sight provided cover for Xuan Ye and Wei Xiaobao.
"I wonder what the princess has to say when she comes to the imperial dining room?" Eunuch Gao, the general manager of the imperial dining room, saw Taomi walking up to him, bent down and said with a smile.
"This princess is here to take a look at the working process of your royal kitchen. The Queen feels that the food is very delicious these days." Taomi walked in and said casually. She put aside the table where the dishes were placed and there was an empty plate on it.
Thinking about what Wei Xiaobao and Xuan Ye were here for, they suddenly understood what was in the two plates.
Eunuch Gao followed Taomi, and everyone worked in an orderly manner. They did not want to be praised by the princess, but they wanted to be singled out by the princess for making no mistakes.
In this palace, it is good enough not to seek merit but to seek no fault.
Wei Xiaobao and Xuan Ye ran to the rockery and used big rocks to cover the two of them. Then they took out the roast chicken in their arms. Wei Xiaobao took out a chicken drumstick and gave it to Xuan Ye, "Here you go, eat it while it's hot. When it's cold,
It will be greasy and unpalatable.”
Xuan Ye took a bite of the meat. It was not very delicious, but they ate it happily. The whole chicken was divided between two people. After eating, the two people found a place for the bones.
They buried it, fearing that others would find traces. After everything was done, the two of them looked at each other and smiled.
Wei Xiaobao hooked his arm around Xuan Ye's neck. He hadn't been in close contact with anyone for a long time, which made Xuan Ye a little uncomfortable for a while, but he didn't move away. Wei Xiaobao smiled and said, "How delicious is it? I tell you that from now on I will only ask you
Follow me, I will show you delicious food and drink, and I tell you, there is nothing in this imperial kitchen that I cannot steal."
"This is what you said. Next time I have nothing to eat, I will come to you."
"Hey, it's easy to talk, why are we brothers?" Wei Xiaobao said cheerfully, patting Xuan Ye's chest, and Xuan Ye also smiled.
Ever since he took office, Obai has always been an obstacle in his mind. It has been a long time since he did anything so crazy. But this time he came here, it really had a different flavor.
Of course Xuan Ye also knew that after they buried the bones, his wild journey was over, so he said goodbye to Wei Xiaobao and turned around to leave.
After Wei Xiaobao went back, he told Hai Dafu that he and Xuan Ye went to the imperial dining room to steal food today. He did not mention how happy Hai Dafu was. After Xuan Ye finished handling political affairs, he came to Taomi and was greeted by Taomi.
Honey's teasing gaze.
Xuan Ye was a little embarrassed at that time, but said nothing and sat down next to Taomi. After drinking Lan Tongshang's tea, he said, "I heard that Jianning you went to the imperial dining room today. I don't know why?"
"Originally, I had nothing to do. I was just going to see how the dishes that Huang E Niang liked very much were made and pass the time. But unexpectedly, I saw something strange in the imperial dining room. No.
Do you want to know if your brother the emperor wants to know?"
"Oh, really? Then Jian Ning is willing to tell the emperor brother?" Looking at Taomi's eyes that seemed to know something, Xuan Ye really wanted to stop his mouth now, saying something bad and insisting on saying this.
If so, just say you don't want to know.
Taomi completely ignored Xuan Ye's embarrassed look, smiled and looked at the tree in the yard and said, "I saw two little eunuchs running out of the imperial kitchen. They had fragrance on their bodies. I didn't think about it at the time.
What kind of aroma is it? I just remembered it when I was eating. It was the smell of roasted chicken. Brother Emperor, do you think this little eunuch works in the imperial dining room. Isn’t it great to be able to smell the smell of roasted chicken every day?
?”
"They just smell it. How can you envy those who can smell it when you can eat it every day?" Sure enough, they were still seen, and this time the dignity was gone.
"Haha, I think so too, so Brother Emperor, should you mention the treatment of the eunuchs and maids of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? It is already very miserable for them to be able to smell but not eat every day, and some eunuchs and maids
But if you can’t even see it, wouldn’t that be even more pitiful?”
Xuan Ye didn't expect Taomi to say that, and was a little dazed for a moment. When he came to see her, it didn't seem like she was talking casually, "Why do you have such an idea?"
Neither Jianning in the past nor Jianning now is the kind of person who believes in equality for everyone. If she does what she said, the cost will not be small, and the work of the imperial kitchen will also become complicated.
Very busy.
"Brother Emperor, I read a sentence two days ago, 'Cultivate yourself, harmonize your family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world.' Even though Your Majesty is the king of a country and the emperor of the world, this palace is your home. I think Brother Emperor himself has already
It’s good enough, so the next thing we need is Qi Jia.”
Taomi's words were quite shocking to Xuan Ye. Although his sister had not made trouble or played those childish games for more than a year, she was very good at facing anything.
She is very talented, but it is really shocking that she can say these words about this matter.
"Jianning, tell the emperor brother, who taught you these words?"
Looking at Xuan Ye's eyes that were about to explore everything, Tao Mi stuck out her tongue and said, "The Emperor asked me to tell you. Today I went to the imperial dining room to reward the eunuchs and maids on the Emperor's order.
.”
As expected of a famous emperor, nothing can escape his eyes. Fortunately, he was prepared in advance, otherwise this time it would really not go smoothly.
Xuan Ye felt a little understanding after hearing Taomi's words, but also felt a little melancholy. Although Huang'e Niang was not his biological mother, she had been really good to him over the years, and she still thinks so much about him now.
To cultivate oneself, manage one's family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world, he can only complete the first one by himself. Just as Taomi said, this palace is his home. The Queen's Mother has already taken care of everything before he even takes action.
Everything is ready, so what reason does he have for not governing the country well and bringing peace to the world?
Seeing that Xuan Ye had no doubts at all, Taomi breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the tea cup and took a sip. To be honest, if she hadn't known the plot, she would have almost doubted whether Jian Ning's memory was wrong. No matter from which aspect, Mao Dongzhu was right.
Xuan Ye is all good and has nothing to say.
Chapter completed!