Although Lin Tingxu and He Jinchun only have one daughter, Lin Luoling, they are very strict with her in terms of etiquette and rules.

Lin Luoling had never thought that one day he would be able to meet Emperor Deshun, let alone play chess with Emperor Deshun, let alone have a meal with him.

According to the rules she followed when she was with her father in the Lin Mansion, she followed Emperor Deshun closely.

When they reached the dining table in the side hall, after Emperor Deshun sat down, Lin Luoling stood aside with his head slightly lowered.

Seeing this, Emperor Deshun asked, "Why don't you sit down?"

Emperor Deshun often had his meals in the Zhengde Hall. When Concubine Li was alive, Emperor Deshun would summon her here to have lunch with him every day. Therefore, he converted the side hall into an extremely luxurious dining room. After Concubine Li passed away, Emperor Deshun did not change the place at all.

Whenever he had a meal here, Emperor Deshun would ask Yunxi to buy silver bowls and chopsticks specially for Concubine Li in the place where Concubine Li used to have a meal.

The four dishes that Concubine Li liked would always be placed on the dining table. If Emperor Deshun ate a delicious dish, he would pick it up with chopsticks and silently put it in the silver bowl specially prepared for Concubine Li.

Over time, it became a habit. Only at this time, Emperor Deshun felt as if Concubine Li had not passed away. It was just like the past, when the two of them were eating together like an ordinary couple.

However, after Concubine Li passed away, Emperor Deshun lost interest in her, and it is still the same today.

"According to the rules of the Lin family, children cannot eat at the same table with their parents without their parents' permission. I know that my status is humble and I dare not dine at the same table with Your Majesty. I am lucky to be able to wait on the side." Lin Luoling said respectfully.

Emperor Deshun pointed to the empty chair next to where Concubine Li was sitting and said, "I allow you to dine with me. Please sit on that chair."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the imperial meal!" Lin Luoling bowed.

As soon as he sat down, he saw two eunuchs carrying Prince An, who was lying on a spring stool, in.

Prince An was lying on the stool, with several disordered whip marks on his back and buttocks. It was obvious that he had been beaten severely, and the blood had soaked through his clothes.

Lin Luoling's eyes suddenly widened, her heart seemed to be stabbed, her ten fingers unconsciously grasped the hem of the skirt hanging on her legs, but she did not dare to stand up and move forward rashly, but the heartache in her eyes was revealed.

Emperor Deshun, who saw through everything, naturally noticed Lin Luoling's distressed and worried expression, as well as the way Lin Luoling's ten fingers tightly grasped the hem of her skirt.

He asked sternly, "Does Yan'er admit his guilt?"

The eunuch placed the spring stool not far in front of the dining table. Prince An raised his head. Looking at Prince An's snow-white cheeks and lips as if covered with frost, Lin Luoling felt that Prince An must have suffered a great crime to be like this, and his heart ached again.

Prince An sighed, "It was the Emperor who allowed me to marry the woman I liked. In the past two or three years, the Emperor often scolded me in secret letters for not paying attention to marriage. Now that I have come to my senses and met someone I like, the Emperor blames me again."

Emperor Deshun glared at Prince An and said, "It seems that the blow was too light."

Yun Xi served dishes to Emperor Deshun and said, "Your Majesty, please try this dish. It is made by the Shangshansi according to the "Mushroom Fragrance Ten Miles" made by Concubine Li in the past. It uses ten different kinds of mushrooms. Cut the roots, add one qian of green plum soup, two cups of strong wine, three liang of shredded green onion, and four qian of white salt, stir for a quarter of an hour, cut the best lotus ham into cubes and put it in the pot. After the oil comes out, pour the ten different mushrooms into the pot, boil over high heat to make soup, collect the soup, and then pour in the best chicken soup...

Your Majesty, try it and see if you can imitate most of what Concubine Li did in the past?"

"Old thing...you are the one who favors him the most, otherwise how could he be so bold as not to tell me about his marriage?" Emperor Deshun said unhappily.

Yun Xi saw Emperor Deshun pick up the chopsticks, pick up a piece and put it into his mouth, then pursed his lips and smiled.

Prince An stood up from his stool and said, "Isn't this son planning to give your father a surprise?"

Emperor Deshun's eyes suddenly turned cold, and Yun Xi hurriedly ran forward and said, "Oh, my little ancestor, how can you sit up? I dyed the robe with great effort, and now it's messed up. I have to spend a lot of time and effort to do it again."

Lin Luoling: ...

The fool should know by now that Prince An was not tortured at all, and those injuries were all faked by Yun Xi.

Emperor Deshun slammed his silver chopsticks hard and said angrily: "Deceiving the emperor is a great crime!"

Yun Xi waved his hands at the two eunuchs and said, "Why don't you take His Royal Highness Prince An away quickly?"

Prince An lay back on the stool again and winked at Lin Luoling, signaling that Lin Luoling need not worry.

Afterwards, Yun Xi, as if nothing had happened, picked up a piece of mushroom-flavored ten-mile with chopsticks and said, "This old servant is worried about your majesty. If you really beat His Royal Highness Prince An, will your majesty be able to sleep peacefully at night? I don't know how worried you will be! It's time to say that Concubine Li will blame you.

It's just a show for others to see, why bother to fight for real? Just make it look real."

Emperor Deshun glanced at Yunxi, his anger half disappeared, and after taking a bite of the mushroom flavor, he said, "No! Not at all!"

Upon hearing this, Yun Xi was about to remove the mushroom fragrance from the table, but Emperor Deshun stopped him and said, "It looks good, no need to remove it."

Yun Xi smiled knowingly and picked up another piece of mushroom for Emperor Deshun with chopsticks, which smelled ten miles away.

Looking at Emperor Deshun's expression, which was difficult to tell whether he was happy or angry, and listening to what Yun Xi had just said, Lin Luoling guessed that it must be the Empress, Concubine Chen, and the two princes who wanted to make a big fuss about Prince An and her private wedding in Xuzhou, the capital.

Therefore, it was like chewing wax, and I couldn't eat after just a few bites.

At this time, a eunuch outside the palace gate reported: "The Queen Mother heard that Your Majesty was furious and whipped His Royal Highness Prince An. She was afraid that Your Majesty's anger would hurt his liver, so she ordered Chief Steward Du to bring soup to Your Majesty."

After the voice fell, another eunuch's voice sounded: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine Chen heard that Your Majesty was furious and was very worried. She personally prepared a meal to pay her respects to Your Majesty."

Hearing this, Emperor Deshun glanced at Lin Luoling and said, "Look at what you two have done. I have been keeping my ears peeled these past few days because of your private wedding. I even have no excuse to pay my respects to the Queen Mother."

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