I'm back

After Bai Mudan said hello to the regent, she felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Before she came out of the cabinet, it is not that she has received male elders at home, but their ages are quite different from hers, unlike the regent, who is not ten years older than her, and there is no regent princess present. It is natural for a mature woman not to be too attentive to unmarried elders.

The emperor didn't say a word, and the regent didn't say a word. She wanted to liven up the atmosphere, but she was concerned about the emperor's mood. She wanted to avoid suspicion, so she couldn't talk nonsense.

Embarrassed for a while, Bai Mudan had an idea, opened the food box she brought, took out a small plate containing delicate snacks, and placed it in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, these are the Shenglong dumplings and butterfly rolls that I personally made today. , try it and see if you like it."

Because she came here with the emperor's meal in mind, she didn't cook anything too full. The translucent Shenglong dumplings and butterfly rolls were all small, and they could be eaten in one or two bites.

She put a lot of thought into choosing these two things. The former is delicate and eye-catching in appearance. It looks festive, a homonym of Fudie, and sounds auspicious. It is perfect to be combined with the reunion day of New Year's Eve.

No matter how delicious Bai Guifei's food is, it is something to be eaten. Chang smiled and stepped forward. According to the usual practice, the food was tested for poison with silver needles. After confirming that it was non-toxic, he pushed it to Yan Qin.

Yan Qin picked up a Shenglong dumpling, chewed it two or three mouthfuls and swallowed it.He caught one without saying a word, and then he caught the second.After eating enough for three, he still didn't speak, took a sip of tea, and picked up a butterfly roll with his chopsticks.

Shenglong dumplings are sweet and salty, while butterfly rolls are pure sweet. Compared with the two, Yan Qin prefers the former, so this time, he only ate one and stopped.

He counted the small snacks in the food box. White Peony put six of each kind for auspiciousness.

There were only three people at the main table, Bai Mudan who made dim sum, Yan Qin who ate dim sum, and the regent who silently watched the little emperor eat dim sum.

What Bai Mudan brought over by herself, she always ate after the emperor. After delivering it so many times, Yan Qin didn't have the habit of sharing it with her when he didn't eat enough.But he ate a few, and he also felt that there were three people around, and it seemed that it was not good to just stare at him alone.

Since the third generation, Yan Qin has not had many hobbies, and one of his favorite things is to taste various delicacies.There are only so few things, and Yan Qin is a bit reluctant to let him share them.

But it was Chinese New Year, and the regent came to visit again. He looked at the snacks on the plate for a while, and picked up a third Shenglong dumpling, then a fourth, and a fifth.

After finishing eating, he pushed the plate over, and ordered the people below to take a pair of clean chopsticks: "Uncle Wang, try it, the concubine's craftsmanship is always very good."

He glanced at the only Shenglong dumpling and five Fudie rolls left on the plate, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior.At any rate, he reserved two flavors for the Prince Regent, and he also left half of the portion. Who can say that he can't protect food.

Yan Qin presented the things he made to the Buddha, the Lord had no reason to keep silent, Bai Mudan hurriedly said: "If Uncle Wang doesn't mind, you can try my concubine's craftsmanship."

Under the earnest eyes of the two emperors and concubines, Yan Yuge picked up the only remaining Shenglong dumpling, and then picked up a blessing butterfly roll, and then there was nothing else.

His taste is similar to that of Little Emperor. Although he doesn't dislike sweetness, he can't say he likes it too much. He also thinks Shenglong dumplings are better.

Seeing this scene, Bai Mudan resisted the urge to hide her face. She didn't know that the Prince Regent was coming. If she had known earlier, she would have chosen to do more.

Although it seems that the regent's eating well is of no use, it's better than not eating and being unhappy.

Waiting for the dishes in the imperial dining room to be served one by one, Yan Qin said a few festive words before starting to move his chopsticks.

Ordinary people can talk about state affairs and family affairs when eating, but the relationship between the three of them, let's talk about state affairs, there is Bai Mudan, and they can't talk about serious matters.Let's talk about family affairs, Yan Qin made a fuss, casually talked about an interesting story in his childhood, and then directed the topic to Bai Mudan: "My concubine, what do you think?" He looked at Bai Mudan with encouraging and expectant eyes, hoping She can perform well and liven up the atmosphere.

Bai Mudan glanced at the regent, then at the little emperor shyly, and punched the little emperor's thin chest with her small fist, in a daze that she failed the little emperor's ardent expectations for her: "Your Majesty, you really are, How can there be any embarrassing things for the concubine to say."

After Jiao Didi finished saying this, she kept silent and became as quiet as a chicken.

The little emperor looked at her rather disappointed, and he knew that there was no tacit understanding between Bai Mudan and himself.He didn't ask her to cooperate with the show of affection, but Bai Mudan was just showing off, didn't you see that the face of the older single young man opposite was already very ugly.

If you can't count on Bai Mudan, but on the Regent, then you might as well not talk all night.Yan Qin hadn't the temperament to endure silence, and after killing half a bowl of glutinous rice balls, he made a decision.

"Aifei, look, it's getting late, it's freezing cold, you should go back earlier."

The regent showed an intriguing expression, as expected, such a delicate beauty as Bai Guifei was in his arms, but the little emperor showed indifference, not at all like that day in the suburbs of Beijing, talking and laughing with Dugu Liu, happily .

Moreover, in such a cold day, it is more suitable to fall asleep with warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms. Just such a concubine who knows the general idea took the initiative to come up to him, and the emperor sent him back without mercy. This is clearly because he has no interest in Bai Guifei.

First sending Bai Mudan away tactfully, Yan Qin then turned to the regent: "The regent's residence is quite far from the imperial city, so I won't send her off in person."

It's still early now, when these two people leave, it's still too late for him to go find Dugu again.

The regent looked at the time on the sundial, and didn't expose the little emperor's nonsense that it was getting late, so he agreed, got up and left Miyagi,

After sending these two people away, Yan Qin went to bed again and hurriedly changed his clothes.

While helping him tidy up his appearance, Chang Xiao asked, "It's getting late, Your Majesty is going to the suburbs of Beijing?"

Yan Qin nodded: "Anyway, there's no need to go to court tomorrow, and it doesn't matter if you stay alone in the palace."

The meal in the evening was too difficult, and he missed Dugu Liu's gentle and healing smile a little bit. Instead of staying in this cold palace, he might as well spend this new year with Dugu Liu, and by the way, he can brush a Raise the favorability of the grandfather.

After about a quarter of an hour, the horse carrying the disguised little emperor drove out of the imperial city in a low-key manner.

The regent, who should have left the imperial city long ago, was sitting in another warm carriage. The person sitting opposite him kept lifting the small window curtain on the carriage, and leaned over the edge of the small wooden window to observe the situation. The familiar carriage slowly moved away from his sight, and he lowered the curtain, and reported to the young man sitting there respectfully: "Your Majesty, it is His Majesty's carriage."

Although Yan Yuge didn't show up at Dugu's house, the people he arranged never gave up watching the little emperor.Although it is not to the point where the little emperor has said and done everything clearly, but at least he can know where he has been, who he has met, when he has met, and how many times he has met.

The last time he bumped into the little emperor by accident in the house on the 21st, he specifically told the people below to watch out.If you don't pay special attention, you don't know that during the five days he rested and took a bath, the little emperor went to Dugu's house three times, which was much more frequent than going to the women's palaces in his harem.

This frequency is indeed a bit abnormal. Although Yan Yuge had a vague conclusion in his heart, he decided to take a look for himself.After all, the only royal blood left in the imperial palace is the little emperor. For the sake of the longevity of the Great Yan Dynasty, he doesn't want the little emperor to be a broken sleeve.

He closed the book in his hand and ordered: "Follow."

The carriage stopped in an alley not far from Dugu's small courtyard. After Yan Yuge got off the carriage, he said, "Go back first, the king has other arrangements."

Such a big carriage is really not conducive to his hiding.

"Yes."

The coachman tried his best to keep the noise down and drove the carriage away.After the carriage left the alley, the person who had been lying on the window in the carriage before also got out of the carriage and chatted with the coachman to relieve his boredom.

Before leaving, he inadvertently glanced at the book that the regent had closed earlier. On the blue cover was written "Water Conservancy Works" in large characters.

He felt a sense of pride in his heart, he really deserved to be the regent, even in such a bumpy carriage, he didn't think about such important things as water conservancy and people's livelihood.

If the little emperor knew this idea, he would definitely pooh him with disdain. What important matter is the livelihood of the people? This is not a serious water conservancy book like "He Shi Ji". Little Yellow Book.

Over there, Yan Qin got out of the carriage, knocked on the door of Dugu's house, called Dugu Liu "big brother", and happily entered the house, intending to listen to the old man chatting all night.

Anyway, there was a vigil on New Year's Eve, and old man Dugu was in a good mood, and he would tell them about the art of war and strategy, but he still couldn't fully understand it, but it would be good for him to learn more.

He had no idea that on such a commemorative day, there was a regent watching him outside the door.