I am a cat in the palace

Going north along the Canglan River is regarded as sailing against the current. When there is wind along the way, the sails are set up, and when there is no wind or the current is too fast, the trackers have to pull up little by little.

Because it was against the current, the boat was not moving fast. According to Zhao Yingba's estimation, it would take about one and a half months to reach Jinjiang City this way.

Another day and night passed, and the clear light of the sun shone through the window of the cabin and slanted on my face.

I shivered out of the quilt and rolled lazily on the narrow bed.

After rolling, I realized that Rourou was not there. Looking at the half empty bed next to me, a feeling of emptiness came to my mind, which really made Meow uncomfortable.

"Meow!" I yelled, pushed open the window, and jumped out of the window. Outside, several hidden guards dressed as sailors were cleaning the deck.

"Has the ship been away for five days?"

"Well, but it seems that I haven't walked very far. There is no good wind these days, so I walk slowly. I heard that Mr. Wei said that the south wind will blow up in two days, so I can walk faster."

"Is today the tenth day of the Lunar New Year?"

"Yes, hey, time flies so fast, it's already March in a blink of an eye, so by the time we arrive in Cangzhou, the weather will already be hot, right?"

"No, look, the peach blossoms on the shore have already bloomed."

I was just too lazy to listen to their chat, but suddenly something flashed in my mind——

March?Tenth day?

this day...

ah!Today is Rourou's birthday!

When I was in the palace before, there were always a bunch of people to help memorize Rourou’s birthday. The Secretary of the Household Department would send all kinds of supplies for the prince’s birthday in advance, and Yongshan Palace would prepare new clothes and birthday gifts for Rourou a few days in advance. , on the day of the birthday, the old emperor and even Zining Palace will send rewards, as well as congratulatory forms from his ministers and gifts from friends, all of which will be sent to Yongshan Palace early in the morning. can see.

But today, I paid attention to the atmosphere on the boat, it seems that no one thought that today is Rourou's birthday.

I bypassed the cleaning guards, searched around, and finally found Rourou in Wei Yin's room.Rou Rouzheng was sitting with Wei Yin, Ying Er, Ying Ba, and the others. They didn't think the place was too small. They were sitting in a circle, with maps and chess pieces placed in the middle, and they were pointing at something. What.

"Meow~~" I called out at the door.

"Daxian, why did you come here?" Rourou raised his head upon hearing the sound, and immediately stretched out his hand towards me.

I slowly looked around at the few people in the room, and seeing that they all knew my identity, I swaggered into the door, stepped on Wei Yin's shoulder and jumped into Rourou's arms, rubbing against each other. His hands sat down on his lap like a sword.

"Early in the morning, what are you talking about?" I licked my paws, glanced at the map in front of them, and asked casually.

Unexpectedly, when I opened my mouth, I almost stunned the fat man underneath.

"Ah - cat! Cat - uh..." He didn't say the last part of the sentence, and was directly covered in his mouth by Ying Er's slap.

"Huh? Didn't you tell him that I can talk?" I tilted my head and looked at the fat man's distorted face squeezed in Ying Er's hands. I was a little dazed. I thought Ying Er and the others were chatting with him. Sometimes I will explain my situation to him first. After all, I have to pass through the investigation of officers and soldiers. I am a soul. My special identity can be kept secret from ordinary secret guards, but it is unnecessary to him.

"Your Majesty, didn't you say that your identity should be kept secret, and that no one is allowed to disclose it without your order?" Ying Er and the others were also stunned.

"Eh..." It seems that I told them to keep my identity a secret.

"Have you guys finished chatting? I'm hungry, Fatty, can you go and ask if the meal is ready?" Seeing those who started to chat with me more interested in chatting with the map on the table, I felt a little bit uncomfortable down.

Ying Bazheng heard Ying Jiu say with joyful eyebrows that I suddenly changed from a person to a cat, her eyes were so startled that she didn't notice that I was calling him.

"Fat Ba!" I called out again, raising my voice.

"Fat...fat eight?" Everyone turned their heads to look at me this time, and the fat man stammered a little in response, looking at me blankly, "Da, Daxian, are you calling me?"

"Is there a fat man who ranks eighth here?" I stared at him with rounded eyes.

Fatty was speechless.

"Pfft!" Ying Jiu was the youngest, with the weakest concentration, and was the first to burst out laughing.

Rourou patted Zhen on the head, and I turned around and bared my teeth at him.

"Mr. Eight, Daxian likes to give people random nicknames, please don't mind."

"No, no." Fat Ba smiled and shook his head quickly, shaking his fat face.However, he couldn't restrain his curiosity and looked at me right after, and asked as if he couldn't help it: "I heard that Your Majesty the Great Immortal can transform into a human form?"

Ying Er hurriedly gave him a hand, "Old Ba, don't be rude."

"Yes, the Great Immortal can transform into a human form, but I don't need it yet." Rourou didn't mean to hide anything from Fat Ba, and nodded and smiled when he asked.

After I transform into a human form, my force value can increase dramatically, but the price is more fleshy blood every time, so, if it is not necessary, I don't plan to drink fleshy blood anymore.

Fat Bashen didn't continue to ask, but belatedly remembered what I asked him just now: "Did Your Excellency the Great Immortal say you're hungry?"

"Yeah, you finally remembered? Also, among the few of you, who can cook? I want to eat something special today. Which one of you can cook? Come with me to the kitchen later .”

"Daxian, what do you want to eat? I'll make it for you." Rourou picked me up and volunteered.

I directly pushed my paw on his forehead, "Go and read your homework with Wei Yin, don't think that you don't have to go to school now that you are on the road."

"This subordinate has a little bit of cooking skills. If Your Majesty the Great Immortal doesn't dislike it, then I will be subordinate." Fat Ba volunteered to ask for a job. I nodded when I heard the words, and with a little tiptoe, I jumped directly from the fleshy arms onto his thick shoulders. , and then saw him hastily raised his hand, vainly wanting to help me, and then his originally heavy voice was excitedly raised an octave: "Daxian, Your Excellency, be careful, be careful, don't fall."

The original cook in the kitchen was blown away, and Fatty pointed at the pots and pans in the kitchen confidently and shouted at Fang Qiu, "Your Majesty, what do you want to eat? Fish, shrimp, meat and eggs, sweet in the south and salty in the north, as long as If you can say it, your subordinates can do it."

"I want to make a bowl of noodles." After a moment of silence, I said.

"I want a bowl of noodles? Isn't it too simple?" Fat Ba turned to look at me a little bit aggrieved, feeling as if I just asked him to make a bowl of noodles, which was simply insulting him.

"You can talk about it after you can do it." I slapped his face back to its original position.

An hour later—

"No, no, it's not the taste. Add a little more oil, and the inside will be fully cooked. Don't have a little runny heart. Salt, less salt."

"It's too hot, look, the sides of the egg are all mushy, no, no, do it all over again."

"How's the bone soup going? No, no, no, the heat is far away. The soup is still clear. It needs to be boiled until it becomes white. Let's continue to stew. Go and knead the noodles a few times. The noodles just cooked I don’t have any strength at all, I haven’t reached the age of old, so I don’t need to eat rotten noodles.”

"Oh, look at the noodles you ordered. The noodle soup is like paste. Why are you bragging about your amazing cooking skills? You lose your appetite just looking at it. I don't even want to taste it."

I looked at the bowl of noodles on the table that had been made for more than an hour, and had been redone five or six times. I felt an evil fire in my chest, but I couldn’t get it out. Why couldn’t I taste Mrs. Chen’s bowl of Wufu noodles? Woolen cloth?Obviously it is the most common material, but it is just some choy sum, shiitake mushrooms, chicken and meat bone soup plus a poached egg. It is obviously made according to Mrs. Chen's method, but why is the taste different?

Seeing that I was squatting on the small kitchen table looking at the bowl and getting sulking, Fat Ba also threw down her apron and wiped her hands and walked over, took a small bench and sat down by the table with some difficulty, and when she sat down, she was not careful. He touched the table, causing the table to vibrate violently, almost knocking over the bowl, Fat Ba hurriedly reached out to hold it, but was scalded by the edge of the bowl and blew his fingers.

"Is this your Highness's favorite noodle?" Fat Ba asked suddenly.

I looked up at him.

"how do you know?"

"You have tasted seven bowls. Even if you only tasted one or two bites of each bowl, you are already full." Fat Ba looked helplessly at the bowls on the table, and then at his red fingers.

"Today is Shangxin's birthday. When he was in the palace in previous years, every year on this day, his foster mother, Madam Chen, would cook him a bowl of Wufu noodles, saying that it would bring blessings and longevity. Usually, if something good happens, He will also ask Mrs. Chen to cook Wufu noodles for him, but this year's birthday...but he can't eat them." I said a little dejectedly.

"Is it His Highness's birthday today?" Fat Ba exclaimed.

"This subordinate is so careless that he doesn't even know that today is His Highness's birthday." Fat Ba patted his thigh angrily.

"Okay, okay, what's your fault? It's an eventful time, and everyone is preoccupied with major events. How can you remember these things? You see, even Shangxin himself doesn't remember that today is his birthday." I recalled the past years and today Yongshan Looking at the lively and joyous scene in the palace, looking at the shabby and dilapidated merchant ship in front of him, and looking at the bowl of noodles that was already a bit mushy, he couldn't help but sigh softly.

At this moment, Fat Ba suddenly stood up with a crash, it was really a crash, because when he stood up abruptly, his round belly directly lifted the table, and then the bowl of noodles was finally taken by him. It was knocked over, and then it fell all over the table with a crash. If it wasn't for my quick eyes and quick legs, I shot out with a bow, flew up and hung on Fat Ba's ass, and the bowl of noodle soup would have poured all over me.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Your Excellency, this subordinate didn't mean it."

"You, can't you be more steady?" Zhen crawled along his back and onto his shoulders, scratching at him, "I almost got burned by you!"

Fat and rough, thick and thick, he wiped away the red marks on his face and the hair that was scratched by me, and turned around embarrassedly, "This place—it's really a little too small."

Is it because you take up too much space?I really wanted to say something to him, but seeing his head covered in beads of sweat after a busy morning, I swallowed the words after thinking about it.

"However, you suddenly jumped up like chicken blood, what are you going to do?"

"The subordinates must continue to cook the noodles."

Lunch is on the table—

I jumped on the table early on purpose, turned around in front of Rourou, rubbed my head against his face, and swiped his chin with the tip of my tail to prevent him from moving his chopsticks on the dishes on the table.

"It's so itchy, Daxian, what are you doing?" Rourou reached out to hug me, but I dodged and turned to look at the door of the cabin. Why is this fat eight so slow?

"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" The sound of footsteps pounding on the deck mixed with Fat Ba's screams rushed into the hatch all the way, and Ying Jiu, who was standing at the door, was accidentally caught by Ying Jiuyi. Ba's fat body was squeezed a little.

Then, with everyone's stunned expressions on their faces, Fat Ba stabilized a bowl of fragrant noodles with an extremely smooth and precise attitude, which was almost completely different from the clumsy posture in the kitchen just now. Put it in front of Rourou.

"My subordinate complied with the order of His Majesty the Great Immortal, and prepared a bowl of Wufu noodles to congratulate His Highness on his birthday, and wish His Highness good health and longevity."

"Is it your Highness's birthday today?" Ying Jiu was taken aback, and Wei Yin, who was sitting opposite Rourou, was also taken aback, and slowly put down the chopsticks in his hand.

But Rourou didn't answer their words. When the bowl of noodles was placed in front of him, he was a little stunned, "Five..."

"Your Highness, why don't you try it quickly and see how it goes?" Fat Ba stood aside with the tray in his arms, looking at Rourou expectantly. I think he looks like he is waiting for Rourou to praise him. Under my training, although the taste of this bowl of noodles is still not as good as Mrs. Chen's bowl of noodles, it has a taste of seven or eight points.

But Rourou was still in a daze, even when I walked in front of him and rubbed against his chin for a long time, he didn't pay attention, he just stared at the steaming bowl of noodles in front of him.

Then, suddenly, he stood up abruptly. I was leaning on him to rub my ears, but suddenly I missed it and almost fell under the table. I hesitated, but after putting me back on the table and standing firmly, he turned his head and ran out of the dining cabin with big strides.

Zhen and Fatty looked at each other, and at the same time turned to look at Wei Yin, "Early this morning, Shang Xin got up before dawn, and I saw him go to the kitchen and make himself a bowl of boiled noodles with nothing in it. Alone Finished."

Boiled noodles?

Did you download it yourself?

Immediately, my heart felt like being pricked by hundreds of needles at the same time, and I jumped up, going to find Shang Xin.

"Great Immortal... Let him be quiet." Wei Yin called Zhen from behind.

I only paused for a moment, but suddenly I remembered that in the snow-covered wasteland, I murmured painfully with my flesh on my neck: "From now on, I will only have you."

Immediately, I quickly ran out after Rourou, "No! I want to accompany him."