Palace Full of Delicacies

I always thought that this round hole led to the top of the seventh floor, but I didn't expect that the sixth floor is the end, and the seventh floor is actually an open-air platform!

Su Yu always thought that the sixth floor was the most important floor of Anguo Pagoda, because the national teacher often stayed on the sixth floor, and it was said that he was doing very important things. He never thought that the mysterious sixth floor turned out to be the bedroom of the national teacher!There is nothing to deduce the astrology or spy on the secrets of the sky, only all kinds of incomparably luxurious sleeping utensils... The corners of his mouth twitched, Su Yu no longer had any hope for what would happen on the seventh floor.

However, after going up, I was still a little surprised that the seventh floor of Anguo Tower was actually open to the air!What looks like a tower top on the outside is just eight sloping walls.

A magnificent altar is built in the center. On the altar, there are incense tables, altars, and cauldron furnaces.In the east corner is an observatory made of black gold stone, extending high into the starry sky, looking sacred and solemn.There is nothing superfluous, and the entire seventh floor looks unexpectedly serious.

Su Yu blinked, and watched the national teacher walk up to the altar slowly, King Li put down the tea mug in his hand, King Ling and King Su straightened their clothes, even His Majesty the Emperor looked serious, he couldn't help putting away his strange thoughts, and followed the emperor went up.

On the altar, there was a huge altar. The national teacher had already moved up the sacrificial offering made by Su Yu at some point. He thought the sacrificial offering was endless dried fish. The princes, who were not interested, suddenly His eyes widened.

Bright and oily spicy fish shreds, white and round fish balls, cool sauce-colored smoked fish, steaming shark's fin soup, and roasted whole mackerel...

"This, is this year's sacrifice?" Li Wang pointed to the table full of delicacies, and swallowed, "Let's eat."

"Let's eat!" King Ling followed suit, raising his hand to get the smoked fish.

"Slap!" The national teacher slapped Ling Wang on the back of his hand, looking at him coldly.

King Ling withdrew his hand in embarrassment, coughing dryly, "What are you messing around with, worshiping the heavens, worshiping the heavens is important!"

Su Yu pursed his lips and suppressed a smile, watching several princes being ruthlessly suppressed by the national teacher, obediently bowing their heads to listen to the training, he couldn't help but glance at His Majesty the Emperor beside him.The emperor looked at the sky impatiently, and turned his head to look at him, "what's the matter?"

"Nothing?" Su Yu shook his head, "Will the ancestor really appear in a while?"

An Hongche frowned slightly, and raised his hand to hold Su Yu's hand. Is this stupid slave afraid?With me here, even the ancestors will not hurt you at all, so what are you afraid of.

After tidying up the brothers and nephews who tried to steal the sacrifices, the national teacher stood in the center of the sacrifice, with his hands folded in front of his chest, "Today, on the tenth day of October, the fifth generation of the national teacher in Da'an, together with the clan, kowtowed to the ancestors, and bless our Da'an country with prosperity." , protect the long blood of our clan." Qingyue's voice was no longer as ethereal as when he was fooling all the officials, but clear and stable, full of pious respect.

Then, the national teacher spread his arms, knelt down slowly, and closed his eyes slightly. The moonlight passed through the clouds and fell straight down, reflecting each other with the spar on the ground of the altar.

The emperor pulled Su Yu who was stunned, and then knelt down.

The national teacher began to chant in a strange tone, and the lengthy libretto seemed to be endless.

His Royal Highness King Zhao took a peek at the offerings on the altar, and whispered, "Uncle Seventeen, did the ancestors only accept dried fish?"

Ling Wang poked Thirteenth Brother next to him, "What do you think?"

King Su frowned, and was about to say something when a white light suddenly shone on the altar.

His Majesty the Emperor quickly covered Su Yu's eyes with his hands. The white light was too bright and might hurt his eyes. Even through the Emperor's palm, Su Yu could still feel the glare of the light.

When the emperor let him go, Su Yu stretched his neck impatiently to see that the whole mackerel and scallops on the table had disappeared, and there were also many fish balls and smoked fish that disappeared. It will be sprinkled during the cooking process, but the ancestors did not take a bowl away.

"There's only so much left!" His Royal Highness Zhao wailed. In previous years, the ancestors meant to just take a few dried fish and finish it off. Why is there less than half of the offerings on the table this year!

"Bless the ancestors!" The national teacher whispered softly, finished the last sentence, stood up slowly, swept the crowd with cold eyes, and looked at the sky, "Let's eat."

Everyone cheered, and quickly started to remove the incense burner on the table, gathered the remaining sacrifices, and found out in frustration that all the cooked fish balls were taken away by the ancestors, and what remained were raw fish balls and raw fish. slices, and a handful of smoked fish.

Several lords glanced at each other, shot at the same time, and wiped out the pieces of smoked fish on the plate.

"How do you eat this?" Li Wang picked up those raw fish balls.

"Wait a moment." Su Yu handed His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor who crawled into his arms to King Li, and brought a pot and dipping sauce.

Su Wang expressionlessly pulled out the incense in the bronze tripod, and added charcoal to it.

The people in the capital, seeing the bright light on the top of the Anguo Pagoda, went out to pay their respects one after another, and then they saw the smoke around the top of the tower.

"It's really hard for the royal family to sacrifice to the heaven on the top of the pagoda for one night." The common people sighed with emotion.

The royal family at the top of the tower really worked hard. While cooking fish balls, they had to guard against brothers, nephews, and uncles grabbing food.

The national teacher took out the sacrificial wine from under the altar, frowned slightly, and was only focused on placing the fish balls, but forgot to put the sacrificial wine.Sighing lightly, they patted the mud seal open, the ancestors didn't drink this year's sweet-scented osmanthus wine, so they drank it themselves, guessing that the ancestors ate delicious fish balls, they shouldn't blame them.

After drinking delicious shark's fin soup, eating tender fish ball hot pot, and drinking sweet-scented osmanthus wine, the hard work of worshiping the sky continued until dawn. When the princes ate the last fish ball, they all looked at Su Yu, They muttered together, "God bless you."

After offering sacrifices to heaven, King Li left the capital with his family, because he was worried that the sea monsters in the East China Sea would spread to the South China Sea, so he had to go back quickly and guard them, and he would not enter Beijing again until the Chinese New Year.Before leaving, Li Wang wanted to leave one of Su Yu's apprentices, saying that he wanted to open a Xianmantang branch in Nanhai.

Recently, Xianmantang has opened two branches in the middle of the capital, but it has not opened a store outside the capital. When Li Wang mentioned this, Su Yu was very happy, and he even gave Li Wang a lot of chili seeds.

The days were fairly calm, and the East China Sea sent many strange fish one after another, including thin fish, flatfish and even holocera, only some extremely dangerous ones that needed to be slaughtered immediately were never sent.

The weather was getting colder day by day, and the queen mother was afraid that the kitten would not be able to withstand the cold because of too little fluff, so she made a lot of small clothes for the eldest son of the emperor.

"Big Mao, are you wearing new clothes again?" As soon as King Ling entered the imperial study, he was attracted by the little fur ball wearing a red vest on the table, and he hugged the eldest son of the emperor.

"Mi!" His Royal Highness the eldest son stretched out a paw, and pressed the mouth that King Ling was trying to kiss.

"Why don't you two leave?" His Majesty the Emperor put down the vermilion pen in his hand, and frowned at the two uncles who still refused to leave.

"It's too cold in Beimo in winter, and I want to spend the winter in Beijing." Ling Wang sat down on the thick carpet with the kitten in his arms, with an expression of what can you do to me if I don't leave.

King Su said with a solemn expression, "It looks like the Chinese New Year is about to come. If you go back at this time, you will have to go back soon." The implication is that he does not intend to leave.

His Majesty the Emperor snorted coldly, and handed a memorial to King Su, "Look at this."

This memorial is a gift list copied by the Ministry of Rites.

As the new year approaches, princes and kings from all over the country begin to send New Year gifts to Beijing, which is actually a disguised form of paying tribute.King Mujun sent a lot of jewels, King Ling sent a lot of animal skins, King Su sent horses from the fief, King Li sent South Sea pearls, and King Jing presented a...

"Shark?" Su Wang slightly widened his eyes.

The sharks live in the deep sea, they are a very mysterious race, the most famous is the shark silk they weave.Legend has it that deep-sea sharks will turn into fish tails when they enter the water, and their legs will turn into legs when they leave the water.What's more, all the women of the Merman tribe are all stunning beauties!

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Concubine A: I heard that King Jing offered a beauty

Concubine B: I heard that the emperor likes that beauty very much

Concubine C: I heard that the emperor does not favor Concubine Xian tonight

Xiaoyu: Your Majesty, stop quickly, that one can't be eaten!