A cold dream is not a dream come true

The crown prince Su Yu and the princess Murong Ranshu of the Rihe Kingdom walked up to the empress under the attention of the people.

The empress probably noticed everyone's stares, and immediately stepped forward to smooth things over: "My dear friends, please feel free to enjoy delicious food."

People also understood what the emperor meant, so they stopped paying attention to Su Yu and Princess Murong, and the hall returned to its former bustle.Several ministers who knew the relationship between Su Yu and Prince Cheng glanced at me cautiously.I also turned my head to look at Prince Cheng, he stood there in embarrassment, although there was some anger on his face, but more helplessness.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere of the brothers, Prince Xi took a step forward to smooth things over: "A few days ago, I went to Dongsheng Kingdom to visit Luo Taiyi and brought back some special products of Dongsheng. After the imperial banquet is over, I will send someone to Send it to the two emperor brothers."

When Prince Kang heard it, he applauded again and again: "Sure enough, Seventh Sister is thinking about the two of us. Last year, Seventh Sister gave me the ingredients for strengthening yang, and after finishing the food that the Third Brother had eaten..."

Aphrodisiac?He raised his head and stared at Prince Kang with wide eyes. Prince Kang also knew that he had said something wrong, so he turned his head away blushing.

The dry prince sighed and glanced at his silly fourth brother.

Unexpectedly, Luo Bing said: "If fourth brother likes it, I will give you some more tomorrow."

Prince Kang quickly said: "No, no, no...I..."

Before Prince Kang finished speaking, he heard the empress clear her voice, and the hall fell silent immediately.The emperor boarded the dragon chair and looked down at everyone, then said cleanly, "Let's get started."

Then, the father-in-law next to him announced loudly: "Start—"

As soon as the words fell, singing and dancing sounded in the hall.Then the two guards brought a long table and covered it with a festive red tablecloth.Then several maids serving dishes came up and arranged all kinds of delicacies on the table. Under the delicacies were small rolls made by Luo Bo, tied with red silk, which looked quite gorgeous.

I carefully looked at the dishes on the long table. The first few were fish, and the latter were mostly vegetables.Whether it is fish or vegetables, they are all cut into long strips, which cannot be distinguished from the outside.

The father-in-law who spread the message explained next to him: "The first round of the game of picking vegetables is to taste these ingredients. Every time two people come forward to taste the same ingredient, the person who first names the ingredient will win. Those who fail make a request. As long as everyone feels that the request is not excessive, they must accept punishment.”

The emperor nodded, and said to the people in the hall: "My dear friends, who will come first?"

Everyone applauded and rushed to participate in the competition.Prince Kang and Prince Qian also rushed forward, and they competed with each other.The emperor looked at everyone with a smile, then looked around and asked: "There are still a lot of ingredients, is there anyone coming to taste it?"

Upon hearing this, Prince Cheng next to him stepped forward to the long table, cupped his fists and said to the empress, "Sister Huang, my brother is willing to give it a try."

The emperor nodded: "Who is willing to compete with him?"

Seeing that this was a good opportunity, the prince Su Yu next to him was stopped by Murong Ranshu just as he took a step.Then Murong Ranshu took a step forward, bowed to the emperor and said, "My Majesty, Ranshu is willing to compete with Prince Cheng."

"Okay!" The emperor laughed loudly, "Princess Murong is really straightforward. After you marry my Yu'er, you must discipline him well."

The corners of Murong Ranshu's mouth turned up, and she smiled softly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for fulfilling it."

It seems that Murong Ranshu deliberately provoked Prince Cheng.I looked at Prince Cheng and the prince worriedly, only to see Prince Cheng's face was pale and his brows were tightly furrowed.The prince stood beside him, his fists clenched, his face ashen.

What happened to Prince Cheng and the prince?Since Murong Ranshu knew about the relationship between the two of them, why did she force her so much?

Murong Ranshu didn't say much, then picked up the meat on the plate and put it in her mouth.Prince Cheng did not show weakness, picked up the meat and tasted it.There are a lot of big fish and big meat in the palace, and Prince Cheng, as a prince, must know a lot.I frowned, silently cheering for Prince Cheng.

"Prince Cheng." Murong Ranshu put down her chopsticks and smiled contemptuously, "I wonder if Prince Cheng can taste what this meat is?"

Prince Cheng frowned tightly and fell into deep thought.Then he shook his head: "I don't have much talent and learning, I don't know what this is."

Murong Ranshu had long expected that Prince Dingcheng would not know, so she looked at him arrogantly, and then said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, this is cod meat."

The emperor nodded, and the father-in-law next to him opened the small scroll made by Luo Bo and announced loudly: "Cod."

Murong Ranshu looked at Prince Cheng with provocative eyes, and Prince Cheng responded with restraint: "Princess Murong is indeed very knowledgeable. How can a prince like me who lives in Luoyang City all the year round be compared with the princess of Rihe Kingdom who is in Linhai?" ?”

Murong Ranshu didn't care about Prince Cheng's words, she looked at the emperor and said, "Can Ranshu ask for punishment?"

"of course."

"Prince Cheng, this punishment is not too much." Murong Ranshu said to Prince Cheng, "You just need to admit in front of the people in the hall that you are just the prince's eighth uncle, and you have nothing else to do with each other."

As soon as the words fell, the prince beside him became annoyed, and he shouted: "Murong Ranshu!"

Murong Ranshu was also startled by the prince's shout, she didn't dare to look at the prince, she bit her lip and continued to Prince Xi, "Admit it quickly."

Prince Xi's face was also full of anger at this time, and his hands were shaking with anger.He opened his mouth to say something, but swallowed again.

The empress saw that something was wrong, she waved her hand and said: "Princess Murong, some people think this matter is too much. If so, how about another match between you and another punishment?"

Murong Ranshu didn't dare to disobey the emperor's words, so she nodded in gratitude.

Prince Cheng probably couldn't take it anymore, he bowed to the emperor and said: "Sister Huang, I feel a little uncomfortable, can you find someone to replace me?"

"allow!"

As soon as the emperor finished speaking, he saw Prince Xi taking a step forward.I immediately grabbed the corner of Prince Xi's clothes and whispered, "Luo Bing, let me try."

"Well, be careful."

I walked up quickly and saluted the emperor.Then he looked at Murong Ranshu and said, "The concubine is the concubine of Prince Xi, please give me some pointers from Princess Murong."

Murong Ranshu didn't expect me to be the one who came up, so she said in amazement: "Princess Xi, please."

I looked at the ingredients on the long table, and as expected, the rest of the ingredients were vegetables.I immediately picked up a vegetable, put it in my mouth and tasted it, and immediately knew that it was a wild vegetable bracken in the mountains. When I lived in Shengle City, my son and I would go to the mountain to dig wild vegetables every spring. This kind of wild vegetable is on the dining table of ordinary people. is the most common.

Murong Ranshu also took a sip immediately, but she frowned and spat out the vegetable as soon as she took it in, complaining in a low voice, "What kind of vegetable is this? Why is it so bitter?"

I looked at Murong Ranshu with a smile, pretended to be surprised and said, "Princess Murong doesn't know the name of this dish?"

"Of course I know." She raised her head and said without showing weakness, "It, it is a bitter vegetable!"

I shook my head and said, "Then, let me call it bracken."

She was a little anxious, and said, "I also changed my name to Bracken."

"Princess Murong, even if you change it, I will be the first to say the name." I said to her.

"Then, then I don't care!"

I looked at the emperor, the emperor nodded, and then my father-in-law came to the front and opened the small scroll made by Luo Bo, and read aloud: "Bracken——"

I looked at Murong Ranshu with a triumphant smile, and Murong Ranshu bit her lower lip and stared at me.

"Princess Murong, I won." I said to her with a smile.

She also laughed immediately and said: "I heard that Prince Xi of Pingyang Kingdom married a commoner girl from Mengzhou, and it is true when I saw it today. Like this kind of bitter and astringent wild vegetables, our rich Rihe Kingdom is won't grow."

"That's natural. This kind of bitter and astringent wild vegetable will only grow in our poor Pingyang country."

When Murong Ranshu heard this, her eyes widened, she immediately knelt down on the ground and said to the emperor: "The emperor redeemed his sins, Ranshu has no such intention!"

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Get up."

Murong Ranshu got up and looked at me, I said with a smile: "In that case, I will punish the princess."

"Please." Murong Ranshu frowned and said.

"Please don't trouble Prince Cheng again."

Murong Ranshu laughed when she heard this: "Princess Xi, which eye of yours has seen the trouble I have with Prince Cheng?"

I laughed too, and said, "You know it yourself."

The empress probably couldn't stand it any longer, she stood up and said, "Okay, that's it for the first round of competition, and we will start the second round of competition later."

I left after hearing this, but Murong Ranshu whispered in my ear: "Don't worry, Prince Cheng will die."

The surroundings have already started to become lively. Hearing this, I suddenly turned around and grabbed Murong Ranshu and asked, "What did you say?"

Murong Ranshu showed a naive expression, tilted her head and said to me: "I said, Prince Cheng must die!"

"You..." Hearing this, I immediately widened my eyes.

"Chuhan." At this moment, Prince Xi's voice came from behind.Only then did I calm down and let go of Murong Ranshu's hand.

As soon as Murong Ranshu turned around, she disappeared.

"What's wrong?" Prince Xi asked.

"Murong Ranshu said that Prince Cheng must die." I looked at Prince Xi worriedly.

"What?" Prince Xi asked, frowning. "She really said that?"

"Yes."

Prince Xi looked around, and then said to me: "Just wait, I'll call them both here."

Prince Xi turned to leave, and then saw Prince Xi bringing Prince Cheng and the crown prince to me.

The crown prince greeted me immediately and asked, "Ms. Meng, what did that woman say?"

"She said Prince Cheng must die."

"Damn it." The prince swung his sleeves and cursed loudly.

"Yu'er, you don't have to worry about me." Prince Cheng tugged at the prince's sleeve.

"No, Luo Yu, I want to protect you." The prince frowned and said.

At this time, the emperor stood up, coughed softly and said, "I have something to announce. The Muhai City in the south of Pingyang Kingdom is opening a canal. Now that the prince has grown up, I will hand over this task to him." Supervise. Tomorrow morning, we will set off."

As soon as the prince said that he wanted to protect Prince Cheng, the emperor transferred the prince away.What is the conspiracy in the middle?