Food for the people

Sanqi was in a hurry to get dressed in the wing room. When he returned to the main hall, Lu Jincheng and Sui He were no longer there. He hurried out of the yard, and sure enough, he saw that the carriages outside the door were all ready, and the smaller one in front It belonged to Aunt Suihe. Although she was a servant girl, she was a favored maidservant by the Empress Dowager's side, and she came here to pass on the order of the Empress Dowager, so naturally she also had a soft couch and carriage.

The crow-green carriage at the back is the one used by his lord. He ran to the carriage in a short trot, and just stopped in front of the carriage, and heard the inside say: "Hurry up and get out, wait until I lift the curtain for you." Is it?"

Hearing the words, Sanqi quickly got into the carriage, laughed and said, "How did you know it was me?"

Lu Jincheng didn't answer him, but put one hand on his forehead and said, "Light the incense."

Sanqi talked a lot, but when he was working, he was not vague at all. Hearing what Lu Jincheng said, he shut his mouth in an instant, took out a hollowed-out copper stove from the box at the corner of the carriage, and took it out from the A grain of incense was taken from the grid, sandwiched in the middle of the copper stove and lit with a torch, and finally hung on the copper ring inlaid by the window.

After finishing the work, Sanqi was rarely quiet, sitting quietly in the corner as the background.

His prince doesn't like incense very much on weekdays. If he is asked to light incense, there must be something unsatisfactory that annoys him. Sanqi has a lot of gags on weekdays, but he is also very winking and never really let him go. Lu Jincheng was furious.No matter how much his prince looks at kindness, he is still looking at it. How many people are really kind and kind with the emperor's blood flowing in their bones.

However, about the reason for his prince's troubles, Sanqi can guess a little bit. It is probably related to the future princess. Last time the queen mother announced his prince to enter the palace, she seemed to have mentioned this matter. I don't know that the queen mother followed him. What did the prince of the family say, anyway, the prince of his family burned incense all the way back, and his face was cold when he arrived at the palace.

It's only been a little better in the last few days.

Thinking of this, Sanqi paused in confusion, why did his prince come here in a better mood?It seems... It seems that it was after meeting that boy in the tavern that day.

In this way, his prince would never leave him with him no matter where he went, but he always left him in the palace for the past two days... Sanqi suddenly opened his eyes wide, feeling Discovered something incredible.

He sat up straight all of a sudden, the movement startled even Lu Jincheng who had closed his eyes and meditated.

Lu Jincheng frowned, closed his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "What are you doing so suddenly?"

Sanqi was almost frightened to death by his brain power. When asked by Lu Jincheng, he didn't know where to move his hands and feet. He didn't realize that Lu Jinchen was closing his eyes and waving his hands in front of him: "It's okay." It’s okay, I’m just thinking about it.”

Lu Jincheng wasn't thinking about him, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Sanqi sat upright, feeling that he had suddenly learned a great secret, and felt as restless as a louse, but because Lu Jincheng didn't dare to move, he broke out in a cold sweat, and he was about to I am anxious to death.

His prince doesn't really like that young man, right? If so, how will the queen mother explain it? If the queen mother asks, will he say it or not.

Sanqi thought up a bunch of difficult problems for himself, and after being in a dilemma for a long time, he made up his mind.

He is the prince's servant, so naturally the prince is the first in everything, even the queen mother is not as important as the prince in his heart, no matter, if the queen mother really asks, he will kill him and say that there is no such person, even the queen mother Even if he was killed, he would never betray his prince.

Sanqi was so excited by his own thoughts that even after the Queen Mother asked him how to answer, he thought about it several times in his mind, and felt that there was nothing wrong, so he stopped this topic in his heart, and began to doubt his prince again. Why on earth did he fall in love with that young man whom he only met once.

The distance from the palace to the palace is not too far, and before Sanqi could figure out what to do, he was already outside the Hongwu Gate.

Inside the Hongwu Gate is the imperial palace, without the permission of the emperor, no carriage or horse is allowed to enter, even if Lu Jincheng is the prince, so the carriage can only be parked outside the Hongwu Gate, the driver and the carriage stay outside together, only Sanqi This valet can go in with Lu Jincheng.

Sui He had already gotten out of the carriage and waited for them outside the palace gate. Sanqi was afraid of her at first, but now that she had a lot of things on her mind, she didn't even dare to look at her, and followed Lu Jincheng with her head down. He dared not look up at her.

The guards outside the Hongwu Gate knelt down to salute when they saw Lu Jincheng. Sui He had shown the Queen Mother's order when he left the city, so the guards let the three of them in without asking any further questions.

Sui He took Lu Jincheng straight to Duanyang Palace, the empress dowager's bedroom.

As soon as the three of them arrived at the door, they happened to see Guanqiu coming out of Duanyang Palace, followed by a few maidservants, each holding a plate of dim sum, two of which seemed to have been eaten twice, and the rest were left uneaten look.

Suihe hurried up to meet him.

"Your Majesty, have you lost your appetite again?"

Guan Qiu didn't bother to answer her, first saluted Lu Jincheng, and then said: "Well, I went to bed without lunch, and just woke up, and I didn't even take a bite of the snacks from the small kitchen."

Lu Jincheng didn't wait for them to finish speaking, he pushed the door past them and walked in.

In the hall, the stove was burned and incense was burned, making people drowsy. The queen mother was lying on the imperial concubine's couch behind the veil, reading a book.

"The queen mother hasn't eaten yet?"

Lu Jincheng entered the door and put the hibiscus custard cake in his hand on the table, poured another glass of water and put it aside.

The Queen Mother heard his voice, she put down her book and sat up, snorted and said, "I've invited you here, you don't even want to see me, and you don't care if I eat or not?"

Before Lu Jincheng could speak, Sanqi came out from behind. When he saw the Queen Mother, he knelt down with a thud, made a solid salute, and then raised his head and said, "May the Queen Mother be blessed and golden, Empress, what are you talking about, empress and the prince's mother and son are connected, if you feel uncomfortable, empress, the prince will not feel better, so why don't you want to see you, empress?"

The little maid next to the queen mother tied up the veil. The queen mother sat up, glanced at Lu Jincheng again, and asked, "Can't you say it yourself? Send someone back and forth with me."

The face revealed by the queen mother was very similar to Lu Jincheng's. The facial features were extremely similar, but the expression revealed was completely different. The queen mother was majestic and solemn, while Lu Jincheng was indifferent.

After a long while, Lu Jincheng smiled slightly, and the expression on his face instantly melted like ice and snow, and he said, "Don't embarrass me, my mother, what is my mother thinking, can my mother not know?"

The queen mother looked at him for a long time, then sighed.

"You child, if you don't marry, you don't marry. If you don't like it, the queen mother can force you to fail, and you don't even take a look at it. But you are really mad at your mother for meddling in her own business?"

Lu Jincheng said, "What did the queen mother say?"

The queen mother paused, and wanted to say something more, when she heard the little eunuch singing in a shrill voice outside: "The emperor is here——"

The Empress Dowager's expression changed, she swallowed all the words she wanted to say, waved her hands and said, "Your imperial brother is here, come and help me up."

The queen mother is actually still young. She entered the palace in her teens and gave birth to two children for the late emperor. From concubine to queen to queen mother, she is only 50 years old. She looks younger if she takes care of herself properly. The days of fighting between dragons and tigers when she was alive finally hurt her body, so although she was young, her energy was declining.

Hearing the words, Lu Jincheng went forward to help the queen mother up. The two of them just sat down at the table when the bright yellow emperor walked in.

"I just heard that my fourteenth brother came to visit my mother in the palace. I have nothing to do with me, so I came to join in the fun. My mother doesn't think I'm in the way."

The emperor is about 30 years old, his appearance is not similar to that of the queen mother and Lu Jincheng, his face is more square, although his facial features are also handsome, but the majesty of his eyebrows and eyes is too majestic, which makes people feel too fearful, and he is not as good as Lu Jincheng Be cordial.

The Empress Dowager stared wide-eyed when she heard this, and said, "The emperor is no longer a child, and he still speaks as he pleases. The whole world belongs to the emperor, so why bother talking about it, and let outsiders hear it, so how decent it is."

The emperor was like a child who said something wrong. He was not annoyed by the empress dowager's reprimand. He smiled and said to the empress dowager: "There are only three of us, mother and son, who are close relatives in the world. Why do outsiders say that the empress mother is always so strict? Fourth brother, what do you think?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Lu Jincheng with a smile in the corner of his eyes.

Lu Jincheng said with a weary look: "What the emperor said is true."

The emperor saw that his eyebrows and eyes were full of boredom, as if he was playing with someone, he pondered for a while, and smiled: "Who is making you unhappy, let the emperor listen to it, the emperor Brother decides for you."

Lu Jincheng frowned and glanced at the Queen Mother, but said nothing.

The emperor has an exquisite heart, and when he saw Lu Jincheng like this, he immediately understood.

"The fourteenth brother is still angry about the fact that the mother talked about marriage for you?"

Lu Jincheng seemed to be fascinated by the talk, and he lifted his robe and knelt in front of the emperor: "Brother Emperor, even if there are thousands of rivers in the world, my younger brother is only willing to take a scoop to drink. The one who will spend the rest of my life with me must be the one in my heart." The person I love, Wen Shangshu's beloved daughter, has both beauty and talent, but she is not the one I love, so I don't want to marry her."

The emperor was speechless for a while, looked at him for a long time with an inexplicable expression, and then smiled and said: "If you don't marry, don't marry. The queen mother just asked what you mean, and she didn't even reveal Wen Chuo, and it's not a marriage. In your eyes Here, are the emperor brother and the queen mother such unreasonable people? After being angry for a long time, they didn't even come to the palace, so why don't you get up quickly. "

Lu Jincheng seemed relieved when he heard the words, and his face looked better, he stood up and said, "Thank you, Brother Huang, for fulfilling your wish."

The emperor picked up a cup of tea on the table and took a sip, glanced at the queen mother and said slowly: "The fourteenth brother is a rare infatuated person, and I don't know which family's woman will be lucky enough to fall into his heart in the future, so he will be the one who will marry you soon." I have made up my mind, so don't be too embarrassing for the queen mother."

The queen mother paused for a long time, and said after a long time: "Forget it, let him go. I, a mother, have no other wishes. I only hope that your brothers are safe and sound, and I don't think about anything else."