[Red Mansion] Queen's Road
Chapter 79 Revisiting (1)
The Supreme Emperor felt that the biggest reason why this grandson hadn't enlightened yet was that Lin Ruhai had once been an official in Yangzhou.
After the prince arrived in Yangzhou, the subjects of Yangzhou tried their best to establish a relationship with him, even if they just met him once.
Even if you meet, you have to talk. If you want to avoid being cold, you can only talk about people or things that both parties are familiar with.
Lin Ruhai is a good topic. An official can say in front of the prince, "I used to work with the head of the country."
It is also possible that this person caused Lin Ruhai a lot of troubles in the past.Now that Lin Ruhai is not here, everyone can say whatever they want.
For the same reason, some salt merchants also brazenly told Qilin that he was taken care of by Mr. Lin back then. When he said this, it was most likely because he was hit by Lin Ruhai back then. Maybe this salt merchant once hid at home and cursed Lin Ruhai for choking to death when eating and drinking. die.
There are people who talk to Qilin every day and ask Lin Ruhai, Qilin must not dare to have other thoughts.
What did the Supreme Emperor think? He thought that although Yangzhou is good, this place cannot be lived for a long time. After a few days, he will take his grandson to Jinling. While talking about the elders in the family, the grandson will learn what the grandson should learn.
Thinking of this for the sake of the eunuch beside him, "Is the prince asleep now?"
The eunuch went out for a while and came back to report, "There is salt to discuss the favor of our prince. He collected Lin Gong's poems in Yangzhou before, printed them out and dedicated them to the prince. The prince is reading at night with the lamp on right now."
After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor asked the eunuch to get a copy and read it for himself.
The Supreme Emperor loved gifted scholars and beautiful ladies the most in his life, and he had seen countless beautiful ladies, but relatively few gifted scholars.His vision is vicious, of course he knows that many people do not live up to their names.
Back then, Lin Ruhai could catch his eyes. So far, the Supreme Emperor still has a very good impression of Lin Ruhai.I always thought that Lin Ruhai was still a gentle scholar.
Otherwise, he would not have agreed to Lin Ruhai's daughter marrying his son back then.It's a pity that the Lin family's good bamboo produces bad bamboo shoots, and it raises a girl like the queen who is different from the Lin family.
The Supreme Emperor held the book and thought about it carefully. If he said that the queen was not filial, it would really wrong her. Let him smack his heart and say that he really couldn't find such a good daughter-in-law with a lantern.I usually think about what I eat and use, and I don’t say anything to the old man. Even if there are any excessive demands, they will agree.
The only bad thing was that he was a bit rebellious towards the Concubine Gui. The Supreme Emperor recalled the matter of Lin Ruhai being poisoned in the past, and he couldn't blame the Concubine Gui or the Queen for this incident.The empress's failure to attack the imperial concubine also shows that she is sensible, and it is not unacceptable to say a few words when they meet.
A queen with a doughy temper doesn't do anyone any good.
Speaking of this, the Supreme Emperor sighed, the daughter-in-law here is good everywhere, just looking at his grandson's performance in the past few months, it shows that the Cui family is really very happy to marry this daughter-in-law.
But the Supreme Emperor just couldn't swallow this breath. First of all, the emperor was very lucky. With a good helper in his later years, he might be able to prevent father and son from fighting each other.Secondly, I felt that I didn't take a good look at it back then, such a daughter-in-law can tell the fifth child.
It was too late to say anything, the emperor flipped through a few pages of the book and handed it to the eunuch on the side and told him to keep it and read it again this year.
Qilin used his inquiring spirit to study the poems made by his grandfather for several nights, but he failed to learn how to make poems. Instead, he felt sleepy every time he picked them up.
When he was fine, he also thought about it, and it was probably because the queen mother failed to pass on this aura from her grandfather.When I came to my house, from my ancestors to my own father, I have never heard of them writing poems...
Qilin despaired for a while, thinking that he might not be able to write poetry in his life.
With this hopeless mood, Qilin bid farewell to Yangzhou in March, and followed the Supreme Emperor, all the way to Jinling slowly.
Yangzhou, known as Guangling in ancient times, has been a prosperous place since the two Jin Dynasties to the south.
Don't think that during this period of time, besides dealing with the occasional convulsions of the Supreme Emperor, Qilin also had to talk to the gentry officials in Yangzhou City. From these gaps, he also sent people to understand the living standards in Yangzhou.
The prosperity of Yangzhou is the prosperity of salt merchants. As the northern caravans purify the mineral salt from the north and send it to the pass, Jiangnan Haiyan represented by Yangzhou will be hit to a certain extent.
Compared with the salt merchants who control the production of sea salt, the northern caravan is their own property. Now it is dispatched by the mother and the father, and in the future it will be dispatched by themselves.As long as the caravan's operation can be maintained, the interests in it can be completely transferred out, which means that the prosperity of the salt merchants will not last long.
Rice and upland rice on the islands are being bred, and sweet potatoes with greater yields have been popularized in the north. The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River can no longer be counted on by the imperial court.
The important position of the land in the south of the Yangtze River in the imperial court will fall again and again, and all they can rely on in the future is the prosperity of the style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River... Qilin leaned his upper body out of the car window, looked back at the distant Yangzhou, and recalled Take a look at the Jiangnan scholars I have seen in the past few days.
How can a scholar without strength of character become a pillar of the court.
The ministers of the imperial court only want those who plead for the people, those who work hard... not those who rule the world by the classics.
Qilin still clearly remembers that on the first day he went to school, the doctor told him half of the Analects to live the world.At that time, I went back and said this to my mother, and the sarcasm on the mother's face still often appeared in my mind...
Qilin also remembered that he followed his father to meet the shopkeepers and handed over the money to those old craftsmen who had accumulated money for many years, just because they improved the loom, and those old craftsmen who received the money were grateful.
Now, Qilin feels that he should be grateful to Dade.
Cotton cloth from the north has been sold to the south of the Yangtze River, but these silks from the south of the Yangtze River still feel superior.
They haven't realized that the crisis has spread to their side.
Qilin looked at the endless mulberry forest outside the car window. If cotton cloth really defeated silk, would this mulberry forest be cut down to grow cotton?
Qilin has learned to look at the world with the eyes of an emperor, and to think about what is happening now with the emperor's thinking.
The Supreme Emperor thought he was reluctant to part with Yangzhou.
Send someone to call Qilin to his carriage, and the grandparents and grandchildren sit and talk to each other.
"Do you like Yangzhou?"
"Of course I like it."
"Like Yangzhou's mountains and rivers? In fact, the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful. If you go to any town, you can see little monks floating on black boats in front of the gate...
Jiangnan is a good place, not just the mountains and rivers, nor the people, but this place is a good place. "
After finishing talking, look at the unicorn, "When we get to Jinling, you can take a good look around there. Jinling is a better place than Yangzhou. You will definitely like Jinling. This is a prosperous place in the Six Dynasties, a gentle and rich town."
Qilin felt that he would not like Jinling. "The grandson likes Yangzhou because his mother once lived in Yangzhou, and his grandson visited Buddhist temples following in his mother's footsteps. As for Jinling, even if everything is good, it is not his hometown after all."
The Supreme Emperor didn't want to tell him so much, but just asked him, "What do you think of us in the Jinling Practice Palace?"
Jinling thought for a while, and recalled the silver taels spent by the treasury over the past few decades. "Zhen used the money from the treasury to build a very luxurious garden. It was originally used to pick up the driver. Now their family has moved in first... This is the bottom line. In the words of the grandson, there is no need to build another palace. It’s just a matter of getting their family to move out.”
The Supreme Emperor couldn't help but speak for his dog legs, "It's more cloudy after a long time without people living in it, and they also showed us the garden."
Seeing the prince's hostility towards the Zhen family, he thought in his heart that he must find a way to alleviate it.
Let this topic go first, and talk about some other things without mentioning it.
"You said you went to Yangzhou to worship Buddhist temples, what did you worship?"
Speaking of this, Qilin wanted to laugh, "I heard from Hei Niu that the old lady of the Lin family took her mother to a Buddhist temple a few days before her death, and drew lots at that Buddhist temple, saying that my mother would not have a daughter in this life. Thinking about it carefully, my mother gave birth to our three brothers in one go, and now there is a little brother in my mother's belly, so far, there is really no destiny for a daughter."
The Supreme Emperor just smiled and asked Qilin, "Did you ask for it?"
"The grandson didn't ask for it, but the guards who followed the grandson all went to ask for a lottery."
The grandparents and grandchildren talked and laughed all the way, and soon arrived in Jinling.
The officials of Jinling had already made preparations to pick up the driver, and had already set up a shed outside the city and waited for many days.
Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated now, the emperor's guard of honor is still there.
It can be said that since the departure from Yangzhou, they have been ostentatiously all the way to Jinling, and there is a guard of honor for the prince on the road, and the team stretches for tens of miles.
And this time the team in charge of security was the prince's six guards. After these troops were dispatched, the dust raised by the horseshoes alone really blocked the sky.
Fortunately, these people's food and clothing are all using the national stock of silver and grain. If the local government provides it, it will be a waste of money. Many local officials breathed a sigh of relief in secret, and wiped the sweat on their foreheads. At that time, you just need to pick up the driver honestly, and you don't need to pay for anything yourself. This time, it will be considered serious and there will be no disturbance.
The Taishanghuang's team stopped outside Jinling City, and the grandparents and grandchildren stood on the carriage, looking at Jinling City from afar.
The Taishanghuang was in a particularly good mood, with the spirit of pointing the country with points, pointing to the city walls and towers and telling his grandson that when his ancestors captured Jinling, he was injured somewhere.
He also said that on a certain section of the city wall, the damage caused by the siege equipment to the city wall still remains.
Finally, he proudly said to his grandson, "Jinling City is the first place in the south of the Yangtze River. Its prosperity cannot be compared with other places we saw on the road. It is also the center of the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is Gusu or not. No matter Yangzhou Kuaiji, I dare not compare it with this place."
Having said so much, Qilin has long been curious about this city.
"Why don't we go into the city at this time, and let our grandson see how much more beautiful Jinling is than other places."
After speaking, the Supreme Emperor issued an order, and the guard of honor played music. The civil and military officials on both sides and the local gentry knelt down on both sides. Qilin got out of the carriage and changed horses, and was surrounded by the guards.
Arriving at Jinling in the morning, it took more than two hours just for the ceremony of entering the city.
When entering the city, Qilin's horse walked in front, and the people on both sides bowed and worshiped.
Qilin waved his hand on the horse, showing the demeanor of the prince everywhere.
The young people didn't think there was anything wrong. The older people sighed after seeing what Prince Yizhong looked like back then.
What's the use of looking good now, I'm afraid it will grow more crooked in the future.
As long as it doesn't grow crooked, it's better than anything else.
The place where the Supreme Emperor and his troops stayed was in the garden of the Zhen family.
Qilin didn't want to see these members of the Zhen family crying and laughing together as if they were reunited after a long absence.
So after arriving in the garden, he took people to his place, watched the guards, the maids set up the utensils, made the bed and folded the quilt.
The members of Zhen's family didn't know that Concubine Gui was blind, but at this moment they suddenly found out and cried bitterly.
The men in this family think more, if the big tree in the palace becomes unreliable, they will have to find another way out, pin their hopes on others, and they will never feel at ease from their own family.
Zhen Yingjia recalled that when the prince entered the city just now, he was looking forward to Shenfei, and his heart was not only a little moved.
When the Supreme Emperor finished changing his clothes and was sitting in the hall drinking tea, Zhen Yingjia went over to inquire about the news.
"The old minister looked at the crown prince's appearance when he was young, but the old minister has been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and I don't know what he likes. I am afraid that the things he prepared will not please him."
This made the Supreme Emperor feel a little uncomfortable. He is still alive and well, and his servants have already started begging for mercy from others.
She didn't hide the anger on her face at all, Zhen Yingjia immediately knew what she just said was wrong.
Just act as if you didn't see the anger on the Taishanghuang's face, and quickly save it again. "I don't know why...the crown prince sees something wrong with the minister...so I come to ask the master to give me some pointers."
After hearing what he said, the Supreme Emperor's anger also subsided a little. No matter whether it was the prince or the emperor, they looked down on these people in Jiangnan.
"He is young, you guess what young people like, just give him some."
After a few perfunctory words, I heard that the Grand Concubine invited the Supreme Emperor to have lunch with her, and she agreed to have dinner with the Grand Concubine.
The imperial concubine did not have a good time on this journey.In the eyes of this pampered old lady, this journey is really ups and downs, and there is nothing she wants, so she swallowed her anger along the way, and finally arrived at her natal home, opened her heart, and lived happily for a few days. Naturally And no longer hide it.
Seeing the face of the Supreme Emperor, she held the old man's hand, "My natal sister-in-law is also a fool, she just called the girl from the family to me, and told me that the little girl from my nephew's family is a lucky person, Please let me find a way to get this little girl into the East Palace."
After finishing speaking, she felt a little unhappy, "They didn't even ask about the temper of the queen in the palace. With such a powerful mother-in-law, how can these girls have a good life. The two rich eyes only see the future wealth, I don’t even look at whether the children in the family have this blessing.”
After finishing speaking, he took the hand of the Supreme Emperor, "When I didn't go back to my mother's house, I always looked forward to coming back. When I came back, I felt that everything was not going well. I told me that it was not as good as the West Garden. The West Garden is big and empty. Although the scenery is not as beautiful as Jiangnan, After all, it’s rare to see it in the north, and you can get what you want there, unlike here.”
The anger of the Supreme Emperor just now disappeared without a trace because of the noble concubine's complaint about being coquettish.
"We're getting old, we can't admit it. Your natal family still wants to live a rich life, so they have to make decisions with the emperor and the prince. Now that the prince is in front of them, they certainly don't want to let go of such a good opportunity. It's just human nature." , don’t think too much, in the end, we two old bastards get together to live together.”
The Grand Concubine was indeed a little sad, she didn't eat much for lunch.
The two elderly people walked for a while with their arms in the courtyard, when they heard that there was a girl from the Zhen family outside who came to pay her respects to the imperial concubine.
After these girls left, the Supreme Emperor thought for a while that although the Crown Prince was young, it was time to mention the matter of the Crown Princess.
Before dinner at night, I said to the imperial concubine, "I see that the girls in your family are all pretty good, how about this, you tell your sister-in-law, the crown princess probably won't be able to grab it, and the side concubine can still make plans. .”
When the noble concubine's sister-in-law got the news, she happily gathered the daughters-in-law of the family together to discuss this matter.
When the news got to the ears of these girls, most of them felt somewhat unhappy.
"The Zhao family used to be slaves of our family. Although the crown prince has a noble status, he is the grandson of the Zhao family. Now it is humiliating us to let us, the master, marry the grandson of the slave family."
Before she could finish her sentence, the Grand Concubine's sister-in-law slapped the speaker on the face. These granddaughters were so frightened that none of them dared to speak.Everyone was trembling and didn't know why the old lady was angry.
"Don't talk about who you married. If you really entered the East Palace, you are not a princess and you don't need to marry. That's all, now everyone has high-mindedness and low-handedness. Since you don't want this future, don't mess around. explain.
The example of the Dong family is still ahead, let’s take a look at what the Dong family looks like now, if you want our family to be like the Dong family in the future, I will ask someone to marry you off now, so as not to be troublesome family. "
These daughters-in-law are also mothers, and they all feel sorry for their daughters. Seeing the old lady getting angry like this, they quickly pushed these girls out, and used other things to divert the old lady's attention.
"You old man, don't be as knowledgeable as these girls. The kitchen has been preparing for a few days, and now the banquet is going to be held tonight. This is a big deal."
So this matter can only be pushed back, and the whole family moved up and down.
Qilin ate some lunch in a hurry at noon, and read a book for a while in the afternoon. Seeing that it was getting dark, the Supreme Emperor sent someone to say that he would have a good meal in the evening.
After Qilin changed his clothes, he led the people to the Taishanghuang's courtyard, and saw that the place had started to light up, and it was resplendent everywhere. There were several large tables put together in the hall, and the Taishanghuang sat on the right seat, and saw his grandson coming, He patted the seat next to him and asked him to come and sit.
After both grandparents and grandchildren sat down, the members of the Zhen family came to pay their respects.
Among them is Baoyu, who looks really good.The most important thing is that he has better talent and learning. When chatting with the Supreme Emperor, he has something to say, and he opens his mouth when he recites poems and composes the right one.
The more the Taishanghuang looked at it, the more he felt that this young man was good, so he said to Qilin, "How about letting him study with you?"
Qilin doesn't want people from this family to accompany him to study, even if his poems are good.
"Grandfather, you forgot that your grandson doesn't study here. You have to ask about Jiangnan's affairs here and there, and you don't have time to study. It's a bit embarrassing for him to run around with me. I think he's in good shape. Weak, if something goes wrong at that time, I can't explain it to the Concubine Gui."
When Zhen Yingjia heard this, although the words were polite, the meaning of refusal was already very obvious. Not only did her scalp tingle, but also recently, she heard that someone was checking her family's affairs... At night, I just felt like I was out of control. In a cold sweat.
And at this time, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and deal with the current matter.
"Your Majesty, let's have a banquet."
The banquet was held here, and more than a dozen young girls came to the hall with plates.
Putting down the plate on the table, Qilin saw that there were some fruits in it.
Afterwards, the girls stepped aside, and a few plates of washed and uncut fruits were placed on the table alone.
Qilin's eyeballs rolled for a moment, and he quickly recalled the customs of Jiangnan.Before they could figure out why, these girls stepped forward and took down the plate, and a dozen people came up with the plate. This time the plate contained cut fruits, and they put it on the table again, and retreated.
No matter what, Qilin knew that this was not for food, so he calmed down a lot.
The room was quiet, and after the second round of fruit plate was removed, the third round was brought up.
This time, they were all large plates, all of which were carved fruit platters, which looked beautiful when placed together, and the fruity fragrance in the air permeated every corner of the room.Qilin only knows some citrus things, but he has never seen the others. He only thinks the taste is very soft, especially after smelling some sour things, he feels appetizing?
At this moment, someone yelled outside the auditorium, "Three offerings of dishes, sign up~"
Qilin was still thinking about what to sign, when he saw more than a dozen young girls coming up with trays and putting down various small plates in front of their grandparents and grandchildren.
There are sauces, pickles and honey fruits, fresh, sweet and salty.Then two young girls took trays and put two bowls of soup in front of their grandparents and grandchildren.
At this time, Qilin has dared to admit that he is a bumpkin.
Fortunately, he was a grandson, and he had to let his grandfather do the eating first, so he saw a girl behind the Supreme Emperor picked up the honey fruit, filled some soup, poured it into it, stirred it twice, and fed it to the Supreme Emperor.
The small dish was also very small, and there was very little in it. The Supreme Emperor only ate two or three dishes and stopped moving.
Qilin gestured to the girl standing behind him, and also tasted the sweet one.It doesn't feel greasy, and the taste is not bad.
After eating, the food was taken away, and someone shouted again, "The top pick has been offered, let's serve cold dishes~"
Eighteen plates of cold dishes were served at this time, and Qilin noticed that they were all vegetarian dishes, so he thought about waiting a while, maybe he would serve some more meat dishes.
Sure enough, the Supreme Emperor shook his head, "I don't like to eat these green leaves, let's see what the Crown Prince likes to eat, just pick one or two and taste it."
Qilin raised his chin and asked the girl behind him to pick up a green leaf vegetable that he had never seen before with chopsticks. After tasting it, he felt that it had the same taste as chewing fungus, and it was very crunchy and sweet in the mouth.
After these vegetarian dishes were served, eighteen cold meat dishes were served.
Except for mutton, beef, donkey and venison, there is no pork on the plate.
After eating a few more mouthfuls of beef, after the dishes were taken away, porridge was called out.
There are 24 bowls of porridge. In addition to the common sweet eight-treasure porridge, millet porridge, pumpkin porridge, and salty preserved egg and lean meat porridge, seafood porridge accounts for the vast majority.
Qilin drank a few spoonfuls of white porridge, and felt that the taste of the porridge was quite good, and he could tell the difference just by drinking this kind of porridge.
With some pickles and honey fruits on the side, I finished half a bowl of porridge by myself.
The Supreme Emperor saw that Qilin was eating deliciously, so he said to Zhen Yingjia, "He has a good appetite. Watching him eat, I can eat a few more mouthfuls."
The porridge was removed, and wine was offered at this time.
Zhen Yingjia began to show off in front of the Supreme Emperor. The Zhen family brewed 24 kinds of home wine, including 8 kinds of rice wine, 8 kinds of white wine, and 8 kinds of red wine.
Each kind of wine needs to be paired with different wine glasses. After finishing talking, 24 girls came up and served 24 kinds of wine, and each wine was paired with eight pairs of wine glasses.
Red wine is made from grapes, and there are eight types of cups: crystal cups, glass cups, and white jade cups.
The Supreme Emperor drank a sip of each wine, full of praise for each, and signaled Qilin to try it too, but Qilin refused to drink, and shook his head to decline the Supreme Emperor's kindness.
Looking at the cups that go with the liquor, several of them are antiques. Besides the bronze wine cups, there are also many famous products handed down from generation to generation.
The wines that the Supreme Emperor liked were kept, and those wines that were not selected were all withdrawn, and then the hot dishes began to be served.
There are 18 hot dishes each time, and there are 4 rounds in total.
During the meal, they were still talking about these hot dishes, how to make each hot dish, what materials were used, and how much effort was spent on it.
Let’s just talk about the winter melon cup inside. In addition to choosing winter melon carvings, the old chickens and ducks used in it must be selected for three years, and then three bowls of soup will be boiled into one bowl.In the process of making the soup, scallops, scallops, etc. are put in it, which takes three days and three nights...
And I don't know when the Supreme Emperor will come over, which means that this dish is cooked every day, and countless wastes are lost.
Qilin was listening to them quietly, and couldn't stop thinking about how many taels of silver this banquet cost.
The next time you start serving the soup, after the soup is the soup.From Qilin's point of view, there is no difference between the lottery just now and the soup and soup.
It's all a big bowl of water soaking in messy things.
By the end of the meal, there were a total of 24 bowls of this blistered soup stick.
This meal lasted until the moon was in the east, eating a lot of things like a revolving lantern, and in the end it was a mess.
Qilin was overwhelmed by this meal, ran to his room, and urged Hei Niu and Dong Bao to quickly add some candles and spread the white paper for him, he wanted to write a letter to his parents.
The ostentation and expense of this meal is something Qilin has never encountered in his life of more than ten years.Compared with others, the royal life of my family is really like a small farmer in the field.
He lay down under the lamp and wrote a few pages in a long way. Finally, he rubbed his eyes in sleepiness and asked the black girl to put the letter away in an envelope and send it away tomorrow.
After watching the black girl pack the letter, she kicked off her shoes and fell asleep wrapped in the quilt on the bed.
Linlin, who is far away in the capital, has reached a critical moment at this time. The little villain in her stomach has refused to come out until now. Linlin has been in the delivery room for a day, and she can still be calm in the morning. Sometimes I get a little irritable.
Jia Min wiped the sweat off his brow, "Keep harder, harder, and it will come out in a while."
At this moment, Linlin wanted to sit up irritably, "I won't give birth, I won't give birth, I'm so sick."
"It's the same with giving birth to children. You have already given birth to three. It's a pity to say this at this time. Honestly drink the ginseng soup and use a little more energy. The child can already see the head. Wait a while be born."
Bai Niu brought over the ginseng soup, "Drink it quickly, our Fifth Highness is clamoring for a queen mother outside. If you insist on coming in at this time, no one can stop you. I slapped him twice on the buttocks, and he was still making a fuss over there."
Linlin felt tired.
I thought in my heart that my old lady would really not give birth in the future, and this would be the last one.
I had no choice but to bring over the ginseng soup, breathed a sigh of relief, bit a piece of cork in my mouth, lay down and continued to give birth.
In the middle of the night, the child was finally born, and it was another stinky boy who was twitching and squatting.
Jia Min hurriedly asked the little Highness to be washed, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and carried out to the emperor to see.
The emperor looked at his youngest son first, and then asked Jia Min, "Is Madam still energetic when she looks at the queen?"
"It looks good, I still had the strength to look at our little Highness just now."
"That's good, that's good. In the past few days, let's work hard for Madam to come to the palace to visit the queen from time to time."
Jia Min quickly received the order respectfully, and carried her little grandson back. The people around Linlin had already tidied up the delivery room, which has now become a confinement room.
Linlin was indeed very tired and wanted to sleep, but she couldn't fall asleep, and she was a little excited. She looked at Jia Min and asked, "How much do you think this kid weighs when you hold him?"
"Anyway, it's heavier than his brothers." Jia Min beamed, "What do you want to eat, Madam? At this time, tell me to make some to eat and go to bed early."
Everything you eat is a confinement meal, which is tasteless.
Linlin took her son over, held her in her arms and said to Jia Min, "Don't come tomorrow, my brother-in-law just gave birth, you just stay at home and take care of her, I have had several births here The child is gone, and there are so many people around me, so I won't wrong myself."
"The emperor also said just now that he will come to see you tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Linlin thought about it for a while, and let her go after reading it. Anyway, it would take at most one morning to go from home to the palace in a sedan chair, and then return home from the palace.
"That's fine too. When the time comes, you bring my sister here. Firstly, let her meet her little nephew. Another thing is that Princess Shouchun is about to get married. Let her talk to Princess Shouchun more. "
Jia Min agreed, watched Linlin fall asleep and waited until dawn before returning home in a sedan chair.
Lin Ruhai had been waiting at home all night.
When the husband and wife met, Jia Min saw that Lin Ruhai was wearing an official uniform, as if he was about to go out to court.
"Master's eyes are bruised, did he not fall asleep last night?"
"I didn't fall asleep all night. How can I sleep if you don't come back. I'm in a hurry to go out now. Tell me what's going on in the palace?"
"I gave birth to a big fat boy. Both mother and baby are safe. When I came back, the two mothers were sleeping head to head."
Lin Ruhai felt relieved, waved to Jia Min, quickly mentioned the hem of the official uniform, and ran out in a hurry.
So relieved, he yawned in the sedan chair.When he got off the sedan chair, Lin Ruhai felt top-heavy when the long follower supported him.
Touching his forehead, he felt a little hot, and asked someone to take a pill from the pill he brought with him, and after swallowing it, he quickly joined the others.
When it was time to go to court, Lin Ruhai felt a little bad. He only felt that there was a golden star in front of his eyes, and he felt that everything was doubled.
After meeting with your servants, ask them to ask for leave. "Tell Master Shangshu that I'm not healthy enough, and I won't go to the yamen today if I'm sick."
After finishing speaking, the servants supported him and hurried into the sedan chair, when he heard someone greet him from behind, "Boss Lin~"
Lin Ruhai knew it was King Jingjing when he heard this voice, and felt that trouble was coming.Eyes closed all of a sudden fainted.
Lin Ruhai was fine when he went out in the morning, but when he came back in the morning, his eyes were closed and his teeth were clenched.I still feel that I got up quickly after hearing what I heard before, and ran to Lin Ruhai's bed to have a look, and cried at that time.
Bei Wang felt that it was so unlucky for him to be involved in this matter. Originally, he wanted to talk to Mr. Lin, so that he could have a good impression of him.Now it's all right, the man fainted in front of him, the imperial doctor pinched the goatee and talked nonsense, and after sending him over, the Lin family cried a lot, and those who didn't know thought that the old man would not survive .
Xin Yun was still in confinement, Lin Hao went to the Yamen, and Lin Jiao went to the East Palace.Jia Min and Lin Daiyu are the only mother and daughter who can support them at home.
Jia Min was crying, but Lin Daiyu persuaded him behind the screen. "Mother, don't cry, thank you, my lord."
King Bei Jing stood at the door and hadn't left yet. When he heard this voice, he suddenly felt numb all over his body.
As soon as Jia Min heard her daughter's words, she felt bad. The king of the North was a big-tailed wolf who had been eyeing her daughter. At this time, her daughter came out. Although she hadn't seen her, letting the king of Beijing know that the child was behind the screen would be like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.
"Why are you so ignorant of the rules? Are there male guests in the house? Why did you run out. Go back to your house and stay there."
After being lectured, Lin Daiyu covered her face with her fan and walked away from behind the screen.
King Beijing Jing only heard a voice and didn't even see anyone, he just felt light all over his body.
Jia Min was patronizing and crying just now, but now he wiped away his tears and asked someone to send King Beijing outside to serve tea.He hurriedly turned his head to look at Lin Ruhai again, Lin Ruhai was more serious this time, and his whole face was a bit off, otherwise Jia Min wouldn't have cried so hard.
Lin Hao, who was crying, came back and took the imperial doctor to feel his pulse.The imperial physician made it very clear, "It's getting old, don't worry, don't stay up late, don't drink alcohol... You must take care of yourself, this is the old disease caused by worrying for days, first rest for half a month, eat for half a month Let's see how the decoction is. After ten days, the old man will come again, look at Mr. Lin's body, and change the prescription again."
Lin Hao hurriedly sent the imperial doctor away. Jia Min thought that his daughter-in-law gave birth half a month ago, and the master stayed up all night without saying anything.It may have been bad at that time, but this time I stayed up all night for my mother, and went out to court in the morning, and endured this several times, only to have the disaster like today.
When Lin Hao returned home, the butler told him that King Beijing Jing had not left to die in the living room, and had offered tea twice.
Others don't know, but the butler knows that this King of Beijing Jing is not in a good mood.I wanted to drive him out just now, but he has a thick skin, no matter what he said, he just sat there and said he wanted to help.
It's too late to help when you become the son-in-law of our Lin family, but you don't even have a title now, so what can you do to help!
Lin Hao felt his scalp tingle when he heard it, so he had to go to the front yard to deal with King Beijing Jing.
King Beijing was more talkative this time. After meeting Lin Hao, he said that he had some medicinal materials at home, which corresponded to Duke Lin's condition.
After the prince arrived in Yangzhou, the subjects of Yangzhou tried their best to establish a relationship with him, even if they just met him once.
Even if you meet, you have to talk. If you want to avoid being cold, you can only talk about people or things that both parties are familiar with.
Lin Ruhai is a good topic. An official can say in front of the prince, "I used to work with the head of the country."
It is also possible that this person caused Lin Ruhai a lot of troubles in the past.Now that Lin Ruhai is not here, everyone can say whatever they want.
For the same reason, some salt merchants also brazenly told Qilin that he was taken care of by Mr. Lin back then. When he said this, it was most likely because he was hit by Lin Ruhai back then. Maybe this salt merchant once hid at home and cursed Lin Ruhai for choking to death when eating and drinking. die.
There are people who talk to Qilin every day and ask Lin Ruhai, Qilin must not dare to have other thoughts.
What did the Supreme Emperor think? He thought that although Yangzhou is good, this place cannot be lived for a long time. After a few days, he will take his grandson to Jinling. While talking about the elders in the family, the grandson will learn what the grandson should learn.
Thinking of this for the sake of the eunuch beside him, "Is the prince asleep now?"
The eunuch went out for a while and came back to report, "There is salt to discuss the favor of our prince. He collected Lin Gong's poems in Yangzhou before, printed them out and dedicated them to the prince. The prince is reading at night with the lamp on right now."
After hearing this, the Supreme Emperor asked the eunuch to get a copy and read it for himself.
The Supreme Emperor loved gifted scholars and beautiful ladies the most in his life, and he had seen countless beautiful ladies, but relatively few gifted scholars.His vision is vicious, of course he knows that many people do not live up to their names.
Back then, Lin Ruhai could catch his eyes. So far, the Supreme Emperor still has a very good impression of Lin Ruhai.I always thought that Lin Ruhai was still a gentle scholar.
Otherwise, he would not have agreed to Lin Ruhai's daughter marrying his son back then.It's a pity that the Lin family's good bamboo produces bad bamboo shoots, and it raises a girl like the queen who is different from the Lin family.
The Supreme Emperor held the book and thought about it carefully. If he said that the queen was not filial, it would really wrong her. Let him smack his heart and say that he really couldn't find such a good daughter-in-law with a lantern.I usually think about what I eat and use, and I don’t say anything to the old man. Even if there are any excessive demands, they will agree.
The only bad thing was that he was a bit rebellious towards the Concubine Gui. The Supreme Emperor recalled the matter of Lin Ruhai being poisoned in the past, and he couldn't blame the Concubine Gui or the Queen for this incident.The empress's failure to attack the imperial concubine also shows that she is sensible, and it is not unacceptable to say a few words when they meet.
A queen with a doughy temper doesn't do anyone any good.
Speaking of this, the Supreme Emperor sighed, the daughter-in-law here is good everywhere, just looking at his grandson's performance in the past few months, it shows that the Cui family is really very happy to marry this daughter-in-law.
But the Supreme Emperor just couldn't swallow this breath. First of all, the emperor was very lucky. With a good helper in his later years, he might be able to prevent father and son from fighting each other.Secondly, I felt that I didn't take a good look at it back then, such a daughter-in-law can tell the fifth child.
It was too late to say anything, the emperor flipped through a few pages of the book and handed it to the eunuch on the side and told him to keep it and read it again this year.
Qilin used his inquiring spirit to study the poems made by his grandfather for several nights, but he failed to learn how to make poems. Instead, he felt sleepy every time he picked them up.
When he was fine, he also thought about it, and it was probably because the queen mother failed to pass on this aura from her grandfather.When I came to my house, from my ancestors to my own father, I have never heard of them writing poems...
Qilin despaired for a while, thinking that he might not be able to write poetry in his life.
With this hopeless mood, Qilin bid farewell to Yangzhou in March, and followed the Supreme Emperor, all the way to Jinling slowly.
Yangzhou, known as Guangling in ancient times, has been a prosperous place since the two Jin Dynasties to the south.
Don't think that during this period of time, besides dealing with the occasional convulsions of the Supreme Emperor, Qilin also had to talk to the gentry officials in Yangzhou City. From these gaps, he also sent people to understand the living standards in Yangzhou.
The prosperity of Yangzhou is the prosperity of salt merchants. As the northern caravans purify the mineral salt from the north and send it to the pass, Jiangnan Haiyan represented by Yangzhou will be hit to a certain extent.
Compared with the salt merchants who control the production of sea salt, the northern caravan is their own property. Now it is dispatched by the mother and the father, and in the future it will be dispatched by themselves.As long as the caravan's operation can be maintained, the interests in it can be completely transferred out, which means that the prosperity of the salt merchants will not last long.
Rice and upland rice on the islands are being bred, and sweet potatoes with greater yields have been popularized in the north. The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River can no longer be counted on by the imperial court.
The important position of the land in the south of the Yangtze River in the imperial court will fall again and again, and all they can rely on in the future is the prosperity of the style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River... Qilin leaned his upper body out of the car window, looked back at the distant Yangzhou, and recalled Take a look at the Jiangnan scholars I have seen in the past few days.
How can a scholar without strength of character become a pillar of the court.
The ministers of the imperial court only want those who plead for the people, those who work hard... not those who rule the world by the classics.
Qilin still clearly remembers that on the first day he went to school, the doctor told him half of the Analects to live the world.At that time, I went back and said this to my mother, and the sarcasm on the mother's face still often appeared in my mind...
Qilin also remembered that he followed his father to meet the shopkeepers and handed over the money to those old craftsmen who had accumulated money for many years, just because they improved the loom, and those old craftsmen who received the money were grateful.
Now, Qilin feels that he should be grateful to Dade.
Cotton cloth from the north has been sold to the south of the Yangtze River, but these silks from the south of the Yangtze River still feel superior.
They haven't realized that the crisis has spread to their side.
Qilin looked at the endless mulberry forest outside the car window. If cotton cloth really defeated silk, would this mulberry forest be cut down to grow cotton?
Qilin has learned to look at the world with the eyes of an emperor, and to think about what is happening now with the emperor's thinking.
The Supreme Emperor thought he was reluctant to part with Yangzhou.
Send someone to call Qilin to his carriage, and the grandparents and grandchildren sit and talk to each other.
"Do you like Yangzhou?"
"Of course I like it."
"Like Yangzhou's mountains and rivers? In fact, the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful. If you go to any town, you can see little monks floating on black boats in front of the gate...
Jiangnan is a good place, not just the mountains and rivers, nor the people, but this place is a good place. "
After finishing talking, look at the unicorn, "When we get to Jinling, you can take a good look around there. Jinling is a better place than Yangzhou. You will definitely like Jinling. This is a prosperous place in the Six Dynasties, a gentle and rich town."
Qilin felt that he would not like Jinling. "The grandson likes Yangzhou because his mother once lived in Yangzhou, and his grandson visited Buddhist temples following in his mother's footsteps. As for Jinling, even if everything is good, it is not his hometown after all."
The Supreme Emperor didn't want to tell him so much, but just asked him, "What do you think of us in the Jinling Practice Palace?"
Jinling thought for a while, and recalled the silver taels spent by the treasury over the past few decades. "Zhen used the money from the treasury to build a very luxurious garden. It was originally used to pick up the driver. Now their family has moved in first... This is the bottom line. In the words of the grandson, there is no need to build another palace. It’s just a matter of getting their family to move out.”
The Supreme Emperor couldn't help but speak for his dog legs, "It's more cloudy after a long time without people living in it, and they also showed us the garden."
Seeing the prince's hostility towards the Zhen family, he thought in his heart that he must find a way to alleviate it.
Let this topic go first, and talk about some other things without mentioning it.
"You said you went to Yangzhou to worship Buddhist temples, what did you worship?"
Speaking of this, Qilin wanted to laugh, "I heard from Hei Niu that the old lady of the Lin family took her mother to a Buddhist temple a few days before her death, and drew lots at that Buddhist temple, saying that my mother would not have a daughter in this life. Thinking about it carefully, my mother gave birth to our three brothers in one go, and now there is a little brother in my mother's belly, so far, there is really no destiny for a daughter."
The Supreme Emperor just smiled and asked Qilin, "Did you ask for it?"
"The grandson didn't ask for it, but the guards who followed the grandson all went to ask for a lottery."
The grandparents and grandchildren talked and laughed all the way, and soon arrived in Jinling.
The officials of Jinling had already made preparations to pick up the driver, and had already set up a shed outside the city and waited for many days.
Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated now, the emperor's guard of honor is still there.
It can be said that since the departure from Yangzhou, they have been ostentatiously all the way to Jinling, and there is a guard of honor for the prince on the road, and the team stretches for tens of miles.
And this time the team in charge of security was the prince's six guards. After these troops were dispatched, the dust raised by the horseshoes alone really blocked the sky.
Fortunately, these people's food and clothing are all using the national stock of silver and grain. If the local government provides it, it will be a waste of money. Many local officials breathed a sigh of relief in secret, and wiped the sweat on their foreheads. At that time, you just need to pick up the driver honestly, and you don't need to pay for anything yourself. This time, it will be considered serious and there will be no disturbance.
The Taishanghuang's team stopped outside Jinling City, and the grandparents and grandchildren stood on the carriage, looking at Jinling City from afar.
The Taishanghuang was in a particularly good mood, with the spirit of pointing the country with points, pointing to the city walls and towers and telling his grandson that when his ancestors captured Jinling, he was injured somewhere.
He also said that on a certain section of the city wall, the damage caused by the siege equipment to the city wall still remains.
Finally, he proudly said to his grandson, "Jinling City is the first place in the south of the Yangtze River. Its prosperity cannot be compared with other places we saw on the road. It is also the center of the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is Gusu or not. No matter Yangzhou Kuaiji, I dare not compare it with this place."
Having said so much, Qilin has long been curious about this city.
"Why don't we go into the city at this time, and let our grandson see how much more beautiful Jinling is than other places."
After speaking, the Supreme Emperor issued an order, and the guard of honor played music. The civil and military officials on both sides and the local gentry knelt down on both sides. Qilin got out of the carriage and changed horses, and was surrounded by the guards.
Arriving at Jinling in the morning, it took more than two hours just for the ceremony of entering the city.
When entering the city, Qilin's horse walked in front, and the people on both sides bowed and worshiped.
Qilin waved his hand on the horse, showing the demeanor of the prince everywhere.
The young people didn't think there was anything wrong. The older people sighed after seeing what Prince Yizhong looked like back then.
What's the use of looking good now, I'm afraid it will grow more crooked in the future.
As long as it doesn't grow crooked, it's better than anything else.
The place where the Supreme Emperor and his troops stayed was in the garden of the Zhen family.
Qilin didn't want to see these members of the Zhen family crying and laughing together as if they were reunited after a long absence.
So after arriving in the garden, he took people to his place, watched the guards, the maids set up the utensils, made the bed and folded the quilt.
The members of Zhen's family didn't know that Concubine Gui was blind, but at this moment they suddenly found out and cried bitterly.
The men in this family think more, if the big tree in the palace becomes unreliable, they will have to find another way out, pin their hopes on others, and they will never feel at ease from their own family.
Zhen Yingjia recalled that when the prince entered the city just now, he was looking forward to Shenfei, and his heart was not only a little moved.
When the Supreme Emperor finished changing his clothes and was sitting in the hall drinking tea, Zhen Yingjia went over to inquire about the news.
"The old minister looked at the crown prince's appearance when he was young, but the old minister has been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and I don't know what he likes. I am afraid that the things he prepared will not please him."
This made the Supreme Emperor feel a little uncomfortable. He is still alive and well, and his servants have already started begging for mercy from others.
She didn't hide the anger on her face at all, Zhen Yingjia immediately knew what she just said was wrong.
Just act as if you didn't see the anger on the Taishanghuang's face, and quickly save it again. "I don't know why...the crown prince sees something wrong with the minister...so I come to ask the master to give me some pointers."
After hearing what he said, the Supreme Emperor's anger also subsided a little. No matter whether it was the prince or the emperor, they looked down on these people in Jiangnan.
"He is young, you guess what young people like, just give him some."
After a few perfunctory words, I heard that the Grand Concubine invited the Supreme Emperor to have lunch with her, and she agreed to have dinner with the Grand Concubine.
The imperial concubine did not have a good time on this journey.In the eyes of this pampered old lady, this journey is really ups and downs, and there is nothing she wants, so she swallowed her anger along the way, and finally arrived at her natal home, opened her heart, and lived happily for a few days. Naturally And no longer hide it.
Seeing the face of the Supreme Emperor, she held the old man's hand, "My natal sister-in-law is also a fool, she just called the girl from the family to me, and told me that the little girl from my nephew's family is a lucky person, Please let me find a way to get this little girl into the East Palace."
After finishing speaking, she felt a little unhappy, "They didn't even ask about the temper of the queen in the palace. With such a powerful mother-in-law, how can these girls have a good life. The two rich eyes only see the future wealth, I don’t even look at whether the children in the family have this blessing.”
After finishing speaking, he took the hand of the Supreme Emperor, "When I didn't go back to my mother's house, I always looked forward to coming back. When I came back, I felt that everything was not going well. I told me that it was not as good as the West Garden. The West Garden is big and empty. Although the scenery is not as beautiful as Jiangnan, After all, it’s rare to see it in the north, and you can get what you want there, unlike here.”
The anger of the Supreme Emperor just now disappeared without a trace because of the noble concubine's complaint about being coquettish.
"We're getting old, we can't admit it. Your natal family still wants to live a rich life, so they have to make decisions with the emperor and the prince. Now that the prince is in front of them, they certainly don't want to let go of such a good opportunity. It's just human nature." , don’t think too much, in the end, we two old bastards get together to live together.”
The Grand Concubine was indeed a little sad, she didn't eat much for lunch.
The two elderly people walked for a while with their arms in the courtyard, when they heard that there was a girl from the Zhen family outside who came to pay her respects to the imperial concubine.
After these girls left, the Supreme Emperor thought for a while that although the Crown Prince was young, it was time to mention the matter of the Crown Princess.
Before dinner at night, I said to the imperial concubine, "I see that the girls in your family are all pretty good, how about this, you tell your sister-in-law, the crown princess probably won't be able to grab it, and the side concubine can still make plans. .”
When the noble concubine's sister-in-law got the news, she happily gathered the daughters-in-law of the family together to discuss this matter.
When the news got to the ears of these girls, most of them felt somewhat unhappy.
"The Zhao family used to be slaves of our family. Although the crown prince has a noble status, he is the grandson of the Zhao family. Now it is humiliating us to let us, the master, marry the grandson of the slave family."
Before she could finish her sentence, the Grand Concubine's sister-in-law slapped the speaker on the face. These granddaughters were so frightened that none of them dared to speak.Everyone was trembling and didn't know why the old lady was angry.
"Don't talk about who you married. If you really entered the East Palace, you are not a princess and you don't need to marry. That's all, now everyone has high-mindedness and low-handedness. Since you don't want this future, don't mess around. explain.
The example of the Dong family is still ahead, let’s take a look at what the Dong family looks like now, if you want our family to be like the Dong family in the future, I will ask someone to marry you off now, so as not to be troublesome family. "
These daughters-in-law are also mothers, and they all feel sorry for their daughters. Seeing the old lady getting angry like this, they quickly pushed these girls out, and used other things to divert the old lady's attention.
"You old man, don't be as knowledgeable as these girls. The kitchen has been preparing for a few days, and now the banquet is going to be held tonight. This is a big deal."
So this matter can only be pushed back, and the whole family moved up and down.
Qilin ate some lunch in a hurry at noon, and read a book for a while in the afternoon. Seeing that it was getting dark, the Supreme Emperor sent someone to say that he would have a good meal in the evening.
After Qilin changed his clothes, he led the people to the Taishanghuang's courtyard, and saw that the place had started to light up, and it was resplendent everywhere. There were several large tables put together in the hall, and the Taishanghuang sat on the right seat, and saw his grandson coming, He patted the seat next to him and asked him to come and sit.
After both grandparents and grandchildren sat down, the members of the Zhen family came to pay their respects.
Among them is Baoyu, who looks really good.The most important thing is that he has better talent and learning. When chatting with the Supreme Emperor, he has something to say, and he opens his mouth when he recites poems and composes the right one.
The more the Taishanghuang looked at it, the more he felt that this young man was good, so he said to Qilin, "How about letting him study with you?"
Qilin doesn't want people from this family to accompany him to study, even if his poems are good.
"Grandfather, you forgot that your grandson doesn't study here. You have to ask about Jiangnan's affairs here and there, and you don't have time to study. It's a bit embarrassing for him to run around with me. I think he's in good shape. Weak, if something goes wrong at that time, I can't explain it to the Concubine Gui."
When Zhen Yingjia heard this, although the words were polite, the meaning of refusal was already very obvious. Not only did her scalp tingle, but also recently, she heard that someone was checking her family's affairs... At night, I just felt like I was out of control. In a cold sweat.
And at this time, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and deal with the current matter.
"Your Majesty, let's have a banquet."
The banquet was held here, and more than a dozen young girls came to the hall with plates.
Putting down the plate on the table, Qilin saw that there were some fruits in it.
Afterwards, the girls stepped aside, and a few plates of washed and uncut fruits were placed on the table alone.
Qilin's eyeballs rolled for a moment, and he quickly recalled the customs of Jiangnan.Before they could figure out why, these girls stepped forward and took down the plate, and a dozen people came up with the plate. This time the plate contained cut fruits, and they put it on the table again, and retreated.
No matter what, Qilin knew that this was not for food, so he calmed down a lot.
The room was quiet, and after the second round of fruit plate was removed, the third round was brought up.
This time, they were all large plates, all of which were carved fruit platters, which looked beautiful when placed together, and the fruity fragrance in the air permeated every corner of the room.Qilin only knows some citrus things, but he has never seen the others. He only thinks the taste is very soft, especially after smelling some sour things, he feels appetizing?
At this moment, someone yelled outside the auditorium, "Three offerings of dishes, sign up~"
Qilin was still thinking about what to sign, when he saw more than a dozen young girls coming up with trays and putting down various small plates in front of their grandparents and grandchildren.
There are sauces, pickles and honey fruits, fresh, sweet and salty.Then two young girls took trays and put two bowls of soup in front of their grandparents and grandchildren.
At this time, Qilin has dared to admit that he is a bumpkin.
Fortunately, he was a grandson, and he had to let his grandfather do the eating first, so he saw a girl behind the Supreme Emperor picked up the honey fruit, filled some soup, poured it into it, stirred it twice, and fed it to the Supreme Emperor.
The small dish was also very small, and there was very little in it. The Supreme Emperor only ate two or three dishes and stopped moving.
Qilin gestured to the girl standing behind him, and also tasted the sweet one.It doesn't feel greasy, and the taste is not bad.
After eating, the food was taken away, and someone shouted again, "The top pick has been offered, let's serve cold dishes~"
Eighteen plates of cold dishes were served at this time, and Qilin noticed that they were all vegetarian dishes, so he thought about waiting a while, maybe he would serve some more meat dishes.
Sure enough, the Supreme Emperor shook his head, "I don't like to eat these green leaves, let's see what the Crown Prince likes to eat, just pick one or two and taste it."
Qilin raised his chin and asked the girl behind him to pick up a green leaf vegetable that he had never seen before with chopsticks. After tasting it, he felt that it had the same taste as chewing fungus, and it was very crunchy and sweet in the mouth.
After these vegetarian dishes were served, eighteen cold meat dishes were served.
Except for mutton, beef, donkey and venison, there is no pork on the plate.
After eating a few more mouthfuls of beef, after the dishes were taken away, porridge was called out.
There are 24 bowls of porridge. In addition to the common sweet eight-treasure porridge, millet porridge, pumpkin porridge, and salty preserved egg and lean meat porridge, seafood porridge accounts for the vast majority.
Qilin drank a few spoonfuls of white porridge, and felt that the taste of the porridge was quite good, and he could tell the difference just by drinking this kind of porridge.
With some pickles and honey fruits on the side, I finished half a bowl of porridge by myself.
The Supreme Emperor saw that Qilin was eating deliciously, so he said to Zhen Yingjia, "He has a good appetite. Watching him eat, I can eat a few more mouthfuls."
The porridge was removed, and wine was offered at this time.
Zhen Yingjia began to show off in front of the Supreme Emperor. The Zhen family brewed 24 kinds of home wine, including 8 kinds of rice wine, 8 kinds of white wine, and 8 kinds of red wine.
Each kind of wine needs to be paired with different wine glasses. After finishing talking, 24 girls came up and served 24 kinds of wine, and each wine was paired with eight pairs of wine glasses.
Red wine is made from grapes, and there are eight types of cups: crystal cups, glass cups, and white jade cups.
The Supreme Emperor drank a sip of each wine, full of praise for each, and signaled Qilin to try it too, but Qilin refused to drink, and shook his head to decline the Supreme Emperor's kindness.
Looking at the cups that go with the liquor, several of them are antiques. Besides the bronze wine cups, there are also many famous products handed down from generation to generation.
The wines that the Supreme Emperor liked were kept, and those wines that were not selected were all withdrawn, and then the hot dishes began to be served.
There are 18 hot dishes each time, and there are 4 rounds in total.
During the meal, they were still talking about these hot dishes, how to make each hot dish, what materials were used, and how much effort was spent on it.
Let’s just talk about the winter melon cup inside. In addition to choosing winter melon carvings, the old chickens and ducks used in it must be selected for three years, and then three bowls of soup will be boiled into one bowl.In the process of making the soup, scallops, scallops, etc. are put in it, which takes three days and three nights...
And I don't know when the Supreme Emperor will come over, which means that this dish is cooked every day, and countless wastes are lost.
Qilin was listening to them quietly, and couldn't stop thinking about how many taels of silver this banquet cost.
The next time you start serving the soup, after the soup is the soup.From Qilin's point of view, there is no difference between the lottery just now and the soup and soup.
It's all a big bowl of water soaking in messy things.
By the end of the meal, there were a total of 24 bowls of this blistered soup stick.
This meal lasted until the moon was in the east, eating a lot of things like a revolving lantern, and in the end it was a mess.
Qilin was overwhelmed by this meal, ran to his room, and urged Hei Niu and Dong Bao to quickly add some candles and spread the white paper for him, he wanted to write a letter to his parents.
The ostentation and expense of this meal is something Qilin has never encountered in his life of more than ten years.Compared with others, the royal life of my family is really like a small farmer in the field.
He lay down under the lamp and wrote a few pages in a long way. Finally, he rubbed his eyes in sleepiness and asked the black girl to put the letter away in an envelope and send it away tomorrow.
After watching the black girl pack the letter, she kicked off her shoes and fell asleep wrapped in the quilt on the bed.
Linlin, who is far away in the capital, has reached a critical moment at this time. The little villain in her stomach has refused to come out until now. Linlin has been in the delivery room for a day, and she can still be calm in the morning. Sometimes I get a little irritable.
Jia Min wiped the sweat off his brow, "Keep harder, harder, and it will come out in a while."
At this moment, Linlin wanted to sit up irritably, "I won't give birth, I won't give birth, I'm so sick."
"It's the same with giving birth to children. You have already given birth to three. It's a pity to say this at this time. Honestly drink the ginseng soup and use a little more energy. The child can already see the head. Wait a while be born."
Bai Niu brought over the ginseng soup, "Drink it quickly, our Fifth Highness is clamoring for a queen mother outside. If you insist on coming in at this time, no one can stop you. I slapped him twice on the buttocks, and he was still making a fuss over there."
Linlin felt tired.
I thought in my heart that my old lady would really not give birth in the future, and this would be the last one.
I had no choice but to bring over the ginseng soup, breathed a sigh of relief, bit a piece of cork in my mouth, lay down and continued to give birth.
In the middle of the night, the child was finally born, and it was another stinky boy who was twitching and squatting.
Jia Min hurriedly asked the little Highness to be washed, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and carried out to the emperor to see.
The emperor looked at his youngest son first, and then asked Jia Min, "Is Madam still energetic when she looks at the queen?"
"It looks good, I still had the strength to look at our little Highness just now."
"That's good, that's good. In the past few days, let's work hard for Madam to come to the palace to visit the queen from time to time."
Jia Min quickly received the order respectfully, and carried her little grandson back. The people around Linlin had already tidied up the delivery room, which has now become a confinement room.
Linlin was indeed very tired and wanted to sleep, but she couldn't fall asleep, and she was a little excited. She looked at Jia Min and asked, "How much do you think this kid weighs when you hold him?"
"Anyway, it's heavier than his brothers." Jia Min beamed, "What do you want to eat, Madam? At this time, tell me to make some to eat and go to bed early."
Everything you eat is a confinement meal, which is tasteless.
Linlin took her son over, held her in her arms and said to Jia Min, "Don't come tomorrow, my brother-in-law just gave birth, you just stay at home and take care of her, I have had several births here The child is gone, and there are so many people around me, so I won't wrong myself."
"The emperor also said just now that he will come to see you tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Linlin thought about it for a while, and let her go after reading it. Anyway, it would take at most one morning to go from home to the palace in a sedan chair, and then return home from the palace.
"That's fine too. When the time comes, you bring my sister here. Firstly, let her meet her little nephew. Another thing is that Princess Shouchun is about to get married. Let her talk to Princess Shouchun more. "
Jia Min agreed, watched Linlin fall asleep and waited until dawn before returning home in a sedan chair.
Lin Ruhai had been waiting at home all night.
When the husband and wife met, Jia Min saw that Lin Ruhai was wearing an official uniform, as if he was about to go out to court.
"Master's eyes are bruised, did he not fall asleep last night?"
"I didn't fall asleep all night. How can I sleep if you don't come back. I'm in a hurry to go out now. Tell me what's going on in the palace?"
"I gave birth to a big fat boy. Both mother and baby are safe. When I came back, the two mothers were sleeping head to head."
Lin Ruhai felt relieved, waved to Jia Min, quickly mentioned the hem of the official uniform, and ran out in a hurry.
So relieved, he yawned in the sedan chair.When he got off the sedan chair, Lin Ruhai felt top-heavy when the long follower supported him.
Touching his forehead, he felt a little hot, and asked someone to take a pill from the pill he brought with him, and after swallowing it, he quickly joined the others.
When it was time to go to court, Lin Ruhai felt a little bad. He only felt that there was a golden star in front of his eyes, and he felt that everything was doubled.
After meeting with your servants, ask them to ask for leave. "Tell Master Shangshu that I'm not healthy enough, and I won't go to the yamen today if I'm sick."
After finishing speaking, the servants supported him and hurried into the sedan chair, when he heard someone greet him from behind, "Boss Lin~"
Lin Ruhai knew it was King Jingjing when he heard this voice, and felt that trouble was coming.Eyes closed all of a sudden fainted.
Lin Ruhai was fine when he went out in the morning, but when he came back in the morning, his eyes were closed and his teeth were clenched.I still feel that I got up quickly after hearing what I heard before, and ran to Lin Ruhai's bed to have a look, and cried at that time.
Bei Wang felt that it was so unlucky for him to be involved in this matter. Originally, he wanted to talk to Mr. Lin, so that he could have a good impression of him.Now it's all right, the man fainted in front of him, the imperial doctor pinched the goatee and talked nonsense, and after sending him over, the Lin family cried a lot, and those who didn't know thought that the old man would not survive .
Xin Yun was still in confinement, Lin Hao went to the Yamen, and Lin Jiao went to the East Palace.Jia Min and Lin Daiyu are the only mother and daughter who can support them at home.
Jia Min was crying, but Lin Daiyu persuaded him behind the screen. "Mother, don't cry, thank you, my lord."
King Bei Jing stood at the door and hadn't left yet. When he heard this voice, he suddenly felt numb all over his body.
As soon as Jia Min heard her daughter's words, she felt bad. The king of the North was a big-tailed wolf who had been eyeing her daughter. At this time, her daughter came out. Although she hadn't seen her, letting the king of Beijing know that the child was behind the screen would be like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.
"Why are you so ignorant of the rules? Are there male guests in the house? Why did you run out. Go back to your house and stay there."
After being lectured, Lin Daiyu covered her face with her fan and walked away from behind the screen.
King Beijing Jing only heard a voice and didn't even see anyone, he just felt light all over his body.
Jia Min was patronizing and crying just now, but now he wiped away his tears and asked someone to send King Beijing outside to serve tea.He hurriedly turned his head to look at Lin Ruhai again, Lin Ruhai was more serious this time, and his whole face was a bit off, otherwise Jia Min wouldn't have cried so hard.
Lin Hao, who was crying, came back and took the imperial doctor to feel his pulse.The imperial physician made it very clear, "It's getting old, don't worry, don't stay up late, don't drink alcohol... You must take care of yourself, this is the old disease caused by worrying for days, first rest for half a month, eat for half a month Let's see how the decoction is. After ten days, the old man will come again, look at Mr. Lin's body, and change the prescription again."
Lin Hao hurriedly sent the imperial doctor away. Jia Min thought that his daughter-in-law gave birth half a month ago, and the master stayed up all night without saying anything.It may have been bad at that time, but this time I stayed up all night for my mother, and went out to court in the morning, and endured this several times, only to have the disaster like today.
When Lin Hao returned home, the butler told him that King Beijing Jing had not left to die in the living room, and had offered tea twice.
Others don't know, but the butler knows that this King of Beijing Jing is not in a good mood.I wanted to drive him out just now, but he has a thick skin, no matter what he said, he just sat there and said he wanted to help.
It's too late to help when you become the son-in-law of our Lin family, but you don't even have a title now, so what can you do to help!
Lin Hao felt his scalp tingle when he heard it, so he had to go to the front yard to deal with King Beijing Jing.
King Beijing was more talkative this time. After meeting Lin Hao, he said that he had some medicinal materials at home, which corresponded to Duke Lin's condition.
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