Chapter 283: Poached Eggs and Noodles(1/2)
Shi Yuanxiong subconsciously glanced at the emperor. His Majesty's attitude towards She Xinlou scared him. The old eunuch She Xinlou had been serving the emperor for nearly twenty years. From the day he entered Weiyang Palace, he followed His Majesty. Now the ending seems a bit miserable.
However, Your Majesty never kills people who should not die.
Shi Yuanxiong didn't dare to ask, so he could only lower his head, because he knew that His Majesty asked She Xinlou to die and deliberately showed it to him.
Shi Yuanxiong is not a fool, of course he could think of the only possibility, yes, the only... She Xinlou has been the queen's person since the day His Majesty was His Majesty, perhaps earlier, why could Shi Yuanxiong guess that She Xinlou has not moved around His Majesty for the past twenty years, in order to save the queen's life at the most critical moment, or...
Shi Yuanxiong lowered his head and breathed slowly, trying his best to calm down his mood.
She Xinlou can die, of course he can die, but His Majesty was heartbroken to him before, just telling him that I could trust you, and killing She Xinlou in front of him was telling him that I don’t want you to have anything to do with the queen anymore.
At this moment, Shi Yuanxiong suddenly realized, why didn’t His Majesty move the queen? Is he really afraid of hurting the royal family’s face?
The Hou clan has been suppressed by His Majesty for nearly twenty years. At this time, even if His Majesty directly deposed the Queen, there would be no uproar. The Hou clan was powerless to resist. His Majesty kept the Queen just because... he didn't take her seriously.
"Continue playing chess."
The emperor said in a plain tone: "There will always be people who force me to do what I don't want to do, which is annoying."
Shi Yuanxiong picked up a chess piece, but his heart was already confused and he didn't know how to make a move.
"Forget it, go back."
The emperor glanced at Shi Yuanxiong, and Shi Yuanxiong quickly bowed his head to apologize: "I am really old, and staying up late is so mentally traumatized and a little distracted."
"You put down the chess piece first."
The emperor pointed at his hand, and Shi Yuanxiong reacted and threw the chess piece into the box.
The emperor nodded with satisfaction: "You have to commit suicide and admit defeat even if you leave."
Shi Yuanxiong said goodbye and left. The emperor sat there for a while and stood up and walked out. When he stood up and walked out, he felt that the night wind was still a little cool in the summer season. He went out to vegetarian vegetarian vegetarians and the eunuch standing outside let the boat down and hung his head: "Your Majesty."
"Where are people?"
"Send it away."
"Just say it's a sudden illness, a grand funeral, a heavy reward, and inform the local government in his hometown and take more care of his family."
The emperor tightened his collar, Dai Fangzhou quickly picked up a cloak to put on it for the emperor. The emperor shook his head: "Go to Yanfu Palace."
Yanfu Palace is the current bedroom of the queen. The emperor has not stepped into Yanfu Palace for at least seven or eight years. So when the contemporary Fangzhou heard this, he thought he had heard it wrong, and then he immediately became excited. How many big things would he encounter?!
He hurriedly asked to send someone to inform Yanfu Palace, but the emperor refused. After leaving Simaozhai, he got on a carriage and escorted by the imperial guards to return to Weiyang Palace. Simaozhai was in the imperial garden. After leaving the imperial garden, he walked to the right and was Weiyang Palace, and to the left was Haoting Villa.
"Go and tell Dan Tai Yuan Shu no longer works. Just wait in Haoting Villa, I'll go and take a look."
The emperor suddenly changed his mind: "Go to the villa first."
After entering Haoting Villa, the emperor did not make people public. He led a few people to the small courtyard where Shen Leng stayed. Thinking that the little guy was afraid he couldn't sleep tonight and his injuries had not healed yet, an assassin came in at night. He had to experience the suffering and danger that his peers would never experience at a young age. The emperor felt a little painful.
He thought that the little guy should be lying on the bed in a daze. He didn't want to disturb Chen Leng, so he asked someone not to go in and say, he went in directly
The yard is over.
I was stunned when I entered the door.
The emperor felt that the guy who was frightened should have been lying in a daze on the bed, squatting on the steps at the door and eating noodles.
Suck it, it seems to be delicious.
"Your descendant, why don't you kneel down to greet me?"
Dai Fangzhou saw Chen Leng squatting and stood there and immediately scolded him, his voice a little louder.
The emperor turned his head and looked at him: "Get out."
Dai Fangzhou was so scared that he trembled and hurriedly took his entourage to leave the yard. After going out, his heartbeat still couldn't calm down. He deeply sank the name cold in his heart, warning himself to remember and remember.
The emperor walked to the door and looked down at Chen Leng's noodles, clear soup and white noodles, added two vegetable leaves and a golden poached egg, with a few drops of oil, while Chen Leng's mouth was still holding half of the noodles, obviously a little at a loss.
"Can you cook noodles by yourself if you are so injured?"
"If it weren't just noodles, I could make a table of dishes for myself."
"I'm hungry too when I go and cook another bowl."
Chen Leng immediately stood up and put his noodle bowl aside. When the emperor saw him leaving, he squatted down on the steps at the door, telling himself to hold it back, but he couldn't help it. He picked up the cold noodle bowl and ate it with cold chopsticks. It tasted really good, but the emperor suddenly wanted to cry.
He put down the noodle bowl and carefully used chopsticks to restore the noodles and poached eggs inside to their original position, as if they had not moved.
Not long after, Chen Leng took a bowl of noodles and handed it to the emperor with both hands. After the emperor took it, he pointed at himself: "Squat."
Chen Leng: "Ah? Ah..."
I feel a little uncomfortable. I shouldn’t have said that Your Majesty comes in and sits. Your Majesty says you should squat, so let’s squat.
Chen Leng held his noodle bowl and squatted beside the emperor. The two of them stood shoulder to shoulder. After eating a few bites, the emperor felt his stomach warmed up. The bowl of clear soup and white noodles in the middle of the night also tasted unusually delicious. In fact, in Chen Leng's words, he was hungry.
The emperor looked into his bowl, looked at Chen Leng again, pointed to the poached egg in Chen Leng bowl and pointed to the poached egg in his bowl.
"Why is yours bigger?"
Chen Leng sighed: "Your Majesty, that's a matter of chickens, and he's not too big."
Emperor: "You asked me to blame the chicken?"
Shen Leng was speechless.
"Go and fry one more. I am the emperor. The emperor is older than you, so I have to eat two."
Chen Leng had to put down his noodle bowl and fry a poached egg. The emperor was immediately satisfied when he saw it. He slapped the noodles with big mouthfuls, and he no longer looked like an emperor, but he was the strongest and domineering emperor in the world.
"Are you enough to eat?"
The emperor suddenly asked.
Chen Leng smiled awkwardly: "It's barely enough, but after living in the army for a long time, the appetite will increase, but fortunately it's just a midnight snack."
The emperor asked, "Then why don't you cook a little more?"
Chen Leng said: "I just walked around the kitchen. There was only one pack of noodles and three eggs, so I left more. I planned to cook them tomorrow morning. I thought that something happened tonight. The chef would naturally not come early tomorrow morning. If he came, he would be checked. Maybe no one would care about me..."
The emperor picked up the two poached eggs in his bowl and put them in Shen Leng’s bowl: “I’ll give you my reward.”
Chen Leng was stunned for a moment, and his heart was so warm that he wanted to rub his nose and the corners of his eyes.
It was clearly a gift from the emperor himself to eat noodles, and it was a poached egg he fried. Do you need to thank him now?
The emperor drank all the noodle soup, looked at Chen Leng and stood there stupidly: "I am the emperor, and I have nothing to say, so I don't want to do something indecent, you are waiting for me to do it.
Will you pick up the poached eggs you gave you back?”
Chen Leng quickly ate it and swallowed it voraciously.
The emperor got up and went into the room, sat down on the main seat, waved to the outside: "Go and get some tea, let Dan Tai Yuanshu come here to see me, and then send someone back to Weiyang Palace, tell the imperial kitchen to choose two chefs, and cook in this yard from now on."
Dai Fangzhou, who was almost frightened by the emperor's actions tonight, hurriedly went to do it. He didn't understand how His Majesty could be such a Majesty, and why was that young general such a Majesty? His Majesty was too different from His Majesty in front of Shen Leng.
Chen Leng came in after eating the noodles, looking apologetic.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I am guilty."
"What crime is there?"
"The sin of deceiving the king."
After hearing these four words, the emperor hesitated for a moment: "That's big enough, let's talk about it, how to deceive the emperor?"
Chen Leng: "Actually, there is an egg in the kitchen, so I have kept it private."
The emperor was stern and for a while, he couldn't help but: "Hahahahaha... Look at your petty aura!"
After saying this, I felt inexplicably sad. Why did Chen Leng even care so much about an egg?
"I...I'll forgive you for being innocent."
The emperor turned his head, not wanting Chen Leng to see the care in his eyes. After a while, he adjusted and looked at Chen Leng: "You invite me to have a bowl of white noodles, and I will give you two imperial chefs."
Chen Leng leaned over: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"You're welcome, I'll let you go on board and announce the order to give General Chen Leng two imperial chefs. I'll work with Chen Leng's army in the future and double the salary. After all, it will be hard for them in the future."
Chen Leng was so moved that he wanted to refuse. After all, it was too ostentatious to bring two imperial chefs to cook for himself with his own food.
Before he could speak, he saw the emperor looking at him, and said in a calm tone: "You go out."
"ah?"
"Don't understand?"
"Um!"
"I mean that the salary of the imperial chef will be doubled and deducted from your salary."
Shen Leng: "..."
The emperor asked: "It seems a little dissatisfied?"
Chen Leng: "Why not deduct General Zhuang Yong's salary from his salary?"
Emperor: "Okay."
To be continued...