Man Bao pointed to the still hot meatloaf and said, "My sister-in-law made this too, do you want to try it?"
Changyu sniffed, and without thinking about it, she reached out and took one, and took a bite. It was soft but firm, and she got a little bit of minced meat in just one bite. Her eyes lit up, and she nodded to Mingda, "Very good."
It’s delicious, try it quickly.”
Mingda also took one, took a small bite, smiled, nodded and said: "It's good, it tastes different from the ones in the palace."
"Of course. The meat filling is mixed with the sauce made by my sister-in-law. It's particularly delicious."
The guards couldn't help but turn their eyes. They didn't react when the princesses were eating wild vegetables, but when they nibbled on the meat cakes, the aroma kept coming to their noses, and they couldn't control their gazes.
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The two guards standing closest to the two princesses swallowed involuntarily, then forced themselves to look away and looked at the young men who were riding towards them.
Zhao Liulang and others ran closer to confirm that they had seen correctly. The people standing in front of the palace gate were indeed Princess Changyu and Princess Mingda.
Zhao Liulang was the first to jump off his horse and step forward to salute, "I've seen two princesses."
Mingda and Changyu returned the greeting and called them cousin.
Zhao Liulang looked at the meat pie in their hands, then looked at the plate in Zhou Man's hand and the basket in Bai Shan's hand. He couldn't help but blink and question, "This is..."
Mingda said sheepishly: "This is our breakfast."
Zhao Liulang:...When will the princesses' breakfast arrive at the palace gate? And what is that ugly dish?
It doesn't look delicious.
But Changyu ate happily, eating a bite of meat pie and a bite of wild vegetables. Her appetite was whetted, and she even taught Mingda to eat the same way. "It's not greasy at all, and it's very appetizing."
Zhao Liulang could only turn his head to look at Bai Shan, hoping he could give an explanation.
Bai Shan met Zhao Liulang's gaze and calmly looked away, ignoring him.
Zhao Liulang:......
He was about to ask something else when Liu Huan's carriage arrived. As soon as his carriage stopped, he jumped out of the carriage and shouted, "I smell meat pie. Have you eaten meat pie?"
He jumped out of the carriage and realized that the people eating the meat pie were not Bai Shan and Zhou Man as he imagined, but two princesses. He immediately stopped and did not dare to be rude.
Since he had brought enough, Man Bao casually took a meatloaf from the basket and handed it to him.
Liu Huan smiled and said: "Isn't this good..."
That's what he said, but he still took it.
When Chang Yu saw it, he was unhappy. She always protected food, and she and Liu Huan were not familiar with each other. This cake was brought by Man Bao for her and Ming Da.
So she took a bite of the meat pie and kept eating wild vegetables. She also called Mingda, "Eat this first, and after finishing we will enter the palace."
Wild vegetables cannot be brought into the palace, but meat cakes are fine.
Having grown up together, Mingda still didn't know what she was thinking. He nodded with a smile and went to pick up wild vegetables to eat.
Liu Huan was also hungry for wild vegetables, but he looked at Mingda and then at Changyu and did not dare to speak.
More people and students came to the palace gate one after another. Feng Zongping and Yi Ziyang also arrived. Together with other students, they first bowed to Princess Mingda, the princess of Changyu, and then looked here and had to pass the inspection.
Go to the palace.
Only Zhao Liulang and Liu Huan stayed, but one stayed to watch the two princess cousins, and the other stayed to eat meat pie.
Lu Yue was the last two to arrive. He watched for a while and couldn't help but said to Zhao Liulang: "You just look at it like this? You don't know if the food outside the palace is clean, so you dare to give it to the princess?"
Bai Shan just raised his eyelids gently, and Zhao Liulang said angrily: "Zhou Man is the imperial physician. Is there anything she dares to bring that she wouldn't dare to eat?"
Chang Yu, who was struggling to eat, nodded repeatedly, swallowed what was in his mouth, and then spoke back, "Who are you, and what does it have to do with you what we eat?"
Just as Lu Yue was about to say something, his expression suddenly changed, he lowered his head and whispered: "I am also worried about Your Highness. After all, there are many diseases in spring..."
Chang Yu snorted and was about to reply, but Man Bao tugged his sleeve. She turned to look at her and saw her with her head lowered and a plate in her hand. She bent down and saluted, "Greetings to His Royal Highness."
Except for the silent guards at the palace gate, everyone bowed and saluted.
The prince frowned, then looked at Mingda and Changyu, his eyes sliding over the chopsticks and meat cakes in their hands, and his brows furrowed even more tightly, "Aunt Fan said you didn't listen to the advice and went out of the palace to act haphazardly? You have a token?"
Just leave the palace?"
Changyu lowered his head and did not dare to speak. Mingda smiled and said: "Brother Prince, we didn't go out of the palace, so we just had something to eat at the entrance of the palace."
"What's the etiquette for dining in public?" the prince asked, "can't it be used in the palace?"
Mingda complained, "The guards won't let this dish in."
The guards did not change their expressions and were not timid at all.
The prince then took a look at the wild vegetables in Zhou Man's hand. He didn't blame the guards. The dish looked dark and a little red. It was different from the dishes he usually saw. He didn't even eat it.
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He took a step forward, looked at it, frowned and asked Zhou Man, "What kind of dish is this?"
Man Bao: "Wild vegetables?"
"Wild vegetables are just wild vegetables, why are you still so unsure?"
"There are several kinds. Your Highness may not have heard of my name."
The prince turned to Mingda and Changyu and asked, "Is it delicious?"
The voice didn't fluctuate much, and Chang Yu wasn't sure whether he was angry or not, and he wasn't even sure whether he meant what they meant literally or another way, so he hesitated and didn't dare to answer.
But Mingda nodded affirmatively and said: "It's delicious, brother, let's try it?"
Then she gave him the chopsticks in her hand.
The prince didn't mind that his sister had used it, so he took it and ate it directly with chopsticks. The taste was slightly sour and sweet. The prince raised his eyebrows slightly, it was quite crisp.
Everyone:......
Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang's hearts dropped a little as they watched the prince take the plate from her hand and start eating directly.
Changyu held chopsticks in his hand, feeling infinitely sad and unable to snatch the wild vegetables from the prince's hand.
She could only take a dull bite of the meat pie.
When the prince heard the voice, he looked up at her and turned his eyes to the meatloaf in the food box in Bai Shan's hand.
Chang Yu had a bad intuition. The prince had already poured all the wild vegetables on the plate into his mouth. After chewing slowly, he wiped his mouth, then put the plate and chopsticks into the food box. Before putting it in, he took out the vegetable from the box.
Xiaozhulan said to Changyu and Mingda: "Okay, you can enter the palace."
He pointed at Aunt Fan who was standing inside the palace gate and said: "If I hadn't met the orphan, the person who came to the palace gate now would be Aunt Shang or my mother. If you don't want to be punished, don't stay outside the gate for so long."
Changyu stared at the bamboo basket in his hand and couldn't help but pull Mingda's sleeve.
Mingda saw how pitiful she was, so he reached out and took out a meat pie from the bamboo basket in the prince's hand, nodded and said, "I understand, goodbye, brother."
She winked with Man Bao, then pulled Chang Yu away, and only gave her the meat pie in her hand after entering the palace gate.
Only then did Changyu feel satisfied. While eating the meatloaf from the other hand, he said, "By the way, Manbao seemed to have mentioned that she also brought us soy milk."
Mingda said: "Two meatloaf is enough. You just ate a lot of wild vegetables. Don't be greedy for breakfast."