"Did you make this specially for the banquet with Mrs. Cheng?"
The emperor asked with a smile as he looked at the snacks and fruits in the food box pushed over by Prince Jin'an.
"No, I've finished what I made specially for Mrs. Cheng. This is specially made for your majesty and ladies, and I added and subtracted the ingredients under Mrs. Cheng's guidance. Your majesty, please try it." Prince Jin'an said with a smile.
The emperor laughed and watched the eunuch who was trying the food over there eat it before he reached out and picked up a piece with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
"Not bad." He praised.
"I have resigned." Prince Jin'an said with a smile and a salute.
"It's the first time I've been away for several days. Please sit down for a while," the emperor said.
"Prince Qing is at home and his children are worried." Prince Jin'an said with a smile.
The emperor nodded.
"What did Mrs. Cheng say?" he asked.
"Your Majesty, I did not invite Madam Cheng to treat Prince Qing." Prince Jin'an said, and knelt down again, seeming hesitant.
The emperor looked at him with a smile on his lips.
"What's that for?" he asked.
"I have been growing up in the palace since I was a child. The brothers and sisters in the palace are all younger than me, and I know very few people of the same age..." Prince Jin'an thought for a while and said, "I took Prince Qing to Jiangzhou.
When I asked her to see a doctor, to be honest with Your Majesty, her attitude was very straightforward and ruthless... What she said was really ugly..."
The emperor smiled slightly. Although he did not know the specific situation at that time, he personally felt that this woman was stubborn and blunt, and what she wanted to say would not sound good.
"At that time, I was almost furious. I wished I could have someone kill her on the spot, and I also said cruel words." Prince Jin'an said, "After thinking about it, I realized that this was just an act of anger, so I always felt a little apologetic."
"Are you sorry?" the emperor asked with a smile.
"...Yeah, Erchen thinks she is a very down-to-earth person, and she does what she is. Erchen threatened her at that time, but she was fine with it. Now that he apologizes, she still has nothing to do with her... I just feel that, well, this person is very... very...
"The Prince of Jin'an County seemed to not know what to say as he spoke.
The emperor looked at him and smiled even more.
"Very sincere?" He took over and said for him.
The prince of Jin'an County clapped his hands hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, that's what your Majesty meant," he said.
The emperor smiled again.
"You ghost, why did you become what I wanted?" He smiled, and looked at Prince Jin'an with a smile, "Do you think this person is good?"
Prince Jin'an nodded.
"It's pretty good. It's very simple and easy to get along with." He said, "It's like being a child who doesn't understand the world. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's pretty hateful."
"Girl." The emperor added with a smile.
"Is it a girl? I haven't noticed, are all girls like this? The sisters I have seen are not like this." Prince Jin'an asked with a smile, "I think she is similar to my sixth brother."
The emperor smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, almost." He said with a bit of sigh, "One was stupid before, and the other is stupid now..."
He muttered this last sentence to himself, almost inaudibly, and then picked up a piece of snack with chopsticks and ate it.
"Your Majesty, eat less." Prince Jin'an said, "It's too sweet to eat."
The emperor smiled and put down his chopsticks.
"My son, I have really resigned." Prince Jin'an said, winking at the emperor, kowtowing and saluting.
It was almost evening, and the light in the palace was dim. The emperor watched Prince Jin'an slowly exiting the palace. He was reluctant to take his eyes back for a moment. He was stunned for a moment before lowering his head. When he saw the food box in front of him, he reached out and picked it up again.
Chopsticks.
"Your Majesty." A chamberlain hurriedly stood up and said, "His Highness said, you can't eat anymore."
"You should listen to him," said the emperor.
This was a bit scary to say, but the waiter was not afraid.
"The slaves don't listen to the king. The slaves listen to your majesty." He said with a smile and took away the food box without hesitation. "Your majesty, don't blame the king for not sitting with you more. Prince Qing is an excuse.
He is now a member of the clan, and if he enters the palace at will, he will be impeached by the censor, which is different from how he was in the palace."
"You've only been a member of the clan for a few days, and you're about to be impeached?" The emperor laughed, disapproving.
Before he finished speaking, the voice of the chamberlain came from outside the door.
"Your Majesty, the imperial concubine is here."
The emperor raised his hand, and the chamberlain at the door quickly opened the door, and the imperial concubine walked in with a smile.
"Hey, the prince is gone?" she said in surprise.
The emperor nodded.
"Why are you leaving so soon? I still want to go to the Queen Mother and the Empress together." The imperial concubine said with a smile, "It's not as good as before. It's so easy to come here. Why don't you wait a little longer."
Before she finished speaking, the emperor stood up.
"Why is it not as good as before? Why is it not easy for Weilang to enter the palace?" He said slowly.
The imperial concubine did not expect that the emperor would turn against her, and was a little stunned for a moment.
"No, no, Your Majesty, I am just sighing..." she said hurriedly.
"Sigh, he is a member of the clan. If he enters the palace like before, he will be impeached, right?" The emperor interrupted her and said coldly, "I have to wait and see who has the courage!"
After saying that, he walked away.
The imperial concubine was so ashamed and angry that she couldn't stand still and walked away, so she finally hid her face and left.
"I have been in the palace for thirty years, and Your Majesty has never blushed with me."
"..In front of so many people, Your Majesty said this to me..."
"...The most unfair thing is that I obviously didn't say anything..."
"...I'd better die..."
In the imperial concubine's palace, the maids and chamberlains outside the door lowered their heads and did not dare to look inside. They could only hear the constant crying inside.
"This is your fault." Gao Lingbo said.
"How is it my fault?"
The imperial concubine sat up from the couch and shouted.
"What did I say? I went to see him out of kindness and thank him, but who knew he had stumbled there first!"
"Empress." Gao Lingbo frowned and said, "It's not that others are too mean, but that we are not smart enough."
"What do you mean by that?" the imperial concubine yelled angrily, "I knew that boy had bad intentions. He used sweet talk in the palace to stumbling Prince Ping in front of the emperor. Now that he's out of the palace, he doesn't know how to restrain himself, and he's even worse!"
Gao Lingbo shook his head.
"Empress, please look at the big ones and don't catch the small ones." He said, "Now, whether it's Prince Qing or Prince Jin'an, including Mrs. Cheng, it's all a matter of small importance that you don't say anything about."
"How could it be? This is a small matter, so what's the big deal?" the imperial concubine asked anxiously, "What if Prince Qing is cured?"
"It's cured, so what?" Gao Lingbo said, "First of all, Prince Ping is older, and secondly, Prince Qing is cured too. In the past few years, Prince Ping has been raised as a prince. Do you think anyone would let a child go?"
Instead of choosing the well-educated and well-educated Prince Ping, who has already begun to participate in government affairs, he chose Prince Qing, who has been foolish for three years? Three years, my queen!"
But, what if the prince who was cultivated as a prince has bad character?
The imperial concubine clenched her hands on her knees.
Gao Lingbo looked at her hands and lowered his eyes.
"Your Majesty, you think too much," he said. "I have said it before. Will anyone believe the words of a once foolish child?"
That's true, the imperial concubine breathed a sigh of relief.
"The most important thing now is to keep King Ping stable. It doesn't require him to be very knowledgeable, as long as he has good conduct." Gao Lingbo said, "As for the prince, the better he is, the worse he is. For a clan, it's like this
Dazzling is not necessarily a good thing."
The imperial concubine finally let out a long sigh, but when she thought about it, she raised her hands to wipe her tears.
"Then what should I do now? His Majesty is suspicious of me and has thrown my face away. I can't see anyone anymore," she cried.
"Your Majesty, you don't have to do anything, just do whatever you want." Gao Lingbo said, "Remember, if you don't care, others won't care either. The more you care, the more others will care."
After saying that, he stood up quickly.
"My Majesty, please don't be so rash in the future and ask me to come so late."
The imperial concubine was about to say a few words of thanks, then she hummed and sat back down.
"You can't be my husband, so you don't have to follow Chen Shaoye's example and not enter the palace." She said.
Gao Lingbo smiled when he heard this.
"But the empress is not a queen after all, so I have to be careful." He said.
In the future, when King Ping ascends the throne, the queen will become the queen mother. She can reprimand the emperor and punish the harem. Even if the imperial concubine is the biological mother of the emperor, if something happens to her, the courtiers will not stand by her.
Therefore, she cannot do without a courtier who can help her stabilize her position and prevent her from being easily plotted against.
Even if Gao Lingbo was not in the court at that time, he could still do this with the power he had accumulated and cultivated.
The imperial concubine naturally knew it in her heart, and she snorted and waved her hands.
Gao Lingbo walked out quickly.
As the sun sets and the sun rises, a new day comes again.
"Thirteen, thirteen."
A call came from inside the house, and Qin Shisanlang, who was standing on the porch looking at the caged bird, hurriedly responded and looked over.
I saw my parents, brothers and sisters in the room already seated.
"Come on, come on." He hurriedly walked in, lifted up his clothes, knelt down in front of his desk, and looked at the richer meals on it than before.
"Thank you, father and mother." He saluted and said.
The atmosphere in the room became joyful.
"Congratulations to our Qin Hu for growing another year old." Qin Shi said with a smile.
The brothers and sisters also picked up the wine bowls one after another. Qin Shisanlang smiled and returned the gift, and everyone drank together.
Because I was young and could not live a long life, a slightly richer meal than usual was enough, and I finished it quickly and dispersed.
Qin Shisanlang accepted the gifts from his brothers and sisters again and moved them back to his house, where there were already piles of them.
The boy stood aside and said who sent this and who sent this.
"What did you give me on Saturday?" Qin Shisanlang asked directly, "Isn't it not here yet?"
"Here we are, we arrived early this morning." The boy smiled and took out a large gift box from it.
Qin Shisanlang smiled, it was clear that he had carefully planned the delivery today.
He reached out and opened the box, only to find a rough short knife inside.
"I don't know which unlucky guy I took it from." He smiled, playing with it with great interest.
"It's not as good as the one you gave him as a gift." A boy said.
"What do you know, the young master is so rare and so good? The most important thing is his mind." Another boy shook his head and said.
Qin Shisanlang laughed and threw the knife to the boy.
"Hang it in the study room," he said.
The boy responded and went.
Qin Shisanlang turned around and walked a few steps, looking at the gift box beside him.
"What about Mrs. Cheng's?" he asked.
"It's been delivered too," a boy said, hurriedly looking for the gift box.
Qin Shisanlang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Why don't you leave it alone?" he said, watching the two boys rummaging through it.
"Found it!"
A boy took out an object and shouted happily, looking at the copybook on it.
Seeing what the boy took out, Qin Shisanlang knew why he took it out so quickly.
There are only three parts of the congratulatory gifts sent, one is pens, inks, paper and inkstones, the other is jade pendants, sachets, and the third is as weird as Liulang.
What the boy was holding at this time was dug out from the pile of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and it was submerged in it.
Qin Shisanlang reached out and took it. This is an inkstone, a famous brand in the capital, very valuable, no less valuable than those given by others.
Qin Shisanlang smiled and gradually tightened his grip on the gift box.
"This must have been bought by the shopkeeper Banqin himself," he said. "The shopkeeper Banqin is very particular about choosing gifts."
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