After the previous operation on Guanglu Temple, a large number of officials were removed, and after a large-scale cleaning of the imperial kitchen, a group of imperial chefs were selected to serve in the palace. The emperor also made adjustments to the original small kitchens in each palace. Originally, because Guanglu Temple adheres to the so-called old system. Except for the two in Qingning Palace who are real cooks invited from outside the palace, the rest are served by internal palace servants.
After the restructuring, four imperial chefs took turns entering the Qianqing Palace every day, and the other palace concubines also benefited from this. They could all order according to the water sign, and the small kitchen of the Qianqing Palace was sent to deliver it. In addition, Because the prince was studying in Ciqing Palace, the emperor directly sent two imperial chefs over. At Zhu Ying's suggestion, he even adopted a recipe that was said to help the prince grow taller and stronger.
Although Zhu Ying plausibly told the emperor that this was what her eldest brother Zhu Tingfang used in the past, and that today's strong physique is all due to it. But in fact, she was selling Zhang Shou's recipes under the banner of her eldest brother... Obviously, those goat milk, buffalo milk, as well as various fresh vegetables and high-protein foods were all specially added by Zhang Shou.
In the past, the third prince was not picky about his diet and never wasted anything. But today, even though the food in the food box was a combination of meat and vegetables and was delicious, delicious and delicious, he couldn't eat any of it. Not only him, he used to think that the food in Ciqing Palace was good. , the readers of the East Palace, who are always in a state of despair, have no appetite for delicious food.
Zhu Tingfang was assassinated, and the assassin was the eldest prince's bodyguard. Will this incident cause a huge disturbance? Will it affect the always quiet and peaceful Ciqing Palace?
When everyone saw Zhang Shou put down the food box, slowly wiped his mouth and hands with a handkerchief, and then got up and walked out, some people couldn't help but want to speak. But the one who jumped in front of them was the always steady third prince: "Teacher, can I go visit Mr. Zhu in person?"
Zhang Shou turned his head in astonishment and saw that the third prince was trying his best to look at him frankly. He smiled and said: "I have heard of a custom in a certain dynasty and a certain generation. It is said that the emperor does not leave the palace easily, and even more easily does not leave the palace. When visiting a minister's residence, even if the minister is sick, it is just to deliver medicine instead of going there in person. Once the emperor personally visits the patient, then the minister is not so sick that he is about to die..."
"But I had no choice but to die."
Seeing that the third prince was shocked when he heard this, and the others looked at each other, Zhang Shou said calmly: "Of course this is just a legend. Since Eunuch Chu has already said that Mr. Zhu turned disaster into good fortune, there is probably no damage, even if there is , it’s definitely not serious. If His Highness the Crown Prince goes to visit in person, it will only cause people to spread false rumors, and maybe someone will curse him to die soon."
"What's more, before the matter comes to light, it involves the guards around the eldest prince, which can easily lead to speculation. Now that His Highness the Crown Prince is gone, the speculation will be even more limitless. I know that His Highness the Crown Prince not only cares about the eldest Young Master Zhu, but also cares about the eldest Young Master Zhu. Worry about the fourth prince. After all, the fourth prince is in the outer city. But do you know how many soldiers and horses from the Nancheng Military and Horse Division are stationed near the outer city public school?"
"Furthermore, do you know how many Lu family guards live directly in the public school? Do you know how many imperial guards are patrolling nearby, openly or covertly? Even if it is not said to be impregnable, it is not much different."
"The fourth prince told me before that he wanted to use his body as bait to catch out some people with ulterior motives. I laughed at him because he really thought too much. What a fool he must be to fly into the flames at this time.
?Although I still underestimated the stupidity of some people, after Prince Zhu was assassinated, probably no suspicious person could approach within fifty steps of the fourth prince."
"So, His Royal Highness, just relax and continue with your studies. The same goes for everyone else. This is not something you should care about. Just focus on your studies. Even I will not visit Mr. Zhu when I leave the palace."
Having said this, Zhang Shou smiled and said, "Look, I'm not afraid of people saying that I don't care about my future uncle's life or death. What else do you have to worry about? He was able to tell everyone in the capital that he had died in the battle.
Or if you return triumphant after disappearing, how can anything happen if you face the clown this time?"
Chu Kuan saw Zhang Shou calmly bowing his hands and then drifting away, leaving behind a room full of students with different expressions. He secretly sighed that the emperor had indeed chosen the wrong teacher. There were some words that only Zhang Shou dared to say, but he remained silent and just prepared quietly.
He took away the untouched food from the third prince and asked him to make it again. But just as his hand touched the soup bowl, the third prince reached out to stop him.
"Eunuch Chu, could you please help me and everyone take down the food and soup to heat it up, and then say thank you to the kitchen for your hard work." The third prince nodded apologetically to Chu Kuan, and then said to a group of attendants,
"Who knows, every grain of lunch is hard work. Even if everyone will be late after finishing today's lunch, don't waste it."
Zhang Shou was very sure that after the initial concern, the third prince would definitely recover quickly. And he himself was not at all worried about Zhu Tingfang's safety as he said.
After all, he is Zhu Ying's closest eldest brother, and the wedding date has been set long ago. He is actually the groom who is getting married in five days. If something goes wrong, he will be in big trouble. After all, his wedding date with Zhu Ying is very tight.
Following behind, there is only less than half a month behind.
So, after the carriage arrived at the public school, when he got off the carriage, he asked Ah Liu to find out where Zhu Tingfang was now, and then go to visit on his behalf - he himself would not go, but Ah Liu would go there, wouldn't it be very
Is this normal? Of course, he also assigned Ah Liu a task that was quite difficult for a young man.
That is to prepare a suitable condolence gift when visiting someone! Of course, in order to prevent Ah Liu from trying his old trick again to find Zhu Ying, he made a special inquiry when he left the palace to make sure that Zhu Ying was there early this morning.
So I was called to Qingning Palace to accompany the Queen Mother!
Of course Ah Liu was well aware of Zhang Shou's unconcealed bad intentions, but he knew that Zhang Shou was doing it for his own good, not only to train his ability to deal with others and stand alone, but also to enable him to accumulate some kind of
sense of common sense.
The problem is that he, who calls himself a butler, is really not interested in certain things that require skill. And today, Zhang Shou asked Zhu Ying's whereabouts in front of him, so he had no way to ask the eldest lady for help. After thinking about it,
As soon as he left school, he went straight to the Nancheng Military and Horse Department. As a result, when he asked at the door, he learned that Zhu Tingfang should be at the Zhao Guogong Mansion at this time.
And the concierge was a very talkative person. He not only told Ah Liu the whereabouts of Zhu Tingfang, but also gave him a bunch of details about the so-called assassination.
"Hey, Mr. Six, you don't know. People are saying outside that our adults have agreed with Zhang Dayin of Shuntian Prefecture that the outside is loose and the inside is tight. They said they were going back to sleep in the middle of the night last night, but in fact they sent out elite soldiers to follow the clues and follow the melons all the way down.
At dawn, I had already spotted the traces of the book boy next to the second prince."
"Then Mr. Zhu quietly sent troops to capture him before dawn. As a result, he was captured in one fell swoop and sent to the Xicheng Military and Horse Division for interrogation. Who knew that Mr. Zhu was on his way to the Xicheng Military and Horse Division from Zhao Guogong's Mansion in the morning?
, unexpectedly encountered someone with a crossbow to assassinate him, yes, it was the man named Shi next to the eldest prince."
"If Mr. Zhu hadn't been prepared in advance and had ambushed people at high points in the inner and outer cities, always keeping an eye on those unscrupulous people, this guy might have really taken advantage of him! You don't know what happened at that time.
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The more he talked, the more excited he became. Not only did his saliva fly everywhere, but he also started dancing. Ah Liu took a few steps, then quietly came to his horse, led the horse and ran away. Waiting far away
After leaving this chatty guy, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself that it was lucky that there was no such a noisy guy in the family. Old Liu Tou was much more observant than others.
Isn't it enough to simply say that Zhu Tingfang was prepared and the assassin returned without success?
Since he asked about Zhu Tingfang being in Zhao Guogong's mansion at this time, Ah Liu was sure that besides Zhu Ying, there was no way to ask Zhu Er for help. Otherwise, wouldn't it be stupid for him to go to Zhu Er to buy things and then go back? He couldn't help but compare Zhang Chen, Zhang Wu and Zhang Wu in his mind
Zhang Lu also took it out and checked it out, but considering that this time was different from the mission he received last time, he stopped looking for them and went straight to a medicine store in the outer city that was famous for selling medicinal materials.
As soon as he entered the door, he gave the order directly without waiting for the clerk to say hello: "The four-color tonic is for the sick and injured who are severely deficient in energy and blood. Don't be nagging, just bring out the best and I'll pay according to the price."
If you are injured, your Qi and blood deficiency should be quite severe, right?
The boy couldn't help swallowing his words when they came to his lips. He couldn't help but quietly look at Ah Liu again. Suddenly he remembered a famous person in the outer city. He hurriedly agreed and ran away. After a while, another distinguished guest who was originally entertaining was waiting for him at the back.
The shopkeeper personally welcomed him out. When he saw the young visitor, his face was immediately filled with smiles.
"Oh, it's Mr. Liu who is here! This store is really shining..."
Before he could finish his flattery, Ah Liu interrupted very impatiently: "For the four-color tonic, you want the best, and don't talk about other nonsense."
Although he was choked back so arrogantly, the shopkeeper's expression only changed slightly, and then he immediately put on a smile: "Okay, Mr. Liu, don't worry, I will send someone to prepare...
He said that the shop has a wild ginseng of sufficient age, which is the treasure of the shop. Would you like to take a look..."
"I said, I want the best." Ah Liu repeated impatiently, "Whatever is suitable for the wounded and sick is up to you!"
Faced with such an answer that Ah Liu repeatedly emphasized, the shopkeeper finally had a complete idea. He did not continue to flatter him, and motioned to the waiter next to him with a look to accompany him, while he hurried to the back. However, he dismissed
An older clerk went to the warehouse to look for a few precious supplements, but he came to the back and apologized respectfully to the distinguished guest from before.
"Master Kong Jiu, I'm really sorry. Outside is the sixth manager of Xueshi Zhang's family. He is probably going to visit Master Zhu on behalf of Xueshi Zhang. When he comes, he angrily says he wants the best tonic. The junior manager outside is
The clerk was not sure, so he had to call me out. I have promised to bring out the oldest wild ginseng in the store, which is said to last a long time..."
The person who was treated as a distinguished guest by the shopkeeper was Mr. Kong Jiu, the cousin of the bachelor of Confucius and now the doctor of Taichang in Taichang Temple. He was a handsome man in his early thirties. At this time, he immediately said with a reasonable smile: "I'm just a man."
I came here on behalf of my mother to see if there is any good Gastrodia elata. How can it be as big as the Zhu family of Zhao Guogong's mansion? Shopkeeper, just go and do your work first, I will come back next time."
And when he said this, he smiled and said: "My brother and Bachelor Zhang had a little disagreement in the past, so I just left through the back door."
After the shopkeeper repeatedly apologized, Mr. Kong Jiu walked out of the back door with perfect grace. When the waiter notified his carriage to go around this back alley, he immediately ordered after boarding the carriage: "Quickly, go back to the house! Hurry up and go to see me.
Send a letter to your elder brother, asking him to come back as soon as possible, and tell him that there is something urgent here..."
After thinking about it, he still felt that it was not urgent enough, so he simply said: "Just say that my mother suddenly felt bad!"
Although as a son, it is a bit too much to use his mother as an excuse, but when Mr. Kong Jiu thought of the information revealed by the shopkeeper just now, he couldn't help but his heart beat fast. He just felt that this might be a matter of power.
An opportunity to change the situation between North Korea and China.
You must know that the emperor's favor for Zhao Guogong and his son is simply unbelievable. In the past, Mr. Jiang Ge, and now his cousin, Kong Da, have been trying to weaken it, but it has backfired. Until not long ago, it was exposed that Zhu Ying and
Regarding Princess Yongping's life experience, his cousin could not help but lament, saying that the Zhu family had prepared the foreshadowing long ago.
Most of the emperors in the past dynasties were afraid of their relatives, but the current emperor always did the opposite because of the entanglement between Zhu Ying and Princess Yongping. Not to mention being close to the Zhu family, he even loved Zhang Shou.
Seeing that Zhu Jing had transferred his military power to the Ministry of War, Zhu Tingfang was ordered to take charge of the Five Cities Military and Horse Department. At the height of the sun, if Zhu Tingfang was not just slightly injured as the outside world rumored, but was seriously injured and dying, wouldn't it be
Excellent?
Of course, this may be a cover-up trick by others. But as far as he knows, in terms of ability to fight the Ah Liu next to Zhang Shou, there are probably no more than one opponent in the entire capital who can beat him, but if you want to talk about his mind...
...Probably without those old guys, more than half of the people in the entire capital are above this little sixth manager.
Because people compete with wits rather than strength, but this person is recognized as using force to defeat skill! People are also famous for not understanding the charm. The last time I was in a certain weapons shop, my reaction was to a pretty girl when she bought a slingshot.
, it turned out to be nine departures and thirteen returns! I think when Zhang Shou sent people out, he didn’t have time to explain too much, so they didn’t pay attention to such a clear tone!
Ah Liu didn't know that a lot of reasons and backgrounds were given to him for buying supplements. In the past, when he was in the village, whenever someone was injured or fell ill due to farm work or other things, Wu would
They would always send some medicine or even supplements - even though most of those supplements were just red dates, longan and the like, the villagers were still very grateful.
In this case, now that Zhu Tingfang has been assassinated, and Zhang Shou asks him to go to express his condolences, isn't it the most suitable supplement?
Carrying the four-color tonics that the shopkeeper claimed to be the most valuable in the store, he left behind a ten-guan note. The remaining money was sent to Zhangyuan to withdraw. After Ah Liu left the store, he rode straight to Xuanwumen. Waiting until
Entering the inner city from Xuanwu Gate, he saw that the streets were obviously much more heavily fortified, and people from the Xicheng Army and Horse Division could be seen patrolling everywhere. With his excellent hearing, he even caught a sound.
"I heard that Mr. Zhu is seriously injured and dying!"