Man Bao said with a guilty conscience: "I, I brought it in."
She didn't dare to admit Mr. Zhuang, although the crown prince would know if he wanted to find out, but she still said vaguely: "Because I often live in the palace, so I can bring some food..."
The prince directly stepped forward and sat down in Bai Shan's position, and then looked at the palace servants who were waiting on the side.
The palace people couldn't react in a daze, and it was Eunuch Wu who stepped forward and took out a spare pair of bowls and chopsticks from the food box beside her to give to the prince to reveal the matter.
The crown prince picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks, took a bite, nodded slightly, and ate all the meat on the chopsticks in one bite, then wiped his mouth with the handkerchief, ordered one of the bowls and said to Mr. Wu: "Bring one to the crown princess. bowl."
Eunuch Wu quickly complied, took the food box from the hand of the maid with one of the servants, put the steamed meat in it, and left with the food box under everyone's staring eyes.
The prince then nodded his chopsticks and said: "Sit down, what were you discussing just now? How can I see from a distance that your atmosphere is not very good, did you quarrel?"
Everyone shook their heads again and again to express that they hadn't quarreled, and that their relationship with each other was good.
The prince had already picked up another piece of meat, and he ordered the bowl in front of him and said to the maid, "Here is a bowl of rice."
The maid hurriedly responded, and carefully took the bowl to serve the prince with rice.
This kind of steamed meat is delicious with rice. Man Bao and the others also planned this way before, so they didn't eat when they ate barbecue before, so they just waited to eat it now.
Seeing that the crown prince had already feasted, several people couldn't help but froze.
In the end, it was Mingda who handed the bowl to the maid, "Give me some rice too."
Man Bao and Chang Yu held out their bowls.
The prince glanced at them, ordered the dishes on the table and said, "Have you all eaten like this and haven't started eating yet?"
Everyone bowed their heads and smiled in embarrassment.
The prince then said to the servants in the palace: "Go and ask the kitchen to make some more dishes."
The palace people responded and left, and everyone saw the prince continued to sandwich the steamed meat piece by piece, and the prince finished a bowl of meat as soon as their rice was served.
Changyu was about to cry, she had been looking forward to the steamed meat for a long time.
Mingda felt distressed and funny when he saw it, so he took a piece of chopsticks for her, and was about to pick it up for Manbao, when Manbao stretched out his chopsticks. Yin or eat steamed meat.
So I clipped a piece for him.
Bai Shan took a piece for Man Bao, and Man Bao followed suit, and sent it to his bowl as a gift in return.
Liu Huan saw that they were all making moves, so he boldly took a piece. Bai Erlang, who was a step behind, looked at this and then at that, and felt that everyone was giving in to each other. Huan look.
It's a pity that Liu Huan didn't have any friendly thoughts at all, he didn't even look at him, and ate the meat as soon as he caught it.
Bai Erlang hesitated for a moment, seeing that Mingda on the side hadn't put it into her bowl before, when he tried to stretch out his chopsticks again, the prince picked up the remaining two pieces.
Shirajiro: ...
He turned his head and glanced at Mingda, and thought to himself: Is it too late to regret it now
Mingda looked up at him, unable to understand what he meant, she didn't mind giving in, but it would be very rude to return the food in the bowl.
So she smiled politely at Bai Erlang, then lowered her head and started eating meat.
The others were disrespectful to Bai Erlang, but Bai Shan and Man Bao, who grew up with him, felt distressed and funny when they saw it, so they directly gave half of it to him.
Mingda was more comfortable with the prince, after all, this is her own brother, and the relationship between the two brothers and sisters is not bad, she said bluntly: "Why did the prince brother grab food from us?"
The prince said: "I didn't eat much for lunch alone, I was already hungry, why, don't you feel happy to eat a few pieces of your meat?"
Mingda said: "This is steamed meat made by Man Bao's sister-in-law, but it is very difficult."
The prince said to Zhou Man: "Since it was made by a human, just send a few more bowls in later."
It's not made by gods, isn't it simple
Before Man Bao could speak, Ming Da said: "Things from outside the palace can't be brought into the palace casually. It's already a lot of trouble for her to bring these bowls in. If there are more, not to mention others, the guards guarding the gate will not be very happy."
The prince said: "Just send someone to deliver it to the gate of the palace, and I will send someone to pick it up."
That person is naturally Eunuch Wu.
The East Palace has a purchase order, so just bring it in with the purchases, what a big deal.
Bai Shan thought about his proficiency in exploiting loopholes, and he couldn't help asking: "Do the people under His Highness's door also do business?"
The prince raised his eyelids to look at him, and asked, "Why?"
That's it!
Only then did Changyu think of this, and immediately turned to look at Mingda, with accusing eyes, you see, the eldest brother has participated, why can't I
Mingda: ...
She looked at her elder brother, opened her mouth and said bravely, "Brother, we can't participate in business, right?"
The prince said confidently: "It's just a few small businesses run by a few disciples, and Gu didn't steal national wealth, why not?"
The prince asked: "Why, have you heard the rumor that someone is looking for an orphan?"
Mingda shook his head and couldn't help looking at Manbao.
Man Bao cleared his throat, and said in embarrassment: "We, we are doing a research, that is, the imperial court clearly ordered officials and relatives of the emperor not to engage in business, but everyone seems to have not complied, so we are thinking about how to fill these loopholes. "
The prince said directly: "These loopholes cannot be filled."
He sized up these young men, then sneered and shook his head, "Young people, you are still too young, and you are too good at thinking. Cut off officials and relatives from participating in business, are you daydreaming?"
Everyone: ...
No one expected the prince to be so straightforward.
The crown prince took a sip of tea, feeling much better for his hungry stomach, then he leaned back on the chair and smiled at them: "No one else will talk about it, do you know that the emperor has a private treasury?"
Everyone nodded in confusion.
"Do you really think that His Majesty's private treasury is to collect some grain from the Huangzhuang? Or to collect some hard-to-monetize items when raiding officials' homes?" Tube."
The emperor asked his subordinates to buy ginseng. Why can't officials and other royal relatives make their lives richer
For another example, he doesn't need money to support his staff, and he doesn't need money to support his confidants
He glanced directly at Mingda and Changyu, "You also have to accompany you to the shop when you get married, and those shops were given to you by the emperor."
Mingda: "But even though those shops are under our name, they are for rent, right?"
The imperial court allowed them to buy properties and shops, but only restricted them from operating shops with their real names. Therefore, many officials bought shops and recorded them in their own names, but let their servants or relatives run them. Basically, no one would check them. .
If someone checks, the owner has just written a lease contract, and he will say that it is rented to someone else. If there is no evidence, who can really do it