The milky white lamb soup is thick but not greasy, sprinkled with half a handful of chopped green onion, a spoonful of lamb fried dogwood, and topped with thousand-layer crispy sesame biscuits. It is really rare in this late autumn season when the temperature drops sharply. tasty.
Sun Shaozong used a spoon to press the dogwood floating on the surface to the bottom of the soup, and crushed the crispy cornel seeds inside. Had a great time with the biscuits.
Seeing that the bowl of mutton soup was quickly reaching the bottom, Sun Shaozong was about to greet the pomegranate to add another bowl when he suddenly found a couple of Ruan Rong on the opposite side, who were stirring back and forth with their spoons, as if looking out the flowers in the mutton soup. similar.
He took Ruan Rong's bowl without hesitation, and asked while adding the seasoning, "What? This lamb soup doesn't suit your appetite?"
"It's not that it's unappetizing, it's just too greasy."
As Ruan Rong spoke, she raised her chin at Xiangling and Second Sister You, and said, "Okay, if I really can't eat it, I'll ask someone to replace it with two bowls of rice porridge."
Next to Pomegranate, he was busy taking people to remove the two bowls of sheep soup and replaced them with two bowls of gruel made with green rice.
This is obviously to be considerate of the second daughter, but Sun Shaozong and Ruan Rong get along day and night, how can she not know the little calculus in her heart - she really wants to enjoy this intimacy alone, and does not want Sun Shaozong to eat the leftover lamb soup from the second daughter.
However, Sun Shaozong would naturally not break through such innocuous and careful thoughts.
He pressed the dogwood to the bottom of the bowl in the same way, looked at the golden yellow dogwood seeds, slowly surfaced with oil stars, and said casually: "The flower party has just started at the Hell Temple, if you are at home. If you’re bored, let’s go and have a look together.”
Second Sister You was nothing, but Xiang Ling jumped up and down, but she didn't dare to answer, she just stared at Ruan Rong.
Ruan Rong hesitated for a while, but she still shook her head and said, "Forget it, Young Master Nephew and the others are going to move out in the next two days. Although it may not be necessary for us, it's not good to go out and play at this time."
"Then go back in two days."
Sun Shaozong took a bite of the sesame cake and said vaguely, "This flower festival is supervised by the Jia mansion, and it will last until the tenth day of September."
Ruan Rong just nodded her head, then pinched Xiangling's face and said with a smile, "This can be considered to be taking advantage of your wishes, don't forget to make a few more poems for the master to see, and let him He knows that the lady in our family didn't ask for nothing."
When Xiangling heard this, she immediately remembered the task that Sun Shaozong had assigned yesterday. Her cheeks were hot for a while, and she hurriedly lowered her head and borrowed the rice porridge to cover it up.
The family chatted and laughed and ate breakfast. Sun Shaozong asked Ruan Rong again, and learned that Sun Chengye and Yu Qian planned to transport their luggage to the new residence today, and then officially move in tomorrow morning.
He left Zhang Cheng and the carriage at home, and rode to the Prince's Mansion alone.
Because of the heavy rain yesterday, the street was still slippery and muddy, so Sun Shaozong didn't dare to gallop his horse when he went out of the house. Fortunately, it was not far from the Prince's Mansion, so he simply took the reins and let the horse kick. Tap and step to measure in the street.
Although the Great Zhou Dynasty can be regarded as an internal and external trouble, if you only look at the street scene of Shuntianfu, it is much more prosperous than in previous years.
This is actually the follow-up impact of the flood last year. First, many Zhili people stayed in the capital to work hard; second, most of the disaster relief materials for the imperial court were transferred and mobilized from Gyeonggi, adding a lot of jobs; third This year, the weather near Gyeonggi has been good, and the people have received a few more grains of grain, but the price of grain has not fallen but has risen because of the disaster victims.
To put it bluntly, the current prosperity of this capital is actually based on the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of people in Zhili affected by the disaster.
"Blessed lord, blissful lord!"
I was getting used to the sexy folk suffering, and suddenly I heard a few weird accents. I looked up, but a hawker was selling a few bird cages hanging by the roadside.
Thinking of the many birds in the veranda of Rongguo Mansion, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but feel a little moved, so he stepped forward and looked at it.
When the hawker saw the business, he rushed forward with a smile on his face, cupped his hands and said, "Lord, look at this, it's all made with great effort, and everyone's mouth is clever! Come on, give it to this guy! God bless you!"
Saying that, he took off an ebony cage and teased the parrot with red collar and green hair inside.
"Blessed lord, blissful lord!"
The bird flapped its wings and called twice, but it was the one just now.
"you… "
Sun Shaozong was about to ask the parrot if he would say anything else, when he suddenly saw a gray sparrow in one of the cages, he couldn't help but wonder, "Why do you have a sparrow here? It can also learn to speak?"
"You're making it difficult for you."
The hawker laughed and said: "But although it can't speak human words, it has a novel ability."
As he said that, he took off the cage, caught the bird from inside, tied it quickly with a thin wire, and threw the bird to the ground. The grimace of the flag, the neck swaying up and down, actually playing the tiger like a tiger.
It looked good, and was more pleasing to children than the talking parrot.
Sun Shaozong asked the price, and seeing that it was only two taels of silver, he pointed to where he was, and asked the hawker to send the bird to the house, and then asked Zhao Zhongji for the silver.
The hawker heard that it was Master Qingtian in front of him, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect, he hurriedly entrusted the stall to his neighbor, and went as if flying with the bird.
But he said that Sun Shaozong was on the road again, and not long after he arrived at the gate of the Prince's Mansion. He was about to turn over and dismount when he saw a young man in a python robe and a jade belt coming out of the Prince's Mansion.
King of Xinyang
How could this fellow dare to come to the Prince's Mansion to find him not happy
Sun Shaozong hurriedly led the horse to the side, and after the King of Xinyang went out, he glanced at Sun Shaozong a little, probably didn't recognize Sun Shaozong's identity, and got on the eight-carried sedan chair and walked away.
Watching King Xinyang's sedan chair go away, Sun Shaozong arrived at the corner gate in confusion, and while handing the reins into the hands of Longjing Guard, who was guarding the gate, he wondered, "Why does King Xinyang come again? His Royal Highness is not Is it strictly forbidden for him to step into the palace gate for half a step?"
"I heard that Uncle Guo helped smooth things out."
How could Uncle Zhao help the King of Xinyang
Sun Shaozong was even more puzzled, but the details of this were not something that a gatekeeper could know.
So he crossed the threshold and entered the mansion, and asked the steward on duty in the front yard. He learned that the prince was having morning tea in the garden hall in the backyard, so he rushed over.
He is now the number one confidant of His Royal Highness, the journey is naturally smooth, but when he arrives at the door of the flower hall, he sees that it is not only the prince inside - the princess is also sitting by the side.
Sun Shaozong was hesitating whether or not to let people go in and report. The prince had sharp eyes, but he saw his majestic figure, and immediately got up and greeted with joy: "Aiqing is just in time! I have some difficulties here. Aiqing helps with the analysis."
Seeing that the Crown Princess was silent, she retreated behind the screen, and made it clear that she wanted to 'listen to the government', so Sun Shaozong strode in, bowed and said: "We have seen Your Highness."
Immediately afterwards, he bowed his body and raised his head slightly, looked at the prince and asked, "I don't know what difficulties Your Highness encountered."
"Isn't that the servant of Xinyang Wang Wu Chengxun!"
Speaking of the name of 'Wu Chengxun, King of Xinyang', a look of contempt flashed on the prince's face, and then he took Sun Shaozong to the table: "Aiqing sit down first, and then I will listen to Gutong's details!"
Sun Shaozong declined a few words according to the rules, and then sat down at the table honestly, and said curiously, "I heard that King Xinyang has moved Uncle Guo to intercede, what the hell is going on?"
"Humph."
The prince sneered: "It was really confirmed by Aiqing, that Wu Chengxun's princess was seriously ill, and it is said that she will die soon - but this fellow is more shameless than you think!"
But it turned out that after the King of Beijing sent a letter to 'fall the bull' a few days ago, the King of Xinyang finally understood the situation after a lot of struggles - so the Princess Xinyang, who was fine a few days ago, suddenly became seriously ill yesterday.
This is nothing, the King of Xinyang found Uncle Zhao again, expressing in secret that he was willing to marry Uncle Zhao's concubine as his wife after the mourning period of the Niu family daughter.
And the only request he made was to hope that Uncle Zhao could speak kind words in front of the prince to resolve the misunderstanding between the two brothers.
This Uncle Zhao Guo is a shallow eyelid - otherwise, he would not be in the court, and he would hardly have any sense of existence.
Therefore, after learning that the daughter of the concubine could become the prince's main family, and even have a slight chance to get her hands on the throne of the mother's world, he was immediately moved.
This is the scene of the King of Xinyang returning to the Prince's Mansion this morning.
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but glance at the Xinyang King - it seems that this Xinyang King is not without a city, but he was stunned by the pie that fell from the sky, and he made the impatient action. stupidity.
"I don't know what King Xinyang said to His Highness just now?"
"What else could it be?"
The Son of Heaven snorted and said, "Left and right are just wagging their tails in front of Gu and begging for pity. With this little guts, I actually had the face to compete with Gu for the storage position - if it wasn't for my uncle's face, I would have driven this shameless out!"
hehe~
He kills his wife in pursuit of power. Of course he is a standard scumbag, but didn't you also sleep with the concubine who kissed the uncle
Sun Shaozong sneered from the bottom of his heart, but said solemnly: "Your Highness must not underestimate the enemy! From the point of view of Wei Chen, this Prince of Xinyang may still have some scheming."
"Of course he has a scheming!"
The prince sneered and said, "Otherwise, the Niu family's daughter will not be dead, and the uncle's daughter will be settled first!"
Having said that, he disdainfully cast a roll of eyes behind the screen, and said angrily, "Such a shameless and unscrupulous bandit, it's a shame that someone is so embarrassed to persuade Gu to take his daughter to buy horse bones."
Sun Shaozong knew that he was mocking the Crown Princess, so how dare he echo this topic
He pretended to be ignorant with a grin and asked, "Is it really set?"
"what?"
"Wei Chen is saying that the marriage between King Xinyang and Uncle Zhao's concubine has really been decided?"
"Naturally..."
Halfway through speaking, the prince felt that Sun Shaozong would not aim at nothing, so he frowned and hesitated: "Could it be that he still dares to go back and regret it?"
Sun Shaozong said: "After all, the Niu family girl is not dead yet, not to mention that he has to wait for the Niu family girl's mourning period before he is hired. What's the difficulty of dragging it on for two or three years?"
"And during this period, for the sake of his family's reputation, Uncle Zhao will never spread the word about the marriage contract."
"If His Royal Highness is in sight at that time, he will naturally not regret it, but will arbitrarily organize this marriage."
"But if the concubines in the palace give birth to other princes..."
Having said this, Sun Shaozong paused for a moment, and after the prince changed color, he continued: "Since he can pull down his face and marry the concubine of the Zhao family, he can also secretly seek employment from the Wang family, the Li family, and the Liu family!"
These three families, together with the Jia family of Rongguo Mansion, are the parents' families of the four 'seeded players'.
"What a thief!"
The prince clapped the table and jumped to talk, pacing and scolding angrily: "Gu Huan thinks he has a heart of remorse, but he never thought that he had made such an abacus!"
The more he talked, the more annoyed he became. He suddenly kicked the spring stool over, and greeted with hatred: "Come on, uncle of the country quickly...!"
"Hold on, Your Highness!"
Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped and said, "This is just the minister's speculation, and he may not..."
The prince raised his hand, and said beyond doubt: "Aiqing has always been very accurate, and this time he must not be wrong! Besides, with that servant's indifference and shame, he will definitely do a few things like selling his own goods. come out!"
As he said that, he prepared to order someone to invite Uncle Zhao Guo, so that King Xinyang's face could be exposed in person.
"Your Highness."
Sun Shaozong once again stopped him and said, "I don't want you to break with the King of Xinyang by making this inference, but I hope you can take the plan and tie him to us!"
"Tie us to death?"
The prince asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by that?"
"Although King Xinyang was introduced by His Majesty to divide the kings and Niu's chess pieces, he has no real power in his hands, but in the end he is a noble person. Coming here can also demonstrate His Royal Highness's manipulative skills; what about the three..."
Sun Shaozong smiled and said: "If there is something dangerous, you might as well use the King of Xinyang as a shield and ask the road stone!"
The bottom line is that it is actually recommended that the prince's daughter buy horse bones and promise the king of Xinyang to take refuge.
However, in the eyes of the prince, Sun Shaozong's rhetoric was much more heard than the prince's concubine, so he asked without thinking, "How should the solitary figure be calculated?"
Sun Shaozong said with a smile: "First, send someone to monitor King Xinyang's every move. If King Xinyang is as expected and secretly connected with the parents of the four concubines, His Highness can use this to make King Xinyang obey obediently. "
"If King Xinyang has never had such thoughts, we might as well use his name to lead a red line for him secretly - anyway, with Uncle Zhao here as proof, he can't explain it even if he is full of mouths."
"Hahaha!"
After listening to this, the crown prince couldn't help laughing. He held a pot and poured a cup of tea for Sun Shaozong himself. He praised: "Aiqing is really my son! Come on, let's drink tea instead of wine, let's drink this cup!"
Saying that, he raised his head and poured the tea into it.
After the two of them put down the teacups, the prince found another spring stool and sat down, and asked casually, "By the way, how did Aiqing come by such a coincidence?"
Finally got to the point!
Sun Shaozong immediately stood up and said solemnly: "Actually, this minister is here to accuse His Highness."
"A crime? A crime for what?"
The prince was perplexed.
However, Sun Shaozong bowed and said: "The previous minister privately borrowed His Highness's name and refused King Zhongshun's request to let the minister help and frame the Zhenguofu Niu family."
"what?!"
The prince's face suddenly sank, and he said angrily: "Don't you know that Gu now can't wait to tear up the corpse of the cattle family?!"