PDLP Chapter 461: Eating Together
Chapter 461: Eating Together
Emperor Chongzhao showed no emotion, his expression was wooden.
Wang Xifeng looked at him and sighed inwardly. Her eyes became more tender and compassionate. She took the initiative to reach out and gently held his arm:
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is seriously ill and has become so confused that many people can't recognize her...
"Prince Su is the youngest son, and the Queen Mother raised him personally, so she naturally loves him more than the eldest son.
"Now the Queen Mother must have known the truth about her own situation, and she was afraid that she would not be able to see her young son before she left, so she used stronger words and phrases.
"Your Majesty, don't take it to heart..."
Emperor Chongzhao raised his other hand and grasped the kindness extended by Wang Xifeng, but still kept his head down:
"Not all parents in this world can treat their children equally; not all mothers love their children...
“You don’t need to excuse her for these words, she takes them seriously.
"I'm used to it, too."
After saying this, Emperor Chongzhao suddenly remembered, glanced in the direction of Heke's room, stood up, and smiled:
"You are better than me, and your father and mother's hearts and eyes are full of you.
"I heard that Princess Wuling came early in the morning. Don't neglect her. Go and keep her company.
"What do your father and mother like to eat? Ask the Imperial Food Bureau to prepare it in my name. When you return, bring some back for your father."
Wang Xifeng quickly stood up, bowed and thanked him, and said with a smile, "I have already sent someone to inform the Imperial Food Bureau about today's menu while on the way.
"You and Prince Duan will eat the same food as us today."
In other words, one menu, two places serving food, just treat it as having a meal together.
Emperor Chongzhao felt warm in his heart and nodded with a smile: "Okay. I will go to see the queen and then return to the Purple Palace."
But if I go to see the Queen, and it's almost lunch time, and I have to leave and go back to the Purple Palace to eat, wouldn't that be disrespectful to the Queen?
Wang Xifeng opened her mouth but didn't ask.
Forget it, she just came back and she doesn’t know what happened in the palace a while ago, so it’s better not to meddle in other people’s business.
After seeing Emperor Chongzhao off, he came back and went to the side hall to invite Madam Yuan in person.
Who would have thought that Yuan was actually playing chess with He Ke, and the grandfather and grandson were evenly matched in the chess.
Wang Xifeng looked down at the chess board in surprise.
Ok? !
This chess style is still exactly the same fierce? !
Nanny Ji was also amazed and said with a smile, "Since I taught the princess how to play chess, this is the first time I see her using her full strength!
"Your Highness's chess skills are really strong!"
Wang Xifeng was immediately dissatisfied: "Why? Are you saying that every time He Ke plays chess with me, it's not me who plays with her, but she's coaxing me to play?"
Madam Ji laughed so hard that she covered her mouth with her handkerchief: "I didn't say that!"
Both people on the chessboard raised their heads and laughed.
Yuan threw the chess piece in her hand back into the box, pointed at Wang Xifeng and said with a smile: "Your father, with his eyes looking up at the sky, always says that playing chess with me is not fun!
"That's all right now. Tomorrow when Ke and I are free, we can go to his house and play a few rounds with that old guy! Let him know that there are always better people out there!"
He Ke hurriedly said modestly: "I only have these little tricks because my grandmother gave them to me."
When Madam Yuan heard the word "grandmother", she immediately smiled and said, "I don't have any! I am simple and straightforward, and I can only go this far on the chessboard.
"You'll find out when you go home tomorrow. Your grandfather plays chess by looking five steps ahead before he makes a move, and the situation is always ten steps ahead!"
He Ke's eyes lit up when he heard this.
Nanny Ji was also somewhat interested, and looked at He Ke with a smile: "If the princess is interested, you can go for a walk while Mr. Wang is recuperating at home!"
"Okay! He's been bored lying in bed lately, and he doesn't dare to bother Xuan He, so he makes trouble for me every day!
“Otherwise, when I heard that Sister Feng wanted to see me, I would have rushed out so early in the morning?!
"If you have time, go over and play with He Keruo. Play a few games of chess with him to coax him, and then I'll take you out for a walk!
"Grandma has recently bought a few more shops and taken on a few more businesses. I'll take you to have a look and have fun!
"Also, the weather is getting cooler, and I see that your hair has grown two inches longer than in early summer.
"Tomorrow I'll take you to make new clothes..."
As she spoke, she followed Wang Xifeng out, but she held He Ke in her hand and kept her eyes on He Ke, as if she wanted to bring the whole world to her.
He Ke smiled brightly, hugged Yuan's arm, and his expression and voice became more and more delicate: "Okay! I will listen to grandma! Grandma loves me the most! I love grandma so much!"
Wang Xifeng looked at the two helplessly, laughing and shaking her head, and then said to Ji Ma Ma: "See? You have taught them this, and you are still so proud!
"If outsiders see this tomorrow, they will think that the princess has grown back to three years old!"
Madam Ji smiled so hard that her teeth were showing and her eyes were not visible: "Of course I am very proud! If I hadn't accompanied you and taught you so well, how could the princess be so filial?
"If the princess wasn't so filial and sensible, how could the prince love and care for her so wholeheartedly?!"
"Mammy, you are such a talker. I always wondered where He Ke learned to be so good at talking, and now I know!"
Wang Xifeng said this, first glaring at Nanny Ji, then unable to hold back her laughter, and finally simply waved her hand, "Quick, show us Nanny Ji the reward!"
An'er, who was waiting by the side, took a purse and handed it to Madam Ji with both hands, saying with a smile, "This is a gift from our aunt to the queen as a reward.
"Your Majesty asked me to see who it was given to. I think it would be most appropriate to give it to Madam!"
Madam Ji was stunned for a moment, then took it subconsciously. She felt it was heavy in her hand, and when she opened her purse and took out ten small silver ingots, she cried out:
"so much?"
"Is that too much?" Madam Yuan hugged He Ke and laughed, "Is this enough to fool you?
"An'er, little hoof, why don't you go to your master's storehouse and pick out two pieces of fine jade for Madam to wear as a waistband!"
Talk and laugh.
Lunch was served soon.
He Ke exclaimed, his appetite waking up: "I love all the dishes today! It's better when my mother is at home!"
Mrs. Yuan looked over and saw six dishes, one soup and two snacks on the table.
The six dishes are: Oolong stew with snowflakes, stir-fried wild duck breast with ginger, three white emerald flowers, crystal shrimp dumplings, stir-fried gluten with pickled cabbage and moss mushrooms, and stewed tofu with fermented black beans.
The soup is fish lips stewed in milk soup, and the two snacks are a vegetarian steamed bun and a millet steamed bun.
Mrs. Yuan felt warm inside when she saw this.
The sea cucumbers, fish lips, gluten tofu, etc. here are not what children like to eat, but are foods that people of my age like.
But He Ke was happy and not unhappy at all.
Wang Xifeng smiled and asked Madam Yuan to pick up her chopsticks: "Today, these are not only for mother and He Ke, but also for the emperor and Prince Duan in the Purple Palace."
Mrs. Yuan's heart was moved. She glanced at her daughter and felt a sense of pride.
When it comes to scheming, how many people in the palace can rival my daughter?
Haha, there is no one who can fight!