Seeing his unpromising appearance, the Emperor Chu became more and more angry and said, "Do you still have the face to cry?"
Seeing that Emperor Chuqi was angry, Empress Xiahou hurriedly persuaded: "His Majesty, please calm down. Since Xuan'er said that it was not a fabrication, it must be a poem that came from somewhere. Let's not wrongly accuse him."
"Hmph!" The Emperor Chuqi snorted coldly, "How can there be such a crooked poem?!" As he said that, he looked at Huangfu Xuan coldly and said, "You read out the whole poem and listen!"
"Son-member..." Huangfu Xuan said with his lower lip tightly: "I can't remember it for a moment."
"You dare to argue!" The Emperor Chu became more and more angry and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't remember it. I'll give you a night of time to recall it. If you can't remember it tomorrow morning, you don't have to take the penalty, wait and eat the board!"
"My son follows the order."
After such a fuss, the banquet ended unhappily. Huangfu Xuan left the inner palace in a dirt. He knew that he could only pass this level by writing a poem that suited the situation overnight. But as Huangfu said, how could the catkins be red? Even if he wanted to be round, he would not come!
That's why he was so annoyed that he didn't want to go back to Yaoguang Palace. He stepped back and wandered around aimlessly in the outer palace until he "collided" Lu Yun...
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Huangfu Xuan was very suspicious that his embarrassing situation yesterday was caused by these brothers working together, and the culprit was Huangfu Zhen, who looked like a good man!
But at this moment, he was confident and did not have much trouble with him. When he arrived at the gate of the front hall, the four brothers hurriedly cleaned their appearance and stepped into the hall silently. It was early morning, and the entire court hall was immersed in the breeze, and the bananas in front of the hall were slowly rolling in the thick shade. When the palace people saw the four high men coming to pay their respects, they saluted them silently, and then led the four people through the corridor in front of the hall and into the Linshuitai Hall on the left.
The scenery here is the most beautiful and cool and pleasant, and it is the Yanbo Zhishuang Hall where the First Emperor lives.
At this time, the emperor should have just gotten up, and the eunuchs and palace maids were busy, either opening the curtains, delivering toiletries, tidying clothes, or carrying tea to enter... Although they were busy, everything was orderly and silent.
The four brothers waited in front of the hall. After a while, an internal minister came out of the hall to spread the word, saying that the emperor summoned him.
The four of them walked in lightly, and saw the Chu Shi Emperor wearing a wide Taoist robe, with a casual hair tied in a bun, and leisurely thinking about the broken thing. There was no morning court during the summer palace, and the ministers would try to report as late as possible before they could report it. Therefore, the Chu Shi Emperor could get up a little later than usual, and he would not have to face the annoying national affairs immediately after getting up, but did something he liked.
The emperor likes to play chess, which is well known...
After the four princes came in and respectfully greeted the emperor, the Chu Shi Emperor threw down the chess piece in his hand, let them get up, and smiled and said, "If it's too late, I won't wait for you to have breakfast."
Seeing that the emperor was about to get up, Huangfu Zhen hurried forward and supported the Chushi Emperor and said, "Don't you want your father to sleep for a while?"
"I have been going to the morning court for many years, and I have long been accustomed to getting up late." Chu Shidi sighed with a smile.
"The father is so hard, and my ministers wish I could share my worries for him." Huangfu Zhen hurriedly said softly.
"Everyone is not young anymore. I really can't just read the books of sages. I should learn to help me manage the government." The Emperor Chu nodded and said casually.
The eyes of several princes lit up, and their hearts were raving.
At this time, the palace servants moved the tables and chopsticks in the water pavilion next to the hall to prepare breakfast for the emperor's family.
Empress Xiahou also came in from behind. Although she was nearly forty years old, she was still beautiful and beautiful, and she was particularly charming. The four brothers hurriedly saluted Empress Xiahou. Huangfu Xuan couldn't help but feel irritated when she saw the queen staying in the Smoky Palace last night.
When the palace people served the emperor and empress sat down, the Emperor Shi waved to his sons and said, "You guys sit down too."
Huangfu Xuan and others then thanked their father and knelt on their knees in the next year.
The aristocratic families have always competed for luxury. Although Emperor Gaozu advocated a frugality when he founded the country, the world was peaceful for more than 20 years, and the wealthy families also had a tendency to resurface the old ways. The children of the gentry in Luojing City were heard incessantly.
As the 195th emperor, the first emperor naturally did not fall behind. A breakfast meal was worth tens of thousands of yuan. In the middle of the water pavilion, two long tables with yellow brocade were filled with exquisite gold and silver bowls, dishes and pots, with more than 200 pieces, including 36 vegetarian food, 36 meat food, 36 candied pastries, 36 dried fruits, 24 soups... There are also various flower decorations, which are beautiful and dazzling. If ordinary people only see them, they can be full.
The first emperor and his family of six sat in front of six food tables. The emperor and his wife's food table face north and south, and were placed on the three-inch gold platform. They were neatly placed with gold spoons, gold spoons, gold forks, gold teeth chopsticks, gold plates and gold bowls, and several pieces of gold tablecloths. The palace servants had already poured appetizing wine for the emperor and empress in the jade-filled gold cup.
The Emperor's Cup is a wine presented to the Western Regions, and the Queen drinks a drink made of papaya juice produced by Lingnan and mixed with milk.
While siping the wine, the emperor and the empress looked at the table in front of him. The palace people who served were watching the emperor and the empress intently. When their eyes paused at a certain dish, they picked out a portion from the container of the dish and served it in front of the empress.
The Emperor had a small appetite and a light diet. He ordered a portion of fragrant rice porridge, a few vegetarian dishes, a little roasted pork, and a few marrow cakes, and then he slowly ate it. Queen Xiahou only ate a little bit, ordered bird's nest and a little bamboo shoots and mushrooms, and forced herself to look back.
The Emperor Chu was a little funny and said, "The Queen, if you want to eat, eat more."
Empress Xiahou took a sip of papaya juice and smiled bitterly at the Shishi Emperor: "I have to control my diet so that I can't get too fat."
The first emperor glanced at Empress Xiahou's slender waist and smiled: "The queen's figure is better than those concubines of seventeen or eighteen."
Empress Xiahou blushed immediately and glanced at Chu Shi Emperor charmingly and said, "Your Majesty, there are children here."
The four princes sat in the lower head, all the tableware at the table were made of silver, and the palace people also poured drinks for the four princes. After the emperor and empress ordered the food, the palace people began to serve them.
"We heard nothing, and my mother just thought we didn't exist." Huangfu Shi grinned.
Huangfu Zhen and Huangfu Li also covered their mouths and laughed secretly, which made Queen Xiahou burned fire. They ordered the palace servants who were cooking and said, "Serve more food for them and block the mouths of these monkeys." As he said that, he looked at Huangfu Xuan and said, "Xuan'er also eat more. Look at your third and fourth brothers, eating meat is like a hungry wolf. How can you eat only a little bit of it?"
Huangfu Xuan nodded, responded vaguely, and started eating with a smell of wax, causing a wave of nausea in his belly. Whenever he saw that the family was harmonious, he had no appetite at all.
The emperor's family started to eat, and the musicians next to them played soothing music, one to cheer up and the other to cover up the sound of the royal family eating.
Huangfu Shi was surrounded by fat chickens, roast ducks, sheep belly, steamed deer and other big meat products, and the number was several times higher than that of others. He swallowed for a while, and then he felt less hungry. He picked up the white-spun scarf on the table and wiped his greasy lips, picked up the silver cup and drank a sip of milk. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Huangfu Xuan and said, "By the way, brother, have you recalled that poem?"
Huangfu was lowering his head to eat, and when he heard this, he raised his head and looked at Huangfu Xuan with a smile and said, "Looking at the confident look of my brother, I must have recalled it."
Everyone's eyes moved to the eldest prince, but Huangfu Xuan was unmoved. He picked up a chopstick of chicken shredded chicken and put it into his mouth to taste it slowly, without any intention of answering.
After swallowing the food in his mouth, Huangfu Xuan cast a searching look at Emperor Chu.
The Emperor Chu didn't want to mention this matter again, but he didn't expect that his two sons would still hold on. He wanted Huangfu Xuan to be embarrassed and then expose the matter.
Chapter completed!