The reborn prince's little palace maid in the apocalypse

In this grand prosperity, fireworks illuminate the night, and new words are exchanged with glasses of wine.

In Wuji Hall, all the performing artists have withdrawn. The ladies from various houses left the table one after another and went to the side hall that had been prepared long ago to change clothes. There are three young ladies from unknown families left in the main hall. One is holding the piano, one is playing the flute, and the other is painting and inscribing on a piece of white silk that has been raised up. The talents that the noble ladies are going to perform have all been reported in advance, and the order They were all arranged beforehand. You don't have to act, but if you want to add it temporarily, it's impossible.

As the ladies' performances began, the adults around them, especially the parents of the ladies, began to compliment each other. You praise my daughter for her good piano skills, and I praise your daughter for her beautiful handwriting. The ministers also slowly began to relax, and the tablemates began to talk and toast each other.

However, His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, who was sitting above, did not show any different expressions towards which performance or whose young lady, and he did not even cast an extra glance at them.

Before the arrival of Prince Yan Sinian and others, there was a carp-offering ceremony at the beginning of the banquet. It was brought over quickly from Bingcheng in the north. It is a kind of carp unique there, with golden wings and golden scales, a fat body and a delicious taste. The best nine kinds of fish were selected and sent to the front of the palace for the emperor to view. Please His Majesty the Emperor choose the largest, best and strongest one to use for worshiping ancestors in the Ancestral Temple on the first day of the lunar month. The rest will be sent to the imperial dining room. The imperial dining room will pick out a suitable fish and cook it, and then place it in front of the emperor, so as to have more than enough every year.

Xiaoba didn't see the fish she chose before, but she saw the fish on the table that the palace servants gave the emperor. This was the first time she saw a fish that could stand on a plate. The fish was poured with juice and had golden scales, making it look gleaming under the candlelight.

I originally thought that after serving the fish to the emperor, it would be the prince's turn, but I didn't expect that there would be no fish. There were hundreds of people in the room and only the one on the emperor's table was there.

In the apocalypse, it's good if the fish don't eat people, so Xiaoba only eats fresh fish and shrimp in this world. At first, Xiaoba didn't like the river food very much. After all, there were too few places to eat, and the meat was too little to fill him up. They either have shells or thorns, but of course they taste really good.

In Xiaoba's eyes, the fish and shrimps at that time were not as good as a basket of steamed buns. But now, having enough food is no longer Xiaoba’s first goal in life. The deliciousness of fish and shrimp gradually attracted Xiaoba's attention. There are very few big ships in this world that can go to sea, and most of the food on everyone’s table is river food. Xiaohachi had also eaten carp before, but it was indeed the first time for Xiaohachi to see such a beautiful carp, and he still stood on the plate. Ping Qi often says that the food is delicious, delicious and delicious. The color is the first impression when it is placed on the plate. Xiao Ba always thinks that no matter how beautiful the food is, it will not be eaten in the stomach.

But now that she saw this carp, she finally knew what it meant to want to eat it just by looking at it. But they don't have it here. Xiaoba doesn't have common sense enough to grab fish from the emperor's table. It's just that when eating the food in his bowl, he would glance at the fish on the emperor's table from time to time. Of course Yan Sinian noticed Xiaoba's gaze and smiled. The fish on the emperor's table was not actually for food, but had a greater symbolic meaning. In order to make it look good, I used a whole fish to display it, even the scales were not shaved off. So its taste can be imagined.

Seeing Xiaoba like this, Yan Sinian called Rengu beside him to whisper a few words. When the aristocratic lady below started dancing, Ren Gu came behind Xiaoba with a food box, opened the food box, and what was placed in front of Xiaoba was a braised carp. Miniba's eyes widened. Although the shape is not as good-looking as the one on the emperor's table, it is bigger. This fish is obviously two circles bigger than that one. In order to pose the fish on the emperor's table, you can only choose a medium-sized fish, otherwise it will be immediately Can't live.

Xiaoba felt satisfied. No matter how beautiful your fish is, it is not as big as mine. Xiao Ba used chopsticks, put a mouthful of fish meat into his mouth, and chewed it carefully. Yan Sinian on the side frowned slightly. He saw that Xiao Ba's piece of meat obviously had some fine thorns. . Although the little girl didn't seem to be stuck, he couldn't help but worry, so he moved the plate of fish in front of him, picked out the fish meat with chopsticks, and slowly picked out the fish bones. When the official lady below performed a pipa song and received bursts of applause, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince above was carefully picking up the meat from the fish bone for Xiao Ba.

There was a lot of singing and dancing in the Wuji Palace, and it seemed that the rest of the palace was a little too quiet.

Outside the back wall of the East Palace, there is a small corner door used by palace residents. At this time, two people came over quietly without holding a lamp.

The person leading the way was a young eunuch, followed by an old man with gray hair. He was not wearing official clothes, but casual clothes, but it could be seen that they were new clothes.

He followed the little eunuch slowly to the side of the corner door. The little eunuch stepped forward and patted the corner door three times. After a while, the corner door was opened. The person who opened the door was a hunchback. The old eunuch looked at them. Just let them in.

After entering, there is a small and low palace room not far away, which is obviously where the old eunuch lives. The old eunuch didn't speak, but pointed to the opposite side, where a row of verandahs were built along the wall.

The young eunuch followed the old eunuch to the house, while the old man walked towards the verandah on his own. Before walking up the steps, a girl wearing a first-grade palace dress flashed out from the side, saying happily: "My granddaughter has met my grandfather, and I wish my grandfather a long and happy life."

"Good boy, get up quickly." The old man stretched out his hand to help her. The woman in palace clothes raised her head, and it was Han Yan in the backyard of the East Palace.

Han Yan raised his head and looked at the old man in front of him through the light in the verandah. He saw that his face was full of ravines, a somewhat dark face, and there were three scars that seemed to be scratched by wild animals, crossing the entire face. It is not difficult to see from this scar how serious the wound was. The entire face is basically covered by these three scars.

This old man is Han Yan's grandfather, his name is Shu Chi'an, and he is also from the Shu family, but he is from a collateral line. When he was a boy, he was disfigured by a wild beast, so he ran away from home and joined the army in the North. He has experienced life and death and achieved some military exploits. Something happened later, and he returned to the capital, and finally served in a fifth-grade military position.

This time at the palace banquet, an old man who was over sixty years old and had reached the fifth rank or above was specially invited to attend the banquet. He was just qualified, so he took the opportunity to come in and see his granddaughter.

"To make a long story short, do you really have no chance with the prince?" Shu Chi'an stared at the granddaughter in front of him, his voice a little hoarse.

"My granddaughter is incompetent, but the prince has not stayed in the palace at all in the past three years, and he does not need the service of palace maids when he is close to him." Han Yan, who had always been cold and cool, now had a hint of grievance in his tone.

"I heard that there is a favored palace maid next to the prince. Can he get in touch with her?" Shu Chi'an asked Han Yan thoughtfully.

"It is said that there is such a person, but my granddaughter has never seen her. She is always in the dining room and never goes out. I have not found a chance to meet this person. And..." At this point, Han Yan lowered his voice and continued. He said: "Grandpa, I heard Grandma Rong and the Queen saying that Yun Ba is the favored palace maid. She had been sick before, so her development was slower than that of normal people. I'm afraid she won't be able to have children."

"Then this person will no longer be useful." Shu Chi'an looked at Han Yan again, as if he was considering whether this granddaughter could still be used.

Han Yan's heart tightened when she saw her grandfather's eyes, and she hurriedly said: "Grandpa, there is a second-class little palace maid beside me who looks like a child. I have recommended her to the queen. Because the queen is ill, so These things have been delayed, but people have stayed in Kunde Palace."

As expected of a descendant, Shu Chi'an understood Han Yan's meaning after just a few words and nodded: "Since you can't win the favor of the prince, then pay close attention to the people around him, no matter who they are, as long as they are After giving birth to his child, we will take action.”

Han Yan originally wanted to kill Brother Ying and keep the child, but she didn't expect that her grandfather wanted to take action no matter who gave birth to the child, but she couldn't control anyone else!

"Brother Ying, it's easy to handle, but I'm afraid I won't be able to deal with it if there are others." Han Yan looked troubled.

"Take this." Shu Chi'an took out a purse from his arms and handed it to Han Yan. "There is a fragrant pill in it. Scrape some off and put it on the charcoal fire. The smoke can make people happy. After using it for ten days, if you don't use it anymore, you will have constant nightmares, and your body will be like a hundred ants eating flesh. People can endure it. This is a secret medicine in the world. There is no record in the palace. You can use it as you see fit."

Han Yan nodded in agreement, and then looked around again. Only a figure was moving in the small palace not far away, and there was no sound elsewhere.

"Grandfather, my granddaughter and the eighth prince have met several times recently. In fact, you don't have to be a prince to have a child." Although the eighth prince is a romantic, he also has a dignified appearance, and his eyebrows are a bit like a noble concubine. It's like there are thousands of styles hidden inside. Han Yan met him a few times and even chatted a few times. From his words, he could feel that he was thinking about her. That's why I told my grandfather that after all, the eighth prince's bed was much better than the prince's.

"Confused, who wants the blood of the Yan family?" Han Yan was stunned by his grandfather's words. The prince was either of the blood of the Yan family or his mother's family, but the prince's mother's family was the Shu family! Han Yan didn't understand very much.

Shu Chi'an originally didn't plan to tell Han Yan too much, but when he saw that Han Yan wanted to hook up with another prince, he was afraid that she would actually be pregnant with someone who was not of the prince's blood, and that would ruin him. So he decided to tell her something.

"The prince is not the queen's biological child."

After just a few words, Han Yan was so frightened that he almost couldn't stand still. "Grandpa, you can't say this casually. How do you know this?" Although my family is also part of the Shu family, it is just a side branch and is not even qualified to enter the ancestral home. Grandfather is just a small fifth-grade military attache and has served for many years. How could he know the secrets in this deep palace?

"I don't need to know how the prince became the queen's son. As long as I see the prince's face, I know who fathered him." Shu Chi'an's originally ferocious face became even more twisted at this time: "Listen, I don't have time to talk to you. You just need to know that only by getting the prince's blood can I invite people from the prince's biological mother's family. Don't think about Li Daitao. For hundreds of years, every day, The royal family’s method of verifying bloodline was learned from their family.”

"Then why do you have to use a child? Why don't you take the prince directly?"

"Is the prince related to our Shu family? Maybe his biological mother was killed by the Shu family! Silly boy, grandfather is also trying to preserve our lineage. As long as you have the prince's child, it will be his. Even if my mother’s family comes to kill us, we won’t die together with our ancestral home!”

"Whose family is the prince's mother's family?"

Shu Chi'an was a little hesitant when he heard Han Yan ask about the prince's mother's family. He didn't dare to mention that surname. Just when he wanted to say it, two eunuchs from the small palace next to him came out. The little eunuch who had led him the way quickly walked up to him and whispered: "It's getting late, you two. We have to rush back. It would be bad if someone discovers us."

Because someone was coming, Han Yan stopped talking. Mainly because she felt a little panicked after listening to her grandfather's words, so after saluting her grandfather, she hurried away.