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"Ah!" In the palace, the new emperor, who was watching the new concubine performing a dance, couldn't help but sneezed twice. The concubine had already stopped dancing in fear and knelt down to plead guilty.

Tonight, in order to gain His Majesty's favor, she specially spent a lot of money to buy the eunuch next to His Majesty, and directed and performed this very refreshing dance in the imperial garden. The beauty dancing under the moon is certainly pleasing to the eye, but at night, the cold dew outside The anger is not light, worrying that His Majesty will get sick because of this, the new concubine who entered the palace was so frightened that she almost collapsed on the ground.

"You danced well. Come, I will reward Concubine Li." His Majesty sneezed again and touched his nose. He was also a little dissatisfied with the new Concubine Li. He danced and danced, burning such a thick smoke. Xiang, is it because you want to kill the king?

In Zhengyang Palace, the Queen smiled coldly after hearing about the stupid things that Concubine Li had done. This idiot, it was not in vain that she secretly helped her "a helping hand". His Majesty hated such a strong incense, so how could he not be so disgusted? Fortunately for her?

After solving a potential rival in love, the empress's mood still hasn't improved much.

"Where have you been, Prince Qinghe and his party?"

"Back to Madam, the king of the county and his party left Qinghe County by boat. The boat traveled only a hundred miles, and was suddenly attacked by a water monster. Now they have turned to the official road and have not yet arrived in Rongcheng."

"Sure enough, you are indeed a half-demon, and your luck is so bad, that's all, let's not mention this spoiler, where is His Royal Highness resting tonight?"

"Go back to your mother, His Royal Highness... still resting in the study tonight, and have never been lucky enough to visit the two nobles."

"Useless stuff! Change two more!"

The delicate teacup shattered to the ground, and the rare spring tea soaked the luxurious carpet, but it still couldn't quench the empress' inner anger and anxiety.

Seeing that even that half-demon is about to get married, her golden and precious Feng'er is still very ignorant about the relationship between men and women. How can a prince gain a foothold in the court without an heir?

In the East Palace, Crown Prince Wang Kunfeng was selecting a dozen or so house deeds in his hand.

"Qiu Lu, do you think Big Brother and the others like places that are more lively, or places that are more secluded?"

"The eldest son has lived in the countryside for a long time, so he must not like the prosperity of Beijing..."

"Then this one! Although this place is close to the outer city, it happens to be the houses of a few old ministers nearby. No one dares to make noise here. It is suitable for eldest brother and the others." His Royal Highness happily picked up the house deed. Come out, put it in a box on the side, and prepare to pick something else, and give it to the eldest brother together at that time.

Although the eldest brother has been crowned the king of the county, he has not lived in the imperial city for so many years, and he does not have his own house here. The grandfather's family has given him several houses, but I have never heard that he has given them to the eldest brother. He didn't even have a title, and the uncles of the grandfather's family were so quick to look at the top, so naturally they looked down on the elder brother, so why would they give him a house?

The same is true of the father, who gave the eldest brother the title, but ordered people to "rebuild the county palace" in situ. How could someone who couldn't surpass the royal family with pure blood order someone to build a county palace for the elder brother and the third younger brother in the imperial city?

He couldn't just watch his elder brother and third younger brother go home with great difficulty, but ended up living in an inn outside, right?In addition to the house, he also prepared some waiters and exquisite decorations. He even arranged five embroiderers who made clothes for the nobles. He felt that it should be enough for the daily needs of the eldest brother and the others here. He ordered people to take the things and arrange them first. When the time comes, he will hand over the house deed to his eldest brother, and they will be able to live in it.

"Your Highness, it's getting late at night, and it's time to go to bed." Looking at the box that was about to be filled, Shang Qiulu sighed slightly, and couldn't help but remind him, "The two little ladies given by the empress do not know that Your Highness Do you want Xuan to serve you?"

Wang Kunfeng paused his hands while arranging things, and an unspeakable bitterness welled up in his heart.

He knew that the Queen Mother must have summoned Shang Qiulu to Zhengyang Palace to mention something while he was away, otherwise, with Shang Qiulu's temperament, he would never get involved in his private affairs, especially this kind of thing.

He also knew that what Shang Qiulu was thinking of was his fiancé already engaged by his elder brother, his future sister-in-law.

But so what?Shopkeeper Bai will belong to his elder brother after all, and he is the one who will be bound with Shang Qiulu for the rest of his life.

In whatever capacity.

He has tried very hard to convince himself in his heart that as long as two people can face each other day and night and never leave, no matter if it is a master-servant or any other relationship, he will be happy.

But what can be done?Demons are more greedy than humans. They want him to see only him in his heart, want them to be surrounded by no one else, want to hold his hand openly, and want the matchmaker to marry the one he loves to be himself. The crown princess... And he can't do any of these!

Therefore, he has gotten used to not saying anything, pretending to reject the concubine bestowed by his mother ignorantly, pretending not to understand the eyes of those noble ladies who are looking forward to becoming princesses, pretending not to understand Shang Qiulu's repeated dismissals... Clear the relationship...

He really envied his eldest brother.Although the eldest brother is not a prince, he does not have the glory and honor of being under one person and above ten thousand people, and he doesn't even have a house to stay in this huge imperial city.But what does that matter?The people he loves are all by his side, this is the happiest demon life in the world.

Unlike him, when he fell in love with someone, he didn't even have the courage to say it.

Sighing silently in his heart, he raised his head again, His Highness the Crown Prince's eyes were full of grievances, and in a soft voice almost begging, he said coquettishly to his bodyguard——

"Qiu Lu, I'm really tired today, can you help me get rid of them? I'm still a kitten who has just transformed into a kitten, and I don't know what the queen mother thinks~ Anyway, I don't want them! I don't want anyone! I want to rest , you go outside and guard! No one else is allowed to come in!"

Saying so, he pushed Shang Qiulu out. His Royal Highness's bedroom has three entrances, inside and outside. The innermost room is His Highness's bedroom, the middle floor is the place where the night attendants rest at night, and the outer room is where he usually uses tea for washing. Yes, since he got lost and came back, His Royal Highness has driven out all the night watchmen and let Shang Qiulu guard here every night, which shows his favor for Shang's guards.

No wonder the empress saw that she couldn't talk about her son, so she wanted to ask Shang Qiulu to "raise something".

Shang Qiulu smiled wryly and was pushed out by His Highness the Crown Prince. Regardless of the teasing of the two maids serving outside, he conveyed His Highness’s orders to the two court ladies. They came forward to solve the problem, and he took out the bedding for night watch from the cabinet, spread it on the couch outside, and slept with his clothes on.

However, tonight seems to be insomnia.

Looking at the cold white moonlight outside the window, Shang Qiulu's heart felt as if it was falling into an ice cellar.

Today, the Empress summoned him to go to Zhengyang Palace for questioning, not just to persuade him to persuade His Royal Highness to favor those two concubines. Everyone in the world praises how virtuous and virtuous His Majesty's original concubine is. Only he knows that this woman How terrible!

I'm afraid that the most vicious monster is not even one ten-thousandth as good as her!

When the Empress asked him the sentence "Do you know that His Royal Highness is in Taixue, can you know someone's handsome gentleman", her cold, probing and probing gaze, like a sharp blade, made him A well-trained heart couldn't help trembling.

At that moment, he suddenly had an almost absurd intuition, which made him feel that death was approaching.

Fortunately, as one of the prince's personal bodyguards, he came from a lowly background and was not qualified to set foot in the school where the doctors of Taixue teach. , and did not dare to peek at His Highness the Crown Prince and the noble sons of the court, the empress did not have any suspicions, so she let him back.

However, after this incident, I am afraid that the empress will definitely send people to strictly investigate the powerful children who have been with the crown prince.

According to the law of this dynasty, as long as there is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, men can also become husband and wife, just like ordinary couples.However, as the prince of a dynasty and the only heir under the empress's knees (the eldest son of half-demon blood is not considered her own child in the eyes of the empress), how could this woman make her only son fall in love with a man?A man who is destined not to give birth to an heir for His Highness the Crown Prince is absolutely not qualified to be the Crown Princess in the eyes of the Empress!

Let alone the Crown Princess, if the Queen Empress finds any clues about such a goblin who seduces His Highness the Crown Prince, I am afraid that even if there is no real evidence, it will be a trivial matter to use the Empress Empress's means to prevent a powerful child from approaching His Highness the Crown Prince. one pile.

This is a son of a powerful and powerful man, and he also understands the meaning of beating in the words of the empress today. Among the guards serving the prince, he is the one who spends the most time with the prince, and he has to stay outside the prince's bedroom on duty at night. He is really suspected of charming the prince...

If he didn't have any distracting thoughts about the prince in his heart, he might not be able to escape with a glass of poisoned wine in Zhengyang Palace today.

He was not afraid of death, but it was hard for him to get to this point, it was hard for him to have the opportunity to stand in the sun, and he just died like this, he was really unwilling!

And that mussel, I don't know if he can have a happy marriage with that uncertain eldest son, the current King of Qinghe, if he has a discord with the King in the future, if he has an identity at that time, he will naturally be able to marry him. To take him over, he didn't dare to say what kind of honor he could give him before, but now, he is already a celebrity in front of His Royal Highness, and when the crown prince ascends the throne, he will be the new emperor's confidant. It is still possible to give him a stable and prosperous life.

There are many things he wants to do, unfulfilled wishes, and many more, he is reluctant to die.

Perhaps, this is the main reason why he was able to join hands with King Qinghe tacitly, because, from this point of view, they are actually the same kind of people, and fate is extremely stingy to people like them, so every thing they have Everything is worth protecting with their lives.

However, joining hands is joining forces, if one day Qinghe County King does something to offend the mussel, then don't blame him for not thinking about the old love and going out to snatch the monster.

The human race's lifespan is much shorter than that of the monster race, so the time left for him is really not much.If you can be with the monster you like during your lifetime, even if it is only for a few months or a few days, you will feel happy just thinking about it, and you will live up to this life.

"Qiu Lu, are you asleep?" In the sleeping hall, His Highness the Crown Prince deliberately suppressed the question.

"What are your orders, Your Highness?"

"Lonely and hungry..."

"My subordinate ordered someone to bring some food and drink." Shang Qiulu lifted the quilt and stood up.

"Don't eat bird's nest porridge, let them have a pot of fish porridge, you take out your snail fried sauce and give me some." His Royal Highness came out wearing an apricot yellow coat, just now he heard Shang Qiulu Called by the queen mother to talk, she hurried back without even eating dinner. Naturally, she was hungry at the moment.

"The ingredients for the fried sauce are rough, I'm afraid His Highness's stomach..." Shang Qiulu hesitated.The Empress has to personally ask about His Highness the Crown Prince's food and drinks. His Highness the Crown Prince should not be contaminated with anything that is usually easy to hurt the body, not to mention snails, a cheap food that is rarely eaten by the people at the bottom.

If he dared to eat snails for His Highness the Crown Prince, he was afraid that he would be sent to prison by the furious empress before dawn.

"Gu is really hungry, just eat a spoonful?" His Highness the Crown Prince looked at him pitifully as he opened the door.

Shang Qiulu's snail fried sauce is a New Year's gift specially entrusted by Qiancang who stayed in Qinghe before the Chinese New Year.Shang Qiulu kept his confidant general in Qinghe, not only because of his temporary cooperative relationship with Wang Kunfeng, but more importantly because he wanted to use Qiancang's eyes to bring some private goods to him by the way, for example, by the way See if that mussel is doing well or something...

Probably because he sensed his boss's intentions towards shopkeeper Bai, this little cunning Qiancang, apart from reporting letters, would also specially buy some seasonal local products from Baijia Food Shop and send them to Shang Qiulu through their own channels. In his hands, for example, those snail fried sauces from years ago.

Qinghe is a famous water town. Every year before the New Year’s Eve, people from all over the world will drain the ponds in their villages. The fish and shrimps that have been raised in the ponds for a year can be taken out and everyone can share them for the New Year. The silt at the bottom of the pond can also be dug out as a natural fertilizer, and the silt in the pond can also be cleaned up along the way. When the upstream flood comes down next year, these ponds will become natural flood discharge ponds. This is the ancient people's desire to transform nature. A kind of wisdom, and it is also the season that foodies look forward to most every year.

Among the many river fish, the most unpopular one is probably the snails with little meat. When removing mud from the pond, no one would want those snails. Only children would pick them up and smash them to feed their family. Chicken and duck eat.

By chance, Bai Chunsheng saw a child in the neighborhood smash a snail the size of a quail egg and feed it to the chickens. He was so distressed that he almost had a heart attack. Later, he learned that almost no one here would eat this kind of snail. The fishermen who came to send their catches asked them to send them to the shop when they caught snails.

Relying on a fried snail in sauce, Baijia Restaurant and Baijia Food Shop once again set off a wave of eating snails in the local area. It coincides with the slack season, and there is not much demand for labor at the wharf. Some men in the town gather at Baijia when they have nothing to do. In the food shop, one person can warm up two bowls of wine and have two plates of sauce and fried snails, and you can spend most of the day. If you are hungry, spend a few copper coins for a bowl of scallion oil noodles, which is much more comfortable than eating pancakes.

If the snails delivered every day cannot be sold out, Bai Chunsheng will order someone to boil the snails, take the snail meat inside, marinate it and dry it in the sun. It can be steamed and eaten, or fried. The sauce is very chewy, especially for dinner. Both Mr. Cat and Saburo love it. A few years ago, Bai Chunsheng specially ordered someone to make more, and even sold a limited batch in the shop for old customers to taste. Qiancang bought more because of the usual , I also got a quota, bought some and sent them to Shang Qiulu to honor the boss.

There is not much fried snail sauce, Shang Qiulu has always eaten very frugally, and every time he is willing to pick some out with chopsticks to taste, one snail meat is enough for him to chew for a long time.Unexpectedly, ever since His Royal Highness bumped into him, the only remaining snail fried sauce he had was often robbed. , and only half a can left.

For this reason, Shang Qiulu specially wrote to ask Qian Cang to buy another batch for him and send it over. Who knew that Qian Cang wrote back that these snail fried sauces were personally made by the shopkeeper Bai, and only the batch from years ago was eaten. There was nowhere to buy it, and besides, shopkeeper Bai followed Qinghe County King north to the palace to thank him, even if he wanted to help him do it, he couldn't find anyone.

The master and the servant were staring at the remaining half can of snail fried sauce, almost suffering from depression.

Seeing His Highness the crown prince's persevering eyes, Shang Qiulu sighed, asked someone to make a pot of fish porridge and some easy-to-digest snacks, closed the door, and took out the I picked up a very shabby-looking bamboo jar, opened the lid, and inside was the remaining half jar of snail fried sauce.

"Your Highness, there is only so much left, and it will be gone after eating." Shang Qiulu lifted the lid to show His Highness the Crown Prince.

"The imperial chefs in the palace are really useless! But they can't make fried sauce!" His Royal Highness swallowed involuntarily when he smelled the spicy and appetizing smell of fried sauce.

"Your Highness, you can't blame the imperial chefs. The empress has to go through your diet list every day. How dare those imperial chefs cook this for you? If you accidentally eat it, you will be beheaded."

"Don't talk about it, it's a disappointment! When Big Brother and Brother Bai come, I will beg Big Brother Bai to make more for me and hide it in another courtyard. Don't bring it in all at once, but bring some in every once in a while. Let's hide and eat secretly." His Royal Highness the Prince thought.

"Your Highness, let's warm up the stomach with some fish porridge first." Shang Qiulu filled half a bowl of fish porridge with his own hands and placed it next to His Royal Highness.

His Royal Highness picked up the bowl and looked at the bowl, which was bland and tasteless. It was said that the fish fillets had been specially removed from the fishy smell by some special method. Porridge?Why don't we just call it porridge?

"Qiu Lu, give Gu Gu a spoonful, forget it, half a spoonful of fried sauce is ready, save some food, brother, they don't know how many days it will be until they arrive." His Royal Highness looked at the soup with a spoon in his mouth. Merchant guard.

"Your Highness, it's getting late at night. This fried sauce is a bit spicy. Eat less. If you eat too much and get a stomachache, you're fine. We waiters will be punished." After a few words of persuasion, I took a silver long-handled spoon, scooped out half a spoonful of fried sauce from the bamboo jar, and spread it on the fish porridge that didn't taste like fish.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ate up half a pot of bland fish porridge with this small half spoonful of fried sauce.Those dim sums didn't move, the Shang guards had no choice but to help eat some, otherwise these dim sums would be sent back without moving, I'm afraid the royal chef who made dim sum tonight would be punished.The empress's attention to the diet of His Royal Highness has always been a typical state of snake spirit disease. If His Royal Highness eats too much, it must be that those who serve him have not fulfilled their duty of persuasion; If you don't work hard enough, it's all their fault anyway.

Waiting for His Royal Highness to finish the supper, Shang Qiulu hid the fried sauce first, then opened the window to let out the air, and waited until the smell of the fried sauce was almost gone, then asked someone to come in and clean up the things on the table. His Royal Highness put on a warm handkerchief to cleanse his hands.

Since Shang Qiulu came, the two maids who had followed His Highness the Crown Prince had been completely free. They had been serving the Prince when the Crown Prince was still the son of the royal family. Unexpectedly, after His Highness got lost and came back, they seldom came back. When they were called into the house to wait on them, they were all served by the Shang guards. Those in the know said that His Highness the Crown Prince was frightened. In addition, it was indeed the Shang guards who saved His Highness the Crown Prince, so His Highness recognized the Shang guards. Those who dare not leave their bodies, this kind of glory, they can't even envy them.

"Qiu Lu, come in and talk to me?" After changing clothes again, His Royal Highness still couldn't sleep while lying down, and he didn't feel satisfied chatting with Shang Qiulu through the green screen window, so he wanted him to come in and talk to him.

"Your Highness, please spare this subordinate!" Shang Qiulu smiled wryly, "Didn't you want to know why the empress called the subordinate to Zhengyang Palace today? The empress, she is worried that you met some handsome young man in the school Jun, so I don’t want to favor those two palace servants..."

Shang Qiulu didn't go on. There are some things that don't need to be said too much. A smart person can understand them.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, there was no sound in the inner hall.

The corner of Shang Qiulu's mouth curled into a sneer that could hardly be detected. His Royal Highness did treat him very well, but he would never disobey the empress because of him.

In this world, the only one who knows his identity and is still willing to treat him well is probably that silly river clam?

Even though he was so many years older than him, he was still as pure as a child who wanted to meet new partners.

How could a cold-blooded and selfish devil like him deserve the word "partner"?