True Phoenix and Virtual Phoenix

After Zhao Mu had finished mixing the wine, Song Er put two goblets on the crystal tray, and Cao Desheng personally carried the wine up and down. One cup was placed on the emperor's table, and the other was placed on the Prince's table.

"My Majesty, what Xiao Wang concocted today is the one that the bartenders of the Dongcheng Palace have gone through three thousand kinds of trials to successfully mix. It is intense, and the first taste will be a bit bitter. After a while, you will be able to taste the wine. It is fragrant and sweet, and there will always be a sweet smell in the mouth, which will linger for a long time."

"Oh?" Li Shun raised his eyebrows with interest, raised his wine glass and sniffed it lightly, raised his eyes, and said, "Nanzhao bartenders can make all kinds of wine with strange colors and methods, but they can keep the wine water fresh." This is the first time I have seen the wine in which the seven colors are at their respective levels without interfering with each other."

"The emperor praised Xiao Wang." Zhao Mu thanked him with a bow.

"Wine is divided into seven colors and does not interfere with each other. Prince Dongcheng wants to use this wine to express to me that he hopes that the Seven Kingdoms will never invade, maintain the current situation, and live in peace for a long time. That's why this wine is named Hejiu. I don't know if I have it. Will it be wrong for Prince Dongcheng?"

"Your Majesty is wise, Xiao Wang concocted this wine in front of the palace to express the intention of the Lord Dongcheng and not to take the lead in the war. His Highness can see it at a glance, but it is called Xiao Wang to make a fool of himself."

Zhao Mu let out a long breath. Originally, performing concoction and wine was not among his arrangements for going to Nanzhao, but now that Xilang has been invaded many times by the regular army that looks like Dongcheng, Li Shun also wanted to take this opportunity to keep him permanently. Being a proton in Nanzhao, this cup of peace and wine is absolutely indispensable to resolve the grievances between the two countries.

Li Shun stared at the colorful cocktail in the glass, and looked at Zhao Mu with a half-smile, but his face gradually became serious and gloomy as he spoke.

"But has Prince Dongcheng ever thought about using the seven colors as a metaphor for the seven kingdoms? If I swallow it like this, I don't know how people in the world will interpret it?"

"Uh-"

Zhao Mu's words are poor, according to Li Shun's explanation, doesn't it mean that he has the ambition to annex the world and the other six countries, so he must not drink this wine.

If you don't drink, you are at odds. The implication is that the king of Nanzhao refuted his intention of reconciliation. It seems that it will be difficult to get out of Nanzhao safely this time.

"Pingling bang bang... Ding Ding Ding..."

In the embarrassing silence of the ministers, there were suddenly a few strange noises, and after looking for the reputation, everyone found that it was the little prince who was stirring with the wine with chopsticks, and soon mixed with the seven colors of the wine. In the end, it became a heavy gray-brown.

"Ahem——"

Some ministers coughed awkwardly while sitting in their seats, and most of them changed their expressions slightly. When the crown prince disturbed the world, the world was in chaos. Even though the crown prince is still young, the implication is—

"Brother Mu, why did this wine become muddy when I stirred it up?"

Li Zhao stared at the whirling brown wine, tapped the edge of the wine glass twice with his chopsticks, and knocked the remaining wine on the stick into the glass.

"Well, Xiao Wang just learned the method of making this wine from the court winemaker. As for the reason why this phenomenon can be produced, he has only gone through many experiments, but he is not very clear why. Perhaps Nanzhao can have a capable person Did the wise men solve this problem?"

Cocktails, I know the principle, the bar at home is just for me to mix drinks every day!

Gu Baobao thought about this, his brain became hot for a while, and his hands were already raised high. He knew things that no one in the Seven Kingdoms knew. Made a great contribution to Nanzhao!

Everyone in the audience stared in surprise at the little maid in yellow who unexpectedly raised her hands high. Li Zhao turned to look at the crowd's gaze, and saw the baby smiling complacently, with shining eyes.

This idiot thinks he's not attracting enough attention these days, so he's making a fuss about this matter!

Liu Jin secretly gritted his teeth, wishing he could slap Gu Baobao's arm. Fortunately, everyone in the hall turned their attention to Gu Baobao, except for the emperor who could overwhelm everyone with his words.

Li Shun lowered his eyes slightly so that people could not see his expression clearly, and waved his hand lightly to signal that he was tired, until finally he got up and left the table without even taking a single glance at Gu Baobao.

"Is the emperor tired? But there is a little maid over there raising her hand. Does she mean that she can solve the mystery of the seven-color wine? Let's listen first."

The smiling queen mother who had been sitting by the side suddenly spoke out, beckoning to Bao Baobao kindly, "I see you raising your hand there happily, do you understand the truth in this wine?"

"Well, the reason why the wine will be layered is that there is not only one kind of wine in this wine, but various wines with different densities mixed together, just like... It seems that water and oil cannot be mixed together, because the water The density of oil is high and the density of oil is low, so the oil always floats on the water. As for why the prince became muddy when he stirred the wine, it is probably because the technology of the prince of Dongcheng is not good enough. Logically speaking, even if it is stirred, it should be restored to its original state again. Yes."

Standing in the middle of the hall, the baby showed no fear at all, and was articulate and energetic.

"Little palace lady, don't be unreasonable." The queen mother shook her head and scolded the baby seriously, after thinking about it, she pursed her lips and smiled, beckoning her to stand beside her.

Looking at the back of Gu Baobao cautiously walking towards the queen mother, Zhao Mu leaned over and said apologetically, "This little maid is right, it is indeed that Xiao Wang's cooking skills are not good, when teaching Xiao Wang's bartender to mix this wine, it is true It was not mixed after stirring, so the wine just now became a mess in the hands of brother Zhao'er, which really surprised Xiao Wang."

"Prince Dongcheng is very magnanimous, and he doesn't care about like the unreasonable little maids of our country." The queen mother nodded appreciatively at Zhao Mu, and then pulled Gu Baobao to stand in front of her, with two long nails on the baby's cheek He pampered his flesh, then paused suddenly, looked at the baby and then at Li Shun, jokingly said: "This child looks a bit like Shun'er when he was a child, with the same fat cheeks and eyes. It's black and bright, tell me what's your name?"

"The maidservant's first name is Li Ruoxuan, and her nickname is Baby."

"Baby? You look cute, and your name is cute too! I'm missing a lady in charge of incense and candles, would you like to come over?"

"No, Grandma Huang, the baby belongs to my grandson!"

The little prince who hadn't looked at Gu Baobao for a long time finally managed to say something, and woke up all the ministers with one sentence, and made the queen sit there stiffly, her face darkened.

Li Shun returned to his original position indifferently, and explained to the queen mother: "It's her good fortune that the queen mother likes babies, but this little palace lady already has a master. Didn't I promise Uncle Anguo a lady in the palace a while ago?" ? He chose it himself, this little maid, Uncle An Guo will pick her up tomorrow."

"Oh, what's the matter? Sigh, that's such a pity. It's rare to have a child that Ben Gong likes so much after meeting him. Since someone took the lead, Ben Gong has no choice but to give up."

The empress dowager blinked at the baby in disappointment, let go of her hand with a sigh, and let the baby stand back to its original position.

Li Zhao raised his eyes to look at Gu Baobao, his expression was unclear, he frowned and reached out to get the glass of Japanese wine on the table that he had messed up horribly.

"I want to taste the wine made by Brother Mu. Is this the way to drink it directly?"

Song Er carried a box and walked to Li Zhao's desk, took out a piece of ice from it, and said humbly, "The ice I want to add to His Royal Highness is taken from an ice spring in Jiutian Mountain. , Wrapped in thick cotton wool, it can be stored until today, and the taste of drinking and wine can be more refreshing when paired with ice cubes. Now you can invite His Royal Highness to taste it."

The square ice cubes sank into the bottom of the glass with a plop, and the ice cubes flipped and shone fluorescently in the wine. The baby looked at it tiltedly, and really wanted to taste whether the taste was really the same as the cocktail.

According to the old rule, before the crown prince ate any food, the eunuch tried them one by one, and this glass of wine was also divided into a small cup. After taking a sip from the wine glass, I felt the taste was bitter at first, but after a while, the fragrance remained in my mouth.

Li Zhao thought that he would not be able to keep the baby no matter what, and his heart was desolate, so it would be better to drink him to make the sky dark and dark, so as to save a while from saying some disobedient words in front of his father, queen, mother, and all the courtiers, so he raised his glass and prepared to drink wildly for a while gulp.

"Ice, water, floating, sinking to the bottom..."

Going through these few words over and over again in his head, Gu Baobao's loose heart suddenly tensed up, and he rushed forward and snatched the wine glass from the prince's hand, and yelled, "Hurry up, spit out!" spit it out'.

"Bold slave, what are you doing, you dare to offend the crown prince, someone, drag her out and give her a hundred lashes!"

The minister shushed, the queen was furious, and the emperor's eyes showed a little shock. Before he could stop him, Gu Baobao knelt down on the ground with a bang.

"Queen empress, please calm down, the reason why this servant did this is because the wine is poisonous!"

"Poisonous?! Joke, if it is really poisonous, why hasn't anything happened to the eunuch after drinking? The little slave has made many excuses for offending his master, and now he is spitting blood, framing Dongcheng envoys, and destroying the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Don't you want to Is it fatal?"

The queen's arrogance was high, and she wished that Gu Baobao would take a wrong step. Now that she has caught the handle, she keeps saying that she wants to kill Gu Baobao.

"You have to know whether the wine is poisonous or not, and then let others test it. As the mother of the country, the queen should know how to calm herself."

The queen mother comforted in a low voice and became a peacemaker, and asked the eunuch who had just had a drink to test the poison with a silver needle first, and then tested the poison with himself and drank it again, but the result was still nothing.