After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

Silent night.

There were rustling sounds in the small kitchen of Guiyun Palace.

During the night banquet, Han Mochu and Gu Xiu didn't eat anything at the palace banquet, and just now they had another fight with the giant bear, now that they calmed down, they couldn't help feeling hungry.

Unlike other palaces, Guiyun Palace has a private kitchen for its own use, and whenever the master is hungry, there is always hot food to eat.

There is only one servant in Guiyun Palace, Baode, and Gu Xiusu often eats food provided by the imperial dining room on time. Today, the banquet in the palace was prepared early in the morning, and the big stove in the imperial dining room must have been extinguished by now. up.

Han Mo thought for a moment, and finally decided to take Gu Xiu to do it himself.

The small kitchen in Guiyun Palace has not been heated since Gu Xiu moved in. The hearth of the large stove is sealed, and there is only a small stove for boiling water for tea and heating pastries on weekdays.

There are not many ingredients for daily supplies, only the rice noodles used in the example and a jar of fine salt.

Han Mochu reached out his hand to explore the half-full rice vat, and said to Gu Xiu beside him, "Your Highness, would you like some porridge?"

"it is good."

Because he grew up in the northern wilderness where almost no grass grew, Gu Xiu has always been a well-fed child and never picky eaters.

It would be nice to have a bowl of hot porridge on a hungry late night.

"Then your Highness, go find a vessel that can cook porridge." Han Mochu pointed to the wooden cabinet beside him, then half-bent down and began to hold the fire.

It is not difficult for Han Mochu to start a fire to make tea. Flint ignites withered grass, fills it into the furnace, and then fills it with a few burnt dry firewood sticks, and pulls the handle of the bellows to make the fire even stronger.

"Master, apart from the bowls and chopsticks, there is only this in the cabinet." Han Mochu started the fire very smoothly, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Gu Xiu carrying a teapot with a copper spout.

Han Mochu took the copper pot to look at it, and said helplessly, "Forget it, this thing can cook tea as well as porridge."

After all, Han Mochu took some clean water from the water tank on the side to rinse the copper pot and the rice, then poured the water and rice used for cooking porridge into the copper pot, and threw a handful of fine salt into the pot .

The copper pot fell on the stove eye, and the flame wrapped the bottom of the pot, drying the water stains on the surface of the copper pot, making a sizzling sound.

Han Mochu and Gu Xiu sat cross-legged on the ground, guarding the fire and a pot of porridge together.

"Master, you have been watching those two Rakshasa people all night, but if you find out, something will happen?" Gu Xiu asked.

"Well, in fact, the first time Richen saw that giant bear, he felt that the bear was extremely manic. Let such a giant bear perform in the palace, it can be seen that there must be something wrong."

"You mean, those two Rakshasa envoys want to use the giant bear to kill the king?"

Han Mochu pulled the bellows, inadvertently touched the wound on his shoulder, and instinctively gasped: "Hiss...it wasn't made by the Raksha people. Although Raksha has had many frictions with me over the years, after all, he still doesn't want to attract me. Fighting. The two Rakshasa envoys came here only to establish their prestige, so the bear must have been well-trained, so he dared to present himself on an occasion like today."

Gu Xiu stretched out his hand to support Han Mochu's arm that was pulling the bellows, and took over Han Mochu's job of holding the fire: "Then according to what you see, who did this?"

Han Mochu raised his hand and rubbed his shoulders with a smile: "If this kind of thing is not for killing the king, it is for inviting favor. Your Highness only sees who else wants to fight that giant bear today besides you?"

Gu Xiu frowned and pondered, and hurriedly flashed through today's events in his mind, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's the second emperor brother."

"Your Highness is right. Besides the Rakshasa people, the second prince has the most contact with that black bear. It is not difficult to tamper with that bear's food and water."

"But, why?" Gu Xiu tilted his head in confusion: "Now that his new residence has been completed, he was going to be formally conferred the title of prince a few years ago. Why did he do such a thing at this time?"

"Conferring a king also depends on what kind of king you are conferring. Is it a county king, a prince, or just a crown prince?" Han Mochu reached out and rubbed Gu Xiu's forehead: "Your Highness still doesn't understand?"

"Father will definitely investigate what happened today, so what if it is found out that he did it?" Gu Xiu pulled the lever of the bellows and let Han Mochu mess up the top of his head.

"That's because he didn't expect His Highness to appear. If he kills the giant bear today, he will be the first to save him. Who will thoroughly investigate the meritorious officials?" Han Mochu suddenly opened his smiling eyebrows. , looked at Gu Xiu with a blank gaze: "Your Highness has robbed him of his credit, I'm afraid he won't let it go."

"Unwilling to rest? What can I do? Kill me?"

"The calculations in the palace are never based on life or death. Now that His Highness is in charge, all the eyes of the people in the palace are fixed on His Highness. If His Highness makes a mistake, someone will definitely come and add insult to injury." Han Mochu shook his head and raised the corners of his mouth. An elegant and calm arc: "However, there is a minister here, so you don't have to worry too much, Your Highness."

"En." Gu Xiu nodded, suddenly there was a loud noise of boiling water, the lid of the copper pot was crackling by the tumbling heat, and the high-quality japonica rice in the pot exuded a strong rice fragrance.

Han Mochu immediately got up, picked up a white cloth beside the stove and put it on his hands, lifted the copper pot from the stove eye, and put it on the cold stove beside him: "Your Highness, go get the bowls and chopsticks."

Han Mochu turned off the stove first, then poured a bowl of porridge from the pot with Gu Xiu, and handed the porridge bowl to Gu Xiu: "Your Highness, be careful."

Gu Xiu took the porridge bowl, and the instinct of hunger made him feel a little impatient, so he lifted the bowl and took a mouthful.

The white porridge with salt, an inexplicable bitter and salty taste, exploded in the mouth instantly with the scalding heat.

Gu Xiu wanted to hurry up and swallow the porridge, but his throat instinctively rejected the strangely flavored hot porridge, so he could only hold it in his mouth temporarily, letting the half-cooked rice grains wander between his teeth.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Han Mochu also poured a bowl with himself, looking at Gu Xiu who was suddenly dazed in front of him, he raised his hand and took a sip of the hot porridge without knowing why.

Han Mochu's sense of taste is more sensitive than Gu Xiu's, and he is also more picky. The inexplicable porridge only stayed in his mouth for a moment before Han Mochu spat it out. : "Ahem, Your Highness, don't drink, let Baode go to the imperial dining room tomorrow to bring more snacks back."

Hearing this, Gu Xiu also spit out the rice porridge in his mouth, and said without hesitation: "Okay."

After finishing speaking, the two looked at each other and poured the hot porridge back into the pot.

"Master, what should we do with this?" Gu Xiu raised his finger and pointed to the copper pot for cooking porridge, and the mouthful of porridge made people feel sick without even swallowing it.

"How about..." Han Mochu stroked his chin, thought for a moment and said, "I should go and bury it."

Well, bury it.

This pot of porridge was so horrible that the two of them didn't even want to see the copper pot.

Han Mochu carried the copper porridge pot to the untouched backyard of Guiyun Palace.Then, as if nothing happened, he went straight back to the bedroom and went to bed.

In the early morning of the next day, Baode, who was boiling the water, turned pale with fright. The whole yard shouted that the mouse in Guiyun Palace had become a ghost, and stole the only valuable copper pot in the small kitchen.

The commotion on the Wanshou Festival resulted in the death and injury of more than [-] guards of the Hanyuan Palace, and the frail third prince Gu Shen was also bedridden due to fright.Officials, clans, and foreign envoys all need to be appeased.

In the end, this incident was caused by the poor feeding of the Rakshasa warrior who was shot to death first, which caused the giant bear to go crazy.For this kind of thing, death without testimony is the best solution, and everyone's faces are good-looking.The rewards for Gu Xiu and Han Mochu were not issued until five days later.Gu Xiu is not old enough for the honor of a king, and Han Mochu's status is not enough for the gold medal and purple ribbon.Therefore, all the gifts from King Gu Hong are gold, silver, pearls, jade, emeralds and corals and other rare treasures.

For Gu Xiu's share, Han Mochu signaled with his eyes that Gu Xiu would accept it all.

But when it was his turn, he said a word to the eunuch who passed the decree: "Antiques and curios are not worthy of a minister's background. If your majesty wants to reward him, he only needs to reward him with the books in the library."

The eunuch passing the decree passed Han Mochu's words to the king Gu Hong. Gu Hong, who was holding his favored minister Nan Xi to read the memorial, smiled with a smile on his lips: "After all, it's not a family that entered the imperial examination. I don't know what a reward is."

If Han Mochu hadn't mentioned it, Gu Hong would almost have forgotten that there was such a place in his court.

From King Gu Hong's point of view, how can the Library Pavilion in the palace, which has been neglected for many years, compare to those real gold and silver treasures?

After all, in this court where the king's heart is paramount and prosperity paramount, who would want to read the old books left by the old ministers decades ago?

In a word, Han Mochu got the key to the library in the palace.

As a result, Han Mochu became even more unscrupulous when he moved the book.The huge main room could no longer fit, and the originally empty inner room was almost piled up with books.

The latest books brought back are all about the surrounding countries. Since the palace banquet that day, Gu Xiu, a child, suddenly became very interested in those countries that border on the Great Zhou.

It just so happened that Han Mochu's arm was injured, and he couldn't touch the sword these few days, so he took advantage of Gu Xiu's spare time practicing sword and spear in the courtyard alone, and drew a map of all nations with the child.

The map of all nations was found by chance when Han Mochu was nine years old in the pile of books of his mentor, Mr. Yi Ji.

In the days that followed, Mr. Yi Yi used the map of all nations to tell him one by one the countries drawn on the map.From topography and landforms, to local conditions and customs, to language and writing, everything is in detail. He was able to read and write the five languages ​​because of his enlightenment at that time.

And this year is so far away, Han Mochu can't memorize everything, so he can only write while flipping through the documents.

On that day, the autumn air was crisp.

Gu Xiuxiu practiced his spear in the courtyard, one shot is long!The gun shuttled like a swimming dragon, bringing the autumn wind gusts, and the tip of the gun fell to the ground, wiping out sporadic fireworks.

Just when the practice was in full swing, the little eunuch Baode's voice suddenly came from behind: "Your Highness, Bao Qing who is beside the Fourth Highness is here."

Gu Xiu's tough face instantly sank, he fixed his body and put away his gun, turned around and said, "Let him in."

Ever since Gu Xiu rescued him in front of the palace that day, Guiyun Palace, which was originally cold and quiet, suddenly had many "relatives and friends".A group of half-brothers who had no relationship with each other, the head of the inner palace, and the elderly and childless concubines in the palace seemed to have their eyes on him overnight, and they came and went every day, which was extremely annoying.

Gu Xiu hated such things as remuneration, most of the time it was Han Mochu who took care of it, but today, unfortunately, Han Mochu was boring himself in the inner room to draw pictures.

"Slave Baoqing met His Highness the Seventh Highness" the little eunuch Bao Qing held a huge mahogany box and saluted Gu Xiu.

"What's the matter?" Gu Xiu still treated everyone except Han Mochu and Princess Qingzhao equally coldly.

"Return to your highness, my highness gave you a wooden bow, and said that he would like to invite you to hunt some other day." Bao Qing lowered his head and replied, in fact, the last thing he wanted to do was to come to Gu Xiu's place for errands. It would be fine if that young master Han was here, only this When His Royal Highness was around, he always felt that if he said a wrong word, his head would be wrung off by the Seventh Prince in front of him.

"I see, you go." Gu Xiu glanced at Baode who was at the side, and Baode embraced the box in Baoqing's hand. Baoqing's hand was empty, and he immediately turned around and left without staying for a moment.

Baode carried the mahogany box into the warehouse in the southwestern corner of Guiyun Palace. These days, the king's rewards and personal gifts were kept there intact. Gu Xiu wanted to resign, but Han Mochu But keep it, it will be useful in the future.

Gu Xiu has a long shoulder!Gun, jumped up the steps of the main room in two steps, passed through the book wall of the main room, turned around and entered the inner room, and took the commander!Standing up against the wall, he bent his knees and sat in front of Han Mochu.

At this time, Han Mochu was lying on the huge piece of parchment, concentrating on sketching.Gu Xiu stared at it for a while, then fixed his eyes on a plate of peony shortbread on the ground beside him.He stretched out his hand to touch the edge of the shortbread, and heard Han Mochu who didn't raise his head say quietly: "Your Highness, clean your hands before eating."

Gu Xiu's hand froze for an instant, and then retracted resentfully.

Han Mochu raised his head, looked at Gu Xiu and said with a gentle smile, "Who came just now?"

"Baoqing next to Brother Four."

"What's the matter?" Han Mochu got up and sat upright, took out the handkerchief in his arms, rummaged in the small copper basin not far away, pulled Gu Xiu's dusty palm and started to wipe it.

"Brother Sihuang gave me a wooden bow and said that he would invite me to hunt some other day." Gu Xiu spread his hands and let Han Mochu wipe them clean with him.

"It seems that His Highness Fourth is very good at winning people's hearts." Han Mo Chu put the dim sum plate on the side in front of Gu Xiu: "Your Highness needs to learn more."

"Me?" Gu Xiu picked up a piece of dim sum, and carefully took a bite, for fear that the puff pastry of the dim sum would fall off and stain Han Mochu's painstaking efforts.

"Yes, Your Highness wants to gain a foothold in the palace and realize what you want, so you can't always hide behind Yinshan Mountain. You must learn to walk in this palace and mediate among these people." Han Mochu reached out and pinched the corner of Gu Xiu's mouth Dim sum scum on top.

"Yeah." Gu Xiu nodded thoughtfully.

"However, Your Highness doesn't have to follow their scheming, lest you lose your heart." Han Mochu raised his eyebrows and smiled warmly: "Your Highness has a pure and kind heart, which is the most rare thing in this world."