Chapter 217: The difference between a ruler and a subject
She patiently explained: “Other people use the beauty plan, that’s because other people are good at chess, calligraphy and painting, they have that capital, what do I have? What do I have? My only skill is cooking, the emperor is so wise and intelligent, how would he give his eyes to a yellow face? He won’t eat it when the time comes!”
“You also know that he is wise and intelligent, so maybe he has a unique taste? –You don’t talk to me here, if you have the energy, won’t you try it out first?”
Empress Dowager Lu made a stern face.
Zhao Su was speechless, “Are you serious, Empress Dowager?”
“Then do you have another way to dig out the Emperor’s secrets?” Empress Dowager Lu said and put her fan on the table, “If you don’t have a good way, just do as I say, you have to get the job done anyway!”
……
Zhao Su was already wilting like a frosted eggplant when she left Ci Ning Palace.
She had originally come over to skewer and sell herself, but she didn’t expect to be forced into a task by Empress Dowager Lu!
Letting her go to the emperor to make a beauty plan? Isn’t that letting the big bad wolf into the rabbit’s nest?
If she had known, she wouldn’t have come.
What should she do now?
“Squire Zhao, why are you still here? The Imperial Catering Room is waiting for you to make lunch for the Emperor!”
The palace staff hurriedly came over and urged.
She looked up, and sure enough, it was nearly noon, so she had no choice but to walk stiffly towards the Imperial Catering Room.
The Emperor and Marquis Qingyun had traveled to the Central Military Governor’s Mansion for a busy morning, and by the time they returned to the palace, it was already midday.
He sent along with him in the Ministry of War Minister two folders: “Northwest of the mutual market according to the party said to do, tell the King of Qin, as long as those people outside the customs abide by the rules, I Liang more to provide some materials to facilitate for trade is also no harm.”
Finished he drank a mouthful of tea to moisturize his throat, and then said: “and then pass my decree, if the problems on the mutual market smoothly resolved, the end of the year will let the King of Qin with the Princess and the son into the capital to save their relatives, accompanied by the Empress Dowager to spend the New Year.”
“Obey the decree!”
After the military minister went out, the emperor took a break, also got up and walked to the inner room to change clothes.
Yanjing summer almost every day big sun, go out for a walk, sweat has been on the back of the clothes to seep wet.
Wufu brought clean personal clothes and helped him to change his clothes.
The emperor rubbed his body and said, “Lunch has not come?”
Five blessings busy said: “Just now the Imperial Catering Room side has come to ask the emperor to come back has not? I think it is afraid to send early meals cold. I will send someone to urge!”
Said he retreated out.
Just walked under the threshold and saw Zhao Su had already brought a few palace people carrying large food baskets over.
He busily said, “Servant Zhao, please wait to enter, the emperor is changing clothes.”
Zhao Su oh a sound, looked at the curtain at the end of the hidden silhouette, in the doorway delayed down.
The emperor in the room had already heard the sound, one side in the eunuch’s waiting to change into clean clothes, one side through the gap of the curtain to look at the door under the standing her.
He slowly straightened his lapel, girded his belt, and watched Zhao Su change her posture several times before walking out.
Zhao Su looked up. Then she greeted the palace staff to bring up the rice.
Today’s four dishes and one soup is made of stir-fried fresh squid, garlic popped scallop columns, dried bamboo shoots stewed flower meat, cold dandelion, and a pot of dragon bone soup.
After the lid is uncovered, the fragrance of the dishes, but Zhao Su still smelled the emperor’s body from the fragrance – this hot day, he actually did not sweat a little smell, but also really good primping.
Just like this, the empress dowager still let her make a beauty trick, it would be good if she didn’t lose her bottom!
But the Mary Sue Empress Dowager and the decree ah, she did not ask this out, is not also can not deliver?
“What are you waiting for?” The emperor looked at her, “Why don’t you go eat?”
Zhao Su paused for a moment, dragged a chair next to him and sat down. “The sun is so high outside, I still have to walk so far to the forbidden guard department to eat, why don’t you let me dabble here, Your Majesty?”
After all, the portion of the imperial meal is not small, the chief steward has always been adhering to the original arrangement of the portion of the emperor’s hunger rather than pouring it out, and then another person is also enough to eat.
Right now, regardless of whether or not the beauty plan, Mary Sue’s account of the errand is always to be completed, in any case, we must first with the emperor this relationship to ease back ah!
The emperor looked askance at her: “You have said that there is a difference between the king and the minister, the superior and subordinates can not contact too close, how, so soon ready to hit their own face?”
“…… I did say this, but I mean the distance between each other is best not too close, or easy to affect the Emperor’s reputation!”
“But” Ritual within the rules “said, men and women at the age of seven different seats, do not share food, not to mention that you and I are still in your mouth ‘ruler and subject’, according to this rule, I have no rice here can give you to eat.”
The emperor finished a face of indifference raised the tooth chopsticks.
Kissing ass actually can’t ……
Zhao Su held her breath for half a moment, recalling the appearance of the Luo sisters dancing on the Longevity Festival, suddenly twisted a few waist, crooked body to go over, stretching out two fingers tugging at the emperor’s sleeve, pulling the voice with the fox’s tail as long as: “Your Majesty–”
The emperor paused for a moment, looked at her for a long time, reached out and put the sleeve back: “Less with me to this set.”
Zhao Su also expected him not to eat this set, after all, she grew up so big has not done this work, there is no that effect ah! Sighing she sat her body back.
The emperor ate by himself.
Zhao Su sat for a moment, picked up his soup bowl has not been loaded with soup, half a bowl of rice, also take a spoon and eat up.
After a few mouthfuls, seeing that the emperor still didn’t pay attention to her, she couldn’t help herself. Taking the chopsticks of the cloth vegetables to give him a piece of squid, and then sighed: “I think I am like this piece of squid.”
The emperor ate a mouthful of dried bamboo shoots and finally looked at her askance while swallowing.
Zhao Su hurriedly came over to explain, “There’s a saying where we come from that dismissal is called being fired. I think I’m almost close.”
The emperor was coldly concerned, “Isn’t that just what you want? You’re staying here unwillingly anyway.”
“That was once upon a time, I stopped thinking that way a long time ago.” Zhao Su folded his hands on the table, a serious face: “Emperor you are so wise and powerful, and I am so stupid, I now deeply feel to stay by your side can learn a lot, recently outside of the public opinion of me a lot better, this is all thanks to the emperor’s blessing, fools will want to be removed from office.”
The emperor hummed lightly again, continuing to eat his meal.
Zhao Su cloth him another chopsticks of food, soft voice: “Last time I begged you to leave Pei Zhan behind is my fault, you have a large amount of adults, don’t be angry with me okay?”
“You actually know that I am angry?” The emperor was again kind, “It’s really hard to see that you actually still have such smart times.”
Zhao Su sweated, “You just don’t bury me.”
The emperor threw a glare at her, “Servant Zhao overthinks it, I am different from you as a ruler and minister, not that close. Finish eating and hurry up and leave.”
–dev, the dog guy is still end up.