Chapter 310: Lu Xinran is a dedicated person~
When Lu Xinran and the empress dowager and others rushed to the front hall, Song Junyan and others had already entered the hall.
When the princes saw the Queen Mother, they all stood up and bowed to her. The Queen Mother smiled warmly, and the scrutiny in her eyes was obvious as she looked at them.
Among these guys...which one has the most delicious melon?
Song Junhua and others felt extremely uncomfortable being stared at by the Queen Mother, and they all took a step back in fear.
When the emperor entered the room and saw this scene, he stepped forward with a smile and took the empress dowager's arm.
"Why didn't your mother wait for your son to go to the Yongshou Palace to invite you?"
"It's just a few steps. My old bones can still stand it."
The emperor helped the man away, which made the people who had just been stared at by the empress dowager breathe a sigh of relief.
As long as they are not the ones who get into trouble, they don't mind being a spectator. After all, this kind of family dinner is very boring.
Lu Xinran walked to Song Junyan's side and asked him what happened after he entered the palace.
Song Junyan gave her an imperceptible look, then glanced at Eunuch Fu who was following behind the emperor.
Lu Xinran understood what he meant and immediately asked the system to save Eunuch Fu's booklet.
"Host, this Eunuch Fu's booklet also requires life points to be exchanged. It takes a year to survive for one day."
Lu Xinran was a little surprised. He was treated the same as the emperor?!
"Save it. Since it costs life points, the content must be important."
"But host, you have used up a lot of your health points recently, and your health points are running low."
It was originally intended to be kept for several decades, but not only did I eat less melons during this period, but preserving the booklets of Su Hongyu, the previous emperor and others also consumed my life points. Now there are only a dozen years left.
Lu Xinran pursed her lips. Even if the family was not wealthy, this booklet had to be preserved.
"The relationship between Song Junhua and Song Junze, has the life value of this melon not been settled yet?"
"Well, but according to experience, you should wait until one of the parties has a result. Given the current situation, I'm afraid you won't be able to make it through."
Lu Xinran was speechless, "The New Year is coming soon, I will catch a few moldy bugs and replenish my health first."
The system reminded her in this way because it was afraid that she would neglect to eat melons, so after hearing her say this, it immediately felt at ease and went to load the booklet.
Song Junyan took advantage of the cover of his long sleeves to pull her hand and squeeze it gently.
He heard clearly the conversation between her and the system just now. Fortunately, he immediately glanced at everyone in the hall to confirm that no one else had overheard the conversation except him.
After the Emperor and the Empress Dowager sat down, a quarter of an hour later the Empress arrived with her concubines.
The emperor never had a good face towards the empress dowager, but today's family dinner was on New Year's Eve and he didn't want to lose face for the empress, so he just nodded expressionlessly and motioned them to take a seat.
The Queen Mother was too lazy to pay attention to the Emperor's expression. As soon as the Empress and others came into her sight, she immediately looked at the faces of the concubines.
The emperor suddenly felt a headache, his good mother!
These are all his concubines!
If Lu Xinran really digs out something, he might be the protagonist.
He didn't want Lu Xinran to find out that he had sex with his concubines before offering sacrifices to the heavens, and even used drugs to enhance his pleasure...
Lu Xinran originally went to the palace today for Eunuch Fu's booklet, but after the system reminder and seeing the emperor's fleeting guilt and discomfort, she immediately wanted to eat melons.
It takes interest to eat other people's melons, but not the emperor's.
She just wanted to stomp on the emperor's face again and again out of disgust.
[The emperor looks so ugly, why does he look like he has indulged himself too much? ]
[Well, no, it's just that I've been eating vegetarian food these past few days and my face is pale. ]
[However, is the emperor so weak? In order to have a good time before going to the Heavenly Sacrifice, he even used aphrodisiacs when he had sex with his concubines. Tsk, he even took two pills.]
[How bad is this? The imperial physician repeatedly emphasized that the aphrodisiac should not be used frequently or too much, but he actually had to take two pills at a time. ]
[Isn't it inhumane not to eat it? 】
This rhetorical question made everyone in the hall who could hear the emperor's thoughts unable to help but look at the emperor's lower body.
The emperor's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot in an instant, and just as he was about to scold, the voice in his heart that made him love and hate it appeared again.
[I have been taking this aphrodisiac for several years! ]
[Before, I only needed to take it once every few times, then I had to take it every time, and now I have to take at least two pills at a time, and the time is also...]
Everyone: “…”
So how long does it take? Is there a stick of incense? !
The Queen Mother was already filled with worry as she had eaten the melon herself and it happened to her own son.
If you take too much of this aphrodisiac, it will drain your body.
"The Emperor."
The Queen Mother opened her mouth, and immediately swallowed back the words she wanted to say: "Today is not a family dinner, how about you, as a father, talk to the children in a friendly way?"
The emperor gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, I have been busy for a whole year. It is rare for me to have some free time. Let's have a good chat as a family today."
He glared at Song Junyan as a warning, signaling him to keep an eye on the people around him.
Lu Xinran lowered his head and pretended not to notice the weirdness in the hall, and continued to flip through the emperor's booklet quickly.
Although she had loaded the emperor's booklet before, due to limited time and energy, she did not have the opportunity to read the emperor's childhood.
This was a rare opportunity, so she had to take a good look and see what the late emperor was thinking after he moved him to the empress dowager's side.
【strangeness……】
Just as I turned to the page about the emperor's first birthday, I felt someone grab my arm hard.
She immediately collected her thoughts and painfully let the system save the emperor's booklet at the cost of her life points.
The Emperor and the Empress Dowager looked at her at the same time, and when they saw that she was silent after saying these two words, they withdrew their gazes in a complicated manner.
For the entire night, everyone in the hall was on high alert, fearing that they would become the protagonist in the voices that appeared from time to time.
But Lu Xinran was very focused that night, her only target for eating melons was the emperor.
[The emperor probably doesn't know that if he takes too much of that aphrodisiac, his body will be hollowed out. Every time he takes it, his body becomes weaker. If he continues to take it for a while, he will probably be no different from an old man in his seventies or eighties.]
[Moreover, this medicine will cause spermatorrhea. The fact that very few concubines in the palace have become pregnant in the past two years is proof of this.]
[However, he has worked hard over the years and has more than 20 sons without any help from others, so he doesn't need to have more children.]
[There are more than 20 princes. When they grow up, not only will the palaces in the capital not be enough for them to be used as royal palaces, but will the territory of the Great Chu be enough for them to be divided into fiefdoms? ]
[By then, they will all be fiefs, all vassal kings, each guarding their own territory, tsk. ]
It was so lively.
emperor:"……"
Who said that all princes would be given fiefs?
He glanced sharply at Song Junze, and decided that starting with this son, no subsequent princes would be granted fiefdoms after they reached adulthood.