Chapter 36
The palace servants in the main kitchen delivered the milk tea that the Seventh Prince had distributed to various places.
The first place to be delivered was the Sixth Palace of the East Garden.
The princes were taking a break at this time, and were very surprised to see people from the kitchen coming.
Master Fang: "The school doesn't need to send meals. Are you lost?"
The palace servant in the dining room finished her greetings and placed the lunch box on the desk of Grand Tutor Fang with a smile, "This is the drink that the Seventh Prince has developed. He asked us to bring it to the princes and the masters."
"Something sent by my seventh brother?"
The fourth prince raised his head from the small table, threw away his pillow, and walked over curiously, "What is it?"
The fifth prince and the sixth prince also gathered around.
The Sixth Prince said, "He was mainly thinking about me."
"I have some too?" Grand Tutor Fang waved cheerfully at the eldest prince and the other two, "Don't be so reserved, come and have a taste."
As soon as he spoke, the atmosphere in the school suddenly became lively, and people gathered around the two lunch boxes.
"This is made with your majesty's tea cakes and the best milk," said the palace servant in the main kitchen, "but the headmaster has said that there are some taro and cassava in it that may be difficult to digest. The fourth prince, the fifth prince, and the sixth prince should not be greedy. The master should keep an eye on them."
As soon as the bamboo tube milk tea was taken out, the sweet aroma instantly conquered these young princes.
The bamboo straws were also very convenient. The lunch box was insulated and was still a little hot when it was delivered. After one sip, my whole body warmed up.
"It tastes so good. Seventh brother is such a nice person." The Fourth Prince praised sincerely.
The Sixth Prince took a sip of each flavor, occupied his territory, and said domineeringly: "These are all mine!"
The eldest prince, the second prince, and the third prince were more polite and each picked one.
The second prince tasted it and raised his eyebrows: "If this thing can be mass-produced, I'm sure the ministers working in the palace will like it very much."
The Third Prince: "It's not that bad actually. I don't know which palace servant taught it to my Seventh Brother."
"Before saying that, I suggest that you put down the bamboo tube in your hand first," the eldest prince laughed and retorted, "I think your suggestion is very good. It's freezing cold, so we can set up a stall in the office of the six ministries to sell it. It will not only bring in income, but also help the ministers to fill their stomachs."
Fang Taifu was very pleased that the Seventh Prince sent him milk tea and thought of him. He took a sip of the hot drink, glanced at the three older princes, and snorted, "Ministers receive salaries from the palace, and they have to spend their money in the palace."
The eldest prince coughed violently a few times, smiled awkwardly with the second prince, and sipped his milk tea quietly.
The atmosphere in the school became much more comfortable and relaxed because of a cup of milk tea on this winter day.
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In the harem.
The Seventh Prince making a new drink was not a very attractive thing, but he only gave it to the Queen and Concubine Xuan, which aroused the curiosity of the other concubines who did not have the new drink.
I didn't know how much I wanted to taste it, so I sent someone to the kitchen to ask for it. But the people there said I had to wait three days before the new ones would be available.
Shunning Palace.
The rich aroma of tea and milk permeates the house.
Princess Zhiyi's affection for her seventh brother, whom she had never met, continued to grow. She finished her cup of wine very embarrassedly and said, "Empress Xuan, do you know what my seventh brother likes? I want to give him a gift."
Concubine Xuan: "I don't know, maybe Zhiyi can find a chance to ask him?"
Princess Zhiyi became hesitant, "But the other brothers don't like to play with me."
Concubine Xuan: "Seventh Prince won't do that."
Guo Changzai sat opposite Concubine Xuan, touched her daughter's head, and said to Concubine Xuan: "Sister, in the whole palace, except for the Queen, the Seventh Prince only gave you this, which shows that he likes you."
Concubine Xuan smiled and said, "I invited him to dinner last time."
She and Concubine Guo lived in Shunning Palace. Princess Zhiyi was Concubine Guo's daughter, but her status was too low and she had no qualifications to raise the princess. The princess needed to be raised under the name of the main queen.
Logically speaking, Concubine Xuan could have taken the princess in and raised her herself, or even cut off the princess's contact with Concubine Guo.
But she didn't. She never interfered with the mother-daughter relationship between Guo Changzai and Princess Zhiyi, and even took good care of them.
His Majesty never comes to Shunning Palace, but Concubine Guo is willing to stay here because here she can raise her daughter personally.
The emperor's favor is nothing but a passing cloud, not as important as his daughter. She is grateful to Concubine Xuan.
Guo Changzai said softly, "The Seventh Prince likes you. Why don't you take this opportunity to appeal to His Majesty and raise the prince? I know that you are heartbroken for the child you lost, but you still have a long life ahead of you. You have to think about the future, right?"
Concubine Xuan had followed Emperor Chongzhao for a long time.
When Emperor Chongzhao was still a prince, she had a child, but the child was aborted before it was born. Since then, she has avoided the emperor. Rumors that the two had a very bad relationship appeared at that time, but these rumors were dispelled after the emperor ascended the throne and made her a concubine.
Concubine Xuan said, "If I wanted to make amends, I would have taken Zhiyi in to raise her, but I can't. Empathy can ease my own past pain, but it is unfair to the child to whom empathy is transferred, because my kindness to him is not entirely because of him."
Guo Changzai asked, "What's the difference?"
Concubine Xuan: "Zhiyi, Concubine Xuan wants to ask you, if I like you because I can't be nice to others, will you be happy?"
Princess Zhiyi thought for a moment and said, "It seems that she is not very happy."
Concubine Xuan: "You see, that's it. Children are very sensitive, they can feel whether adults love them or not. If the Seventh Prince is raised by me, I will treat him like the unborn child and love him to make up for it. It is not fair to the Seventh Prince or to the child."
Guo Changzai: "Sister lives too clearly."
Concubine Xuan stood up and stretched her body. "Being awake is better than being confused. Did you make a small cart for Zhiyi that can pull people?"
Guo Changzai: “Yes.”
"Make another one and I'll help you."
"do what?"
Concubine Xuan said, "Shunning Palace accepted the Seventh Prince's drink, so we have to return the gift."
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Purple Palace.
When Prince Ming arrived, he saw the palace maids distributing things. After asking, he found out it was a new drink. Out of curiosity, he took a cup to taste it.
He stepped into the West Warm Pavilion and said, "Brother, this drink is good. Although tea tastes good, it sometimes tastes too light. Is this something new developed by the kitchen?"
Emperor Chongzhao looked up from his desk, wondering: "What new drink is this?"
Prince Ming was also puzzled, "My royal brother has never tasted it?"
He shook the bamboo tube in his hand and said, "Here, this is it."
"Don't all the new things developed by the kitchen have to be sent to my brother? Could it be that this is actually a semi-finished product that is given to the palace servants first? The ingredients must be very good," Prince Ming smelled it carefully, "this kind of tea fragrance can't be brewed with cheap tea leaves."
Emperor Chongzhao put down the memorial and said, "Yu Decai, what's going on?"
Eunuch Yu said, "Actually, this is something that the Seventh Prince researched, and he gave some of it to the palace maids who took care of him in the Purple Palace."
"That kid?" Emperor Chongzhao, "Who else did you give it to?"
"There are several princes from Fengwu Palace, Shunning Palace, the academy, and Master Fang."
"The people who shared it were all people I know."
"Yes."
Eunuch Yu fell silent after replying. Emperor Chongzhao glanced at him and thought that this old man was becoming more and more tactless.
He cleared his throat, "What about mine?"
"Well……"
Eunuch Yu hesitated.
Prince Ming became interested: "What can't be said?"
Eunuch Yu coughed lightly: "The Seventh Prince said that you told him that you don't like hot tea."
Emperor Chongzhao: “…”
Prince Ming was stunned for a moment, then he burst out laughing, "Oh, my royal brother, my royal brother, this is not my nephew's fault, you said it yourself."
At this moment, Emperor Chongzhao's psychological activities were consistent with those of the concubines in the harem who did not get the new drink. In fact, he could get it immediately if he gave the order, but he was too embarrassed to do it.
It has always been others who give him the step and face, but he never takes the initiative to step down.
He glanced at Prince Ming who shamelessly came to eat and drink with him, "If you don't know, you'd be considered as a person whose palace can't afford to support you." Suddenly he remembered something, "Where did he get the tea leaves in his drink?"
Eunuch Yu: "It's yours, Your Majesty."
Thinking of his youngest son's behavior of snatching his incense burner, Emperor Chong Zhao suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, "...Where did you take it from? How much did you take?"
"All the treasures you collected have been taken to the main kitchen."
Emperor Chongzhao's hand trembled slightly as he held the memorial.
"You took all... all?"
bump!
He slammed the table and said, "You ruined my treasures and didn't even give me a cup! Yu Decai, go and ask the kitchen to make another portion and send it all to me!"
After slamming the table, he immediately calmed down his anger. While his heart was bleeding, he said to the stunned Prince Ming as a matter of course, "My tea, how can I not drink it, don't you think so?"
Prince Ming was amazed.
"Brother, you are really..."
As expected, the emperor can adjust the thickness of his skin at any time.
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On the other side, Qu Dubian left the remaining tea cakes in the kitchen.
These are the emperor's things. The kitchen has just been cleaned up, so no one would dare to embezzle them.
He walked to a small pavilion and asked Wen Xiaochun to put the special portion of milk tea on the stone table in the pavilion.
"Why is your highness placed here?"
Qu Watanabe said: "It's for the big black moth."
Big black moth?
Ye Xiaoyuan remembered that it was this person that His Highness had been clamoring for a few days ago. It was said that he was the secret guard who had saved His Highness before.
But he was a secret guard, how could he accept Your Highness's milk tea?
However, they did not discourage the enthusiasm of their own prince, which shows that his prince is kind-hearted and remembers the kindness of those who saved him.
Qu Watanabe looked at the distance between him and Yishier: [5 meters]
It was very close, so Yi Twelve should have heard what he just said.
Would the secret guard drink milk tea?
Qu Dubian left the milk tea and left without looking back.
The area around the pavilion was very quiet. The palace maids who were sweeping the floor finished their work and left.
A shadow suddenly appeared in front of the stone table.
Yi Twelve was still wearing half of the mask. He hesitantly stretched out his hand and touched the milk tea on the stone table. The slightly hot touch made him subconsciously retract his hand.
After a few seconds, he picked it up again and disappeared into the pavilion along with the milk tea.
Of course, secret guards are not allowed to drink milk tea while working.
But he isn't now.
【Name: Yi Twelve
Favorability: 5】
Qu Dubian, who had already walked a long way, heard the reminder, put his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky.
The favorability of several characters in the list that can be conquered is like a slowly growing longevity vine. It is a gratifying thing every time it increases a little.
Yi 12 returned to his own residence.
After he quit his job as a secret guard, he became a martial arts master in the martial arts arena. It was barely a place for him to recuperate. His previous injuries were too severe, and the smell of blood would offend the Seventh Prince, so he had not shown up until his injuries healed.
Every three days, a different secret guard would come to bring him the antidote.
After coming back this time, Yi Twelve saw another bottle of medicine on the table. He poured it out and ate it, then quietly changed the medicine on his wound. After changing the medicine, he pulled out a storybook from under the pillow.
I opened the storybook and turned to the page I read last time, drinking milk tea while reading.
After a while, he said softly, "Don't leave yet. If you want to drink, I'll give you some."
The secret guard who had not yet left to deliver the medicine: "..."
Who is envious? Why are you showing off? It's disgusting.
The secret guard turned and left.
A few days later, this new drink, milk tea, became popular in the palace. As the saying goes, if the emperor likes something, his subordinates will follow it. The emperor still insisted on his habit of not drinking hot tea and put ice cubes in his milk tea even in the winter.
Qu Watanabe generously shared the recipe for milk tea. In fact, it is very simple and other people would know it even if he didn’t say it.
The ladies played with milk tea in many different ways, giving full play to the subjective initiative of the people of the Great Zhou in eating.
All kinds of varieties are in full bloom.
Qu Watanabe tried a lot of new flavors.
After all, a small stall selling milk tea was set up in the offices of the six ministries and other departments. The emperor personally ordered that each cup only cost a few copper coins as a token of his appreciation, mainly for the convenience of the ministers.
He gave 20% of the money from setting up the stall to Qu Watanabe.
Although he felt that his cheap father was really thinking too highly of him, this money was actually dispensable to Qu Dubian. He was not short of money and had no place to spend it. If he was short of money, he could just steal it from the Zichen Palace... Well, just take it.
Gradually, this trend spread to the people.
The secret guards around the emperor naturally knew all about it, but they were professionally trained and would never be tempted by just one or two sips of drink.
They are the emperor's knives hidden in the dark. The moment they choose to become secret guards, their emotions are destined to die in their bodies.
After the routine training report was completed, the leader of the secret guards said: "Very good. If there are those who secretly go to buy milk tea, don't blame me for being ruthless."
A whisper came from the team: "Leader, actually...someone has already drunk it."
The leader of the secret guards frowned and said in a cold tone: "Who is it!"
If you can't even resist this little temptation, you absolutely cannot stay among the secret guards, otherwise how can you protect your majesty's safety?
The secret guard who delivered the antidote said, "It was Yi Twelve. I saw him drinking while reading the storybook."
“…”
“…”
There was a long silence.
The leader of the secret guards said: "He is just a babysitter, what does he know about secret guards!"
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