This smooth and flowing movement was premeditated, but Su Nuannuan didn't know that. Such a sudden change of movement almost made her sprain her waist. She was so angry that she glared at Duan Tingxuan and thought to herself, "Get ready, brother. Although I don't like to kneel, this is too much of a test of my waist strength, okay? Even if I learned fancy moves from you for a few days, I can't stand your uninvited abuse.
This was just a very natural reaction, but it aroused great interest among the people sitting in the hall. The queen smiled and said, "Xuan'er often said that Nuannuan's temper is more fierce than before. I didn't believe it, but now it seems that this is true."
Fierce... fierce? Su Nuannuan's forehead was covered with black lines: Is this how a scumbag promotes himself? If I were a tigress, wouldn't you be ashamed? It is said that family disgrace should not be made public. How come you, a scheming man, don't even know this?
The extremely angry grandmother almost cursed in her heart. Duan Tingxuan on the other side was also embarrassed, thinking to himself, you just came in, and before you said a word, I let my aunt betray you. Aunt, you can't do this. You haven't eaten the meal made by Nuannuan yet. If you eat it, won't your nephew's fate be worrying?
Thinking this in his heart, he remained expressionless. Duan Tingxuan turned to the two ladies in palace dress sitting to the west and said with a smile, "Her Royal Concubine Jing and Her Royal Concubine Duan are here too?"
Concubine Jing smiled and said, "We just happened to come to visit the Queen. She said that a chef would be coming at noon today, so we wanted to get some good food and wait here."
Duan Tingxuan turned to the three young men sitting to the east, and his tone was not so polite: "Your Highness, why are the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince here too? Are they here to visit the Queen as well?"
The prince is a big fat man. Su Nuannuan estimated the weight by eye, and estimated that it must be at least 250 kilograms. How can he take care of himself if he is so fat? It's so strange, why are the second and fourth princes both handsome and tall, and they are both outstanding people, and the emperor and empress are also middle-aged handsome uncles and beautiful women, why is it that this prince has a genetic mutation? This is too tragic.
Although the prince was fat, he liked to talk. Hearing this, he chuckled and said, "I came to visit my mother this morning. While we were talking, the sun came out, so I was too lazy to go back, and I had to sweat a lot. So I stayed here. As for my second and fourth brothers, I don't know." After he finished speaking, he looked at the second and fourth princes, but heard the second prince calmly say, "I was going to ask Tingxuan something, but when I walked behind him, I heard him and the servant say that he wanted to bring his brother and sister-in-law to the palace to make something delicious for the queen. So I came here."
"Aren't you focusing all your energy on editing the book? Why are you so concerned about food?" Duan Tingxuan asked bluntly.
"So what if I edit a book? I still have to eat. Food is the first necessity of the people. Besides, I edit Ancient and Modern Strange Stories. I heard that my sister-in-law is good at innovation. Her various fresh delicacies are exactly the materials I lack. If I eat well today, I also plan to invite my sister-in-law to come to my place and show her cooking skills. I think I will have all the materials for the chapter "Food is the First Thing" in Ancient and Modern Strange Stories."
"You can't do that. Your sister-in-law is the Crown Prince's wife, so she will cook for you?"
Duan Tingxuan was not polite to the Second Prince at all because the Emperor was around. His eyes turned directly to the Fourth Prince, who spread his hands and said, "I came here with my second brother." Before he finished speaking, he saw that his cousin's eyes were already vicious, so he decisively changed the subject and looked at the pearl hairpin on Su Nuannuan's head and smiled, "This pearl hairpin really suits my sister-in-law."
Su Nuannuan's face twitched twice, and her eyes turned to the emperor involuntarily. She was stunned by this friendly family. Duan Tingxuan always liked to talk about the four words "the emperor's favorite", but Su Nuannuan always sneered: no matter how popular he is, the emperor is the emperor, the royal family is ruthless, and being with the emperor is like being with a tiger. Once they turn against each other, the emperor's favorite is just shit.
However, what she saw and heard today completely overturned her cognition: Is this the power of the favorites in front of the emperor? Is this the royal family style of the Great Yin Dynasty? Damn, do you dare to be more casual? The Anping Marquisate is not so casual. Queen, why are you still smiling kindly? Your nephew is talking nonsense to your son, and your son is the prince. Ah! He turned his fire to the second prince again. Wait, why did the fourth prince suddenly mention this plum blossom pearl hairpin? Yes, he is in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This plum blossom pearl hairpin was made by Duan Tingxuan with two roast ducks, four bags of snow cotton bean paste and a large bowl of white sealed meat. Madam Jingfei, your son didn't care at all and told you about his corruption. You shouldn't be laughing so happily.
After seeing the emperor looking at the fourth prince and Duan Tingxuan with a kind face while they were discussing how much this "Plum-shaped Pearl" hairpin was worth, Su Nuannuan really broke down: What were those two guys discussing? The fourth prince said that this pearl hairpin was made by two master craftsmen who spent five days and five nights to make it carefully. Two roast ducks, four bags of snow-white bean paste and a large bowl of white-sealed pork were simply too little, especially since the two master craftsmen ate more than half of the white-sealed pork. At least two beggar chickens should be added to make it worthwhile. Duan Tingxuan said sarcastically, "Beggar chicken? Fourth prince, you are just asking for too much. That day, in order to eat beggar chicken, I let a rooster almost scratch my face. The hibiscus flowers I gave to Nuannuan were scratched to pieces. You want two beggar chickens for a pearl hairpin? How can this be? At least you should add a Jinhua hairpin."
Su Nuannuan really couldn't bear to listen any longer, but the problem was: it seemed that everyone except her was listening with great interest. She could only watch indifferently as Duan Tingxuan used a few words to prove the "crime" of her being a shrew. Just when she was about to despair, the Emperor finally coughed.
My God, Your Majesty, you finally can't listen anymore, right? Thank God, there is finally a normal person in this room. It can be seen that the emperor is the emperor. I was wrong. I shouldn't have criticized you for being less reliable than Emperor Zhengde. Just looking at the peace and prosperity of the Great Seal Dynasty, I know that you must be a wise emperor.
Just as Su Nuannuan was feeling grateful, she saw the emperor asked with great interest to the crowd that was staring at him, "Wait, Tingxuan just said that he almost got his face scratched by a rooster in order to eat beggar's chicken. What's the story behind this? Tell me in detail."
Duan Tingxuan was startled, and immediately realized that he had just let the cat out of the bag during the "heated debate" with the Fourth Prince. He was quickly thinking about how to make up for it when he heard a "gulp" beside him. He turned around and saw that it was Su Nuannuan who finally couldn't stand the "heart-thumping blow" from His Majesty the Emperor and fell to the ground.
"Oh, what happened to the Crown Prince's wife?" Concubine Duan exclaimed. Duan Tingxuan also hurriedly helped Su Nuannuan up. He smiled and said, "Nuannuan has never seen the world. I'm sorry to make the emperor and the ladies laugh. Well, I think we should get started quickly. It's almost noon, and Nuannuan needs time to cook."
Nonsense, who hasn't seen the world? All of you here combined haven't seen as much as I have, okay? The problem is that you emperors, concubines, and princes are too weird. China has been around for 5,000 years. There has never been a family like yours, you are simply the best of the best. You are the royal family, so it's not scientific to be so friendly, funny, and easy-going, okay? Where is the imperial demeanor? Where is the majesty? Where is the pride of being high up? The palace complex is obviously very impressive, isn't it?
Su Nuannuan gently rubbed her waist, and did not forget to criticize Duan Tingxuan's words. Hearing the last sentence, she also nodded in agreement: Stay here any longer. She was afraid that she would faint if she saw something incredible, so she stayed away from these extremes. It was safest to hide in her familiar and friendly kitchen.
As expected, the emperor also forgot about the gossip he had been so interested in hearing. He nodded slightly to agree with Duan Tingxuan's proposal.
Su Nuannuan breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave when she saw several princes standing up on the chairs to the east. She blinked: Aren't these guys here for food? So when they heard that she was going to cook, they were going to leave?
"Father, let's go help my brother and sister-in-law."
The uniform sound made Su Nuannuan's eyes go dark, and her legs softened involuntarily, so that she even did a difficult movement like staggering on the spot.
Take...take action? Let the princes help her? Su Nuannuan couldn't help but shiver as she imagined the "beautiful" scenes of the fat prince struggling to cut scallions into inch-long pieces for her, the second prince happily washing vegetables with bugs still crawling on the leaves, and the fourth prince lighting the stove so excitedly that he even burned it.
"Take a break, are you helping out or are you just eating? Crown Prince, are you still obsessed with the fish balls? Second Prince, haven't you had enough salted pork dumplings? Fourth Prince, don't think I will believe you if you lie to me and say you gave away the roast ducks. The eunuch next to you said that you ate both of them in one meal that night, and you ran eight laps around the courtyard because you were so full."
Duan Tingxuan bluntly exposed the "wolf ambitions" of these cousins, which really made the three princes angry and ashamed. They pointed at him and said, "Father, Tingxuan is so familiar with this kind of thing, it is obvious that he has been cheating on others on weekdays. We went to the kitchen to supervise him. Please understand."
Please understand this kind of words, Your Majesty? Su Nuannuan spat out a mouthful of blood in her heart, and the next moment, she heard the emperor smiling and said, "What the prince said makes sense. Okay, you all go together."
"Father is wise."
The princes spoke in unison again. Duan Tingxuan wanted to argue, but seeing his wife's expression of "I can't do it anymore" and in urgent need of rescue, he didn't care about interacting and joking with the princes. He helped Su Nuannuan to the door, and heard the emperor say from behind: "Tingxuan, stay, go to the study, I have something for you to do."
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