Even though Emperor Zhou Wu was in a good mood today, he was impatient to listen to the intrigues among his concubines. After having dinner for a while, he got up and left. Seeing this, Concubine Rong knew that Emperor Wu of Zhou was unhappy and stopped eating, so she hurriedly chased after him.
Seeing Emperor Zhou Wu leave, Queen Xie and Concubine De were not in the mood to continue eating, so they all got up and left.
Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi did not leave in a hurry, but waited until they were done eating. After all, it would be such a waste to leave without taking a few bites of a table of good food.
On the way back to Kunde Hall, Liang Zhaoyi and Yu Meiren didn't say anything, worried that the walls had ears.
"Concubine, I want to go to Xingde Palace to visit Myna." Zhao Yao raised his hand and patted his chest and said with a smile, "I brought delicious food to Myna." When they were having dinner just now, Zhao Yao I took a few delicious snacks and put them in my arms to warm them.
The Eighth Prince suffered from a cold and has been recuperating in Xingde Palace in the past few days, so he did not appear at today's dinner.
"Go, but don't stay too long, it will disturb your myna's rest."
"I'll give the snacks to Starling and come back." After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he took Tongxi to Xingdeok Palace.
Poppy looked at Zhao Yao's leaving figure, thinking of the unfavored eighth prince, and sighed slightly: "The eighth prince is also pitiful."
Liang Zhaoyi understood what Poppy meant, but she did not agree with Poppy's words, but said: "Let's go back."
Meiren Yu didn't say anything more. She took the fifth princess's hand and followed Liang Zhaoyi back to Kunde Hall.
Pan Cairen has been waiting for them to come back. Seeing them coming back, I quickly asked them if anything had happened or if they had been bullied.
The poppy was silent at the dinner, but became eloquent as soon as she returned to Kunde Hall. She vividly told Pan Cairen what happened at the dinner.
At this time, Zhao Yao had arrived at Xingdeok Palace.
The Eighth Prince had not rested yet. He was sitting on the bed reading a book. When he saw him coming, he was very surprised: "Tenth brother, why are you here?"
"I'm here to see you, Bage." Zhao Yao walked to the eighth prince's bed and looked at the eighth prince's face carefully. Seeing that his star brother's complexion looked much better than the previous two days, he felt relieved. "Myna, are you feeling better?"
"Much better." The eighth prince looked at Zhao Yao with gentle eyes. Suddenly he remembered something and asked hurriedly, "Tenth brother, shouldn't you be at the dinner party at Qiong Linyuan now?"
"The dinner party is over." Zhao Yao said, taking out a bag of snacks from his arms and passing them to the eighth prince, "Bago, these are the snacks I got from the dinner party. They are very delicious. Please try them quickly."
The eighth prince's eyes were slightly sour when he saw that Zhao Yao had not forgotten to bring him snacks at the dinner party. He reached out to take the snack and found that it was still hot, and his eyes were a little red.
"Myna, the snack is still hot. Eat it quickly. It won't taste good if it's cold."
The eighth prince smiled slightly at Zhao Yao, then picked up a piece of snack and fed it to Zhao Yao's mouth: "Tenth brother, you eat too."
"Myna, I've eaten. You should eat quickly."
"Okay, I'll eat." The Eighth Prince picked up the snack and started eating. Zhao Yao asked hurriedly, "Brother, is it delicious?"
The Eighth Prince nodded and said, "It's delicious, very delicious."
"Myna, the dishes at the dinner are also delicious. It's a pity that you were sick and didn't go." Next, Zhao Yao chattered to the eighth prince which dish at the dinner was delicious and how to eat it.
The eighth prince and the eunuch serving him listened to Zhao Yao's description. They both felt greedy and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Although Zhao Yao is not very smart in reading and not very good at talking, he becomes eloquent as long as he talks about delicious food. Even if it is a very simple dish, he can make it very delicious.
"Bago, when the second brother comes back, there will be a celebration party and there will be delicious food. You have to get well before the second brother comes back."
"That's right. I'll get well soon and eat delicious food with you." While eating snacks, the Eighth Prince pretended to be casual and asked Zhao Yao, "Did anything interesting happen at the dinner tonight?" matter?"
"There's nothing fun." At this point, Zhao Yao suddenly sighed, "Brother Ninth and Brother Seven quarreled again."
"What are they arguing about?"
"Ninth brother said he wanted to fight and be a hero like second brother, and then seventh brother said he was a bear..." Zhao Yao told the eighth prince about the dispute between the seventh prince and the ninth prince at the dinner.
"Tenth brother, did ninth brother bully you?"
"No." When mentioning the Ninth Prince, Zhao Yao couldn't help complaining to the Eighth Prince, "Bago, you don't know how annoying Ninth Brother is. He has been showing off the second brother's victory in the battle all morning. He will continue to show off tomorrow. ." Not only tomorrow, but for a long time to come, the Nine Emperors Brotherhood will continue to show off that the Second Emperor Brother has won the battle.
"What he said is his, you don't have to pay attention to it." The eighth prince said as he finished the few snacks Zhao Yao sent.
"Bago, I won't disturb your rest. I'll come see you tomorrow."
Although the eighth prince wanted to talk to Zhao Yao for a while, it was getting late and it got a lot colder at night. He was worried that Zhao Yao would freeze if he went back late.
"Be careful on the road."
"Bago, you have to sleep well and stop reading, so that you can recover quickly." Zhao Yao coaxed the eighth prince in the tone of a three-year-old child, "Bago, if you are obedient, tomorrow I will bring snacks made by the fifth sister. you eat."
"I'll go to sleep right away."
The eighth prince asked his eunuch Yu Hai to send Zhao Yao back to Kunde Hall, but Zhao Yao refused. He had no choice but to ask Yu Hai to take him to the entrance of Xingdeok Palace.
Seeing Yu Hai coming back so quickly, the Eighth Prince said with some dissatisfaction: "Didn't I ask you to send the tenth brother to the door?"
"This slave was driven back by His Highness The Tenth Highness. His Highness asked the slave to come back as soon as possible to take care of you, and also asked the slave to monitor whether you slept well." Yu Hai said with a smile, "Your Highness, His Highness the Tenth Highness really cares about you."
"Yes, fortunately, I have my tenth brother and Concubine Liang." In the palace, except for Concubine Liang and his tenth brother, no one cared about his life or death.
"Empress Zhaoyi and His Highness the Tenth Prince are rare good people in the palace." Everyone in the palace looked down on the Eighth Prince, and everyone bullied the Eighth Prince. Only Liang Zhaoyi and His Highness the Tenth Prince never bullied the Eighth Prince. In the past few years, thanks to Liang Zhaoyi's care and help, otherwise His Highness would have had a very difficult time in the palace.
"Concubine Liang and her tenth brother are different from the rest of the palace." Everyone in the palace is hypocritical, vicious, disgusting, and dirty, but Concubine Liang and the others are clean. "How's it going with the prince?"
"If you reply to Your Highness..."
After listening to Yu Hai's report, the Eighth Prince raised a playful smile on his lips: "Concubine Rong Gui is really good at asking Dai Wang to go to Yangzhou to help quell the chaos."
"Your Highness, will the Emperor really let King Dai go to Yangzhou?"
"I hope that my father will really send the acting king to Yangzhou, but unfortunately..." The Eighth Prince shook his head and said, "My father will not do that."
"Why is it that if the king is sent, the rebellion in Yangzhou will be quelled soon?"
"Although my father is dissatisfied with the Xie family, now is not the time to touch the Xie family." The eighth prince said meaningfully, "Besides, the acting king is coming back. Neither the prince nor the Xie family can sit still."
Yu Hai was half-understood, but he didn't ask any more questions.
"Your Highness, His Highness the Tenth Prince told you to go to bed quickly and stop reading."
The Eighth Prince handed the book in his hand to Yu Hai and scolded with a smile: "You actually know how to use chicken feathers as arrows."
Yu Hai smiled flatteringly at the Eighth Prince: "I'm doing this for your own good."
On the other side, Zhao Yao had a little accident on his way back to Kunde Hall.
As he passed by the tree, something suddenly jumped towards him. I saw it had a pair of green eyes, which looked like two clusters of will-o'-the-wisps in the dark night, very scary and frightening.
Tong Xi was startled and hurriedly stopped in front of Zhao Yao, shouting loudly: "Your Highness, it's dangerous!"
Zhao Yao was very calm, stretched out his hand to pull Tong Xi away, "It's okay."
"Your Highness..."
Only then did Tongxi realize that the thing rushing toward Zhao Yao was an eagle, not some will-o'-the-wisp.
"Isn't this...the Emperor's falcon?"
Zhao Yao corrected Tong Xi: "It's Haidongqing, Laifu is the best Haidongqing."
When Tong Xi heard the name "Laifu", the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he corrected Zhao Yao: "Your Highness, the emperor's Haidongqing is not called Laifu, but Lingyun."
Zhao Yao held Emperor Zhou Wu's beloved pet in his arms. While touching its feathers, he said to Tong Xi, "How can Ling Yun be as good as Lai Fu?" After saying that, he lowered his head and asked Hai Dongqing in his arms, "Lai Fu, You also think Laifu sounds better than Lingyun, right?"
Laifu whispered to Zhao Yao: "Laifu sounds nice." 】
"You see, Laifu thinks the name Laifu sounds better than Lingyun."
Tongxi: "..." If the emperor knew that his beloved Haidong Qinglingyun was called Laifu by His Highness, he would definitely be very angry.
Zhao Yao held Laifu in his arms and asked, "Laifu, why did you run out?"
Laifu raised its little head proudly and said: "Come to find you." 】
"I knew you missed me." Zhao Yao said happily, then lowered his head and rubbed Laifu's little head.
Laifu was very happy to be rubbed, but he said: "I don't miss you." 】
"Then I miss you. I will feed you the snacks made by the fifth sister later."
Laifu said: [I want to eat five yuan. 】
"Five yuan is too much, I can only feed you two..." Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Yao's little face was slapped by Laifu.
Zhao Yao immediately begged for mercy: "Okay, okay, I'll give you five yuan to eat."
Laifu was then satisfied and rubbed Zhao Yao's little face with its head.
"Your Highness, Hai Dongqing seems to be unable to eat snacks..." Before Tong Xi finished speaking, he saw Laifu, who was obedient in Zhao Yao's arms, and his eyes suddenly became very ferocious. At this moment, he saw murderous intent in Laifu's eyes.
Although Laifu is very docile in front of Zhao Yao, it is really a bird of prey. Its sharp claws can not only kill ferocious beasts, but also kill people.
