Before dinner, Zhao Yao followed Liang Zhaoyi and Poppy to visit Emperor Wu of Zhou.
Emperor Wu of Zhou was not in his own camp, but in Qin Xiulian's camp.
Sun Kui asked Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi to wait outside the tent while he went in to pass the message.
In the camp, Emperor Zhou Wu was chatting with Qin Xiulian.
Sun Kui walked to Emperor Zhou Wu and reported respectfully: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness, Liang Zhaoyi, Yu Meiren, Pan Cairen and the fifth princess are outside asking for an audience."
When Emperor Zhou Wu heard this, his heart tightened slightly. Of course, he didn't show it on his face.
"Let them in."
"Yes." Sun Kui turned around and walked out, and said to Zhao Yao and others who were waiting at the door, "His Royal Highness, Empress Zhaoyi, the emperor lets you in."
Liang Zhaoyi said to Sun Kui politely: "I'm sorry to trouble you, Eunuch Sun."
Eunuch Sun said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, you're welcome."
Liang Zhaoyi led Zhao Yao and walked in, while Poppy led the fifth princess and followed behind their mother and son. Pan Cairen lowered his head and followed cautiously at the back.
Entering the camp, Liang Zhaoyi and Zhao Yao first saluted Emperor Wu of Zhou.
"See the Emperor."
"I have met my father."
"Everyone, get up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Qin Xiulian, who was lying on the bed, hurriedly apologized to Liang Zhaoyi and Zhao Yao: "His Royal Highness, Empress Zhaoyi, Poppy, Fifth Princess, Pan Cairen, I cannot get up to salute you, I must apologize to you."
Liang Zhaoyi then looked at Qin Xiulian who was lying on the bed. Although she was pale at this time, it did not detract from her beauty at all. On the contrary, because her face was bloodless, it added a bit of weakness and vulnerability to her, making her even more lovable.
Zhao Yao stared at Qin Xiulian curiously, and then sighed in his heart: She is really a beauty, not inferior to Concubine Rong at all.
Concubine Rong is a bright beauty, and Qin Xiulian's beauty is just like her name, as pure and beautiful as a lotus.
It turns out that Si Youying, whom my father has always missed, is like this. No wonder my father never forgot Si Youying.
"No need to be polite, I would also like to thank Miss Qin for saving the emperor in the paddock." Liang Zhaoyi asked with concern, "How is Miss Qin's injury?"
"Thank you, Empress Zhaoyi, for your concern. My daughter's injury is not serious."
Liang Zhaoyi looked at Emperor Zhou Wu and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, are you not injured?"
When Liang Zhaoyi looked over, Emperor Zhou Wu felt a little nervous for a moment.
"I'm fine."
"I hope the Emperor is fine." Liang Zhaoyi said in a respectful tone, "Thanks to Miss Qin this time, otherwise Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please pay attention to safety when hunting and take care of the dragon body."
Emperor Zhou Wu was relieved when he saw Liang Zhaoyi's expression as usual, but he soon became nervous again.
"It was my negligence this time."
Just when Liang Zhaoyi was about to retreat, she heard Zhao Yao say: "Father, where is the wolf?"
Upon hearing Zhao Yao's question, Emperor Wu of Zhou's first reaction was: "What, you want to eat wolf meat?"
Zhao Yao nodded and said, "I want to eat it. I have never eaten wolf meat, so I don't know if it tastes good."
Emperor Wu of Zhou was amused by his youngest son's words: "You brat, you are so greedy that you won't even let go of wolf meat."
"I haven't eaten it before, I want to try it." Zhao Yao said again, "Father, can you give me some wolf teeth?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou asked curiously: "What do you want Langya for?"
"Make a necklace."
"Making necklaces?" Emperor Wu of Zhou asked, "What are you doing making necklaces?"
Zhao Yao felt that Emperor Zhou Wu's question was so stupid that he almost couldn't help but give his father a roll of his eyes.
"Of course it's Dai." My father's brain was damaged.
"Why are you wearing a wolf fang necklace?"
"It's fun." Zhao Yao said, "I see that barbarians all wear necklaces made of wolf teeth."
Emperor Wu of Zhou looked back at Sun Kui and ordered: "Go and find some for him."
"Father, I also want the wolf skin."
Sun Kui, who was standing aside, said: "Your Highness, the emperor has already ordered that several wolf skins will be sent to each palace."
"How many are there in each palace?" Zhao Yao's face was full of surprise, "Father, you have dug into the wolf's den."
Qin Xiulian was amused by Zhao Yao's words, and a smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth.
"Don't you want to eat wolf meat? I'll give you two wolf legs later. Are they enough for you?" Emperor Wu of Zhou joked, "If it's not enough, how about I give you a whole wolf?"
"Is wolf meat delicious?"
"so so."
"Then just give me a small piece of meat." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "I'll have a taste."
Emperor Wu of Zhou asked: "What else do you want to eat?"
"I still want to eat bear paws, but father, you didn't hunt the black blind man, so I have to forget it." Zhao Yao's tone was full of regret and a bit disgusting.
Emperor Zhou Wu naturally heard it, glared at Zhao Yao, and said angrily: "I'm really sorry for not hunting the black blind man."
Zhao Yao waved his hand and said magnanimously: "It doesn't matter."
Emperor Zhou Wu laughed angrily, stretched out his hand to pull his youngest son into his arms, and squeezed Zhao Yao's chubby little face hard.
"Smelly boy..."
Seeing that it was almost time, Liang Zhaoyi said, "Your Majesty, Miss Qin needs to rest, so I won't disturb you."
Poppy and Pan Cairen quickly saluted Emperor Wu of Zhou.
Liang Zhaoyi looked at Qin Xiulian and said, "Miss Qin, have a good rest."
"Empress Zhaoyi, walk slowly."
Zhao Yao withdrew from Emperor Wu of Zhou's arms, glared at his father fiercely, and then saluted: "My son, please retire."
Liang Zhaoyi took Zhao Yao and retreated.
Emperor Zhou Wu looked at Liang Zhaoyi's leaving figure and frowned slightly, his expression thoughtful.
"Concubine, let's go back and eat dumplings quickly." Zhao Yao couldn't wait to say as soon as he walked out of Qin Xiulian's tent, "I want to eat fifty dumplings."
Emperor Wu of Zhou in the camp heard his youngest son saying that he wanted to eat fifty dumplings, and he laughed and cursed: "Is this brat a pig? He eats so many dumplings."
Qin Xiulian said: "Your Majesty, it's time for you to have dinner."
Emperor Zhou Wu happened to be in no mood to stay here anymore. He stood up and said, "I'll come see you later."
"Your Majesty, walk slowly."
Emperor Zhou Wu nodded, immediately left Qin Xiulian's camp and returned to his own camp.
Sun Kui asked: "Your Majesty, what would you like to have for dinner?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou blurted out: "I want to eat dumplings."
"Dumplings?" Sun Kui was stunned for a moment, then understood, "Then I will go to Empress Zhaoyi to get some."
"Go ahead." Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered, remembering that Zhao Yao had just said he wanted to eat fifty, "get me fifty dumplings."
"Your Majesty, wouldn't fifty be a bit much?" The most the Emperor ever ate was thirty dumplings.
Emperor Zhou Wu glanced sideways at Sun Kui: "I'll let you take it. How can there be so much nonsense?"
"Slave, go now."
Sun Kui arrived just in time, and Liang Zhaoyi and the others had just finished their first pot of dumplings.
Zhao Yao quit immediately after hearing Sun Kui say that Emperor Wu of Zhou wanted to eat fifty dumplings.
"My mother and concubine didn't make many dumplings. My father has to eat fifty by himself, so what should we eat?"
Sun Kui said nothing and smiled coquettishly.
"No." Zhao Yao said protectively, "Father wants to eat dumplings. Let the chefs make them for him. Don't come and rob us."
"Your Highness, this..."
"No, there is nothing extra for my father to eat. Let the royal chefs make it for him."
"Your Highness, this is not good."
Zhao Yao was about to say something, but his little head was knocked by Liang Zhaoyi.
"The Emperor cannot eat fifty. Eunuch Sun, please take twenty and take them back."
"Twenty, too many!" Zhao Yao said dissatisfied, "Ten is enough!"
Liang Zhaoyi ignored Zhao Yao and filled twenty dumplings in a food box for Sun Kui to carry.
"We don't have much. We can only give the emperor twenty. Please forgive me."
Zhao Yao pouted and said with an unhappy face: "Father, he wants to eat dumplings, why should he eat ours? I won't have enough to eat later."
Sun Kui took the food box and thanked Liang Zhaoyi: "Thank you so much, I will leave."
"Eunuch Sun, walk slowly."
After Sun Kui left, Zhao Yao began to complain: "The smelly father must have done it on purpose. He just wanted to steal my dumplings."
Seeing her son's angry look, Liang Zhaoyi reached out and poked his little face in a funny way.
"Who's to blame? Who asked you to say at the door that you wanted to eat fifty dumplings? Your father heard it."
Zhao Yao's face was filled with annoyance: "I blame myself."
"If you don't have enough to eat, your second concubine and I will make some more." Liang Zhaoyi filled up fifty more dumplings. "Aren't you going to treat your fourth brother to eat dumplings? Send these dumplings over."
"Concubine, it's definitely not enough for Fourth Brother and I to eat fifty dumplings." Zhao Yao said, "I can eat fifty dumplings by myself."
"You can eat fifty, but I won't give you fifty." Liang Zhaoyi pinched Zhao Yao's nose, "Do you want to burst your belly?"
"Mother, I can really eat fifty..."
Liang Zhaoyi interrupted Zhao Yao, "Okay, take the dumplings over quickly, they won't taste good later." After saying that, she handed the food box to Tongxi.
"Concubine, there are also dumplings from Concubine Li."
"I haven't forgotten. I will send it to Empress Li Bin later."
Zhao Yao didn't say anything more and skipped to find the fourth prince.
At this time, Sun Kui had returned to Emperor Zhou Wu's tent with the dumplings.
"Your Majesty, Empress Zhaoyi said they don't make many dumplings and can only give you twenty."
"Didn't that brat Xiao Shi scream?"
"I called, but His Highness the Tenth is unwilling to give it to you. He also said that you want to eat dumplings, so let the imperial chef tell you not to snatch his dumplings."
Emperor Zhou Wu smiled and said, "I knew it." After saying that, he couldn't wait to pick up a dumpling and eat it. Instantly his eyes lit up, "These dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables are so delicious."
Sun Kui said silently in his heart: It's not the dumplings filled with wild vegetables that are delicious, it's the dumplings made by Empress Zhaoyi that are delicious.
Emperor Wu of Zhou ate five dumplings in a row. He hesitated and said, "Liang Zhaoyi...how did she react?"
"What reaction?" Sun Kui didn't react.
Emperor Zhou Wu looked at Sun Kui and said nothing. Only then did Sun Kui react and spoke cautiously: "This servant looks at Empress Zhaoyi as usual."
"Yeah?"
Sun Kui said: "I didn't notice it." Unexpectedly, the emperor was afraid that Liang Zhaoyi would be unhappy.
When Liang Zhaoyi was there just now, he saw that the emperor was quite calm, but he didn't expect that the emperor was feeling uneasy.
Emperor Wu of Zhou said with a look of disgust on his face: "What can you tell?"
Sun Kui held back his laughter and said, "Your Majesty, are you afraid that Empress Zhaoyi will misunderstand you and Miss Qin..." Before he could finish his words, Sun Kui received a cold look from Emperor Zhou Wu, which frightened him into shutting up quickly.
He raised his hand and slapped himself gently, "This slave is too talkative."
Emperor Wu of Zhou ignored Sun Kui and finished the remaining fifteen dumplings.
"Your Majesty, do you still want to eat?" Sun Kui said very considerately, "If you are not full, I will go to Empress Zhaoyi to get it."
"No need." Emperor Zhou Wu said with a smile, "If you go to get it again, that brat Xiao Shi won't give you any."
"It's really possible." Sun Kui couldn't help laughing when he thought of Zhao Yao's angry look just now, "His Royal Highness is really a food protector."
"I don't know who he looks like when he's so protective of his food and so stingy."
Sun Kui said in his heart: Your Majesty, His Highness the Tenth Prince is just stingy with you, but he is very generous to the Fourth Prince.
In the fourth prince's tent, he was eating dumplings with Zhao Yao.
"Fourth brother, you must dip your dumplings in vinegar to make them delicious."
The Fourth Prince doesn't like to be jealous: "I think it tastes good without vinegar."
"Fourth brother, are dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables the best?"
"Well, it's the most delicious."
"Fourth brother, my mother and I just went to see our father." Zhao Yao said to the fourth prince while eating dumplings, "My father is in Qin Xiulian's tent. I looked at Qin Xiulian curiously. It’s so beautiful.”
When the fourth prince heard this, he paused with the chopsticks in his hand and raised his eyes to look at Zhao Yao: "Do you know what beauty is?"
"I know, why didn't I know? That Qin Xiulian is really beautiful, not inferior to Concubine Rong."
The fourth prince frowned, "You like it?"
"Ah?" Zhao Yao was a little confused when asked, "What do I like?"
"Like pretty ones?"
"I like it. Fourth brother, everyone doesn't like beautiful people." Zhao Yao said with chopsticks, "This is called the love of beauty, which everyone has."
The fourth prince said amusedly: "What do you, a child, know?"
Zhao Yao pouted unconvinced and said: "Fourth brother, I am young, but I know what is beautiful and what is not beautiful."
"Tenth brother, everyone has the love of beauty, but this love of beauty must be measured..." The fourth prince stopped the chopsticks in his hands and began to talk to Zhao Yao about "love of beauty" sternly.
Zhao Yao was confused and didn't understand why the fourth prince started preaching to him.
The fourth prince was worried that Zhao Yao would be deceived by beauty, so he had to explain to him the disadvantages of being fond of "beauty".
Zhao Yao listened for a while and understood his fourth brother's intention.
Fourth Brother was afraid of becoming a lustful person, so he went out of his way to preach to him.
Fourth brother, are you too worried? I'm only six years old. Even if I'm greedy for beauty, I can't do anything.
Zhao Yao silently listened to the fourth prince's sermon and ate dumplings quietly.
The fourth prince didn't expect Zhao Yao to understand what he just said now, after all, he was still young. However, just because he is still young, he must be taught that coveting beauty is not a good thing.
"Fourth brother, do you still want to eat?" Zhao Yao finished thirty dumplings but was not satisfied and wanted to eat more.
"I'm full, so I won't eat anymore." The fourth prince ate twenty dumplings. However, twenty dumplings are not too few for him. "You still want to eat?"
"I can eat twenty more." Zhao Yao stood up hurriedly and said, "Fourth brother, then I will go back and continue eating dumplings." After that, he ran away in a hurry. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, the fourth brother would lecture him again.
Looking at Zhao Yao's running back, the fourth prince smiled helplessly and fondly.
"Your Highness, you scared His Highness Ten away." Wei Mian teased, "It's not like you don't know that Your Highness is most afraid of your preaching. Besides, Your Highness is still young, so he doesn't know about beauty."
"It's because he doesn't understand, so I have to tell him that it's wrong to covet beauty."
"Aren't you afraid that His Highness the Tenth Prince will become more and more afraid of you?"
"Third brother, he understands that I am doing it for his own good."
On the other side, Li Pin also ate the dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables sent by Liang Zhaoyi.
She usually eats very little for dinner, and it was rare that she ate all twenty dumplings today.
"The dumplings made with wild vegetables taste really good."
"My queen, if you like it, I will take someone to pick some tomorrow and bring them back to the palace."
"You pick more tomorrow." Li Bin said with a smile, "Liang Zhaoyi and the others will eat it."
"Liang Zhaoyi and the others really know how to eat. They even grow their own vegetables. They are the only ones in the palace who do this."
"There's nothing wrong with that." Everyone in the palace looked down on Liang Zhaoyi and the others for growing vegetables, except Li Concubine who didn't look down on them. Li Bin feels that growing vegetables and flowers are the same, and no one is more noble than the other. "I'm a little full from eating. Come with me for a walk."
"Empress, would you like to call His Highness to accompany you for a walk?"
"Okay, you go and call him."
The fourth prince was also a little full after eating, and was about to wait for Zhao Yao to finish eating and then take Zhao Yao for a walk to eat. Seeing Qiu Sang coming to see him, he took a walk with Li Bin.
By this time, it was already dark and the night sky was full of stars.
Li Bin and the Fourth Prince didn't go far and took a walk near the camp.
The mother and son first talked about reading. They both like to read books. Even when they go out for spring hunting, mother and son will bring books and read them in the evening.
The fourth prince's love of reading was also influenced by Li Bin. Li Bin has loved reading since she was a child and is very talented. Before she entered the palace, she was a famous and talented woman in the capital. The poems and articles she wrote were highly praised by literati. Someone once offered her a thousand dollars just to write a poem for her.
The poems she wrote were very bold and generous, unlike the graceful ones written by other female poets. Her generous atmosphere was also mixed with compassion, and she was very popular among literati students.
The poems and articles written by Li Bin were all snatched up as soon as they were published. Every scholar in the capital has a collection of her poems.
Concubine Shu is also a talented woman, but her talent lies in her paintings. Therefore, she, a talented woman, is far inferior to Li Bin in the eyes of the world.
In this palace, the person that Concubine Shu is really jealous of is not Concubine Rong, Concubine De and Concubine Liang, but Concubine Li. She was also a talented woman before entering the palace, so people often compare her with Li Bin. Comparatively, she is not as good as Li Bin. Others say that she is not worthy of being compared with Li Bin, because Li Bin is a real talented woman, while she is just a "heterodox" talented woman.
Even though Concubine Shu was not convinced, she had to admit that she was indeed not as good as Li Bin in poetry and articles. However, fortunately, her family background is better than that of Li Bin. However, in the eyes of literati, Concubine Shu's family background was not as good as that of Concubine Li. The Li family is a real scholarly family, while the Xun family is just an aristocratic family.
The conversation went off the rails. After concubine Li chatted with the fourth prince about studying for a while, they talked about other things.
Li Bin asked the fourth prince if he had any thoughts about his marriage.
This is the first time Li Bin asked the fourth prince this question. Concubine Li had never asked the fourth prince about this matter before.
The fourth prince was stunned for a moment when he was asked, and then said: "My son, I don't have any ideas." His marriage was not something he could decide, so he didn't have any ideas about his marriage. "Why did my mother-in-law suddenly ask me this question?"
"In two years, you will be an adult. I thought I should tell you about this matter." Li Bin asked with a gentle look, "What kind of girl do you like?"
"Mother, my liking is not important." The fourth prince said in a very calm tone, "Besides, I don't have a woman I like."
Li Bin was not surprised at all when she heard her son's answer, but she still felt helpless.
"Have you never thought about what kind of woman your future princess will be?"
"have not thought."
"Do you like gentle women or women with a lively temperament?"
The fourth prince said expressionlessly: "I don't know."
Li Bin looked at the Fourth Prince in astonishment: "Could it be that you..." Is this child not enlightened?
"Mother, I just said it doesn't matter whether I like it or not. Even if I like it, I can't marry her back to be the princess." The fourth prince really didn't care about his marriage. "When I come of age, my father will Marriage is granted, why should I worry about this matter."
Li Bin: "..." For a moment, she didn't know what to say.
"I believe that my father will arrange a good marriage for me and a good princess for me."
Li Bin was stunned for a while, raised her forehead and said helplessly: "You don't have any respect for women..."
The fourth prince interrupted Li Bin: "No." After saying that, he was afraid that Li Bin would misunderstand, so he added, "I don't like men, so don't think too much about it, mother and concubine."
Li Bin didn't think much about it. She just felt that the fourth prince was not aware of the relationship between men and women, so she said such words.
"Your father has no plans to marry you at the moment."
"I'm not an adult yet, so my father will naturally not grant me a marriage right now."
"What I mean is that your father has not arranged a marriage for you yet." Li Concubine once tentatively asked Emperor Zhou Wu. Emperor Zhou Wu said at that time that the matter was not urgent and would wait two years. She knew that Emperor Zhou Wu had not thought about it yet.
"What do you mean, concubine mother?"
"Your grandfather and your uncle hope that you can marry Xiaoci and become the princess. What do you think?"
The fourth prince knew since he was a child that his grandfather and the others wanted to marry Xiaoci to him. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and he certainly didn't think it was anything good. Xiaoci often comes to the palace, and he and he have grown up together since childhood. Xiao Ci has a quiet temperament, which he is very satisfied with. If he had to marry a woman as a princess when he grew up, Xiaoci would be a good choice, so he wouldn't reject it.
"Can."
"Do you like Xiaoci?"
"it's OK."
"Xiao Ci is a good girl with a gentle and quiet temperament, which is very suitable for you, but marrying her as a princess will not be of much help to you."
When the fourth prince heard this, he looked at Li Bin with some surprise: "Concubine, you don't agree with Xiaoci becoming my princess?"
"I have no dissatisfaction with Xiao Ci. On the contrary, I like Xiao Ci very much. It's just that I hope your princess can come from a military family."
The fourth prince instantly understood what Li Bin meant, "Concubine, do you want to..."
"I know it's impossible for the four generals, but I want to try their subordinates." Li Bin said, "General Shen and his lieutenants all have daughters, and they are about the same age as you."
"It's impossible, my father won't agree." None of the four generals' daughters married into the royal family, and none of them married into aristocratic families. The same is true for the daughters of the four generals' subordinates.
They do not participate in the royal family's struggles, nor do they participate in the rights and wrongs of the aristocratic family. They are only pure ministers and loyal to their father.
"I want to try."
"Mother, I advise you not to say this." The fourth prince's expression suddenly became very serious, and his tone was very solemn, "For my sake, you'd better not say this."
There will be another update in the evening.
I will update more in the next two days, and I will update two chapters, one will be updated at noon, and the other will be updated in the evening.
Emperor Wu of Zhou: Why do I feel guilty?
Sun Kui: Your Majesty, I didn’t expect you to be afraid sometimes.
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