The aroma of the cold palace came to his nostrils. The confused fourth prince was finally brought back to his senses by the aroma. He stepped on the stones on the wall of the cold palace in excitement.
This sound alerted the guards patrolling near Leng Palace.
"who?"
General Zuo Yulin, who was on duty in the palace today, heard the commotion and came with his guards from all directions. When he saw the emperor under the wall and the fourth prince who wanted to jump but did not dare to jump at the top of the wall, he was stunned for a moment.
Not sure what's going on?
Xuanzong secretly sneaked into the cold palace and was caught. This was something that had never happened before, especially when he was followed by a top master, Yang Sixu.
It was all Yan'er, the bastard, who exposed him!
How shameless would he be if the Queen found out?
Looking at the stunned Li Kailuo and the dull guards, Xuanzong coughed: "I followed you all the way to the cold palace. What are you doing sneaking up on the wall of the cold palace?"
Li Yan: "..."
Father is so shameless!
Are all sons being sold?
Don't think that the last time he sneaked into the Cold Palace, he didn't see his father and Eunuch Yang climbing over the wall into the Cold Palace from a distance.
But how vulnerable is being a prince?
Being treated as a scapegoat, he had to admit it.
The fourth prince had no choice but to slide down from the wall, lowering his head and admitting defeat: "Father, I know I was wrong!"
"The emperor's sister came to the prince's office today to diagnose the Qing emperor's brother. She said that she asked Mr. Liang of the Ministry of Industry to send an oil press to the cold palace and an iron pot. The son was curious and wanted to know what the emperor's sister was doing in the cold palace, so he lay down on the bed. The wall wants to take a peek.”
The fourth prince looked frustrated: "It turns out that the fragrance came from the depths of the cold palace. I looked at it for a long time and couldn't see anything. I didn't dare to sneak over the wall and sneak into the cold palace. I planned to return to the prince's residence. I didn't want my father to follow me. coming."
Oil fryer? Iron pot?
His tenth princess said she wanted to give him a surprise. Could it be that she was using longevity fruit for deep-frying?
Seeing that Li Yan was willing to take the blame for him, Xuanzong became more friendly and said, "Has your imperial sister ever said what kind of frying oil was used?"
"Even my son doesn't know this!"
On the way to Leng Palace, Li Yan had eaten the fried longevity fruit. Now he smelled the fragrance. He was afraid that Xuanzong would blame him, so he immediately answered the question cleverly.
"I guess it may be the longevity fruit."
The fourth prince took out his handkerchief, took out a longevity fruit and handed it to Xuanzong: "My sister gave this to my son, please give it a try."
Xuanzong's eyes widened when he saw the longevity fruit wrapped in Li Yan's handkerchief.
OK!
That little thing didn't take the longevity fruit to honor his father, but instead took advantage of her fourth brother.
Xuanzong said angrily: "Can longevity fruit be fried in oil?"
"Yang Aiqing and Li Aiqing, come with me to the cold palace to see what my princess is up to."
Xuanzong took Yang Sixu directly to Leng Palace.
Li Kailuo was also curious about what the tenth princess was doing. Can the longevity fruit Jiang Jiao brought back to the capital be fried in oil?
Given such an opportunity, wouldn't it be a pity not to go to the cold palace to see it?
Seeing that the fourth prince was still stunned, he raised his head and looked like he wanted to go to the cold palace.
Li Kailuo reminded him: "Fourth prince, why don't you follow your majesty soon?"
"Oh oh oh!"
His father didn't chase him away anyway, so the fourth prince immediately shamelessly trotted after Xuanzong.
As early as the fragrance came from the room vacated by Leng Gong's warehouse, Concubine De, who had tasted the longevity fruit, was hoeing in the field. She was so attracted by the fragrance that she dropped her hoe and ran to Leng Gong's warehouse. .
Planting the longevity fruit is of great significance to everyone in Leng Palace, so when Liang Dong fried the oil, everyone from Queen Wang to Xu Cairen, as well as Yang Qing and other stewards came to the warehouse to watch.
When the oil was squeezed out of the buns and flowed into the oil drum, it happened to be the moment when De Fei ran into the warehouse. She jumped and shouted like crazy.
"Oil out, oil out!"
Empress Wang, Xu Cairen, and Yang Qing all stared excitedly at the fried peanut oil flowing into the oil barrel. They were awakened by Concubine De's thunderous shout.
Yang Qing shouted excitedly: "Princess, the oil is coming out, the oil is coming out!"
Xu Cairen was even more excited and hugged Empress Wang who was filled with tears.
"Mother, the oil is coming out, the oil is coming out!"
Xuanzong brought Yang Sixu, Li Kailuo, and the fourth prince, following the rich aroma. He heard shouts outside the warehouse, "The princess is out of oil, the empress is out of oil."
When he stepped into the warehouse, what he saw was Xu Cairen hugging Queen Wang with an excited face and not letting go.
Li Sixu and Liang Dong were also immersed in the joy of frying the oil. They felt that many people were surrounding the warehouse. She looked away from the oil drum and saw Xuanzong and Yang Sixu entering the warehouse.
Seeing his father's eyes fixed on the empress and Xu Cairen hugging each other, Li Sixu's mouth twitched without trace.
"Why are you here, Father?"
She came forward and smiled sweetly at Xuanzong, then bowed obediently: "My son, I have met my father."
"General, father-in-law is here too?"
Li Sixu's eyes were full of joy, and she asked Xuanzong for credit: "My father, my son, and my mother planted the longevity fruit. Master Liang helped my son develop a frying machine. I have fried the longevity fruit." It’s oily.”
Xu Cairen hugged Queen Wang and was still jumping and laughing excitedly. Suddenly he saw Xuanzong and hurriedly let go and knelt on the ground.
The emperor suddenly came to the cold palace, and the warehouse was filled with people kneeling down in darkness.
Xuanzong made a straight body movement: "I heard from Yan'er that my princess is frying longevity fruit in the cold palace. I came to take a look."
The fourth prince, who once again took the blame, winked at his imperial sister and then looked at the sky speechlessly.
"Don't worry about me, Liang Aiqing will do whatever he needs to do."
After Liang Dong thanked him, he got up from the ground and continued to stare at the peanut oil squeezer. Xuanzong then asked Li Sixu: "Is it Jiang Jiao who brought it back to the capital, and I share your basket of longevity fruits?"
"Yes, I used that basket of longevity fruits to sow seeds."
Li Sixu grabbed Queen Wang who stood up after seeing the ceremony: "With the efforts of my son, my mother and my queen, and after much thinking, I finally succeeded in growing the longevity fruit."
"Erchen discovered that the longevity fruit has a lot of oil, so he asked Master Liang to help inspect the oil mill in the capital, and carefully observed how to fry oil tea and flax, and then asked him to help him get a frying machine."
Li Sixu specifically mentioned that she and the Queen planted the longevity fruit together, so Xuanzong's attention naturally moved to Queen Wang.
Queen Wang looked calm and generous. She did not feel any resentment for being relegated to the cold palace. Instead, she smiled lightly at Xuanzong. The smile was not as flattering as before, but had a touch of alienation.
Xuanzong felt as if someone had punched him in the chest, which was very unpleasant.
Then the man who was called into the cold palace by Liang Dong from the oil shop in Beijing to help, after the last drop of oil in the oil barrel flowed out, he and Liang Dong weighed the barrel of oil together.
He shouted in surprise: "Master Liang, the oil yield rate of this longevity fruit is really high. Fifty kilograms of longevity fruit exploded into twenty kilograms of oil, and the oil yield rate is actually 40%?"
"This is much higher than the oil yield of flax and camellia oleifera."
