Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty The Emperor Eats Farmhouse Rice
"It's good to have the intention of repentance. It's useless to be a scholar. This sentence is not wrong, but it's also biased. At least it can teach people to read and understand the word "country". If you can't even do this, it's really a waste. Staying here to cultivate more talents that can benefit the country is the right way. Don't think about fooling me by doing some false things."
Zhu Youxiao's words were both for Wu Weiye and for the Guangxi local officials present. Fang Zhenru and other local officials couldn't help but blush after hearing this, but Wu Weiye was quite happy. He could hear it. His Majesty's words meant to let him stay here and not let him go to southern Xinjiang, which made him feel relieved.
At this time, Ning Pinluo Ruo and Liu Rushi, who were wearing veils, were coming, accompanied by Wang Chengen, the Minister of the Sili, and Li Mingrui, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, came over. Fang Zhenru and other officials looked at Li Mingrui, and a look of wanting to communicate with Li Mingrui flashed in their eyes, but Li Mingrui glared back. He didn't want the people from the East Factory to see that he, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, had been manipulating the behavior of these local officials.
As soon as he entered the prefecture of Sienzhou, Zhu Youxiao took Ningpin Luo Ruo's hand, pointed to a rolling mountain behind the prefecture, and asked, "Which mountain is your home?"
Ning Pinluo looked at Zhu Youxiao with his eyes in autumn and nodded.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wang Chengen to prepare lunch. After lunch break, he immediately climbed the mountain to the small place name that would have been forgotten by future generations that would have been recorded in the actual record.
The official responsible for preparing lunch was the Tugong Cen Jie. According to the instructions above, he knew that His Majesty visited the world specifically to investigate the people's situation. He specially prepared a table of farm rice, bacon and wine, plus local chicken and wild game, basically all of which are farm-style flavors. There is no fine carving or deliberately decorative appearances. Even the knife skills are not superb. Even the tableware is too luxurious to return to simplicity. The wooden table with clear patterns and stools with different heights are creaking when sitting on it.
Zhu Youxiao didn't know if these were done by local officials in Guangxi, but this feeling of "don't laugh at the farmers' wine, and keeping guests in a good harvest" does make people feel it truly. As a professional emperor who habitually links people's lives with personal ideals and achievements, Zhu Youxiao has a feeling that the emperor is not in vain and his life is not in vain.
Ordinary bamboo chopsticks are more ordinary. When you reach the oval earthen bowl, pick up a piece of local chicken with a slightly burnt yellow but soaked with various secret spices from the Yao family. When you bite the mouth, it will flow with juice, leaving a fragrance on your mouth, and your taste buds are greatly satisfied. The only disadvantage is that they are a bit hot.
Liu Rushi, who was accompanying the side, couldn't help but pursed her lips. Because many officials and gentry were present, she could only abide by the rules and not be at the same table with His Majesty. Even Ning Pin was the same, she could only watch from the side.
Seeing a new dish coming, it was filled with corn and meat-scented crispy soup. Liu Rushi couldn't help it and pulled Wang Chengen, who was about to take the silver needle to test the poison: "I'll test the poison for Your Majesty."
Before Wang Chengen could react, the silver needle in his hand was snatched by Liu Rushi. He looked at the opportunity to eat a farm food that he had finally eaten, and was snatched by Liu Rushi.
Liu Rushi said that he wanted to try poison for His Majesty, in fact, he took the opportunity to sacrifice to the Wuguan Temple, which he could not hold back. He directly picked up the largest piece of tender, smooth and juice-filled crispy meat with a silver needle and put it into his mouth. Because the mouth of the cherry was too small, he almost sucked out the juice. So she was so powerful that she swallowed it back and forth, and then chewed it back and forth, and physically digested the elastic piece of meat into minced meat and slowly sent it into the esophagus.
"No poison, Your Majesty." Liu Rushi smiled slightly and hurried back to his position. Zhu Youxiao and Ningpin Luo Ruo couldn't help but smile. Fang Zhenru and other local officials were a little surprised, but saw Li Mingrui winked and did not speak out. He pretended that he had not seen the matter. Even the inspector Zhang Duan just coughed a few times.
"If it is poisonous, if you take such a big bite, you will have been poisoned to death. A stinky girl, you won't choose a good day if you want to die." Wang Chengen secretly cursed Liu Rushi in his heart like a resentful woman. The only benefit he could enjoy the emperor's banquet was snatched away by the little palace maid Liu Rushi, which naturally made him very angry.
When Liu Rushi saw Wang Chengen's resentful eyes, he directly grimaced at Wang Chengen: "Die eunuch!"
Zhu Youxiao ate a dozen dishes on the table, and then a dozen people watched. Even though it was delicious, he was a little excited and ordered: "Go down, just serve Liu Rushi from the side. Wang Chengen, you are waiting outside the door. Let's be a waiter for the waiter and serve the dishes and soup."
After Zhu Youxiao ordered everyone to leave the room, Zhu Youxiao then called Liu Rushi: "Sit down, all of these are yours."
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It is now the ninth day of the ninth month, and it is the Double Ninth Festival. Although Zhu Youxiao just wanted to climb back to the mountain in a low-key manner, in fact, this tall and steep mountain was occupied by the Fifth Army, the East Factory, the Jinyiwei and Guangxi local officers and soldiers a month ago. Almost all the carnivores were eliminated, and even the snakes and insects and other reptiles were almost wiped out by them in various ways, in order not to have any accidents when His Majesty and the Empress climbed the mountain.
Countless soldiers of the Fifth Army and Dongchang men pretended to be woodcutters, and hunters secretly hid in various parts of the forest. Even Zhu Youxiao himself found it difficult to know how many people there were around him for defense.
He is not a canary, and he will not stay in the Forbidden City all the time, but since he is on patrol, he must have strict defense. He does not oppose the army and the East Factory Jinyiwei doing so vigorously, after all, this is their responsibility.
The bird path in the mountains has been summoned by the Tugong Cen Jie to gather civilians in one month to make a three-foot-wide stone staircase. Wooden stakes were even laid on the side of the road and tied them with rattans, and used them as guardrails, and even decorated some wild chrysanthemums to increase their artistry.
In fact, Fang Zhenru and others had already prepared slide rods for Zhu Youxiao and others, but Zhu Youxiao insisted on hiking, and the ministers were helpless. The poor thing was that Li Mingrui and other old ministers and Luo Ruliu Rushi had to sacrifice their lives to accompany the king.
There was no sun or moon in the mountains. Zhu Youxiao and others who had entered the deep mountains since noon noon noon noon were at this time, but they had already left with their feet and body weak, while Liu Rushi was also walking with his back hunched over and his hands were hung down with complaints, and were even supported by the dignified imperial concubine Ningpin Luo Ruo.
The cabinet ministers Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen were also exhausted and breathed. The other local officials accompanying him were not much better. They all looked at the local prefect Cen Jie with resentful eyes. Since they knew that His Majesty was going to hike into the mountain, why didn't he build the road more smoothly?
Chapter completed!