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Chapter 328 Charcoal Grilled Venison

The Emperor and King Xin came suddenly, and Princess Zhou rushed out to greet her: "This is... what happened?"

The emperor said: "It's nothing, but I think you are in Zhuangzi, so I might as well come over and have a look." He said and looked at Wang Xin.

It's not that his brother misses his grandson and is afraid that he will lose face by running around, so he insists on coming with him. When the time comes to tell the truth, Prince Xin is by his side, not leaving aside the affairs of the capital to think about his grandson.

Emperor Tianqi aspires to be a peerless good brother, and his dream objects are limited to Prince Xin.

The prince was on a tour recently, and all the important affairs of the court were placed on the emperor alone. The old man still did not forget to review a large stack of memorials on the imperial chariot.Even so, the emperor didn't have the heart to reject Xin Wang's intentions, and finally took him to see his grandsons.

There was no other way, the capital almost fell that day, the emperor ordered King Xin to flee, the blood of the royal family continued, and there would be a day of comeback.Unexpectedly, the king of Xin refused absolutely, and insisted on dying for the emperor.

After that day, the emperor refused to let King Xin suffer any grievances.

The emperor worked hard to govern, not only for the common people of the Ming Dynasty, but also for the Zhu family's country and land, and also to protect King Xin, so that he could spend his days leisurely in the music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and wine without being contaminated by dust.

Even the Queen said: "Long Live has never treated Brother Qing like this before."

The emperor said: "Brother Qing wants to inherit the great rule. Deyue doesn't have to bear the burden of the world. As long as I am here for one day, let him be happy for one day."

Although the queen didn't quite understand why Wan Sui was always worried about Xin Wang being unhappy, but they had a deep brotherhood, and Xin Wang Ye was the little brother who had been on the tip of Wan Sui's heart for decades, and no one could replace him, and the Queen was just talking.

The emperor held Hanzhi in his hands, and the emperor's grandsons all respected and loved him very much, and surrounded him to chatter and say hello, even the timid Hanai showed admiration on his face, and after being rubbed on the top of the head by the emperor, he showed a shy smile Come.

King Xin took a look, and saw that the emperor's grandsons were darker than the other, and he couldn't help asking: "Are you going to dig coal?"

Concubine Xin showed a helpless smile, "Cheng Ri's family ran outside, but they couldn't get caught in the house. How can they not be black?"

On the contrary, the emperor laughed: "This is how I look like."

He was an old man who was absurd when he was young and loved carpentry. Later, he went to war in the north and south, and he has never returned in vain. Standing with King Xin, the two brothers, one black and one white, are very happy.

Hanzhi was still yelling: "We are wasting nothing!" She was anxious and wanted to pull the emperor's beard.

Yi'an broke out in sweat, and quickly called Han Zhi: "Come down, I'll take you to play."

Hanzhi writhed in the emperor's arms, as soon as the emperor put her down, she ran to Yi'an, grabbed her hand and said, "Go and play!"

The emperor said: "Sister Zhi'er has only been out of the palace for a few days, and she has been able to walk so steadily. It can be seen that the children need to beat more."

"Long live I don't know, not only sister Zhi, but also He Jun and Mo, how difficult it is to feed them when they are at home. Their nanny is always frowning. Since they came to Zhuangzi, their appetite is so strong that the nanny is afraid. Come with me to take a pill for digestion."

Princess Zhou said, "Who knew that I would give them two pills. After a while, they all came to me for pills. They said that the digestive medicine was sour and sweet. Medicines can also be eaten indiscriminately. In the end, Brother Xuan and his daughter-in-law steamed hawthorn cakes for me. When they eat, it's over."

The Emperor and King Xin listened to Princess Zhou's complaint with smiles, He Zhen and Yining Monkey came up and whispered to them: "Grandfather, we are going to go to the mountains to catch rabbits, and we will serve you to eat when we come back."

"Have you learned how to catch rabbits yet?" King Xin was surprised.

Yining said: "Although we don't know how to do it, Uncle Li knows how to do it. We follow him to help him, which can be regarded as our filial piety to grandfather."

Lily smiled and said: "To catch a live rabbit, you have to use a trap. Qingsong is not good at it. Wait for your second uncle to come back. He is the best at catching rabbits."

There was nothing at home at the beginning, and Song Haonian still relied on catching wild rabbits to maintain it.

She thought the royal family was very unkind at first, but after a long time, she realized that although the rules and customs of the royal family are different from those of the common people, they are still human beings, and they don't have to worry about life. be stronger.

For example, there is a class of people who have no ambitions outside, but want to show their prestige in front of their wives and children when they return home. The son's actions are shown to his face. A good father and son want to make a deadly enmity. He also said that this is the way for father and son to get along.

Fortunately, the Tian family didn't have to be so pretentious. The emperor and empress couple, and the Xinwang couple loved their children very much.

While talking, He Mo took out a piece of haw jelly from his purse, broke off a corner and fed it to the emperor, and then broke the other corner and handed it to King Xin's mouth.

The emperor had his own rules when eating. Fortunately, He Mo was his own child, so the two didn't care about it, and opened their mouths to eat.Xin Wang is very clean by nature, he was afraid of hurting the child's heart, so he ate it anyway.

The emperor gave him a teasing look, after all, he wanted to protect his brother's face in front of his children and grandchildren, and did not mention his childhood.

Although the children were not allowed to go up the mountain to catch hares, the guards of the palace were not restricted. They brought bows and arrows into the mountain, but within half a day they brought back a deer, two rock sheep, and some pheasants and hares.

These wild animals are considered to be semi-free range on the mountains around Huangzhuang. Farmers usually hunt rabbits, pheasants and other things for tooth sacrifice. Large wild animals such as deer and sheep are either captured and kept in cages, or processed into wind deer. , Fengyang, and are sent to the capital together every year.

Seeing the fresh prey, Mu San became active again, and said to the emperor, "Long live, why don't we set up a grill for barbecue?"

The emperor looked at him: "Are you healed?"

"The injury hasn't healed yet, so there is Li Qingsong, I just watch and tell him to do it." Mu San smiled.

Concubine Zhou frowned and said, "In this weather, I'm afraid you'll get tired of eating barbecue, and it's too hot."

Before the words were finished, a group of young people clapped their hands and cheered: "Barbecue, barbecue!"

Princess Zhou had no choice but to agree to barbecue.Ask the kitchen to pack up the venison and mutton, cut them into small strips, marinate them with cooking wine, pepper and other seasonings, put them on sticks and present them.

There is a pergola in the middle of the yard, bamboo gauze curtains, vines crawling on the pergola, under the pergola clumps of tuberoses are blooming just right, looking extraordinarily cool.

The servants moved quickly and set up the oven under the awning. A wave of heat came, and the children, who were still noisy, suddenly felt hot and wanted to hide in the house.

The emperor smiled and said, "Who just said that we want to eat barbecue?"

He directly rolled up his sleeves, picked up a skewer of meat, and put it on the fire. Lily and Qingsong were startled, but he was familiar with his predecessors. Xin Wang also rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to pass the stick and seasoning to the emperor.

When the emperor was young and frivolous, he often took Xin Wang to do these things. At that time, although Xin Wang was young, he was a decent person. The emperor complained all the time that he was young like the bearded masters in the cabinet, always trying to find a way tease him.

He is the king, and the king has orders and ministers to obey. The king of faith dislikes such things as barbecue, which is degrading and polite, but there is a monarch and his ministers who are righteous in front of him. Long live barbecues himself, how can he just sit there and wait to eat?
After decades, I am used to doing these things.

Concubine Xin and the others didn't take it seriously, but the children hadn't seen the emperor and King Xin participate in the cooking and other things in person, and they didn't think the charcoal was hot, so they came to watch curiously.

The emperor said with a smile: "Stay away, and carefully smoke your eyes."

It was the first time when he was roasting venison in the palace, and King Xin watched curiously, and his eyes were inadvertently smoked by Yan Yan. For two consecutive days, his eyes were red, like a little rabbit.

Not wanting the emperor to say this late, Han Zhi stood at the downwind, she was not as tall as the oven, she got very close, she was so smoked that she burst into tears, and turned around with her eyes closed.

Concubine Zhou felt distressed and funny, so she quickly took her away, and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief dipped in warm water.

Seeing how powerful the smoke was, the other children hurriedly took a few steps back and looked at the emperor adoringly: the smoke was so heavy that the old man was so smoky that he acted as if nothing had happened.

After a while, a handful of venison was roasted, and each of the children got a skewer, and even Ruzhen was not left behind.

Lily hesitated: "Then I will eat for Ruzhen?"

Princess Zhou smiled and said: "If it's really hard to bite, it's not for you to eat?"

Lily took a bite of the venison, and it was hot and tender, the meat was extremely delicate, and the oily aroma was stimulated by the charcoal fire. She felt her tongue hurt from the burn, but she only felt it was delicious.

The emperor roasted two handfuls of meat and went back to sit. Qingsong and Mu San did the rest. Qingsong roasted well. Lily asked, "When did you learn it?"

Qingsong said: "At home, I used to pick out sparrows and roast them by myself, and a few days ago in Mufu, Musan saw Tianer tormenting me, so I often roasted meat for him."

Qingsong not only roasted it by himself, but also encouraged several children to barbecue with him. He Zhen gave a bunch of dark meat to the emperor. The emperor hesitated, but finally refused to eat.

King Xin also persuaded the emperor: "Brother Huang is also getting old, it's time to take care of it, Brother Zhen, you can go and bake it."

The venison is tender and fragrant, and the mutton has a slightly smelly smell, but when the charcoal fire is pressed, not only is it not smelly, but it adds more flavor.In addition to the meat, the servants brought leeks, potato chips, tofu skins, etc., and the children ate while grilling. Although they were sweating profusely from the heat, they continued to laugh and laugh.

Concubine Zhou was afraid that they would get angry from eating meat, so she hurriedly ordered someone to make mung bean and lily soup. When she saw brother Xuan and his daughter-in-law in a blink of an eye, she couldn't help laughing: "Your name is heavy."

Lily also laughed: "Our sisters' names are all flowers, which are very common, but there is nothing special about it."

After playing, the emperor and Xinwang asked the children about their homework, asked them to sit on the embroidery pier and recite the book, asked about the meaning of the book, and then read the words they wrote.

Princess Zhou is very good at taking care of the children. Although they have been very naughty these days, they have never missed their homework. The emperor was pleased and praised them again and again.

Prince Xin has always felt that his brother has a problem: he likes to praise his own children. He used to praise him when he was young, then later he praised Brother Qing, and now he praises these royal grandchildren.

Sure enough, within two days, the emperor wrote to the prince, saying that the children are very well-behaved, and they have made great progress in reading and writing. When the prince comes back, he will be very happy.

In the next afternoon, the emperor and Xin Wang will go back to the capital - they are the most honored, and they are always concerned with the safety of the world, so they cannot leave the capital for too long.

Princess Zhou took the children for a mile and watched the car drive away before returning to Zhuangzi.

(End of this chapter)