The peanuts look really good. I just wanted to learn from Zhu Yili to pick up the dried radish first.

But I didn't expect it to be so unpalatable.

Feng Bao quickly picked up two peanuts with chopsticks and put them into his mouth, which made him swallow a bite of porridge and a dried radish like a life.

After swallowing it, I felt that all my internal organs were protesting.

“Company, how does it taste?”

Zhu Yiliu had another mouthful of porridge, and this time he drank the fermented tofu, and then asked Feng Bao a smile.

Feng Bao squeezed out two embarrassing smiles and replied weakly: "Long live, what should I say?"

"The mouth comes from the heart, and you should not deceive me."

"Long live the emperor, it's not delicious." Feng Bao finally plucked up the courage and shook his head and replied.

Huang Xiaoyun was not surprised at Feng Bao's answer at all. Originally, if Zhu Yili had not insisted, he would not have thought of using these hospitality.

Thinking about the decades of Feng Bao's entry into the palace, he was the Silijian Bingbing pen as early as the Jiajing period. When did he eat this kind of bran porridge and unsatisfactory pickles?

"Why isn't it delicious?" Zhu Yiliu asked casually again.

"Long live the squid, sweet potato porridge almost completely covers up the taste of sweet potatoes, and the dried radish is as bitter as moldy." Feng Bao did not dare to lie and answered truthfully based on his feelings.

"But the villagers of Huang Village usually eat this every day, what do you think you should do?"

"Long lively, if you get used to it, you can swallow it." Feng Bao couldn't figure out what Zhu Yili wanted to say for a while, so he could only reply like this.

“Is this because of habit?”

"Long live the Lord, is it because or because of poverty?"

"The companion finally got to the point." Zhu Yili smiled slightly and said, "Come on, eat first. If the companion doesn't eat two bowls, you have to eat at least one bowl, otherwise it will be difficult to explain later."

"..." Feng Bao was stunned when he heard this, knowing that Zhu Yili has always been elusive in his actions. It seems that the bowl of bran and sweet potato porridge in front of him must be eaten no matter what, otherwise he will not know what will happen in a while.

Fortunately, Zhu Yiliu took the lead. Seeing that he was eating with relish, his resistance in his heart weakened, and he could only swallow it in his stomach like taking poison.

In his eyes, only this plate of peanuts can be eaten, and the other words are: unpalatable.

Zhu Yiliu quickly finished a bowl of it.

Compared with Feng Bao, he is not picky about food and has a positive attitude. In addition, he has a miserable life in his previous life, so eating this crumbly sweet potato porridge is no problem.

After eating a bowl, Zhu Yiliu greeted Huang Xiaoyun again: "Come on, give me another bowl."

Huang Xiaoyun seemed a little embarrassed, "Your Majesty, just experience life. Just experience it. Don't eat your stomach badly, that grass people can't afford to take care of it."

"Don't you eat this every day? How can you get a bad stomach?"

"Your Majesty is a man of a thousand gold, and he is different from us."

"If you want to give me it, I'm not full yet. I finally came to the village for a meal. Could it be that I'm still hungry?"

Huang Xiaoyun hurriedly went to serve another bowl.

Feng Bao secretly complained that he was not good enough. He could eat one bowl and bite the bullet and eat it, but he had to eat two bowls... He felt disgusting and had a stomachache and couldn't go back later.

Huang Xiaoyun usually eats this, and the dish is so rich today, so he can eat four big bowls.

...

At this time, other villagers were at home.

Because these are the foods, they are naturally not welcomed by officials, eunuchs and guards.

Fortunately, I only had this meal, and I was done after dealing with it. If I thought about being happy, I would eat a few bites, but if I couldn’t eat it, I wouldn’t eat it. At most, I would have a meal. I would eat it when I went back.

So the situation of eating can be imagined, which made many villagers not know whether they should eat or not in front of these officials, eunuchs and guards.

For both parties, this meal was a torment and was not pleasant to eat.

...

After noon, lunch is over.

Feng Baojin followed Zhu Yili's order to summon everyone, including all the villagers of Huangcun.

Feng Bao only ate one bowl, but fortunately Zhu Yiliu did not force him to eat the second bowl.

But despite this, Feng Bao was anxious to go back and eat something else to dilute the stomach-inspiring taste in his mouth.

But he knew that the afternoon had just begun, and Zhu Yiliu would still move, and he would not just get back to the palace like this, otherwise wouldn't he eat the bowl of chaff and sweet potato porridge in vain?

Everyone arrived soon.

There are many people whispering, probably all about this meal.

"Everyone finished the meal?"

Zhu Yiliu spoke first and asked with a smile.

"I wonder what you like?"

After a silence, no one dared to answer first.

Zhu Yiliu then said slowly: "Everyone who came with me, who ate more than two bowls, stood on my left, and those who ate only one bowl stood on my right, and those who had not finished a bowl remained in place."

Suddenly, Zhu Yili's face darkened and his voice suddenly doubled: "If anyone dares to lie, I will dismiss you from the post and investigate, and if there are villagers who dare to help lie, I will expel you from the village."

Look, Master Long Sui was like this, and Feng Bao couldn't help but sigh inwardly, and then he consciously moved from Zhu Yiliu to the right and stood on the right.

"What's there to hesitate about? I don't know how much food I ate just now?"

Zhu Yili urged.

Shen Shixing and Wang Jiaping also walked to Zhu Yiliu's right, stood with Feng Bao, and at the same time gave Feng Bao a look, as if asking: What is Your Majesty doing?

Feng Bao shook his head and said that he didn't know either, and was only glad that he had just finished a bowl.

There were 1,189 people in the group, and only twenty-one ate two bowls of porridge. Eighteen of them probably understood Zhu Yili's intention, so they tried their best to eat it. The other three were palace guards, probably because they were extremely hungry, or because their master was too hospitable, so they were really embarrassed to refuse...

Among the eighteen officials, including Xu Xuemo, Minister of Rites.

Most of them eat only one bowl, but in fact, many of them, like Feng Bao, also eat with a bit of the bullet. They are embarrassed to not eat when they come to the host to eat. Besides, they also feel Zhu Yili's will, but it is really hard to swallow the second bowl.

Zhu Yili glanced at him and felt that there were about 600 people eating a bowl of porridge.

The rest of the things that didn't move in place were just a bowl of porridge that didn't finish or even a bite.

At this time, no one dared to lie.

Zhu Yiliu himself also belonged to Xu Xuemo's twenty-one people and ate two bowls.

Xu Xuemo and others instantly felt light on their faces.

Zhu Yili glanced at the person who was still there. Anyway, there were officials, eunuchs and guards, and he didn't talk nonsense and said bluntly:

"No matter what the reason, you don't need to explain to me. I will bring these people back to the palace later. You will stay in Huang Village to work, whether to chop wood or feed pigs, cattle and sheep, you will do whatever the villagers do."

"Remember that you are not allowed to eat supper. I know that the villagers of Huangcun were busy cleaning and not sleeping last night, so you are not allowed to sleep tonight, and do the same job as the villagers of Huangcun last night. You can taste the sweet potato porridge again tomorrow morning. I will ask you what you feel after looking back."

Hundreds of people were stunned, and some of them were thinking about going back to fill their stomachs as soon as possible.

"If anyone dares to be lazy or steal food, I will never let it go! Huang Xiaoyun—"

"Here." Huang Xiaoyun quickly agreed.

"As the village chief, did you hear what I said just now?" Zhu Yiliu was majestic.

"I heard it."

"Take them to work in the afternoon, and don't eat dinner for them. I will arrange the same work you did last night for them in the evening. If you dare to treat me perfunctorily to cater to these people, I will not peel you off."

"I dare not, I dare not."

"The same is true for everyone else. No matter who it is, he dares to disobey my will and punish him severely."

Only then did Feng Bao realize what Zhu Yili wanted, it was so dangerous! If he hadn't been having dinner with Zhu Yili's family today, he would have suffered a serious crime in the afternoon and evening.

"I don't want to say anything else. I'll give the village chief a salary." Zhu Yili raised his hand.

"Long live, what, what's the money for food?" Feng Bao didn't react for a moment.

"Is it okay to eat lunch here and bother others, so don't you give me some money?"

"Your Majesty, no, no..." Huang Xiaoyun waved his hands repeatedly, "You are eating here to gild the faces of the Huang Village villagers."

"Long live, how much do you give?"

"Give it a hundred taels." Zhu Yiliu said openly.

"I can't do it, my Majesty." Huang Xiaoyun said again, "I originally wanted to kill pigs and sheep to entertain you, but my Majesty did not allow it."

"Don't pigs, cattle and sheep be kept for sale? Otherwise, how can I pay back 10,000 taels of silver next year? Besides, are you willing to eat it yourself?"

"But your Majesty, this meal today is not worth a hundred taels of silver!"

"No need to say more, just like that." Zhu Yiliu waved his hand, "I just gave you red envelopes during the New Year. I will go back to the palace with my companion."

"Go back to the palace—"

Feng Bao shouted with great enthusiasm, feeling that eating a bowl of porridge would still work, otherwise he would be like those hundreds of people, one by one, like castrated quails... Who said eating is not a state of mind?

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Chapter completed!