The next morning, just after morning, before Zhu Yunxi returned to Qianqing Palace, he was stopped by Pu Bucheng, saying that the old man asked him to go to Yong'an Palace to eat dumplings.
Zhu Yunxi was really tired of eating dumplings in the early morning. He loved eating dumplings with vegetarian fillings, but the old man liked all kinds of meat. But when the old man asked, he had to go and asked the bastard to pay attention to the urgent memorial in Qianqing Palace. If If there is any important matter, send it directly to Yong'an Palace.
As soon as I stepped into the old man's palace, I heard a cheerful and lively voice coming from inside.
"Three kilograms of mutton, half a kilogram of green onions, all meatballs. Knowing that you always like to eat soup with soup in it, I added extra broth. You don't have to choose whether it is salty or not. My daughter will make it for you just like when my mother-in-law was here. Yes, you can’t go wrong!”
Who is this voice?
Zhu Yunxi couldn't remember it for a while. It was just because the old man had too many daughters. Except for Zhu Yunxi, who was the direct daughter of Empress Ma, he never paid attention to it.
"You haven't come to the palace to see your father for eight hundred years. How can you still know what our tastes are like? Humph, the truth is thrown away by a married daughter. You have your own man and your own son. How can you still have us in your heart?"
It was the old man's voice, with a unique chirping sound.
"What are you saying that hurts your daughter's heart? In which year did I not make you new clothes during the holidays, and in which year did I not give you food?"
"Ah, we have raised you so big, chosen a son-in-law for you, built you a big house and made you a princess, just for you to come during the holidays?" The old man's voice was filled with anger, "How old are we? Ah? This What do you expect at this old age? If you don’t come here, you don’t even know that someone in the palace is treating me badly. Who can I tell if I have a grievance?”
The old man is having a fight with his daughter. That's what happens when people get old. They always complain about grievances and tell lies.
Zhu Yunxi stepped in. The old man was eating dumplings at the table, accompanied by a woman. When the woman saw Zhu Yunxi, she stood up quickly and bowed to salute.
"I've met the emperor!"
"Oh, the eleventh daughter is here!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, it was none other than the old man's eleventh daughter, Princess Nankang.
"You are his aunt, why should you salute him?" the old man said with a sidelong glance.
"He is the emperor!" Princess Nankang said with a smile, "The etiquette cannot be short!"
"Bah!" the old man scolded, "What's wrong with the emperor? This is our palace. We only have aunts and nephews, not an emperor or a princess." After saying that, he looked at Nankang and hummed, "You are our princess!"
With a smile on her face, Princess Nankang gave way to Zhu Yunxi with a smile, "Your Majesty, hurry up and try the dumplings I made, stuffed with mutton and green onions."
"Aunt Eleven is so free to go to the palace to see the emperor today?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile and sat down next to the old man.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he sat down, the old man silently pulled the only two plates of dumplings on the table in front of him.
Zhu Yunxi held the chopsticks and put them down, neither picking them up nor picking them up.
"Father, is there anything cooking in the small kitchen?" Princess Nankang said with a smile, "How old are you, why are you still fighting against the emperor?"
"Who did you wrap it for?" the old man said angrily, "You said it was for us, why did you ask him to come? Are you here to see us or to see him?"
Princess Nankang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Father, you are being unreasonable. The Emperor was not called here by his daughter!"
"Hmph!" The old man rolled his eyes at him, dipped the dumplings in garlic sauce and threw them into his mouth, "All the cooks in the palace should be killed. How long has it been since we had such good dumplings?" He said, casting a glance at Zhu Yunxi, " Hey, any kiss a generation apart is all fake, who remembers us? Or our daughter knows our taste. Look at these dumplings, they are salty and just right. The meat is made from lamb belly with fat, soft, fragrant and chewy. .This is intentional, unlike some people who think we are old and let the evil cook in the palace fool us!"
Zhu Yunxi held the chopsticks and did not dare to move.
"Don't choose!" Princess Nankang said with a smile, "If you like to eat, my daughter will give you a bag every day. I'm afraid you will get tired of eating in a few days and see your daughter too much!"
"Look, you still don't want to come!" the old man snorted.
At this time, two other plates of freshly made dumplings were served steaming hot to the table.
The old man immediately pushed the leftover food in front of him to Zhu Yunxi, "We like eating hot food, here's it for you."
Zhu Yunxi was speechless and smiled silently.
"Old kid!" Princess Nankang laughed.
"We're not old fools yet!" The old man rolled his eyes at her again, "Tell me, why do you want to go to the palace? If you don't tell me in front of me, your emperor is here, so it's time for you to tell me!"
Princess Nankang smiled and bowed again, "I just want to thank the emperor. Yesterday, an imperial edict came to my daughter's house, which promoted the prince-in-law to an official position."
The old man stopped his chopsticks and looked over in surprise.
"My grandson saw that Hu Guanren was quite practical, so he was promoted to the commander of the capital guards and the minister of Guanglu Temple!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "You are already quite old and you are still hanging around in the guards. You still have no face.
Isn’t it light?”
The old man thought about it and said in a low voice, "That boy is not made to be an official! Stupid!"
Princess Nankang put some vinegar in the old man's plate and said with a smile, "You knew he was stupid, why did you give him your daughter in the first place?" She said with a deliberate sigh, "Hey, my daughter was always ranked high or low in the palace when she was a child.
, my parents are not very close, and I am not very favored by you, so choose a consort, you are still stupid!"
"Looking for a fight!" The old man glanced at her and pointed his chopsticks and said, "What are you talking about? Are you saying we are partial? At the age you are marrying, what kind of good family is there in the court? Let's look left and right and just look around.
The boy is like a human being. He doesn't gamble, spends money, is dissatisfied physically and mentally. His family is simple and has only a few brothers. Although he is stupid, he is not a dandy at heart, and he is able to live a good life. Have you not been happy these past few years? Oh, I want to find something.
You are a prince-in-law from a wealthy family, how can you stand the idleness in a big house?"
As he said that, he looked at Zhu Yunxi and said, "Look, we have had children all our lives, and we will complain when we get old!"
"My daughter didn't blame you!" Princess Nankang immediately laughed and said, "Isn't this the end of the story? Why are you still angry with your daughter?" After saying that, she sat down next to the old man and said with a smile, "My daughter knows what's in your heart.
She loves me all the time, even if she doesn't say it! My daughter is also grateful in her heart! Although her life is ordinary, the best thing is that she is down-to-earth. The prince-in-law does not have a title, but he deserves a little bit of the farm salary. My daughter knows that this is all
Your grace!”
"Haha!" The old man immediately had a smile on his face, "It's good to know!"
After saying that, he looked at Zhu Yunxi again, "You haven't seen our eldest grandson yet, have you? He's so tiger-headed that it hurts!" Then he smiled at Princess Nankang and said, "Hurry up and pick him up again and show him."
After the words fell, an infant child was brought to Zhu Yunxi.
"That's it, he is my cousin!"
Zhu Yunxi smiled bitterly in his heart, his seniority is low!
Then he took off the gold-embroidered purse from his waist and handed it over, "A meeting gift for him? What is this child's name?"
Princess Nankang held the purse and was full of joy, "Nonsense!"
Before Zhu Yunxi could speak, the old man frowned and said, "What a bad name? Who gave it to me? Our grandson is called Hu Luan?"
"The Analects of Confucius!" Princess Nankang corrected, "This is the ranking on the family tree!"
"Family tree? Where does the family tree of the beggar from the old Hu family come from?" The old man said dissatisfied, "I don't even know where the ancestral graves are, so how can I get the family tree?"
As he said that, he looked at the infant child, then at his daughter, and cursed, "You're taking advantage of that little beast!"