63. Pearl and Jade Golden Soup Warming Copper Stove

Lou Yefeng was using his lightness kung fu, which was not very good, and shuttled under the eaves of the palace like a black eagle.

What Lou Yefeng didn't tell He Qi just now was that he knew every shadow guard in the palace well, so it was easy to avoid these shadow guards and enter the imperial dining room.

As for those imperial guards standing in front of the door openly... In Lou Yefeng's eyes, these people are no different from blind people.

These defensive points were naturally obtained by him through some unreasonable means before, and he even knew 80% of what Li Han knew.As for the purpose, of course it is not very legitimate.

He walked unimpeded all the way and came to the imperial dining room.The person in charge here is still Fang Heng.He threw out the token directly:

"The master said that there is a dish that needs to be temporarily changed, so he sent me here."

When Fang Heng saw the token this time, he naturally didn't stop him.After Lou Yefeng entered the noisy courtyard of the Imperial Dining Room, he quickly disappeared again and came to the side courtyard.

Dozens of people stood scattered in this courtyard, all of them were the royal servants who were about to enter the main hall. In front of them stood a chief eunuch, who seemed to be telling them something.

Lou Yefeng hid behind the eaves and observed for a while, mainly observing the shadow guards nearby.

Four dots.

The four shadow guards must be allowed to leave here at the same time at some point.

Lou Yefeng quickly simulated the terrain in his mind, and pulled up the black face scarf - he himself was also dressed in black, not different from these shadow guards, but it provided some convenience.

Then he ran along the beam to the first shadow guard, and made three consecutive signal gestures:

"Move south", "Gather the same team members", "Suspected situation, step up patrols"

The shadow guards in front of him couldn't recognize his face, they only thought he was a member of the same group who had received the order, and only His Majesty's shadow guards knew the gesture signal, so there was no doubt, and they joined the second shadow guard outside the courtyard.

And after the confluence, the command gestures were repeated in the same way

At the same time, Lou Yefeng passed the order to No. 3 and No. 4 shadow guards in the same way.

After the four shadow guards gathered, they all thought that the gestures they received were from the same group, so they lined up and went to the south courtyard one by one, and started patrolling attentively.

Lou Yefeng looked at the four paralyzed shadow guards who had not communicated with each other in the distance, and secretly laughed at Li Han in his heart - idiot.

Sometimes, if the rules are too rigid, something will definitely happen.

After the shadow guard left, Lou Yefeng, wearing the shadow guard's clothes, gestured to the chief eunuch under the eaves.The chief eunuch was not surprised, knowing that some secret orders were delivered by the shadow guard, so he only regarded him as His Majesty's shadow guard.

Therefore, he stopped looking at these little attendants, casually walked out of the yard, followed the black shadow for a while, and stopped after a corner.

Lou Yefeng showed up at the right time, with a cold face, imitating those paralyzed shadow guards:

"Routine spot check!"

Then he couldn't help but knelt the chief eunuch on the ground, and took off his robe neatly.The manager dared not speak out. This group of shadow guards often checked whether there were any prohibited items.

Lou Yefeng groped around in his clothes for a few times, then seemed to be surprised, he paused, took out a package, and said in a cold voice:

"Is this marijuana?"

The manager was dumbfounded, everyone knew that His Majesty hated this thing the most, and made repeated orders not to allow any of this thing to appear.If this thing is found on him, I'm afraid he will lose his head.

He didn't suspect at all that it was the "Shadow Guard" who planted the frame. He only said that his colleagues sneaked in and reported it to the Shadow Guard.So he frantically kowtowed only to cry for innocence, Lou Yefeng thought for a moment, and said:

"I'll show it to the team leader, please don't move around here."

Seeing that there was still room, the chief manager thanked him again and again, how could he dare to take half a step away.

Lou Yefeng was carrying his clothes, and as soon as he turned around the wall, he put the clothes on himself, changed his hairstyle again, took out the disguise tool from his pocket, and took a moment to change himself into the appearance of the manager.

Then he swaggered back to the yard again, squeezed his throat, pretended to be an eunuch and said to everyone:

"Our family just received a message from above, there are a few people in this year's banquet that you should pay special attention to—"

Then pointed to the first person:

"You, come with me."

Those royal servants were nothing but slaves in the palace, they dared to disobey the slightest, and followed them out.

Lou Yefeng squinted at him:

"You, which adult will you be serving later?"

"Return to the manager, it's Master Qin Taifu."

"Just remember, Taifu Qin is not suitable for eating spicy food."

"Yes, little one understands."

"Go ahead and call the next one over."

……………

"...Go back to the manager, the younger one will serve Lord Tian Shangshu."

"Remember, Tian Shangshu likes to drink more soup."

"yes."

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In fact, all of these were of course Lou Yefeng's nonsense.until

"Return to the manager, the younger one is serving His Royal Highness King Yu..."

Without further ado, Lou Yefeng turned his palm into a knife, struck him on the back of his head and knocked him unconscious, then stripped him naked and threw him into a bush beside him.

None of these servants knew martial arts, and he dealt with them as easy as blowing off dust.

It was enough for him to only wear his outer robe, and taking away all the clothes was just to prevent him from daring to come out if he woke up.

After hiding the attendant's clothes nearby, Lou Yefeng took off the manager's clothes again, went back to find the manager, returned the paper bag and clothes to him, and looked at him with a strange look:

"What did you steal crushed prickly ash leaves from the imperial dining room?"

The manager hurriedly took it over and opened the paper bag, and took a closer look, but was suffocated by a strong smell of prickly ash.

"..."

No, is this shadow guard so stupid that he can't tell the difference between pepper leaves and marijuana leaves?

At this moment, the general manager doesn't have the time to think about who planted it, he only said that he had saved his life, and he didn't even mention Dao Yingming.

"This thing has a strong smell and is unsightly, so let's deal with it soon."

"Yes, yes, the slave will go now."

The manager hurriedly put on his clothes and threw the pepper leaves, while Lou Yefeng naturally disguised himself as that waiter leisurely and mixed into the team.

After a while, the manager came back, and seeing that it was time, he led them in line.

As for the four shadow guards, they were still circling around in the courtyard to the south without noticing...

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Here, although Pei Niancheng ate openly above the main hall, he was relying on his high throne, and the officials could not see him with their heads down.

It's just that he didn't dare to make too much noise. After all, it would be bad if the officials found out and made a fool of himself at the Winter Solstice Banquet, so he could only hide the dim sum behind the complicated crown, and eat it bit by bit.Gnawing secretly, like a little hamster stealing food.

Fang ate half of the snack, but it was no bigger than the size of a palm. Eunuch Wu and the others finally finished reading.After hearing the closing sentence, Pei Niancheng hurriedly wrapped up the paper and was about to stuff it into his sleeve.

However, in fact, Pei Niancheng's auspicious clothes had no pockets in the sleeves (Pei Nianyu's auspicious clothes had been specially modified by him...), so he stuffed them in and was stunned.

At this moment, a black shadow came down from the roof, but it was Li Han who calmly put the snack bag in the master's hand and got out of the siege in time.Then, with the sound of Wu Bing singing "Ping Shen", he rushed back to the beam before all the officials raised their heads.

Everyone: ... What black thing flew up from the top of my head?

Pei Niancheng sat upright with a solemn expression.Relying on the fact that no one dared to look directly at Tianyan, and the twelve corners in front of him blocked it firmly, he pretended that the crumbs of snacks at the corner of his mouth did not exist, and then began to make a concluding speech.

In the end, in the anticipation of everyone, Zhonghe Shaoyue played again, and finally began to eat.

Everyone was seated separately.The banquet tables in the main hall are divided into east and west sides, and there are two rows of banquet tables on each side.

Pei Nianyu's first seat on the east side was also the closest to Pei Niancheng's imperial dining table.His next head is Qin Taifu, followed by a group of royal children.Pei Nianyu was facing him, with Li Zongbing at the head, and the commanders of the five armies and so on.

Following the order, the servants of the imperial dining room who had been waiting outside the door for a long time entered the hall in a neat line, and then stood at the side of each banquet table in the hall.

These ceremonial servants were responsible for serving, serving, and serving meals to the first-rank officials and princes in the palace. After all, each person had 180 dishes, and it would definitely not be enough for them to reach them by themselves, and their actions would be unseemly.

As for the ones below the first rank outside the hall... Anyway, the dishes are not complete, and there are not many dishes, so go eat by yourself.

Pei Nianyu didn't pay much attention to it at first, this is one of the procedures of every banquet.Because people who were not allowed to bring themselves into the palace were always taken care of by the attendants of the imperial dining room, so he didn't think much about it when he saw the long queue.

Pei Nianyu didn't realize that something was wrong until the valet beside him stood still with his hands slightly down and stuffed him with a note.

The person behind him... the breath feels so familiar...

But of course Pei Nianyu didn't raise his head rashly, but put his hand under the banquet table and unfolded the note:

"Master, it's me."

Very familiar handwriting.

And Pei Nianyu knew that this was not imitated by others. After all, no one is more proficient in calligraphy than him. He forged the imperial decree that made Pei Niancheng succeed to the throne...

Pei Nianyu whispered to the side:

"Why do you suddenly want to come in? If this is caught by Li Han's men..."

Based on the habits of Lou Yefeng and Pei Nianyu for many years, the two of them would never hide anything from each other, especially when it comes to safety issues.

But today is different.Lou Yefeng was afraid that if he truthfully said "I thought something might happen, so I came to protect the master", it would make the master worry all the time.If there are some small tricks, but in turn make the master worry about him to protect him, it will really backfire.

So Lou Yefeng had no choice but to make up words:

"I... my subordinates miss the master, and I am afraid that these palace servants will not serve you well. How do they know what dishes the master likes to eat..."

Pei Nianyu immediately said "Ouch" in a serious manner, and joked:

"Professor Lou's scope of duties is really wide, and he also cares about whether the master can eat the dishes he likes?"

"..."

Lou Yefeng's face was reddish, and he suddenly felt as if he was being stoned, so he simply shut up and didn't speak.

Pei Nianyu picked up the teacup, covered his face with his sleeve, and at the same time glanced back quietly——

Then almost spit out the tea.

Lou Yefeng didn't change his face at all!

How did he get in here?

Lou Yefeng seemed to have seen the master's question, lowered his head and did not look sideways, and whispered beside him:

"Master, don't panic. Before coming in, it was disguised. I was withdrawn on the way into the hall."

Pei Nianyu nodded slightly to show that he heard it, but he was still a little puzzled. This... why is it so unnecessary to deliberately remove the disguise?

Lou Yefeng secretly smiled and said softly:

"Just tease Li Han."

Pei Nianyu: "..."

Why didn't I know you were so wicked before!

Sure enough, Li Han, who was staring at the main hall intently on the beam, had already exploded with rage the moment he saw Lou Yefeng.

He didn't think that Lou Yefeng came here to protect his master, because he lost his internal strength, so he wanted to protect a wool.Second, when Pei Nianyu attended banquets before, he always used the court attendants in the palace, and he never saw Lou Yefeng come in.So this year...

Li Han looked at the two people who were finding ways to secretly bite their ears, and the picture entered his mind and automatically turned into four characters:

flirting!

Lou Yefeng really didn't look like a normal shadow guard, but he was so hungry after being away from his master for a few hours, he insisted on staying by his side!

In fact, these are not important, what is important is that Lou Yefeng sneaked in without anyone noticing, and none of his shadow guards found out, where does this make Li Han lose face?

Moreover, he deliberately took off his disguise, isn't he secretly satirizing that Lin Han's shadow guard is not good enough?

He stared at Lou Yefeng for a long while with gloomy eyes, and finally with great difficulty put his unfriendly eyes back, and continued to patrol the hall.

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After the imperial servants were in place, finally hundreds of palace people brought in the first course like flowing water.

In the original palace banquets of the Dajing Dynasty, there were just a large amount of meat stewed in various cauldrons, and the meat forest in the wine pool looked extremely magnificent.

But at this moment, when the first dish was served, all the ministers who were talking with each other fell silent.

Without him, it's because the pots these palace people are carrying are really too small.

The palace people took the porcelain bowls from the pot, which were only the size of a handful, and put them on their respective banquet tables.

The ritual officer at the side read mechanically:

"Enter—Golden Phoenix Pearl Jade Soup!"

Following the announcement of the name of the dish, all the officials were stunned again.

In the past, just reported xx for a pot. When did this kind of dish name exist?

The palace people behind all stretched out their hands and picked up the cover——

The bottom of the bowl was covered with a layer of oval-shaped quail eggs, and golden tofu made into a simple bird shape was floating on the soup, forming a ring.In the middle, a handful of white irregular dough lumps piled up, like a small island, from which heat evaporated.

Before the ministers could express their admiration for such an exquisite and meticulous dish, they could already smell the faint fragrance of mountain treasures in the clear soup.The golden tofu was still shaking gently in the soup just after the porcelain bowl fell, looking extremely soft and attractive.

The aroma of this light and layered soup is really attractive, and it goes straight into their noses.Their stomachs, which had been hungry for a long time, started to move quickly, and they grunted quietly under the thick court clothes almost at the same time.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, didn't say much, the many guesses in their hearts would never be brought up, they just waited for His Majesty to start, so they could taste it quickly.

But at this time, Qin Taifu did not move the bowl and chopsticks, but looked at his own bowl, muttering to himself with a sad face:

"Although the name of this Jinfeng Baiyu Soup sounds grand, the ingredients are nothing more than tofu balls and noodles. Such a dish can be served on the banquet table in the palace. How can it bear the face of my Dajing side... Your MajestyDoing things often violates the ancestral system, which is inappropriate."

Pei Nianyu naturally heard it from the side, and just smiled, not caring at all.

This Qin Taifu is a veteran of the two dynasties, and everything else is easy to say, the only problem is that he is too rigid.It was like this back then - whoever is orthodox will be turned towards whomever, the former prince gave a lot of advice before he was abolished, and later when Pei Nianyu became the prince, he still treats everyone equally.

Later, when Pei Niancheng became the emperor, the Grand Tutor of Qin actually tried his best to make suggestions. With such a style, he still lived in the imperial court for many years, which is also very miraculous.From time to time, he complained about Pei Niansheng's various reform measures.

And now...

Pei Niancheng is not as good-tempered as his brother, not to mention that his brother worked so hard to design these banquet dishes for him today, how can he bear to hear this?

So Pei Niancheng suddenly said:

"What Qin Taifu said is really reasonable. How about it, since Qin Taifu thinks it's insulting to your face, then Qin Taifu can naturally not eat these dishes that you think are insulting to your face."

Pei Niancheng also used some internal strength, and the voice was not too loud, just enough for everyone in the hall to hear.

Well now, it was originally something Mr. Qin muttered to himself, and the whole hall that was spread by Pei Niancheng's words knew about it.

So the rest of the officials, whether they were from the same camp or the enemy camp, all turned their heads to look at him in unison.

Qin Taifu was dumbfounded immediately.

"Sir... Your servant..."

He just complained a few words inadvertently, what does it mean that he dislikes this soup and doesn't want to drink it?

Your Majesty cheated me!!

He looked at the onlookers' eyes of the surrounding officials, and then at the soft and fragrant golden tofu in the soup——

Qin Taifu decided to be thick-skinned once, and ignored the surrounding eyes as if he couldn't see it, and took a spoonful of soup with a spoon and put it into his mouth.

Pei Nianyu looked away satisfied when he saw the food value in the system starting to be credited.

The author has something to say:

Pei Nianyu: old building, why do you always bully Li Han?

Lou Yefeng: Master, you don't understand, that's the joy of my life...