Zhao Wang had originally slept in the cat bed in the side hall. Not only was there a soft cushion in the cat bed, there was also a mattress and a bedsheet. The yellow and white Furball was deeply embedded in the soft mattress, and there was even a small blanket covering its body.
His Royal Highness King Zhao opened his eyes in a daze and couldn't react to the situation in front of him. He felt a chill under his body, and then the cat and the quilt were lifted up. He was immediately awakened. He looked up and saw the Empress Dowager's smiling eyes. "Good boy, Empress Dowager, carry me. Go back to sleep."
The little fat cat blinked his eyes. His sleepy head couldn't figure out why Empress Dowager brought him here so early in the morning. He simply didn't think about it and closed his eyes to go back to sleep.
The Empress Dowager put the little fat cat on her lap and uncovered the small quilt. His Royal Highness King Zhao, who was about to fall asleep again, couldn't help but shrink his body.
Aunt Lin hurriedly handed over a velvet blanket. The white velvet blanket was covered with black paw prints and was very warm to the touch. The Empress Dowager wrapped her legs with the blanket and also covered the little fat cat on her lap, leaving only his furry head outside.
"Concubine Xian is not feeling well today. His Majesty asked this old servant to come and ask for leave." Wang Gonggong saw that the Empress Dowager was done and said softly.
"Forget it, forget it. Let him remember to come tomorrow." The Empress Dowager waved her hand and then withdrew her hand into the velvet blanket and rubbed the warm little fat cat.
The Empress Dowager didn't need to use incense. She only had a faint honey locust fragrance. His Royal Highness King Zhao felt very comfortable smelling his mother's scent. He turned over and hugged that hand.
"Ah, my Hong Qiang is about to grow up. When he gets married, he won't let Empress Dowager hold him." The Empress Dowager touched her son's warm belly and suddenly felt melancholy.
Aunt Lin came over with snacks and said with a smile, "His Highness still has two years before he turns twenty. Moreover, he may have a little prince in a few days."
The Empress Dowager is combing the hair on the fat cat's head with the other hand. Hearing Aunt Lin's words, she remembers something, "Is Li Wang's family going to have a third son soon?"
"Counting the days, it's almost time." Aunt Lin picked up a booklet and flipped through it. "The pulse was taken in the first lunar month. Perhaps it has already landed."
Prince Li was ranked second among the princes. He was the biological son of the 5th Prince, Prince Zhong. Because he had the right of inheritance, he grew up by the Empress Dowager's side. Now he was guarding the South Sea. The Southern Sea was located in a remote area. One had to travel by land to deliver the letter. It took a long time to travel across mountains and rivers, so the news came later.
The Empress Dowager nodded slightly and flipped through the account book in boredom. It was almost the 10th of October. Every year at this time, he would feel a headache.
During the Full Feast Festival, some of the Princes guarding the border would bring their families to the capital. The Princes of the Imperial Family would go to the Anguo Tower to worship the Heavens. These families and the concubines in the Palace would attend the Palace Banquet. Last year, the Palace Banquet was managed by the Imperial Consort Lu. Although it wasn't very outstanding, it was decent and no major mistakes were made. Now that the Imperial Consort Lu was demoted from the Palace, these things fell on the Empress Dowager's head.
"At the Palace Banquet, except for Su Yu, there are only women. There's no need for singing and dancing." The Empress Dowager raised her hand and crossed out singing and dancing.
"If there's no singing and dancing, they'll keep gossiping. The Empress Dowager doesn't have the patience to deal with them." Aunt Lin hurriedly stopped her. "It's better to invite a troupe to perform."
His Royal Highness King Zhao was hungry from sleeping. He was lazy and didn't want to move, so he held his Empress Dowager's finger and gnawed on it. Unfortunately, he lost a tooth. The Empress Dowager's slender finger was stuck in her teeth and couldn't bite it.
"Hungry?" The Empress Dowager lowered her head to look at him. Seeing the chubby kitten gnawing on her finger with difficulty, she couldn't help but laugh. "Why did you lose your tooth so quickly?" She ordered Aunt Lin to bring a bowl of fish soup. The Empress Dowager raised the little furball and looked at it. His Royal Highness King Zhao yawned, revealing his chipped teeth.
The Empress Dowager's eyes curved with a smile. She raised her hand and closed the account book. She decided to wait for Su Yu to come tomorrow and look at it. Today, she would make a big mouse toy for her son.
Thus, the Palace Banquet was temporarily put aside and waited for Her Highness Su to come tomorrow to deal with it.
The busy Her Highness Su still couldn't get up from the Dragon Bed. Her waist was really sore, so she could only lie on the bed and let the sauce trample on her.
His Majesty the Emperor turned into a golden kitten and jumped around Su Yu's waist. However, his jumping ability was too strong. His narrow waist wasn't big enough for him to jump, so he always jumped over the edge and fell onto the bed. Thus, the Emperor, who was stepping on Su Yu's back, decided to run from his beautiful waist to the top of Su Yu's head. He excitedly messed up the hair on the back of Su Yu's head, then ran back to the soft and round place and used his claws to hook Su Yu's underwear.
Su Yu turned around to look at the cat, who was still happily playing by himself. He helplessly buried his face in the pillow and let him do as he pleased. He really couldn't understand the Emperor's physical strength. They were clearly doing this together, so why was he as tired as a dead dog? How could this uncle still do a 100-meter sprint on him?
When His Majesty the Emperor finally had enough, Su Yu's hair had turned into a chicken's nest. His expensive brocade underwear was also full of threads. However, the soreness in his waist had eased a lot.
Su Yu scratched his messy head, "It's actually a little useful."
The golden kitten sat on Su Yu's waist and slowly licked its claws. Nonsense, how could it be useless when I transferred my internal strength to my four legs for you to step on?
His Majesty the Emperor turned back into his human form and lay down beside Su Yu. He stretched his body and kicked Su Yu's calf with the tip of his foot, "Go and cook when your waist isn't sore."
When Su Yu heard this, he immediately fell back onto the pillow. He quietly rubbed his nose against the Emperor's light yellow soft clothes on his shoulder, "It's sore again."
"Don't get your snot on my fur." The Emperor disdainfully pushed Su Yu's head away with a finger.
The sun rose high in the sky. From now on, the Emperor didn't attend morning court. The two of them spent the entire morning doing nothing on the dragon bed. They missed morning court and breakfast …
The East China Sea sent a large number of mackerel and Ying Fish. It was said that Prince Jing had figured out a way to catch Ying Fish. He caught one every time and almost all the Ying Fish in the East China Sea were killed by him. However, sometimes it wasn't a good thing to be too capable.
The National Tutor looked at the rows of cages in the main hall of the Anguo Tower. His beautiful eyes were filled with coldness.
"Ga ga ga ga …" One Ying Fish was already very noisy. A group of Ying Fish was about to tear off the roof of the Anguo Tower! The sacred and tranquil Holy Tower suddenly became a cafeteria.
"Shut up!" The National Tutor stood in the middle of the main hall. His cold voice instantly spread throughout the hall. It wasn't loud, but it exploded in everyone's ears like thunder, causing their hearts to tremble.
"Ga!" The noise of the Ying Fish stopped abruptly. They instinctively felt danger and didn't dare to make another sound.
"Don't let me hear a single sound." The National Tutor indifferently glanced at the guards in the main hall. Previously, Su Yu could take away one Ying Fish. Now that there were so many Ying Fish, he could only leave them in the Anguo Tower.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The leader of the guards, Prince Lu, immediately knelt down and accepted the order.
Therefore, after Su Yu ate lunch with the Emperor and took an afternoon nap, he came to kill the Ying Fish without feeling any pain in his back and legs. He saw Prince Lu holding a wooden stick and patrolling the main hall with a group of guards. Once he saw a fish that showed signs of making noise, he would hit it with the stick and knock it out.
The Ying Fish cages were lined up in a row. The two groups of guards walked to the left and right of the cages facing each other. At this time, they had reached the end of the cages. The Ying Fish in the middle of the cages flapped its wings. It seemed like it was about to say something, but it was too late to run over. Prince Lu used his Qing Gong and flew forward. The wooden stick in his hand flew out in the air and hit the fish's head with a "dong" sound. The Ying Fish fell down and the wooden stick bounced back.
Prince Lu caught the wooden stick in the air and landed on the ground. He slowly walked back to the front of the group. When he saw Su Yu, he took the lead and silently saluted him. Then, he continued to lead the guards to patrol with a solemn expression.
The corners of Su Yu's mouth twitched. He looked at the large number of mackerel in the water tank from afar. The mackerel were fierce. He didn't dare to get close to them in case he was bitten on the nose. But today, the mackerel seemed to be more obedient. He didn't see any of them jump out of the water. They all sank to the bottom of the water.
When they reached the second floor, the National Tutor held the list of sea monsters sent by Prince Jing. With a serious expression, he said to Su Yu, "It will be the tenth of October soon. These fish will all be made into sacrifices."
"All of them?" Su Yu blinked. The only sacrifice he had seen so far was the small dried fish in the first room on the fourth floor. Could it be that these strange fish were also going to be made into dried fish? These two kinds of fish tasted better when they were fresh. The mackerel meat was greasy and the Ying Fish meat was hard. Neither of them were suitable to be made into dried fish.
The National Tutor didn't say much. He took Su Yu to the fourth floor and slowly pushed open the second stone door.
The second stone room wasn't as packed as the first one. On the floor of the room, which was made of black stone, there were all kinds of strange … dried fish.
Mackerel, Ying Fish, Wen Yao, Luo Zhi Fish …
There were only one or two of each kind of fish. This stone room was more like a museum. The strange fish in the "Illustrated Handbook of Mountains and Rivers" were all turned into real objects. Su Yu was dazzled. He tried to match these strange specimens with the pictures in the book. He also tried to think of ways to eat them.
"In the past, only one or two of these fish would appear occasionally. They were caught as sacrifices to the heavens to ensure the world's peace." The National Tutor's gaze stopped on the Luo Zhi Fish.
Su Yu walked around the room and looked at the melancholy National Tutor. He had a rough understanding of the so-called catastrophe. In the past, the strange fish would appear one by one. Now, they were coming in baskets. Unfortunately, these fish would cause disasters. If they were used as sacrifices to the heavens, even the gods in the heavens wouldn't be able to finish eating so many fish at once. This was the problem. "What should we do now?"
"Kill those fish as soon as possible." The National Tutor looked at Su Yu coldly.
Su Yu scratched his head. To the National Tutor, those fish were a disaster. However, in the eyes of a chef, those fish were precious ingredients. It was a waste to make salted fish in such a simple and crude way. He thought for a moment and said, "Can we not make dried fish? Make something else?"
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