Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 196
On New Year's Eve, a banquet was held in the palace.

Early in the morning, Chen Quan led his wives, two princes and one princess, set up offerings to worship the ancestors, offered incense to the Buddha, and prayed for the blessings of the gods...

At noon, the palace began to hold a banquet.

Although it's a luncheon, it's late time when the banquet actually starts, and it's approaching Shen Shi.

On this day, in addition to concubines, princes, princesses, and royal relatives, such as princes and county kings, those who can participate in the banquet.Then there are the courtiers and family members specially allowed by the emperor.

Chen Quan missed the old days. In the years before he took the throne, he spent the new year with his sworn brothers.

Now that I am on Dabao, I will not forget the brotherhood at the beginning.

People like the Tang family and the Song family naturally have a place in the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, and they are just below the empress.

In order to win over the ministers, Chen Quan wanted to invite those capable ministers and virtuous officials to a banquet, so as to connect the feelings between them.You know, it is a supreme honor to be invited by the emperor to attend the New Year's Eve banquet in the palace, and only those who have weight in His Majesty's heart can have this honor.

To be able to have dinner with His Majesty, chatting and chatting about the daily life, that would be great.

It would be enough for him to boast for a lifetime at least if he was replaced by someone with a slightly worse background.

Chen Quan played this hand very beautifully, and many courtiers who received the palace banquet were so grateful that they wished they could do their best and die.

It is said that it is a palace banquet, and the cold dishes, hot dishes, melon and fruit snacks are nothing more than the same.And because of the large number of people and complicated affairs, by the time these hot dishes and cold dishes arrived at the banquet, most of them had already cooled down.

It's still edible, but no one loses their identity by feasting on the palace banquet.

Everyone is nothing more than holding drinks reservedly, whispering a few words with the people around them, and occasionally eating some small dishes or snacks.After the banquet, the table was basically full.

Chen Quan was born in the countryside, so naturally he didn't have these rules.

What he wanted for the banquet was for everyone to eat, drink, and have fun, so that he could show that his generation of emperors was different.

During the singing and dancing banquet, Song Yunfei led several young generals to light a fire and roast the whole sheep in front of the Jiying Hall, and even the third prince stepped forward and rolled up his sleeves to help.When each roasted whole lamb was sliced, the third prince personally sliced ​​a plate of the best roasted lamb for the emperor and empress and sent them to the table.

For the latter, Song Yunfei and a few teenagers will take the slices and divide them up one by one. If anyone wants to do it himself, he can eat as much slices as he wants.

This time the palace banquet, everyone actually enjoyed the excitement that was rarely seen in previous banquets.

Song Yunfei was not favored by the Song family, and his character was a little out of character, but he was very much loved by the present sage.

After roasting the remaining bones of the mutton slices, Song Yunfei continued to grill. This method was taught by Lu Yange.

Hearing that he was going to roast the whole sheep at the palace banquet, Lu Yange taught him how to roast the remaining sheep bones with cumin.

Unexpectedly, the head of the family actually liked the cumin-flavored lamb bones very much.

Although Chen Quan is the emperor, he still carries the custom of being born recklessly.For example, eating mutton, drinking mutton soup, and gnawing mutton bones in front of the ministers.

A pair of big hands were washed and gnawed on the sheep bones. Even the concubine Zhou Guifei frowned, but Chen Quan didn't care.

After Empress Shen picked up the mutton soup and tasted it carefully, the third prince who sat down even drank half a plate of mutton and a bowl of mutton soup. Even if the people below were reserved, they still wanted to eat a few more dishes from the womb .

"How about it, the lamb roasted by Yunfei is not bad."

Chen Quan gnawed on the sheep bones, cleaned his hands and face, and bared his teeth at the people below, "The roasted sheep bones are really good. I have never tasted this taste before. I... I haven't had such a good time for many years." .Hahaha……"

Empress Shen put down the porcelain spoon in her hand, and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, do you still like this mutton soup today?"

"I like it." Chen Quan held up the empty bowl in front of him and showed it to the queen, "I drank a whole bowl, if there were not too many dishes today, I would definitely drink two more bowls."

"Your Majesty thinks it's the best drink."

Empress Shen's bright eyes narrowed slightly, and her tone was gentle, "Today's mutton soup was made by the empress dowager's concubines. Your majesty has been fighting in the north and south for many years, and the concubines have not made it for many years, and their hands are a little raw."

Because of Chen Quan's accident, the Empress Dowager's two grandsons disappeared, her eyes were broken from crying, her vision was blurred, and her health was not very good.

When the palace banquet started, the queen mother sat down and went back to rest.

When the queen mentioned the mutton soup that the queen mother said, Chen Quan couldn't help but recall it.

When I was young, my family background could only be regarded as ordinary, and it was okay to eat enough and wear warm clothes, and things like mutton soup were not something that could be eaten at will.

His mother has a pair of skillful hands, and often buys scraps of cheap haggis and lamb heads to make soup for their brothers.

Later, he married his wife, Shen's, and life became better and better. Shen's dowry was quite generous, and the family really lived a good life.In winter, they no longer eat cheap haggis and sheep heads, but buy mutton and stew it.

When Shen was not out of the court, ten fingers did not touch Yang Chunshui. Later, she married him and learned a good cooking skill from her mother, especially her mutton soup was better than her mother's.

Looking at the stately and beautiful Shen family in front of him, Chen Quan couldn't help but think of the first time he met Queen Shen. At that time, he had not yet reached the crown, and he was wandering in the market with his brothers all day long, doing nothing.

The first time he saw Shen Shi, he was shocked as a heavenly being, thinking that this woman should only exist in the sky, how can it be seen by ordinary people like him.

Later, he married the Shen family, and the father-in-law begged the head of the Shen family to recommend him to be the head of the pavilion, so that his life would be stable.

When he got into trouble, it was Shen who cleaned him up, when he was injured, it was Shen who bandaged him.The grain harvested by the family was sent to Qingfeng Village by him. There was no grain left in the famine year, and it was the grain that Chen borrowed from his own sister's house.

He ran away with private labor, and it was Shen who went to jail for him.Even during the few years when he was not at home, Shen's father, mother and son were taken care of by himself.Especially his third son, Jianye. When Shen was pregnant with him, he injured the county magistrate's brother-in-law and was almost beaten to death. Shen was so angry and anxious that he gave birth to Jianye prematurely.

Jianye has been weak and sick since he was a child, and he grew up thanks to the care of Mrs. Shen and his mother. During this period, he also thanked the Lu family for sending a lot of nourishing medicines and ingredients.

Thinking of his brother-in-law Lu's family, Chen Quan couldn't help feeling a little guilty towards Shen.

Back then, in order to save Qingfeng Village, he led the Song family brothers to ask Lu Yuanshan for food.But borrowing food once or twice is okay, borrowing every year, not repaying every year, even the brother-in-law doesn't want to be taken advantage of.

It just so happened that Yunfei was born, and his body was weak due to dystocia. If Yunfei was raised in Qingfengzhai, he would not be able to support him.He kept it from Shen Shi and lied to him that the child was picked up by himself.At that time, Mrs. Shen had just given birth to her third son Jianye prematurely, and was unable to raise another frail child, so she sent Yunfei to the Lu family to be raised with Lu family's He Bei.

Song Yunfei has been raised by the Lu family for several years, and his body is strong.Life in Qingfengzhai became more and more difficult year after year, so Boss Song came up with an idea to bring Yunfei back.The excuse is to ask the Lu family to support Yunfei, and ask the Lu family every year for food and money to support Yunfei.

Yunfei is just a young child, how much rice and money can he eat.The money and food sent by the Lu family were not for those brothers who raised the cottage.

(End of this chapter)