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Chapter 161 Lao Zhu's Leisure Life

"Is this a local product? This is obviously a pot made of jadeite." Lao Zhu held it in his hand with a very displeased face.

"Your Majesty, this Shanxi official came to Beijing to present this small pot to His Majesty, and he only told me that it was a local product for His Majesty to play with in his spare time." Hu Weiyong explained.

"Hu Weiyong, this person was recommended by you. If you do this again next time, we will take care of you." Lao Zhu pointed to the jade pot and said, "Success comes from being diligent and thrifty, and failure comes from extravagance. You don't understand this truth? It's for the national treasury."

Li Shanchang and Song Lian said: "Your Majesty can use it to play and relax in your spare time."

"We have a lot of things to do in our spare time." Old Zhu snorted.

"What does Your Majesty do in his spare time?" Li Shanchang said with a smile, "We also want to learn what His Majesty does in his spare time."

"Exactly, Wei Chen and Prime Minister Li have the same meaning." Hu Weiyong's smiling face wrinkled.

Old Zhu narrowed his eyes, and after a while he said to them all: "Do you really want to do what we do in our spare time?"

"I dare not tease Your Majesty." Song Lian, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong said.

"Okay, let's take you to do things in your spare time." Lao Zhu then turned his head and said to each other: "Call Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi."

Yu nodded, and asked with some doubts: "Your Highness Fifth is going too?"

"Let him go with you."

Li Shanchang glanced at it, this must be a very good thing, otherwise, how could he have called several highnesses, either reading or practicing calligraphy, the biggest possibility is listening to music and watching dances.

Hu Weiyong was also proud that when he came to court tomorrow, he could still chat with all civil and military officials, and he himself was the one who relaxed with His Majesty.

After thinking about it, Song Lian felt that it was very likely that he was watching some court ladies dancing, and that was the case in his spare time.

The three followed Lao Zhu out of the Qianqing Palace, all beaming.

……

When the three arrived, they were dumbfounded.

Zhu Xi and Zhu Fang were about to slip away, but they were stopped by Lao Zhu.Zhu Huan, who came here, also chose farm tools obediently.

Lao Zhu pointed to the things on the ground and said: "You pick the one that is convenient, it will be more convenient to use later, we want this."

Hu Weiyong was holding a hoe, Li Shanchang was holding a wooden bucket with small holes, and Song Lian was holding an iron piece in his hand, staring at the potato seedling in the palace, his face turned green.

"Song Lian, look at the piece of iron in your hand to see if it works." Old Zhu weighed it and said, "Guess who made it."

"Your Majesty, I don't know." Song Lian hummed.

"Your student, our good prince." Old Zhu laughed loudly: "From the Academy of Science and Technology, the ones you took are all, and the ones that Prime Minister Li took may be good things for watering."

Li Shanchang was also busy laughing, His Majesty mentioned His Royal Highness, how could he not give face.

"Let's get started, this is what we play with potatoes and eggs in our spare time, and stay in the palace for dinner after we're done. You can't eat normally." Lao Zhu rolled up his sleeves and went into the vegetable field.

Hu Weiyong was as constipated as he carefully stepped over the tender potato seedlings, not knowing what position he should take.

"Ahem, why is the water leaking out?" Old Zhu looked at the barrel-shaped thing Li Shanchang brought up: "This is not how Prime Minister Li used it, it should be used like this."

Everyone gets busy.

Lao Zhu shouted: "Hey. Let us use them carefully. If the farm tools or seedlings are damaged, we will punish you."

"Haha. Don't worry, Your Majesty." Li Shanchang smiled kindly, and used the wooden bucket to water the potato seedlings as Lao Zhu said just now.

The court ladies and eunuchs in the distance wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh, and a group of ministers were led by His Majesty to do farm work in the palace.

When it was almost noon, the three of them were so tired that their backs ached, and Li Shanchang couldn't straighten up at all.

Lao Zhu looked at them and said, "Go back tonight and rest well, and don't let maids and concubines serve you, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

Song Lian shouted: "Your Majesty, I will only read books when I go back, and do nothing else."

Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong looked at each other and continued to work with their heads down.

……

"Chongba~ Why did you bring Prime Minister Li and Mr. Song here, stop quickly, stop quickly, it's so hot." When Empress Ma came to visit her vegetable garden, she found several big men working in the field Live, dumbfounding.

"Empress, we are exercising with Your Majesty and experiencing the people in the field." Li Shanchang said while holding a watering bucket.

"Yes, yes, you see, the one I took was made by the Science and Technology Institute of His Highness the Prince, and it works very well!" Hu Weiyong also said.

Empress Ma glanced at Lao Zhu: "You are something that doesn't need to be marked for a day, and you feel itchy, so you don't feel bad about putting these children here.

Prime Minister Li is getting old, how can Mr. Song do this. "

"Empress, it's very interesting that I'm moving." Li Shanchang said hastily.

"Me too, chemical fertilizer is also easy to use." Hu Weiyong said.

"Empress, the farm tools improved by His Royal Highness are very useful."

"Queen Mother, Emperor Father asked us to come." Zhu Xi and Zhu Yu shouted.

"Shut up, look at you, and don't imitate your elder brother." Lao Zhu said fiercely with his eyes wide open.

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When eating, Lao Zhu specially asked the imperial dining room to cook a pot of porridge, which was very thick.

"What is this? It's colorful." Zhu Fen said to Lao Zhu.

"Your Majesty, what kind of rice is this, we have never seen it before."

Old Zhu looked at Empress Ma proudly: "Sister, please tell Prime Minister Li and the others what this is."

"Then I can tell." Empress Ma smiled virtuously, filled a bowl and said, "This is called Qibao Wuwei Porridge."

"Your Majesty, when he was a child herding cows for a rich man, he often didn't have enough to eat and couldn't wear warm clothes. One day, he was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, so he ran to the fields to catch mice to eat.

He digs mouse holes.The mouse didn't even see a hair, but found half a bowl of food, including rice, millet, and sour wild dates.

He got some water himself, found a pot to cook these things, and cooked a pot of porridge with the hay that he slept in. He still feels that it is better than anything else. "

Li Shanchang took a look, it was thanks to the empress who said it, if they said it, a wrong word might cause trouble.

Zhu Chen and Zhu Fang said it was not good.

Old Zhu said: "Last time we asked the Imperial Dining Room to make it for your elder brother. He added icing sugar and said it was delicious. We love this one."

finish talking.Start eating.

The other people saw that His Majesty's food was so delicious, how could they hold back, and started to eat with bowls in their hands.

Hu Weiyong ate an extra bowl and said, "It tastes really good."

"Not bad, not bad." Song Lian also said.

"I like it, then we will go to court later, and we will come here to weed and plow the fields together." Lao Zhu glanced at them and said.

"Okay, it's an honor to be able to do this spare time work with His Majesty." Li Shanchang stood up and said solemnly.

Hu Weiyong winked at Li Shanchang, signaling him to stop talking, or their waists and arms would be crippled.

"Hu Weiyong, what's wrong with your eyes." Old Zhu put down the bowl, looked at Hu Weiyong and said, "Why don't you let the doctors from the Academy of Science and Technology show you?"

"Father, isn't there a Tai Hospital?" Zhu Yan said, "You can invite the Tai Hospital."

The young man Zhu Su was serious and shook his head: "Second brother, you are wrong. I have learned a lot in the Academy of Science and Technology, more than in the Taiyuan Hospital. Including those prescriptions that my elder brother asked me to read."

In order for Zhu Su to study medicine in advance, Zhu Biao took him to the Academy of Science and Technology for enlightenment early on.

"Old Five, you have to go to Tai Hospital to see a doctor."

"Second brother, go to the Institute of Science and Technology."

The two were in a fight.

Empress Ma put down the bowls and chopsticks, and said with a slightly changed face, "What do you two look like, starting to argue in front of gentlemen?"

Old Zhu said: "When we talk about the Academy of Science and Technology, it is the Academy of Science and Technology."

Seeing that Hu Weiyong was about to quarrel over the Institute of Science and Technology or the Tai Hospital, he hurriedly said with a smile to Zhu Xi: "Second Highness, I will go to the Tai Hospital first in a while, and then go to the Science and Technology Institute to have a look."

Zhu Huan said: "Go to the Science and Technology Institute first, and then go to the Tai Hospital."

Old Zhu said: "There are no rules, so take the two of them down and reflect on yourself."

Zhu Xi was about to get up, but old Zhu said, "We didn't talk about you, but Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi."

Zhu Yan, who was eating, said to Lao Zhu with a distressed expression: "Father, I didn't say anything."

"You said it yesterday, and we heard it." Old Zhu said, "I'm hungry."

Empress Ma didn't say anything, she ate with her head down, she knew in her heart that if anyone dared to say a word, he would lose his temper.

"This meal is not bad. It's delicious. I'll ask the cook in the Prime Minister's Mansion to cook it too." Li Shanchang ate very enthusiastically.

"Me too." Hu Weiyong said: "Then go to the Academy of Science and Technology to have a look at your eyes."

Lao Zhu nodded. He was very satisfied with their performance.

　thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)