Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 260
Hongwu three years, at the end of December.

After receiving the news that His Highness the Crown Prince had returned to the palace, Mrs. Chang ran to the small kitchen of the main hall early and stood by the stove to boil hot porridge with ginseng and herbs.

Her Majesty and the Empress sent the medicinal materials every day, and His Majesty asked the artisans to repair the small kitchen, so that it would be more convenient for her to carry the royal family.

Ginseng porridge is a tonic chosen by Chang Meirong himself. It is a nourishing food, made with water chestnut rice, longan, and ginseng.

As soon as His Highness returned to the palace, he immediately asked the maid beside him to turn off the fire and serve porridge.

Hearing Yu'er Jin'er calling Zhu Biao outside, Chang Meirong immediately had all the porridge in the pot poured out.

When she brought the medicinal porridge to the table with a smile on her face, Zhu Biao was already sitting in front of the stove and resting.

It's better to go back to the palace, there is nothing lacking, and it's not cold, these few days in Kaifeng mansion, I got some chilblains on my hands, Li Shanchang and the others also froze their ears and feet, and they couldn't protect themselves.

Zhu Biao was taking off his boots, and when he saw Chang Meirong bringing the porridge over, he sighed slightly in his heart, as if it was her, where did she go?Jin Yiwei couldn't find it either, not even the information on the road guide book.

Thinking of Chang's pregnant body and personally delivering hot porridge, Zhu Biao couldn't be more ruthless, after all, he was his bedside person, so he smiled and said: "What good things did the princess do, come out quickly. Show the good things to Gu."

Chang Meirong smiled and said: "Your Highness is back, I'm waiting for you to change your clothes and eat, it's a little hot."

Yu'er smiled and said: "Your Highness, the Crown Princess cooked this herself. Just now Jin'er said it was delicious at the door, she was so greedy that she was drooling."

"Try it later." Zhu Biao's boots were taken by Jin'er and put aside.

Zhu Biao looked at Chang Meirong, then at the steaming porridge on the table, and said, "Take a rest, don't come over, you just came back from outside, it's cold."

Chang Meirong smiled, walked over and took Zhu Biao's hand and placed it gently on her lower abdomen, and said to her belly, "Look who is back, it's father."

With a smile on his face, Zhu Biao took her hand and said, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"The concubine is fine, let's eat."

"Not hungry."

"Really? Well, I'll go and feed the ginseng porridge I cooked to Jin'er and the others. Anyway, I cooked a lot of it, so I can give it to everyone in the East Palace. It's thanks to them taking care of me these days." .Then His Highness will eat or not."

Zhu Biao got up: "Eat it, it looks very delicious. Let's have a bowl and taste it. Tsk, the princess's craftsmanship is really good."

Picking up the bowl, Zhu Biao sniffed it under his nose, closed his eyes, and praised: "This porridge should only be found in the sky, how many times can you taste it in the world, it is really more virtuous."

After eating porridge, my whole body warmed up.

The chilblains on Zhu Biao's fingers also began to itch. When they were in Kaifeng, they sat by the fire all day, and they all developed chilblains.Not to mention the people who have no charcoal and little rice at home.

When drinking the soup, Zhu Biao recognized that this was the pearl, emerald and white jade soup that Lao Zhu said was delicious.

"Hey, and this?" Zhu Biao took a sip from the spoon, and finished the rest of the soup with dignity: "This is the soup that the emperor likes."

"Yes." Chang Meirong nodded.

Old Zhu's family was poor when he was young, and he never had enough to eat. Later, after his family died, he became homeless and went to Huangjue Temple to become a monk, thinking that he would have something to eat and not be hungry.

It's just that he was unlucky. Because of the famine, the monks in Huangjue Temple all went out to seek alms because of the lack of incense in the temple.

Begging for alms depends on luck, sometimes you can talk about something to eat, sometimes you can't even get a mouthful of bad vegetable soup.

Hunger often occurs, and later fainted from starvation because of lack of food. An old lady rescued him. She put the only piece of tofu and a handful of vegetables in the house together, poured a bowl of rice left over from the previous night and boiled it. Lao Zhu ate it.

When Lao Zhu asked about it, the old lady was originally an optimistic person, so she joked that it was called "Pearl, Emerald, White Jade Soup".

After Lao Zhu defected to the Red Turban Army, became the Red Turban Army, became a commander-in-chief, and became Emperor Zhu. He had no worries about food and clothing, but he could no longer drink such delicious soup.

From Zhu Biao's point of view, this is because Lao Zhu was very hungry and thought it was delicious.

Chang Meirong saw that Zhu Biao was eating deliciously, and laughed happily: "Your Highness has been exhausted for days, so I will ask someone to prepare hot water for His Highness, take a bath and change clothes."

"it is good."

After bathing and changing, Zhu Biao lay on the bed with his eyes closed, but he couldn't sleep because the frostbite was too itchy.

Chang Meirong was bringing Xu Miaowei's letter to Zhu Biao: "Sister Xu has brought a letter back to His Highness, please His Highness personally read it."

"Bring it here." Zhu Biao scratched his frostbite and said.

Sensing Zhu Biao's strangeness, Chang Meirong saw the two chilblains on Zhu Biao's hands, and distressed eyes flashed: "I'm so worried, I'll call a doctor from the National Academy of Scholars."

"No, it's a small matter. He Qing and the others just went back to the National Academy of Scholars to rest, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Chang Meirong couldn't resist Zhu Biao, so she had to obey his arrangement. She was a little flustered, so she sat down with her hands on her chest.

Zhu Biao wrote all the things about Kaifeng, including the details, and asked Sanbao to hand over to Lao Zhu.

When night fell, Chang Meirong said: "I will go to pay my respects to my mother early this morning. I heard that the imperial father's capital is almost built in Yinzhong, so I want to go and see it."

"Well, that's fine." Zhu Biao nodded.

"How about the disaster relief this time? The Weaving Bureau has sent account books in the past few months, and I can't understand them, so I put them there."

"Don't mention the weaving bureau!" Zhu Biao's voice suddenly rose, and Chang Meirong's handkerchief fell to the ground in fright.

"Did the concubine say something wrong?"

Zhu Biao realized his sudden outburst of temper, felt a little guilty, pulled Chang Meirong over and said, "I shouldn't have hurt you just now, you are already four months pregnant, and Chinese New Year will be around soon, so I'll go home with you at that time Take a walk to relieve boredom, you can also invite Chang Mao and mother-in-law to walk into the palace together."

Because of what Zhu Biao said just now, Chang Meirong was numb at the moment, she was pregnant, and her emotions were extremely sensitive, and her every move made her feel sad and worried for a long time.

So I'm still in a daze for now.

Zhu Biao got up and comforted her for a while, and coaxed Chang Shi to the bed, covered her with a quilt, and fell asleep himself, but the frostbite on his hands was itching, and he couldn't sleep well.

Chang Meirong looked at him, helped him scratch the chilblain, and said gently: "Why is this chilblain so tormenting, go to sleep."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chang Meirong was hugged fiercely by Zhu Biao, out of breath, and was about to push her lightly, but Zhu Biao whispered in his dream: "Little Abacus, where did you take Xiaobai?"

Chang Meirong's body immediately turned cold, and her intuition told her that His Highness must be talking about Miss Shen's family.

His Highness actually called him so affectionately. Who is that Xiaobai? It sounds like a girl's name. Could it be... His Highness's child?

However, she heard from her father that His Highness once rescued a girl who was branded by Yuan people in Gansu, and later brought it to Miss Shen's family to take care of her.

Without thinking too much, she turned around and hugged Zhu Biao, patted him on the back and said, "I'm not going anywhere, my concubine is always here..."

Waking up the next day, Zhu Biao felt a little strange when he saw Chang Meirong lying in his arms.

Let go of her and get up, which also woke up Chang Shi.

"Your Highness, the Shen family..."

"Don't mention the Shen family." Zhu Biao said: "I don't need to go to court today, I will walk with you alone for a while."

"Okay, Your Highness." Chang nodded,
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