Some time passed again.

Standing at the east gate of Shengjing City is the main palace of Dajing. It covers an extremely large area, with a total area of ​​420 hectares. The number of gardens, ponds, palaces, etc. also coincides with the number of ninety-five.

On that day, the emperor Guo Houcong was strolling in the garden with his royal concubine. The concubine Jia, who was generous in heart and fat in body, grabbed the chicken leg and was gnawing on it in a good-natured manner.

Since ancient times, no matter whether the emperor is passionate or ruthless, which one has not always had concubines? This is not the case with Guo Houcong.

Fifteen years have passed since he married the slender and beautiful Concubine Jia at the age of thirteen. In the past fifteen years, Concubine Jia has become more and more rounded.

In the past fifteen years, Guo Houcong has not taken a new concubine, and Concubine Jia has not given birth to a son or a half. Although some of the old ministers' hair turned white due to worry,

But I can only say that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are.

"Alas." Guo Houcong sighed.

Concubine Jia put the chicken drumstick to Guo Houcong's mouth, with a caring look on her face: "Why are you looking so sad? I'll give you a big chicken drumstick, so don't look so sad anymore."

Guo Houcong said helplessly: "Jingyesi sent another note saying that he wanted to apply for research funds, but the people from the Ministry of Revenue said that drought and flood disasters occurred in the south. The reason was a drought dragon and an evil ghost dragon. Disaster relief was not available.

We need money, and the foreigners in southern and northern Xinjiang seem to be ready to take action, and military expenditures have to be allocated. There are so many places that need money."

Concubine Jia stretched out her hand and scratched her head, not paying attention to her manners at all: "That's it. Dad used to say that money that should be spent should be spent on the edge of the knife."

Guo Houcong caressed Concubine Jia's face lovingly: "You don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Concubine, at this time, it would be great if you could have a bowl of hot spicy soup."

The love between Guo Houcong and Concubine Jia began among the people. Compared with other emperors, at least he could choose his own love. After all, Guo Houcong came from the people.

His father was also a hard worker, so he could relax a little when he sneaked out to play. To put it mildly, it was called a private visit incognito, but in fact it was just sneaking out to play. This game became popular among the people.

But his father gave birth to more daughters. Although some sons were born, most of them died young. Jingyesi's people also found out the harmful monsters lurking in the palace, killed them, and then calculated the fortune.

After some research, he discovered that his father would only be able to give birth to a daughter again.

His father then talked with the experts in Jingyesi to see if he could change the child's gender.

But the people from Jingyesi flatly refused and said: "As the saying goes, boys and girls are the same. Who says women can't hold up half the sky? Gender discrimination is not allowed, male-female antagonism is not allowed, and gender change is even more unavoidable, not to mention that even if it can be changed, it will not be possible.

Change, after all, you have never asked what your child thinks."

So Princess Yunluo was born.

The status of Jingyesi is transcendent. After all, most people would not be able to survive without it. Therefore, the senior officials of Jingyesi dare to challenge the senior officials of the court and the four major aristocratic families head-on. What the emperor did is not right for them.

Also dare to challenge.

Just in time, Guo Houcong ran into the palace to look for his father.

This happened over and over again, and it was done.

Although a few simple words can describe the development of the plot, there are also a lot of experiences and blank stares involved.

But Concubine Jia was always by his side, which was a kind of comfort.

When she accompanied him to find his father in his early years, Concubine Jia was knocked on the head by a bandit to protect him, so she was sometimes a little foolish.

Guo Houcong also promised not to marry other concubines because Concubine Jia sacrificed her life to protect him.

Even if she becomes fatter, he will not change his mind.

"Brother Imperial! Brother Imperial! I found a super delicious steamed stuffed bun shop outside the city. The owner there is a fairy, super awesome!" It happened that Princess Yunluo was also catching bugs in the garden. See

After arriving at Guo Houcong, Princess Yunluo shouted.

"It's super delicious and super awesome. You've been telling me this all the time. Forget it, does he know how to make spicy soup?" Guo Houcong said helplessly.

He decided to visit the store.

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On this day, the cook turned over the cards and only the number one was left. He continued to sit at the door and read the comic book.

An ordinary man walked towards him. He looked to be around thirty years old, had a beard, and was wearing an ordinary scholar's gown, but his bearing was extraordinary.

The person who came was none other than Guo Houcong.

Qin Yuelou took a quick look and knew that the person coming must be in a high position.

The face looks rosy, the palms are delicate, and only the fingertips are calloused. It should be because the pen has been held too long, or maybe it is because of reviewing memorials?

But Qin Yuelou didn't pay too much attention. Instead, he continued to read the comic book.

[There are many good masters buried around, including warriors and Qigong masters. Their purpose is not to attack and kill, but to protect, which is kind of interesting.] Although Qin Yuelou was reading the comic book, he was also analyzing it in his mind.

Then Guo Houcong passed by Qin Yuelou and entered the shop.

"I miss this roadside fly shop so much." Guo Houcong thought to himself, and just then he said, "Shop, is the shop here?"

"Well, what should we eat?" Qin Yuelou put away the comic book and asked.

"Does your little shop only have three kinds of dishes?"

"No, I can cook whatever you want to eat." Qin Yuelou looked at Guo Houcong and said, "What do you want to eat?"

"Lahu Soup, I want to eat spicy hot soup." Guo Houcong said directly.

Qin Yuelou also recovered from his half-dream: "Then you can sit outside, and I will help you make a bowl of spicy soup."

Witnessing Guo Houcong's life through dreams, Qin Yuelou also roughly understood what spicy hot soup is.

This so-called spicy soup is actually the same as the spicy spicy soup in the previous life.

A bowl of hot and spicy soup can wake up a city; although the hot and spicy soup looks like a bowl of paste that doesn't look very good, and it doesn't even arouse your appetite, you can find that it tastes delicious, spicy and delicious after just one bite.

Especially in the cold winter months, drinking a bowl of spicy spicy soup in the morning will warm your whole body.

After carefully recalling the recipes he had read, and based on Guo Houcong's dream of drinking spicy soup, Qin Yuelou sorted the ingredients into the dishes.

Ingredients such as pepper, chili pepper, grass fruit, beef cubes, bone broth, rice noodles, thin vermicelli, day lily, peanuts, fungus, tofu skin, Qianzhang and other ingredients are extremely fresh, and the kitchen utensils are used to enhance the umami flavor, and are properly processed.

In addition, there are more than thirty Chinese herbal medicines.

Then Qin Yuelou began to prepare spicy hot soup.

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Guo Houcong, who was sitting outside the store, was looking at the slums around him and felt quite uncomfortable.

In the Imperial City, at the feet of the Emperor, there are actually so many people struggling every day to have enough food and clothing. This is true even in the Imperial City, but what about other places?

As an emperor... I am really incompetent at what I do.

He grew up among the people, and naturally knew the sufferings of the people. He actually passed by the slums back then. For more than ten years, he thought that his governance was in order and the number of poor people would decrease, but in fact this was not the case.

The spicy smell wafted out of the house, bringing back Guo Houcong's memories.

Since he was a child, his mother has been waiting for the man who will never come back, his father in the sense of blood. He has been called a child without a father since he was a child. Fortunately, it is not a village, and there are no idle, lazy and rogue people to tease him.

Mother.

But rumors are still flying everywhere,

But his mother always taught him to be a kind and good person, and to study hard and become a high official in the future and benefit the people.

It was not until her mother passed away that she left a jade pendant to Guo Houcong.

Maybe for him, leaving this jade pendant was to help him find the father he had never met.

But to his dead father, this jade pendant was just proof that he was a philanderer among the people.

This jade pendant is like a heart-shaped stone that is said to be hand-polished, but in fact, you can buy a bunch of them at a wholesale price of less than ten yuan.

But it was precisely because of this jade pendant that Guo Houcong was able to recognize his father and son, who had no family ties.

Guo Houcong actually did not expect that his father would be an emperor, but he suddenly became a prince.

What his mother said about "benefiting the people in one place" also became "benefiting the people all over the world".

After all, he came from the common people, and he knew that the upward space for students from poor families was monopolized by aristocratic families, and he also knew how many officials and businessmen colluded with officials to protect each other.

After his father died, he felt that it was very unreal that he was forced to become the emperor. He thought he could be a wise king, but... at least he had such an idea and worked hard towards this goal.

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It's just that the resistance is too great, as the aristocratic families have close relations with important officials in the DPRK.

To put it bluntly, if young people are given a choice, whether to be a consort or a son-in-law of an aristocratic family, the young people will choose to be a son-in-law of an aristocratic family, so that they can see the status of the aristocratic family.

Most of the important officials in the court were related to aristocratic families.

This is a network of relationships, and he is like a small insect struggling on the network.

Tired, tired, tired...

Being a responsible but incompetent emperor is too tiring.

Recalling this, Qin Yuelou also placed the spicy hot soup in front of the emperor.

"I put a lot of good ingredients into this bowl of spicy soup for you, so instead of calling it spicy soup, it's better to call it Bazhen soup." Qin Yuelou wiped the rim of the bowl and said.

Guo Houcong looked at the big bowl in front of him. The "content" in the bowl was indeed quite rich.

Gluten, shredded kelp, vermicelli, Qianzhang shreds, peanuts, coriander, minced ginger, mustard; beef and mutton, soybeans, fungus, day lily, spinach, radish strips, chopped green onion, etc.

How can this be the Eight Treasures? This must be called a "gathering of heroes".
To be continued...