Chapter 6: Dim Sum
The acacia tree outside the window had lost its leaves, revealing the blue sky behind it. From time to time, geese flew south, leaving a trail of flying by.
The cold hall was filled with the aroma of the food, and the food was still steaming not long after it was taken out of the food box. The light rice porridge and the crunchy side dishes looked much finer than the meals he had eaten before.
"Your Highness, Young Master Shen has left, you...don't eat it."
The old eunuch stood aside, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve unconsciously.
In fact, he thought that Shen Yanchu would not let His Highness the Seventh Prince so easily, but who knew that Young Master Shen put down the food box and left.
If it was said that the Fifth Highness was in a dilemma, he would definitely not let it go so easily. Thinking about it,
Xiao Yu raised his head and glanced at the old eunuch.
After a long silence, he put down his chopsticks. He only ate two or three bites of the food that Shen Yanchu brought, but he didn't feel particularly uncomfortable.
"You follow me... I really wronged you."
Xiao Yu finally stopped being silent and said in a very soft voice. He threw the chopsticks back into the food box and slowly sat down on the chair next to him.
His eyes were pitch black, his eyes were like extremely deep pools of water, and he couldn't see to the end.
"How can you be wronged?"
The old eunuch smiled, there was a glimmer of light in his cloudy eyes, and his full head of white hair made his smile look a bit dazzling.
"The servant is willing to follow His Highness."
Xiao Yu lowered his head again and looked at Not very interested. He saw that there was another layer under the food box, and he opened the first layer with rare curiosity.
Inside is a package of delicately packaged pastries, which are quite expensive from the outside packaging.
"His Royal Highness..."
The old eunuch looked up at the Seventh Prince in surprise, and the large package of snacks confirmed his thoughts.
Is this Young Master Shen really showing his favor to His Highness the Seventh Highness?
No one in the palace would show affection to Xiao Yu. This is the palace, interests come first, and everyone wants to climb up.
Concubines want to be queens and queen mothers.
The prince wants to be the prince, wants to be the emperor and Xiao Yu is just a prince who has been forgotten by the emperor and is not favored, anyone can step on it.
However, the old eunuch did not say these words. He hoped that someone would treat Xiao Yu well, and he was afraid that others would hurt Xiao Yu if they had plans.
Xiao Yu didn't know what the old eunuch was thinking at this time, he only knew that he had never eaten such delicate cakes before.
Since he was young, his mother has left him alone, and it is his luck that he can survive until now. When he was five years old, he was proposed by the empress to enroll, otherwise his emperor father would have no impression of him at all.
It was at that time that he felt that his royal brothers were different from him. The other imperial brothers are under the care of their mothers and concubines.
In their spare time, they will bring exquisite cakes and tea, and many servants will serve them. There were many times when he also wanted to taste the delicate pastries with the fragrance, but no one brought him.
Xiao Yu didn't answer the old eunuch, but reached out his hand and slowly opened the paper package containing the cakes.
The paper package was very fragile, and it burst open when it was gently torn, revealing the white and yellow locust flower cake. The rich aroma of acacia flowers and the aroma of cakes rushed into Xiao Yu's nose.
He couldn't help but pick up a piece of locust flower cake and put it in his mouth.
Taking a light bite, the sweet locust flower sauce slowly flows out from the dough, with a sweet aroma of locust flower, and the outer crust is crispy and soft, with an excellent taste.
"Let's put it away first." Xiao Yu whispered, his eyes staring at the Sophora japonica cake and he didn't move. He looked very reluctant, but his stomach was indeed stretched.
"Yes, the servant will put it away for you, and take it out when Your Highness wants to eat it."
The old eunuch understood that this is what His Highness liked this snack, and he was afraid that someone would come and spoil it again.
When the old eunuch carefully left with a snack, the thin young man looked at the bare shadow of the acacia tree on the window and sighed.
Shen Yanchu... what kind of person is he?
He was born in the palace since he was a child, and he is sensitive enough to the maliciousness and scheming of the palace. It was because he was sensitive enough that he couldn't guess what Shen Yanchu meant.
Today's performance is actually a bit clumsy, obviously it is embarrassing, but in fact it is to give him food.
Otherwise, even if it is a reward, if you want to humiliate, you don't need to use such means. Especially the locust flower cake, it is superfluous.
If you are humiliated, it is enough to send food, why send a package of delicate snacks?
I even heard that his face was pale when he had breakfast, and everything was revealed on his face. This is a person who is crawling and rolling in the deep palace.
Well, what does this have to do with him. Xiao Yu lowered his head and sighed, picked up the book on the table and read it carefully.
At this time, Shen Chu still didn't know what Xiao Yu thought of him. The problem he was most worried about was that he couldn't swim.
The task given to him by the system is to rescue Xiao Yu from the lotus pond, which means that there must be someone who doesn't have long eyes to push the male protagonist off the lotus pond recently.
Thinking of this, Shen Chu couldn't help feeling distressed for Xiao Yu for a second, and he would be tortured by blood in the early stage of being a cool male protagonist.
But he felt more sorry for himself.
Wearing a book and wearing a villain, doing tasks and holding your thighs is counterproductive, and in the winter, you have to jump into the lotus pond to save the beauty.
That night Shen Chu tried swimming with a bathtub in his room. In the real world, he had studied for more than a month, but he did not learn. Now in the book world... well, he still hasn't lit his swimming skills.
Shen Chu reconfirmed this conclusion after drinking a few pounds of bath water.
The only good news recently is that he has completed the first task, and under the system's reminder, he can go to Xiao Yu to deliver meals at any time to improve his favorability.
Shen Chu will never run away from things that can improve his favorability, so in addition to listening to classes in the study, Shen Chu often secretly goes to deliver meals to the male protagonist, and every time he stuffs a small packet of pastries at the end.
Sometimes it was locust flower cake, and sometimes it was rose cake. In short, most of the snacks he brought were delivered to the male protagonist.
It's just that he didn't dare to collapse too seriously, so he only dared to secretly send it to the old eunuch. After a while, he and the old eunuch became friends.
After just a few days, Shen Chu never learned how to swim, but he did a good job following Xiao Shuo as a follower. The princes were all dismissed from school before dinner.
After serving Xiao Shuo's study, they routinely accompanied Xiao Shuo to play archery in the imperial garden for a while.
Fortunately, Xiao Shuo wasn't cruel and didn't let people wear apples or anything. Concubine Shu Gui didn't know anything else, but she did a good job in disciplining Xiao Shuo.
It was a little late, the sun was already falling, and the cold sky was like a piece of ice with a touch of blood, and the imperial garden seemed to be covered with a layer of warm-colored gauze.
Shen Chu had never been exposed to riding and archery, whether it was in the real world or in the world of books, it was the first time.
However, he is still talented, and he can hit the grass target after practicing for a while.
Compared with those playboys who have been practicing since childhood, it is not as good. After all, this is the first time, and Shen Chu is quite satisfied.
Xiao Shuo did a good job in this one. After observing for the past few days, Shen Chu could see something. The fifth prince, Xiao Shuo, is good at riding and shooting, but he is not good at reading. He is also a bit clumsy in dealing with others and is not smart enough.
And the third prince, Xiao Can, is good at reading and writing, but he is a little gloomy and has deep inner calculations.
Thinking about the mess, Shen Chu's arrows shot more and more sideways, and the last arrow fell to the ground without hitting the target at all, causing many people to laugh.
However, Shen Chu did not pay attention to other people.
【Ding dong! The system prompts, please be prepared! Please be prepared! Note that mission two is about to start in about five minutes! 】
This is about to start? Shen Chu was so shocked that not only did the arrow fall to the ground, but the bow also fell to the ground. Fortunately, the bows in the palace were not of extraordinary quality and were not broken.
Before Shen Chu could pick it up, he looked up to find the location of the lotus pond. Before, he had asked the system administrator if the male protagonist would be drowned, and the system told him not because Xiao Yu had the aura of the protagonist of the system. But if the task is not completed, Shen Chu can only continue to disguise as Shen Yanchu to complete the task in the future, and even he will not be able to control this body.
The ending that was waiting for Shen Chu was only to be slashed by a thousand knives, and when Shen Chu thought of this ending, goosebumps all over his body came out.
After looking at it for a while, Shen Chu found that the lotus pond was not far from here, but only about 100 meters away. It's just that the road is winding and there are a few cypresses planted on both sides, so it's hard to see who is near the lotus pond.
Um?
Shen Chu thought about it and felt that something was not right. Xiao Shuo, the most reckless person in the palace, was right under his nose. Xiao Yu didn't go out of the palace very much when he was fine.
How could he fall into the lotus pond after such a short time?
Could it be...
Shen Chu didn't think it was great, so he said to the others in casual clothes and left here, and actually ran to look at the lotus pond.
At this time, a thin layer of ice has formed in the lotus pond, and the black-brown residual lotus on the lake is frozen on the water, making the lake dirty.
The place is relatively remote, and the palace maids and eunuchs did not clean it with all their might. A few pine and cypress trees were planted in the east of the lotus pond.
Shen Chu came from here just to hide under the trees so that he would not be seen.
Just as he hid under a tree not far from the lotus pond, there was a noise in the distance.
Listening to this voice should be the third prince Xiao Can.
"You little bastard, you still want to steal my limelight!"
Xiao Can is twenty-five this year, so he shouldn't be so reckless, I'm afraid he's been dissatisfied with Xiao Yu for a long time, and it broke out today.
Shen Chu was analyzing the situation, and the first thing he saw was that Xiao Yu was pushed to a stagger, and his legs fell softly on the cobblestone ground.
It's winter now, and the ground is frozen hard, and it is estimated that half of his body will be blue and purple after such a fall.
Xiao Yu didn't even say a word, just stared at the cobblestone in front of him indifferently.
At this moment, Shen Chu remembered that in the original book it was indeed the third prince who started first, and the fifth prince was also nearby, so they came to bully Xiao Yu together.
In order to please the fifth prince, Shen Yanchu volunteered to push Xiao Yu into the water.
After Xiao Yu fell into the water, the third prince and the fifth prince talked and joked together, while Shen Yanchu made peace.
The companions on both sides spoke sarcastically, but no one cared about Xiao Yu.
It wasn't until the third prince was afraid that he was really dead that he was brought up.
There is still a distance of more than ten meters to reach the lotus pond, and soon Xiao Yu will be pushed into the water.
No, he must act quickly!
The more anxious he was in his heart, the more panic he became.
Shen Chu's hands were already sweating.
Xiao Yu's body was pushed closer and closer to the lotus pond. He gritted his teeth and ran back.
It can only be this way!
The author has something to say:
[Small Theater]
Shen Chu: If you want to keep a man, you must first hook his stomach!
Xiao Yu: Actually... it seems that you "eat" quite well too.