Chapter 137

C137 – Smart

Tang Yue sat in the study room for an entire afternoon. When the sky turned dark and he noticed that his vision was starting to blur, he realized that time had passed.

“Someone come...”

He, who was guarding outside the door, pushed the door open and entered. Seeing that the room was dim, he hurriedly lit an oil lamp.

He was secretly annoyed. If Ke Zaifou had been here, he would have definitely lit the lamp at the best time. However, because he did not have any experience, he had completely forgotten about this matter.

“Don’t be busy. Has His Highness not returned yet?” Tang Yue rubbed his sore eyes and asked.

He went to pour some more tea and said, “young master, His Highness has left the city. He said he won’t be able to come back tonight.”

“Huh? When did this happen?” Tang Yue was surprised.

“The butler told me not to disturb you,” the man said. “I will wait until you are out of the house.”

Tang Yue nodded in understanding. He packed up the things on the desk and got up to stretch. “Did you hear why His Highness left the city?”

“No. If you want to know, ask someone to ask.” In the Crown Prince’s Palace, only Crown Princess had the right to ask where His Highness went.

Tang Yue stopped him, “Let’s have dinner first. Since he has something urgent to do, let’s wait.”

Thinking that he was still eating alone at night, Tang Yue had no appetite. No matter how delicious the mountain delicacies were, they could not bear to eat one person at a time.

He asked the butler to call Zhang Chun over. Usually, Crown Prince Zhao didn’t like them being too close. He would always find various reasons to send Zhang Chun away. Now that he was alone at home, it was up to him to decide who he wanted to eat with.

Not long after, Zhang Chun rushed over. He was still wearing a short jacket. Sweat covered his forehead as he entered the door. Seeing that the master wasn’t here, he immediately poured a cup of tea and drank it in one gulp.

“Ha... Brother, you are the most loyal. I am almost driven crazy!”

“You went to practice martial arts?” Tang Yue looked at his disguise and guessed.

“That’s right. Wang has been very busy recently, so he found another master to teach me temporarily. He really does not let me rest for a moment!”

“Isn’t that very good? Three feet of ice is not a day of cold. Practicing martial arts is the most important thing!”

“Heh, these words are easy to say. If I really let you train for half a day without resting, you probably would have rebelled long ago.”

Tang Yue thought about it and agreed. He was not a sports master and did not have a strong competitive heart. He only thought about martial arts in his heart. He definitely did not have the perseverance to train well.

“Then do you want to take a shower and change clothes before coming to eat?” In this kind of weather, one cold and one hot could easily catch cold.

“Don’t, laozi is so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back... touch, is it deflated?” Zhang Chun lifted up the hem of his clothes and let Tang Yue touch his belly.

Tang Yue shook his head with a smile. He asked people to serve the food and stopped nagging at him.

Zhang Chun was not a bad person. However, he definitely had a lot of bad habits. Luckily, Tang Yue didn’t dislike him. He had seen many wealthy businessmen who liked to put on airs. Instead, he liked people who spoke casually.

Ever since Tang Yue married into the Crown Prince’s Palace, he did not allow people to split the table for meals. Instead, he set up a round table in the hall and sat with Crown Prince Zhao to eat.

It was just nice to wait for Crown Prince Zhao to come back and eat together.

He drew a charcoal hotpot for the blacksmith. He would use it next time. Today, he could only use a small stove and a small pot.

The preparation of the ingredients was just a matter of words. There was lamb for lamb, mushrooms for mushrooms, bone soup for bones, and the only thing lacking was chili.

Without spicy hot pot... Thinking about it, it really wasn’t satisfying.

The ingredients were all prepared and served to the table. Tang Yue also moved the stove to the center of the table. There was a small soup pot on top of it. The bone soup in the soup pot was very strong. The milky white soup emitted a fragrance.

The cook in the Crown Prince’s Palace stared at the food on the table. He did not know what Crown Princess was trying to do.

However, Crown Princess was definitely the Culinary God. Every time she cooked something, it was something that they had never seen before and it was absolutely delicious.

Someone boldly asked, “young master, how do you want to eat this? “You said we would help you make it.”

Tang Yue did not want to hide it. He told them, “No need to help. This is called hotpot. It is cooked while eating. You just need to put the food you want into the pot and cook it. It is very simple.”

“This... can something cooked like this be delicious?”

Tang Yue nodded. Of course it was delicious. It was so delicious that he had to eat it many times during the beginning of summer, autumn, and winter.

However, he seemed to have forgotten something... Tang Yue asked someone to wait for Crown Prince Zhao at the door. He threw some food that was harder to cook into the pot and boiled it. Only when he cooked it did he remember that the most important sauce had not been mixed yet.

He rushed to the kitchen and used the existing seasoning and a few servings of sauce to bring it to the table.

The condiments in the kitchen were already quite complete. There was sesame oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar and so on. If he could get some chili, it would be perfect.

When the water in the pot boiled a few times and there was no news from the door, Tang Yue became a little anxious.

He called the butler in and asked, “Did His Highness say when he would be back yesterday?”

The butler shook his head, “No, but according to the situation outside the city, I’m afraid he won’t be able to make it back in time.”

“What’s the situation outside the city?” Tang Yue thought that there were only residents whose houses had been crushed by the snow. Crown Prince Zhao was ordered to calm the people and provide relief.

The butler hesitated for a moment. He frowned and said worriedly, “There was news this morning. It said... that there was a plague outside the city. This old servant took the initiative to send people to look for His Highness.”

“Plague? Did many people die outside the city?” Logically speaking, in such a snowy day, even if someone had just died, there shouldn’t be a plague spreading so quickly.

At such an extremely low temperature, the spread of the virus would also be hindered.

“After His Highness’s wedding, the Imperial Court set up a few refugee settlements outside the city. Every day, rich merchants of the world would take turns distributing rice porridge to barely survive this winter. Who would have thought that the rain and snow the day before would be too heavy, and the refugee settlements would collapse and crush many refugees? I’m afraid that the plague came from there.”

Tang Yue’s expression was solemn. In this era, he was really afraid of this infectious disease. A large number of people died. Without the antidote, he could only isolate the patients one by one, and kill them one after another. Other people could only watch in despair. There was nothing they could do.

“No, I have to go and take a look.” Tang Yue could not care about the food on the table anymore. He went back to his room and changed into thick clothes. He checked the medicine box that he had not used for a long time and then went out without stopping.

“Young master... young master... No... You can’t go... it’s too dangerous!” The housekeeper tried to stop him. Tang Yue said calmly, “Housekeeper, don’t forget that I am a doctor. There is no doctor who is afraid of this kind of danger.”

He had to personally understand the situation. According to the time, even if there was a plague, it was just the beginning. There should not be many people who were infected, and epidemic prevention was the most important thing.

The butler was unable to do so, so he could only arrange a hundred guards to accompany him. Tang Yue didn’t want to trouble everyone, but he thought that if it was really a plague, he would need a large number of people to help him, so he let them go.