The Ultimate Prodigal Son - Chapter 158

[Chapter 158: Selling Products to the Emperor]

Tang Chuchu was still in the room digesting the knowledge that Lin Tian brought her, while Lin Tian returned to his yard and began to think about what to do next.

The matter of joining can be put aside for later, but the opening of the hot pot restaurant is imminent.

Now they can’t wait to gain a foothold in the capital. This is not only the emperor’s order, but also what he should do!

“It seems that I have to go to the palace tomorrow!”

Lin Tian said after a little thought.

If you want the emperor to be their spokesperson, you have to let the emperor know about hot pot first.

So he has to go to the palace again to let the emperor taste this novel food.

The next morning, Lin Tian simply packed some seasonings and asked Lin Kang to take the pot and go to the palace with him.

“Master, this palace is so magnificent!”

Because of the token given by the emperor himself, Lin Tian had a smooth journey.

And Lin Kang followed behind Lin Tian, his eyes were attracted by the beautiful scenery on the road, and his mouth opened wide.

“Shut your mouth! Your saliva is about to flow to the ground!”

Lin Tian was somewhat helpless. It seemed that he had to take this guy out to see the world more often in the future, otherwise he would be embarrassed by his surroundings!

“I have never seen these things in my first half of my life!”

Lin Kang reluctantly withdrew his gaze and could only secretly look at the scenery with his peripheral vision.

Seeing that he really couldn’t take his eyes back, Lin Tian didn’t say anything and just let him go.

“Eunuch, I have something to see the emperor.”

When they arrived at the imperial study, the old man named Xiao Shunzi was waiting at the door. It must be that Emperor Zhengde was standing inside to talk to someone.

“Reply to Master Lin, the emperor is playing chess with the eldest prince!”

Xiao Shunzi said respectfully.

Although he was an old eunuch who followed the emperor, the young man in front of him was so disrespectful to the emperor, and the emperor did not blame him.

It was enough to show that he was not an ordinary person!

“Then please inform the eunuch Shun, thank you for your trouble!”

Lin Tian saluted respectfully, as a respect for his predecessor.

Xiao Shunzi quietly added a layer of favorable impression to Lin Tian in his heart, nodded slightly to him, and turned to enter the imperial study.

“Your Majesty, Lin Tian is outside the door asking for an audience.”

“Oh? Why does he come to see me? Let him in!”

Zhengde was a little confused when he heard that Lin Tian came to ask for an audience.

“Let’s stop here today, you go back first!”

Then, he said to the eldest prince in front of him who looked honest.

“Yes, father.”

The eldest prince lowered his eyelids and answered with a gentle face. He asked someone to collect the chessboard, bowed and retreated.

“Young Master Lin, please come this way.”

“Please.”

Xiao Shunzi went out to invite Lin Tian, and Lin Tian treated him even better.

The two happened to pass by the eldest prince who was retreating from inside.

“Hello, eldest prince.”

Lin Tian saw a young man with an honest face coming out from inside, and he immediately bowed.

Xiao Shunzi just said that the eldest prince was playing chess with Emperor Zhengde inside, so the one who came out now must be the eldest prince.

“Are you going to see your father? Come in quickly!”

The eldest prince looked at Lin Tian very kindly, and looked at him calmly.

And Lin Tian was also looking at the so-called eldest prince in return.

It is said that this person is at the center of the interference of foreign relatives in politics.

Logically speaking, he is the eldest son of the emperor and should have been made the crown prince since he was born.

But to this day, no one knows what the emperor thinks.

In just a second, Lin Tian retracted his gaze and saluted the eldest prince again.

The eldest prince nodded, turned around and left with the servant beside him. Before leaving, he pretended to glance at the bundle in Lin Tian’s hand casually.

This person is from the third brother’s fiefdom…

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty…”

“Okay, get up! I know you can’t do these red tapes!”

Lin Tian went in and was about to kneel down to salute when he was stopped by Emperor Zhengde.

“Etiquette cannot be abolished!”

“I, Lin Tian, pay my respects to His Majesty. Long live the Emperor!”

Lin Tian insisted, kneeling down again and performing a great salute before standing up.

He was indeed not good at following some of the etiquette of this era, but at least he had to pretend.

The Emperor’s words were both true and false.

If he took them seriously, he probably didn’t want to die.

“Well, why did you come to see me today?”

Emperor Zhengde glanced at Lin Tian with an ambiguous expression. No one knew what he was thinking. He just stared at the bundle behind Lin Tian.

“I am here to do business with the emperor!”

Lin Tian also looked at the package in his hand. This was his biggest bargaining chip today.

From the information in his mind, the emperor should be a person who likes new things and can distinguish right from wrong.

Otherwise, he would not have hesitated to establish a crown prince.

It was because he knew that the queen’s family was ambitious and the eldest prince was mediocre and incompetent.

“Oh? Doing business with me, are you sure you are right?”

Zhengde became interested as soon as he heard it. He raised his eyebrows and supported the table with his elbows, leaning forward to look at Lin Tian.

“Of course you are right. I came here today to treat the emperor to a hot pot!”

Lin Tian said, motioning the eunuch next to him to take the bundle in his hand.

He was carrying a hot pot inside!

“I want to see what this ‘hot pot’ is!”

The emperor suddenly became interested and waved his hand to let the two eunuchs follow Lin Tian.

Lin Tian was naturally not polite. He directly borrowed the small kitchen next to the imperial study and began to have people prepare some common hot pot ingredients.

“Your Majesty, please look, this is the spicy hot pot, and this is the clear soup pot!”

Lin Tian introduced while setting the dishes. The dishes in this palace are rich, and they are more abundant than what he prepared at home in a day.

“Is this the hot pot you mentioned?”

Zhengde looked at the table of raw food in front of him and was a little confused.

“Your Majesty, please sit down first. I will demonstrate it to you!”

Lin Tian did it in a very professional manner and began to blanch a piece of mutton for the emperor, dipped it in dry sauce and sent it to his plate.

However, the emperor did not do it.

Xiao Shunzi next to him took out a silver needle from his sleeve, tested it to make sure it was non-toxic, and then retreated.

Zhengde then started to put the mutton into his mouth and chewed it.

“This way of eating is fresh!”

Emperor Zhengde said while eating, and began to blanch his favorite ingredients himself.

The hot pot was boiling and the aroma was fragrant. The weather was hot, and the emperor soon sweated profusely after sitting in front of the hot pot for a quarter of an hour.

“Your Majesty, what do you think?”

Seeing that he had almost finished eating, Lin Tian handed him a glass of ice water.

This was prepared by the imperial chef.

The emperor took a sip of ice water to calm down, and there seemed to be a spicy taste of the collision of ingredients in his mouth.

He didn’t say anything, just looked at the pot that was still steaming, thinking.

Lin Tian’s heart was also lifted.