After being reborn, I became a scumbag and his aunt

Chapter 436
The dinner is very rich, with all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas.

The Eight Immortals table of huanghuali wood is full of beautiful things, and the dishes are all made of high-grade suet jade or rare and simple Ru porcelain.Every dish looks simple and unpretentious, but in fact, the chef has put in a lot of effort.

Let's just say that the most common jar of pheasant soup requires a few cooks to work for half a day.First boil five-color rice with bamboo drain water for an hour, filter the rice, and use only rice soup, which is a rice-free porridge.The so-called bamboo draining means that fresh bamboo is cut, and the pieces are baked on a small fire, and the juice that flows out is filtered.

Then choose a six-month-old pheasant and cook it with ten herbs such as wild ginseng and cordyceps.Take chicken legs and chicken breasts, chop them into minced meat, put them into the rice-free porridge and cook for [-] quarters of an hour, sprinkle with fresh and tender green vegetables, and the pheasant soup is ready.

This kind of extravagance that pays attention to the details can be seen everywhere in the Chen Mansion.She didn't think so before, after all, she lived like this every day.It was later learned that the extravagance of the Chen family was beyond the reach of even the Prince's Mansion.

There are billions of wealth that everyone covets, but there is no strong backing to protect it, and it will be a matter of time before it will be overthrown.

Su Bai drank a bowl of pheasant soup, suddenly felt the fragrance on his lips and teeth, and his whole body was comfortable.

He sighed, "The Chen family is indeed the richest man in Southwest China. How much money did you spend on this meal? You really lived in the Fuwo before."

Han Youning looked indifferent, she ate more extravagantly than this before.Now that there is no master in the other courtyard, and the Chen family's vitality has been greatly weakened, the servants are afraid to let go of their hands and feet when preparing meals, and save a lot.

"This kind of blessing is not worth mentioning."

Su Bai thought that there was no one left in the Chen family, so he sighed.

Although their Su family's wealth is gone, at least they are still there.

Because the Empress Dowager Lu lived in the main room, Han Youning lived in the west wing as a show of respect.

After dinner, Mother Chen talked with Han Youning in the wing room.

Mother Chen first talked about what happened in the past year for a while, and seeing that the young lady looked gloomy, she stopped mentioning those sad things.

She smiled and changed the topic, "Our other courtyard is a blessed place, and there are many nobles here. Not only did the first wife come here, but the Prince Jin was born here, and the current emperor and son-in-law... Duke Ding have all been here. When it comes to the most grand and suitable place to be a palace, it must be our Chen Family Courtyard."

Han Youning was surprised, "The emperor also came here?"

Chen's mother smiled and said, "The emperor was still the first prince, and the first queen mother was the queen. The first prince and Ding Guogong, who was the son at that time, escorted the first mother to Xiangping Mansion to wait for delivery. The emperor was young, tall and handsome, and the old slave looked at her. Look, it is very similar to the current Prince Jin. He was still wounded when he came, and it is said that he went into battle to kill the enemy without hesitation."

Emperor Qingming originally had some connections with the Chen family.

Fighting side by side more than [-] years ago, sharing weal and woe, did not bring him any mercy. I don't know how such a cruel person is like Zhao Chengyuan.

The year Zhao Chengyuan was born was the first battle between Great Zhou and Southern Chu.

Han Youning also occasionally heard his grandfather mention that the great battle had severely damaged the strength of the Southwest Army and the Chen family, and it took three or four years to recover.Grandfather Lao Ding Guogong died in that war, and the Chen family was almost exhausted by that war.

Grandfather used a word at the beginning, the battle of shame.When she asked again, her grandfather refused to say anything, and quietly told her not to talk nonsense.

After entering Beijing, my father refused to talk about this period of history. No matter how she acted like a baby, my father didn't mention a word.

That period of the past seems to be taboo, and it has been a long time, and very few people know about it, and even fewer people know the inside story.

Han Youning had an intuition that the obvious hostility between his father and Zhao Chengyuan had something to do with this past.The more her father shunned her, the stronger her feeling was.

She has many doubts, but suffers from the fact that no one is willing to tell her the truth, or maybe they really don't know.

Mother Chen is an old man in another hospital, so she might know something.

Han Youning asked Chen's mother, "Mama, do you know why the first queen mother came to the Southwest?"

The current emperor, empress, and the eldest son of the emperor, who is likely to be the crown prince, have all come to the southwest, which is really unimaginable.It just doesn't make sense at all.

It is said that the emperor's eldest son must stay in the capital to supervise the country, and the queen's responsibility is even greater. She must not only stabilize the harem, but also pay attention to the former court, and must not allow the emperor's eldest son or other ambitious people to usurp the country.

Mother Chen smiled and said, "Of course it was for the sake of the late emperor. The late emperor personally fought for a year, and the war did not end. The empress dowager was worried, so she rushed all the way to the military camp to take care of the late emperor. This way, she insisted on staying for a whole year."

Taking care of the first emperor, this reason is still too far-fetched.For a whole year, aren't you afraid of chaos in Beijing and China?Which is more important and which is less important, don't the late Emperor and Empress Dowager Lu know?

Han Youning asked, "Did Mom meet the Empress Dowager? What kind of person is she?"

Mother Chen had a bit of pride on her face, "The old slave was in charge of cleaning the garden. I met the first queen mother who was visiting the garden. The golden leaf she gave to the old slave is still kept by the old slave. The first queen mother is really amazing. An amiable person, such a noble person, has no airs."

Mother Chen missed Empress Dowager Lu and talked about it endlessly.

Although they were all trivial things, and many of them were heard from other servants, Han Youning seemed to see an elegant and friendly elegant woman, magnanimous and tolerant.

If the unknown enmity between Zhao Chengyuan and his father started from now on, what would it be?

Han Youning waited for Mother Chen to remember the Empress Dowager Lu, and asked, "What was the relationship between Father and the Empress Dowager back then?"

After asking, she added, "The queen mother is from Anlinghou's mansion. I think the old Anlinghou and his father were quite at odds, and they even had a big fight."

Chen's mother lowered her eyebrows and recalled for a long time, and said, "The empress dowager treats everyone very well. She is much older than Duke Ding and treats him as a junior. Duke Ding was only about twenty years old at the time. Miss I once followed the old lady to the other courtyard to pay respects to the first queen mother. At that time, the first queen mother laughed and said that Ding Guogong and the young lady were a good match, and said that she would marry them. Later, the old Ding Guogong was seriously injured. They are married."

From this point of view, the Empress Dowager Lu and the first emperor treated their father really well and trusted him extremely.The situation at that time was very clear. The Chen family could become the backing of the Southwest Army. Even without the support of the imperial court, the Chen family could still afford to support [-] soldiers and horses of the Southwest Army.

Their move can be regarded as a reassurance for their grandfather who is not long in the world.

So it seems that the feud between father and Zhao Chengyuan was not caused by Empress Dowager Lu.

Mother Chen talked about the grand occasion when her father and mother got married.

Although in order to celebrate the grandfather's joy, or to fulfill his wish to see his son get married, the marriage was done in a hurry, but the three media and six hires were not spared.

On the day of the wedding, the eldest prince was the best man, and the emperor and empress presided over the wedding in person. It can be said that the mother had a splendid marriage.

It sounds like a good story.

(End of this chapter)