Shangshi female official

At the entrance of the embroidery room of the Shangfu Bureau, all the maids in the embroidery room were embroidering patterns on the red cloth. She stood at the door and called out as usual: "Xinyan? Xinyan?"

Xu Xinyan looked up, then lowered her head and continued to embroider her things, ignoring Wang Yifu.

Wang Yifu called out a few more times, but Xu Xinyan didn't even raise her head anymore, Wang Yifu's shouting was boring, so she had to stop.

Princess Jiahe was going to get married, and everyone in the room was busy with their needlework, so it was meaningless for her to stay longer if no one paid any attention to her, so she had to walk the same way as before with an umbrella, and walked to the entrance of the Shangfu Bureau, and met Feng Xiaobao who came in.

"Little treasure?"

When Feng Xiaobao saw that it was her, he bowed respectfully and said, "Hello, Sister Yifu."

"Why are you here?"

Feng Xiaobao glanced at the embroidery room, and then said: "A piece of clothing was torn earlier, please mend it for me, if I have time today, I will see if I can wear it."

"Are you looking for Xinyan?"

Feng Xiaobao glanced up at her redundantly, and nodded.

"Then you give her this food box, which contains her favorite pancakes and a bowl of fugu soup."

Wang Yifu handed over the food box, although Feng Xiaobao did not refuse, but hesitated for a while before accepting it.

"Then... Sister Efu, I'll go first?"

"Go ahead."

The two of them opened their umbrellas and ran in opposite directions. Not only that, the rain suddenly became heavy and hit the umbrella cover mercilessly. Wang Yifu suddenly felt sad, stopped her pace, and couldn't help choking for a while. .

"My God, is that really the case?"

No one responded to the whispered words in her mouth, and the world was ruthless, so she could only pack up her mood and walk to the imperial dining room.

Before the princess got married, there was going to be a gift of wedding wine. Empress Li was so considerate that she wanted to hold a palace banquet, and the emperor agreed, but she didn't expect that when making the menu, it took a lot of time for Empress Li to choose everything.

The peony jelly dishes, hibiscus chicken slices, raining flowers, golden glass fruit, sesame pea paste, sweet and sour carp, calabash duck, potted beef, five dragon soup, and white sauce puffer fish that I have seen in the palace banquet before were named by Li Niangniang Next, I also ordered extra pagoda meat, spicy lamb strips, emerald radish box, stewed soft-shelled turtle with velvet antler, three-layer soup, and red date crisp.

This is less than a third of the menu. Originally, Li Niangniang wanted game such as monkey brains and pangolins, but was stopped by Chen Shangshi, saying that it was unlucky for the princess to marry and slaughter too many creatures because he had consumed some ingredients during the Chinese New Year. .

This also meant that seven days before the palace banquet, the imperial dining room was busier, and it was even more troublesome than preparing for the palace banquet on weekdays.

There are many ways to prepare the three-layer soup. Chen Shangshi didn't ask, and used the most common method of pork belly wrapped in chicken and pigeon.

The shredded radish used in peony jelly must be dried in the sun repeatedly. When it rains, it can only be baked slowly with carbon without fire. The five dragon soup is made with five kinds of animal tendons, and it has to be cooked with a good broth. .

The jujube cake should also be baked in advance. The lard kneaded pastry and the food-dyed dough are laid alternately in red and white layers, rolled out with a rolling pin, and then stacked.

In this way, the pastry layer and the surface layer become very thin. When the pastry layer is fried, the pastry layer disappears, and the surface layer expands slightly, leaving just a gap, so it tastes crispy and crispy.

All the court ladies who read the menu held their breaths. These dishes were purely for torture. After they were all cooked, they couldn't rest from morning till night.

Mo Xi canceled the eight-day rotation rest for Jia and the princess before they got married, and there are more people on hand every day, so that everyone can sleep through the night at least.

On this very busy first day, Wang Yifu was sitting by the door of the dining room, picking up lettuce with a knife, when Chen Shangshi, Qiu Shangshi, and Ruan Sishan came to their dining room in person.

As soon as the three most senior officials in the catering bureau came in, everyone was startled and stopped moving. Chen Shangshi said to the crowd: "You are busy with your work."

Qiu Shangshi said to Wang Yifu, "Come out."

Wang Yifu didn't know what happened, so she went out with them first, Fuli said: "My lords, the dining room is so busy now, I can't leave people, I don't know what's important?"

Qiu Shangshi glanced at her from bottom to top and said, "Come with us."

Wang Yifu didn't know how to respond to these two words indifferently, so inexplicable, what happened to involve her?

She followed, and the group of people walked out of the imperial dining room and went straight to the Tai Hospital. Wang Yifu's heart was half cold. Could it be that Du Jingmo was involved?
They brought Wang Yifu to the last room of the imperial hospital, which happened to be the place where Du Jingmo's desk was. Fortunately, Du Jingmo was not there.

There were other female officials in the room, Chen Shangshi and Qiu Shangshi bowed to the female official wearing the gold crown and said: "Lord Gongzheng, you have already brought them."

"Search."

When she gave an order, the two eunuchs behind her set up ladders and climbed to the top. They stretched out their hands and groped along the beams of the roof. I touched it again.

After confirming that there was nothing, the two eunuchs came down from the ladder, bowed to Lord Gong Zheng and said, "My lord, there is nothing."

"No? This matter is not trivial, you should search carefully!"

"My lord, I have touched all over the beam, and there is indeed nothing."

That Gong Zheng turned his face to look at Wang Yifu, and asked with a sneer: "You are a smart person, took it away?"

"Eve doesn't know what the lord is talking about."

"Private meetings with Taoist nuns outside the palace, hiding witchcraft kits, one is hidden somewhere in the imperial dining room, and the other is hidden on the beam of this room. You know, you have committed a big taboo in the palace!"

Wang Yifu quickly knelt down and begged, "My lord, this is pure nonsense, and Yifu has never done it."

Chen Shangshi chimed in and said: "My lord, catch the thief and seize the stolen goods. Since there is no stolen goods, how can you blame it for no reason."

Qiu Shangshi retorted: "My lord, the person who made the accusation explained everything in detail, including when and where, how to trick the imperial physician out, and the swallow's nest on the beam. This girl has always been restless. Take off the stolen goods first. Such a person cannot be kept in the imperial dining room."

Chen Shangshi only said: "Empty talk has no proof, how can it stain people's innocence."

"My lord, such a person would rather be killed by mistake than tolerate it."

Mr. Gongzheng was indecisive, the news was given by a lady, and the time and place were clearly stated, it really didn't look like a lie, she was just a female history, and it was not a big deal to get kicked out.

It's just that it's better for Gong Zhengsi to give a basis. If he stays here today and catches people without any precautions, he wants them to get all the stolen goods.If it was forced to drive people away, if the Empress Dowager knew about it, she would have nothing to say when she blamed her.

While hesitating, Chen Shangshi had already walked up to her, pulled her away a little bit, and whispered: "My lord, this girl's female history was given by the empress. If she is kicked out without evidence, the empress will There, there is no way to explain."