Gourmet Red Chamber: A Chronicle of Baochai's Rebirth

Chapter 101
Besides, Baozhuang ran to Cining Palace after school at noon. Prince Xiao Xun also wanted to come, but he refused, "I want to have a good sleep in the afternoon and won't come to study. You don't have to come with me."

Baozhuang could ask for leave at any time, and he could even tell the reason why he wanted to have a good sleep, but Xiao Xun couldn't, so he had to stop.

As soon as Baozhuang entered the door, he asked, "Queen Mother, has Almsgiver Xue come? Has the meal been cooked? Is the meal ready?"

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

The Queen Mother Sheep was both funny and angry, so she ordered someone to go to the kitchen to urge her.

Soon the palace servants came with two small earthen jars and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, Miss Xue said that roasting squirrel fish with deer tendons is very labor-intensive. There will be a while. Your Majesty, you can drink some soup to relieve your stomach." , also nourishes the stomach.”

Queen Mother Yang nodded in approval, and the palace people opened the seats and placed two small jars in front of Queen Mother Yang and Baozhu.

Baozhuang couldn't wait to open the lid, and the rich and delicious fragrance hit his mouth and nose.

It was made by Donor Xue himself!

Baozhuang felt that he had come to life, and he quickly took a spoonful of soup and put it into his mouth.

The temperature of the soup was just right, and Baozhuang felt that his whole body had warmed up as he had just come back to life.

Sure enough, it was made by Donor Xue himself!

Baozhuang directly picked up the can, a small can of soup. He raised his head and drank it all in one breath, and then ordered, "No need to wait for the deer tendon, just bring it up when it's ready, rice." That’s okay, I’m hungry.”

He didn't feel hungry at first, but after drinking the can of soup, he became extremely hungry.

Donor Xue is good at everything, but he only cares about the weight when cooking and refuses to ask him to eat even one more bite. This is not good!

What good can such a small can of soup do?

The Queen Mother Sheep was stunned, wait, what did she see just now?
Her son drank a can of soup directly from the can?

And he said he was hungry?
It has been more than four months since he returned to Beijing. He only eats a few mouthfuls of food every day, and she has never heard him say he was hungry!

The Queen Mother Sheep subconsciously took a spoonful of soup and put it into her mouth. The delicious soup brushed her taste buds——

The Queen Mother Sheep looked at the small jar in front of her, what should she do?I really want to imitate my son and just pick up the can and pour it down!
Soon, several dishes except the braised squirrel fish with deer tendons were served together with the soybean noodles.

The moment the spicy aroma of the steamed noodles came through, Queen Mother Yang and Baozhuang swallowed involuntarily. It was so appetizing just smelling it!

Baozhuang danced very fast with his chopsticks, one mouthful of food and one mouthful of noodles. He was gentle but very fast. He quickly wiped away a large bowl of noodles and several dishes in front of him, and then looked at Gong with bright eyes. People, "Isn't that deer tendon ready yet? Give me another bowl of noodles."

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

No wonder people say they are half-grown and poor. Is this really her son who only eats a few mouthfuls of white rice and drinks a few mouthfuls of water?
This time I went to urge it, and the roasted squirrel fish with deer tendon was finally ready.

Queen Mother Sheep was already full and ordered the entire plate of fish to be delivered to Baozhuang. Then she watched with dumbfounded eyes as Baozhuang finished roasting squirrel fish with deer tendons and finished a large bowl of steamed noodles!

If she had known that her son had this appetite, she wouldn't have had to worry about his health every day!
"Is there any more face?"

The palace man replied that there was no chance. Baozhuang sighed regretfully, put down his chopsticks, and looked at Queen Mother Yang with bright eyes, "Mother, I will take a nap in the Queen Mother's palace today. When I wake up, can Queen Mother please invite Miss Xue?" Make me afternoon tea?"

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

This is not full?

For afternoon tea, Xue Baobao made four snacks and hawthorn kumquat fruit tea.

She knew Baozhuang's virtue very well, he must eat until he was full, so give him something appetizing, otherwise he would be so full that he would vomit again.

In the evening, Xue Baobao only cooked a portion of barley porridge, paired with some delicious kimchi.

The barley porridge does not have medicinal properties. The most important thing is to rub it with tofu residue, grind it with water, filter it with a cloth, and then use four parts of barley pulp and six parts of white rice to cook the porridge together.

The Queen Mother of Sheep had eaten barley porridge before, but this was the first time she had eaten barley porridge that had no medicinal flavor and only smelled like rice. She couldn't help but marvel.

But Baozhuang complained sadly, "Just a bowl of porridge, what's enough to eat? Donor Xue is too stingy, even if he just uses this barley to cook some rice!"

What grown man eats porridge at night? Are you full?
Queen Mother Sheep said angrily, "Miss Xue knows how to maintain good health. You eat a lot at noon and several plates of snacks in the afternoon. It would be better to drink something light in the evening so as not to accumulate food."

Baozhuang plausibly said, "What are you afraid of accumulating food? The worst thing you can do is take some digestive medicine."

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

Did Miss Xue inadvertently touch some extraordinary characteristics of her son?

Baozhuang asked again, "Mother, the New Year is coming soon. I heard that Shanxia attaches great importance to the New Year and wants to reunite the family. Will Donor Xue go home by then?"

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

Although the Chinese New Year is coming soon, it will still be more than ten days away. Are you starting to worry about your food now?

Baozhuang raised his head and looked at Queen Mother Yang seriously, "Mother, when will you make Donor Xue your adopted daughter? Can you do it before the New Year? Then she will be the poor monk's sister and can celebrate the New Year with the poor monk."

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

Mainly because I can cook you something to eat during the Chinese New Year, right?

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At dawn the next day, Baozhuang arrived at Cining Palace.

Before Queen Mother Yang got up, he found out that Xue Baobao was already busy in the kitchen, and ran to the kitchen.

Xue Baobao was kneading dough, and soup was boiling in a crock pot next to him.

She was used to getting up early. At home she could do boxing and play with herbs, fruits and vegetables to pass the time, but she couldn't do anything in the palace.

I asked the palace attendant in the small kitchen when he would start preparing breakfast, and came over after washing up.

When Baozhuang appeared, everyone in the kitchen was startled and fell to their knees in a hurry.

Seeing this, Xue Baobao had no choice but to kneel down. Baozhuang quickly supported her and said, "Amitabha, Donor Xue doesn't need to be polite."

Then he said to everyone, "Everyone, please get up. The poor monk is just here to see what is for breakfast."

He said and looked at Xue Baobao expectantly, "Donor Xue, what do you want for breakfast?"

"Shrimp noodles and shrimp wontons, the shrimp today is very good, very rare."

This is the royal family. In the middle of winter, you can still eat such good shrimps.

"Then we also have shrimp for lunch?"

"You can make a dish of salt and pepper shrimp and a dish of steamed egg with shrimp."

Baozhuang nodded happily and started to order, "Then I want to eat shrimp pancakes in the morning. Last night you only gave me such thin porridge, which was not full at all. I woke up hungry in the middle of the night. I need to eat more in the morning!" "

Xue Baobao, "..."

Are you sure you woke up hungry, not greedy?
Xue Baobao made him a cup of hawthorn juice in a familiar manner, and then fried shrimp cakes for him.

Baozhuang stood next to her, drinking hawthorn juice and watching her fry.

When he was in Shennong Mountain, he would often watch her cooking, and then take the food away and eat it as soon as it came out of the pot.

But now he is not in Shennong Mountain, but in the imperial palace or his mother's Cining Palace!I don't know how many eyes are watching his words and deeds. For example, right now, many pairs of eyes have begun to peek secretly this way.

Xue Baobao couldn't help but said, "My lord, you can go and do other things first. The girl will send it to you when she's ready."

Baozhuang looked at her innocently, "I have nothing else to do, I'm just waiting for your shrimp pancakes."

Xue Baobao, "..."

Okay, you are the prince, you have the final say.

Shrimp cakes mainly take some time to prepare the ingredients and fry them very quickly.

There were more than a dozen people serving in the small kitchen of Cining Palace. They divided the work one by one and prepared the materials quickly.

Xue Baobao mixed the ingredients himself, made round shrimp cakes, and fried them in a pan.

The golden shrimp cakes came out of the pan quickly one by one. Baodang didn't need anyone's help. He found a pair of chopsticks, poked the cakes and put them in his mouth.

Xue Baobao, "..."

Do you still remember that you are a prince?

Baozhuang's words and deeds in the small kitchen soon reached the ears of Queen Mother Yang.

The Queen Mother Sheep, "...those who beat and serve others, will be killed directly if the prince's words and deeds are spread out of the Cining Palace."

Bizhu took the order and left. After a while, Baozhuang personally brought a bowl of wontons to honor Queen Mother Yang.

Queen Mother Sheep just pretended that she didn't know that he had gone to the kitchen early in the morning to wait for food. She smiled and praised him for his filial piety, and asked him why he didn't eat together.

Baozhuang said frankly that he had already eaten in the kitchen, and his peach blossom eyes narrowed to a slit because of satisfaction.

Queen Mother Sheep asked, "I remember that you have to copy sutras for an hour every morning when you get up. You come so early. When did you get up?"

"In normal times, you can copy scriptures at any time. Of course, you have to come and eat the breakfast cooked by Almsgiver Xue first!"

Baozhuang said and licked his lips after thinking, "The breakfast cooked by Donor Xue is also delicious! From now on, I want to eat the breakfast cooked by Donor Xue every morning!"

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

In order to get rid of his habit of copying and chanting sutras early in the morning, she had tried all kinds of methods before, but he was unmoved. Now she changed it just for a breakfast?

"Mother, the wontons are delicious. Eat more. I'm going to listen to Master Lin's lecture."

Queen Mother Yang asked hurriedly, "Then will you come for lunch?"

Baozhuang licked his lips unconsciously again, "Come, Queen Mother, from today on, the poor monk will come to Queen Mother to eat every meal."

Queen Mother Sheep, "..."

I don't know whether to be happy or angry.

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The New Year is getting closer and closer, and even in this deep palace, the flavor of the New Year can be felt more and more intensely. Baby Xue will be at most 22 in the future, and Queen Mother Sheep will let her go. After all, the ancients seemed to attach great importance to the New Year.

But Queen Mother Sheep showed no response and even asked their family enthusiastically how they would spend the Spring Festival.

Xue Baobao, "..."

Okay, she will wait until the New Year's Eve, and she doesn't believe that the Queen Mother of Sheep will not let her go home to celebrate the New Year.

Facts have proved that Queen Mother Sheep is far more reasonable than she thought. On the 28th, after breakfast, Queen Mother Sheep ordered Xue Baobao to be sent back.

After the Little New Year, Baozhuang's classes stopped. In the past few days, Baozhuang was eating and drinking at Queen Mother Yang's place. Naturally, he was there at this time. Hearing this, he said with great reluctance, "Donor Xue, when will you return?"

Xue Baobao, "..."

Aren't you studying with Lin Banxian?Why is my language organization skills so poor?Do you know what "come back" means?

Queen Mother Sheep laughed, "Miss Xue will definitely have a good New Year at home."

Baozhuang was even more reluctant to leave, "Then, Donor Xue, can you steam a few steamed buns for me, and then steam a few steamed buns before leaving?"

Xue Baobao, "..."

What else can Xue Baobao do? He can only steam buns and steamed buns for Baozhuang.

Fortunately, steamed buns and steamed buns steamed quickly, and it was only about ten o'clock when she finished steaming them, just in time to go home for lunch.

She hurried home, not wanting Yu Xin to go out for business and not come back yet.

After Mrs. Xue cried for a while, she explained to her in detail, "Brother Xin asked someone to bring the letter back. Last time he was out of Beijing on business, and just as he was about to return to Beijing for business, the Holy Father sent another decree.

The land of Changchun was hit by heavy snowfall this year, and the imperial court sent soldiers and supplies to provide disaster relief, under his supervision.

He didn't even have time to go home and rushed over, saying that he would definitely not be able to come back to celebrate the New Year and would have to wait until the first month of the year."

Xue Baobao felt unhappy. Today's Changchun is different from the Changchun of later generations. There is no heating, inconvenient transportation, and maybe even vegetables can't be eaten.

Yu Xin has gone. Let's not talk about how the errand was done. He will definitely suffer a serious crime.

"Brother Xin asked me to pack some coats and send them over, so I hurriedly sent all his coats.

I took some new leather from the shop and asked Sister Zhen to help me make a few pieces.

Along with the medicine, food and daily necessities prepared by Xue Chen to keep out the cold, we hired a bodyguard to go all the way to catch up with Brother Xin. We should have caught up with him by now, and we might have to meet him in the next two days."

Mrs. Xue arranged everything well, but Baby Xue was still worried that even being an official in this era was not easy due to the backward material conditions.

It's fine to be an official in the capital or other wealthy places, but if someone like Yu Xin has to travel around a lot, or is often transferred here and there, it would be too troublesome, and it would be hard for a "official traveler"!

She came back late, and Zhen Yinglian had already helped Mrs. Xue arrange everything at home.

The mansion has been replaced with mufflers, couplets, and signs, and has been repainted with peach charms, giving it a completely new look. There is a strong New Year flavor everywhere.

It's a pity that Yu Xin is not there, it seems that something is missing everywhere, even Xue Pan is a little listless.

This is the fourth year that Xue Baobao has recovered from his previous life, but he has only spent one year with Yu Xin.

It was still dark the next day, and the front door of Xue Mansion was wide open all the way from the main gate, the ceremonial gate, the hall, the pavilion, the inner hall, and the main hall. The porch and the roadside were illuminated with a bright red light, like two golden dragons.

For the first time, Mrs. Xue wore high-grade court clothes, sat in a sedan, and brought Xue Pan, Zhen Yinglian and Xue Baobao into the palace to congratulate her.

Xue Pan was granted the title of fourth-grade Ziweishenren, and he also asked Mrs. Xue to be granted the title of fourth-grade imperial concubine.

In the world of Red Mansions, except for special circumstances, only officials of third rank or above and imperial edicts are eligible to enter the palace to worship, so Mrs. Xue has never entered the palace.

Yesterday, when the Empress Dowager Yang sent people to see Baby Xue back, she specifically issued a decree that allowed Mrs.

It was the first time for Mrs. Xue to enter the palace. She was excited and nervous. She got up early to dress up and sent people to rush Xue Pan and others.

The family hurriedly got ready. They didn't even dare to drink water for fear of being inconvenient in the palace, so they hurriedly got into the car.

(End of this chapter)