The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 111 Ingenious
In the Zichen Palace, Chen Jijiang has seen what it means to be "each with his own mind".

The emperor read the memorial calmly. At first glance, there was a line of "this has nothing to do with me" on his face, and when he looked closely, the word "annoying" faintly appeared on the brow of his eyes.

Master Wei was drinking tea beside him, his eyes were so cold that he could freeze to death.Can he not be angry?They didn't know Xin'er until the Queen Mother drove into Luo'an City. He felt that the imperial guards were ashamed!
The Seventh King chatted with his mother with a smile on his face, and talked about basic necessities of life. Chen Jijiang felt that His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince was very tired.

Look at Yi Shi again.

Mrs. Yi came in with the child, and the child was carried by the wet nurse to the Queen Mother. The Seventh King and the Queen Mother must talk about the child.

Yi just happened to clap Chao Ayao's hands: "Come on, Ayao, Aunt Seven will take you out to play."

As soon as Emperor Ping'an left, the palace felt relieved.

Chen Jijiang watched, Mrs. Yi is really a sensible person.She doesn't have to worry about leaving the little prince behind like this. The child's father and uncle are here, and even the queen mother is her grandmother, so she will never let him suffer any grievances.But Diji Ping'an was different. Seeing the way the Empress Dowager looked at her just now, Chen Jijiang was worried that the little Diji would notice something.

In this way, the atmosphere of harmony and embarrassment in the palace continued until the emperor passed on the meal.

The palace servants in the imperial dining room brought in the dinner, and the palace servants in front of the imperial court were dumbfounded: "Miss imperial dining room, have you broken the pot?"
Xie Zhao raised his eyebrows: What is this stupid pear doing?

The five small proposals came in first, and they were laid out directly in the hall, and someone from His Majesty's side took care of the imperial case.

Immediately afterwards, six small stoves came in, placed in the middle of the outside of the desk, and lit.

Then the copper pot came in, the lid was closed, and it was impossible to see what was inside.As soon as the copper pot was placed on the small stove, the maid who served the pot was waiting nearby, and it seemed that there was a place to get started for a while.

Later, the other palace people served other dishes, filling the table with a dazzling array, but Xie Zhao took a closer look: Why are they all cold dishes?

Salted duck, drunk shrimp, marinated eggs, cold radish, cold bean curd, spiced peanuts, beef with soy sauce... There are all kinds of meat and vegetables, and the cold dishes are also cold dishes!

In the end, soup was served again, one for each table, except for the table that was vacant for Sydney, which had two.I know this without asking, so I have to prepare a lamp for Ah Yao.

Xie Zhao lifted the lid to take a look, the soup was milky white, with mushrooms, rapeseed, cabbage heart, and two slices of carrots to enhance the color.

It is fish maw in milk soup.

Scanning the table again, the soup is not bad. The so-called milk soup is boiled with pork bones and the like. After boiling, it turns milky white. Gu calls it "milk soup", which is quite particular.

The others were all cold dishes...but there was also rice on top, which made him wonder what was in the copper pot with the lid in front of him.

Xie Zhao looked up at the Empress Dowager's expression, and told the palace servants: "Go and invite Yi Liangyuan back, and Sydney, let's see what she is doing."

The palace man answered "No" and went out to invite someone.

Yi Liangyuan was easy to find, she didn't go far at all, and she took Ping'an Emperor Ji to play at the bottom of the long steps.The palace man went over and bowed, saying "Your Majesty invites you in to have a meal" and that's it.

Then it was time to find Sydney. Chen Jijiang stepped out quickly and dragged the palace maid: "Miss Ruan is in the imperial dining room. But if the Queen Mother asks you later, if you dare to say that, I will give you to Lady Ruan's room tonight." The pets in the house are teething!"

The eunuch almost peed in fright!

Who doesn't know that Lady Ruan's pet is a lion...

After a while, Xue Li followed the eunuch into the palace, bowed his head and bowed to the Queen Mother: "Queen Dowager Jin'an."

"Okay, let's sit." The queen mother said in a flat tone, Xueli kowtowed again and got up, and went to the last empty seat on the left. I haven't seen it for so many years. Is this someone's idea to take dinner for the emperor?"

When Sydney heard it, her heart tensed up.It seems that no one pointed out that this was her idea just now... Then can she hope that she will not be pushed out now?

Even if you don't push it, everyone knows it well, which is different from making it clear.

She forcefully said "it has nothing to do with me" and waved at A Yao, and A Yao ran over from Yi Shi, and she hugged A Yao and sat on the chair next to her.

Then I heard the emperor say: "No. I heard Mr. Mingxuan said about this, and I ate it a few times later. I remembered it yesterday, and let the imperial dining room serve this tonight. My mother had a sudden accident, and I forgot For this matter, I didn’t ask them to change to other things.”

Sydney: ...Your Majesty's response is so fast!
The emperor said so, the queen mother couldn't bear to poke something directly, she just glanced at the copper pot: "What the hell is this?"

The question was for the emperor, but Cui Wan, who was standing beside the empress dowager waiting to serve her, replied subconsciously: "It's a stew pot, empress dowager."

Then Cui Wan nodded slightly, and the palace servants around the six of them lifted the lids of the pots. In the hot air, the chicken wings, chicken legs, beef, ribs, etc. inside were half-cooked. Cover the sauce evenly, cover the pot and continue to simmer.

As soon as the lid was lifted, its own fragrance came out with the heat, and Ah Yao, who was tired from playing, was excited all of a sudden: "It smells so good!"

The Empress Dowager gave her a cold look, and just as she was about to speak, the Emperor laughed and said, "It smells really good."

Then the seven kings agreed: "Well, it's very fragrant."

Wei Chen nodded: "The imperial dining room is good at craftsmanship."

After a while, when the lid is opened again, the contents inside will be cooked.

The taste of the fusion of meat and thick sauce hits you head-on, because the meat is only half-cooked when the sauce is added, and the sauce can be simmered in just enough without being too salty.The maid next to it took a spoon and mixed the contents, so that everyone could see that there was a layer of vegetables under the various meats.

Most of them are sweet potatoes, potatoes, and yams that are soft and tasty after being stewed.But it doesn't matter, if you want to eat other lighter dishes... Isn't there cold dishes here?
Then the empress dowager put down the chopsticks first, and the emperor followed, and everyone started to eat.

Xie Zhao picked up a piece of chicken leg meat and ate it with rice. While eating, he couldn't help wondering why there was such a dish on the pear. !
After eating the chicken leg, he picked up a piece of beef, and after eating the beef, he picked up a chicken wing. When he finished eating the chicken wing, he planned to grab a piece of yam... Xie Zhao suddenly understood!
This stupid Lizi really made him a little bit behind when he was so smart. Thinking about it again... Tsk, it's not easy for her to force her to be like this.

So during the whole meal, the emperor couldn't help but look over at Sydney.Almost every time she watched, she was feeding Ah Yao.

Earlier, it was said that when they came, they didn't ask the nanny to follow them, but now she can only feed them with their own hands.Although Ah Yao has always been very good at eating, but the child eats slowly, she waited patiently beside her. Later, she seemed too lazy to change the bowls and chopsticks, so she simply stopped eating and concentrated on feeding Ah Yao.

Ah Yao is really happy to eat!The meat in the pot is tender, and the sauce that has stewed the meat is also delicious when served with rice. The sauce seems to be salty, but slightly sweet, which suits her taste very well!

Sydney was also worried that the chicken and beef would be too hard. She would feel uncomfortable if she had too many snacks, so she planned to feed her a few mouthfuls so she wouldn't let her eat it, and then get her some custard when she went back.But look at her eating so happily...

Forget it, let her have a good time.It is one thing to pay more attention to raising a child, but she is happy, and suddenly she is not allowed to eat, and it is not good to make her feel unhappy.

For the whole meal, no one said anything.Even the Seventh King was puzzled: Didn't the queen mother come to trouble Sydney and ask her to have dinner with her?Why don't you say anything?

It's weird...

After the silent dinner, Wei Chen, the Seven Kings, and the Yi family resigned. The emperor said that he wanted to read the memorials, and the eunuchs indeed brought in several stacks of memorials. The queen mother could hardly keep any more.

"Respectfully send off the queen mother." The emperor bowed, and then very kindly said to the queen mother a way to relieve the boredom, "If the queen mother wants to talk to someone, I can inform the concubines."

"No need. You are busy with your work." The queen mother still had a cold face, and left without a good mood.

All the people in the Palace of Zichen took a long breath!
As soon as Xie Zhao turned around, he hurriedly helped Xueli up who was still giving the big gift. Xueli didn't know whether it was because she hung her breath for too long or she hadn't performed this kind of bowing ceremony for a long time. plant.

"Sydney!" Xie Zhaoyi tried his best to support her, looked at A Yao beside him, and said with a smile, "A Yao, will my father ask the maid to take you back? Your mother has worked hard today, and my father will stay with her for a while."

"Okay..." A Yao's voice was soft and sweet, she nodded, and immediately an elderly court lady came over and took her away.

Xueli rubbed her temples and waited for them to walk away, while she calmed down. When their figures disappeared completely and their voices could no longer be heard, her nose became sore...

She was really scared to death this afternoon!Even though she knew that the other party didn't like her, she still had to stand up, because the other party was the queen mother!

Just now she was able to stand it because she didn't have time to think about "unable to stand it" at all, and she was a little bit "mother is tough", thinking that no matter what she said, she would not make Ayao feel anything.Now that he left, the emotion in her heart was like a rock collapsing, she was so uncomfortable that she couldn't say a word, and she burrowed into his arms without making a sound.

"Okay, okay." Xie Zhao hugged her, stroking her back to give her comfort, and after a long time of stroking, he could calculate in his arms: "Woo..."

It's really hard for her.

Xie Zhao held her tightly in his arms, and coaxed her softly in her ear, "It's all right, it's all right", but she was made to cry more and more by his words, sobbing uncontrollably!
Sydney also scolded herself in her heart for being worthless.After shrinking in his arms for a while, he struggled out, took two steps back and wiped his tears: "I'm fine."

"Go in and talk." He took her and led her in. Without stopping in the inner hall, he went directly into the sleeping hall, turned his head and told Chen Jijiang, "Let the imperial dining room bring some food, cook according to her taste."

Chen Jijiang took his order and went, Xue Li looked at him with tears in his eyes: "I'm not hungry..."

"You didn't eat much just now." Xie Zhao frowned slightly, speaking involuntarily.He held her hand and sat down on the side of the couch, and wiped her tears with a smile in his mouth, "Okay, don't be afraid that Ayao will see something wrong if your face is stained from crying?"

"Don't show it to Ah Yao!" Xue Li wiped it off herself again, turned around and climbed onto the couch, "I'm not leaving!"

Xie Zhao laughed out loud!
Although I didn't intend to let her go back, it's different from her own mouth!

This stupid pear has always been thin-skinned, she has been here for a month, no matter whether he went to find her or asked her to come here, she must have seen him blushing.

Hearing her say such a "concise and concise" sentence suddenly, Xie Zhao knew that she was really tired after laughing.

I was so tired that I couldn't care less about my thin skin, so I just wanted to stay with him—that's all, that's fine.

So when the maid brought in the supper, she saw His Majesty and Mrs. Ruan sitting on the couch, with His Majesty leaning against the wall, and Xue Li leaning on His Majesty's arms.

The two maids didn't dare to raise their heads, they put the couch table on the bed, put it on for supper, and hurriedly stepped aside.

After a while, the two dared to raise their heads slightly when they heard the slight sound of porcelain.

At a glance, Lady Ruan was still leaning in His Majesty's arms, the tears on her face were still wet, but she smiled.

His Majesty fed her the small wontons in the bowl with a porcelain spoon, and asked, "Is it delicious?"

"Yeah!" Xue Li nodded while eating, and poked his fingers on his waist, "Your Majesty, would you like one?"

"I'm full." He smiled, put down the porcelain spoon and gave her another bean paste bun.

Xue Li didn't even bother to get up, took the bean paste bun and ate it directly in his arms.

so tired……

But the bean paste buns are delicious!
She gnawed with her eyes closed, and after he finished eating, he handed over something, and she stopped eating: "I want to go to bed early, and I'll feel uncomfortable if I eat too much and go to sleep."

The more you live, the more you know what to pay attention to.

Xie Zhao thought about it for a while, and asked the maid to help her wash up, and then lay down and rested for a while.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he couldn't help but start to think about things. After thinking about it, he actually admired her a little.

Still very courageous...

In dealing with the Empress Dowager, he had always been submissive when he was a child, but after succeeding to the position and gradually becoming stronger, he began to confront the Empress Dowager directly, with the tip of the needle against the wheat.

And her way today was something he had never tried or even thought about.

She used her skills to turn the dinner that the Queen Mother originally planned to trouble her into a place where she had her own advantage.

She was not familiar with the rules of the dining table, and the queen mother could certainly find a lot of mistakes in her-or even if she was familiar with them, the queen mother could still find faults in a hair-splitting way.

Even Concubine Hui was often made things difficult by this.

But as soon as she put on the stew pot, the style of dinner completely changed. After becoming an empress dowager, she had no experience in this way of eating, so she seemed less confident.

The arrangement of dishes is also really clever.

It stands to reason that a stewing pot is fine, as side dishes, you can have a few hot and cold dishes, and she serves all the cold dishes.

Xie Zhao didn't feel anything at first, but after thinking about it...

It is estimated that she did not understand in the rule of "dishes that are far away can't be served", how far is the dish that is considered "far away", so she simply served cold dishes—whoever has nothing to do to eat Cold dish?It's not a big deal if you don't eat it directly.

Not to mention, even the seventh younger brother Mingxuan of the Yi family just stared at the stew pot and ate, and the queen mother didn't eat much cold dishes.

In this way, no one cares about the rule of "only three chopsticks for each dish".

Just a hot stew pot with only three chopsticks?Queen Mother, eat one and let me see!

this pear...

Xie Zhao couldn't laugh or cry after thinking about it.He really has her, he had already planned it out, in order to protect her, he would have to confront the Queen Mother head-on again at the dinner table.

Who would have thought that she would be so clever, not to mention the queen mother, the rules of the whole dinner would follow her mind.She doesn't have to worry about being picked on by the queen mother, and she can eat freely by herself.

——As for not eating much in the end, it was mainly to take care of A Yao, which is another matter.

When Xueli came back from the shower, she was still holding a handkerchief in her hand and continued to wipe her half-wet hair. As soon as she looked up, she saw him smiling at her.

"What are you looking at..." Her cheeks blushed, she turned to the dressing table with her head down, sat down, and waited for the maid to help her comb her hair.

Xie Zhao smiled lowly and got off the bed, took the horn comb on the dressing table, and waved the maid next to him to leave.

Xue Li looked dumbfounded at him smiling behind her, and she realized as soon as the comb teeth touched her scalp, she blushed and covered her face with her hands in a heartbeat: "What are you doing!"

Why did you suddenly come over to help her comb her hair...

Still smiling so...warmly...

"Tsk, I just found out that the girl I married is even better than I thought before." Xie Zhao said seriously behind her, and the hand that Xueli was about to take off her face immediately covered it back, and the cold palm of her hand felt cold. His cheeks were so hot!

Xie Zhao looked at her shyness with a smile in the mirror, as if he suddenly understood what the emperor's favorite in the history books was all about.

Speaking of the word "special favor", it makes people think that it is an act of a foolish emperor. Few people paste this word with "special affection", and they only think that the emperor who did such a thing disregarded the overall situation.

But in fact……

No one would take the initiative to want to be a "faint king", why he still insists on going his own way, probably only the emperor who did this knows what it feels like in his heart.

There's no big reason to say, and you don't even need to deliberately give yourself the idea of ​​"treating her wholeheartedly".It's just that after having her, he can no longer see others in his eyes, and it has become difficult to visit the harem as before to maintain peace. He seems to be cursed, and he stubbornly doesn't want to have any A bystander mingled between them.

He couldn't tell the reason.Maybe it's because she always surprises him unexpectedly, or, just because of inadvertently, there are many times like this...

He looked left and right, only thinking that she was fine in everything.Let him look at her, and he can't care about anything else.

(End of this chapter)