The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 16 Birthday
As soon as the peach gum fell into the pot, people from Yilan Palace came to spread the meal.Cui Wan's complexion was slightly pale, but she was still working patiently and methodically. Xueli and Zixian kindly asked the eunuch who came to pass on the meal to wait for a while, and then stuffed a lot of money in the past.

He had to beg him to help perfunctory this matter in front of Concubine Li.If not, as long as he said in front of Concubine Li that the meal was not ready when he arrived at Shangshi Bureau, they would make another big mistake.

The two of them, together with Cui Wan, were nervous all afternoon, and they were relieved when they saw that nothing had happened in the evening.

Naturally, she was extremely tired after being worried, Xueli only wanted to go back to her room and sleep soundly, but as soon as she opened the door, Su Zixian rolled up her sleeves and killed Jiang Yuyao: "How could you do this!"

Su Zixian screamed so loudly that Xueli's ears rang, she raised her eyes and quickly pulled her: "Zixian!"

Before she realized what was going on, Su Zixian had already raised her hand to hit Jiang Yuyao.Jiang Yuyao did not show weakness, and also rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward to "fight".

Bai Ji was stunned by the side and couldn't react, Xue Li was terrified, before she could think much, she stepped forward between the two, pushing one with each hand: "Don't hit...don't hit!"

My mind was stunned, and I couldn't think of anything other than fighting for the time being, and I didn't even have time to think about the reason.

On the right, Su Zixian's almond-shaped eyes widened: "You want to kill us, don't you! You are so ruthless!"

On the left, Jiang Yuyao was not to be outdone: "What stupid words are you talking about! Your brain has been smashed!"

Both ears of Xueli were numb from the shouting, and finally realized that she was determined to be unable to cope, so she hurriedly called for help: "Ah Ji, help me!"

Bai Ji came back to his senses, hurriedly went to pull Jiang Yuyao, Xue Li was able to "concentrate" to block Zixian, and spent a long time persuading each other, but it could be said that the two of them stayed on their own couch, far away from each other. .

Fortunately, the ladies were not recruited!
Still angry, Jiang Yuyao stretched out her hand to grab the cup on the small table by the side of the couch and slammed it to the ground, splashing broken porcelain.

Bai Ji hurriedly advised: "Yuyao, Yuyao, don't be angry..."

Su Zixian heard Cixiang's violent strike, and was about to stand up and go forward, but Xueli pressed her back with all her strength: "Don't move!"

"You're just stupid!" Su Zixian gave Xue Li a hard look and cursed angrily.

Xueli was so scolded that she looked confused, so she endured it in order not to get angry, and admitted: "I'm stupid, I'm stupid!"

"..." Su Zixian lost her temper in an instant.

The four little girls were embarrassed in the room for a while, Bai Ji and Xue Li stared at each other, Zi Xian and Yu Yao ignored each other until they went to bed at night.

Bai Ji and Jiang Yuyao fell asleep, Xueli and Zixian copied the recipe a hundred times...

Xue Liqiang copied it vigorously, until his eyes were dizzy, and he felt that he might never want to touch that stewed white fungus with peach gum in his life.

Looking up, Su Zixian was still looking up at Jiang Yuyao who was already asleep from time to time.

Xue Li blinked, stretched out her foot and kicked her on the table, moving her mouth: "What are you doing?"

"She..." Su Zixian choked on the first word, looked at Jiang Yuyao, took a piece of white paper from the case, wrote a few words with a pen, and handed it to Xueli.

Sydney took it over and took a look: she must have added the rock sugar!

……what?

Sydney looked at Su Zixian in surprise for a while, and wrote under that sentence: No way?We have been in the same room for four years, and I don't think she will kill us.

Passing it to Su Zixian, she sneered after seeing it, and after passing it back, there was another sentence: What's so strange?The cousin said that there are too many cases of court ladies stabbing each other!
Xueli was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say, she grinned and stuck out her tongue at Zixian, Zixian glared at Jiang Yuyao again, and then they all continued to copy.

The practice of stewing white fungus with peach gum a hundred times has been copied until the morning light.

Fortunately, it's just a snack, if it's a main course like squirrel mandarin fish... they're going crazy.

Wash your face with cold water and get ready to go on duty.

This day, the four of them happened to be on duty together, and on the way to the dining room together, Xue Li and Bai Ji walked in the middle in a very tacit understanding, separating Jiang Yuyao and Su Zixian abruptly, so as not to cause any unhappiness later.

When I arrived at the dining room, I found that today seemed a little busy.I calculated it carefully in my heart: the heavy snow has just passed, and the winter solstice has not yet arrived, so there seems to be no other happy event.

So I started counting from top to bottom to see if it was a concubine's birthday.

"Is it Qiao Xuanyi's birthday?" Bai Ji asked uncertainly.

The other three thought it was true.It seems that Qiao Xuanyi is going to hold a small banquet tonight, but since he didn't inform them in advance, it has nothing to do with them.

Each of them went to get their aprons to clean their hands and prepare for work. Sydney couldn't help but murmured, today is also her birthday.

It's just a rant, anyway, since entering the palace, no one has celebrated their birthdays, and no one will mention them on weekdays. It seems that no one cares that they have birthdays, so after a few years, she doesn't care whether they celebrate or not. It's a birthday.

Instead, he deliberately emphasized to himself: Today is only 12 years old!Um!
This incident made Sydney feel very bad!

The love in the palace counts as a false age, after the new year is over, it is considered a year older.

It's fine for palace ladies whose birthdays are in March, April, May, June, or even July and August, just a few months away.But her birthday is in November!It's been almost a year in one go!

No matter how I think about it, I feel that I am considered old for no reason, and I am not happy!

Therefore, this month, Sydney can happily and peacefully say to herself: "I am 12 years old!"

Then, when the new year is over next month, I will say to myself full of dissatisfaction: "I'm not 13 years old..."

While obsessed with this stubbornly, the knife fell quickly.

Today Qi Chongyi's menu included a dish of fresh shrimp and parsley porridge, Cui Wan asked the regular waiter who was in charge of the porridge to bring her to make it together.Sydney cut up the celery and went to prepare the prawns, peeled and removed the heads of the half bowl of fresh prawns, and picked the prawns one by one.

Sydney is always unfamiliar with picking shrimp threads. I don’t know how the older sisters picked out the shrimp threads with a light scrape, making them clean and beautiful.

She has learned many times by imitating cats and dogs, but she will always cut it in half.It was like this again today, the valet took two and saw something was wrong, so he naturally said to her: "You have been in the palace for several years, and you still make it so ugly by picking a shrimp thread?"

Xue Li said in a muffled voice, "Sister, forgive me", and Chang Shi continued to reprimand: "That is to say, to make this porridge, you need to cut the shrimp into pieces. If you use the whole shrimp to peel it like this, you should be careful!"

After she finished speaking, she turned around and left with a small bowl of shrimp meat in her hand. Xue Li stayed in place for a while, feeling a sudden grievance in her heart.

The little palace ladies like them didn't have many shrimp dishes before...

really...

First, I was messed up making peach gum stewed white fungus, then I copied the recipe all night without sleep, and now I am scolded again. This birthday is so embarrassing.

After slowing down for a while, I turned my head and had to do my duty with peace of mind.

The cleaned rice has been boiled together with the shiitake mushrooms in the pot first, and now the lid of the pot is opened, the rich and fresh fragrance of the shiitake mushrooms and the light fragrance of the rice come together.

Add diced celery, adding jasper-like pieces of light green between the boiled rice grains.A small spoonful of salt was added, and Sydney took a clean porcelain spoon to scoop a little to taste.

It seems a little light.

So I added another half teaspoon of salt, and tasted it again with a clean porcelain spoon, this time it was all right.

She is deft in seasoning.Some court ladies can't figure out what kind of sweetness and saltiness the preferences such as "seven percent sugar" and "eight percent salt" mean, and she can always feel eight|nine are inseparable.So the waiter was very satisfied with the taste after frying the fresh shrimp, praised her a few words, and then gently told her to practice such small things as deveining the shrimp, so that it will definitely not be bad in the future.

Sydney feels better.

At noon, I took a penny out of my savings and ordered a snack and two crispy candies for myself, and I felt even better.

In the palace!You can't expect others to coax you, and you can't expect yourself to make yourself happy!

Xue Li ate the crisp candy contentedly, and when Su Zixian and Bai Ji finished their work, she dragged them to eat together, and soon she seemed to have nothing on her mind again.

After going back to the room to take a nap for two minutes, the busy afternoon is about to begin.

The group of people who had just been promoted to the position of Gong envoy were called to learn how to cook sweet and sour carp with Min Sishan.They have only recently started to learn these more difficult main courses. There is a carp in front of one of them. The carp has been cleaned up by the maids doing chores, lying clean on the chopping board, and they are clumsily handling it.

A little eunuch was poking his head at the door of the dining room, and the maids standing near the front were distracted and looked over. Min Sishan noticed and looked over, and the little eunuch shrank.

After Min Sishan explained the steps in detail and told everyone to do it slowly, and he left the dining room to do other things, the little eunuch walked in lightly.

After detouring behind Xue Li, he nodded on her shoulder: "Miss Ruan?"

Sydney was concentrating on sautéing the onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, when Tingyin subconsciously raised her hand, the spatula almost slapped the little eunuch's face with oil.

She turned around halfway, looked at it for a moment, and recalled that Wei Chen sent pears last time, which seemed to be his words, and she was a little curious: "What's the matter?"

The little eunuch looked around, then pressed his voice and said, "Miss, come out."

Xueli nodded, turned off the stove, put down the spatula and followed him out.He walked out of the dining room for another three to five zhang before he stopped, looked around to make sure there was no one there, and took out a box from his sleeve: "An adult asked the little one to pass this to the girl."

After he finished speaking, he paused, then quickly nodded and continued: "The adult gave the money for running errands, so I won't let the girl bother."

"..." Xueli took the long and narrow box he handed over, but did not open it yet.After thinking about it, he said briskly and generously, "Come to me tomorrow, and I'll give you some candy!"

She didn't want to be too reassured and not thank you, and this little eunuch is a few years younger than her, so it would be nice to share a few pieces of candy for fun!
"Thank you, miss." The little eunuch smiled openly, bowed straightly to her, and disappeared in a flash.

Sydney held the two-palm-long box in his hand and weighed it, but it didn't sink.

What the hell is it?
She opened the buckle suspiciously, and as soon as she opened the cover, a faint golden light shone in front of her eyes.

Yeah...

It is a hairpin, the whole body is made of gold, and on the head of the hairpin are five small flowers made of white jade flakes gathered together. The soft yellow stamens are lifelike, and they are also gold threads.

Is it pear blossom?
She had never seen such an exquisite hairpin before, holding the box in amazement for a while, before she noticed a narrowly folded piece of paper on one side of the box.

(End of this chapter)