The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 187 General Book
After the mourning period was over, the seven kings' memorial to the concubine was finally handed over to the emperor's desk.

Xie Zhao approved the word "Zero" without looking carefully, and then sent the Seven Kings and the officials of the Ministry of Rites to discuss this matter.

After several officials of the Ministry of Rites knew the reason for the summoning, they checked the almanac to pick a few auspicious days before entering the palace.The Seven Kings and their front and rear feet arrived, and several people greeted the ceremony together and sat down on both sides.

Xie Zhao idly flipped through the memorials sent by the Seven Kings, and asked the Ministry of Rites, "When is the right time?"

The Minister of Rites bowed his head: "I have read the calendar, and it is suitable for marriage on April [-] next year..."

Xie Han raised his eyebrows: "Then there are still more than five months? It's too long."

Everyone in the Ministry of Rites: "..."

Then they began to explain, persuading him to say "Your Highness the Seventh Prince, don't be in a hurry", and then explained in detail the procedures for enshrining a concubine, how many things need to be prepared, and how many processes are involved in each item.

The Book of the Ministry of Rites said: "Just for the auspicious clothes for the ceremony, it takes more than a month for embroidery, and all kinds of pearls and hairpins need to be prepared in order..."

The Seventh King sipped his tea and smiled: "All these are ready, Mrs. Yi has also learned the etiquette of canonization from the mother. Now it's time for the imperial brother to perform the posthumous ceremony. Can you, my lords, choose the closest one for this king?" auspicious day?"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites were stunned, okay?
It's the first time I heard that I dared to prepare my things first before going to the memorial. Isn't this the first cut and then the play?

In the stagnant atmosphere, several people looked at the emperor's expression...

The emperor didn't see any displeasure, he took a sip of tea and looked at the Seven Kings with a smile: "So anxious? Forget it, when is the nearest auspicious day?"

Everyone in the Ministry of Rites couldn't help being stunned.

——The auspicious days checked are all three months later, which is the "closest" date... I don't know!
So a few people apologized and said "the minister has neglected his duty", and the emperor had to ask Chen Jijiang to fetch the almanac to look at it on the spot.Finally, it was found that the fifteenth day of November, half a month later, was an auspicious day for marriage, and the emperor nodded with satisfaction: "That's the day."

The officials of the Ministry of Rituals resigned wiping cold sweat after taking the order.In the quiet Zichen Palace, the emperor and the seven kings let out a sigh of relief at the same time.

The two brothers sipped tea quietly for a while, the emperor said "Congratulations", and the Seven Kings yawned: "Brother Huang, did you bring up the matter of Empress Li together? Brother Huang is more anxious."

The emperor clicked his lips: "Kneeling in front of the Taimiao in the freezing cold, I'm afraid I'll freeze her."

Xie Han stared in astonishment, then you are not afraid of freezing your siblings? !

So half a month later, the Yi family was officially conferred the title of Seventh Princess. The emperor gave the seventh brother a few words of advice and a few auspicious words in the morning court the next day. Another thing - Xie Ling's gift.

Xie Ling is almost three years old now. After the title presented by the Ministry of Rites was rejected by the emperor, the emperor never mentioned this matter again.So to this day, when people talk about this Empress outside, they can only call her "Little Empress".Now that the emperor finally brought this matter up again, the courtiers had nothing to object to, and the court discussion came to a result on the spot. As soon as the court was over, Xu Shishui rushed to Jiugeyuan to spread the word.

"Emperor Ji Rou'an?" Xue Li thought for a while after hearing this, and said in a daze, "Isn't that right? It seems to be in the title that His Majesty rejected back then? Why do you remember to use it now?"

She remembered very clearly that at that time, among the three titles submitted by the Ministry of Rites according to the rules, was "Rou'an", which she thought sounded nice and had a good meaning.I just felt that Xie Zhao's refusal to use must have his reasons, so I didn't talk too much about it.

After more than two years, it is still this?Has his taste changed?

Xueli didn't understand, so she asked Xu Shishui, but Xu Shishui couldn't explain why.She had no choice but to wait to ask Xie Zhao with this doubt, during which time she got into the small kitchen and made a pork rib stewed rice.

It’s cold, the stewed rice tastes warm, not as dry as fried rice, it’s comfortable!
Put the small pieces of ribs that have been foamed with blood into the oil that has been fried with green onion and ginger, and then throw in two pieces of rock sugar, and the ribs will become burnt yellow during stir-fry.

As soon as the smell of meat gushed out with the heat, Xueli heard the sound of branches shaking and breaking outside the window, frowned and raised her voice: "Yuxiang, go eat your meat!"

"Wow..." Yu Xiang could hear her bad tone, and sat down at the kitchen door looking at her dejectedly.Xue Li ignored it, hummed a little song and poured the soy sauce into the pot, added some water to make the soup cover the ribs, and then turned to prepare other things.

Dice carrots and cucumbers, and slice shiitake mushrooms.Wash the glutinous rice and rice and mix them into the rice pot, and spread the three dishes on top.

After this process is done, just pour the ribs and soup into it and simmer. If you think it is not salty enough, sprinkle some salt in the soup.Sydney turned around and took a look...

"Fish fragrance!!!"

With her front paws resting on the stove, Yu Xiang, who was thinking about how to get the hot ribs out of her mouth, shook her ears, and looked at her aggrievedly: "Oh."

"You are so courageous!" Xueli pointed at it and scolded, "You know that you will lose your hair if you eat this! You will not look good if you lose hair, you know!"

Yu Xiang lay on the ground pitifully, with her chin on the ground, looking at her with tears in her eyes.

The two little guys, A Cong and A Ling, must have fed it up!
Although it used to eat delicately, it is not the "fine" of human beings.Most seasonings are not given to it, the meat is just stewed.

But at the beginning... there was only A Yao, and Sydney had nothing else to do, so she could watch her wholeheartedly and not let her feed Yuxiang blindly; later when there was A Yuan, A Yao was already very sensible, and she would Looking at A Yuan—but now there is A Cong and A Ling, but A Yao and A Yuan have started to study again and rarely can play with them.If their parents weren't there when they were playing with Yuxiang...the palace people didn't dare to take care of them.

Sydney saw Ah Cong feeding Yuxiang with rock sugar elbows for the first time a few days ago. At that time, she snatched them away and asked the palace servants. ..."

It made Yuxiang refuse to eat properly recently!It sits around the table wretchedly while they eat, but want it to eat bland meat that's been stewed just for it?
No, eat!

Where can I do this?Yuxiang is such a big lion, and he still jumps up and down every day to visit the various parts of Jiugeyuan...

Xueli sighed and knelt down to touch Yuxiang: "Silly boy, you've lost weight! I'll give you two small pieces of pork ribs, but you still have to eat your own food."

Yu Xiang's round ears trembled, stood up and rubbed against her face, Xue Li hugged it and touched it again: "It's not sad... I'm doing it for your own good. I can't let them feed you casually in the future, you will get sick!"

Yu Xiang snorted and rubbed against her, and after rubbing against her, watched eagerly as a pot of pork ribs was poured into the rice cooker to make stewed rice, then bowed her head and obediently ate the two small pieces that Sydney gave her.

It's really only two small pieces...

So small!
As soon as Xie Zhao arrived at Jiugeyuan, he saw Sydney teaching several children with a straight face.

In the main hall, she sat at the table of the Eight Immortals, A Cong and A Ling stood in front of her with their heads bowed, and A Yao and A Yuan stood beside her.Oh, beside Ah Ling, there was a fish-like squatting obediently.

Xue Li looked at A Cong and A Ling, and said earnestly: "Did Mother tell you that you are not allowed to feed Yu Xiang indiscriminately? Did you say that?"

Both nodded, and then Ah Ling wiped away tears: "But it wants to eat."

Sydney: "If it wants to eat, you can feed it? What if it gets sick?"

Ah Cong and Ah Ling stopped talking.Xie Zhao thought for a while, pressed the sound to silence the others, sat down on the porch by himself, continued to "watch the fun" with a smile in his mouth.

Xue Li hugged A Ling, and her tone softened: "You like it to make it happy, don't you? But you like it, so you can't make it sick. Do you remember how uncomfortable it was when you were sick? When it was sick It will also be uncomfortable, do you want to see it suffer?"

A Ling shook her head, feeling extremely regretful, and reached out to Xue Li to hug her.Xueli didn't refuse either, she picked her up and put her on her knees, and said: "Look, if you have something you want to eat, mother will not allow you to eat it, or not allow you to eat more, right? This is a reason. Mother also likes you, so I don't want to make you sick and uncomfortable. Do you also understand that you like Yuxiang? Otherwise, it looks like it is making it happy, but it is actually hurting it."

A Ling lowered her head and said nothing, while being wronged by what she said, she shrank into her arms.After a while, Ah Ling sobbed twice, hugged her arm and promised: "I won't feed it anymore..."

"Hey, if you want to feed it, you can feed it the meat you prepared for it with Yang Mingquan!" Xueli said and reached out to pat Acong, "Go Acong, get some meat for Yuxiang, and you can feed it together."

"Okay!" Ah Cong looked happier, turned around and ran out, and Ah Yao and Ah Yuan came to persuade Xueli.

Ayao said: "Mother, don't be angry, Yuxiang didn't eat too much, she must be fine! Just don't let them feed her again in the future!"

A Yuan hugged Yu Xiang and said, "Yes, yes, mother, don't be angry!"

Hey... When a child is so serious and persuades an adult, it is so cute that it makes people's hearts melt!

Xueli's expression completely eased, and she hugged Aling and went to touch Yuxiang with her brothers and sisters.Yu Xiang, who was obediently accompanying the little master to listen to the training just now, was a little dazed when everyone surrounded and stroked her hair. It was only when the smell of meat wafted from afar that she came back to her senses, swallowed her saliva and turned her head to look.

"Hey! Father!" Ah Cong stopped when he passed by the corridor.When he went out just now, he was in a hurry to get meat for Yuxiang, so he didn't look around much, and now he came back and saw his father was here.

He insisted on serving the pot of meat by himself, so Yang Mingquan had no choice but to stand by and protect him.Right now he was running happily to the emperor, Yang Mingquan knelt down beside him in fright: "Your Majesty, forgive me!" The pot of meat was obviously serious, he really didn't coax the second son to bring it himself - how dare he? !

Xie Zhao took the meat that his son was serving with a little effort, and waved Yang Mingquan back.The father and son entered the main room together, and he glanced at A Cong A Ling with a sullen face: "He is disobedient again. If you make your mother angry again, I won't take you out to play in Xia Tian, ​​and stay in Jiugeyuan by myself."

Ah Cong and Ah Ling: "..." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
So in the next few hours, these two little guys will behave well.First coax Yuxiang to eat the tasteless meat that he doesn't like, and then obediently eat dinner by himself.

Every grain of rice in the pork ribs stewed rice is full of meat, and because of the addition of soy sauce, each grain of rice is plated in a full and bright light brown color, which is very delicious.

The children ate heartily, while Xie Zhao and Xue Li chatted about A Ling Chuli while eating.

——Only now did Sydney know why he rejected A Ling's title more than two years ago, he was not dissatisfied at all!

He is simply scheming!

During the period of keeping filial piety, except that concubine's concubine's concubine's title or canonization of a wife is not allowed, the conferment of the clan's children must also be handled in a simple manner.

At that time, if Ayao had become a princess, the whole ceremony would probably be simplified to just go to the Taimiao to kowtow, and then come back to receive a decree and that's it.As for the young and ignorant little Diji like A Ling, they didn't have any serious rituals to follow, but they would become extraordinarily "simple" when it came to rewards.

Xie Zhao said that when a certain cousin of his was granted the title of Weng Lord by the princess, it happened just as his father passed away. One - even the palace does not lack these things, but after all it seems incomplete and not beautiful enough!

Xie Zhao said: "Although I want to give those things to Ah Ling sooner or later, how wronged her is the hasty ceremony? I want to wait until the filial piety is over."

A Ling ate with a porcelain spoon, and scooped up a piece of spare rib meat that had been deboned, and dug it out to feed it to Xie Zhao: "Father, eat!"

Xie Zhao was immediately fed by his daughter with a smile on his face, and sighed in his heart that he didn't love her for nothing!

Xue Li stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed: "Your Majesty, you really..."

Xie Zhao chewed the pork ribs: "Huh?"

Sydney said every word: "machine, close, calculate, exhaust."

So just after the new year, Xie Ling happily received the concubine Rou'an Emperor Concubine, Xie Zhao leisurely came over when the decree was announced, Chen Jijiang read it with a serious expression, and he listened on the crooked couch.

It was the first time that A Ling kowtowed to her father in a decent way, and before she could speak after kowtowing, she was hugged by her father.

A Ling flung herself into his arms and yelled "Thank you, Royal Father!", and then Xie Zhao hugged her and teased her for a long time, not knowing who was thanking whom.

That night, while Xue Li was having a headache thinking about where to put the pile of rewards for A Ling, she was also listening to Nanny Bai telling her about the various matters after the book.

——The latter seems to be more troublesome, mainly because there are too many steps, and she has never experienced similar things, so it is difficult to remember, and Sydney feels that her brain is obviously not enough after hearing half of it.

She leaned limply on Xie Zhao's shoulder, and he reached out to rub her temples: "Good boy... This is really not simple, you remember it carefully, and you will be tired all day."

While finding it difficult, Xueli agreed well, after all, this is her gift, and she is the one who shouldn't be tired!

Besides, the queen's mother is in the world.In the future, even if she doesn't talk about the affairs of the world, she will take half of it for him, and the half of the clan about the wife should also belong to her.

Tired after just one ceremony?

After adjusting her mood, Sydney sat cross-legged and rolled up her sleeves: I can handle it!

(End of this chapter)