food queen

Chapter 453 Birthday Ceremony! (2)
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After entering the twelfth lunar month, the empress moved into the Nanyuan Palace alone in advance, leaving the emperor alone in the palace.In the words of the Empress Empress, she must wholeheartedly prepare the birthday banquet for the emperor, and ask the emperor to stay and concentrate on political affairs. At the end of the year, only by handling all political affairs well can she concentrate on celebrating her birthday and welcoming the new year.

Yun Shuo was naturally unhappy at first, but Han Qian said that this was her change of heart, so he had no choice but to follow her.

Although Lu Haoran, the honorary minister in charge of the Emperor's Longevity Banquet, he only provided a list and 10 taels of silver, and Han Qian personally arranged the rest, such as where to pay homage, where to sit, and where to have tea Chatting, where to change clothes and rest, where to have a banquet, including riding and archery, ice play, Cuju and other entertainment competitions at the banquet, etc., Han Qian asked them all one by one.

For the sake of the 10 taels of silver, Han Qian didn't let go of the beautiful girls who Lu Haoran arranged to perform, and she was too embarrassed to do this kind of thing that took the money and didn't work.In this regard, Sun Defu once advised her that it is better to take this opportunity to give Lu Haoran a blow, and let him restrain the sour smell on his body.

Han Qian just smiled, shook his head and rejected Sun Defu's proposal without saying a word.

In fact, giving Lu Haoran a chance to show her off, why bother to make trouble on His Majesty's Longevity Day.

It's been 12 years, and she just wants to celebrate her emperor brother's birthday properly.

Outside Guanju Palace in Nanyuan Palace, Yan Wenzhen, who was dressed as a first-class court lady, was standing outside the palace gate with a stack of menus and bowed to the little eunuch at the palace gate.

The little eunuch went in and bowed back, "Madam, please see Yan Yuchu."

"Call in." Han Qian was looking at a list without looking up.

Yan Wenzhen came in and knelt down to salute, "Wenzhen pays respects to the empress."

"Well, you're here." Han Qian waved his hand towards Yan Wenzhen, "Come here, help Bengong take a look here, can this appetizer be replaced?"

Yan Wenzhen stepped forward in response, and handed a stack of menus in front of Han Qian with both hands: "Empress, this is Wen Zhen's newly adjusted menu, please take a look."

Han Qian was startled, put down the list in her hand, stretched out her hand to take the one handed over by Yan Wenzhen, read it, then closed it with a snap, and said with a smile, "That's good. What happened to the previous one?" ?”

Yan Wenzhen blessed Fushen, and said: "Major, please forgive me, the previous part is Wenzhen's lack of meticulous examination."

"You are not such a person. You must not hide anything from me." Han Qian said with a light smile.

"Yes." Yan Wenzhen bowed again, but did not speak.

"You're just a boring gourd." Han Qian nodded Yan Wenzhen bitterly, and ordered, "Go down."

"Yes." Yan Wenzhen bowed and retreated.

Han Qian looked at her back and sighed softly, and told Xiangcheng next to her, "You ask someone to bring Zhang Ruixiang to Bengong."

"Yes." Xiangcheng agreed and went out.

Han Qian unfolded the previous dish arrangement and looked at the menu list sent by Yan Wenzhen again, and finally slapped the previous dish on the table angrily.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, be careful when your hands hurt." Cherry next to her hastily persuaded.

"This Zhang Ruixiang is really going too far. This palace gave him face time and time again, but he even kicked his nose in the face."

Seeing the empress getting angry, none of the people around her dared to persuade her.Sun Defu and Pingguoer, who dared to persuade the empress, were not there, and Xiangcheng just went out again.The only thing everyone can do is to shrink their shoulders and try to minimize their sense of existence, for fear that the anger in the queen's heart will be uncontrollable and spilled on their own heads.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Eunuch Zhang, the chief executive of the imperial dining room, to arrive.

"The servant sees the empress, the empress is blessed and safe." Zhang Ruixiang knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Zhang Ruixiang, how long have you been the head of the imperial dining room?" Han Qian asked lightly.

Zhang Ruixiang's back suddenly broke out in a layer of cold sweat. Even though there were a lot of earth dragons burning in the Guanju Palace, he still felt cold and uncomfortable. for several years.

"Huh?" Han Qian placed the teacup heavily on the kang table next to him, and said with a sneer, "Is it possible that you can't remember clearly?"

"I remember clearly, but just now the empress suddenly asked, and the slave was a little confused." Zhang Ruixiang hurriedly kowtowed, holding his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, and replied: "If you return to the empress, the slave is here I have been in the imperial dining room for 21 years, and the head of the imperial dining room has been in charge for ten years."

"I have been in the Imperial Dining Room for 21 years, and I have been the head of the Imperial Dining Room for ten years!" Han Qian repeated it slowly, and sneered, "Your qualifications are really old!"

"The servant is terrified. The lady lent the courage to the servant, and the servant dare not show his qualifications before the lady..."

Han Qian didn't wait for Zhang Ruixiang to finish, and threw the menu in his hand in front of him with a 'snap', and said coldly, "You don't dare to show off your seniority, you will only obey the law and deny it!"

When Zhang Ruixiang saw the menu, cold sweat rolled down his forehead. It turned out that he refused to accept Yan Wenzhen's favor in front of the empress, and replaced half of the eight appetizers she arranged for the longevity banquet with his own The two dishes he is good at, and the two dishes other imperial chefs are good at.

Naturally, he replaced not only the four appetizers, but also the pastries, soups, royal dishes and so on.In short, at the beginning, Yan Wenzhen planned one hundred and eight dishes for the Longevity Banquet according to the queen's wishes. As the head of the imperial dining room, he cleverly set up a name and gave a third of it.

Originally, he thought that the empress would not be so fussy about the arrangement of the dishes for the longevity banquet. After all, there are [-] dishes, even if the empress cares about the food, she doesn't have the time to check them all. Besides, it doesn't matter even if she checks. The empress didn't specify which dishes to order or not. As the head of the imperial dining room, doesn't he have the right to change the menu drawn up by a fifth-rank imperial chef?
However, it was such a coincidence.

It so happened that the Empress was picky about the details of the Longevity Banquet, and it happened that the Empress really considered the dishes on the Wanshou Banquet one by one, and it happened that the Empress saw his ghostly intentions.

"Your Majesty, forgive me, slave, slave..." Before Zhang Ruixiang could figure out how to argue, the Empress interrupted him with a sneer: "Okay! I don't have time to listen to your talk so much. The matter of this longevity banquet Leave it to Wen Zhen, don't stay here, go back."

"...Ah?" Zhang Ruixiang was stunned for a moment, not understanding what the Empress Empress meant by 'go back'.

According to Han Qian's temperament, he would beat this fellow severely, but the emperor's birthday is approaching, making it meaningless to cry and howl in Nanyuan Palace, so he frowned and said, "Go back to the palace to prepare the New Year's banquet. If you mess up the matter, let the seat of the head of the imperial dining room be released."

(End of this chapter)