Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 29
The well-maintained fingers cut vegetables neatly, kneaded dough, and moved skillfully. The little maid who was watching the fire was stunned.

"The queen mother can cook?" Xu was so surprised that the little palace maid forgot her identity for a moment, looked up at me in surprise and asked.

I listened to what the little maid said, and didn't care about her impoliteness. I smiled lightly and replied: "I learned it at home when I was young."

Before I was ten years old, my aunt and I lived in the side courtyard of the Taifu Mansion. Because my aunt was not favored, although there were servants in the side courtyard, they were all snobbish and lazy.

And because my aunt has eye disease, so I do most of the things in the side hospital, including the meals for my aunt and me. I also learned to cook at that time.

Since I entered the palace after the age of ten, the maids and eunuchs took care of everything, so I had fewer chances to do it. Every year, I only cooked a bowl of longevity noodles for Ming Qi on his birthday, and cooked soup occasionally.

"The Empress Dowager is really amazing." The little maid said admiringly, which made me smile again.

It only took a quarter of an hour to cook the noodles. After the longevity noodles were cooked, I asked the little maid to give me a tray, and then I carried the noodles out of the small kitchen.

Bringing the Longevity Noodles to the side hall, he was thinking of asking someone to go to the main hall to invite Ming Qi, but when he just walked to the door of the side hall, he saw Ming Qi sitting in the side hall waiting.

Looking from a distance, I saw Mingqi holding a book in his hand, which seemed to be the one I read in the evening.

"As soon as I smell the fragrance, I know that the queen mother has returned." As soon as I entered the side hall, I saw Ming Qi raised his head from the book and said to me.

I smiled lightly when I heard the words, and walked towards him with a long life: "Why didn't the emperor wait in the main hall?"

"I thought that my mother would come to the side hall first after she was busy, so I came here and waited, so as not to send someone to call after my mother." Ming Qi replied.

I put the Longevity Noodles on the dining table, Ming Qi followed me to the dining table, sat down on the upper seat, leaned over and smelled it, and said: "It smells really good, I will trouble the queen."

"It can't compare to the skill of the chef in the imperial dining room. Let the chef cook for the emperor next time." I said.

"Of course not." Ming Qi shook his head when he heard the words, and said: "Other meals in the imperial dining room are fine, but the longevity noodles cooked by the queen mother are more fragrant." After Ming Qi finished speaking, he picked up the chopsticks .

There is only one noodle in the whole bowl of Changshou noodles. Eating Changshou noodles pays attention to the continuous noodles in the middle. After I saw Mingqi started eating noodles, I stopped talking, and the same is true for Mingqi.

I learned my longevity noodles from my aunt. In addition to the chicken shreds and other auxiliary ingredients that I often put in, I also put the spices that I brought from Taifu's mansion, planted in the garden and then dried in the sun.

The seeds of this kind of spice were given to me by my aunt when I was a child. I don’t know what it’s called. I only know that when I was a child, my aunt would put it in every birthday noodles when I was a child. Then the birthday noodles will become very fragrant and taste more unusual. Longevity noodles are delicious.

After I entered the palace, because I was close to Mingqi, I would add this spice when cooking longevity noodles for him every year.

Mingqi on the opposite side was eating very deliciously. I saw his face, which was still cold but could vaguely see satisfaction, and for some reason suddenly smiled.

"What is the queen mother laughing at?" Ming Qi, who was on the opposite side, just finished eating the noodles, saw me laugh out loud, and asked.

"It's nothing." Hearing this, I shook my head and asked again: "Is today's longevity noodles suitable for the emperor's taste?"

"Excellent. Eating the longevity noodles cooked by the mother is the happiest moment of the year for my son." Ming Qi replied, and then said: "It's a pity that the mother rarely cooks, and even if she cooks, she never cooks. Can cook noodles."

"If the emperor likes it, after Changruo enters the palace, I will teach her. Then even if it is normal in the future, Changruo can cook for the emperor." Hearing this, I said.Thinking about left and right, but telling Chang Ruo about the spices is not difficult.

Hearing this, Ming Qi paused the hand holding the chopsticks, and didn't see him put it down for a long time, and at the same time, his face changed several times in an instant, his eyes had long since disappeared before he was satisfied.

"It's getting late, my son and minister will leave first, and the queen mother should also rest earlier." I don't know how long it took, but Mingqi put down his chopsticks and got up and said.

Afterwards, without waiting for my answer, he immediately turned around and left the Changwu Hall, leaving me alone in a daze.

(End of this chapter)