The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 477 Greedy Mouth ([-])

After the Dafeng Liugong ceremony, it will be a few days before the New Year's Eve.Because it was a year of rejoicing in the former court and the rear palace, the San Francisco was pacified, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the joyful atmosphere in the palace never stopped for a day.

The day-to-day juggling, singing and dancing, and performances lasted until after the Lantern Festival, and then gradually returned to calm.

Then after the joy, there is still blood.

In the first month of the 21st year of Kangxi, the emperor ordered Wu Sangui's bones to be distributed to all provinces. Wu Shifan's head was hanged by the Ministry of Punishment for public display.

In this way, the San Francisco rebellion was completely pacified, the Qing Dynasty was prosperous again, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. For a time, there were many folk songs praising the emperor.

After the Lantern Festival, the weather in the capital gradually warmed up, except for the Chengqian Palace, the rest of the palaces had gone to the stoves and charcoal basins.

The spring in the first head, especially from the imperial garden.

On this day, Yunchan chose a few fresh jasmine flowers and carefully placed them in the sapphire vases in the sleeping hall.

Wan Lai looked at it for a long time, and said after she finished her work, "Why did the winter jasmine bloom so early this year?"

Yun Chan held the sapphire flower vase to Wanyu's body, and offered her to appreciate it carefully: "There was a lot of snow in the winter, and the spring warmed up quickly. Naturally, the flowers bloomed earlier than before. I didn't see you, the servant girl passed by just now. In the imperial garden, the whole courtyard unexpectedly attracted butterflies."

Wan Lai caressed the winter jasmine branches, sniffed them comfortably, and said with a smile: "I remember that Concubine De likes to eat some flower cakes. She is greedy during pregnancy. Tomorrow, you will take a few maids to the Imperial Garden to choose some cakes." Just eat the newly bloomed flowers."

Yun Chan agreed, and quickly laughed again: "The concubine De concubine is always greedy when she becomes pregnant. In recent days, the empress has ordered her servants to go to her palace to send some cloth to make clothes for the emperor's birth. The servants often go At that time, the concubine de concubine always sat at the dining table."

Wan Lai burst out with a 'pu chi' laugh: "It's also strange, I don't see that she has gained weight after using so much every day. Looking at her belly, it's not as round as it used to be when she was pregnant."

Yun Chan echoed: "That's not it, could it be said that Empress De Fei is pregnant, so after eating, we don't know how round it will be."

Wanyu smiled and said: "You have nothing to do today, so you can go with me for a while. Take this winter jasmine flower as well, and give Linlan a sense of spring. She protects the child and is bored in Yonghe Palace every day. , but it's boring."

Yun Chan agreed to take the flower vase, and went to serve Wan Lai in a sedan chair.

Although I will meet Lin Lan in a few days, she is inconvenient to move around during pregnancy, and Wannai comes to the palace to see her for a long time, but when I saw her today, seeing her slender figure, I was still surprised .

Everyone said that a pregnant woman would gain weight, but seeing Lin Lan conceived this child, it seemed that she passed the mother's blood to the child, no matter how much she ate every day, she would always lose weight It is thin and tight.

The originally light figure has now turned into a skeleton, with only a slight bulge in the lower abdomen, and the pointed beauty's face also dryly protrudes the cheekbones, which makes people feel distressed when they see it.

When I came here, I saw her sitting at the dining table, offering food on the tray like flowing water, looking bright red, it was full of fresh and spicy food, the smell made her nose choke.

Seeing Wanyu, Lin Lan called her sister kindly, and hurriedly ordered Feiyan to move the bench to invite Wanyu to eat together.

Wanyu didn't hesitate to take a seat, she just sat down, took the bamboo chopsticks and fiddled with the dishes in front of her, frowned and said: "Although it is good for your child to eat more seafood during pregnancy, but such delicious ingredients go well with the dishes. These red and green peppers, aren’t they trying to steal away the main food? Besides, if you eat like this, can your stomach take it?”

Lin Lan also ignored her, picked up a piece of fresh and tender fish and put it in her mouth. The corner of her mouth slightly turned up and said: "I always feel that my mouth is tasteless, and I always want to eat such fresh and spicy food, so I ordered the imperial dining room to deliver it every day. People It is said that sour children are hot girls, looking at this child, I am afraid it is a princess."

Wanyu took a sip of the jujube soup that Feiyan provided her, then leaned forward and touched Linlan's lower abdomen, and said with a smile: "Brother got two, it would be great if I were a princess. The emperor already has many boys and girls under his knees." , looking at Concubine Rong's second princess, the emperor likes it very much."

Lin Lan responded to this, and took a few chopsticks of red shrimp that had been peeled and deveined, and handed it to Wanyu: "Sister, try it, this shrimp is the least spicy, and my sister should be able to eat it."

Seeing the incense she put in, Wan Yu also put in a chopstick, but she hadn't chewed it yet, but she coughed again and again due to choking.

Seeing this, Yun Chan hurriedly took the silk and waited on Wannai, spit on the shrimp that had just been put in, and then waited on her with a bowl of clear water to rinse her mouth: "Mrs. spicy."

"It turned out that I was confused and forgot about it." Lin Lan put down her chopsticks and beckoned Feiyan to remove the dishes, so as to save Wanyu from standing in the bedroom always smelling a spicy smell.

Wanyu recovered from her nerves and stopped with a smile: "Forget it, I've gotten used to the smell after a long time. The important thing is that you are so thin, and you finally have an appetite, so you should eat more."

"It's so easy to get an appetite." Fei Yan joked from the side: "I don't know the imperial concubine, but with this kind of food, our lady can eat three tables a day."

"Three tables?" Wan Yu was slightly taken aback: "Aren't you afraid to hold on?"

Lin Lan lowered her eyes slightly, and said with a shy smile, "Although I eat a lot, I always feel empty in my stomach." As she spoke, she picked up another snail with a broken shell.

Before she could enter it, she was knocked down on the table by Wannai with a chopstick: "Don't you think it's strange in your heart that you're so thin after taking so much?"

Lin Lan was silent for a moment and shook her head, the tassels hanging from the white pomegranate round pan beside her hair lightly rested on her cheeks, she brushed her hands, and said: "It is only given to the eunuchs who have tasted food one by one. When it came to my mouth, I also looked for the court judge to see that it is non-toxic and there is nothing wrong with it."

Even so, she has been scheming in the palace for a long time, and she always has to think twice about everything, so she ordered Lin Lan not to eat again, and waited for Bai Changqing to see Wuyu before making a decision.

Bai Changqing, who was summoned, quickly entered the Yonghe Palace, and his nose was full of choking when he saw a table full of spicy food.

After learning about Wanyu's doubts, he first washed off the chilies on top of the seafood with clean water, and then smelled and tested them carefully, probing them with silver needles until he tasted them in the palace.

Lin Lan only said that Wanyu was careless, and she waited for Bai Changqing for a long time after talking with Wanyu for a long time. Naturally, the food was going to cool down, so she simply ordered Feiyan to take everything out.

At this moment, Wanyu saw something strange about the piece of fish that Bai Changqing soaked in the clear water earlier, so she ordered Yunchan to hold the clear water in front of her, lightly poked it with chopsticks, and the fish immediately shattered into powder.

Wan Yu was startled and said, "How could this happen?"

Bai Changqing stepped forward to probe again, took another sip of clear water from a cup, then frowned and thought for a while, his expression immediately became tense: "It's gum."

"gum?"

Bai Changqing's complexion became more and more ugly, and he put all the dishes into the clear water, as expected, after about half a stick of incense, all the food turned into powder.

Lin Lan hurriedly asked: "What's going on here? How could a good fish and shrimp become like this?"

(End of this chapter)