Blessed

Chapter 79 Food
Yuzhu was practicing handwriting in her boudoir. As she got older, her handwriting lost its beauty when she was young, with more corners and sharper strokes.

Licorice came in hastily, and whispered in Yu Zhu'er's ear, "Girl, Mr. Shen has returned to Beijing with Feng Hao and those bandits under pressure."

Yuzhu had always known that Shen Xian was dealing with Feng Hao's banditry, and she thought it would be wiped out in a year, but it took about two years, she put down her pen, "How's the situation outside?"

Licorice ordered Bai Shao to go outside and bring hot water in to serve the master and clean his hands before saying, "The people outside are very angry, those bandits were beaten badly, and they will probably be sent to Dali Temple for interrogation. Miss, do you want to take a look?" I heard that the leader of the bandit is Du Jian, a repeat offender who wiped out all the Liao family in Xiliang, and he is very vicious."

It turned out to be him, of course Yuzhu had heard of it, this person should be an anti-social personality according to the modern theory, also known as ruthless personality disorder, highly aggressive, lacking a sense of shame, a real villain, not because of Anyone who feels guilty about killing people and doing wrong things should be directly destroyed humanely.

Yuzhu was a little curious, and asked Licorice to bring her a golden peacock feather cloak.

Baiji Baishao went to prepare the carriage, and Yuzhu followed the three servant girls out of the mansion in the carriage. The Jiang family lived in a busy city as soon as they left the alley. Before the prison carts reached the entrance of the alley, Yuzhu asked the coachman to park the carriage at the entrance of the alley. , Opening the brocade curtain of Qiuxiang pigment, you can see Shen Xian wearing a red court dress, gold and jade belt, with a cold aura, followed by brocade guards and a row of prison cars.

The prison car at the front should be Du Jian, but his appearance is very gentle, it is hard to imagine that this person would be such a vicious person just by his appearance.

Shen Xian was riding a fine horse, passing by the alley, he turned his head and glanced sideways, and met Yuzhu's protruding head, the two pairs of eyes looked at each other, Yuzhu smiled at her, and the corners of Shen Xian's lips curled up slightly, and soon He took Jin Yiwei and the prison cart and disappeared around the corner of the busy city. The originally clean and tidy road was full of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs. Yuzhu sent the coachman back to the house.

In the next few days, news about Shen Xian and these bandits continued to spread in Beijing, and Shen Xian also secured his position as a commanding officer. He was a third-rank officer at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and his future was limitless.In fact, this position was given to Shen Xian by Emperor Ruiwu in advance. If the suppression of the bandits is not successful this time, he might be directly dragged down from the position by the emperor.The successful suppression of the bandits made those important officials of the imperial court no longer dare to say anything. They really have the ability, and they have nothing to say anymore in this position.

Since he could no longer be promoted, Emperor Ruiwu gave Shen Xian a lot of rewards, even his subordinate Sun Dao was also promoted and rewarded a lot.

Dali Temple's trial is still very fast. The main thing is that the whole people pay attention to this case, and the emperor is also supervising it. The sentence will be passed after three days. nod.

After the incident was over, Emperor Ruiwu allocated a sum of money to the families in Fenghao who were persecuted by bandits, and all of them expressed the great kindness of the emperor.

Since Shen Xian is firmly seated in the position of commander and envoy, he is afraid that he will not be able to leave the capital, and he will stay by the emperor's side to do things without going to the Shemen Gate.

After the banditry is completely resolved, it will be almost the end of the new year. In order to welcome the new year, the palace specially invited many important officials and princes and nobles to the palace to participate in the palace banquet. To put it bluntly, it depends on the emperor's mood. If he is in a good mood, what happy event will happen? There will be a palace banquet in the palace, full of joy.

Just in the first month to solve such a big bandit problem, Emperor Ruiwu wanted to hold a palace banquet to make him happy.

The list was drawn up by the queen. The queen remembered that Yuning was also diagnosed as pregnant a few days ago. She was very happy in her heart. The prince is not young. Over the years, except for Yuning who broke down once a few years ago, she was also raped by others. Murdered and conceived, the other concubines have never been pregnant these years, and Yuning's body is almost recuperating. When the good news came, she was very relieved, and felt sorry that Yuning and her family had not seen each other for a long time.

This time the palace banquet invited all the members of Uncle Yongyi's mansion. In fact, the Jiang family's official positions have been promoted very quickly in the past two years. The elder Jiang and Jiang Ansu are both in their original positions. , from the official position of the fifth rank, this time the banditry case was also handled by him, this position is more difficult to go up, it is a Dali temple minister, from the third rank official, now it is the queen's natal brother.

Mr. Jiang is still a doctor of the fourth rank of the seventh rank, but the second brother Jiang Heng has gone from editing the seventh rank of the Hanlin Academy to a bachelor of the fifth rank, and the fourth brother Jiang Po is also the sixth rank of the Imperial Academy. Che, and Jiang Heng are both bachelors of attendant lecturers, so they are full of nobles, which is really remarkable. Emperor Ruiwu attaches great importance to the three brothers of the Jiang family.

The queen also added the Jiang family to the list, and she also missed the fourth girl in the mansion who could bring blessings. She hadn't seen much in the past two or three years, and she didn't know how old she was or how she looked. She remembered that girl grew up when she was young nice.

It was no surprise that the Jiang family received the imperial decree from the palace. Since they were celebrating the New Year in the palace, on New Year's Eve, the Jiang family all changed into formal attire, and even Yuzhu wore a satin jacket and skirt with carmine dots and red gold thread, and a begonia Brocade cloak with large clusters of flowers and peony patterns.It was too cold, and there was a Tang lady in her hand, and a charcoal stove was still burning in Cuigai Zhuying's Chinese carriage, and it was still warm for several female relatives to squeeze into a carriage.

Except for the old lady, everyone in the mansion went. They took four carriages and went to the palace. First, they went to pay homage to the old lady. The queen mother was too old. She never participated in these palace banquets, and few people could see her. Said it was a meeting, but it was just bowing down in front of the Queen Mother's bedroom.

Going to the palace where guests are entertained, there are already a lot of guests. The female relatives are on one side, and the men are on the other side. Each of them has a small food table. On one side of Yuzhu is Shen Mei, on the other side is the third princess Zhao Chan. The princess is still thin and weak, her health is not very good, her weakness is not nourished, and she can't support herself even if she eats ginseng. She is the same age as Shen Mei, but she looks about the same age as Yuzhu.

Yuzhu had a very good impression of the third princess. She had seen her a few times, but she always sneaked timid glances at her.

The palace banquet is naturally very rich, each dish is not big, but it is better to have a variety of styles, all of which are served by the palace maids.Yuzhu has a good appetite. Everything she eats is delicious. The shredded duck is tender but not greasy. The stewed goose is plump and delicious. The braised white eel is delicious and juicy. Stir-fried shrimp, full of fragrance, stewed white mushrooms, fried silver shreds, osmanthus wings, bergamot sea cucumber, stewed deer tendon in casserole, three fresh sweet-scented osmanthus soup, everything is delicious in the world.

Seeing Yuzhu's delicious food, the third princess couldn't help but look at her, feeling a little envious in her heart.

Yuzhu wiped her mouth, turned her head and saw the third princess peeking at her, and smiled, "Third princess, you can eat some too. If you have a bad stomach, the dish of clear shredded duck, stewed white eel, fried shrimp, fried silver shredded rice You can eat some vegetarian soup."

Zhao Chan asked in surprise, "How do you know I have a bad stomach?"

Before Yuzhu could answer, Shen Mei on the other side laughed, "Third Princess, no one in the capital knows that you have a bad stomach, so Yuzhu naturally knows."

Zhao Chan's cheeks were reddish, a little embarrassed, and Yu Zhu said again, "Third Princess, you should be flatulent. In fact, you can eat less of a lot of things. The less you eat, the more uncomfortable your stomach will be. Eat seven or eight meals a day." It’s not a big problem to have a bite or two of meaty and greasy ones occasionally, and let the imperial doctor prepare the medicinal diet.”

Looking at the meals on the table in front of her, Zhao Chan was a little hesitant. She had a bad stomach, and she always had hiccups and flatulence after eating meals. The imperial doctor prescribed a lot of medicinal meals, but nothing improved. She was able to recuperate slowly, because she would feel more uncomfortable after eating, and she was even more afraid to eat. She was always hungry, but her symptoms did not improve.

After listening to Yuzhu's persuasion, she hesitated when the time came. She used to strictly follow the imperial doctor's orders, not daring to touch even a little bit of meaty oil. up.

Hesitatingly picked up a piece of braised goose with chopsticks, so plump that he wanted to swallow his tongue.

Zhao Yi, the second princess on the other side of the third princess, frowned and said, "Third Emperor Sister, you still eat seriously, I'm not afraid that you will vomit and have diarrhea and feel uncomfortable in your stomach."

Emperor Ruiwu only had three princesses, the eldest princess was married long ago, only the second and third princesses remained in the palace, the third princess Zhao Chan was born from Xianfei, the second princess Zhao Yi was born from Defei, there were only two girls in the palace, They don't have to fight for the throne, so they can get along naturally.

Zhao Yi was a picky eater when she was a child, and she was skinny. Over the years, her appetite has improved, and she has become more mellow and beautiful. When she saw Zhao Chan smiling at herself, she couldn't blame her, so she leaned forward to reprimand Yuzhu. "You Fuchang County Lord, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, my third sister can't eat greasy food."

Zhao Chan held her back, "Second Sister Huang, it's okay, in fact, I'm a bit greedy, I'll just eat a couple of bites."

Yuzhu said to Zhao Chan, "There is also millet porridge here, the third princess can eat more, and she will be full."

Zhao Chan really listened to what she said, and took another bite of fried fish slices, some light dishes, and drank less than half a bowl of millet porridge before putting down his silver chopsticks.Zhao Yi looked at Yuzhu very dissatisfied, and felt a little sour in her heart. She, the third emperor's younger sister, has been warmed up for a long time. She has only met the Fuchang County Lord a few times, and she listens to everything.

Yuzhu, Zhao Yi, and Shen Mei stopped talking only after their bellies swelled.

After eating the imperial meal, the queen led all the female relatives to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers and watch a play. It was winter, and other flowers had long since withered. The imperial garden planted a yard of magnolias, which were beautiful and fragrant.

Little girls don't like to watch flowers and plays. Zhao Yi took Zhao Chan to play elsewhere, and asked Shen Mei if she would go. Shen Mei glanced at Yuzhu, and the second princess reluctantly asked Yuzhu, "Would you like to go?" Don't you want to go together?"

Yuzhu shook her head, "I still want to go to Concubine Jiang." She hadn't seen her eldest sister for a long time, and she was a little worried.

Zhao Yi said, "You go to see Concubine Jiang first, how about I ask the maid to pick you up later? We are going to play Pai Gow, it will be more fun if there are more people." Play, today is the new year, this is allowed.

Yuzhu nodded and smiled, "Okay, I'll go find you guys after I've visited Concubine Jiang."

Jiang Yuning followed the queen to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden. As soon as Yuzhu went to the imperial garden, she saw someone sitting in a remote pavilion surrounded by the Jiang family. Yuning was talking to them.

Seeing Yuzhu, Yuning waved at her, and Yuzhu ran over with the corner of her skirt, her cheeks flushed with excitement, "Big sister." Only in front of Yuning, she still used to call her big sister.

"Jiaojiao." Yuning was also a little emotional, her eyes were flushed, "I haven't seen you for a long time, our family Jiaojiao has grown taller again, and looks good." She looks more and more like a big girl.

The Jiang family reminisces about the old days, and they will be happy for Yuning when they learn that Yuning is pregnant. Dare to step forward and know that the eldest sister has really changed, this is the best way to live a better life in the palace.

After chatting with the eldest sister for a long time, Zhao Yi's maid over there came to invite Yuzhu.

Knowing that Yuzhu was invited to play, Yuning smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong here, you can go and play."

Yuzhu hugged Yuning, and then followed the maid to Defei's bedroom.

(End of this chapter)