Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 12
Before the dinner time came, Chen Wenxin sat at the table and called the small table and chairs to chop melons.
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Naturally, the watermelon was split.

In name, Bailu Baishuang was a maid she brought from Chuxiu Palace, and she did her personal work.Like washing and combing hair, eating, and going out to serve.

Bai Xue and Bai Fei were the second class, and they did some work such as needlework, watering flowers, and boiling water.

Needless to say, the small table and small chairs, besides doing some chores, they are guarding the gate and communicating with the outside world.For example, they go to the imperial dining room to get the daily meals, as well as the monthly money.

But she doesn't have much work, and there are not too few people to serve, but everyone has nothing to do.

So she prefers to gather people in her room, anyway, the room is spacious, and there are people who can talk and laugh.

The most important thing is that the weather is so hot that she is the only one in Xipei Hall with icebergs in her room.It's better to let everyone cool down here, and then go to work when there is work.

There was nothing to do before dinner, so Chen Wenxin called everyone to chop melons.

A total of two watermelons rolled in the iceberg were distributed to each person on the small table and chair.Whoever can split the watermelon with bare hands first will get an extra piece.
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She didn't come up with this game, the small table and the small chair both bragged in front of her that they could split melons with bare hands.

Chen Wenxin specially asked them to choose two smaller watermelons, which were too big for them to split open.The four of Bai Lu and the others gathered around to watch, chattering about betting on the two of them.

"I bet on the small table to win."

Bai Fei bet first.She saw with her own eyes that the small table lifted the big box in the storeroom, which neither she nor Bai Xue could lift.

"I also bet on the small table."

Bai Xue agreed.

Then Bai Shuang followed suit and bet on the small table.

"Good sisters, why don't you look down on my little chair?" The little chair lost before the battle, so she had to turn her eyes to Bai Lu: "Sister Bai Lu bet on me, good sister."

Seeing his pity, Bai Lu reluctantly said:

"OK then."

"I bet too..."

Chen Wenxin spoke, and the little chair looked at her expectantly.

"Small table."

She ignored the silent pleas of the little chair.

The melon splitting competition officially started.

Two watermelons of the same size were placed at both ends of the table. With Bai Lu's order, the small table and chairs worked simultaneously.

slap!

The little chair slashed vertically, and his watermelon split open, half big and half small, the cracks were like canine teeth.
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The kind that doesn't fit together.

Before the small table could be used, the small chair killed me with a move.

Chen Wen patted his forehead, very angry at the small table:

"Punish the small table and let everyone not eat melons today."

The master had already spoken, and the three Bai Shuang who bet on the small table to win were even more rude, and punched the small table.

"Sisters, spare your life, spare your life!"

The little table pretended to be in pain and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, causing everyone to laugh.

"I will punish you for cutting up the melon."

The split watermelon was bright red, and Chen Wenxin couldn't wait.

The small table quickly cut the watermelon into pieces and put them in the onyx fruit plate for her.

They also cut some large pieces with the skin on, and this is what they ate.

The master treats them with nothing to say, he thinks of them for everything, even let them eat watermelon, the coolest and freshest.

He has only been with the master for two days.

In the past two nights, the little table often felt that he was dreaming.

Since he entered the palace, he had never been with any serious master, and when he came back to a place like the Yonghe Palace, everything was so gorgeous and exquisite that he couldn't take his eyes off it.

Although the one who serves is only a resident of the side hall, he is quite favored.

He felt that he had a lot of blessings, and he followed a beloved master. He met the Long Live Lord on the first day, and made the Long Live Lord smile because of his new name.

After these two days, he felt...

Whether the master favors or not is secondary, it is his blessing to treat their slaves as human beings.
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His greatest blessing is to have such a master as Chen Wenxin.

While eating melons, I listened to the little table and chairs making jokes. After a while, the little table said that the little chairs were playing tricks on melons, and the melons must have been tampered with beforehand.

After a while, the little chair laughed at the little table, saying that he boasted that Hercules was in name only.

A few girls also joined in the fun, chatting and laughing, so it was very lively.

The little chair gulped down the jujubes, and ate his own all at once, and while the little table wasn't paying attention, he ate a piece of his.

"you……"

Just as the little table was about to scold him, the little chair wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said to Chen Wenxin:

"Master, we are all inside, and there is no one outside. It would be great if the Long Live Lord came suddenly."

The Long Live Lord came in quietly yesterday, but he was taken aback.

Chen Wenxin thought about it too, seeing that he had finished eating the watermelon, he told him to go outside and watch.

Unexpectedly, the front legs of the small chair just went out, and immediately ran back, panting and pointing outside, as if someone was coming.

"Is Eunuch Sun delivering the food?"

Chen Wenxin's eyes lit up.

"It's the emperor!" The little chair gasped and said urgently, "Clean up quickly!"

There was still watermelon juice dripping from the tables, and Bai Fei still couldn't finish eating the watermelon.

When they first heard that the emperor was coming, everyone frightened and packed up quickly.

When the emperor stepped in, what he saw was the agate plate in front of Chen Wenxin, which contained many watermelons cut into pieces.

"It's almost dinner time, why are you still eating this?"

The emperor wiped the sweat from his brow, strode forward and sat down beside Chen Wenxin.

He frowned and looked at the four maids in the room, and set his eyes on Bai Lu:
"I don't know how to persuade your master."

He could tell that Bai Lu was the head of the four.

The four of them knelt down one after another after hearing this, Chen Wenxin knew the rules in the palace, if the master made mistakes, it was the fault of the slaves.

Hastily begged for mercy from the emperor:
"The concubine only ate two pieces, really only two pieces. Look, isn't it all on the plate?"

As Chen Wenxin said, he picked up a piece with a small silver rake and brought it to the emperor's mouth:

"Take a sip, Your Majesty, it's sweet."

Sure enough, the emperor ate it with her hands.

Sweet in the mouth, cool in the body.The hot sweat all over his body also eased a lot.

But he still did not forget to teach Chen Wenxin: "Even if you relieve the heat, don't be greedy. A woman who eats too much cold will do great harm to her body."

The emperor's tone was like Chen Wenxin's mother.

"Yes, I would like to follow the instructions of the emperor." Chen Wen answered seriously.

She understands this truth. Girls should eat less frozen food. Eating too much will easily lead to cold stasis in the body.

Cause dysmenorrhea matter is little, affects fertility matter big.

The medical conditions in ancient times were so poor, she didn't dare to make fun of her own life.

So she ate iced food purely because the weather was too hot, and she only took two or three bites at a time before resting.

"I want to come and have dinner with you earlier, and also see what you usually eat. I didn't expect to catch you eating watermelon with the servants here, and talking and laughing."

The emperor tapped her forehead with his finger, with a doting look on his face.

The emperor is clairvoyant, and the little chair came to report after seeing him beforehand. How did the emperor know?
She felt guilty for a moment, feeling that in this palace, their every move might not be hidden from the emperor.
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The emperor is the biggest master, and everyone may be his eyeliner.

It seems that Gongdou dramas are all fake. The emperor should be clear about who pushed who into the water and who drugged who to abort.
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Of course, the premise is that the emperor must be as smart as Kangxi.

"It's a coincidence that the emperor came here, and there is something good to eat today."

When she heard that the emperor was going to have dinner here, she was right on her mind.That silk pear cake was originally prepared for the emperor.

"What good stuff?"

It suddenly occurred to the emperor that there was a small kitchen in the Yonghe Palace, and Chen Wenxin must have ordered some private dishes.

On the other side of the main hall, Debi doesn't like to use the small kitchen.She has no interest in Kit Kat food, and she is afraid that people will say that she indulges in pleasure.

I'm afraid that the people in the small kitchen are not reused, so they flattered Chen Wenxin, an upstart.

"The emperor will know after a while."

Chen Wenxin deliberately sold out.

While talking here, the little table has already gone to the imperial dining room to bring her regular dishes.

The emperor looked at Bailu Baishuang's plate, but it was a plate of eggplant mixed with garlic and a plate of fried pork ribs.A plate of steamed meatballs and a cup of black-bone chicken soup.

There is a large bowl of noodles with clear soup and scallion oil.

"I said no more black-bone chickens, but still black-bone chickens."

As soon as Bai Shuang lifted the lid of the purple sand stew pot, Chen Wenxin became unhappy.

The black-bone chicken is too ugly to look at, the meat is pitch-black, how can anyone have the appetite to eat it.

"It's so picky."

The emperor reprimanded her lightly, seeing her small mouth so pouted that it could hold an oil bottle, secretly amused.

Sure enough, it's still a child's heart.

As long as you don't get polluted by those fake dignities in this palace, those who are greedy for fame and fortune, it's fine.

At this time, the food box of the small kitchen was also delivered.

First, there is a dish of fragrant and oily shrimp, which looks exactly the same as the braised anchovy shrimp in Yushan.

The emperor suddenly realized that she was still thinking about this dish, so Baba had to ask the small kitchen to make it again.
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Even so, she didn't take a third bite at lunch.

The emperor suddenly discovered that Chen Wenxin was still considerate, and it wasn't that she really didn't understand the rules.

Then came the cheese carp.

This is not real carp, but the cheese is put into a carp-shaped mold, frozen and then turned upside down on a plate.

The emperor remembered that she also ate two mouthfuls of this dish during lunch.

Finally, there is a snow pear cake with shredded silk.

The thin glutinous rice skin is wrapped with crushed pear meat, which is soft, crunchy and sweet.Then wrap it in hot brown sugar liquid, and you can pull out a foot-long filament.
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This is the only dish that the emperor ate two bites of.

Chen Wenxin also took a sip, but felt that it was too sweet.She specially asked Eunuch Sun to make this dish, and wanted to keep it as a snack when the emperor came tonight.

The candied syrup is delicious even if it is cold, like the shell of candied haws.

The emperor was a little moved, she actually discovered her favorite dish carefully.

"Your Majesty, try it quickly, does it taste like your imperial meal?"

Although it looks the same, I don't know if there will be a difference in taste.

Chen Wenxin wanted to eat it herself in a hurry, but she couldn't eat it by herself because the emperor was here, so she first put a piece of ice pear cake on the emperor's plate.

The emperor picked up the pear cake with silver chopsticks, and turned two angles to see the appearance.

In appearance, there is no difference.

He put it into his mouth, bit off half of it gracefully, chewed it, and then put the remaining half into his mouth.

Facing the expectant Chen Wenxin, he said:

"picture."

This is what it means to be delicious.

Chen Wenxin hurriedly picked up a piece of shrimp meat, it was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the familiar taste was exactly the same as the imperial meal at noon.

"Your Majesty, this is also delicious."

She hurriedly put a piece of shrimp meat on the emperor's plate, and said boldly:
"Your Majesty, you are welcome, eat to your heart's content!"

(End of this chapter)