The warm winter sun sprinkled all corners of the yard like broken gold, and the north wind whistling through the branches didn't seem so cold.

The madder grass that creeps under the roots of the tree has long since faded its blue coat, but the slender red branches are still spreading tenaciously. A few wild chrysanthemums stubbornly poke their heads out from under the roots, yellow, purple, white, although not brilliant and colorful, but there is a wild interest.

After sending the old housekeeper away, Hua Lianyue did not mention it to the treasury again, but found a verandah where the sun shone and sat down.

These plans in her heart were not clearly told to Liu Hui, she knew that even though he had countless dissatisfaction with the cold palace, he would still subconsciously maintain its dignity. Just like he was dissatisfied with the emperor's contempt for their mother and son over the years, but he still tried his best to solve problems for the court. What I asked for was just a praising look from the emperor and a loving greeting!

It's a pity that there is the crown prince Zhuyu in front, and the youngest Nine Emperor Sons are happy under the emperor's knees every day. He, the second prince with common blood, can't go up or down, and his identity is really embarrassing.

However, compared with those princes who only know how to eat, drink and have fun, Liu Hui is too capable, and after all these years of operation, the strength he has secretly cultivated can actually compete with the prince. And the prince borrowed the strength of the Xie family, and Liu Hui did not have the help of his relatives, so he relied on his own ability. This is also why he was crowned king by the emperor early and built a mansion to live alone, probably to eliminate some of his thoughts.

But after all, the emperor is Liu Hui's biological father, and he still has a subtle guilt for this capable but embarrassing second prince, so he personally pointed out the daughter of the Zhang family to be his virtuous princess, wanting to do his best to compensate for his son.

These are all figured out by Hua Lianyue when she is fine, although not all of them are right, but she also guessed nine times out of ten. The more she thought about it, the more she felt sorry for Liu Hui, and the more disgusted she was with that palace and the people in the palace. Some things are arranged secretly, and naturally there will be no psychological barriers.

"Yue'er!" Liu Hui saw Hua Lianyue holding the vermilion lacquer pillar, and didn't speak for a long time, thinking that she was still angry with the old housekeeper. So he coughed lightly and said, "Are you not happy in your heart?"

Hua Lianyue turned her head to look at him, her dark eyes full of puzzlement.

Liu Hui thought that he had guessed her thoughts, so he sighed and said, "He is old, and his personality will naturally be more stubborn. Even if you can't figure out something in your heart, you will never go against you. For my sake, take care of him more!"

Hua Lianyue's eyes rolled, and she said curiously: "Could it be that the old housekeeper's life experience is anything special?"

Liu Hui hesitated for a moment before he said honestly: "A few years ago, a group of eunuchs over sixty years old were released from the palace in the palace, and Uncle Lian was one of them. He served my mother for many years and watched me grow up. I heard that his family suffered a famine before he was purified into the palace, and he has long since lost other relatives. So I arranged for him to retire in the capital, and on the first day of building the palace, I took him in as a housekeeper.

He watched me be born and watched me grow up, so he treated me as his only relative. Paying attention to the rules is also a habit he has developed in the palace for many years. But I can guarantee that Uncle Lian is nagging at most, but he has absolutely no bad intentions. ”

Hua Lianyue was stunned, but she didn't expect the old housekeeper to be like a relative to Liu Hui. After thinking about it, she said a little apologetically, "I don't know any of this!

Liu Hui laughed and said, "That's not necessary, don't forget, he pays the most attention to the rules." You are now the head of the palace, if you condescend to see him, won't it make him uncomfortable again? Also, you can explain more things to him and let him do it, he will feel that he is not old and can still come in handy, and he will be very happy. ”

Hua Lianyue smiled and said, "It's because you've been chattering for so long, I'm afraid I'll think I'll think he'll be old and treat him slowly." I know what to do!

Qingying, who had been standing silently behind her, hurriedly stepped forward and bent her knees, and said, "What do you have to say, Madame?"

Hua Lianyue thought for a while and said, "You go and tell the old housekeeper, just say that the weather has been dry recently, and the prince has an uncomfortable throat when he gets up in the morning and wants to drink almond cheese, so please go to the kitchen to supervise, don't make it bad." ”

"Yes!" Qingying pursed her lips and smiled, turning to look for the old butler.

Sure enough, the old butler sat silently on the stone bench outside the courtyard, and the sound of the girls arguing was still faintly heard inside. He felt very annoyed, and wanted to take care of it, but he was afraid that it would displease the lady who had just entered the door. really let it go, and I feel that such a noisy shouting has lost the royal system.

Qingying looked for him, and when he saw him with a sad face, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Uncle Lian, it turns out that you always rest here, and I have to find it all the way." ”

The old butler frowned and said, "Didn't you go to serve Madame, what are you looking for me to do?"

Qingying said with a smile: "It's not that the prince said that the weather has been dry recently, and when you wake up in the morning, your throat is uncomfortable and you want to drink almond cheese, and I'm afraid that the kitchen will not be up to taste, so I want you to keep an eye on it." ”

The old butler's somewhat cloudy eyes couldn't help but light up, and the gloom between his eyebrows and eyes immediately dissipated. He stood up, patted the dust on his trouser legs, and said with a smile: "That almond cheese is exquisite in kung fu, and the prince loved to drink it when he was a child, but it's a pity" seemed to remember some bad memories, and after a pause, he continued: "That thing has to be delicious, or it takes a lot of effort, I have to keep an eye on it, but I can't let those rough mothers-in-law in the kitchen ruin it." ”

Qingying saw that he was happy, so he deliberately asked, "You might as well tell me what is the secret of making that almond cheese?" So that I can go back and make some of my own. ”

The old butler was a little proud, and said a little ostentatiously: "I only said it to you, and I won't tell him if it's ordinary people!"

Qingying hurriedly said: "I know, I accept your old love!"

The old housekeeper lowered his throat and said in her ear with a mysterious face: "The key to this almond cheese is that the flour should be ground finely, and a little raw glutinous rice should be added, so that it can be smooth and tender enough." You can also put some crushed red beans, crushed hawthorn cakes, crushed dried plums, crushed pine nuts, etc. However, the prince has liked to eat pure since he was a child, and as long as he has a little bit of honey, he thinks it is delicious."

As he was talking, there was a sudden muffled sound of "bang" in the courtyard, as if something had been smashed, but the chaotic and sharp quarrels instantly subsided. Qingying was startled, and said hesitantly: "Why did this hit the guy, should we go and take a look?"

The old butler said angrily: "Don't go and look at it, a group of things that can't be put on the table." Or Mrs. is right, let them make trouble, and they can't get out of this courtyard. I'm going to prepare almond cheese for the prince!" After saying that, he really didn't pay attention to it, and turned around and went to the kitchen.

The winter sun was bright but short-lived, and Hua Lianyue felt that the wind was blowing a little cold on her body after sitting for a while, so she got up and went back to the warm pavilion.

Liu Hui happened to have accumulated a lot of official documents to deal with. So he asked people to move all the official documents to the warm pavilion for approval. So one of them leaned on the soft floor to read, and the other sat on the side to review the official documents, and there was only a small number of rosewood dragon carvings in the middle.

When Liu Hui came across something interesting when reviewing the official document, he would read a few paragraphs to her and ask her opinion.

Although Hua Liyue has not been exposed to these, she is better than her clever mind, and sometimes the suggestions she makes casually make him feel like he is suddenly open. He often sighs that he didn't expect things to be resolved like this.

Time flies, and it doesn't seem to be long before the sky is dark. Hua Lianyue instructed the maids to hold the lamps, and soon several red candles the thickness of the baby's arms were lit, and the firelight instantly illuminated the warm pavilion as if it were day.

Dinner was naturally prepared, Liu Hui had not returned home for a long time, and the housewife tasted the kitchen skills for the first time, and those kitchen ladies had enough strength to perform. I saw a steaming chrysanthemum hot pot in the center of the large mahogany inlaid mica round table. Outside, there is a circle of delicate dishes, soft simmered deer tendons, stewed white fungus with shredded chicken, wine-stuffed osmanthus fish sticks, spicy eight-treasure rabbit dice, braised tutuan fish, stir-fried tender jade shoots and other hot dishes, in addition to four cold dishes, four kinds of dim sum, plus the almond cheese carefully prepared by the old butler.

Hua Liyue looked at the steaming delicacies in the seat, but laughed: "How can you eat so much!"

The kitchen steward said respectfully: "Because I don't know Madame's taste, I made more." Madame sees that if there is something she likes to eat, she will taste it, and if she doesn't like it, I will let them do it again. ”

Hua Liyue likes to eat and will eat, and she is naturally very happy to see this big table of dishes. So I grabbed a piece of osmanthus fish sticks and chewed it carefully in my mouth, and then I picked up a piece of rabbit and smelled it, but I didn't eat it in a small dish on the side.

The kitchen steward was originally quite confident, but when he saw that his housewife didn't seem to be very satisfied, his heart suddenly lifted.

Hua Lianyue sandwiched some more jade shoots, the crisp and tender bamboo shoots were extremely refreshing, and she finally showed a satisfied smile to the kitchen manager.

The kitchen steward was curious, so he tentatively said, "If Madame is dissatisfied with these two dishes, you might as well tell me, and next time I can cook a dish that satisfies Madame." ”

Hua Lianyue smiled, pointed to the bowl of wine-stuffed osmanthus fish sticks, and said, "This dish is okay else, but the taste of the wine is heavier, and it robs the umami of the fish." As for the spicy eight-treasure rabbit dice, it is numb and spicy. And Babao is actually eight kinds of chili peppers, but when I look at the rabbit sauce, it seems that the hottest pepper is missing. ”

When the kitchen steward heard this, he couldn't help but say with great admiration: "Madame's tongue is so powerful, there is indeed a lack of finger pepper in that Eight Treasure Rabbit Ding, because that kind of pepper is extremely rare, and now only the palace has stock in the entire capital, and our royal mansion has run out of food a few months ago." So I asked the cook to increase the weight of the red peppers, but I didn't expect that the lady could smell it by her nose without tasting it. ”

Can Hua Liyue say that her nose is sometimes more sensitive than her tongue? Of course not, so she smiled humbly and said, "It's just a coincidence!"

Hua Lianyue discussed cooking skills with the kitchen steward, and Liu Hui had already drunk a bowl of almond cheese under the loving eyes of the old housekeeper. Then he smiled and said: "The entrance is fragrant and smooth, and your craftsmanship has not regressed at all." ”

When the old steward heard this, he laughed more and more so that the chrysanthemums on his face were in full bloom, and suddenly he heard someone laughing outside the door: "I haven't drunk Uncle Lian's almond cheese for a long time, and now I am very hungry, you might as well get me a bowl to taste." The voice was clear and hearty, and Hua Liyue didn't feel strange at all. Because not long ago, she was still annoyed.

The curtain of the warm pavilion was quickly opened, and Liu Shou walked in from outside with a cold body. He went straight to the table, glanced at the full table of dishes, and smacked his tongue: "It's better to come early than to come by chance, how can such a table of good dishes be without good wine." Fortunately, when I passed by Wufu Building, I bought two jars of their unique Qingfeng Yulu wine by the way. It just so happens that we are two brothers, and we can get drunk and rest. ”

The corner of Hua Lianyue's eyes twitched, but she didn't expect Xiao Fengnan to do the business of Wufulou to the extreme, and even a rich idler like Liu Shou, who can only eat, drink and have fun, fell in love with this Qingfeng Yulu wine.

Liu Hui's expression was quite leisurely, beckoning people to prepare new dishes and chopsticks, and asking people to bring in the wine jar and warm it with black silver plum blossom square bottles. Liu Shou was not in a hurry to sit down, but said to the old housekeeper: "Uncle Lian, if I didn't eat almond cheese today, I wouldn't leave." ”

The old butler couldn't close the corners of his mouth with a smile, and only said again and again: "Yes, I knew you would come, I made a few more portions on purpose, and there is no problem with eating as much as you want!"

Liu Shou smiled so much that his pink teeth and flesh were exposed, and said, "I know that Uncle Lian hurts me!"

Hua Lianyue silently rubbed her arms, trying to make the goosebumps set up by Qi Qi disarm and surrender, but seeing the happy appearance of the old housekeeper, she was obviously very useful to Liu Shou's coquettishness, and she couldn't bear to break this wonderful warmth, so she could only keep silent.

Servings of milky almond cheese were served in crystal bowls with clear feet. It was also topped with a spoonful of sticky amber honey. The unique aroma of almonds is mixed with the sweet aroma of honey, and it is really easy to get appetizing.

So under the eager gaze of the old housekeeper, Hua Lianyue also ate one, and then smiled at Liu Hui: "No wonder you keep chattering, it's really much softer than the almond cheese outside."

At this time, dinner was also being prepared in the Qianqing Palace. Because seeing that the New Year is approaching, Queen Xie has to take care of many trivial things for the New Year, including all kinds of rewards, preparing family banquets, and arranging blessings and sacrifices.

In fact, she is used to doing these things, although it seems to be cumbersome, but there are old precedents to check, if she was young, she would have done it properly by dividing five by two. But in the past two years, I don't know if I'm getting older. As soon as she was a little tired, she would feel a splitting headache. So what used to be done in three days has not been done in seven days.

finally sent out all the palace stewards who were in charge, Queen Xie lazily leaned on the soft collapse, one palace maid helped her rub her swollen temples, and the other palace maid knelt on the edge of the soft collapse and beat her legs.

A palace maid whispered outside the door: "Niangniang, the county lord of Huining asks to see you!"

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