When Zhang Zhaohua returned to the Shizi Institute, he found that Gao Chi had come back earlier than her, and it was rare that he didn't let go of the scroll today, but sat on the chair and looked at a few snacks in front of him in a daze. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Zhaohua looked over and found that it was the five poison cakes that had just been presented from the small kitchen. This kind of cake is different from the traditional five-poison cake, the traditional cake is knocked out with jujube wood mold, baked in the hanging oven, and then slurry and colored after baking, and then smeared with a layer of oil and sugar on the surface. So she had a whim, and simply let the small kitchen of the Shizi Institute make a new kind of five-poison cake by itself, that is, use rose petals as raw materials, mash the petals first, and then add high-quality white sugar and honey to boil it in a pot to dilute, mix it with pine nuts and other fruit ingredients, mix it into a filling, and make it into a snow-white fluffy puff pastry cake, this taste is very good, not just a rose cake, there are all kinds of fruit fillings in it that taste sandy and glutinous, Zhang Zhaohua feels that this can be called a rose cake instead of a five-poison cake, in order to show the "five poisons" Meaning, simply let the cake be printed, and the seal is engraved with the image of scorpions, toads, spiders, centipedes, and snakes, which are really a little interesting, Zhang Zhaohua asked them to do it yesterday, and they will be presented today.

"You taste it, see if it's delicious," Zhang Zhaohua said: "In previous years, they also made rose puff pastry, but they all used roses from Beishan, I heard that the roses in Miaofeng Mountain bloomed very well this year, and the output was very large, in addition to making sauce and tea, it was more than enough to make dim sum." ”

Gao Chi picked one up and said: "This is your whimsical idea again, where did the five poison cakes look like this in previous years? But the picture of the five poisons printed on it counts as ingenious." ”

He took a bite and smiled: "It turned out to be a dim sum with rose fruit filling." ”

Zhang Zhaohua also washed his hands and sat next to him to eat with him, and said: "The small kitchen is really growing, and the taste of sugar is just right. ”

"That's because I don't like to eat too sweet and greasy, they all remember my taste," Gao Chi refused to eat more after eating one, and said: "You also remember to eat less too sweet, otherwise you will get up tomorrow morning and have a bitter mouth." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was just about to speak, when he saw Hanshuang coming up with a tray and said: "Niangniang, in April, asparagus and cherries are eaten together, the most luscious, and can also relieve greasy, if you feel that eating too much dim sum is sweet and sour, eat a little more cherry asparagus." ”

Zhang Zhaohua laughed and said: "Look, if you want to sleep, you have a pillow! It's still my people who are attentive and considerate -- don't be busy washing up first, and then talk about eating cherries!"

Gao Chi looked at the small food box on the tray, half of the bright red cherry fruits, and half of the tender bamboo shoots cut evenly, and suddenly felt that his appetite was great, and the pies he ate just now were not his favorites, but the clear vegetables and fruits in front of him made him have some appetite.

"Dissolve the spring of Qinggang, and the asparagus flies when it is raw. Gao Chi took a bite of the tender bamboo shoots and exclaimed: "This bamboo shoot is born at the right time, and it tastes crispy, but it is not dry." "It's a very correct comment, today's bamboo shoots are the most tender time, and when you eat it, it is crispy and the juice overflows, and the fragrance is full of flavor.

"Hey, let me tell you," Zhang Zhaohua said, "Mother handed over the gift box to me, and I will definitely come up with something new." ”

"In previous years, they were all zongzi," Gao Chi said: "This year, your five poison cakes are already very good, are you still going to give away cherries?"

Every year when it comes to the Duanyang Festival, the Zhumen of the Mansion has to feed each other with zongzi, but the zongzi can be made of sweet and salty two, red dates and red beans or fresh meat egg yolk, and there are also clever people who can make eight treasure zongzi, and then put it in the eight treasure box as a gift, Zhang Zhaohua is in charge of the gift box this year, she spent some thought, in addition to sending the necessary zongzi, but also with cherries, mulberries, water chestnuts, peaches, apricots and five poison cakes and other things, made a very delicate gift box, ready to be sent to the family of the eunuch in Beiping on Duanyang Day.

In fact, the officialdom in Beiping is a bit lazy and inexplicable, perhaps because after the catastrophe of the 18 years of Hongwu, everyone in the official position is also absent-minded, as if coming to Beiping to be an official is to be assigned, not that all government affairs and all things are handled carelessly, this is still diligent at the moment; to say careless means that everyone seems to be not very attentive to the human relations in the officialdom, and the movement is not frequent, and the contact is not close.

Zhang Zhaohua came to Beiping at the beginning, in fact, she also made a lot of preparations, because when she was in her hometown of Kaifeng, she had heard that the Zhou Wangfu was like a city, and the officials in Henan from high to low had to pay homage to their work, and many major policies were from the Zhou Wangfu to the whole territory of Henan, Zhang Zhaohua also knew that the vassal king at this time was indeed in charge of the military and civilian affairs of the vassal state, so naturally he had to deal with officials at all levels, which was an indispensable thing, and the princess, as the mistress of the back house, should naturally be busy with the answer.

But this is not the case in Beiping. I have been in Peking for so long, although some officials have come to Yanwang's Mansion to pay a visit, but in the back house, I have not seen a single official's wife to come to see him. Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but ask about such a thing, it is said that there are two political envoys in Beiping, and the political envoy of the right cloth is old, and he is also deaf on weekdays, so he simply waits for the expiration of his term of office to pay attention to peace, he is also a southerner, and his family is in the south, but he did not bring it to Beiping;

Without the wives of these two people as the leader, the wives of other officials rarely met alone, but Zhang Zhaohua thought that the root of the matter was definitely not here, and sure enough, under her questioning, Gao Chi also told the reason.

There is a senator named Zheng Ci in the Northern Plains, he is among the many officials in Beiping, very few respectfully serve the King of Yan, and his family often corresponds to the palace, but in less than a year, he was impeached for bribery, and then went to Andong Tun.

Anton Tun is in Shanxi, so it is far away from Beiping, and since then all the officials have tried to have as little contact with the palace as possible, and it is best not to have contact, of course, the face still has to be passable, and they dare not disrespect King Yan, after all, he is the emperor's biological son, and he is not as mediocre as King Tan, nor is he as cruel and unkind as King Qi, and he can even be said to be a very virtuous vassal king, but there is a taboo place in Beiping officialdom, as if there is an invisible line that has been divided, in short, everyone is not touching or crossing the line within the line。

Zhang Zhaohua received such a task from the princess, and she still carefully inquired from a few deacons who assisted her and the two aunts who weaved clouds and brocades, such as not eating apricots according to the inspector of the judge, and things like the servant who loves to eat salty zongzi, Zhang Zhaohua kept it in mind, she could have ordered her to do it according to the festival of previous years, but since the princess ordered her to undertake it, it must be useful, and she can't easily fool the past.

"Mother let you do it for a reason," Gao Chi ate all the asparagus in the box, put down his chopsticks and said: "It turns out that I haven't been walking diligently, but now that you are here, you are the princess of the palace, and the first time you entertain people, they will not come no matter how much they shirk it." If you send it out and get a gift in return, you can put an invitation card in the gift next time and invite them to come and walk around. ”

"I see," Zhang Zhaohua suddenly realized: "I should always show that I am here, otherwise let them pretend to be deaf and dumb without me, and their feelings are weak, why not!"

The officials of Beiping who have a relationship with King Yan are not very reused, and there is even the danger of surrendering, in the officialdom, they can feel the invisible weather vane the most, even if there is no trace of such a wind in the Jingshi, but these people who have been human spirits for a long time can see the clues from the clouds.

At that time, the emperor liked Gao Chi very much, but he had suspicion of Zhu Di, the son who was most like him, - the emperor seemed to be a very strange person, although he had the heart of loving his son, but he always demanded too much from his sons, and hoped that his sons would be like him, like in "Ji Feilu", he scolded those vassal kings for being stupid and obedient, and felt that it was simply "unscrupulous", but when there were really a few people like him or talented, like the King of Jin, like the King of Yan, like the King of Shu, there were also a lot of reprimands, and there were few times of praise.