Chapter 297: The Eve of the Family Feast (24)
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Peach Blossom carefully brought the pumpkin cake over.
Concubine Li was half-leaning on the bed, a little weak.
A small face was very pale, even after drinking the fetal pills, there was still no blood on her face.
As if to reassure Peach Blossom, Concubine Li pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying.
Since she became pregnant, Concubine Li's food has been getting smaller and smaller day by day.
I used to be able to eat a bowl of rice, but now I can only eat half a bowl at most.
The child in her belly is slowly growing up, and she is getting thinner and thinner.
Peach Blossom sometimes looks at her mother's thinner and thinner wrists, and feels distressed for a while.
When Niangniang was not out of the cabinet, she was also a somewhat mellow and lively girl.
Since entering the palace, I have lost my relationship with my mother's family, my body has become thinner and thinner, and people have become more and more silent.
used to be a pair of good-looking big eyes that seemed to be able to speak, but now they are lifeless, without a trace of color.
After entering the palace, her master was not happy for a day.
"Mother, I'll find a small kitchen to heat it up first, right?"
"It doesn't need to be hot, it's not the taste when it's hot. β
The smile on Concubine Li's lips suddenly spread, as if she had thought of something, and there was suddenly a little light in her dim eyes.
"Then mother, I'll feed you. β
"No, I like to grab and eat it myself. β
Concubine Li said, grabbing a piece and stuffing it into her mouth.
Although the pumpkin cake is cold, it is still very chewy and springy.
As soon as you bite into it, the rich pumpkin aroma bursts out in your mouth, sweet and soft.
The fragrance of pumpkin wafts on the tip of the tongue and carries it to every part of the body.
Concubine Li's smile widened.
"Mother, is it delicious? Then I'll ask the small kitchen to prepare one tomorrow!"
"No, just eat it once today. β
Concubine Li picked up another piece and stuffed it into her mouth.
This time, she suddenly stopped smiling, and her eyes suddenly flushed.
Soon, two lines of clear tears hung on her delicate little face.
"Niangniang, Niangniang, what's wrong with you! Isn't this pumpkin cake delicious?"
"No..... No..... It's not sweet at all, it's so unsweet...... I kind of want to cry........"
She loves pumpkin cake because of Cheng Qing.
At that time, in the school, she could bring delicious food every day.
Sometimes it was the peach blossom cake and walnut cake that her mother made for her, and sometimes it was the lychee and grapes that his father brought from far away.
You won't be weighted every day.
Her food is no worse than that of the prince and princess in the palace.
Therefore, compared to Cheng Qing, the sixth prince who no one hurts and no one loves, her food is simply one day and one place.
She observes the process of eating.
It's either corn, sweet potatoes, or pieces of pale yellow pastry.
There's hardly anything fresh about it, let alone meat.
As a prince, his food is simply the lowest level of the entire royal family.
She always thinks that this good-looking prince doesn't eat as well as her peach blossoms.
So, because of the hazy liking for the six princes, she always gave him half of her food.
He never took it.
But she didn't care.
Continue to give it to him the next day.
One day, the six princes, who had always been silent, finally couldn't help but go crazy.
"Are you finished?"
He lifted the sauce duck leg she had just thrown to him with his hand, his face full of unhappiness.
"This is a duck leg, it's delicious, for you to eat. β
At that time, she was thick-skinned, and she was only interested in the anger of the six princes.
"I don't need to. β
The cold-faced Sixth Prince threw the sauce duck leg back into her bowl and continued to pull the pastries in her bowl.
"Then give me some of yours. β
"Why?"
"Since you don't want my duck leg with sauce, then you can give it all back to me. Look at your bowl, and I still have the soup with duck legs, why do you pay it back?"
β...........β
So, for the first time in my life.
Concubine Li tasted the shabby food of the six princes.
She was holding the pale yellow pastry, still chewing in her mouth, and her mouth couldn't stop asking him, "What is this, it's so light, it's not delicious at all." β
"Pumpkin cake, it was made for me by the nurse, I don't want to eat it and return it to me. β
Cheng Qing turned her head and stretched out her chopsticks to bring back the pumpkin cake in her hand.
"No, I want to eat!"
Concubine Li stuffed the pumpkin cake into her mouth, and her small mouth instantly became bulging, and the cheeks on both sides also bulged out.
"To Wasouri... Coarse.... Can only be rough ....."
She munched on the tasteless pumpkin cake and slurred her words.
That day, for the first time in her life, she saw Cheng Qing's face with a very faint smile.
That night, on the Taifu Mansion, a table of pumpkin dishes appeared.
And in her bowl is a bowl full of pumpkin cake.
Later, every time she went to class, she would bring an extra pumpkin cake.
Her pumpkin cake is extremely sweet and delicious.
Although he never accepted the pumpkin cake she gave him, she slowly fell in love with this delicacy that she regarded as shabby food.
It wasn't until she grew up that she knew that that time was the most painful time for Cheng Qing.
The emperor ignored and bullied the palace people.
He couldn't even get anything good to eat.
By his side, there was only one nurse.
The nurse had opened a small plot of land in front of their little dormitory, and there were many pumpkins.
They didn't have sugar, so the pumpkin cakes she ate were all bland.
It's such a tasteless pumpkin cake, but he has eaten it for three whole years.
Even if he was later adopted as an adopted son by the current Queen Mother, his life is still inseparable from the indifferent pumpkin cake.
After so many years, he still remembers the past.
The unsweetened pumpkin cake just now made her cry all at once.
Memories of the past flooded into her mind like a tidal wave.
Tears fell drop by drop, on the back of the hand, on the quilt.
She looked at the plate of pumpkin cake in Peach Blossom's hand, and it was still impossible to forget.
Those pasts still can't be forgotten.
"Concubine Li, Concubine De Niangniang sent someone to send something to you. β
There was a palace man's voice at the door.
"Peach Blossom go and bring it in. β
Concubine Li put away her thoughts and wiped away the tears from her face.
No matter what the past is, the days of this harem still have to go on.
"Mother, it's a small box. β
Peach Blossom held a small dark box in her hand and looked at it with some curiosity.
"Open it and take a look. β
"It's a mother. β
Peach blossom opened the small box, and inside was a small silver bracelet.
"Mother, it's a bracelet. β
The bracelet is engraved with a delicate pattern and is set with several gemstones that are worth a lot of money at first glance.
"It's really extravagant......"
Concubine Li didn't take the silver bracelet, "Find someone to check whether it is poisonous first." β
"Ah..... Be. β
Peach Blossom took the silver bracelet to the table and found a few palace people to test the poison together.
"Mother, we have checked inside and out, and there is no poison. β
"Take it. β
Hearing that there was no poison, Concubine Li was willing to take the silver bracelet.
"It's as luxurious and extravagant as Concubine De. β
She put the silver bracelet in front of her eyes and looked at it, "I'll send someone to thank Concubine De later." β
"It's a mother. β
Concubine Li nodded and put the silver bracelet down.
As soon as she put it down, she noticed the difference in the bracelet.
"Wait, don't rush to thank you just yet. β