The so-called "stewed oven" is actually a kind of hearth, and the body of the stove is made of bricks, and the size is about one meter square. The method of making zuò was first introduced to Beijing from the south, and is characterized by "ducks without open flames", which is made by simmering and roasting on the charcoal fire in the furnace and the hot furnace wall. Because of the need to use a dark fire, so the requirement has a high technology, the person in charge of the stove must be in charge of the temperature in the furnace, the temperature is too high, the duck will be roasted, otherwise it is not cooked. The skin of the roast duck in the oven is bright and crispy, the meat is white and tender, and the taste is delicious.

When eating, it is served with sweet noodle sauce and green onion strips, which can be accompanied by cucumber strips and radish strips, pick a little sweet noodle sauce with chopsticks, spread it on the lotus leaf cake, put a few slices of roast duck on it, and then put a few green onion strips, cucumber strips or radish strips, and roll up the lotus leaf cake, which is really delicious.

Queen Zhang likes to eat very much, when Miss Zhang always eats a few times a month, even if she later became the princess, this preference has never stopped, but after becoming the princess, she eats a lot less, and now the mother is the world, and the Beiping roast duck that she eats four times a month on weekdays has now become once a month, even so, Queen Zhang always lets the maid withdraw every time.

It's been two months today, and Chunxiang knows Empress Zhang's preferences, so she specially asked the imperial dining room to prepare some, and saw that Empress Zhang had just gotten up and sent her in.

Empress Zhang looked at it for a while, and seemed a little reluctant, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "Withdraw?"

Haruka lost her voice and said, "Empress!"

Empress Zhang sighed lightly, withdrew her gaze and didn't look at the Beiping roast duck more, and said softly: "After Emperor Taizu won the world, his subordinates brought Chen Youliang's gold bed to him. Emperor Taizu said, "What is the difference between this bed and Meng Chang's Seven Treasure Drowning Device?" and ordered someone to destroy the bed on the spot. At this time, the courtier standing next to him said, "You are proud if you are not rich, and you are extravagant if you are not expensive, so you will lose." When Tai Zu heard this, he immediately rebuked: "Even if you are rich, how can you be arrogant? If you are noble, how can you be extravagant? Even so, it is not enough to comfort the people's hopes, but it is better to exhaust the world's skills to satisfy the enjoyment of one person? The rut of overturning the car cannot be followed. ”

Emperor Taizu is still like this, the mourning family is the queen, every word and deed is looked at by hundreds of officials, this Beiping roast duck can be said to be extremely labor-intensive, it is this Beiping roast duck, the palace eats a bite, and ordinary people are afraid that it will take a year. Isn't it tyrannical to be so arrogant?"

I am the ancestor of the dynasty, the ancestor of the country, has always been to govern the country with diligence and thrift, only the court has a clean and thrifty style, in order to stabilize the country, the people can get the benefits they deserve, so as to support the court. In the past, Sima Guang said: "The wealth of the world is not in the government, but in the people." "The court is not extravagant, where it is proud of diligence and thrift, then the country can be Thai and the people can be safe, this palace is the queen, the mother of the world, since it should be an example, or withdraw, in the future, tell the imperial dining room, this Beiping roast duck does not have to be made, the palace does not eat!"

Chunxiang answered and said, "The slave knows!"

A few maidservants were in awe, busy giving Queen Zhang Luo breakfast, Queen Zhang just sat down, ate a bite of millet porridge, and heard a noise outside the door, faintly crying, couldn't help but be a little curious, put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands, and asked softly: "When is the noise outside the door?"

As soon as the words fell, only a burst of footsteps came in, and Huang Gui, the steward of Kunning Palace, hurriedly walked in, and before he could speak, he pounced, knelt down in front of Empress Zhang, and said eagerly: "Oh no, no good queen-?"

Empress Zhang's brows furrowed slightly, and a face that was not too beautiful was also pulled down, and shouted, "What happened?"

Huang Guidao: "Outside the door, Lu Qing and Xue Wu are fighting?"

"Ridiculous!" Empress Zhang scolded, her voice was not loud but had a majesty, and everyone's hearts trembled slightly.

Even Chunxiang also subconsciously shuddered, and said secretly in her heart: "The majesty of the queen is getting bigger and bigger, it seems that you should be more careful when serving in the future."

Huang Gui listened to the queen's inquiry, and did not dare to hide it and told everything that happened outside the door with trepidation.

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It turned out that Lu Qing, the eunuch of Kunning Palace, and a maid named Cuihong on Guo Guifei's house were fellow villagers, after the two got acquainted, they fell in love, and gradually had affection, and the two walked together, that Cuihong was very thoughtful to Lu Qing, and there was no less cold and warm on weekdays, Lu Qing was quite satisfied with it, so he wanted to be a pair with Cuihong, and Cuihong was originally willing, but when Lu Qing was about to do it, Cuihong ignored Lu Qing, and looked at it horizontally and vertically, which made Lu Qing very annoyed, but for a while, he didn't know where he made Cuihong dissatisfied。

After a few days, Lu Qing wanted to find Cuihong to ask clearly, but who knew that Cuihong avoided it, which made Lu Qing very helpless, so he waited in front of Guo Guifei's bedroom for several days, and gradually found that Xiaocui and Guo Guifei's house steward Xue Wumei came and went, the two often walked together, and their demeanor was extremely intimate, which made Lu Qing very annoyed, and more and more wanted to know the reason, after many days of entanglement, that Xiaocui was also a little impatient, and told him on this day, the reason why she was not good with him was because he was reluctant to buy her a beautiful shirt, and Xue Wu bought her several beautiful clothes and jewelry。

Knowing this ridiculous reason, Lu Qing couldn't bear it, and today he found Xue Wu and scolded him, so Xue Wuyi was angry and hit Lu Qing, and the two of them fought outside this door.

Huang Gui said a little vaguely, but Queen Zhang is in the palace, and she can still understand that these three people are a kind of "food" relationship, such rumors, she has heard some in the palace, and she felt disgusted at first, but after thinking about it carefully, she also has a little sympathy, these eunuchs have no wives and children, and palace maids have no husbands, and the two have formed temporary partners to comfort the loneliness of the deep palace, and this relationship is called "food". In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang hated this behavior between eunuchs and palace maids and strictly banned it, and the eunuchs who married wives and started a family were punished with a very cruel punishment of skinning. However, since Yongle, the status of eunuchs has risen, and this ban has disappeared, and many eunuchs on duty have more contact with the palace maids, and they gradually develop feelings. Based on this, eunuchs often took the initiative to purchase clothing, food, jewelry and daily necessities for the palace maids to express their admiration. If the palace maid is in love with this eunuch, you can form a partner, and after the eunuch and the palace maid are paired to eat, they sing and return, just like husband and wife. Although the eunuch is hardworking and resentful to the palace maid he loves, he is driven by it, and the palace maid will also feel sorry for the eunuch and not let him do too much work, but support other eunuchs to do it. Some eunuchs in the palace who were low-status, ugly-looking, and older knew that they could not be favored by the palace maids, so they were willing to be the servants of the vegetable households, cooking, carrying, and washing for them, and the palace maids paid them a certain amount of silver taels every month. In this case, some eunuchs who are good at cooking become the object of pursuit, and they get more rewards, and they can earn four or five taels of silver a month at most. Dressed in dusty and oil-stained clothes and carrying baskets of vegetables, these eunuchs went in and out of the court to buy the necessary sundries.

These palace maids and eunuchs, who are extremely opposed to food or "vegetable households", mostly swear to each other under the moon before the flowers, love each other for life, and no longer have feelings with others. If the eunuch finds that the palace maid he loves is empathetic and not in love, it is often very painful, but he will not do anything to the palace maid, but often has sharp conflicts with his rivals, these things Empress Zhang has only heard of a little on weekdays, and she didn't expect to really encounter it today, so she snorted coldly and shouted: "As a eunuch in the palace, the slave and maid don't think about how to serve the master, but they do such a thing, and they still fight in front of the gate of the palace, what kind of system, do you really think that the lord of the six palaces of the palace doesn't care about anything?"

Everyone saw that Queen Zhang's face was pale, her tone was cold, and she didn't dare to come out, so she bowed her body and waited carefully, for fear of accidentally upsetting the queen, so she was set off.

"Go, bring the three of them to the palace!" Empress Zhang shouted in a deep voice.

Huang Gui answered, got up from the ground, and ran out with a smoke.

After a while, he led two men and a woman cautiously walked in, and when they walked to Queen Zhang, the three of them knelt on the ground with a thud, and they didn't dare to come out.

Empress Zhang glanced at the three of them with phoenix eyes, and saw that the man on the left had blood stains on his face, obviously left behind in the fight just now, her brows furrowed, and she said, "What's your name?"

The eunuch's body shook, and he said in a trembling voice: "Returning to the queen, the minion, the minion is called Lu Qing!"

Empress Zhang said "oh", and the phoenix eyes moved away from Lu Qing and landed on a eunuch on the left, who was also very good-looking, but a pair of eyes were dripping, revealing a little cunning.

Empress Zhang said: "You are Xue Wu!"

"Returning to the queen, the slave is Xue Wu!" Xue Wu is the steward brand in Guo Guifei's palace, these days the national concubine serves the emperor night and night, and his status is rising, he is smart and clever on weekdays, and he is deeply loved by Guo Guifei, so even if he is facing the current queen, he is not so flustered and responds calmly.

Empress Zhang snorted, her eyes moved and fell on the woman between the two, her eyes looked carefully, the woman was no more than twenty-eight years old, her complexion was white, she had a pair of big watery eyes, but she also had a bit of a posture, and she was kneeling there tremblingly at this time, terrified.

"You are Cuihong?" Empress Zhang said in a cold tone.

Hearing this question, Cuihong's body trembled slightly, and she kowtowed on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Returning to the queen, slave maid, slave maid is Cuihong!"