Liu Zheng took the chopstick, carefully sandwiched a piece of "cake" that could no longer be seen, and took a bite - Si'er looked at him expectantly, for fear that the "osmanthus cake" he made would be sweet to the prince's brother.

The entrance of the crisp cake, although it is not glutinous, the taste is slightly lacking, but with such a bite, the sweetness of the osmanthus quickly escapes between the lips and teeth, Liu Zheng was ready to frown and praise the little sister, I didn't think that the little girl's skills were not bad, so she really praised: "Si'er has the craftsmanship in the body, and she is not afraid of hunger in the future, and she can make a living with a skill." ”

"Is it delicious?" Si'er smiled and asked expectantly.

"It's fragrant, it's sweet!" Liu Zheng gave a thumbs up and said, "Good Si'er, you can set up a stall on the streets of Chang'an, and you can still support your family!" ”

"That's not, no, Si'er still has to grow up," the little princess smiled embarrassedly, she took her brother's words seriously, so she smiled and said, "Brother, when Si'er grows up, can you set up a stall on the street for me?" Si'er made snacks, and my brother came to eat. ”

Liu Zheng listened to this little sister's childlike words, so cute, so he liked it more and more. Because he touched her head and said with a smile: "My eldest princess of the Han Dynasty is going to the market to show up and set up a stall?" ”

"Na Si'er likes it!" The little princess happily turned around and went with her dough.

"Okay, Si'er should do whatever brother says, and when my brother is in the future, he will send a team of pro-army soldiers to protect our Si'er's pastry stall, and Si'er can make any fools around!"

He really doted on this sister, and when he saw Si'er smiling, it was as if he saw the loving old queen, Xiao Si'er and the queen mother, and she looked so good when she smiled.

Another pot of osmanthus cake came out of the oven, Liu Zheng helped to take it, and smelled the smell and felt very fragrant, because he smiled and said: "Si'er asked who learned the craft?" Osmanthus cake is delicious, but it is not as good as osmanthus sweet stuffed cake, sweet and glutinous and soft, chewy, my brother loved to eat it when he was a child. ”

"Osmanthus sweet stuffed cakes?" Jing Wu was slightly stunned.

Isn't this what Qiu Niang of Zhaotai Palace is good at? Look at Qiu Niang's proficiency in making sweet stuffed cakes one by one, just like her family's secret production, how can my brother still eat it?

"yes, my favorite food in the past. But later, the queen mother is gone, and few people will do it again. That taste...... I can't eat anymore. ”

"I've eaten it!" Jing Wu pouted, wanting to show off his face. Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, so I asked, "Sweet stuffed cakes are the queen mother's favorite food?" ”

"Yes," Liu Zheng smiled and said, "The queen mother is the best at making sweet stuffed cakes, and she also loves to eat, when the monarch's father was diving, the queen mother made it for her father at home, and the father loved the mother's craftsmanship very much." ”

"Later?" Jing Wu blinked her eyes, whenever she heard about the queen mother and her father, she was looking forward to it. After all, she had not participated in that journey, and she had never been close to the gentle love of the queen mother, but only felt it in the words of everyone.

At this time, when she heard her brother mention it, she hoped that his brother would say more.

Jingwu is pitiful.

Liu Zheng touched Jingwu's head dotingly. Then he dragged a small horse to come, pulled Jingwu to sit down, and patiently told Jingwu about the past.

Speaking of this sweet stuffed cake with osmanthus flowers, Jing Wu unconsciously asked more: "Do you also make it for your father after entering the palace?" After all, it can only be eaten in autumn, after all, it still takes time for autumn laurel to grow. ”

Jingwu is so smart, a little child, he has a heart.

She asked on purpose. She wanted to get the answer she wanted from her brother's mouth.

Liu Zheng told her with a smile: "After entering the palace, the queen mother wants to cook, but it can't be, how many pairs of eyes look at it, and the father doesn't want the queen mother to give people a handle, even if he wants to eat again, he is not willing to let the queen mother cook." The queen mother and her father have a deep love for the flounder, because the father wants to, so he teaches the big guy how to make this osmanthus sweet stuffed cake, and also sets up a small kitchen in the Jiaofang Palace. ”

Jing Wu bowed his head and pondered. I always felt that something was wrong...... grabbed the key words and asked her brother: "Brother, in this way, this osmanthus sweet stuffed cake is not a thing in the palace, only the people of the Jiaofang Palace will make it?" Others can't do it? ”

Liu Zheng didn't notice the strangeness of this girl's question, so he smiled and replied to her: "Yes, the sweet stuffed cake with osmanthus is what the father and the queen mother love to eat when they are outside the palace. ”

Jing Wu was stunned for a moment, it was like this......

That Qiu Niang of Zhaotai should have been the queen of Jiaofang Palace in the past??

Liu Zheng saw that Si'er was stunned, so he nudged her and said, "What is Si'er thinking?" ”

"No, no," Jing Wu reacted, deliberately wiped his eyes, and said, "Brother talked about the old things of his father and mother, Si'er was a little sad. ”

Liu Zheng was also a little sad, so he hugged her and said: "Silly Si'er, the past is all in the past, my brother has no mother, but there are you!" My brother feels happy for the rest of his life......"

Happy for the rest of your life......

Jing Wu's eyes were red. There is a brother who said this, that is, she was looked down upon by others, and she didn't feel anything. My brother loved her so much and regarded her like a jewel. With my brother here, that's enough.

Enough for the rest of your life.

When Liu Zheng talked about the sadness, he also wanted to cry, so he hurriedly diverted the topic: "Si'er, do you know how smart our mother is?" Didn't I say that the autumn laurel grows in the golden autumn season, and this osmanthus sweet stuffed cake can only be made in autumn, and my mother thought of a way, so that my father can eat refreshing sweet stuffed cakes all year round......"

"What is the way to store fresh cinnamon? Let Si'er think about it...... Jing Wurin straightened up, thought about it for a while, and then told his brother how to preserve Xiangui that he learned from Qiu Niang of Zhaotai Palace, and she traced it according to her impression, almost word for word.

The prince was amazed, and even praised: "My sister is so smart!" Sure enough, it was born by the queen mother, and I want to go with the queen mother! ”

Liu Zheng was overjoyed, and he found a similarity between his beloved sister and his mother.

Jingwu was not in a good mood. Her heart seemed to be tied with a knotted rope countless times, weird, she always felt that she couldn't dredge somewhere, and she couldn't figure it out.

Jing Wuxin said, brother, which method did I come up with? It's clearly a recipe from the Qiu Niang of Zhaotai Palace! From this point of view, I am afraid that the method of speaking out is still the method that the queen mother thought back then.

Alas, who is Qiu Niang? I can't figure it out.

Jingwu threw herself into her brother's arms: "Brother, did you hold you like this in the past?" ”

"It's like this outside the palace, and later when I entered the palace, the queen mother was reminded by others to pay attention to the respect of the queen, so as not to embarrass my father. The queen mother paid attention to her demeanor, and at that time the elder brother had grown up a lot, and the queen mother couldn't hold it, so she rarely hugged it. ”

Liu Zheng hugged her and shook her gently, like coaxing a child.

Jing Wu was a little sad, and sighed: "That's also good, the queen mother has never hugged Jing Wu." ”

Liu Zheng touched the little princess's head and said sadly: "But the queen mother loves you, and the queen mother loves you as much as her brother." When Xiao Si'er was still in her mother's womb, the queen mother often talked to you. ”

Jingwu said coquettishly: "When I think of my brother, Si'er feels happy in her heart. She giggled in Liu Zheng's arms, and the sad things were also left behind: "Sometimes Si'er is so scared and lonely in Yichun/Palace!" But when she remembered that her brother would protect Si'er, Si'er was happy and not afraid. ”

"Don't be afraid, my brother will always be by your side. Later, when my brother grows up...... Si'er can make trouble as much as she likes, Si'er can do whatever she wants, and her brother can't go up, so she will accompany Si'er to set up a stall. ”

Jing Wu knew that what her brother said was ten thousand years after the monarch's father, and at that time the whole world belonged to the crown prince Liu Zheng. He will be the emperor and will have the supreme power in the world......

At that time, Liu Zheng still only hurt her alone.

But Xiao Si'er didn't know at that time that Liu Zheng was the best brother, but he must not be the best king.

She hugged Liu Zheng tightly and murmured, "Good brother, come back, Si'er will make sweet stuffed cakes with osmanthus for you to eat, okay?" ”

"Okay, good," Liu Zheng nodded vigorously, "When my brother eats the sweet stuffed cake made by Si'er, he will think of the queen mother." ”

"Our queen mother."

Si'er cried.

In a blink of an eye, it was the death of the Empress Gong and the birthday of Jing Wu.

On such days, Jingwu will be forgotten. She didn't dare to let people remember her birthday. The whole country knows that when the queen mourned, the little princess Jingwu was born. It was this evil daughter who killed the queen.

This year's birthday, probably the same as usual, she leaned on the cold palace gate, and spent it alone.

But this year, there is a different action in the palace.

Jing Wu was in Shanglin Yuan and didn't know.

Three days before Jing Wu's birthday, A-Niang cooked longevity noodles for her to eat. The birthday of Yichun/Palace is always staggered a few days from the death of the Empress Gongwai......

A-Niang thought about it thoroughly. A few years ago, if you can hide from it, you have to hide.

Jing Wu snorted the noodles, his eyes empty in a daze.

The palace wants to have a big sacrifice, and my brother is very busy, so I don't have to come to her for a while.

It's boring to think about it.

Jingwu is so pitiful, no one has celebrated her birthday for so many years, and the sacrifice for the queen mother, and the palace has never sent anyone to pick her up......

Xu is father hated her so much that he didn't even let her know her in front of her dead mother's spirit.

Jing Wu cried as he thought about it.

The noodles swoop into your mouth......

She felt a shadow behind her, and when she tried to turn around, a pair of hands behind her had already covered her eyes......

"Huh?"

“…… It's brother! ”

Do you still have to guess? I think no one else will come to Yichun/Palace, and no one is so bold as to dare to cover her eyes!

The big hand pinched her face: "Si'er is so smart? ”

"Brother!" She turned around happily, the noodles were still in her mouth, the prince wiped her with a towel, and said with a smile: "Xiao Si'er, brother came to see you." ”

"Brother, why did you run to Yichun/Gong twice in three days recently? Aren't you afraid that your father will be unhappy? ”

Although she was happy in her heart, she couldn't help but worry about her brother. After all, a companion is like a tiger, and one move and one caution will be very bad.

"Si'er, brother has good news for you."

Liu Zheng was very happy.