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After three rounds of wine, new dishes were served in a steady stream, and Song Mier only tasted them superficially, and did not show a very satisfied or surprised look at these dishes. There are many ladies below who are a little angry, could it be that this palace banquet is really like the heavenly Yaotai Qionglin banquet? Are your dishes so mediocre? What's more, it's not the anger of the nobles in the palace who can't look down on Xiangzhou dishes, but an inexplicable atmosphere surging at the banquet. The ladies exchanged glances and buried their heads again.

And a horse-faced lady stroked the opal inlaid on the sleeve and opened her mouth with a smile, "Queen mother, all the mothers, try this rock roasted puffer fish while it is fresh, this is our Xiangzhou specialty, puffer fish is highly poisonous, but it is also delicious." How many heroes and heroes have traveled thousands of miles to come, just for this bite of puffer fish in late spring. Mother, why not give it a try? ”

"That's it, that's it, Niangniang, try these fresh river fish."

"It's not that the courtiers boast, the fish in Xiangzhou is famous for being fresh and fat, and the practices are also diverse.

Several young ladies echoed each other.

The older ones smiled and didn't speak.

Song Mier held his hand and did not move his chopsticks.

A trace of contempt flashed in the horse-faced lady's eyes, but the smile on her face was deep, she raised her hand and gently slapped the corner of her mouth, "Oh, look at my mouth, I can't say it all, although this puffer fish is extremely poisonous, but we also have a way to remove this toxin." The puffer fish served today are all processed, only fresh and fragrant, but there is no toxin! ”

With that, the horse-faced woman picked up the puffer fish on the plate in front of her, took a sip, and closed her eyes, as if she was savoring the delicacy.

But I could hear a chuckle.

The horse-faced woman snapped her eyes open and looked at Song Mier.

I saw Song Mier pick up the chopsticks, flick the puffer fish in front of him, and show a nostalgic face, "This dish is really in line with the heart of the palace." ”

"Speaking of which, I'm afraid this dish hasn't been eaten in many years. Although it is said that the canal is smooth, it is a long way from here to the capital, even if ice is added, it is not so fresh to send it to the palace as fast as three thousand miles. ”

"When Hongu was young, he often called the cook at home, so he cooked the fugu in front of his eyes, and from the time the fugu was served to the finished dish, but after a while, he kept the delicious taste of the fugu in the meat. The palace also asked the Yulan next to him to follow the cook at home to learn this dish, but unfortunately when he arrived in the capital, there was no fresh pufferfish, and he was fascinated by the food in Wangjing and the palace, and he had forgotten this dish. ”

Mrs. Horseface's face was blue and white for a while, this was really a quick mouth, forgetting that the queen in front of her was from the Song family, and the Song family's status in Jiangnan was not something she could shake!

The queen who said that she was young and ignorant, naïve and easy to deceive?

Mrs. Ma Yan was still hesitant to return to the atmosphere, but Song Mier spoke again, "But this palace looks, this puffer fish seems to have been caught last night and raised in the water tank, Mrs. Ma is from Xiangzhou, but this puffer fish is not fresh before it is eaten?" ”

"Queen Niangniang, the concubine is very curious, Niangniang has not tasted this pufferfish, how did she know that this puffer fish is not new?"

Before Mrs. Ma Yan could speak again, Yuan Wanyou was already looking at Song Mier with a curious baby look, begging her to answer her questions.

"Where do you need to taste it?" Song Mier squinted his eyes and smiled, "There is a line in the center of this puffer fish, there is no trace of the line when it is fresh, but the more it is not fresh, the darker the color of this line, this line is not very obvious, but people who often eat puffer fish can also know it at a glance, and they don't need to taste it." ”

Mrs. Horseface's face turned red again.

Mrs. Chang pushed the tea cup in front of her, and said with a smile, "Let Niangniang see and laugh, the adults of the Fang family don't like puffer fish, and Mrs. Fang doesn't eat much, and she is also happy to see puffer fish on the table today, and for a while, she is a little forgetful." ”

"That is, although this puffer fish is a must in Xiangzhou, but we little women are still a little afraid on weekdays, where do we dare to eat more, make jokes, and hope that the mother will forgive me."

Many ladies and girls also spoke one after another, and this scene was rounded.

Yuan Wanyou was about to ask for another glass of peach blossom brew, but when he saw Song Mier giving him a look, Yu Lan stepped forward and poured wine for herself, but she lowered her head and said a few words in her ear.

"But how is this puffer fish not fresh?" Yuan Wanyou didn't seem to appreciate it at all, as if talking to himself, but the whole room heard it.

Mrs. Zhang's face changed suddenly.

Today's banquet was held in the governor's mansion, the whole process was sorted out by himself, at the banquet to entertain the emperor, the dishes were not fresh, and if you said it, this is the crime of neglecting the imperial power, losing the official is a trivial matter, and if you can't get it right, you will be killed!

Mrs. Chang hid the smile in her eyes, waved her hand and hurriedly spoke, "Niangniang forgiveness, Niangniang forgiveness, this is the first time that Mrs. Zhang scoops a banquet of this specification, there are many people, and it is inevitable that she will not be able to do it." Speaking of which, the concubine also has the fault of assisting in the unfavorable management, and she should not have thought about ensuring the neatness of the ingredients, and prepared all the ingredients in the first night, but forgot that the puffer fish was fished up from the river, even if it was kept in a water tank, it was not as fresh as being caught directly from the river. ”

Mrs. Zhang also knelt down, "Niangniang, at this time, it is the courtier's carelessness, please punish Niangniang!" ”

"That's it, it's an unintentional mistake, get up."

"Mother's Grace!" Mrs. Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, stood up on the table, turned around and sat down, and threw a grateful glance at Mrs. Chang, "Thank you Mrs. Chang for speaking for me." ”

"Where, Mrs. Zhang is polite, we both belong to Xiangzhou, we can't help each other." Mrs. Chang was still smiling enthusiastically.

"That's it." Mrs. Zhang wiped away the hatred in her eyes, lowered her head and slowly swallowed a mouthful of puffer fish meat.

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By the time Song Mier and the others returned to the Royal Palace, it was already in the middle of the moon.

"Mi'er, your trick today is really amazing!" Yuan Wanyou was sitting in Song Mier's bedroom, and her maid Slow Shuang was rubbing her shoulders vigorously, "After sitting for a day, I'm really tired to death, what a banquet, there is no good banquet!" It's good that Mi'er is witty! ”

"If it weren't for Mi'er, you gave me a look, I didn't know that I would be able to use the line of the Chang family and the Zhang family not dealing with each other at that time! Now, tell them dog-eat-dog, don't keep staring at us! Hey, this way, this side, this side, it's bigger! ”

"However, Niangniang, the slave is dull, then Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Zhang looked like sisters at first, and praised each other, how did Niangniang see that they had a dislike for each other?" On the side, the incense was removed and replaced with fresh jasmine, and the first sky blinked and asked puzzled.

Song Mier squinted and smiled, but did not answer, but took the lotus seed soup offered by Yu Lan, "Qinghe, you come and tell her." ”

"One mountain is hard to accommodate two tigers, Xiangzhou is the territory of the Zhang family, Mrs. Zhang should be the first among Mrs. Xiangzhou, but today she sat on the right, and Mrs. Chang sat on the left side of the mother. We have always respected the left, and Mrs. Chang pressed Mrs. Zhang. Originally, Lord Chang was the governor of the state, and Lord Zhang was the governor, so he should indeed sit like this, but Mrs. Zhang has always been used to being majestic in Xiangzhou, and I heard the master say that in order to avoid the Zhang family, the main house of Lord Chang is located in Jinzhou. In the past, these two ladies, each occupying one side, naturally gave in to each other, but now there is only one position, how can there be no contradictions. ”

"I see!" Chu Kong nodded, very teachable, "I think they don't have friction on weekdays, but today Niangniang catalyzed it, and at such a big banquet, she ate and hung up, so you have to look at it!" "Chu Kong is afraid to clap his hands.

"Well, our first sky can be regarded as smart~" Song Mier quipped.

But I don't know what they are doing with this move. Song Mier's eyes flashed slightly, but he didn't bring this issue out for discussion.

This question finally had an answer when Shen Zhan came.

"They? They are but temptations. Shen Zhan loosened his shirt, and there was no drunkenness in his eyes, "This southern tour was originally for the sake of Chunqiu, but do you think these people are so easy to talk?" The reform of the Spring Festival has already harmed their interests, is it possible that everyone can greet each other with a smile? However, I also looked up to them, and thought that they had some ladder to cross the wall, but I just gave them a little bit of power, and told me to stop the dragon and suppress the snake! ”

Shen Zhan came out of the study and came straight to Song Mier, and Song Mier didn't twist, and directly asked what he wanted to ask.

"I have long expected that the reform of the Chunqiu system may not be so easy to implement, who knows if it will be promised well in person, but in private it is another matter! These courtiers ······"

Shen Zhan seemed to realize something, suddenly stopped talking, raised his hand and touched Song Mier's head, which was already half-lying in front of the bed, "Don't worry, it's just some jumping clowns, I took you on a southern tour, I also want you to relax, if you have nothing to do, you might as well invite those women to come to the garden to talk to you, so as to save you loneliness." ”

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On the third day, Song Mier held a banquet in the royal garden.

"Master, you said that you, it's so easy to come out to play, what kind of banquet do you want to hold for Lao Shizi, don't talk about the hard work of preparing for a few days, these ladies and girls at this banquet were not friendly at all last time, master, why do you have to give them a post!" Chu Kong was angrily embroidering clothes for Song Mier, and at the same time said to Song Mier, who was sitting on the couch and checking the dinner list.

Song Mier smiled and didn't answer, and casually marked the names of several people on the list.

The scale of this banquet is much larger than the last time in the Zhang family's mansion, the last time because the Zhang family was the emperor and the concubines, most of the officials and family members above the sixth grade were invited to the banquet, and the family could not participate if there was no Mrs. Yan. And this time, it was a banquet hosted by Song Mier, and anyone who had an edict could participate in the banquet, and there was no provision that children should not be brought. All the ladies naturally understand, of course, they have to bring their daughters to come, those who have those ambitions, naturally hope that their daughters can be favored by nobles, look at the pomp and circumstance of Zhang Nanguang of the Zhang family, she is just a concubine in the palace, but she is stunned by the appearance of the superior, look at her uncle, she has to let her have a few points. Even if you don't want to enter the palace, wouldn't it be a great thing if there are so many children in this clan, if the queen lady takes a fancy to it, or if other ladies who come to the banquet take a fancy to it?

Therefore, no matter what the original intention of the queen mother was for this banquet, most of the ladies came to the banquet in high spirits.

But there was a lady who was not so pleasant.

It's the horse-faced lady who talks about pufferfish.

"Slut! Look what good you've done! ”

As soon as the horse-faced lady returned home, she was about to complain to her husband that the queen mother was not rude today, and it was not easy to deal with it at all.

"I don't have the sight to see anything!" Her husband was furious, his face flushed, "The queen is something you can make things difficult at will?!" Are you one of those concubines and concubines you are trying to do at home?! How did I marry such a stupid thing as you! ”

Madame Madam covered her face in disbelief, her voice trembling, "Husband, husband, didn't you tell me to give the queen a dismount?" The concubines are all doing what you tell them to do! What's more, a few days ago, the wives of several mansions got together and discussed, this, this is a good thing for everyone to discuss! ”

"Negotiate well, counsel well, and you will know that counsel is good! Do you do what others say? He also said that he was ordered by Lao Tzu! Don't you have a brain?! Didn't you notice that at the banquet today, the two ladies of Lord Chang and Lord Zhang were holding the queen behind them! You don't know how to act on the spot?! Master Zhang waved his fist, as if he was going to punch Mrs. Shangma again.

"Concubine, how does the concubine know!" Mrs. Horseface's face turned blue and red, and she argued with reason.

"You dare to talk back!" Mrs. Horseface's husband is a seven-foot-tall man, and he is gentle and freehand to his wife most of the time on weekdays, and Mrs. Horseface has not seen her husband wantonly insulting and abusing the concubine, but she always thinks that the main room and the concubine room are different, and she will never have such an experience. didn't expect that in the past, I watched the fists and kicks that made me very happy on the concubine's body, and now it will fall on my body.

She was slapped twice.

She was instigated to the foot of the table, she had been beaten to the point of dizziness, only to feel that it was dark in front of her, and there were countless stars dangling around, and she couldn't breathe.

She looked at her husband with wide eyes, but it was dark in front of her, and she only saw a vague figure standing in front of her, her ears buzzing, and she could only hear her husband's urn voice and angry words coming from a distant place.

"Today I was sitting in the men's seat, and as soon as the banquet was over, someone came to tell me how you behaved on the women's side! You made me a laughing stock in Xiangzhou! ”

"Know what my colleagues have to say! You know the way they look at me! ”

"I asked you to give the queen a horse, your brain can't turn around, you don't know what to do? If you have to be in the limelight, Lord Chang's family and Master Zhang's family, as well as Lao Li and Lao Pu, all slapped the queen's mother's ass, but you are embarrassed to say what puffer fish! Well, all of Xiangzhou knows that my Wang has a stupid lady like you who can't get on the stage! I, I should divorce you! ”

The horse-faced Mrs. Wang panicked when she heard the word "Hugh", she waved her hand, grabbed two handfuls in the air, and then tried to lean forward, and finally grabbed Lord Wang's trouser legs, and wailed, "Husband! Why! ”

Lord Wang Xu was also a little unbearable, he clenched his fists, took a deep breath and said, "When I asked you to watch it, it was because I was afraid that Your Majesty would find out about our affairs, and we also underestimated Your Majesty." But as soon as Your Majesty came, Lord Chang and Lord Zhang all changed their faces, your husband and I also acted at the opportunity, and it was easy to lose my sense of proportion in front of Your Majesty, but you are good, I am working hard here to lick my face and serve, and you stab me at the other end! ”

Speaking of this, Lord Wang also whispered gloomily, "Chang Ning and Zhang Zhihe, those two old things, when they say that they change their faces, they will change their faces, and they dare to feel that they have dug a pit for us people to jump!" Speaking of this, Lord Wang said viciously: "You can!" I'm going to be by you! ”

With that, Lord Wang lifted his leg to break free from Mrs. Wang's shackles, raised his foot and walked out of the door.

"Husband, husband!"

Madame Wang fell to the ground, crying silently.

After a while, until she felt cold, she stopped her tears, and she slowly got up from the ground, "Come on," she whispered.

Her maid came in from the door, helped her up nervously, and carefully helped her to sit on the edge of the bed, and after a long time, Mrs. Wang felt that her eyes were not so dim, she forcibly held back the nausea feeling in her chest, and turned her head and instructed her maid: "Go and ask where the uncle has gone?" ”

After a while, her always caring maid returned to her side, and said in a rambling manner, "Madam, uncle, uncle, he went to Aunt Rong in the Jade Courtyard to ······."

Mrs. Wang was stunned, but she didn't immediately say fiercely and jealously as usual that she wanted to rectify it well, only a wry smile appeared at the corner of her lips, and she said in a low voice, "Go down, I know." ”

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Madame Wang was able to break free from the nightmarish memories after settling down.

This is the first time she has come back to this royal palace, not only her, but I'm afraid most of the people here are the first to come back. But not all of them came alone, there were exaggerated ladies, and they brought their daughters and concubines in one go.

Not all mothers-in-law will obviously treat concubines badly, and of course they must love their own children, but if they are well raised, they can also be strange things, and they will have their value when the time comes.

There are many ways to raise a concubine.

There are a lot of trials and tribulations, so that the concubines and concubines secretly hate or are weak and bullied, that is the next step.

There is a face that is glamorous, looks well-raised, and actually raises waste, which is the middle policy.

There are also those who can make the concubines and concubines willing to treat their mothers as mothers, alienate their biological mothers, and dedicate their lives to their mothers' families.

Mrs. Wang thinks that she doesn't have the measure of tolerance, and she can't still smile and treat them well in the face of the concubines, but she is not stupid, and naturally she can't raise an enemy to come out, so she naturally takes the middle strategy, and treats the concubine well on weekdays, after all, no matter how powerful the concubine is, she can't inherit the family business, but the concubine is indispensable to learn from each other, but she also has the right scale, and her face is still very bright, which makes Lord Wang turn a blind eye.

Thinking of Lord Wang, Mrs. Wang's face darkened again, and she raised a smile again, and took her two concubines and a concubine into the seat.

Now that Shen Zhan has confessed, how can Song Mier not do things well?

In the royal garden, the old people who stayed were all shunted out of the palace in the past, and they did small things in the palace when they had nothing to do on weekdays, and they took the royal family to arrange the entire garden.

Of course, there will be friction, the old people who came out looked down on the new palace people who followed the nobles from the palace and looked down on people, and the palace people who came from the palace couldn't get used to the self-righteous attitude of these so-called old people, and there were even those who were assigned to other gardens because they offended people, and they tried every possible way to get the appreciation of the nobles and return to the palace.

Fortunately, this time it was the emperor and concubine, Duan Zhaoyi and Zhang Concubine who came. Duan Zhaoyi has always been low-key, and the palace people are also careful, Concubine Zhang seems to be a little pampered and arrogant, but the three mothers above are pressed, and they can't set off any waves, so there is no friction, Yuan Shufei's palace people don't see much people all day long, mostly in the kitchen and the queen's courtyard shuttle, it is said that the relationship between the lady and the queen is very good, at first some people didn't believe it, but when they came back, they saw the queen and the queen staying together, talking and laughing, I also saw that the lady concubine drank directly with the wine glass used by the queen's mother, and the two of them got together and exchanged ears, and I don't know why there are so many things to talk about, but they are very harmonious, and the old people in the garden are surprised and emotional, which can still have such a good relationship in the harem, but it is rare.

The palace people of the emperor and queen are even more unusual, they act neatly and neatly, and they are neat and clean, a royal banquet makes the old people in the other garden very leisurely, but they are waiting to see if there is any joy to see if there are any pleasures to see.