Chapter 82: Secret Brewing Plum Beans
Early the next morning, after serving Yunyang to freshen up, he walked in with the food box for breakfast. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 After putting down the kang table with Nanmu Wufu flowing cloud pattern, the two of them worked together to set the food plate.
Yunyang sat down in front of the kang table and took a look, only to see that as usual, there were three cold dishes, four hot dishes, and a bowl of porridge on the table.
The only difference is that one of the three cold dishes is served in a gilded eight-treasure dragon bowl, while the other dishes are served in a white porcelain eight-peach over-twig plate.
"Why don't you pay attention like this, the Eight Treasure Regiment dragon pattern thing can be used by Qiao Palace? If this is known to outsiders and spread, it will be punished by the palace rules. Yoonyang reproached softly.
When Sui Wan heard this, he smiled "poof": "Niangniang, how could the slave be so careless?" This was passed from the Choshin Palace this morning. After the emperor had breakfast, he ordered a few side dishes to be given to the ladies of the harem to taste. ”
"This is sent to Qiao Palace, and this dish is called Secret Brewed Meiyun Bean. No, the little eunuch who delivered the food is still waiting outside, waiting for you to give an evaluation after tasting it! ”
Yunyang looked out the window and saw a twelve- or thirteen-year-old eunuch standing in the courtyard in a gray-blue plain satin thin cotton coat, with a childish face and the tip of his nose flushed from the cold.
"The stone is too bad at doing things. Although this eunuch is young, he is also on an errand in Changxin Palace, how can he be allowed to stand in the cold wind. Why don't you invite him into the wing room and give him a cup of hot tea to warm his hands. Yunyang turned back to Sui Su and said.
Yin Lu listened to it, and interjected: "Back to Niangniang, I just let me wait." But this child was very stubborn, saying that the emperor asked him to wait for the concubine to pass on the words that he loved to eat or not. ”
"So he has to wait like this wholeheartedly, and he will return to the emperor as soon as he gets the letter."
Yun Yang listened, and the corners of his lips raised slightly: "It's Liu Fuquan who will pick people, and he chose such a solid child." Bengong hurriedly tasted it, and asked him to hurry up and reply and suffer less from the cold. ”
Picking up a cloud bean and putting it in his mouth, Yun Yang tasted it and said, "Indeed...... Delicious. ”
With a smile on his lips, he turned around and lifted the thin cotton soft satin curtain embroidered with the concubine's gold and silver threads and went out to speak.
Because of Yunyang's sentence "delicious", this little eunuch sent it every morning with a brocade box containing this secret brewed plum cloud bean for seven or eight days.
One day, the crowd spotted the little eunuch with a dirt stain on his knee. I think he came out in the morning, the sky was not yet full, he didn't see the road clearly, and he fell somewhere.
By the time this secret brewed Mei Yundou was put on the table, the number was also half less than usual, probably because the little eunuch spilled it when he fell.
Yunyang looked outside through the cigarette screen on the window, and saw that the little eunuch was still standing straight in the middle of the courtyard with his hands down as usual. It's just that he lost his usual composure today, the corners of his mouth twitched, and there seemed to be a few more tears on his face.
"Go and wrap a packet of sesame snail cakes in a handkerchief and give it to him. It is said that he did a good job on an errand today, and the palace is very satisfied and rewards him. Yun Yang said to Yu Lu.
It worked. Yin Lu stuffed the sesame snail crisp into the cloth bag tied around the waist of the little eunuch and buttoned it carefully. I helped him flick the dust off his body, wiped his tears with his own handkerchief, and said a few words, and the little eunuch finally broke into a smile.
Yun Yang looked at this scene, turned his head and saw this bowl of cloud beans, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up a little: "If you want to say that the slave maid is young, it's just a tendon, and the master of the Changxin Palace is also like this." ”
"I said it was delicious, so I only gave this one every day, but do you want to make people vomit until they eat it?"
Although he thought so in his heart, when he came to collect the breakfast plate with Sui Xuan and Yu Lu, he found that except for this secret brewed plum cloud bean, Yun Yang barely moved the other dishes.
Sui Su and Yu Lu exchanged glances, and they both stiffened their faces and couldn't help laughing. After leaving the inner hall, Sui Su whispered, "Do you guess which of these two people can't hold his breath in the end?" I think I'm going to lose. ”
Yin Lu looked left and right, lowered his voice and said, "I think it's Changxin Palace." If you don't believe it, let's gamble, and within five days, Changxin Palace will have to pass on the mother to serve you. ”
What is surprising is that on the tenth day, the little eunuch who came to deliver food every day did not appear.
For breakfast, Yunyang didn't move.
Sui Xuan and Yu Lu looked at a table of neat dishes and shook their heads gently.
At this time, Yunyang leaned on the back of the incense-filled ribbon kang chair, holding a small silver scissor and holding a piece of lotus lotus-colored makeup and gold satin, hinging a pattern.
Seeing it, he leaned forward, and just wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yinlu's hand, but finally didn't say anything. The two of them silently cleaned up the things on the table with heavy faces.
At this time, I heard the panting voice of the stone from outside the hall: "Niangniang, the stone has something to go back." ”
Yunyang raised his head and said in a gentle tone, "Come in." ”
At this time, the morning was cold, and most people were so cold that they shrank when they went out, but this stone was full of red face, and there was still a trace of sweat on his forehead.
"Where did you go to work as a coolie this morning? Tired like this. Yunyang glanced at him, lowered his head and hinged the trick again, with a little smile in his tone.
"Niangniang, the slave went out to inquire, why didn't the little eunuch of Changxin Palace come today."
When Yunyang heard this, he didn't raise his head, but the movements in his hands stopped: "Who told you to go?" Could it be that if the little eunuch of Changxin Palace doesn't come for a day, the life of Qiao Palace won't be able to go on? ”
As soon as Shi heard that Niangniang's voice was wrong, he quickly knelt down and looked at Sui Su like a help.
casually answered: "Back to Niangniang, that's the case." Didn't you say last time that you pity him for standing in the courtyard every day and being cold, and you want to reward that little eunuch with a cage hand? ”
"Now that the cage is ready, he didn't come, so the slave and maid let Shi go out to inquire, but this little eunuch is sick?"
Yunyang didn't say anything when he heard this, just sighed softly.
Sui Su turned his head and glared at the stone: "What did you find out?" Say it! ”
"The little slave went out to inquire and found out that it was Concubine Chen Niangniang who spoke to the emperor, saying that this month is the month of vegetarian Ramadan, begging for blessings for the people, and avoiding meat. And the New Year is approaching, and the harem should be more frugal. ”
"The secret stuffed plum beans that are delivered to Qiao Palace every day, although they are vegetarian dishes, but when they are on the right plate, the cloud beans have to be marinated together with forty suckling duck tongues in oil for half a month."
"Making this dish not only hurts the lives of many living beings, but also costs a lot, so Concubine Chen asked the emperor to delete this dish from the imperial menu, and the emperor should have agreed."
Hearing this, Yunyang's lowered eyelashes jumped slightly, and Sui Xuan and Yin Lu bit their lips with a puffed out look.
When Shi saw their expressions, he hurriedly said: "Concubine Chen is not only for this dish, but also for the dishes that the queen and Concubine Min love to eat, she also returned and deleted them." ”