Chapter Twenty-Eight: Flower Tea
"Qianqian was married to the prince by the emperor's Chrysostom Yuyan, and the prince is bound to be wary of Qianqian, and Qianqian can only slowly gain the trust of the prince in order to do better things for the emperor. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Xia Ruqian understands that if you want to get out of this Weiyang Palace alive today, you must give the emperor a plan, a plan that can be seen and effective.
Xia Ruqian raised his head and looked at the emperor with an interested look, and hurriedly said: "Qianqian must pretend to be the prince's person in order to gain the prince's trust." ”
"You mean, pretend to betray me, take refuge in Lao Jiu, and wait for Lao Jiu to believe in you, and then do things for me?"
"Yes."
"But, do you think Lao Jiu will believe you?"
"Shallow should do your best." Xia Ruqian hesitated again and again, but still raised his eyes and looked straight at the emperor: "If Qianqian succeeds, the emperor can get what he wants, and Qianqian can live, if Qianqian fails, the emperor is just losing a chess piece, and it is not a big deal." ”
The queen stepped forward and bowed over: "The concubine thinks that what Qianqian said is feasible, no one will take their lives as child's play, since Qianqian knows the consequences, she is confident, the emperor might as well let her go." ”
The emperor watched the candle on the lamp case go out, picked up scissors and cut the wick: "I have always rewarded and punished clearly, if you succeed, I will fulfill my previous promise and let you go, but if you fail, I will never be merciful." Do you understand? ”
"I understand."
"Hmm." The emperor sighed: "You can go, if you have any needs, you can tell the queen directly." ”
"Thank you, Lord Long." Xia Ruqian kowtowed deeply to thank him.
When he came out of the Yang Palace, Xia Ruqian felt that he had used up all his strength. Yun Duo waited anxiously outside, and when he saw Xia Ruqian coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward to help, Xia Ruqian tilted his body, and fainted on Yun Duo.
Yun Duo was frightened, and he didn't dare to mumble loudly, so he had to help the princess up and walk in the direction of Kunyi Palace.
Fortunately, halfway through, I met the Nine Princes who were a little worried about coming out to find out.
The Ninth Prince frowned and picked up Xia Ruqian, got into the carriage directly, and returned to the palace.
"It's just that it's too much thought, it's not a big deal, just stay in bed for a while." The doctor prescribed a prescription, and Zhuxiang hurriedly went down to boil the medicine.
The first snow after the beginning of winter is blowing one after another. The white snow was thick and spread all over the yard.
Xia Ruqian looked at the still strong Yueji Flower with a thick layer of snow on it, and felt a little distressed.
She put on a thick shawl, carried a small basket, and went to pluck those lucky petals to make tea.
Zhuxiang happily followed, very excited.
Xia Ruqian first put the snow on the petals in a porcelain jar, and then carefully picked the petals and put them in a basket.
Coming out of their own yard, they will go to the back garden, and they have already picked a basket.
The clouds put the porcelain jar covered with snow on the stove and baked it for a while, and when they took it again, it was full of snow water.
Xia Ruqian carefully picked out the broken and withered ones, washed them with water a few times, and prepared to put them in water to boil.
"Princess, what are you doing?" The clouds immediately stopped her.
"Aren't you going to make flower tea?"
"Princess, flower tea is not boiled like this." The clouds put the petals back in the basket and took them outside to dry.
"Why don't you just put it in?"
"The petals have to be dried and stir-fried before the aroma inside can come out. However, it is not so troublesome for us to drink and play by ourselves, we first boil the snow water, wait for the petals to dry, wrap it in gauze with the tea leaves, and bake it on the stove for a while, the tea leaves are stained with the fragrance of the petals, and then put it in the snow water to boil. As if he had tasted it, the clouds exclaimed, "Ah, the whole tea is sweet." ”
"Well, that's it."
Soon the fruits of his labor were held in the palm of his hand.
Xia Ruqian tasted it a little, and a burst of sweetness occupied his taste in an instant.
"Well, it's really sweet."
"Hee-hee, the princess likes it."
"Well, you and the bamboo fragrance can also taste the clouds."
When I took a bite of Zhuxiang, I was also very surprised, and gave a thumbs up again and again.
Xia Ruqian was very happy, and suddenly remembered the prince, so he ordered the clouds to be cleaned up, and he wanted to give the prince a taste.
The Nine Princes are holding the stove and reading the post.
The end of the year is approaching, and the posts of various banquets are also coming.
The Nine Princes don't care about these vulgar banquets, and they can push all the things they can.
Of course, there are also things that can't be pushed, such as the big red gilded sticker picked out by the Nine Princes at the moment.
It was the red plum banquet set up by the Queen Mother.
I don't know what the Queen Mother has in mind, this cold winter wax moon, she actually wants to set up a banquet to enjoy the plum blossoms in the plum garden.
The Nine Princes sighed, the queen mother's banquet is of course a must.
"Lord, the princess is here." Ang Lee pushed the door in.
"Well, let her in!"
The snow is still falling, fluttering like goose feathers. Xia Ruqian took off his shawl, patted the snowflakes on his forehead, took the teapot from the clouds, and put it on the stove in front of the Nine Princes.
The water gurgles, and the fragrance of the petals comes out.
Last time Xia Ruqian fainted, the Nine Princes didn't ask, and Xia Ruqian didn't say. The two of them tacitly acted as if it had never happened.
Xia Ruqian felt that the time was not yet ripe, so he delayed it again and again.
The Nine Princes waited quietly.
Although the two of them avoided talking about it, the distance between them was much closer.
"This is a tea made of snow water that I personally collected, you can taste it." Xia Ruqian poured a cup and handed it to the Nine Princes.
The Ninth Prince took a sip and nodded: "Well, drinking tea and tasting snow is unique." ”
"Isn't it delicious?"
"It seems to be sweeter, what did you add?" The Nine Princes thought for a moment and asked, "Petals?" ”
"Well, can you taste it? It was I who picked the moon flowers in the yard. ”
"Well, the princess is so interested!"
"Hey, hey." Xia Ruqian smiled, suddenly remembered something, and his eyes suddenly brightened: "Lord, in two days, can I take two guests to the palace for the New Year." ”
"Huh? Who is the princess going to invite? "The Ninth Prince is very curious.
"Eh, does the prince know about the 'Banquet Quartet'?"
The Nine Princes raised their eyebrows slightly: "Well, Kyoto's No. 1 restaurant." ”
"Well, the last time I went to dinner, I chatted with a girl named Yan Xi inside, she and her brother Jingcheng are orphans, the two depend on each other, very pitiful, I just thought, can I take into the palace, and we will keep the New Year together." Xia Ruqian said tentatively.
These two people know about the Nine Princes, Li An has reported, and Li Guobin has also checked the details of the two, but they are very clean, so he nodded: "It's good if you're happy." ”