Chapter 188: Turbulence (2)
The queen's words seemed to be educating Princess Pingjun, but in fact, she was saying it to the eldest princess of Linhai.
The Queen Mother was still thinking about Ji Mingyue and Mo Chenyuan, but when she heard the queen say this, her heart jumped, and she carefully counted the women in the Mo family and the women of the right age who had not yet been married or were married
"What has Mai'er's child been busy with these days, and I haven't seen her enter the palace to accompany the mourning family, and the mourning family really misses her."
Hearing the Queen Mother ask about Mo Maiyuan, the queen's eyelids jumped, and she smiled slightly and said: "The concubine heard that the imperial aunt is showing Sister Mai these days, and she just took Sister Mai to Zhengyuan Temple to ask for a sign yesterday."
The eldest princess of Linhai sneered: "The queen just said that our Mo family's daughter has a big responsibility, but this time she said that Sister Mai is looking at each other, isn't this a rule just for one person?" ”
Listening to the words of the eldest princess of Linhai, the corner of the queen's mouth showed a touch of sarcasm and wanted to open her mouth to refute, but was interrupted by the queen mother with a dark face
"What a noise! It's been like this for years! are all people who are about to become mothers-in-law, and they are still so fast-tongued! ”
The queen and the eldest princess of Linhai immediately lowered their eyelids and stopped talking. The Queen Mother said again: "You have no jokes, and besides, it was asked by Yuan'er personally, and the emperor also agreed, how can you say that if you don't count, you won't count?" ”
The eldest princess of Linhai knew the temper of the queen mother, so she didn't dare to make another time, so she had to lower her eyes and admit her mistake
"Erchen was confused for a while"
The Queen Mother looked at her daughter, who had always loved her, silent
"When Gui'er left home this morning, I saw that my grandmother kept a straight face," Xu Zigui saw that the house was quiet again, and seeing that the queen was not good, Xu Zigui smiled and was angry: "At first, I thought it was Gui'er who made my grandmother unhappy, but I found out later." It turned out that last night, Mother Jiang suddenly found a wrinkle from the corner of her grandmother's eye, and her grandmother didn't dare to laugh or get angry.
As he spoke, he smiled with a handkerchief to cover his mouth, and looked at the Queen Mother with a mocking look in his eyes. After a while, the Queen Mother reacted and pointed at Xu Zigui with a smile
"Look at this cramped ghost. The mourning family just didn't smile for a while, and was said by this narrow ghost to be afraid of wrinkles."
Mo Leyuan just saw the Queen Mother, and seemed to be slightly angry. was worried about how to make the Queen Mother happy and ease the atmosphere, but he didn't want Xu Zigui to make the Queen Mother laugh with a word, Mo Leyuan couldn't help but sigh. Then he laughed
"Just now, the emperor's grandmother was expressionless, and Anyang thought that her grandmother was angry, but she was afraid of wrinkles."
Princess Pingjun also smiled: "The Queen Mother doesn't have wrinkles, just laugh as much as you want."
The Queen Mother smiled more happily. For a while, the atmosphere in Cining Palace was much better. The eldest princess of Linhai glanced at Xu Zigui meaningfully, and said in her heart, such a seven-trick exquisite heart. No wonder the Queen Mother likes the eldest daughter of the Weiguo Mansion so much
Thinking like this, the eldest princess of Linhai had an idea in her heart, rolled her eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "It's not." The queen mother is not old at all. Mingyue's child said that when she was at home, the queen mother looked younger than her son."
"You mouth!" The Queen Mother glared at the eldest princess of Linhai with a smile: "It's okay if the children laugh and don't be sensible, you don't have a mouth!" ”
The eldest princess of Linhai covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled: "It's not that the queen mother is used to it." ”
As he spoke, he smiled again: "Erchen was about to say it." This time, although the emperor's brother wanted the son's family to come to the capital, the prince was not worried about Shudi. Left Brother Ping a few to guard in Shudi, only brought Mingyue and Brother Ran two to come, the retainers were afraid that Mingyue would be lonely with no one at home, and secondly, they also thought that Mingyue had lived in the palace for a period of time since she was a child, so that she could come to the palace to accompany her mother, and she could often catch up with Anyang Yi'er or something, queen mother, do you think this is good? ”
"Okay, good, this is naturally good," the Queen Mother heard the eldest princess of Linhai say this, smiled and nodded again and again and patted the hand of the eldest princess of Linhai and said with a smile: "The mourning family has long wanted Mingyue to come to the palace to accompany the mourning family, I am afraid that you will be reluctant, and now you say this is really good."
The eldest princess of Linhai smiled again: "It just so happened that the last time the ministers were invited to a banquet in the mansion, it is also a coincidence, but Mingyue and the lord of Yunjin are very close to each other."
The Queen Mother was interested: "Oh? After a while, he smiled again: "Both of them are good children, and they both have their own talents, it's hard not to be attracted to each other."
"Who says it's not," Princess Linhai clapped her hands with a smile and said, "The two of them were called sisters when they were in the Erchen Mansion that day."
Hearing what the eldest princess of Linhai said, Xu Zigui raised her eyebrows slightly, sisters are commensurate? Hmph, the eldest princess of Linhai, this sister is commensurate, but what she said is very meaningful
"Princess Mingyue has a noble status, how dare Yunjin be commensurate with Princess Mingyue's sisters"
"What status is noble or not," the queen mother didn't know that the eldest princess of Linhai already knew which one had a marriage contract with Mo Ziyuan, and when the eldest princess of Linhai said that she wanted the two to be commensurate with sisters, the queen mother didn't think much about it, but when Xu Zigui was humble, she smiled and said: "Isn't your identity noble?"
"That's not as good as Princess Mingyue," Xu Zigui winked at the Queen Mother with a smile, and said with a smile: "It's a blessing for Gui'er that a person like Princess Mingyue can fall in love with Gui'er."
The Queen Mother immediately pointed at Xu Zigui and smiled at the eldest princess of Linhai: "Look at this child's sweet mouth, who will go if she doesn't hurt her family?"
As he spoke, he looked at Princess Pingjun and smiled: "Next time you come, you will also bring your sister away, the mourning family may not have seen your sister for a long time."
When people are old, they like children very much, and they are considered to be the great-granddaughters of the queen mother, although Mo Ziye is not the queen mother's own grandson, only the first child in this generation, and the queen mother's own grandchildren are all unmarried wives one by one, but those who marry wives have committed crimes and are under house arrest by the emperor, and there are fewer children in the palace, there will be less excitement, and the queen mother will be particularly greedy for the taste of leaving her sister in her arms.
Princess Pingjun saw that the Queen Mother was talking about leaving her sister, so she hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "If it weren't for a few coughs from my sister when I got up this morning, my granddaughter-in-law was afraid that my sister would be sick to the Queen Mother, so she brought my sister over."
"How many coughs?" Hearing that Sister Li'er seemed to be sick, the Queen Mother hurriedly bowed slightly and frowned and asked, "Didn't you just recover from your illness a few days ago, why did you cough again this morning?" But the nurse was lazy in the middle of the night and froze her sister? ”
"The maids and ladies are very dedicated." Princess Pingjun shook her head with a smile and comforted the Queen Mother: "Most of the two- and three-year-old children are weaker, so the Queen Mother doesn't need to worry."
The Queen Mother frowned: "After a while, you should take a doctor to the house to show Sister Li'er, it's not good to always cough."
After that, you looked at Xu Zigui with a smile and said with a smile: "The mourning family remembers that you and Concubine Cheng are the best at food therapy?" There's a cure for cough."
"What is the best at food therapy with Concubine Cheng, how dare you compare with Concubine Cheng's small skills," smiled humbly. Xu Zigui smiled again: "Gui'er remembers reading a book about diet therapy when she was idle. It is said that the pear is cut into small pieces, boiled in a pot with rock sugar, and then let the county lord eat the pear meat with the soup."
"I know, I know." Xu Zigui's voice just fell. Mo Leyuan smiled and clapped his hands and said: "When I was in Zhengyuan Temple, I had a cough and Gui'er cooked me a pot of pear soup like this, and let me drink it, and I only drank it a few times."
After speaking, he looked at Princess Pingjun with a smile and said with a smile: "And this pear soup is very sweet and delicious, and Sister Li'er will also like it." Although it is not faster than drinking medicine, it is better than being able to treat her as a sweet. I won't cry and refuse to drink when I leave my sister."
As he spoke, he winked at Xu Zigui and smiled: "I've never seen anyone other than the prince's brother who doesn't like to drink pear soup."
In fact, Xu Zigui is talking about the most common rock sugar pear, and the Queen Mother only thinks that this is used to prevent wind and cold in autumn, but she doesn't want it to be a good cure for cough. After Mo Leyuan finished speaking, the queen continued to laugh
"Your eldest brother doesn't like sweets, but fortunately he is stronger, and Bengong has never forced him to drink pear soup. When your eldest brother marries a wife, someone forces him to drink, maybe it will be better. It's just this palace, but I didn't expect this pear soup to be a good cure for cough. This is the first time I've heard of it."
Xu Zigui blushed slightly when he was teased by Mo Leyuan and the Queen Mother, but he had to pretend to be calm, and he cleared his throat without changing his face, pretending not to hear the first few words, and only explained that pear soup can cure cough
"Sydney pears and rock candy both contain cough suppressant effects, and the combination of the two is a warm soup, and the natural effect will be better. This is also one of the few prescriptions that Gui'er memorized when he had nothing to do and read medical books."
"You kid is too modest," the Queen Mother looked at Xu Zigui with a smile, and said nostalgically: "Some time ago, you helped the mourning family in the palace to recuperate, and the mourning family was really a lot easier.
The queen then chimed in: "No, the concubine who tasted Gui'er's cooking skills actually felt that even the food made in the imperial dining room was less tasteful."
Xu Zigui said with a smile: "It's just that Niangniang is used to eating the meals in the imperial dining room, and occasionally changes the meals to feel fresh, Gui'er's little carving insect skills dare not be compared with the imperial dining room......
"Lord Yunjin actually knows how to cook?" As he was talking, he was interrupted by the eldest princess of Linhai with a smile: "This palace thought that the girls in the capital were all noble people and couldn't learn cooking, but I didn't want the lord of Yunjin not only to know how to cook, but also to seem to be very good, but this palace is narrow."
At first glance, this sound like praising Xu Zigui's ingenuity and hard work, but if you break it down in detail, it doesn't mean that. The eldest princess of Linhai said that the girls in the capital are all noble and very good at cooking, but she Xu Zigui knows how to cook, what does this mean? It's not that the Weiguo Mansion is vulgar and unbearable, but it actually lets the delicate concubine cook and learn to cook!
Even Mo Leyuan could hear the meaning of the eldest princess of Linhai, not to mention a few others. The Queen Mother frowned in her heart and sighed slightly, but the palms and backs of her hands were full of meat, so it was hard to say anything. The queen glanced at the eldest princess of Linhai with a smile, and said without being salty
"The royal sister has only been in Beijing for a few years, but she has forgotten the rules of our capital, and the girls in our capital, especially the nobles of the high family, are all required to be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and female red cooking, although they are not proficient, but they must also have a skill that can be mastered."
When the queen said this, the eldest princess of Linhai was indeed slightly embarrassed, but she did not admit that she was deliberately looking for Xu Zigui to belittle Xu Zigui, and only laughed and said
"If you really go out of the capital, you only think about the good in the capital, but if the girls here are all expensive, they don't go into the kitchen."
Speaking of which, but it still goes around to this, the implication is that after Xu Zi returns, he will go into the kitchen to cook and serve his in-laws like the daughter-in-law of a small family.
Xu Zigui sneered in his heart, but his face was dignified: "When Yun Jin was at home, Yun Jin's mother personally cooked soup for his father and grandmother as soon as he was free. At first, Yun Jin didn't understand why his mother still did this when there was a mother-in-law who cooked rice at home, but later Yun Jin asked his mother, and his mother told him that although there was a mother-in-law who cooked rice in the kitchen, he was always inferior to his mother who knew the preferences of his father and grandmother, and his mother would cook soup for his father and grandmother as soon as she was free. ”
Xu Zigui said while smiling and covering his mouth with a handkerchief: "When we were at home, several of our brothers and sisters also tasted the soup made by our mother, and my mother said that being able to make soup for the family by hand is the greatest manifestation of loving the family." Since then, Yun Jinbian has always remembered his mother's words, and when he has time, he personally cooks to honor his elders and brothers. Speaking of which, Yun Jin is indeed inferior to other nobles in the capital like this."
After saying something, it made the eldest princess of Linhai blush, and Xu Zigui's words of filial piety and friendship between her elders and her younger brothers and sisters were in stark contrast to what she had just said, which really made her rude
The queen has always known that Xu Zigui's mouth is very poisonous, and she can always pretend to be serious and reasonable, but she is generally blocked and can't speak. In the past, when she quarreled with the eldest princess of Linhai and didn't block her face like this, at this time, the queen saw that Xu Zigui said that the eldest princess of Linhai had nothing to say, and her heart was really relieved, and she took Xu Zigui's hand with a smile and said with a smile
"None of them can compare to you!"
"But it's not," the Queen Mother was also moved by Xu Zigui's words, and said with envy: "The mourning family really envies your grandmother, with such a lovely granddaughter as you."
The queen seemed to be demonstrating and showing off, holding Xu Zigui's shoulder, she glanced at the eldest princess of Linhai and said: "What does the queen mother envy, this is not about to return soon, and she will become half of the granddaughter of the queen mother, and she can stay by the queen mother's side every day" (to be continued)