44 [Unsatisfactory] A tragedy caused by a zongzi

Because it is the Yulan Festival, all palaces must smoke wormwood and eat male yellow wine. Zhao Yanrong felt strange, the Yulan Festival here is the same as the Dragon Boat Festival, and the customs are similar, but there are no zongzi. She was also a foodie back then, sweet and salty, and her favorite was bean paste dumplings and big meat dumplings.

Thanks to the fact that she had asked the kitchen in advance, she knew that no one would do it, and once a big foodie was worried about what to eat, she was really worried about it. Fortunately, there are rivers and beaches on the outskirts of Beijing, and reeds grow everywhere. She asked people to pick the wide and fresh reed leaves and wash them, and let people soak Jiang rice, prepare bean paste and pork belly, and spent most of the day pulling the female officials in the inner hall of Zhaoyang Hall to wrap four large pots of zongzi together.

The female officials are all ingenious, and they think that the activity of making zongzi is very fresh and interesting, and after learning the techniques taught by the queen, they are playing with a lot of different things.

The large and small zongzi are strung together with five-colored silk threads, and they look full and very cute.

Of course, it is more fragrant when boiled.

Zhao Yanrong proudly gave the zongzi a new name, called "Ruyizi". It was distributed to each palace and received unanimous praise from top to bottom.

Concubine Wei had just come back, and she hadn't had a chance to taste this Zhao Ruyizi, so in order to show her affection, Zhao Yanrong brought ten of them over. Four bean paste fillings, four large meat fillings, and two white rice dumplings.

Concubine Wei has never eaten this thing, the dumpling leaves are fragrant, the rice glutinous filling is sweet, and she is very appetizing.

Seeing that the queen was napping and she was angry, she couldn't help but eat too much.

And this zongzi is really fragrant, Concubine Wei ate two and wanted to reach out to get the third.

Zhao Yanrong came back to her senses listlessly, and when she saw that the concubine was still going to take the zongzi, she said: "Concubine, you can't eat too much of this thing, don't refrain from it, keep it for Ming'er and eat it again." ”

The ten zongzi were all cooked, two for the emperor and two for the empress, two in front of Wei Anlan's plate, and the remaining four were placed in front of the concubine. Concubine Wei was looking at the queen and was not angry, and when she saw that she bumped into herself, she immediately sneered and said, "I know that this is the queen's own handbag, and it is a precious thing." It's just that when people are old, their mouths are more gluttonous than those of young people. I wonder how many are left there, Queen? also send more of them, so that the palace people here in the palace can taste the freshness. ”

Just kidding, there are not eighty but sixty palace people up and down in Shoukang Palace, she wrapped so many zongzi, if anyone gave it, what else is so rare about this thing?

Zhao Yanrong smiled and said to Concubine Wei slowly: "Concubine, you don't know, this thing is just fresh and interesting." Don't look at its small one, it can be pressed tightly, this rice is sticky, difficult to restrain and should not be eaten too much at one time. I remember when I was a child, I had to eat Jiangmi cake during the Chinese New Year, and it was also delicious, but my mother didn't allow me to eat more, saying that it would hurt my spleen and stomach. I don't know medical science, but I know that Jiang Mi is beneficial to eat less, and it is easy to hurt if you eat more. If the concubine likes to eat this, after I teach the dining room how to do it, just make a few every three or five times, so that it will not hurt her body if she eats for a long time. ”

The queen was reasonable, and she was also thinking about her, Concubine Wei didn't speak, but Wei Anlan hurriedly took down the Ruyizi in front of her and asked people to put it away first.

"Concubine Niangniang, what the queen said is that Jiangmi is not easy to restrain and eat, so let's save this for tomorrow." Wei Anlan handed the tea to Concubine Wei.

Concubine Wei took it with a smile: "It's still Lan'er who is considerate." ”

Zhao Yanrong could only roll her eyes on the side.

Old ladies who dare to love are so partial.

Mrs. Zhao's heart was full of Zhao Qingrong, and Empress Dowager Zhang insisted on supporting Concubine Duan.

Okay, now there is a Concubine Wei, and her eyes are full of only her good niece Wei Anlan.

Only she, who is not loved by her father and mother, has no old lady to support her as a backer.

The Emperor quietly squeezed the Empress's hand under the table.

Zhao Yanrong turned her head to look and saw the emperor with an apologetic smile on his face, and understood what he meant.

He wanted to say that he was in pain, so let her endure it.

In fact, there is nothing unbearable, Zhao Yanrong thought.

Concubine Wei is different from Mrs. Zhao and Empress Dowager Zhang.

The two old ladies were selfish and ruthless, doing everything to achieve their goals, and they had the intention of harming people's lives.

Concubine Wei just felt that she was not worthy of the emperor and wanted to find a confidante for the emperor. It's thinking about the emperor and thinking about him......

Endure? Zhao Yanrong sighed softly! She really didn't know how to write the word "forbearance".

Coming out of Shoukang Palace, Zhao Yanrong watched Wei Anlan's hands and feet stiffly helping the emperor cloak under the urging of Concubine Wei, and his face was so red that he was about to burn.

"Hongu is coming." Zhao Yanrong really couldn't stand Miss Wei's awkward, shy and mummy-like movements, so she directly snatched the cloak and draped it on the emperor's back.

Concubine Wei was not happy when she looked at it from behind. She asked Wei Anlan to send the emperor with the intention of letting the two of them get close. If you can take a closer look, maybe the emperor will notice An Lan's beauty. I didn't expect this queen to understand anything and stir up good things.

The emperor didn't feel anything, took the queen's hand and politely declined Wei Anlan's kindness to send a ride, and the two took the palace maids and eunuchs who were close to them and left in a chariot.

Walking on the road, the emperor suddenly remembered.

"I heard that you sent a big pot of Ruyi to Changle Palace? But didn't you just tell the concubine that you can't eat too much? ”

Zhao Yanrong laughed.

Li Rui's eyes rolled, and he already understood what the queen meant.

The elderly should not eat more rice than they eat, let alone sweet bean paste and fatty meat. The queen deliberately sent so many wishful children over, because she wanted to trap the queen mother.

The Queen Mother has been in retreat for a month, and the Queen Mother has not forgotten to pit her, this woman's ability to hold grudges is big enough.

Li Rui held his chin and smiled, anyway, the queen didn't say anything, and he didn't hear anything.

One day later, there was a commotion in Changle Palace, and the Queen Mother moved the Tai Hospital over again, and she had to ask the doctors to test for drugs.

The Queen Mother's old illness has not been cured, and new ones have been added, so the emperor and empress will naturally rush over as soon as possible. I heard the Queen Mother holding her stomach and ouching.

"The mourning family knew that the queen was not well-intentioned. I don't mean that Yulan Festival wants to bring me food. Ouch, ouch, it hurts! It must be the poison that has been put in the food, and I want to mourn the life of my family! ”

Zhao Yanrong walked into the door briskly with the queen mother's moan: "Queen Mother, how are you?" ”

"This palace just heard the queen mother's cry of pain, have you all found out the cause?" Zhao Yanrong looked worried, crossed the palace people and the imperial doctors who knelt down to salute, and came to the queen mother's bed.

"You poisonous woman, you must have poisoned that wishful child, and you want to poison the mourning family." The queen mother's stomach was uncomfortably swollen, and her heart was like a fire burning, seeing the queen come in, although she wanted to maintain her image in front of the imperial doctors, she couldn't help but scold, "What kind of lack of morality, you will definitely be hit by five thunders from the sky!" ”

"What's the matter with the Queen Mother?" The queen gasped and looked back at the imperial doctors who were kneeling on the ground in shock, "Didn't you say that her old man's stomach was swollen and uncomfortable?" Why is this brain also sick, see who bites whom? It can't be that I'm stumped by something. ”

The old lady doctor who diagnosed the pulse of the Queen Mother shook her head and said: "The Queen Mother just eats too many things that are not restrained, and she accumulates food." ”

The queen mother scolded the general, where was she willing to believe the words of the imperial doctor, only when the imperial doctor did not dare to tell the truth in front of the emperor and the empress.

The emperor said to the palace people in Changle Palace: "Go and bring the leftover Ruyizi of the Queen Mother." ”

The palace man hurriedly took out a small plate.

The queen covered her mouth and exclaimed: "There is a big pot in front of the palace, why are there only these few?" ”

The palace people bowed their heads and did not answer.

The Queen Mother originally didn't want to eat the things sent by the queen, so she rewarded this pot of Ruyi to a few palace maids, and at noon they cooked some food, and the Queen Mother couldn't stand it when she smelled the fragrance. In the evening, seeing that the palace maids who had eaten Ruyizi were fine, she asked Concubine Duan to cook some for her, and the aunt and nephew shared the food together.

The Queen Mother has never eaten zongzi, and after this try, she was a little unable to hold her mouth. I picked up the meat dumplings and ate a lot. In the end, it took Concubine Duan to persuade for a long time to leave these dumplings.

Jiangmi is the most sticky thing, the zongzi is pressed tightly, it is not easy to digest in the stomach, and the stomach is swollen, plus those half-fat and half-thin meat, the greasy thing is even worse. At night, the Queen Mother couldn't hold it anymore, and she clutched her stomach and screamed pain.

The queen looked at them with disgust: "The queen mother is so old, you don't persuade one by one, how can you let her eat so much in one go?" The iron-beaten people can't stand eating seaweed like this. ”

"Since the queen mother suspects that this wishful son is poisonous, it is better to ask the imperial doctors to come and examine it to see if it is poisonous here." The emperor said lightly.

The Queen Mother is obviously suffering from food accumulation, eating too much greasy and sticky things, what is poisoning? The imperial doctors knew it, but since the emperor said so, they had to come seriously to test the poison. When testing for drugs, naturally you can't prescribe prescriptions, and you can't decoct medicine, so you can only let the Queen Mother stiffen on the bed.

After an hour, the Queen Mother's moaning on the bed became louder and louder, her face was pale, and cold sweat broke out, obviously in pain that she couldn't stand it.

"Why haven't you finished checking it yet!" Concubine Duan couldn't bear to see the Queen Mother in such pain, so she asked out loud.

The imperial doctor replied: "Concubine Duan, don't be impatient, there are many kinds of poisons, and their characteristics and inspection methods are different. Since it is the drug test ordered by the Queen Mother and the emperor together, we should test it thoroughly and completely, and we dare not let go of a little possibility, so this time will inevitably be extended. ”

"No matter how you check in this palace, someone has to help the Queen Mother relieve her pain first."

"However, the Queen Mother insisted that it was poisoning, and the poison could not be detected, and the rash use of drugs or needles would bring danger to the Queen Mother, which ......" The imperial doctor turned his eyes to the emperor for help.

The Queen Mother was tossing and turning on the bed, her body was not bent, nor was she straightened, so sad that all she could do was hum, the sandglass flowed down little by little, and time passed so slowly that she thought time had stood still. Tormented by stomach pain, the Queen Mother's consciousness could no longer keep up with reason. Finally roared.

"It's not poisoning, it's not poisoning, it's just that the mourning family has eaten and supported the problem, hurry up and decoct the medicine, hurry up and use the needle, ouch, it hurts to death the mourning family!"

"Why don't you go soon?" The emperor finally spoke, and the imperial doctors immediately divided several batches, one for the defense outside, one for the medicinal materials and utensils for preparing decoctions, and one for helping the queen mother to perform acupuncture to relieve pain.

Zhao Yanrong paced outside and saw that the three imperial doctors were considering the prescription, she smiled and stepped forward.

"This kind of disease of the elderly hurting food is easy to say, but difficult to say. The Queen Mother has eaten so much Jiang rice and fatty meat, it is unlikely that she can be cured for a while. ”

Seeing the queen come out, the three imperial doctors hurriedly saluted and listened to the inquiry.

"When I was a child, I heard a home remedy, but I don't know if it's available."

The imperial doctors glanced at each other and bowed their heads together: "Please also ask the mother to give a prescription." ”

Zhao Yanrong pursed her lips and smiled: "It's not that difficult, just pick up the good round white radish, pound out the juice, and drink a big bowl of it, just say it." ”

"Radish juice can cure food accumulation and stomach instability, but it is effective." A imperial physician nodded and said, "It's just that this is the method of the countryside and wild households, and this juice is too spicy and prickly, I'm afraid that the queen mother won't use it." ”

Another imperial doctor also nodded and said, "And just using a single prescription may seem too hasty and perfunctory." ”

The queen smiled slightly and said: "This palace is not familiar with any medical theory, but I also think that the queen mother is too uncomfortable like this, and this unilateral party may have a quick effect." If you feel that the unilateral side is not good-looking, you can consider a recipe to strengthen the spleen and stomach, radish juice to ventilate and reduce flatulence, decoction of the formula to nourish and nourish the body, which can be regarded as thoughtful together. ”

The emperor stood in front of the queen mother's bed, and listened to her calls one after another, feeling both happy and irritable. The palace people were turned around by the Queen Mother, and nothing could be as she wanted. The emperor stood there without saying a word, his expression was grim, and the momentum around him made people dare not approach at all.

After a while, the empress walked in, and the tense look on the emperor's face eased slightly, and he asked her in a low voice, "Where have you just been?" ”

The queen winked at him and said with a smile: "I just went to see the imperial doctors to prescribe prescriptions, your majesty, don't worry, the queen mother will be fine soon after using the medicine." ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows, looked at the meaning in the queen's eyes, and knew that she wanted to make it bad again, the corners of his lips were slightly curved, and he leaned over and said in her ear: "Don't go too far." The Queen Mother can't die. ”

The queen glanced at him and whispered: "What do you say, is the concubine the kind of ruthless person?" It's really just to look at the prescription. ”

You're really ruthless. The emperor rolled these words in his heart, but he still didn't dare to say it in front of the queen.

After another time, the emperor and the queen were also tired of standing, so they each found a seat and sat down, and the two of them exchanged their heads and whispered, looking at the queen mother's belly.

The old lady is uncomfortable like this, you two are still frowning like this in front of you.

With this breath, my stomach became more and more swollen and painful.

"Go, go and call the emperor over, the mourning family is going to die of pain, you let him come, so that the mourning family can see him for the last time." The Queen Mother gritted her teeth and said to Concubine Duan.

Concubine Duan naturally knew that the Queen Mother was angry. The doctors all said that she was accumulating food, and although it was uncomfortable, it was not easy to die. It's just disgusting the emperor.

Glancing at the Emperor and Empress, she saw that their heads were resting on one side, and she didn't know what they were saying, although they were not smiling, their eyes were full of joy, which made her feel as uncomfortable as if she had been pricked by a needle.

The emperor looked at the empress with such a gentle gaze, she married into King Kang's mansion to Li Rui ascended the throne as the emperor, in the past thousand days, she had never seen the emperor look at a woman with such eyes.

Her heart was sour and astringent, Concubine Duan pinched her handkerchief, and her heart swelled with unwillingness, but she instantly turned into frustration.

knew that he was going to marry King Kang as a side concubine, but in fact, he was still a little reluctant in his heart. King Kang is not favored, because of his mother's identity, he is afraid that he can be an idle prince for the rest of his life, how can he compare to her cousin Prince Li Qi? But at that time, the prince's situation was not good, the princes were dead, flowing, and circulating, and there were no more people left. The aunt wanted to win allies for the prince, and Li Rui, the king of Kang, who had always remained neutral and did not participate in the party struggle, became the object of her struggle.

It was under such circumstances that the Zhang family was sent to King Kang's Mansion.

There is already Princess Kang in King Kang's mansion, and her second daughter of the general can only be condescended to the position of side concubine.

Until the crown prince was deposed and King Kang became the crown prince, she finally gave up and wanted to live a good life with King Kang.

Li Rui is handsome and graceful, he is the most handsome of the princes, and he is very assertive, and he doesn't care much about women. After the death of the crown princess, she was full of thought that with her appearance and family background, she would be the future queen. Who knew that after Li Rui ascended the throne, she only became a concubine and lived in Yongfu Palace, so she rarely saw the emperor.

Only then did she realize that the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother was not as filial piety as they had thought before.

And the opponent who thinks that the other party is dying but has to keep the other party alive.

Concubine Duan felt that the road ahead was bleak.

It's not because she's worse than others, it's because her surname is Zhang, and this surname condemns her to death.

If it weren't for the fact that she was Zhang, would the emperor have been able to look at her twice? Could it be that the gentle affection that Empress Zhao received should fall on her at this moment?

Concubine Duan had mixed feelings in her heart, and she also felt extremely dazzling when she looked at the emperor and queen.

She was hesitating whether to listen to the Queen Mother to separate the emperor and queen, and let the emperor sit at the head of the queen mother's bed, when the imperial doctors cautiously walked in with a bowl.

"Queen Mother, the medicine is being decocted, this is a home remedy, it can eliminate accumulation and relieve qi, if you are really sad in your stomach, drink a bowl first."

Concubine Duan took the medicine and only smelled a spicy smell, which was not too unpleasant. So I took a small sip on the side of the bowl.

The spicy taste rushed from her throat to her nose, and she coughed twice, choking on tears.

"What is this? Why is it so flushing? ”

"It's turnip juice." The Imperial Physician replied.

Turnip?

Concubine Duan has never eaten raw radish, but she has eaten the radish roasted vegetables, which tastes somewhat similar, but the raw one is much more exciting than the cooked one.

"Queen Mother, drink this first."

The Queen Mother felt uncomfortable in her abdomen, and only heard that this was a medicine that could relieve pain, and no matter how spicy and unpalatable this medicine was, she didn't say a word, she took the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

"Ouch!" I thought that I would be fine after drinking the medicine, but I didn't expect the radish juice to fall into my stomach, and my stomach was churning, like a breath of qi scurrying in my abdomen, and my heart hurt. The Queen Mother rolled on the bed with her stomach covered, Concubine Duan was so frightened that she turned around and said to the imperial doctor, "What kind of medicine did you enter?" Why didn't the Queen Mother get better, and the pain was even worse? ”

The imperial doctors trembled, sweated and heavily clothed, and just said: "That's exactly what the medicine is working with, as long as the queen mother endures it a little longer, she will be fine in half a moment." ”

Concubine Duan looked at the Queen Mother and cried, afraid that she would really have a good life in the palace, but she thought that if the Queen Mother really went, the emperor might be able to put aside his prejudices about Zhang, and no longer have to remember that she was the niece of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and regain the love of husband and wife.

Concubine Duan cried softly, kneeling in front of the Queen Mother's bed, her mind blank.

"Poof!"

"Poof! Burst! Burst! Burst! Burst! ”

It was as if someone had lit a firecracker in the room, and a series of loud voices popped out of the Queen Mother's bed. The room was immediately filled with the rancid smell of turnips.

The closest Duan Concubine bore the brunt of it, and was smoked by this series of loud farts.

Concubine Duan's face turned pale, and she covered her mouth and rushed out.

The kneeling physicians looked relieved.

The queen's recipe really worked, and it cleared the queen mother's intestines so quickly and relieved the flatulence in the abdomen.

The Queen Mother's face was flushed, but she still couldn't control herself.

The gas in her stomach swelled so much that she was very painful, and she finally found the gas from the mouth of the laxative mouth and scrambled to drill out, one fart was louder than the other, and one fart smelled worse than the other.

Even if the Queen Mother is the daughter of a butcher, she doesn't have the face to fart so unscrupulously in front of so many people.

Fortunately, after the fart was exhausted, the pain of abdominal distension was really much better, and the whole person was much more relaxed.

The queen mother came to her senses and looked left and right, the concubine Duan who was originally serving by her side was gone, and the emperor and queen who were sitting far away from her had long since disappeared, only the palace maids in the palace were standing with a dishful face, and the loyal imperial doctors were looking at her with a happy face.

"Congratulations to Niangniang, the stasis has been dissipated, and the pain can be reduced. Weichen decoction of qi and body, can help digestion, strengthen the spleen and stomach, you drink a few doses, and then take care of it for a few days, it will be fine. ”

The Queen Mother looked at them blankly, and the hall was filled with an unbearable stench.

She's grown so big, and she's never been so embarrassed.

Empress Dowager Zhang felt for a while that even if her stomach hurt to death, it was better than losing this face.

"God, the mourning family can't live!"

Far away, Li Rui could hear the angry crying and scolding from the Changle Palace.

"How did you do that?" Li Rui looked at Zhao Yanrong's triumphant face and asked with a smile.

"I gave you a recipe." Zhao Yanrong looked at him with a wink and a smile, "Isn't she bloated and uncomfortable?" I knew there was a recipe for her pain. ”

She paused, then said, "It's just going to stink a little." ”

Li Rui laughed.

"I'm really helping her heal." Zhao Yanrong hugged the emperor's arm and looked up at him with a smile, "Look, how effective is the concubine's formula?" But after a while, the Queen Mother will have the strength to scold again. How will the emperor reward me? ”

"I will reward you well. What do you think of this? He leaned □ and whispered a few words in her ear.

The queen's delicate little face flushed, and she pouted and slapped him on the arm: "Don't! Why do you think about these things all the time? ”

While the two were talking and laughing, they suddenly saw a person walking over from a corner of the palace wall in the distance.

"Uncle Wang!" Li Rui raised his eyebrows, and a smile appeared on his face.