On this day, the weather was fine, Wen Ruyan and Ling Ruo sat on both sides of the embroidery frame, concentrating on embroidering the "Eight Immortals Birthday Picture" that was ready to be dedicated to Concubine De's birthday.

The sharp and shiny embroidery needle has a subtle sneer every time it passes through the finely textured brocade, which is not pleasant, but there is a different kind of silence in it.

Because of the thin and colorful threads, it was a great deal of eyesight, and after just two hours of embroidery, Ling Ruo felt a little dazzled, she put down the embroidery needle in her hand and looked up to Wen Ruyan, who was still sitting opposite, and said, "Sister, let's rest and embroider again, don't hurt your eyes." ”

Wen Ruyan is concentrating on embroidering the peach used by the eight immortals to celebrate his birthday, only that one peach uses seven different colors of embroidery thread, from shallow to dark, gradually transitioning, until the last thread is closed and cut before stopping the action in his hand, he took the hand towel and wiped the sweat of the palm of his hand and said: "I have long been used to it, don't get in the way, and there are still a few days before the birthday of Concubine De, it will be too late if you don't hurry up." ”

"Even if you are in a hurry, you have to rest." Ling Ruo couldn't help but snatch the embroidery needle she wanted to pick up and said: "The picture has been embroidered seven or eight times out of ten, and the remaining days are enough to finish embroidering it, so there is no need to rush for a while." Speaking of this, she sighed a little and stroked the embroidery that had worked hard with her and Wen Ruyan and said, "It's a pity that we can't present it to Concubine De in person." ”

On the birthday of the palace concubine, the prince can bring the side blessing into the palace to celebrate his birthday, as for the side blessing and the following, unless there are special exceptions, they will never have the opportunity to step into the Forbidden City in their lives.

"There's going to be a chance." Wen Ruyan smiled slightly, the pair of azure tassel earrings under her ears moved with the sound, she had confidence in Ling Ruo, and she would never stop at one grid.

As he was talking, Shui Yue walked in, holding a red lacquer plate in her hand, on which was placed a plate of pastries that Wen Ruyan had never seen before, and said softly after seeing the ceremony: "Girl, the rose lotus silk cake is ready." ”

Ling Ruo nodded, motioning for her to put the pastries on the mahogany table next to the embroidery stand, only to see that the plate was neatly stacked with more than ten diamond-shaped pink translucent pastries, sprinkled with melon seeds, red cherries and green plums, which looked very delicate, as if they had just come out of the steamer, and they were still steaming, and they could smell the fragrance of roses.

Ling Ruo pushed the plate towards Wen Ruyan, and said with a smile: "Sister, try it to see if it fits." ”

Wen Ruyan tasted it and nodded: "Soft and glutinous and sweet, extremely delicious, I can't taste the jerky feeling of lotus root at all." And because of the sour taste of cherries and green plums, people will not be greasy because of sweetness, but feel appetizing. Rose Lotus Silk Cake ...... Not only is the name good, but the food is delicious, but I didn't know that the chef in the house would make such a chic dim sum? ”

Shui Yue explained on the side: "How can the cook do this, our girl came up with it herself." A few days ago, the executive's family sent a bunch of fresh lotus roots, either to stew soup or cut into lotus root slices mixed with honey to eat, the girl said that the old way to eat is easy to get tired, so teach us to change the tricks, in addition to this rose lotus root silk cake, what osmanthus glutinous rice lotus, meat filling lotus root box, fried lotus root cake, lotus root dumplings, a lot, even Belle Ye praised the girl for making delicious and new ideas. I thought it would take a long time to eat all those lotus roots, but now I'm halfway there. ”

"Oh, I can't see that my sister is not only clever but also so good at cooking," Wen Ruyan stroked the agate bracelet on her wrist and smiled: "Unlike me, who is a sister, after so many years, I will only cook a few simple dishes after learning to learn, and it will be a joke to say it." After a pause, he talked about lotus root again, "Sister, do you like to eat lotus root very much?" I would like to put so much thought into this.

"There is a folk proverb called: lotus is a treasure, and autumn lotus root is the most replenishing. Lotus root cold, has the function of clearing heat and removing annoyance, cooling blood, stopping bleeding and dissipating stasis; The ripe lotus root is warm, which has the effect of nourishing the heart and blood, nourishing and strengthening the spleen. Speaking of this, she touched Wen Ruyan's hand and said: "The sky is not really cold, my sister's hands are already so cold, it can be seen that my sister's physique is weak and cold, and her spleen and stomach are weak. Besides, others look at it as complicated, in fact, it is not difficult to really do, just like this rose lotus silk cake, take the fresh lotus root peeled and shredded, mix well with glutinous rice grinding powder and the juice squeezed out of fresh roses, and then sprinkle with green plums, melon seeds and cherries can be put on the steamer, steam for more than a quarter of an hour with high heat, and then cut into a diamond shape and sprinkle some cotton sugar after cooling. But if my sister is too troublesome, I'll have someone do it and send it to your house in the future. ”

"Then there's Sister Lao." The two of them are very good, Wen Ruyan will not pretend to be polite, if he can't even accept this calmly, then how can he talk about helping each other and sharing blessings and misfortunes in the future.

After using a few more pieces of dim sum to fill their stomachs, the two of them cleaned their hands and prepared to pick up the needle and embroider again, and Mo Yu suddenly ran in out of breath.

"Auntie...... Nun...... Aunt ......" Moyu ran too fast, she couldn't catch her breath, she wanted to call the girl, but she kept calling her aunt, as if she was calling her aunt.

"Hey, don't scream, I'm not as big a niece as you." Ling Ruobi joked about the color of the silk thread in her hand, and Li Wei was also teasing her on the side, so she said to Xiao Luzi in surprise: "How can Moyu be the same as you, are you relatives?" ”

Xiao Luzi touched his head and smirked on the side, although he didn't answer, but Mo Yu was already so angry that he choked them, shook their big eyes, stroked his chest and waited for his anger to calm down a bit, and then said angrily: "The girl even makes fun of the slave maid, and the slave maid is not in such a hurry because there is something important to return to you." ”

Ling Ruo has always been generous to her subordinates, and has never scolded and scolded, because the subordinates speak more casually, especially Moyu has been by her side since she entered the mansion, and she is deeply relied on.

Ling Ruo glanced at her and said to Wen Ruyan, "Sister, did you hear that?" She's blaming me. ”

Mo Yu immediately became anxious when he heard this, for fear that Ling Ruo would misunderstand, so he quickly shook his head and waved his hand and said, "The slave maid doesn't mean this, the slave maid is ......."

"Okay, your girl is joking with you." Wen Ruyan comforted her and said, "What the hell is going on, let's talk about it quickly." ”

Mo Yu nodded and said mysteriously: "Yes, when the slave maid went to the Huanyi place to deliver clothes just now, I heard that Ye Fujin was reprimanded by Lord Beile today." ”

"Ye Fujin?" Wen Ruyan looked at Moyu and hesitated: "She is now pregnant with Lord Belle's flesh and blood, and Lord Belle has taken good care of her since she was pregnant, it can really be said that she wants the wind to be windy and rainy, and she is not even willing to say a word, how can she be willing to reprimand her, did you hear it wrong?" ”

"The slave maid heard it really, it was the people from Liuyun Pavilion who inadvertently said it when they came to deliver the clothes, I heard that Ye Fujin disliked that Liuyun Pavilion was located in the west courtyard and was not lenient enough, and wanted to change the Bilin Pavilion in the east courtyard, but it made Lord Belle unhappy, and he was reprimanded for a long time, and he cried when he heard that Ye Fujin was reprimanded. Lord Belle also said that let Ye Fujin raise the fetus with peace of mind and wait for delivery, and he didn't have to go out of the Cloud Pavilion if he had nothing to do. Mo Yu said everything he knew in one breath. She had never liked the Ye family, and the Ye family targeted Ling Ruo everywhere, so she was secretly happy when she heard that the Ye family had suffered a loss, and ran all the way back.

"That's what you're talking about?" Mo Yu thought that the girl would be surprised when she heard the news, who thought that she didn't even raise her eyes, and even steadily passed an embroidery thread as thin as a hair through the needle tail in her hand.