After the kitchen was done, Shen Jiahe instructed the little maid to go to the embroidery lady to find a lighter brocade, and he took Bai Ying to the back garden to pick flowers.

When the little maid came back from looking for the brocade, Shen Jiahe raised his hand and touched the hand-embroidered plum on it, and was a little reluctant: "Such a good cloth is used to make the table, isn't it too tyrannical." ”

Bai Ying directly took the little maid to spread the brocade on the table, and the size was just right, "The princess has a rare heart, even if she wastes a piece of cloth, it doesn't matter, and the slave and maid look at the table is really good-looking." ”

Shen Jiahe nodded: "Go back and let the embroidery girl add pendants around, and it will be spread here in the future, which is not a waste." ”

She pruned the roses and jasmine she had picked and put them in the white jade bottle, and told Bai Ying to find the pair of peacock-tailed silver candlesticks in the dowry.

"It's a pity that there are no goblets and red wine, and I always feel that it is almost meaningless." Shen Jiahe's carefully arranged candlelight dinner is also decent.

"Red wine? Is it red wine? Bai Ying came back with the candlestick, and when she heard this, she asked strangely, "What is the goblet?" ”

Carelessly didn't care that Bai Ying had returned, Shen Jiahe was afraid that Bai Ying would think too much, so he nodded quickly, smiled and said vaguely to her: "A goblet is a transparent cup, nothing unusual." Forget it, I can't drink too much, but I'm just thinking about it. ”

Bai Ying lit the special candles one by one and inserted them on the candlestick, and said to Shen Jiahe: "Xiao Qi brewed a jar of pomegranate wine for you before, isn't it red, as for the transparent cup, there seems to be a pair of glass cups in the dowry gift given by the prince before, and the slave and maid looked at it as if it was the princess's words." ”

Glass bowls? Shen Jiahe thought about it carefully, and when he checked the booklet before, he seemed to have such a thing, and nodded hurriedly: "Then you hurry up and find these things." ”

When Pei Yuan changed into his regular clothes and went to the dining room, he saw Shen Jiahe pouring wine, the crimson wine poured into the glass cup was already crystal beautiful, and rubbed the soft candlelight on the side, which looked even more dreamlike.

The aroma of various foods was mixed with a wisp of flowers, and everything in the room knew at a glance that it was intentionally prepared, Pei Yuan cleaned his hands in the basin held by the little maid on the side, and then walked over and asked, "What is a good day today?" ”

"Isn't it a special day when we can't prepare a dinner for you?" Shen Jiahe smiled and asked him to sit down, and brought the wine cup to him, "Pomegranate wine, not intoxicating." ”

Pei Yuan's attention was still in the previous sentence, and he raised his eyebrows and asked, "You did it?" "It's going to take a lot of effort to have such a table of dishes," you've worked hard. ”

Shen Jiahe peeked at Bai Ying, saw her smiling with a narrow face, and was embarrassed to be greedy, so he honestly explained: "I just made some pastries, and a dish of sweet and sour pork ribs was completed under Bai Ying's guidance." ”

Pei Yuan took the chopsticks: "Then I'm going to taste it, this color is tempting to look at." "I sandwiched a piece of pork ribs directly into the mouth, and the tip of my tongue could taste a hint of sweetness, but I was afraid that the vinegar taste could sour my teeth.

Pei Yuan didn't dare to chew it, he swallowed it directly in two bites, he picked up the wine cup in front of him without changing his face and took a sip, before putting down his chopsticks and saying, "It tastes very good, thank you princess." "The first time I cooked for myself, I was already very touched by this intention.

Shen Jiahe glanced at Bai Ying proudly, and then began to serve Pei Yuan with vegetables diligently, Pei Yuan looked at his rice bowls piled up into a small mountain and smiled helplessly, "Don't patronize me, you can also eat a little, didn't you say that you were busy all afternoon?" ”

Shen Jiahe really felt hungry, she saw that the color of her sweet and sour pork ribs was really good-looking, so she quickly tasted a piece of it, but as soon as the thing entered her mouth, she hurriedly took a handkerchief and spit it out, and rinsed several mouthfuls of water with water: "How can it taste like this, it's unpalatable to death." ”

Pei Yuan snorted and laughed: "You made it yourself, could it be that you haven't tasted it all along?" ”

Shen Jiahe embarrassedly took out the ribs in Pei Yuan's bowl again: "It looks very good, I haven't tasted it, not to mention that I have set it on the plate, but I can't destroy the shape." But why don't you say it's so unpalatable, and swallow it. ”

Pei Yuan couldn't help but look at the circle of unknown blue flowers on the plate, "It's okay, it's just that there is too much vinegar." ”

Shen Jiahe made Pei Yuan smile even more embarrassed, she looked at the plate of pork ribs and asked in a low voice: "Are you hungry, or I'll make another one, you wait here, I'll be soon." ”

"I'll go with you." Pei Yuan instructed his subordinates to pack up their things first, and then took Shen Jiahe to the kitchen.

The kitchen steward had already frightened the princess for a while in the afternoon, and when he saw the prince coming, his back immediately sweated again, and he trotted forward to say goodbye: "Say hello to the prince and the princess, but if the prince has any instructions for the kitchen, you can just send Father-in-law Fu over." ”

"The princess wants to cook herself, you can take them down first." Pei Yuan commanded in a deep voice.

The kitchen steward swallowed his saliva, and the princess personally cooked the prince, not only did not stop him, but also followed him personally, did he think that the vinegar pork ribs before were very delicious?

Naturally, he didn't dare to ask, but he still retreated with all the people in the kitchen, and he didn't dare to go far, still peeking in secretly by holding on to the door frame.

Pei Yuan personally tied an apron for Shen Jiahe, his hands passed through Shen Jiahe's waist, leaned over her ear, and his breath bypassed his cheeks, Shen Jiahe's cheeks were hot, and he hurriedly pushed him: "Cooking." ”

has been married for a while, and the relationship is already very close, but his princess is still so shy, Pei Yuan chuckled and stopped messing with her: "Okay, cook obediently." ”

The kitchen steward covered his eyes and bent down and sneaked away along the wall, he shouldn't have stayed, even if the princess burned the kitchen, there was still the prince in it anyway.

"Put rock sugar, the color of boiled sugar must be brighter." Pei Yuan commanded Shen Jiahe to start cooking again.

Shen Jiahe put down the sugar cube as he said, and the familiar sweetness returned to his mouth and nose, Shen Jiahe looked at the sugar oil that began to gradually become viscous, and remembered the sugar man he ate when he was a child: "Is this how the sugar syrup of the candy man is made?" ”

Pei Yuan pulled Shen Jiahe a little farther away, poured the pork ribs into it and stir-fried it himself: "It's different, it's made of maltose, if you want to eat it, I'll buy it for you tomorrow." ”

Each piece of pork ribs was coated with crystal clear syrup, and Pei Yuan returned the operation rights to her, only commanding on the side: "You don't need to put soy sauce, just put four spoons of balsamic vinegar, sprinkle some salt, and ginger slices and green onions together." ”

All the seasonings went in, and then poured hot water to boil, just wait slowly, Shen Jiahe smelled the fragrance that kept coming out of the pot, looked up and asked Pei Yuan: "How do you know everything, sweet and sour pork ribs are also very good, not that the gentleman is far away from cooking, where does the prince need to cook this?" ”

Bai Ying had someone bring a stool early in the morning, and Pei Yuan pulled her to sit down before replying: "Naturally, I don't need to cook, but the mother concubine loved this dish very much back then, and in order to please her, I went to learn it, but after I really knew how to do it, the mother concubine was no longer there." ”

The dishes in the palace are all regulated, the queen, the concubine, the promise, the things sent by the imperial dining room are different depending on the position, and a plate of ordinary sweet and sour pork ribs is not something they can eat if they want to.

As the emperor's concubine, it just seems to be beautiful, and the deep palace compound is like a huge golden wire birdcage, and everyone in it is not allowed to be free.

The personal grandmother beside the mother concubine had spent her own body and money to make a plate of sweet and sour pork ribs in the small kitchen on her birthday, which was the first time he saw that the mother concubine could eat so happily, but there were still some regrets, he clearly remembered that the mother concubine said abruptly after the meal was withdrawn: "It tastes a little worse than what is made at home." ”

He wrote down these words, and when he had the opportunity to leave the palace, he went to the general's mansion to find his uncle, just to taste the sweet and sour pork ribs that his mother missed.

He wanted to pack some and bring some back to his mother to taste, but General Shi refused, bringing things into the harem privately can be big or small, although it is a little food, but if it falls into the eyes of someone with a heart, it will inevitably not become a handle that can be used.

"I asked my uncle for the recipe and method of this sweet and sour pork ribs, and then I secretly went to the small kitchen to practice, hoping to let my mother eat this original dish." Pei Yuan lifted the lid of the pot and saw that the water in it was almost drained, so he instructed the little girl who burned the fire to burn the fire stronger, and then taught Shen Jiahe how to collect the juice.

Shen Jiahe put the ribs on the plate, raised his eyes to look at Pei Yuan, and saw that he still had a smile on his face, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes.

turned around and handed the plate to Bai Ying in the back, and held Pei Yuan's hand: "If the mother concubine knows this, she must be very relieved." ”

Pei Yuan took Shen Jiahe outside, walked through the willows, and in an instant it seemed to be back to the days of learning to cook, although he was a prince, but he couldn't go in and out of the small kitchen at will, if he let the emperor know that a prince learned to cook, not only him, but even the mother concubine would be scolded.

He could only spend a little silver to buy off a little eunuch in the small kitchen, let him open the door of the small kitchen for himself at night when no one was around, and then help him light the fire, but there was only one hour, and what was even more unfortunate was that his hand was burned by the hot oil on the first day.

The little eunuch was afraid of being implicated, so he refused to help him anymore, but then the scar on his hand was healed, and he threatened both hard and soft twice, and then agreed to cooperate, but he couldn't make the taste of the general's mansion for a long time.

Later, he simply gave up, until he opened the mansion and moved out, and he did it again on a whim, but he didn't expect it to taste right, it was really exactly the same as the taste on the general's mansion.

"I couldn't believe it myself, so I went to my uncle's house to taste it and compare it, only to find out that it was really the same, but it was a pity after all." Pei Yuan fell into the memory, his voice carried the unique coldness of a summer night, and later mocked, "It's probably because the place in the palace is wrong, so it doesn't feel right to eat." ”

Shen Jiahe's heart shrank together when she listened, she could imagine the loneliness of him alone at that time, after finally making a dish with the same taste, she found that the original idea had no chance to be realized, how could a sentence of regret summarize all her emotions at that time.

Shen Jiahe leaned his face on Pei Yuan's shoulder, "It's all over, let's have a good meal tonight." ”

Pei Yuan came back to his senses, the two of them had already walked under the corridor of the front hall, the warm yellow halo of the palace lamp made Shen Jiahe's face more and more gentle, and he smiled and led her in: "Yes, I want to eat well tonight." ”

I don't know if the original plate of sweet and sour pork ribs on the table was intentional or really forgotten by Bai Ying, and he didn't take it away, Pei Yuan couldn't help but joke after seeing it: "Did you put so much vinegar in it on purpose, for example, what metaphors are implied, some things that want to be told to me, obviously embarrassed to say, just express it through a dish?" ”

"Pei Yuan, if you talk nonsense, I will punish you for eating up all this plate." Shen Jiahe snorted angrily.

Pei Yuan laughed twice, and sandwiched a piece of newly made pork ribs: "Na, eat this, I hope my master can teach it well." ”

Sweet and sour, the meat is soft and tender, Shen Jiahe tasted it and praised it without hesitation: "The master taught well, but my apprentice is also very talented." ”

Pei Yuan smiled and ate a few pieces, Shen Jiahe forgot to glance outside, he always felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that there was no one missing tonight: "What about Liuyu?" Why didn't I come back with you? ”

When Liuyu was going to join the army, Pei Yuan said to Shen Jiahe: "I came back together, but then he said that he was going to prepare some things again, so he ran away, and I didn't shout." ”

Shen Jiahe nodded: "Then you are not allowed to finish eating these, leave some and wait for Liuyu to come back, so that he and Bai Ying can taste it together." ”

The two didn't wait long, and Liuyu came back from outside, knowing that Shen Jiahe had made delicious food, he was not polite at all, and praised Shen Jiahe to the sky after eating on the spot.

Shen Jiahe himself was a little embarrassed: "It's all taught by your prince." ”

Bai Ying said with a smile: "That's also the princess who learned well, the slave can look at it, the prince is not alive and moved his mouth." ”