Chapter Eighty-Five: Specialties
But since Sansan was killed by someone breaking his abdomen, Siliang has become less lively and clever than before, lying lazily in his nest all day long, occasionally coming out to play with Qiming Changgeng and them, but I can still see Sansan's death, which is quite a big blow to it, after all, it has always been a playmate.
Feng Feihan knew that he had poked Tang Ningnan's sore spot, so he stopped mentioning the matter of four taels, and changed his words: "Going south will really pass through many places, and the eating habits of each place are also different, when you get to those places, you will taste the most characteristic local food, okay?"
"Okay." Tang Ningnan nodded firmly.
Put down the grapes in his hand, leaned on Feng Feihan's shoulder, sometimes looked at the poems and books in Feng Feihan's hand, and sometimes opened the curtains to look at the people outside.
The carriage soon drove out of the capital, and the surrounding scenery changed from a street to a wide road, surrounded by dense mountain forests.
When a team of people arrived in Cangyang, it was already evening, and after the concubines and ladies settled down, it was time for dinner.
Tang Ningnan was lying on the soft chair, her body was arranged into a big character, Bizhu half sat next to the soft chair, pinching her shoulder, "Shoulder, shoulder hurt...... "Not only the shoulder, calf, back, has been bumpy in the carriage for so long, there is no place where it doesn't hurt.
Bizhu patiently massaged her, watching her consciousness gradually blur, afraid that she would fall asleep like this, so she led her to speak.
"Master, I didn't expect that there is such a good palace here in Cangyang, you see how much the emperor loves you, let you live in the best Nu Garden."
It is said that it is the best, but it is not, according to the number of rites, the Evening Jin Academy assigned to the queen's mother is the best, the house is magnificent, it is a big set, and it is close to the emperor's residence.
But Tang Ningnan didn't care about this, firstly, because the queen was the queen's mother, which she should enjoy, and secondly, because this Nu Gardenia Garden was not the best, but it was the most chic.
The garden is planted with a patch of gardenias, open up to green and reflect the snow white, it is very beautiful, the best thing is that the gardenia blooms fragrantly all over the garden, so that the people who wear the branches and leaves pass through it, the sleeves also leave a strong gardenia fragrance.
"Of course it's good, Cangyang is the entrance to the canal, the place where the southern tour must pass, and the car and horses are tired for a day, so I must rest for a day before setting off."
"What the master eats, the slave and maid will immediately go to the kitchen to prepare." Bizhu asked.
Tang Ningnan thought about this problem, and his appetite was not good after sitting in the carriage for a day, so he wanted to eat some fresh fruits now.
"There's a peach at this time, right?"
When I was on the road just now, I saw a lot of fruit vendors, Tang Ningnan sat up from the bed as she spoke, "I want to eat it now." ”
Bizhu smiled: "The master can eat it if he wants, these are the fruits that should be there at the time, they are abundant in Cangyang, just now the emperor sent a food box, and the slave saw that there were just these." ”
Bizhu opened the food box as she spoke, and there were a lot of pastries on the first layer, "Master, they are all Cangyang, they seem to taste good, can you try it?" ”
"Look at the following, it should be fruit, I don't like to eat pastries at this time, you can take it and eat it with Wan Yinmo'er and them." Tang Ningnan couldn't wait to see what fruits were in the food box on the next floor.
When you open it, there are not only peaches and strawberries that Tang Ningnan just said, but also fresh oranges and fragrant pears.
Looking at these brightly colored fruits, Tang Ningnan's cheeks were full of relish, and he couldn't wait to take out a piece of peach from it and put it in his mouth.
"Well, that's sweet!"
Immediately picked up another strawberry, the strawberry is not as sweet as the peach, and it looks a little dull to eat behind the peach, but this does not affect Tang Ningnan's love for strawberries at all, and beckons Bizhu to eat together.
The two of them were eating, and Tang Ningnan felt a sense of sadness in his heart, saying that it would be good if Hongzhu was there.
Bizhu hid her face and smiled, and said, "The little master is confused? Didn't you find Dr. Pu and Hongzhu to accompany you? ”
As soon as the words fell, Hongzhu walked in through the door.
"Slave and maid see the little master." The red beads kneel and salute.
Tang Ningnan hurriedly got up and helped her up, saying that she had already married a woman, and she had exempted her from slavery, so there was no need to give her such a big gift.
Hongzhu said that she grew up with Tang Ningnan since she was a child, she was kind to others, she had a lot of care from her, and she was used to serving the little master, so as soon as she came back, she wanted to return to Tang Ningnan and continue to serve her.
Seeing Hongzhu so loyal, Tang Ningnan was very emotional.
The strawberries and peaches in the food box are fragrant and delicious, and they are eaten quickly, they are fresh oranges, which are not as delicious as Tang Ningnan imagined, but there is a fresh fragrance of oranges, but as soon as she enters it, Tang Ningnan's eyes, nose and eyebrows are wrinkled together, she doesn't like to eat them very much.
But Hongzhu likes it, she is not afraid of acid, she wants a piece after eating, Tang Ningnan saw her like this, she felt that something was wrong, and asked tentatively if Hongzhu was pregnant.
Hongzhu covered her lower abdomen, nodded shyly, and said that the child was only more than a month.
Tang Ningnan was very pleased, asked her not to do any heavy work these days, and told her a lot of things to pay attention to.
Hongzhu said with a smile: "The little master is so careful, the slave and maid have been worried about this and that, and now that the little master says this, the slave and maid don't feel how scared they are." ”
Tang Ningnan squeezed out a bitter smile, if he hadn't produced it himself, how would he know so much.
Tang Ningnan's hand rested on his stomach, hoping that he would have a child with Feng Feihan again.
Bizhu seemed to see what Tang Ningnan was thinking, and comforted her: "Don't worry, Niangniang, the emperor treats you so well, and you have been in your palace for a long time, and you will have another child soon." ”
Tang Ningnan looked at the red beads, then at the blue beads, and smiled lightly.
"I hope so."
The large army will stay in Cangyang for two days, and it will not board the imperial ship until the early morning of the third day, and the southern tour will really begin.
To the west of Cangyang Palace, there is a mountain called Nanshan, there are many wild things in the mountains, especially suitable for hunting, early the next morning, Feng Feihan took Tang Ningnan and the queen to hunt in the mountains, Cangyang prefect accompanied, Bizhu Pu Julian, Kuang Yan and Feng Yunshang also followed, Hongzhu did not follow together because she was pregnant and did not come from the mountain road.
Feng Feihan set off early in the morning, only informed the queen alone, who would have thought that Hua Concubine came to Rixi Hall early in the morning to greet the emperor, saying that she had taken the morning dew from the flowers in her yard and wanted to cook tea with the emperor.
Where did Concubine Hua really come to the emperor to make tea, but she knew last night that the emperor was going to Nanshan to hunt but didn't plan to take her, so she deliberately ran to the emperor in the morning to show her face, thinking that the emperor would be happy and brought her with her.
Feng Feihan asked Xiao Qizi to send her away, but the Hua Concubine didn't give up, saying that it was okay not to drink tea, and she also wanted to go to Nanshan to see the scenery different from the capital and had to follow them, where would Feng Feihan agree, Hua Concubine was very hypocritical, and she had to find someone to take care of her when she entered Nanshan, which was troublesome.
So he excused herself that the queen and the concubine were with her, and there was a lack of someone to take care of the palace, so she had to be taken care of in the palace.
Isn't this a slap in the face? The palace has always been guarded by a special person, and the group stayed here directly, everything was arranged in good order, the emperor only went out for a day, where did he need to be managed by her.
Seeing that the emperor didn't agree to take her, in front of a group of subordinates, Concubine Hua couldn't hold her face, and her teeth were itching.
After the emperor left, Xiao Qizi said to her again, Niangniang, please go back first, and when the emperor returns from hunting, it is not too late for you to come to see the emperor again.
Concubine Hua was already uncomfortable in her heart, and she bumped into Xiao Qizi who didn't know how to see it, and she was even more unhappy in her heart, Xiao Qizi was no better than Su Mingju, who had served the emperor since childhood, but she was Su Mingju's apprentice, and Concubine Hua was angry at this time, so she sprinkled it on him.
"The palace will not go back today, the palace is here waiting for the emperor to come back." Hua Concubine went straight to the main hall of the Rixi Hall and sat down, and asked Bai Shao to bring a small stove to cook tea by herself.
Hua Concubine glanced at Xiao Qizi, who was standing on the side, and said, "You come." ”
The weather in August has not yet turned cool, and Cangyang is in the south of the capital, which is even hotter.
Xiao Qizi took a small fan and bent down to fan the small stove, and on the stove was a teapot, which was boiling the morning dew that the birch concubine said to take down in the morning.
This errand must be the most torturous, the birch concubine let Xiao Qizi do it, the height of the stove makes people can't stand, squatting can't do it, they can only bend over, it's very tiring, the weather is already hot, and it's even hotter than the stove.
Within a while, Xiao Qizi was tired and sweating like rain, but Hua Concubine herself was lying on the soft chair far away, and Bai Shao was fanning her on the side.
Hua Concubine half-opened one eye coquettishly, seeing that Xiao Qizi was already sweating profusely, and a smug smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Alright, bring it here."
Xiao Qizi was busy pouring the tea from the teapot into the tea bowl and presenting it to the Hua Concubine.
"If you don't pay attention, you will be covered in sweat and dirty." On the side, Bai Shao said.
Xiao Qizi shuddered in shock, and beads of sweat the size of beans slipped down his jaw and dripped onto the lid of the tea cup.
Xiao Qizi was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground, watched the smile on Concubine Hua's face gradually become hideous, picked up the fan in Bai Shao's hand and threw it over.
"You're a cheap hoof, aren't you disgusting with this palace?"
The fan knocked down the brim of Xiao Qizi's hat, the tea cup was very hot, Xiao Qizi missed for a while and knocked it over, which made Hua Concubine even more displeased, "Okay, also put a face on the palace, Bai Shao." ”
Bai Shao moved when he heard the sound, brought two more tea cups, stood in front of Xiao Qizi, and said sharply: "Raise your hands." ”
Xiao Qizi didn't know what she was going to do, so she raised her hands tremblingly, until Bai Shao put the teacup in his two hands and walked to the teapot, he didn't understand, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Niangniang forgives her sins, Niangniang forgives her life." ”
Hua Concubine half-squinted her eyes, and her expression revealed ruthlessness: "When you just came back to the emperor, wasn't it very tough?" ”
Bai Shao had already brought the teapot, "Father-in-law Qi is stable, don't fall again." ”