Chapter 45: Be open and honest
Shi Chaoli didn't expect that Empress Zhang would summon Liu Yongxi with her skirt in this situation, but since the queen mother had arranged for him, he had to do it, otherwise what was the use of him as a minister!
Therefore, he could only follow hard: "Niangniang, you must be careful!"
Zhang Yan now has a lot of feelings, she was born in the prosperous era of Wanli, entered the palace in the first year of the Apocalypse, and saw the prosperous scenery since she was a child, although she heard that many folk sufferings also have compassion for the common people in the world, but she almost knows nothing about the real folk suffering, so the thorns on the bank of the canal will bring her such a huge impact.
Fortunately, she has also experienced many unspeakable hardships over the years, and it is these hardships that have given her the courage to move forward.
Although Empress Zhang was wearing civilian clothes, her arrival still caused a lot of waves in the barracks, and some people even knelt down on the side of the road: "The villain thanks Niangniang for her kindness, if it weren't for Niangniang's kindness, my family of six would probably starve to death, not to mention eating such delicious horse meat vermicelli!"
In the past few days, Zhang Yan has been eating horse meat until she vomits, although Liu Yongxi left the best horse meat to Queen Zhang, and the chef also tried his best to change the tricks, but in the morning it is horse meat vermicelli, at noon it is horse meat pilaf, at night it is horse meat steamed dumplings, and even the supper is braised horse meat, Queen Zhang really thinks that horse meat is the same thing.
But when she heard this, the queen felt that Liu Yongxi had become cute, so she asked casually: "Can you eat horse meat noodles every day now?" ”
The Shandong soldier who was kneeling on the ground replied: "How is this possible, Tuo Niangniang's kindness has already eaten two bowls, but the little uncle said that as long as you work hard with Niangniang, you will definitely be able to eat horse meat noodles every day!"
Empress Zhang immediately spoke: "Shi Chaoli, get him another bowl of horse meat vermicelli!"
"Thank you, mother!" This Shandong soldier is happy: "Our whole family will remember Niangniang's kindness for the rest of our lives!"
Zhang Yan soon found that her understanding was a little wrong, a bowl of horse meat vermicelli in her understanding was naturally a bowl of horse meat vermicelli for each of the six members of the family, but in fact, the whole family of six shared a bowl of vermicelli, and there were not many vermicelli, and the horse meat was almost invisible, only a little floating minced meat and oil stars.
But it is such an extremely limited amount of horse meat vermicelli, but in the eyes of this family, it is not inferior to dragon liver and phoenix gall.
Although everyone enjoyed the bowl of horse meat noodles in a very restrained manner, and the parents and the old man deliberately gave their share to the two young children as much as possible, but soon even the soup was drunk and the bowl was almost gone, and the family was so happy that there was nothing more colatable, and the surrounding people were extremely envious and even heard the sound of swallowing saliva.
Since entering the palace at the age of fourteen, Zhang Yan has lived a life of fine clothes and food, but she also has the experience of being hungry, which allows her to find some long and unusually warm memories.
Although her family background is not bad, she can't stand the fact that her younger siblings are very special and can eat, and she, as an older sister, naturally has to let her younger siblings eat, so she is often hungry for a meal, and sometimes her younger siblings are not full, and the meals are gone, and she must be hungry as an older sister to find a way.
Thinking of these long-term memories, Zhang Yan not only felt that she also wanted to eat a bowl of steaming horse meat vermicelli, but even found that Xiao Chengyi Hou became cute in her heart, she hurriedly instructed Shi Chaoli: "The soldiers have worked hard, give them a meal at night!" ”
Seeing the cheering posture below, Shi Chaoli hurriedly lowered his voice: "Be quiet, now there are people who are cooperating with us!" ”
Hearing Empress Zhang's notice that there was going to be an extra meal in the evening, Liu Yongxi felt that things were a little difficult to do: "If I had known that Niangniang had an arrangement, I would have left the 300 catties of horse meat given to Mrs. Xing, and I will try to think of a way now!" ”
Empress Zhang had already thought about what to do: "If it's not enough, there is still some horse meat in the imperial boat." ”
Speaking of this, she felt that her life in the past few days was too luxurious, and Liu Yongxi comforted: "Niangniang, don't worry, there are still a lot of marinated horse meat, but you have to think about it for the long term, after all, there are still thousands of miles from here to Huai'an!" ”
Hearing Liu Yongxi say this, Empress Zhang couldn't help but think of the scene when she was a teenager running around for life every day, and her tone became warm: "Then it's hard work and little sincerity!" ”
She didn't know how lethal her gentle appearance was, not to mention that today Empress Zhang was wearing a casual dress and looked more approachable, over there Liu Yongxi was stunned when she saw the usually dignified and solemn Empress Zhang, who was as gentle as a spring breeze at this moment: "Please rest assured, Niangniang, I guarantee that nothing goes wrong!" ”
Empress Zhang nodded, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth: "Let's go back and have a meal together, I've already done it, let's change our tricks today!" ”
Shi Chaoli hurriedly stood up and said: "Little uncle, my mother has specially arranged this imperial meal for you, saying that you must eat and drink well, little uncle!" ”
The actual conditions are very limited, Shi Chaoli only got some home-cooked food except for catching a few river fish, but for the current canal banks are already more precious ingredients than dragon liver and phoenix gall, and Liu Yongxi is naturally very happy: "Thank you Niangniang!" ”
Empress Zhang suddenly thought of something: "Little Uncle Chengyi, I heard that you praised Mrs. Xing before the battle?" ”
Liu Yongxi said very cautiously: "This Mrs. Xing is a powerful character, and she doesn't leak anything, I didn't take advantage of the slightest advantage when I asked Master Tong to deal with her!" ”
"Li Zichengcai once handed over all the money and military supplies to Mrs. Xing to deal with, Gao Yingwu also once said that Mrs. Xing has a strategy, I can help myself, not greedy, and Gao Yingwu has the help of Mrs. Xing, so that he can be promoted to guerrilla first and then to deputy chief soldier and chief soldier with a drop general, and become one of the few generals in the world!"
Although Liu Yongxi praised Mrs. Xing as a flower, he only talked about Mrs. Xing's ability, but did not mention Mrs. Xing's appearance.
Empress Zhang was very satisfied with this answer: "But I heard that Xiao Chengyibo's praise for Mrs. Xing was a little too enthusiastic, but Gao Jie has always been a stubborn person in his eyes, if these love words fall into his ears, it may inevitably cause right and wrong, Xiao Chengyi Bo must be careful!" ”
Liu Yongxi thought of the answer: "Niangniang, this is wrong, Gao Jie has always been obedient to Mrs. Xing, so he can have today's achievements, the reason why I deliberately got close to Mrs. Xing is completely for the sake of Niangniang, as long as I can envelop Mrs. Xing, this Nandu will be foolproof!" ”
Empress Zhang didn't expect this topic to go around and around, and finally it came to herself, but Liu Yongxi said it very reasonably, and firmly decided to talk to Liu Yongxi openly and honestly: "Little sincerity has a heart, there are many people here, this palace came over today to discuss something important, let's find a quiet place to talk about it!" ”