Chapter 3: Sweet Rice Wine

Later, I guess I was tired from the fight, and I don't know when I fell asleep in a daze, and the stinky skin that scolded my wife in my dream appeared again, which was really annoying. By the time I woke up, the empty seat next to me had run out of temperature. Probably hearing the movement of me getting up, Yun Zhi came in with a copper basin for me to clean my face, and a dry handkerchief was put on the basin. I rubbed the corners of my eyes and took the twisted handkerchief she handed over in a daze, and asked, "When did Li Jingheng leave?" ”

Yun Zhi looked panicked and wanted to cover his mouth for me, but he didn't dare to cover it. "Good lady, the emperor's name can't be called."

In fact, I didn't dare to call him by his name in front of him, only when Ting Yun and Yun Zhi Buyue were here, I would blatantly call him, and Buyue sometimes had the courage to respond to me, Ting Yun simply called me Your Majesty, and Yun Zhi never tired of correcting me. I don't hate her correcting me, but sometimes I like to tease her, deliberately whispering "Li Jingheng" in front of her, and then watching her look anxious and panicked. But this time, I did blurt it out.

I purified my face and put the veil back into the basin. At the door curtain, Buyue lifted the curtain and came in happily, holding a wooden box in her hand. "Niangniang, this morning Concubine Jia's mother sent it to Gu Yu, it is the pearl hairpin of the magnolia, you see." Buyue said as she opened the wooden box. I looked closer, and I smelled a small aroma of sandalwood, and the wooden box was covered with flannel, and on top of it was the pearled hairpin of the magnolia flower. The hydrangea is a Zhanzhu hairpin, but this one is very different, it is wrapped with a silver-red silk thread around the hairpin to form a hand-made Shu petal like Hua Dan on the stage, and the same is a delicate leaf embedded with jade carving. said that it was like Hua Dan's hand, but it should be said the opposite, it was Hua Dan's hand like it.

Yunzhi took it out of the box and put it on for me, and Buyue praised it: "Niangniang is just good-looking, and any hairpin is just as good-looking." "Buyue's praise is very useful to me, yes, I just like to be praised, who likes to be scolded? Was Li Jingheng that kind of puffy "old woman"? I turned my head to look at a mirror with an eight-sided begonia pattern that Yunzhi had brought at some point, and it was really beautiful, the flowers would tremble, and the leaves would too. I took the hairpin from my head and looked closely, and it turned out that the leaves were also interspersed in the flowers with gold threads, which was also ingenious.

Someone outside the door shouted loudly: "You only got up after three poles this day, it's really enviable, I couldn't sleep when I ate too much tea at your place yesterday, and you still don't make amends to me?" "As soon as I heard the voice of that guy Tingyun, I knew that the mutton prepared in the small kitchen today probably couldn't be kept. I responded, "Come on." "On the one hand, I loosened my loose bun and used the magnolia hairpin to hold it. The sound of beaded curtains clashing with footsteps, I was about to turn around and startle her, but I counted the footsteps getting closer and closer, and suddenly I exclaimed, "Ah! ”

This is not a scary scream, I was really scared, when I turned my head, Li Jingheng's big face suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, do you say scary or not? "You're a ghost! Walking without a sound? I froze and said angrily.

That guy actually rubbed my hair in a bun that I had just tied up, and said with a smile: "It's not that I want to scare you, it's that you originally wanted to scare me, right?" ”

There was a nameless fire in my chest, and I don't know if he scared me, or if he exposed my tricks. "What are you doing rubbing my head?" I had to change the subject indignantly.

"It's crooked, it's ugly, your hairpin is not good-looking, what about the one I gave you yesterday?" He snatched the magnolia hairpin from my hand and asked me.

I said, "What's ugly, this is still what you picked for Jia Niangniang." ”

He was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to be a little angry and said, "Why is Concubine Jia's hairpin here with you?" ”

"I exchanged it with her, what's the matter, is it possible that you regret giving me a gift and want to go back?" I'm still pretty comfortable with scoundrels when it comes to arguing with scoundrels, and I can always find a way to him off. I stuck my waist and learned from the way I saw the vegetable farmers and women on the street when I lived outside the palace.

"Oh." To my surprise, he just answered me, and didn't come back, nor did he refute me. Li Jingheng seemed to be angry, because his face was not very good, and the way he looked at me made me panic. "What are you going to do, Jia Niangniang?" I didn't like the slightly oppressive atmosphere, so I asked him.

"You just marry Concubine Jia, it's good for you to give you the gift I gave you, and I will give it to someone else." Li Jingheng said.

Where does I look like a king when I look at him? It's like a little hairy kid who is angry and angry. I pushed him and asked, "Then as an apology, the concubine gave His Majesty a jar of concubines and a rice bar that Liu Meiren brewed together years ago." ”

I apologize for the mistake, and I really didn't cherish the hairpin he gave me, didn't I? I just remembered that I was thinking about brewing a plum-flavored rice wine with Lang Wu a few years ago, so I asked Mama to help me go to Zuixian Lou to bring a jar back to study and study when I left the palace. After the experiment was successful, I brewed several jars in a row, and finally I couldn't finish drinking it, so I sealed it and buried it under the willow tree at the back of my yard. I'm very proud of the taste, especially when I take it in an enamel bowl and chill it with well water before drinking, it's really a good way to cool off the heat. I beckoned Yun Zhi Buyue, who must be guarding the door, to go to the backyard to dig up wine for Li Jingheng: "Yun Zhi Buyue, go and help me dig wine in the backyard for Your Majesty." I turned my head and said to Li Jingheng: "It's best to chill that wine before drinking, and wait for a few days to enter the summer, and it will be the most relieving of the heat." ”

Li Jingheng's stinky face finally changed, and he snorted and said, "I want to taste any good wine." ”

"When Liu Meiren and I made it, we tried to add the juice of sour plums, which not only had the sweetness of rice wine, but also the aroma of plums." This technique of making rice wine, Lang and I were originally going to carry forward it in the harem, but after teaching Su Tang Niangniang, Niangniang said that she was not used to drinking rice wine in the south of the Yangtze River, and taught Mingyu and Ting Yun, and they were both clumsy and couldn't learn it, so Lang Wu and I had to give up. I'm going to wait until the summer and then study with Lang Wu to change the flavors, such as peaches or watermelons or honeydew melons from the Western Regions. After about two cups of tea, Yunzhi and Buyue came in carrying a jar with some soil, and I stepped forward to loosen the rope that bound the cloth covering the mouth of the bottle, and removed the somewhat dirty cloth, and there was a layer of hemp cloth inside, which was much cleaner than the one outside. As soon as I opened it, the room was filled with the aroma of rice wine, and I took a sharp breath and couldn't help but praise: "It is worthy of the recipe of the drunken building." ”

"Why, you didn't research it yourself?" Li Jingheng asked.

"My wine is much better than the ones in the drunken building, I don't believe you can taste it." I took the wine grape handed over by Buyue, reached into the short and fat jar, scooped a spoonful, and put it into the porcelain bowl that Yunzhi brought at some point. "Taste it."

He took the porcelain bowl and sniffed it closely, and then took a sip: "I didn't expect you to make wine." One jar is not enough, give me two more. "What a scoundrel, I snatched his porcelain bowl, gritted my teeth, and said, "Then I'll give you two more jars." ”

There was a sneer in my ears, and then it stopped, and I turned my head to stare at Bu Yue, who was standing behind me and trying to hold back her laughter, and Yun Zhi obediently twisted her for me. "The famous Qingchun Garden in the capital will sing 'Han Palace Autumn' tomorrow, the famous actor Wu Tingbai is the king of Han, and the one who plays the princess is Zhao Yanhang, who is good at listening to and singing. Ming'er I want to go out of the palace to observe the people's feelings, you are idle anyway, why don't you stay with me? ”

I love to listen to miscellaneous dramas, but I've heard of "Han Palace Autumn". When I entered the palace, I liked to listen to it, and I directly invited the Fuxi class to sing, and it was this "Han Palace Autumn" that I sang for several days. Why did Zhao Yanhang go to Qingchun Garden to sing this time? Didn't she sing it in the Fuxi class before? I still had a few words with her offstage, and I praised her for singing well, which made people cry, and she praised me for listening to the play, and said that this palace was very stuffy, and I didn't know how good it was before. Since it is Miss Zhao who sings Zhaojun, then I have to go and cheer for it. I said, "Then it's decided, after going back and singing, you have to ask someone to stop Miss Zhao for me, and I want to talk to her." In the future, I will not lack your wine here, and I will send you the first one with a new flavor. ”

Li Jingheng seemed to be satisfied with my answer, and nodded with a smile.

After he left, Yun Zhi taught me a lesson, saying that I forgot that Li Jingheng was a king, how could I say "you" to Your Majesty? I had no choice but to swear and beg for mercy. I heard before that a beautiful lady who was as tender as water also wanted to marry Li Jingheng, so I pestered him and called him Henglang, and then it seemed that he was assigned to do the work of sprinkling and sweeping. If you want me to say, how could that delicate little lady with slender fingers and jade hands do the work of sprinkling and sweeping for no reason, it must have been done by Li Jingheng. But except for that little lady, I really have never seen Li Jingheng punish anyone for calling him something. Maybe Li Jingheng cares about who calls him anything, but he just doesn't bother to punish him? Or does he not care, the little lady made a mistake and happened to be punished at that time?

Li Jingheng didn't come when she left, and I didn't want to move to Xiuxiang Palace to find her, so I asked Buyue to pass the word. When it was approaching the night, I really didn't expect to wait for a whole day, and I didn't wait to say that Ting Yun was going to come to me to search for some delicious food, but Lang Wu came with tears on her face.