27: Crooked
At this time, the eunuch of the Xuanyi Hall was returning to the Xuanyi Hall with noodles and handed them to Gonggong Xu.
Gonggong Xu took it and put it in front of the emperor. "Your Majesty, drink it while it's hot."
The emperor opened it and was stunned.
When Gonggong Xu saw it, he was also stunned, "This ...... What is this? Isn't it hawthorn soup? How are they noodles? ”
When the little eunuch saw it, he was also stunned, and immediately knelt down. "The slave deserves to die, the slave took the wrong one, ask the emperor for forgiveness."
"Foolish things, I can't do this little thing, how can I serve in front of the emperor in the future, and I don't slap my mouth." Gonggong Xu reprimanded sternly on the side.
"Yes, yes, minion palm." The little eunuch was just about to slap his mouth, when the emperor opened his mouth.
"That's it, you can't drink hawthorn soup, so let's eat noodles."
Gonggong Xu glanced at the bowl of noodles and said busily: "Your Majesty, if you want to eat noodles, you will order the imperial dining room to make you a new bowl, this bowl of noodles really doesn't look appetizing." ”
Gonggong Xu thought to himself, this bowl of noodles looked dry, it must have been made for himself by those eunuchs.
"No need, whether it's delicious or not, I'll know if I eat it." As he spoke, the emperor picked a noodle and put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully.
Xu Gongcheng looked at it with his neck pulled along.
"Not bad." The emperor nodded, "The taste is cool and delicious, sweet and sour with the fragrance of cucumbers, and the noodles are flexible and chewy, which is really a delicacy to relieve the heat." ”
When Gonggong Xu heard this, the emperor praised this bowl of noodles so much, and couldn't help but be surprised, that bowl of noodles was really so delicious?
"Come on, come on, you can taste it too." The emperor raised his hand and motioned for Gonggong Xu to taste it too.
Father-in-law Xu hurriedly brought it over, and also picked one and tasted it, sure enough, it was sweet and sour, it was delicious, and I wanted to eat the second bite after taking one bite.
The Emperor looked at his expression and smiled, "How is it?" Isn't it delicious, I've never eaten such delicious noodles. ”
Gonggong Xu smiled: "I didn't expect that this bowl of noodles with an unattractive appearance would be so appetizing, and the servants really underestimated those people in the imperial dining room." ”
"I wonder which chef made this bowl of noodles?" The Emperor asked.
"What did the emperor ask you?" Gonggong Xu said to the little eunuch kneeling in front of him
The little eunuch lowered his head and said tremblingly: "Back to the emperor, the servants don't know who did it." ”
The Emperor frowned when he heard this.
"Father-in-law Xu, you go to the imperial dining room to check in person, who made it, and then make me a big bowl, it's better to add some chili peppers to it."
"Yes, the minion will go." After speaking, Gonggong Xu walked out of the Xuanyi Hall like a gust of wind.
Shen Lanxin was sitting on the steps of the imperial dining room at this time, waiting for someone from the Xuanyi Hall to come in fear, and then take her away, what happened in the past, she was actively trying to find a way to solve it, but this time she offended the emperor, in case the emperor was angry and gave her a full house or the nine clans, then I would be sorry for the ancestors of the Shen family.
Just as she was lost in thought, a shrill voice broke her thoughts.
"All the people in the imperial dining room have come out to gather, and we have something to ask everyone."
Shen Lan looked at it, why is this person so familiar, and thought about it, isn't this the father-in-law at the emperor's gate? Really came to arrest her? Lan Xin was panicked now.
When the knife saw that it was Gonggong Xu beside the emperor, he suddenly wondered, wouldn't he really come to arrest Shen Da? He was just scaring and scaring her, could it be that the emperor was really angry?
Shen Lanxin grabbed the knife and whispered, "What should I do, is he here to arrest me?" ”
The knife was also confused, "I don't know?" I was scaring you just now, but I didn't know he was really coming. ”
Lan Xin: "......
Just when everyone was puzzled, Gonggong Xu asked: "Just now, the little eunuch of Xuanyi Hall mistakenly gave a bowl of noodles as hawthorn soup to the emperor in the imperial dining room, and the emperor sent our family to ask who made which bowl of noodles?" ”
As soon as Gonggong Xu finished speaking, the people in the imperial dining room began to discuss, and then shook their heads one after another, and Xiaodao glanced at Shen Lanxin, and couldn't help but worry about her.
Gonggong Xu waited for a long time, but no one admitted it. shouted again, "I came here with the emperor's will, what?" Doesn't anyone admit it? ”
As soon as the words fell.
"I made the noodles." The voice came from the door of the imperial dining room, and everyone looked back one after another, and saw Shen Lanxin walking out of the crowd.
Gonggong Xu looked at the little eunuch in front of him, "You made the noodles?" ”
"yes, I made the noodles, how about it?" Shen Lanxin held his head high, "That's what I made for myself, who knew that your eunuch was so careless, but this matter is none of anyone else's business, and I will bear all the responsibility." He patted himself on the chest as he spoke.
"I didn't expect Shen Da to be so righteous." The knife standing in the crowd couldn't help but mutter.
"What responsibility? What to bear? Father-in-law Xu was a little confused.
Looking at Gonggong Xu's blank face, Shen Lan asked weakly, "Didn't the emperor ask you to arrest me?" ”
"What is the emperor arresting you for?" Father-in-law Xu became more and more incomprehensible.
Shen Lanxin was already ready to kill and chop, and he was ready to listen to the respect, but when he heard Gonggong Xu say this. She froze. "It's not that you just said that you came with the emperor's will, didn't you come to arrest me?"
Only then did Gonggong Xu understand. "Ahem, the emperor praised you for eating your noodles, so he specially ordered you to make a bowl."
"Let me make a bowl?" Shen Lan was a little incredulous.
Xu Gonggong said: "Yes, the emperor praised your noodles for being delicious!" That's why I ordered you to make him a big bowl again, don't forget, this time I put some chili peppers in it, the emperor loves to eat it. ”
Shen Lanxin exhaled deeply, this second there was a feeling of dying in the first second, but the next second was good luck, her heart really couldn't withstand such a toss.
Seeing that Shen Lanxin had not acted for a long time, Gonggong Xu raised his voice and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you do it quickly?" ”
Knife hurriedly stepped forward and stabbed her. "Hurry up and make noodles, otherwise the emperor will be really angry."
Shen Lanxin came back to his senses, "Oh, I'll go now." He hurriedly turned around and ran into the kitchen.
After a while, the face was ready, and Lan Xin took it out and sent it to Grandpa Xu.
After Father-in-law Xu left, Shen Lanxin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but say to himself: "Hey, you have to be scared to death if you don't get tired of being an errand in the palace." ”
"You just found out!" The sound of the knife rang in her ears at this time.
Shen Lanxin's face suddenly darkened, and he turned around and shouted: "You broken kitchen knife, you make me worry so much, are you so tricky?" ”
As he spoke, he was about to step forward to hit the knife, but the knife was so frightened that he dodged vigorously, grinning: "You can't blame me, you have to blame you for being too stupid, and you don't want to think about what it means to be wrong with you." ”
"Don't be there with a hippie smile, you don't say it's still pretending to be innocent there." Shen Lanxin picked up an eggplant on the ground and threw it at him, and as soon as the knife dodged, the eggplant hit Master Wang on the head who had just come out of the room.
Shen Lanxin took a breath of cold air. "I'm sorry, Master Wang, I didn't mean to."
Although Master Wang's face was blue, he did not have a seizure, but walked straight to the small kitchen.
Shen Lanxin pointed at him. "You wait for me, huh."
Late at night, the palace people went to rest, and the imperial dining room was also dark, only the light in the small kitchen was still on.
"This is boiling soup, this is clearly boiling hard work, no wonder someone will give up halfway."
Shen Lanxin glanced at the small kitchen, then turned around and went back to rest.
The next day, the fairy pot had been stewed, and the palace people held it carefully, for fear of any mistakes.
And Shen Lanxin sat on the kitchen stool to rest, usually at this time, she was out to choose vegetables, but she finished choosing the dishes, so she sat down to rest, at this time, she realized that she hadn't seen Master Wang all morning, Shen Lanxin thought that he was busy somewhere else, so he didn't care.
Until lunchtime, she still didn't see the shadow of Master Wang, and she couldn't help but worry, her chopsticks tightened, and then she stabbed the knife with her elbow. "Didn't you notice that Master Wang didn't show up for a morning?"
Shen Lanxin didn't want to remind him, the knife really didn't pay attention.
"Yes, what about Master Wang?" He looked around and asked, "Have you seen Master Wang?" ”
Everyone shook their heads and ate their own meals.
"Xiaodao, you said that something should have happened to Master Wang, right?" I heard him cough a few times yesterday, so she was worried about whether something happened to Master Wang, thinking of this, Shen Lan's heart was a little unable to sit still.
"No, Master Wang is such a big person, don't worry." The knife is as if nothing happened.
"No, I saw him cough a few times yesterday, could she be sick?" Shen Lanxin was worried at this time, and he didn't have the heart to eat anymore while holding the rice bowl.
Knife looked at her incredulously. "Really?"
Shen Lanxin put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "It doesn't matter if he's really fake, you can go to his room with me to have a look." ”
"Okay, I'll finish eating." After saying that, the knife continued to eat.
Lan Xin was really angry with him, and he was still in the mood to eat at this time.
"I'm still eating a fart, let's go." As he spoke, he grabbed the knife's rice bowl and dragged him to Master Wang's room.
When he came to Master Wang's door, Shen Lanxin stepped forward and knocked on the door, but no one opened it after knocking for a long time.
"Come on, come on, get out of the way." The knife rolled up his sleeve and kicked the door open.
The two went in to see that Master Wang was indeed lying on the bed.
"Master Wang? Master Wang? Knife shouted.
Shen Lanxin touched his forehead. "Don't shout, he has a fever, hurry up and get a basin of cold water to cool him down, I'll go back to the imperial dining room to boil medicine for him."
Shen Lanxin didn't delay for a moment, and hurriedly went back to boil medicine for him.
And the knife hit a basin of cold water and began to apply cold compresses to Master Wang.
In less than half an hour, Shen Lanxin boiled the medicine, and she hurriedly brought it over.
"How is he? Is it a little better? ”
"It seems to have retreated a little." The knife wrung another towel and changed it for him.
Shen Lanxin put the medicine on the table and touched Master Wang's forehead, it was indeed not so hot.
"Little knife, quickly pick him up and give him this bowl of medicine to drink." Shen Lanxin picked up the medicine again and came to Master Wang's bedside.
The knife helped Master Wang up, pinched his mouth, and Lan Xin poured it into him little by little.