The palace, the six departments of the official yamen.

Because they were busy praying for rain, the errands delayed in the day had to be delayed until the evening, and many adults had people send food boxes to their families. Due to the different origins, the cooks used at home are also different, and the meals in this food box have both northern and southern flavors.

There is a lively soldier with a big belly, holding a rice bowl, tasting this adult's dishes, and sandwiching that adult's snacks or something.

When I saw Cao Yin's side, except for two plates of green vegetables, it was black nest head and pickles, and I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Cao Yin also doesn't know when the kitchen at home has changed the food. Because he thought that the emperor was fasting and praying for rain, when he sent someone back to the house to get the food box, Cao Yin specially ordered that he should not have meat dishes, but only vegetables.

As a result, in the food box delivered, there was only a plate of shiitake mushrooms and rape, a plate of sweet and sour cabbage hearts, and the rest were this nest head and pickles.

Cao Yin has lived most of his life, and he will not be like God and Hengsheng, and he doesn't know what this is.

It's just that I don't remember that the food in my house has this, if it weren't for the food boxes and dishes, Cao Yin would almost think that it was mixed with other adults' food boxes.

"Master Cao, this is ......" The squire pointed to the black nest, his face showed a little envy, and said: "This one is eye-catching, what material is it made of, it looks like black sesame seeds...... I have heard for a long time that the adult's family is rich, and this food is not ordinary, if you don't let me taste it......" As he spoke, he almost drooled.

In front of everyone's eyes, this is all open and clear, can Cao Yin not give it?

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Vulgar things may not be to the taste of adults, adults should only try them." ”

The waiter was overjoyed, and had already stretched out his bowl to take it. Cao Yin looked at the food, first sandwiched two pickle strips to him, and then put a nest, and did not forget to instruct first: "Adult, eat together, it's okay to eat together." ”

When the waiter heard this, he nodded, and showed off his rice bowl in front of several other adults. caused everyone to look at Cao Yin's side.

Cao Yin really couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly used a nest head, and asked the little maid to put away the food box. He stood up and went out for a stroll with his hands behind his back.

He just walked fast, and the food box was sent home, otherwise I am afraid that some people will not be able to suppress their curiosity and want to ask for a bite or two.

After the waiter finished playing, he took the nest head beautifully, opened his mouth and bit the small half-pull.

When he chewed it, he didn't smile. Because everyone looked at it, he didn't dare to spit it out, and in desperation, when he saw the pickle sticks, he only felt great goodness. I couldn't wait to clip it and put it in my mouth, so I felt that I could make do with it.

Because he was so choked that he burst into tears, he quickly poured half a bowl of duck soup from his food box and drank it.

In the eyes of others, it is like he has eaten a peerless delicacy, and many people swallow their saliva when they see it.

Someone asked, "My lord, is it so delicious?" ”

The waiter glanced at Cao Yin in the courtyard, nodded with a forced smile, and said, "It's delicious, it's delicious, it's the first time I've eaten such a delicacy in my life." Speaking of this, he hurriedly put the nest in his hand in the food box and said, "It's better to take it home and taste it carefully." ”

He played treasure this time, and other people could not help it, and there was a royal history who couldn't help it, and said: "The people's livelihood is difficult, the emperor is fasting, everyone should pay attention." It is a shame for our officials to bring such extravagance into the yamen now. ”

The waiter blushed, looked at the chicken and duck in his food box, glanced at the half-nested head again, and whispered: "It's just a mouthful of food, adults don't have to care." ”

The imperial history glanced at the courtyard, and saw that Cao Yin had gone out at some point, so he snorted coldly, put on a proud iron appearance, and said: "Even if the emperor relies on the old ministers, they should know how to measure the right thing." In order for there to be no rain in Gyeonggi, the emperor has coarse tea and light rice all day, but the courtiers are 'not tired of eating', what is the reason......"

Others couldn't see him so frivolous, and no one picked up, hummed and haha, and each said his own words.

Only the soldier was holding a bowl of rice and his expression was unpredictable.

Zhang Tingyu, a scholar at the Hanlin Academy, was also in the room, and his eyes swept over the nest several times. When his mother, Mrs. Yao, was alive, she often ate black sesame seeds to nourish her hair. Black sesame seeds mixed with white flour to make steamed buns are a common item on Mrs. Tai's table.

Although the color is also black, it is not the same thing at all as the squire of the Tongcai Military Department.

Therefore, Zhang Tingyu was also curious in his heart, is that thing really black sesame as people guess?

If it is really "not tired of eating", the other side dishes should also be extremely luxurious and exquisite, but looking at the two plates of vegetables and pickles just now, there is no difference...... * Not to mention the speculation of other adults, Cao Yin slipped outside the courtyard, and saw Cao Yuan coming from a distance, and said closely: "Master, the minions are careless, pull down a food box, and have sent people here." Sir, look ......."

Cao Yin waved his hand and said, "I've used it, let someone take it back......

Cao Yuan responded, and he had already made up his mind in his heart, and he would go back to check it out to see who dared to be so negligent, and even dared to be careless about the master's food, it was really lawless...... Not everyone thinks this nest is difficult to swallow, and Wei Hei eats very happily.

He grabbed the head of the nest with one hand, and kept sending pickle strips into his mouth with chopsticks with the other. Occasionally put down the chopsticks and take two large mouthfuls of the soup bowl.

When Qi Niang saw it, she bit the nest in her hand and felt that it was not so unpalatable; Vanilla was afraid that her husband would choke, so she kept adding soup to him, and said, "Eat slowly, choke carefully." ”

Wei Hei said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I haven't eaten this for more than twenty years. It tastes the same as what I used to eat when I was a kid. Hehe, eating this, I think of when I was a child. At that time, there was no disaster, my father and mother were there, and my second child and I were not yet ten years old, and one person could have three or four fist-sized nests, and my mother was worried, and we were called 'debt collectors'......" In the end, there was already a melancholy look on his face.

Vanilla added half a bowl of soup to her husband and said, "If you miss your hometown, when you are not busy, let's go to the grave of your father-in-law and mother-in-law together." ”

"Tomb sweeping?" Wei Hei listened, remembered his younger brother, and said: "I don't know what happened to the second brother and his younger daughter-in-law, it's only been a few years, and I have added three sons. ”

Hearing her husband mention "Rending", she couldn't help but touch Vanilla's heart, and she sighed in her heart.

Qi Niang took the black bread in her hand and said to Wei Hei and Vanilla: "This black noodle steamed bun was not eaten outside before, and I haven't eaten this kind of noodles yet, it's all wheat bran ......."

Vanilla saw her for a long time, and only then gnawed a shallow edge on the edge of the dumpling, knowing that she didn't like to eat this, she sent a plate of salt and pepper flower rolls next to her to her, and said with a smile: "If you don't like to eat, just put it down, or eat this." ”

Qi Niang put down the nest head in her hand, took a flower roll, took a bite, and said: "I can't complain that Cao Ye named this nest of pickles 'Bitter and Sweet', eat that, and then eat something else, I really feel like I fell into the honey pot." ”

Vanilla listened and said to Wei Hei: "I don't know what the uncle thinks, the uncle has been clothed and fed since he was a child, what is there to remember?" It's almost the same as being a third girl, the girl suffered a lot when she was a child, and I still remember that when the girl first came to her wife's side in the early years, she couldn't eat a lot of oil, and she had diarrhea when she ate it. It took two or three years to turn around ......"

From the age of seven to Cao Hao, Wei Hei has been guarding him. I don't know anything else, I know very well about his picky eater, and this "bitter and sweet" meal is not fake from Cao Hao's Zhang Luo; To say that he would be able to eat it, Wei Hei said that he would not believe anything.

Cao Hao was just bored on vacation, and came up with the idea of "Xunzi", but he didn't expect to be touched by one person, that is, Jiang Jian and Jiang Feipho, who are now in Cao Hao's hands.

He and Zhiran have no family, the two live in the same house, and the food is also in the same place.

Compared with Zhiran's love of meat, he, a vulgar monk, is a vegetarian and does not touch meat at all.

"Adults have the style of ancient benevolent people...... Jiang Jian looked at the nest in his hand, sighed, and said: "Although I live in a large mansion and a beautiful house, I still don't forget how difficult the people's livelihood is. If it weren't for the burden of his background, he would have been able to take the imperial examination, and the adults would definitely be able to worship the prime minister. ”

In his early years, Zhiran followed the master to place orders, and in some temples with few incense, he also ate all kinds of miscellaneous grains. Now with the nest head, it is braised elbow, which has a different flavor.

Like Wei Hei, he didn't believe that Cao Hao could eat this meal. In the early years, when Cao Hao was guarding filial piety in Qingliang Temple, because of his unbalanced diet, his eyes were green from hunger, and Zhiran still remembered it clearly.

Maybe it's just a moment of childlike innocence, Zhiran doesn't think that lazy person can change his surname from his bones and worry about the country and the people.

It's just that he is not a person who talks much, since Jiang Jian looks like he is unhappy for the master, Zhiran also listens. I also wondered in my heart, is Cao Hao's background really a "drag" as Jiang Jian suggested?

If it is changed to someone else's family, can Cao Hao really study Bagu in order to become a leader?

I'm afraid that it is necessary to use a little brain, earn some silver, and be a rich man, and not have any heart in the whole day, so as to conform to his surname.

If Cao Hao, who does not have the background of the Cao family and has no ambition and means, wants to climb to this position, is it not a fool's dream?

At the end of the day, it's about having a good father...... Thinking of this, Zhiran also felt uncomfortable choking between his throats...... * The east courtyard went to the room, after dinner, Tianyou and Hengsheng went out to play, Cao Hao and Chu Yu and the husband and wife talked about family things, nothing more than their son's upbringing.

Needless to say, the girl is the top of the hearts of the two of them.

Especially in this world, it is not easy for a woman to rely on her father and brother at home, and to rely on her husband at home. Cao Hao and Chu Yu only cherish Tianhui, and they can't wait to arrange their daughter's life properly.

Tianyou and Hengsheng are different, when they grow up, they have to support the portal, they want to be their fathers and ancestors, if they don't educate well and become pampered sons, how can they gain a foothold in the capital in the future.

If you are an ordinary official eunuch, you can still have a time to return to your hometown. The Cao family has a knight and is in the flag, how can there be any other way out except for the officer?

two husband and wife, one "loving mother", teaches the way of filial piety; A "strict father" can be regarded as a proper division of labor to teach the way to deal with the world.

Coupled with the fact that Tianyou and Hengsheng are two siblings, they are also happy when they are parents.

As the husband and wife were talking, they saw Xicai come in and report: "E, Gege, my wife has returned to the house, and she has entered the second gate." ”

Chu Yu was worried that her mother-in-law would enter the palace alone, so she asked someone to guard the second gate.

Hearing that the Li family had returned, Cao Hao hugged Chu Yu, and the husband and wife went to the room to say goodbye.

When the husband and wife arrived, Li had already finished changing clothes, went to the dress, and changed into homely clothes. Hearing the rumor from the corridor, Li hurriedly asked someone to call the two of them into the house.

Li Shi glanced at his daughter-in-law uneasily, and said angrily: "Didn't you come out, why did you come here again?" Carefully pull into the wound. As he spoke, he beckoned her to sit down by the kang.

"Madam, my daughter-in-law is fine. I couldn't accompany my wife into the palace, and my daughter-in-law was not upset. My mother-in-law is alone, and she doesn't know Mongolian, so she doesn't know how difficult it is. Chu Yu said with a little concern.

Li said with a smile: "It's not difficult, today's talk is followed by the Queen Mother's grandmother, the Queen Mother's old man is in a good mood today, and he pulled me to say a lot of homely words." ”

Hearing her say this, Cao Hao and Chu Yu were relieved.

Although there was a banquet in the palace, Cao Hao was afraid that his mother would not eat well, so he asked if he needed to set up a banquet again, and the meal was already reserved.

Li waved his hand and said, "I can't eat anymore, I drank a bowl of porridge, ate a few pieces of dumplings, and was full." Speaking of this, I remembered something and instructed the embroidered warbler standing next to me to bring up the jewelry box he had brought back.

This jewelry box is more than a foot high, the four corners are covered with gold, and it is also inlaid with a lot of colorful pearls and gemstones, which looks extremely luxurious.

When it was opened, it was covered with a red suede backing, which was taken out layer by layer, and there were nine layers, each of which contained various jewelry.

Rao is Chu Yu does not lack this, and he is also dazzled. Cao Hao also stretched out his hand to take a jade bracelet, only to feel cold at his fingertips.

"It's time to catch up with Du Shi Niang's 'treasure chest'." Cao Hao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't say it.

In the hearts of Li and Chu Yu, the Queen Mother is the "mother of a country" and the most noble woman. If Cao Hao dares to be in front of them, such a metaphor is afraid that it will attract the double resentment of his mother and wife.

"This is the Queen Mother's reward, I'm such an old person, where can I still use these? Daughter-in-law, you pick the ones you like, and keep the rest for their uncles and nephews to marry their daughters-in-law in the future. Li said.

"If my daughter-in-law has jewelry, let's keep it for my wife." Chu Yu said with a smile.

Cao Hao had already put down the jade bracelet and took a jade pendant to play with. The jade pendant is made of white jade, carved with the pattern of Fengniao Street Ganoderma looking back.

"This jade pendant style is quaint, I haven't seen such a pattern nowadays, I think it's old." Cao Hao said to Li and Chu Yu.

When Li saw it, he picked out a piece of Ichthyosaurus Turned Jade Pendant from the box, and said, "Look at the two of them, the material is almost the same, and the color is also yellow, but it looks like a pair." ”

Cao Hao took it, took it in his hand and looked at it, the two jade pendants are vivid in form, and the carving style is simple and vivid.

"Huh?" Chu Yu was beside him, and he was already surprised: "I've seen this jade pendant!" ”

She referred to the phoenix bird pendant that Cao Hao had just seen, and whispered to the Li family: "Madam, this piece of pendant has been worn by the old man." When the daughter-in-law entered the palace when she was a child, she also heard the Queen Mother talk to several mothers about this pendant, saying that it was given by the Queen Mother before her death, and it was the Queen Mother's beloved thing for her old man. It seems to be from the court of the previous dynasty, and it is said to be something that has been around for years. ”

When Li Shi heard this, his expression changed greatly, and he said with a little uneasiness: "Is it that the Queen Mother and her old man forgot and didn't pay attention to this box." That's good, let's send it back. ”

"Mother is at ease. The contents of this box are worth more than these two things. Since it is a reward from the Queen Mother, let it be accepted. To tell the truth, as long as it comes out of the Queen Mother's palace, which one is not precious. Speaking carefully, I'm afraid that these things have some origins. Cao Hao was free and easy, and comforted his mother.

The Queen Mother has been the "mother of a country" for more than 60 years, and she is afraid that it is a "treasure hall" in her hands.

Although Cao Hao didn't have a greedy heart, he looked at these things and pondered in his heart. If you can accumulate these things, find an altar, and bury them deep underground, will it be regarded as preserving a "national treasure" for the country?

The Queen Mother has also given a lot of things before, and they are not vulgar things, but not as much as this time.

Chu Yu also persuaded: "Yes, what the forehead said is right. Since it was given by the Queen Mother, the wife will take it. Since she is the queen mother, she is an old man, and if the wife refuses, it will not be beautiful. ”

After hearing what his son and daughter-in-law said, Li finally put his mind at ease. Seeing that Chu Yu refused to choose, she sent the pair of jade pendants to Cao Hao, and said, "This has a dragon and a phoenix, and it is just right for Hao'er and her daughter-in-law to take it." ”

Chu Yu was a little afraid to accept it, and said, "It's better for my wife to take it, this is too precious." ”

Li said with a smile: "The precious ones should be worn by you." You are the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law of our family, and my lord and I will rely on you to support you in the future. ”

While speaking, Li picked out a pair of peony flowers and a pair of begonia flowers, asked someone to take the box and put it away, handed it to Chu Yu and said: "You are too elegant, and young people should also bring some flowers and grass." ”

Chu Yu took it with both hands, thanked her mother-in-law, and whispered, "Master doesn't like those." ”

Li shook his head and said, "Don't get used to him too much, otherwise he will become more and more accustomed to the uncle after a long time." ”

When Chu Yu heard this, he just pursed his lips and smiled, not knowing how to deal with it; Cao Hao was surprised when he heard this, his mother has always been the most virtuous, how can this teach his daughter-in-law "the way to control her husband"?

"Mother, didn't you eat something wrong for dinner?" Cao Hao couldn't help but asked.

Li Shi glanced at his son and said with a smile: "It was the Queen Mother's old man who ordered it, saying that she wanted to protect me and prevent me from being wronged." If the old man makes me angry, her old man will make the decision for me and punish the old man to kneel in front of the Queen Mother's palace...... He also said that I should not be too submissive, and I will put out a score in the future......"

When Cao Hao heard this, he couldn't imagine what Cao Yin, who was usually looking at the square and serious, would look like if he knelt in front of the Queen Mother's Palace.

Chu Yu smiled on his face, and he already sighed in his heart. can make the Queen Mother so close and spoiled, except for the fifth elder brother who was raised in the Queen Mother's Palace, I am afraid that it is my own mother-in-law. It's a pity that the mother-in-law is pure and kind-hearted, and she has never thought about the strangeness......

(To be continued)