Chapter 30: The Palace Barbecue
Look at the sky is already dark, I am hungry when I touch my belly, it's time to eat, this day is busy, how many brain cells have to be busy
"Little Bean, go to the Middle Palace, inform Concubine Xian, and come to dinner together" I walked out as I said that
"Your Majesty, what do you want to eat tonight, the imperial dining room just said that there are a few peacocks and cranes tonight, and they have almost cleaned up," Xiaodouzi said to me with a smile
"Your Majesty, why don't you eat peacocks tonight, it's phoenix meat," Yudie came over and pulled my sleeve and said to me. Because I am usually very kind to the eunuchs and maids in these palaces, they are not so afraid of me, but respect me from the bottom of their hearts, palace maids are also people, eunuchs are also people, maybe they are mentally weakened because of the depression of the atmosphere in the palace, or maybe because of the physical disability and psychological distortion, but as long as you are them, recognize them as people, and not recognize people whipping and humiliating livestock, then they will also treat you with sincerity, whether you treat eunuchs or palace maids, Or the ordinary people in the market, as long as you are willing to communicate with people with your heart, others will also be sincere to you
"Hehe, you're everywhere, you little gluttonous cat hahaha" I said with a light on Yudie's nose, and the little bean on the side also had a bright smile
"In that case, let's eat barbecue tonight, Xiaodouzi, you go and tell the imperial dining room, tonight I will have a barbecue in the garden of the Middle Palace, let them hurry up and prepare, don't forget to call Concubine Shu Xian" I explained to Xiaodouzi again, and his answer was "I know, master, you have said it several times", hey, this little bastard
When I arrived at the Middle Palace, it was almost ready, and I was waiting for me to start the barbecue when I arrived, and my three wives were still fighting the landlord in this space, and their respective personal maids were also waving flags and shouting to their respective masters by their side
"Wives, come and kiss your father-in-law," I said coquettishly
"Go, go, don't you see we're busy," the queen said to me angrily
"Alas, no one kisses, no one loves, Xiaodouzi, let people go, Xu Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, call me and ask him to come immediately"
"Yes, the slave will arrange it," Xiaodouzi ran away
"Huanyu, come here"
"What's the matter, long live the lord, the slave is cheering for the queen," Huanyu pouted and said to me with a look of grievance. Huanyu is the queen's personal little maid, she and the queen have been together since childhood, close like sisters, and the concubine's personal maid is called Ling'er, and the personal maid of the virtuous concubine is called Bailing, at that time I also asked the virtuous concubine, why can't she be called starling, it sounds much more creative than Bailing, but after asking, she was beaten by the concubine
"What, of course it's a good thing, give you the queen mother and they invent some new toys, go, get a pen and paper" To be honest, my bad writing is really unsightly, except for the fork and fork, everything else is written by the eunuch who holds the pen for me, if there is a pen or a hard pen or something, you look at Europe, write with a hard pen at the beginning, etc., Europe? Hard pen? yes, didn't I slaughter two peacocks today, I was excited to come up with a good idea
"Starling, come here"
"Oh, long live the lord, people don't call me starling, if you call it like that, people won't be able to call you like that" Bai Ling, who was more aggrieved than Huanyu, told me
"Okay, good, good, Bailing, I won't call you starling in the future, okay, but this starling is more pleasant to call, you really don't think about it" I said to Bailing with an evil smile
"Hey~ya~~, Niangniang, look at the emperor, he always bullies others" Bai Ling pulled Concubine Xian's sleeve and said unrelentingly
"Okay, okay, the emperor is playing with you, okay, okay, don't be sad," Concubine Xian stood up and comforted Bai Ling, and then turned to me and said, "Master, look at you, why are you messing with a little girl?"
"Okay, okay, you continue to comfort Xiao Bailing, this is not right for me, haha, Ling'er, you go to the imperial dining room, find the feathers of this peacock today, ask for the wings, and the big ones will bring me more than a dozen over, go quickly"
"Yes, slave and maid will go"
After a while, Kung Fu Huanyu took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Ling'er also brought the peacock's feathers from the imperial dining room, I took the feathers to see, okay, use scissors to slightly repair the root of the feather, and then use a needle to tie the root of the feather into a small eye, haha, China's first quill was born, try how, dip in the ink, and then the ink was sucked into this quill pen, write a few words to try, the clouds are flowing ahahaha
No nonsense, directly use a quill pen to draw mahjong on the paper, strips, tubes, 10,000, respectively, four from one to nine, a total of one hundred and eight cards, and four white in the southeast and northwest, a total of twenty-eight cards, I didn't have a card to spend a sample, just wait for Xu Liang to take it
"Your Majesty, what is this painting you are drawing?" I turned around and saw a large group of people such as the queen and the concubine Xian surrounding me, and the queen asked me what it was as a representative
"Oh wives, this Dongdong is called mahjong, and when the Ministry of Engineering is done, how do you play hahaha" I think that when we were in the later life, we were also a little white dragon in the mahjong field, but why Xu Liang hasn't come yet, just thinking of this, Xu Liang actually came, it seems that the Chinese don't talk about this thing from ancient times
"Chen Gongbu Shangshu Xu Liang, long live my emperor, I don't know what the emperor hurriedly summoned ministers to order" To tell the truth, Xu Liang is an authentic honest man, as long as he is not his specialty, you just give him two feet, he can't let out a fart, although this kind of person is not sweet, but it is not annoying, the most important thing is that Xu Liang is a person who works very seriously, no matter what he is told, he can make a neat plank, which I like very much
"Old Xu, you come to see this" I called Xu Liang to my eyes, pointed to the mahjong I drew to show him, and then told Xu Liang some details of mahjong making, and then showed Xu Liang the quill I made, let him study and make a few samples, and I also said to Xu Liang "This quill ah, there is a shortcoming, that is, the pen is too thin and too soft, you want to find a way to deal with it, tomorrow afternoon, send these two things to the imperial study, this mahjong to do the first use the general materials to practice hands, don't use ivory directly" I said to Xu Liang
"Yes, the ministers have written it down, the emperor can rest assured, tomorrow afternoon, the ministers will definitely deliver these two items" Xu Liang said very seriously
"How's the meat going?" I turned my head and asked, I didn't say let Xu Liang go, he could look at me with a blank eye
"Back to the emperor, this bear meat is roasted," said the eunuch in charge of the barbecue
"How many skewers of bear meat"
"Back to the emperor, a total of thirty strings"
"Take it all and wrap it up for Xu Aiqing"
"Oh, the emperor, I can't help it"
"Hahaha, when I go to pass on you, you should eat at home, disturb Aiqing's deliciousness, this barbecue bear skewer, Aiqing take it back, taste it with his wife, daughter and son, you're welcome, take it" I asked the little eunuch to stuff the bear meat to Xu Liang, and then said, "It's cold when you go back, you are hot again, you can retreat"
"Emperor Xie, Weichen retreats" Xu Liang slowly retreated, but I saw that Xu Liang was walking with a little limp, so I stopped him again and asked
"What's wrong with your leg, Old Xu," I walked up to him and asked
"Back to the emperor, Chen is an old problem, it's okay"
"Okay, I know, you can step down"
"Weichen retired" It seems that I have to ask the imperial doctors to check the health of these ministers, yes, organize a physical examination, so that some ministers will not be taken seriously if they are sick, just drag it on, how can it be done. After Xu Liang left, I kept thinking about it