Chapter 80: Barbecue
Things gradually fermented, a day or two passed, and it was amazing that Kangxi, who was on the cusp, did not move.
Since Kangxi didn't make any moves, Wu Yashi didn't dare to act rashly, but other people in the palace couldn't see this situation, so they changed their tricks to make suggestions to Kangxi.
On this day, Kangxi finally came to see An Concubine once, An Concubine was naturally overjoyed, hurriedly put on makeup and picked out clothes, and looked left and right in front of the mirror, An Concubine suddenly thought of something again, the corners of her lips curved, and hurriedly called a few palace maids to whisper a few words.
Kangxi stepped into the Xianfu Palace at sunset, and Concubine An wore orange clothes to greet her, "The concubines see the emperor, and the emperor is blessed with Jin'an." ”
"Well, get up."
Kangxi stepped forward to help him weakly, and An Concubine immediately lowered her head shyly, Kangxi came over at this time, naturally he had not had dinner yet.
At the dinner table, Concubine An served a cup of hot tea first, and as soon as Kangxi picked up the teacup, he remembered what Shu Wan said: "Your Majesty, it is not advisable to drink tea before meals, it is not conducive to digestion." ”
smiled, put down the tea again, An Concubine saw this, and thought that today's tea was not in line with Kangxi's wishes, so she immediately asked people to withdraw the tea, and quickly said to Kangxi with a smile: "The concubine specially asked the small kitchen to prepare a wild vegetable soup tonight, Your Majesty, you must love to eat it." ”
Soon the dishes came up, Kangxi saw that there were all green leafy vegetables on the table, although he admired health on weekdays, but it didn't mean that he wanted to be a vegetarian.
The fox suspiciously glanced at An Concubine on the side, and An Concubine thought that Kangxi was going to let her serve vegetables, so she quickly got up and sandwiched the cucumber in a piece of cucumber scrambled egg into Kangxi's bowl.
He said to Kangxi affectionately: "Your Majesty, the concubines know that there have been frequent wars in the south recently, and there must be a lot of places where silver is used, and the concubines also want to do something for the soldiers in the south, so they want to save a little from this food, your Majesty, do you think this is good?" ”
Kangxi nodded, after all, Concubine An was also sincere and understandable, so she endured a green dinner.
But in the next few days, no matter which palace Kangxi was eating, what was waiting for him was such a meal with no oil and water, all vegetable leaves, which made Kangxi very angry, and even after eating vegetable leaves for a few days, he felt that he was about to become a green leafy vegetable.
Of course, Kangxi is not stupid, he naturally knows what this person is doing this for, not to mention that there are a few palace concubines who are not long-sighted and can't do without the matter of forehead ginseng when they are with him, and he doesn't want him to give a proper result on this matter.
Of course he knows about this matter, but there are too many things involved, and he doesn't dare to act rashly, and it seems that only one person is involved in dealing with this matter, but the relationship can be described as very complicated.
He has also been the head of the imperial dining room for more than 40 years, and the director of the imperial dining room is a high-risk profession, and he can't play it twice.
The imperial dining room is indeed a place with plenty of oil and water, but how to get oil and water is a matter of knowledge.
How to fish, how to fish so as not to offend people, which link to fish, how to fish, to honor those people after fishing for oil and water, etc., there are endless means, Kangxi can say with certainty that not only in this palace, but also outside the palace, more than half of the clan nobles have something to do with the imperial dining room.
In fact, he has long wanted to dispose of this batch of moths in the palace, but he has been busy with the affairs of Ping San Fan recently, and he feels that Eshen has not actually done anything out of the ordinary in the past, so he simply keeps it and waits to deal with it later, but this time, it seems that he has to deal with it.
On this day, Kangxi had been watching the excerpts for four hours in a row, and even ate a few bites of lunch in a hurry, and his stomach was already growling, so he touched the dim sum dish next to him, but found that the plate was empty, and it turned out that this plate of dim sum had already been eaten.
"Liang Jiugong!"
Kangxi frowned and called Liang Jiugong in, Liang Jiugong came in and saw what the problem was, and kicked the little eunuch who was waiting next to him, "You don't have long eyes!" ”
Then he hurriedly said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, the slave will bring you another plate of snacks." ”
The dim sum was quickly served, and when Kangxi tasted it, it was not the same taste as what he had eaten before, "What is this, don't those people in the imperial dining room want their heads, and they dare to use this kind of thing to fool me!" ”
Liang Jiugong hurriedly knelt down and admitted his mistake, "The emperor atoned for his sins, this was all made by the servants of the imperial dining room according to the recipe given by the jade concubine, and they didn't cut corners at all." ”
"Jade concubine? What does this have to do with the jade concubine? ”
"Back to the emperor, the pastries that the emperor ate before were sent by the jade concubine Niangniang, originally came to send it twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, but only once today, the slave saw that the emperor loved to eat this kind of dim sum, so he asked the jade concubine Niangniang for a recipe, but I didn't expect the jade concubine Niangniang to have superb cooking skills, even the imperial chef couldn't make the taste of this dim sum."
"The snacks I ate before were all sent by the jade concubine?"
"They were all sent by the order of the jade concubine, and the slaves would never dare to deceive the emperor."
Kangxi smiled with a smile in his eyes, no wonder he suddenly felt that the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room had improved a few days ago, it turned out that this was the case, when he went to Youyou Pavilion before, he said that he didn't want him, it seems that he thinks about him every day?
Now Kangxi was not in the mood to look at the excerpts, so he put the folds in his hand on the table, "Since the jade concubine has a deep affection for me, then I naturally can't live up to her heart, Liang Jiugong, set up a secluded pavilion." ”
When Shu Wan sent dim sum to Qianqing Palace, she must not have expected this result, in recent days, she would make some small snacks for Battelle herself when she was idle during confinement, and sometimes if she did too much or failed to do it, she would let people send it to Qianqing Palace.
She felt that there must be a lot of people sending dim sum to Qianqing Palace every day, and it was not bad for her, Kangxi was afraid that she would be tired of eating it for a long time, but she didn't expect that the servants of Qianqing Palace would be the first to send the dim sum she made to Kangxi every day in order to please Kangxi, and she didn't expect that these dim sum could still make Kangxi remember.
Three hundred meters away from the Youyou Pavilion, Kangxi smelled a very fragrant and attractive smell, especially after eating so many meals of green leafy vegetables, he immediately smelled the smell of meat.
This time, Kangxi's steps were faster, and after entering the Youyou Pavilion, he saw Shu Wan and the others roasting something around the fire.
Seeing Kangxi coming, everyone panicked, Kangxi waved his hand casually, signaling everyone to get up.
Kangxi skillfully put his arms on Shu Wan's waist, "Wan'er, what are you doing?" ”
It was the first time Kangxi had seen such a strange thing, a barbed wire, supported by things on both sides, and a pile of charcoal fire underneath.
On the barbed wire fence, there are some meat skewers, chicken wings, vegetables, etc., and the small bowl on the small table next to it seems to have different flavors of dipping sauce.
These meat skewers emitted an attractive aroma, and Kangxi swallowed his saliva unconsciously.
Battle, who was eating hard, didn't raise his head and said vaguely: "Huang Ama, this is a skewer." ”
Seeing that Kangxi was still puzzled, Shu Wan smiled and said, "The emperor, please take a seat, and the concubines will come to give the emperor a demonstration." ”
Kangxi sat down obediently, only to see Shu Wan skillfully turning the meat skewers, brushing the sauce, and then turning them over, and in a short time, a string of fragrant and attractive skewers was ready.
"Your Majesty, come, how about trying the craftsmanship of the concubines."
Kangxi turned out to be a skewer of meat that looked delicious, and when he bit into it, he only felt that the meat was juicy and very delicious, especially with a special sauce, the taste was simply a must, and Kangxi solved a string of meat skewers in two bites.
Looking at Kangxi's salivating appearance over the meat skewers, and then looking at the appearance of Battle struggling to eat the skewers next to him, Shu Wan really felt that the father and son really had some similarities, and couldn't help but cover the handkerchief and laugh secretly.
Shu Wan grilled two more skewers, the one for Battle was smaller, and the meat was more tender, and Battle, who wanted the meat skewers, surrounded Shu Wan and called sweetly several times, Shu Wan gave him the skewers, bent over and touched Battle's bare head, "Battle is so good." ”
After giving the skewers to Kangxi, Shu Wan also touched Kangxi's head, "The emperor is also obedient." ”
Kangxi was stunned, Shu Wan bent over like this, and all the curves of her body were revealed, and at this time, his eyes when he looked at Shu Wan were all ambiguous.
As for the others around them, they quickly lowered their heads and pretended to be quails.
After all, barbecue is a tiring job, and after a while, Zhixing will take over Shu Wan's work of Shu Wan's barbecue, so that Shu Wan can also rest and eat skewers on the side.
Kangxi saw this thing for the first time, and asked Shu Wan a lot of questions, such as how she came up with it, whether she had any knowledge about the size of the fire, how long it took to bake each skewer, how to adjust the sauce, and so on.
The problem is like a problem baby, if it weren't for the fact that Kangxi is an emperor, Shu Wan really wanted to knock him out with a fist.
It seems that Kangxi has eaten enough vegetables these days, he only eats meat skewers from the beginning, he has a soft spot for meat skewers, and he doesn't care about vegetable skewers at all.
Because she was still breastfeeding, she didn't use any heavy sauces, Battle was still young, and Shu Wan didn't allow him to eat something too spicy, but Kangxi had a soft spot for the honey mustard sauce she concocted, and he ate all the sauces clean.
When the three of them had eaten almost, Shu Wan asked people to remove all these things, and then poured a cup of diet tea by themselves.
Kangxi picked up the cup of consumption tea, took a sip, and said, "I always think that the food made in your palace tastes exceptionally delicious, but I didn't expect that even this tea is sweet and sour." ”
"This tea is just a little hawthorn water, the emperor likes to drink it."
Shu Wan said with a smile, Battle ran to her side, Shu Wan quickly picked up Battle and rubbed his little belly.
"Didn't E-Niang say don't eat so much? Why are you still so greedy. ”
Shu Wan tapped Battle's little nose, and Battle hummed and said, "The skewers are delicious." ”
"You, next time you eat like this, your stomach will hurt even more."
A frightened look appeared on Battle's little face, "Don't hurt. ”
"Then eat less next time, did Battle remember?" Shu Wan nodded Battle's little nose, she really looked like the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood at this time.
"Uh-huh, for my brother, my stomach doesn't hurt."
"Battle is willing to give the skewers to his brother, Battle is awesome! When my brother grows up, he can eat it. ”
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Kangxi looked at the warm mother and son next to him, and suddenly felt warm in his heart, in his imagination since he was a child, the relationship between mother and son should be what it is today.