Zhenguan sixteen years spent in this unrest, thinking of the turmoil in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan in history, I feel sad for Li Shimin, but I can't help him. So this year's Spring Festival, I deliberately made it more sumptuous and lively.

The son and Min Zhi had a lot of fun, this is the first Spring Festival she has spent in our house, there are no various etiquette to observe, as long as she is happy to play well. When she heard her laughter from afar, her mother-in-law couldn't help but smile and sigh, and would say, alas, it's the same as Qiang'er.

When Chinese New Year's Eve was approaching, I asked my sister-in-law to prepare dumplings, and I don't know if Zhenguan Nian is this habit, but I have been in charge of the family for so many years, and it seems that the whole family has changed this habit with me.

Minzhi and they followed Liniang home to keep the New Year, I hugged my son, sat on the couch with my mother-in-law and chatted while roasting the fire, listening to the sound of firecrackers outside, although my mother-in-law had yawned again and again, but ** habit still made her feel that it was not a holiday if she didn't finish eating dumplings.

Although they are already our in-laws, they still don't want to leave us, and they don't want to go to the button during the festival, and the button may not be good to go back to this home during the Spring Festival, so they didn't come back. When they left at home, they became deserted, and their sons were all miserable, and they were about to fall asleep, but they thought that there were dumplings to eat, and they desperately endured it.

Just when the dumplings were just on the table, the door was not the time to knock, I, Xiang's sister-in-law, and my mother-in-law looked at each other.

The concierge said back and forth that there were guests, but they didn't pay their respects, and they didn't say who they were, so they asked Xiang's sister-in-law to go out and have a look. Sister-in-law Xiang went out, and soon she led people in with a pale face, and Li Shimin walked in with a cloak.

So the dumplings couldn't be eaten, he sat on the couch, hugged his son and chatted with his mother-in-law, I stood aside and divided the dumplings into the plate very sadly, and made the dumpling vinegar mixed with pepper, mustard and garlic and carefully put it in front of him.

"It doesn't seem like that's what the palace does." He picked up the dumplings and looked at them for a long time, then took a bite to see the filling inside, "What's the bread here?" ”

I stretched out my head to take a look, and he caught a vegetarian stuffing and smiled, "This is vegetarian stuffing, my mother...... The concubine said that the mother-in-law had a bad stomach, and the son-in-law was too small and not easy to eat too greasy. ”

"I'm asking what's inside?" He gave me a blank look and threw the other half into his mouth.

"Oh, and there are eggs, dried tofu, dried bamboo shoots, and a few dried mushrooms."

"It's fresh, dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms?" He chewed as if to feel the taste.

"In the autumn, Mrs. took her son to the mountains to pick them, and they went every day, and the unfinished food was dried, sometimes the meat was roasted, sometimes the meat was underneath, and then the dumplings were made, which were delicious." The son was anxious to confess to his father. I smiled and said, yes, I can't change history, so I'm desperately trying to make good food out of what I have.

"Madame is really clever!" He glanced at me and looked at another plate, took a bite, I looked, these three fresh, I smiled without waiting for him to speak.

"This is three fresh, with pork, dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and some fresh shrimp meat."

"Does Madame make so many fillings every year?" He noticed a total of four plates. I guess each plate has a different filling.

"This plate is radish meat filling, mother-in-law doesn't like to eat radish, but it's good for the body, so the concubine crushed the radish and put it in the meat, adding flavoring, and the mother-in-law can eat a few, which is good for the elderly. The sauerkraut filling, the concubine soaked some vegetables in the autumn, and now it is a little sour to eat, but it is just right to make dumpling filling, and it can also relieve some of the greasy of the New Year. ”

"Madame has devoted all her mind to these things?"

I was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, smiled, and didn't answer.

"What is this?" He finally saw the dumpling vinegar.

"Vinegar, which is eaten with dumplings." I don't laugh, I don't have the ambition to change history, so I hurriedly pushed it on the butler, "This is the way the butler is in his hometown"

"It's delicious! I have a Bangxiang mom bag, I also think it's delicious. ”

Li Shimin kissed his daughter, took one to feed her, dipped another one in vinegar, and threw it into his mouth, and soon his eyes were red, not wanting to cry, but mustard. I gave him a handkerchief and looked at him with a little sympathy and a little joy. He finally swallowed it and glared at me.

"The concubine likes spicy flavors." Yes, I love chili peppers, but I don't know where they grow wildly. Of course, I can also ask my nominal brother to send me some, but how do I explain it to my family when I send it? In the end, forget it. So I had to use the choking mustard instead.

"Daddy has to exhale with his mouth, so that it is not spicy." My son has learned the correct way to eat mustard under my teaching, and has done a demonstration. My mother-in-law and I both laughed, and alas, "Old lady, you are blessed to have such a daughter-in-law." Li Shimin smiled and joked with his mother-in-law.

The mother-in-law smiled and nodded, "Yes, she is a widow at a young age, and none of the children are biological, so pity her." ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and my hands trembled, but he didn't ask, and I didn't explain, so I just didn't hear.

Finally, Li Shimin was full, and his mother-in-law and son-in-law seemed to be sleepy, I smirked and signaled that Li Shimin should go, he didn't seem to pay attention, I couldn't do it, "Your Majesty, the New Year is here, please return to the palace to accept the courtiers' congratulations." ”

"You're going to drive me away?"

"The concubine doesn't dare." I smiled, and besides, if Li Shimin really stayed at the martial arts house overnight, then I really couldn't tell if I was all over my mouth.

"Let's go, I have time to go to the palace to teach the imperial chefs how to make dumplings." He put down his son and stood up, and my mother-in-law and I were busy preparing to send him out, but he came up with such a sentence, and I was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was not a nod, nor was it a shake.

"Can't you?"

"No, the concubine is thinking, if she offends the imperial hospital and then offends the imperial chefs, should the concubine die without redemption."

He snorted and left without looking back, I sent him to the door, only a small car was parked at the door, it seemed that it was a palace out of Weifu. After seeing his car disappear from sight, I breathed a sigh of relief, motioned to the porter to close the door, and returned to the courtyard, where my son went to sleep, and my mother-in-law was still waiting for me. I sat down next to her and let out a long sigh.

"Do you want to return to Wenshui?"

"Your Majesty, can you allow us to take our son? Again...... What should Mei Niang do? ”

"Your Majesty doesn't know that Mei Niang was not born by you?"

"Yes."

"Did my mother say the wrong thing?"

"It's okay, if there is something, Your Majesty will not say nothing." I comforted my mother-in-law, helped her back to her room to rest, settled her, she was still open, I sat on the edge of the couch, took her hand, "Mother, thank you." ”

"Thanks for what?"

"Thank you for always being by my side, Shi Tong is gone, Liniang and they are all married, and the son-in-law will also marry, Yuan Qing Yuanshuang can't point to it, if you haven't been there, how lonely I should be."

Her eyes were blurred, she didn't speak, she patted my hand gently, and I waited until she fell asleep before gently withdrawing. The sound of beating outside should have been three o'clock in the morning, the first day of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan.