Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, it is the New Year. Most of the ministers, important princes, and concubines had dinner together at the Taiji Hall for the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve. In addition to those who shouldn't go, only Zhang Wenyi couldn't participate in such a grand event.

Of course, the external saying is that Princess Jin occasionally feels cold and is not suitable for travel, but in fact, because of her low background, many ministers and concubines oppose her appearing on such an occasion.

Fortunately, Li Shimin felt a little sorry, so he allowed Princess Jin to cook at will in her yard. And according to the princess's request, he sent more than 30 catties of cut mutton slices and pork slices, meat bones, chicken racks, pig water, pickles, cabbage, radish, and seasonings. Zhang Wenyi, who is historically illiterate, only now did he know that there were no chili peppers in the Tang Dynasty, but it doesn't matter if there are no chili peppers, Zhang Wenyi is not a person who loves spicy food.

The princess can cook food, which is famous in the palace, and the palace maids are turned around by Zhang Wenyi's group, busy lighting a fire and cooking rice.

Whether the hot pot is delicious or not, the most important thing is to boil the base soup, the base soup is boiled well, even if the dish is ordinary hot pot, it will be delicious, on the contrary, no matter how good the ingredients are, there is no good base soup, and it will be tasteless.

A large pot of soup that had been boiled from morning to night was finally condensed into a pot, Zhang Wenyi took out half of it, added water and salt to boil, and then put tofu and other things in it to burn through, so the bottom pot was burned, and quickly beckoned all the palace maids to eat hot pot together.

At the beginning, everyone was still more cautious, although Zhang Wenyi was young, she was a princess after all. The status was there, but when Zhang Wenyi took out a jar of wine from the emperor, the situation changed. After a few glasses of wine, these palace maids immediately revealed the fierce nature of women in the Tang Dynasty, and shouted to let go and eat hot pot.

Li Zhi did not keep the New Year with his father and brother until dawn because of his young age, and he returned to the palace at midnight, when everyone in the palace slept peacefully except for the two palace maids who were on duty at night.

When I entered the room, I saw incense lit in the neat room, and Zhang Wenyi fell asleep on the table. The hot pot on the table was still steaming, and the sides were piled with various ingredients.

Li Zhiyang, who was in a bad mood, raised his hand and slapped the palace maid beside him, he was still young, but this slap did not hurt but frightened the palace maid.

The palace maid knelt on the ground and trembled, but she didn't dare to show it, because Zhang Wenyi fell asleep on the table.

During this time, under Zhang Wenyi's deliberate relationship, the estrangement between Li Zhi and her slowly disappeared, and was replaced by Li Zhi's dependence and doting on Zhang Wenyi. Recently, Li Zhi has been very good to Zhang Wenyi, and he will leave a copy for Zhang Wenyi if he has good things.

Zhang Wenyi heard movement in the room in a daze, and opened her eyes sleepily.

Seeing Li Zhi, he smiled happily: "You're back." Then he asked, "Are you hungry?" Do you want to eat something before you go to sleep? ”

Zhang Wenyi was not allowed to attend tonight's dinner, Li Zhi felt insulted and hurt, but when he saw Zhang Wenyi, his anger immediately dropped a lot.

Zhang Wenyi found the palace maid kneeling on the ground, and there were red marks on her face, and immediately understood that this was Li Zhi's misunderstanding, and he thought that the palace maid was snubbing herself and helping her get angry.

Zhang Wenyi motioned to the palace maid to retreat, and the palace maid glanced at Li Zhi in fear. Li Zhi also saw that he seemed to have a misunderstanding, but he still waved his hand impatiently and let the palace maid go out.

After the palace maid walked out of the room, Zhang Wenyi was embarrassed and said, "It was the concubine's inconsiderate nature that made the prince misunderstand." ”

Li Zhi said: "You don't have to be too nice to them, there are rules outside, and there are rules in the palace." And these people are not our people, some are sent by uncles, and some are sent by others. ”

After speaking, Li Zhi sat down at the table, raised his chopsticks and prepared to eat. Due to the royal family's different view of Zhang Wenyi, Li Zhi was in a very bad mood tonight. He didn't eat much at the dinner, and he was a little hungry at this time.

Zhang Wenyi opened the fire door to boil the water in the hot pot, then poured the vegetables into the hot pot, picked up the best slices of meat and soaked them in the hot pot, and then dipped them in the seasoning and put them in the bowl in front of Li Zhi.

After a while, the bowl in front of Li Zhi was piled up, and then Zhang Wenyi stopped and soaked some vegetables for himself, and sat aside to accompany Li Zhi to eat.

After living with Li Zhi for such a period of time, Zhang Wenyi has become accustomed to the way he speaks and can understand the meaning of some of his words. For example, these palace maids just mentioned were sent by others, which means that these palace maids are likely to be undercover agents sent by others to their side. Because of the existence of these people, sometimes secrets that even the emperor did not know were open secrets to others.

Zhang Wenyi, who has been a spy for many years, of course knows what is going on, she smiled unmindingly and said, "People change. ”

Li Zhi glanced at his wife and felt that she was still too naïve, as if she didn't know the sinister in the palace at all. She trusts herself wholeheartedly, and at least for now, she seems to be a very good wife and mother-type woman. But can I hold up a piece of the sky for her? Unconsciously, Li Zhi's eating speed slowed down.

Seeing that Li Zhi had almost eaten, Zhang Wenyi excused herself to pour water for Li Zhi to bathe and walked to the outside compartment.

She asked another palace maid to prepare Li Zhi's hot water first, and asked the other palace maid, "Are you wronged?" ”

The palace maid was thirteen or fourteen years old, and when she heard Zhang Wenyi's question, she nodded, thought about it, and shook her head again.

Zhang Wenyi said to her calmly: "For us, His Royal Highness King Jin is our heaven, this is the rule of the palace. I didn't care what kind of person you were before, but the women who entered this courtyard were all the women of His Royal Highness King Jin. Failure to do so will break the rules. For those who break the rules, Your Majesty will not let go, King Jin will not let go, and I will not let go. ”

Girls mature much earlier than boys, especially these girls with missions, who mature faster under double oppression. The meaning behind what Zhang Wenyi said was very obvious, and the palace maid looked at the eight-year-old princess in front of her in horror.

To be honest, before this, this palace maid was contemptuous of Zhang Wenyi. I always feel that Zhang Wenyi's actions are the style of a small family of jasper, which is really not worth mentioning.

She has a good background, and their family is a well-known scholarly family in ten miles and eight townships. She has outstanding talent and learning, and she has been pity that she is a daughter since she was a child. Some people even asserted that if she was a boy, it would be easy to get into the Jinshi. Her appearance is also a famous local beauty, and people who seek relatives at a young age are already flocking to her.

Her father named her "Li Shengnan".

Since being selected to be a palace maid, Li Shengnan is also outstanding among the girls who came in in the same batch. It's just that I didn't expect to be assigned to His Royal Highness King Jin as a palace maid. But it didn't matter, and she wasn't discouraged.

King Jin is a brilliant boy, and Li Shengnan admires him very much. And after knowing the rules in the palace, Li Shengnan always thought that he had a great hope of becoming the first woman of King Jin.

Because in ancient times, after the prince was fourteen or five years old, the royal family would arrange for a palace maid to guide the prince to learn intercourse, and the person who arranged for her to enter the palace had promised to make her the first woman of a certain prince.

That person's promise was conditional, that is, to ask Li Shengnan to always pay attention to His Majesty the Emperor's attitude towards Li Zhi. As Li Zhi's personal palace maid, that person's requirements were not high. Li Shengnan had done very well in the past, so the man was very sure to tell her that she would definitely become the first woman of His Royal Highness King Jin. and also sent some books about the art in the house to the palace, the purpose of which was to enable her to better tie up King Jin.

However, Zhang Wenyi's words gave her the feeling that she knew everything.

After Zhang Wenyi finished speaking, she carefully glanced at the palace maid and said, "You go to sleep first, you can get up later tomorrow." After saying that, he turned around and walked away without looking back.

When I returned to the room, I saw that Li Zhi had finished eating and was putting down the chopsticks in his hand. Zhang Wenyi hurriedly asked another palace maid who had prepared hot water to withdraw the hot pot, and told her to go to bed as soon as she was done, and she would get up and do things tomorrow.

The palace maid quickly cleaned up the table, and after she went out, Zhang Wenyi accompanied Li Zhi to take a walk in the room to eat.

After walking for about a stick of incense, Zhang Wenyi personally served Li Zhi to untie his clothes, and after taking a bath, the two went back to the room to rest.

The next day, Li Zhi still didn't take Zhang Wenyi out to pay New Year's greetings, and Li Shengnan, who saw all this in his eyes, couldn't help but sneer secretly: What's the use of you just catching the King of Jin, there have been two actions against you in less than half a year. You're lucky enough to get away with it once, twice, or even three or four times, but you can't always have that good luck, and sooner or later you'll be scrapped.

Regarding Li Shengnan's changes, Zhang Wenyi didn't think too much about it. Such a big girl wrote all her thoughts on her face, and Zhang Wenyi knew at a glance where she needed to take the trouble to observe carefully.

Unlike these people, Zhang Wenyi knew that Li Zhi would be the emperor after all. The point of unpredictable prophet is the advantage of the traverser, and it is enough to know this with Zhang Wenyi's ability.

has an advantage, but Zhang Wenyi's disadvantage is also very obvious, she lacks strength. There have been two actions against her so far, but she has no idea who is going to deal with her. Just like a blind person can only passively wait for the enemy to attack her, she has a chance to find the right master, and this is just a chance.

However, Zhang Wenyi is no stranger to this situation, she experienced such a scene a long time ago. So Zhang Wenyi is not afraid, but she still needs to make some quasi-books.

Unlike all the women in the palace, Zhang Wenyi does not lack life-saving skills, what she lacks now is life-saving tools. This tool does not refer to a weapon, and in many cases other tools are more useful than weapons.

When she was fine, Zhang Wenyi drew a lot of things, and these were all items that she urgently needed. Zhang Wenyi didn't know who could give her such help, but she was just preparing. If she had the chance, she didn't want to think about it and paint again.

In the afternoon, the King of Jin had not returned, but there was bad news coming to the palace - Qin Qiong, the Duke of Yiguo, was critically ill.