Chapter 22: Unappetizing
Early the next morning, Kunning Palace ushered in many concubines one after another, including fresh and lovely, beautiful and moving new concubines, talented female concubines who were elegant and elegant, and who were in the limelight, senior concubines who were arrogant and cold, and who were in the concubine position......
They all dress up and try to express their favorability with their best side.
Only the dawn of the clouds is not arrogant or impatient, and stands calmly and quietly waiting.
Qin Yuning also had a calm expression, standing obediently on the other side, while Ji Yunhui looked left and right with a curious face, and in the end, Qin Yuning couldn't see it, and gently pulled her sleeve before she stood up obediently.
"The Queen Mother has arrived."
After all the concubines came, Cheng Lingyue was dressed like a queen, and came surrounded by palace maids.
"Say hello to the queen, Niangniang Wanfu Jin'an." All the concubines in the main hall saluted in unison.
Cheng Lingyue, who had a calm face, walked in dignified and walked towards the phoenix seat in the center.
When passing a curtsy concubine, her slightly cold eyes flashed with a cold and gloomy light, and her expression became gloomy, and her slightly pursed pink lips quickly pursed into a straight line, looking cold and cold.
But she didn't pause, and when she stepped up to the phoenix seat and turned to sit down, she had a generous and decent smile on her face.
"Everybody, get up. I haven't seen you for so long, and I can't think of what to reward for everyone, so I can express my apologies to the palace, thinking that everyone is going to come over early in the morning to say goodbye, this palace specially ordered the kitchen to cook a pot of eight-treasure porridge, and some snacks, you can enjoy it casually, we can also talk and chat, by the way, it will be the Double Ninth Festival in the near future, we should celebrate, and everyone has any opinions. ”
On August 15, because the eldest princess was gone, the queen was not in the mood to prepare, and the emperor also forbade all entertainment, so on August 15, everyone was just admiring the moon in their own palace.
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Hearing the queen mother say that she had prepared eight-treasure porridge and snacks, everyone who had just sat down stood up again and thanked Queen Cheng Lingyue before sitting down again.
Qingxin nodded to a palace maid, who walked out quickly, but in a moment, many palace maids wearing third-class clothes rushed in, each holding a tray in their hands, and on the tray were placed a bowl of steaming eight-treasure porridge and a few plates of small snacks.
Those palace maids put the things on the tray on the coffee table next to each concubine.
After everyone had eight-treasure porridge in their hands, Queen Cheng Lingyue picked up her bowl and tasted it first, and the concubines below dared to eat it.
"Well, this eight-treasure porridge is so delicious, fragrant and smooth, sweet but not greasy, it's really delicious." A concubine who was very good at pleasing Cheng Lingyue, deliberately flattered with a flattering smile, deliberately held a porcelain bowl with blue glaze lacquer flowers, and said intoxicatedly.
The other concubines also chimed in.
Yun Xiaoxiao drank slowly, this eight-treasure porridge was really well cooked, sweet but not greasy, not thick or thin, just right.
"Flutter." Mrs. Li, who had just stuffed a mouthful of eight-treasure porridge into her mouth, spit out the porridge with a thud.
What kind of porridge is this, salty to death, do you use salt as sugar?
"Sister Li, doesn't the porridge match your appetite? Why didn't you even eat a bite. Queen Cheng Lingyue pretended to be concerned and asked, this porridge with ingredients is delicious, hmph, this is the beginning, you wait slowly.
"Back to the queen's mother, this porridge is delicious, but the concubine likes to drink it cold." Mrs. Li gritted her teeth a little when she said it, watching everyone not change their faces, and happily quickly solved a bowl of eight-treasure porridge, she was even more depressed, is it only her porridge that is salty?
In fact, if this Mrs. Li really said that the porridge was salty, Queen Cheng Lingyue would have to punish the cook who cooked the porridge, and would not let her drink it.
However, at this moment, she was feeling guilty about the eldest princess, so she had a voice.
And Cheng Lingyue is also good, she won't say it to her face to save her face, so when she heard Mrs. Li say that she likes to drink cold, she specially asked Qingxin to blow cold for her.
"Mother, it's already cold, please use it slowly." After blowing for a while, Qingxin presented the eight-treasure porridge to Mrs. Li.
The other concubines all looked at them with envy when they heard this, and it was the first time that they could have the queen's personal palace maids waiting.
Mrs. Li watched everyone turn their heads to look at her, couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, gritted her teeth and poured a bowl of salty eight-treasure porridge into her mouth in three mouthfuls and two mouthfuls, and quickly drank up the bowl of eight-treasure porridge.
She didn't wait for the last bite of eight-treasure porridge to swallow, and immediately grabbed a cup of tea that had cooled on the table and poured it desperately.
"It seems that Sister Li likes this eight-treasure porridge very much, and someone will serve Sister Li another bowl." Queen Cheng Lingyue smiled kindly and instructed the palace maids beside her.
"Well, the concubine is already full and can't eat anymore." Mrs. Li hurriedly excused herself, she didn't want to eat another bowl of salty and dead man's eight-treasure porridge.
It's just that those who can be on duty in the queen's palace are all clever, and a palace maid with neat hands and feet has already sent a bowl of eight-treasure porridge to Mrs. Li's hands for the first time.
Mrs. Li pursed her lips secretly, wasn't it specially prepared?
"Niangniang, this porridge has been cooled and can be eaten." The palace maid also kindly reminded.
Mrs. Li couldn't bite the bullet, frowned, and her face was even more ugly than swallowing bitter medicine, and she swallowed the eight-treasure porridge in one go.
Concubine Zheng, who was sitting under Mrs. Li, looked at Mrs. Li with a painful expression in surprise, raised her willow eyebrows slightly in confusion, her apricot eyes opened slightly, and a touch of suspicion swept over her apricot eyes.
Is this eight-treasure porridge so unpalatable? Looking at Sister Li's appearance, it is more painful than drinking bitter medicine, isn't Sister Li the most fond of sweets? Concubine Zheng couldn't figure it out.
Mrs. Li drank the eight-treasure porridge in one go, and immediately grabbed the tea to drink, but how could the freshly poured tea be eaten, and in a hurry, Mrs. Li turned around and picked up Concubine Zheng's teacup.
Concubine Zheng covered her mouth in surprise and covered the exclamation in her mouth, isn't my sister dirty?
Ahem, she doesn't seem to be dirty.
"Gollum." Mrs. Li drank Concubine Zheng's tea in one go, if it was normal, she would not have done such a dishonorable thing if she was killed.
But today she was so thirsty.
Suddenly, Mrs. Li's stomach rolled, oops! Her stomach hurt so much, Mrs. Li grabbed the armrest of the chair with one hand, held her stomach with the other, clamped her legs, stood up with great difficulty, and said goodbye to Queen Cheng Lingyue.
"Sister Li's face is very bad, where is it uncomfortable? Do you want to pass on the imperial doctor? Cheng Lingyue asked with great concern.