The main hall of Penglai Palace.

Xie Xiaobai followed behind the prince step by step, the tray in his hand was extremely stable, and the food box used to keep warm had not shaken from beginning to end.

The prince stopped in front of the curtain, took out the steaming pumpkin porridge from the food box, bowed down and sent the pumpkin porridge outside the curtain, and asked softly: "The queen mother, the small kitchen has sent a stomach-warming pumpkin porridge, do you want to use some?" ”

A fair, delicate hand stretched out. This hand is well-maintained and does not look at all like the hands of a woman in her forties.

"Get out."

This hand overturned the glass bowl in the prince's hand.

All the palace people knelt in response.

At arm's length away from Xie Xiaobai, the glass bowl was upside down on the ground, the peony petals made of glass were shattered, and the orange-yellow porridge liquid flowed on the cashmere carpet.

The prince's hands, on the tray and on the translucent glass flower fragments were stained with orange-yellow honey, and the sweet fragrance of pumpkin spread throughout the room.

The palace people swallowed a mouthful of saliva in unison, staring directly at the overturned pumpkin porridge.

I don't know why, why does this pumpkin porridge look so delicious?

All the palace members of Penglai Palace secreted saliva uncontrollably: they wanted to eat this pumpkin porridge to the point of itching.

It's so strange, they are serving by the side of the Empress Dowager Yuan, and they can be regarded as palace people with good faces, and they have even eaten bird's nest shark fin, why do they never forget this bowl of pumpkin porridge and have a soft spot?

After a while, they had already made a decision in their hearts.

When I went to the chef to get lunch today, I asked the chef to make them a bowl of pumpkin porridge.

"What are you still doing?" The prince waved the dust, "Hurry up and clean up the ground!" ”

Xie Xiaobai reached out to pick up the glass fragments, and the pieces of glass stained with pumpkin porridge refracted golden light in the sunlight.

"You made this porridge?"

A coquettish female voice sounded above Xie Xiaobai's head, which made her goosebumps rise and almost threw the broken glass back to the ground.

This Empress Dowager Yuan is a lot older, why is her voice so pretentious?

"Yes." Xie Xiaobai put the glass fragment in his hand on the tray steadily, and then stopped the work in his hand and waited for the next order of the Empress Dowager Yuan.

The drape above her head was lifted, and Empress Dowager Yuan was wearing obscene clothes, half-lying on the bed.

She instructed, "It smells good, let's go serve another bowl." ”

The palace people didn't dare to raise their heads, but they were all thinking in their hearts: yes, this pumpkin porridge can make the Empress Dowager Yuan, who has eaten all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, praise it, and it must be extraordinary.

They counted the hours silently in their minds, thinking about the lunch.

……

Xie Xiaobai served the Empress Dowager Yuan with a meal.

Empress Dowager Yuan drank the hot porridge, felt that her stomach was warm, the feeling of fire had faded a lot, and she frowned comfortably.

"What's your name?"

"The slave maid is the rough envoy of the food department, and the palace maid is Xiaobai."

"Xiaobai, a good name." Empress Dowager Yuan lay back on the bed, and the two beautiful maids lowered the drape beside the bed.

Xie Xiaobai finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks and retired.

Seeing that Empress Dowager Yuan was in a good mood at this moment, the prince mentioned the little things in the morning.

"Niangniang, the Diandian who is in charge of the breakfast in Penglai Palace today is still in the Ting Prison, I don't know how Niangniang is going to send her down?"

As for the other palace people involved, except for the two who came to the small kitchen of Penglai Palace, no one else left their lives, so naturally there is no need to mention it.

A gust of cold wind blew open the palace window of Penglai Palace, and the cold plums outside the window have been proudly branched.

Empress Dowager Yuan smelled the plum fragrance and closed her eyes.

She said: "The color of the white plum is too faint, and it looks good when you see a little blood." ”

After the prince received the order, he was about to go to the court prison to distribute the meal, and the Empress Dowager Yuan casually pointed to Xie Xiaobai's back and said:

"Look at this palace, the palace maid called Xiaobai is good, let her take the errand of the meal."

"Wait, this is the first time since the empress dowager of this palace has made a decree." Empress Dowager Yuan came to the spirit, and was served by the palace people and put on the outer hat, "Take the pen and ink, and the palace will personally draft the decree." ”

The prince was busy grinding ink on the side, "Niangniang is wise!" With your will, the people in the harem will be able to see clearly who is the real master of the harem now! ”

……

Xie Xiaobai went to the cold palace first to see the princess's situation.

There was no charcoal fire in the cold palace, and the princess was woken up early by the freeze and could no longer sleep.

She has been a puppet emperor for five years, and she has been pampered for many years, so that she can't bear her roughness.

At this moment, she took advantage of the first sunny day after the snow to wash her dirty clothes, and found a tree in the courtyard of the ruined temple to erect a clothes pole to dry her clothes.

"Why are you here?" The princess glanced at Xie Xiaobai, who was standing at the gate of the courtyard.

She had a stool under her feet, and on tiptoe reached the dirty clothes flat on the clothespole.

Xie Xiaobai walked to her side, naturally took the clothes in her hand, and said, "The noble man didn't look very good yesterday, and there was no palace person waiting for him, so the slave maid was not at ease, so she came to take a look." ”

After Xie Xiaobai finished speaking, the princess looked at Xie Xiaobai in a daze, "Don't always be kind-hearted......"

Her eyes shone with water, and her hazy gaze fell on Xie Xiaobai's body, as if she was looking at someone through Xie Xiaobai.

"It's much worse than me in this palace, I heard that today the Si Shan Si offended the Empress Dowager Yuan, and more than a dozen palace maids were beaten to death at the gate of the Ting Palace. You can't help at all, you can't manage it. ”

"I also heard that two palace maids were spared, and they were praised by the Empress Dowager Yuan." She jumped down from the wooden chair and smacked her lips, "I don't know what the pumpkin porridge that even the Empress Dowager Yuan can praise is."

She struggled to pick up the chair with her short hands and moved it to the inner room.

As she walked, she said, "By the way, those two palace maids are also the chefs, do you know them?" ”

Xie Xiaobai arched his hand, "Coincidentally, one of the two palace people you said is standing in front of you." ”

The princess was so shocked that she even dropped the chair she was carrying in her hand.

I didn't expect her to be in the cold palace and also have access to the people of the harem.

Xie Xiaobai took the opportunity to move a chair for her and asked, "Have you ever been out?" ”

There is not even half a ghost in the cold palace, where did she hear the latest news of Daming Palace?

"There is not even a food delivery person in this cold palace, if I don't go out to find something to eat, I will starve to death here a long time ago." The girl shrugged her shoulders and behaved like a little adult.

"The new emperor ascended the throne, and everything in the harem was complicated, and it is possible to miss the situation here of the nobles."

"You don't want to be a noble man anymore. I am the princess of Concubine De, ranked fifteenth. The emperor didn't give me the title, you can call me the fifteenth princess. ”

Xie Xiaobai knew that Concubine De, the mother of the fifteenth princess, had participated in the plan to kill the emperor Bai Yueguang mobilized by the whole harem because of jealousy.

The emperor ignored Concubine De, and even her daughter Fifteenth Princess, who was born in the cold palace, was hated by the scumbag emperor and left to fend for herself in the cold palace.

If it weren't for the old people in the palace, many new palace maids wouldn't know that there was such a person as the fifteenth princess.

is obviously a relative of the emperor, but "there is no such person".

How low the sense of existence of this fifteenth princess is can be seen from this incident.

"It turned out to be the fifteenth eldest princess." Xie Xiaobai saluted.

She paused and said, "Eldest princess, the first emperor has passed away, why don't you try to have a good relationship with the new emperor and the queen mother?" ”