"Jing Shen won't go to Xining." Ming Weiran said.

Qingyu nodded: "Let's not say that Xining is not a rich place and is very remote, trekking through mountains and rivers, and the road is difficult. ”

Most of the emperor's private visits to Weifu are nothing more than going out of the palace to the capital for a walk or to a rich place, and almost no to remote areas.

First, the travel time is too long, and the central government will be abandoned for too long, and secondly, the emperor's safety is taken into account.

At this moment, Xiao Lu suddenly knocked on the door: "Niangniang, the Queen Mother is looking for you and wants to have lunch with you." ”

Ming Weiran glanced at Qingyu helplessly: "I'll go first, let's talk about it when I come back." ”

Unexpectedly, this meal made things turn around.

……

Ming Weiran saw the delicacies of the mountains and seas on this table, and resisted the desire to swallow saliva.

Why is there such a big difference, although the diet of Yongyi Palace is not simple, it is commonplace, and the Queen Mother is here with three sacrifices and five tripods.

The Queen Mother looked at Ming Weiran's eyes and said, "The queen is dining with the mourning family today." ”

Ming Weiran nodded with a smile: "Yes." ”

Ming Weiran hasn't eaten any big meals since she came here, and now she can be regarded as a meat eater.

When she was halfway through eating, the Queen Mother glanced at the few pine nuts left in front of Ming Weiran and said, "The queen rarely eats fish on weekdays, but now she eats a lot, and it seems that this pine nut fish is doing well today." ”

"The things in the mother's harem are indeed much better than those in the concubine's palace." Ming Weiran replied truthfully.

"The food in the queen's palace is also incomparable to other places, and the two cooks your brother transferred from the capital are famous." The Queen Mother smiled.

Ming Weiran was stunned, she knew that the queen had two elder brothers, but what did she mean that the food in her palace was incomparable to other places, didn't she just eat some ordinary meals? The diet in other palaces is not worse than your own, right? And what about the cook?

The Queen Mother looked at Ming Weiran with a puzzled look on her face, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with the queen?" ”

Ming Weiran smiled and nodded stiffly.

Xiao Lu on the side heard the conversation between Ming Weiran and the Queen Mother, and showed an impatient look, and before Ming Weiran could speak, he suddenly knelt aside: "The Queen Mother and the Queen Mother atone for their sins." ”

Xiao Lu said and looked at the Queen Mother: "The slave knows that there is no part for the slave to intervene here, but there are some words, the mother does not say, and the slave and the maid must be clear." ”

The Queen Mother saw Xiao Lu's solemn appearance, and was a little puzzled, so she said, "What do you have to say." ”

"Queen Mother, a few days after you left the palace for a blessing trip, Niangniang was somehow charged with mistreating concubines for no reason, and then the emperor transferred away the twenty-four eunuchs and palace maids in Yongyi Palace, and now with the slaves themselves, there are only four people in Yongyi Palace serving Niangniang." Xiao Lu snorted and said, "Queen Mother, someone must have falsely accused the mother, the queen mother is bullied on weekdays, how can she bully the concubine?" ”

The Queen Mother looked incredulous when she heard that there were only four people serving in the queen's palace.

Seeing this, Xiao Lu continued: "Even the cook in the small kitchen of Yongyi Palace was taken away together, and in the final analysis, it was also the person sent by Lord Ming Moran to Niangniang. Now there are only two junior cooks left in the dining room, and Niangniang has one dish and one soup per meal, and sometimes they don't know where to be lazy, so Niangniang can only eat the leftovers. "[The general palace will have its own dining room and kitchen, which is the palace as usual, and the regular meal fee is included in the monthly ration, the highest in the queen's palace. But the concubines who have capital will generally pay out of their own pockets to hire another cook and purchase additional ingredients, which is their small kitchen. 】

"There is such a thing!" The Queen Mother was furious when she heard this. And although Ming Weiran's face was calm, he was actually dizzy.

The grandmother next to the Queen Mother said: "The Queen Mother, the monthly portion of the last concubine contains nearly seven taels of food expenses, and each meal has three dishes that are more than enough. ”

This grandmother is the one who helped Ming Weiran speak a few days ago.

Ming Weiran only understood when she heard this, it turned out that she was "abused" again, she had never been a nobleman, and she didn't even know that she was bullied......

Because there are three meals a day on weekdays, although there is only one dish per meal, if it is good, add a porridge or soup or something, but it is not the same for a few days, and it is also commonplace, in fact, many ordinary families in modern times are also like this, some because of busy work can not reach this, Ming Weiran did not feel that there was anything wrong with such a diet, so he never asked carefully about the eating habits in this palace, and now he understands, after all, this is the palace, and ordinary people are of course different.

Xiao Lu struck while the iron was hot: "Queen Mother, Queen Mother has been sick for several days, just these days, but the Queen Mother, you know that Niangniang's illness almost cost her life, and she was in a coma for two days." ”

Let's talk about it.

Xiao Lu finally said the words after holding back for a few days, there was a sense of relief, looking at the silent Ming Weiran, Xiao Lu thought of all the grievances suffered by his mother, and actually cried.

As an innocent and unwitting "victim", Ming Weiran didn't know what to do for a while, so she only said: "Xiao Lu, don't bother the Queen Mother with these things anymore." ”

I am actually very satisfied with the current Yongyi Palace.

When the Queen Mother heard this, there were tears in her eyes: "The queen has endured it so much, the mourning family is sorry Yun Hua, your mother is 10,000 worried about marrying you into this palace, just looking at the mourning family to take care of you, but I didn't expect you to suffer these things." ”

The Queen Mother burst into tears as she spoke: "Two days in a coma? If you have anything wrong, how can you see your mother......"

Ming Weiran saw that this kind woman was so distressed about herself, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, she lowered her head to hold back her tears, and looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Queen Mother, the concubine is already well, and it won't be in the way." ”

"I didn't expect the mourning family to raise such a good son, and he would be so affectionate and treat his wife so harshly!" The Queen Mother is very angry now.

"Don't be angry, Queen Mother." Ming Weiran didn't plan to pretend to have to explain a few words for this emperor, so he didn't mention Jing Shen at all.

"Is the Empress disheartened with the Emperor?" On weekdays, as long as she says that there is anything bad about Jing Shen, the queen will explain it for Jing Shen, but now she doesn't want to say it.

"The concubine doesn't dare." No matter how arrogant and uninhibited she is, she can't admit this, and this is definitely not what a queen should have.

"That'...... Does the queen still have the emperor in her heart? Although the previous queen had many shortcomings, the queen mother did not really dislike the queen because of her friendship with Yun Hua, and more importantly, the queen mother could see the queen's sincerity to Jing Shen, so she only thought that they could be able to play the piano and ming.

In fact, what the queen mother is most afraid of is that the queen will lose her sincerity to her son, so let alone say anything about Qin Se and Ming, it will be difficult to even get along.

Now seeing that the queen has experienced this, she treated Jing Shen a few days ago as before, so she asked this sentence.

When Ming Weiran heard this question, she smiled "embarrassed but polite", and nodded stiffly.

What else can you say but nod?

"The mourning family knows that the queen is not a merciless person." The Queen Mother was relieved.

"Why does the queen mother ask her concubines like this?" Ming Weiran was a little puzzled by this sudden question.