Chapter 53: Soup
Well, I was moved by them, so today is still the third watch...... This is the second update.
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When Su Ruhui stepped into the small courtyard next door, Zhou Yi'er was also able to finish her meal, and asked Xiuying to hold a bronze mirror in front of the window to carefully check if there was anything wrong.
Seeing Su Ruhui from behind the window, Zhou Yi'er was overjoyed, stood up and said, "Sister Ruhui!" ”
"Sister Zhou, are you ready?" Su Ruhui gently raised her wide sleeves, the robe she was wearing today was a light purple dark coat embroidered with a reckless pouch, the waist was tied with silk silk of the same color, and the corner of the skirt was covered with a mille-feuille lotus jade pendant, which was still a double snail bun, with a little cinnabar in the center of the eyebrows, but the bun was not a simple bead flower or gold ring, but a whole string of purple pearls, the size of each of them was like a little finger, round and full, exuding a soft light.
The pearl is not simply wrapped around the bun, but when the bun is combed, it is also faintly visible, facing the snow scene at the moment, more and more set off Su Ruhua's whole body is extravagant, with the ethereal purple clothes, there is a faint tendency to fly.
As soon as Zhou Yi'er glanced at it, he knew that most of this outfit was helped by Mrs. Zheng Yejun, after all, Su Ruhui had just moved back to Lumingtai yesterday, and she went to thank you today, and it was the second day of Laba, so An's naturally had to pay attention.
She smiled and motioned to Xiuying to put away the bronze mirror, came over and took Su Ruhui's hand and said: "Sister Ruhui is dressed up neatly today, I didn't dare to recognize it when I saw it for the first time, and I thought that a little fairy came from?" ”
"Sister Zhou is really good at laughing, sister's yard, even if there is a little fairy, it should be my sister who says to the bronze mirror!" Su Ruhui smiled and said, "It's almost time, can my sister clean up?" ”
"It's already good, you come and call me." Zhou Yi'er listened to her call her Sister Zhou instead of the former Sister Yi'er, her eyes were slightly fixed, but she soon laughed again, "Let's go-it's just that I stopped by to find Sister Lian'er during this time." ”
"If Sister Lian'er doesn't get tired of me, I want to go with me, what does Sister Zhou think?" Su Ruhua said briskly.
"Naturally, it's very good, Sister Lian'er has a good temperament, and she will only welcome her when she sees her sister." Zhou Yi'er covered her mouth and chuckled.
Su Ruhui sneered secretly, it seems that she was not alone in her mother's earnest teaching yesterday, when did Zhou Yi'er mention Huo Qinglian not grit her teeth before? When did you become a sister on the left and a sister on the right? Thinking of this, Su Ruhui snorted secretly, but there was a warm spring breeze on her face: "Really? It's really boring to be huddled in the house in this cold day, if Sister Lian'er doesn't mind, I'll go with you to make trouble with her next time. ”
The two talked and laughed, as if they had no mustard, so Xiuwan and Xiuying turned on the palace lamps and walked towards the direction of the Detai Hall in the bright sky.
Staying near the Detai Hall and turning to Caimingxuan to meet Huo Qinglian, seeing that they were bent on showing sisterly affection, Su Ruhua simply proposed: "I don't know where the Lord of Danzhu lives?" If you are also in Renshou Palace, why don't you also look for the county lord to accompany you? ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Huo Qinglian turned her head and said with a smile: "Sister Ruhua, you just moved back, don't you know?" The county lord of Danzhu lives in the warm pavilion of the Detai Palace! ”
Su Ruhui babbled lightly and said, "I see! "No wonder she got up so early yesterday, but Danzhu was already there.
So they didn't mention it anymore, and the three of them went to the front of the Detai Hall together, and the aunt at the door smiled and asked them to go in by themselves. Despite this, the three of them still relied on the charcoal basin in the outer hall to bake away the cold air on their bodies before they untied their clothes and walked into the inner hall.
Yesterday Laba, the Queen Mother got up early in the morning to put on a lot of makeup, and she was busy and tired for a day, so she couldn't help getting up late today, and she was just having dinner at the moment. Empress Dowager Jiayi's habit has always been to get up and wash first, and then pass the meal, and then start dressing and changing clothes after the meal is finished, but it is different from other people's makeup and then eating.
Twenty or thirty dishes are placed on the table carved with auspicious motifs such as the crane and the boy offering his life, and on another table are various pastries, and the cloth dishes are sleeve incense. Four other palace maids waited to serve. To be honest, many families are much more extravagant than such a scene.
The Empress Dowager Jiayi has always disliked extravagance and waste, and the current example is according to the minimum requirements of the Empress Dowager, no wonder the government and the opposition are deeply blessed when they mention the Empress Dowager.
At this moment, although the Queen Mother was full of dishes in front of her, she was just slowly drinking a small bowl of blue porridge, and she didn't even look at the meals made by the imperial dining room on the table. Su Ruhui inadvertently took a look, but found that the porridge seemed to be the newly made Laba porridge in the imperial dining room that the two little yellow men mentioned yesterday.
Su Ruhui didn't have the heart to taste it yesterday, but she saw that Laba had passed, and the Queen Mother was still drinking this porridge, but she was a little curious, and she didn't know what it tasted like, which could make the Queen Mother worry about it.
Seeing the three of them coming, the Queen Mother smiled slightly: "The children have arrived?" Have you eaten them all? ”
Su Ruhui and the three of them saluted and said goodbye, and after they all agreed to eat, the Queen Mother said: "It's strange that it's cold all the way, and the sleeves are elegant, give each of them a bowl of hot soup to warm up their bodies!" ”
The three of them hurriedly saluted and thanked them, and saw the palace maid standing next to them neatly set up a small table, and then someone brought in three white jade bowls from the outside, which contained eight points full of milky white soup, and I don't know what it was made of, the aroma was overflowing, and it was very appetizing.
The white jade bowl is on the side of a porcelain spoon as thin as a cicada's wings, with a faint azure color after the rain, which contrasts with each other and is extremely lovely.
The three of them thanked him again and sat down, picked up the bowl according to etiquette, and drank it gently.
Su Ruhua entered the entrance, and only felt one word, light.
It is almost tasteless, almost watery.
However, in the very light, there is a touch of fragrant aftertaste, and gradually it is endless, and I can't help but praise a good word.
I heard Huo Qinglian put down the spoon, wiped his lips lightly with a brocade handkerchief, and said strangely: "Queen Mother, is this soup a new recipe for the imperial dining room?" What a whimsy! ”
"Yes, I felt that my appetite was not good, so the imperial dining room thought of a few new tricks, and after tasting it, I thought it was good to have a soup and a porridge, so I asked them to continue to make it." The Queen Mother smiled, "The mourning family is old, and they like to be soft-mouthed, and I thought that you were young and didn't necessarily like it, but I didn't expect that good things are good things after all - then leave a copy for Danzhu, can the child get up?" ”
The sleeve incense was originally for the queen mother, but the queen mother didn't look at other dishes except for drinking the porridge, she couldn't help but stand aside, and pursed her lips and smiled when she heard the words: "The queen mother just asked the grandmothers not to wake up the county lord, let her sleep, maybe she hasn't woken up yet." ”
"Danzhu is young, and she was only settled when she accompanied the mourning family to her son yesterday, so let her sleep as much as she wants." The Queen Mother nodded, but said to Su Ruhua, "Originally, the mourning family also wanted someone to tell you that you don't have to come today, but I didn't expect that the person hadn't gone yet, you arrived first, drank the soup, and went back to play by yourself. ”
"The courtiers have disturbed the Queen Mother!" Su Ruhui and the three of them hurriedly put down the bowl, and after leaving the table together, they knelt down and pleaded guilty.
"That's what the mourning family said, you came early, and it was also your intention, what are you kneeling down decently?" The Queen Mother said angrily.
The Queen Mother had already made her words clear, and the three of them didn't dare to say more, so they drank a few sips casually, and then put down the soup bowl and retired.