Chapter 61: White Tea Sachets
Kangxi stared at the familiar woman in front of him, and some impressions gradually appeared in his mind.
He asked, "Are you a noble person of the Eternal Longevity Palace?" ”
Hazel suppressed her flattery, and said with tears in her eyes: "Emperor Xie can still remember the slave." ”
He put down the teacup in his hand and said, "This is the white tea I like, cooked with mountain spring water, and only when Concubine De was by my side as a tea palace maid, it was made just right, so you impressed me with it, and it was also because of this tea." You're the second person besides her to be able to make it taste like this. ”
He pondered for a moment, and then said, "I remember that a few years ago, you also told me that Concubine De taught by hand, and you learned just right. ”
Hazel said: "The emperor knows one but doesn't know the other. She said, "This tea is very particular about the control of water temperature and the selection of tea leaves, every detail, every procedure is very cumbersome, the slave maid thought that there should be no difference in the taste of the tea without such trouble, but I don't know that the emperor can taste the subtle difference." ”
"Oh?" Kangxi wanted her to continue to talk about why she was troublesome before, but then she did so well.
"Because my sister is afraid that if she is not by the emperor's side one day, the slave can be replaced immediately, she knows what the emperor likes the most, for fear that the emperor will have even a little displeasure because he can't drink the tea he wants." Hazel said: "Concubine De Niangniang is sincere to the emperor, knows you very well, and knows that you respect filial piety the most, how can she defy the law and provoke the bottom line of the Queen Mother?" ”
Kangxi smiled and said, "So you came today to intercede for your main palace mother?" As he spoke, he began to copy a notebook and prepare for the rest of the work.
Hazel said: "The slave misses the emperor, just as my sister misses the emperor, I don't know if the emperor still misses the most cherished tea taste in the past." ”
The words are tactful and gentle, which makes people listen to it more than the tea on the table, like a refreshing spring.
Kangxi smelled a familiar smell slightly, and the corner of his eyes followed to Zhen'er's waist, and saw a delicate sachet hanging, the sachet was also an old thing, and it could be seen at a glance that it was a sachet that was often worn by Jing Yu in the past, and the taste was the same as before.
Although Kangxi, who was reborn at that time, didn't know that Jing Yu was the palace maid in the dining room in his previous life, but in this life and the past, he has already inexplicably liked Jing Yu as a palace maid and the white tea she brewed with a faint fragrance.
Xu is a force between the underworld, and it is already doomed.
That year, Jing Yu fell into the water and was stupid, Kangxi tried all means to cure her, but in the end he couldn't do it. Then he was neglected in the harem for a while, and his mood became more and more anxious.
Hazel saw this opportunity and was able to show off the exquisite skills she had learned from Jing Yu in front of Kangxi. Kangxi was in the midst of strong self-blame and the desire to cure Jing Yu of his stupid illness as soon as possible, and he was very easily confused.
Hazel and Jing Yu are often together, and there will be some similarities between their words, coupled with intentional or unintentional imitation, as well as the grooming that is close to her, plus the familiar smell of sachets.
It was by this means that Hazel was able to be favored and named a nobleman that year.
It was precisely because of this tea and sachet that he was unable to control his emotions at that time.
He knew that the ingredients of the sachet were a unique fragrance that Jing Yu had prepared according to the origin of his grandfather's pharmacy, which could not only ward off mosquitoes, insects, snakes and rats, but also calm the mind and soothe the body and mind, which was an elegant fragrance of flowers and trees.
So every time I got close to Jing Yu before, I always surrounded this familiar aroma, and Kangxi couldn't be more familiar.
And now, Hazel has resorted to such a means again, not so that she can win back Kangxi's favor.
In the past few years, I thought about what I wanted day and night, but now I don't know when I can see it lightly.
Xu is because of the loneliness that cannot be cared for, and he has become numb after a long time, and Xu is because of the endless competition for me in the harem, which makes people feel more than enough and lack of strength, or maybe...... Just because of someone, right?
She is now coming to Kangxi to fight for it, she can just be for her sister.
Kangxi has a good temperament and is a benevolent gentleman, even if he doesn't necessarily believe it, but at least he will listen to her.
Seeing that Kangxi's eyebrows fell into deep thought again, she took off the sachet on her waist and said, "The emperor is benevolent and filial, but the queen mother is likely to know what to do that day." My sister was forced to ask An Weiwei to lose her courtesy, and she asked the emperor to be clear. After speaking, he gently placed the sachet in his hand on the table in front of Kangxi and left quietly.
Kangxi looked at the sachet silently, feeling as if it was talking, but he didn't know what it was saying.
He called his confidant Tuhai and said, "Concubine De didn't go to ask for peace that day, to find out if there was any inside information." ”
Tu Hai understood Kangxi's meaning, it is rumored that the concubine is pampered and arrogant, please be absent and lose the rudeness, Kangxi now let the re-investigation suspect that it is not only for this reason, he suspects that there is another inside story, since this is the case, it is necessary to start from the people or things that De Concubine met on the road that day, and it is not possible to miss it at all. When he had made up his mind, he instructed a trustworthy person to do it.
After another month of reincarnation, I thought that after withdrawing Jing Yu's green card, Kangxi must still be the same concubine who used to come to Yanxi Palace often, and these days he has become more and more anxious like an ant on a hot pot. Why would the emperor rather go to the place where those nobles promised than come to see her?
If you don't forget it, there will be an echo, and you will finally wait until Kangxi turns over her brand.
Carefully groomed and dressed, as always, arranged for a group of people in the palace to go to the palace gate to greet her, she was used to doing this set of scenes, and never felt tired.
Kangxi was expressionless when he came, and he couldn't say that he was cold or enthusiastic.
When he was staying for dinner, he suddenly asked, "There is a girl named Caiyun, who was here with you before?" ”
As soon as she heard the word 'Caiyun', Yi Concubine chuckled in her heart, and after laughing awkwardly, she deliberately adjusted her sudden heartbeat, deliberately controlled her calmness, pretended to be jealous, and said, "How did the emperor think of a little palace maid?" Isn't it that the nobles in the harem have not promised to serve well enough? ”
Kangxi's face was even more serious, even if he knew that Yi Concubine was coquettish to him when he said this, but he didn't like this kind of deliberately making him like a kind of lover who saw one and loved one in order to show that he cared about him - it seemed that she was frivolous herself, and it also seemed that he was casual, in short, uncomfortable.
"I'm just asking." He said with a cold face.
"The emperor asked so seriously, and he really confused the concubines." Yi Concubine saw that Kangxi was really unhappy, her face also turned blue, and after a little thought, she said: "There are not dozens of palace maids who go out here and there are more than a dozen concubines, except for Qiao'er and Sanniu, they can't remember clearly." ”
Then he turned to them and asked, "Do you remember a man named Caiyun?" Qiao'er and the three girls all pretended not to know and shook their heads blankly.
Kangxi didn't eat a few chopsticks, and the rare ones didn't stay overnight, so he drank some tea and left, leaving Yi Concubine in a trance.
In the past, the emperor was not like this, and he didn't come to stay overnight, and he left in a hurry for no reason.
She didn't want to, the emperor probably already knew that Caiyun deliberately blocked the concubine.
"You're going to find her, but someone else will find you?" She said impatiently.
"Back to Niangniang, when I went back to the palace, I sent things clearly, and the rest of the time, I made an appointment late at night, and I wouldn't be bumped into by anyone." Qiao'er didn't know how powerful Tuhai was, how did he know that he would find out, so he said firmly.
"That's weird." Yi Concubine said stupidly: "Even if the emperor doesn't know so far, it's not a good thing to ask about Caiyun, and he may be suspicious...... In the future, we must be more restrained and careful. As he spoke, he thought of Jing Yu and gritted his teeth and said, "What did you do to make the emperor protect her like this last time?" ”