Chapter 16, four dishes and one soup
Chu Dakuan walked out of the Ning Palace, but he was worried, he was not afraid that Niangniang Xiong's paw deer tendon bird's nest ginseng would eat every day, he was afraid of the "lightness" that she repeatedly requested, the key was that she couldn't get it, whether Niangniang was polite or telling the truth, in short, it was certain that the previous eunuch was dissatisfied.
Exiting the main hall, Chu Dakuan saw a little eunuch wearing a gold crown with a yin pattern and wisps, his appearance was too familiar, and immediately Chu Dakuan showed a smile: "Hey, isn't this Little Brother Ling?" It's been a long time, but you're developed! You are auspicious! ”
Chu Dakuan, who used to be the deputy eunuch in charge of the diet, was the ninth grade, and was transferred to the Heart Cultivation Hall and promoted to the eighth grade, and now he has been transferred to be the eunuch of the palm meal, and he is also the top of the eighth grade, just like Xiao Lingzi, but now his tone is like treating his boss.
Xiao Lingzi also returned the salute and said auspiciously: "Old brother, I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that you have also been promoted!" ”
Chu Dakuan held up a big belly and smiled, "It's not as good as Brother Ling, you have a mother to carry you, I'm afraid that wearing a python suit is just a matter of waiting!" "As a eunuch, it's not easy to be a top dresser, and it's a real beauty to be able to mix a python suit!
These words can be regarded as scratching Xiao Lingzi's heart, and he immediately felt one hundred and twenty comfortable, but his mouth was polite: "Where, where!" ”
Chu Dakuan is still the face of Maitreya Buddha who is happy: "Little brother, where did this come from?" ”
Xiao Lingzi pointed to the direction of the pointer thread room and said, "Mama Chen made a pair of pillows according to Niangniang's instructions, and Niangniang was satisfied, so she asked me to send a reward!" He looked at the eunuch Chu who had just come out of the palace, and he looked anxious and uneasy, and said: "Now they know what the mother likes, and they don't dare to make the clothes dazzling, and the ones that the mother likes must be light and elegant!" And the previous dining room is also, the mother wants to be light, and they listen to it as a backword! The pause was greasy, and the trouble was reduced, and the long live lord was distressed when he saw it! No, I've transferred my brother, you're going to make the palm meal! ”
When Chu Dakuan heard this, he immediately thanked him: "Little Brother Ling has helped me a lot!" He pulled Xiao Lingzi to the corner of the wall again, and said in a low voice: "What do you want to eat in the future, no matter the abalone ginseng wings, just come to me in private!" Brother, I don't have the skills of others, and I can do it with my cooking skills! ”
Xiao Lingzi was also beautiful when he heard it, although his food was good, he couldn't eat whatever he wanted! It's not bad to be good friends with Chu Dakuan now, at least you can put something delicious into your stomach! After thanking each other, the two made an appointment and said goodbye to each other.
It turns out that there are flannel cloth in ancient times, among which the Zhangrong is the best, not only the fabric luster, the softness of the tentacles is not comparable to those of later generations, the original Zhangrong cloth is also woven with silk, mixed with cotton thread, as for the weaving principle Su curtain is not well understood, anyway, it is a rare good thing.
Lying on the beauty couch, the pillow under the neck is a candy pillow made according to the requirements of the Su curtain, cylindrical, the goose yellow tassels with miscellaneous gold threads hanging at both ends, the pillow core is soft and full of kapok, mixed with a lot of dried lavender, not only the pillow is comfortable, but also helps to sleep. The swastika ribbon pattern of apricot yellow dark flower velvet fabric is also very popular with Su Curtain, it seems that those needlework room grandma finally understand her preferences, and there will be no more flowers.
In the afternoon, Xiao Lingzi came up and asked what to eat for dinner, Su Curtain was sitting on the beauty couch, leaning against a round velvet pillow, and said after a little thought: "Don't make out that big table after calling the dining room, it's all full!" I told him to go down, and every meal in the future would be four dishes and one soup, and not many would be made. At least two of the dishes must be vegetarian dishes, and the vegetarian dishes I am talking about are not vegetarian dishes, but they are not allowed to add a little meat! ”
I hope that this Chu eunuch will not be like the previous eunuch in charge, and he will not stop until he has to make thirty or forty dishes.
When Su Lian was free, he drank honey tea and looked at the history of the former palace and the wilderness, history, there is no shortage of strange characters, and the palace is no exception. The palace of the Kangxi Dynasty should be in a relatively normalized period of time, and the concubines are full of virtuousness!
Just looking at it, he felt it, and the embroidered screen reported closely: "Niangniang, dinner is ready." ”
Su Lian hummed lightly and said, "It's placed on the small square table of the second beauty couch." The four dishes and one soup she set can be let go anyway - if Eunuch Chu is really obedient to do the dishes.
Closing the history of the palace of the previous dynasty, Su Curtain couldn't help but sigh secretly, the concubines of the previous dynasty were really miserable enough, Su Curtain was seeing the Ming Xizong (Emperor of the Apocalypse) dynasty, the concubines were widely persecuted by Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, and even the queen Zhang was killed in a miscarriage, among the concubines, Concubine Zhang Yu starved to death in the cold palace - she was still pregnant when she died; Concubine Li Cheng was beaten into the cold palace and cut off from eating, but she was smarter than Concubine Zhang Yu, and she hid a lot of food between the palace walls, so she did not starve to death. I have to say, this carpenter emperor is really bad! - The little wife was starved to death, it's really strange through the ages!
Sighing, he got up and went to the next room, and when he saw that it was really four dishes and one soup, Su Lian couldn't help but smile.
Braised shark skin with green onions, shredded bamboo shoots with crab meat, cucumber with oil and pearl tofu, just two meat and two vegetarians; One soup is bird's nest chicken soup. The Chu eunuch was probably afraid that Su Lian would not eat enough of these, and also added two dried fruits (crystal gummies and peanut sticky), two dumplings (Changchun rolls and chrysanthemum bergamot crisp) and one porridge: Huiren rice porridge, a small square table was stuffed to the brim!
Alas, who told her to only say four dishes and one soup, but didn't say whether to eat dried fruits, dumplings, and porridge? Eunuch Chu is also painstaking!
On the Huiren rice porridge, Su Lian tasted all four dishes, the crab meat and double bamboo shoots are indeed delicious, especially the bamboo shoots that are as thin as a hair, the taste is really good! The second is that the chrysanthemum bergamot crisp is elegant in shape, fragrant and smooth, which is indeed very good. It seems that this Chu eunuch is indeed very good at cooking.
Although these four dishes and one soup, two dried fruits, two dumplings, and one porridge, Su Curtain generally did not move much, but overall he was very satisfied. beckoned Xiao Lingzi over, "Go and get two gold ingots and reward them to Chu Dakuan." ”
"Huh!" Xiao Lingzi was busy smiling, naturally there were great benefits for him.
After dinner, Mama Ye personally brought Chengze Yiqi soup up, Su Lian suddenly looked bitter, Mama Ye seemed to have learned wisely when she came in, and she would stare at her and drink the medicine before she stopped.
This Chengze Yiqi soup is the prescription prescribed by Liu Yuanju and the two imperial doctors before, and it is boiled and sent by the pharmacy once a day, and Fang Zi Su Curtain has seen it, and Shenma's Zelanzi is three coins, Mei Renhe is two coins, raspberry is two coins, Xinyi is one coin, Lao ginseng is one and a half dollars, and motherwort is one and a half dollars...... There are more than 20 kinds of medicines, as for the effective and ineffective, Su Lian doesn't know, the only thing she knows is that the taste can make people feel painful!
"You can't make pills for me!" Su Lian complained with a bitter face, although she doesn't like to take pills either, but it's better than medicinal juice!
Mama Ye gently put the Chengze Yiqi soup in front of Su Lian: "Niangniang drink it first, if you want to take pills, the slave Ming'er will send someone to tell the verdict of the Liu court." ”
Xiuping followed behind Mama Ye, put two plates of candied fruit next to the medicine bowl, and also persuaded: "Niangniang, drink it quickly, it's not good if the medicine is cold!" ”
Su Lian couldn't, so he had to pinch his nose and pour it down, Rao was like this, and he almost vomited out of his stomach, but fortunately, there was candied fruit pressing. If you vomit, it's not worth it, Mama Ye will definitely ask the pharmacy to boil another bowl!