"Niangniang, let's go back to the palace!" Chu Xue couldn't help but persuade: "Niangniang is a pregnant person, and the current situation is unfavorable, Niangniang can pretend to be sick and recuperate in the palace, and avoid this limelight." ”

Lin Yuan looked at her twice and sighed: "I am different from Wang Shurong. I am a person on the cusp of the storm, and even if I avoid trouble, many people will not do it. ”

Furthermore, if you hide everywhere like Wang Shurong, you may get a peaceful result, but more, you won't get it.

In this palace, if you don't fight, there is really nothing. There are risks in fighting, but Lin Yuan is the kind of person who likes to work hard.

Lin Yuan thought about it for a long time, and finally ordered: "Let's go, let's go to the small kitchen to cook lotus leaf porridge." ”

It was still last year, Lin Yuan and Chu Xue came up with a meal called lotus leaf porridge, and the emperor praised it after eating it. At that time, Lin Yuan was just an ordinary concubine, and she was like a plaything in Tuoba Hong's heart, and she also gained a lot of benefits because of such a dedicated favor. Later, the concubines rushed to follow suit, and there were more people cooking porridge, but the emperor was tired and disliked.

After a year, there are already early-blooming lotus flowers in the blue wave pool, and then cook lotus leaf porridge, Tuoba Hong will most likely like it.

And listening to what Decai said, the emperor has not passed on lunch this day, so he must be in a very bad mood and can't eat the meals of the past.

Lin Yuan was inconvenient, but he still washed his kitchen, washed the rice water himself, and chopped the finely chopped green onions and fish foam. There is an imperial kitchen rewarded by the emperor in the Scarlet Smoke Building, but Lin Yuan has always done it himself to send things to the emperor. The emperor who owns the world will not take any food in his eyes, but the slightly flawed meals made by the concubine will make him feel fresh and interesting.

"In the summer, the emperor is upset, add more mung beans." A few cooks were naturally much better than Lin Yuan's skills, but Lin Yuan didn't allow them to interfere, so they had to make some suggestions on the side. Lin Yuan looked at the rice grains in his hand and asked, "How about grinding mung beans into powder?" I don't like to eat mung bean rice on weekdays, because it is harder than barley. ”

Several cooks looked at each other, and they all knew that mung bean flour and rice would not taste very good when mixed together...... But seeing that Lin Yuan was full of interest, he didn't dare to object.

The lotus leaf porridge was time-consuming and laborious, and when Lin Yuan and Chu Xue were busy cooking a small pot for half a day, they hurriedly served it in a thick porcelain pot and put it in a mahogany food box padded with cotton wool to prepare for the emperor. Chu Xue frowned slightly and said: "After the emperor lost his temper with the He family, the palace people didn't dare to go to the vicinity of Jianzhang Palace, didn't Niangniang also say that she couldn't easily inquire about the emperor's news, did she really have to send it over?" ”

"Naturally, I want to send it." Lin Yuan insisted: "It's just that you can't go directly to see the emperor." After thinking about it again, he said: "The emperor doesn't pass on lunch, and the people in the food bureau don't dare to send food rashly, but they are afraid that the emperor will be hungry, so they must be worried." At the beginning of the snow, you will send the lotus leaf porridge to the Shangshi Bureau and prepare a meal for the emperor in my name. The people of the Shangshi Bureau are just afraid that the meal will not meet the emperor's appetite and be criticized again, since we prepared it for them to send it up, in the end, even if the emperor does not like it, the responsibility will not fall on their heads. ”

Lin Yuan said with a more and more affirmative expression: "Yes, just do it!" The people at the Shang Food Bureau have no way to ask for help, and they will definitely help us present our things! ”

Chu Xue got the order, didn't say much, and went out with the food box. Lin Yuan asked Xiao Chengzi: "Is there anyone else who sends meals to the emperor today?" ”

In the past, when the emperor had a bad appetite, most of the people in the harem were moved by the wind and took the opportunity to compete for favor. But today...... Xiao Chengzi thought for a while and said, "Not really!" Ren Guiren was degraded a few hours ago, and even the three levels of demotion frightened the concubines. Everyone is afraid that if the emperor is disturbed again, he will end up like Ren's, where do they dare to go to Jianzhang Palace. ”

"That's good." Lin Yuan listened and nodded: "If we are all like me, we will do useless work, and in the eyes of the emperor, we will be the same as those who deliberately compete for favor." ”

said and laughed at himself: "After all, I'm not deliberately competing for favor......"

Xiao Chengzi was slightly puzzled when he heard this, and said with a flattering smile: "Niangniang, you are a figure who favors the sixth palace, and you are pregnant, and the emperor is not enough to hold you every day...... Where does this favor still need to be "fought for"? ”

Lin Yuan glanced at him, and snorted softly for a while: "You think simply!" Do you think that if I have the ability to save the driver, I will be able to sit back and relax in this life? There are many people in the palace, such as Concubine Jing, who passed out for five years in order to give birth to a child for the emperor, how much the emperor pities and loves her...... I feel that I have a place in the emperor's heart, but the people next to me may not be worse than me. Even if Empress Xiao, her credit to the emperor is much greater than mine, and she was in love with the emperor when she was young, and she was also favored. But what now......"

said with a slight sigh: "Serving the emperor, I never dare to take it lightly." ”

Lin Yuan sent the things here, and the steward of the Shangshi Bureau was an old internal supervisor in his fifties, and when he saw the food box of Concubine Hui, the whole person came back to life. He has been in the palace for more than 30 years, and he has the same qualifications as Yao Fusheng, but he is a bit of wood and does not have much dexterity, so he can only be the manager in a place like Shangshi Bureau, which has no oil and water.

However, this Shangshi Lord has a little benefit, that is, loyalty is the mainstay, being a man and doing his duty, and serving the emperor very carefully. He personally led the two aunts under his hand, carrying the food box and a few decent imperial meals to the Jianzhang Palace.

The emperor in Jianzhang Palace was really still depressed, and when he heard that it was someone from the Shangshi Bureau, he waved his hand and only said one sentence: "Let them retreat." Shang Shi was careful, nodded and handed the things to Yao Fusheng, and begged: "Lord Yao quietly send the emperor into the house, the emperor doesn't need to eat, and the people we serve can't watch it." These dishes are just ordinary imperial meals, but the hot porridge in this food box is the craftsmanship of Hui Concubine Niangniang, presumably the emperor will like it. ”

Yao Fusheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he watched the emperor stuffy himself and not eat, and his heart was even more anxious than Shang Shi Bureau. In the end, this concubine has the most temper with the emperor, and the emperor was displeased in the past, and she can be appeased. Yao Fusheng immediately took the thing with both hands, and said happily: "Why don't you give the emperor a gift directly!" With the signboard of Hui Concubine Niangniang, are you afraid that you won't be able to send things in? ”

Shangshi's internal supervisor is a responsible person, and this time he not only thinks about himself, but also remembers the entrustment of the concubine. He hurriedly said: "This must not be! Hui Concubine Niangniang explained to the slave that she should send it in the name of the Shangshi Bureau, and she could not mention Hui Concubine Niangniang...... And said that as long as it is quietly placed on the emperor's book, if the emperor refuses to use it, it means that this porridge is not in line with the emperor's wishes, so come back and redo it, instead of persuading the emperor to use it. ”

Yao Fusheng listened and thought secretly, and then smiled: "What you said is true! Or do I want to be left. This meal is not appetizing, that is, our subordinates are not, persuade the emperor to eat, it is better to go back and make it more elaborate so that the emperor likes it. ”

But I understand a little in my heart, this concubine is a hundred times more shrewd than them, knowing that this time the emperor's anger is not simple, and he didn't dare to rashly come up and touch his head, so he used the name of Shangshi Bureau. When the time comes, the emperor will eat well, and the Hui Concubine and the Monk Food Bureau will all have merit. It's not good to dislike it, and I won't feel that Concubine Hui will take the opportunity to compete for favor and blame her.

Yao Fusheng didn't dare to delay while speaking, and carried things with a few aunts, and tiptoed into the emperor's study. Tuoba Hong was busy in the study, and Yao Fusheng and several of his henchmen were kicked out by him, but he also had to come in from time to time to add tea and pour water, grind ink and lay paper, and when they came in, they did not attract Tuoba Hong's attention.

Yao Fusheng quietly put down the things, and went down without daring to say a word.

Tuoba Hong was still looking at the excerpt, and the cover was printed with the report of the Criminal Department, and there was an inch-thick scroll pressed under the fold. He looked at it for a long time, and when he reached for the cup with a dry mouth, he looked up and finally saw the extra food box not far away.

It wasn't far away, and he could reach it as soon as he reached it. I didn't think about eating, but I just opened it to see what it was, but when I opened the lid, the refreshing and delicious aroma of lotus leaf porridge mixed with fish and meat overflowed.

Lotus leaf porridge is not a little better than black chicken porridge and bird's nest porridge, but it is better because of its strong aroma and fresh and delicious taste in summer.

Tuoba Hiroshi didn't have lunch, and when he smelled the aroma, he instinctively felt hungry. He took the bowl and scooped a large spoonful into his mouth, immediately furrowing his brow in great satisfaction. The taste of this porridge is different from what you eat on a vegetarian day, but there is a different kind of familiarity, when have you eaten it......

But now Tuoba Hong didn't have the heart to think about porridge at all, he stood up and ate several big mouthfuls with a bowl, padd his stomach indiscriminately, and raised his voice to say to the outside: "Someone!" Swing the Changxin Palace. ”

***

The emperor actually went to Changxin Palace.

Concubine Jing and Zhao Shuyuan were shocked. The charges of the one in the Changxin Palace have not yet been clarified, and the emperor refused to take a step forward in disgust for several months, and moved Ye Guiji out. Why did you have a whim to go to Changxin Palace today?

Fang Cairen didn't have much wisdom, he only knew how to blindly flatter Concubine Jing, and when there was no one in private, he snickered and said: "The entanglement between Changle Palace and Changxin Palace, the Criminal Department has investigated it for a long time, and there should be a result." Maybe, if the emperor goes this way, that one will be abolished! ”

Concubine Jing was born noble, had a long history, and won the emperor's heart. If Empress Xiao is deposed, who else can she be the successor? As soon as Fang Cairen thought of this, his whole heart and liver rejoiced, if Concubine Jing was really a phoenix, she could also follow Feihuang Tengda, right?

Although she is not smart, she has a little advantage that she is self-aware, knowing that it is impossible for her to be favored and powerful by herself, and she can only hug a reliable thigh.

She felt that the price of all these years of silence was worth it.

Concubine Jing smiled and said to her gently, "Don't think about this, this is not something we can talk about casually." The Shanggong Bureau has newly divided Su Xiu, you go to my small warehouse and pick some good ones and take them back. ”