Chapter 123: Candlelight Dinner
It's been a few days since he entered the palace, and Li Yan thought that it was time to go to Cining Palace to ask for peace, after all, all kinds of concubines of this queen and concubine have been canonized, except for the one who has just been canonized, and has not been there yet.
It's just that if you go by yourself, it's not like it, there is a queen above, it's not good to overrun, she doesn't want to really be an arrogant and domineering concubine.
Maybe the queen heard Li Yan's heart, and at this time she began to go to various palaces to post, saying that she was going to Cining Palace to meet the queen mother.
You must know that although Li Yan and they can see the Queen Mother during the canonization ceremony, the concubines below the noble person cannot go to see the Queen Mother, so this is the right thing to visit.
In Cining Palace, everyone knelt down together, the Queen Mother looked at it, the queen was wearing an autumn-colored cheongsam, embroidered with dark peonies, and a complete set of jewelry such as silver gilt inlaid agate hairpins on her head.
Li Yan was wearing a blue cheongsam, only embroidered with broken flowers on the hem and cuffs, and wearing a set of silver-inlaid sapphire jewelry on his head, which looked very delicate, not like a thing from the Internal Affairs Office, and the Queen Mother didn't look at it much, after all, at such an old age, she hadn't seen anything.
The Queen Mother sat on it, just like she didn't see the concubine kneeling down in an indecent posture.
The filial piety period is the filial piety period, and it is really called the emperor not to touch the concubine for three years? That's not suffocating people, as long as you don't mess with the rules, you'll be fine.
But the Queen Mother also thinks about it, the fourth child has always felt sorry for his concubine, why does he ignore it at this juncture?
Da Li is wearing a lotus-colored cheongsam, embroidered with peony on the dark thread, and wearing gold inlaid with Dongzhu jewelry on his head, which looks very luxurious, but it is a little more graceful than the queen. The Queen Mother was a little unhappy in her heart, is it okay to dress up like this now in the filial piety period? No wonder the fourth child didn't even give you a title.
Concubine Song wore a tooth-white cheongsam and simple gold jewelry, which looked like the Internal Affairs Mansion.
Xi Concubine Niu Hulu was wearing a moon-white cheongsam, and she was also wearing gold jewelry, but she looked better than Concubine Ke's, delicate and delicate, in the end, she had her own child, and she was born in a Manchurian family.
The House of Internal Affairs is the best at watching people cook, and the concubine has not been favored for many years, so she naturally doesn't take her seriously.
Li Yan also secretly looked at the Queen Mother, looking thinner than before, and her spirit was still good.
The queen mother just said a few words of precepts, after all, she can't be the kind of disgusting queen mother, and the emperor still has the final say in this palace.
gave the queen a jade ornament, gave Li Yan a golden step shake, gave Concubine Li a gold collar, said it was for Da Gege, gave the remaining concubines a pair of gold bracelets, the nobles were a pair of silver bracelets, and the rest was a silver bracelet.
Then they each went back to their palaces, waiting for all the concubines to leave, and Mama Xie came over to look at the Queen Mother and said, "Why don't you say a few words to warn the newcomers?" ”
The Queen Mother shook her head: "They have their own set of ways to get along, the intrigue in the harem of the first emperor has seen a lot, and now the queen is not a person who can make big waves, and the concubine also abides by the rules, and it is not impossible to be favored all the time." ”
What the Queen Mother didn't say was that now that the fourth master spoils Li Yan, and there are four sons by his side, he can't wronged her no matter what.
Waiting for them all to go back, Li Yan didn't go to Qianqing Palace this time, but went to his own Yuhua Palace.
Now Li Yan is a concubine, it stands to reason that there are eight big girls, and the previous jade characters have been raised, and the Internal Affairs Office has sent two more, one is called Yulan, and the other is called Yuhe, all of them are flowers, this is the first batch of big girls.
Don't underestimate this name, even if it is a big girl in the future, it can no longer be named with flowers, this is the difference from the first batch, and Ah Ling and Ah Qiao are different, this is the big palace maid of Yuhua Palace, and you have to call a girl when you go out.
And the new second-class maids, some of them were picked by the fourth master and sent by the Li family, but they didn't want to be sent by the Internal Affairs Office, after all, the second-class maids do miscellaneous things, and some things can't be spread around.
They are all bamboo characters, and Li Yan chose a sentence from the poem to give them a name: "In the future, you will be called Bamboo Smoke, Bamboo Cage, Bamboo Han, Bamboo Water, Bamboo Moon, Bamboo Sand, Bamboo Field, Bamboo Vine, Bamboo Grass, Bamboo Zero, Bamboo Dew, Bamboo Xi, Bamboo Qing, Bamboo Yang, and Bamboo Wan." ”
There are a total of sixteen second-class maids, and the name also made Li Yan sad, so he found a poetry book that is more suitable for girls, taken from "Wild Vines", but I didn't say this to them, and it was useless to say it.
There were also many third-class maids and rough maids, so they gave some names at random, and then began to lecture.
"Our rules here are the same as in the house. You are faithful, and I have never been harsh. Li Yan looked at the newcomers slowly. For the elderly, Li Yan is still relieved. "Everything is according to the rules of the palace, and I am adding one more to you now. That is, if outsiders easily inquire about the news of Yuhua Palace, you will all be punished. But you have to be deaf and clear-sighted, understand? ”
"The slave understands." "Minions understand." Everyone is full of confidence, at least the old people are very confident. In the mansion for so many years, it's not easy to inquire about the news of Yuhua Pavilion. Now, the nine new people in this Yuhua Palace are all personally selected by the master of Long Live Lord, even if there are other people, they can't hide it from Long Live Lord, but they can't hide it from this group of old people. These people want to be up close? Stay up.
Inquiring about things elsewhere naturally belonged to He Chunting. He also has faith. He understands very well what effect the master wants. If his own master is favored, he can't intrigue with the harem woman, but sometimes he has to know what others do. It's not harmful, news, nowhere else is there as tight as the fence of Yuhua Palace!
After the people of Yuhua Palace knocked it out, Li Yan went back to Qianqing Palace and waited for the fourth master to have dinner, this day, tired is not tired, but he is a little tired.
So while the fourth master hadn't come yet, he wrote a list and sent it to the imperial dining room, which on the surface looked like some vegetarian dishes, but they were also Li Yan's favorite vegetarian dishes.
There are mixed jellyfish, fried rape, colorful stewed vegetables, and all kinds of vegetarian dishes, there is really no meat at all, and then when he sat at the table and waited for the fourth master, Li Yan suddenly thought about what to eat tomorrow night.
Waiting for the fourth master to come back in the evening, looking at this big table of vegetarian dishes, although they are vegetarian, they are delicious, and they can even taste some meat, so they ate a lot.
The stomach was bulging, and Li Yan touched the fourth master's belly in disgust: "Master, you should also lose weight, look at this little belly." The fourth master looked at Li Yan with real disgust, and felt that he had received 10,000 critical hits.
sneered: "Okay, this is the sport." So he pulled Li Yan and began to exercise.
Li Lu: ...... This weight loss pose is good, really good!
Got up in the morning, Li Yan still felt quite bored, so he planned to embroider some tricks, although Li Yan's embroidery work is very unsatisfactory, but after so many years, I can see it, even if I can't see it, the fourth master is afraid that he will not dislike it.
As for those complicated ones, there are naturally palace maids at the bottom to help sew, and as for the silk embroidery workshop, they generally deliberately sew fine clothes, or the clothes of the masters of the Eight Classics.
As for the masters below the nobles who are not favored, then they have to embroider themselves. As for whether it will embroider, it doesn't matter, but the palace maids around me will definitely embroider.
After all, you have to learn these skills when choosing a palace maid, otherwise what are you doing when you enter the palace, that is, to serve people, wait until you are old and then leave the palace, or some people with face can continue to stay in the palace and be an aunt or grandmother.
This aunt and grandma are also particular, the aunt is not married, and the grandma is married.
As for the election of this palace maid, it is called a small election, and they are all famous and surnamed people, most of them are full, and they are specially serving people.
For example, the Qing Palace TV series that Li Yan watched before, there is a Hitara clan in it, this Hitara clan is not a small clan, the queen of Jiaqing, and the Fujin of the fifteenth elder brother of Hongli are all Hitara clans.
However, it is also true that the Hitara clan has not yet begun to make a fortune at this time.
As the TV series says, after losing the draft, she became a palace maid, and it was all. The Qing Dynasty show girl draft was called the general election, which was dedicated to enriching the harem and selecting women for the princes and clans.
A palace maid can become a concubine, but the person who is elected is also a concubine at the very least, Gege, and she will never be a palace maid who serves people. Therefore, it's okay if the show girl in the general election can't sew, at most she is not good with the female celebrity, and the palace maid in the small election can't sewn, so she doesn't even have basic survival skills.
The unfavored concubines, when the needlework snubbed them, it all relied on the help of the palace maids.
is favored, such as Li Yan, sometimes I like Ah Ling, especially the small objects made by Yulan, belts, sachets, handkerchiefs and so on.
It is really delicate and delicate, and the embroidery girls of those silk embroidery workshops are even more beautiful.
However, Li Yan and other laypeople can't say any words of praise, and her eyes are now full of candlelight dinner prepared for the fourth master tonight.
Li Yan specially bought a few steaks on Taobao, took them to the small kitchen and fried them, and then made caviar and foie gras, which are the first dishes.
The second dish was to drink soup, Li Yan was afraid that the fourth master would not be used to drinking it, so he made seafood soup and oxtail consommé.
Next is the side dish, the third course, a soft-boiled omelette, the main dish is steak, I chose several flavors, but it is directly bought ready-made, so it doesn't have to be so troublesome, but the soup still has to be poured soup.
Prepare the black pepper sauce, the thick roasted onion juice.
The rest is a side dish and dessert, the side dishes are lettuce, tomato, cucumber, aloe vera, and the dessert is pudding and grapes.
The last thing to drink was coffee and tea, the coffee that Li Yan prepared for himself, and the tea he prepared for the fourth master.
A bottle of red wine was also prepared.
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