Chapter 181: It's not pleasing to the eye
"Why does the palace maid in the dining room consult medical books?" Han Baiyi stood with his head bowed and stood in the distance, his tone was soft, and he did not reproach her. Vertex x 23 u s
"The queen mother ordered the palace bureau to prepare a new product to relieve the heat, and the slave maid wanted to consult the medical book to find out."
"It's rare to meet such a studious woman, are you literate?"
"I know some, why did the Prime Minister come to Wenyuan Pavilion too?"
Before Han Baiyi could speak, there was a hurried footstep on the side: "Prime Minister, the slave just went to sort out the classics, and I didn't see you." ”
Han Baiyi turned to look at him: "Which classic book is Gonggong Tao collating?" ”
"Diagram of the fortifications in the northwest corner."
"The official is just going to check, it has been raining in the south recently, and the emperor is worried that there will be floods, so let the official look at the engineering drawings of water conservancy."
"Your Excellency, please."
Father-in-law Tao gave Mu Jiaren a look and motioned for her to find a chance to leave.
Mu Jiaren sorted out all the books, and the time was not early, she got up and was about to sneak away, when Han Baiyi suddenly turned around.
"There is still a second volume of the herb biography you read, but in the Tai Hospital, if you need to, you can talk to Gonggong Tao."
"Thank you, Prime Minister."
Gonggong Tao asked puzzledly: "My lord, she is a palace maid, and she may not be able to understand it, why are you telling her this?" ”
"It's good to be studious."
He suddenly remembered Mu Jiaren, Han Yunqian said that she entered the palace to stay with the Queen Mother, I don't know how it is now, with her temperament, can she really adapt to this palace?
After dinner, we returned to the dining room to rest, and everyone was still discussing the dishes to be made.
"Xia Zhu, you have the most ideas on weekdays, what are you going to do?" The palace maid Xiaokui asked.
"Today, I saw that the menu she handed over was planning sour plum soup, which seems to be very ordinary."
"I just entered the palace and don't understand many rules, so it's not suitable to go to the summer resort." Mu Jiaren explained.
"What, you're saying you're going to lose to us on purpose?" Linglong was dissatisfied when she heard this.
"I didn't mean that." She just expressed that she was not interested in going to the summer resort and would not compete with everyone for this place, but the speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and Linglong habitually misunderstood her from the beginning, so she didn't want to explain.
Bai Shao saw that the tone of the two was not good, so she diverted the topic.
"In two days, it will be the day of the sky lantern, and I went to the Internal Affairs Office to get the colored paper and bamboo strips from the dining room, and I can do it when I have time."
Everyone's attention was drawn again, and they went to the table to choose the material for the sky lantern.
Seeing that she didn't understand, Bai Shao sat down beside her and explained: "The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace may never leave the palace for the rest of their lives, so every year in the palace, May 21 is the day when the sky lantern is released, and everyone writes their thoughts about their family members on the sky lantern, praying that God will bless them with health and safety." ”
Mu Jiaren nodded after hearing this, it turned out that it was to alleviate everyone's homesickness, and this festival was very good.
Tao Ran took two copies of the materials and handed one to Mu Jiaren.
"At that time, the queen will invite the Zen master to come over and chant and pray for blessings, which is a major event for the palace people."
"Yes, it's very effective, several palace maids prayed for their parents to be healthy, and then they received a letter from home saying that they were cured." Shiso believed in this very much.
Xiao Kui also came over: "The most spiritual thing is that Xiao Yingzi that time, their house was less fired, it can be said that they were poor, when he put the sky lantern, he was very sincere, and he didn't know where to ask, he went to the North Bamboo Forest to pray, but within a few days, the family said that a jar of silver ingots was dug up in the yard, which was left by the ancestors. ”
"Yes, yes, I've heard that, too."
Everyone was interested, Mu Jiaren was not so sure, but he hadn't visited his parents since he went down the mountain, and this time he used the sky lantern to pray that they could live well.
On the second day, Mu Jiaren used the leftover ingredients to make some snacks and gave them to Grandpa Tao as the cost of reading the book for himself.
Grandpa Tao looked at it as a dim sum, and he had no money, so his face was not good-looking.
"No, no, no, you came in yesterday, Prime Minister Han Cheng saw it, and thought I let you go privately."
"Father-in-law Tao, these dim sum may not be eaten by the general manager, I am a little palace maid, how can I have so much money, you can be accommodating, the prime minister didn't blame me yesterday, maybe he agreed?"
"Agreed? Who is the prime minister, how can he worry about you as a little palace maid, you say that you read books, you may not be able to understand it, to be honest, what are you coming to Wenyuan Pavilion for? ”
"It's really reading, everyone knows what the dim sum in the dining room is, I want to stay for a long time, naturally I have my own ability, medicinal food is very popular, and the perilla soup drink in the last palace has been approved by the emperor."
Grandpa Tao nodded, there is indeed such a thing, he glanced at the snack box, and it was quite exquisite.
"Okay, you hurry up today, don't watch it so late again."
"Yes!"
Mu Jiaren put down the food box and immediately ran to read the book, and Gonggong Tao shouted in the back: "You slow down, don't hit the cabinet." ”
Mu Jiaren turned around and thanked: "Thank you father-in-law for your concern." ”
"Who cares about you, these cabinets are broken, you can't afford to pay for them!"
Father-in-law Tao stomped his feet again and again in a hurry, and his face had more folds, looking very funny.
Mu Jiaren held back a smile and nodded: "Yes." ”
This time, she looked for a few more bookcases and saw a book about the regional distribution of medicinal herbs, so she took it down and started to read it.
After a while, I heard the voice of Gonggong Tao outside.
"Your Excellency! Why are you here so early today? Do you want to consult the classics again? The minions show you the way. ”
Mu Jiaren immediately began to clean up, thinking about where it would be better to hide.
Han Baiyi didn't recognize her last time, it doesn't mean that she won't this time, the Queen Mother said that her identity can't be exposed.
"Gonggong Tao, this official's ears are not deaf, your voice doesn't need to be so loud, and I know the collection of books in Wenyuan Pavilion very well, so I won't trouble you to lead the way."
"Prime Minister, the minions will help you find it, you are here...... Oops! My lord! My lord! ”
Han Baiyi didn't care about Grandpa Tao's words, just walked straight to the southeast corner, he thought about it all night yesterday, and always felt that he should not be mistaken, although he couldn't recognize his appearance, but it was difficult to change a person's behavior and habits, the palace maid named Xia Zhu should be Mu Jiaren who entered the palace, but she was obviously by the side of the Queen Mother, how could she become the palace maid in the dining room?
Han Baiyi, who was full of questions in his heart, couldn't help but speed up his pace, and Gonggong Tao chased after him: "My lord, slow down." ”
"Father-in-law doesn't have to worry about the cabinet, the official will pay attention when he walks."
"Slaves care about adults, not cabinets."
Mu Jiaren pursed her lips, sure enough, it was a powerful court, and Han Baiyi was more expensive than her.
Looking around, he saw that there was a three-fist-wide gap in the row of bookshelves next to him against the wall, so he took a deep breath and squeezed through the gap in one side of the bookshelf and walked behind the other row of bookshelves.