Xie Weining pouted and pushed Lan Jing'an aside. Begin to roll up your sleeves and cook yourself. Lan Jing'an was very angry when he saw him squeezing himself aside: "If you want to do it yourself, there are so many stoves next to you, which one can't be used." Why are you trying to rob me? ”

Xie Weining said coldly: "At first glance, your posture doesn't look like you're going to be ready to eat, don't you order the kitchen again, or stay away and watch me." Today, I would like to take pity on you, and thank you for leading me to the kitchen and showing you the craftsmanship of the imperial kitchen. ”

Lan Jing'an didn't know what to say, she didn't expect Xie Weining, a favored prince, to be able to cook. She still honestly made a bowl of noodles for herself, and it was right to go back to rest as soon as possible after eating, after all, she must not be late for an appointment with the patrol army tomorrow.

Lan Jing'an tried to start a new stove, but Xie Weining made trouble from the side, just not letting her cook properly. Lan Jing'an was so angry that he gave up, and planned to find some leftover cold millet pickles in the kitchen to make do with it.

Unexpectedly, she was checking here, and soon there was a pungent aroma on the stove. She got up in surprise, it seemed that Xie Weining really knew how to cook. Xie Weining didn't care about her, and quickly boiled a pot of water with boiled noodles and thinly cut radish beef to bring out the cakes.

This way of cooking noodles seems to be unique to Xia Kingdom, and Lan Jing'an has never seen it. Xie Weining cooked the noodles and served two bowls. A bowl was stuffed to Lan Jing'an, and a bowl was held by himself.

Lan Jing'an tasted it suspiciously, and his brows immediately relaxed, the taste of this bowl of noodles was really very good, but it was not in vain Xie Weining boasted. Late at night in winter, it is very comfortable to have such a night of fragrant warm noodles falling on the stomach.

Xie Weining couldn't help but laugh proudly when he saw that she liked it. He hurriedly lowered his head and took a bite, but his teeth were bared by the hot noodle soup.

She looked at the appearance of this teenager who was close to her age being scalded by hot soup, and somehow, suddenly remembered Bai Qingchen. If the fourth brother was still alive, he would never let himself go hungry on such a night. Lan Jing'an's eyes suddenly turned red, and she quickly lowered her head and buried her head in the bowl again.

As the saying goes, eating people is soft-mouthed, and taking people is short-handed. Lan Jing'an ate the noodles made by Xie Weining, and it was not good to speak coldly to him anymore, but praised him kindly: "Your noodles are really good." Where did you learn it? ”

Xie Weining stopped raising his hand when he heard this, and then said in a low voice: "I learned it from the imperial chef." ”

Then his eyes fell into memories with some confusion: "Although the Xia Kingdom Palace has four meals a day, the small kitchens of each palace are responsible for the supper. When I was five years old, I was hungry for the water cake made by the imperial chef late at night, and I was clamoring to eat it. But no one in the palace of the mother concubine could do it, and the mother concubine had no choice but to ask someone to go to the imperial dining room to ask for it. ”

"Although a bowl of hot noodles was delivered, the queen caught the mistake of the mother and me on the second day on the grounds of violating the palace rules. Not only beat my mother, but also forced me to move out of my mother's bedroom. ”

"At that time, although I was young, I also knew what it meant to live in a separate palace, and I was afraid of it. The mother concubine cried and broke her liver and intestines, and despite the injuries on her body, she knelt in front of the queen, begging bitterly, hoping to keep me. But the queen looked at us coldly, and threatened the concubine that if she dared to make trouble again, she would never let her see me again. ”

"The mother concubine was in tears and hazy, and the people who looked at the queen in despair forcibly took me away. Since then, our mother and son have been separated, and it is extremely difficult to see each other again. Two years later, I lost my mother completely. The palace people said that the concubine missed me too much, so she died of depression. To this day, I don't know if it was the work of the queen. ”

"In any case, it was because I was greedy for this bowl of water cake that no one in the palace would make that my mother's life was buried."

"And since the day I lived in the palace, there have been more than one or two conspiracies and assassinations against me openly and secretly, if it weren't for Yin Quan by his side, the Nine Emperor Princes of the Xia Kingdom would have turned into a handful of loess now."

"At that time, all the people in the place where I lived were arranged by the queen. Fortunately, the imperial dining room is a royal land, and the queen's people have not dared to attack there. So from that time on, I began to go to the imperial dining room to learn to cook, and Yin Quan had to go to the imperial dining room to serve it himself. Otherwise, who knows which day, I will let the queen's people around me take a supper and poison it. ”

Lan Jing'an listened to Xie Weining talk about the secrets of the summer palace back then, and suddenly felt very sympathetic to him. She remembered that Xie Weining was only a few months away from herself. She grew up under the care of her parents and family, and she wanted wind and rain. And this deceitful and annoying guy didn't expect that behind the glamour, there was unimaginable sadness for ordinary people.

A five- or six-year-old child lives in fear of precariousness every day, and even has to learn to cook to save his life. It is estimated that at the same time, he is also full of deep thoughts and guilt for his mother. No wonder he has become this character now, even his own life is child's play, and has become a tool to threaten her.

Lan Jing'an couldn't help but sigh for him, and looked at him with a lot of pity in his eyes: "What about your father?" I heard that Emperor Xia likes you very much, so there's no reason to watch the queen treat you like this and ignore it? ”

Xie Weining showed a wry smile: "My father loves me very much, otherwise he wouldn't have given Yin Quan to me." But the queen is the younger sister of Prime Minister Fu Chang, if my father dares to openly confront the queen for me, I am afraid that it is possible for the prime minister to kill my father and directly let my eldest brother succeed to the throne. ”

Xie Weining took off the cloth that was blindfolded on his right eye, pointed to his amber eyes and continued: "Because of my eyes, the queen and the prime minister are still spreading around, saying that I am a demon, a scourge of the Xia Kingdom, and that I killed my mother. So, I was in the whole palace, and there was not a single friend. Except for my father and Yin Quan, everyone else avoided me like a snake and scorpion. ”

Xie Weining's voice paused, and his voice dropped significantly: "Sometimes, I even want to gouge out my eyes. ”

Lan Jing'an is not a hard-hearted person, she is now completely free of the previous indifference and hostility, but she feels a little sorry for this young man who has gone through ups and downs.

She said to Xie Weining seriously: "Your eyes are very special, but they are very good-looking. It means that you are a person who is treated differently by heaven, and you will be blessed. Don't be fooled by those who are against you. The more they isolate you, the more confident you have to be, and you must not take advantage of them. ”

Xie Weining looked at Lan Jing'an and looked at her eyes sincerely, now her eyes are full of her own shadows, and are there two different colors of her in her eyes? Xie Weining cautiously whispered, "If it were you, would you be willing to be friends with someone like me?" ”

Lan Jing'an was stunned, he didn't expect him to ask such a question. Regardless of their position, he is not a heinous bad person. The biggest evil thing he's ever done is that nasty love trick for himself, and other than that, she really can't say anything bad about him.

Lan Jing'an pondered and spoke: "To be friends is to talk about fate. ”

Hearing this, Xie Weining sighed softly. He stood quietly on the stove, and the light stretched the shadow of the lonely boy for a long time.

Lan Jing'an listened to Xie Weining's sigh, looked at his loneliness, and didn't know why, she suddenly had a feeling of being sorry for him, forcing her to look away from him with a weak heart. She would rather face the flamboyant and annoying him than see his current lonely and sentimental appearance.