Chapter Twenty-Three: A Chance Encounter in a Restaurant

Zhao Lin said, and stretched out his hand to touch Hexuan's face.

He Xuan didn't want to put up with this swinger for a long time, not to mention that he ruined her good deeds last time.

So she didn't think about it, and a slap was slammed on Qi Hou's left cheek, and she scolded angrily: "Presumptuous! ”

Zhao Lin was a little blindsided, stopped his hand, and touched his slightly red and swollen cheeks. How dare this stupid woman hit him?

"Gongzi Lin, Shangsi Festival, presumably Gongzi Lin will see many confidantes, right? We will not send it far. He Xuan pointed to the door of the private room and said coldly.

Zhao Lin was already stunned by He Xuan, stayed in place, and finally threw down a sentence: "Don't go against Zhao Hou." Then he turned and walked away quickly.

At this time, He Xuan was a little confused, what did Zhao Lin mean by saying this to her? He was specially sent by Empress Zhao to demonstrate? Empress Zhao asked him to find a chance to warn himself?

In the previous life, she only knew that Zhao Lin was a handsome gentleman, but she had no contact with him in private and knew nothing about this person.

In this life, several meetings with Zhao Lin were in this strange way, this person really made her unpredictable, and she had to hope for her cousin Cai Wenxuan, hoping that he could find out something as soon as possible.

A man came into the house with a squirrel fish, a braised lion's head, and a chicken stewed with mushrooms.

Then Qi Hou also came back, he explained: "I just spent a long time downstairs looking for the second little man of the shop, he told me that today is full, and the food is a little slow, please take care of it." ”

"Don't worry, let's taste these dishes first." He Xuan saw Qi Hou's dusty appearance, and said very patiently.

He Xuan took a bite of the chicken stewed mushrooms, she liked this dish very much, so she chewed the mountain delicacy carefully.

"The dish is really well cooked, the chicken is tender and has a light aroma, and even the bones are soft. This mushroom seems to taste like it is freshly picked in the mountains. He Xuan nodded in praise.

Qi Hou carefully looked at He Xuan's serious appearance, and said: "That's true, this mushroom is a wild hazel mushroom picked from Changbai Mountain. The chicks are fed with high-quality polished rice, which is marinated a few days in advance, so that the bones are not so hard. However, the pickling technique is very particular, and if the technique is not appropriate, it will be difficult to retain the freshness of the meat. ”

Qing'er kept swallowing in her mouth, and said when she was picking up the dishes: "The princess and the princess are really amazing, and this dish can still be eaten in so many ways." I just thought it was so delicious that I couldn't stop eating it, but I couldn't tell where it was delicious. ”

He Xuan smiled and said, "Qing'er, this girl is so straightforward." But Qing'er, you eat slowly, there will be a lot of dishes in a while. Now that you're full, and if there's something better, you won't be able to eat anymore! ”

Qing'er woke up and immediately stopped her chopsticks, thinking about whether to wait for the more delicious ones in the back.

He Xuan said to Qi Hou: "Brother Qi Hou has been here?" How do you know so much about the ingredients and how the dishes are made? ”

Before Qi Hou could answer, Da Ping swallowed the food in his mouth and hurriedly said: "Second princess, our son-in-law came here a few months ago to taste the food, and called the chef to ask carefully!" ”

He Xuan's heart trembled, it turned out that Qi treated her so attentively, and he actually started preparing for today's day a few months ago. But she is a twenty-five-year-old person who came back from the dead, she was married in the previous life, and she doesn't know how long she will live in this life.

What's more, she always felt that although she had an unconscious closeness to Qi Hou, it was an emotion similar to that of her brother and sister, rather than the feeling of desperate love.

But in the last life, she treated Mi Xian wholeheartedly, but what happened to her?

As a result, she was also in a trance. Should she respond to Qi Hou's delicate feelings? She didn't know.

So she pretended that the child didn't understand, and just smiled and glanced at Daping, who was only concerned about eating.

Soon after, more than a dozen dishes came, including canned stewed three treasures, roasted skirt with garlic seeds, Buddha jumping over the wall, soft-shelled turtle soup, jar meat, braised prawns in oil, seafood tofu pot, bamboo shoots roasted beef, steamed fish, and so on.

Speaking of this Buddha jumping over the wall, the selection of abalone, shark fin, ginseng, fish maw, dried scallops, oyster mushrooms, pigeon eggs, skirts, and so on. Not only are the ingredients top-notch, but the thick soup used in this dish is carefully boiled by the master chef for three days and three nights. As soon as the lid was lifted, the smell wafted through the room.

He Xuan secretly said in his heart, this restaurant is as luxurious as the palace, no wonder he can meet a child of a family like Zhao Lin. Yes, except for the gate valve nobles and wealthy merchants, where are ordinary people so poor and luxurious?

Qing'er gobbled it up and praised the taste of these dishes for being so appropriate, and the ingredients were so fresh, which was comparable to the imperial dining room.

He Xuan looked at her like that, and said: "The little girl doesn't pay attention to her appearance when she eats, so that others will see it and think that I often don't give you food!" ”

Qi Hou and Da Ping couldn't help but laugh out loud on the side. Qing'er wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and chewed slowly as if she were wooden.

After lunch, Hexuan was ready to let Qing'er pay the bill. Qi Houyi stopped her and said, "I'll come." ”

He Xuan raised his head and said gently: "Brother Qi Hou, I lost the game, I am willing to gamble and lose, and I should come to treat you." ”

Qi Hou looked at He Xuan gently, touched her head, and said, "Then where is the competition, Sister He Xuan doesn't have to be serious." There isn't much money for this meal, so it's good to like it with Sister Xuan. I'm a seven-foot man, where can a girl pay for me? ”

At this point, He Xuan had no choice but to nod obediently. It's just that the meal must be worth a lot of money. Although He Xuan doesn't often come to the people, this cooking skill, this ingredient, I'm afraid it's an ordinary person's annual expenses.

Full of wine and food, and Xuan followed Qi Hou to walk around Suzaku Street. First, you can feel the atmosphere of the folk, and secondly, you can also consume food.

He Xuan and Qing'er held this clay figure in their hands and shuttled through the lively street. On both sides of the street, there are all kinds of vendors, some selling silk and satin, some selling jewelry, some selling antique jade, and many small stalls selling snacks.

About the time of Shen, the group got into the carriage and set off for the palace.

He Xuan has a feeling that he is really back at the age of twelve, and this day is not enjoyable to play in the folk. She thought in her heart that she would have to find a way to sneak out of the palace more in the future.

Since Concubine Lian entered the cold palace because of poisoning, the only new favorite by the emperor's side has also been moved down by Empress Zhao, and no new people have been added to the palace.

Concubine Lian was favored before, but she was only born as a musician, and she intended to poison and murder the six princes, and the emperor didn't care about her fate now. This is probably the so-called pet but not love.

Speaking of which, in addition to the emperor's routine stay in the palace of Empress Zhao and the three ladies, the most frequent visit is Xu Jieyu's palace. Xu Jieyu is a very gentle and considerate woman. The emperor has a lot of opportunities, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of boring things, and Xu Jieyu can always make him feel relieved and relieved.

The peace and loneliness of the past have returned to the sixth house. Spring is a season of rejuvenation.

Enjoying the beautiful scenery for a few days, Shangsi Festival went out of the palace to play again, and Xuan came back with a minor illness and rested in bed for a few days.

Qi Hou felt quite guilty, he always felt that it was because he didn't take care of him that he made this delicate princess of the Great Tuesday sick. Therefore, not only did he send a lot of supplements, but also attached some jewelry and jade pieces to show his gratitude.

The emperor came to visit Hexuan, and lovingly told her to rest well, and there was no need to rush the homework that had fallen, and it was important to take care of her body.

Because He Xuan was sick, Empress Zhao said that he was afraid that he would be too sick to the emperor, so He Xuan and Mrs. Cai only dared to let the emperor visit once.

When He Xuan was sick, he had nightmares for several days in a row, recalling many things in his previous life, some of which really happened, and some of which he imagined.

Her spirit had become a little bad because of this, but her mind was still clear.

She thought that she died tragically because of strychnine in her previous life, Concubine Lian died because of cinnabar in this life, and the six princes were almost poisoned to death, so she really had to be more vigilant.

If you want to know some news in this harem, you have to have a few more eyeliners, so that you have enough money. Although she is a princess and eats and wears the best, there is no way to have enough money to spend, so she asks the Internal Affairs Office for money.

However, fortunately, in the previous life, she was a queen, and she was quite experienced in managing the silver of the harem and counting the inventory. She was going to wait for her illness to recover, so she would find a few palace people to take a good inventory of her small warehouse. Then think of a way to make money and earn more money, so that you won't make yourself the first bankrupt princess in the world in order to make some people.

Not only that, but she always felt that she needed to find a doctor to be a teacher and teach her some basic pharmacological knowledge, so that she would not be kept in the dark by someone who had been given chronic poison and didn't even know how to die.

With so many things to do, He Xuan felt a little lacking. I can't imagine being reborn in a life, but living a thousand times more hard work than the previous life. It's just that her body is still so unstrained, she gets sick at every turn, and she has to rest for so many days at once.

The only benefit that this disease brought to her was that she no longer had to see Tianwei's face. Every time she saw Tianwei, she remembered the day before she died, the terrifying appearance of the twenty-one-year-old Tianwei.

She listened to the gossip of the palace people in private, saying that Tianwei had been going to Xu Jieyu's Ningxian Palace for a long time, and she and Princess Wenying were really a pair of sisters with deep love. In fact, He Xuan couldn't be clearer in his heart, Tianwei's name is to visit Princess Wenying, in fact, it should be to find her brother Mixian.

For some reason, He Xuan always felt faintly uneasy in his heart, as if he had something to do, but he didn't know what it was.