The Empress Dowager sighed helplessly, sat back on the Taishi's chair tiredly, stroked her forehead and ordered: "Go to the Ministry of Rites to announce Lin Hongzhi into the palace!" ”

Zhang Yousheng stepped forward and smiled: "Queen Mother, please be relieved, as soon as Lord Lin comes, Yue'er will wake up." After speaking, she glanced at Li Jingsheng who was standing on the side, her face was as heavy as water, but there were faint cyan veins at her temples, and she even felt that a cold air was emanating from him.

In her previous life, she only found out the fact that Li Jingsheng was concerned with Pu Yue, but now looking back, just mentioning the name of Pu Yue's fiancé, he was like this, I don't know how crazy he was when Pu Yue married Lin Hongyu in his previous life.

Thinking about it like this, she really remembered it. On the day of Pu Yue's previous life, he was still on the border of Datong, and half a month later, suddenly the border defense suddenly came with good news, Li Jingsheng sent troops to attack the Tartars without warning, killing red eyes, and defeated three tribes in a row!

Zhang Yousheng suddenly felt cold and cold, the man around him who had loved him for half his life but slowly saw it clearly before he died, how deep was the desire in his heart to get his cousin? It was so deep that he rushed into the territory of the enemy army regardless of his life, and it was so deep that as soon as he ascended the throne, he found a reason to punish the lives of the people of the Lin Mansion?

The queen mother was silent: what a rival! The young master of the noble family, who is hundreds of times better than Lin Hongyu, grabs a handful, and Yue'er just likes this Wuqing prince who has done nothing. It was also her mother Zhong Jing who wanted to marry this doll back then.

One is the last wish of the deceased, and the other is that Yue'er is also beloved, and the queen mother sighed lightly and had to accept this fact.

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The backyard of Wuqingbo's mansion.

After school at noon, the ladies usually go back to their respective courtyards to eat, take a nap for half an hour, and then go to Lin Tangmei's courtyard to learn the female red, and the old lady invited the best embroidery girl in Yanjing City for the girls.

Lin Tangmei saw that Xue Mingcan came back to go to girls' school today, so he invited her to have lunch together. Mingcan did not refuse, because she heard that there was a dessert in their yard, which the old lady had specially instructed the kitchen to make for the two precious granddaughters.

Lin Tangxiao was quite unhappy, but she didn't dare to show anything in front of the eldest sister. Mingcan turned around to find Lin Tangluo, but found that she didn't know when she left quietly.

The three of them sat down around a round table with carved red lacquer, and the maids served the food one after another, and Mingcan looked at it blindly and found that it was no different from the one in his own courtyard. After listening to the book in the morning, she was hungry, so she didn't think too much about it, and began to feast.

chewing a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs, the sound of chopsticks "snapping" startled her. Mingcan and Lin Tangmei followed the prestige, only to see that Lin Tangxiao's face was bulging, and the boss on his face was unhappy.

"Xiao'er, what's wrong with you? Is today's meal not to your liking? Lin Tangmei looked at the dishes on the table, all of which his sister likes to eat every day.

Lin Tangxiao pursed her lips, she couldn't hide her dissatisfaction, and simply said, "Eldest sister!" I don't want to eat at the same table with her! It's really uneducated, and you have to make a little noise when you drink soup! I thought it was eating out on the street, with those streets! ”

"When are you going to eat on the street outside?" Lin Tangmei frowned, her sister has always been spoiled and willful, although she is not very satisfied with Xue Mingcan's appearance, but it is always not good to say it so bluntly in front of people, and it is not the style of a famous lady.

But she didn't want to say this in front of Xue Mingcan, an outsider, and she still kept her sister in private, and her sister also wanted to save face.

Smiling apologetically at Xue Mingcan, Lin Tangmei said gently: "Cousin Mingcan, don't take it to heart, don't spoil your appetite." ”

Xue Mingcan's appetite has not been ruined, and big things can't spoil her appetite. She just felt that Lin Tangxiao was making too much of a fuss.

"Don't take it to heart yet, when will you be able to have an elegant appearance!" Lin Tangxiao was still angry, and continued like a firecracker, "The first time I took her to the tea party, I was embarrassed, and others laughed at how I had such an uneducated cousin." When I first came, I didn't teach her, how to hold it, how to hold a spoon, how to eat without making a sound......"

Lin Tangxiao thought of the other ladies' laughter at her, felt aggrieved, and said breathlessly, "When she goes out like this, she loses our face, eldest sister!" ”

The younger sister spoke a little more urgently, but it was not unreasonable, Lin Tangmei looked at Mingcan, did not mean to be angry with her sister, and still said very gently: "Cousin Mingcan, you learn from me, when you eat, the bowls and spoons are handled gently, and the dishes are not picky, pick up a chopstick, put it in your mouth and chew it slowly...... Keep your mouth shut so that no sound ...... happens"

The two sisters are very careful, and it seems that if they can't learn today, they don't want to eat well. It was painful to be stopped in the middle of eating, and Mingcan had to pretend to be humble, he really just wanted to finish the meal happily. So patiently waited for Lin Tangmei to finish teaching, and she ate according to what she said.

After eating two bites of rice like this, Lin Tangmei felt a little bright. If you want to say that this Xue Mingcan can't do it, I only watched it once, and it looks like I learned it, and the tail finger that was cocked when I took the soup spoon was very natural, and I looked at it a few more times, this behavior was style, and I thought it was the concubine in the palace.

Lin Tangxiao glared, still a little uncomfortable with Xue Mingcan's unusual movements. glanced at the eldest sister, not knowing whether to laugh or continue to count.

"It's good, Mingcan, just eat like this." Lin Tangmei smiled with relief and put a piece of bad goose into her bowl.

Towards the end of the meal, Mingcan asked the maid to add rice twice, the small lotus pattern blue and white bowl was full, and the rice was crystal full, which was elegantly and dexterously sent into her mouth with ebony chopsticks and a bird's peck. Lin Tangxiao was surprised by her moderation, but Lin Tangmei felt more and more that watching her eat was like appreciating a picture.

After the meal was finished, the maid held the dessert, which was a plate of hibiscus cake, and there was a ball of white as snow, which was contained in a silver bowl with gilt flat chisel patterns, like frost and snow ice crystals, and there was a faint white gas around it.

"What is this?" Mingcan pointed to the bowl of dessert that was placed in front of Lin Tangxiao.

What Lin Tangxiao is waiting for is this moment, what ordinary ladies can't easily eat, even Gu Zhuohua is envious, let alone this hillbilly cousin.

"This is called Sushan, and it was specially rewarded by the Queen Mother when my grandmother entered the palace to visit the Queen Mother." Lin Tangmei explained with a smile, "There are only so many. She made a vague gesture with both hands, indicating that there was not much such a reward, not even her share, and that it was all given to her sister.

"Does Cousin Mingchan want to try it too? It's just that this dessert is a little sweet and cold, and my cousin's spleen and stomach are weak......"

Mingcan naturally understood what she meant, waved his hand and said no, and picked a piece of hibiscus cake to taste. Just watched Lin Tangxiao scoop a spoonful with a silver lotus-shaped spoon, and suddenly thought of something.

Lin Tangxiao saw that she had been staring at herself, so she asked, "What are you looking at!" ”

Mingcan shook his head, "It's nothing, it's just that I seem to have eaten somewhere." ”

"Have you eaten?" Lin Tangxiao couldn't laugh or cry. If she said that she had eaten Longjing Zhusun, it would be fine, because no matter how expensive these dishes are, they may be tasted at a restaurant in Beijing for a lot of money, but she actually said that she had eaten this crispy mountain!

"Xue Mingcan, you don't talk big about the draft? This crisp mountain is unique to the palace, or the emperor's reward, where do you say you can eat it? Lin Tangxiao glanced at him.

Myeong-chan herself was confused, but she looked at the dessert and gradually figured out what it tasted like. "I've eaten it, and this snack melts in my mouth, it's cool, sweet, mixed with the sweetness of honey, but it's a little greasy to eat too much. Oh, and I didn't eat plain white, but some crimson. ”

As soon as she said this, the two sisters were stunned, this is really the taste of Sushan, it melts in the mouth, it is cool and sweet, how would she know?

"What you're talking about is red crisp, which is specially eaten by the emperor or the ladies in the palace. How did you eat it? After Lin Tangmei was shocked, she wondered who she had heard about, otherwise how could she, the daughter of a market merchant, know so much.

Xue Mingcan was also confused, and shook his head, no matter how much he thought about it, his memory was stuck in the taste of the red crisp, and he didn't have a clue.

"Didn't you hear your eldest brother talk about it?" Lin Tangmei asked. Lin Xian is at the top of the Hanlin Academy, and if the emperor appreciates him, it is possible to give him such a dessert.

Mingchan still shook his head. At the end of a meal, she was in a fog, but she just remembered the taste of Sushan, and she really wanted to eat it again.

She said goodbye and left, Lin Tangxiao stared at the bowl of crispy mountains and gassed, stirring around with a small spoon, and lost the mood to show off.

"Eldest sister, did you say that the eldest brother was rewarded and specially given to Xue Mingcan's girl to eat? Is! Who is the real sister, how can the eldest brother be like this! ”

Lin Tangmei thought about it, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be possible." The rewards given to the outside by the palace are all snow-white crispy mountains, and the red crisps are only for the palace people to enjoy. Even if the eldest brother took the reward to her, she would not have eaten the red cake. ”

"Why is that?" Lin Tangxiao asked.

"Let's just think she's listening to whom, maybe the eldest brother really took the crispy mountain for her to eat, she wants to press you and say that she ate the red crisp." The more Lin Tangmei thought about it, the more mysterious she became, this cousin was always different from when she first entered the house, but she couldn't guess it, but felt flustered.

The matter of Sushan is not resolved on the side of the Lin sisters, but Mingcan is still thinking about it after a lunch break. When she rushed to learn from the girl, Lin Hongjin sneaked over to play with her.

"Mingcan, where are you going?" Lin Hong saw that she was dressed neatly and was about to go out.

Xue Mingcan didn't answer his question, but said to him: "You help me buy a bowl of crispy mountains and come back, and I will make you a new incense powder in the evening." ”

Lin Hongjin opened his mouth wide, "Sushan! Are you kidding me. I can't grab this thing. In the palace! ”

Hearing this, it's really a palace thing. At this point, Mingcan became more and more confused. Where did you eat it?

"You haven't said where you're going?" Lin Hong asked.

Mingcan glanced at him, raised his feet and walked out of the room, "Embroider flowers!" ”

"Embroidery? Aren't you the least skilled at embroidery? Lin Hong remembered that he had seen one of her embroidered bandages in Xue Mingcan's house, and he didn't know what was embroidered on it.

Mingcan stopped, blinked and said, "Aren't I the most unsure of archery?" Isn't it the least proficient at memorizing poems? I can't say ......."