A group of people followed closely behind him, and Ah Ping didn't scold them to leave. I glanced back at it and suddenly thought of something, and asked in his ear, "What about the old man next to the imperial grandfather?" Why didn't you see him? Did you sleep too? ”

Ah Pingming walked silently for more than ten steps before he said softly: "On the night when the emperor's grandfather returned, he went with him. ”

My heart was shocked, and my husband ...... Also dead?

He served the emperor's grandfather all his life, and he was afraid that the emperor's grandfather would go down and there would be no one to serve, so he followed him. When I entered the imperial mausoleum, I buried his body with me. ”

Saddened. Even if he doesn't have much to do with her husband's bus, but in the only intersection he is always helping Ah Ping, presumably he must have watched Ah Ping grow up, and he is also extremely fond of Ah Ping. I never thought that in the end, he was martyred for Zhu Yuanzhang, and even when the emperor died, he was still worried that he had no one to serve, and he wanted to go with the king, how could he be a loyal word.

The two of them were silent until I walked to the door of the Orchid Garden, but I couldn't help but be stunned. What's the deal with that big lock on the door? Is this place blocked? As if knowing my question, Ah Ping explained: "I let it be sealed, the owner of the Orchid Garden is you, if you are not there, then it will be sealed in the dust, and no one is allowed to defile here." ”

Turning his eyes slightly, he stared at his side face in a daze, and could only say in shock: "Isn't that full of dust inside?" ”

But I saw him silently walking to the door and looking left and right, and immediately a palace maid came forward and held me on his shoulder, and he let go of the hand that was holding my leg and took out a key from his bosom, and opened the big lock. Only then did he carry me back and walk inside, and then the palace people who entered the door immediately lit the palace lamp, and soon the orchid garden was lit up from the inside to the outside.

The scene is the same as yesterday, there is no change in the slightest place, the key is that the whole house is neat and clean, which surprised me: "Why do you keep this place so clean?" Did someone come over and clean it regularly? ”

Ah Ping was silent and didn't answer, but a father-in-law next to him rushed over: "The emperor will come and sit alone every three or four days." ”

My heart fluctuated, and I looked back at Ah Ping: "You come to clean it regularly?" ”

"Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's your brother, he's your brother, and I'm relieved to give it to him."

"What about the rest?" I can't believe this, even if Ah Ping once helped me with housework in Ginkgo Village, but since he returned to the palace, where do I need him to do it, not to mention that he is now the Son of Heaven, a large group of people are with him, and the affairs of the emperor are bound to be complicated, how can he still have time to clean up? The key is that it is not the kind of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, but it has persisted like this for half a year.

But he replied, "Didn't you just say that it was just me and your brother?" No one else. This place has been classified as a forbidden place, and anyone who trespasses will be held accountable. Listening to him say it lightly, I couldn't help but sigh.

He carried me around the house and suddenly asked me, "Are you hungry?" ”

My heart jumped, and I nodded expectantly. So he carried me to the stove room, but after looking around, he turned and shouted to the door, "Bring a chair in." Someone immediately answered and moved the chairs of the hall into the stove room, and Ah Ping put me in the chairs and lifted his sleeves to go to the stove.

The palace man next to Hou Li was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, do you want to ......find the cook in the imperial dining room?"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ah Ping: "You all stand down." His tone was very flat, but the palace man did not dare to say anything more and withdrew. I can't help but look sideways at him with such majesty, it turns out that there is a kind of deterrence that does not need to be coldly spoken, and a peaceful attitude can also make people panic, which may be the thing behind the right.

After everyone has withdrawn, the space will only belong to the two of us, and I don't feel like I should or shouldn't face him, he is the emperor in the eyes of the group of people outside, and he is just a husband to me. But as far as I know, there are only a few kinds of food he can cook, and the key is that since this place is sealed, will there be any leftover ingredients?

When I saw him take out the noodles from the food box, I couldn't help but shout to him: "Wait a minute, are you going to cook noodles?" ”

He glanced at me, but said, "Don't worry, the ingredients are fresh." ”

I can't help but feel embarrassed, is my reaction so obvious? Or did he see me too thoroughly? Just now, I was really worried that he didn't have any ingredients from half a year ago, so this noodle can't be cooked into expired food.

Although it was very easy to cook the noodles, I was still amazed by Ah Ping's skillful movements, as if he often did it. At least my perception of Ah Ping has always been clumsy in the stove, although he is extremely wise, but chefs also need talent, and I always feel that he is not the material for cooking.

And when a bowl of fragrant noodle soup was delivered to the table in front of me, I was a little eager to try it, and I was anxious to ask him to bring his chopsticks. But when he brought the chopsticks, he found that he couldn't even lift his hands, but Ah Ping didn't ask me to try it, he used the chopsticks to cut off the noodles and then put them in the spoon and feed them to my mouth. Suddenly, I thought of something and shrank back, and blew lightly a few times before handing it over again, and then I remembered that I didn't have a sense of taste, and I couldn't taste good or not.

I suddenly felt bored, and I didn't have a very good mental state when I swallowed the spoon, but when I chewed two noodles, I was suddenly stunned, and the faint salty taste on the tip of my tongue was spreading. I still didn't believe it, and after swallowing it, I said to Ah Ping, "I want to." ”

After the second bite, I tasted it slowly, and this time I was sure that my sense of taste had returned.

Truly, it is only when one loses and regains that one realizes how precious what has been lost. But nature has given us too many things that we humans have not noticed, just like I am now, I can taste food since I was a child, and I will not feel the difference between losing my sense of taste and coming back.

Ah Ping didn't say anything during the whole process, just quietly accompanied me and ate the noodles one bite at a time. Finally he put down his chopsticks, reached over and touched the corner of my mouth, only to find that he had an extra noodle on his fingertip, and he put it into his mouth without hesitation. A very small act made me a little stunned, so to speak, very intimate, but such details would not have been paid attention to before.

He went back to the stove, lifted up the remaining noodles from the pot in the bowl I had just eaten, and then came over and continued to sit beside me, looked at me and said, "I'll eat some too, I'm a little hungry." ”

My eyes fell on the bowl, because the noodles had rotted after a long time in the water, and they broke when I clamped them, but he did not hesitate to eat them all, and ate them all. When he put down the bowl, he suddenly said, "Every time I come over, I cook noodles and eat them." ”

These words caused me to move my gaze from the empty bowl to his face, and found that his gaze did not fall on my face, but unconsciously looked ahead, as if he was also worried. I heard him say again: "I want to eat the noodles you cooked, but you can't sleep, so you can only try to cook them again and again, but you find that you can't make your taste no matter what, and I only love to eat the noodles you make." Others, even if they were made by Xiao Qi and the Imperial Dining Room, only tasted it and found that the taste was wrong, so they didn't want it. ”

I was silent for a moment, not wanting to make the atmosphere any more heavy, so I deliberately said in a relaxed tone: "Cooking is a technical job, what is needed is heat and experience, how can you make my taste when you come to learn it halfway." When I can move, I'll cook you a bowl of noodles, and you'll have to drink all the soup and water. ”

He curled the corners of his lips, "As long as you make it, I will eat it." ”

"But don't, you have to compare before and after to see if I have regressed."

Then he asked back: "Then how many points do you give for the bowl of noodles just now?" ”

I pretended to meditate, and then carefully looked at the empty bowl that had been eaten by him, and then said, "In terms of technique and gluten, you can get a perfect score, but I will give you a score of ninety-nine." ”

"Oh, what's that point deducted?"

"As a chef, you should also taste the taste and serve it only when you think you can do it, you don't have the consciousness of being a chef."

He smiled when he heard this, his eyes fell on the table, and his smile was pure and beautiful. I pursed the corners of my mouth and laughed, I didn't think I was telling a joke, but I was very happy to see him laugh, I guess he hadn't laughed in a long time.

Later, he carried me out of the stove room and had the chaise longue moved into the courtyard again, and I leaned back on the chaise longue and looked at the starry sky overhead. I remember that there were many nights like this before, and I always looked at the dark night of Orchid Garden from this angle, thinking about how long this narrow space would make me feel oppressive, but I didn't think about the passage of time, but I felt that the air here was the most peaceful.

But I always felt like I had forgotten something, which should be something important, but I couldn't remember. Ah Ping sat next to me and took my hand, maybe his physical strength was still exhausted, and when he calmed down, he felt sleepy. At first, I didn't want to sleep anymore, and I wanted to talk to Ah Ping, but as soon as I was sleepy, my eyelids fought, and I heard him say, "Sleep when you're sleepy, I'm here." ”

With his words, I closed my eyes with peace of mind, but the next moment I suddenly opened my eyes, and the picture in my mind was like a scene, and finally I was in this courtyard, and I saw the sticks beating and pounced at the same time, and the sticks came to the top.

The stick hit me more than once in my spine, and the pain in my shoulder and back was at first, and then ...... Later, the pain in my stomach was the real cause of my coma for half a year.

"What's wrong?" Ah Ping couldn't help but wonder when he saw that I was suddenly startled.