"See the Emperor." The woman knelt on the mattress and prayed.

"Who are you from the queen's family?" She asked.

The woman on the mattress was well-behaved: "The little girl is Li Yue, the cousin of the queen's mother." ”

She retreated to the tent and said, "It turned out to be the queen's cousin." ”

"The little girl sends off the emperor." Li Yue, who was in the tent, was disheveled in front of her, and she was already very shy at this time, wishing she could leave quickly.

The moment she opened the account, she preconceived that she was a daughter, and then thought that she was a man, and then realized that it was very indecent for Li Yue to present it in front of her.

She walked out of the queen's bedroom in shame and bumped into Ning Rong who walked in the door, Ning Rong was very surprised when she saw her: "How could the emperor be here?" ”

"I came to your palace for dinner, you sent someone to ask, did you forget?" She asked Ning Rong rhetorically.

"The concubine's cousin Li Yue hasn't gotten up from a nap in the concubine's bed yet, can the emperor see it?" Ning Rong asked hurriedly.

She nodded and said, "She's still taking a nap." Let's go, let's go out and cook something to eat, and today I want to try to make something delicious with my own hands. ”

"Really? Is it good to eat dumplings in the palace today? When Ning Rong heard this, he was curious.

"Okay, cabbage stuffing." She wanted to relive the joy of making dumplings by herself.

In the side hall of Yunxiang Palace, she rolled up her sleeves and made noodles in the basin, and Ning Rong helped her add water to the basin on the side. Li Yue looked at the freshness, and chopped the cabbage on the side for a while.

"The emperor actually knows how to make dumplings." Ning Rong watched her every move in surprise.

"It's a trivial matter, and I don't know what to do." She couldn't help but smugly.

"It's smooth to knead." Ning Rong couldn't help but be even more surprised when she saw her skillful technique.

She smiled: "I can still learn some from the amount of food I ate after I left the palace in the past. Today you will also try the really delicious dumplings. Okay, Li Yue, are your dumplings filled? ”

"Your Majesty, the little girl doesn't know how to make fillings. This cabbage is not cut well. Li Yue put down the knife and wiped a handful of sweat with a hand towel.

"This chopping stuffing has a technique, look, this cabbage is selected and the stalk is cut directly, as long as the shreds are cut and cannot be chopped, this meat should be fatty and equivalent, and the whole piece should be chopped." She took it, took a handful of cabbage stalks, and reached for a piece of fat and lean meat.

"The meat picked by the inner palace is good, and it looks fresh." She didn't expect that after noon, the meat in the palace was still fresh, as fresh as a pig had just been slaughtered.

"The meat selected in the inner palace is hidden in the ice pavilion, and if it is not used up on the same day, it is directly taken out for the palace people to eat, and then selected fresh on the second day, so that the fresh meat of the day does not stay overnight." Ning Rong said patiently.

"No wonder it's so fresh, the ingredients are good and delicious, prepare some hot water for a while, wrap it and put it in the pot immediately, it tastes the most delicious. But after all, the meat and vegetables are not freshly picked, and the taste is still worse. When the winter snow melts and the spring river warms up, I will take you to take a walk outside the palace, taste the fresh shepherd's cabbage dumplings, and see where the vegetables and meat come from. As she spoke, she had already cut the cabbage stalks into thin strips.

"Really? That's wonderful, the little girl hasn't seen the fields and countryside yet. Li Yue was so happy.

She chopped the pieces of meat and said, "On weekdays, you have to accompany the queen more in the palace." ”

"Recently, the queen mother has been bored in the palace, and the emperor is busy in the imperial study, so she asked Li Yue to come to the palace to accompany her cousin. My cousin was so lonely in the palace. Li Yue took the reconciled noodles and said.

"Then accompany the queen mother for me." She heard a trace of dissatisfaction in Li Yue's heart.

She looked up at Ning Rong, who lowered her head and sorted out the white noodles left on the table, without saying a word.

Ning Rong's affection for her is still there, but it is not easy to unravel the love that has been buried in the past few years in one or two years, not to mention that Ning Rong is still her queen, not to mention that she just looks up and doesn't see her head down, and there is also the inner paranoia driven by loneliness in this palace for a long time.

If you stay in the imperial city for a long time, all kinds of emotions will be a little confused and chaotic together.

Everyone didn't say a word, and she chopped the meat filling in a few clicks: "Okay." Start rolling out the dough. Wait and eat. ”

"Your Majesty, what is going to be done?" Li Yue asked, holding a round wooden stick.

"Come, let me do it for you." She took the rolling pin from Li Yue's hand.

She pulled a piece of dough from the dough, put it on the cutting board, pressed it with her hands, and rolled it out with a rolling pin, and a nice round dough was ready.

"Another spoonful of the seasoned minced meat. However, this meat filling needs to be marinated in seasoning for a while, and it tastes better. She wrapped the dumplings in one hand: "The water is also boiling, let's try the next one first." ”

A round dumpling has just been put out of the pot, and after boiling a few times, the fragrance will come out. She took a plate, scooped the dumplings in, and handed them to Li Yue: "Taste them for the queen." ”

Li Yue took it and glanced at Ning Rong again: "Emperor Xie." ”

"Go, bring some mutton and vegetables over, I will cook a hot pot and eat dumplings today." She raised her head and instructed the palace maid who was waiting beside her.

"Yes." The palace maid said and went out to get it.

"Bring me some more wine, I have a lot of fun when there is wine and hot pot. It's been a long time since I've had a good dinner with the queen. She put the dumplings she had wrapped in her hand into a plate sprinkled with loose powder.

"Yes." The palace maid next to her went out in response.

"It's rare for Li Yue to come to the queen's palace, this palace is very deserted, and today I have a meal with the queen and you." When she saw Li Yue, she thought that no one in the queen's palace could relieve Ning Rong's boredom, and now she was a little relieved.

Meat vegetables and vegetables are placed all over the low table, the soup base prepared in the pot is boiling, covering the delicacy of the pot, the aroma lingers in the hall, the clear grape wine in the wine pot is poured into the luminous glass, the aroma of the wine mixed with the food in the pot makes her wake up like a dream, remembering many old things.

"Your Majesty, the concubines should also have a drink today." Ning Rong took the flask and poured a full glass.

"Okay, come, eating meat and drinking wine, life is still so happy, and it's a blessing." She took a sip, and the smell of wine was so thick that she couldn't help but feel emotional.

"The emperor drank less wine and ate more food, and the concubines prepared a lot of delicacies in the inner palace, and later there was Qinghui Haitian stewed on the stove. This is a new dish developed by the Imperial Kitchen. Recently, the emperor's appetite has been poor, and the concubines have urged the imperial dining room to make something fresh. Ning Rong scooped up some meat and put it in her bowl.

"It's the queen's duty to take care of me, but the queen also takes care of herself." She picked up the cooked mutton slices that Ning Rong put in the bowl and dipped them in spicy powder.

"Now that the summer has not arrived, the spring cold has not subsided, this hot pot relieves the cold and nourishes the body, my daily life is to deal with some political affairs, the queen will be busy in the future, I have selected the eight royal front attendants, you don't want to keep yourself busy, they can also take care of me in the future." She told Ning Rong in passing.