Mu Ziyu also has a lot of prestige in the entire palace, of course, on the one hand, he is a relative of the emperor, on the other hand, his temper is not particularly good, he looks kind on the surface, but in fact it is not.

So after this fat cook heard that Xiao Qi was Mu Ziyu's righteous son, she didn't dare to slack off.

"Osmanthus cake? Yes, yes, Mama will find it for you. ”

The fat cook took the two of them to a nearby room to settle down first, and then went to the kitchen to get food for Xiao Qi.

This room was supposed to be a resting place for the servants of the imperial dining room, and there was a storeroom next to it, which stocked up on firewood, rice, oil, salt, and some dry groceries needed for the kitchen.

Xiao Qi didn't feel hungry originally, but after being reminded, he smelled all kinds of fragrances in the air around him, and he felt more and more hungry.

Xiao Qi rubbed his little belly, looked at Xiao Yu'er pitifully, pulled the corners of his clothes with his hands, and said in a milky voice: "Little brother, my belly is flat, hungry." ”

Xiao Yu'er saw that he didn't cry, and a big stone had just fallen in his heart, but he didn't expect Xiao Qi to come to him again for trouble, so he hurriedly comforted:

"Little boy, isn't that grandma going to get you food? Wait, it'll be fine in a while. ”

If he was at home on weekdays, Xiao Qi would have endured it, but now there is no familiar person around, and he doesn't know this place, so he is a little scared in his heart, and he feels more and more hungry.

Hearing Xiao Yu'er say this, he cried again, "I'm hungry, I'm looking for Daddy, Daddy." ”

Xiao Yu'er's heart sank to the bottom again, if he waited for the prince to see that he took care of the little boy like this, I was afraid that this errand would be in vain, and I was anxious and sad, so I had to comfort: "This... Little boy, don't cry, Mama will be back in a while, she will have delicious food when she comes back, the prince is now in the imperial dining room, and when he is done, we will be able to see your father. ”

"Lord Wang?" Xiao Qi pouted, "I just want Daddy, Daddy, woo woo." He didn't know what the prince was at all, and he was confused when he heard it, and then he started crying.

When Xiao Yu'er heard that his head was big, he wanted to cry, and said embarrassedly: "Then what should I do, the imperial dining room is so big, I can't find them even if I lead you." ”

This imperial dining room is different from the kitchen of a normal home, and consists of several courtyards, including a dining room for cooking, a courtyard for storing utensils, a courtyard for storing ingredients, and a courtyard for servants such as the imperial chef to rest.

Xiao Yu'er was waiting for the prince at the north gate of the imperial dining room with Xiao Qi in her arms, which happened to be next to the place where the servants were resting, so she was brought here by the fat cook.

Now Xiao Yu'er doesn't know where the prince is in that yard, so if he takes Xiao Qi to lose his search recklessly, he may not find anyone, and it is more likely that he will miss it with the prince.

"You're hungry now, let's eat first, and then go find the prince." ”

But Xiao Qi didn't care about this, he kept crying, so Xiao Yu'er felt that there was no way, so he had to say: "Then I'll go to the door to see if Mama has come back, you just don't run around in this house." ”

"En. Xiao Qi cried for a long time, this person was finally willing to give in, and when he heard him go to help him find something to eat, he felt that he was still full, and it was better to go to his father with his short legs.

After Xiao Yu'er went out, he first went to the north gate to see if he could meet the prince and them, if he couldn't go to the fat cook again, it really couldn't work, he would go to the imperial dining room to ask for some food and bring it to Xiao Qi

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How do you know that the fat cook is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she went to the imperial dining room to get food for Xiao Qi, and happened to meet Mu Ziyu and them, so she stepped forward to make a big gesture.

Mu Ziyu was also very satisfied when she heard it, and praised her immediately, and at this time, the Queen Mother sent someone to deliver the decree and asked him to go to the Queen Mother's palace quickly.

Mu Ziyu had no choice but to throw the matter here to Xiaoyue and rush to the Queen Mother's side by herself.

Xiao Yue was helpless, helped him take the shift, and told the fat cook to feed Xiao Qi to her and then let Xiao Yu'er hold Xiao Qi to find her.

Then Xiaoyue followed Grandpa Wei to go elsewhere.

Xiao Yu'er didn't know that he didn't meet anyone, and when he returned to the fat cook's house, he was dumbfounded, because Xiao Qi was gone.

Although Xiao Qi is young, his brain is still turning fast, seeing that these two strangers have not come back for most of the day, his hungry stomach growls, thinking that it is better to ask for others than for himself, so he pushed the door and went out to find food.

He was short, but he could still find with his nose where there was good food and where there was water.

Following the guidance of the fragrance, Xiao Qi came to the courtyard where he was cooking very accurately, he watched the people coming and going, and no one had time to look at him at all.

Xiao Qi found that the people here were holding a plate in their hands, and the aroma seemed to be wafting out of the plate, but unfortunately he was too short to reach.

Later, he found that these people had come out of a big house, and thought that there must be something good in the big house, so he rested for a while and went back to the big house.

In fact, the place where Xiao Qi came is called the dining room, and the dining room is divided into the outer dining room and the inner dining room, the outer dining room does not make a fire, and the inner dining room has to make a fire.

Ordinary people can't enter this place, but the people guarding the door happened to go to pat Mu Ziyu's ass today. At that time, when Mu Ziyu left, the eunuch who guarded the door sent him to the gate of the imperial dining room, and when this person returned to the door of the dining room, Xiao Qi had already slipped in.

The dining room is the place where the dishes are arranged, the dishes are cooked, and Xiao Qi began to drool as soon as he entered. It's a pity that the board for putting vegetables is too high, and he still can't reach it. Today is the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and the imperial kitchen is much busier than usual, although Xiao Qi entered the dining room, no one paid attention to him.

In order to avoid the people coming and going, he crawled under the board, but the smell of the food on his head made him salivate.

Touching his stomach, which was already close to his back, Xiao Qi decided that he must eat the food on the board.

He climbed out from under the board, and then saw half a bag of flour next to him, so he climbed up and climbed up again.

This board is a paradise for food, and the chefs are seizing every time to make an artistic process of ingredients and plates.

It's just that Xiao Qi couldn't see any beautiful scenery of flowers, birds, fish and insects in his eyes, but stared straight at a large bowl of colorful glutinous rice balls that suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

On the other side, Luo Yuchu only had a porcelain plate in his eyes, he held a leaf cut from lotus leaves in one hand, and took the ingredients from the bowl containing glutinous rice balls in the other, and put them in the porcelain plate with a perfect match.

Seeing that there were still two empty porcelain plates left in front of him, Luo Yu didn't raise his head, knowing that there should be ten glutinous rice balls in the bowl, but he didn't expect him to grab it skillfully in the bowl and found that it was empty.

( = Old Song)