Chapter 68, Eight Treasures Cake
"Is the queen mother okay now?" Yue Wangshu hurriedly took care of Empress Meng.
Yan Zheng looked cold, "If you really care about the queen, you should often go to ask for peace, what's the benefit of just asking from my mouth?" β
Yue Wangshu: Ma Dan, is it wrong to care about your wife?
This sick emperor is a master who is not easy to serve in his bones. Usually pretend to be gentle and frugal, and when you are unhappy, you will expose your true nature!
"After the emperor recovers, I will go from now on." But it's not a greeting, it's a cure.
Saying that, Yue Wangshu said suspiciously: "My ultimate move has not yet reached the day when it can be used, you ...... Why did it come all of a sudden? β
Yan Zheng's face became even more ugly, "Why do you say I came?!" β
Yue Wangshu: "Ah ......" came to tell her about Ming Wang Long'an......
Yue Wangshu hurriedly squeezed out a flattering smile: "I mean, you can just send someone to inform you about this little thing, or write a letter." The road is long, and you can drive it in person, which is really unpleasant. β
Yan Zheng snorted, "You don't have to pretend to be humble in me!" β
But if I don't pretend, you're going to be even more angry? Yue Wangshu scolded his abdomen, and squeezed out a smile: "A few days ago, I devoted myself to researching a dim sum recipe, called Bazhen Cake, which is made of Poria cocos, Seeds, Lotus Seeds, Lotus Seeds, Yams, Lentils, Malt, and Lotus Root Powder, which can nourish the spleen and get greasy, and prolong life. β
Yan Zheng's face suddenly softened a lot, and he asked inquiringly, "Do you cook yourself?" β
Yue Wangshu nodded: "Yes." Anyway, all eight materials are ground into fine powder and packed in cans, she just needs to take them, add sugar and water in proportion, shape them with molds, and then steam them. Of course, she didn't know how to tidy up the ancient stove, and the matter of burning the fire was also handed over to the eunuchs, so it was not troublesome.
Yan Zheng had a little smile on his face, "Okay then." β
Therefore, Yue Wangshu came back in less than two quarters of an hour, "The Bazhen cake has been put on the steamer, and you will be able to eat it later." I deliberately steamed two more cages, and the emperor could take them back to the palace to enjoy them slowly. "ββOne for the emperor and one for the princess, the atmosphere is not good, she doesn't know what to say, but the meaning of the emperor should understand, right? He probably wouldn't eat alone, would he?
Yan Zheng had regained his gentle appearance at this moment, "I didn't expect that you would cook yourself." β
Yue Wangshu smiled embarrassedly, "It's true that I'm not very good, but as long as you have the heart, you can always learn." β
Hearing this, Yan Zheng felt very pleasant, so he said: "The kitchen is full of fireworks, so don't go too often." β
Yue Wangshu nodded, she didn't plan to cook often, otherwise the emperor would be too difficult to do today, and she didn't plan to pinch the Bazhen cake for him to eat.
"By the way, how is your medicine garden ginseng?" Yan Zheng asked casually.
Yue Wangshu instantly came to his senses, "It's so lush!" Originally, it was estimated that it would become a medicine in five years, but looking at this growth, I am afraid that two or three years will be enough! "ββIn later generations, it only took five years to artificially grow ginseng, of course, the understory ginseng is a simulated ginseng growth environment, and nature is another matter.
Although Yan Zheng knew Wangshu's innate ability, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, he could grow up in two or three years? Is this ginseng or turnip?
Yue Wangshu said again: "When you grow up, you must pick the best one and send it to the palace." After all, the territory belongs to the emperor, and people can be regarded as shareholders.
Yan Zheng smiled slightly: "Then I will wait for Wangshu's ginseng." I don't know if it's different from the ginseng that grows in the mountains and forests of the north for tens or hundreds of years.
As he spoke, the eunuch Li Yue walked in with a delicate enamel moire high-footed plate, which was steaming with delicate snacks. In fact, the color of Bazhen cake is not wonderful, gray does not slip in autumn, yellow does not pull a few, even if the mold is made into a delicate flower shape, it still sells mediocre.
Looking closely, the Bazhen cake still has a rare and small needle eye, which is obviously tested with a silver needle.
"It's unremarkable to look at." But Yan Zheng still picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, and couldn't help but show a look of surprise, "The taste...... Very good! β
Obviously it is a medicinal diet that strengthens the spleen and stomach, Yan Zhengyuan didn't expect it to be delicious, but it tasted sweet and refreshing if he didn't want to eat it, no worse than the exquisite pastries in the imperial dining room.
Yue Wangshu said with a smile: "If the emperor likes it, these eight treasures cake is mild in nature, suitable for all ages, and the ladies and princesses in the palace can eat it as a snack on weekdays." "βDon't forget your daughter.
Yan Zheng said: "Well, Wangshu has a heart. "ββThese eight treasures cake is indeed a painstaking effort. Then he picked up another piece and put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully.
While eating snacks, Yan Zheng suddenly asked, "I heard that Wangshu often goes to the mountains to collect medicines in person, and he also personally concocts medicinal materials and makes a lot of Rendan pills?" β
Yue Wangshu hurriedly said, "Those pills are just concocted according to the ancient recipes, and I only dare to distribute them to the attendants of Huangzhuang and the mountain people in the nearby villages. The emperor's daughter is noble, and the medicine is the safest from the hands of the Tai Hospital. β
Yan Zheng froze, I don't want to ask you for Rendan pills! Are you so guarded against me?!
Seeing that the emperor's face was cloudy again, this made Yue Wangshu very incomprehensible, what's the matter?! Three-year-olds don't change their faces as fast as you!
Yan Zheng took a deep breath and endured it so that he didn't have a seizure: "I just want to say that even if you want to learn to make pills, you don't have to collect the medicine yourself!" Although there are no fierce beasts in the Rose Ridge Mountain, snakes, insects, rats and ants are also indispensable! "-I am so kind to be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs!
Yue Wangshu smiled: "Thank you for your concern." β
Of course I know that there are snakes in the mountains, and there are probably even poisonous snakes! Every time I go into the mountains, I always bring a sachet to get rid of snakes and insects, and I also bring pills to cure snake venom, as well as a bloodletting knife, a bandaged gauze and corresponding plasters.
But the emperor is not easy to mess with, so I won't talk about this.
Alas, she and the sick Emperor always don't talk more than half a sentence.
Please, before the ultimate cools down, can you not come? Yue Wangshu wailed in his heart.
Yan Zheng exhaled a heavy breath of turbidity: "If I come once, you will be angry once, didn't I owe you in my last life?" β
Yue Wangshu black line, disgusted with me, angry with you, don't come! I didn't even welcome you!
But she hasn't forgotten that Huangzhuang is the emperor's manor, and this is the emperor's territory! She really didn't have the right to keep the emperor from coming.
Yue Wangshu was depressed, sure enough, women still have to have their own industries.
"Your Majesty, don't be angry, you are hurt in your heart, and it is useless to be angry with your body." Yue Wangshu had to pick up nice words to convince him.
Yan Zheng looked at the Bazhen cake on the plate helplessly, "I even put up with the fact that you left the palace and lived, what else can't I bear?" β
Yue Wangshu slandered: Don't make it look like you're very wronged!
But she didn't have the courage to talk to the emperor, so she had to lower her head, with a gesture of yes yes, yes you are right, it is all my fault.
"That's it, you take good care of yourself, write to me if you have something, you really don't want to write, so you tell Li Yue to report to me." Yan Zheng couldn't help but admonish again.
Yue Wangshu slandered: Li Yueyu still needs my orders? Ya told the secret early in the morning!
Yue Wangshu suddenly thought of something, so he got up and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to ask for. β
Yan Zheng's expression suddenly softened a little: "You just have to say." "ββWangshu begging for me, but it is rare.
Yue Wangshu looked at the Bazhen cake and said: "That, the Yue family sent me into the palace and sold a lot of property to me as a private house, so I want to repay the Yue family well, and I want to give Mrs. Yue the recipe for the Bazhen cake, so that she can open a dim sum shop and subsidize the family." β
Hearing this, Yan Zheng couldn't help but say in his heart, Wangshu was grateful for his kindness, so he nodded and said: "This Bazhen cake recipe is originally yours, and you can give it to whoever you want." β
Yue Wang said comfortably, although it was "invented" by her, but it is equivalent to a palace snack from now on, it is better to ask the emperor for instructions, and it is safer to cross the bright road.
Saying that, Yan Zheng said again: "I'm afraid that only one recipe is not enough, I turned around and asked the imperial chef to write a few more palace pastry recipes to give to you." β
Hearing this, Yue Wangshu was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" "That's a good feeling, most of the recipes for palace pastries are unknown to the outside world, so after many imperial chefs are old, the major restaurants in Beijing do not hesitate to hire them.
With these palace dim sum secret methods, the Yue family's pastry shop is not worried.
Yan Zheng had investigated the Yue family earlier, Yue Mingde was an honest official, and the Yue family was naturally not very wealthy, in order to send the girl to the palace, he did sell a lot of family property in private, and this life was naturally more poor.
Wangshu has the heart to repay the Yue family......
Yan Zheng said: "You let the Yue family open another fat powder shop, and when I go back, I will order the construction department to supply." β
Yue Wangshu was overjoyed, wasn't that the cream and lipstick that Qi Jiyue had just made? There will definitely be other cosmetics in the future! These things have always only been handed over to the imperial merchants! Ordinary people can only take goods from the hands of imperial merchants, and now there are directly less second-class dealers, why can't they make money every day?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yue Wangshu thanked again and again, and now the Yue family is going to make a fortune.
Looking at Wangshu's surprised little appearance, Yan Zheng couldn't help but smile, when he was not angry, Wangshu was still very cute.
Next, Yue Wangshu accompanied the emperor to walk around the Huangzhuang, visited the pharmacy and ginseng medicine garden, and she asked someone to wrap some good mushrooms and two servings of Bazhen cakes, and personally sent the emperor out of the Huangzhuang.
Yue Wangshu returned to the village tiredly.
As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger!
On the side of the tiger, it's really tiring!
Two days later, Li Yue presented a letter from His Majesty the Emperor, in which he said that the construction department had already discussed with the Yue family, and said that the Bazhen cake had been eaten, and asked her to make two more boxes and send it.
Yue Wangshu was extremely black at that time, Ya's recipe had already told you, you can't let the imperial chef do it!
However, Yue Wangshu, who had just received the benefits of the emperor, did not dare to scold him back, so he had to write a letter of thanks, and two boxes of Bazhen cakes and a handwritten Bazhen cake recipe, so that Li Yue sent them back to the palace.
Alas, please stop a little!