The dinner was very rich, and the delicacies of the mountains and the sea were readily available.

The table of the eight immortals of yellow rosewood is full of dazzling displays, and the dishes are all made of high-grade mutton fat jade or precious and simple Ru porcelain. Each dish looks simple and unpretentious, but in fact, the chef has put a lot of effort into it.

Let's just say that the most common jar of pheasant soup requires several cooks to work for half a day. First, boil five-colored rice with bamboo drain for an hour, filter the rice, and only use rice soup, which is porridge without rice. The so-called bamboo draining is to cut fresh bamboo, bake it on a low fire one by one, and filter the juice that flows out.

Then choose a six-month-old pheasant and simmer it with ten herbs such as ginseng and cordyceps. Take the chicken thighs and chicken breasts, chop them into minced meat, put them in rice-free porridge and boil for two quarters of an hour, sprinkle with tender chopped vegetables, and the pheasant soup is ready.

This kind of extravagance that pays attention to the subtleties can be seen everywhere in the Chen Mansion. She didn't think much of it before, after all, she lived like this every day. Later, I learned that the extravagance of the Chen family was beyond the reach of even the prince's mansion.

There are hundreds of millions of family fortunes that everyone covets, but there is no strong backer to protect them, and it is only a matter of time before they overturn.

Su Bai drank a bowl of pheasant soup, and suddenly felt that his lips and teeth were fragrant, and his whole body was comfortable.

He sighed, "The Chen family is worthy of being the richest man in the southwest, how much money does this meal cost. You must have lived in a blessed nest before."

Han Youning's expression was indifferent, she had eaten even more extravagantly than this before. Now that there is no master in the courtyard, the Chen family is greatly injured, and the subordinates dare not let go of their hands and feet when preparing meals, and they are much more frugal.

"Don't want this blessing."

Su Bai thought that there was no one left in the Chen family now, and sighed.

Although their Su family's wealth is gone, the bad guys are still there.

Because the Queen Mother Lu lived in the main house, Han Youning lived in the West Wing as a sign of respect.

After dinner, Chen's mother talked with Han Youning in the wing room.

Chen's mother first talked about what had happened in the past year, and when she saw that the young lady's expression was gloomy, she stopped mentioning those sad things.

She smiled and diverted the topic, "Our courtyard is a blessed land, and there are a lot of nobles here. Not only did the first queen pass later, but the prince of Jin was born here, and the current emperor and uncle are ...... The Duke of Dingguo has been here. If Xiangping Mansion wants to say where it is the most magnificent and suitable for the palace, it must be our Chen family's courtyard."

Han Youning was surprised, "The emperor has also been here?"

Mother Chen smiled and said, "The emperor was still the eldest prince at the beginning, the first queen mother was the queen, and the eldest prince and Dingguo Gong, who was the prince at the time, escorted the first queen mother to Xiangping Mansion to give birth. The emperor was young and tall, tall and handsome, and the old slave looked very similar to the current Jin prince. He came with wounds on his body, and it was not unambiguous to hear that he went into battle to kill the enemy."

Emperor Qingming also had some relationship with the Chen family.

More than 20 years ago, he fought side by side, sharing weal and woe, and he did not exchange for a trace of softness, and I don't know where such a ruthless person is similar to Zhao Chengyuan.

The year Zhao Chengyuan was born was the first major war between the Great Zhou and Southern Chu.

Han Youning also occasionally heard his grandfather mention that the war greatly injured the vitality of the Southwest Army and the Chen family, all of which were relieved after three or four years. His grandfather, Lao Dingguo, died in that war, and the Chen family was almost exhausted by that war.

My grandfather used one word, Shame War. When she asked again, her grandfather refused to say anything, and quietly told her not to talk nonsense. ….

After entering Beijing, her father refused to tell this history, no matter how coquettish she was, her father didn't say a word.

That past seems to be taboo, and after a long time, there are very few people who know about it, and even fewer who know what is going on.

Han Youning had an intuition that the obvious hostility between his father and Zhao Chengyuan was related to this past. The more her father shy away, the stronger she felt.

She had many doubts, but no one would tell her the truth, or perhaps, they really didn't know.

Chen's mother is an old man in the courtyard, so she may know something.

Han Youning asked Chen's mother, "Mom, do you know why the Empress Dowager came to the southwest?"

The emperor of the dynasty, the queen, and the eldest son of the emperor, who is very likely to be the prince, all came to the southwest, which is really an incredible thing. That's not all

Doesn't make sense.

It is said that the emperor is personally recruited, and the eldest son of the emperor must stay in the capital to supervise the country, and the queen's responsibility is even greater, not only to stabilize the harem, but also to the previous dynasty, and not to let the eldest son of the emperor or other ambitious people usurp the country.

Chen's mother smiled, "Naturally, it's for the first emperor. The first emperor drove the expedition in person, and the war did not end after a year, and the first queen mother was not at ease, so she rushed to the military camp to take care of the first emperor. This time, I stayed for a whole year."

Taking care of the first emperor, this reason is still too far-fetched. For a whole year, aren't you afraid of chaos in Beijing? Which is more important, don't the first emperor and the empress dowager Lu know?

Han Youning asked, "Has my mother seen the face of the Queen Mother?" What kind of person is she?"

Mother Chen had a little pride on her face, "When the old slave was in charge of sprinkling and sweeping in the garden, she met the queen mother who visited the garden, and the gold leaf old slave she rewarded the old slave still has it. The Empress Dowager is really a very amiable person, such a noble person, and she has no shelf."

Chen's mother misses the Empress Dowager Lu and talks endlessly.

Although they were all trivial things, many of which they heard from other servants, Han Youning seemed to see an elegant and amiable elegant woman, generous and tolerant.

The unknown feud between Zhao Chengyuan and his father, if it starts from here, what will it be?

Han Youning waited for Chen's mother to remember the Empress Dowager Lu and asked, "What was the relationship between my father and the Empress Dowager at the beginning?"

After asking, she added, "The queen mother is from Anlinghou Mansion, I think the old Anlinghou and his father are quite incompatible, and he has even had a big fight."

Mother Chen recalled for a long time with heavy eyebrows, and said, "The first empress dowager treats everyone very well, she is much older than Dingguo Gong, and she treats him as a junior. Dingguo Gong was only about 20 years old at the time, and the eldest lady once followed the old lady to the other courtyard to ask the Empress Dowager to say goodbye, and the Empress Dowager also laughed at the time that Dingguo Gong and the eldest lady were matched, saying that they would marry them. Later, the old Dingguo Gong was seriously injured and saw that he would not be able to do it, so the first emperor really gave the two of them a marriage."

From this point of view, Empress Dowager Lu and the first emperor treated their father really well, and they were also extremely trusting. At that time, the situation was very clear, the Chen family could become the backing of the Southwest Army, even if there was no imperial court to support it, the Chen family could still afford to raise 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Southwest Army.

Their move can be regarded as a reassuring pill for his grandfather, who died soon.

Then it seems that the festival between his father and Zhao Chengyuan was not caused by Empress Dowager Lu.

Chen's mother also talked about the grand occasion when her father and mother got married.

Although in order to rejoice his grandfather, or to fulfill his wish to see his son get married, the family affairs were done in a hurry, but the three media and six hires were not provincial.

On the day of the wedding, the eldest prince was the concubine, and the emperor and queen personally presided over the wedding, and the mother could be described as a beautiful wedding.

It sounds like a good story.

Shen Momo