Xie Yao said in a low voice: "I found a wonderful person in Yuzhou, who is in your welcome building, and he actually makes a good dish." But I can use everything he makes, and I haven't taken many pills these days—I keep him in a house outside, unobtrusively, lest anyone else know. ”

Mrs. Shi nodded again and again, overjoyed: "Really? There is such a good cook in the Welcome Building? He regretted again: "I knew that I would have let him come early, and my son has suffered all these years!" ”

Xie Yao shook his head: "It's not a cook, it turned out to be a running hall in the Welcome Building." He smiled again: "You also said that he was allowed to come early, he is only fourteen years old this year, and he will be a child a few years earlier, what can he do?" ”

"Fourteen? How did you have such a craft? ”

"I don't know, I didn't ask, I think it's something special."

Mrs. Shi was happy and sad, holding Xie Yao's hand, her eyes were already filled with tears: "It's useless for your mother to let you suffer such a crime...... Fortunately, God has mercy, first there are masters who send medicine to save their lives, and now there is such a good cook who has won the fairy fate, but he just ran into you, but you can eat the food he cooked......"

Xie Yao knew that he was robbed when he was a child and that he couldn't eat well, which was the first sad thing for Mrs. Shi, so he hurriedly forked: "Have you entered the palace to see the queen mother these days?" Today, Fu Xi also handed a sign into the palace to see his sister. "The queen Wang is Mrs. Shi's handkerchief, and she is often summoned into the palace to speak.

Mrs. Shi knew her son's filial piety, and she didn't want to be sad about the past, so she pretended to be distracted: "I went there once and poured bitter water with me for a long time...... The emperor is now more and more willful, and only stays in the Ruyi Pavilion. Although the queen didn't pay attention to it, she couldn't stand the noisy concubines in the palace every day, and she didn't listen to the emperor several times. "Ruyi Pavilion is the palace of Concubine Lin.

"The queen is always so kind."

"Isn't it? It's strange to say, Concubine Lin has a weird and strange temperament, and sometimes she has to go back to the emperor's will, but she only listens to the words of the queen alone. This time I entered the palace, and I met her to greet the queen, and she was very respectful. ”

Xie Yao said with a smile: "Although it is a concubine, it is also a concubine, and it is appropriate to be respectful." ”

Mrs. Shi nodded: "Yes." ”

Before the words fell, a maid came in and announced: "Aunt Lin is here." ”

A slender beauty staggered in, untied her cloak, and said, "Madame, did you sleep well at noon?" ”

This is Aunt Lin's Lin Wanyan, and she is also Xie Nan's only concubine. was originally the niece of Xie Nan's mother, and she has been living by the Xie family since the death of her parents. When Xie Nan married Shi, he also followed after taking the whole family from his hometown in Huzhou to live in the capital. When Xie Yao was five years old, Shi was pregnant again, and due to the long time in labor, only one stillborn was born, and since then she has injured her body and cannot get pregnant, and she is two years older than Xie Yao, and there is no hope of giving birth in the future, so her mother-in-law is in charge, and she will marry Lin, who is already twenty years old and has become an old girl, into the door as a concubine. Within two years, he also gave birth to a son, Xie Yao's brother-in-law Xie Jin, and gave birth to a daughter Xie Ningning during the New Year.

Lin is also thirty-six years old this year, but he is still as slender and beautiful as a twentieth decade, and after giving birth to children, he has added countless charms to his face, and his naïve and simple demeanor makes people can't help but want to investigate whether this woman is sexy or innocent. The Lin family has always been gentle and humble to Mrs. Shi, and suddenly saw Xie Yao, and hurriedly saluted: "I didn't know that the eldest prince was here, and I collided with the son." ”

Xie Yao nodded, said goodbye to his mother and went out, and when he went out, he glanced at Hongyu, and Hongyu took the food box down as if unintentionally.

I only heard Lin smiling inside: "I heard that you haven't slept well these days, I made a pillow of green jade seeds for you......." Lin caught a glimpse of Hongyu taking the box out, opening a pair of big eyes of ignorance and curiosity, "What's in the box?" As if he suddenly remembered something, he covered his mouth and smiled: "I know, it must be the eldest prince who is out thinking about you and bringing you something good!" ”

Xie Yao's footsteps paused, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Xie Yao lived in the outer courtyard, and it turned out that the prince of the Hou Mansion lived in Sishen Hall. As soon as he arrived in the outer courtyard, there was a clear voice: "Big brother! ”

Twelve-year-old Xie Jin is in the transition period between a child and a teenager, and has just moved to the outer courtyard, and has a natural admiration for the eldest brother who won the move early, he ran to Xie Yao: "Big brother! ”

Xie Yao stood up and smiled: "Look at your frizziness, how old are you still jumping and running?" ”

Xie Jin touched his head, embarrassed: "Isn't this looking at the eldest brother?" Have you gone to see your mother? ”

"Yes. As soon as Aunt Lin went, I came out. ”

Xie Jin frowned: "Auntie just has nothing to do, she loves to go to her mother's to make trouble." He looked at Xie Yao enthusiastically: "Our classmates want to have a tea party on the day off, can the eldest brother come when he is free?" ”

"See if there's anything going on, and I'll go and help you if there's nothing to do." Xie Yao has always been lenient to his younger siblings, "I brought you a special Noodle Man from Yuzhou, a complete set of Journey to the West, pinched vividly, and I will let Tingyu send it to you." ”

Xie Jin raised his eyebrows, but he immediately held back: "Oh, how old am I, give me a noodle ......."

"If you don't want to, I'll give it all to Ning Ning together."

"Don't don't, I want it, I want it!"

The two brothers laughed, Xie Jin still had classes in the afternoon, so he didn't dare to delay more, so he hurried to the academy.

Xie Yao returned to Sishen Hall and watched the wind come out: "Childe." ”

Guanfeng is Xie Yao's grandfather Shi Chao has been optimistic about and cultivated since he was a child, Xie Yao was sent as soon as he moved to the outer courtyard, not only can read and write, but also knows some fist and foot kung fu, and is thoughtful, and has always been the most powerful around Xie Yao.

Xie Yao nodded and entered the inner hall.

Guanfeng followed, and when the little servant changed his clothes, he stepped back and whispered: "According to your instructions, when you set off for Yuzhou, I pretended to be unintentional and gave Mu Yun your detailed route and foothold...... "Mu Yun is also Xie Yao's personal servant, it was given by his grandmother Niu, and he is the younger brother of the eldest girl Xiaodan next to Mrs. Niu, Xie Yao already had to listen to the rain and watch the wind, but the elder gave it and had to accept it.

Guan Feng continued: "I have been sending people to keep an eye on him, except for Xiao Dan who came out once that night and asked him to help buy some rouge gouache, I have never seen contact with others. ”

Xie Yao nodded: "Sure enough, it's their ....."

"Childe's guess is good, I'm afraid that what happened fifteen years ago has nothing to do with them."

Xie Yao was silent for a long time: "Don't tell anyone first, wait for me to think about it." ”

"I understand, I won't talk to Madame and the old marquis."

It was dark, and there was another knock on the door of the Chi family.

Tingyu stood at the door: "Brother Chi, Murong Hou Ye sent today's pine yellow cake into the palace, and won the favor of the emperor and the concubine, Hou Ye specially sent someone to tell our son to ask you to do something else, and send some to the concubine tomorrow." ”

It turned out that it was said that when Xie Yao would come, and when he would have to serve food, but now he should have some supper, and he had no choice but to respond, and said: "Did Master Hou say, what kind of snacks do you want to make?" ”

"Just say what is similar to today."

Chi Tao thought for a while: "You come in with me first, what do I want to do." ”

Chi Tao took Tingyu into the stove room, flipped through the remaining ingredients, and saw that there was still a lot of ghee and cheese left for daytime, and his heart moved: "Have you ever eaten bone-in abalone?" ”

"What? Is it a snack? How can there be bones? ”

"Hmm...... There are no bones, just a dough shell with cream inside. ”

Tingyu shook his head dumbfounded: "What is the cream?" ”

Listening to the rain as a personal servant in a big family, he should have seen a lot, if he didn't even know, he should not have appeared yet.

That's a bone-in abalone, it's just ...... Chi Tao asked Tingyu: "When does Marquis Murong want to enter the palace tomorrow?" ”

"It should be afternoon!"

Then it's easy to do, "You help me do something, get up tomorrow morning, the sooner the better, buy ten catties of milk, and put it in the ice cellar." Do you have an ice cellar? ”

This can be understood, Tingyu nodded hurriedly: "Yes, our house was originally a Hou Mansion, and an ice cellar was dug in the garden!" Every winter, I have to go outside the city to raise ice and prepare for the summer cooling. ”

"I bought milk, put it in ten small urns with wide mouths, and put it in the ice cellar. After two hours, you bring the milk with the urn together, and make sure that the drive is steady and not shaking. And bring me some ice. ”

Listening to the rain and agreeing to go, Chi Xing came out when she heard the voice, and when she saw Chi Tao's worried face, she couldn't help but worry: "But what's the matter?" ”

Chi Tao shook his head: "The dim sum that Marquis Murong took today was sent to the palace, and I asked him to make some more to pick up tomorrow." Historically, there have been many rights and wrongs in the palace, and it is also food, and if it attracts people's attention, it will be troublesome. ”

Chi Xing didn't understand, and wondered: "Isn't this a good thing?" ”

Chi Tao didn't want her to worry too much, and said with a smile: "It's just that I love to worry about the sky." It should be fine, and our dim sum has been praised by the emperor, and if we open a dim sum shop in the future, the business will be very good. Catch up with Chi Xing again: "It's been a busy day, you go and rest for a while." ”

"Nothing to do, how tired are you? I thought I would sprinkle and clean up, but everything here is all clean, and you don't need me to cook. Because she felt that she was too idle, Chi Xing complained.

Chi Tao hurriedly smiled: "Hey, look at me, I forgot to find something to do for my sister when I was busy." Tomorrow you can help me buy some roses on the street, let's make some rose sauce. ”

Chi Xing was happy at this time, pursed her lips and smiled and went back to the house to be with Achu.

Chi Tao went into the stove, took two oranges with fresh top leaves, washed them, cut them into dices with a lancet, and pickled them with some honey.

The next day, because he knew that Chi Tao was going to prepare a snack, Xie Yao didn't come to eat, and waited until the afternoon to send the frozen milk with Tingyu.

Chi Tao is ready to go, baking a dozen or so crispy crusts the size of a child's fist, just waiting to be made into cream and poured in. I took advantage of the free time in the morning, and Chi Xing went to the market, the sisters went their separate ways, Chi Xing went to buy roses and odd things, and Chi Tao found a tea shop, at this time the tea culture has risen, fortunately, it has not yet embarked on the road of tea soup popular, and there are still many people who boil tea in clear water. Chi Tao picked up the black tea and green tea he recognized, and when he was leaving, he saw that he was still selling tea sets, and when he looked carefully, there was a surprise - there were tea whisks for sale! Isn't this a natural whisk?