Chapter 116: The Emperor Wants to Eat for Nothing
The emperor was fed a round belly.
Growing up, I haven't eaten so many bizarre meals.
After the meal, it was time to turn over the brand, and it happened that Aunt Guan personally sent a cold lettuce: "The queen mother thinks this cold lettuce is good, so let the slave maid send it to the emperor to taste." ”
The salad is topped with white sesame seeds and sesame paste, and some white vinegar and sesame oil are drizzled.
At first glance, it is not the craftsmanship of the dining room.
Another day of being fed.
The women in the palace, like Bao Guiren, can be seen to be fat with the naked eye, and the emperor also feels that he has been showing off his fat for a few days, and his wrists are a little thicker than a few days ago, and his eyebrows, which were originally high, are not so sharp now, and they seem to be a lot softer.
"Gao Rang, did you say where these women went to learn cooking, and why are the meals they cook so delicious?"
"Your Majesty, you are staying in the Taihe Palace, I am afraid you don't know that these meals are not made by them in each palace, but bought by the ladies."
"Bought?"
Thinking that he couldn't explain clearly, Gao Rang decided to take the emperor to the Yongfu Palace.
Other palace doors can be crowded, and the Yongfu Hall is full of traffic.
The grandmother of the Ministry of Internal Affairs picked a lot of vegetables and sent them, and also sent some fruits, three baskets full of them.
There are also a few palace maids probing their brains in the hall.
"Our master wants to drink a coconut and red date soup."
"Our master wants a corn cake."
Soon, the people in the small kitchen brought out the coconut and red date soup, the soup was not in a bowl, but a brown round coconut was made into a bowl and placed on the porcelain plate, the coconut was used as a bowl, and there was coconut water and red dates in the bowl, which smelled sweet and refreshing, light but not lacking.
The corn cake was yellow and clear, and it was still steaming when it was served, and this heat hit the face, and the whole person was full of the sweetness of corn.
The smell is a little familiar.
Yes, the soup and dim sum served by the concubines recently, the taste and appearance are very similar to this.
Du Zhiyan counted the silver under the window with Shi Jing.
After the opening of the small kitchen, each palace assigned the palace maid to buy, three or three twos counted, less than half a month, in addition to the capital, up and down the expenses, but also a surplus of twenty-two and a half hanging money.
It's a job.
The people in the palace have money, and they are willing to spend it. Just like the coconut and red date soup launched by Du Zhiyan on this day, it is known as nourishing qi and blood, and it can have good skin after drinking, ruddy and elastic, intermittent, and the mothers of the three palaces sent people to buy it.
There was a dark shadow outside the window, and there was a dull yellow in the snow.
Shi Jing held the silver and muttered quietly: "I can earn at most a month by going to bed, and I haven't opened a small kitchen to earn much, so it seems that there is a future for opening a small kitchen." ”
"Shhhh
"What's the sigh, haven't you seen the emperor recently? I also feel that it seems that I haven't seen the emperor for a long time, I just took a nap, and I dreamed that the emperor came to the Yongfu Palace, which was really unlucky, and scared me awake. Shi Jing raised the window higher, and looked out, the good guy The emperor was standing in the snow with his hands tied, the dark yellow was the emperor's robe, and next to the emperor, stood Gao Gonggong.
Sure enough, the emperor came.
Shi Jing's embarrassing toes can cut out two acres of land.
The emperor tied his hands into the inner hall, and after walking so far, a layer of snowflakes fell on his sideburns, counting nine cold days, and the emperor's lips were frozen white.
Du Zhiyan hurriedly handed the stove in his hand to the emperor.
The emperor's white bones rubbed against the stove and looked at Du Zhiyan's face with interest.
The aroma from the small kitchen wafted in from time to time, and Du Zhiyan hugged her money bag in embarrassment.
"Got into business?"
Du Zhiyan hurriedly knelt down: "Your Majesty."
"Tell me what's going on."
Du Zhiyan thought about how to explain this matter to the emperor over and over again.
You must know that the women in this harem, even if they are show girls who have just entered the palace, do not worry about eating and drinking, and the mothers and masters have a lot of wage subsidies, and the queen mother and emperor have rewards during the New Year's holidays.
Du only said that the emperor is always there, and now he is planning business, and in the past half a month, he has been concerned every day about whether the vegetables sent by the Internal Affairs Office are new or not, and whether the soup in the small kitchen is just right, and he has indeed snubbed the emperor.
I heard that everyone else went to deliver food to the emperor, but she didn't go either.
Speaking of coming from the first emperor, I have never heard of a woman in the harem who resells soup.
Although the law of Chen Guo does not stipulate this article, what the emperor thinks, Du only said that it is not clear.
The emperor's black boots are still stained with snow, thinking that he walked from Taihe Palace to Yongfu Palace, so far away, the emperor came in the snow, shouldn't he come to praise her for making money, right?
Looking at the emperor, there is no joy.
Du Zhiyan was a little panicked.
A rich fruity aroma wafts from the kitchen, followed by an even richer scent, which is a little bit on the top of the nose.
Gao Rang sniffed and frowned.
The emperor's brows also furrowed.
Shi Jingli closed the window and shook the handkerchief in front of his face: "What kind of smell is this, I'm afraid it's not that the toilet is not clean, can you smell such a big smell in the Yongfu Palace?" ”
Gao Rang almost vomited: "Master Shi, the cleaning of the palaces has not fallen every day, of course, it is not that the toilet has not been emptied, but I am afraid that it is something else." ”
Gao Rang gave the emperor a bowl of tea with concern, the emperor opened the tea lid, only to feel that the overwhelming smell was so stinking that he wanted to shed tears, this inexplicable smell surrounded his whole person, this sweet and stinky smell is really on top, when the emperor has never heard of it for so many years, now the tea bowl is full of stink, this stink is really pickled.
Du Zhiyan asked Shi Jing in a low voice: "Did you move that durian?" ”
"Isn't it the one covered in spikes? I thought that it was a little cold to eat raw, roasted like a roasted sweet potato, the hot should be delicious, and the smell was sweet, why did it stink when roasted? ”
Shi Jing went to bring the roasted durian into the hall, good guy, it stinks so much that people are suffocated, so he hurriedly trotted to throw it.
Gao Rang took the dust and kept driving the smell in the hall, the windows were opened, and after a long while, the hall could barely sit people.
Because it is an experimental dish, there are occasional times when the car rolls over.
For example, this roasted durian overturned on the spot.
"What have you been busy with lately?" The emperor held Du Zhiyan's money bag, and the money bag hung on Du Zhiyan's waist, and the emperor easily pinched her thigh: "Are you short of money?" ”
Du Zhiyan shook his head.
"If there is no shortage of money, why is that? Do you want to tempt me with food? ”
Du Zhiyan shook his head again.
"Give me an answer."
Du Zhiyan knelt down and tried his best to pretend to be pitiful: "Your Majesty, the concubines are idle in the harem, do something, and the time is easy to pass, isn't it?" ”
"Idle is also idle, what kind of idleness? Don't you have to wait for me? ”
Du only said
"Since you're so idle, go and serve me at night."
Du only said
Du only said that his face was embarrassed.
"What's wrong, you don't want to?"
"It's not that the concubine is unwilling, it's just that there is still soup stewed in the small kitchen, the pear water is ordered by Mei Guiren, I have already accepted the half-hanging money, the coconut hawthorn water is promised by Zhao, and the half-hanging money was given yesterday, and the queen has ordered a cup of Baxi balls and has not yet made it, and the queen has asked Guiyuan to send a tael of silver."
The emperor sighed secretly: "You are really busy, you have a lot of opportunities than me, and your meals are more important than me." ”
Du didn't dare to say much.
The inside of the temple is warm.
Du Zhiyan was dressed in a snow-colored woven silver poria flower shirt, wearing a jade step, and the earrings were a pair of silver-inlaid yellow treasures, perhaps because he was in a good mood after earning silver, and his complexion was good, his eyes were warm, and his lips were red.
"What are the dishes, bring them to me and see."
The two recipes I bought in the system came in handy.
The two thick books were held in front of the emperor, and the emperor turned a few pages, looking powerless, good guy, strange that the food in the palace was delicious recently, look at these two recipes, how finely compiled, with the name of the dish, with the method, each of which is thicker than the dictionary he collects.
The emperor was somewhat interested in these two beautifully made books. Du only said that he couldn't say that he bought it in the system, so he had to say: "It was handed down by the ancestors of the concubine." ”
"Then it's a pity for your father, as my supervisor of the imperial history, he couldn't be a cook, these two books, I look very good, can you borrow me to read for two days, so that the kitchen in the imperial dining room can also learn."
Of course not.
It all depends on this recipe business to be prosperous, if it is lent to the imperial dining room, with the cooking skills of the people in the imperial dining room, isn't the business of the Yongfu Palace to be yellow?
This is to cut off Du Zhiyan's financial route.
Cutting off people's financial roads is like digging people's ancestral graves.
Du only said a blessing: "It's just two ordinary books, compared with the emperor's two domineering presidents, the concubines have been thinking about the emperor's two books, I wonder if the emperor can lend them to the concubines for two days?" ”
And I mentioned the two books.
The emperor's face was red to the root of his ears, and this woman still remembered the two books.
Forget it, don't want her recipes, as long as she keeps her mouth shut, don't mention any books of domineering presidents.
"They can all order, can I order?"
"Of course you can, Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, as long as it is a dish that is available in the Yongfu Palace, you can order it." Seeing that there was business, Du Zhiyan hung up her signature smile again.
"Okay, give me a wolfberry pea tip in the evening, I heard that this pea tip tastes good."
"The emperor really knows the goods, the pea tips of the Yongfu Palace are tender and fresh, and the wolfberries are fried hot, and the taste is unique. In the evening, the concubine will personally send it to the emperor. ”
That's pretty much it.
Du Zhiyan stretched out his hand.
The emperor was obviously stunned.
"Goji berry pea tip, half a penny."
"I am the emperor, and you still receive my money?"
"The emperor won't think about Lai Chen's concubine's half-hanging money, right?" Du Zhiyan cried with a sad face: "The concubines are all small transactions, which oil, salt, sauce and vinegar don't need money, the emperor, you are rich in the world, wise and martial, you will definitely not eat and drink in vain, right?" ”
The emperor lowered his eyes.
There is a folk saying that a husband and wife are a hundred days of grace for one day.
The emperor and Du Zhiyan are also husband and wife, and they want to eat a simple wolfberry pea tip, and Du Zhiyan wants him to give money first? Half hanging money, my God, the emperor has never heard of such a small amount of money, and the smallest amount of silver in his hand also has three or five taels, half hanging money, jokes, is it still up to her.
But the emperor really didn't have half the money.
"You send the wolfberry pea tips to Taihe Palace at night, and I will give you a penny."
"No credit."
"You...... Such a stingy palace concubine, I only saw it when I was so old. ”
"No credit."
The emperor was very helpless, thinking that with the love of husband and wife, relying on his status in the palace, Du only said that he had no way to send him food like a fart assembly line, and he didn't want her to be so backbone, not only did he not give it away in vain, but he also did not give it on credit, not only did he not take it on credit, but he also thought of a way to make the emperor pay for it: "The concubine knows that the emperor does not bring silver when he goes out, but Gonggong Gao serves the emperor, and Gonggong Gao must carry silver with him." ”
"Gao Rang-" The emperor put pressure on Gao Rang.
Gao Rang touched up and down, looking embarrassed: "Your Majesty, the slave came out in a hurry, and he forgot to bring silver." ”
Neither the master nor the servant brought any money.
Embarrassed.
A supreme emperor of the Chen State, a popular eunuch beside the emperor, the two of them together can't make up half a penny.
It's a joke to get out.
Shi Jing looked at these two people like thieves, these two people looked at the appearance of the dignified and majestic, a jade tree Linfeng imperial robe, and a black and blue eunuch uniform respectfully, but this is not to give money and want the death of the food, properly playing hooligan.
The concubine has to pay for the groceries.
The small kitchen of the Eifukuden is not easy either.
Washing, washing, buying vegetables and meat, which is not an expense, it is really not a family and does not know that firewood and rice are expensive.
I knew that it would be a good thing for the emperor to come over if he was not cold.
Shi Jing couldn't help but whisper in Du Zhiyan's ear: "I can see it, the emperor wants to eat for nothing." ”
"I also understand that the emperor wants to prostitute wolfberry pea tips for nothing."
"The dignified emperor searched it." Shi Jing rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "I want to take advantage of the cheapness of half the money." ”
The emperor's face turned crimson all of a sudden, and even his ears were red: "Shi Jing, when you are troubled to say bad things about people, be quiet." ”
Shi Jing......
It seems that the emperor really didn't bring any money.
The anxious face is red, and the ears are red, and he can't take out the silver.
Never mind.
I don't think he can run either.
Besides, you can't be too stingy in business, and you still want to attract repeat customers.
Even if he eats a wolfberry pea tip for nothing, he can't be poor.
Du only waved his handkerchief and took out the posture of the proprietress: "You are the emperor's ......"
Before the second half of the sentence was spoken, the emperor was unwilling.
"I won't eat it." The emperor turned around and left.
Gao Rang hurriedly chased after him.
The master and servant went to the Taihe Palace along the long road, when they came out, the snow was not very big, one by one but wet their hair, when they went back, the snow buried the soles of their boots, look at the sky, the darker and lower, the black clouds pressed the top, those black clouds seemed to be pressed on the palace, heavy, all snow water.
The wind and snow are blowing, and the road is almost icy, and it is a little slippery when you walk on it.
Gao Rang knelt directly in front of the emperor.
The emperor's tense face suddenly had a smile: "Stupid thing, and I fell." ”
"Back to the emperor, a slave is not a wrestler."
"Then what are you doing on your knees, don't you get up quickly."
Gao let him smile, from his arms out of an embroidered wild goose purse, the emperor took the purse, but it was heavy, open it to see, there are seven or eight taels of silver.
The silver of the white flowers was carried on his body, but Gao Rang cried poor just now.
"Just now the emperor of the Yongfu Palace asked the slave if he brought silver, and the slave said no, it was a crime of bullying the king." Gao Rang said that he was about to kneel down again.
"Get up, just the two of us, who do you kneel to."