Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 571 Two Hearts and Two Minds

The peaches and plums shine on the beauties, and the willow colors reflect the spring makeup.

With the arrival of early spring, the pear blossoms are condensed with spring dew, shining like jewels in the morning light.

Over there Gu Yuci stayed up all night, but here Zhao Xiwei had no dreams. When she woke up in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, and she was sitting under the window to do her makeup.

She wore a simple bun, wore two white jade stamens, and picked out a pair of pink begonia flower earrings. She matched it with a pea green pleated skirt with light white water cloud patterns embroidered on the skirt, and the skirt lining Sewn with double-layer spun yarn, it is light and elegant when moving, with a kind of beauty of flowing clouds and flowing water.

Surrounded by Yinbao and Jinxiu, one tied the silk sash around her waist, and the other tidied up the cuffs of her cuffs, and kept praising: "Miss, you have a good eye, this white flower matches the green one." The skirt is as pretty as a fairy."

Suyu nodded: "That's right, the green color is dignified and elegant, and it's suitable for this season." After a slight pause, she added pointingly, "If your Highness sees it, he will definitely like it."

Yin Bao hummed and said, "It's enough for him to look after Miss Gu, her red dress is so dazzling!"

Jinxiu stepped on it, and then forced a smile to look at her master: "Miss, don't listen to her nonsense, His Highness doesn't even pay attention to Miss Gu."

Zhao Xi pursed his lips and smiled, choosing a noncommittal attitude towards all kinds of speculation.

Suyu and Jinxiu looked at each other, both a little anxious: The Crown Princess is so lukewarm, and His Royal Highness doesn't have the slightest intention of retreating, so what should I do.

Jin Xiu tactfully advised: "Miss, I heard that His Highness was busy in the study last night, do you want to go and have a look?"

The little palace maid came in with a glazed fruit plate and placed all the fresh fruits on the table.

Zhao Xiwei picked a piece of pear flesh with a toothpick and ate it. She didn't like the cold, sweet taste, so she put it down again and picked another piece of red flesh. It was slightly sour in the mouth, but it had an inexplicably sweet aftertaste. Son.

She ate two yuan in a row before she said with a smile: "Your Highness has been busy in the study all night. He must have some urgent business. I can't help you much, so I shouldn't bother you at this time."

"..." Jinxiu choked for a moment.

Suyu winked, moved the plate of red flesh to Zhao Xiwei's eyes, and said casually: "This is the golden silk crabapple fruit. It is said to be a new variety cultivated by the Imperial Garden. It tastes not as sweet as other fruits. I didn't expect it to be sweet." The Crown Princess loves it very much."

Zhao Xi nodded and smiled slightly: "Sydney pears are too sweet, winter dates are too hard, and this crabapple fruit is sour, but it's very appetizing to eat."

Suyu just thought she was depressed, so she didn't think much about it, just smiled and said: "Last year the plums grew well, and the kitchen pickled a lot of sour plums and apricots. A plate?"

"Pickled sour plums?" Zhao Xiwei sounded a little curious, "I've only heard of pickled cabbage, but can fruits be pickled?"

"The Crown Princess doesn't know something." Suyu smiled slightly and said, "There are many fruit trees in our palace, and the season's fresh plums, apricots, red bayberries, etc., the masters couldn't finish eating them all, so they rewarded them to the servants of each palace. People, I don’t know who came up with this way of eating, marinate with salt, wine, vinegar and other secret recipes, seal it up, put one or two when making fish or meat, it can improve freshness and remove fishy smell What about the effect?"

After a pause, he specially reminded: "Because His Royal Highness likes to eat shrimp, our East Palace has been making this pickled sour fruit all the time. No, the kitchen is making shrimp ball soup in the morning. Would you like to give it to Your Highness by the way?" Send it?"

Suyu's original intention was to elicit the last sentence, but unexpectedly, Zhao Xiwei's interest remained on the topic of "pickled sour plums", and he asked with great interest: "Since the pickled fruits are so good, let them The recipe is here, I want to see it too."

It's all said and done, how can I go back?
Suyu coughed lightly: "Princess Concubine, what I mean by this servant is that Your Highness has worked hard all night, and it is time for someone to serve you—"

If you don't show your hospitality, you may be preempted by others.

Zhao Xi held the bamboo stick slightly, and smiled even more meaninglessly: "Whatever he wants to eat, he has his own kitchen to send it to him, why should I do anything extra?"

Suyu touched a few soft nails in a row, no matter how calm her temper was, she couldn't hold back: "Crown Princess, you may not know that Miss Gu is different from others, she and His Highness grew up together Yes, you must not underestimate the enemy..."

"If you don't underestimate the enemy, what can you do?" Zhao Xiwei put down the bamboo stick, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile, "Because a new woman appears, am I going to pounce on him eagerly and grab him? Hush and ask for warmth, serve tea Pass the water, it's not that I can't, I just don't want to."

Her eyes narrowed slightly, and her expression faded: "He treats me wholeheartedly, and I treat him wholeheartedly. He treats me with two hearts, and I treat him with two hearts." When she raised her eyes again, she was calm and complacent again: "He With a newcomer, I have to pay twice as much to please him, which is unreasonable and unreasonable, don't you think?"

Su Yu was taken aback.

She has been in the palace for decades, and this is the first time she has heard such a statement.

Zhao Xiwei didn't intend to talk too much with the servants, so he stopped the conversation and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I don't want to have a complete confrontation with him, I just don't want to come over to make this boring for the time being. Everyone in the future Life, how to live or how to live, this is just a trivial matter, do you want to think about it every day?"

The maidservants looked at each other in dismay, feeling a little inconceivable in their hearts: such a big matter, in the eyes of the Crown Princess, is actually just a "small matter"?
Yin Bao was not convinced: "Miss, what about Gu Yuci? Are you just taking advantage of her like this?"

"What's wrong with her?" Zhao Xiwei didn't like this kind of statement.

Yinbao couldn't bear it any longer, and frowned, he said all the words hidden in his stomach: "Miss, why do you think we are in a hurry? Isn't it because of what happened last night..."

"Yinbao!" Before he finished speaking, Suyu drank a sentence.

When Zhao Xiwei saw that something was wrong, he was even more surprised: "What happened?"

Yin Bao also knew that she was a little impulsive, so she bit her lip and suddenly fell silent.

Zhao Xiwei looked left and right, and saw that everyone's faces were very ugly, so he couldn't help but sit up straight, with a slightly condensed expression: "What are you hiding from me?"

The three of you look at me, I look at you, and finally Suyu took a step forward, and said solemnly: "Crown Princess, this morning I went to inquire about the news, I heard that Your Highness last night..."

Zhao Xiwei's heart skipped a beat, and he silently looked at the maid in front of him.

The air froze for a moment.

Suyu pursed her lips, and was about to open her mouth, but Zhao Xiwei let out a breath, with a calm expression: "What should come, will always come..."

She had a breezy smile on her face, but her heart was stuffed like a ball of cotton wool full of water, heavy and stuffy, and she couldn't breathe.

She was a little disappointed, a little uncomfortable, a little unaccustomed...

But just look at it...

(End of this chapter)