Great Tang princess

Chapter 610 Preserved Eggs
After receiving the envoys, the events of years ago are over, and there is nothing too troublesome to do next.

So in the next period of time, Li Yuechen basically entered the palace every day, and took a few photos of his mother when the light was good in the afternoon.

It's just that Wu Zetian was not too obsessed with it, considering that it was a black and white photo after all, and there was no PS technology.

On the contrary, Li Xian and the others, after being trained by the photographers in the palace, were called to different places almost every day to take pictures for them.

Wei Lian'er and the others just got interested in taking pictures. Basically, they would wear nice clothes and take pictures every day, and then take photos to admire themselves.

Even Li Xian started complaining that his wife didn't care much about him these days.

In fact, it was normal for this kind of situation to happen, Li Yuechen told him not to worry, it would be fine when the momentum passed.

During this period of time, she was relatively relaxed. Every day, she either went to the palace to accompany her mother, or stayed in the princess mansion, practicing kung fu, reading books, and her life was extremely comfortable.

It's no wonder that many people want to rest and lie down. It turns out that the feeling of not working is so refreshing, and then they just lie down all the way until New Year's Eve.

In the morning, after Li Yuechen finished his exercise and took a shower, he took advantage of lunch and organized a red envelope distribution to all the servants in the princess mansion.

In fact, this kind of activity is also available in the palace, but not everyone can get it. Generally, it is the servants who are close to the emperor and prince who have this treatment.

Li Yuechen treated them equally, and basically gave all the servants in the Princess Mansion. The amount was not much, but it was enough for them to go out and buy some wine or some other snacks.

As for those who are close, Fulai, Xiaohe, and Shangguan Wan'er's mother, who watched her grow up, gave a larger number of red envelopes, one golden bean each.

By the way, the new personal maid, Xiaodong, also has one, which is a good time.

After eating at noon, it's time to enter the palace after tidying up. Today is New Year's Eve, so dinner must be eaten in the palace with my mother, and the whole family must be there.

After packing up and dressing up, Li Yuechen and his sister-in-law Pei Qingwan got into the carriage and left the Princess Mansion.

Before leaving, Li Yuechen ran to the kitchen first, took out a large pot that was as high as his knees, checked the results inside, and then got into the car with him.

On New Year's Eve, the streets were quite lively, and now Guotai Minan, the capital city was the first to be reflected.

It can be seen that children from many families can basically put on new clothes at this time and run around on the street.

Along the way, you can see many people put a brazier on both sides of the street, and then throw the bamboo in their hands into it, making a "crackling" sound.

Accompanied by the loud laughter of children and the scolding of parents.

It is worth mentioning that the atmosphere in the Eastern Capital has changed a lot over the years. Young couples walking hand in hand on the street will not attract attention at all, but they are used to it.

In the upper class, the atmosphere of free love has already begun, of course, it has not reached the level of the future, but as long as the family background of the double anti-duplicate is similar, there is a high probability that the parents will not interfere.

Now in this city, I can feel a kind of vitality, which is a completely different concept from before.

The carriage moved forward at a constant speed and entered the palace. Li Yuechen and his sister-in-law got out of the carriage together and came to Jixian Hall.

When they arrived, the other brothers, sisters and sister-in-laws were already here, and when they saw Pei Qingwan coming in, they all saluted together.

Although the eldest brother Li Hong is gone now, the eldest sister-in-law is the eldest sister-in-law, and Li Xian and others will salute her.

After saluting, the female relatives went to the side to chat first.

This is also a good thing, Wei Lian'er and others were more afraid of Wu Zetian, the mother-in-law, so it is best to talk less.

So Wei Lian'er took Pei Qingwan and Fang Furong aside to chat, and by the way, let's talk about some nice photos I took recently.

The children are basically playing outside the hall. Young people in the army don't like quietness very much. They are playing in the backyard of Jixian Temple at this moment.

As Li Yuechen's number one fanboy, Li Longji really wanted to go to Anfu Hall to see what the living environment of this aunt was like when she was a child, but even if they were children of the royal family, they couldn't run around in the palace, and they could only go to the palace in the end. Looking over there, his eyes were full of unwillingness.

And Wu Zetian, who was sitting in the main hall, was also chatting with the children at this time, and they rarely met each other, so there were always many topics to talk about every time they met.

But at this moment, everyone's attention was on the big pot that Li Yuechen was holding in his arms.

"Yuechen, is this a gift for Aunt?" Li Xian asked curiously.

"Forget it, I can eat together tonight." Li Yuechen put down the jar with a smile.

Li Xian came over and took a look: "What is this?"

At this point, Li Yuechen didn't bother to continue to play tricks, and opened the lid directly. Everyone looked over curiously, and found that it was full of eggs.

And these eggs look like they are wrapped in a layer of mud, and the mud is covered with rice husks.

"Director Zhang, send someone to wash off the mud, and make it according to the method at night." Li Yuechen said as he took out a note from his arms and handed it over, and took out an egg by the way.

Zhang Chengxin promised, squatted down and wanted to go out first with the jar in his arms, but failed to pick it up after hugging it twice, then he remembered that he might not be able to handle things that the princess could pick up at will, and called two other young eunuchs In and out.

Looking at the rice-husk-covered egg in her hand, everyone gathered around curiously: "Yuechen, what kind of egg is this?"

"Duck eggs, but with some special treatment."

Li Yuechen smiled mysteriously, and then went to the trash can by the table and peeled off the mud layer, revealing the bluish eggshell inside after a while.

After knocking it open on the table, the egg shell broke open, revealing the egg white which has become black and translucent inside, and if you look closely, you can still see patterns on it.

Now it's not just the brothers and sisters, even Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er came over curiously, wanting to see what this egg is up to.

Li Xian frowned even more: "This thing is black, how can I eat it?"

However, Li Dan had a different opinion: "Yuechen is a Taoist, could it be that he refined duck eggs into elixir?"

When other people think about it, it seems to make sense, especially Wu Zetian. When she was young, she had seen Emperor Taizong eat elixir.

And the color of the elixir is actually mostly blue or black.

Originally, Li Yuechen was quite legendary, and the theory of immortal reincarnation was almost universally accepted, so if she said that it was an elixir, no one would not believe it.

Li Yuechen didn't bother to explain, and was thinking about who would be the first to cheat among the brothers, and accidentally saw Shangguan Wan'er, so he grinned: "How about Wan'er come and taste first?"

It is impossible for such an unclear thing to be the first to be eaten by the emperor, even if the emperor doesn't mind, this is the rule!

And Shangguan Wan'er is the emperor's secretary. Although it's not her job to test the emperor's poison, she still has to do it at special times.

Everyone else turned to look at her.

With 100% unconditional trust in Li Yuechen, Shangguan Wan'er did not respond, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Yes!"

After reaching out to take the black preserved egg, he stuffed it into his mouth without any hesitation.

Not to mention a small half of it in one bite, it happened to be the side where the egg yolk was deposited.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yuechen saw a change in Shangguan Wan'er's expression, her normally quiet face instantly became distorted.

"Hmm—" Shangguan Wan'er let out a sad struggle with her distorted expression, then immediately lowered her head and started looking for a place to vomit.

"Hahahahaha..."

Seeing Shangguan Wan'er with this expression, Li Yuechen laughed heartlessly. While laughing, he kept patting his thigh, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

When the others saw this scene, they all had complicated expressions on their faces.

Speaking of it, it seemed that Li Yuechen hadn't done this kind of prank for many years, and now that he did it all of a sudden, it really caught people off guard.

After Shangguan Wan'er came back from outside, Li Yuechen's laughter gradually stopped.

After returning, she looked at Li Yuechen who was wiping tears there with some resentment, with a look of being wronged.

Li Yuechen came over and raised his hand to rub her face: "Oh, how can you bite half of it... You can't eat this thing like this!"

Her perfunctory reassurance didn't have any effect, Shangguan Wan'er just pouted and replied: "Wan'er is fine, it's just that she doesn't get used to it for a while."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault! Don't be angry..." Li Yuechen rubbed her face and said with a smile.

She wouldn't be angry because of this, but she felt a little bit dead after being tricked all of a sudden, especially in front of so many people in Jixian Temple.

Wu Zetian couldn't help smiling, then changed the subject and asked, "Wan'er, what kind of smell is it?"

The others also looked curious. Seeing that she ran out just now, they knew that this food must not be delicious.

"Going back to Your Majesty, it's like eating lime." Shangguan Wan'er replied with a complicated face.

Hearing this answer, Wu Zetian turned his head to look at his daughter, asking her to give an answer with his eyes.

"Don't worry, Auntie. She was in a hurry to eat just now. In fact, the taste is still good after processing." Li Yuechen smiled, "Of course, some people just can't get used to it, so there's nothing you can do about it. Dinner Just try it out then.”

"Lime-flavored eggs..." Li Xian's expression was a bit complicated, as if he was imagining the taste, "Brother, I probably can't eat it."

Li Yuechen shook his head lightly: "That's not necessarily true."

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Soon it was time for the dinner, and two huge round tables were set up in the main hall of Jixian Temple. The emperor Wu Zetian sat at one table with his children, and the grandchildren sat at the other table.

The royal chefs of the Shangshi Bureau presented the prepared meals on trays and placed them on the table according to the pre-ordered form.

The style of the royal family banquet is naturally different from the outside, Shangshi Bureau prepared the banquet according to Li Yuechen's request.

Plus staple food and fruit plate, 22 hot and cold dishes each, a total of [-] dishes.

With so many dishes, the few people present should not be able to finish them, and waste is inevitable.

In normal times, Li Yuechen definitely doesn't advocate waste, but for Chinese New Year, a little waste can be regarded as a good meaning for every year, so it doesn't matter if you indulge a little bit.

A transparent glass shot glass was placed in front of no one, and the maid in charge of serving at the side poured a glass for everyone.

As for the children on the side, don't even think about it, just drink juice obediently.

Looking at one of the dishes in front of him, Li Xian carefully identified it: "Yuechen, is this the lime egg?"

"Well, pickle it with vinegar and minced ginger after cutting it open, it will taste much better. Brother, you might as well try it later." Li Yuechen laughed.

Li Xian had a hesitant expression on his face. Judging from Shangguan Wan'er's expression just now, the taste of this thing is obviously not good.

After all the dishes were served, Wu Zetian held up the wine glass: "Come on, let's celebrate the New Year first."

All the children and the juniors at the table next to her stood up one after another, raised their wine glasses with both hands, and bowed to her.

"Today is a family banquet, I don't want to say too much, I hope you wait, the new year will be even better!" Wu Zetian said casually.

Although it was a family banquet, but there were Fang Furong, Wei Lian'er and others, she didn't bother to say much, it was no different from usual, except that today's expression was not as serious as usual, but there were more smiles.

The children and juniors expressed their blessings to the emperor one by one with wine glasses. The congratulatory messages were basically the same, and this template was used every year.

The same is true for Li Yuechen, but when he said it, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, which seemed quite interesting.

But what I think in my heart is: I only hope that this country will get better and better in the future!I hope that the world will be peaceful in the future, and the country will last forever.I hope that the people can live happily and stay away from the danger of swords; I also hope that the responsibility and spirit of the royal family can be passed down from generation to generation...

After the congratulatory speech was finished, Wu Zetian waved them to sit down: "Okay, let's start the banquet!"

The voice fell, and it was not until she picked up the chopsticks and moved for the first time that the children picked up the chopsticks and followed suit.

Li Xian stared curiously at the preserved egg in front of him, the chopsticks in his hands kept pinching the air, as if he was struggling to eat a piece.

It's okay if it's at home, but if you can't help but spit it out at the dinner table with your mother, it's disrespectful.

While he was struggling, Li Yuechen took the lead and put a piece into his mouth, raised his eyebrows and ate it, then nodded slightly: "Well, it's not bad!"

This appearance made Wu Zetian curious, it was obvious that Shangguan Wan'er reacted that way, why does this daughter eat so deliciously?
Out of curiosity, he picked up a piece with his chopsticks, put it in his mouth, and quietly moved the small bowl in front of him a little.

But the next moment she felt that this action was a bit redundant, because the smudged taste in her mouth was quite good.

This strange taste that she ate for the first time did not make her feel uncomfortable, but she got used to it immediately, and felt that this stuff was quite delicious.

Seeing that his mother had no expression on his face, Li Xian finally couldn't help but put a piece in his mouth, and then...it smells so good!
(End of this chapter)