Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 17 Mutton Noodle Soup
There was a biting cold in the courtyard where people came and went.

Several women looked at Xia He, who had always been strong, weeping, with different expressions.

A Chi held the newly made buckles and looked over one by one, only to see Cui Jinniang frowned and didn't know what she was thinking, An Niannian's face was gloomy, Liu Tianxing stuck her head out from behind An Niannian and followed tears.

While crying, Liu Tianxing asked:

"Xia He, don't just cry, you mentioned Sister Qingying, did something happen to her?"

Xia He pursed her lips, but after all she didn't know what to say.

It seemed that as soon as some words were spoken, everything about her these years would be wiped away.

So what is she?What are her two children?

The courtyard door was opened, and a little maid hurried in: "Sister Achi, the young lady is back, and sister Tunan sent me to ask if you have any medicine for bruises."

"Is the girl hurt?"

A Chi, who was wearing a blue bijia, stood up abruptly, and walked out quickly with his skirt in hand.

There were only a few concubine rooms left in the yard, and no one spoke for a while.

After a while, Cui Jinniang held the corner of the handkerchief and said slowly: "The second young lady is injured, we concubines should go visit, right?"

After finding the reason for herself, she lifted her foot and walked out of the courtyard gate.

With her taking the lead, the rest of the people followed.

But he never thought that when he arrived at the main courtyard, he could only see Shen Shiqing who was sitting on the cushion and eating persimmons with his feet up.

Zhao Surui, who was in Shen Shiqing's body, was not in a very good mood at the moment, as the king of a country, how could he have any compassion for a maid who was sent down by the master's family?But Tunan recognized the woman named Qingying, and begged himself to save others for her.

He knew that he had very few people he could use, and Tu Nan was the most useful among Shen Sanwao's three maids, so he was not stingy with this kind of favor.

But watching Peifeng send people to find the doctor, Achi to find medicine, and Tunan also guarding in the side courtyard, he felt uncomfortable all over again, wondering if he was usually too kind to these maids , so that they actually put themselves aside.

If his chickens, dogs, cats and mice in the palace dared to forget him for an irrelevant person, he would definitely kick their asses.

Squinting his eyes and looking at these concubines who seem to have no good intentions at first glance, Zhao Surui wiped the persimmon water on his hands with a handkerchief:

"You guys came here in a hurry, because you heard that someone was injured and wanted to go to my funeral?"

Cui Jinniang took a step back, and saw that the other three and the maid behind them all kept their mouths shut like quails, so she also lowered her head and refused to be the one who came first.

Zhao Surui didn't intend to let them go: "What? You can't say anything anymore? You don't need to say anything, have you seen the stone in the corner? Since you have nothing to do, go and knock it into a size of ten catties. Chunk."

The stone in the corner of the yard was dropped when the yard was repaired in the early years. It is about two feet long and one foot wide, as high as a person's calf, and weighs at least three or four hundred catties.

Without special tools, how could the women move the stone.

Liu Tianxing's eyes were still red, she bit her lower lip, and said aggrievedly: "Young Madam, we have been making clothes all morning, it's not that we have nothing to do."

She took two steps forward and showed the young lady the cotton wadding under her fingernails: "I tore the cotton all morning, and I thought it was quite interesting at first, but my wrist hurts."

Zhao Surui waved his hand to stop her: "Don't come close to me, why don't you have any rules?"

Liu Tianxing stared at the young lady in front of her with wide eyes, and said in a sweet voice, "Young lady, you are more majestic and fierce than before."

Once upon a time?Zhao Surui sneered: "Then what was I like before?"

"The young lady used to be so good!" Liu Tianxing scratched her face in embarrassment, "I was still young when the young lady first married, and I sent things to the young lady's yard, and you gave me candies , hawthorn cake, amber walnut... and persimmon cake, all made by you, young lady, I have never eaten better desserts. Later, my wife gave me to the second young master, because I am timid and stupid , The kitchen bullied me and refused to let me eat, so the young lady asked Tunan to vent my anger for me, and even baked horseshoes with ashes in the charcoal basin for me to eat."

Speaking of the delicious food that she ate with the young lady in the past, Liu Tianxing was fascinated, and took a few steps forward, almost drooling and acting like a baby:
"Young Madam, when will you make persimmon cakes again? The red bean paste persimmon cakes you made are delicious and soft. Now I'm thinking about..."

Zhao Surui watched helplessly as the silly girl swallowed, and suddenly felt that the persimmon in his mouth was no longer sweet.

Persimmon cakes stuffed with red bean paste?

What's that smell like?
Really that delicious?

"Is it that delicious?" By the time he came back to his senses, he had already asked.

Liu Tianxing nodded her head like a cotton bow.

Zhao Surui put down the half-eaten persimmon in his hand.

A Chi hurried back with the medicine box in his arms, and saw his girl beckoning to him: "A Chi, go tell Tu Nan that I want to eat persimmon cakes with bean paste stuffing today."

"Yes, girl."

After entering the room and putting away the medicine box, Achi came out and said, "Girl, Qingying took the medicine and she looked better than before, but the local doctor Peifeng went to see and said that the most important thing about her is her postpartum health. Take care of it, it’s still bleeding, let’s go to the town or Yanjing City to find a Wenpo to have a look. Peifeng asked the tenants, and they all said that there is a Wenpo in the town, and Peifeng has already gone to look for it on horseback.”

Zhao Surui snorted, assuming he knew it.

Anyway, Tunan was allowed to save people, so he didn't care about the extra cost.

Hearing the word "Qingying", Xia He raised her head in disbelief, staring fixedly at A Chi.

A Chi noticed her gaze, glanced at her, and had an idea in his mind: "Girl, we don't have enough manpower. Aunt Xia was very good with Qingying in the past, why don't we give Qingying to her care."

This is a good idea, Zhao Surui, who was thinking about the persimmon cake, waved his hand and agreed.

Liu Tianxing wanted to follow Xia He to see Qingying, but he stopped her.

"Tell me again, what else was delicious in the past?"

He wrote it all down and asked Tunan to do it for him!
He is a majestic Emperor Zhaode, do you want anything delicious?

snort!
On the narrow path between the two courtyards, A Chi walked hurriedly, but spoke softly:

"Aunt Xia, Qingying was rescued by my girl and Tunan when they were out riding a horse. Tunan said that she saw Qingying by the side of a broken grass shed... It was also her fate that she met my girl, otherwise I'm about to be beaten to death by a few hooligans."

Hearing the word "death", Xia He paused.

A Chi glanced at her, but didn't speak.

The girl doesn't care about Xie Fengan's back house, but she has to care for the girl. Qingying is dexterous and docile, and is valued by Mrs. Uncle, but suddenly ends up being assigned to Zhuangzi. Xia He benefits from it, so she is naturally the most likely to do something Thinking of Xia He crying when he mentioned Qing Ying when he was making clothes, A Chi became more and more determined.

Her girl asked her to be the big housekeeper in the village, so she naturally wanted to share her worries everywhere. Xia He must be strong. Suppressing it was also a way for her to live up to the girl's expectations.

When the two entered the side courtyard, they smelled a scent of medicine. Achi said: "This is the prescription prescribed by the local doctor to relieve Qingying's pain. The doctor said that Qingying can neither activate blood nor stop bleeding. , I can only let her suffer with a sigh of relief."

While talking, someone in the room lifted the curtain and came out with a basin of dirty water in his hand.

It was Tunan with a sword hanging from his waist.

Glancing at Xia He, Tu Nan said to A Chi: "I just washed her body, and now I'm going to cook for the girl, please take care, Qing Ying... now I'm really in a bad state, don't be scared."

Xia He's body trembled involuntarily.

Every word A Chi and Tu Nan said was like a silver embroidery needle, piercing her heart with holes.

"Aunt Xia, I will leave Qingying to you."

A Chi lifted the curtain, let Xia He into the room, and let her face her long-lost conscience alone.

Then he turned around and walked to the corner of the courtyard and said to the little maid who was burning the fire: "Be alert, listen carefully to what Aunt Xia and Qingying said, and then tell me."

After leaving the side courtyard, she met Tu Nan who was waiting there.

"Aren't you going to cook for the girl?"

"I have a few words to say to you."

Tunan is holding the sword and leaning against the wall. She looks a bit like a hero in a storybook, but she has beautiful features. At first glance, she seems more like Xiaojiabiyu pretending to be a hero. People are surprised that she really has kung fu on her body.

Looking at A Chi, her expression was a little dark:
"Do you think the girl is different from before?"

A Chi thought that Tu Nan was going to tell her something important. Hearing this, she waved her hand: "The girl hurt her body, and she can't remember the past. Didn't you know it a long time ago?"

When A Chi said this, Tu Nan frowned slightly, her eyes flickered slightly, and she asked A Chi again: "I don't remember, what do you mean?"

Tunan kept thinking about the girl's look at Qingying.

Although her girl...is still a pure and kind woman who is struggling for others' suffering. How can she look at an innocent person who has been murdered so far with such indifferent eyes?
On the way back, Qingying was on her horse, and she watched the girl ride the horse and drag the tied up hooligans.

A thought lingered in her mind.

Did her girl lose her memory?Still lost?
Looking at Tu Nan's appearance, A Chi lowered his head and smiled: "I think the girl is pretty good now."

Tu Nan was about to refute, but A Chi said with a sigh:

"It's been seven years, and the girl has never had a day as happy as she is now."

"Tunan, I know that the girl ordered you to do many things in private. If the girl doesn't say anything, I never ask. But I feel sorry for the girl. Sometimes I even hope that the girl is like Xia He Cui Jinniang who only puts her eyes on it. A mediocre person who is favored by a rich and wealthy man will not have such a hard life. Now that the girl has forgotten the past, I also know that she will remember it one day, because she is our girl, but in Before that day, I only wanted the girl to live her life smoothly. This is what God owes our girl."

Tu Nan still had countless things to say in his heart, but they were blocked by A Chi's few short sentences.

Raising his eyes, Tunan saw the dead vines on the courtyard wall.

Closing her eyes and sighing, she only responded:
"it is good."

Suddenly the wind blew up, and the autumn rain fell sparsely. The two maidservants who had followed Shen Shiqing for many years looked up at the same time, and saw a few swan geese flying south through the sparse yellow leaves.

In the evening, Zhao Surui ate persimmon cakes stuffed with bean paste made by Tunan as he wished. It was really soft and delicious, and it was ten times more satisfying than eating a persimmon for nothing.

"Tunan, I heard that I used to know how to cook? Then how does my cooking skill compare with yours?"

While eating the third persimmon cake, Zhao Surui asked casually.

Tu Nan said with a smile: "Miss, you don't remember. You learned about my cooking skills after reading ancient books and then taught me. To be honest, I'm just a helper for you."

Zhao Surui looked down at half a persimmon cake in his hand.

This...is just a helper?

How good is Shen Sanwa's craftsmanship?
"Then what is the best dish I cooked before?"

Tunan thought for a while and said, "The green shrimp roll ① made by the girl is very delicious."

A Chi said at the side: "I prefer the girl's A and B ointment ②."

"Speaking of Jiayi cream, the venison that the girl made that year was really well done."

Pei Feng, who has always been a taciturn girl, thought about it very seriously, and then said: "The mutton noodle soup made by the girl is very good."

A Chi immediately agreed: "Yes! The mutton noodle soup made by the girl is the best in the world!"

Tunan also nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Surui had no expression on his face, holding a mouthful of persimmon cake in his hand, whether to eat it or not.

He has never heard of fresh shrimp rolls or A and B ointment, so it must be an arty way.

As for the venison, Guanglu Temple has venison every now and then.
In the dead of night, the night rain is silent, it is a good time to sleep peacefully.

Zhao Surui, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.

How delicious is the mutton noodle soup made by Shen Sanwau?

　①The green shrimp roll comes from the recipe "Yunlintang Food System Collection" written by Ni Zan at the end of Yuan Dynasty

　　② A and B ointment comes from the novel collection "Miscellaneous Notes of Yunxian" by Feng Zhi of the later Tang Dynasty

　　One is a cookbook, and the other is a collection of novels. The time span is relatively large, and the books are relatively unpopular, just to highlight that Shen Shiqing's scope of coverage is relatively wide.

　　Zhao Surui's curiosity and exploration of Shen Shiqing started with a bowl of mutton noodle soup.

　　We are much happier than him. The next chapter will tell you how delicious Shen Shiqing's mutton noodle soup is.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)