The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 125 The Return
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches day by day, the atmosphere of reunion gradually overflows among the various governments.

In stark contrast, the Yuan Mansion where the Seven Kings lived was deserted.

The Seven Kings are still imprisoned, guarded by imperial guards day and night, outsiders cannot enter, and the palace people inside have to be strictly inspected if they want to go out to buy.

This is also no way.Regardless of whether the relationship between the two is connected or not, the fact that Nie Fang went to the military camp to inquire has already happened.The general caught someone and sent them over, and many people knew about this matter, so even if the emperor knew the reason in his heart, he had no choice but to wrong the Seven Kings for a while.If this appearance is not done well, it is inevitable that others will follow suit in the future.

Fortunately, since the two brothers talked together, even though they were imprisoned, they didn't feel depressed.The emperor planned to make a transition after returning to Luo'an, and write an imperial decree to reprimand him or something—to lead the matter to "the seven kings are young and ignorant", and never to lead to "rebellion".

Until the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor couldn't help thinking about it every day, and he couldn't help sighing when he thought about it.

——This means that the seventh brother has a pure nature and is willing to respect his eldest brother even when he has a mother.If you change anyone who is ambitious, it will be a different situation now.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, palace cakes, crabs, snails, and various sweet-scented osmanthus desserts were prepared in various mansions.Sydney looked at the crab with tears in her eyelashes: she is pregnant, so she can't eat it.

The crabs in Qinzhou are big and fresh, and some of the tribute crabs in the palace come here every year.Regardless of the crab meat, crab roe and crab paste, the taste is extremely delicious, and there is no need for any elaborate methods. Simply steamed and eaten with seasonings is especially good.

Yao thought that when he was in the palace, he could still eat one or two.Now that I have arrived at the place where the crab is produced, but I can't move a mouthful, how can I not feel sad and angry in Sydney's heart!
But she can't stop others from eating crabs just because of this - other places started eating crabs half a month ago, and she didn't eat crabs until the Mid-Autumn Festival around her. Said, "If I don't eat it, you are not allowed to eat it"... She really can't do this!

So she just looked at Ayao eating very happily, Ayao especially likes crab roe, after the nanny cracked the crab shell, she saw that there were so many crab roe, she could jump up on the chair with a smile on her face!

She also wanted to feed Xueli, and she handed over a crab leg with sparkling eyes, Xueli could only touch her forehead and turned her head with difficulty: "Good boy... Mom can't eat..."

It feels so painful, the hardest thing in the world is that you can't eat delicious food right in front of you!

She watched her daughter happily finish eating three crabs with sympathy, but in the end, the nanny was afraid that eating too much cold food would be bad for the children, so she took it away.Xueli sighed heavily, and as soon as she lay down on the table, she heard Su Zixian's laughter: "You are so greedy... you are promising!"

She raised her head again, and seeing Su Zixian came in with a food box, she immediately frowned: "Don't be mad at me... If you are a crab, take it back to your room and eat it, and don't wave it in front of my eyes!"

angry!

She didn't even go to the emperor's study today!Because I heard that a large plate of steamed crabs was just sent in half an hour ago!
Su Zixian didn't leave, sat down with a smile, and opened the food box: "Here, Mr. Wei just brought the game crabs made by the chef of Jinyuelou, to satisfy your hunger."

Race crabs?
Sydney's eyes lit up.She has heard about the dish, it seems that it is mainly fish, served with eggs, and seasoned with soup, sugar, vinegar, and ginger. After cooking, it tastes better than crabs, so it is called "Sai Crab".

The taste should be the same. If the fish is well selected and tender enough, it will be similar to crab meat.Another advantage is that...it saves the shelling.

This dish is quite particular.But Sydney has never been eaten in the palace - the palace has good fresh crabs to eat every year, who has time to taste this "fake product"?

But right now it is a treasure to her!This food is not cold without crab meat, so she can eat it to her heart's content, otherwise the smell of crabs will drive her to death...

Therefore, Sydney ate it with rice. Perhaps it was because he had been tortured for too long, and now he thinks that the crab is better than the real crab.The soup is delicious, sour and sweet, and it is very suitable for rice. She ate a full bowl and a half of rice, and put down the bowl with a smile on her face: "It's so comfortable!"

Su Zixian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Lord Wei said that His Majesty ordered the chef from Jinyue Tower to cook this, because you are greedy, I still don't believe it, but now it seems that His Majesty knows about you. But I have learned this dish, and I can make it for you when I return to the palace. eat!"

Su Zixian learned it secretly.The chef at Jinyue Building is too courageous. In fact, as early as the beginning of July, the emperor sent Wei Chen to invite someone. It stands to reason that Wei Chen's dignified imperial guard commanded Tongzhi, and he was ordered by the emperor to invite someone. The cook is no problem.

But the chef of Jinyuelou dared to hold a knife to his neck and said: "I only cook for Jinyuelou in my life! Your Majesty can eat it if you want, call from here. If you want me to go there, I will die here !"

——Wei Chen has nothing to do with it, it's not enough to drive people to death for a crab.So I could only persuade him with good words, saying that I will order food here, and I will trouble him to do it in the past.

But before, no one was around to eat it, so Sydney didn't even think about it.Seeing that Sydney was so greedy today, Su Zixian took the initiative to reply, Wei Chen turned around and was about to leave, Su Zixian asked him to take her, and the chef didn't know that she was from the imperial dining room, so she just watched without saying a word, Look fully learned...

After telling Xueli about this process, Xueli laughed to death, saying that Zixian was too bad.Su Zixian stuck out her tongue, put away the food box, and took it out.

Outside the courtyard gate, Wei Chen waited a little anxiously, and when he saw her come out, he asked, "How is it?"

"It's good, it's good." Su Zixian smiled, "Sydney, she's just greedy, and she's even more greedy when she's pregnant, but she's not picky. Give her this taste and let her eat, and she'll feel better!"

Wei Chen breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it and was still curious: "Does this taste really like crab?"

He was anxious because of this - eggs and fish, no matter how you think about it, they are not the same thing as crabs. Isn't Sydney trying to coax them by saying that they are delicious?She was pregnant, so she had to satisfy her with whatever she wanted to eat, and it would be wrong for her to comfort them instead.

Su Zixian twitched her lips: "Are you busy, my lord?"

"Today? Not busy, I can go back to eat mooncakes later." Wei Chen said truthfully.

Su Zixian smiled again: "The servant will make you a crab game and try it. You can try it yourself, so as not to worry about her being wrong."

Zixian said it generously, stuffed the food box with Wei Chen, and rolled up her sleeves to go to the dining room.

Wei Chen stepped forward to stop her: "Miss Su."

Su Zixian lowered her head and bit her lips, and said first, "My lord, don't be polite to your servant..."

"I'm not being polite to you." Wei Chen said, looking a little embarrassed, coughed for a while, and then said, "I just want to say, the wonton that the girl made that day...is delicious, if it's convenient, can you ..."

Can I have a bowl too!
Wei Chen was very embarrassed to make this request. It is not very good to find work for people during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Su Zixian raised her head abruptly, a little surprised. She was stunned for a while with a complicated expression, and ran to the kitchen with her skirt in her hand: "Your Excellency, wait! This servant will be right back!"

Five days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yu Jia set off for Luo'an.

It took several days to walk the waterway, and Sydney also vomited upside down on the first day, and then accompanied by all kinds of sour radish, sour bamboo shoots and sour plums every day, but it didn't feel particularly uncomfortable anymore.

The imperial doctor said that her fetal appearance was quite good, and also praised that she was in good health, and that she was fine after all the tossing on the road.

Sydney Heart said I still eat well!

Recently, her lower abdomen has gradually become visible.So different from when he came here, Xie Zhao stopped guessing about whether it was a man or a woman, and started to have a new fun - lying on her lower abdomen to listen to the movement.

He let it go, and brought A Yao along.What does Ayao know at such a young age? He lay on her stomach to listen, and even talked next to her, leading the younger siblings inside to read Tang poems.There was a commotion inside, and Ah Yao was frightened again. He covered his mouth and raised his head worriedly and asked Xue Li: "Mother, did I disturb him..."

Sydney just laughed.While thinking that Ayao will definitely be a good sister in the future, at the same time she feels sorry for Ayao—she no longer sleeps with Ayao these days, because she is afraid that Ayao will kick around at night.

Although it was necessary to do this in order to protect the child in her stomach, it was more or less wronged by Ah Yao.

Xueli hugged Ayao distressedly and kissed hard: "Good Ayao, when he comes out, mother will continue to take you to sleep!"

Ayao also comforted her in turn, saying that she could sleep with Yuxiang in her arms, the innocence in her bright eyes made Xue Li feel so sad, Ayao, you are so painful...

So when they were lying on the couch at night, and the two of them were chatting about the child in their womb, she would inevitably talk about Ayao and that it would be good to take care of the children, and then she would naturally think of The incidents caused by the empress dowager's injustice under the nose always ended up feeling sorry for the emperor.

Every now and then, Xie Zhao didn't know how to deal with it.He was moved and comforted by her mood, but after being the emperor for so long, he was not used to being "loved by others", so he could only hug her and comfort her in turn: "It's okay, Lizi, I don't feel anything wrong It’s pretty good now, I can’t do anything about my mother’s side, but at least the seventh brother is still a good brother.”

Sydney was whimpering and wiping tears in his arms.To be honest, this means that now that he is an emperor sitting on the world, he will be busy enough and have enough confidence not to care about such problems.

If you put it in an ordinary family, and you were disliked by your mother when you were a child, it might be ruined in your life!It's normal to see someone hate anyone, after all, when he needs mother's care, mother doesn't treat him like a son!

Uuuuuuuuuu Your Majesty, you are so pitiful...

The Seventh Highness is also very pitiful, he is not a human being caught in the middle.Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ow ?

The small emotions in Sydney's heart surged like a spring, not strong but unstoppable.After a while, she stuck out her tongue and cursed inwardly: What a lot of thinking during pregnancy!
It's such a sweet and bitter walk all the way.Because she was pregnant, she walked very slowly after switching to land. The original two-day journey took four days. In early September, Yujia returned to the palace.

According to the rules, Concubine Hui will lead a group of concubines to bow and kneel to welcome the holy driver.This made Sydney very concerned. She dared not accept this ceremony with the emperor in the carriage, so she pestered the emperor to negotiate and asked her to sit in the carriage alone and walk faster. go back to the palace.

Your Majesty, you go to the main entrance and accept the gift yourself.

The emperor also nodded in agreement, but instead of telling her to walk fast, he ordered Yu Jia to slow down.In short, it's good to stretch the time one after the other, it doesn't matter if he returns to the palace later, if he can keep her from being jolted, don't let her be jolted.

So at noon, Xueli returned to the small courtyard where she had been away for more than two months.

When I arrived at the small courtyard, I realized that my residence had changed again.

Originally, there were only three courtyards connected on the left and right. Now, the other three courtyards separated by a palace road have also been given to her—in other words, she has already occupied six of the original nine courtyards. Square six squares.Fugui, who stayed in the palace for the past few months, said with a smile: "You don't know, the harem doesn't dare to call you by your name anymore after hearing about it, only dare to say 'Miss Liugeyuan'."

...What the hell is this called!

Sydney walked back and forth stiffly.On the one hand, he felt that the title of "Lady of Liugeyuan" was too ugly, but on the other hand, he felt that "Liugeyuan" was quite good.

The courtyard where she lived remained unchanged. The outer walls of the north and south courtyards extended backwards, enclosing the original palace road, and combining the two parts of the courtyard, which were separated in threes and threes, into a large courtyard.

The back wall of the south courtyard where Dousha and the others live and the front and back of the north courtyard where Fugui and the others live each have a small door, which can directly lead to the back. After passing through the palace road, there are three new courtyards at the back.This is convenient to come and go, so that you don't have to go around.

While she was away, the yard was also slightly rebuilt.

These nine courtyards were originally reserved for each of the courtiers who are worthy of the imperial court, so each courtyard has a small kitchen, and it would be a waste of space to use it for one person. She has always only used the main courtyard. Leave everything else blank.

Now the small kitchen in her main courtyard is still there, and the rest of the courtyards have been refurbished into bedrooms.Southwest Yard set aside half of the yard, a total of three rooms have been turned into kitchens, Xueli was startled when she saw Xiaoxiao: this is someone who will prepare a kitchen for her...

It was only later that she realized that she hadn't been told about this in advance.The holy decree delivered it quickly the next day when she found out that she was pregnant, and Nanny Bai and others who went out with her also knew that Nanny Bai even took care of the new living arrangements for her.

The North Courtyard where the eunuchs used to live—now the Northeast Courtyard, gave Dou Sha and the others five, plus Nanny Bai herself.As for the eunuchs, move to the Northwest courtyard at the back. After all, a girl’s house in Sydney still uses maids more often.

The nannies live in the former South Yard—now the Southeast Yard.A Yao has four wet nurses under her eyes, and four more nurses will come after the child in her womb is born, and the two of them occupy exactly four rooms in one house.

As for the main house, it has been tidied up and used as a delivery room for Sydney.

One of the vacant rooms on the side of the main courtyard is assigned to Ayao, no matter whether she wants to live by herself or not, in short, prepare it first, and she will use it when she grows up.

Qingxi Tinghan next to Ah Yao also occupies the room, plus the two young maids who have been sent over to Ah Yao this time.

That's one room left.Nanny Bai said that the room was vacant, and those on duty, especially those on night duty, could go there if they needed a rest.

Sydney asked, "Where's Zixian?"

Zixian put her hands on her hips with a bit of arrogance: "Southwest courtyard, I will take care of the kitchen. There are still a few little maids who want to teach. It's convenient for me to live there!"

Sydney: "..." Well, as long as you are happy.

The rest is the backyard.Nanny Bai said that the new ones, except for those who were assigned to Diji and Su Zixian, were all placed in the backyard, with half court ladies and half eunuchs.Live separately from the "old man" in the yard, so that the old man can hold back others.

In the afternoon, Xue Li held her stomach and met with the new palace servant.

The kitchen was allocated to six court ladies, all of whom came from Shangshi Bureau.Four of them are eleven or twelve years old and entered the palace in three years, and the other two are eight or nine years old and just entered the palace at the beginning of this year.

Zixian took him away directly, so she didn't have to worry about it.

She was given four court ladies and four eunuchs, all twelve or thirteen years old.After seeing the ceremony, let Dousha and Fugui take away and arrange to go separately, and let Dousha change the name.

Then when she saw the two maids assigned to A Yao, Xue Li was a little startled.

"How could there be such a young one?" Xue Li looked at the two four or five-year-old girls stupidly, and asked Nanny Bai under her breath.

Bai Momo said: "The selection of maids in the palace does not keep such young ones. But if there are family members who have been convicted and not enslaved, most of them will not be able to escape and there is no way. Your Majesty said that you should choose someone who is close in age to accompany Di Ji. The Shangyi Bureau took care of them and sent these two over. You can use them as you please, lady. Those who have entered slavery will not be regarded as human beings in any other place. It is good fortune to be able to follow Diji. "

She had never seen a maid in slavery.In the past, I heard people say that those who are elected from the people are considered precious, and although it is common to be beaten to death if they make mistakes, it is not a problem for them to be beaten to death if they do not make mistakes.

Sydney felt palpitations just thinking about it.Seeing the two little girls knelt down to salute, they hurriedly pulled them up.As soon as they raised their heads, she froze, both girls were sallow and thin, and their eyes were still blue - how big is this, it must be because she couldn't sleep because of insomnia, it must be because she was not allowed to sleep more.

Xueli said as softly as possible: "Don't be afraid, I won't wrong you here. You sleep when Diji is sleeping, and you can get up when Diji wakes up, and you don't have to do heavy work. Go and rest first. If you need anything, go to the side I'm looking for your sister Dousha."

The two of them said "No" in a low voice and left.Xue Li went back to the bedroom and looked through the roster of personnel in the yard handed over by Nanny Bai, suddenly feeling a little melancholy.

——Unknowingly, there have been more than 30 people living together from five people at the beginning. Now that the qualifications are separated, I always feel that there will be more and more things.

Thinking of this made her startled, and just as she was sighing, she raised her eyes and saw the emperor leaning against the door and smiling at her.

"...Your Majesty." Xue Li stood up, walked over to his arms, shook his hand with one hand, and patted the booklet in his chest with the other, "There are so many people in a blink of an eye, so scary... ...will something happen?"

She felt that there must be many things when there are too many people.For example, old people overwhelm newcomers, newcomers are jealous, peers dislike each other, different backgrounds bully each other...

Everyone has their own ideas, each will plan for their own future, want more than 30 people to live like one person... that's impossible!
Partisanship is even more annoying.It doesn't matter if they want to fight, but they are all under her command, she will definitely be caught in the middle and cannot live a good life!

"You." Xie Zhao took the booklet, flipped it over and closed it, stood up and knocked on her forehead, and said with a smile, "Can't you be more confident?"

Every time she adds someone, she will be annoyed for a few days.Why didn't this stupid pear realize that she was quite good at employing people?

In fact, she has her own way of life, in all aspects, and it is quite obvious in the personnel arrangement.She had made good arrangements before, and it was the only accident that Fugui arranged for people to inquire about things behind her back, but even if it happened, Fugui was still loyal after all.

If the people below are loyal, then many things are not a big deal, and things like propriety have to be taught slowly.

She has the ability to win over people for this reason, which he finds very rare.Not only is it much better than he expected, she is better than many concubines in the harem, and he has saved many things that he was prepared to worry about.But she is...

Just not confident!I don't know it!
"You silly girl." He smiled lowly and hugged her to kiss her, then stroked his hand down to touch her belly, his smile subsided a little, "You're always so unconfident, why do you want to be a mother in the world in the future?"

Oh what, the mother of the world? !He was talking to her? !

All the palace guards in the room froze for a moment, then lowered their eyes in unison, no matter whether it was the people in front of the imperial court or the people in Sydney, they all withdrew silently.They could only pretend that they didn't hear this, and let His Majesty and Lady Ruan talk about it by themselves.

In the room, Xue Li looked at the emperor in astonishment, her eyes were full of: Your Majesty, do you actually have this plan? !

Xie Zhao frowned, and also looked at her in astonishment, his eyes were full of: Did you not have such a plan, Dali? !

(End of this chapter)