The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 130
After the banquet in Hanyuan Hall, the emperor still went to Liugeyuan to see how Sydney was doing.

When he entered the room, he saw several dishes of vegetables and porridge on the table on the couch, he smiled: "How did you know I was coming?"

"Ah Yuan for a hundred days." Xue Li took it for granted, squinted and smiled, and stretched out her hand to pull him to sit down quickly.

Xie Zhao sat down on the couch with a smile, looked at them, and found that these were all soft things, which felt comfortable in his stomach after drinking.

The same is seafood tender tofu. Shrimp, various fish balls, and crab meat are cooked in a stone pot. The tofu is fried on a low heat before being put into the stone pot.

There are also a few slices of carrots, small rapeseed, and tender bamboo shoots to enhance the color. The soup in the full small pot is golden, the tofu is white and tender, and the aroma of fish and shrimp is tangy, but because it is tofu, it is difficult to eat.

There is also a potato stew - something that Sydney has been fiddled with lately.

She has always firmly believed that among the thousands of ingredients, potatoes are considered a god-fried or fried.Recently, I have been trying various stewing methods. Today, this one is stewed with bone broth that has been boiled for two days and one night. The diced potatoes are stewed thoroughly in the milky white bone broth, and it melts when you sip it. The unique umami taste of the pork bones can linger between the teeth for a long time along with the softness of the potatoes. It is good to eat with a stutter or with staple food.

Sydney is a little proud of this method, thinking that it is a bit similar to the famous boiled cabbage dish - potatoes are boiled in bone broth, and they are of ordinary color. At first glance, it is impossible to see the exquisiteness inside. You have to eat it to know!

The other two are cold dishes, one with cold bean sprouts and one with cold shredded chicken.

Four dishes and one clear porridge were placed on the table. Xie Zhao, who just drank more alcohol than food at the banquet, looked very appetizing.Recently, he often felt that eating simple things with her was more comfortable than the dozens of delicate delicacies in the Shangshi Bureau. He took some soft tofu with seafood and mixed it in the porridge. He asked her: "How are you today? Are you tired?" tired?"

"It's okay, I feel a little tired after taking a break." Xue Li was sitting in a very casual posture, resting her elbows on the table and looking at him, yawned a little, and said, "But there is one last thing... Makes me terrified."

Xie Zhao: "What's the matter?"

She then truthfully told the whole story of Shi Xiurong sending Ah Yao back, not even missing Yuxiang's grinning bluff. After she finished speaking, she sighed and frowned: "I don't know if she has a wrong mind. , I just feel uneasy. But think about it carefully... It seems that there is nothing else except that the sentence that I have a son and I have no time to take care of Ayao is a bit harsh."

Thinking about it carefully, Shi Xiurong didn't say a few words to her in total, the first sentence was about the process of finding A Yao, the second sentence was this sentence, and the third sentence was asking her to take A Yao to Yuehe Palace often...

In all fairness, the third sentence sent a chill down her spine.But when I went back to the house and thought about it, I really felt that I was supercilious——Shi Xiurong had raised A Yao for so long, so it was reasonable to want to see him now.Besides, Shi Xiurong didn't say that he must, and didn't even go past her and directly said to A Yao, "You often come to Yuehe Palace to play." This obviously contemptuous and provocative to her mother, Xueli thought about it seriously, and felt that she was nervous. too much.

"Maybe it's because I had entanglements with her in the past... Now I really don't like her anyway." She sighed and admitted with a wry smile, "It's really thanks to her today. Otherwise, what if Ah Yao played by himself If something happens, I will not be able to bear it."

As Shi Xiurong said, there are lakes and rockeries in the harem.A Yao is a child over three years old, it is too easy to have an accident.

"It's so scary..." Xue Li felt lingering fear.

Hearing what she said, Xie Zhao finished the few mouthfuls of porridge mixed with tofu, and called Chen Jijiang with a gloomy complexion: "The people who went out with Diji today have twenty sticks. After beating, move to the backyard. Scared Di Ji."

Sydney couldn't help being taken aback.

Although he knew that talking about Shi Xiurong would inevitably implicate the people around him, but he said that, and punished a lot of people...

She thought it was to punish Qi Shi.

But Xie Zhao said: "Don't say it's just that Qi Shi lost sight of her when he took her out to play. There are so many people around her just to protect her. If something like this happens, it's because they don't know how to do things, so there can't be two more to follow." ?”

Xue Li thinks about it too, she suddenly panicked, and said: "Wu Mei has also followed, she is not yet six years old..."

It's a bit too much to blame the same child. Besides, twenty sticks is called "stick death" to her.

Xie Zhao snorted, and stopped Chen Jijiang again: "Forget about that little one. Just tell her that it's nothing to do with her, and tell her not to tell Di Ji."

Chen Jijiang responded with a "promise" and stepped back to do it. Xueli stared at Xie Zhao intently: "Then the lady Xiurong..."

Her focus is on Shi Xiurong!Now he punished everyone around Ah Yao, although it was reasonable, but he had to mention the most important part!
But Xie Zhao didn't say a word, and Xue Li looked at it carefully, and didn't ask further questions for the time being.

——The face is so terribly dark! ! !
She hadn't seen him look so ugly in a few days, the last time was the day when the Seven Kings were imprisoned during the southern tour.It seems that he is very angry about this, even more angry than her...

So Sydney automatically made a stone statue, and sat there without saying a word, watching her eat.After a while, when she heard A Yuan crying, she took the opportunity to sneak away to coax A Yuan, and let him calm down by himself.

Xie Zhao glanced sideways at the back of her trotting away, unconsciously smiled, and secretly said that he didn't care about her.In turn, the emotions sank back, and the anger suppressed his heart.

She could feel that she was being suspicious, but he didn't think so.

Shi Shi was not allowed to see Ah Yao again, he said it when he ordered her to move to Roujia Palace.

Later, it was Concubine Hui who interceded for her, saying that Shi Shi still had the status of grooming after all, and that it was inconvenient for her to place a master in her palace, so he allowed her to return to Yuehe. palace.

——But he didn't add by the way that she can see Ah Yao again in the future.

Concubine Hui and Shi Xiurong were both taught by the Empress Dowager, and both of them are equally clear about etiquette, if today's appearance is based on etiquette, Shi Xiurong can completely entrust the people around him to send Ah Yao back without showing up himself.

So on this point, Shi Xiurong definitely didn't "forget" or "never noticed"—does anyone dare to say that he forgot the imperial decree?She could only do it intentionally, thinking that she had done a good thing by sending Ah Yao back. If she was interrogated and explained that she cared about Di Ji's negligence, he would not be able to pursue anything.

Knowing this level, Xie Zhao is naturally more popular than Sydney.Resisting the decree, disrespecting and speculating on the king's heart, these two put together are enough to kill Shi Xiurong once!
But unfortunately, he really doesn't dare to take her life now, not because he can't, but because he doesn't dare.

He has been waiting for the queen mother's reaction to the birth of the eldest son of the emperor. Now a hundred days have passed, and there is no movement in the palace.This more or less illustrates the empress dowager's disgust, perhaps not against the eldest son of the emperor, but certainly against Sydney.

Now that he kills the people taught by the Queen Mother, he is giving the Queen Mother a chance to step on Sydney, and the Queen Mother will blame Sydney no matter what.Even if he can block it, the damage caused by this twists and turns is still unavoidable.A Yuan is still so young, there can be no turbulence in Liugeyuan!

Xie Zhao ate a few more mouthfuls of porridge sullenly, held back his breath, stayed on the bed and went out.

Xue Li, who was coaxing A Yuan in the side room, raised her eyes and saw the emperor leaving in a hurry, followed by a few people from the Imperial Palace who did not dare to raise their heads, and she once again sighed: He really Very angry...

After a while, Sydney saw the eunuchs coming back with Qi Shi, Chen Shi, Qing Xi, and Ting Han who had just received their punishment, and sent them directly to the backyard without a word of nonsense. Their status is low, eight people only occupy two rooms, and the rest of the rooms are empty, so there is no need to worry about these few not being able to recuperate properly.

After a while, Sydney heard that... In the middle of the night, the emperor called the two most experienced nuns from the Shangyi Bureau, and asked them to go to Yuehe Palace to "teach" Shi Shi ——To be more specific, one is in charge of reprimand, and the other is in charge of teaching.

In addition, when Sydney heard about this, Zhima already called Shi Shi "Shi Cairen's wife".

Xue Li counted on her fingers and suddenly looked horrified: "This is the sixth grade?!"

"Yes..." Zhima couldn't hide her surprise.

The two of them have never seen such a ruthless demotion, and there are two teaching nuns to take care of it. If Mrs. Shi wants to continue to move their minds, they can't stop them, but it is definitely useless if they want to take any practical actions. , I have to say whether the palace people around me have been killed by sticks, but their status has dropped so much, at least half of them will have to be dismissed...

Your Majesty is really angry!

Xue Li was a little dazed, and then somewhat thought that Shan Wei's uncertain inquiries just now probably wouldn't be like this.Is there another reason?Um!He must have his reasons!

But she won't ask if he doesn't take the initiative to tell her. Sydney has always had this attitude when it comes to the reasons why he handles things.After feeling a little more at ease, I went back to the house to wash and go to bed to get ready for sleep, when I heard a hasty greeting outside, I opened my eyes...he came back again!

His complexion was still very ugly, and the people in the Imperial Palace who attended to his washing did not dare to make a sound.Xue Li obediently rubbed the inside of the bed to let him out, Xie Zhao got on the bed after changing clothes, looked at her anxious face, and said with relief, "It's all right, go to sleep."

"Oh..." Xueli nodded and immediately closed her eyes.After closing for a while, I really didn't feel sleepy, so I secretly squinted at him again...

Then seeing that he was asleep, she boldly opened her eyes again!
Why are you so angry...

She is really a little curious.She could bear not to ask, but she couldn't help being curious.Her eyes flicked back and forth on his face, and she was careful not to make any noise, lest it disturb his rest.

But after lying down like this for a long time, she will feel very eager to move, Xue Li bit her quilt in pain: She really wants to kick her legs now...

no!endure!He has to go to the morning court!I can't sleep for three hours!
With a serious tone and a straight face, she was brewing the feeling of "no distractions", and then she admired his face while silently reciting "Green Tara's Mantra" in her heart. After admiring for a while, she found that she had forgotten to read "Green Tara's Mantra" but she had no other thoughts up.

So she turned over carefully and slowly, from lying on her side to lying on her stomach, and then continued to look at him with her chin resting.

He is really good looking!Looks good awake and asleep!It looks good when you are bored with a smile!The look of holding back the anger with a calm face is actually very good-looking!

Xueli looked at it and felt sour in her heart, but she couldn't speak, so she could only move her mouth to relieve her boredom: "I like you so much..."

"Thank you, Xie Zhao, I like you so much!"

"Xie Zhao, I like you so much!"

Just as Xie Zhao was a little sleepy in this room, he was disturbed by the slight shaking next to him.Frowning, he reluctantly raised his eyelids slightly, and saw her lying there with her chin resting on her cheeks, her bright eyes wide open, through the dim light coming in from outside the curtain.The movement of the mouth is very devoted to the chanting, and because the chin rests on the hand, the movement will inevitably make the bedding tremble slightly...

What are you doing if you don't sleep?Chanting to him?
Xie Zhao frowned and suddenly closed his eyes completely.

Sydney: "..."

"Say what?" he asked her.

Xue Li's face froze for a long time, her arms relaxed and her face fell down. He stretched out his hand and squeezed her waist: "Quickly, what are you talking about?"

Ahhhhh, this feeling of being caught doing bad things!
Xueli buried her head in the pillow, and was pinched by him so uncomfortable that she refused to say anything, and yelled "it's okay".

He suddenly heard a chuckle, and as soon as he turned over, he pressed on her back: "Say it?"

"..." Xue Li suddenly felt that the threat was overwhelming, and immediately confessed, "I said 'I like you so much'!"

"That's it?" Xie Zhao narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and immediately pulled her belt with his hand, "No, two words are missing."

...Your Majesty, your eyes are too sharp!When did you watch it!

Xueli struggled both physically and mentally. After struggling for a long time, she finally didn't dare to say the word "Xie Zhao". She clapped her hands and shouted, "I said 'Your Majesty, I like you so much'!"

"Oh." Xie Zhaodan replied, but believed it.

I didn't let her go even though I believed it.

Xue Li was subdued by him tearfully, and stretched out her hand to pull up the quilt.He didn't bother with her about this, he let the two of them be completely covered by a big blanket, and then made such a noise that the maids waiting outside were blown away by Chen Jijiang.

After another month or so, Ah Yuan could start to eat something else.Most of them are all kinds of paste or soup. Apples and other fruits can also be scraped into puree with a copper spoon and fed to him. He can also eat all kinds of vegetables steamed and made into puree...

Sydney's biggest feeling is that Ah Yuan's food is not as good as Ah Yao's in the past!

At that time, Ah Yao was already obedient. Although she was raised in Shi's place, she didn't see much of her, but when she saw the nanny feeding her, she would obediently eat without kicking or beating.

Ah Yuan is completely different from her!When Ah Yuan was happy to eat, he swung his small hand to hit the spoon abruptly. The nurse had to pay attention to avoid his fists and feet while feeding him. If he reacted slowly, he would see his hands sticky.

Xue Li wanted to laugh when she saw how dazed he was when he glued something on his hands, but she didn't think he was so bad—although Ayao was obediently cute, but he was so cute in another way!Children are cute no matter what!
Ah Yao was very curious about the food his brother ate, and didn't understand why he ate it like this.Xue Li explained to her that she also ate like this at the beginning, but Ayao still didn't believe it, so she had no choice but to make more every time, and her sister and brother ate together.

Then she found that after having A Yuan, A Yao became more and more sensible.

At first, my sister and younger brother ate together, but after a few times, Ah Yao became less curious and refused to eat with Ah Yuan, always saying "brother eats first", and she will eat what Ah Yuan can't eat.

This kind of sensibility surprised Sydney a little.In fact, she is an imperial concubine, so there is no need to be so modest, but Xueli thinks it is a good thing that she is willing to take care of her younger brother, so she never stops her.But she will pay more attention to spending more time with A Yao. When Xie Zhao is not around, she will sleep with A Yao. In short, she will try her best not to let her feel that she will not love her because of A Yuanniang—this is Sydney I have been reminding myself since I was pregnant with Ah Yuan!
At the beginning of October, Ah Yuan entered the first "very annoying" stage.

—he can crawl.

When he was awake, he crawled around as soon as he got up, and the speed was quite fast. He crawled around the house, smiling and hiding when he saw people.

Fortunately, Yuxiang was willing to follow him, walking lazily and never leaving.The little A Yuan is hard to find, but the huge golden fish fragrance can be seen at a glance.Therefore, when Xue Li took A Yao to recite poems, she wanted to know where A Yuan had climbed to. She didn't even need to ask the nanny, just glanced at the corner where Yu Xiang was.

One time when Xie Zhao came, Ah Yuan just crawled under the table and sat down.When he entered the room, he saw Yuxiang sitting upright at the table and was still curious, so he patted the lion's head and asked it, "What are you doing sitting here?"

Under the table, there was a sound of "hehe" unique to a baby, and Xie Zhao finally understood. He lowered his head, hugged his son out, and said with a straight face, "I don't come out to say hello when I see daddy coming! There are no rules! "

A Yuan: "Hey..." Then the little hand that had just crawled on the ground directly patted his father's face.

Xueli raised her eyelids, pretended not to notice while suppressing a smile on the couch, hugged A Yao and continued to feed her bean paste milk roll: "Ah... Open your mouth."

A Yao followed her "ah" and opened his mouth wide to eat it, closed his mouth and turned his head to look, and smiled: "Father!"

Then she picked up the plate with two bean paste milk rolls and stood up on the couch, and said in one fell swoop, "For father and brother!"

"Ah Yao, good boy." Xie Zhao was still holding A Yuan in one hand, took A Yao with the other and sat down on the side of the couch, put A Yuan on his knees, scooped a small piece of bean paste milk roll with a porcelain spoon, and was about to feed him.

Sydney, who was eating fried red fruit to satisfy his hunger, almost choked when he saw it, and threw down the spoon and shouted: "Don't!!!"

Xie Zhao was taken aback.

"He can't eat this yet!" Sydney resisted with a solemn face.

Xie Zhao let out an "oh", turned the porcelain spoon in his hand like flowing water, and fed the spoon to A Yao.

A Yuan was stunned, looking at the delicious food that had been handed to her mouth and then suddenly turned into her sister's mouth, sniffing the milk fragrance that had not dissipated, and crying as soon as she said it: "Wow..."

(End of this chapter)