The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 145 Virtuous
As soon as the emperor left Roujia Palace with a livid face, the palace people became quiet.Whether it's from the Imperial Palace or the Roujia Palace, it's the same, they dare not make any noise, they can only do things as usual.

Outside Roujia Palace, the emperor got on the imperial chariot and said, "Go to Liugeyuan", Chen Jijiang immediately let down his dantian and shouted "Get up", and the palace road in front of Roujia Palace was soon quiet.

In Qingxin Hall, Concubine Hui fell to her knees on the ground, unable to recover for a long time.Lan Xinyuexin went forward to help her together, but she couldn't use any strength, so she stood up reluctantly, and beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.

Lan Xin was startled when she saw this: "Ma'am, your leg..."

Concubine Hui frowned and waved her hands: "It's okay." It's the root cause of the disease after being punished by the queen mother that time. It's usually fine, but it will hurt when it's rainy or when it is accidentally subjected to external force.

Concubine Hui thinks it's good to get used to it.

"Your maidservant, go get the imperial physician!" Yue Xin said as she was about to go out, when Concubine Hui grabbed her hand: "Don't go."

Yue Xin was stunned: "Ma'am?"

Concubine Hui calmed down, and with the strength of the two of them, she limped to the side of the couch and sat down. After a while, the blood on her face recovered a little: "Wait a minute. Later... later Some time later, I will report to His Majesty, saying that I am very unwell, and if he is free, I beg him to come and have a look."

"Ma'am..." Lan Xin's eyes turned red when she heard this, and she answered with a sob.Concubine Hui waved them all to retreat, their exhausted and annoyed appearance made others dare not persuade them.

Concubine Hui leaned helplessly on the couch, looking at the embroidery patterns on the curtain, feeling regretful for the first time.

Maybe she shouldn't have been so well behaved before, or maybe she shouldn't have been embarrassed in front of him all the time.Now it seems so stupid, she thinks that she can live her own life well, guarding Roujia Palace, guarding the seat of Concubine Hui, no one dares to bully her, even if she is not happy in this life, At least nothing to worry about.

But why did she forget, he is the emperor, he holds the life and death of the people in the world, what she wants to guard is not only her own rich life, but also the safety of the whole family.

She had ignored this matter for so long, and now that the doom was in front of her eyes, she had no choice.

Concubine Hui cried after thinking about it, but she didn't want the palace guards outside to know, so she clenched her quilt and cried silently.This is a bone-crushing helplessness, and she seems to be unable to do anything except regret what she did in the past.

If, if she had realized this earlier, she would have had a chance now.But it was too late now, she was already so far away from him, it was as if there was only a relationship between a monarch and his ministers, and he had the Ruan family again, it was even more difficult for her to keep his heart.

So she let go of the arrogance that had always been in her heart so hard, asked Chen Jijiang a lot about the Ruan family, and then gritted her teeth to learn from the Ruan family.

Ruan's cooking skills are good, so she also went to learn how to cook.It's not difficult to say it. She practiced from morning to afternoon, and finally reached the level that can be served on the table.

Chen Jijiang said that the Ruan family would take the initiative to keep the emperor, so she also tried to come... That was something she never thought she would say by herself!It took all the courage to force myself to speak out...

But even so, it was of no avail.He shook off her and left. Concubine Hui guessed that he still wanted to go to Ruan Shi, that was the person he really liked. He thought that Ruan Shi was good at everything, just like it was written in a book.

But what should she do...

Concubine Hui's tears welled up more and more fiercely. Several of the leading relatives collapsed after saying it. Even the queen mother was detained by the imperial guards. He acted so ruthlessly and hated the queen mother so much, her family couldn't escape.

Concubine Hui felt that she was about to collapse, and even wanted to take her own life first, so that she could escape for a while and not watch the tragic situation at home in the future.

But it can't, she killed herself, and the crime of the family is even greater.For her, there was only one side to go on this road. She had to ease the relationship with the emperor, and then try to say something for the family, and what she could say was a little bit.

Six courtyards.

The charcoal fire in the oven was still burning, and Xueli dismissed Fugui and Zhang Suicai who were helping, and slowly roasted by herself.

Now the beef roasted on the stove is cut into small cubes, simply marinated, and then sprinkled with a little salt and cumin powder after roasting.Roasting in this way is very fun. The square beef is stacked on the stove. After a while, when it is turned over, the texture and color of the side facing down just now will change, from the red of raw meat to the burnt yellow of mature meat. exhale fragrance.After the six sides are roasted until they are browned, the inside is just tender cooked meat.

A Yao and A Yuan sat beside her, one on the left and one on the right, while Yu Xiang sat in front of the oven, not afraid of the smoke, and focused on waiting for the meat.

So one piece of Sydney was roasted and fed to A Yao, another piece was roasted and fed to A Yuan, and the third piece was thrown to Yuxiang.This cycle goes on and on, and I will eat a piece when I think of it, and then continue to experience the fun of baking.

When the emperor came, there were still four or five pieces of beef left on the stove, Ayao immediately called out "Father, come and eat", Xueli saw that he was in a gloomy mood at a glance, and saw him walking towards the house without stopping, Busy Yangyin told Dou Sha to go to the kitchen and call someone.

Dou Sha called Wei Xi, she was a court lady who joined the Shangshi Bureau in the same year as Xue Li Zixian, and now she works as a pawn clerk in her kitchen, recording the daily ingredients and meals.

The two were quite acquainted, so Xueli told her: "Bake for me for a while, be careful not to burn them. If you are hungry, eat together, and I will go in and have a look."

"Okay." Wei Xi nodded and took the chopsticks and iron clips in her hand.Xue Li straightened her messy skirt and entered the room. In the room, the emperor was washing his hands in the copper basin brought by the palace servants.

Xueli took the handkerchief from Xu Shishui, he turned around to take it, when he raised his eyes and saw her, he stretched out his wet hand knowingly for her to wipe, and smiled: "Are you full?"

"Ask someone to bake it for me." Xue Li smiled slightly, feeling awkward while feeling that she shouldn't be awkward.

Logically speaking, no matter whether he went to Roujia Palace for dinner or summoned Concubine Hui, it was quite normal.But maybe it’s been too long since she could see him anytime she wanted, and it’s never happened before that she deliberately asked someone to invite him to dinner and then heard that he had gone to another place—similar things before, at most It was because he hadn't finished taking care of the government affairs in Zichen Palace that he asked people to say that he couldn't get away and let her eat by herself.

She thought it was nothing like that, he was busy, but today's matter really made her feel choked up.While she was grilling the meat, she was thinking in her heart, she specially invited him, but he still went to have dinner with Concubine Hui, or to dine with Concubine Hui!
Thinking that she was angry with herself afterwards, she stopped thinking about it, and instead scolded herself for being spoiled and spoiled by him, and even jealous of Concubine Hui!He should treat Concubine Hui well!
But I just feel a little lost...

She was also thinking that he was so tired recently, she wanted to relieve him!As a result, he turned his face away and went to find someone else, and she felt that she was very affectionate.

Xie Zhaoyuan was thinking about Concubine Hui, and then realized that her hands had been wiped dry long ago, but she was still holding his hands with both hands through a layer of veil, so she knew that she had something else on her mind, which disturbed her. I'm absent-minded.

He held her back, and while signaling the palace servants to leave, he held her and moved into the room.The top of Xueli's head was pressed against his chin, and her body was completely framed by him. She immediately felt a sense of oppression. She raised her eyes hard to see his expression: "Your Majesty?"

"I heard that I went to Roujia Palace, so I feel uncomfortable, don't you?" He pushed her onto the couch.Sydney reacted quickly and quickly turned around and sat down firmly, looked up at him guiltyly, stood up and hugged his arm again: "No, I'm waiting for you to eat... I have prepared a lot of vegetables and meat, and then I heard that you went to Roujia Palace to eat..."

not yet"?This cause and effect progressed a turn, no matter how I thought about it, I was "really uncomfortable"!
Xie Zhao raised his hand and flicked her forehead: "I went because Concubine Hui said I had something to do, and I came back immediately after eating. You are not happy."

I know I'm narrow-minded!Xue Li rubbed her forehead without the confidence to argue, bit her lips and murmured, "I was wrong."

After she finished speaking, she put down the veil and asked him if he wanted to eat something more. He said that he could have two more bites with the children. After thinking about it, she went to the small kitchen in her front yard to make him an appetizer and relieve his fever. Sour plum soup.

As soon as she entered the kitchen and calmed down, she felt a little guilty.Every time he finds out that she is secretly jealous, she will feel a little bit like this. She always feels that he will be annoyed if she is too jealous, but she can't help it the next time something like this happens...

She just doesn't want to see him and others!

This time it seemed to make her panic a little more, because this time it was Mrs. Hui Concubine.She used to be a little unhappy with Concubine Hui because of An Jin, but even so, she didn't think she was qualified to be jealous of Concubine Hui... Probably because she had seen Concubine Hui and his wife in the past The appearance of standing side by side made her always feel that they are actually a good match!
In short, this feeling of panic bloomed in the bottom of her heart, and she weighed anxiously whether she should make amends, quietly looked out of the window, and saw that he was feeding A Yuan to eat roasted chicken drumsticks with a smile in his mouth, with a fatherly look on his face His appearance made her feel that it would be terrible if she couldn't see him one day.

So Sydney began a process of being courteous!

What came out was not only sour plum soup, but also mung bean crisps, and two bowls of steamed buns wrapped in eggs.The steamed buns are made with milk and sugar, and the egg liquid contains a little salt and chopped green onion. After being roasted, the outer layer is golden and the inner layer is soft and white. It tastes sweet and salty with the rich flavor of chopped green onion and egg.This was originally Su Zixian's favorite food when eating barbecue, and Sydney also thought it tasted good. Later, Ayao fell in love with this method, so she made it occasionally.It's the same when frying in a pan without an oven. Sydney dubbed it "Su's Fried Mantou"!
In order to make up for the idea of ​​"getting jealous" just now, she of course wanted to bake it herself, and took the chopsticks from Wei Xi's hand directly for her to rest.

The emperor and A Yao and A Yuan sat apart a bit, the three sides of the stove were surrounded, Xue Li didn't care that this side was facing the wind, after putting two slices of steamed buns, it was Xie Zhao who pulled her: "Come here bake."

"Oh..." Xueli responded lightly, and moved two steps to the side to avoid the smoke. Xie Zhao stepped on her waist to block her, and she sat sideways on his lap unexpectedly.

"The children are all here!" Xue Li shouted in a low voice and was about to get up, he hugged her tighter, and said in a low voice, "Isn't it great for the children to see their parents are in harmony?"

Sydney: "..."

Her face was flushed, and she forced herself to calmly continue baking the steamed buns in her hand.Turn it over and over again, the outer layer of eggs will soon be cooked through, first bubbling with the oil, and then turning from light yellow to golden.

"Ayao come." She took a piece and put it on the plate in front of Ayao, Ayao called out "Thank you mother", she put another piece to A Yuan, A Yuan imitated her sister and said "Thank you mother".

Then she put another piece on the emperor's plate, brought the plate and chopsticks to him, and he picked up the slice of steamed bun and fed it to her mouth: "Eat it yourself."

Xue Li was still restless, took a small bite, looked down to see that the cut was stained with bright red lip balm, and immediately wanted to change a piece for him.

But he took a quick step and bit it first, so she couldn't say anything more, and turned around to continue roasting.

This stupid pear.

Xie Zhao raised his brows and hugged her, lowering her, Xueli managed to avoid throwing the chopsticks in his hand directly!

He hugged her horizontally, and said every word with dissatisfaction: "I want to be jealous and make myself uneasy? What do you want me to do?"

Xue Li looked at him in horror, while he looked up at A Yao and A Yuan, and smiled solemnly: "Eat slowly, father and mother go and say a few words."

A Yao is so obedient, and now A Yuan learns everything from her sister, one after the other, she immediately agreed!
Just like that, Xue Li was carried into the house by him, panicked to death, and hugged his arm tightly, Xie Zhao went to the couch and glared at her: "Let go."

Sydney dodged: "I was wrong."

"Let go quickly." Xie Zhao said again.

Sydney looked at him choked with sobs: "I admit I was wrong!"

exciting?But it's not that she can't help him if she doesn't let go!
Xie Zhao didn't talk much anymore, he just leaned over and put her on the couch, ignoring her hands still around his neck, leaned over and scratched her armpits.

Sydney let go on the spot!With his arms tightly folded, he hid against the wall and begged for forgiveness. The grievances in his heart had not yet dissipated, and tears filled his eyelashes, and he felt that he was not good.

"Sigh." Xie Zhao kicked off his shoes with a sigh, turned forward and hugged her, "You don't have to do this in the future, it's not your fault that you feel unhappy."

Just now when she was preparing things in the kitchen, he raised his eyes several times and saw her expression was uneasy. After thinking about it, he knew that she was probably jealous and caught by him, which made her feel guilty.Thinking about it, he casually said "I'll be back after dinner, you're not happy", as far as he was concerned, it was just a casual joke about her narrow-mindedness, but when it fell into her ears, she couldn't help but think that there was really a sense of blame in it.

He hugged her and said: "If you want to be jealous, eat it. I know in my heart that you are not an unreasonable person, and I won't blame you for this. I was uncomfortable in my heart and still put on a forced smile. Are you uncomfortable?"

uncomfortable ah!It's hard!When she felt aggrieved, she wanted to plunge into his arms and say, "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, coax me”, but she was afraid that he would dislike him!
She scratched the lines of his collar with her index finger. After scratching for a while, she hesitated to say this: "I've heard a lot about the harem, and many people are so virtuous... I can't do that, it's quite Is it not good? You will inevitably find it annoying, especially when you are busy with government affairs..."

He probably just tolerated her more.Sydney has compared in her heart that she is far worse than Concubine Hui. Concubine Hui was the one who was sent to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince out of thousands of miles. She was lucky enough to meet him in a foolish way... This is incomparable!
Xie Zhao frowned: "You cook well, teach your children well, and you used to deal with envoys generously. Isn't that 'virtuous'? What do you think is virtuous?"

She said that she knew that she was very narrow-minded, and that she couldn't "know how to be modest" like other concubines——she had heard a lot of details from Zhima!Zhima said that before she had her, although there was no favorite concubine in the harem, all the concubines knew how to be humble!Even if it is two months, you may not be able to see the emperor once, and occasionally you will praise others, which means "Your Majesty, don't just remember me and forget her!"

The first time I heard about this incident, Sydney thought it was an anecdote, but after hearing too many similar things, I began to wonder if I was wrong-they are not only good at talking!He will also use various methods to recommend others to him sincerely!

For example, take the opportunity to say "so and so made this for your majesty" when serving to change clothes, or say "so and so made this is very good" when eating snacks.

- Everything seems to be taken for granted.After thinking about it, Xue Li was terrified, and was stunned to find that the entire harem seemed to have the word "Xian" on their foreheads, at least they had this word on their foreheads in front of his eyes!

But she is stupid!In contrast, in the past two years or so, she has posted a "vinegar" written with the thickest wolf hair on her forehead - Concubine Hui gave him An Jin, and she cried angrily; the local squire gave him a beautiful woman Son, she is crying again!

In the past, she was only faintly worried that this situation was not good, and she passed it with his coaxing.Now there are other concubines in contrast to her out of the blue, which immediately makes her worry about gains and losses.

So, after she finished talking about all the things she heard from the harem, she didn't have the confidence to look at his expression, and after a moment of boredom, she forced out a sentence: "In fact, Mrs. Shishi is pretty good..."

Xie Zhao didn't speak for a long time.

Xue Li became more and more flustered by the quietness, she raised her eyes quietly, and saw that his expression was very complicated.

"..." She flicked her eyes left and right in a daze, "I...was I thinking wrong again?"

Xie Zhao gritted his teeth tensely: "The worst time since we met!"

Sydney: "...?!"

He gave her a hard look, and pulled half of the curtain down with his hand on the tie rope. As for the other half - the imperial palace people outside are so clever!Immediately come in, untie it, put it down, and then disappear without a trace in an instant!

Xue Li looked at the bulging veins on his forehead with tears in his eyes, and quickly reached out to block him: "You, you, you...you should make it clear first!"

Xie Zhao's face was so serious that he didn't seem to want to... Well, with a twitch of his hand, he pulled off the bow on her breast-length skirt: "What kind of virtuous are they? They want to help each other, what are you doing! "

Xueli seemed to have a sense of epiphany in her heart, and somehow felt a little dissatisfied, so she stretched out her hand and pulled his belt, arguing: "Then what if it's not!"

...How dare she accuse him of being biased against the harem? !

Xie Zhao laughed angrily, put his arms around her waist and turned her over to lie on her stomach, then pulled the belt on her back and smoothly threw the skirt aside.

Seeing the shadow outside through the curtain, Xue Li shouted: "Yuxiang!"

"Fish smell, what kind of fish smell!" Xie Zhao continued to touch the belt of her trousers with a cold face, and said softly, "Even if they are really virtuous, you don't want to learn from them. There is no kind of virtuousness that is worth letting go of your anger and joy to learn."

He wanted to say that it was written by corrupt scholars to bully people!When he was a child, he finished reading "The Analects of Confucius" and heard that there was another "Nv Analects". Curious about the difference, he asked someone to find it for him and read it. He was stunned after flipping through a few pages!

What are those!It also deserves the name of "The Analects of Confucius"! In "The Analects of Confucius", at best, there are some points of view that he does not agree with. In his opinion, "The Analects of Women" completely treats women in the world as human beings.

That's why he was most annoyed by the "virtuous" appearance in the harem, and every time he took a second look, he felt pitiful and terrible.But he couldn't change them, and now she was thinking about imitating this...angry!
Gritting his teeth, he simply slowed down his movements first, and explained to her with a livid face: "I don't need my wife to try to please me, do you hear me?"

"I, I, I...I know!" Xueli felt the skin on her neck become hot under his kiss, and then swept the tent, and said, "Fish fragrance!"

"Yuxiang won't save you!" Xie Zhao blocked her mouth with his lips with an evil smile.

Xueli was so sad that she couldn't speak, she wanted to say: No!Yuxiang was squatting outside just now!The skirt you threw out covered my face!

Now it is still squatting there, covered by its skirt, listening to the movement!

(End of this chapter)