The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 172
In the city of Luo'an, slight waves were caused by the new rumors from the palace.

Seven Palaces.

Earlier, Mrs. Yi had met Mrs. He, the fifth concubine who came to visit for a short time. After Mrs. He left, she went to the study to look for Mrs. Seven.

Seeing her coming in, the Seven Kings sighed, "What did you say?"

Mrs. Yi bowed her head: "Sister-in-law Wu said that on the day of Master Wei's wedding, the wives who made a fuss about asking Mrs. Ruan to cook all sent in a post a few days ago to apologize. , but the two or three who made the most noise are still left alone."

The Seven Kings looked slightly condensed, but said nothing.

Mrs. Yi said again: "Sister-in-law Wu also said that Mrs. Ruan prepared some gifts for the family members who were sitting with her at that time, and the maids in charge of the court around her came out to give them in person. They are all fashionable jewelry at the moment. You have to be careful. From the beginning...you are all in Luo'an, you can move around more in the future, don't make trouble."

Seven King's complexion darkened slightly, and he could figure out the meaning behind it.

The first one is the combination of kindness and power. It seems nothing at first glance, but in fact, the ordinary concubines in the palace dare not play such a trick on the family members of the courtiers. They really have the right to put on face like this and use this method to make others understand her likes and dislikes. There is only the real wife who stands shoulder to shoulder with the emperor.

The second one is more obvious. There are a lot of people who are "all in Luo'an". This kind of rhetoric is placed among Sydney and the clan's family members. It sounds more like a courtesy between sisters-in-law. To be more specific, it is actually "We are all a family, so don't separate them." "It means that only the elder sister-in-law can take the airs.

Xie Han pondered for a moment, unable to figure out whether this was ordered by the emperor's brother, or if the emperor's brother arranged for her in the name of Sydney.But one of them is very clear - the Seventh Prince's Mansion has not received anything from Sydney.

Then, no matter how much Brother Huang intervened in it, his dissatisfaction with them was clearly expressed enough.

Xie Han sighed, and Yi bit his lips lightly: "Your Highness..."

"Ok?"

"Your Highness, please...don't be stiff with Your Majesty." Yi's eyes turned red, "Even Fifth Sister-in-Law persuaded... During the Dragon Boat Festival, His Majesty even offered Xiao Zhuo the title, Your Highness, you even entered the palace in person Thank you for your kindness and refuse. His Majesty has not moved at the moment. Even Mrs. Ruan can get around us. How stiff will we be in the future? You... It was impossible to be angry with His Majesty all the time, after all, he is yours Brother."

Xie Han understood all these reasons, and he really didn't intend to get angry with the emperor brother at all.It's just that the empress mother died with hatred in the middle, and he really didn't know how to deal with such a brotherly relationship.

In more than three months, it will be a year since my mother passed away.

Xie Han let out a long sigh, and after a long silence, he raised his eyes and looked at Yi Shi: "You can send a message to the palace, saying that you want to take Ace Xiaozhuo to see your brothers and sisters together. See you in Sydney There is no need to deliberately mention anything, just take it easy."

"No!" Yi Shi immediately responded with a smile, thought for a while, and offered to say, "I... I'll take sister Chu with me!"

Xie Han frowned slightly: "What are you taking her for?"

"It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival, which happens to be the day of reunion." Yi lowered her head and said, "Ms. Ruan must feel strange when she sees her, and she will always ask. I can follow this sentence... throw a step."

Xie Han suddenly felt ashamed.

Yi Shi worried too much about him, just because he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

Jiuge Courtyard.The emperor happened to be there when Sydney received the post from the Seventh Palace.

She sat in front of the dressing table and let the candied dates do her hair, hurriedly read the post, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen Yi Liangyuan for nearly three months, let her come in tomorrow, I will prepare some snacks and wait for her! "

"whispering sound."

She heard the emperor, who was resting on the couch with his eyes closed, hum softly. Looking over in the mirror, he raised his eyelids and said, "What are you doing in such a rush? Give it back to her after two days!"

Hey, what is this vomit?
Xueli stuck out her tongue secretly, waved her hands to signal Mizao to back away, walked towards the bed and threw an elbow at his chest: "What's the matter, Your Majesty? How has His Highness Seven offended you recently?"

Two days ago, when she was preparing gifts for the main concubine of each mansion, she had a faint feeling that he and Xie Han seemed to be unhappy again. At that time, each gift was placed in her room, and it was written on it to indicate who it was for.He glanced at it and pointed to the one prepared for Yi Shi and said: "Ming Xuanjun got married and Yi Shi didn't go, so it's not suitable for her."

She had no choice but to withdraw the ones for Mrs. Yi, and even those who did not attend the ceremony that day were also withdrawn!
Now that she asked this question, he rested his head on his hands and said nothing.Sydney poked his finger on his chest: "Give me a reason, I agreed to let me deal with these things as much as possible, if I make a mistake, you can help me, and now you have to intervene in advance - so you must Give me a reason, or I don't understand!"

Xie Zhao looked at her lightly for a while, then turned his back to him: "You are right about this, I am not happy about it, listen to me once."

Take a look... I'm really angry!

Xue Li puffed her mouth, kicked off her shoes and climbed onto the couch, Qiang faced him again: "Say, why did His Highness the Seventh Prince provoke you again? He just has that bad temper... If it's a trivial matter, don't bother with him."

Xie Zhao was annoyed thinking about it, and didn't want to mention it, but she couldn't bear her torment, and finally let out a sigh: "It's been nine months since my mother passed away, and he has never entered the palace to see him again, and he has not even given his daughter a seal. I simply didn’t mention anything about it. Later, I took the initiative to bestow the Lord Ning’an by letting Mrs. Yi do an errand. According to the rules, he should enter the palace to thank him personally, or at least write a letter of thanks himself, but he turned out to be fine. , let the eunuchs around you kowtow and settle down?"

oh god!It's been this long?She didn't feel it at all!
Is it because of the Queen Mother?Queen Mother, you are too powerful...

After the slander, Sydney recited "Amitabha Empress Forgiveness" twice silently, and then sat up with her arms propped up: "I understand now. Don't mention this, I'll go to supper!"

She went out and told Dou Sha that she wanted tofu curd for supper, and if the small kitchen was not prepared, she could go to the imperial dining room to get it.Just serve the white bean curd as soon as it is ready, and prepare a few more ingredients and serve it, sweet, salty, spicy or not!
After following her for so long, Dou Sha also basically understood: Whenever His Majesty is in a bad mood, the lady loves to give him something that he can mix and play with to relieve boredom. This is not the first time he has asked for this Dou Hua.

Dou Sha took Fugui to do it together, and quickly brought the things over.

A total of five bowls of bean curd were served, all of which were piping hot.As soon as the unique fragrance of tofu wafted, Ah Yao and Yuan ran in.

"Where's Jin Shu?" Xue Li asked while handing them bean curds, and A Yao replied, "Jin Shu wants to go home tomorrow, but he's afraid he won't be able to wake up, so he's already asleep!"

Xue Li sneered: "No wonder she is so happy today, this time I can stay until after the Mid-Autumn Festival."

While talking, she mixed a bowl of Xie Jinshu's favorite honey and rice balls, asked brown sugar to be brought to her, and ordered: "If she hasn't fallen asleep, let her eat some, and if she is already asleep, don't eat." disturbed her."

Brown Tang answered "No", and then Xueli sat down and mixed with herself, watching the three of them while mixing, and laughed when she saw "Puchi".

Douhua can be sweet or salty, she always likes sweet, and the two children prefer sweet ones when they are young, but Xie Zhao only likes salty ones.Comparing him at the dining table, it seems that he is an outlier.

Xie Zhao was silently spooning marinated bean curd, when he heard this smile, he somehow felt that she was laughing at him.

Immediately, she raised her eyes and stared... She was indeed laughing at him!

Then his face turned black, and Sydney quickly apologized and said that he was wrong.Afterwards, the two ate their own food without paying any attention to each other. After eating less than half of a bowl of red bean and ginger soup in Sydney, they swept his expression and reached out to grab his spoon!
"What are you doing!" He stared while hiding.

"I'll take a bite of yours!" Xueli said, and put the porcelain spoon he had just taken a mouthful of bean curd into his mouth, leaning on his shoulder with his eyelashes blinking, and said softly, "Don't be upset, I You can take care of His Majesty the Seventh Highness and the Yi family for you, just rest assured."

Hey……

She has just started to do these things, is she really confident and addicted?

Xie Zhao frowned slightly, and fed her the bean curd in his bowl again: "Don't talk big, if you fail to do it well, you will be dragged to Gong Zhengsi to lead the board!"

"Hmph." She rolled her eyes, evidently in disbelief, and as soon as she knocked her white teeth on his shoulder, she sat upright again and continued eating her own food.

The hot soft tofu is fragrant and smooth, and the sweetness slips through the throat and falls into the stomach with the soft and smooth aroma, which is very comfortable!

Although Sydney felt that it was not good for the emperor to be angry with the Seven Kings like this, and it was useless to be angry, she still followed his wishes and "aired" Yi for two days.

She was always on his side!Besides, as a family, she should make him feel at ease!

So on the night of the third day, Sydney asked someone to send a reply to Yi, asking her to come over.

On the morning of the fourth day, Yi brought her two children into the palace.

Xueli greeted her in person at the gate of the courtyard. When she saw Mrs. Yi, she apologized first and said that she was really sorry. I am here with children and there are other posts. I saw that Mrs. Liangyuan also wrote a post last night!
Yi hurriedly said that it was all right, knowing that you were busy, it didn't matter if it was two days later.

The two exchanged a few greetings, and Xue Li looked behind Yi Shi, only to find that there was another one who was not a maidservant but a family member of the mansion.

She didn't recognize it for a while: "This is..."

"Oh, this is Sister Chu." Mrs. Yi hurriedly introduced to Sydney and reminded, "Ms. Ruan met her, and we... are with His Royal Highness the Seventh."

is her!

Sydney remembered that the Queen Mother gave His Royal Highness two people, one from the Chu family and one from the Yi family.At that time, the Chu family had a high lintel and was placed directly on Liangyuan's seat, while the Yi family was just a Fengyi.

Later, it turned out that the Yi family was more in line with His Royal Highness's wishes, and after having A Test, he was also granted the title of Liangyuan.After granting the title, she also took care of the affairs of the mansion.

Sydney has also heard about the "not very nice" thing - not long after the Seven Kings came out of the palace to build a mansion, the two seemed to have completely turned their faces.She didn't know exactly what happened, but she hadn't seen Mrs. Chu in the palace these few years, and Mrs. Yi hadn't even brought her here in person.

Come here again...

Sydney couldn't help being a little suspicious, Yi smiled and said: "Don't be surprised, my lady, isn't this the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon? On the day of reunion, it's good for the whole family to be together. Today, it's our Highness who can't leave because of something. Otherwise, he will come with me, just to make me happy."

"Oh..." Xue Li should be a little hesitant, always feeling that this statement is a bit far-fetched, as far-fetched as if he was talking about him intentionally.

——It is a custom for everyone to say auspicious words when they meet each other during the New Year, and it is also a custom for everyone to light realgar and cinnabar during the Dragon Boat Festival. together!Made by the Seventh Prince's Mansion?

She was beating drums in her heart, and still smiling, she asked Mrs. Yi and Mrs. Chu to come in and sit down. After chatting and drinking half a cup of tea, her heart became even more nervous.

Mrs. Yi and Mrs. Chu are obviously not getting along. When talking, Mrs. Yi talked a lot to her, and Mrs. Chu was even more silent.She looked at Chu's complexion carefully, and saw that she was obviously haggard, and she was no longer bright and confident as before, and she couldn't help but start imagining the turbulent and treacherous struggles in the house again and again!
They still come to see her hand in hand?Just because of the meaning of reunion in the Mid-Autumn Festival?Sydney especially wants to write "You think I'm stupid" on her face for Yi Shi to see!
So when she asked Dou Sha to prepare some snacks, she got up and left under the pretext that she wanted to go to the kitchen to help the young master see what she could eat.

After leaving the door of the main room, she said to Dou Sha, "Go and ask Wei Xi to make the little fish egg flower porridge and tofu balls with sauce that Ah Yuan loved to eat at the beginning. Don't rush to deliver them when they are ready. You can serve them when you see me back." Come here", then throw down the bean paste and walk around to the south courtyard, and then go out through the door of the south courtyard!
She really has to ask the emperor about this! ——Never met before!If a concubine came to challenge her today, she wouldn't be so restless, but with the appearance of the Yi family and the Chu family, could it be that there is some new friction between the two, and the battlefield has been moved to her? !
She can't handle this!In case there is some kind of conspiracy, frame, or involvement in her actions for a while, where is she going to reason!

In the Zichen Palace, Xie Zhao had just returned from court, and was changing clothes in the bedroom, when he heard the woman's "wheezing, wheezing" panting.

Frowning, he thought it was a court lady who had no rules, but when he raised his eyes, he saw this "court lady" in the mirror.

"..." He turned his head blankly, and helped her by the shoulder before she bumped into her, "Didn't you see Yi Shi today?"

"Yeah...yes!" Xue Li thought about going back quickly, running all the way, panting a bit, "but... let me tell you! Mrs. Yi brought Mrs. Chu together. It’s been a long time since there’s been a disharmony, and it seems that the wives know about it, I think it’s so strange, I don’t know what they mean!”

Hearing this, he waved his hand to let the palace people back out, and frowned: It's really strange!

Not to mention other matters in the mansion, he used to ask more about the seventh brother's family affairs.The Chu family and the Yi family have long been sworn enemies. Where did this come from today?

But he looked at Sydney's expression, and his brows stretched again: "What are you worried about?"

"I'm worried about them, they are fighting secretly or something, get me involved!"

"...Pfft!" Xie Zhao wanted to hold back, but couldn't.Eryou forced himself to be stern, and touched her forehead, "Don't worry, Lizi, it's hard to say whether they are fighting secretly, but I definitely dare not involve you in it."

The concubines in the mansion were fighting fiercely, and it was said that it was embarrassing. He could even order the Seven Kings to write a letter of divorce. How dare they involve her?Isn't this courting death?It's not difficult for him to kill both of them directly!

Hearing what he said, Xueli calmed down a little, but the suspicion on her face remained undiminished.

Xie Zhao also still felt strange. After thinking for a while, he asked her, "Did they say anything wrong? Did you ask why Mrs. Chu came here?"

"I asked." Xueli nodded, and then told him the reason for the "Mid-Autumn Festival reunion" that Yi said at first.

Xie Zhao's expression became tense, and he told her after a while: "I see, it's fine. You can go back with peace of mind and tell them that although the filial piety period is not over and they can't have a big feast, there will still be a family banquet on the Mid-Autumn Festival. If the seventh brother is free, , come in and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together."

There was also a momentary realization on Xue Li's face, she nodded and went back to Jiugeyuan.

Xie Zhao stood there silent for a while, inevitably feeling awkward—he came here on purpose to ease the relationship, but he still asked the female relatives at home to say that he refused to come by himself. Is the relationship between their brothers so cold?
After lunch, they chatted for a while, and Sydney sent Chu and Yi away.A Test also happily "shunned" a box of snacks from her - he really liked the walnut cake on the table at lunch, and wanted to feed it to his sister, but she was too young to eat it .

In the evening, Xu Shishui came to send a message and told Sydney two things. One was that several adults suddenly had an urgent matter to meet with him.

The second is to tell Sydney: "Your Majesty said about the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, let the lady watch the arrangements."

Sydney: "..."

Xu Shishui said again: "Your Majesty said, it is better to divide the two sides according to the rules. He and the princes are in the Zichen Palace. Madam, you are here to entertain the female relatives. You can handle matters on both sides." Then he lowered his voice, "I Master said, if you are not sure about Zichen Hall, he can help you."

Sydney was a little relieved.

The next day, she was busy!

There are really many things.Only then did she realize that when she started arranging such a palace banquet, not only did she have to worry about the seating and the like, but even the arrangement of the dishes required her to take a good look at it—she felt quite tired when she was hosting a banquet in Liugeyuan. Well, she didn't need to take care of such specifics at that time!

She misses Concubine Hui a little bit.

"Your Highness and Your Majesty are together, and we never drink less. Light osmanthus wine is not enough, and we still have to prepare some spirits." Xueli went around the menu and added "Willows Wine" casually.

But Dou Sha said: "What Shangshi Bureau means is that it's just a family banquet. The next day, His Majesty can't avoid court for drinking too much. It's better to drink less."

……Right.

When Sydney picked up the pen, he wanted to cross out the word "Liulin wine".After thinking about it, I put down my pen again.

He obviously wants to use the palace banquet to ease the relationship with the Seven Kings, what if the brothers want to have a good time with each other?Just because the wine is not in place so that they can't enjoy themselves?This is not good either!
Sydney said: "Do as I said. Tell the imperial dining room to prepare more hangover soup, and tell the medical lady to fry the medicine to induce vomiting in advance. Just fry it directly in the imperial dining room. Prepare at least five stoves together."

"No." Dou Sha blessed herself, turned around and handed over the matter to Zhi Zhi, and then continued to listen to Xue Li's orders.

Sydney put down the relevant brochures at Zichen Palace for the time being, and thought about things at Jiugeyuan for a while.

She looked at Nanny Bai: "Mommy, all the concubines and concubines who are in charge of the family affairs will come in that day. It is too difficult for me to entertain all by myself. Mommy, can you help me if there is anyone in the harem who can use it? Don't worry too much." Smart, it’s not enough to put it on the table.”

Sydney's tone was even and steady.

She thought that any empress, or herself becoming an empress in the future, would not be able to exhaust herself to death.

Being able to employ people is also very important.Besides, when she becomes a queen, sooner or later she will have something to do with the harem, so it's better to establish this majesty by herself now.

"Stand up by yourself".

She hadn't thought about these five words before, but now they suddenly poured into her mind, making her stunned, and immediately became clear again.

(End of this chapter)