The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 179 Delicious April

It seems that the taste of spring has not been tasted enough, and summer has come quietly.

Early April is a good time for seasonal food and flowers.

The spring when all things are reborn is not far away, and the weather is not too hot, it is a rare sunny day in a year.Every year at this time, people with good conditions in the capital will go to buy some new fruits that have just been released on the market, and they will also buy some good flowers to decorate and add fun to their homes.

Hawthorns, cherries, and red bayberries are the freshest, and roses and peonies are also in full bloom.In Beijing in early April, everyone will have a smile on their faces.

In the Qing Dynasty, the palace was naturally particular about eating and drinking flowers for each festival, and April was one of the most particular times.

According to the rules of the ancestors, every fourth day of April, the emperor, concubines, maids and servants have to change their clothes and gauze clothes.After the peony flowers are in full bloom, there will be a banquet in the palace to taste the peony flowers.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, emperors, empresses, concubines, princesses and princes specially eat a kind of seasonal food called "buluojia".This kind of food is made of glutinous rice wrapped in reed leaves. It is three or four inches long and one inch wide.The taste is not much different from Zongzi.

In addition, cherries should be tasted, thinking that the beginning of new flavors of fruits this year.The other delicacies eaten by the masters of the harem are even more diverse and nutritious, far beyond what the folks can match.

For example, eat bamboo shoots and ducks, eat boiled pork, and use all kinds of fine fat meat, chop ginger, green onions, and garlic into rice as small as beans, and then wrap them with lettuce leaves to eat, which is called "baoer rice".

At the same time, the imperial dining room in the palace will also brew Cijiang Douchi for one year.If the weather is fine and the emperor’s health allows it, the masters of the harem will also visit the landscape temples in the suburbs of Beijing, offer incense and worship the Buddha, and of course, they can also "by the way" eat nearby seasonal snacks, white wine, and water cheese...

April is the happiest month, this is Yun Ruochen's famous saying, although it is only spread within Chonghua Palace.

In fact, this was the most abundant food festival in April that Emperor Yongjia lived.

In the past, the late emperors believed in Taoism and liked to cultivate longevity, so they didn't care much about eating in the palace.Emperor Yongjia was an unfavored son, and his mother was also unfavored, so it would be nice to have something to eat.Still dare to be picky?
When he became emperor, he was busy with putting down his brother's rebellion and couldn't care about anything else.

In April last year, he was busy making Yun Ruochen a princess. What a big deal, so other trivial matters were naturally thrown into the corner.

This year is different.

Yun Ruochen deliberately asked someone to find out the records of the palace in the past, and told his father one item at a time: "Look, in the past the palace had to do this, to do that..."

It was supposed to be Empress Chen's work, but she took over without hesitation.

Anyway, the puppet queen chosen by the bosses of her hostile group is not worthy of her favor at all. It is more important for her to please her own stomach!

For his daughter's request that does not involve government affairs, Emperor Yongjia has always said one word: "Okay."

How she wants to arrange the meals and banquets in the palace according to the past rules is up to her.

Don't love daughters just like to eat?What a lovely child!
She never said what kind of jewellery, jewellery, gold and silver she wanted, and some people inexplicably said that she was not good in this way or in that way.My daughter is not good, should you take care of her?I am happy to pamper her!
Emperor Yongjia was such an unenlightened emperor.

In addition to his daughter, of course he also dotes on his son.

Yun Yao is three years old.

Under Yun Ruochen's careful care, Yun Yao grew into a boy with a thick head and a thick head.

Emperor Yongjia would have someone bring Yun Yao to him every day to say a few words, pat his head, give him a hug, no amount of love would be enough.

My only son, look, how good he looks!Even the imperial physician said that the weakness brought about by the eldest prince's mother's womb has been completely cured, as long as he pays attention to keeping out the cold and eating well, he will definitely grow up healthily.

Emperor Yongjia loved to hear these words, which father wouldn't?

Being smart, obedient and sensible is a higher requirement. Emperor Yongjia had only one requirement for his son-to grow up healthy.

This is the only bloodline of the imperial heir!
So in the face of Zhezi who asked the First Prince to move out of the Chonghua Palace and live with Empress Chen, as well as the face-to-face remonstrance of his courtiers, Emperor Yongjia refuted with confidence.

"Hua Rong took good care of her younger brother. My emperor's son is healthy, eating and sleeping well. A three-year-old is taller than a four-year-old."

"It's fine. You insist on letting the child move. If he is not used to it and gets sick, who of you can take the responsibility?"

No one dared to answer this.

Everyone knows how important the eldest prince's health is.Not to mention that Yun Ruochen protected Yun Yao to death, it was because she was negligent in guarding against it, and the big bosses on the opposing side did not dare to ask someone to give Yun Yao some laxatives to make him suffer from a minor illness, so that he could take the opportunity to move out.

In case of minor ailments and serious illnesses, the eldest prince will be tormented to death, and the court will undergo major changes in the future!Who knows if the emperor will survive or not!
The country is in great turmoil, and they, the parasites that cling to the big tree of the country to suck their flesh and blood, can't please them either.

Therefore, Emperor Yongjia's words really left them speechless.

Emperor Yongjia was pleased, and said even more utterly: "The empress is taking medicine for half a month, and she doesn't know what's wrong. She can't take care of herself, but she can still take care of her children?"

"She never had a child."

These words reached Empress Chen's ears, and she cried until she died, smashing all the precious porcelain in the bedroom!

Why is she taking medicine?Still want kids?Is she crazy for wanting to have a baby?
She even begged the emperor for the emperor's blessings for the few maids she married in, thinking that even if she couldn't conceive, the maids around her would be pregnant, just hug them and raise them.

But whether it was her, the maids around her, or the other concubines in the palace who had been lucky, none of them could conceive.

She hadn't had a baby—did she not want to?
Empress Chen hated Yun Ruochen and Yun Yao so much now that she didn't dare to show her hatred, she didn't even dare to complain in front of the palace people.

The palace is already dominated by that vicious Hua Rong.The other concubines are all vying to please her.

Yes, why not please her?

Look at Concubine Duan, why do other concubines live in deserted cold palaces with second-class food and clothing, but Concubine Duan still lives in the Tsinghua Palace where she used to live, so she can eat whatever she wants The examples are all first class.

Wasn't it because he had a good eye at the time, bet on the right treasure, and he had no children, so he took Princess Huarong to live in the palace and cultivated feelings?
Now that Princess Huarong is in power, she confesses Concubine Duan as her own grandmother, which is more beautiful than herself as the real empress.

Those concubines have also seen through it, predicting that they will also die without heirs in the future, why don't they hug their thighs now?
You know, the eldest prince only recognizes Princess Huarong as his sister.Even if the emperor is gone in the future, with the protection of the future emperor and eldest prince, Princess Huarong can still continue to be arrogant.

And myself...

I hate my father for listening to other people's words, thinking that there is a queen in the family who will honor his ancestors, so he sent himself in.

Princess Huarong must have known her background early on, so she was very indifferent to herself from the beginning.Alas... why am I so miserable!
Empress Chen cried in the dark in her own palace, and no one cared about her.

Yun Ruochen completely took her excuse of being sick as a real thing, and sent Xia Hong three times a day to console her and deliver supplements.

After eating all kinds of delicacies in the palace in April, at the end of the month, she excitedly encouraged her father and Concubine Duan to go to the Jade Buddha Temple with her to offer incense.

"Eat vegetarian food, Father, have you ever eaten vegetarian food?"

Yun Ruochen laughed and pinched Emperor Yongjia's shoulders, looking like a dog.

Vegetarian food is also called temple food, which was originally a product of the rise of Buddhism.As for later, in order to cater to the big patrons of the monastery—the dignitaries and nobles, the Vegetarian Cuisine has developed to an extremely complicated level. In fact, it has far deviated from the original purpose of worshiping Buddha.

But people in the upper class just like it, so many big monasteries regard making vegetarian food as an important event.The monastery has to rely on tricking the nobles to donate sesame oil money to live a good life. How can they not make them feel comfortable?

"What is a fast?"

Emperor Yongjia played with his daughter in a good-tempered manner.The eunuchs and maids in the room watched their eyes and noses, and no one dared to disturb the fun of the emperor's father and daughter.

If someone who doesn't have a good eye comes over and says "improper", it is estimated that the happy-looking emperor will turn his face immediately.

"The vegetarian banquet at the Jade Buddha Temple is very famous." Yun Ruochen pointed to the menu with his fingers: "Last time, Chen'er and the concubine went to worship the Buddha and ate there, and I couldn't forget the taste for several days after I came back! There are Sixi Vegetarian Vegetarian, Quanfu Sujin, Vegetarian Chicken, Vegetarian Duck, Vegetarian Ham, Bazhen Qiankun Bag... Oh, there are so many I haven’t eaten, let’s have a good time this time, shall we?”

"Father, it's boring to take care of these government affairs in the palace every day. It's a tradition to go out of the palace to worship the Buddha in April, and those picky old men in the cabinet will not stop you, saying that you are ruining the government!"

"Father, you can just accompany me and Xing'er, okay?"

"Think about it, how long has it been since our family went out to play?"

In fact, Emperor Yongjia was quite lazy, not very interested in playing, and even less interested in eating.Generally, people with poor health and blood will not have much better appetite.

But what his daughter said about "the whole family going out to play" still moved him.

Even though he became emperor, Emperor Yongjia still liked the simple life in Prince Jing's mansion the most.

At that time, although I was worried every day, worrying about what would happen to the moody emperor's father, and worrying about the conspiracy of my younger brother who wholeheartedly regarded him as his mortal enemy, living in the mansion was still very warm and happy most of the time.

"Okay, since Chen'er you speak so well, I will accompany you there."

"Great!"

Yun Ruochen cheered excitedly.

Finally, she tricked her father out of the palace, and her "big plan" can finally be carried out smoothly.

(End of this chapter)