The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 8 Busy
In the cold palace, Qin Wan, Liu Yue, and Liu Ying were dumbfounded as they stared at the three carts of vegetables and fruits brought by the guards.

Liuying: "Your Majesty, this is too much..."

Liu Yue: "Your Majesty, just the three of us, we can't finish eating these for a month..."

Qin Wan folded her arms, her face turned into a shriveled persimmon with worry, thinking what kind of punishment is this new punishment from King Yama, using these things to support her to death?

"Forget it, put it away first," Qin Wan looked at the dishes and said with his mouth twisted, "It's really not possible, pickle the pickles."

"Your Majesty, what kind of food do you want?" Liu Ying asked with her big eyes blinking.

Qin Wan waved his hand: "It's a way to prevent vegetables from spoiling. I'll teach you later."

Liu Yue Liu Ying nodded with half understanding and half understanding, and started to move vegetables with Qin Wan.

At this time, four more soldiers came outside the door, carrying a slaughtered sheep into the cold palace, put it on the stone table in the courtyard with a bang, and left without saying a word.

Liuyue and Liuying were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped, they couldn't even finish eating this sheep.

Qin Wan looked at the sheep and sighed. These people from the Rong Kingdom are worthy of being from the Northern Kingdom. When they eat lamb, they always eat a whole lamb.

Qin Wan and Yangtou stared at it for a while, but before they could figure out how to preserve it, another group of soldiers came from outside the palace, and each of them carried a basket of live chickens and ducks and rattled them in the yard. Liu Ying, who was born afraid of poultry, was so frightened that she jumped onto the stone bench and dared not get off.

Qin Wan put his hands together helplessly, looking at the chickens and ducks in the basket, one head and two big.Fortunately, the courtyard of this Lenggong is large, and it is barely possible to surround it with a chicken coop and a duck house.

But before she had planned where to make chicken cages and where to put duck houses, Yuan Ying walked in with a few guards outside the door, carrying two large tanks.

Qin Wan looked inside and saw all kinds of live fish swimming around inside, and his entire scalp was numb.

She grabbed Yuan Ying and asked, "Miss, what are you doing? Is my cold palace going to be a vegetable market?"

Yuan Ying shook off Qin Wan's hand. Qin Wan hadn't avenged her for embarrassing her in front of King Ning yesterday, and her tone was filled with anger: "Mr. Bai asked me to bring these, saying that His Highness King Ning was afraid that your mother would not have enough food. Let the empress make up more."

"My God, King Yama has turned into a god of agriculture." Qin Wan stretched out his finger and poked the sheep on the stone table, "There must be some serious illness."

Yuan Ying rolled her eyes in disgust, raised her mouth and said, "Your Majesty is so lucky. His Royal Highness King Ning has announced to the world that he will marry you soon and make you a side concubine. Your Majesty should eat more and give it to Ning." His Royal Highness gave birth to a young son, who might soon become a concubine."

"What!" Qin Wan grabbed Yuan Ying again, "Didn't I disagree last night?"

Yuan Ying snorted coldly: "You didn't choose the white silk, and you are living a good life today. His Highness King Ning will take it as your consent."

"..." Qin Wan felt that she was wrong, she was really cowardly, if she really wanted to strangle her neck with white silk, she really couldn't do that to herself.

After Yuan Ying left, Liu Ying and Liu Yue came to Qin Wan.

Liu Yue: "Your Majesty, what can we do with so many?"

Liuying: "And neither of us know how to kill fish and ducks."

"Tsk tsk..." Qin Wan paced back and forth with arms folded, thinking about Ning Yi's decision to make her a side concubine while thinking about how to deal with the food.However, she is not a little chef with special skills, and there are only a few ways she can think of.Since she couldn't handle the matter of Concubine Feng for a while, at least she still had to do the work in front of her.

"Come on, let's get rid of the food first, and then worry about the others. At least if you have food, you won't die."

After finishing speaking, Qin Wan rolled up her sleeves, took Liuyue Liuying with her, and started washing and choosing vegetables.

The three of them worked until the evening, and after surrounding the chickens and ducks, all the big pots of vegetables were finally marinated.

Qin Wan pointed to the vat and said, "This one is Northeast sauerkraut, this one is Sichuan kimchi, and this one is Korean kimchi."

Liuyue Liuying looked at several large tanks suspiciously, frowning uncertainly.

Liuying: "My lady, can soaking vegetables in a jar be delicious?"

Qin Wan patted his chest and said, "Trust me."

Liuyue asked again: "Your Majesty, there is only that sheep left now, what should we do?"

Qin Wan thought for a while: "Then it can only be made into air-dried mutton. It just so happens that our cold palace can't be exposed to the sun, so it's just suitable for shade-dried mutton."

So the three girls stretched their arms and started to work again. They worked all night until the east was pale and the sun was rising. They finally put strips of mutton on bamboo poles and hung them in the courtyard of Lenggong.

After finishing the work, the three girls were too tired to move, and they all lay down on the ground, gasping for breath.

Liuying: "Mother, the work I have done these two days is more tiring than my previous 15 years of dancing practice. I really can't move at all."

Liu Yue: "But I don't know why I feel so comfortable in my heart. Look at the mutton, we put it on piece by piece. It's so fulfilling."

Hearing what they said, a smile appeared on Qin Wan's face.Compared with the fear and trepidation when they first arrived here, after this busy period, they are not only happy to be busy, but also temporarily forget the uneasiness of entering a strange place for the first time.

What happened in Lenggong was reported to Qingyun Palace by Yuan Ying.

Bai Zixian couldn't help laughing at the side, he gave a thumbs up and said: "No wonder this empress in the cold palace is still alive and well after being imprisoned for three years. It seems that this is both pickled vegetables and the ability to dry meat. I really can't look down upon it."

Ning Yiben was troubled by the prevalence of private salt in Liang Guo and the re-minting of coins, but for some reason, after listening to Yuan Ying's report, he felt much better.

"When Qin Buping was alive, Liang State was strong and powerful, fighting everywhere, and food storage was very important. But Liang State was in the south, and few people knew about this method, let alone the boudoir girls in Nanliang. It seems that Qin Wan must have studied in Qin Buping's residence Here are these methods of pickling." Bai Zixian analyzed with confidence while touching his chin and nodding, "This also proves from the side that she is indeed Qin Buping's adopted daughter."

Yuan Ying questioned from the side: "Your Highness, Mr. Bai, my subordinates also feel that this lady is really not like a Nanliang woman. Judging from her gestures, she seems to have some fist skills. The daughters of wealthy families in Nanliang are usually ashamed to learn. Fist and kick, let alone labor. But judging from this lady, she is better at doing these rough jobs than the two maids around her, and even raises chickens and ducks very neatly."

Bai Zixian shook his head and said: "A girl in the cold palace must have something special if she wants to survive. If Qin Buping can send her into the palace, he won't just teach her poetry and calligraphy, but also some martial arts. As for you After all, she is not Qin Buping's biological daughter, and after being adopted, she may only be a rough servant girl in the mansion, and will be sent to the palace when she is old, instead of being cultivated as a lady of the family."

After such an analysis, although Yuan Ying felt that something was wrong, she was convinced on the surface.

Ning Yi raised his hand: "Okay, don't say any more. Her identity seems to be clear to me, the key now is how to use her to recruit Pei people, especially Lu Ziyi, Guo Xingcheng and other old troops of the Pei army."

(End of this chapter)