After the new widow, I became a tyrant's tender outer chamber

Chapter 182
After the new emperor went to Luomeixuan, the news that the newly-appointed concubine Jin had fallen ill spread throughout the palace, and there was a sudden disturbance.

After much deliberation, Ruan Yuyi recommended Concubine Xu to him. In her impression, Concubine Xu was a reasonable person even though she was not talkative.

Jiang Huaiyang didn't care about this matter, it was up to her to decide.

Xu Bing came to see her once and explained some matters.Although she is an assistant, in fact most of the miscellaneous matters have fallen on Xu Bin's head, and she is responsible for peace of mind and recuperation.

But I don't know if it's because of getting used to it, whenever the palace servants have something to do, they are still used to report to her, and after talking about it a few times, they gradually turn to disturb Xu Concubine.

Except for the first few days, it was particularly uncomfortable, but later on, the illness was more peaceful.It's just that she always has a light taste in her mouth, and she can't eat things that are heavy in salt and oil, so she has to put a piece of candied fruit in her mouth from time to time to add flavor.

I thought that Yan Baolin and her were good friends before, and he would come to visit after hearing the news, but Bai Zhiqi has been here before, and there is no movement from her.

Fearing that something might happen to her, Ruan Yuyi once asked someone to visit her under the pretext of begging for candied fruit, but she was invited out by saying "my concubine has never made candied fruit recently".

Afterwards, she didn't think about it any more, she knew in her heart that Yan Baolin deliberately wanted to fade away from her.

On the other hand, Bai Zhiqi once brought ginseng and so on, calling "sister" and "sister" with a sweet voice, but there was a hint of dissatisfaction in what he said.

Ruan Yuyi couldn't hear it, so she simply closed the door of Luomeixuan, so as not to let anyone come to visit with confused thoughts, she didn't have to deal with it, and she was at ease.

She hid in her own palace for a month, and only after her body recovered completely did she open the door.

The master is very good, the palace members of Luomeixuan are all beaming with joy, wondering what to do to bring good luck.

After much deliberation, Mu Xiang finally proposed to go to the imperial dining room to get some noodles and fruit bait to make up for the glutinous rice balls that were missed during the winter solstice.

The little maids who were born in the northern country looked strange, saying that even if it was the winter solstice, they didn't have the habit of eating glutinous rice balls, they should eat dumplings.Among them, a palace maid who used to live in Southern Province jumped out to refute, and the two sides had a lot of trouble.

So although the house has not started to pack hands, it has become lively.

Usually at this time, the wood spirit is indispensable to join in the fun, but today he was nowhere to be seen.Ruan Yuyi sent Qing Luo and Cen Li to the imperial dining room to prepare things, and said to Mu Xiang, "Go and call the wood spirit, don't be bored by yourself."

Mu Xiang smiled and went.

She frowned slightly as she looked at Mu Xiang's disappearing figure after turning to the door.It's not like she didn't ask Mu Ling if something happened to her, but this girl's mouth is tight now, she just said that she is not used to serving her by her side.

She also sent someone to watch it, but she didn't see anything unusual, so she had to not mention it for the time being.

A maid in a goose-yellow jacket opened the door and came in, saluted with a smile and said hello, "I've seen your mother."

Ruan Yuyi took a look at her and felt that she was much thinner.She nodded, beckoning the wood spirit to come closer, and the two started chatting casually.

Mu Xiang and the others set up tablecloths and chairs, and placed all kinds of bait, glutinous rice flour and dough that Cen Li and the others had brought back on the round table. Large and small dishes filled half of the table.

Several servants and eunuchs in her palace are still young, and Master Kuang is kind, so they are already chattering and laughing.

A few people cleaned their hands and sat around, looking at each other unknowingly. When they were far away, they put their heads together to ponder and discuss with each other.

Ruan Yuyi grabbed a small ball of glutinous rice balls, rolled them together, made a small hole in the center, and scooped the filling into it.It didn't take long for a small snowball to appear in the palm of my hand.

Qingluo's personality is somewhat similar to that of the wood spirit, she is a jumper, she caught a glimpse of Ruan Yuyi making one, she praised it without moving her eyes.

"Your Majesty is really dexterous. When you rub her hands together, she is so round and cute. I don't know who is lucky enough to eat it." This is as if she is not holding glutinous rice balls, but some kind of golden balls and jade beads.

Her bright eyes were slightly bent, "I can talk nonsense." She grabbed another bit of dough.

Making glutinous rice balls is not as difficult as others, and this sweet girl can find something to praise her.

Qing Luo stopped his hands and looked at her, "This servant is telling the truth, not quite as different as Yu Zhuzi."

"Since that's the case," Mu Xiang joked, "I want my empress to keep this glutinous rice ball for you, and after a while, it will make you feel panicky in your belly."

Qing Luo giggled and didn't answer.

Mu Ling sat between her and Ruan Yuyi, imitating the others, but he looked pretty good.She lowered her eyes and smiled at the corners of her lips, but she seemed to be drawn away, in the midst of talking and laughing, her heart was lonely.

Mu Xiang noticed that she was in a daze, and bumped her with her elbow, "Why, don't sneak around."

She was suddenly brought back to her senses, and the voice beside her ear became real.She squeezed the glutinous rice balls in her hand, smiled more sincerely, and replied, "I dare not."

After all, there were so many people, it didn’t take long for the idea of ​​fruit bait to be wrapped, and the remaining dough was kneaded into small balls the size of a finger, and it would be delicious to cook with brown sugar at that time.

These glutinous rice balls were taken to the small kitchen to be cooked, Ruan Yuyi had nothing to do, so she followed them.

The white balls floated in the water, and the water bubbled up after a while.After they all floated up, Mu Xiang fished them out, five or six in a bowl, and distributed them to the palace people.

But Ruan Yuyi was not allowed to eat more.Mu Xiang said, I heard that this stuff is sticky to the intestines, if you eat too much, your stomach should hurt.

Because she only used four spoons. "Is there any left in the pot?" she asked.

Mu Xiang thought for a while, "There are about six bowls left."

"Let's send some to the palaces." It's up to them, as for whether to eat or not, that's their business.

She pretended to be Cen Li and sent a copy to the new emperor, he was also happy to see her thinking about the new emperor, even if he went back and forth a few more times, he was also happy.

The snow outside was a little heavier, flying all over the sky one after another.

When Cen Li arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Jiang Huaiyang was discussing political affairs with Mr. Li.

He sat on the chair with his shoulders heavy, his expression uneasy, as if he was talking about something difficult.Cen Li was ushered into the hall, seeing this situation, his heart tightened, and he thought something was wrong.

As far as he knew, His Majesty never liked to be disturbed at such a time.What's more, it's such a small thing as sending food.

The man outside the door didn't know to remind him, and he was harmed for no reason.

When he bowed his head in fear, he suddenly heard someone say, "Bring it up." Then a pair of forged boots stepped into his sight, his hands were empty, and the food box was taken away.

Only then did he take a breath.

"Did your mother do it?"

He replied as usual, "Yes, even when it was cooked, the empress personally watched it." In fact, all the people in the whole house cook together, so there is no clear distinction between which is which.

It's just to put the words in a better way.

"Your Majesty said, 'Your Majesty should use it slowly, the stuffing is very hot when mixed with the soup just out of the pot.'" He paused, and added, "My Majesty asked the slave to ask you if you can Also send a bowl to Chonghua Palace."

Jiang Huaiyang opened the food box, the soup inside was not spilled at all, the glutinous rice balls were round and pleasing, because it is white soup, it looks much lighter than the food in Beijing.

"Yun." If she doesn't obey her, she won't cry with him, for fear of standing in the heavy snow and trampling her body again.

Sometimes he really doubted whether she sent someone to bring the food here because of the weather.

(End of this chapter)