Shangshi female official

Winter has come, and the Shangshi masters and the maids from the imperial kitchen are preparing the New Year dishes, as well as the daily dumplings in the imperial kitchen, and they are busy from dawn to dusk every day.

Concubine De specifically asked Xiao Nian to eat five-grain porridge as a good omen. Chen Shangshi tried hard to let Wang Yifu make the porridge and got the opportunity to get a good omen.

This porridge is made from rice, millet, millet, wheat, and bean sprouts. The taste is mediocre, but food is the most important thing for the people, and grains are the most basic things, so it has a profound meaning for the country.

On the New Year's Day, Wang Yifu was busy cooking the grain porridge, but Xu Xinyan asked someone to ask her to go to Yanqi Palace in the afternoon.The empress had summoned her, and the fifth-grade chef had to obey. Wang Yifu had no choice but to put down the grain porridge in his hand and rush to Yanqi Palace.

As soon as she entered the palace gate, the eunuch guarding the palace last time saw her coming. He immediately bent down and greeted her with a smile: "Wang Sishan, please come this way."

It was only about ten steps from the palace gate to the main hall, and he kept nodding and bowing, escorting him very attentively.

After entering the palace gate, several palace maids were guarding the hall, and they all bowed to her. The female historian went to the living room to inform her, and then came out and took her in again.

The room was not big, and the focus was on gathering energy. There were several pieces of clothing on a shelf for Xu Xinyan to choose from. They were all in bright colors. Wang Yifu guessed that they were prepared for the palace banquet in the evening.

"You all go out."

Xu Xinyan was sitting in front of the bronze mirror. She had just finished tracing her eyebrows. She put Shi Dai back into the makeup box. She turned around and saw Wang Yifu and said with a smile, "Wang Sishan, I haven't seen you for a while."

Wang Yifu didn't want to say useless greetings to her and asked, "I wonder what Madam Xu has ordered."

Xu Xinyan smiled bitterly and said: "The rift between Wang Sishan and I is so big now? We can't even chat."

"When Empress Xu was swinging on the swing in front of Fengxian's palace, she and her ministers wandered further and further away."

Xu Xinyan couldn't laugh anymore, and her round eyes were filled with tears again. She pursed her lips, swallowing the grievance and anger in her heart. She got up and walked to sit on the soft couch under the south window. She turned sideways and leaned against the couch. Open the cabinet on the wall and take out a greenish-green baggage inside.

She placed the bundle on the small table in the middle of the soft couch and opened the layers. Inside there was only a pearl tassel hairpin and a folded pink dress.

"I can never leave this deep palace except death. I have no relatives or friends in the palace. I have only known Wang Sishan for a few years. I asked Wang Sishan to see me as a gift for so many embroidery items. As a matter of love, please help me."

Wang Yifu asked coldly: "What does Madam Xu want me to do for you?"

"Help me take this baggage to my hometown and give it to my mother."

"Your Majesty is now a concubine. Didn't the palace reward her with many precious things long ago and send them to her home? Why should she send these things back?"

"This is something I took with me when I left home. I want to leave it to my mother as a memory."

“Can’t your Majesty even punish those who bring things to your family?”

"How can such a worthless thing be handled by the people in the palace? You also know this reward, but the name is nice, and the reward will have to be paid off by the people who are doing the work. If you call the palace When people go, my mother has to pay for it herself. How can ordinary people have that kind of money? Ev, please help me."

Many years later, when she heard Xu Xinyan calling her name again, Wang Yifu's mind wandered, and her heart softened for a moment. She saw that although the clothes were clean after washing, they were just cloth without even embroidery.

She is also a woman with no family background, so she is afraid that all the money or other good things given by the palace will be used to reward others.Thinking about it this way, I couldn't bear to refuse. "Okay, write your home address clearly to me, and I will deliver it to you after I leave the palace."

Xu Xinyan finally relaxed, and immediately went outside to pick up a pen and write, clearly writing down the local address. When she came in, she had a different smile. The smile was the same as when they were practicing calligraphy and playing together in the inner workshop.

"This is the location of my home. There is a willow tree in front of my house. I have written it clearly."

Wang Yifu took it with both hands. Not only was the address written on the paper, but also what the door lintel looked like and what kind of tree to plant were written down on the paper. Then she smiled and said: "I've delivered it and I will find a way to tell you."

Xu Xinyan was stunned for a moment, then grinned and said, "Okay."

Wang Yifu put the baggage back to the Sixth Bureau and First Division, put it away properly, and then returned to the imperial kitchen to cook grain porridge. As soon as he came back, he found that there was a room full of uterine women and Shi's expressions were not right.

She didn't know what happened. She walked back to the pot on the stove and took a look. The porridge in the pot was gone, and only the bottom was left bubbling.

"What happened? Who touched the porridge?"

The female historian who she had previously ordered to take care of the porridge hurriedly came over and explained, "Si Shan, please calm down. The female historian of Concubine De came just now and said that Concubine De valued this grain porridge very much and wanted to present it to the emperor with auspicious words in the evening. Si Shan Master Shan didn't take care of it himself. She called Qiu Nanxue and insisted on making the porridge for her. Qiu Nanxue was so happy that after tasting what you cooked, she scooped up most of it and left."

Wang Yifu's heart froze, and she suddenly remembered that Xu Xinyan had insisted on sending her that worthless baggage just now, and she instantly understood that this was their trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

First, he transferred her people away, and then asked Concubine De's people to come and check. They happened to find a mistake and replaced her with Qiu Nanxue. The emperor was happy, and Qiu Nanxue might replace her.

The disgusting feeling of being betrayed came to her heart, forcing Wang Yifu to almost vomit. She felt soft-hearted just now, and it turned out to be a wrong payment.

"Sir, don't be sad."

Wang Yifu shook his head and said: "I'm not sad about this. If Qiu Nanxue does well, it's not a bad thing if the emperor is happy."

"Now, what can you do?"

"There are still many dishes to prepare for the dinner, so it's important to take care of the immediate things first."

There aren't as many preparations for New Year's Eve as there are for New Year's Eve. Their kitchen dishes include assorted ginkgo and mahjong chicken.

The Assorted Ginkgo Queen made a lot of things when summoning her betrothed wife. She stuffed vegetable jelly yolks into eggs and steamed them until they looked like egg whites wrapped in colorful egg yolks. It was elegant and delicious.

Mahjong chicken is more troublesome to make. You need to remove the skin of the chicken, tie it on a bamboo net with a skewer, blanch it in oil and then air-dry it until the chicken skin becomes thin and crispy. Then chop the chicken, diced fat meat and shrimp into the filling. Season the chicken, spread it on the chicken skin and drizzle oil until the stuffing is cooked.

Finally, cut the chicken with jujube red skin and white shrimps into mahjong-sized pieces and put them together to make a mountain shape.

After the dishes were ready, Wang Yifu had to change her clothes and go on her way. The female food officer and several chefs were serving in the second west room of Kunning Palace. They stood in the corner, waiting for the masters to slowly arrive in this big room. Come here to have a palace banquet.

The ones who came first must be those of lower rank, then those Jieyu Zhaoyi, and then came the concubines of various palaces. After the empress sat down, Concubine De followed the emperor belatedly.