The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 18

The commander showed some curiosity, and asked her flatteringly, "What can you do?"

Xue Li looked up at the sky: "Is it time for your lord to leave the palace?"

"No rush." ​​The commander said with a smirk, "The imperial guards can come and go from the palace at any time."

Xueli smiled happily, turned around and walked out while turning her head and said to him: "Then wait for me, my lord! I'll be back in a while!"

When she came back, she had a big food box in her hand.

The food box was so heavy that she struggled to carry it.The commander quickly picked it up, put it on the stone case, and asked her inexplicably, "What are you doing?"

Sydney smiled and lifted the lid. On the first floor, there were five small plates: sesame halva, peanut halva, almond halva, preserved peaches, and pitted candied dates.

This layer was completely removed and put aside, revealing the second layer, four slightly larger plates: shrimp and egg, minced meat capers, Kung Pao chicken, and sliced ​​rock sugar elbow.

Take it away again, the third layer is three plates of pancakes, one white, one green and one purple, and another plate of sauce.Sydney has ordered three pancakes in turn: "Wheat noodles, mung bean noodles, and purple rice noodles."

The bottom layer is a small bowl of stewed mutton soup suitable for winter cold.

The commander looked at the food on the table and thought for a long time before he could understand what she meant.

He looked over suspiciously, with Sydney's watery eyes smiling: "It's good to feel good after eating some delicious food! Especially cold noodles and spring pancakes, which need to be done by yourself, are especially useful!"

Especially useful...

The commander looked very struggling.

This way of changing your mood is too... a little odd.

Xue Li's words continued: "Actually, I like hot pot the most at this time! I ate a meal by myself and sweated all over. No problem is a problem!"

Really, yes, a, small, child, son!

The commander breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, but..."

Raising his eyes to meet her blinking eyes, he swallowed back the words suddenly.

Just take two bites, at most it won't work, and there will be no harm.

His hands were still stained with blood, so the commander went to the yard to fetch water to wash himself.Seeing that he was cooperative, Sydney happily ran to wash his hands.

The commander took out a piece of wheat flour cake and held it in his hand. He looked at the various crisp candies and vegetables in front of him. Somehow, he hadn't started eating yet, but he seemed to be in a better mood? !
The shrimp and egg dish looks the most attractive. The light pink shrimp and golden egg are served together, which looks fresh but not greasy.

He was about to pick up a piece with great interest, when a small hand stretched out in front of him: "Eat this!"

Looking down, the hand that was brought to his mouth was holding a small square of almond halva.

The commander avoided it subconsciously and explained, "I don't like sweets."

"But eating sweets will make you feel better!" Xueli tilted her head and said earnestly, "I heard what my sisters said when I first entered the palace, and then I tried it many times myself, and it's true!"

That's because you're a little girl...

The commander involuntarily ate the candy she sent while cursing.He chewed it very reluctantly, this thing was too sweet for him, it was so sweet that his mouth was greasy.

The almond flavor is mellow and rich, filling the mouth with the sweetness, and hitting the nose again, the fragrance is pleasant.

He concentrated on finishing the piece of candy, and Sydney let him go and allowed him to eat spring pancakes.

So he held the chopsticks again, dipped some sauce on the chopsticks and spread it on the cake, then sandwiched three or two pieces of eggs, two pieces of elbow meat, and used a spoon to scoop up a small spoonful of minced meat capers and a small spoonful of Kung Pao chicken.

One roll on the left and one fold on the right, he rolled out a beautiful long and narrow burrito, and then looked up...

Xue Li was holding a stuffed spring pancake that was wrapped like a burden, "Hang Chi" and bit down.

It is rare to see such a frenzied way of eating in the palace, the commander was stunned for a long time, and slowly asked: "Do you usually eat like this?"

Xueli shook her head again and again, her mouth was stuffed too full for a long time before she had time to speak: "It's just more enjoyable to eat spring pancakes like this, and it's full of happiness to bite down!"

It seemed that she ate very happily. The commander looked at her and then at the cake in his hand. After a long time of conflict, he still couldn't convince himself to eat like this!
Although Sydney eats "with a lot of pride", after all, after entering the palace and being controlled by the rules for three years, she doesn't have a big appetite, so she feels full after eating this one.

Wiping her hands and resting her chin, she focused on watching the instructions.

The commander also raised his eyes to glance at her from time to time, and after a few times, he felt a little uncomfortable.

When I was eating, there was a juicy little girl looking at me straight in front of me, this feeling was too strange!

So after eating the second cake, he pushed a plate of preserved fruit to her: "here."

"I'm full!" Sydney Qingling said.

The commander took a deep breath and said sincerely, "Then don't stare at me, okay?"

"... Oh." Xueli looked away awkwardly, looked up at the tiles on the verandah, and looked down at the bluestone slabs. After looking at them for a while, she couldn't help but want to turn her head back.

She has nothing to do!
When the conductor ate half of the third cake, Sydney was forced to stroll down the corridor.

After walking around the corridor, he finished eating the third cake; wandering back and forth in the yard, he also finished eating the fourth cake.

The commander put down his chopsticks, and Xue Li's eyes widened: "Are you feeling better?"

"... Hmm." The commander nodded.It should be plain, but it's really not perfunctory for her, it's really more comfortable.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s comfortable to eat or because the process of eating burritos and pancakes kills the time and blunts the resentment in my heart.

The commander let out a long breath, as if the last depression in his heart dissipated with this breath.

He raised his eyes and looked at Sydney a few steps away.

At night, the small courtyard was warmly illuminated by the palace lanterns under the corridor, which made her blue chest-length skirt even more beautiful.A round of bright moon hangs high above her head, and the slightly cold light shines on the pair of silver hairpins on her hairdo, the reflected light of the stars contrasts with the stars in the sky.

She was also staring at him intently.A small person stood in the somewhat empty yard here, motionless, only blinking his watery eyes occasionally, like a beautiful porcelain doll.

He looked at her for a while, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly unconsciously.

Seeing his smile, Xueli pointed to the sugar dish: "Another piece?"

"No need." The commander suddenly laughed out loud, his eyes fell on the wooden box she saw on the table earlier, and asked, "What do you do with it?"

The smile on Xue Li's face faded a little, and she looked a little more sincere: "I'm here to return this. This thing is so precious, I can't accept it."

She shook her head as she spoke, the tassels on the pair of hairpins on the bun swayed quickly, as if she was deliberately cooperating with her rejection.

The commander looked displeased, stared at her for a while, and said calmly, "There is nothing you can't accept for congratulating your birthday. What's more, it's already a gift for you, how can I take it back?"

Xueli still shook her head, showing her sincerity with a smile on her childish face: "Your Excellency, you have so many people and so many things to deal with in court. Maybe giving such a good thing to others will be more useful..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the commander's face darkened as soon as he said it.

Xue Li choked on her words, and rolled her eyes, but she didn't know what she said wrong.

"I won't take back the things I gave you." The commander said in a word, and he got up and walked out. His tone couldn't be more blunt, "I'm not a person who likes to give gifts everywhere, and I can get what I want."

That night, Sydney went back very late, carrying the food box again, and was stopped by a passing female officer to ask a few words when walking to the residence.

She perfunctorily said that she was bringing some food to the friends of the Shangfu Bureau - such things are very common in the palace, so the female officer didn't ask any more questions.

After going back to the room to wash and lie down, when Xue Li closed her eyes, she saw the commander's face that said it was so dark, the more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged!

She spent so much time cooking and running errands just to make him happy, but in the end he still beat her up!

No matter how I think about it, I feel wronged!
After thinking about it, I felt that maybe I was wrong.

She shouldn't have returned the birthday gift he specially prepared.

Although it is not difficult for the imperial guards to check the status of a court lady, she also felt that they had already watched her every move.But he intentionally remembered her birthday...

Still very happy!

This day, I came back late and suffered from insomnia for a while. After sleeping for less than an hour, I heard Su Zixian's voice: "Xueli, get up!"

There is no way, since they have been promoted to be ministers, they often have to take turns to pay for breakfast.According to legends in various palaces, most of the breakfast meals are at Yinshi Maoshi, so you have to get up in the middle of the night to prepare.

Sydney rubbed her eyes, got up and changed her clothes, washed up and went to the dining room to start preparations.After reading the meal list, the two of them, together with several other envoys, were in charge of cooking porridge, and the other two selected servants were with them, but what they cooked was the porridge from the emperor's breakfast meal.

That dish seemed to be porridge with lettuce and fish fillets.

But the porridge hadn't been cooked yet, and the female official of Dian Ji came into the dining room, her eyebrows frowned slightly: "Your Majesty, this porridge must be replaced with something else."

"Huh?" The porridge cook was stunned.

"I asked the female officer of Shangshi to change it to red bean porridge." The female officer of Dianji said, sighing, "The word from the imperial hospital said that your majesty was injured and could not eat these meaty things. not good."

Only then did the chosen waiter understand, and he bowed to his promise and started to prepare new porridge.

"Why is Your Majesty hurt?" Bai Xinyi, who was working together, asked curiously.

Everyone could only shake their heads, and no one knew what was going on.

"But it must be a major event..." A voice was so low that it was impossible to tell who it was, "How difficult is it to hurt His Majesty? His Majesty must not be happy these days, let's be careful."

(End of this chapter)