The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 37
After Chen Jijiang took the order, he asked his little eunuch to go to the imperial dining room to call for someone.

He was not allowed to mention that he was called to go to Zichen Palace, the little eunuch was also clever in his work, he found an excuse to call someone and left, Xueli didn't know that he was going to enter the palace until he got down the long steps.

She immediately became tense.When I came out just now, I was still complaining that I hadn't finished eating the white sugar rice cake, and it would not taste good after it cooled down.Looking up at the main hall on the long steps right now, I immediately don't think about rice cakes.

The little eunuch bowed his head beside him: "Miss, please, Mr. Chen is waiting inside."

Xue Li calmed down and walked up with her skirt.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the palace, he saw Chen Jijiang coming to welcome him, and he said in a hurry, "Master Chen."

"Coming? Really soon." Chen Jijiang greeted her casually, and pointed to the table prepared not far behind him, "His Royal Highness said that he frightened you that day, and I want to apologize to you, His Majesty ordered this to be prepared. "

Sydney took a serious look.

There is a small charcoal fire stove on the table, and there are a lot of meat and vegetables next to it, which is very rich.

Before she had time to ask for more details, Chen Jijiang had already walked out.Sydney looked at the table again, and at the brightly lit inner hall behind a door, and was very confused about the current rules and etiquette: Do you want to thank you?Can you really eat here?

Then she figured it out for herself.

There was no movement inside, so I guess they didn't even know if she arrived or not. She kowtowed to thank them, they couldn't see her, so could her voice be louder?Will disturb their meal...

Look at the table of food again, it is so well prepared, it is definitely inappropriate for her to go out without eating, Master Chen is probably guarding outside, it is too strange for her to go out so soon.

Outside the hall, Chen Jijiang quietly turned his head to watch, seeing that the girl sat down to pick up chopsticks without even kowtow to the inner hall, and almost slammed her head on the door.

Sydney's first chopsticks caught a shiitake mushroom.

The shiitake mushrooms were just washed and the stems were removed, they were not marinated, they were dipped in oil and roasted directly.After roasting, the aroma will be much stronger, and the taste will be smooth and smooth, and it can be paired with various salty and fresh sauces.

Sydney happily baked three, the dark brown mushroom caps are round, and it looks a little cute when grilled on the charcoal stove.She baked very attentively, turning this over, poking that, pressing the other, and the sound of "sizzling" on the stove was incessant, just listening to it was alluring.

After it was baked, took it out and put it on a plate, Xueli raised her eyes and swept it on the table, she was so stupid.

No sauce?

Not even chili powder?
Looking at the table full of vegetables and meat, none of them have been marinated, all of them have the most original taste.Although the fresh and tender ones are fresh and tender enough, but eating them directly like this is a bit bland...

Sydney frowned sadly, missing her unfinished piece of rice cake.

In the inner hall, the Seven Kings crouched by the crack of the door to see so far, turned their heads and asked in a low voice, "Brother Emperor, am I going?"

The emperor was still leisurely grilling lamb chops, nodded, and the seven kings stood up and opened the door.

Xue Li looked up when she heard the door knock, and immediately stood up to greet her: "His Royal Highness, the Seventh Prince, rest assured."

"Here, here are the seasonings for you." Qi Wang shoved the small dish into her hand, "Cumin and chili. Brother Huang said that if you need anything else, you can go in and get it yourself."

He pointed to the inside as he said, and Xue Li looked in the direction he pointed, the door of the temple was still ajar, and he could vaguely see the figure.

This time I really want to say goodbye.As soon as Xue Li bent her knees, before she knelt down, she said inside: "No."

She straightened her body, and silently put the small dish of chili and cumin aside, and the emperor said slowly again after smelling it: "You can take what you need, since the small table outside can't fit, so I didn't prepare everything for you. "

After Xie Zhao finished speaking, he waited quietly for a reply.He didn't mean anything else, he just wanted to see from her reaction whether she had recovered from it.He felt that his ladder was well built, so let her wait for a few days before calling her to the palace.When called to the palace, let her bake things by herself first, and then let her seventh brother, who is the prince, personally deliver a condiment...

Does he think he is generous enough?Not scary right?Doesn't look like a bad guy at all, does it?

Seeing a respectful blessing outside: "I have enough things here, servant girl."

have to……

The emperor sighed, got up and walked out, stopped when he came to the two of them, no matter how she didn't dare to raise her head: "Would you like some snacks?"

Sydney shook her head immediately.

He thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you want to drink yogurt?"

As soon as she shook her head, the Seven Kings beside her shouted, "I want to!"

"..." The emperor gave him a dark look, and continued to go out in strides, following the path, "You guys are eating, I'm going out for a walk."

After leaving the palace, tell the palace servants outside to prepare yogurt and send it in.Xie Zhao didn't go far, and stood by the fence for a while before returning to the gate of the hall.

The door of the hall was closed tightly, the inside was bright and the outside was dark, from here he could see the figures of the two of them under the light, if they were not careful inside, they would not be able to see the shadows outside.

He was curious if Ruan Shi was so nervous in front of his seventh brother.

Chen Jijiang and Xu Shishui watched His Majesty poking his head into his hall by the door, and couldn't help but look at each other: Your Majesty, you have become more childlike recently...

The voice from inside came slowly.

"Eat this!" Seventh King picked up a plate of fish fillets without letting Xueli do it. He rolled up his sleeves and picked up pieces of fish on the charcoal stove, complaining as he picked them up, "Brother Huang roasted the fish very well by himself just now. Let me try, I'm so anxious."

Xie Zhao raised his eyebrows outside and remained silent.

After hearing what he said, Xue Li wisely refused to compete with him, and smiled and watched from the side. When she was bored, she picked up a small bowl of sweet and sour radish and ate it to relieve boredom.

Xie Zhao couldn't hear her movements, so he just let out a sigh of relief and said, "So you're just as cautious", when a crisp voice rang out from inside: "Quickly turn over quickly! It's going to be muddled!"

"Ah... really confused!" Seventh Brother's voice was very regretful.

Xue Li giggled coquettishly, he could hear the taste of schadenfreude through the door, and then heard her say: "Here I come! Your Highness, please eat this shiitake mushroom, which was just roasted just now!"

"I don't like to eat shiitake mushrooms..." Seventh Brother was clearly perplexed, but then said generously, "Okay, okay, I'll eat one!"

Xie Zhao couldn't laugh or cry, he turned his head and told Chen Jijiang to ask the imperial doctor to prescribe some side effect medicine, and let them drink it before going back.I decided not to listen to the corner here, turned around and went down the long steps, intending to walk around.

It's rare that I feel so clearly rejected!
In Zichen Palace, Xie Han and Xueli ate very happily.Especially Xie Han, he has been regretting Sydney's "disappearance" these days, and now seeing her in good health, he is naturally very happy.

As a result, the two half-sized children ate more and more happily, and they had long forgotten the difference in status, so how could they have the time to pay attention to whether there was a shadow in the corner outside the palace gate?
When Xueli returned to the imperial dining room, it was time to prepare supper. She looked at the busy situation in the dining room, and knew that tonight's supper had not been prepared by Shangshi Bureau, so she went to help after washing her hands.

Almond tea, emerald shrimp dumplings, red bean paste flower buns.Sydney looked at the meal list in a daze——the latter two are more staple foods, Your Majesty is not full tonight...?
It couldn't be because she was in the hall with His Highness the Seventh Prince...

She didn't dare to think deeply, seeing that Zixian and Ting Xian were making emerald shrimp dumplings, she went to make them together.

The emerald shrimp dumpling pays attention to the dough. There are two kinds of noodles, one is plain flour with starch, and the other is starch with spinach juice to make it emerald green.When rolling out the dough, put a strip of white in the middle, and a strip of green at the top and bottom. When wrapping, put the white in the middle and the green on both sides.

After steaming, because of the Chengfen, the skin of the noodles will be slightly crystal clear, and the two green lines on both sides are like emeralds, so they are called "Jade Shrimp Dumplings".

Right now, Zixian is making white noodles, Ting Xian is making green noodles, and Sydney is making stuffing.

She was peeling the prawns, Ting Xian touched her arm: "I heard that the people in Yuqian asked you to help?"

This was the reason made up by the eunuch who had just come to ask her to go, Xue Li nodded: "Yes."

Ting Xian was a little curious, and pressed his voice to ask again: "Isn't there a lot of people in Yuqian? What do you want to help?"

Xue Li couldn't make it up for a while, her face froze, which made Ting Xian feel embarrassed, and immediately said: "It's fine if you don't say it... I won't ask."

Zixian asked her quietly from the other side: "Are you okay? I heard that His Majesty was not happy just now?"

"Ah?" Xue Li was taken aback, "Why aren't you happy?"

Zixian lowered her voice a bit: "I don't know. I heard that His Majesty went out suddenly in the middle of dinner, and his face was not very good. I was afraid that something might happen to you."

Xueli was stunned, so she could only pretend to be confused and perfunctory, and said to Zixian, "I haven't seen Your Majesty..."

The three of them continued to make steamed dumplings.Mix some pork and tender bamboo shoots in the shrimp meat stuffing, and wrap a small ball of meat stuffing into the green and white skin, wrap each one fatly, and put it in the steamer after wrapping up to ten.

On the other side, Cui Wan was grinding Nan Xingren.To make almond tea, you need not only almond flour, but also some glutinous rice flour.There was glutinous rice flour ready-made, she was about to ask someone to fetch it, when she looked up, she saw a tall and thin eunuch who looked like an odd job was taking the meal list and was about to leave.

"Stop!" Cui Wan stopped him with one word, put down the half-ground almonds, stepped forward to grab the menu and frowned, "This is not something you can move."

Because an accident needs to be checked, and the imperial physicians will also look through the recent meals when they are sick, and the meal list is always an important thing.The meal list in the Shangshi Bureau is specially managed by Dianji, and others can pick it up to read but cannot take it away. Even if it gets dirty and wet, it must be copied again, and the female officer of Dianji must copy it in person, and there must be at least three people. Stare together.

Although she hadn't inquired about the rules in the imperial dining room, she could only be stricter.

"Hey, female history." The tall and thin eunuch bowed, his face was pale, he looked calm, and smiled politely, "You just came, so there are probably many things that are unclear."

This is really vague.

Cui Wan frowned, seeing him reaching for it, she simply put the menu behind her back, and said with a straight face: "This is not a trivial matter, you understand it."

The atmosphere in the dining room was cold.A few people from Shangshi Bureau also frowned and looked at the eunuch, waiting for him to explain why.

The tall and thin eunuch's eyes flickered, he lowered his head and didn't answer for a long time, Cui Wan's expression became colder, and she ordered her regular attendant, "Go and report to Mr. Chen."

The permanent attendant hurriedly took orders.After a while, it was Wang Sishan who arrived first.

(End of this chapter)