The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 4
When Shangshi female officer wrote the meal list and brought it over, Su Zixian read out one by one, a total of four items.

There are two sweet ones, sweet-scented osmanthus jade muscle and bean paste sponge cake; the salty one is a sea cucumber steamed egg; and there is also a ice jade lotus leaf porridge.

The supper that the emperor usually used was simple, mostly two dishes, but today he added two extra dishes because he wanted to relax while playing chess with the Seven Kings.

One of Cui Wan's specialty dishes is bean paste sponge cake.First mix two parts of flour, mix with sticky rice flour, glutinous rice flour and sugar, pour some water to make it semi-wet.

At the beginning this step was helped by an attendant, after the adjustment, Cui Wan tasted each of them, and asked Xueli to get another sugar, which should be put in the left portion.

"Sister?!" The attendant was startled, and immediately stopped her and said, "It's all been sugared."

Cui Wan ignored it, and added the spoonful of sugar, mixed it evenly, and then said: "Your Majesty doesn't like sweets, so the sugar in the desserts is less. But His Highness is still young, so he probably prefers sweeter things." .”

After the words fell, the people beside them, together with the two little maids, Xueli and Zixian, agreed with "No"—similar things often happen, and they need to remember carefully, otherwise, even if someone will remind them next time, Also looks stupid.

On the other side, the sweet-scented osmanthus jade muscle was also made.It is called such a name because the glutinous rice balls are made of light green and white, and they are warm and moist in a bowl, which fits the word "jade muscle".

The white one only needs to be mixed with glutinous rice flour and made into pills.The light green one——the waiter who was making this dessert freed his hand, and ordered Xueli to fetch the spinach, and said: "Blanch in hot water, grind it and squeeze it into juice."

Wash the spinach, fry it in hot water, put it in a wooden bowl and pound it carefully.While pounding, Sydney counted in her heart. When she counted to "two hundred", she felt that it was almost the same. She picked up the wooden stick and looked at it: um, it was almost the same.

After receiving the clean white silk, put the spinach into the silk, wrap it up and squeeze it.

The emerald green juice flows into the small porcelain bowl through the white silk, and the clean and clear half bowl has a soothing color.

The two snacks came out of the pan one after another, the steamed eggs were cooked, and the porridge was ready.

The base of this porridge is actually white porridge. After it is boiled, it is poured with lotus leaf juice and mixed thoroughly, and it becomes a jade-like bowl.

A light and light fragrance of lotus leaves lingers with the heat of the porridge. Close your eyes and sniff lightly. The freshness is like being in a lotus pond.

Presenting supper is the job of a little palace maid.

This is the first time that Sydney has this value again since the last time the snack was directly sent to the Zichen Palace.Walking on the quiet palace road, my heart was pounding, I looked at the stars and prayed, "I hope His Majesty is in a good mood today, and the people in the imperial palace are also in a good mood!"

A total of 12 people went to the ninth rank and from the ninth rank. They walked quietly and neatly like one person along the way.

The autumn wind blew gently, blowing through the treetops and making a slight rustling sound, and their delicate embroidered shoes also made a slight rustling sound when they rubbed against the ground, which made the palace road quieter and more orderly.

Walking to the front of Zichen Hall, Su Zixian, who was walking in front of Xueli, stopped after just two steps up.

The people behind also stopped, obeying the rules and not looking up, just raised their eyelids to look quietly...

Huh?There was a young man jumping down the upper rung of the long steps!

A group of people quickly retreated to the long steps, retreated to the side and waited quietly.

If they were older palace servants, they would be able to pretend they couldn't see this situation, but they were all young girls, so they were really curious about what was going on, so they couldn't help squinting at it.

He couldn't see his face clearly in the night, but judging from his height, he should be about twelve or thirteen years old. He was wearing a straight skirt, and he was very involved in dancing from level to level!
"Hiss..." Someone gasped lightly, "Is it His Royal Highness?"

There was a little confusion among the crowd for a moment.

Xie Han quickly jumped to the place where only the fourth and fifth steps were left. He breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up, and saw a dozen court ladies beside the long steps.

"Huh?" There was an obvious laugh in the words, and all the little maids who were peeping at him saw that he had stopped dancing and came over, and they all bowed down in unison: "His Highness Seventh."

The Seventh King walked up to Su Zixian, rolled up his sleeves willfully, and was about to lift the lid of the food box with his hand, and asked, "Supper? What's there?"

Su Zixian didn't dare to speak, her eyes nervously stared at his hand that was already on the food box, and called out uneasily, "Your Highness..."

Xie Han stopped, frowning puzzledly: "Huh?"

Being too close, Sydney could clearly hear Su Zixian's heavy breathing, and remembering the serious expressions of the female officials just now, she became more and more afraid that she might accidentally offend the Seventh Highness.

Everything was silent, Su Zixian clenched her teeth, and finally said: "This is for Your Majesty..."

Before the words finished, Xie Han saw another court lady next to her take off the lid of the food box she was holding, and the connection was fast: "This is His Highness's supper."

"..." I couldn't tell what was strange, but Xie Han felt an inexplicable sense of restraint in this group of people, which made him lose interest.

When I feel unhappy, I want to get angry, but seeing the well-behaved ladies in front of me, I can't get angry!
Cursing his lips, Xie Han pondered how to settle this account, while returning to the palace in suspense.

When he entered the palace gate, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked up the long steps.

This time, they were not asked to present meals to the emperor directly.The people in the imperial palace received the supper for the emperor and the seven kings, looked at the other four, and told them: "My lords are in the side hall, just send them in."

The 12 people answered "No" in unison, and then the six minor envoys stayed outside, and the six middle envoys entered the gate of the palace.

Still now Xiao Jian took out the supper from the food box and put it in on a tray.

Because Xueli and Su Zixian had just taken the supper for the emperor and the seven kings, they now have nothing on hand, so they just happened to help out later.

Stepping into the gate of the side hall, six young girls behaved like a blessing, Su Zixian said: "The slaves are maids of the Shangshi Bureau, and they are here to deliver supper to the adults."

As she spoke, she walked up to each of them, and Xue Li and her just happened to submit to the case together.

Su Zixian served dim sum, and Sydney brought porridge.When it was presented to No.1, Sydney's eyes swept away, and her heart was shocked!
Wei Chen? !
Xue Li was terrified, and her hands trembled before she finished calling the name.After this, the honey bean porridge in the bowl poured out and flowed down the side of the bowl.

"pat-"

The porridge juice dripping on the fabric made no sound, but Sydney watched the drop fall, but felt that the sound was earth-shattering!
Looking at Wei Chen in bewilderment for a while, she hurriedly put the porridge bowl on the table, bowed down and said, "My lord, forgive me!"

The more I am afraid, the more mistakes I will make!
As soon as the voice of apologizing came from inside, palace servants came in from outside to find out what happened.

As soon as he saw the kneeling one, he reprimanded: "How do you do things!"

Wei Chen secretly clicked his lips, thinking that "the road to the enemy is narrow"-I just scared the girl to tears yesterday, so don't do it again today.

Xue Li lowered her head and said, "I didn't do it on purpose..."

Wei Chen immediately helped his forehead: "It's really a bit choked up."

He quickly cleared his throat, and explained to the eunuch, "It's not her, I raised my hand to touch it."

Before she finished speaking, she was distracted for a moment by her surprised clear eyes. Wei Chen stared back with lowered eyes, and asked the eunuch again: "Your Majesty and His Highness the Seventh Prince haven't finished playing chess yet?"

Wei Chen looked at Xueli while changing the topic, and saw that she didn't intend to cry, so he was able to listen to the eunuch's reply with peace of mind.

The eunuch smiled and said: "So it was over. But your Majesty bet with His Royal Highness that whoever loses will jump the long steps? His Royal Highness jumped once, but he was not convinced, so he insisted on another game."

As soon as these words came out, the three imperial guards next to him laughed out loud: The emperor is already at the age of the crown, and the seven kings are only 13 years old, and if they play another hundred games, the seven kings will not be able to win...

I'm afraid His Majesty can defeat him with his eyes closed!

Hearing that it had nothing to do with her, Xue Li let out a long, long sigh of relief, got up and went on to serve supper to the other imperial guards.

When the last bowl of porridge is served, today's work is considered complete.Xue Li relaxed a little, glanced at Wei Chen again, and really wanted to go over to say thank you.

The crisp sound of broken porcelain was heard at first glance!

All the court ladies looked at each other, and the four imperial guards frowned.

They vaguely heard the footsteps of palace people rushing into the main hall outside, but they didn't dare to ask, bowed their heads and hurriedly retreated.

I hope it's just the emperor or the seven kings who hit the bowl by mistake, and don't be dissatisfied with the supper, otherwise everyone on duty tonight will be miserable.

While walking, Xueli couldn't help but want to turn her head to look in, but tried not to look back.His face, which was already a little pale because of guilty conscience, became even more unnatural because of this entanglement.

Still staring at it from the corner of the eye, finally, he saw the Seventh King walking out angrily, followed by two eunuchs chasing him tremblingly, while chasing, he kept saying: "Your Highness, calm down, Your Highness, calm down."

"What kind of anger for no reason!" Xie Han complained, his childish voice was full of resentment.

The eunuch nodded and bowed his head to persuade: "Just say a few words, Your Majesty is angry, don't..."

"Because the emperor's temper is getting more and more strange!" Xie Han said again, the faces of the two eunuchs turned pale with fright, and they wished they could go forward and gag him!

The little maids like Xueli were also stunned by him, seeing him rushing down the long steps with wind, they all wanted him to go away quickly, so as not to get herself into trouble again later.

As a result, the Seven Kings stopped at the bottom of the long steps, turned around, breathed angrily, and knelt down on the spot.

"..." Xue Li gasped, and shook hands hidden in her sleeves with Su Zixian, "Terrible..."

They can't even offend the high-ranking female officials of the Shangshi Bureau. Right now, they are in the Zichen Palace, and there is an angry prince kneeling a few steps away in front of them...

Xueli shrank back, really wanting to find a corner to hide before he left.

(End of this chapter)