The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 6 Seven Kings
According to Cui Wan, before the Seventh King recovered from his illness, the people in the small kitchen over there had already been sent out, and the meals were all prepared by the Shangshi Bureau directly, so the dozen or so people sent there needed to live there for a while.

A few little maids went back to the room to pack up the things they were going to bring, they were all drooping, and they were very annoyed that they had spoken too carelessly just now.

And before they left the Shangshi Bureau, the rosters of those who stayed behind and who were promoted to the eighth rank had already come out.

Among the people in the same room, only Su Zixian's name appeared on the roster, and he was directly promoted to the eighth-rank envoy. Xue Li, Jiang Yuyao, and Bai Ji hadn't been found yet, and they didn't even get the eighth-rank envoy.

Fortunately, there are only ten people on the roster this time, and there are still 42 positions up for grabs.

When they arrived at the Zhengzheng Palace, the highest-ranking female Shi Shen in the group asked the female officer in charge of the small kitchen about various matters, and after handing over the matter safely, let the little girls go to bed first. A supper.

The four of them still lived in the same room, Su Zixian's promotion was settled, and the matter of being reprimanded by Cui Wan and being accused of coming to Zhengzheng Palace earlier was not worth mentioning, and soon fell asleep.

The other three were tossing and turning on the couch, unable to sleep.

Jiang Yuyao and Bai Ji were thinking about how to get Cui Wan to speak up for them, while Xueli started to think about the matter at the Huanyi Bureau again, maybe they should ask again?
In the middle of the night, when they heard the sound of Jiang Yuyao coming to bed, she called out "Aji" in a subdued voice, and said something in a low voice. The two put on their clothes and left the house together.

Xueli was lying on the couch with her head under the pillow, trying to fall asleep to no avail, she also got up: "Zixian, Zixian?"

She called twice, and Su Zixian woke up in a daze: "What are you doing?"

"Lend me the manuscript?" she said.

Su Zixian rubbed her eyes, didn't bother to say a word, and pushed her the unpacked baggage that was lying on the side of the couch.

Comparing the two letters, I unknowingly saw the faint light of dawn.After reviewing four or five recipes, and memorizing more than ten rules of cooking ingredients, I just felt sleepy and yawned...

Time to wake up.

There were seven little maids scolded by Cui Wan, except for Su Zixian, who didn't sleep well.After washing their faces with cold water to refresh themselves, they arrived at the kitchen on time, and it was time to start preparing lunch.

Su Zixian picked up the menu and looked at it. Seven Kings' lunch is too simple...

It's as simple as wasting the manpower of Shangshi Bureau.For lunch, one porridge, two pickles, one silver shredded roll, two small stir-fries, nothing more.

In the first three steps, apart from washing rice for them to do, there is no step for these little maids to intervene.There were two fried dishes, one was shrimp magnolia slices, and the other was fried three delicacies. Seven people rushed to wash the vegetables, but they were reprimanded by Mrs. Shen with a sullen face.

"Now that I know how to grab jobs and do things, if I had behaved earlier, Cui Nvshi would be angry?"

All seven of them lowered their heads and dared not make a sound, obediently being scolded.In the end, the washing of vegetables was handed over to Xueli and Bai Xinyi, who was also the envoy, while Su Zixian was called by Mrs. Shen to help chop the vegetables—even though she was the envoy who was just promoted yesterday, the division of labor was immediately obvious, which made it difficult The six became even more nervous.

Zhang Kang, the eunuch in front of the Seven Kings, came to pass the meal at the end of the past hour, and at the beginning of noon, he brought back the food box.

Shen Nvshi opened it casually, and smiled wryly: "Your Highness, have a good appetite?"

Sydney was close, so I took a look—the three silver shredded rolls were all eaten, the porridge bowl was empty, there were no two mouthfuls of shrimp magnolia slices and fried three delicacies, only pickles were left.

Not afraid of having too many contacts, Zhang Kang took the opportunity to get close, and made a bow with a smile: "After all, you are capable in the food bureau. Your Highness said that he likes the fried three delicacies, so you might as well serve another one tonight."

After four days like this, the meal list for each day and each meal is very simple.This was obviously ordered by the imperial physician, and Shangshi Bureau had no choice but to follow suit.

There was even one time when the Seven Kings complained about "too vegetarian, not enough to eat". After hearing this, Shen said with emotion, "Your Highness the Seventh Prince is young and energetic, how can you eat enough?"

After that, I had to continue to eat as prescribed by the imperial doctor.

On the fifth day, the imperial physician said that His Highness had basically recovered from his illness and could add some vegetables.

On the sixth day, His Highness, he didn't eat much.

For breakfast, one piece of porridge, two kinds of steamed stuffed buns and three kinds of snacks were brought in, only a small piece of the jujube cake was moved when it was withdrawn, and the ladies in the palace who had been accustomed to watching His Highness the Seventh Prince's "sweeping clouds" after a few days were slightly surprised.

Zhang Kang also frowned a little, thought for a while, and only said: "Perhaps His Highness is just getting up, and his appetite has not yet been whetted."

A bowl of fresh meat wonton, a pancake, and three dishes for lunch.

Withdrew back, surrounded by several young maids, counted carefully, and told Shen Shi: "I ate two wontons, and the rest didn't move."

Weird.

When it was time to prepare dinner, Shen couldn't bear it anymore.How can a person who is recovering from an illness not eat well?The disease will recur if it is empty!
So he ignored the meal list that had been written in advance, and asked Zhang Kang to ask if there was anything the Seven Kings wanted to eat, and they prepared according to their taste.

Seven Kings really ordered meals, grilled prawns, fried fish fillets, Sixi meatballs, stir-fried shrimp crackers...

They are all meat dishes, in line with the tastes of young boys.

Shen shi breathed a sigh of relief, added two more vegetarian dishes, and sent them over.

When he came back, he still didn't move much.This time everyone was nervous, and it was even more strange when they thought about it carefully: Why did they have a lot of appetite when they were sick, but now they are almost cured and can't eat?
However, I haven't heard what the imperial physician said yet, and the people serving Seven Kings didn't show too much worry.They also put a heart back in their stomachs for the time being, and wait and see.

There was too much movement between Jiang Yuyao and Bai Ji practicing knife skills, Xue Li dragged Su Zixian to sit in the yard, lit a candlestick and put it on the desk, spread out the notebook, and went about her own business.

"Your Majesty's desserts, the sweetness is halved, and the salty taste remains the same; Concubine Shu likes eight-point sweets, but not jujube paste; Concubine Li is very sweet, but she still likes pastry..."

Xueli fell onto the table with her back on her back, shouting "I can't remember".These are all written down sentence by sentence when the female officials occasionally mention it on weekdays. It has been a long time since I learned about it, but I can't remember it well!
"Yo, girl, work hard." Zhang Kang appeared behind him, squinting his eyes and smiling, leaning forward, and said, "Can I have two suppers?"

His Royal Highness wants to eat? !

Both Xueli and Su Zixian's eyes lit up, and they quickly got up and asked, "What would your Highness want to eat?"

Zhang Kang was a little embarrassed, stiffened, and replied, "I'm hungry."

"..." The two little faces in front of him lost their excitement for an instant, and they responded "Oh" and listened to his order.

Zhang Kang ordered a noodle soup with shredded chicken and a soft bean paste cake.Ask them not to put chopped green onion in the noodle soup, choose tender chicken thigh meat, mung beans for the noodles, and add extra sugar to the bean paste sponge cake.

There are still many things.The two slandered at the same time, went in and reported to Shen Shi, Shen Shi handed over the work to the two selection servants under him, and left Su Zixian to help.

This gave Sydney an opportunity to steal her teacher. Watching carefully from the side, seeing that the original strips of chicken thighs were cut into thin filaments with the same length and length and uniform width and narrowness under the knife, she secretly decided. In the future, I will add thirty carrots to myself every day to practice knife skills.

Send it back to Zhang Kang, and Zhang Kang sent the food box back after he was full. He ate every plate and bowl very cleanly, but it was a pity that His Royal Highness did not eat it.

After three days in a row, it was like this, which made people worry.Seven Kings is a boy who should have a good appetite. It is not bad to add up to one or two weights of food every day.On the contrary, Zhang Kang came to order food every night, and when he returned, he would not bring any leftovers, which contrasted with the fact that the Seven Kings ate less.

The palace people in the kitchen became more and more worried. It had been three days, and they would have to suffer from illness again in the next few days.Thinking about this, I felt that my head was already tied to the palace sash, and I might not be punished by the emperor someday.

When Zhang Kang came to order him a midnight snack again, Shen Nushi's face became more and more gloomy.She was originally a stricter person than Cui Wan, and Xue Li and the others felt a little scared when they looked at this expression, and Zhang Kang also gradually weakened his voice: "Sweet fried squid, less oil..."

He paused, swallowed his saliva, and added boldly: "Put more sugar in the osmanthus yam and purple potato cake."

After finishing speaking, he shrank his neck and dared not say any more.

Shen Nvshi responded with a dark face, Xueli blinked, her thinking seemed to be a little off...

When Zhang Kang comes to order things every day, he has many requests, but one thing is always the same: whenever he wants dessert, he must ask for more sugar.

Sydney herself also likes to eat sweets, and she paid special attention to this requirement from the first day. That day, she just murmured secretly, "I also like to add more sugar!" After a long time, I felt something was wrong.

Zhang Kang also looks sixteen or seventeen years old, so he loves sweets?She heard from an older female official that eunuchs are stricter than palace maids when it comes to palace rules, and if palace maids serve on the table, avoid onions and garlic that are too strong.

Eunuchs are different, unless they are in the position of getting the face, the ingredients of each meal are strictly controlled - Zhang Kang is in the position of getting the face, but he must have been criticized when he was shameless in the past, and he likes sweetness and happiness so smart?
Xueli thought dully, wanted to tell Shen Shi that the dim sum might be for His Highness the Seventh Prince, but looked at Shen Shi's expression but dared not mention it.

She was scolded for talking about the emperor that day, and now she is going to guess what the seven kings order... I don't know where she will be scolded!

It is impossible not to mention it.

I really want to find out what happened to the Seven Kings!If he still had such a delicious meal every day, they wouldn't have to worry so much about him starving to death!
He held his chin and thought about it for a while, but he couldn't make any sense—it would be useless to go into the bedroom to see what happened. If he asked Zhang Kang directly, Zhang Kang would definitely not admit it. If he could say it, he would have said it long ago.

A few suppers ordered by Zhang Kang were ready soon, and Shen Nvshi sent Jiang Yuyao to send them over.Xueli couldn't figure out what to do, she was lost for a while, and prepared to go back to her room listlessly.

After stepping out of the threshold of the dining room, as soon as he raised his head, he bowed his head and retreated a few steps, and then retreated back into the room.

(End of this chapter)