The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 77
After blowing out the lights, the room was pitch black.It was a cloudy day again, the moonlight and stars could not be seen, and the room was very quiet.

But this kind of silence has lasted for a long time, and Yue Tingxian still couldn't sleep.Her emotions were surging, and her heartbeat became unstable, which made her feel more and more irritable.

Turning over, he simply stopped trying to fall asleep, facing the wall and remembering on his own.

It had been many months since she had been so obviously annoyed, and she regained the long-lost satisfaction in those days when she was driving with her.She is smart enough to do things, and her workmanship is good, Mr. Chen praised her constantly, and His Majesty rewarded her a lot.

But as soon as he returned to the palace, this satisfaction disappeared again.Sydney effortlessly takes all the attention she's desperately trying to get, and everything is back to normal.

Yue Tingxian frowned, clenched his fists tightly for a long time and still couldn't calm down. In a moment, he punched the wall hard, causing pain in his joints.

She has been the best since she entered the palace, and there is no one among the young ladies of the same age who can compare to her.She learns everything quickly and is willing to work hard. The ladies don't dislike her - when Xue Li Zixian was still practicing knife skills, she was already learning seasoning from the ladies, even Zou Shangshi praised her She has talent.

Later, there was a shortage of people in the imperial dining room, so she wanted to seize this opportunity to make herself better off, so she made connections and connections.Later, it really happened. She also came with Xueli and Zixian, and the others were older than them.

At that time, she was full of ambition, the older court ladies would leave the palace earlier than them, and Xueli and Zixian couldn't match her cooking skills, so maybe one day the imperial dining room would be under her management.

Then, it was really hard for a while.

Wang Wanzhi bullied them in different ways, and her life was so dark that she once thought that there would be no worse days than that.

But later, she discovered that was not the case.

His Majesty personally rescued Sydney from leaving, fined many people, and fed Wang Wanzhi to the lions.After that, everything was different. Sydney got this yard, Lord Chen asked her to live with Zixian, and later came Dousha and Fugui.

——Yue Tingxian slowly felt that this was even more difficult than being bullied by Wang Wanzhi.

Sydney goes in and out of the Zichen Palace every day, and I heard that His Majesty often prepares some snacks for her. After a long time, Yue Tingxian can figure out which things made in the imperial dining room may be for Sydney.Many are not to His Majesty's taste, but His Majesty will still call her.

Not only that, everyone in front of the imperial court, including the imperial dining room, only valued Sydney. Occasionally, they would say "Ruan's luck is good", "Your Majesty likes the dish made by Ruan today", and so on. No one cared what happened to her.

Even the red bean paste made by the needlework maid was said to be "the red bean paste next to Ruan Shi" - but why?Sydney, Zixian and her status are the same.

And even Dousha listens to Sydney more, and takes as long as she can to explain things to her.In this way, Yue Tingxian felt strange and uncomfortable, and didn't understand why Sydney was so different.

She also wanted to persuade herself that "Sydney is lucky", but since Sydney was awarded the title of "Imperial Catering Lady", Ting Xian could no longer suppress the resentment in her heart.

Obviously she is the one with the best culinary skills. In terms of knife skills, taste, and types of cooking, Sydney can't compare to her in anything. At best, she just has more whimsical ideas. How can His Majesty value it so much? !

She even secretly opened Sydney's cabinet, took out the small cabbage-shaped seal and looked at it for a long time.That thing is so beautiful, the texture of each leaf is so detailed that it seems real, but the four words below it burn her eyes sorely.

Never felt jealous like that.

Yue Tingxian chuckled thinking about what happened tonight.She stuffed Dou Sha's earrings on her front feet, and Xue Li brought in a box of things on her back feet, and she was personally escorted by Mrs. Chen. The slap in the face was really hard.

"What's so great about you." She murmured to herself, and she became more and more convinced that there was nothing worse than Sydney in her heart. Sydney can be valued by others, and she can even more.

As long as His Majesty is willing.

On the other side, the emperor was a little absent-minded in Zichen Palace.

In fact, there were only three copies of the memorial left, but he grinded hard for half an hour without making any progress.After looking at the two lines, I couldn't help being distracted. For a while, I thought of Xueli looking at Ayao full of grievances but didn't dare to move, and for a while, I thought of her trying to eat the green onion...

This is not quite right - when he always thought of her outside, it was because he couldn't see her, why did he still think about her when he came back?
After thinking about it, Xie Zhao felt that the problem was not with him. Apart from being away for a few months, everything was as usual, and there was no delay in his business.

Is that Sydney's problem?
He pondered and called out, "Chen Jijiang."

"Your Majesty." Chen Jijiang stepped forward to obey.

"Do you feel that Sydney is different?" The emperor asked him with a deep frown. After speaking, he felt that he hadn't said enough, and then said, "It seems that words and deeds can always... make people remember?"

Hey yo……

Chen Jijiang, who originally wanted to say "the eighteenth female college has changed, is naturally different", swallowed the words and almost choked on his own saliva.

He couldn't help but squinted at the emperor, smacked his lips secretly without making a sound, and said to himself, Your Majesty, this is... How have you never paid attention to the girl's family?As an eunuch, I know this is called "heartbeat"!

Of course, he couldn't point out these words. If he really said it, the emperor asked him how he knew what to do?He can't say, "I did the same to the girl next door before I got that knife", right? !
Chen Jijiang lowered his eyes silently.Thinking back that he was still young and ignorant at that time, his main thought was after entering the palace to become an eunuch, otherwise he would not have entered the palace!
After calming down, he said perfunctorily, "I didn't pay attention. Is your majesty too tired from the bumps on the way? Take a rest earlier?"

Unable to calm down, Xie Zhao rested his forehead sadly for a while, and ordered, "Let the imperial doctor prescribe some tranquilizing medicine."

Otherwise, you may not be able to fall asleep if you sleep.

Xueli tossed and turned without sleeping all night, she simply sat up before Yinshi arrived.

do not know what to do……

Su Zixian dragged her into the room last night, and said firmly to her: "I think Ting Xian is competing with you!"

She was naturally confused - I haven't seen each other for several months, why are we suddenly competing?

Then Su Zixian told her exactly what happened before she returned to the small courtyard.From Ting Xian's return to telling them all kinds of things along the way, seeing all kinds of rewards, and then Ting Xian arrogantly giving bean paste earrings to them.

After roughly finishing speaking, Zixian emphasized the important thing again. The original words were: "If you ask me to repeat it, I won't be able to say it. Anyway... between the lines, I feel that it is intended to show off. I count it, and she still has intentions." Unintentionally mentioned at least three times like 'Oh, it's a pity I didn't go to Sydney' - isn't this a deliberate comparison? Otherwise, why mention you for nothing? There are too many people who didn't go to Yuqian!"

At that time, Sydney frowned and curled her lips: "What is there to compare?"

But think about it.The three of them got closer after they came to the imperial dining room together, but Yue Tingxian had one big difference from her and Zixian, that is, she was always very strong.So if she feels jealous these days... it really suits her temperament.

After thinking that it wasn't Zixian who was careless, Sydney felt that this matter was even more annoying.Pulling Zixian to discuss what to do, after discussing and discussing, the solution is only: "Avoid her and order, don't get so close to her."

Ting Xian just competed with them in secret, and he didn't hurt anyone or do anything bad, what can they do?
So it had to be like this.Xue Li silently decided to gradually distance herself from Ting Xian in the future, and she should live more cautiously, and don't tell Ting Xian anything - she would probably feel better if she didn't provoke her with the incident in front of the imperial court.

On the contrary, Zixian added a slightly more detailed solution to her: "If your Majesty rewards you again, don't share it with us - I will take the initiative to ask you for anything I really need, and I will never be polite to you. Ting Xian... tsk!"

I gave her a little bit of money and lost my own things, but I still can't get any good.

Sydney understood what Su Zixian meant, and made up her mind to do so.But lying on the bed, I still feel upset. After all, we have known each other for so long, and it feels so bad to suddenly "struggle"!

Sitting by the bed like a sculpture until Yinshi, after thinking about it, get up and wash, and then go to Zichen Palace to "report" earlier.After the report, she went to the imperial dining room to vent her emotions by chopping potato shreds or kneading dough for a day.

When she entered the palace, she heard that the emperor was about to have breakfast, so she planned not to go in, so she asked Chen Jijiang to report that she had come, but Chen Jijiang laughed and said, "You're already here, why don't you go in and see me?"

As a result, as soon as Xueli stepped into the inner hall, she saw Yue Tingxian who was on duty early and was coming to present the meal.Obviously he has figured it out, but he still feels a little uncomfortable at this moment, seeing Yue Tingxian present the snack in his hand with a smile, and then give a blessing with a deeper smile... She is so awkward watching it!

"Happy Your Majesty." She greeted her as usual, Xie Zhao looked up and was slightly taken aback: "Why do you get up so early?"

"Get up when you've had enough sleep." Sydney replied with her head bowed.

Yue Tingxian finished the gift calmly, then came over to shake her hand, and said with a smile, "It's just right, let's have breakfast together? There are red bean paste buns today!"

If it weren't for what Zixian said, Sydney would still think it would be nice to be so affectionate.But now his face was a little stiff, and he hesitated for a while before he should say: "Okay."

Xie Zhao glanced at the dining table: "Sydney."

Sydney looked up.

He pointed to a plate a little far away in front of him: "There are also bean paste buns here."

Both of them were startled, the emperor had already walked over, picked up the tie of the cloak in front of Xue Li's neck with his fingers, took off the cloak and handed it to the eunuch beside him, and said, "It's still dark outside, it's very cold, It will be better after eating."

It will be warmer when you are full, and the sky will be brighter at that time.

Xue Li bit her lip and looked up at him, and he smiled again: "Come on, eat while it's hot."

"No." Xue Li was awkward with Ting Xian, coupled with the temptation of "Emperor's Breakfast", she bowed her knees and agreed.

The emperor turned to Yue Tingxian casually and said, "Back off."

Sydney followed him to sit down, with all kinds of delicacies in front of him, Xie Zhao thought for a while, and didn't deliberately bring her the plate of bean paste buns - it was Yue Shi who mentioned that just now, I don't know if she wants to eat it , if she wants to eat, she will take it herself; if she doesn't want to eat, she will have to eat it if he brings it to her...

Think about yesterday's scallions!
He looked at her while thinking, and it turned out that the first thing she picked up with her chopsticks was not a red bean paste bun, but a soup dumpling.

He also likes this soup dumpling. The skin is thin and the stuffing is juicy, and the crab meat and crab powder are added, the juice is very delicious.You can't eat it with chopsticks. The soup will leak everywhere. You have to hold it with chopsticks and then hold it with a porcelain spoon. After biting down, quickly suck the soup inside, and the delicious fragrance will fill your mouth.

Sydney was always "serious about eating", she took a small bite on the soup dumpling, her bright eyes didn't blink, she took a sip of the fresh soup inside, then reached for the side to hold the vinegar small porcelain pot.

Pour a little rice vinegar in from a small mouth, she always eats like this, if you don't pour too much, it won't overwhelm the original fragrance, so that it won't appear too greasy when it's blended.

She was so engrossed in eating that Xie Zhao couldn't bear to disturb her while watching, so he smiled and waited until she had finished eating two soup dumplings, then gave her a wink and signaled the eunuch to serve her a bowl of porridge.Seeing that her pink lips were slightly parted and blowing hot air, she "took the opportunity" and said, "What's going on with you and Yue Shi?"

"Yueshi?" Xue Li's eyes were all on the red bean porridge in front of her, and she couldn't realize who it was.

"Yue Tingxian." Xie Zhao also smiled, pushed the porcelain plate containing white sugar in front of her, and said slowly, "There must be some unhappiness between you two, tell me?"

How can you tell...

Sydney was made nervous by his words.She also said a few words to Ting Xian before eating hot pot last night, but he didn't ask that question at that time; today... Looking back, Ting Xian's attitude today and yesterday seems to be similar, that is from his face See it?

Thinking about it this way made me even more guilty!
Xue Li peeked at him, knowing that she was incapable of perfunctory him, so she could only truthfully say weakly: "It's a bit long to tell!"

(End of this chapter)