The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 90
Two days later, Shengjia arrived at Mount Ying.

Most of the people in the palace rushed there without stopping to rest the first night, to ensure that everything would be tidied up and nothing would go wrong when Sheng Jia arrived.

The feeling for Sydney is that after waking up from the posthouse that day... I found that most of the people and carriages were missing.

The Yingshan Palace was built more than a hundred years ago. It was already quite large at the beginning, and new palaces were built year by year. Now it is a magnificent palace.There are pavilions, terraces and pavilions, and there are mountains as a backdrop. It is even more intimidating than the palace in Luo'an City.

But the palace in Luo'an City looks more atmospheric, Sydney thinks so.

This palace looks like a giant beast dormant in the mountains, and people dare not approach it; but Luo'an Palace is upright at a glance, and the aura scattered in all directions shows the majesty of the royal family.

She and Zixian were still in the same room, and after tidying up, Zixian took a rest. According to Chen Jijiang's instructions, she had better go to His Majesty first to "report".

The emperor's sleeping hall in the palace is called Qingliang Hall. I don't know if it was named because the emperor only came here to escape the summer heat. Anyway, it sounds simple. If you say it sounds demeaning... not at all.

The Qingliang Hall is not as "regular" as the Zichen Hall. It looks more like a garden, with corridors and small lakes.Sydney heard that there is actually a hot spring enclosed in the garden at the back of the palace, and it is also possible to come here in winter.

After walking through the corridor and entering the gate of the palace, Fang felt a little sense of dignity, the palace still has a lot of momentum after all.

The emperor had just arrived in the palace not long ago, and he was pacing casually to exercise his muscles and bones.Seeing Xue Li coming in, he casually dismissed her courtesy, put his hand on her shoulder and squeezed...

Sydney only felt a burst of soreness spreading from her shoulders to her entire back!

The emperor said: "The road is bumpy, and your back is stiff. I will ask the nurse to give you a massage."

Sydney resigned and went back.After a while, the nurse knocked on the door and came to help her "relax her muscles and bones".

It was so painful that she lay on the couch crying and howling like ghosts and wolves, it was really painful!It hurts and itches!She wanted to shrink back a bit, but the nurse refused to let her go. The nurse also laughed when she heard her yelling: "Girl, hold on, this is because your muscles and bones are so stiff, you can get used to it by pinching often."

Sydney was lying on her stomach with tears in her eyelashes, she said to herself not to pinch it often...

Yu Xiang, who had just been led into the room and was about to catch up on sleep, was yelled at by her so that she couldn't sleep, so she wandered around helplessly, and finally went to Gong Zixian unbearably, and burrowed under her hand.After Zixian understood it, she covered its round ears with both hands, and Yuxiang obediently asked her to cover it...

But still can't sleep!

Then Xueli was stared at by Yuxiang's mournful eyes and lowered her voice as much as possible. Zixian couldn't help laughing when she saw it. It took them a long time to hear.

"Hush." ​​Zixian made a silent gesture, suppressed a smile and went to open the door. The people outside made her startled, "The girl is..."

"It's Miss Su, right? I'm An Jin." An Jin looked at Zixian with a smile on her eyes, and said with a wink, "Ms. Ruan also lives here, doesn't she?"

Su Zixian's first reaction was to stop her from entering: Miss Ruan is crying and howling... shame on her!

On the bed, Xueli spoke with difficulty: "Please come in..."

Su Zixian made way for An Jin to go in, and Xue Li once again sighed that she was really pretty.

An Jin wore a chest-length skirt today without any flowers on it. On the plain silk, the clean pink purple was the deepest at the feet, and it became lighter as it went up. There was only white on the chest, and the skirt was pressed. Same dark color as the feet.The jacket is milky white, and some dark lines can be seen between the movements.She turned her head, a ray of peach-red flowers between her eyebrows made her face charming, and two touches of light rouge made her jade skin whiter.

An Jin put the food box in his hand on the table, and said to Xueli, "I'm bothering the lady officer, I'm afraid I won't have time to see you when I get busy in the future."

She was so generous, as if she couldn't see that Sydney was being squeezed by the medical girl and pressed her back.Xue Li could see that she wanted to sit down and talk for a while, so it was not easy for the medical girl to press on. Just as she was about to ask the medical girl to leave first, Su Zixian took An Jin's hand and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, Your Majesty ordered the medical girl to leave. Come and give Xueli a shoulder squeeze, lest she be tired. We can't let people go, can we? Come, sit down, just talk if you have something to say, don't look outside."

This is also a way.

She brought snacks to see her, obviously she wanted to make friends, she was too polite and refused to be seen thousands of miles away.Once Xue Li heard what Zixian said, she didn't let the doctor girl go. The doctor girl also understood the seriousness, and slowed down the intensity appropriately to prevent Xue Li from screaming too badly.

Zixian brewed tea and served it to An Jin, and the two sat together at the sandalwood table, An Jin said his identity first.She was just selected during the election this year, and was bestowed by His Majesty on the side of Mrs. Concubine Hui as a female historian—this status is higher than that of Zixian, but slightly lower than that of Sydney.

Afterwards, Zixian mainly chatted with An Jin—Xue Li also wanted to talk, but she was so sore from being pinched that she couldn't tell, and it was really comfortable to be pinched like this, she was sleepy.

An Jin said that there are only a limited number of palace attendants for the summer vacation, so Mrs. Hui asked her to help in front of the imperial court. They will work together in the past two or three months, and Lao Xueli and Zixian will take care of them.

Zixian just said, let's do it, let's do it, we are about the same age, so we have something to say in the future.

An Jin also said that she was not familiar with the people and things in Yuqian, so she only knew the two of them, and asked them to point out if something went wrong.

Zixian said again, okay, okay, okay, we are about the same age, so we have something to say in the future.

——After talking for a while, Xueli listened on her stomach, Zixian seemed to have the same meaning all the time, but she just said it in a different way.She couldn't hear the same sentence, but it was always the same. She felt a little strange and couldn't say anything, so she continued to enjoy the comfort of the sore back.

It wasn't until the doctor girl finished pinching her that An Jin left with the doctor girl. It would be inappropriate for Sydney not to say a word, so she told An Jinruo to invite her to drink tea when she had time in the future.

The reception went smoothly, as soon as the two of them left, Zixian closed the door, Yuxiang saw that the couch was empty, she raised her leg and jumped up, stepping on Xueli's back...

"...Yuxiang!!!" Xueli, who had just stood up, screamed and fell back on the couch, and lay down for a long time before she came back to her senses, and asked Zixian with a frown, "Didn't you say that you can relax after I squeeze it?" Is it loose? Why did you leave?"

"It doesn't matter, just take a rest." Zi Xian said as she got on the bed, took off her shoes, and lay down beside her, "Miss An, be careful!"

what?
Xue Li looked at her with a look of confusion: "What's wrong? What do you see?"

Zi Xian clicked her lips.

"Say it..." Sydney pushed her.The two are too close, Yuxiang wants to join in the fun and squeeze between them.

So they each hid to the side, and Yuxiang sat between them as she wished.The two and one lion formed three parties, and Zixian said leisurely: "Look, there are so many people in front of the imperial court, even if Master Chen and Master Xu can't match her, there are still several female officials who are often waiting in the palace. Is it better to find them than to find you if you want to "take care" or "teach"? You are from the imperial dining room... What if you are busy cooking when she really needs "recommendation"? Who will save her? "

Lier Xueli thinks it's right, but she doesn't quite understand: "Then why did she come to me? It must be for something."

It's not just because you want to make friends, this kind of situation is too rare.In the palace, unless the relationship between her and Zixian has been good since entering the palace like she and Zixian, and they can be called "friends" after a few years of friendship, everything else is a bit entangled in interests, it's just a difference in the amount of interests.

Especially for people like An Jin, who were originally out of reach in their errands, suddenly want to make friends, and it doesn't make sense if they don't try to do something.

But when it comes to this, Su Zixian is not sure.Contradictoryly thinking left and right in his heart for a long time, the two of them were shaking their heads outside, making Yu Xiang in the middle also look left and right.

In the end, Zixian Fu whispered a word in Xueli's ear: "Does she want to go to the dragon bed..."

Xueli's cheeks flushed with a "rub", and Zixian herself was also blushing up to her ears.

She reached out and patted Zixian's hand, and smiled embarrassedly: "You are shameless and shameless! Bah, bah, bah!"

"It was originally, you think..." Su Zixian blushed even more, while analyzing with her with a straight face, she cleared her throat and said, "She is a family member selected by Caixuan, originally for...to enter the harem Well! Now His Majesty has put her next to Mrs. Hui Concubine, so she has no chance? But Mrs. Hui has pointed her back to His Majesty, this opportunity cannot be missed!"

As he said that, Su Zixian showed her a smirk: "What about you... Although you are from the imperial dining room, your majesty treats you well! You are more casual in front of your majesty than those female officials in the palace. Maybe it's useless for them to mention her, but maybe you just said it smoothly?"

"Why should I just say it?" Xue Li blurted out.

Zixian looked solemn: "Because you are stupid!"

Speaking of which, the two of them almost got into a fight, which frightened Yuxiang, who was lying in the middle all the time—it thought it was really angry when it looked at the person, and it rolled and whimpered in the middle, with that aggrieved look Duanran was saying, "Don't fight, okay?"

So the two couldn't help laughing, and rubbed the fragrance of fish together again.

As for An Jin's matter, even though he was uncertain, it was better to be careful for the time being.If An Jin really wanted to do that, she couldn't just push her onto the dragon couch...

I blush just thinking about it! ! !
The next day was cloudy.

Early in the morning, the Imperial Dining Room received an order, saying that His Majesty went to the Yulei Pavilion on the Moon Peak after the palace to invite two vassal kings with different surnames to enjoy the scenery, and asked them to prepare some snacks and send them up.

After this errand, there was a lot of pain!
It is not difficult to make a few snacks, but the difficulty lies in the towering moon peak.There are two ways to climb Yulei Pavilion, one is a gentle mountain road, which circles up from the south side of the peak. This road is not difficult to walk, and you can enjoy the scenery while walking, but it will take at least half an hour to finish.

If they want to send the snacks up quickly, they have to go to the Buyun Corridor in the north.

The north side is much steeper than the south side, and the Buyun Corridor has been built ingeniously. On this side, a straight corridor has been built with no corners and corners. And down.

There are stone steps under the corridor. There are nearly [-] steps in total. Although they are flat and of the same height, you can climb up so many steps in one go...

Quite physical work for the girls!
What's even more difficult is to carry the food box and not let the contents of the food box get spilled.

Don't let your appearance be too ugly.Sweating a little is inevitable, and someone above will prepare a veil to wipe them off, but if the bun is messed up and the dress is disheveled, it will not work. They are the ones who want to come to Shengjia.

This matter is really stepping on an inch.If it is placed in the palace, and the meal is ordered by the front, most of the imperial dining room is ready and then waits for the front to pick it up, but after all, there are fewer people in the palace. Enough tossing, passing the meal again and again will delay more time.

So even if you want to tactfully ask for help from Yuqian, they can only send it up obediently.The person who came called the call and told Xueli to go, and Xueli almost cried on the spot standing in front of him.

But the eunuch was right: "Miss, forgive me. Mrs. Chen doesn't want to bother the lady, but now that the two vassal kings are here, if other people lose their manners, they will lose their lives. Mistress, you... you Just relax, it's not a big deal."

This made Xueli herself unable to refute, and she put the label "His Majesty is very tolerant to me" on her forehead.Although she doesn't have the heart to be proud of being favored by others, but after thinking about it carefully, she has to admit that if something happens to her "poor manners", it is more likely to be caused by her than by someone else. Physically strong.

So Xue Li Bing Zixian and the other two maids went to sit and rest their feet - now sit down for a while, and after a while, you will have to climb three or four hundred steps in one breath!

Two quarters later, eight snacks are ready. The four sweet ones are honey soy milk roll, sweet-scented osmanthus yam cake, peach cake and lotus root flour cake. The salty ones are shredded radish shortcake, fried taro cake, fresh meat dumpling and salt and pepper peanut crisp.

In addition, I have prepared three servings of lychee ice and three cups of sour plum soup, to see which ones His Majesty and the two vassals like to use.

The two older court ladies took the initiative to carry the six bowls of soup and water, and the eight snacks were divided into two food boxes for Xueli and Zixian.

The four of them looked at the dazzling stone steps under Buyun Corridor, and their heart palpitations flustered. They gritted their teeth and walked up.

People, when they know there are difficulties ahead, they will think of ways to make themselves feel that the difficulties are lighter. Su Zixian's method is a positive number, thinking that most of them will lose one floor; Directly, count down, count one step less.

The other older court lady didn't count, she just listened to her companions and saved her energy!
Sydney also found a way that suits her. She walks up the first floor and eats the same food, and she puts all her heart into the dishes and doesn't want to get tired.

All the way to talk very neatly: "Small steamed buns, barbecued pork buns, red bean paste buns..."

"Steamed sea bass, hydrangea sea bass, pan-fried sea bass..."

"Chicken with rattan pepper, saliva chicken, braised chicken with mushrooms..."

After she finished reading the beef, the maid just counted to "ten" and Su Zixian counted to "370 seven". The four of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time and finished the remaining ten steps with smiles on their faces.

When the last two steps were left, the eunuchs above hurriedly greeted them to pick up the food boxes in their hands. The four of them wanted to sit down and rest for sure. Wheezing the most.

——It's too exhausting to read the name of the dish, she will count down next time...

After a short break for a cup of tea, they took a sip of tea, went to the small room next to them to touch up their makeup, then moved the contents of the food box to the tray, ready to go to Yulei Pavilion.

Several dim sums are quite good, but the bowl of lychee ice, although ice cubes were placed outside the bowl, it still melted a little - when it was made, the bottom was made of seven peeled and pitted frozen large lychees as the bottom, and the top Sprinkle a spoonful of crushed ice with sugar, pour a spoonful of candied dried osmanthus on top, and put marinated peach pieces on top.

Now the layer of crushed ice has melted a little, and the cloud beside it has turned into a puddle of water, with sweet-scented osmanthus floating on it, which is not ugly at all.

These three bowls were all in Xueli's hands. She walked in the front, bypassed the Fuyun Pavilion to the west, and then went south a few steps to the Yulei Pavilion. At the gate of the Yulei Pavilion, she met An Jin.

"Miss." An Jin bowed his knees and looked at Qiaoqiao with a low eyebrow, "Bu Yunlang is tired from walking, this way... I will help the lady to enter!"

The two eunuchs waiting at the door stood with their heads down as usual, pretending they didn't hear.

This An Jin was pointed out by Mrs. Hui, they knew it; Mr. Chen only asked her to serve tea once when he was in the post house, and they also knew that An Jin was never sent to His Majesty again.Now that it's like this, they just think that An Jin is really brave, and they want to ask the imperial dining lady for help?She didn't know how to inquire first about the position of the Imperial Catering Lady in His Majesty's heart!
As soon as Xueli saw her, she saw Zixian's "shameless" analysis, and immediately blushed.Taking a sneak peek at Zixian, she also blushed and lowered her head to suppress a smile.

Facing a person who "may want to climb the dragon couch" is quite stressful for the two girls.

After being dazed for a moment, Xueli cleared her throat, showed the aura of a royal catering lady, and turned her head to the other three people: "You guys send it in first, I will have a word with Miss An."

An Jin was overjoyed, and the three of them nodded slightly to Xueli and entered the hall.

But Xueli didn't hand her the lychee ice in her hand, she handed the tray to the eunuch next to him, asking him to trouble the maid in front of the imperial palace to present it, and she pulled An Jin and said affectionately: "It's very tiring to walk around the corridor. You don’t have to worry about this thing, the imperial court has enough people, let’s sit over there for a while.”

The eunuch took the lychee ice and was about to go in, when he heard this, his feet froze slightly.

He couldn't help turning his head to look at Xue Li, and muttered in his heart: Didn't everyone say that this Ruan family is dumb?The people inside also said that His Majesty called her "Stupid Lizi" to her face.

Is this a thing of the past now?

Tsk... Did she mean that to His Majesty, that's why she stopped An Jin from entering?

The eunuch couldn't help secretly laughing while thinking blindly, even if he didn't think it was a good thing, he still thought it was a lively thing.

Joyful and happy, he suddenly felt that there was someone in front of him, he suddenly raised his head, and saw Xu Shishui looking at him with a cold face.

"What's your fun, boy!" Xu Shishui didn't have a good face, the eunuch smiled sheepishly and didn't say it directly, pointing outside: "Brother Xu, look for yourself, who is holding hands and talking to whom!"

(End of this chapter)