Lingquan after kitchen

Chapter 94 Lunch (2)
Murong Juan said excitedly: "Concubine Shu has summoned more than a dozen ladies these days, but you are the only one who came to see my third brother's three children."

Ouyang Jinhua walked forward with Murongjuan's arm in his arms, and every time he took a step, he felt irritable.

"My eldest brother's position as the crown prince is not guaranteed, and my second brother's reputation is extremely bad. Now the third brother in Chaozhong is the most popular. You have become the third brother's concubine. In the future, the third brother will replace the eldest brother as the crown prince. You will be the crown prince." Murong Juan shook vigorously. Shaking Ouyang Jinhua, who has never said a word, whispered in her ear: "After a hundred years after my father, the third brother ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, you will be the queen, the mother of a country, not only you, but also my aunt and uncle will be extremely honored!" , Wealth and wealth rise to the heavens."

When such words came out of nine-year-old Murong Juan's mouth, Ouyang Jinhua deeply thought that the imperial palace was really a place to train people.

"You haven't seen my third brother yet." Murong Juan rolled her eyes a few times and said in a low voice: "His appearance has taken the advantages of Emperor Father and Concubine Shu, he is a handsome man, and he doesn't like to accept concubines and beauties. "

Ouyang Jinhua thought in his heart: Not everyone is willing to be a stepmother, even if this stepmother will be the mother of the world in the future.

"My four nephews are all good." Murong Juan said with a smile, "You saw the three little ones just now, how about them, they are all very good."

"Yes. Concubine Shu and the third prince taught her well." Ouyang Jinhua thought in his heart: How better can it be better than my own children?

Murong Juan said in a very low voice: "You can cook good food, you can win their hearts in just two days, and let them regard you as their biological mother."

"Don't say that. I don't have such a rich life." Ouyang Jinhua tugged on Murongjuan's sleeve and shook his head slightly.Xindao: One's own children are not necessarily filial, let alone not one's own.

Murong Juan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I won't talk nonsense in the palace until the decree of marriage is made."

Ouyang Jinhua sighed softly in his heart, it was really impossible to communicate with his little cousin who had been brainwashed by the supremacy of power in this matter.

Several people entered the dining room where they were eating, and they were seated according to their ranks, and Ouyang Jinhua naturally sat at the end.

Before she came in, she had already looked around. There were landscape calligraphy and paintings on the walls, an antique blue vase with carved ladies in the corner, and the clean rosewood furniture looked old.

Just now Murongjuan introduced that there are three dining halls in Penglai Palace, this is the smallest one, and the largest one can accommodate hundreds of people for meals at the same time.

Several maids and eunuchs came in with gold-rimmed lacquerware food boxes and began to distribute rice.

Taizu, the founding emperor of the Great Hua Dynasty, established palace regulations, and the imperial palace used a meal-sharing system.

Today's lunch in Penglai Palace is considered a small-scale palace banquet, with two more dishes than usual.Palace people use silver chopsticks to divide each dish into several portions according to the number of people, put them in small bowls, hold them on lacquer plates, and place them in front of each person.

Steamed mandarin fish, stewed chicken thigh, stewed sea cucumber, stewed beef, roasted mutton, roasted venison, roasted loofah, roasted cucumber, roasted pepper, winter melon and vegetable soup. The staple food is rice, pancakes, and plain noodles.

Ouyang Jinhua once heard from Ouyang Jinyu that meals in Wang Jieyu's palace would have a maximum of six dishes, and there would be no seafood, which was not so rich.

She could see that the cooking techniques of the imperial kitchen in the imperial dining room were steaming, stewing, roasting, and roasting. Not as good as her dishes.

There are many rules in the palace, and food is silent.After lunch, even the little county master obediently enjoyed it without saying a word.

After lunch, "Good boy, I won't keep you here." Concubine Zhang Shu shook Ouyang Jinhua's fragrant shoulders, showing kindness, "I will reward you again when you are old enough in a few days."

Ouyang Jinhua thanked him and was about to leave. Mrs. Yu, who seldom spoke, said, "Madam, I won't bother you anymore. I'll go back home now."

Concubine Zhang Shu smiled and said, "Are you leaving now?"

Mrs. Yu answered irrelevantly, "Take care of yourself."

"I'll see off my cousin." Murong Juan still had something to say to Ouyang Jinhua, especially because she was so excited and surprised just now, she forgot to ask Ouyang Jinyu if she was okay and why she didn't come to see her in the palace.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to send palace servants to send Jinhua off. I will take her back on the way." Madam Yu's words sounded casual, but they aroused Concubine Zhang Shu's doubts.

The two were led by Concubine Zhang Shu's eldest maid to the palace gate.Madam Yu didn't look sideways, as if Ouyang Jinhua wasn't around.

Ouyang Jinhua would not take the initiative to talk to Madam Yu.

After walking about a mile, Madam Yu slowed down, turned her head and smiled and said, "This is not the first time you have entered the palace, are you familiar with the roads in the palace?"

Ouyang Jinhua replied: "I had a serious illness a few years ago, and I forgot everything."

Madam Yu looked inquiringly and asked, "What disease do you have?"

Ouyang Jinhua said slowly: "Thinking too much, emptiness on the outside and fire on the inside."

Madam Yu stopped in her tracks and asked, "Is everything all right now?"

"Okay." Ouyang Jinhua said again: "I have been recuperating in the Zhuangzi for half a year, and my bones have recovered, but I have forgotten everything before."

Madam Yu knew these things from Concubine Zhang Shu before Ouyang Jinhua entered the Penglai Palace, but she just wanted to hear what Ouyang Jinhua had to say and whether she would hide it.Going forward without looking back this time, he asked, "Do you remember Qin Huang from the Qin family?"

"do not remember."

"Qin Huang was a Jinshi in the scientific examination three years ago. He was only 15 years old. He was a teenager in high school and his reputation spread far and wide. Everyone in Chang'an City knew him." Madam Yu's tone was actually a little angry, "Although he is dead Many people still remember him, and it wasn’t until a few days ago that the scientific examination fraud case broke out and the truth became known to the world, and they didn’t know that his Jinshi status was obtained by cheating.”

No one talked about Qin Huang in Ouyang Jinhua these days, and there was no emotion when he heard it suddenly.

"Such a person deserves to die. Are you right?" Mrs. Yu turned her head to stare, seeing Ouyang Jinhua's pure eyes nodded slightly, and said with some pity in her tone: "Your fate is not very good, and you were engaged to be married to him. Fortunately, he died without you getting through the door."

Ouyang Jinhua felt as if he was being stared at by a snake just now, and felt horrified, and felt that Mrs. Yu was not a kind person.

Madam Yu's voice softened, and she said slowly: "Your father is a concubine, your biological mother was born in a merchant's family, and you were married to the dead Qin Huang."

"My father is a good official for the country and the people. My mother is a husband and a teacher. I am very lucky to be their daughter." Ouyang Jinhua's voice was neither high nor low, "As for Qin Huang, that is what I deserve. Calamity. As the saying goes, it’s never too late. I used to be ignorant, but after experiencing this, my relatives and friends all said that I am sensible, and I will get better in the future.”

(End of this chapter)