Chapter 51: You Disgrace the Emperor
Yu Qingping had long heard about Zhao Su’s recent favor from the Empress Dowager, but she didn’t believe it, how could someone like Zhao Su, who was uneducated and unprofessional, be able to gain the favor of the wise Empress Dowager?
Even if she really went to the palace and cooked for the Empress Dowager, it was just something the Empress Dowager did for outsiders to show how much she favored her ministers.
These days Zhao Su did not come to the palace?
Now hear HuaWeiRong so say, she a few doubt hear wrong. Then she said, “Are you sure she is in Ci Ning Palace?”
“How can this be false? Eighty percent of the Empress Dowager is summoning our girl to the palace to cook delicious food again.”
Hua Qianrong still can’t forget the taste of those two chicken fillets earlier, she grew up not to mention having eaten this stuff, she hadn’t even seen it before, so Zhao Su has a handful of good cooks, can it still be false? The empress dowager had twice summoned the girl to the palace to cook, can anyone still not believe it?
Yu Qingping pursed her lips, “Since the Empress Dowager summoned you, what are you doing in such a hurry?”
“I came to find our girl for something.”
“What is it?”
“This is not convenient to tell Squire Yu.”
This was at least Marquis Jingnan’s young lady, and Flower Thinking Rong couldn’t be too uninhibited.
Yu Qingping was originally too lazy to care about them, she was the Miss of the Marquis of Jingnan! But being provoked by Hua Huirong, she still had to go and take a look!
“You tell me, I’ll go and pass the message for you.”
Hua Wanyong would not believe her since.
Yu Qingping then sank her face, “If you don’t even trust the guards around the Emperor, who else can you trust?”
Hua Thought Rong still couldn’t argue with her. Thinking about it, there is no loss anyway, she can go if she wants to, there is no loss if she doesn’t pass it on. Then she said, “Then I’d like you to tell our girl that our Auntie has a play in the theater.”
You have to go to the palace to tell us about the theater? Yu Qingping knew that it was not normal, but the words came out of her mouth, and she was merely finding an excuse to go to Ci Ning Palace for a walk, so there was no need to dwell on it.
She looked askance at Hua Qianrong and quickly walked in the direction of Ci Ning Palace.
Zhao Sucheng was procrastinating, slowly peeling turnips and apples in the kitchen, while chattering with the cooks.
The palace’s kitchen was actually separated from the harem by a high wall, and the imperial chefs were of course all normal men who only cared about cooking, regardless of passing the food around, so the chances of coming into contact with the consort were almost non-existent.
These imperial chefs outside the palace said bullish very much, but in the palace, but also some ordinary uncle. Although in some specific occasions also paid a visit to see the nobleman, but the harem life is still very curious, they often can only eat from the weekdays, derived from some of the imagination, for example, can not help but guess that often also maintain the evening meal more vegetarian less meat eating habits of the Queen Dowager, must not lose the appearance of the year.
Zhao Su can not help but say that their analysis is quite right, but for the sake of life, she can not reveal anything else, so she had to take the cooking to exchange exchanges.
Estimating that the emperor does not have so much time to stay here, she slowly put the radish into the small stone mill, there are palace staff to help push the mill, she came to prepare the cherry minced meat.
Yu Qingping arrived at Ci Ning Palace, first asked where the Empress Dowager was, and then asked where Zhao Su was, and was about to head to the kitchen, when she raised her eyes and saw Four Happiness coming out of the palace, she couldn’t help but stop, “Why are you here?”
Four Happiness pointed to the small garden: “His Majesty is here with the Empress Dowager to have dinner.”
Yu Qingping paused, “Who made the meal?”
“It’s Miss Su from the Marquis of Qingyun!” Four Happiness spoke up as if she had managed to meet someone to gossip about, “You didn’t see it, Servant Yu, Miss Su’s craftsmanship is truly exceptional!
“A large copper plate, below the burning charcoal, the plate of oil bubbling, beef and pork to the top of a spread, the aroma can float ten miles! The empress dowager is so concerned about food and drink, eat can be happy!
“The key Emperor is also! You know, the emperor is particularly strict on himself, usually not more than three cups of wine, and then delicious things he will not reach out his chopsticks more than three times, but you know what? Just now when I came out, he had already eaten seven slices of meat in a row, and his chopsticks hadn’t even been put down!”
Si Xi’s face lit up as he spoke.
“You mean the Emperor is here too?”
Yu Qingping, who was originally heading towards the dining room, suddenly stopped in her tracks.
“Yes,” Si Xi pointed her finger in the direction of the small garden, “The Emperor is still eating at this moment!”
Yu Qingping instantly lost her words, the emperor was a person who couldn’t touch the depths in the eyes of the people, so you didn’t know what he particularly liked or which person he particularly liked, the imperial chefs were all top notch cooks, he usually had an unperturbed look towards the dishes of the imperial chefs, so how could he be so interested in something made by Zhao Su?
“I don’t believe it!”
“I can’t help it if you don’t believe me!” Four Happiness slapped her thighs, “This is not the Emperor sending me to the catering room to urge for drinks again!”
Just don’t believe it, Yu Qingping really can’t do anything about it, it’s not like she can break into the small garden to ask for proof!
Her chest rose and fell a bit, and she said, “I happen to be looking for Zhao Su, so I’ll go with you to the dining room to take a look!”
With Four Happiness leading the way, the journey was smooth.
Yu Qingping was leggy and arrived one step faster.
Standing outside the house, she saw Zhao Su who was grinding cherry meat in the window at a glance. This in the past appeared in front of people are invariably bright and shiny but also arrogant and domineering guy, at this moment really stroked his sleeves in the work!
Her attention was focused on the cutting board under her hand, and she was also mingling with the cooks and courtesans without any sign of chicken flying, was this really the Zhao Su she knew?
“Please give me the tray!”
Zhao Su in the window twisted her head in greeting.
Yu Qingping froze again, letting the palace staff hand over the tray would still say “trouble”, was this the Zhao Su who was uneducated and had no rules and regulations?
“Servant Yu your footsteps are really fast!” Four Happiness, who had been lagging behind for a while, panted and rushed up, then walked into the room, “Miss Su, may I ask if the carrot juice is ready?”
“Oh, it’s ready!”
Zhao Su immediately responded when she heard the voice.
The carrot juice was ground out, and the apples were also ground out, blended together and carefully filtered with fine gauze, and then stirred well, and it was almost molded. The apples of this era are still a little sour, need to add some salt grains, a little honey. After fully stirred, a cup of mixed carrot juice is completed!
Zhao Su came out with the tray and just wanted to greet Si Xi, when she turned her eyes, she saw Yu Qingping next to her, she froze, “Servant Yu is also here?”
But once she thought of her being the emperor’s attendant, she relieved herself again.
More than the emperor, Zhao Su did not want to deal with someone like Yu Qingping. Although she didn’t understand what she had that was worth targeting at every turn, Yu Qingping’s behavior was really like that of an antagonistic female companion, which made it impossible for people to like her.
“Why do you know how to cook?”
Zhao Su was sick of hearing this. “Sorry, I’m gifted.”
Yu Qingping further said, “Did you learn this on purpose to please the Empress Dowager?”
Zhao Su rolled her eyes, “Servant Yu, I really admire your imagination, were you twisted in your heart from being crushed growing up? Isn’t it good to be a little brighter inside? If you are jealous of me, you can also learn to please the Empress Dowager!”
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