Chapter 62: You peeked at me changing clothes
“Modest isn’t it? Since the emperor has appointed you to come over as a guard, you must be good at what you do!” Pei Zhan said and straightened his back again, no doubt it was the hamburgers and small cookies that gave him the confidence.
The reason why he chose hamburgers to start, is to attract eyeballs and thus come to this step at the moment ah!
To socialize naturally in the workplace, you have to find a way to make the old birds notice the newbies and extend a friendly hand!
His words drew a chorus of agreement from others, “Yes, Zhao Su, outsiders say you’re bad, but I don’t think that’s true!”
The speaker was immediately stabbed in the back by a person next to him, and they all ha-ha-ha’d to change the subject, and the room immediately became lively.
But Zhao Su is still sharp-eyed to find, Liang Ying and the side of the few people, in this hilarious sound pulled face out.
It does not matter, which collective there are always one or two out of the ordinary, Zhao Su has already achieved the purpose of integration into the circle of the workplace, and not forced to get everyone’s recognition at once.
Qianqing Palace here also arrived at the time of passing lunch.
The Emperor met with a few batches of courtiers, saw Si Xi pass the lunch to, sat down and ate a couple of bites, then looked at the colorful steamed meat soup, nourishing soups, as well as after boiling and steaming are maintained invariably the color of the olive drab dishes, slow down the chopsticks.
“Your Majesty,” Four Happiness bowed, “this lunch are all the cook carefully concocted dishes, in order to maintain the original color of each food, the cook specially boiled a thick soup pouring, such as this boil five treasures balls, is even the first emperor were praised, the cook does not often do, you quickly taste! The emperor simply put his chopsticks on the table.
The emperor simply put his toothpicks down. “Is there any other way to make these balls besides boiling?”
Si Xi froze: “Emperor, this pill it either steamed, boiled, or fried …… Emperor how do you want to eat?”
The emperor thought about it again, “Zhao Su is on duty today?”
“Arrived, should have reported at the Forbidden Guards Department before noon.”
“You asked her to try making a dish of meatballs? I don’t want them steamed, boiled, blanched, or fried.”
Si Xi: “……”
The emperor jerked his fan bone: “If you can’t make it let her run ten laps outside the noon gate every day, strengthen your body and try to be a qualified imperial guard.”
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“Is that what he said?”
Zhao Su, who was following the guards on their rounds, was intercepted halfway by Si Xi, and when she heard what he had come to say, she almost didn’t get so angry that her nostrils went up in smoke.
Was she here to be a guard or a cook?
Not just a little secret with his mother, to exploit her so much?
This belly can not be enlarged a little, can not be like a king of the world emperor?
Also pills, pills him a burnt and tender is more or less.
“Zhao guards, you or go, outside the noon gate that square is quite large, really if every day to run ten laps, that is really enough to suffer.”
Seeing that she had sued away Yu Qingping who had tripped him yesterday, Si Xi reminded her.
“Got it.” Zhao Su was helpless. Although reluctant, cooking was indeed much easier than running the playground.
When they arrived at the Imperial Catering Room, perhaps it was because the Emperor had given more meals, or perhaps it was purely to show off the Emperor’s status, this kitchen was twice as big as the kitchen in Ci Ning Palace.
The people in the dining room should have already received the information from Four Happiness, and there was already someone waiting under the door, and then led her to the small stove on one side.
Zhao Su looked at the imperial kitchen that had everything, and couldn’t help but thrust her waist and sighed. The emperor wants to eat pills, but pills in addition to frying and boiling and steaming, how else can it be done? Can it also be used to bake?
Seeing a basket of fresh squid in the corner, she suddenly slapped her palm, there!
“I need flour, yam, oil and salt, dried seaweed, two tomatoes, vinegar, very clean vegetable oil, cane sugar and eggs, and a dried squid!”
After explaining the required items to the palace staff at her side, she immediately grabbed a fresh squid and washed it, cut it into fine dices the size of a fingernail cap, and chopped up some chopped cabbage to set aside.
Then let the people bring out the proper cooking utensils.
It took two or three quarters of an hour’s work, but finally she was able to find a cast iron container used by pastry chefs to make pastries, with each nest on top roughly the size of an egg, which was barely usable, though not as ideal as expected.
All aspects of Shi En’s case were doing their best, but Han Jun, who was in charge of checking out the OCT, got a bit of additional news that Shi En’s wife, who was originally taking care of her parents in her ancestral home, had recently come running into the capital, presumably to ask for an audience with the Empress Dowager.
The Emperor was silent for a while after hearing this.
Mrs. Shi was once the Empress Dowager’s female official. Under the current circumstances, the court side and Empress Dowager Lu’s side were still able to maintain relative harmony, which if Mrs. Shi went to see the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager would have her reasons to directly intervene.
The Empress Dowager’s aim was to preserve Shi En, whether he had committed a crime or not. If Shi En did not commit a crime, then the court could of course return justice to him and ensure that their mother-son relationship would not be affected.
But if Shi En really committed a crime, then the court could never condone him. If the Empress Dowager strongly protects him, even if he does not oppose it, a series of decisions he wants to carry out afterward will inevitably encounter obstacles.
“Mrs. Shi is far away in Bozhou, the ancestral home of the Shi family, more than a thousand miles from here, why did she arrive in the capital so quickly?”
“Before I came here, I had gone to check the whereabouts of a few female guards in Ci Ning Palace and found that two of them had not returned since they left the palace last month.”
It goes without saying that the Empress Dowager began deploying last month, sending her guards to Lingnan and arranging for Lady Shi to come to such an end.
“Go and ask the Grand Metropolitan Governor, how is the progress on the side of the Imperial Medicine Division? Also, are there any eyebrows on Fang Qingxue’s side?”
Han Jun led the decree out of the palace gates, and the emperor asked after sitting for a while, “Where are the pills?”
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“It can come out of the pot! I need a large round dish with a glass cover.”
Zhao Su twisted her head in greeting as she picked at the croquettes in the container. The plate came, and she arranged the six croquettes neatly into a triangle, poured on a salsa simmered in egg-aged vinegar and cooking oil, topped it with a couple of dashes of tomato sauce, and finished it off by shaving the squid, which had been grilled dry and crispy, and sprinkling it on top with chopped seaweed.
Charred yellow balls with white salsa and red tomato juice, and dark green seaweed minced and golden squid flowers, looking at the missing something, thinking of the emperor all day long with her to play the mighty, then on the other side of the plate on the three just take the apple carved out of the little Pikachu, to their two sides of the face is also rubbed with a bit of red currant powder, and then with a little bit of green cauliflower, I hope that he will be able to learn from the Pikachu learning to learn, a little less mighty! I hope he can learn from Pikachu and be a little less powerful and a little more cute!
The plate had just been placed on the stovetop, and the imperial chefs were frequently craning their heads to see it.
China’s traditional dishes are still quite elaborate, Zhao Su never felt that the taste of the imperial food is not comparable to modern cuisine, but compared to the ancient and modern have their own characteristics, the imperial food and home-cooked food is also focused on different, she this plate of meatballs so baked, and so set out, it is inevitable to attract people’s eyes.
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