Since they are all worn by the Qing Dynasty, you might as well be bold and choose Kangxi!

However, after Liang Jiugong brought the re-mixed milk tea over again.

"Too bland."

“The scent is wrong.”

“It’s too sweet.”

After countless times, the emperor's personal chef Zhang Laidong looked bitterly at Liang Jiugong and asked:

"General Manager Liang, please give me some advice. What kind of sweet taste does the emperor want?"

Liang Jiugong was also in a state of confusion at this time. He had no idea what kind of sweet taste the emperor wanted. At this moment, his legs were almost broken from running. He said unhappily:

"If we knew what kind of sweet taste the emperor wanted, we would have told you long ago. Why do we have to run back and forth like this?"

Seeing that Liang Jiugong didn't seem to be lying, Zhang Laidong became even more depressed. His sparse eyebrows were wrinkled into a "川" shape and he kept sighing.

It is possible that after today, his good days as the emperor's personal chef would be gone forever. Thinking of this, he suddenly shuddered.

No, we can’t let Wu Kedong get away with it. I’m trying to cheer him up again.

He asked Liang Jiugong in detail whether the emperor had tasted or smelled anything special today, or yesterday, or in short, whether the emperor had encountered any sweet and fragrant smell in recent days that attracted the emperor's attention.

After hearing this, Liang Jiugong's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered something. He seemed to have smelled a sweet fragrance yesterday.

He smelled it when he accidentally picked up Shi Ergege's sachet in the study of Yuqing Palace, but the smell was too faint at the time and he didn't pay much attention to it. When he thought about it again now, he suddenly understood it.

The emperor was not dissatisfied with the taste of the milk tea, but that the fragrance was not the fragrance of Princess Shi Er.

Zhang Laidong saw Liang Jiugong's excited expression, and he quickly asked:

"Manager Liang, have you thought of something?"

Liang Jiugong regained his usual composure, flicked his whisk and said:

"We have some idea about it. Just make another cup according to the taste of the first cup."

Zhang Laidong was a little skeptical after hearing this:

"Manager Liang, please don't frame me!"

Liang Jiugong glanced at him:

"We all serve the emperor. What good will framing you bring to our family?"

"Okay, I'll make it right away." Zhang Laidong gritted his teeth, turned around and made a new cup of milk tea based on the taste of the first one.

Then he watched Liang Jiugong take the milk tea away with a worried look on his face.

Liang Jiugong returned to the Qianqing Palace with the milk tea, but did not go in immediately. Instead, he summoned a young eunuch and asked him a few questions. Only after he had an idea in mind did he enter the palace.

In the hall, Kangxi no longer held "Xixi" in his arms. Instead, he placed "Xixi" on the dragon throne and practiced calligraphy with a focused look on his face.

Liang Jiugong took a sneak peek, not daring to disturb the emperor, and carefully placed the milk tea on the table. Unexpectedly, as soon as he put it down, he heard the emperor's deep voice from above his head:

"Why did you change it back? My words are no longer effective?"

A drop of sweat immediately dripped from Liang Jiugong's forehead, and his legs went weak and he knelt down.

"I know I was wrong. I just heard that Princess Shi Er needs to drink strong bitter medicine every day to recuperate, and the Weishan preserves I sent before are almost not enough.

I was thinking about sending some more, but I made a mistake in giving instructions to the kitchen. I beg Your Majesty to forgive me!"

When Kangxi heard the words "Shi Ergege", his pen stopped writing. A drop of ink fell on the paper, smudged the words he had just written.

Kangxi pursed his lips upon seeing this, and the hall suddenly became as quiet as a cold pond.

Liang Jiugong dared not breathe, time passed by minute by minute, until his heart was in his throat, he heard the emperor's tone lightly said:

"Add some other rewards!"

"Whoo."

Liang Jiugong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he finally passed this level.

……

Chuxiu Palace

Shi Nanxi is practicing the guqin in the courtyard at this moment. Every beauty who has passed the re-selection has some talents, and at least she can do embroidery.

Only she, apart from the good handwriting left by her original body, had a hard life in modern times because her parents divorced early, let alone learning talents.

Now, in addition to practicing calligraphy at home, he also wants to take advantage of the opportunity to see if he can learn something that will help him enter the palace in the future.

"Oh, I said the sound was like sawing wood, which hurts people's ears. I didn't expect it was Princess Shi Er playing the piano outside!"

As soon as Suochu Luo Jiahui followed the sound of the piano, she saw Shi Nanxi playing the piano under the pomegranate tree. She immediately held her handkerchief and rolled her eyes:

"You have the nerve to come out with this level of skill. If I were you, I wouldn't come out and embarrass myself."

In fact, it wasn't that bad. It was just that the person who played it was Shi Nanxi, so he deliberately stabbed her.

Upon hearing this, Shi Nanxi suddenly stopped playing the piano and her face turned red, but because of her personality, she could only lower her head, stammering and not daring to refute.

Li Jiamingxiu also followed out, and his eyes flickered slightly when he saw this scene.

The noise here alarmed other people. They either opened the door and walked out, or opened the window and stood there, looking over here, and then whispered something to the people around them.

Faced with this situation, Shi Nanxi's face gradually turned from red to pale, and her head lowered lower and lower, almost buried to her chest.

When Suochao Luo Jiahui saw Shi Nanxi's reaction, she became more and more demanding.

"If you ask me, your elder sister can play some Western music, why doesn't she teach you? Aren't you two sisters very close?"

As he spoke, a hint of ill intent appeared on his face:

"Could it be that the other party is unwilling to teach you his unique skills? It seems that Shi Ergege can only continue to play this ridiculous piano in the future!"

Shi Nanxi had originally buried her head and grabbed her handkerchief in panic, until she heard the other party mention her elder sister, then she seemed to muster up the courage to raise her head and refute:

"No, that's not the case..."

"That's not the case." Suochu Luo Jiahui immediately interrupted Shi Nanxi:

"Then tell me, why can't you play Western music?"

"I, I..." Shi Nanxi didn't know how to answer when she heard this.

"You can't come now? How can you enter the re-selection like this, hoping to be valued by the noble?" Socho Luo Jiahui looked disdainful.

Outside the gate of Chuxiu Palace, Liang Jiugong, who had been listening for a while, walked in upon hearing this. He flicked his whisk and glanced around, and the next moment he uttered a sharp voice that belonged to a eunuch:

"Are the First and Second Princesses Shi here? Your servant Liang Jiugong has come to deliver the reward on the orders of the Emperor."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's laughter seemed to be stuck in their throats, and the entire Chuxiu Palace fell silent in an instant.

Shi Nanxi was still thinking about how to explain. She looked up in confusion. After seeing Liang Jiugong, she reacted a little slowly. She quickly stood up with the help of Hongying and went to meet him.

"Eunuch Liang, I'm here."

Liang Jiugong looked at Shi Nanxi with a friendly smile on his face and asked, "Why are you the only one here, Second Princess?"

"My eldest sister went to the shooting range with the Crown Prince and hasn't come back yet." Shi Nanxi replied softly.

"So that's it." Liang Jiugong knew it in his heart, but he pretended to be enlightened, and then explained his purpose:

"The Emperor was delighted to hear that the Western paintings painted by the eldest princess were very much liked by the Empress Dowager. He also heard about the Empress Dowager's reward and said that he should also be rewarded.

It just so happened that the Emperor was eating Weishan preserves at the time, and wondered if the last reward given to you sisters had been finished, so he asked the servant to add some more when delivering the reward."

As soon as he finished speaking, a palace maid carrying plates stepped forward and lifted the red silk covering the plates, revealing two plates full of Weishan preserves.

The remaining few palace servants, each holding a plate in their hands, came forward and reported one by one.

"The Emperor gave me two blue hand warmers as a reward."

"Two boxes of Glazed Armor."

"Two flower basket lanterns."

"Ten pieces of top-quality satin."

"..."

As the rewards came out like water, especially those that were obviously double, it was obvious that the emperor not only rewarded Princess Shi, but also took Shi Nanxi into consideration. Chuxiu Palace became even quieter.

Shi Nanxi clutched the handkerchief, bowed with a look of fear and gratitude to receive the reward. Liang Jiugong glanced around indifferently, his eyes paused on Suochuo Luo Jiahui, and finally fell on the guqin placed on the stone table.

Without saying anything, he just asked someone to deliver the reward into the house, then said goodbye to Shi Nanxi. After Liang Jiugong left, Shi Nanxi turned around.

All of a sudden, everyone seemed to have thawed. Some went back to their rooms, some closed their windows. Suochao Luo Jiahui's face turned blue, red, and white.

Li Jiaming looked at the room where the rewards were kept. His expression did not change, but his handkerchief was pulled out of shape. Shi Nanxi noticed this scene and secretly took note of it.

Then he lowered his eyelashes, walked forward silently, picked up the piano and went back to the house.

As soon as Liang Jiugong returned to the Qianqing Palace, he told everyone what he had seen and heard in the Chuxiu Palace.

Kangxi didn't say anything at the time, but after he finished dealing with government affairs, he asked someone to prepare a guqin.