you forced your ex-husband

All the concubines fell out of favor, their ways of flattery were also blocked, basically they couldn't see the emperor's face anymore.

If some people are favored and others fall out of favor, they will all fight each other. Now that they are all out of favor, it is more harmonious.

There is nothing to do in the palace for a long time, so they often chat, drink tea, eat snacks, flutter butterflies and so on together.

Occasionally Chu Mei would come to visit the ladies and concubines, and pay her regards to her mother and concubine Zeng Fan.

Chu Mei and Zeng Fan are about the same age, if they walk too close, they will attract suspicion, if they walk too far away, they will not be respectful enough.

Therefore, whenever Chu Mei came to ask Zeng Fan to say hello, she would always pick the time when Zeng Fan was with the little sisters, and never get along with Zeng Fan alone.

Zeng Fan liked Chu Mei's sense of proportion.

After all, Zeng Fan is also this kind of person who pays attention to propriety.

It was also because Chu Mei chose to meet people during the concubine's tea party, so she also chatted with other concubines along the way.

The concubines were bored, and a handsome young man came. Although he didn't dare to have unreasonable thoughts, it was good to see the handsome guy and talk and laugh.

Chu Mei was also a person who could talk and please people, and gradually became the "friend of women" in the harem, and all the concubines liked him very much.

However, Chu Mei's jokes were all joking, she behaved very politely, never physically touched the concubine, and avoided being alone with the concubine, very cautious.

During the concubine's tea party that day, Concubine Li said to Chu Mei: "You often come to pay respects to Mrs. Wan, it is respectful. I wonder if you usually pay respects to the Queen?"

When mentioning "Empress", the public enemy of the entire harem, everyone couldn't help pricking up their ears and carefully observing Chu Mei's reaction.

Chu Mei happily replied with a smile: "The Empress has a lot of things to do every day, I don't want to bother her. He once went to see her, but he refused, saying that being filial is not about asking for peace, it's just a matter of intention. I thought, the Empress should be a person who loves to be quiet."

"Isn't that right? Don't say it's you, even us concubines want to pay their respects, and he can't bear to see him." Li Concubine said angrily, "Now even the emperor won't let us see him, which shows his dominance !"

All the concubines didn't dare to speak to her. After all, apart from Li Concubine, who was so stupid, no one dared to openly criticize the queen.

However, Li Pin is a fool with capital.

Her father is the Duke of Zhen Guo, and her mother is the eldest princess, who is rich in gold and jade.Usually the queen mother is also very pleasant when she sees her, so she naturally doesn't need to care too much about the words "disaster comes from the mouth".

With the support of such a strong mother's family, and she is very beautiful, if she is not really a fool, she would have been a concubine long ago, if she is lucky, she would already be a noble concubine, how could she still be a concubine?

It can also be regarded as a typical representative of a good hand played poorly.

An Lianrong looked at Concubine Li and thought to herself: If I have such a family background and looks, do I still need to cling to this hypocritical woman like Zeng Fan?

Zeng Fan didn't know that he was hated by his good sister.

She knew that An Lianrong was sensitive and occasionally had gloomy moods.But she never thought that An Lianrong would hate herself.

She didn't even know that An Lianrong secretly applied eye drops in front of Concubine Li, which made Concubine Li dislike Zeng Fan very much.

Concubine Li glanced at Zeng Fan, and said: "Speaking of which, you are just a little nobleman, how can you be worthy of being the concubine of a prince? Isn't this inappropriate with etiquette?"

Zeng Fan said nothing, just lowered his head.

Chu Mei actually doesn't care about Zeng Fan's feelings, but now that Zeng Fan is his mother and concubine, they are both prosperous.Therefore, Chu Mei had no choice but to speak for her: "This is the intention of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, there must be a holy intention."

Before Concubine Li could speak, Chu Mei flicked the hem of her clothes again, stood up and said that she was going to study, so she took her leave first.

Chu Mei was willing to come to the concubine's tea party, just to listen to the gossip and analyze the situation, but he didn't want to get involved in the wrestling of the concubines, so when he saw that the momentum was not right, he ran away first.

On the way back to Shenhetang, Chu Mei saw a figure coming out from behind the rockery, it was An Lianrong.

Seeing that it was a concubine, Chu Mei took half a step back and saluted.

An Lianrong also saluted, and asked her servant to bring a food box, saying: "The emperor is always greedy for pearl milk tea. But the queen doesn't like the emperor coming to my palace, so I can only trouble you to give it to the emperor. .”

"Pearl milk tea?" Chu Mei was startled.

An Lianrong smiled and said: "It's strange, isn't it? I've never heard of it. The emperor taught me to make it. Speaking of which, the emperor has a lot of whimsical ideas about food. Sometimes he wants to eat this, and sometimes he thinks about it." Eating that is something you have never heard of or seen before.”

Chu Mei opened the food box to have a look, and only said, "Is that...a straw?"

An Lianrong was startled: "What is a 'straw'? It's a hollow reed."

Chu Mei nodded and said, "I understand, I will take it there for you."

Chu Mei didn't say much, and asked the eunuch to take the food box, and he left first.

In order to avoid suspicion, he left without saying a word to An Lianrong.

The emperor came to Shenhetang as usual that day to read and write with Chu Mei.

Seeing the pearl milk tea on the table, the emperor was overjoyed. He quickly took a straw made of a reed stick and inserted it into a large cup, sucking on the straw.

Chu Mei knew that what An Lianrong said was true, the emperor was indeed greedy for this.

Chu Mei smiled and asked: "What is this? It seems delicious. Can I have a taste?"

Sansan hasn't had pearl milk tea for a long time, and she is really reluctant to give it to others, but when she thinks that the other party is her son, her father's love is like a mountain, and she reluctantly said: "Then, let me have a drink..."

Seeing Sansan's pained face, Chu Mei thought it was amused, so she took a sip of what Sansan had drunk, and said, "It's so sweet."

Sansan then said, "It tastes good only if it's sweet. If a person eats something sweet, he will feel better."

Chu Mei also smiled: "Indeed."

After Sansan left, Chu Mei asked An Lianrong for the recipe, and learned how to make pearl milk tea by herself.

The palace people were all surprised, and only said: "If you want to do this, just ask someone to come, can't that be enough?"

Chu Mei said: "This is for the emperor to eat, how can you give it to others?"

But the palace man said: "But you are the prince, so the so-called 'a gentleman stays away from the kitchen'..."

"Of course." Chu Mei smiled, "But I am not a gentleman."

Probably because he felt that the reed straws were not good enough, Chu Mei had someone make a set of milk tea cups and straws out of gold for the emperor to use.

In addition, Chu Mei also made many other sweets for Sansan by analogy, such as egg tarts, ice cream, panna cotta and so on.

On this day, Chu Mei made rose juice sorbet, mango panna cotta and jasmine milk tea.

The emperor asked someone to pack half of it first.

Chu Mei laughed and said, "Could it be that Sansan still plans to take it home for supper?"

Sansan replied: "No, I plan to take it back and give it to the queen to taste."

Chu Mei frowned, then smiled again: "San San and the Queen are really in love."

"It's okay..." Sansan was a little embarrassed.

Chu Mei sighed, "It's really enviable."

Sansan also smiled.

Sansan returned to the queen's palace with the food box, and said like the queen offering a treasure: "You must have never eaten these foods before!"

When Yan Bowan opened the food box, he smelled the unique greasy smell of high-sweet food, and said, "Sweet and greasy, who likes it?"

Sansan said, "I like to eat."

Yan Bowan was disgusted at first, but when he heard that it was Sansan's favorite food, he reluctantly ate a couple of mouthfuls, and turned around and said, "It's too sweet."

Sansan murmured, "Mei'er worked so hard to make this, why do you dislike it so much? I really like it."

Yan Bowan raised his eyebrows and said, "It's all right for Mrs. An to do this. Why does the prince also cook?"

"Of course it's to make me happy." Sansan replied, "Mei Er, this is out of filial piety."

Yan Bowan sneered: "It's nothing to be courteous, it's either adultery or robbery."

From Yan Bowan's point of view, Chu Mei appeared to be a gentleman, but actually had a dark heart.

He has endured humiliation in the palace for many years, and now he turned over due to the favor of the emperor, so naturally he has to cater to the emperor.

It's just that this way of flattering the emperor is too...strange, right?

Give sachets to vegetarians, wash hands and make soup?

Yan Bowan frowned: Did Chu Mei make a mistake?How can there be princes fighting for favor like this?

Seeing that Yan Bowan didn't like it, Sansan ate the rest by herself.

Yan Bowan stopped him: "Don't eat too much, these are all cold food, sweet and greasy, not good for the stomach."

Sansan only said, "Don't worry, my stomach is recovering!"

According to Sansan's big stomach of steel, he can eat anything - however, this is the body of Emperor Chu Ning.

Chu Ninghuang's delicate stomach couldn't bear Sansan's eating like the autumn wind swept away fallen leaves.

When Sansan was about to go to bed, her stomach started to hurt.

The queen was very nervous and immediately called the imperial physician.After feeding a honeyed pill with warm water, Sansan got better, but she still felt a dull pain in her stomach, and she managed to fall asleep after struggling for a long time.

The imperial physician said to the queen again: "Your Majesty usually has a cold stomach, eating too much ice can cause abdominal pain, it will be better if you warm it up."

But the queen said: "Do you want to warm your stomach with Tang Pozi on a hot day?"

"Indeed, it's too hot to use Tang Pozi in hot weather." The imperial physician nodded, "It's best if it's not too cold or hot, just warm to the stomach, but not hot."

Yan Bowan waved his hand and said, "I see, step back."

Sansan reluctantly fell asleep, and woke up with her eyes closed in the middle of the night, but felt her stomach was warm and felt much better.

But under the dim light of the candle, Yan Bowan folded his hands and placed them lightly on Sansan's abdomen, activating his internal strength and warming his stomach.

The clothes on Sansan's body were very thin, and she could easily feel the heat from the heels of Yan Bowan's palms. The warmth flowed into Sansan's stomach like a bubbling spring, which was very ironic.

"Brother Wan, Wan..." Sansan called hoarsely.

Yan Bowan heard Sansan's voice and saw that Sansan was awake, so he withdrew his hand back.

Sansan blinked suspiciously: "What are you doing?"

Yan Bowan put his hands in his sleeves and replied, "Nothing."