see you tonight princess

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the night breeze that is almost midsummer brings coolness slowly. The Feiyan Pavilion is enveloped in the bluish-white moonlight.

Duan Lingge's sleeping hall is designed to be extremely transparent and cool, with carved sill windows open, cool wind blows into the hall.Duan Lingge sat in front of the bronze mirror, and Xiao'e combed her waist-length hair to the ends with a dense rhino horn comb, and tied it loosely with ribbons.

Xiao'e couldn't help admiring: "His Royal Highness, this long hair is so beautiful, silky and shiny like brocade, I will never see anyone more beautiful than the princess's hair."

Duan Lingge smiled slightly, and said softly: "It seems too long, and I often crush it after falling asleep."

"Choose an auspicious day, Xiao'e, to help you trim it, but it can't be cut too short, what a pity. Now that summer has changed to a thin pillow, the hair is not easy to be crushed, unless the princess sleeps with others in the future Just need to be more careful."

"One mouth is full of nonsense." Duan Lingge said with a smile.She blushed, not knowing whether this little girl did it on purpose or not.

"Huh?" Xiao'e didn't mean it at first, after all, the princess is already married, and it's only natural that she sleeps with others.But she forgot that the princess is so special. She suddenly remembered that in the early morning, Her Highness the Princess and Xia Lusi slept together on the bed, and the princess was sleeping in Xia Lusi's arms tightly hugged by her.Oh, I really said all the things I shouldn't have seen.

Xiao'e covered her face and said coquettishly: "Hey, didn't they say that the princess slept with the summer consort... No, the princess did sleep with the summer consort..."

"Stop!" Duan Lingge hurriedly stopped, lest Xiao Nizi open her mouth to say anything more.

"Your Highness's hair is done, Xiao'e will help you to rest." Xiao'e blushed and quickly changed the subject.

Duan Lingge looked in the direction of the window subconsciously, and finally asked: "Xiao'e, did you personally deliver the ointment to her hand today?"

Xiao'e will not remind the princess, she has already reported this matter when she came back from delivering the medicine today, and now the princess asks again for some reason.

It turned out that Duan Lingge said to Duan Lingge as soon as Xiao'e entered Duan Lingge's bedroom early this morning: "Xiao'e, call someone else to take care of you, and you go to the Department of Imperial Medicine to get the national gift of Baicao Qingliang Ointment from Shangbao Kingdom. "

The entire territory of Shangbao Kingdom is covered with deep mountains and dense forests, and there are many kinds of poisonous gas, snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants. Baicao Qingliang Ointment is the royal secret recipe of Shangbao Kingdom. It is extremely difficult to make. It has miraculous effects on debridement and muscle regeneration, detoxification and swelling reduction.It is given as a national gift every year, and the palace is only used by a few people such as princesses, emperors and imperial aunts.

Xiao'e couldn't help being a little nervous: "Where is your highness uncomfortable?"

"It's not me. Take it to her." Duan Lingge said softly.

A "she" without a clue, but Xiao'e understood it all at once, what's the matter, last night Prince Xia entered the study room and was kicked out by the princess without even burning a stick of incense, and it's just morning today, princess But to give her medicine.Xiao'e giggled, "I'll go now, maidservant."

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Xiao'e went to get the medicine and sent it to Rongqiu Palace early, but found that Rongqiu Palace was very lively early in the morning.Everyone gathered in the back garden, and a charcoal stove was set up in the middle, and an iron pot arranged in the shape of Tai Chi and Eight Diagrams was placed on top of it. The pot was red and white in contrasting colors.

One is bright red, the shining oil flower is as red as fire, and the smell of sesame and sesame is straight to the nostrils.The other is milky white soup. There is a large bone in the soup with some translucent meat tendons. There is a little light yellow oil floating in the milky white clear soup. When you smell it closely, it smells like big bone soup. The aroma is alluring.

"What are you doing?" Xiao'e asked.

A palace woman saw Xiao'e and immediately smiled and pulled her to the table: "Sister Xiao'e, come and choose something to eat. There are meat, chicken, beef, mutton, shrimp meatballs, chicken hearts, hairy tripe, beef louver, fish skin, kidney, blood tofu, and more. There are fresh beef and mutton slices."

"For vegetarian dishes, there are bean curd and fried tofu, and vermicelli seaweed noodles. The fresh vegetables are even more amazing, all of which are brought back from Jiangzhou by Shizi quickly. Mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, potato slices, cauliflower, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, and lettuce , baby cabbage, cabbage, radish, bean sprouts, fresh bamboo shoots, water spinach, lotus root slices. There are too many!"

Xiao'e took a closer look, and there were twenty or thirty small bamboo baskets of four sizes placed on a long wooden table. Each bamboo basket contained different ingredients, which was really dazzling.Xiao'e asked curiously: "Do you have breakfast? Can you eat so many dishes?"

The chef standing in front of the stove held two small cages made of fresh bamboo in his hands, and said with a smile, "This is a new food that our son came up with. There are more than ten kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits from Jiangzhou. , everyone wants to try it, but they can’t eat so much. So you can pick a little bit of each dish you want to eat, put it in this small bamboo cage, put the spicy food into this oily spicy soup and cook it, and don’t like spicy food The ones are cooked in this big bone old chicken broth."

Xia Lvsi smiled, and grabbed a small cage from the boiling pot of red oil—red, green, yellow, and white ingredients were stained with fragrant red oil , very colorful.He weighed the soup in his hand and put it in a bowl. It was steaming hot and full of fragrance.

"This is called Malatang. Try it. There are also various seasonings such as shallots, garlic, soy sauce, chili powder, fresh chili rings, sweet vinegar, balsamic vinegar, white sesame seeds, and sesame paste. Add some if you like. Come on, try it One bite!" Xia Lvsi handed the bowl and chopsticks to Xiao'e.

Xiao'e smelled delicious, but she had never seen this kind of food before, so she took a piece of beef and ate it suspiciously.The first is spicy, the hot cooked meat is mixed with the stimulation of spicy oil, it looks inconspicuous, but every drop of soup is rushing in her mouth, making her tongue almost knotted.

"Huh, huh, it's so spicy." Xiao'e fanned her mouth.

After the spicy taste, it turned into a slightly numb aroma, and the beef was chewy again, tender and firm, and the tendons were torn by the teeth when chewing carefully.The spiciness on the tongue is mixed with the aroma of garlic, combined with the oily and delicious soup base, the tenderness of the meat is finally blended in the special spicy taste, and the aroma is wonderfully rich in layers.

After eating a bite of meat, pick up a piece of cabbage, the taste is sweet and crisp, and the beef that has just been heavy oil and spicy is greasy, and the fragrance is refreshing.Eat a piece of green vegetables, and then add a piece of meat, the spicy taste is like alive, with a rich taste, and the taste becomes different with each bite, and each bite is different ingredients, it is really interesting, a little Not boring.

Just try this one, try that one, a bowl of Mala Tang, and the ingredients can be eaten without re-sampling.Xiao'e ate until sweat broke out on her forehead, and she sighed with satisfaction: "It's so delicious, I've already had breakfast and I still can't stop."

"When you don't know what to eat, this is versatile, you can always eat what you want." Xia Lusi smiled.

"It's true! This kind of food is rich and frugal, which is a combination of meat and vegetables. If it spreads to the people, it will definitely be welcomed by the people." Xiao'e said with a smile.

"Eh?" Xia Lusi's mind immediately became active when the speaker didn't care but the listener did.Malatang is a very popular food in modern times. It can be used as a snack or as a staple food. It is high in quality and low in price.It used to be food from small stalls in the streets and alleys. In recent years, it has been sought after by capital and has begun to be chained, because it is easy to replicate and standardize. After the number of stores is scaled up, the valuation is very high.

Thinking that her Jingmei Building has taken a high-end route, why not open some snack shops similar to Malatang in various parts of the city, which can just be a display window for Jiangzhou's agricultural products and various novel vegetables and fruits, so that the common people There is a place to taste Jiangzhou cuisine.

"Sister Xiao'e, Blessed General, I need you to remind me more, I have an idea now, eat slowly, I'm busy—" Xia Lvsi was about to leave after finishing speaking.

Xiao'e held her back: "Hey, don't go, I have business to do. I'm here to deliver medicine." Then Xiao'e remembered the purpose of her visit, and quickly brought over the vermilion lacquer tray that was put aside, and opened the red lacquer tray. cloth, and presented a wax-sealed porcelain jar to Xia Lvsi: "This is the Baicao Qingliang ointment that Her Royal Highness ordered me to give to the son-in-law."

Xia Lusi was taken aback for a moment, then smiled helplessly and took the things presented by Xiao'e.Duan Lingge, that exquisite beauty, really can't bear a little bit of roughness and blemishes. Yesterday, the red and swollen wound on her neck scared her, and the medicine was sent over early the next morning to let her treat the wound quickly. good.

"Okay, I got it." Being rejected by the person she liked made Xia Lusi feel depressed, and she lazily took the ointment in her hand.

The action of Xia Lvsi taking the medicine made Xiao'e also see her hands full of small cuts and scratches, alas, these are the hands of the pampered eldest daughter and son-in-law, they are thicker than her handmaid's hands up.Xiao'e said coquettishly: "Oh, Xia Concubine, you really need to apply this cooling ointment on your hands, and take good care of them. Our princess has thin skin and tender flesh, how can she bear such thick hands? You have to give her It hurts to touch."

"Hey, you..." Xia Lvsi looked at the little girl's upright expression, and wondered if she was a prostitute. Touching Duan Lingge's delicate skin and tender flesh hurts... Hearing this, a modern person couldn't help but blush.

Xia Lvsi's mind was immediately filled with the way her hands followed Duan Lingge's shoulders along the beautiful curves that night to the waist and then to the plump place that night.His face turned red instantly, Xia Lvsi tightened the small porcelain jar in his hand, and left without saying a word or looking back.

So Duan Lingge asked Xiao'e at night if Xia Lusi took the ointment himself.Xiao'e said obediently: "It's delivered, Xia Fuma picked it up personally."

"What did she say?" Duan Lingge asked softly.

"She didn't say anything. She took the medicine, said she knew, and left in a hurry." Xiao'e said.

Xia Lvsi got the medicine, I don't know if she wants her injury to heal soon?She took the medicine and didn't say anything, and she didn't come all day.Duan Lingge lowered her eyes: "Understood, let's go down."

In this way, Duan Lingge thought that Xia Lvsi would take the opportunity to bother her every day after returning from Jiangzhou, but the first day passed without disturbing each other.But in the next few days, Duan Lingge discovered that not only did Xia Lvsi not come to bother her on the first day, but she did not come to the Yuanji Hall or even the Feiyan Pavilion to look for her every day after that.

Invite her back to visit her relatives, but never see her come to pay her respects, and even run away every day without a trace.So Duan Lingge listened to the spies report Xia Lusi's whereabouts for a day after dinner every day.

"The son-in-law visited Master Bing Li today, and bought a private house in an alley on Quqiao Street."

"The son-in-law visited Mr. Zhang from the Ministry of Households and Mr. Gu from the Ministry of Industry today, and also sold two houses in the city."

"The son-in-law went to visit a small official today, the Lord City Supervisor of Zhaoli City. She also bought a lot of private houses."

Day by day, Duan Lingge's patience was finally exhausted. She frowned and asked Lan Mo, "Do you know? What is the meaning of what she does every day?"

Lan Mo rubbed his nose, cupped his hands and said, "Uh, Xia Shizi seems to... want to open a lot of shops. She said that when she comes back, she can do the things that she can only do, and leave the follow-up things to other people. As long as she pays close attention to the main tasks Contradictions, as long as the shop is opened, it can make money step by step."

"Earn money?" As a princess who has never earned a penny in her life, Duan Lingge was stunned for a moment when she was unfamiliar with this term, and then she realized that she pinched the center of her brows helplessly and murmured: "This monkey , how can you be so interested in gold and silver, and focus on making money every day."?