Back to the ancient favorite

Early the next morning, Xiliu hummed a song and went to the imperial dining room in a good mood to spend the happy time of the day.

He was sitting on the table, holding a bowl of porridge in his hand, eating the pickles he made yesterday, smiling as he watched the royal chefs busily busy.

After eating, I took out the paper I collected from the room yesterday, took out the dip pen, watched the chefs at work, and carefully recorded their actions and the methods of making the dishes.

At first when he asked, someone would answer him a few words, but seeing that it was late, and afraid that they would not be able to catch up with the second wave of lunch time, the chefs ignored Xiliu's existence and went about their own business Suddenly, the voices in the imperial dining room became noisy.

Xiliu was also smart, so he didn't bother himself, so he began to concentrate on researching the spices in the palace and the seasoning in bottles and jars.

Xiliu cleverly avoided everyone, and nimbly shuttled around the corners of the imperial dining room, recording the distribution of ingredients, the condition of the stove, the order of spices, and the arrangement of seasonings. After that, she found a small corner and moved He took a chair and sat there obediently and sorted out his notes.

On the other side, the anger of the emperor who had just come down to court had dissipated, but he could not ignore the royal face, so he could only direct his father-in-law to tell Xiliu to have lunch with him.

The father-in-law sent someone to Liuxu Palace to spread the word, but the little father-in-law came back in a disheveled state. He said something in the father-in-law's ear, and the father-in-law frowned helplessly.

After bowing, the father-in-law said to the emperor with embarrassment: "Your Majesty, Master Xiliu...is not in the room."

"Not in the room? Where did he go this early in the morning!" The emperor patted the table and looked up at the innocent father-in-law angrily. .”

A glimmer of expectation flashed in the emperor's eyes, he thought that Xiliu might have gone to make lunch for himself, and he felt instantly better, so he got up and set up the imperial dining room.

In the imperial dining room, even if the father-in-law announced loudly, he could not cover the sound of several pots being fired at the same time, nor could he stop the overwhelmed imperial chefs.

The emperor watched the oily smoke rising in the room, and he couldn't help taking a step back. He frowned and looked for Xiliu, but saw that Xiliu was like a nimble mouse, moving freely among the crowd. Avoiding all the people or things that might be bumped into, I just stood in a corner and recorded something, and then turned to look at other people.

The emperor lowered his head and smiled, and asked his father-in-law to go in and grab Xiliu out.

One father-in-law failed to catch Xiliu, and went to another one. It was not until the four father-in-laws were besieging Xiliu that Xiliu discovered that it was the father-in-law next to the emperor.

He walked out of the imperial dining room angrily with his mouth curled up and had a face-to-face meeting with the emperor: "The emperor is well."

The emperor touched his cheek with a smile, and said with some amusement: "Even my father-in-law can't catch you, Xiliu, are you a child?"

Xiliu smiled awkwardly and replied: "The father-in-law in the palace all look the same, how do I know it's yours." Then he scolded the emperor in his heart: 'You are the mouse, your whole family is a mouse! 'But on the surface it was very calm.

The emperor took Xiliu's hand and patted it, and said softly: "You were disrespectful to me last night, so I need to punish you today, punish you... have lunch with us two."

Xiliu froze for a moment, then withdrew her hand and said with a slightly embarrassed smile: "This... I'm afraid it's inappropriate."

"Defy the emperor's order, do you want to lose your head?" The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiliu deliberately and jokingly. He thought Xiliu would be afraid, but he really didn't expect that this iron-blooded man laughed and replied: "Then come on, As long as you are willing." After speaking, Xiliu stepped forward and pressed against the emperor's body, raised her head and looked at him seriously.

This Xiliu is not afraid of death, and is also upright, but the emperor is not used to it, he still prefers Xiliu who was clinging to him before, sharing joys and sorrows, life and death with him.

The emperor laughed a little, grabbed his waist and hugged him tightly, and said softly: "I don't want to give up." After speaking, he kissed his lips.

Before Xiliu had time to defend against being kissed by him, she was a little angry. Just as he was about to swear, the emperor had to push forward and said, "For lunch, I just want to eat what you made."

"Huh?" Xiliu was a little annoyed, why should I cook for him when I was stuck with oil, "What's wrong with you all the time, or is your tongue nerve uncoordinated? There are so many delicacies in the imperial dining room, why don't you eat them?" Do you want me to cook for you?"

The emperor was slightly angry at his question, and after glancing at the smoky imperial dining room, he bent slightly and whispered in Xiliu's ear: "Either... cook for me, and everything will be written off, or I I'll eat you now." The following three words were spoken clearly and gnashing teeth, following his exhaled breath, Xiliu trembled all over, stared at the emperor uncomfortably, turned and went to the imperial dining room.

While peeling potatoes, Xiliu was cursing in her heart: "What, if it weren't for your power and position now, I would kill you in minutes!" 'Suddenly seeing the father-in-law next to him with a pile of chili seeds passing by him, Xiliu hurriedly stopped the father-in-law with a smile and asked, "Eunuch, are you going to throw it away?"

The father-in-law nodded and said, "The seeds you dig out are useless."

"It's useful and useful! Eunuch give it to me!" Xiliu suddenly thought of a bad idea, doesn't the emperor like herself?Relying on this liking, Xiliu decided to bully him well.

Wash the fish, cut it in half, remove the middle bone, make a well-shaped knife on the fish, sprinkle with cooking wine, pepper, and salt, spread evenly on both sides, sprinkle with shredded ginger, marinate in a bowl, and then steam it over water.

Take out the chili seeds that the little eunuch almost threw away, pour them all into a bowl, and with an evil smile on his face, mix white wine, salt, minced garlic and ginger into the bowl, add a little sugar and stir it up, Xiliu smelled it by herself and felt that it was still lacking, so she got up and clapped her hands and went to the spice room next door to stir up the ingredients.

He brought back some of all the peppers, diced them and added them to his dark cooking. After stirring, Xiliu found a pot, dug a small spoonful of oil, and happily threw all the sauces After entering the hot oil, there was a clatter, and everyone in the imperial dining room closed their eyes, coughing one after another, even Xiliu was no exception.

He found a veil to cover his mouth and nose, and complained desperately to himself: "Damn it! So powerful! Hahahaha! Really! Emma! It's so hot to the eyes..."

Xiliu wanted to turn around and ask for help, but found that all the windows of the imperial dining room had been opened, and more than half of the people had fled. Xiliu scooped a spoonful of hot oil from the hot pot next door, and finally poured it on herself. On the hot sauce, the sound of frying and cracking was so nice, Xiliu couldn't help but couldn't help but couldn't bear the pepper to wash his eyes, and escaped with a spoon.

He stood at the door and watched his father-in-laws look at him with reproachful faces. He bowed around with a spoon in one hand and smiled, "I'll finish him right away! I promise!" After speaking, he took a deep breath and rushed into the room again. Chili torture room.

Xiliu squinted her eyes and poured the hot sauce on the fish after stir frying. There was a scream of hot oil, so she could hear Xiliu feel comfortable all over. The Imperial Dining Room said to everyone with a bright smile, "I'm sorry, I'm done."

After a long time, the cloud of hot eyes in the imperial dining room dissipated. Mr. Si Zhang went in and squinted his eyes and smelled it. After indicating that it was acceptable, everyone returned to their posts. Xiliu hurried back and opened the lid of the steamer. A burst of fragrance overflowed, and everyone was seduced by the fragrance, and everyone gathered to watch the bright red lump in front of Xiliu.

The father-in-law asked curiously: "Master Xiliu, what is this?"

Xiliu found two pieces of gauze, soaked them in water, took out the contents of the steamer and put them on the table, smiled and took out her dagger, picked the peppers on it, found the fresh and tender fish meat, cut it I took a piece off, tried it, and then coughed desperately. I quickly found an ice cube and put it in my mouth, and said with great excitement: "It's amazing! It's super spicy!"

"Ah?" The people around looked at each other and looked at Xiliu's excited face. Xiliu rubbed his fists and said to the father-in-law beside him, "This is called... Uncle Liu's original creation of world-class perverted spicy fish with chopped peppers! Haha!" Then He happily greeted people to send it to the emperor, and brought several jars of plum wine with ice cubes by the way.

Xiliu followed her father-in-law to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The emperor had already changed his clothes and sat at the table reading a book while waiting for Xiliu's arrival. After her father-in-law put the dishes on the table, Xiliu went in and bowed. One voice: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"What's the matter?" The emperor put down his book and looked at Xiliu dotingly, Xiliu said with a look of grievance: "I don't know what the emperor likes to eat, so I made a fish. If the emperor doesn't like it Eat, just don't eat." After speaking, she pursed her mouth and flung her sleeves arrogantly.

How could the emperor pretend that he didn't see this cute look, and quickly took his hand and smiled: "Eat, I will eat everything you cook." After speaking, he took Xiliu's waist and went to the main hall, but he was still caught by the person on the table. Things got a little dazed, and the four bowls were all red, which probably meant that there was no meat in the pepper.

The emperor snorted and pointed at the table, tilting his head and asked, "What is this...?"

Xiliu pretended to pick up the chopsticks, picked some chili peppers, and then said softly: "Chopped pepper fish, chopped pepper cabbage, chopped pepper plum blossom meat, chopped pepper mushroom shepherd's purse." Then a harmless man and animal appeared. face to him.

The emperor raised his eyebrows unavoidably, looking at the dishes on the table and at Xiliu's pouting mouth, he could only sit down uneasy, watching Xiliu pick up vegetables and pour wine for him.

Spicy, really super spicy, the emperor can eat half a bowl of rice every time he eats, and can only drink after eating, watching Xiliu pour himself a cup with ice cubes in it, the emperor doubts that he is It's not that she wants to harm herself, but...how could Xiliu harm herself.

This contradictory question persisted until the end. The emperor couldn't hold on anymore and drank too much. He said something that Xiliu couldn't understand in a daze. At the table, Xiliu breathed a sigh of relief. After sitting down, she picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks, ate it by herself, and said as she ate, "Oh my god! It's so spicy!"

Xiliu looked at the sleeping emperor and there was no one around, so he hit him on the head and said angrily: "Playing with me? You are too young, and I don't want to see how your grandpa survived at the age of 26." Yes." After speaking, she stood up, patted on her clothes, and swaggered out the door.

After Xiliu and her father-in-law instructed the emperor to drink too much at the door, she happily returned to her catkin palace, started a day of no-harassment mode, and sorted out the notes she had written.

As night falls, the full moon hangs in the sky, and Xiliu is a little bored lying on the bed after dinner, just like getting up to tease the ladies and sisters in the palace, before even taking half a step out of the bedroom, "the emperor is coming" is already remembered in the yard .

"Fuck, I woke up so soon." Xiliu stood in the front hall angrily and looked at the emperor's still fascinated look. She made a funny bow and patted him and asked, "Your Majesty, are you alright?"

"Xiliu... I want to hug you well." After speaking, the emperor dragged Xiliu into the room, Xiliu froze, not knowing how to organize his words to stop this drunken mistake, the emperor asked Hold him and fall asleep.

Just... fell asleep.

Before Xiliu's panicked emotions could be appeased, she heard the sound of breathing in her ears one after another, and the emperor fell asleep.

Lying flat on the bed and looking at the ceiling, Xiliu suddenly became amused. He turned sideways and carefully looked at the emperor's face for the first time.

'It's really similar to Man Sheng'an, very similar, but it lacks some heroic spirit, a little...childish?Well...it can be described like this. Thinking in her heart, Xiliu stretched out her hand to caress his cheek, squeezed it hard and smiled contentedly.

The next day, the sun shone through the paper window on the blue tiles. Xiliu looked up out of the window in a trance, then touched the side of the bed with his hand back. She shook her head and went to wash her face, but saw a hickey on her neck in the bronze mirror: "Fuck, I misread you as a scum."

Xiliu rubbed the hickey in displeasure, and asked the elder sister of the court lady standing at the door with a stern face: "Sister, where is the emperor?"

The maid bowed and replied: "Master Xiliu, I need to go to court today, and the emperor went early."

"Oh." Xiliu nodded, and after washing up, he swaggered to the imperial dining room again. This time, everyone in the entire imperial dining room was wary of him, frowning to see what strange things he was going to do again, Xiliu was brilliant With a smile, he just took a few pastries, bowed to everyone, and ran away in despair.

"I didn't expect it to be so spicy." Xiliu muttered to herself while eating the pastry in her hand when she suddenly heard a group of children playing around, so she walked over to have a look.

The imperial garden is full of flowers, and the princesses and princes running among the flowers are like hide-and-seek animals. A prince bumped into Xiliu while running, and Xiliu squatted down and grabbed him. prevent him from falling.

The little prince scratched his head and looked at Xiliu who suddenly remembered something, bowed and said, "Master Xiliu."

"Hey, you know me too?" Xiliu broke half of the pastry in his hand and gave it to him in a funny way. The little prince looked at Xiliu happily and nodded. The older prince walked up to him and said: "Master Xiliu." Xiliu looked at the cake in his hand and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Xiliu, this is all I have left to feed my hunger..."

The eldest prince smiled and grabbed Xiliu's hand and took him to the gazebo. There were a lot of snacks and fruits on the table. Xiliu happily sat down and patted the eldest prince's head and said, "Not bad, thank you."

While eating Xiliu, he asked the two children who looked at him with a smile on their faces: "Hey, what are your names? Who is the prince?"

The little prince pointed to himself and replied: "My name is Man Wanghai, and I am the second prince. This is the elder brother. Man Hongzhou is the eldest prince."

"So you are the crown prince?" Xiliu looked at the eldest prince, who shook his head and replied, "Brother Xie Xiliu loves you, and the father is the one who will inherit the position of crown prince. It's hard to say these things."

Xiliu felt that although the child was young, he seldom had the feeling of being mature, so he nodded and apologized, "I'm sorry... I forgot that you guys are special." After that, he clapped his hands and stretched out a finger to point at the two of them. Said, "Then no matter who is the prince in the future, we must protect the other person, okay?"

Xiliu thought of those horrible Gongdou dramas, either the elder brother killed the younger brother, or the younger brother plotted against the elder brother, but who is not a teenager, who has never been in love with each other?Xiliu didn't want these two lovely children to go any further, so she wanted to establish correct life values ​​for them.

The two princes glanced at each other, nodded, and stretched out their hands to pull the hook with Xiliu. Xiliu said happily: "The hook cannot be changed for 100 years!"

But all of this was seen in the eyes of the emperor, and it reminded him of his own childhood. It was also the imperial garden, the gazebo, and the three people.