On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the sky was overcast with dense clouds, and the north wind blew straight through the bones, making it very cold.
Jintong burned the earth dragon and made a calculation in the warm Yanbo Haomiaoxuan. It was not suitable to go out today. It was better to stay at home and cook hot pot. He immediately ordered the kitchen to serve hot pot in turn for lunch and dinner. Lunch was old hens.
Zheng Qiyan only watched from the side as the mushroom soup base was cooked.
Hot pot was called "Boiling Ding" in the Dayi Dynasty, but I have never seen one like Jintong with so many ingredients and side dishes.
Chef Liu first served a steaming pot with a strange shape, like a bamboo hat with a bottom. Qiao Lu added a plate of meatballs to it and cooked it. Then several maids first brought dozens of plates of ingredients, and then several more dishes one after another.
Ten plates of meat and vegetarian dishes.
Jintong mixed garlic, chopped green onion, dogwood (Jintong had not yet found peppers in this era, so spicy food could only be replaced by dogwood and peppercorns) and soy sauce, etc., evenly mixed them into a pile of sauce, picked up a piece and cut it as thin as paper
Brush the beef into the soup pot a few times, then take it out and eat it with the sauce.
Zheng Qiyan looked eagerly to his right and saw that no one was waiting for him to eat!
He did not stick to trivial matters when he was fighting on the battlefield, and he did not pay much attention to eating and living with the soldiers. But when he returned to the Marquis Mansion, according to his official taste, a meal must have sixty-eight dishes! He recalled that Lan's original
When he was the head of the household, meals were served with dozens of dishes flowing down and down, and two maids were waiting on him. Sometimes when the couple were alone, Lan would prepare the dishes for him personally.
Jintong tasted the delicious beef happily. It is not easy to eat fresh beef these days! As the main force of production, cattle are not allowed to be eaten until they die of old age or are seriously disabled and lose their labor force. That is to say, only a few powerful families in Beijing can
It’s time to eat healthy beef.
Jintong glanced at Zheng Qiyan, who was looking at him eagerly, and wondered why this guy didn't want to eat? Could it be that such a nine-foot-tall man was so pretentious that he wanted her to serve and feed him with her own hands?
Jintong couldn't help but say: "Hot pot needs to be cooked and eaten by yourself to make it more interesting. Do you want to eat it yourself?"
Zheng Qiyan glanced at Jintong aggrievedly: Shouldn't Jintong serve him in person? Why do he have to do it himself? This is outrageous! He cursed in his heart!
Jin Tong ate so much that his mouth was full of oil, and no one cared about him. Zheng Qiyan could only do it on his own, imitating Jin Tong's example, and mixed a plate of sauce according to his own taste, and then competed with Jin Tong to eat it very quickly
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After drinking and eating, Wu An took the opportunity to invite Zheng Qiyan to the execution room, saying that he wanted to explain to everyone the art of military use, so Jin Tong took a walk with brocade cakes and snowflake velvet to eat.
Jintong's peaceful years were the result of countless hardships that carried the burden for her.
The poisoning incident of Imperial Concubine Chen, which was aroused in the palace, was finally found to be "the truth": it was Concubine Xie Shun who was responsible.
The reason is very simple. Concubine Xie Shunbin held a grudge against Concubine Chen because Concubine Chen designed her eldest daughter to marry in the royal court of Beiliang. After many years of planning and careful planning, she finally caught the perfect opportunity of this year's New Year's Eve banquet and took action.
Concubine Chen was almost killed.
According to the evidence collected by Zhao Baoshan and Tian Dayong, all signs point to the involvement of Xie Shunbin's most trusted palace maid, Huaihua. Unfortunately, Huaihua could not survive the execution, so this turned into a situation where there was no evidence.
However, Xie Shunbin was still alive. The result was very simple. After Zhao Baoshan and Tian Dayong asked the Holy Lord for instructions, they sealed the Qimei Palace where Xie Shunbin lived, and questioned all the maids and eunuchs in the entire Qimei Palace in turn.
A rough eunuch stammered and confessed: Xie Shunbin's personal maid Caixia died under strange circumstances. He and Caixia were from the same hometown, and Caixia was kind-hearted. She was usually very kind to the maids and eunuchs of Qimei Palace, and treated him well.
This fellow was also very caring. When Caixia fell ill and had to be temporarily sent to Tingye Pavilion to recuperate, he secretly visited Caixia several times. When Caixia finally died of illness, he happened to be nearby. Caixia was bleeding from all her orifices, and the color of her blood was
Dark red with black in it, it was obviously poisoned.
After Zhao Baoshan and Tian Dayong discussed it, they felt that this matter seemed to point to Concubine Xie Shun, but there was no conclusive evidence. When they were at a loss and didn't know how to explain it, Nanny Lu, who was responsible for the deployment of palace maids, came to report something.
Abnormal things.
At the beginning of October last year, a little palace maid under Xie Shunbin secretly took twenty taels of silver and some relatively exquisite jewelry, bribed Aunt Zhang who was in charge of the palace maid dispatching, and begged Aunt Zhang to transfer her out of Qimei Palace.
Even if she is sent to the Clothing Bureau, it would be better.
It's cold in early October, and autumn and winter clothes and bedding are more difficult to clean. Any palace slave with some connections will try his best to get out of the laundry bureau. This palace maid named Chun'er actually wants to join the laundry bureau. Something will go wrong.
Demon.
Although Chun'er is just a concubine from a medical family, she has a good massage technique. Xie Shunbin suffered from a problem during childbirth and often suffered from dizzy and low back pain. Chun'er's massage techniques relieved her pain, so Xie Shunbin was very fond of Chun'er.
for satisfaction.
Aunt Zhang had doubts in her heart and asked a few more questions. Unexpectedly, Chun'er just knelt down in front of Aunt Zhang and begged without telling her the reason.
Aunt Zhang had seen a lot of sinister things in the palace, and she guessed that Chun'er might have uncovered something unspeakable, and wanted to save her life, so she took this strategy.
Taking people's money to help them eliminate disasters. In addition, Zhou Meiren, who was newly promoted at the time, accidentally injured her leg and was unable to walk.
Aunt Zhang took this as an excuse and arranged Chun'er to live with Zhou Meiren on the pretext that Zhou Meiren needed a palace maid with some medical skills to take care of her so as not to cause any disease.
Zhou Meiren is young and beautiful. The year before last, she gave birth to a lovely princess Yuxue for the Holy Lord. Both mother and daughter were favored. Although Xie Shunbin has a higher status than Zhou Meiren, her beauty is poor and her background is not as good as Zhou Meiren's.
Beauty, I didn't dare to say anything, so I had to agree.
Tian Dayong and Zhao Baoshan immediately interrogated Chun'er. Seeing that the matter had come to this, Chun'er told the truth without reservation.
Since she arrived at Xie Shunbin's Qimei Palace, Xie Shunbin has been very kind to her with her superb massage techniques, and she is always very generous with her rewards.
In the cool autumn season, Xie Shunbin suffered from frequent backaches. Chun'er was by her side day and night. She overheard Xie Shunbin and her personal maid Caixia Huaihua discussing which poison to use to make Liu Jingxian even more miserable!
Chun'er didn't know who Liu Jingxian was. She actually made the cautious Xie Shunbin hate her so much and wanted her to die in pain.
Later, she quietly asked her older nanny and found out that Liu Jingxian was the concubine Chen who was most favored by the Holy Lord.
In order to satisfy his curiosity, Chun'er even secretly looked through Xie Shunbin's poisons. There were dozens of poisons including dove poison, crane crown red, lovesickness heartbroken red, and bone grass. Chun'er was frightened.
She was so distraught that she begged Aunt Zhang to transfer her to another place as a errand. In fact, she was afraid that Xie Shunbin would kill her and silence her.
Tian Dayong sent people to search the entire bedroom of Xie Shunbin. As Chun'er said, the left foot of Xie Shunbin's bed was hollow, and there were more than a dozen kinds of poisons hidden in it. There was a mountain of ironclad evidence.
Tian Dayong could only ask Zhao Baoshan to send troops to continue to guard Qimei Palace, and he went to the imperial court to report.
That night, Concubine Xie Shun committed suicide by throwing herself into a ring. Until she was hastily buried, she still had her eyes wide open and refused to close her eyes.
When the Holy Lord learned that Xie Shunbin had committed suicide, he was leaning on the couch in despair, his expression dull, and he deeply blamed himself. He had underestimated his sons!
Concubine Chen made up this poisoning scene by herself, foolishly thinking that she had done it perfectly, but the Holy Lord already knew about it.
The Holy Lord followed Concubine Chen's wishes and cooperated with her quite well. He only solved some of Concubine Chen's original arrangements, such as several back-up men who wanted to frame Li Wei and Li Rong.
Unexpectedly, there are twists and turns, and all the evidence points to Xie Shunbin. The Holy Lord has always believed that the staff of Qimei Palace are not complicated, and they are basically old people who have served Xie Shunbin for many years, and nothing serious can happen. Who knows which traitor it is, but it is perfect?
He also arranged for a few back-up men to silence Xie Shunbin with clear and conclusive evidence of her crime. By the way, Li Rong was deceived and could be said to be beyond redemption.
And as the king of a country, he couldn't detect any clues, and was really incompetent. It can be imagined how failed he was as an emperor. Now, he can't even control the inner palace.
The Holy Lord sighed deeply, silently watching the candle flickering and burning. There were thousands of knots in his heart, but no one could untie them.