As the Spring Festival approaches, a banquet will be held in the palace on the eve of the New Year, and all the princes, princes and other royal families, as well as ministers who are favored by the emperor, will come to the palace to attend the banquet.
So on this day, Chen Xun had just gotten up and practiced martial arts for an hour when she was caught doing most of her grooming and asked to enter the palace early.
Chen Xun: "...are you entering the palace so early?"
Chen Yun was really puzzled. She thought that on the day of the palace banquet, she only needed to enter the palace in the afternoon like everyone else. Anyway, the banquet would be held in the evening.
On the night of the New Year's Eve palace banquet, the curfew was postponed for several hours. Chen Xun thought that it was okay for her to enter the palace during the Youshi period.
Nanny Song, who was dressing up Chen Yu, said helplessly, "Princess, today you have to go to Baifu Palace to pay homage to the Imperial Concubine, and you have to go to Ci'an Palace to pay homage to the Queen Mother."
As for the Queen, of course she had to pay her respects. After all, the Queen was Emperor Yun Zhao's legitimate wife, and they, the concubine's daughter-in-law, also had to pay their respects.
"That's it." Chen Yun was a little helpless. She didn't want to go into the palace and deal with the human beings in the palace. She didn't think she could handle those masters of palace fighting.
You must know that Emperor Yun Zhao's harem is not so harmonious, and it is not simple for so many women to stand out. What about her? Even though she was very smart when she was making the system, she is actually not much different from machine intelligence. She is not
I haven’t learned those complicated scheming things.
"Princess, don't worry, the imperial concubine will protect you." Of course, Aunt Song could see what Chen Yu was thinking, and her performance was too obvious.
To be honest, Aunt Yun and Aunt Song still liked this mistress during the period of time when they were teaching Chen Yu. Although they still felt that His Highness Prince Ning was very good, even a fairy might not be worthy of her.
But they also have to admit that their princess is indeed a good girl.
The princess's understanding is really very high. She really studies what they teach her very carefully and does not hesitate to learn. Of course, she will raise objections if she doesn't understand something, but her attitude is very good, which makes Song
Grandma and Grandma Yun both like her very much.
Aunt Song was dressing Chen Xun while saying, "Princess, after entering the palace, you can follow the imperial concubine, she will protect you."
"After all, you are the daughter-in-law of the imperial concubine. She will not allow anyone to bully you." Nanny Song said.
Although Concubine Yun only has one son, His Highness Prince Ning, it stands to reason that she should hate the woman who took away her son, her daughter-in-law.
But who told His Highness Prince Ning to join the army since he was a teenager? He has stayed away from Chang'an since he was a teenager and does not often accompany the imperial concubine. Of course, she is not so hostile to her daughter-in-law.
Concubine Yun Gui also has an unmarried daughter accompanying her. She will not hold on to a son she has barely seen for almost ten years and make things difficult for her daughter-in-law.
Chen Xun didn't refute anything. Her senses were still very keen. She could tell whether someone liked her or not. Although she wasn't very clear about how clear the other person's attitude was, she could still vaguely feel it.
Although Concubine Yun Gui was very grateful that her daughter-in-law, who was celebrating the occasion, had the effect of waking up her son, and that the imperial doctor's diagnosis confirmed that his body would gradually recover, but she was really not satisfied with Chen Yu, her daughter-in-law.
Concubine Yun is not satisfied with her background, appearance, talents, education, etc., so how could she like her?
But she was already her daughter-in-law, and she was indeed Wang's own son, so Concubine Yun Gui was able to appear satisfied with her daughter-in-law.
Chen Yu couldn't help but laugh when she recalled Concubine Yun's attitude towards her. She didn't necessarily like this mother-in-law anyway, so there was no need to think so much.
When Chen Xun arrived at Baifu Palace, she was eating snacks and drinking tea from the palace. She did not forget to tell Concubine Yun, "The chef in Concubine Mu's Palace is really good at cooking. This ice cream cake tastes really good."
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Snowflake cake is simply steamed glutinous rice, then mashed, then stuffed with sesame crumbs and sugar, beaten into cakes, and then cut into cubes.
But the taste made by such a simple method also tests the chef's skills. The sweetness of the snowflake cake that Chen Xun tasted was not very light but not overly sweet either. The sweetness was very moderate and the pastry was soft and hard.
Moderate, not too soft or too hard, very delicious.
Chen Xun didn't expect that there was such a skilled chef in Concubine Yun's palace, who could make such a simple snowflake cake so delicious.
"Like it?" Concubine Yun Guifei listened to her praise and said with a smile, "The snowflake cake made by Yan Niang is indeed very good, but after all, she has been with me for many years. If you want a snack master, you can only bring it with you
Yan Niang’s apprentice has returned.”
"No, no, no," Chen Yun shook her head. Although she liked the ice cream cake very much, she had no intention of taking away the pastry chef. The most important thing was that the one she took away was the apprentice. She was a little worried that the apprentice's craftsmanship was not as good as the master's.
good.
Concubine Yun Gui smiled and said, "What? Didn't you say that you really like the snowflake cake made by Yan Niang? Although Yan Niang's apprentice is not as sophisticated as her in craftsmanship, he is still very good."
"These snowflake cakes were made with the help of Yan Niang's apprentice. If she made them herself, she would have 80% of the taste."
"Really?" Chen Yun thought for a while and said, "That pastry chef, in addition to making snowflake cakes, she should also be good at making other pastries, right?"
Although there are indeed many delicious foods in the supermarket in her space, she also likes ancient snacks. The snacks he usually eats are very sweet, and he has never thought of eating them often, but this person
The snowflake cake made by Yan Niang is very delicious, she likes it very much.
If she knows how to make other snacks, then she can take people back.
Concubine Yun Gui said, "What Yan Niang is good at is not ice cream cakes, she is good at noodles. Yan Niang's apprentice Qiu Yuan has inherited 80% of her master's craftsmanship. You can take her back."
Chen Yun thought for a while and said, "Okay, I would rather be respectful than obey my orders."
Concubine Yun Guifei watched her eat snowflake cake, chestnut cake, osmanthus cake and other pastries. She drank tea while eating, and she seemed to have a good appetite.
She shook her head helplessly. She really didn't expect that her daughter-in-law had such a good appetite. Every time she went to her Baifu Palace, she would either eat or not.
"It's a blessing to be able to eat. It's good for my sister-in-law to be like this." Yan Long said with a smile when he saw his mother-in-law complaining to him that his sister-in-law could eat.
She was quite envious of her sister-in-law. She heard that although her sister-in-law ate a lot every day, she could practice martial arts to her heart's content and do what she liked.
Although there are still some things she doesn't like that she has to learn to do as Princess Ning, she also has great freedom to do what she wants to do.
Yan Long was very envious because even though she was a princess and the daughter of a noble concubine, she could not do whatever she wanted.
After all, Emperor Yun Zhao had too many sons and daughters, but Yan Long, the eighth princess, did not receive much favor just because her mother was a noble concubine.
The most favored princess was Princess Zhaoyang, followed by Yan Ai, the daughter of Concubine Zhou, and then the daughter of Queen Mu.
What about Yan Long? She is neither above nor below. Her father is not very fond of her but will not ignore her status. This is because her mother is a noble concubine and her grandfather is a general who protects the country.
But even so, she doesn't just do whatever she wants, and her degree of freedom is not that high. Therefore, she envies her sister-in-law for being able to do whatever she wants, and she can still remain calm even when facing a mother-in-law who doesn't like her very much.