Chapter 119 Flowers blooming at the corner of the mouth
Later, several wealthy ladies came up one after another to perform, trying to gain face at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet and gain favor or marriage.
This is what women in ancient times wanted: to marry a good man and have peace and smoothness for the rest of their lives.
On Ye Qingcheng's side, when she learned about the food competition early in the morning, she asked Luluo to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to bring back the yogurt she made yesterday.
All she has left is the work of cutting fruits. She can cut various fruits into various beautiful shapes and make a fruit scoop.
It just so happened that the birthday cake she made hadn't been taken out yet, so it was used as a prop for the competition.
"Qingcheng, are you just going to make a fruit platter? Do you want to lose to He Lian'er? Although this is indeed beautiful, how can it be enough with only fruit?" Princess Xiyue walked around her anxiously.
Ye Qingcheng chuckled, "Don't be anxious. Although I don't want to be granted a marriage by the emperor, I don't want to lose to that woman in front of everyone. I still have a dessert, but it has been prepared a long time ago. I originally wanted to give it to the Queen Mother as a birthday gift.
Now it seems that there is nothing better than a competition!"
When Princess Xiyue heard that it was dessert, she was a little interested, but she still didn't think that a fruit platter and a dessert could win the competition.
On He Lian'er's side, people brought all kinds of meat, and Princess Chenyang followed He Lian'er anxiously.
He Lian'er doesn't even know how to cut meat, let alone cook it. It's almost as good as boiling it in water. But this competition is equivalent to her competition with that girl Xiyue. She can't lose to that girl and lose face.
"Lian'er, you should do it! Why are you walking around here with a lot of meat?"
"Princess Chenyang, please don't go around here yet. I'm just thinking about what to do. Now that you're going around here, I don't even know what to do!" He Lian'er also had a bitter look on her face.
If she loses again this round, she will lose completely, but her cousin will be exported. This is a major event in her life, and she cannot lose like this.
"You don't even know how to cook and you promised to do it so readily. Are you blind now?" Princess Chenyang's temper got worse and she stamped her feet anxiously.
"In that case, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if I said I couldn't cook?" He Lian'er also complained.
"Then you don't know how to cook and you asked people to bring so many kinds of meat, why not just cook two vegetables?" Princess Chenyang was discouraged.
"Meat tastes better than vegetables anyway. It's better to cook vegetables than meat, so let's just cook a piece of each kind of meat!" He Lian'er started to do it.
Unlike the busy people here, on Ye Qingcheng's side, Princess Xiyue had already eaten a plate of fruit and felt like she hadn't had enough.
"Don't eat it yet, I'll make it for you tomorrow! Now that I've eaten it all, what are you going to compete with later?" Ye Qingcheng held her forehead.
"It's so delicious!" Princess Xiyue looked at the fruits on the plate in front of Ye Qingcheng with greedy eyes.
Each plate is so exquisitely presented that you won’t want to eat it.
She made just enough for everyone in Wuyang Palace to share a plate. Although the plate was not big, you could still taste it.
The two handed the prepared things to the palace maid to carry, and the eight-layer birthday cake that they had brought into the palace early in the morning was also carried out.
Everyone in Wuyang Hall looked at this battle with confusion and curiosity.
Ye Qingcheng led many maids to the palace and said, "My lord, please give your regards to the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, and the Queen!"
"Get flat!" The Queen Mother was already looking at the maids behind her, and she was very curious, especially the tall thing covered with red cloth made her curious.
How could she make such a big thing in such a short time? There are also plates covered in the hands of the palace maids.
"The Queen Mother, my daughter's delicacies have been prepared. Can you try it?" Ye Qingcheng asked.
Although Jun Mochen knew a long time ago that she had made a delicacy to send to the palace, and he had someone send it to him, he still didn't know what it was, but now he was in no mood to see it.
"Go and present it!" The Queen Mother nodded and asked Zuo Yan, the maid next to her, to present it.
Zuo Yan walked down, took the plate she personally held from Ye Qingcheng and walked up.
When she opened the covered plate, there were various colors of longevity characters inside.
Ye Qingcheng is a top surgeon, and it's not a big deal to carve fruits, not to mention simple lettering, so she carved the word "longevity" for each fruit for the Queen Mother, and everyone's words are different, and there are also flowers and plants.
, with small animals.
Then put yogurt on top and pour it on according to the lines of the words without affecting the appearance.
"Is this made of fruit?" the Queen Mother raised her head and asked Ye Qingcheng in surprise.
"Returning to the Queen Mother, yes, the white stuff on top is made from fermented milk!" Ye Qingcheng nodded. The Queen Mother's surprised expression made the lowly people curious, and the emperor was so curious that he stretched his head to take a look.
"The Aijia looks so exquisite that I can't bear to eat it!" The Queen Mother grew fonder of it the more she looked at it.
Ye Qingcheng chuckled, "My maid made a plate for everyone. The shapes are a little different. This is for the emperor." She said and took it from a palace maid.
"It's for me? Bring it over quickly!" The emperor was curious. When he heard that it was for him, he immediately waved.
When he opened the lid with great expectation, he was not disappointed. The fruits on his plate were arranged in a mountain shape, with only eight pieces on it, but it said, "Unify the country, the country will be consolidated forever!"
Ye Qingcheng also chose eight characters like this to save trouble, and he could finish the carving in a blink of an eye.
"Okay, okay, okay! I will reward you greatly!" The emperor laughed loudly.
Ye Qingcheng began to give hair to each concubine, prince and princess. She didn't know the preferences of the concubines, so she could only carve flowers on them all the same.
Until she arrived at Jun Mochen's place and she brought the plate of fruit up to him, Jun Mochen didn't even raise his head.
"Your Highness, the King of War, I made this with my heart, can you try it?" Ye Qingcheng said with a slight smile.
A palace maid had already stepped forward to lift the lid in front of Jun Mochen.
I saw a bright red slice on his plate, and a small bowl of yogurt next to it. The yogurt was not poured on the fruit, and the fruit was heart-shaped.
Jun Mochen knew as soon as he saw it that this was a lock-core fruit, not an ordinary fruit.
Ye Qingcheng lowered her head and whispered in his ear, "I see that your complexion has been bad. Is your heart feeling uncomfortable again? Hurry up and eat a lock nut to calm down! I was afraid that you wouldn't like to eat this yogurt, so I didn't pour it on it.
Go up."
The emperor had been paying attention here, and he saw that the girl did not know what he said in his ear, and the corners of his mouth were tilted upward in a visible arc until he smiled.
He had never seen the emperor's younger brother smile so brightly, let alone a lowly woman. He was originally given a piece of fruit to enjoy and taste, but when Jun Mochen smiled like this, everyone's heart felt like it would jump out of his chest.
bang bang bang
After Ye Qingcheng said this, he returned to the palace and stood waiting for the results. He looked up inadvertently and saw Jun Mochen picking up a piece of lock nut and eating it. The expression on his face was no longer so gloomy and scary.
With a little smile, she felt relieved.
He might have been tired all the way and didn't get a good rest when he came back, so his heart felt uncomfortable. Fortunately, she had space in the medicine garden and could take out the locknuts with her.