It has just entered the dog days of summer, and the palace, like ordinary people outside, is enduring the most torturous time of the year. It is extremely hot, and even the birds have disappeared under the midday sun. There are occasionally flying insects looking for food in the courtyard.
I was afraid that the sun would burn my wings, so I only dared to stay in the shade. The gray-blue sky was covered with a few listless clouds, and there was no wind around. The trees that were originally lush and lush all lowered their treetops, enduring the scorching sun at noon.
Come down quickly.
The majestic palace has crimson palaces scattered high and low, row after row, which makes people awe from a distance. On the high walls, the exquisite turrets with golden bricks and blue tiles were lost in the afternoon heat.
The original splendor presented a hazy ancient texture, and the wind chimes on the eaves occasionally rang, far into the mysterious and quiet palace...
"Miss Liangchen, it's time for lunch." In the quiet and simple courtyard, a pretty palace maid of fifteen or sixteen years old walked into the inner hall carrying a food tray.
There was no one on the lounge chair in the hall. The palace maid was stunned for a moment, looking around and raising her voice: "Girl? Good luck girl."
After shouting several times, but no one answered, the palace maid's expression suddenly changed. She put down her food plate, took two steps at a time, and rushed to the bedroom where her master was resting. "Miss, where are you, girl?"
"I'm here! Bao Dai!" In the narrow bluestone passageway used for toileting in the backyard, a plump and plainly dressed woman was wiping the sweat on her forehead and walking out with an apologetic look.
"Girl!" The palace maid's heart that was hanging in her throat finally jumped back to its original position. She ran forward in a small step, supported her master who was pregnant with Liujia, and complained in a low voice: "Bao Dai was scared to death, I thought the girl was secretly secretly
He ran away!"
"Hoho... I look like this, who dares to take me in..." It didn't work out, so I asked for a big one and gave a small one as a gift...
"Bao Dai wants you, girl. Bao Dai is willing to serve the girl and the young master all the time." Bao Dai, the palace maid, is really a good girl. She is completely different from the maid Yuan Longyue sent to the palace before. One is a black-hearted old man.
The demon, a person with a sincere heart and the person she most wanted to believe, almost caused her to lose her flesh and blood in the end. However, the person who resisted hatred at first but now has a third type of emotion, secretly protected her.
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Things in the world are unpredictable and complicated, and it is difficult to predict what will happen in the next second.
As a human being, it is better to be simple.
"Baodai...um...I'm tired!" Mei Liangchen leaned on Baodai's soft body and moved step by step, refusing to walk properly.
Bao Dai let her fuss and said with a smile: "Girl, just stay in the palace. With the emperor's love and care, if the little master is born in the future, he will definitely get better and better."
Yeah?
A woman who carries the blood of an enemy general, a woman who carries a shocking secret, will her situation get better and better?
She smiled faintly, with a touch of bitterness in her smile, and followed the footsteps of the palace maid, stepping onto the white marble steps.
It’s been half a year.
It has been more than six months since Zhan Qing was coerced into living in the Bianjing Palace. Emperor Long Yunze of the Jiang Song Dynasty treated her well. He not only gave her a life of fine clothing and food, but also took care of her flesh and blood.
Youjia. Whether it was the exquisite meals or the skilled doctors, including the Qingyin Pavilion, which was warm in winter and cool in summer, she enjoyed the supreme favor in the power center of the great country.
Bao Dai had always hoped that she would forget the father of her child and live peacefully as a woman beside the wise and powerful emperor. Although she could not be at the top of the harem in this life because of her flesh and blood, but the emperor liked it, she could live in a corner and be his wife for the rest of her life.
A carefree person will grow old at ease.
This is not only the result that the kind-hearted Baodai is happy to see, but also the promise that Emperor Long Yunze made to her personally at the garden party on the day of Beginning of Summer.
Long Yunze said: It is enough to have a sweetheart by your side for as long as you live.
One sentence was enough to pull her from the paradise of Qingyin Pavilion to the Golden Dome where the world is watching. During the garden party, she was pierced with ninety-nine and eighty-one big holes by the eyes of the concubines in the harem, and finally she pretended to be unwell before escaping in embarrassment.
Return to Qingyin Pavilion.
I heard from Baodai that General Huo's wife, Yuan Longyue, had abdominal pain and gave birth prematurely at a garden party because she was worried about her husband's injury at the border. The situation was urgent at that time, and the emperor allowed her to give birth in the palace. It is said that after the labor pains lasted for a whole day and night, Mrs. Huo died.
One thousand gold.
Bao Dai filled a bowl of sour plum juice, handed it to Mei Liangchen's hand, and said, "It's too hot. Let's drink some sour plum juice first to relieve the heat."
The sour plum juice was sour, sweet and cool. She drank more than half the bowl in one go and sighed with satisfaction: "Master Qiao's craftsmanship is becoming more and more to my taste." It is said that Master Qiao in the imperial dining room only joined the imperial dining room a month ago.
As a waiter in the palace, his cooking skills, whether meat or vegetable, soup or porridge, are beyond words. Bao Dai said that he was very honest. No matter which palace concubine asked him to cook, no matter in the middle of the night or early in the morning, he would always cook.
They will all be on duty in the dining room, and they will do whatever they want.
"What are you going to eat today?" The troublemaker in her belly is getting more and more noisy as the month approaches. In addition to the main meal, she also needs to add a meal before going to bed every day in order to sleep peacefully.
Baodai opened the food box and was greeted by a tangy aroma.
"It smells so good!" She sniffed and leaned over to see what was going on.
Baodai took out the exquisite dishes and placed them on the golden nanmu table. She said with a smile: "Master Qiao heard that the girl has been on the grassland, so I will give you a different taste today." Baodai picked up the rice from the table.
He took out something like a small stove from the bamboo basket, put some charcoal under the stove, lit it, and brought it to the table. "Here, this is a small hot pot specially prepared by Master Qiao. Take a look, girl. It's better than the palace."
Those big shabu-shabu with black smoke inside are much more exquisite!"
"These are fresh mushrooms, fresh mutton slices, vermicelli, shredded tofu and green vegetables. Master Qiao said that these dishes should be eaten while they are hot, and the soup for shabu-shabu must also be made with his special ingredients." Bao
When Dai saw Mei Liangchen shed tears because of these hometown dishes and was stunned, she couldn't help but sigh with relief: "It seems that Master Qiao knows what the girl likes to eat!" At first, she was too hot and refused to have this food.