He An affirmed: "This is natural. Since I promised you, it must be true. I will never use one to fool you."
"Okay!" Ji Liu's eyebrows were full of joy. Getting this stew pot was a worry for him. As long as it was handed over to Nala's hands, the deal between them would be settled.
Seeing the worried look on He An's face, Ji Liu thought he was worried about the silver, and immediately said: "When I find an opportunity to go out of the palace to exchange for silver, I will share it with you immediately. Don't worry, there will definitely be even one tael."
He An nodded, and then said: "I am more worried about Eunuch Xi now. If he sees that there is something wrong with the stew pot and pursues it, it will be troublesome. Manager An will definitely be suspicious when he saw me opening the cabinet just now.
It's happened to me, what...what should I do?"
"Things haven't happened yet, don't be so nervous." Ji Liu bit his finger and thought for a while and said, "Listen to me, although Mr. An saw you opening the cabinet, he didn't see you leaving with the stew pot. As long as you
If you insist that there is nothing, you will not be convicted. Now hurry back to the imperial kitchen and keep an eye on it. If there is anything wrong, you can find a solution quickly."
"This is the only way." After He An left in panic, Ji Liu quickly wrapped up the stew pot and secretly headed to Kunning Palace. When he placed the stew pot in front of Nala, the latter raised his eyebrows.
Said: "It took only half a day to get the thing done?"
He An said with a flattering look on his face: "Of course I don't dare to neglect what the queen has told me. This stew pot was stolen by He An and given to me. It is definitely the one used by the emperor." After Nala nodded,
He whispered again: "Do you have anything else to say, Madam?"
Nala glanced at him and said, "What's the matter? Are you afraid that I won't keep my words?"
He An apologized and said with a smile: "How dare you, my slave? If your Majesty still has instructions, I will do it immediately."
Nala said with an imperceptible smile: "Okay, after you finish this matter, you won't owe me anything. Just pretend that I haven't said anything about the Yangxin Hall, so please step aside."
This was undoubtedly what He An wanted to hear the most. He endured the excitement in his heart and bowed before retreating. But he didn't know that Nala was actually more nervous than him, and he didn't know that he had unknowingly committed a murder.
The shocking crime of the current emperor!
Let's say that He An was scolded by An Lu as soon as he returned to the imperial kitchen. Naturally, it was because he left without chopping firewood. He An did not dare to speak and could only listen.
Seeing him like this, An Lu said angrily: "Why don't you hurry up and chop the firewood? Otherwise, if you don't have any firewood later, we will stuff you in the stove hole."
He An quickly agreed, but while chopping firewood, he kept listening carefully to the movements in the imperial kitchen. When he heard a high-pitched voice, his heart immediately rose to his throat, because this was none other than Sixi.
If he comes at this time, he must be making ginseng soup for Yinzhen.
He An's guess was correct. Sixi came here just to stew ginseng and beard soup for Yinzhen. In fact, he didn't need to come in person for this kind of thing. Naturally, someone from the palace would stew it and bring it over. However, for the sake of caution, he still cooked it every time.
Come here and watch.
"Eunuch Xi, you are here." When An Lu came up to greet him, the young eunuch had already taken out the stew pot, put in the ginseng soup and Yuquan mountain water prepared early in the morning, and handed it to Si Xi to take a look.
In the past few times, Si Xi took a look at it to make sure it was okay and then asked the eunuch to stew it. This time, he looked at it for a long time and looked around.
Seeing this, An Lu asked in a low voice: "My dear father-in-law, what's the problem?"
Si Xi frowned and said, "I can't say what's wrong with our family, but I always feel that it's different. Has the stew pot been replaced or is it the wrong one?"
Hearing this, the young eunuch looked aggrieved and said: "My father-in-law, I definitely took the wrong thing. As for this stew pot..." As he spoke, he looked at the stew pot in his hand and found that the color was indeed wrong. He was about to speak.
, An Lu already smiled and said: "Eunuch Xi is joking, how could the emperor change the stew pot at will or take the wrong one?"
"It's naturally the same as before. I don't believe you can take a closer look at the pattern on it." In fact, he couldn't remember the pattern himself, but he believed that the imperial dining room under his nose would not go wrong.
Knowing that since Wen Ruqing's incident happened a few years ago, he has been here staring at her most of the time every day.
Si Xi didn't pay too much attention to the pattern on it. He said: "Maybe we remembered it wrong. Okay, let's take it to stew."
Seeing that both An Lu and Si Xi were right, the little eunuch didn't dare to say anything and hurriedly took it to the pot to stew. He An, who had been listening outside, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Si Xi paid attention to the heat of the ginseng soup while talking to Anlu. When the ginseng soup was ready, she immediately took it back to the Yangxin Hall.
After these few days of recuperation, Yinzhen is feeling better. He is leaning on the bedside and talking to Ling Ruo. Sixi pours the ginseng soup into the Doucai Sanqiu pattern bowl and carefully brings it to Yinzhen, "Your Majesty
, the ginseng soup is ready, you can drink it while it's hot."
Yinzhen nodded and was about to take it, but Ling Ruo frowned slightly and said: "I have seen the ginseng soup that the emperor took a few days ago. The color is light yellow and translucent. Why is the color so much darker this time?"
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Si Xi was startled and said: "This servant doesn't know, but there are slightly more ginseng today than the previous two days. Could this be the reason?"
Ling Ruo took the bowl and looked at it carefully and said, "No, if it was just ginseng whiskers, it wouldn't be stewed to this color." At this point, she said, "Bring the stew pot over to me and show it to me."
Si Xi quickly took the stew pot as instructed, opened the lid and said, "Look, Madam, there is nothing inside except some ginseng whiskers."
Seeing that Ling Ruo had been interrogating about the ginseng soup, Yinzhen said, "Ruo'er, what's going on? What's wrong with the ginseng soup?"
Ling Ruo had already seen the things in the stew pot, which were indeed some thin ginseng whiskers. "I can't tell you, I just think the color this time is a bit..." At this point, she let out a light sigh and took the stew.
He looked around the pot carefully and said, "Sixi, where did you get this stew pot?"
Si Xi was puzzled by her question and said: "The slave got it from the imperial kitchen. It's the one the emperor usually uses."
"No, this is definitely not the emperor's usual stew pot. I have clearly remembered that it is not of this color." At this point, Ling Ruo's expression became extremely solemn and said: "Send the imperial doctor over immediately."
Si Xi did not dare to neglect and hurriedly went to tell the imperial doctor. While Ling Ruo was waiting for the imperial doctor to arrive, he discovered that this stew pot actually came from a folk kiln. You must know that all the dishes used in the palace, even the dishes of the eunuchs and maids, were all
Products from official kilns will never appear in the palace unless they are brought privately into the palace.