"You entered the palace early in the morning, so you must have missed breakfast. I asked the kitchen to prepare it." Concubine Shen finally recovered and said with a smile, "It's been a long time since we, mother and son, had a meal together."
Cailian and Bai Lian looked at the palace servants setting up the meal, and the last two items were served on the table. They were both stunned: "That's all?"
The concubine's usual breakfast consists of four side dishes, four snacks, one porridge and one soup. Because the concubine doesn't like the princess, she doesn't add any special dishes, so why are there two snacks missing!
"Yes." The palace servant lowered his head and answered, "Miss Shen originally made hibiscus cakes and rose rolls, but just now she said they were not ready..."
"Hurry up and get two plates of candied crab apples and donkey-hide gelatin candied dates." Bai Lian ordered in a deep voice. It would be fine if only the princess had a meal with the dowager, but the prince is here now.
"Yes." The palace man hurriedly went to prepare.
Concubine Shen couldn't help frowning as she looked at the breakfast table. Her son didn't like sweets. Even if he just added two more plates of candied fruit to coax the child, why did he also remove two snacks? The porridge prepared was still her least favorite. Sweet porridge with bean paste.
Shen Bichi served beside Concubine Shen, filled a bowl of sweet porridge and placed it in front of Concubine Shen.
Concubine Shen waved her hand: "What soup was made today?"
"It's Adenophora and Yuzhu Old Duck Soup." Cailian answered immediately.
"Bring me a bowl."
"Yes." Cailian served a bowl of soup for Concubine Shen.
Ming Ruo raised her eyebrows slightly, Shen Bichi wanted to stop her, but in the end she didn't speak.
She originally added some medicinal powder to make people irritable in the two snacks. She knew that her aunt didn't like sweet porridge, so she added the antidote to the old duck soup with ginseng, jade and bamboo. And she also thought about not letting Qing Princess Huang made excuses for drinking the soup. However, she did not dare to do anything in front of her cousin, so she had to temporarily withdraw the snack.
The antidote in the old duck soup can be used as a detoxifier. If eaten alone, it will cause itching all over the body.
Mingruo asked Aunt Dong to bring some porridge, blew it and fed it to the little dumpling: "Eat it."
"Okay." Xiaotuanzi ate the porridge obediently. It was not like in the mansion where he would have whatever he wanted to eat, but he would eat whatever he wanted to eat.
There was a tacit understanding of dining in the palace, so Si Haochen followed the custom of eating whatever Ming Ruo ate and ate elegantly.
The dishes and snacks prepared by Mrs. Shen in the small kitchen were not to Mingruo's taste, so she just drank the porridge in silence.
Concubine Shen decided to show Shen Bichi's virtuous character and turned her head to look at her: "Didn't Bichi get up early and make some snacks? Which dish is it? Let your cousin try it."
"..." Shen Bichi had a look of embarrassment on her face, and her voice was thin and weak, "I didn't do the two things well today, so I didn't serve them..."
Concubine Shen immediately understood why there were two snacks missing from the breakfast. She wanted to show off, but she didn't expect it to be a slap in the face. Why is this kid Bichi acting more and more unstable?
After breakfast, Mingruo said he was going to Jinle Palace to pay his respects to Concubine Xian. With his son here, it was hard for him to catch her and set rules, and it was pointless to stay here, so Concubine Shen had no problem.
Looking at Mingruo's back, Concubine Shen sighed - she originally thought that this foreign princess would marry far away without a backer, but she didn't expect that the Duke Jingguo's family who was resident at the border had returned.
Besides, the Shen family has always been worse than the last. When it came to the elder brother's generation, he was actually let go. With such a family background, even without Princess Qinghuang, Bichi would not have been able to take the position of Prince Yun's concubine.
Hey... the side concubine... is a concubine. Just like myself, the son's mother is the queen mother, and the grandson's imperial grandmother is also the queen mother...
Mingruo walked out of Changchun Palace and felt that her breathing became smoother. Aunt Dong was familiar with the palace and took Mingruo to Jinle Palace with ease.
Nanny Ji was waiting at the door early in the morning. When she saw Mingruo, she hurriedly welcomed her into the inner hall. Compared with Concubine Shen's magnificent Changchun Palace, the decoration of Jinle Palace made Mingruo feel more comfortable.
I saw my grandmother and a beautiful woman sitting on both sides of the Arhat bed. The beautiful woman was wearing an autumn-colored Huanhua brocade palace dress, with a Chaoyun bun and a phoenix hairpin on her head.
This beautiful woman must be his aunt, and her appearance is well maintained, but her dress is too old-fashioned. Just as Ming Ruo was about to salute, Xian Fei winked, and her personal maid Ju Xin quickly stepped forward to support her.
Concubine Xian said, "Ruo'er doesn't need to be too polite."
Since everyone called her Ruoer, Mingruo Congshanruliu called her aunt.
The old lady pulled Mingruo to her side and sat down. Juxin served tea and was sent away. Only Concubine Xian, the old lady and Mingruo were left in the inner hall.
The old lady spoke slowly: "Ruo'er, you have good medical skills. Please help your aunt take a look."
"What's wrong with my aunt?" Mingruo took out the medical bag from his sleeve pocket, took the pulse pillow and put it on the low table.
"I haven't been feeling well recently, and my appetite has been bad." Concubine Xian put her wrist on the pulse pillow.
This pulse is fluent, which means it is smooth, like beads rolling on a jade plate: "Aunt, your monthly letter has not arrived for more than two months, right?"
"Yes... but... my monthly letters are never very accurate." Concubine Xian was a little nervous, "I am..."
"You are two months pregnant."
"Really?" The expression on Concubine Xian's face was one of surprise and joy.
Mingruo started the medical system for another diagnosis, and frowned slightly: "Your body must have been deficient before, and the baby is not sitting very stable at the moment."
"Ah... what should I do?" Concubine Xian looked at Mingruo in panic, "I was pregnant with a child not long after I entered the palace... Later, the child was not saved, and I suffered from some physical problems. The imperial doctor also said that it would be difficult to get pregnant..." When I think about the fact that my stillborn child is a full-grown male fetus, I hate myself to death because it was Qian Yurao who caused the scandal.
"Auntie, don't worry too much. I can make some miscarriage pills for you." Mingruo thought for a while and then said, "Write down some medicinal recipes for miscarriage. Eat these regularly and pay attention to rest. It won't be a big problem. .”
"Really?" Concubine Xian took Mingruo's hand, "Then please leave it to Ruo'er. I must keep this fetus. To be on the safe side, it's better not to let anyone know about it first."
Now, several adult princes were fighting openly and secretly, and she had no idea of having a son to compete for that position. She just looked forward to having a child to accompany her, which was better than being alone in this deep palace.
Concubine Xian asked Ju Xin to bring a pen and paper, and Ming Ruo wrote some medicinal recipes: "After the pills are ready, I will send them to the Duke's Mansion and ask my grandmother to deliver them to you. I will come to see you again during the palace banquet on New Year's Eve."
"Okay." Concubine Xian nodded repeatedly, "Ruo'er's medical skills are really superb, and you can even see that I had a shortcoming before. I had been taking medicine to support myself, and the imperial doctors said that I have recovered."
Naturally, it is difficult to tell by taking the pulse alone, but it will be much easier if there is a medical system nearby.
"My aunt is so complimentary. It's not as good as you said." Mingruo put the pulse pillow back into the medical bag.
"You girl, I didn't tell you what to do, so why are you still doing this?" the old lady said with a smile.
