The general was not only loyal to Chen Tiantian, but he also raised her son for her without any regrets, doing almost everything down to the smallest detail.
Unknown to them, they thought that the son was the military commander's biological son.
Perhaps it is not known whether he is truly his biological child. After all, King Dai has always been in weak health and did not live past the age of twenty-six.
Poor Dai Wang, that cuckold man, he didn't even know he was cheated until he died.
Yingbao thought secretly, and when Xiao Mo didn't answer, she asked, "Master Xiao, when can we let him go home?"
Xiao Mo smiled: "Well, we have to recover before the king recovers."
Ying Bao was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore, turned around and left the hall.
It was very hot outside the main hall, with the sun shining directly from the east, like a furnace.
Occasionally, there is a cool breeze blowing in the port, and the cool air from the lake in the distance is very comfortable on the body.
Yingbao thought for a while, then asked Chang Xiu to put it back in the medicine box and take him to the orchards by the lake to have a look.
So Chang Xiu held an umbrella for the young man, and the two of them walked to the orchard.
The fruit forest in the East Palace is very large, and there are many types of fruit trees. The first thing Ying Bao saw was the lychee trees that were only seen in the painting. There were more than a dozen trees, and the branches were covered with purple-red lychee fruits.
"Lychee!" Yingbao rushed over, climbed on a branch with her toes, and begged to pick the fruit.
So many lychees! Many of them are fresh lychees that grow on trees! This is also the first time she has seen them.
Chang Xiu hurried over to stop him: "Young man, you can't pick that fruit."
"Why?" Yingbao asked, picking up two lychees, sniffing them, opening a lychee and stuffing it into his mouth.
So sweet! So delicious!
Chang Xiu saw that the little doll not only picked it, but also ate it on the spot. He panicked and said, "That fruit is not for the royal family. We cannot eat it. Please give the peel to the slave and hide it."
Ying Bao gave her the peel and ate the lychee with her cheeks bulging, saying vaguely: "Don't be afraid, the Queen allows him to eat the fruit there."
But Chang Xiu was still afraid, so she picked up a branch and squatted on the ground to dig a hole, and then buried the lychee peel in it.
Ying Bao saw that she was skilled in her movements and had reason to suspect that she often did that.
While Chang Xiu was digging the hole, he picked a few more lychees and took them into the cave.
Hehe, there will be another lychee tree in her house in the future.
Later, Yingbao picked and ate at the front, stuffing a few for Chang Xiu from time to time.
Chang Xiu didn't dare to take it at first, but seeing no one around him, he boldly ate it, and then quietly eliminated the evidence of the crime.
After eating the lychees, Yingbao saw several loquat trees. The heads were also covered with yellow loquats. Many of them began to shrink and shriveled, and many of them were pecked by birds.
But the loquat fruits here are as big as bird eggs and not as good as hers, so Yingbao is too lazy to pick them.
The two of them walked and came to a pear orchard.
There is a pavilion in the middle of the pear garden, and two eunuchs are walking in the pavilion eating pears.
Seeing that the palace maid was leading a little baby, she didn't care. She just finished chewing a pear and started asking: "Whose little baby dares to break in?"
Chang Xiu even went to salute and said: "The senior official, is that the young doctor who will treat the king on his behalf?"
Have the senior executives heard that the Xiao family sent a few-year-old baby, which is better than the old guys in the Tai Hospital, and it is unbelievable that Dai Wang's condition can be improved by himself?
Yu Fulian stood up, arched his legs towards Ying Bao and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are a young man, so disrespectful."
Yingbao also returned the greeting: "I don't dare, sorry for bothering you."
It seems that that person is in charge of the stewardship of Guoyuanxuan.
The senior management was very happy and immediately asked the little eunuch next to him to pick fruits for Yingbao to eat.
The little eunuch agreed, and hurriedly ran to pick two pears, which contained a large bag of lychees.
Ying Bao was not polite and asked Chang Xiu to hold the lychees and pears while he walked around the orchard with the senior management and listened to him introduce the names of various fruit trees.
The orchard in the East Palace is really large and has many varieties, including grapes, apricots, peaches, pears, citrus, persimmons, loquats, bananas, bayberries, papayas, etc. It will make your mouth water.
It was said that many of the fruits were unripe and difficult to taste now.
After wandering around the orchard, it turned out that it was getting late, so Yingbao followed Chang Xiu back to the main hall.
At this time, the eunuch had already brought lunch, which was placed on the table in her cubicle.
There is a small bucket of red rice, a plate of pepper fish, a plate of boiled broad beans, and a plate of cold spinach. It is much richer than the month before.
After Chang Xiu filled a bowl of red rice for Yingbao, he stepped aside.
Yingbao said, "I'll go east and eat together too."
Chang Xiu shook his head repeatedly: "Slave, I'll wait for the young man to finish it."
Seeing that she was restrained, Yingbao stopped forcing her and ate pepper fish and boiled broad beans with cold spinach.
After finishing the meal, Chang Xiu put the leftover food back into the food box and carried it to the palace maid's room.
Chang Xiu stayed with the maids. When she brought out the food in the food box, several maids were amazed.
The young man only ate a little of a whole pepper fish, leaving more than half of it. He added the remaining cold egg-crusted spinach, which was enough for the four young ladies-in-waiting.
"Wow! Chang Xiu, I'm so lucky, I can serve the young man." A palace maid smiled and said: "He saw that I went to the orchard with the young man. How about you? Did you bring anything back?"
Chang Xiu smiled shyly, took out a leg handkerchief from his sleeve, opened it, and found a dozen lychees wrapped in it, "The young man gave it to me, let's try it too."
Several palace maids cheered, each of them snatched one and started skinning it.
One of the palace maids looked at it coldly and did not take it, "I won't be able to steal those. If the steward knows about it, don't bother us."
Several palace maids were stunned and all looked at Chang Xiu.
Chang Xiu hurriedly went to defend himself: "Is it really a gift from a senior executive? The young doctor said he couldn't finish it, so I gave some to him. Zhang Yu'e, I don't want to talk nonsense."
Zhang Yu'e sneered, turned around and walked next to the bed.
The other three people looked at each other and carefully put the lychee back on the table.
One person said: "Let's eat first." He took out his own bowl and chopsticks to fill the meal.
The others also took out their own bowls and filled their meals.
They can't eat pepper fish during the flat moon, and unlike the maids in the front palace, they can often receive rewards from their master.
A few people were eating when they suddenly saw someone poking their head at the door. A teenage girl asked timidly: "Is Sister Chang here?"
Chang Xiu stood up and said, "Sister Chen, come in quickly."
Chen Tiantian just walked in, holding a bag of things in her legs.
"He Mingyue got a plate of lychee cakes and wanted to give them to Sister Chang and all the other sisters to try."
As she spoke, Chen Tiantian placed the oil paper bag in her lap on the table and opened it, revealing six or seven round and bulging flower cakes.
Several palace maids were surprised.
Now when the lychees are ripe, the imperial kitchen will make some lychee cakes or boil a vat of lychees in syrup, lychee paste, etc. from time to time.
Whether or not to donate to the king, in fact, most of the money goes to the heads of the eunuchs and palace officials.
Occasionally, they can be rewarded with a little Donglai, but it is not their turn to serve as inconspicuous palace servants.
Zhang Yu'e, who was walking next to her, came over, picked up a piece of lychee cake and said with a smile, "Thank you, Sister Chen, for thinking of us."
Chen Tiantian smiled slightly: "No, that was given by the young man of the Xiao family. He couldn't finish it by himself, so he gave it to the sisters to try."
