A room full of servants immediately kowtow and say hello.
Ji Ling put down her chopsticks and put her hands on the table. Just when she was about to stand up to say hello, Yin raised her hand to signal her not to leave. She was wearing a light blue uniform with a flag that was not old yet. The skirt of the flag suit had thin stripes on it.
Tiny little orchids, a pair of sapphire blue embroidered bird flat soft shoes on her feet, her hair must have been freshly washed, her hair was wet and pulled into a bun, with a purple wood hairpin running diagonally through her hair.
The clothes and shoes of this outfit are all of ordinary quality. Only the pair of bright moons worn on the ears add to the overall style.
Ji Ling quickly wiped his greasy mouth with a towel, ignoring the green onion on his mouth, and began to greet Yin enthusiastically: "Your Majesty, would you like some midnight snacks too? They were all served just now! In addition to the chicken soup wontons, I
I took a little bit out of the big bowl, but I haven't even taken off the other vegetables with my chopsticks. These leeks are very tender, and the yellow chives are delicious! The fried spring rolls must be hot, as they won't taste good when they are cold."
Yin Nong raised his eyebrows and looked noncommittal, but he had already sat down.
Ji Ling wanted to laugh, but she held it back: when she just came in, she saw Yin's eyes glance at the table.
You obviously want to eat it, but you still have to be so arrogant!
She asked Qixi to call the servants to arrange the dishes, and the room immediately became busy and lively again.
I saw Bixue carrying the boss up carefully with a wooden tray, Qixi holding a blue and white cup and bowl from above with both hands, and a very low palace lantern on the roof beam, which was blown away by the night breeze outside the Bu Bu Brocade Window.
It swayed slightly, and the room was filled with a yellowish glow, which made it feel very warm.
Inside the cup was a large bowl of red bean paste and Yuanxiao.
The red bean paste is simmered in the earthen pot until it is thoroughly cooked. When it comes out of the pot, press it with the back of a spoon and it will become a fine and dense red bean paste. Add honey to mix it into red bean puree. When it is washed with lotus root powder, it will become half red.
Transparent soup.
Inside are dried osmanthus, fermented glutinous rice and glutinous rice dumplings.
The glutinous rice flour used in the Lantern Festival is mixed with yam. The glutinous rice reduces sweat and strengthens the spleen, while the yam nourishes the lungs and kidneys. The combination of the two makes it sweet and soft.
Each Yuanxiao is rolled into the size of a jujube, with a thick skin and a small filling. The filling is made of egg yolk, which is salty and delicious. When you put it in your mouth, it melts in your mouth.
Yin tasted a few mouthfuls, moved his index finger, and drank a bowl without realizing it, feeling that his internal organs were warmed up.
He wasn't a person who didn't know how to exercise restraint, but every time he ate with Ji Ling, he would eat much more than usual; he wasn't a person who was greedy for food, but every time he saw her eating so deliciously, he would
Also very appetizing.
This red bean paste Yuanxiao is just like Ji's person. It looks inconspicuous, but once you get in touch with it, you feel more and more gentle and sincere. It seems to be a bowl of heart-warming soup.
Life is like a night trip, sometimes all you need is a warm bowl of home-cooked food under the warm lights.
Ji Ling swallowed a sip of saliva, reached out and took a chopstick of spring rolls to Yin: "Your Majesty, try this! But be careful not to burn it."
The dough on the outside of the spring roll is fried to a crispy texture, with the four sharp corners golden and crispy. The deep green color of the leek and the goose yellow color of the leek are revealed in the middle. Although the dough is thin, it is extremely tough and can cover the fillings without sacrificing quality.
I mean, in the middle of the two plates with spring rolls is a small shallow plate shaped like a lotus leaf, and inside is a bowl of red sweet and spicy sauce.
Yin didn't really like spring rolls, so Ji Ling was so attentive, so he picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of the sweet and spicy sauce, bit into it with a "bang" sound, and put it in his mouth. Sure enough, with the sweet and spicy sauce, the taste was completely different.
Yin didn't like to eat spring rolls because the spring rolls made in the palace dining room often contained a lot of pork, which was mixed into one piece and looked unpleasant. In addition, many concubines were worried that they would have a bad taste in their mouth after eating leeks. If the emperor
If you come here, you will lose the fragrance of a woman, and you are afraid of falling out of favor, so you avoid leeks.
Over time, Yin almost forgot that this snack existed in the Qing palace.
But it's different here in Jiling. Her spring rolls are completely vegetarian.
Not only was there no meat at all, but there was also only one kind of vegetarian dish, which was leeks. The rest was all made up of oysters, sweet potato powder, eggs, green onions, and salt to enhance the flavor. But when he put it into his mouth, he had no memory of the past.
The meat is greasy, but it has a refreshing fragrance of wildness.
Ji Ling saw that Yin was enjoying the meal, so he took advantage of this moment and personally filled a bowl of chicken soup wontons from the big bowl. He touched the outside of the porcelain bowl with his hand. It was warm but not hot. Knowing that the temperature was almost right, he used it.
Take a spoonful of chopped chili and sprinkle it evenly into the soup.
The main ingredient of the wontons is pork, the skin is thin and tough, and the accompanying vegetables are daylily, fungus, mushrooms, shredded bamboo shoots, gluten, and dried tofu. The chicken soup is delicious, the green onions are green, and it is very beautiful when paired with a white porcelain bowl.
"Your Majesty, please try this again, chicken soup wontons, it's appetizing!" Ji Ling smiled and pushed the bowl in front of Yin.
Yin was not in a hurry to eat. He looked at the bowl of wontons in front of him and said with emotion: "I remember, the last time I ate wontons was New Year's Eve."
In the Forbidden City, whenever we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, wontons are indispensable.
In the Qing Dynasty, all pasta with fillings was called boiled dumplings. Dumplings and wontons all fell into the category of boiled dumplings.
At the important moment of New Year's Eve, the emperor would first conduct a series of grand worship ceremonies.
Usually, the emperor goes to Fengxian Hall to pay homage first.
Fengxian Hall is located on the east side of the inner court of the Forbidden City. It is the family temple where the royal family of the Ming and Qing Dynasties worshiped their ancestors. It has the same meaning as ordinary wealthy families who worship their ancestors during the Chinese New Year.
When the emperor left the Fengxian Hall, as soon as the sole of his right boot touched the dragon pattern on the steps, a young eunuch immediately rushed to inform the kitchen to cook wontons.
There must be no delay at all in between!
Therefore, as soon as the emperor stepped into Zhaoren Hall, the hot and hot cakes that had just been cooked were brought to him by the eunuch in the imperial dining room.
This is an important ceremony: the emperor personally eats wontons, a folk snack, which means having fun with the people.
Usually, the imperial kitchen brought him a dazzling array of rare ingredients. It was at this time that the wontons made their presence felt, and then they were quickly forgotten by Yin.
Ji Ling sat down and said with sincerity: "The food here is simple. Your Majesty, I just want to have fun with it. They are some crude and fast folk snacks, but they are strong and tasty, so I like them very much!".
Yin raised his eyelids and glanced at her, and his tone suddenly became more teasing: "Let me see, is there anything in this palace that you don't like to eat?".
...This...is this because she dislikes her for being a loser...
Ji Ling shrunk his neck and didn't know what to say. He had to lower his head and wrap a piece of light blue furry thread around his sleeve. After a while, he raised his eyes and saw Yin looking at him with a smile on his face.
Immediately, he lowered his head, scooped up a spoonful of wontons, and put it into his mouth in a leisurely manner. Who knew that he happened to take a breath at this time...
Yin suddenly choked on the red chili pepper!
He coughed violently.
Ji Ling immediately stood up, waved his hands to Qixi and said: "Water! Water! Tea!".
Qixi panicked, and for a moment, she didn't know where she had put the teapot.