In the evening, the table was filled with fragrant meals.
Gu Yunxi entertained concubines in various palaces tonight. The ingredients were not luxurious, but fresh.
The dishes included braised pork tenderloin with ginkgo, fried prawns with hibiscus, steamed pork wrapped with scallops, grilled fish strips with pine nut vinegar, eight treasures roast chicken, fried duck breast with pearl, spicy eel paste with sesame oil, stewed deer tendon in ten spices hotpot, white mushroom with milk, fried pickled bamboo shoots and flowering cabbage, and bacon with mutton and fish soup.
The ingredients on the table were nothing precious except the venison tendon.
However, Gu Yunxi was very good at choosing dishes. She matched the simple colors of red, white, yellow, green and black to create a colorful visual enjoyment, and could compete with the imperial food for grace and noble sense.
The imperial concubines were surprised. They nev
It was in the Cining Palace."Ninth Uncle, you're here. You're back from the northwest?"She turned her eyes and saw the man with white hair and red clothes sitting on the red sandalwood ring chair with two phoenix wings wrapped around the table carved with flowers and embedded with jade. Commandery Princess Jingle's tears stopped for a moment. She just stared for a moment and threw herself at him."Ninth Uncle, I miss you so much!"The man was the cold-faced King Xiaoyao, Huanan He, who was escorted back to the capital by the captain of the bodyguard personally from the northwest.He just entered the Palace. He heard that the Emperor was busy with government affairs and had no time to see him. He had to come to the Cining Palace to greet Imperial Mother Xiao Miaoyin.Listening to the girl's heart-rending cries, the man pulled up a good-looking smile, gently surrounded her with two powerful arms, and his v
In the rain, when the imperial carriage stopped in Jingyang Palace, Gu Yunxi and maids had already kneeled in the hall.A sense of strange and familiar fragrance slowly lingered in the quiet air.As soon as Huanan Xin went into the hall, the white silk hanging on the beam engraved with flowers caught his eyes.He quickly walked in front of Gu Yunxi who lowered her head and kneeled, directly holding her up."Yunxi, you behave so boldly! Commandery Princess Jingle is not my biological sister. But for her father's contribution to our nation, she is brought up and valued by my mother. But you... How could you slap her?"Huanan Xin looked annoyed, sullenly pulled off the white silk, and threw it down. Then he anxiously sighed."You can imitate someone, but you shouldn’t imitate those vulgar women! Why do you cry, argue, and commit suicide?"As a fragrant figure softly kneeled, Gu Yunxi sobbed and c
When Noble Concubine Hui, Shi Yuanqing, was admitted to walk into the palace, Imperial Mother Xiao Miaoyin was leaning on the bed. With a soft pillow embroidered with peonies and tassels leaned on her back, she smoked a water pipe.It was time to go to bed. Therefore, she just wore a green gown embroidered with blessed words, with a hollow coronet made of white jade and a pure pin keeping her bun.Since she moved in Cining Palace, through the application of Xiangyu Powder, her half face damaged by the fire had been recovered.Shi Yuanqing walked into the palace as her face slightly blushed, lowering her head and saluting."Your Grace, I express my best wishes to you. In such an evening, I meet and disrupt you. It is my blame."Imperial Mother Xiao held a water pipe in her hand, slightly keeping her upper body upright. Then she raised her chin and shifted her eyes. In the beaming light, some coldness occurred in her eye
The warm sunbeam in spring slowly lit up the palace wall.After getting up in the morning, Gu Yunxi went into the small kitchen and made two snacks by herself.One was called "Peach Blossom", and the other was called "Bayberry". They were all one of the 28 delicious foods mentioned in her mother Pei Rushi's book, The Exquisite Collection of Delicacies.It was mentioned in the book that first mashed the cabbage from foreigners; mixed it with white vinegar to make a pink juice; mixed an appropriate amount of wheat starch and potato powder; kneaded it into a dough; cut it into small portions; and then pressed it into a round cake.Each small flour cake was wrapped with pork, Magnolia, red medicine, Wuling, honey, pearl powder, and poria cocos powder, and the seal was pinched into the shape of peach blossoms.After steaming, the small sweets in the shape of peach blossoms would show a crystal-clear pink, which was extremel
"Your Grace..."The maids in Miaoyin Hall were shocked.Hongjing shouted and did not know what to do.Other eunuchs wanted to save Noble Concubine Hui. However, they did not dare to do that. They were afraid that the shiny hair pin close to Noble Concubine Hui's face would hurt her if they acted rashly.Noble Concubine Hui suddenly widened her eyes, with her pupils getting small. One could see her panic through the eyes."B*tch... You're a b*tch! What the hell are you doing?" Noble Concubine Hui said.Fearful and annoyed, she shouted at Gu Yunxi in a sharp voice.Gu Yunxi smiled slightly, poking her face with the hair pin."Ah!" Noble Concubine Hui yelled.After yelling, she shut up suddenly. She was afraid that if Gu Yunxi poked her face a little harder, her tender face would be injured."Your Grace, my name is Yunxi. You shouldn't call me b*tch."
It was in the Pingjiang County, Jiangnan Feudatory by King Xian."What? Your Highness, what you said is true?"After listening to the news brought by Lu Qiange and his wife in the reception room of King Xian's residence, Gu Yunyao was no longer calm. The temperature of her five fingers was cold, and she had a cold sweat in the palm of her hand.Sitting up slowly from the rose chair, the woman's face was as white as paper, and her eyes were stunned and straight.She murmured and her whole body suddenly softened and sat in the chair again."Master, be careful!" Song Qin walked quickly to help her.Zhao An was silent. He only looked at nanny and signaled her to lead King Xian Huanan Lin down first.From that day, when he said goodbye to Gu Yunxi in the Imperial Palace, Lu Qiange sent spies around the capital to inquire about the whereabouts of his Uncle Huanan He. Soon, he got the address
In the capital, Huanan He excitedly hit four beauties from the palace with a horsewhip in the flower hall of the Ninth Prince's Mansion."Hup! Go! Go! Come on! Come on! Hahaha."The whip swished in the air for many times brought the sharp wind blowing over four girls' ears. Beaten by the whip, girls tried to escape from his attack, like weak reptiles.The man didn't violently hit them. In addition, their clothes were thin and they were tender and fine-boned after they lived in the palace.So even if the beat by the crazy man was not hard and their clothes were not torn, there were still some weals on their snow-white skin.How could these 15-or-16-year-old girls bear the pain that was so severe that as if they had been cut by a knife?They shrieked and begged, frightened and helpless. They even rolled and tumbled on the ground to prevent themselves from being beaten by him, like four spinning tops w
In the side flower hall of the Ninth Prince's Mansion, it was in absolute silence.Commandery Princess Jingle looked seductively at the handsome and cold man. She plucked the bodice of her outer skirt inch by inch, and then bowed her head shyly.She was expecting her beloved to rush over instantly and hold her in his arms, as passionately as he had held the yellow-skirted girl. Then he would untie the lapel of her underwear.However, the reality soon left her disappointed.The handsome man stood motionless in front of her, staring at her with his head tilted, not saying a word.Jingle was a little confused and upset and a little panicked."Ninth Uncle!"After waiting for a while and having no response, Jingle was slightly frustrating but didn't want to be angry with Huanan He.She whispered to him, her tone revealing a bit of discontent and a prodding at the same time.