Chapter 185: The fourth brother and his wife are really stingy
"Ha ha!"
Kangxi's laughter at the end revealed too much.
The eldest brother was stunned for a moment.
Concubine De took off her armor and went with her daughter-in-law to the dining room closest to Shufangzhai to instruct the imperial chef on cooking the dishes the emperor had just ordered.
The fourth elder brother bowed and saluted: "My son, I obey your order!"
The eldest brother opened his mouth to speak.
The Empress Dowager seemed to have remembered something and asked gently: "Sir Brother, has anyone in Cining Palace eaten the sweet potatoes and French fries made by you?"
The Mongolian language made it difficult for her to distinguish these new dish names for a while.
The fourth elder brother respectfully replied: "As for the imperial grandmother, I think the twelfth elder brother brought it back from my grandson's house to Aunt Sumala. I heard Fujin mentioned that the dish seems to be called potato salad."
"What kind of salad is this? Does it sound like there are many vegetables?"
The fourth elder brother was very ashamed: "My grandson didn't quite understand. It was Si Fujin's invention. She saw that her grandson only ate potato cakes and sweet potato sticks, and never gave her son salad. But it looked green. Mostly.”
Everyone listened, and Si Age's words once again demonstrated the harmony between their husband and wife.
I talked about two more dishes that were not mentioned by the younger brothers just now.
Do you want them to be hungry for delicious food, or do you want them to feel sore?
The Empress Dowager clapped her hands and said: "That's it. Emperor, the Ai family has seen that potato salad before. It was too green and yellow, so the Ai family didn't eat it. It was my ancestor who mentioned it to me, saying that she had eaten it before. After taking the things, my body became much lighter."
The Empress Dowager has always liked to eat meat and not vegetables. Even though she is old, the imperial doctor cannot persuade her.
It is unlikely that she will lose weight after eating salad only once.
What the Empress Dowager means, ancestors, is an elegant way of saying that the bowel movement is smooth.
Kangxi had just grown old and was worried about the reincarnation of grains. He immediately noticed: "Listen, it is still a medicinal meal without any medicinal taste."
The Empress Dowager: "The emperor is absolutely right."
"What else is Bai Liuli? The Ai family has seen any movement in the garden of Cining Palace recently? The Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported that something needs to be installed so that the light will be better."
"The Ai family are old and have bad ears, so they can't remember well. Come to think of it, could it be the Bai Liuli this child is talking about?"
The emperor immediately said: "Liang Jiugong, go and take a look. There is also the Qianqing Palace. If anyone has sent anything here these days, you can also check it out."
Concubine Hui's face turned pale.
Did she fall into another trap again?
The emperor was still talking: "Emperor Enie, let's see what other songs you want to hear and let them all sing. We'll also eat that salad later."
The Queen Mother nodded and smiled happily.
Concubine Hui immediately understood that she no longer wanted to hear her speak.
The eldest brother couldn't believe it and looked at the eighth brother.
Why is this so different from what was expected?
But the eighth prince lowered his head, with a serious look on his delicate face.
The eldest brother was embarrassed in public, while the prince happily drank a glass of wine.
Looking at Mr. Shi who was avoiding him with his eyes, he felt depressed and drank another glass of wine.
The speed of the palace, even if it has not been dried, still brought a table of delicacies of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn to the palace banquet table with the fastest production and the most exquisite presentation.
Naturally, there were plates after plates on the desks of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor.
The rest of the people could only get a small platter. No matter how exquisite the enamel-painted gold plate was, it could not hide the fact that it was a very small quantity.
Si Fu Jin stood up to serve: "Royal Grandmother, Khan Ama, this sweet potato can only be eaten when it is hot."
The Empress Dowager waited until the nuns around her stopped her before trying it. She kindly asked: "Which salad is it?"
Lu Pheasant glanced at Brother Si and immediately understood that when she was not around just now, Xiao Liangren must have applied eye drops again.
What a smart little kid.
She smiled and said, "Grandma Huang has a good eye for it, and this is exactly it. Special salad oil is added. If Grandma Huang thinks it is too sweet, you don't need to add it. You can also add other salty or spicy seasonings."
"This mashed potato is the most versatile and has a good balance of flavors."
"When it comes to fusion, it's naturally potato brisket and potato stew. If the two are cooked properly, people will not be able to tell which piece is meat and which piece is potato."
…
Sifujin introduced the dishes vividly.
The nobles at the palace banquet followed her words and selected the corresponding delicacies.
The young brothers who were still standing in the middle hall said sourly: "Fourth sister-in-law has never given us such a careful introduction before."
"The introduction is a trivial matter. Isn't the most important thing that we can't eat now?"
The twelfth elder brother cried: "Oh, Yinyu is so hungry."
…
Kangxi, who was busy tasting the delicious food, heard something and said, "Yinyi, the shredded sweet potato you recommended is good. It's so ingenious that it's hard for Sifujin to come up with it."
"You go back and sit down to taste it, Yinzhen."
The fourteenth elder brother saw that he was expected to sit down and said hurriedly: "Khan Ama, have you eaten the French fries or potato chips?"
Si Fujin quickly signaled: "These are the two. If you dip them in some sweet sauce, they might taste better."
The emperor was about to try.
Seeing that each of the little brothers was about to speak, he hurriedly waved his hand to let them all sit down.
As for the word "punishment", no one remembers it at all.
In the audience, only Concubine Hui and the eldest brother, who initially attacked the fourth elder brother and his wife, found it hard to swallow.
Concubine Hui was worried about Liang Jiugong who had not returned yet, fearing that she might follow in Concubine Yi's footsteps today.
The eldest brother, on the other hand, became more and more confused as he thought about it. The eighth brother didn't mention anything. He looked at the steaming fresh food in front of him.
I thought to myself, how delicious could this be?
Everyone who checked them told him that the fresh crops were ugly, dirty, irregular in shape, and could not be put on the table at all.
Even the concubine De can make something that will impress you. Maybe it is similar to the sweet soup that Eni always loved to make for him when he was a child, right?
The eldest brother stretched out his hand and secretly took a bite of sweet potato sticks...
Well.
Fragrant, sweet and soft.
The amount is just too little.
The fourth elder brother and his wife are really stingy!
He made no mistake at all.
The prince did not have such twisted psychology. After taking a bite, he felt novel and saw that the portion was not too big, so he said to Shi: "Miss Shi, if you like it and don't use enough, come here and use more." .”
Shi: "..."
Someone else, such as the sixth girl from Niu Hulu's family, might be very happy. Not every woman can tolerate the prince's show of kindness.
But Shi is a lady from a famous family, how could she act like grabbing food from a man's plate in public?
If word spreads, will the Guarjia family still need its reputation?
However, the prince looked kind and waiting for her reply.
Shi had no choice but to nod slowly, then shake his head slowly, then lower his head, trying to fool him.
Si Fujin is right, the view of purity cannot be delayed for a day.
After she returned, she immediately set off, looking for Taoist temples as she walked.
For a while, Shufangzhai was filled with people commenting on the delicious food.
Prince Gong also made some excuses and took away potato chips from Prince Yu's plate.
Prince Yu turned a blind eye and let his silly brother go.
At this time, Liang Jiugong escorted a little eunuch in green into Shufangzhai: "Long live the Lord, I have come to answer my question."
The emperor asked him to stop kneeling: "Liang Jiugong, you come first and try this, sweet potato cake."
"Slave, thank you very much for the reward."
