The emperor waved his hand and said with interest:
"This thing looks strange to me. Now that it's here, I have to taste it."
"What the Emperor said is that I'm afraid of choking you. Otherwise, why don't you go sit there for a while?"
Concubine Li said nonchalantly:
"This charcoal hot pot is all about the steaming heat. It's autumn now, and the weather is getting colder. Your Majesty, please take a few bites of the meat in this hot pot later. I'm sure your whole body will be warm."
"Okay, my dear concubine, I see that you are sweating profusely from work and feel very distressed. If this food is delicious, then your hard work has not been in vain."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I have become addicted to this food in the past two days. I don't even eat the food in the imperial kitchen. Everything can be cooked here, so there is no need to worry about getting tired of it."
While speaking, Concubine Li signaled to the emperor:
"Your Majesty, please use your chopsticks!"
"Bold."
Liu Xi rebuked loudly:
"How can you let the emperor use chopsticks by himself?"
As he spoke, he was about to step forward to help the emperor, but was stopped by Concubine Li.
"Eunuch Liu doesn't know. The person who invented this pot said that when the meat here is cooked, you have to pick it up yourself. After you pick it up, dip it in the sauce and put it directly into your mouth. The taste is different from what others pick up."
The emperor, who was used to being served by others, was very interested in this. He picked up the chopsticks, picked up the meat in the pot like Concubine Li, and slowly ate it into his mouth.
As he ate, he nodded repeatedly.
"Well, this tastes really delicious. I thought the soup made by Concubine Li was the best in the world, but I didn't expect that Concubine Li's soup... what is this called?"
"hot pot……"
"Yes, hot pot. The hot pot served by Concubine Li is truly unique."
Seeing that the emperor was interested in this, Concubine Li hurriedly pursued the victory and continued:
"You can also drink this soup. I'll give you a bowl."
As she spoke, she took out a bowl of soup from the other half of the pot that had no meat in it, added onions, ginger and garlic, and handed it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, please try this bowl of mushroom soup. You can also drink the soup in the meat pot, but it is a bit spicy. I am afraid that it will be too spicy for you, so I made you a bowl of mushroom soup."
The potter looked at the bowl of soup, picked up the spoon, took a sip, and nodded happily.
"Well, this soup is so delicious. How does my beloved concubine make it?"
"I have an expert's guidance behind my back, so the secret must not be leaked."
Seeing her mysterious look, the emperor stopped asking questions and continued to eat the meat and vegetables in the pot, not forgetting to take a few sips of the mushroom soup.
Seeing the emperor happily eating, Liu Xi also secretly smiled. He thought that Princess Yu would teach Concubine Li how to make soup for the emperor. Before coming, he was worried that he would not be able to keep the emperor. Unexpectedly, she actually Come up with something like this.
This Princess Yu has so many evil ideas.
As expected, the emperor was so happy that he stayed in Furong Palace with a wave of his hand and said that he would continue to eat hot pot tomorrow.
While Concubine Li was happy, she was also thanking Concubine Yu in her heart. She originally thought that she would never have the chance to see the emperor again in this life, but she didn't expect that she not only saw him, but also saw him from time to time.
It seems that Princess Yu is right. Only by keeping the emperor's stomach can she keep her heart. In the future, she will have to learn more tricks from Princess Yu.
The news that the emperor was staying at Furong Palace soon reached Concubine Li's ears. She stood in the main hall of Liyuan and said in a hateful voice through gritted teeth:
"This woman, I thought she had calmed down and ignored her for this period of time. Unexpectedly, she was holding back her evil and dared to act like a monster. It seems that I indulged her too much."
Aunt Lu bared her teeth with a sinister look on her face and said:
"Princess, do you want to use some tricks?"
Concubine Li hurriedly waved her hands,
"Don't act rashly yet. My current identity is still unstable and I can't let others find out about it."
"Didn't the emperor already agree to let Prince Xi enter the palace to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? This means that his anger with Prince Xi has almost disappeared. If you find an opportunity, you can talk to the emperor again and lift Prince Xi's ban."
"snort!"
Concubine Li put her hands on her chest, kneading the fingers of her hands together, and half-squinted her eyes, with a sinister and unwilling look in her eyes.
"I have tried my best to learn how to make soup, and tried my best to please the emperor. Now that I am old, I still have to pretend to be a little girl to serve him when he is in bed, just so that the emperor can come to our Liyuan more often. In the future, I will ask him to find an opportunity to lift Xi'er's restraint and make me the queen, but it is unexpected that a woman named Li ruined my good deeds. I will not swallow this tone lightly."
"My Lady, please calm down. That woman must have been neglected by the Emperor for too long. She deliberately seduced the Emperor to go to her Furong Palace, and even made some kind of hot pot. She stayed in the palace all day, and the old slave suspected that it was Someone gave that thing to her and asked her to seduce the emperor. Maybe that thing is poisonous."
Aunt Lu's words gave Concubine Li a feeling of enlightenment.
She pondered for a long time, nodded and said:
"What you say makes sense. She has been hiding in Furong Palace recently, and I haven't seen her come into contact with others. Why did she suddenly learn such evil things? There must be something wrong here."
Thinking of this, she made up her mind to expose her in front of the emperor tomorrow.
But what she didn't expect was that the emperor actually stayed in the Furong Palace until the Mid-Autumn Festival. Anyway, Leng Yu was in charge of the affairs of the court. He stayed in the Furong Palace, eating the hot pot made for him by Concubine Li and drinking. The soup that Concubine Li made for him made his life very comfortable.
…
The sky in autumn is very clear, and it is a bit cool in the morning and evening in autumn, but it can be very hot at noon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival came as scheduled. On this day, the weather was very good. Before the sun came up, Luo Lan came to wake up the three children.
They were going to enter the palace today, so they had to get up early to prepare. Not only did they have to dress more formally, they also had to practice their preparation skills in advance.
Yes, what Luo Lan taught them a few days ago was all in preparation for today.
She felt that when the children had grown up, she should no longer show them in public, so she should let the children show off in front of the emperor and the ministers. Of course, this also had Leng Yu's consent.
Leng Yu also didn't want his wife to dance in front of others. It was enough for him to appreciate her graceful dancing posture.
Luo Lan asked the girls in the house to help the children dress and wash, and then she went back to her room.
Today was an equally important day for her. Although she did not disdain to participate in such a back-and-forth event, she was attending as the regent princess of Daning Kingdom, so she could not be vague about her dress.
Leng Yu ordered someone to prepare a carriage early, and Xiao Lingzi and others were all dressed in plain clothes, preparing to enter the palace together.
When Luo Lan came out, the three children had already boarded the carriage, and Leng Yu was standing in front of the carriage waiting for her.
"Ms. sir, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long."
Leng Yu frowned, stepped forward unhappily, leaned into her ear, and whispered:
"Are you so polite to me? I'll deal with you tonight."
Luo Lan's face turned slightly red, she pursed her lips and smiled, and then with Leng Yu's help, she got into the carriage.
