Lin Yue stretched out his hand, broke off a small piece of yellow pastry, dipped some of the white paste in the middle on it, and put it into his mouth.
"To the Queen, this is a dessert made by my wife for me. I can use it to satisfy my hunger when I am on duty in the palace. Because it is made of eggs and flour, I gave it a name, cake. "
"Cake?" Seeing General Feitian eating a mouthful of cream, Zhang Yan said, "Is this... delicious?"
Lin Yue said: "When I bought this parrot, I took it out to satisfy my hunger. When it saw it, it ate a little. Unexpectedly, it always remembered it. As for the taste of the cake... If the Queen doesn't mind, you can try it. If you feel like it, It tastes good, I asked my wife to make some more and send them to the palace."
Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment, then looked at General Feitian's eating posture and glanced at the palace maid behind him.
After being by the Queen's side for so long, she naturally knew what message the look in her eyes conveyed. She turned around and walked to the shelf at the back to take out a small yellow-glazed plate. She walked over and picked out a small piece and put it on the plate to serve to the Queen.
Zhang Yan picked it up and took a bite. Before chewing it, she was immediately amazed by the smooth cream in her mouth. Her eyes suddenly lit up, and even her inner depression was swept away.
"Yes, the taste is good. From all over the world, from east to west, I have eaten so many pastries, but I have never tasted such delicious ones."
Lin Yuexin said that you will be surprised if you try it. Cake was only introduced to China from the West during the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention that it is unique, it is a new thing. In modern society, cakes have a wider audience than rice cakes, mung bean cakes, rice cakes, sponge cakes, etc. Girls especially like this.
"Since the empress likes it, I will ask my wife to make more when I go back and bring it to the palace tomorrow for the empress to taste."
Zhang Yan nodded and finished the piece of cake before remembering what happened just now.
"May I have your name?"
"Your Majesty, Lin San, is now on duty as the Supervisor of Ceremonies."
Lin San?
She remembered that it was Lin San who was responsible for investigating the treasure ship case. Because it related to her husband, she was concerned.
"It turns out to be you."
Yesterday, General Feitian heard several young eunuchs talking about Lin Zhangban's irritation that Wei Zhongxian was demoted to the warehouse to do liquidation work, and they were imitating them in front of her.
For a capable official who was kicked out of the core of power by Wei Zhongxian and demoted to look after the warehouse, she felt an extra layer of pity for him on top of her previous favorable impression.
"come."
The eunuch on duty at the door came in and said, "Please give me the Queen's orders."
"Eunuch Lin has found my hosta's jade hairpin, and I'm going to reward it with three hundred taels of silver."
"Yes." The little eunuch agreed and went to prepare the reward.
A quarter of an hour later, Lin Yue received the silver reward, thanked him and left Kunning Palace.
The amount of reward is not the important point, the important thing is to make a good start. Fortunately, the big villain was brought here, and it came in handy.
Zhang Yan played a big role in Wang Xin's ascension to the throne. As long as he got her care, even if he did nothing, Zhu Youjian would be embarrassed to knock him down as an eunuch.
But having said that, she strongly recommended Zhu Youjian to inherit the throne in front of Xizong. If she later found out that the brother-in-law who supported her was the culprit who killed her husband and left her widowed, I don't know how she would feel.
Well, what a poor woman in need of rescue.
In the afternoon of the next day, Lin Yue came to Kunning Palace carrying a red food box.
After the eunuch on duty reported, he was asked to go in by himself.
Lin Yue entered the main hall. Today, Zhang Yan did not wear a phoenix crown. She simply tied her hair and inserted a gold hairpin on the back of her head. Below was a short shirt and a light gauze dress covering the outside. Her thin white wrists and neck were looming.
After all, you are meeting eunuchs, not courtiers, so there are not so many rules.
Compared with yesterday, she looked slightly better, but she still looked a little haggard to Lin Yue.
"Your Majesty, this is a cake that was just made in the morning. I specially asked my wife to cut some fruits on it."
Zhang Yan looked at the colorful fruit cakes in the food box, and her mood suddenly became cheerful.
"You have a heart."
At this time, the palace maid took a small plate and served Zhang Yan to eat. Lin Yue walked to a palace maid in a green dress at the door, whispered a few words, and handed over a small cloth bag.
The palace maid walked inside and soon came out with a tea tray and placed a cup of bright black tea in front of Zhang Yan.
Lin Yue said: "Madam, pairing cake with black tea can relieve fatigue and warm the spleen and stomach."
Zhang Yan glanced at him and tried to eat cake and drink tea at the same time. It felt like what he said, the tea neutralized the sweetness of the cake, and the cake smoothed out the slight bitterness of the tea.
"I didn't expect you to be quite knowledgeable about diet."
"I just thought that maybe one day I could help your majesty or empress, so I did some homework on weekdays."
"Oh? So you have other unique skills?"
Lin Yue pondered for a moment: "I beg your pardon to speak frankly. I have been to Kunning Palace for two consecutive days. I see that Empress Guan's complexion is pale and her mind is lethargic. It seems that long-term insomnia and anxiety have damaged her heart yang. If she does not take care of her, it may be harmful to her health."
This sentence spoke to her heart. Ever since Xizong fell into the lake and was ill for a long time, she had suffered a lot. She thought too much and was afraid too much. She lived in melancholy and anxiety every day. As long as she lay down on the bed, All I could think about was what to do in the days after the Ming Dynasty. It would be strange if I could sleep well.
"The Emperor is ill and I am in a bad mood. It has been really difficult to fall asleep recently. Do you have any good prescriptions?"
"I once learned the method of pushing oil from a doctor from the Western Regions, which has the effect of helping me sleep. My wife suffered from heart qi loss and neurasthenia due to childhood experiences, so I used this method to treat it, and the effect was very good. This method does not require drinking. The decoction does not harm the spleen and stomach. Just rub the relevant acupoints with specific techniques and nourish with sacred oil. The patient can not only fall asleep peacefully, but also feel refreshed and comfortable after waking up."
"How to push oil?" Zhang Yan was moved: "Is it really so magical?"
Only those who have suffered from long-term insomnia can understand how torturous it is to be unable to sleep. In order to cure her insomnia, the imperial doctors searched all ancient books and tried many folk remedies and supplements, but there was no improvement. Now they heard Lin Yue swear that his method was effective. How could I not be moved?
Lin Yue said: "If you don't believe me, find someone with similar symptoms and you will know."
It can be said that it is very easy to find someone with insomnia in the palace. For example, some older palace ladies who are about to leave the palace live in anxiety and fear all day long. It is strange that their sleep quality is good.
Zhang Yan looked at the cake and black tea on the table and thought about General Parrot who was very affectionate to him. She didn't ask anyone to find the palace maid for experiments, and went directly to the bed in the palace to lie down.
"Come on, I want to see if this oil pushing method is really as wonderful as you said."
Lin Yue walked over and sat down next to the edge of the bed. Looking at Zhang Yan lying on the bed, he felt not only excited but also a little emotional.
As a eunuch, his reputation is not very good, but it is really a first-rate weapon for getting close to girls.
"Mother, I am about to begin."
Lin Yue glanced at the slightly wary palace maid, but Zhang Yan, the person involved, had a relaxed look on her face, opened and closed her beautiful eyes, and said softly "Hmm".
Thinking about it, the queens and concubines in this palace have to be served by palace maids and eunuchs when bathing and changing clothes. I think they have long been accustomed to handing over their bodies to those who can't do anything.
It's a pity...he's not.
Cough~
Lin Yue coughed lightly, took out a white porcelain bottle from his sleeves, poured some liquid with the aroma of herbs and rubbed it in his palms to warm it, stretched out his five fingers to hold her head, and rubbed her temples and forehead regularly. Acupuncture points such as Hui points.
He has never systematically learned massage, but he has learned boxing and kicking skills in Ip Man's World and has memorized all the acupuncture points on the human body. It is no problem to relieve fatigue or something.
Being gently kneaded and pressed by those warm hands, at first there was a feeling that was different from the previous little eunuch's beating of legs and shoulders. However, this feeling that could not be said to be comfortable or uncomfortable was soon washed away by the tide of sleepiness, and slowly Slowly losing consciousness.
The confidant palace maid standing at the end of the bed was dumbfounded. As an attendant, she had witnessed with her own eyes the way the imperial doctors frowned and were helpless. She was also used to seeing the empress lying on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, asking the time every now and then. What now? ? In less than half a stick of incense, the empress actually fell asleep, and her breathing was so even.
This therapy called "oil pushing" is so amazing.
Is pushing oil magical? What a joke. Is [Hypnotism] magical? As long as this halo skill is turned on, people around who have a subjective desire to fall asleep can fall asleep no matter how noisy the environment is.
Coupled with the "energetic" aura of [Hypnosis LV2], will Zhang Yan still be able to leave him in the future?
Five hours later.
Zhang Yan opened her eyes, glanced at the darkening sky, stretched her body, and let out a soft moan of comfort. This was the most solid and calm sleep she had had in the six years she had been in the palace.
When she sat up from the bed, she found Lin Yue standing at the end of the bed.
It turns out he never left.
"From tomorrow on, you won't be on duty as the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Just follow me."
Just as he thought.
"Thank you, Queen." Lin Yue said, "I obey."
Ha~ You fell into my demon... hands, and you still ran?
East Jishi Factory.
Wei Zhongxian looked at the little eunuch standing in front of him. If he could use two words to describe his current mood, it would be "unsatisfactory", and four words would be "super unhappy".
