Smallpox was raging in the three prefectures of Shunde in Hejian, Baoding, North Zhili. The biggest impact on the Dali harem was the concubine De Fei who ruled the sixth palace. She began to plan to save money. The money saved would be included in the pensions of the people in the three prefectures. .
For a time, the reputation of Imperial Concubine De as a virtuous concubine spread far and wide, and Empress Gu's wise deeds gradually disappeared from the public.
Cen Xijin had to sigh that Concubine Sun was a person who could seize the opportunity.
But the move isn't perfect either.
Because of frugal expenses, the most powerful measure is to reduce the kitchenettes in each palace, except of course Weiyang Palace and Cining Palace.
In fact, in the beginning, the daily meals in each palace were prepared by the Shangshang Supervisor and delivered all the way.
But later, either the master was frail and sick and needed to open a small stove in the palace, or the empress was pregnant and could not eat the food sent by the food supervisor, or it was freezing cold and the food was cold when it was delivered, so all the palaces began to Even the Queen Mother and Her Majesty are not exempt from imitating the custom.
Therefore, Sun Guifei's move was somewhat flattering to her brother's favor and her sister's favor, and won the hearts of the people, but the people in the palace received a lot of negative comments.
However, Concubine Sun has always pursued a cannibalization strategy of three steps forward and two steps back. She knew that although many people in the palace resented her in their hearts, they did not dare to say it openly, not because they were afraid of her. The hometown of the Sun family, as well as many people in the palace, are inextricably linked to Hejian Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture of Baoding Prefecture. In this way, the people's hearts are naturally towards Concubine Sun.
It's just that Jianxianguan was also slightly implicated.
Not to mention a small kitchen, there is not even a decent hut in the Jianxian Hall. Just like this, the people in the Jianxian Hall were initially gloating at the palace's jokes, but they were soon slapped in the face.
Supervisor Shang Shan delivered the meals on time, but the quality of the meals overall declined.
The first-grade tofu is not tender enough, and the aroma of the beans is not strong; the three-fresh fat chicken is not fresh, and it tastes like an overnight meal; the barbecued pork and deer breast is not pickled, and the dish is not bright and beautiful; the quail is fragrant It turned into a bad goose; a vermicelli and tofu bun was only as big as two wontons; the lotus root starch and osmanthus sugar cake had only a hint of sweetness; the shrimp ball and chicken skin soup was completely meatball and chicken skin soup, without much of the umami flavor of the shrimp. ; The clear soup of Baiji Pig Lung Soup is watery, and the taste of the pig lungs is not good, and it tastes hard and old. As soon as you eat it, you can tell that the raw materials come from the skinny old firewood pigs; as for the Poria Cake and Crab Dumplings, they are simply missing. .
There are so many of them. It's obvious that the people from Shangshan Supervisor are trying to flatter others.
It's just that the second prince took pity on him because he couldn't eat everything to his satisfaction. He gave all the meals that the palace maids received from the Shangri-La every day.
Pretentious? Squeamish?
That's right.
If Cen Xijin hadn't stayed with him for a while, he would have felt that he was pretentious and squeamish.
It’s just that once the sea was full of troubles, except for Wushan, it was not a cloud.
When the second prince was the crown prince, the ostentation was much greater than it is now. He had to enjoy the highest level of wealth in the world. When a person has eaten the best food, he will feel unaccustomed to eating ordinary food again.
Moreover, these are the things he has been eating since he was a child. He has just these few tricks over and over again, and there is nothing new at all.
The roasted mutton and fermented sour plum soup made with fermented glutinous rice grains and fermented rice wine that Cen Xijin once made was very crude, but it was a novelty. Just because of the freshness, he could eat a few more mouthfuls of rice.
The second prince had been hungry for several days and ate pastries to satisfy his hunger every day. However, over time, no matter how delicate and sweet the pastries were, they lost their taste.
As for the walnuts, ugh...please don’t tell me.
A few days passed, and the second prince was so hungry that only a big head was left, and a lot of fat was lost all over his body.
Cen Xijin had no choice but to go to Siyuansi to ask Qin Zhangyuan and Sesame for a small half bag of sweet potatoes. He planned to build a fire in front of the Jianxian Hall to roast some sweet potatoes for the second prince to eat.
This sweet and anti-hungry thing is simply her best choice at the moment.
As soon as she came back, the second prince looked at the small half bag of things in her hand eagerly, licked his mouth, and said hesitantly: "Sweet potatoes? Although this is sweet, it is not particularly delicious."
Cen Xijin: "..." It's so pretentious that it makes you want to flatter him!
The second prince carefully observed the sweet potato in her hand and said leisurely: "Really, I don't want to eat it after eating it a few times. It's not as delicious as pastries."
"You're so ignorant!" Cen Xijin gave him a big eye roll.
As far as she knew, the palace's methods for sweet potatoes were currently limited to boiling and steaming them, which of course were not as delicious as pastries.
But roasting sweet potatoes is the first time in the palace. After all, which palace dares to light fires everywhere?
That's what Jianxianguan can do.
As for the common people outside the palace, they probably don't even know what a sweet potato is. After all, it was something brought into the palace by the Franconian missionaries who cultivated the world. Naturally, it is not so easy to get it outside.
Roasted sweet potatoes are charred on the outside and tender on the inside, extremely sweet and delicious.
She believed that His Highness the Second Prince, who had a sweet tooth, would fall in love with sweet potatoes.
"Cai Xin, hurry up! Make charcoal, set up a fire, and roast sweet potatoes!" Cen Xijin waved and shouted excitedly.
This was also the first time she roasted sweet potatoes like this. Even if she had roasted them before, she had always used a microwave oven. It was unprecedented to just find an open space and light up a charcoal fire and start roasting sweet potatoes like this.
The second prince was stunned for a moment, and although he didn't know why, he also became excited.
As a child, I still have a good impression of this kind of picnic-like behavior.
What's more, when he lived to be more than six years old, he actually didn't really have fun.
Roasting sweet potatoes is very simple, just have a fire and sweet potatoes, and no ingredients are needed.
It hasn't snowed these days. It is still warm to sit around the fire in winter, not to mention so many people sitting around the fire chatting and eating fresh roasted sweet potatoes, it is quite atmospheric.
Not only the palace maids, but also the eunuchs followed.
Everyone in the Jianxian Hall came out to help, and even those who couldn't help like the second prince joined in the fun and joking, which was so joyful. Only Feng'er felt it was against the rules and chose to sit alone in the room.
The fire crackled and burned, and everyone's face turned bright red, like a thin layer of rouge, so cute.
Cai Xin is considered to be the most capable among the group of people. He can handle any dirty and heavy work, which makes Cen Xijin dumbfounded.
Cen Xijin's face turned red and she seemed a little shy about the occasion: "Everyone, please sit down. This is a rare opportunity. Let's have a good time."
Cherry glanced at Feng'er in the side room: "I'm afraid it's a little against the rules." After saying that, she bit her lip, not wanting to leave.
Cen Xijin took her arm regardless of the past and smiled broadly: "In this life, you have to follow the rules for a long time, and you are tired enough. It doesn't matter to have fun, as long as it is not too out of the ordinary. Besides, we are doing this to appetize His Highness. ah!"
After saying that, the palace maid laughed softly. The eunuchs were afraid of displeasing the second prince and did not dare to make any big movements. They just pursed their lips and followed happily.
Hui'er, who was hiding something in her heart, also had a smile on her face.
Even Shuangfu and Luan held their faces in their hands and smiled shyly.
They suddenly felt that after this experience, they seemed to have truly integrated into the Jianxian Hall.
This is called, what you eat is not sweet potatoes, but the atmosphere.
But someone soon broke the atmosphere.
"Porphyrin..."
The second prince was slightly stunned as he held the fragrant roasted sweet potato in his hand.
Everyone's faces were so red that they were almost bleeding, and almost turned into the color of pig liver. They wanted to laugh, but why were they so swollen?
Suddenly, "Porphyrin...porphyrin..."
Cen Xijin looked calm.
