V2.Chapter 52
Yu Wan always knew that Zuixianju's reputation was out, but she didn't know it was already in the palace.
For Yu Wan, a place like the palace is almost a legendary existence. Can she really enter the palace to cook for those royal concubines?
"It's stinky tofu, it's still the best you make, and what others fry is not as stinky as yours!" Qin Ye said fairly fairly.
Yu Wan glanced at him lightly: "I thank you..."
Master Qin showed a smile: "Tianxianglou is so powerful, and I haven't even entered the palace to cook. I'll spread the word about it later, and our business will be even better!"
Yes, Tianxianglou was opened by Concubine Xu Xian's elder brother, and none of its cooks entered the palace, so how could it be the turn of a newly emerging Zuixianju?
Yu Wan always felt that the pie fell from the sky, which was a little unreal.
"Master Qin, do you know which lady wants to eat our Zuixianju food?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin winked and smiled: "Guess what?"
Yu Wan laughed: "I can't guess, you can just say it."
Master Qin straightened his waist and said, "Concubine Xu Xian!"
Concubine Xu Xian? Isn't that the biological mother of the second prince? Is she going to eat Zuixianju's dishes?
Yesterday, she had just rejected the second prince's "proposal". Today, Concubine Xu Xian announced the entry of the chef of Drunk Xianju into the palace. Could this be a coincidence?
"Did Concubine Xian tell me to go?" Yu Wan said.
"What? You're not happy? The pay is very generous! This is the number!" Master Qin made a gesture, "And the nobles in the palace are not poor, and they are happy to eat. If you give a reward, you will have the money to build the house. landed."
This is the truth, Yu Wan understands that Master Qin calls her only because he really thinks it will be beneficial.
"Okay, since you asked, I said, I wanted to sell your favor." Qin Ye touched his nose angrily.
It turned out that Concubine Xu Xian's palace staff "instructed" Yu Wan to go. At that time, the palace staff ate a bowl of stinky tofu in Zuixianju and asked Qin Ye who invented this method. Qin Ye said it was Zuixianju. The second master, the palace servant told Qin Ye, then let her enter the palace to cook for her mother.
In Master Qin's view, this is a matter of course. Since stinky tofu was invented by Yu Wan, her craftsmanship is set above that of the masters. Wouldn't that make sense if she didn't ask her to go to the palace?
But all this fell into Yu Wan's eyes, and it seemed that it was not the same thing.
At this juncture, Concubine Xu Xian announced her entry into the palace to cook, and the timing was too delicate.
However, the "Yizhi" has already been released. If she doesn't go, she will be "resisting the purpose and disrespecting it".
Yu Wan measured it in her heart and said to Master Qin, "Okay, I'll change into my clothes and enter the palace with you."
In order to avoid her family's worries, Yu Wan didn't say anything about the second prince, nor did she mention that it was Concubine Xu Xian's summons. She only said that Zuixianju received a single business from the palace, and she would return when she went.
On the way to the palace, Yu Wan asked Qin Ye about the concubine Xu Xian, who was a powerful harem. Qin Yequan was not curious about why she asked. After all, they were going to cook for Xu Xian. important.
"Speaking of this lady..." Master Qin told Yu Wan what he knew.
After Yu Wan heard it, she couldn't help but sighed that this empress's family history was simply an ancient version of a grass-roots counterattack.
Concubine Xu Xian was born in a businessman. At that time, the Xu family was not the current Xu family. In Xuzhou, it was barely considered a third-rate wealthy businessman.
Speaking of which, it was also because the Xuzhou Xiu female quota for that year was not filled, so the Xu family made a mistake.
The status of a businessman in Da Zhou was very low, so Concubine Xu Xian became the last beautiful girl in the team. She was quite outstanding in appearance, but there were so many beautiful women in the harem, and the most important thing was beautiful women.
"It's luck that she can get into His Majesty's eyes." On the carriage, Qin Ye continued, "At that time, Empress Ma was just pregnant with the eldest prince, and it was inconvenient to serve His Majesty, so she chose a few lovely girls from the show girls. in your own palace."
"Is Concubine Xu Xian one of those beautiful girls?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin smiled and shook his head: "No, there was a Concubine Li at that time, who was very favored by His Majesty, and the beautiful girls couldn't compare to her. But soon, Concubine Li also became pregnant with a dragon child."
Yu Wan paused: "Wait, didn't the second prince come from Concubine Xu Xian? How could it be Concubine Li who was pregnant first?"
Master Qin said, "that child was not born."
Yu Wan had heard about the prince from Bai Tang, and knew that the eldest prince was five years older than the second prince, and Concubine Li was pregnant in the same year as Empress Ma, which meant that for the next five years, , No more princes were born in the palace until... Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to Yan Huaijing.
Yu Wan thought about this place, and Han was born from her feet.
Qin Ye continued: "After Concubine Li found out that she was pregnant, she followed the example of Queen Ma and found a few young and beautiful girls."
"Concubine Xu Xian was picked by Concubine Li?" Yu Wan asked.
Qin Ye shook his head again.
When all the beautiful girls enter the palace, they will be attracted by the superior concubines to some extent. This is not only a means of competing for favor, but also a capital to settle down. Although they die quickly with the wrong backstage, they die faster without the backstage. Concubine Xu Xian is one of the few latter.
"She was just a promise at that time." Qin Ye said.
No one is optimistic about a single Xu Ying, her green head card will never be sent to the emperor, no accident, she will die of old age in her life.
"But guess what she did?" Qin Ye asked with great interest.
"What?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin seemed to have thought of something funny: "she grew vegetables in the harem."
Yu Wan was surprised.
Master Qin said: "One day, His Majesty ate a very delicious cabbage, and asked which royal chef made it. The royal chef said that it is not his cooking skills that are good, but the ingredients that he promised to grow."
The emperor went to Xu Ying's residence, which was a desolate old palace. Xu Ying rolled up his sleeves and held a hoe, and cultivated the field in the backyard. In that way, he caught the emperor's eyes.
The emperor lived in the cold palace for many years when he was young, and he often could not get enough to eat. That's how the queen mother grew vegetables for the young emperor and the young king Yan.
It was an experience that the emperor wanted to look back on the most. No one dared to touch it, but Xu Ying risked being beheaded and dared to force the emperor to recall every bit of the cold palace.
Concubine Xu Xian is the daughter of a merchant and not a village girl. How can she farm? Will Bai Tang farm? how is this possible? So whether it's arable land or vegetables, it's just another scheming of the palace.
Yu Wan got to know this Concubine Xu Xian a little more: "Will she endure the favor after that?"
Master Qin smiled at himself: "Where is there any kind of honor and favor? I've also lost favor, but in the end, I won the game."
The emperor entrusted the power of the six palaces to Concubine Xu Xian, not because he spoiled her and wanted to love her fiercely in bed, but in the eyes of the emperor, she was the most suitable woman to lead the harem.
With such a capable woman, it seems that today's summoning is no coincidence in any way.
...
Today, in addition to Yu Wan, there are two chefs from the drunken fairy house who entered the palace with Master Qin today. They were all brought by Master Qin from Jiang Zuo. They are in their early thirties and work steadily. They have been to the old house of the Yu family. Ask your uncle to teach you how to cook.
Master Qin was very confident in bringing the two of them along.
Yu Wan secretly said, is there really a cooking skill this time?
The carriage arrived at the palace, and the eunuch was waiting there early.
"Eunuch Wu, I kept you waiting!" Qin Ye greeted with a smile.
It seems that this is the palace servant who tasted the dishes in Shangzui Xianju. Yu Wan glanced at him without a trace. He was a few years younger than Uncle Wan, and he looked more handsome. Sharp edge.
Being able to work under Concubine Xu Xian is definitely not an ordinary person.
"Are these chefs who are drunk in Xianju?" Eunuch Wu looked at Yu Wan and the three with a decent smile.
"Is it a little girl?" A surprised tone.
Qin Ye smiled and said: "She is the second head of Zuixianju. Don't look at her as a little girl, she might have done it! Miss Yu, this is the Eunuch Wu I mentioned to you just now."
Yu Wan stepped forward and met with Eunuch Wu.
Eunuch Wu just glanced at her with a faint smile, without showing any extravagance, and then said to Master Qin, "Follow me to see the empress first."
To be able to see the imperial concubine, Lord Qin is so excited!
I thought that when I entered the palace to cook, I would be taken directly to the kitchen...
The group followed Eunuch Wu to Xianfu Palace.
The Xianfu Palace is very big. After a few gates and turns, we arrived at the side hall of Concubine Xian.
Eunuch Wu stopped outside the hall and said respectfully, "Qiyi Niangniang, the people from Zuixianju are here."
"Xuan."
It was a soothing yet solemn voice.
Eunuch Wu led Yu Wan and his party into the side hall.
On the main seat directly above the side hall, Yu Wan saw the rumored concubine Xu Xian.
She was wearing a purple palace dress, with eight-tailed phoenix hairpins on her head, picturesque eyebrows and eyes, a delicate face, slender hands, and well-proportioned joints. She sat on the palace with an indescribably powerful aura.
As expected of a woman who has been in the harem for 20 years, this aura alone is not something that ordinary ladies can have.
"Kowtow to the goddess, please." Eunuch Wu reminded.
Master Qin lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down: "Qin Zuo knocks on the concubine Xian concubine, and the goddess is blessed and safe."
Yu Wan and the two cooks also knelt down and worshipped in turn behind Master Qin.
The three of them were still stable, and they didn't embarrass Master Qin.
"There's another girl's house?" Concubine Xu Xian's tone seemed a little surprised, "Look up and let this palace take a look."
Yu Wan slowly raised her head.
Since she was nominally a cook in the palace, Yu Wan actually dressed like a cook, with a plain white corset skirt, apricot cotton spring dresses, no makeup, and only a single bun on her blue silk. Dressed up, no one in the crowd would look at her, but Concubine Xu Xian not only looked at her, but also looked at her many times.
To say that the facial features are more delicate than Yu Wan, there are too many, but she is the first to look so comfortable.
The temperament is also calm, just looking at her like this, a restless heart seems to be able to calm down slowly.
The years are quiet.
This sentence flashed in Xu Xianfei's mind for no reason.
"Niangniang." The maid in charge whispered to her.
Qin Ye didn't dare to look around, but he also felt that Concubine Xu Xian had been watching the second master for too long.
Concubine Xu Xian picked up the hot tea handed over by the maid in charge, and took a sip: "I have a good relationship with this girl, let her stay and talk to this palace, you can go and prepare dinner."
Lord Qin frowned strangely. Didn't he call for the stinky tofu she made? What does it mean to leave a narrative behind? After a while, they don't make enough flavor, who's fault is it?
Qin Yue always felt that there was something he had overlooked, but before he could figure it out, he asked Eunuch Wu to lead him to the small kitchen of Xianfu Palace.
Concubine Xu Xian did not call Yu Wan up.
Yu Wan kneeled on the cold floor for half an hour.
The spy outside the hall felt that something was wrong, and turned around to report to Yan Huaijing, but the men in black under Xu Xianfei's men were blocked...
Small kitchen.
Qin Ye put the jar with sour bamboo shoots on the stove, but suddenly a flash of light flashed: "Oh! I remembered! The second prince once rescued Miss Yu!"
That was the time of the God of Cooking Competition. Yu Wan was framed by her peers and locked in the ice cellar. It was the second prince who rescued Yu Wan upstairs. In order to preserve Yu Wan's famous festival, the second prince concealed Yu Wan's identity. But others don't know about it, so don't he and the Yu family know about it?
It wasn't that there was no doubt at the time, but the second prince did not follow up after the incident, and they gradually regarded this as a kind deed of the second prince.
But what if... not a simple act of kindness?
Could it be that Concubine Xu Xian misunderstood something, so she summoned Yu Wan?
Master Qin wanted to stab himself to death: "I...how could I forget such an important stubble! My pig brain! I, I, I... I let the lard blind me!"
Master Qin left the jar and walked out. Just as one foot crossed the threshold, Eunuch Wu walked over with a smile: "Boss Qin, where are you going? Mother's meal is ready?"
Master Qin smiled and said, "I suddenly remembered that some ingredients fell on the carriage, so I'll go get them."
Eunuch Wu said with a smile: "We are the palace here. What ingredients are there? It's really not. The miscellaneous family will go and get it for you."
Qin Ye's heart sank, and the news could not be delivered...
The Second Prince's Mansion.
Yan Huaijing read the file at hand and the information sent by the spies from Zigong City, and was about to enter the palace to greet Concubine Xu Xian. As soon as she left the palace, she saw a little eunuch waiting respectfully at the door.
This is the palace servant of Concubine Xu Xian.
"What's the matter here waiting for the lonely?" Yan Huaijing asked with a frown.
The little eunuch said, "Dare to ask the Second Highness, is he going to greet the empress?"
Yan Huaijing responded lightly.
The little eunuch said, "My lord said, before considering which girl to marry, His Royal Highness does not need to go and greet her."
Yan Huaijing frowned: "Does the concubine really say that?"
The little eunuch Fu lowered his body and said, "Yes, Your Highness, if you have already made up your mind, I will take you to greet the empress."
Yan Huaijing clenched her fists: "No need, you go tell the mother-in-law, I will visit him another day... another day."
The little eunuch bowed and said, "Respectfully send your Highness."
...
Inside the Xianfu Palace, Yu Wan had been kneeling on the cold and hard floor for half an hour, her knees were swollen, and there was a stinging pain, but she did not show it on her face. The back is still straight, and the figure is cold and stubborn.
Concubine Xu Xian peeled off the tangerine cord in a calm manner, and when she reached the ninth, she finally said casually: "Do you know why this palace made you kneel here?"
Being tactful in handling things is for those who need to be tactful, such as Yan Ruyu, so you can't be too rude, but a little village girl, Concubine Xu Xian really didn't take it seriously.
"It's because of the Second Highness." Yu Wan's expression was calm.
Concubine Xu Xian smiled lightly: "You are smart. It seems that you admitted that you seduced the emperor of this palace."
Yu Wan said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I said I didn't seduce me, would the niangniang believe me?"
Concubine Xu Xian looked at her condescendingly: "I've seen women like you a lot in this palace, with an innocent look on their lips, but more bad water in their stomachs than anyone else, His Highness is in the royal family and has never contacted you. These women in the market, who are new for a while, will inevitably be fascinated."
Yu Wan said slowly: "Is the market? With all due respect, my background seems to be higher than yours."
Scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, the Zhou Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce. The peasant households were only poor, but in terms of their background, they ranked ahead of the merchants.
"You are so courageous!" Concubine Xu Xian hates others to talk about her background. No matter how beautiful the Xu family is today, it can't change the fact that they were once merchants. What a mockery.
Queen Ma has long since fallen out of favor, she is only one step away from ascending to the rear, and this step is her origin!
Concubine Xu Xian put down the half-peeled orange, and looked coldly at Yu Wan, who was kneeling on the ground, as if she had no fear at all: "Even the princess doesn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of this palace, this palace sees that you are tired of living! You! Is it because Ben Gong's son loves you, that Ben Gong dare not do anything to you?"
Yu Wan shook her head: "I've never thought that way, everything is the mother's own speculation."
Concubine Xu Xian smiled coldly: "Bengong's speculation? Well, then you tell Bengong, who borrowed your courage? To make you ignore Bengong so much?"
Yu Wan said calmly: "If you want to add a crime, why bother? Today, I am respectfully lying at the feet of the goddess, won't I take anger on me?"
Concubine Xu Xian sneered: "Remove your anger? You mean, you did nothing wrong at all, and it was this palace that wronged you?"
Yu Wan raised her eyes and met Concubine Xu Xian's lingering gaze: "I don't know where the Second Highness and I heard about the matter, where did the niangniang hear about it, and how much did she hear about it, even if a suspect is being interrogated, he will not be covered with a coffin as soon as he arrives. The truth of the conclusion, the niece didn't even ask me what I said, she just blindly believed that I seduced the second prince, with all due respect, I am indeed wronged."
Concubine Xu Xian said word by word, "A clever tongue!"
"Niangniang." The maid in charge shook her head at Concubine Xu Xian.
Concubine Xu Xian said in a low voice, "Bengong has a good idea."
The mother in charge was implying that Concubine Xu Xian should not really kill Yu Wan. After all, Yu Wan was a woman whom the second prince liked. Killing her is a small thing, and the separation of mother and son is a big thing. To settle her, there are many ways!
How could Concubine Xu Xian be able to sit in her current position? It's just to scare Yu Wan, but since this trick doesn't work, it's enough to change it.
Concubine Xu Xian dissipated her anger and slowly raised the corners of her lips: "Bengong heard about your father's case."
Yu Wan's eyes moved slightly.
Concubine Xu Xian took a panoramic view of her expression, smiled sarcastically, and said, "It doesn't matter who robs whose military exploits, it matters who your Majesty wants to protect. Do you think that when the crime is settled, will your father still have a way to live?"
"Why does Niang Niang think that the person Your Majesty wants to protect won't be my father?" Yu Wan asked back.
The maid in charge shook her head, this girl is too daring, who is she being questioned?
Concubine Xu Xian sneered: "Don't tell me, you still don't know what the relationship between the Yan family and the young master's mansion is?"
Yu Wan looked at her for a moment: "Your majesty means that your Majesty's preservation of the Yan family is just for the sake of the young master's mansion?"
"Could it be that you are still looking at your face?" Concubine Xu Xian sneered.
Yu Wan lowered her eyes and murmured, "Young Master Yan is... so important in His Majesty's mind?"
Concubine Xu Xian raised her eyebrows and said, "It is as heavy as Mount Tai, better than a parent-child."
The corners of Yu Wan's lips twitched: "Since that's the case, I advise Empress not to make mistakes again and again."
Concubine Xu Xian didn't understand what Yu Wan was talking about, and Concubine Xu Xian looked at Yu Wan strangely: "If you leave the emperor of this palace, this palace will promise you, no matter how angry your majesty is, this palace will promise you. Gongdu saves your father's life for you."
Yu Wan smiled lightly: "The maiden doesn't need to threaten me. I didn't plan to marry into the prince's mansion. Didn't the second highness tell the maiden? He asked me to be the concubine, but I refused."
"You!" Concubine Xu Xian stood up angrily!
Yu Wan said calmly: "Isn't this the result that the mother wants? What is the mother angry about? Could it be that I can only be forced to leave your son in a heartbroken manner, and not allow me to look down on your son? Maybe in In your eyes, your son is a sweet potato, but in my eyes, he is nothing."
"Bitch!" Concubine Xu Xian rushed down the steps, raised her hand in anger, and slapped her down!
For Yu Wan, a place like the palace is almost a legendary existence. Can she really enter the palace to cook for those royal concubines?
"It's stinky tofu, it's still the best you make, and what others fry is not as stinky as yours!" Qin Ye said fairly fairly.
Yu Wan glanced at him lightly: "I thank you..."
Master Qin showed a smile: "Tianxianglou is so powerful, and I haven't even entered the palace to cook. I'll spread the word about it later, and our business will be even better!"
Yes, Tianxianglou was opened by Concubine Xu Xian's elder brother, and none of its cooks entered the palace, so how could it be the turn of a newly emerging Zuixianju?
Yu Wan always felt that the pie fell from the sky, which was a little unreal.
"Master Qin, do you know which lady wants to eat our Zuixianju food?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin winked and smiled: "Guess what?"
Yu Wan laughed: "I can't guess, you can just say it."
Master Qin straightened his waist and said, "Concubine Xu Xian!"
Concubine Xu Xian? Isn't that the biological mother of the second prince? Is she going to eat Zuixianju's dishes?
Yesterday, she had just rejected the second prince's "proposal". Today, Concubine Xu Xian announced the entry of the chef of Drunk Xianju into the palace. Could this be a coincidence?
"Did Concubine Xian tell me to go?" Yu Wan said.
"What? You're not happy? The pay is very generous! This is the number!" Master Qin made a gesture, "And the nobles in the palace are not poor, and they are happy to eat. If you give a reward, you will have the money to build the house. landed."
This is the truth, Yu Wan understands that Master Qin calls her only because he really thinks it will be beneficial.
"Okay, since you asked, I said, I wanted to sell your favor." Qin Ye touched his nose angrily.
It turned out that Concubine Xu Xian's palace staff "instructed" Yu Wan to go. At that time, the palace staff ate a bowl of stinky tofu in Zuixianju and asked Qin Ye who invented this method. Qin Ye said it was Zuixianju. The second master, the palace servant told Qin Ye, then let her enter the palace to cook for her mother.
In Master Qin's view, this is a matter of course. Since stinky tofu was invented by Yu Wan, her craftsmanship is set above that of the masters. Wouldn't that make sense if she didn't ask her to go to the palace?
But all this fell into Yu Wan's eyes, and it seemed that it was not the same thing.
At this juncture, Concubine Xu Xian announced her entry into the palace to cook, and the timing was too delicate.
However, the "Yizhi" has already been released. If she doesn't go, she will be "resisting the purpose and disrespecting it".
Yu Wan measured it in her heart and said to Master Qin, "Okay, I'll change into my clothes and enter the palace with you."
In order to avoid her family's worries, Yu Wan didn't say anything about the second prince, nor did she mention that it was Concubine Xu Xian's summons. She only said that Zuixianju received a single business from the palace, and she would return when she went.
On the way to the palace, Yu Wan asked Qin Ye about the concubine Xu Xian, who was a powerful harem. Qin Yequan was not curious about why she asked. After all, they were going to cook for Xu Xian. important.
"Speaking of this lady..." Master Qin told Yu Wan what he knew.
After Yu Wan heard it, she couldn't help but sighed that this empress's family history was simply an ancient version of a grass-roots counterattack.
Concubine Xu Xian was born in a businessman. At that time, the Xu family was not the current Xu family. In Xuzhou, it was barely considered a third-rate wealthy businessman.
Speaking of which, it was also because the Xuzhou Xiu female quota for that year was not filled, so the Xu family made a mistake.
The status of a businessman in Da Zhou was very low, so Concubine Xu Xian became the last beautiful girl in the team. She was quite outstanding in appearance, but there were so many beautiful women in the harem, and the most important thing was beautiful women.
"It's luck that she can get into His Majesty's eyes." On the carriage, Qin Ye continued, "At that time, Empress Ma was just pregnant with the eldest prince, and it was inconvenient to serve His Majesty, so she chose a few lovely girls from the show girls. in your own palace."
"Is Concubine Xu Xian one of those beautiful girls?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin smiled and shook his head: "No, there was a Concubine Li at that time, who was very favored by His Majesty, and the beautiful girls couldn't compare to her. But soon, Concubine Li also became pregnant with a dragon child."
Yu Wan paused: "Wait, didn't the second prince come from Concubine Xu Xian? How could it be Concubine Li who was pregnant first?"
Master Qin said, "that child was not born."
Yu Wan had heard about the prince from Bai Tang, and knew that the eldest prince was five years older than the second prince, and Concubine Li was pregnant in the same year as Empress Ma, which meant that for the next five years, , No more princes were born in the palace until... Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to Yan Huaijing.
Yu Wan thought about this place, and Han was born from her feet.
Qin Ye continued: "After Concubine Li found out that she was pregnant, she followed the example of Queen Ma and found a few young and beautiful girls."
"Concubine Xu Xian was picked by Concubine Li?" Yu Wan asked.
Qin Ye shook his head again.
When all the beautiful girls enter the palace, they will be attracted by the superior concubines to some extent. This is not only a means of competing for favor, but also a capital to settle down. Although they die quickly with the wrong backstage, they die faster without the backstage. Concubine Xu Xian is one of the few latter.
"She was just a promise at that time." Qin Ye said.
No one is optimistic about a single Xu Ying, her green head card will never be sent to the emperor, no accident, she will die of old age in her life.
"But guess what she did?" Qin Ye asked with great interest.
"What?" Yu Wan asked.
Master Qin seemed to have thought of something funny: "she grew vegetables in the harem."
Yu Wan was surprised.
Master Qin said: "One day, His Majesty ate a very delicious cabbage, and asked which royal chef made it. The royal chef said that it is not his cooking skills that are good, but the ingredients that he promised to grow."
The emperor went to Xu Ying's residence, which was a desolate old palace. Xu Ying rolled up his sleeves and held a hoe, and cultivated the field in the backyard. In that way, he caught the emperor's eyes.
The emperor lived in the cold palace for many years when he was young, and he often could not get enough to eat. That's how the queen mother grew vegetables for the young emperor and the young king Yan.
It was an experience that the emperor wanted to look back on the most. No one dared to touch it, but Xu Ying risked being beheaded and dared to force the emperor to recall every bit of the cold palace.
Concubine Xu Xian is the daughter of a merchant and not a village girl. How can she farm? Will Bai Tang farm? how is this possible? So whether it's arable land or vegetables, it's just another scheming of the palace.
Yu Wan got to know this Concubine Xu Xian a little more: "Will she endure the favor after that?"
Master Qin smiled at himself: "Where is there any kind of honor and favor? I've also lost favor, but in the end, I won the game."
The emperor entrusted the power of the six palaces to Concubine Xu Xian, not because he spoiled her and wanted to love her fiercely in bed, but in the eyes of the emperor, she was the most suitable woman to lead the harem.
With such a capable woman, it seems that today's summoning is no coincidence in any way.
...
Today, in addition to Yu Wan, there are two chefs from the drunken fairy house who entered the palace with Master Qin today. They were all brought by Master Qin from Jiang Zuo. They are in their early thirties and work steadily. They have been to the old house of the Yu family. Ask your uncle to teach you how to cook.
Master Qin was very confident in bringing the two of them along.
Yu Wan secretly said, is there really a cooking skill this time?
The carriage arrived at the palace, and the eunuch was waiting there early.
"Eunuch Wu, I kept you waiting!" Qin Ye greeted with a smile.
It seems that this is the palace servant who tasted the dishes in Shangzui Xianju. Yu Wan glanced at him without a trace. He was a few years younger than Uncle Wan, and he looked more handsome. Sharp edge.
Being able to work under Concubine Xu Xian is definitely not an ordinary person.
"Are these chefs who are drunk in Xianju?" Eunuch Wu looked at Yu Wan and the three with a decent smile.
"Is it a little girl?" A surprised tone.
Qin Ye smiled and said: "She is the second head of Zuixianju. Don't look at her as a little girl, she might have done it! Miss Yu, this is the Eunuch Wu I mentioned to you just now."
Yu Wan stepped forward and met with Eunuch Wu.
Eunuch Wu just glanced at her with a faint smile, without showing any extravagance, and then said to Master Qin, "Follow me to see the empress first."
To be able to see the imperial concubine, Lord Qin is so excited!
I thought that when I entered the palace to cook, I would be taken directly to the kitchen...
The group followed Eunuch Wu to Xianfu Palace.
The Xianfu Palace is very big. After a few gates and turns, we arrived at the side hall of Concubine Xian.
Eunuch Wu stopped outside the hall and said respectfully, "Qiyi Niangniang, the people from Zuixianju are here."
"Xuan."
It was a soothing yet solemn voice.
Eunuch Wu led Yu Wan and his party into the side hall.
On the main seat directly above the side hall, Yu Wan saw the rumored concubine Xu Xian.
She was wearing a purple palace dress, with eight-tailed phoenix hairpins on her head, picturesque eyebrows and eyes, a delicate face, slender hands, and well-proportioned joints. She sat on the palace with an indescribably powerful aura.
As expected of a woman who has been in the harem for 20 years, this aura alone is not something that ordinary ladies can have.
"Kowtow to the goddess, please." Eunuch Wu reminded.
Master Qin lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down: "Qin Zuo knocks on the concubine Xian concubine, and the goddess is blessed and safe."
Yu Wan and the two cooks also knelt down and worshipped in turn behind Master Qin.
The three of them were still stable, and they didn't embarrass Master Qin.
"There's another girl's house?" Concubine Xu Xian's tone seemed a little surprised, "Look up and let this palace take a look."
Yu Wan slowly raised her head.
Since she was nominally a cook in the palace, Yu Wan actually dressed like a cook, with a plain white corset skirt, apricot cotton spring dresses, no makeup, and only a single bun on her blue silk. Dressed up, no one in the crowd would look at her, but Concubine Xu Xian not only looked at her, but also looked at her many times.
To say that the facial features are more delicate than Yu Wan, there are too many, but she is the first to look so comfortable.
The temperament is also calm, just looking at her like this, a restless heart seems to be able to calm down slowly.
The years are quiet.
This sentence flashed in Xu Xianfei's mind for no reason.
"Niangniang." The maid in charge whispered to her.
Qin Ye didn't dare to look around, but he also felt that Concubine Xu Xian had been watching the second master for too long.
Concubine Xu Xian picked up the hot tea handed over by the maid in charge, and took a sip: "I have a good relationship with this girl, let her stay and talk to this palace, you can go and prepare dinner."
Lord Qin frowned strangely. Didn't he call for the stinky tofu she made? What does it mean to leave a narrative behind? After a while, they don't make enough flavor, who's fault is it?
Qin Yue always felt that there was something he had overlooked, but before he could figure it out, he asked Eunuch Wu to lead him to the small kitchen of Xianfu Palace.
Concubine Xu Xian did not call Yu Wan up.
Yu Wan kneeled on the cold floor for half an hour.
The spy outside the hall felt that something was wrong, and turned around to report to Yan Huaijing, but the men in black under Xu Xianfei's men were blocked...
Small kitchen.
Qin Ye put the jar with sour bamboo shoots on the stove, but suddenly a flash of light flashed: "Oh! I remembered! The second prince once rescued Miss Yu!"
That was the time of the God of Cooking Competition. Yu Wan was framed by her peers and locked in the ice cellar. It was the second prince who rescued Yu Wan upstairs. In order to preserve Yu Wan's famous festival, the second prince concealed Yu Wan's identity. But others don't know about it, so don't he and the Yu family know about it?
It wasn't that there was no doubt at the time, but the second prince did not follow up after the incident, and they gradually regarded this as a kind deed of the second prince.
But what if... not a simple act of kindness?
Could it be that Concubine Xu Xian misunderstood something, so she summoned Yu Wan?
Master Qin wanted to stab himself to death: "I...how could I forget such an important stubble! My pig brain! I, I, I... I let the lard blind me!"
Master Qin left the jar and walked out. Just as one foot crossed the threshold, Eunuch Wu walked over with a smile: "Boss Qin, where are you going? Mother's meal is ready?"
Master Qin smiled and said, "I suddenly remembered that some ingredients fell on the carriage, so I'll go get them."
Eunuch Wu said with a smile: "We are the palace here. What ingredients are there? It's really not. The miscellaneous family will go and get it for you."
Qin Ye's heart sank, and the news could not be delivered...
The Second Prince's Mansion.
Yan Huaijing read the file at hand and the information sent by the spies from Zigong City, and was about to enter the palace to greet Concubine Xu Xian. As soon as she left the palace, she saw a little eunuch waiting respectfully at the door.
This is the palace servant of Concubine Xu Xian.
"What's the matter here waiting for the lonely?" Yan Huaijing asked with a frown.
The little eunuch said, "Dare to ask the Second Highness, is he going to greet the empress?"
Yan Huaijing responded lightly.
The little eunuch said, "My lord said, before considering which girl to marry, His Royal Highness does not need to go and greet her."
Yan Huaijing frowned: "Does the concubine really say that?"
The little eunuch Fu lowered his body and said, "Yes, Your Highness, if you have already made up your mind, I will take you to greet the empress."
Yan Huaijing clenched her fists: "No need, you go tell the mother-in-law, I will visit him another day... another day."
The little eunuch bowed and said, "Respectfully send your Highness."
...
Inside the Xianfu Palace, Yu Wan had been kneeling on the cold and hard floor for half an hour, her knees were swollen, and there was a stinging pain, but she did not show it on her face. The back is still straight, and the figure is cold and stubborn.
Concubine Xu Xian peeled off the tangerine cord in a calm manner, and when she reached the ninth, she finally said casually: "Do you know why this palace made you kneel here?"
Being tactful in handling things is for those who need to be tactful, such as Yan Ruyu, so you can't be too rude, but a little village girl, Concubine Xu Xian really didn't take it seriously.
"It's because of the Second Highness." Yu Wan's expression was calm.
Concubine Xu Xian smiled lightly: "You are smart. It seems that you admitted that you seduced the emperor of this palace."
Yu Wan said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I said I didn't seduce me, would the niangniang believe me?"
Concubine Xu Xian looked at her condescendingly: "I've seen women like you a lot in this palace, with an innocent look on their lips, but more bad water in their stomachs than anyone else, His Highness is in the royal family and has never contacted you. These women in the market, who are new for a while, will inevitably be fascinated."
Yu Wan said slowly: "Is the market? With all due respect, my background seems to be higher than yours."
Scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, the Zhou Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce. The peasant households were only poor, but in terms of their background, they ranked ahead of the merchants.
"You are so courageous!" Concubine Xu Xian hates others to talk about her background. No matter how beautiful the Xu family is today, it can't change the fact that they were once merchants. What a mockery.
Queen Ma has long since fallen out of favor, she is only one step away from ascending to the rear, and this step is her origin!
Concubine Xu Xian put down the half-peeled orange, and looked coldly at Yu Wan, who was kneeling on the ground, as if she had no fear at all: "Even the princess doesn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of this palace, this palace sees that you are tired of living! You! Is it because Ben Gong's son loves you, that Ben Gong dare not do anything to you?"
Yu Wan shook her head: "I've never thought that way, everything is the mother's own speculation."
Concubine Xu Xian smiled coldly: "Bengong's speculation? Well, then you tell Bengong, who borrowed your courage? To make you ignore Bengong so much?"
Yu Wan said calmly: "If you want to add a crime, why bother? Today, I am respectfully lying at the feet of the goddess, won't I take anger on me?"
Concubine Xu Xian sneered: "Remove your anger? You mean, you did nothing wrong at all, and it was this palace that wronged you?"
Yu Wan raised her eyes and met Concubine Xu Xian's lingering gaze: "I don't know where the Second Highness and I heard about the matter, where did the niangniang hear about it, and how much did she hear about it, even if a suspect is being interrogated, he will not be covered with a coffin as soon as he arrives. The truth of the conclusion, the niece didn't even ask me what I said, she just blindly believed that I seduced the second prince, with all due respect, I am indeed wronged."
Concubine Xu Xian said word by word, "A clever tongue!"
"Niangniang." The maid in charge shook her head at Concubine Xu Xian.
Concubine Xu Xian said in a low voice, "Bengong has a good idea."
The mother in charge was implying that Concubine Xu Xian should not really kill Yu Wan. After all, Yu Wan was a woman whom the second prince liked. Killing her is a small thing, and the separation of mother and son is a big thing. To settle her, there are many ways!
How could Concubine Xu Xian be able to sit in her current position? It's just to scare Yu Wan, but since this trick doesn't work, it's enough to change it.
Concubine Xu Xian dissipated her anger and slowly raised the corners of her lips: "Bengong heard about your father's case."
Yu Wan's eyes moved slightly.
Concubine Xu Xian took a panoramic view of her expression, smiled sarcastically, and said, "It doesn't matter who robs whose military exploits, it matters who your Majesty wants to protect. Do you think that when the crime is settled, will your father still have a way to live?"
"Why does Niang Niang think that the person Your Majesty wants to protect won't be my father?" Yu Wan asked back.
The maid in charge shook her head, this girl is too daring, who is she being questioned?
Concubine Xu Xian sneered: "Don't tell me, you still don't know what the relationship between the Yan family and the young master's mansion is?"
Yu Wan looked at her for a moment: "Your majesty means that your Majesty's preservation of the Yan family is just for the sake of the young master's mansion?"
"Could it be that you are still looking at your face?" Concubine Xu Xian sneered.
Yu Wan lowered her eyes and murmured, "Young Master Yan is... so important in His Majesty's mind?"
Concubine Xu Xian raised her eyebrows and said, "It is as heavy as Mount Tai, better than a parent-child."
The corners of Yu Wan's lips twitched: "Since that's the case, I advise Empress not to make mistakes again and again."
Concubine Xu Xian didn't understand what Yu Wan was talking about, and Concubine Xu Xian looked at Yu Wan strangely: "If you leave the emperor of this palace, this palace will promise you, no matter how angry your majesty is, this palace will promise you. Gongdu saves your father's life for you."
Yu Wan smiled lightly: "The maiden doesn't need to threaten me. I didn't plan to marry into the prince's mansion. Didn't the second highness tell the maiden? He asked me to be the concubine, but I refused."
"You!" Concubine Xu Xian stood up angrily!
Yu Wan said calmly: "Isn't this the result that the mother wants? What is the mother angry about? Could it be that I can only be forced to leave your son in a heartbroken manner, and not allow me to look down on your son? Maybe in In your eyes, your son is a sweet potato, but in my eyes, he is nothing."
"Bitch!" Concubine Xu Xian rushed down the steps, raised her hand in anger, and slapped her down!
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