female concubine

Xiao Zongren held a loquat as big as his hand in his hand, raised his head and looked at his mother with big round eyes, "Is mother going to make candy for dad?"

"Your father was disobedient, so he got sick, and he refused to take medicine when he was sick."

"So you want mother to make candy to coax daddy like coaxing Zongren?"

Xiao Youqing tied the sleeves with loops, picked up a loquat in the bowl with a spoon made of pottery and explained to the child: "The loquat can cure coughs and is good for the throat."

"I see." After listening to his mother's words, Xiao Zongren stood on tiptoe and put the loquat in his hand back into the bowl, "Zongren won't eat any more, so I'll treat Daddy's throat."

Xiao Youqing was quite surprised by his actions, holding a spoon and a loquat in his hand couldn't do anything else, so he said to Wen Rou: "Zong Ren is a filial child, maybe your father is not as obedient as you."

Zong Ren stared blankly at his mother, and said innocently: "They say that father only listens to mother."

Xiao Youqing stopped for a moment, and then just smiled at him.

"The villain helps the princess peel this loquat."

"No, a fire will be lit in a moment, you can take him out."

"Yes."

The palace servants took Shouchun County King away, and Xichun stepped forward, "Since my uncle came back, Mr. Xiaolang has been arguing to see my uncle every three days, which shows that he likes it from the bottom of his heart."

Xiao Youqing looked sideways at the child leaving at the door, "I only hope he can still miss him so much when he grows up."

"Slaves help girls peel loquats."

"Okay." Xiao Youqing pointed to the spoon at the side, "Use the back of the spoon to scrape gently around the loquat's body, and the peel will no longer stick to the pulp."

Xiqiu nodded, and then cut the peeled loquat in half to get the core. After removing the core, there was still a layer of white attached, so she removed it with a copper spoon.

Xiqiu held the cleaned small stone mortar, "I remember this loquat candy was taught by the eldest lady, and later... I never saw the girl make it again."

Xiao Youqing put the pitted and peeled loquats into a stone mortar and crushed them, wrapped the sauce with a clean cotton cloth, then filtered it, put it in a pot, added two taels of rock sugar, honey, and one tael of syrup, and simmered it over low heat, " When I was young, I was in poor health. Every time the seasons changed, I always caught cold. I hated the bitterness of the medicine and refused to drink it and coughed badly. My mother made this kind of medicine by frying sugar. I have never made it or eaten it for more than ten years. pass."

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Another high chair was set up next to the throne in the Chuigong Hall, and the King of Chu sat obliquely on the chair and read the memorials and Zhazi.

"My lord, the second son-in-law has arrived."

"Let him in."

A man in his 30s walked into the hall, "Lu Shicheng has met the king."

The king of Chu hurriedly stopped the son-in-law who was about to kowtow, "Brother-in-law." She had seen the second son-in-law before, and he looked like a modest gentleman.

"The subordinate is here."

"Is the residence of the captain-in-law still safe?"

The son-in-law raised his head, then knelt down on his knees, tremblingly said: "The government's gift of the house is a mighty gift from heaven, and the minister is very grateful and very down-to-earth."

"Oh, a house given by the government? Very solid?" The King of Chu walked up to him and knelt down, took out a letter from his sleeve and pointed at the son-in-law's hand, and the son-in-law stretched out his trembling hand.

Chu Wangxuan put it lightly in the palm of the son-in-law, and said in a low voice: "Here is a secret letter from the princess's residence." Before the son-in-law could open it, he was startled by her scolding.

"Do you think that the girls in the Wei family are easy to bully since my Wei family has no sons?"

The son-in-law Jishou knocked his head heavily, "No, Your Majesty forgives the crime, as a servant, I would never dare to have such a heart."

"Relying on the fact that you are Lu Xiangshi's nephew, thinking that Lu Xiang is the king's teacher, you can even forget your duty as a minister, and relying on the princess's benevolence, you will become more presumptuous."

"I don't want to..."

"Don't want what?"

"Your official...I..." The son-in-law was dumbfounded, never thinking that the king of Chu would stand up for the princess.

"This king has a feud with the princess's sister, but this is my family's business. The princess is my own sister. How can you allow an outsider to bully you? If it weren't for the fact that you have two underage children, I will definitely tell you." The officials of the Ming Dynasty let you be exiled outside the Great Wall!"

The son-in-law raised his head and stared wide-eyed, and kowtowed in panic, "Forgive me, Your Majesty, I was confused for a while, and I will never dare again in the future."

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The person who was reprimanded ran home in disgrace ["You have no talent and no virtue, and you can sit in this seat by relying on the reputation accumulated by the Lu family for generations. What face do you have to ask for an official now? Since you are so idle If you want to stay, then go to the army, anyway, according to the rules of the court, I will be a princess and become a general.”]

There was a plaque with the words of Prince Consort Duwei's residence hanging at the gate, and the people in the carriage rolled down because of their impatience, and several attendants who came to support him were also thrown away by him, "Get out of the way!"

He scrambled and ran back home, "Princess, princess!" knocking down several servants along the way.

The second princess was listening to a seven or eight-year-old girl reviewing her homework in the courtyard.

"It's Daddy." The girl with two buns on her arms jumped off the swing, "Mother, it's Daddy."

"Princess, I've seen the princess!" Lu Shicheng walked into the yard, ignored the two children beside him, knelt down towards the woman, and slapped himself twice at the same time.

Seeing him like this, the man who couldn't bear it put down the book in his hand and stood up to help him, "What are you doing..."

"Princess save me."

Three steps and two steps gradually slowed down and even stood still, "The other courtyard is comfortable, and the son-in-law rarely returns home. I don't ask you to come back to see me, but these two children are your own flesh and blood."

"Yes, thousands of mistakes are all my fault, and now I deserve the retribution." He tilted his head sideways and felt angry, "I was not reprimanded by the officials, but I was scolded by the princess's own brother, a junior."

The abolished prince has become a common man, and there is only one younger brother left, "What?"

"He wants to drive me to the frontier of Saibei's army, princess," Lu Shicheng knelt and crawled forward, "You must save me, for the sake of the aunt and the second mother, you can't abandon me. I drank too much that day. unintended mistake."

The second princess touched the scar that had faded on her forehead, "Didn't the son-in-law always feel useless as the emperor's son-in-law? Now he can serve in the army..."

"That's beyond the Great Wall. There's no guarantee we'll start a war with the Khitans anytime soon. Even if you don't want me, you have to think about your daughter. Don't you have the heart to see them without a father..."

"I never had a father." The little girl with her hands behind her back walked up to her mother, "Yan'er, don't call him daddy, he only likes the one outside..."

"Shut up!" The second princess turned around and reprimanded sharply, "Is this how the professor teaches you to behave?"

The girl pouted and turned her head to one side.

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The boiled loquat sugar was poured into porcelain molds and left to dry. When the King of Chu came back from the court, it was air-dried and turned into sugar cubes.

The porcelain mold is in the shape of a flower for making a small pastry, and the loquat sugar is too sweet to pour in only a thin layer.

The meal in Fanying Pavilion is not divided into tables like in the palace, but just like in the Chu Palace.

The King of Chu picked up a piece of ginger candy, "What kind of candy is this, why have I never seen it before?"

"Candy made from loquats is not even found in the pastry shops on both sides of Ma Xing Street. Of course you have never seen it."

Hungry people take a bite.

"How is it?" She was busy making breakfast and the candy was ready to dry before she had time to try it. "My mother made it to coax me when I was young. I have memorized this method for so many years and I don't know if there is any mistake."

"Instead of asking me, Sanniang, why don't you try it yourself," she took the remaining half of the candy together, "Don't you like it? Forget it..."

When she was about to take it back, Xiao Youqing bit off the loquat candy, and stretched out her sleeve to cover her mouth, "Sure enough, it's not as delicious as mother's."

"No, it's sugar, but it's sweet but not greasy." The King of Chu smiled and said, "My wife really knows everything with her ingenuity. Loquat relieves cough and moistens throat, she is really considerate."

"You're the only one who speaks nice words."

"I sent someone to the princess's house this morning to call the concubine, but the concubine was not in the house. Later, I ordered people to ask the prisoner in the house, but the prisoner refused to speak. It was my nephew who told me. The second sister is too gentle and doesn't want to cause trouble. , has been holding back."

Xiao Youqing listened and put down the porridge spoon, "How can you be gentle when you cover up your mistakes? This is clearly weakness."

"So I'm going to throw that son-in-law into Saibei's army."

"You have trained the son-in-law to throw him outside the Great Wall. He will run to the benevolent princess and cry. If the princess is sincere and kind, she will come to the palace to look for you..."

"Report to Your Majesty, Princess Chen asks to see you."

"You see."

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Ever since a few princesses brought their clan daughters into the cabinet to visit the emperor who was lying on the couch at the beginning of May, the anger in his eyes gradually calmed down, and he no longer glared at the palace people who were feeding inside.

Several servants helped Zhao Ci into the Palace of Funing.

The master attendant with his head wrapped in a black scarf crossed his hands at the old man, "Everyone knows Zhao."

"How is the official family?"

Master Attendant nodded, "The officials refused to eat before, but now they can eat a lot of three meals a day."

The servant came out from the cabinet, and cupped his hands after seeing Zhao Ci, "Everyone knows."

"Are you going to stop me?"

The servant took a step forward, "Don't dare, the king ordered, except for the rest time of the officials, visits at other times are allowed. The king said that he has a clear conscience whether it is a monarch, a minister or a father and son."

Zhao Ci looked sideways at the withered crabapple, and walked in with a long sigh.

"Officials." After handing over the Imperial City Secretary, Zhao Ci lived in a courtyard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and copied scriptures every day and did not come out to take care of affairs. Only now did he dare to come to see the emperor.

The emperor was paralyzed on the bed and couldn't speak, which was much more serious than the hemiplegia in the pulse case. Zhao Ci knelt down in front of the emperor's bed, "The villain is ashamed of you."

The emperor opened his eyes, wriggling his uncontrollable mouth as if saying something, Zhao Ci raised his head and leaned closer, only to hear the emperor stutter, "Brother...brother." Immediately, he grabbed Zhao Ci His hand is only strong for a moment of grasping.

Zhao Ci's old eyes were red, "The villain knows what the officials want to say, and the villain only hates himself for being cowardly. If the villain is more courageous and dares to speak out to persuade the officials, maybe the current situation of father-son estrangement will not be caused."

Hearing Zhao Ci's words, the emperor let go of his struggling hands and lay back, his eyes were red, and a tear fell from the corner of his eyes along the old wrinkled lines.

The old emperor recalled the past, when the founding father of Longde traveled all the way back to Beijing to enter the ban, the first thing he said was that the emperor was wrong, but it was a pity that he knew he was wrong but turned a blind eye.

"Fortunately, the official family now has successors. The six kings supervise the country, but they have not overstepped the rules. They treat the princesses as sisters like the fourth princess. The six kings will personally handle trivial matters."

The emperor blinked his red eyes, stretched out his hand with great difficulty, and Zhao Ci quickly put his palm on it.

Calloused fingers trembled and drew a stroke in the palm.

Both three and six have consecutive strokes, "Who does the official want to see?"

"Three kings?" Seeing the emperor staring and not moving, Zhao Ci said again: "Six kings?"

Seeing him blinking, Zhao Ci hurriedly got up, "Young man, go and invite the Sixth King."

The author has something to say: Syrup: Maltose.

Loquat candy is from the Ming Dynasty, and the method of making rock sugar has been recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu".

Huan's voice has never been good.

Many princesses in the Song Dynasty were miserable, and their son-in-law would not enter the center of power (there were occasional exceptions, but in fact, the most important thing was to see the emperor's will.) The offspring enjoyed grace.

General literati and bureaucrats look down on the kindness of entering an official, and the promotion is not as fast as passing the imperial examination.

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