After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

It is late at night, and the new moon is like a hook.

The small kitchen in the back hall of Ziju was dimly lit. Han Mochu had half a bunch of long hair, a long gown in green clothes on his back, a large porcelain bowl with a wide mouth in his left hand, and a pair of long wooden chopsticks in his right hand. The bowl was stirred briskly, and the sound of chopsticks clinking was very clear in the silent night.

It was a long night, after returning from Miracle Physician Su's medicine hut, he, Gu Xiujun and his ministers got into the three large empty rooms specially used for research and pondered a few astrology books that could be used to calculate the weather.

In the middle of the night, the two were sleepless due to hunger

Han Mochu asked Gu Xiu, "What do you want to eat?"

Gu Xiu thought for a moment and said, "Egg custard."

Egg custard was their favorite supper when Mrs. Wu of Shanggong was serving them.

Eating a bowl when you are hungry late at night is better than how many panaceas for calming the nerves.

Now that Shanggong Wu's family is away from the palace to take care of Princess Qingzhao to raise her baby, and they really don't want to toss a group of court ladies and eunuchs for a bowl of egg custard at this moment, the two of them thought of doing it themselves on a whim.

Gu Xiu stood beside Han Mochu silently with a candlestick in his hand, quietly watching the eggs knocked in the bowl turn into a bowl of yellow egg liquid under the stirring of the wooden chopsticks, until the surface of the egg liquid accumulated like lumps. The snow-like foam just stopped.

"Well, it's almost there." Han Mochu nodded resolutely: "Yun Chi, go and start the fire."

"Master." Gu Xiu, who had never said a word, called softly, "Did you add salt?"

"Yes, we need to add salt." Han Mochu was slightly taken aback, then sprinkled a small amount of fine salt powder into the bowl: "Okay, let's go down and light the fire now."

"Master." Gu Xiu hesitated again holding the candlestick.

"What's the matter?"

"Master, do you know which stove Aunt Wu used to cook this egg custard?"

When asked by Gu Xiu, Han Mochu was also late.

He knew that the egg custard dish was made in a steamer, but he really didn't know how the stacked layers of steamers were used.He doesn't know where to start the fire, where to add water, or when to put firewood.

When he and Gu Xiu were at their worst in the early years, the palace servants in the imperial dining room would deliver hot soup and rice for three meals a day, and even if they were on the battlefield, they would be provided with food by the leader of the army, so there was no need for the two of them to worry about it personally.

There is only one porridge cooked after a banquet, and then it is today.

Seeing his hesitation, Gu Xiu pointed to a row of pots and stoves that performed their duties and asked again: "Master, which one do you use?"

"Let me think about it."

Han Mochu pondered for a moment, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.

There are thousands of foods in the world, and there are thousands of cooking methods, which are nothing more than changing the ingredients from raw to cooked.If you can't steam it, you can cook it, if you can't boil it, you can bake it, if you can't bake it, you can burn it, as long as it is cooked, it can be eaten.

Thinking this way, Han Mochu made an astonishing decision.He first used the candlestick in Gu Xiu's hand to light a small stove with a low heat for cooking soup and porridge, then put the large bowl containing egg liquid into the casserole for soup, filled the pot with water, and finally put the lid on: "Cloud Chi wait, the water can be eaten when it boils."

The red charcoal fire heated the clear water in the pot until it boiled, and the trance-like white air slowly climbed up along the air holes on the pot cover. The boiling water drove the small bowl sitting in the pot, making a few small muffled sounds from time to time. , In a place invisible to human eyes, the collision between the bottom of the bowl and the bottom of the pot unintentionally knocked out an extremely small crack on the bottom of the casserole.

However, the charcoal fire was still burning, the hot water was still boiling, and the bottom of the bowl was still knocking.

The small cracks were enlarged for no reason, and all-pervasive clear water seeped in, wet the inside of the casserole, and turned the hardened pottery bottom into red mud again.

Then, with a loud bang, the casserole shattered in two.The big bowl in the pot was intact, but the half-baked egg custard in the bowl was poured out, the charcoal fire under the pot was instantly extinguished by the boiling water in the pot, and white smoke rose into the sky with a whistling sound. The pots and pans in the small kitchen were like ruins.

After the loud noise, the small kitchen was full of death sacrifices.

There was a hurried sound of boots stamping on the ground outside the small kitchen. It turned out that the loud noise just now attracted Zi Juli's changing guards.

Creaking, the door of the small kitchen was violently pushed open from the outside, a group of people quickly surrounded the small kitchen, and the lanterns in everyone's hands illuminated the dim small kitchen again, and the leading commander turned towards the two of them. The back of the man shouted guardedly: "Who! Who is there!"

Gu Xiu tilted his head slightly, and glanced at the little commander with a pair of eyes that seemed to be born with evil spirits. The little commander was so frightened that he knelt down on one knee and saluted the two: "See Your Majesty, see Taifu Han, we just heard The sound here is too loud, so I came to check, I don't know if Your Majesty and Tai Tuo are injured."

"It's nothing, just clean it up." Han Mochu put down his rolled up cuffs without changing his face, and walked out one after another with the king beside him.

Passing through the corridor leading to the sleeping hall, Gu Xiu protected the dying candle with one hand: "It's only now that I believe that Master, you really don't know how to cook."

"What's the matter? I grew up on Baiming Mountain since I was a child. Mr. Yi Yi knows nothing but scones and roasted pork, and he didn't even bother to cook roasted pork in a few years. He said he was a vegetarian, but I and I It's like a herring caught from wild animals caught in the mountains, and he didn't take a single bite." Han Mochu straightened his back as a matter of course: "A master can't, how can the children he teaches be able to? Your Majesty doesn't and doesn't Will it?"

"If I knew this earlier, I should order herring and wild animals today."

"It's useless for your majesty to order. I'm cooked well, but it's not delicious." Han Mochu said frankly: "If your majesty wants, I can order another kitchen for your majesty tomorrow."

"It's still not necessary. My son Ran is a minister who governs the world. It's really overkill for the Qing family to entrust himself to the kitchen."

"Your Majesty, if you dislike the skill of the minister, you can say it directly, and you don't have to beat around the bush like this when dealing with people."

***

The next day, the monarch and his ministers returned early.

I saw a half-new white porcelain jar on the small table where the two of them had their daily meals. The first time Han Mochu saw the body of the jar, he could tell that it was the high-quality jar that he saw at Su Che's place yesterday. ice flakes.

"Yuanbao, Mr. Su sent this pot? What did he say?" Han Mochu took a seat at the table, and the little maids who had been waiting under the kitchen brought up the breakfast warmed in a food box.

"Back to Taifu Han, this jar was sent by Mr. Su early in the morning." Yuan Bao bowed and replied in a low voice: "The person sent by Mr. Su said that Mr. Su went to Qing to go to Yunfang Xin The wine shop opened asks the matchmaker to withdraw the matchmaker's money, if the matchmaker refuses to give it up, I hope you can send a team of forbidden troops to support him."

"It's all for 50 taels of silver, and he really can figure it out. Not to mention whether 50 taels of silver is enough for the military expenses of the forbidden army for a day. A fourth-rank minister took the forbidden army to ask the civilians to ask for an account, and he was not afraid of the imperial censor. The Taiwanese ginseng bullies others." Han Mochu took the towel handed over by the eunuch serving food, wiped his hands and said to Yuan Bao, "You go to the imperial hospital and ask someone else to replace the imperial physician Pei who is on duty today. It is His Majesty's intention. Ask him to go to King Ning's mansion immediately, and ask His Highness King Ning for a safe pulse."

"Yes, I obey." Yuan Bao followed the order and retreated.

"Why did Ziran ask that Imperial Physician Pei to go to Prince Ning's Mansion so well?" After Yuan Bao left, Gu Xiu picked up the porridge bowl in great confusion: "Didn't Mr. Su ask for something? Why did it involve Brother Liu and Zhen?" superior."

"The newly opened restaurant in Qingyunfang is just across the street from Prince Ning Yi's mansion. Imperial physician Pei must pass through here when he leaves the palace to go to King Ning's residence." Han Mochu leisurely broke up with himself for a snack: "If the two of them are destined Well, that little Imperial Physician Pei was naturally able to catch up with the excitement, and would naturally go to rescue Chang Ru. For the sake of my brother's lifelong affairs, I told a lie under the name of His Majesty and His Highness King Ning, and please Your Majesty not to blame. "

"Han Taifu's words are as if I really blamed you." Gu Xiu sighed softly, as if he had suffered an injustice from the boss.

***

Although Taifu Han is not good at cooking, he always predicts things like a god.

Pei Yiheng had no doubts about him when he got the order, and hastily changed into the normal clothes he used for going out of the palace, carrying the medicine box and leaving the gate of the palace.

When walking to the main street of Qingyunfang, what happened in front of it was completely blocked.This street market is already bustling with a huge flow of people. Whenever there is excitement to watch, three to 40 people can gather to watch.

Pei Yiheng, who was ordered by the emperor, had no time to take care of this matter, so he could only protect the medicine box and divide the flow of people in front of him with his hands, and squeezed hard to the center of the bustle. He never dreamed that the protagonist of this bustle It turned out to be his mentor Su Changru and several old women with heavy makeup and red flowers on their heads.

"How many times have you come here to ask for a total of 50 taels of silver! You really think us aunts are easy to mess with! We are so old and have no money and no power, but we still want to marry a beautiful lady at the feet of the emperor! The toad wants to eat swan meat! What a fool! Shameless! Shameless!" Matchmaker A stretched out her index finger and pointed at her skin, which had been whitened by the incense powder, shaking her head and curling her lips in a look of embarrassment.

"It was you who said at the beginning that if the marriage fails, the money will be refunded! How can things change! How can you be so dishonest!" Facing this group of fierce old aunts, Su, who has been working with medicine all day long, It is impossible for the genius doctor to gain the upper hand.

"Everyone comment, we are big matchmakers who are all honest people who do business with conscience." Matchmaker B grabbed a small green handkerchief and pretended to say: "This is the master, keep saying I am the Imperial Physician Order in the palace, who knows that there is not even a brick house in Beijing! After getting married, I have to live in a bamboo house in the suburbs of Beijing. Which girl from a good family is willing to marry? I found one with great difficulty, and you still don’t know. Satisfied, return the money, how can there be such a reason in the world?"

"You're talking nonsense! You and I are looking for a widow!" Su Che was furious amidst the booing of everyone.

"What's wrong with the widow? There is no room and no land, and you still think about old cows eating young grass at a young age. You are really not afraid of losing your waist and teeth, and then your son will not be born, and you will die on a human bed!" Matchmaker C also took up the conversation and spat emphatically, "Bah! A forty-year-old tortoise without a wife!"

Because of the temporary absence of the governor of Jingzhao, these days, as long as there is no bloody life lawsuit on the streets of Bianjing, no one will call the dibao, and such small fights on the street are even more useless. People asked, and more and more people came and went, and the aunts' unrestrained village dialect made everyone laugh.

Seeing this situation, Pei Yiheng was instantly overwhelmed with anger, and without knowing where the strength came from, he directly stopped Su Che who had hit the wall behind him, and shouted sharply: "You bastard old aunts! Who are you calling a turtle! Say Who is bastard!"

"Little? Little Pei?" Su Che was obviously very surprised by Pei Yiheng who appeared out of thin air.

"Hey, where did the little bastard come from and dare to come to us to rape?!" The matchmaker A stood out with her big round breasts, trying to overwhelm the other party in terms of momentum and figure.

"You shameless old aunts, you cheated people and didn't give you any money. You really don't know what to do in the imperial city at the foot of the emperor!" Pei Yiheng straightened out his thin chest and confronted the three old matchmakers without showing any weakness. .

"Hey! We don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth? All right, today our sisters will show you what is the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth!" Matchmaker A rolled up her sleeves, followed by the other two, and the three directly surrounded the thin Pei Yiheng.

"Little Pei, don't do anything!" Before Su Che could finish his sentence, Pei Yiheng had already dropped the medicine box and rushed towards the three vicious old aunts.

The four of them directly wrestled together, and Su Che stepped forward several times to help, but was pushed aside several times.He never thought that he, who speaks softly, would act like a lunatic when fighting.

After a while, the old women who were still arrogant just now were defeated one by one.Matchmaker B was kicked so hard that she couldn't get up, Matchmaker C was caught with bloodstains all over her face, and Matchmaker A was bitten seven or eight times.

"Good job, you little girl! You're quite powerful!" The matchmaker A grinned and rubbed the finger that Pei Yiheng almost bit off, took out a money bag from her bosom and threw it in front of him: "No, it's 50 taels of silver Is it? Just give it back to you! Just pretend that I have never done your business! Your master will never even think about getting married in Beijing!"

Angrily, Pei Yiheng bent down to pick up the purse, and suddenly realized that there was a gray blur in front of his eyes, and subconsciously reached out to touch his head, only touching the half-inch-long hairpin head.It was only then that I suddenly realized that when I was fighting with those aunts just now, the hairpins were broken, all my long hair fell down, my outer clothes were crooked, and the soft silk tied around my chest was loose. No wonder the matchmaker kept her mouth shut Call her little girl film.

The three old aunts left, and the crowd of spectators slowly dispersed. Su Che grabbed Pei Yiheng's wrist and walked against the flow of people towards a secluded direction.

"Sir, I got the money back for you." Pei Yiheng followed Su Che step by step with the money bag he had finally snatched back. If he remembered correctly, this was the first time Su Che led him. hand.

"I know, I saw it. Aren't you on duty today? Why did you come here?"

"It was His Majesty who ordered me to change my job and go to Prince Ning's Mansion to diagnose the pulse of His Highness Prince Ning." Pei Yiheng tucked his long hair behind his ears as he walked, and whispered, "Sir, my hairpin is broken."

"I know your hairpin is broken, I'll buy you a new one in a while."

"Sir, I'm actually a woman." Pei Yiheng still held the purse she had snatched back, and told his life experience very naturally: "My name is Pei Lingshu, and Yiheng is my brother's name. My father is a military doctor. I have been peeing since I was a child." I wanted to practice medicine, but he refused to teach me because I was his daughter. When I came to choose a doctor that year, I thought you would not choose me, sir, but you really chose me..."

"I knew you were a woman a long time ago. If I couldn't even distinguish between a man and a woman, I wouldn't have to practice medicine. Don't worry, since I can let you stay in the palace, I won't care whether you are a man or a woman. It's your future. They all show themselves as women, and no one will say anything." Su Che said firmly while clutching that slender wrist.

"Sir, why do you have to get married?"

"Because Mr. Yi's last wish was that I could marry a wife and have children."

"But those matchmakers said that if you offend them, your husband will never be able to find a wife and room in Beijing."

"If you can't find it, don't look for it now. I'll think of a way later."

"Don't worry, Mister. If Mister is for Mr. Yi Ji's last wish, then marry me." Pei Lingshu, with her messy long hair, went around to Su Che and stared into his eyes sincerely.

"Nonsense, why have you learned to talk nonsense, kid? Aren't you still going to ask His Royal Highness King Ning for a pulse? Hurry up, don't delay." Su Che hurriedly looked away, without looking back Go in the opposite direction.

"Sir, my hair is still untidy. How can I get out of my disheveled clothes?" Pei Lingshu stroked the medicine box on his shoulder, and ran after him with his legs: "Sir, sir, I'm talking to you."

"Nonsense, more and more nonsense." Su Che turned around again, and continued to walk in the opposite direction of Pei Lingshu: "I'll just pretend that I didn't hear anything, and you are not allowed to mention it again from now on."

"Why do you pretend you didn't hear, Mister? I'm serious." Pei Lingshu continued to follow reluctantly: "Anyway, Mr. Marries anyone, so why can't you marry me? Could it be that Mister hates me?"

"I don't hate you." Su Che was annoyed by being chased, so he simply stood there: "Getting married is not a child's play, what does it have to do with whether I like you or not?"

"Sir, if you don't hate me, you just like me. Since you like me, why can't you marry me?" Pei Lingshu's logic was so shocking that it was impossible to refute it.

"Didn't you hear what those matchmakers said just now? I don't have a room, I don't have a lot of land, and I can't accomplish anything at my age." Su Che answered the wrong question, directly avoiding the word "like".

"I don't want a betrothal gift, I don't want anything else. I can live with my husband in a medicine house in the suburbs of Beijing. If my husband must buy a house, I have saved more than 300 taels of salary over the years, which is enough to buy a farmhouse in the suburbs of Beijing." gone."

"I'm ten years older than you, and I'm almost ready to be your father."

"That's just right, my husband is old, and I can still support him until the end of his life."

"I know nothing but practicing medicine."

"I know, I know everything, and I can learn if I don't know it. From now on, I will wash and cook for my husband, and I can also carry a medicine box for him, accompany him to collect herbs, and help him weed and kill insects," Pei Lingshu blinked. Her big beautiful eyes are waiting for Su Che's next reason.

"Anyway, I just can't marry you!" Su Che, who couldn't find a reason, directly showed his cards.

"why!"

"No reason! If you pester me again, I won't recognize you as an apprentice!"

"Okay! If I'm not your apprentice, then you don't have to worry about it! Master can't marry an apprentice, but sir can marry me!"

The author has something to say:

Mr. Su is really poor, because the master does not give him special privileges.