Jiaofang Palace is the palace where Empress Sun lives. Because Empress Sun is calm and doesn’t like noise, Jiaofang Palace was relatively quiet in the past, and even the people in the palace spoke softly, but today is a rare scene of laughter and excitement. .

There is no other reason, it is because Qi Wang Xiaojie brought Su Wangfei and a son and a daughter into the palace to meet Empress Sun, and Empress Sun was so happy that she made an exception and sealed a red envelope of one tael of silver for every palace official in Jiaofang Palace. , Sharing their joy, the palace people were naturally overjoyed, and the entire Jiaofang Palace was immersed in a joyful atmosphere.

Of course Xiao Jie didn't come empty-handed. Apart from general New Year's goods like rice cakes, he also brought many rare things from Jiaozhou to Empress Sun. Empress Sun especially liked the soap and perfume among them.

After all, although Empress Sun is the mother of a country, she is still a woman after all, and she is born with no resistance to scented things, especially the perfume and soap sent by Xiao Jie exudes a faint scent of jasmine The fragrance of flowers brought back many fond memories of my childhood.

She is from Jingzhou. When she was young, there was a large field of jasmine in the courtyard of her home. Every summer is the time when jasmine blooms. She has liked the elegant fragrance of this kind of jasmine since she was a child. But since she entered the palace, she also tried The jasmine seedlings transplanted from the south were planted in the garden of Jiaofang Palace. Unfortunately, they did not live long, let alone bloom. This also became a small regret in Empress Sun's life.

Now Xiao Jie sent her jasmine-scented soap and perfume, so that she could be accompanied by the jasmine fragrance all day long, which can be regarded as making up for Queen Sun's little regret.

Empress Sun was in a good mood, and immediately ordered the palace people to go to Zhang Luo for a family banquet immediately, and wanted to keep Xiao Jie's family to eat in Jiaofang Palace. Of course, she did not forget to send someone to inform Xiao Ji to invite the emperor to come and have dinner together.

Xiao Jie's filial piety and carefulness moved her, and she felt that it was necessary to let the emperor know, after all, the emperor had been procrastinating and not officially agreeing to her, and she wanted to talk to the emperor today, and she believed that the emperor would give her This face.

"What kind of strange fragrance is this, like tea but not tea, like flowers but not flowers?"

Not long after, Xiao Ji came to Jiaofang Palace accompanied by Lian Yi. As soon as he entered the palace, he smelled a different fragrance, like the fragrance of flowers and tea. Empress Sun was sitting around drinking tea and chatting with Xiao Jie's family. , a lot of fun.

"See the emperor!"

Seeing Xiao Ji coming in, everyone quickly knelt down to salute.

"There is no need to be so polite. Today is a family banquet. There are only family members. There are no monarchs and ministers. There is no need to be formal."

Xiao Ji chuckled, laughing to ask everyone to be at peace, there is no need to be too polite.

Xiao Ji's words naturally relaxed the atmosphere in the hall a lot, Empress Sun also smiled and returned to Xiao Ji's question and said: "What your Majesty smelled just now is the scent of jasmine tea, which was brought from Jiaozhou by King Qi specially. Yes, Your Majesty might as well have a taste."

After all, Empress Sun didn't order the palace staff, but lifted the teapot herself, and poured a full cup of tea for Xiao Ji. The palace people standing beside her were very nervous, for fear that Empress Sun would scald themselves.

Xiao Ji picked up the teacup, put it under his nose and smelled it carefully, a strong fragrance of jasmine came to his nostrils, he couldn't help smiling knowingly, and took a deep look at his son.

He naturally knew that Empress Sun's favorite in her life was jasmine, Aiwujiwu, and he also asked many gardeners to try to transplant jasmine in the Imperial Garden and Jiaofang Palace, but unfortunately they all failed without exception.

Xiao Ji didn't expect that his son would find another way to make scented tea from jasmine flowers, which was a good idea. At least he could tell that Empress Sun still liked the jasmine tea brought by Xiao Jie.

Xiao Ji brought the tea to his lips, took a couple of sips, it was sweet in his mouth, and the fragrance lingered on his lips and teeth, which had a special taste.

"What do you think of this jasmine tea, Your Majesty?" Queen Sun asked with a light smile.

Xiao Ji put down his teacup, smiled softly and said, "Yes, the fragrance is pleasant, but it has a special taste. If the queen likes it, I will let the purchasing department go to Jiaozhou to buy some."

Xiao Jie shook his head and said with a smile: "Father's words are off the mark. If the empress and empress like it, I will send people to the palace from time to time. Why bother with the purchasing department."

How could Empress Sun take advantage of Xiao Jie, and said with a smile: "Where is King Qi, how can I let you spend all the time alone, let the purchasing department go to Jiaozhou to purchase."

Xiao Jie didn't insist any more, because he also knew what Empress Sun was like. If he continued to be stubborn, Empress Sun might be embarrassed to continue drinking this jasmine tea in the future.

But he magically took out a tightly sealed glass bottle. Empress Sun couldn't help but exclaimed joyfully through the glass: "Lychee!"

Xiao Jie smiled and nodded, then ordered the palace servants to bring a dagger and several porcelain bowls, pry off the sealed bottle cap, pour the lychee pulp and juice inside into several bowls, and asked Father and Empress Sun to taste .

Xiao Ji frowned, looked at Xiao Jie suspiciously and said, "Isn't the lychee fruit in midsummer? Now it's the first month, half a year later, can you still eat it?"

Of course he knew that Empress Sun liked to eat lychees, and he had ordered people from the Purchasing Department of the Palace to go to Lingnan to purchase some lychees and send them to Luoyang. Rotten, every time it was broken before it was sent to Luoyang, Xiao Ji had no choice but to give up.

Therefore, Xiao Ji naturally would not believe that the lychees sent by Xiao Jie could still be eaten after more than half a year, I am afraid that they would have become rotten and rotten long ago.

Xiao Jie didn't explain, but just smiled slightly and said, "Father and Empress, why don't you try it first?"

Xiao Ji was still hesitating, but Empress Sun couldn't help but picked up one of the bowls, put it to her mouth and smelled it, a unique sweet smell of lychee, her appetite was whetted, she picked up a spoon to scoop up a piece of lychee pulp and put it in the mouth middle……

Just as Xiao Ji wanted to stop it, he saw Empress Sun smiling with joy on her face, and said with a smile: "The taste is really good, Your Majesty will come and taste it too."

Seeing that Empress Sun scooped up another piece of fruit pulp and put it into her mouth, Xiao Ji couldn't help picking up a bowl of lychee meat in front of him, and brought it to His Majesty to smell it. Sure enough, there was only the sweet and sour smell of lychee, without the sour smell of rotten fruit, so he No longer in doubt, I immediately picked up a spoon to scoop up a piece of lychee pulp and put it in my mouth. It really tasted sweet and unique.

Xiao Ji couldn't help but feel a little funny. It's jasmine and lychee meat, but his son is quite fond of Empress Sun, his aunt.

"I'm curious, what method did you use to keep the lychees for half a year." Xiao Ji was also very curious after eating the lychees in his bowl, and couldn't help asking Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie didn't know how to explain to Xiao Ji the super-class problem of microbes, so he could only smile and said, "Father, my son accidentally discovered that fruits can be preserved for a long time by boiling them at high temperature and sealing them, and I don't know exactly what's going on. s reason."

Xiao Ji nodded, but he didn't continue to ask. He just asked casually out of curiosity, and he didn't really want to get to the bottom of it.

Xiao Jie seemed to have thought of something, and said with a smile: "Actually, Erchen also discovered that not only fruits such as lychees, but also meat can be preserved for a long time in this way."

Xiao Ji's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he naturally understood what it meant.

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