Transmigrated into a Qing Dynasty concubine and asked the system to help me raise my children

After Li finished her confinement, she came to pay her respects to Shen Jiang.

According to the information obtained from Shen Jiang, Li drank milk-suppressing medicine on the day of giving birth. After crying once when the little princess was taken away, she never cried again.

She doesn't eat much every day, doesn't say anything resentful, and her mood is pretty good.

Shen Jiang felt that she must be planning a big move.

Seeing her today, Li doesn't look like a postpartum woman at all. Her gentle and charming appearance reveals a hint of maternal nature.

Her face was calm, her manners were proper, and her posture of salute was pious and respectful.

It was as if Shen Jiang was not the enemy who took her child away, but a benefactor and a noble person.

Shen Jiang's heart was filled with alarm bells, and he asked the system: "Didn't you mark Li? What is her mentality, and what does she want to do?"

System: "It's very simple. She wants to regain her favor, but you brought the little princess back to her, so she will be respectful to you for the time being. You won't embarrass the little princess."

Shen Jiang sneered: "Who does she think I am? Would I embarrass a baby?"

System: "If you were in her shoes, she would not treat your child well if she took him away."

Shen Jiang looked at Li, put away his emotions, and said calmly: "Get up! Madam Kong, bring the little princess out and let Madam Li see her."

Li's expression suddenly couldn't hold back any more, and she looked at Madam Kong with hope.

Nanny Kong called out the wet nurse with an expressionless face. The wet nurse was holding the little princess, who was still sleeping soundly.

When Mrs. Li saw the little princess's rosy face, her throat churned and she immediately covered her mouth with her hands to prevent herself from crying out loud and disturbing the little princess.

This is the nature of being a mother. Shen Jiang nodded slightly. Fortunately, she did not erase this nature.

"Don't worry, the little princess will not be treated badly by me," Shen Jiang said.

The nurse took the little princess back home. Li knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Jiang, saying, "I did something wrong in the past. I do not ask for your forgiveness. I only wish to spend the rest of my life repenting. From now on, I will copy scriptures every day to pray for your blessing."

Since Fu Jin didn't copy the scriptures, she copied them instead?

Shen Jiang said without comment: "You are thoughtful."

Li kowtowed again and then left.

As soon as she left, Madam Kong said to Shen Jiang, "Fujin, you must not be fooled by her!"

Shen Jiang smiled and said, "Why do you say that, Mammy?"

Madam Kong said, "Now that Fu Jin is raising a little princess, she made such a description. Fu Jin, think about Li Shi in the past, who relied on her favor to act so pretentiously!"

She seemed very indignant, thinking that the original owner and the people around her had suffered a lot at the hands of the Li family in the past.

Shen Jiang still smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mammy, I won't be fooled by her. Besides, with the little princess here, she won't dare to do anything."

Speaking of the little princess, the wrinkles at the corners of Kong Ma's mouth were all relaxed, and she also smiled and said, "My prince is good to Fu Jin, and Fu Jin should repay him a little. Song and Li both gave birth to daughters. It would be great if Fu Jin could have a son this time."

Shen Jiang smiled without saying anything. She would never tell Madam Kong that she was still taking birth control pills.

Although they have to make a living in a cannibalistic feudal society, at least they can stick to their original intentions in some things.

In a few days, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people in the palace will start giving mooncakes to each other.

There are many kinds of mooncakes: Suzhou style, Cantonese style, Old Beijing style, sweet, salty, spicy.

Shen Jiang likes the ones with crispy red bean paste and egg yolk filling, while the Fourth Prince likes the ones with meat filling.

Shen Jiang said: "What's the difference between mooncakes with meat filling and sesame seed cakes?"

The fourth prince just took a big bite of the meat filling and said, "One is a mooncake and the other is a sesame seed cake. Of course there is a difference."

He couldn't really tell the difference, but there was a difference.

Shen Jiang also likes the Yunnan ham mooncakes. When the Fourth Prince saw her eating them, he snorted and said, "Is there any difference between Yunnan ham mooncakes and Yunnan ham sesame cakes?"

Shen Jiang imitated him: "One is a mooncake, the other is a sesame seed cake, of course there is a difference."

The Fourth Prince was so angry that he laughed.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, the Fourth Prince went to the Qianqing Palace to attend the dinner with Emperor Kangxi. Shen Jiang went to Concubine De's place and followed her to the Ningshou Palace to attend the dinner with the Empress Dowager.

Shen Jiang had heard that such banquets in the palace were terrible, especially those in the Qianqing Palace, because they were served from the main dining room. It was impossible for the meals for so many people to be cooked and eaten immediately, so they were all prepared long ago. The Manchu chefs cooked the dishes, and the Han chefs cooked the steamed dishes. By the time the banquet started, the cooked dishes were all burnt, and the steamed dishes had been kept in the steamer and were full of water vapor.

Fortunately, Ningshou Palace had a kitchen, and Shen Jiang ate Ningshou Palace dishes, which were not that bad. But the Queen Mother was Mongolian, so she basically ate barbecue.

The banquet at Ningshou Palace ended earlier than that at Qianqing Palace. As soon as Shen Jiang returned to the prince's residence, she asked Grape to go to the kitchen and said, "Make a mixed vegetable dish with oil and vinegar. Do you have any fresh fruits? Bring them all to me. I need to go to the kitchen to relieve the greasy feeling."

After a while, Grape came back with a few mixed dishes: cold day lily, cold black fungus, cold shredded vegetables, celery and peanuts. There were also a few stir-fried dishes: fried lotus root slices, fried bean sprouts, and garlic eggplant.

There are also fruits, which are Xingong oranges.

"This is great. Give it to me and I'll peel it myself." Shen Jiang peeled the orange with his hands. Smelling the sweet and sour aroma of the orange, he felt that all the greasiness in his heart had dissipated.

Before I had finished peeling an orange, the Fourth Prince came back.

As soon as he saw the dishes on the dining table, he knew that the man had eaten too much meat in Ningshou Palace and was craving for grass.

"Is that all? Anything else?" Who can eat their fill at a banquet? He drank quite a bit of wine.

Shen Jiang said, "Can we ask the kitchen to prepare a bowl of shrimp roe noodles?"

"Row!"

The young eunuch beside Su Peisheng went to the kitchen to get shrimp roe noodles and saw that the third prince, the fifth prince, the seventh prince and the eighth prince had all gone there.

It turns out that everyone is the same!

The Fourth Prince ate a large bowl of shrimp roe noodles with Shen Jiang's mixed vegetables in one go, then leaned back on the kang and sighed with satisfaction.

In fact, Kangxi also knew that the food in the big kitchen was not very good, but the kitchen was in charge of the Imperial Household Department, which were the emperor's household slaves, and were passed down from generation to generation.

As long as he didn't make any mistakes, the emperor would have to eat the food he cooked and the food prepared by his descendants.

You have to eat it even if it doesn’t taste good!

If someone is fired for cooking bad food, there is no such rule or law.

Fortunately, there are only a few big banquets throughout the year, so I can cook a little bit of my own food when I get home.

"Master, we have some new tribute oranges. Can I peel one for you to try?"

The Fourth Prince nodded and said, "Okay, let the servants peel it, and you do it."

Shen Jiang smiled and said, "It's okay. I like the smell of orange peels. When the crabs come down, ask the kitchen to make crab stuffed with orange."

The Fourth Prince was full and leaning against a large pillow, feeling a little tipsy. He half-closed his eyes and watched Shen Jiang peeling an orange. Her white and slender hands were cracking the golden orange in her hands, and he could not help but recite: "The knife is as sharp as water, Wu Yan is whiter than snow, and her slender hands are cracking the new orange."

After reading it, I found myself funny again. Most of the women of the Bannermen were illiterate. Although Fu Jin had received education, she might not understand these poems.

Unexpectedly, Shen Jiang immediately followed up: "The brocade tent is warm, the beast smoke is endless, and we sit opposite each other and tune the sheng." She looked at him with a smile and joked: "I peel oranges for you, will you also play a tune for me?"

An unknown emotion welled up in the heart of the Fourth Prince. He smiled and said, "It's not impossible. Su Peisheng, get me my flute."

Su Peisheng repeatedly warned himself not to be shocked, but his pupils still trembled. How many years had it been since the Fourth Prince had played the flute? In the past, he played it to please Empress Xiaoyiren, but today, it was for Fujin.

The fourth prince took the flute and stroked it for a while, then looked at the moonlight outside the window and said, "The moonlight is very beautiful tonight, why not play a piece of "Moonrise" for me."

Shen Jiang supported her chin with one hand, listening quietly to the melodious tune. The melody flowed, and the moonlight was like water, sprinkling on the ground along with the music, filling the room with beauty.