Empress' Marshal's Concubine

Ye Qingruo felt that her stomach didn't hurt as soon as she woke up. She was warm and lazily opened her eyes. What caught her eyes was the yellow underwear that represented the identity of the emperor, and then looked up to see Wu Zetian's alluring picture. face.

Ye Qingruo stuck out her tongue, it seemed that she fell asleep comfortably after being rubbed on her belly!

Shame.

I don't know how long I slept, even Wu Zetian, who doesn't sleep much, slept with me!

He stretched out his hand and touched Wu Zetian's hand on his stomach, which was transmitting heat. It was so slippery, so tender, and so good to touch.

Ye Qingruo fell into her own world and was intoxicated, restlessly eating the tofu in Wu Zetian's hand with both hands.

"Are you awake?" Wu Zetian's voice was full of interest.She who had always been a light sleeper woke up when Ye Qingruo just woke up, but she was greedy for the warmth of the person in her arms, so she didn't open her eyes, but she didn't expect that after the person in her arms woke up, she didn't rush to get up, Instead, he loved touching his hand very much, touching it endlessly.Knowing that if she didn't speak, Ye Qingruo might not stop for a while, so she wisely didn't continue to pretend to be asleep.

Yeqing Ruo'en let out a cry, yawned, and blinked her watery eyes cutely, only then did she remember that she is now an aunt, this comfortable sleeping position is really not good, if she really gets it For Wu Zetian, even if Wu Zetian didn't blame himself, it would be too embarrassing.

While stretching, he struggled a few times and sat up.

"Go and change your menstruation belt! It's in the bathroom." As Wu Zetian said this, she turned over and got out of bed first, put on the soft-soled boots that Wang Xi sent to change when Ye Qingruo fell asleep, and picked up the hanger The fox fur on it was on the shoulders of Ye Qingruo who was bending over to put on soft-soled cloth shoes.

"Your Majesty, I'm not cold." If Ye Qing didn't like to wear too thick clothes, that's why she didn't wear cotton clothes and didn't go out.It's always awkward to wear too thick.She had worn it once before, and she almost fell down the steps.

"Wear it! Menstruation is coming, don't be cold." Wu Zetian rarely turned cold.

Ye Qingruo pouted, but obediently put on the fox fur and went to the bathroom to change her menstrual belt.

Since the weather got cold, the bathroom has become a dual-use, it can be used as a shower or as a toilet!

There is a Gong bucket inside, and every time Ye Qingruo goes to the toilet, someone from the palace will come in and replace the Gong bucket with a new one, and take out the Gong bucket that Ye Qingruo used and wash it clean.

"Wang Xi, the national teacher is still outside?" Wu Zetian found a dark red casual dress in the closet, put it on, and walked to the door.

"Return to Your Majesty, the national teacher will cook Yuanxiao for you in the small kitchen." Wang Xi stood at the door and replied.

"Have someone come in and add some quilts for Concubine Ning, the charcoal fire in the room is burning brighter." Wu Zetian came out from the bedroom of Hidden Yuxuan, Wang Xi quickly held up an umbrella to block the snowflakes from the sky for Wu Zetian.

"This old slave knows." Wang Xi actually had people get things ready long ago, just waiting for Wu Zetian and Ye Qingruo to wake up.When Wu Zetian mentioned this again, he quickly responded.I have been serving Wu Zetian for many years, but I have never seen my Majesty caring so much about others.

"I'm going to the small kitchen to make dumplings for Concubine Ning. If she asks, just say that I have something to do in the court." Wu Zetian said as he walked to the door of the small kitchen.

"Your Majesty, why did you come to this kind of place? This place is not suitable for you. You are the most honorable person in the world now." After hearing Wu Zetian's explanation to Wang Xi, Guo Shiyan opened the door of the small kitchen. Inside is the oncoming heat and humidity, mixed with the aroma of food.

Wu Zetian didn't speak, just walked into the small kitchen by mistake, Wang Xi bowed to Guo Shiyan, turned around and went to do his own business.

Wu Zetian walked into the small kitchen and came to the front of the kitchen table, rolled up his sleeves, and asked the maid to wash his hands. After wiping his hands, he asked someone to bring flour and warm water, and put a spoonful of salt in the warm water by himself. , beat an egg in the noodles.

Slowly pour the warm water with salt in the bowl into the flour basin, and keep stirring with the chopsticks until there is no dry flour and all the dough is lumpy, then knead the dough. Wu Zetian is a meticulous and self-demanding person. She has always done things either not to do them, or to do them to the best. So she is the same with noodles.Knead the noodles into a smooth ball, there is no noodles dipped in the noodle mixing basin, and there is no leftover noodles on the hands.

The noodles were reconciled, but Wu Zetian just put the noodles in the basin, and was not in a hurry to pull the dough. Instead, she said to the maids around her, "Chop up the washed and picked leeks for me, and fry a few eggs. Today Bring the prawns from the imperial dining room in the morning."

As soon as Wu Zetian's order was heard, the kitchen was immediately busy.

Wu Zetian calmly divided the reconciled noodles into two equal parts from the basin and began to pull the dough. He picked up a piece of dough and put it on the panel to roll it a few times, and it became a cylindrical strip. Wu Zetian picked up a kitchen knife and cut the long strips of dough into small pieces with an average width of only two to three centimeters.The second dough was prepared in the same way, and within a short time, the panel was filled with a small dough of about the same size.

Wu Zetian flattened the small dough one by one into a flat circle.Only then did she pick up the rolling pin with both hands and roll the dumpling wrappers left and right. Wu Zetian rolled each dumpling wrapper five or six times at a very fast speed. The dumpling wrappers spun quickly under the rolling pin in her hands. The wrappers were thick in the middle and round with thin edges. One by one, the dumpling wrappers were neatly placed on the panel under Wu Zetian's hands.

It didn't take much time, and both doughs became the shape of dumpling wrappers.

Wu Zetian's dumpling wrappers were ready, and the maids also picked and washed the ingredients Wu Zetian wanted and sent them over according to Wu Zetian's requirements.

Wu Zetian poured the chopped leeks and fried eggs into a large bowl, added oil and stirred evenly, then put the peeled and washed shrimp into it and mixed with pepper oil.

Then I picked up the chopsticks that were just stirring the dumpling stuffing, put the shrimp and salt in the dumpling wrapper, squeezed both sides, then squeezed the edge of the dumpling wrapper from the middle to both sides, and a beautiful ingot-shaped dumpling appeared in Wu Zetian's hands. Wu Zetian put the wrapped dumplings on the big plate next to the maid in advance...

Wu Zetian made dumplings here, and ordered people to boil a pot of boiling water. When the water boiled, the dumplings on Wu Zetian's side were also wrapped in sevens and eights. Stirring to prevent the dumplings from sticking together in the water, Wu Zetian speeded up the speed of making the dumplings in his hands, and finished wrapping the dumpling fillings, leaving a little dumpling wrapper for people to take down, and let people put the dumplings in the pot.

Wu Zetian washed his hands with warm water, wiped them clean, and hurried out of the small kitchen. Before leaving, he didn't forget to ask the imperial chef in the small kitchen to remember to deliver the steamed mandarin fish and fried Lantern Festival.

Guo Shiyan has been helping Wu Zetian by the side, but Wu Zetian has never looked at her from the beginning to the end. He just wants to let people who celebrate the fifteenth day of the first lunar month here have a good Lantern Festival.

For this reason, she didn't even mention this year's Lantern Festival.

Guo Shiyan's eyes were full of sadness.She said that she would eat glutinous rice balls with herself every year, and she said that she likes to eat glutinous rice balls made by herself the most.

But this year, she asked herself to bring the glutinous rice balls and eat them with her Concubine Ning.

"Your Majesty, try it, this glutinous rice balls are really delicious." Wu Zetian made the dumplings from the outside, and as soon as she entered the bedroom of Cang Yuxuan, she saw Ye Qingruo sitting on a cushion with a brocade quilt In front of the small table on the kang, there was a bowl of glutinous rice balls in his hand, and his face was red from eating.

Ye Qingruo, on the other hand, ate the warm, sour and sweet glutinous rice balls stuffed with grapes, smiling and narrowing her eyes.

"Love to eat?" Wu Zetian warmed herself up in front of the charcoal fire, feeling that the cold on her body was almost gone, so she sat opposite Ye Qingruo.

Ye Qingruo scooped up a glutinous rice ball with a spoon, put it near her mouth and blew it, then stuck out her tongue and licked it to test whether it was hot, before handing it to Wu Zetian's mouth.

Wu Zetian opened his mouth full of joy and happiness in his red phoenix eyes, chewed and ate the glutinous rice balls, it was so sweet.The glutinous rice balls made by Guoshi are indeed the best.It's rare that she likes to eat so much, so let the national teacher make more and send them to her!

"I thought it was absolutely impossible to have such delicious glutinous rice balls here." Ye Qingruo nodded with a smile.

"If you like to eat, eat less. It's time to eat." Wu Zetian smiled dotingly, looking at Ye Qingruo who was full of satisfaction.This person is too innocent and cute, full of childishness, sincere without a trace of hypocrisy, she is gentle and intelligent, but clumsy and innocent.

Just a bowl of glutinous rice balls, she ate as satisfied and happy as if she had eaten the most delicious thing in the world.

"Master, the dumplings are ready." It was Wang Xi who came in with two large plates of dumplings.

As soon as the dumplings came out of the pot, Wang Xi quickly brought them over, jokingly, His Majesty made them himself.If this intention was wasted, it would be strange if His Majesty didn't skin him alive!

Wu Zetian took the bowl containing half a bowl of glutinous rice balls that Ye Qingruo was holding, and put it on the table.

Wang Xi carried two large plates of dumplings and placed them on the small table, and the palace servants behind him carried seasoning bowls with sugar, vinegar, and sesame oil, as well as eating chopsticks and spoons, and placed them on the small table on the kang.

"Taste it." Wu Zetian put a dumpling in Ye Qingruo's eating dish that had just put sugar, sesame oil, and vinegar.

"Wrapped in shrimp?" Ye Qingruo took a bite of the dumpling and looked at Wu Zetian with wide eyes in disbelief, eyes full of surprise.

Ye Qingruo picked up a dumpling and put it on the serving plate, took a bite out of the dumpling, and put the remaining half of the dumpling on the serving plate, there were shrimps in it?

Seeing the doubt and incomprehension on Ye Qingruo's face, Wu Zetian said, "I made shrimp dumplings. I heard you said it before, but I don't know if it tastes like it."

"Your Majesty, you are too kind to me." Ye Qingruo said with tears in her eyes, but she was actually homesick and wanted to go home very much.

She always talked to Wu Zetian about all kinds of things at home, but she wanted to go home and wanted Wu Zetian to order the national teacher to send her back, but she really didn't expect Wu Zetian to keep her words in her heart.And on such a reunion day, I filled myself up with the dumplings that my mother would make every year during the festival.

It would be a lie to say that you are not moved.

"Fool, if I don't treat you well, who will treat you well." Wu Zetian got up and sat beside Ye Qingruo, holding Ye Qingruo who had tears on her face in her arms.No matter what means this person uses, she doesn't want to let her go, let her go home, or let her leave her.

The more she confessed to herself, the more she hated her.