Mighty and Majestic Concubine Wan Gui

Zhu Momo came back from the empress's place, wiped off the cold sweat, and gritted her teeth, hating these little girls for nothing to find trouble for herself, the second daughter finally gave birth to a big fat boy after giving birth to three daughters, and now she is standing at the in-law's house Don't worry, I, an old woman, will go back to drink two glasses of wedding wine, and you will cause me trouble in the palace!She secretly became ruthless: "If I didn't have a little bit of affection with His Majesty, this idea would be enough to deceive people." I have to take care of the black girl who takes the lead, Xiaofang and Hongyu, hum!

After that day, only Wan Zhen'er and another little girl named Tang Niu were left with Mammy Zhu. When that Tang Niu made a fuss about throwing in money, she ran out crying and did nothing wrong, so she stayed behind. down.As for the rest of the little girls, they had no choice but to live their own lives. They were not killed after all, so they fought for their lives reluctantly.

Tang Niu has always been listless, and now she stays obediently by the side, doing whatever she is asked to do, and if she doesn't give orders, she just sits by the window and embroiders.

Wan Zhen'er was rolling on the Datong bunk alone. There were a bunch of people sleeping on the left and right. At night, the sounds of belching, snoring, farting, and grinding teeth were annoying. Yes, it's completely quiet now.

Mother Zhu: "Wan Zhen'er, come to my room."

"Hey." She hurried over.

Grandma Zhu gave her a lantern. Inside the lantern was a large candle that was as thick as three fingers and nearly a foot high, but it was not lit. "Hold this, raise your hand a little higher, like this." She made a standard demonstration. If the lantern is to face to the right, hold two-thirds of the lantern pole with her right hand, with her right elbow tucked under her ribs, and her forearm The end is flat, the left hand holds the end of the lantern pole, presses down slightly, and uses the right hand as a fulcrum, and the lantern is slightly upturned. "Take it, practice hard. If you want to be famous in front of others in the future, you will have to suffer from others."

Wan Zhen'er took it and turned upside down: "Nurse, it's not heavy."

Grandma Zhu smiled slightly: "You take it first, it lasts for a quarter of an hour." There is an hourglass in her room, which can tell the time.

After persisting for a stick of incense, she felt her arms start to ache, so she gritted her teeth and persisted.

Nanny Zhu sat at the window and embroidered in the dim light, guessing that it was almost done, she turned around and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Mommy, I can still hold on."

Mammy Zhu smiled slightly, continued to embroider, and got two more stitches, then suddenly remembered: "Change your accent, don't always talk like me, it's like a village."

She lowered her voice: "Let me tell you in private, don't spread it to the outside world. Our Lady Sun is also from Shandong. She has such a nice voice, she is delicate and smart. When she was young, the Holy One often praised her as a gentle and interpretive flower." Hey, don’t shake your hands, light the candle and then shake your hands, the whole lantern will swing accordingly, it’s scary to watch.”

Wan Zhen'er continued to stand with a lantern in her hand: "I, I see."

Grandma Zhu continued to embroider, quickly embroidering a piece of big red cloth. She had already embroidered four big peaches, and she was embroidering peach leaves, which were for her grandson.The first granddaughter embroidered one peach, the second granddaughter embroidered two, and now it happens to be the fourth one.

It's really tiring to carry something for a long time, not to mention that this thing is quite heavy.

Wan Zhen'er gritted her teeth and persisted, she gritted her teeth... and lost another tooth.She sucked her sweet tooth, then licked the other tooth that was a little loose, and said, "Nurse, I lost another tooth."

Nanny Zhu put down the bandage: "Did you lose all your tired teeth?"

Wan Zhen'er showed a slightly toothless smile: "Hehehe."

"Spit out your teeth, drink some water and rinse your mouth. Rest for a while and then stand up." Madam Zhu said: "Carrying lanterns and carrying water basins are basic skills. Being a palace maid is not enough if you don't have the strength to be steady. Your empress has a side." My beloved full-length mirror, which is about the size of this lantern, is often held by the maid to look at the front and back of the body. It is a chance to show your face, but if it is not stable, and your hands shake when you hold it, it will be bad. You should practice carrying the lantern first, and then wait Grow it longer and then carry the water basin."

Wan Zhen'er rinsed her mouth with water Ulu Ulu, swallowed it and asked impatiently: "What are you doing with the water basin? Watering the flowers?"

"Wait for the empress to wash up." Mammy Zhu touched the cracks in the windows that were slightly leaky. During the day, the wooden boards were opened and there was a leak, but at night, it would be fine if the window boards were closed. "Do you think that the empress is like you, she puts the basin on the stool when she washes her hair and plunges into it? There are seven or eight people waiting on the empress when she takes a bath, and she doesn't put the basin on the shelf like us ordinary people when she cleans her face. It is the maid who kneels holding the basin."

"Wow, that's amazing."

"It's the same for Your Majesty. Your Majesty has a special golden basin for washing his beard, and a special incense room for going out..." Zhu Mama talked about these secrets with relish, Wan Zhen'er consciously continued to carry the lantern, and she continued to talk, talk After a while: "We call washing face, your majesty and empress call clean face, we call relieve your hands, your majesty and empress go to relieve your hands and call changing clothes, do you know why we need to change clothes? I'm afraid it will smell!"

"Wow~"

"After your majesty and empress have relieved their hands, they don't need to wipe it by themselves, and the maids will do it for them."

"Huh... how disgusting."

"Bah, bah, don't say it! This monthly fee is high!"

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On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Tanggua sacrifices to the stove.

This candied melon is very interesting to make. First use malt to make maltose, and then steam the maltose in a pot. When it is almost steamed, take it out and hang it on a wooden hook and fold it repeatedly. It takes nearly a hundred times to pull and fold. There is a sweet fragrance throughout the production process.The golden maltose becomes white as it is pulled, and at the same time it is mixed with air to form a small hollow.If this kind of sugar is stretched to the thickness of a finger and wrapped in sesame seeds, it is called Zao Tang in Northeast China and Kanto Sugar in other places.There are also called sugar onions and sesame sugar sticks.

If you don’t pull it very thin, but use a string to break it into a ball when the mouth of the bowl is thick, and then wrap it with fried sesame seeds while it is hot to prevent sticking, it looks like a small pumpkin, which is the sugar melon for the stove. .Tanggua is hollow inside, thin and crispy on the outside, and covered with uniform capillary hollows, which is the source of the crispy taste.

Grandma Zhu brought Wan Zhen'er, who was wearing a tiger-head hat, to watch the excitement, and saw that the snow was swept clean on the open space outside the imperial dining room, and there were a lot of firecrackers and paper horses.

On the big offering table in the imperial dining room are not only candied melons piled up in a five-story pagoda, but also a burning rooster under its arm, grass and beans on a plate, a big pot of strange soup, and a big plate of jujube flowers. Momo.Fruits can be used for other gods and Buddhas, but only for the Stove Lord, cooked food must be used.

The tablet of the Kitchen God was placed on the altar, almost hidden by layers of offerings, and three futons were placed in front of the altar.

Zheng Shangshan and the two deputy Shangshan in the imperial dining room were both wearing official uniforms. The two deputy Shangshan came forward with wine. Zheng Shangshan sprinkled the wine on the head of the rooster. Shan took a big firewood like a torch and lit a joss stick, offering it in front of the Kitchen God.Another deputy Shang Shan took the big firewood, walked out of the imperial dining room, and set off firecrackers in the yard.

Not only Zhang Ye's three little fire fighters came, but also the four little fire fighters of Guo Ye, the steward of the Qianqing Palace, even Jin Ying from the Tai's womb was here, first watching the firecrackers at the door.

There are also a lot of court ladies and fire fighters who can spare time to watch the excitement.

Zheng Shangshan half-sang and half-recited: "Grandpa Stove King, listen, you have seen the sky in the dining room. I eat and drink frugally, and throwing rice noodles is a momentary mistake. The dirty stove is too much work." Too much, you old man has to take care of it. Take all this candied melon if you can’t eat it, and bring it to the Jade Emperor to taste it. I’ll kowtow to you here, and you’ll have to have a good word with me when you go to heaven. Don’t delay if you come back early on the first day of the new year. Come to our house to eat my steamed Zaoshan bun."

Wan Zhen'er stared at Tanggua non-stop, not caring what he said at all.

After Zhengshangshan prayed, he gently removed the statue of the Kitchen God pasted on the stove. This picture had been smoky for a year, and it looked miserable enough.Grab the tallest one on the five-storey candied melon, wipe it on the Stove Lord's mouth, then throw the candied melon to the little fire fighters, rush out of the house with the portrait of the Stove Lord, and put it on the paper horse.

Deputy Shang Shan immediately lit the paper horse and shouted together: "Send Zaoye to ascend to heaven on horseback."

The melon-eating crowd then shouted three times: "God says good things, and the lower realms will keep you safe."

Then start eating the melons—put the candied melons on a plate, break them up, and eat them.

Jin Ying picked up a small piece reservedly: "Our family specially came to ask for two candied melons, the prince is still waiting to play."

Although the Shangshan people are of high rank, how dare they offend the prince's favorite little eunuch, so they immediately pretended to be eight of them and took them away.

On the way back, Jin Ying gnawed half of it, feeling tired of toothache, and casually threw the rest to the little fire sweeper.

Hundreds of Tanggua were made, and they were all divided in the blink of an eye.

Grandma Zhu took her back with another suitcase. Wan Zhen'er gnawed a candied melon with difficulty along the way. She only had one front tooth left, and it was really difficult to gnaw the candy off.

Go back and open the carrying box, there are five candied melons and seven or eight jujube buns inside.

Mammy Zhu wrapped a candied melon and two other jujube buns in oiled paper: "Go and send them to Master Zhang." She took the remaining four and gave them to Wang Shanggong by herself.The old mother is smart, Wan Zhen'er is Zhang Ye's person, so naturally she has to carefully please her, it is good for her, and it is also good for me.But Wang Shanggong is in charge of all the maids in Kunning Palace, and more importantly, I will go there in person.

How did Wan Zhen'er understand these twists and turns, and ran over in a hurry, and met Shanxiu, who didn't like to talk, and was poking the fire and boiling water in the house, preparing all the necessary things, waiting for Grandpa Zhang to come back.She tried her best to chat awkwardly with him: "Brother Shanxiu, you are here."

"There must be someone left."

"Grandpa died?" Leaked wind.

"When will you not go out?"

"Well, it's long-winded. I'm here to deliver Tanggua."

"Get out. It's too warm in the room, the sugar melon will melt."

At this moment, Cheng En and Xi Fu each hugged a piece of cloth and used it as a display stand in front of the queen.

"This is damask, this is the golden velvet in damask, look at the patterns and bumps of this damask, look at this golden velvet, it has been improved on the basis of damask, how fluffy and beautiful it is " Guo Shouren said: "It's a pity that it's a bit rare. This color of makeup brocade and gold colored velvet is more rare than other kinds. After weaving for a whole year this year, only two of each were woven, and each was given to the empress dowager. These are the remaining two horses, the same one. Your majesty said that the empress will choose first to replace the cushions, cushions, and hand pillows of the Kunning Palace, and the rest will be used in the Qianqing Palace. Although your majesty advocates frugality, this cushion cover has It hasn’t been replaced in five or six years, and it’s useless once it’s used.”

Sun Niangniang's eyebrows were curved, her pretty face was slightly red, and she smiled happily.A single loom can weave less than one centimeter a day. Simple designs and colors are easy to obtain, but it is even more difficult to weave flowers like the ones in front of you. Those sent to the palace must be carefully selected. not allowed.I don't know how many semi-finished horses were scrapped to get a good horse. It is His Majesty's filial piety to send to the Queen Mother first, and let me choose the rest first. This is His Majesty's love for me.She carefully selected for a long time, but she couldn't tell the difference, so she divided them into half.

Wang Shanggong: "Your Majesty has a deep affection for your empress."

Zhang Shouyi: "There are 3000 beauties in the harem, and there are [-] pampers in one body."

Empress Sun suddenly felt displeased: "There are 3000 beauties in the harem? Huh?" Is there anyone more beautiful than me in this harem?

Zhang Shouyi didn't understand why she was angry.

Guo Shouren said: "Isn't that right? Your Majesty often says that even if you put the four beauties and empresses together, if you think Xishi is too weak, Diaochan is a second-marriage, Zhaojun has a temper, and Concubine Yang is fat, only empress is you." It is the beauty of the sky. There are few fairies in the sky. People say that the emperor is the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei, so you must be the reincarnation of the wife of Emperor Ziwei. Don't bother with him."

Empress Sun felt sweet in her heart, even sweeter than the chubby bald who ate a whole sugar melon.

After Mr. Zhang went back, the three little firemen squatted at the door in the ice and snow, eating candied melons. There was no way, Mr. Zhang was afraid of the cold. The brazier in the room was covered with a smoker and the heat was burning. Da da, it's not crispy at all, it's only crispy in the cold wind.

After eating, Cheng En said with a smile: "You two wait for a while."

He went to the snowdrift behind the house and dug a few times with his bare hands, and found four big frozen persimmons.Hurry up into the house, put the persimmons next to the brazier, warm them with hot air, wait for a while to warm up, bite a small bite, and clean it up~

Zhang Shouyi had a bearskin jar on his lap and held a hand stove in his arms: "What the hell are you monkeys doing, ahhh!"

Xi Fu followed with a smile: "Cheng En, you bloody monkey."

Cheng En scratched his head: "Master, Master~ My old grandson went to pick persimmons for you~"

"Hahaha"

"Hahahahaha"

"fufufu~" Laughing leaking air