The twilight was four close, the cold wind whimpered, Wu Qingyi rode back to the British government.
Gu Yin and Wang Shizheng were holding lanterns and both stood at the door.
He dismounted and hurried up the stone steps.
Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law looked behind him, and when they saw him coming back alone, they both looked a little disappointed.
But they didn't say anything, Wang Shi urged: "The evening meal has been on the table for a while, let's go in and eat."
The three went to the main courtyard in silence, Wu Zhong and Wu An were both there.
The father and son also looked behind them, but in the end they didn't speak.
The servants came in and added a few more dishes. Because it was still in the early years, the dishes were much better than usual.
Eight Treasure Wild Duck, Lucarboxyl Teal, Dragon Boat Fish, Oolong Elbow, four major dishes, accompanied by a few side dishes and a sea cucumber, mushroom and shrimp soup.
Especially the oolong elbow, which contains tangerine peel, star anise, fennel, licorice and other spices, which is very different from that made by shopkeeper Zhou. Gu Ye likes to eat elbows, this is for him.
When eating at home, we don’t pay attention to the rule of not eating and not speaking. During the day, everyone is busy with their own affairs. At this time, after work and school, it is the time when there are endless things to say.
Everyone had nothing to say that day, and after eating quietly, everyone went back to the house to rest.
Wu Qingyi paused in her footsteps, instead of going straight to the study in the front yard, she went to Gu Yin's yard.
Because Gu Ye slept in her room the day before, there were still clothes he changed in the room, which had been washed and dried and stacked in one place.
Gu Yin simply packed up all these things, and went to his house again to gather all his favorite things together.
When Wu Qingyi came over, Gu Yin said, "I don't know if he is used to outside. I know he won't be short of these things, but maybe he can use them?"
Wu Qingyi nodded, "I know, I will bring it to him when I enter the palace tomorrow."
Gu Yin let out a "hey", went back to the room, and sat down at the desk.
On her desk are daily account books or purchase lists. Although more and more people use it now, Gu Yin, as the owner, can still do her own work. .
Today, she couldn't read it a little, and she started to lose her mind shortly after picking up the account book.
Wu Qingyi stood behind him, put a big hand on her shoulder, and said softly, "Xiaoye went to Yangxin Palace early this morning, and then went to Kunning Palace with the empress, I heard that he played a lot with the little prince. Yes, he had lunch there. In the afternoon, he went to the Cining Palace again to accompany the Empress Dowager."
Wu Qingyi's position in the palace is quite high, but this does not mean that he can spy on the movements of the royal family arbitrarily.
He has been on duty until now, that is, on the day when Gu Yin and Wang shi went to the banquet for the first time, he made an exception to draw attention to the Cining Palace, but he did not achieve the level of today.
Gu Yin naturally thought of this, she stretched out her hand to hold Wu Qingyi's hand on her shoulder, and said softly, "You don't have to."
He is indeed Jane in the heart of the emperor, but if Emperor Zhengyuan finds him like this, he will definitely be unhappy. It's even possible to have a grudge against him.
"It's okay," Wu Qingyi turned his palms and pinched her fingertips, "I know that whenever you treat Ono as your own child, then he is also my child."
With two palms clasped together, Gu Yin said softly, "Can you let me lean on it?"
Wu Qingyi nodded, then sat down beside her, Gu Yin rested her head on his shoulder.
Although it was a touch of comfort, but the top of her soft hair caressed his chin, and the scent of hair oil and flowers lingered on the tip of her nose, making Wu Qingyi's heart pounding.
There was a silent whimper outside the house, and the two quietly snuggled together, as if there were only each other between heaven and earth.
Wu Qingyi opened his mouth and was about to say something.
The window lattice was opened from the beginning, and Gu Ye put his feet in and half of his face, trying to smile and say, "What are you two doing?"
Wu Qing swallowed the words on his lips and swallowed them back into his stomach. Gu Yin sat up straight, and said in surprise, "Why are you back?"
Gu Ye pushed open the door and came in, and said lazily, "What's wrong? Can't I go back to my house when it's dark?"
He was wearing a pure white crane cloak, without a trace of variegation.
The crane cloak was not big enough for his figure, so he had to carry the hem with one hand.
He didn't take it off himself, and stretched his chin toward his mother.
Gu Yin got up to help him untie the tie around his neck, took off the crane cloak, and said with a smile, "Have you seen your grandma?"
Gu Ye picked up the tea cup on the table, and regardless of whether anyone had drank it, he poured two sips of hot tea down, and said, "I've been there, grandma and grandma are all asleep, I think that I'll be able to do it in the future anyway. When I came back, I didn't bother them."
After drinking tea, he sat down in the Taishi chair and took out the document from his arms.
Gu Yin and Wu Qingyi watched it together and understood.
It turned out that Emperor Zhengyuan was going to make him King Lie after recognizing Kuo Ye, so he didn't have to stay in the palace every day, but had to go back to the palace to rest at night.
As for Prince Lie's mansion, the one next to the British mansion was renovated from a few years ago to the end of the year.
And the waist card that Emperor Zhengyuan gave him was to facilitate him to enter and leave the palace.
Of course, there are other arrangements on the document, because it involves royal secrets, so Gu Yin didn't look at it much, glanced at it and closed it quickly, and put the document in his hand.
The things above were explained to him by Emperor Yuan.
At that time, Gu Ye wanted to laugh but held back, and asked him tentatively, "How did I hear that the prince has to live in the palace until he is a teenager, and he can only leave the palace and build the mansion when he is almost an adult?"
Emperor Zhengyuan raised his eyebrows and asked him, "You don't like it? I said before that you have something you are not satisfied with. You can mention it. If that's the case, then I will..."
Gu Ye hurriedly said "No", and felt that he was too impatient to speak, so he slowed down and said, "It's very good, I'm not the kind of person who likes trouble, the mansion has been repaired, no What a pity to live here!”
Emperor Zhengyuan also wanted to laugh, but he held back and put down the teacup and said, "I'm not leaving yet? I might change my mind later."
Of course Gu Ye knew that he was deliberately teasing himself, so he leaned over and said, "It's getting late, I'm hungry."
Emperor Zhengyuan said with a smile: "You still have to wait for a dinner to be willing to return?"
"How many meals have I invited you to eat?" Gu Ye counted with his fingers, "A Hu spicy soup, a crab roe soup dumpling..."
Emperor Zhengyuan grabbed his little hand and said, "No joke, come on, I will treat you to a good meal today. What do you want to eat?"
Unlike him, Gu Ye was polite, ordered what he liked, and specifically explained: "I have to choose the one with thick skin and lots of meat for the elbow. My mother always said that this thing can only be eaten occasionally, and eating too much will cause high blood lipids. This is something that the cook in the manor would have to do, but at this hour, I definitely won’t be able to keep up with it when I go back, and I don’t know when my mother will let the cook do it again…”
While talking, Gu Ye consciously lost his words, paused, and carefully looked at Emperor Zhengyuan's face.
Emperor Zhengyuan stretched out his hand and pinched his face, saying that it would not be in the way, "Anyway, we are only one place, no one else, just follow your habit."
Although Gu Ye is still not fat, his living conditions are getting better every day, so his face is already chubby.
It is not a day or two that Emperor Zhengyuan wanted to pinch his face. When he used the pseudonym Mr. Lu, he unconsciously stretched out his hand.
Gu Ye had avoided it before, but he didn't dodge today, so he just let him pinch it.
At the back, the eunuch Shangshan and the palace servants presented the meal, and the father and son used it together.
After dinner, Gu Ye said to him like a young adult: "Don't be too tired, this is not something that can be done in a day or two, but your health is the most important thing. It is said that the New Year is the most supportive time, and I am fat. After a lap, it is rather uncomfortable to see that you are thinner than a year ago."
Emperor Zhengyuan really couldn't hold back his laughter, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair and said, "How old are you, like a butler, are you still in charge of me?"
Gu Ye lowered his body to avoid this time, jumped off the stool and said, "Then I'm leaving?"
Emperor Zhengyuan waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go."
Gu Ye had just left the door, but finally stood up again, trotted back and asked, "What do you want to eat tomorrow? I'll bring it to you from outside."
Everyone in the world may be short of food, only Emperor Zhengyuan is impossible.
But he still smiled and said, "It's all done, you can just bring some of it when you go to Shiweitian in the morning."
Gu Ye scratched his head, "It's the hour, I'm afraid I'm going to oversleep tomorrow, can I come at noon?"
Emperor Zhengyuan couldn't say it, "You come with your uncle in the morning when you are on duty. After eating Chaoshi, I want to teach you a lesson with your husband. You don't know a lot of characters. How can you do this?"
Gu Ye replied with a sticky "Okay", and Emperor Zheng Yuan funnyly asked someone to bring the crane cloak he often wore, put it on the little guy himself, and also told the guards who escorted him to be careful.
He just came back from the palace.
"What do you say? I can escape the first day of the first year, but I can't escape the fifteenth. I didn't expect that I escaped the gentleman from the Wen family, but I couldn't escape the gentleman in the palace." slumped on the chair.
"Sit or not." Gu Yin pulled him up, "Go wash, your uncle got up before dawn, wash and go to sleep soon."
Gu Ye responded and ran to the clean room by himself.
"You're right, His Majesty is indeed a very good person." Gu Yin had been worried for a whole day, and now she was relieved.
Emperor Zhengyuan found the lost and recovered child, but he was still willing to let the child live outside the palace first. This was naturally a sign that he was afraid that Gu Ye would not be used to it, so he loved him and thought about him.
Although Gu Yin didn't know much about him, thinking of such a father who would put himself in the shoes of others, he would definitely not be a bad person.
After a while, Gu Ye ran back with a full body of water vapor, and when he entered the room, he smiled and said, "Why don't you go and rest? Let's go to the palace together tomorrow, don't get up late."
This little brat!
Wu Qingyi shook his head amusingly, and left the backyard to the front yard.
As soon as he left, Gu Ye was even more out of shape. Before he got to the bed, he kicked his shoes and threw himself into the mattress.
Gu Yin also went to wash up, and when he came back from the wash, he found that he hadn't slept yet, his eyes were shining, obviously he wanted to talk to her.
As soon as Gu Yin lay down beside him, the little guy opened the chat box.
"They are so kind. Grandma and His Majesty like me very much, even more than I thought. Grandma gave me a lot of things, and my wallet is full of golden melon seeds and gold coins," Grandma said. This is something that is rewarded in the palace, I have checked it, and if there is no mark, it can be sold, and I will give it to my mother."
Both Wang's and the Queen Mother are called Amai, but the Queen Mother is several years older than Wang's, so he called the Queen Mother as Da Amai to distinguish the two.
Gu Yin pressed the post in her heart and said no, "The empress dowager gave you, you can keep it. You will walk in the palace in the future, and you will use these things more than I do."
Gu Ye said again: "Last time my mother said that food in the palace is unpalatable, I still don't believe it, everyone said that the food in the palace is dragon liver and phoenix gall! I ate two meals there today, no matter how good it is. The food is served warm, it's really nothing to eat."
This Gu Yin knew that he had been a cook for the previous emperor.
"The palace is full of noble and noble masters. When a meal is out of the pot, it must first be tested by someone, and then sent to the pantry. It's still cold today, so naturally it's not that hot. The one I went with your grandmother The second time is not, because there are many people and there are many dishes on the banquet, so they are all steamed bowls with ingredients prepared in advance, and they are steamed in the pot in advance when the time is almost there, so it is not delicious."
Gu Ye nodded, "So it is."
Gu Yin heard that he only mentioned the Queen Mother and Emperor Zhengyuan, so she asked tentatively, "The Queen Mother..."
"Ah, she's pretty good too. She just kept crying. When she first saw me, she cried. Later, when I asked me how I had been outside all these years, I just picked up the good ones and said that she almost cried again." Gu Ye It was really helpless. If he hadn't naturally felt that Queen Zhou was very kind, if it was someone else who cried and cried in front of him all day, he might have felt annoyed.
"You were born by him, she loves you, and her emotions are bound to fluctuate. You have to persuade a little more, do you know?"
Gu Ye said he knew. He does the same during the day.
"The little prince..."
Gu Ye said: "He's pretty good too, but he's just over three years old, and he doesn't know how to talk or walk. But he likes me quite a bit. I'm already liked by people!"
Gu Yin stroked his back and asked softly, "Then you are not unhappy?"
Gu Ye thought about it for a while and said no.
Gu Yin looked at him in surprise, so generous is not like him!
"It was originally. That's what I thought. Yesterday, I thought I was going to separate from my mother, and I felt bad. She must have been more uncomfortable than me yesterday, and I don't know if I was still alive... Xiao Lu Zhaobi I'm a lot younger, so she didn't give birth to another child immediately after I was abducted. I saved it all, so I wasn't upset."
"What a good boy." Gu Yin couldn't help but put her arms around him.
"And I think, in the past few years, I have a mother, a grandmother, Wu An who is like a real brother, and an uncle... I have a lot of other family members, and the empress has just one more little Lu Zhao, What a normal thing!" Gu Ye smiled and asked again, "Can the good boy go back on what he said last night?"
"What do you regret?" Gu Yin recalled, "Is it the shipping company that doesn't want to change its name?"
"No!" Gu Ye quickly denied, "How can I be so obsessed with money, why does my mother think of me like this?"
As he said that, he put his ear to Gu Yin's ear again, "It's saying that mother can have children with uncle! I regret it!"
Well, it's still that weird "stingy" temperament.
Gu Yin laughed and wanted to shoot him again.
Early the next morning, Gu Ye and Wu Qingyi went out of the house together.
It wasn't until later when Mr. Wang got up that he knew that he was living next door. The outside was not like the palace. Gu Ye was the largest palace next door. Naturally, he could live wherever he wanted, and it was very convenient to touch it every day.
Only then did the whole family have a smile on their faces.
Gu Yin has been absent-minded because of the little guy's affairs for the past two days, but this day is not good and no longer tired. After getting up, she packed up and went to eat for heaven.
In the morning market, almost no one eats hot pot barbecue. In addition, the price of Wangtianlou on the same street is lower and the taste is not bad. The attendance rate is only 50-60%.
But on the third floor, the situation was different. After the year, the wives and wives of each family were busy with family affairs, and there was nothing to spare. Today is the seventh day of the first lunar month, and the excitement of visiting relatives and friends has come to an end, so many people hurried over to relax.
The massage department downstairs is already full, and those who didn't catch up will eat the morning meal on the third floor first.
Gu Yin said hello to everyone, and they hadn't seen each other for several days, so they had to exchange a few words when they got together again.
Gu Yin praised that the lady's new jewelry was beautiful, and that the lady's new dress was fresh.
She doesn't have any other skills, but she still has the ability to recognize people. Although it is a greeting, she must have a pair of discerning eyes, and can see the difference between the female guest after the year and the year before.
All the female guests were laughed at by her, and the young woman who was out of temper couldn't help laughing: "Ms. Gu is not only skilled, but also a good cook, how can she speak so flatteringly? This little mouth is Isn't it smeared with honey? Let me taste it!"
The woman really wanted to look over her face, Gu Yin smiled and avoided it. After a while of laughing, Gu Yin cooked and gave them a dessert, which was considered a little thought for the New Year.
At the lunch time, a new face came to Qingshi Yashe.
It was a young woman who looked about twenty-five or six, with fair skin and watery eyes, and her face was not as beautiful as the country, but she had a gentle and gentle temperament.
After she came, she found a corner seat and sat down, and looked around in novelty.
After the waiter presented the menu, she politely thanked her, then read it carefully, frowning in distress.
Gu Yin stepped forward and asked, "Look at you, is this your first time here?"
The young woman nodded slightly, and when she laughed, a pair of pear eddies appeared on her lips, and said softly, "I made you laugh, I have never heard of many things on this, so I don't know what to order."
"Would you like to try our Jiang Zhuang milk?"
The woman nodded, and after a while the waiter brought up a small white porcelain cup.
It is not difficult to make ginger into milk, that is, squeeze the juice of old ginger and pour it into a small cup, mix fresh milk and sugar in proportion, and heat it in a pot.
One of the more complicated steps is that when the sugared milk is boiled, the temperature must be controlled above 70 degrees and below 80 degrees, and it cannot be boiled until it boils.
There is no thermometer in this era, so it is Gu Yin's control of the heat.
After the milk leaves the fire, it needs to be poured into a bowl with ginger juice from a certain height. This is the word "bump" in the name. Finally, cover the lid of the cup, and after standing for a period of time, it will condense into a semi-solid.
The young woman picked up the engraved silver spoon and scooped it into her mouth.
This ginger bumped into milk is fragrant and rich, sweet but not greasy, and melts in your mouth. And the ginger taste is not so strong that it is pungent, but it covers the fishy smell of the milk itself. Complement each other and complement each other.
The young woman had just come from outside, her hands and feet were a little cold, and after eating the dessert with ginger, her stomach warmed up after a while.
"Your recommendation is really good." The woman sincerely praised.
Gu Yin introduced other things to her later, and the other party listened carefully.
After Gu Yin finished her introduction, the woman suddenly said, "I'm sorry, I told you so much, I... I'll just order another flower tea."
She was dressed nicely, but she didn't seem like someone who was shy, but Gu Yin didn't care about those. She wasn't the kind of person who would buy or sell by force. I just came to talk to her, and it was purely an introduction.
When I thought of going to other stores as a guest, I didn't like to have guys following me all the time, and it happened that Mrs. Wen Er came over and was looking for her, so Gu Yin didn't stay any longer.
Mrs. Wen Er was in a bad mood today, and she vomited bitterly when she came, saying that she couldn't be busy at the age of He made good friends and invited him to feast and drink, but he was not at home every day.
"Thanks to him saying that I wasn't home, I still feel bad about it. I didn't go out the last day, and I didn't go out the door like before. He's better, I don't know how many times it was before."
Mrs. Wen Er's temperament is straightforward, and she has made a large number of handkerchiefs after she has often been in and out of Qingshiya.
When women get together, in addition to eating, drinking, and playing around, it is absolutely necessary to scold men.
As soon as she opened her mouth, many people agreed.
"My husband is also like this. He is much more stingy than yours. Not only is he not seen, but he also hired a dancer at the age of I'm not happy, my mother-in-law is still... Forget it, regardless of whether the junior or senior, this year has been enough to make people feel heartbroken."
Seeing them talking louder and louder, Gu Yin didn't want to get involved in other family's private affairs and was about to leave.
Mrs. Wen Er held her back and said, "Don't leave yet, I'm not feeling well today. I'll buy all Yashe's orders!"
Light Food Yashe's food is not cheap. If Mrs. Wen Er pays attention to her body shape, she doesn't eat and drink very much. She only drinks some herbal tea and some salad for a day, and it costs two or three taels of silver.
If it is open to eat and drink, then a person's daily consumption must have 10 taels of silver.
In addition, there are more massage items at the back, so the consumption will be more.
Gu Yin was about to persuade the second wife not to get angry, but the female family member who was scolding her husband together with the second wife Wen hurriedly said: "Don't fight with me, I will pay!"
Gu Yin recalled carefully that this woman's husband's surname was Liu, and he owned the largest silk and satin shop in the capital, and Madam Liu's family was also a wealthy businessman not inferior to her husband's.
Then Mrs. Liu lowered her voice and said bitterly: "Anyway, my family spends hundreds of taels on a dress for the dancer. Instead of letting him spend it casually, it's better to invite our sisters to have fun. But I don't need his clothes. Yinzi, I'm not afraid of your jokes. At my age, my parents still treat me like a child. During the Chinese New Year, my brother even brought me a lot of property, so I don't have to hurt myself! I came from a long distance, my friend. There are few, few hobbies, and there is no other place to spend the money, so don’t stop me.”
Gu Yin did not persuade anything, and let the court waiter announce the news.
Yashenei are all good money masters, but thanks to her hospitality, they will always come to say hello to her.
Mrs. Liu is a person who loves to make friends. When I talked to you, the anger that I talked to her really subsided.
In addition, Gu Yin knew that she was in a bad mood, so they asked Yuan Xiaoyuan and the others. Knowing that Mrs. Liu's family was in Jiangnan, they asked a few people to temporarily arrange a small program - Jiangnan's songs matched with Jiangnan's little songs, plus Gu Yin's special A few Jiangnan dim sum dishes to make.
Mrs. Liu is really happy, and the whole person is no longer withering, so happy!
In the corner, the young woman had been quiet all the time, but looked at Madam Liu with a hint of envy in her eyes.
She thinks she has such confidence.
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Gu Yetian didn't get up, and when the sky was bright, Emperor Zhengyuan began to handle government affairs, and he also began to attend classes.
All morning, he was dizzy and hungry.
At this time, he could no longer eat the warm food in the palace, so he grabbed his waist card after class and left the palace.
Because Emperor Zhengyuan only gave him a one-hour lunch break, after leaving the palace, Gu Ye went straight to Shiweitian, and jumped all the way from the lobby to the back kitchen.
Everyone was busy in the afternoon market, and the shopkeeper Zhou and the others saw him coming in and out from the corner of their eyes, but they didn't say a word.
In the back, Gu Ye grabbed something to eat, not a food box, just a pack of oil paper, put it in his arms and ran out.
Time is tight, he can only eat and drink in the carriage.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the store and before he reached the carriage, someone followed him and said, "It's not good for you to steal."
Gu Ye turned around and spoke to a young boy of about ten years old who was proud of himself.