The empress looked at Yu Xiaocao with doubts in her eyes. Yu Xiaocao said with a smile: "The razor clam is a kind of sea shell. It is delicious and has high nutritional value. It has the effect of tonifying deficiency and has a certain therapeutic effect on dysentery."
"Haibei? It takes two days to get back and forth from the capital to the seaside. The emperor has to eat seafood porridge for lunch, which is a bit unrealistic!" The empress frowned, blaming herself for not being able to satisfy the emperor.
Seeing this, Yu Xiaocao hurriedly said: "The dry goods store should sell razor clam meat. It is also effective to cook porridge after soaking it in the dry goods. However, it is not as effective as fresh razor clams."
Although Zhu Junfan was usually strict with the little prince, he still cared about his son's illness. Hearing this, he immediately ordered: "Su Ran, order people to go to the beach to buy razor clams and come back! I buy dried razor clams at my family’s dry and fresh shop. Be sure to let Huang’er have seafood porridge before dinner.”
The little prince pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "What about lunch? You won't let me drink porridge again? It doesn't have any taste, it's too bad to drink..."
The Empress comforted softly: "Doctor Yu said that you can eat it with cold purslane. Your stomach is not suitable for eating other things now."
"What about the decoction? Do I not need to eat the bitter decoction?" The little prince pouted his mouth and looked at Yu Xiaocao with expectant eyes, his appearance was very cute.
Yu Xiaocao resisted the idea of pinching the little guy's face, nodded and said: "If the stomach pain doesn't hurt much in the afternoon, and you don't run out of the latrine too much, you don't need to take medicine, just eat purslane candy Just a block!"
The little prince touched his stomach, and when he heard that he didn't need to drink the bitter medicine, he said happily, "It's been a while since my stomach hurts. Does this mean that my illness is getting better soon?"
"It's almost ready!! Eat some candy for a few more days to consolidate it..." Yu Xiaocao was very patient with the child. For a sick child, the little prince doesn't cry or make trouble, he is considered a very sensible and cooperative little patient. Sure enough, the royal kids grew up earlier.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Li has brought the little princess to visit the little prince!" Rong Sheng, the chief eunuch in Jingyang Palace, came to report respectfully with his chest bowed and back.
White face without beard, respectful eyebrows and eyes, with a humble smile that has never changed for thousands of years, as if a chest that will never be straight - this is the personality of an eunuch in Yu Xiaocao's perception. Su Ran's gentle manner, neither humble nor overbearing, neither honor nor disgrace, does not match the word "eunuch" no matter how you look at it.
Concubine Li looks twenty years old, wearing a light green palace dress with colorful butterflies and flowers pattern, the wide hem is embroidered with layers of patterns, her hair is in a bun, her temples are exposed, her eyebrows are lightly swept, and her lips are only lightly painted. Rouge, the whole person looks like an elegant autumn chrysanthemum, very charming.
The little girl she held by her hand was a little younger than the little prince, with pink makeup and jade decorations, and a light pink dress with gold lines, showing that her skin was like snow. The whole little person looks like a little powder dumpling, so cute.
The three or four-year-old little girl followed her mother and concubine to greet her father and queen in a decent way, and then Wenwen stood quietly in front of the hospital bed, talking to the little prince in a childlike voice: "Brother Huang, you should be better." Yet?"
The little prince only had a good relationship with his younger sister. Hearing this, he nodded and said: "Sister, don't worry, I don't feel any other sensations except my stomach hurts sometimes!"
"The stomach hurts, let the mother rub it. Last time Danyi was full, and the stomach hurts, the mother and the concubine just rub it..." The little princess Zhu Danyi looked at the emperor's brother cutely, and solemnly proposed "solve it." " way.
"Sister is greedy again? She must have stolen food behind Li Fei's back. Don't do this again in the future, I can't move in bed, it's the result of eating indiscriminately!" The two little things looked at each other decently. talk.
The emperor has a handsome face, the queen is graceful and luxurious, and the concubine Li is elegant and beautiful. Their children are naturally first-class in appearance, plus they are young and talk like a baby. They are really a cute couple. A smile appeared on Yu Xiaocao's face unconsciously.
The maid Xia Zi who came back from the imperial dining room said with a troubled expression: "The empress, the cooks in the imperial dining room have never seen purslane, so they don't know how to cook it. Look..."
The empress cast her eyes on Yu Xiaocao, and said earnestly, "Xiaocao, it seems that I will trouble you again..."
Concubine Li was surprised, when did the Empress be so polite to others? The other party was still a ten-year-old child. What is so special about this little girl
Zhu Junfan explained her doubts, saying: "The little prince was able to save his life, thanks to Yu Xiaocao! She is good at intractable diseases in pediatrics..."
Concubine Li heard the words, she had some calculations in her heart. To be able to be recognized by both the emperor and the queen must be a real talent. Children are young, so it is inevitable that they will have headaches, and it will be good for the little princess in the future to be able to make friends with a doctor who is good at pediatrics. After thinking about it, Concubine Li looked at Yu Xiaocao with a bit of politeness and sincerity.
After Yu Xiaocao bowed to the three giants in the palace, she followed Xia Zi to the imperial dining room. After leaving the Jingyang Palace, Yu Xiaocao's footsteps became brisk. She took a deep breath of the free air. In front of the emperor and queen, she was too depressed. Are you sure? She felt as if her hands and feet were bound, and she had to think twice before doing anything. Being with you is like being with a tiger, this feeling is really uncomfortable!
When they arrived at the imperial dining room, the purslane was ready. It was picked by Chunhong with several eunuchs and maids, and it was washed clean for use.
Yu Xiaocao first soaked the purslane with boiling water to remove the green air, then washed it with clean water to remove the mucus, and chopped it for later use. Heat up the pot, put a little sesame oil on it, stir-fry the purslane until fragrant, add a little refined salt to taste, and take it out of the pot for later use.
Wash the cleaned Japonica rice, put it in a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water to boil, add the fried purslane, cook on low heat until soft and waxy, and then it can be out of the pot.
When the purslane porridge was simmering on a low heat, cold purslane was made. This is relatively simple, that is, blanch the purslane in boiling water and remove it. Wash the mucus with clean water several times, cut into sections and put them on a plate. Add a little refined salt, garlic juice and sesame oil palette, and you're done!
The purslane porridge had just been prepared when the Taishang Huang appeared at the door of the imperial dining room and looked inside. A young eunuch who was helping the cook had sharp eyes and spotted him, and then the imperial dining room knelt down. Yu Xiaocao also knelt down in confusion.
"Get up, get up! Do what you need to do!!" The Supreme Emperor found Yu Xiaocao in the crowd, his eyes lit up, and he approached with a smile.
Glancing at the food box Xia Zi was holding next to her, the Supreme Emperor coughed lightly and asked, "Is this a meal made by the little grass girl?"
Xia Zi hurriedly replied: "Back to the Supreme Emperor, yes!"
The Supreme Emperor stared at the food box, thinking about how to ask Xia Zi to leave the food box, Yu Xiaocao seemed to see through his thoughts, and said: "The Supreme Emperor, the little prince can't eat other things now, the girl did it." Purslane porridge, and cold purslane, have a very good auxiliary effect on the recovery of dysentery."
The Supreme Emperor hurriedly looked serious, nodded and said: "The little prince hasn't had lunch yet? Why don't you send it quickly? If my good-grandson is hungry, can you bear it?"
Xia Zi was so frightened that she trembled all over, and quickly left with the food box in her hands. The Taishanghuang was really moody, and his skin would be tense in front of him in the future.
Seeing that Yu Xiaocao turned around and wanted to leave with him, the Supreme Emperor hurriedly gave the accompanying guards a wink. The guard stretched out his hand to stop Yu Xiaocao. Yu Xiaocao looked back at the Supreme Emperor with surprise.
The Supreme Emperor coughed a few times in embarrassment, and said, "Girl, are you interested in opening a stewed vegetable restaurant in the capital? Your skill in braised pig's head is so good, it would be a waste not to open a stewed vegetable restaurant!"
Yu Xiaocao thought about it carefully, then shook her head lightly and said, "To be honest with you, the Supreme Emperor, although the daughter of the people intends to open a stewed vegetable shop, she has no plan to open it in the capital."
The Supreme Emperor frowned, and asked with some surprise: "Why? There are a lot of rich people in the capital, and there is a lot of market for opening braised vegetables shops in the capital!!"
"But not all the nobles are like you, the Supreme Emperor, who like to eat braised pig's head! Many powerful families in Beijing eat pork as a vulgar food. Most of our braised vegetables are made of pig's head and pig offal. No matter how good it is, those rich and powerful families who have a good face will definitely not buy it if they are afraid of being laughed at by others for eating vulgar food. Some people even ridicule those who buy braised vegetables, saying that braised pig's head is food for poor ghosts... "
Yu Xiaocao thinks more about it. It's okay for the upstarts who are born in the middle of the court to be reckless and common people. Those old families who have been in the family for many years cherish their feathers and are arty, so they won't be one of the customers they consider in their braised vegetable shop.
The Supreme Emperor scoffed at those aristocratic families who pretended to be fake. What are they pretending to be? Many aristocratic families have gone through hundreds of years and gradually declined. Who are they still putting on airs? What happened to eating pork? What's wrong with eating stewed pig's head and large intestine? Laozi is the overlord, so he can eat it, but they can't? Food for the poor? I see who dares to say that I am a poor ghost
"Little grass girl, we will discuss the opening of the shop later! Look, the imperial dining room happens to have a pig's head, can you help to marinate it?" The Supreme Emperor was greedy, and specially ordered the imperial dining room to prepare a pig's head.
Although Yu Chu's braised pig's head skills are not as good as Yu Xiaocao's, after all, it's good to have no fish and shrimp after getting Xiaocao's recipe. Taishanghuang, who likes to eat stewed pig's head, will let the imperial dining room stew it once a month, and beat the tooth for a sacrifice.
Yu Xiaocao saw that the pig's head and all kinds of seasonings were prepared, and it didn't take much effort, so she blanched the pig's head out. The pig's head has been added with various stewed ingredients, put into the pot and cooked slowly, and it is almost ready for dinner.
She considered that the Supreme Emperor was old and his weight was a bit on the high side, and she was afraid that he would have the symptoms of the three highs, so she poured three drops of spirit stone liquid into the pot when everyone was not paying attention. In this way, the stewed pig's head tastes better and is good for the body.