The empress leaned on the couch, holding the wine glass in one hand, just watching Ren Baqian come and go busily. The listening cub that Ren Baqian just bought was next to her with a wine jug on its paws and head, with a pitiful face, and its round eyes kept moving around.
At this time, Ren Baqian not only brought all the pots and pans from the imperial dining room, but also beef and mutton, two fish, and some fruits.
The empress doesn't like fish, firstly she can't spit spines, and secondly she prefers to eat meat.
But Ren Baqian likes to eat, and he will always get a braised fish or something every three to five days, and now the imperial dining room is pretty cool.
According to Ren Baqian's words, he can catch up with a five-star chef.
After all, the chefs in the Imperial Dining Room were not bad at cooking, and their skills and fire control were also not bad. After Ren Baqian raised some points, they improved very fast.
Ren Baqian put a chopping board on the stool, put beef on it, and cut into slices with a knife in one hand, then turned to look at the Empress: "Your Majesty, can you chop stuffing?"
"Zhen?" The empress pointed to herself with a funny face, let me chop it up
"Your Majesty's jade hands are not stained with oily smoke, but it's fun to do it occasionally. Make dumplings tonight!" Ren Baqian wiped his hands with a cloth.
"Or does your majesty like chopping stuffing or making dumplings?"
The Empress thought about it, but she didn't really like it, but seeing that he was very interested there, she didn't dampen his interest, she got up and walked over slowly, took the kitchen knife from Ren Baqian, and there were a series of knives in the hall. The sound of the knife chopping on the chopping board seemed to be connected as a whole, and there was no gap in the light of the knife in the empress's hand.
Ren Baqian glanced at it and praised: "Your Majesty's saber technique, not to mention that water can't get in, even light can't get in."
Thirty seconds later, the Empress put the knife into Ren Baqian's hand, only to see that the chopping board was already covered with minced meat.
Ren Baqian looked at the chopping board and studied it for a while, and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, this chopping board seems to be an inch thinner."
"It's just a chopping board!" The empress disagreed.
"That is to say, His Majesty cut the upper layer of the chopping board into sawdust and mixed it with beef." Ren Baqian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Now we don't even need to put vegetables."
The Empress paused, turned her gaze around, and then acted as if she hadn't heard, leaned on the couch and closed her eyes to rest.
Ren Baqian saw that the empress had learned to pretend to be dead, so she should do it herself. Sure enough, the empress is not suitable for normal people to do.
Someone took another chopping board, chopped the meat again, and asked again when it was time to make dumplings, "Don't you try making dumplings, Your Majesty?"
"Don't try it. If you want meat stuffing, only put meat!" The empress picked up the jug from the cub's head and poured a glass of wine, then put the jug on its head, and listened to the cub standing there obediently. Not daring to move, the expression on his face became even more aggrieved.
I'm not a flagon!
"Are you sure you can eat it?" Ren Baqian squinted his eyes.
"What I say counts!" the Empress said, casting a glance at him.
Ren Baqian tossed and tossed for two hours, covered in white flour, the Empress just curled up on the couch and watched him busy, not in a hurry, the corners of her mouth curled up from time to time.
She liked the sight.
After a long time, Ren Baqian brought over a dozen plates of dumplings.
"It doesn't look the same?" the Empress asked, the color of the stuffing from the inside of the dumpling wrapper was different.
"This is the pure meat that His Majesty wants, without any vegetables." Ren Baqian pushed half of it in front of the Empress.
Ren Baqian still had six or seven trays in front of him.
Sitting on the table, the two sat opposite each other, the listening only was finally released, but he didn't dare to run away, so he stood honestly by the side, looking at Ren Baqian with an expression of expecting to save himself from the sea of suffering.
Pour Erliang Erguotou on it, and the faint smell of dumplings and wine are mixed together.
"Dayao doesn't seem to say Happy New Year?" Ren Baqian asked.
"Did not say."
"Then Happy New Year!" Ren Baqian chuckled.
The empress gave him a sideways look, and wanted to say: Happy New Year, but she didn't say it.
After lowering his head and eating three dumplings, he began to frown. The dumplings taste good, and the meat tastes good too, but the pure meat dumplings don't taste very good...it's too greasy.
Immediately pushed half of the plate in front of him: "Change and eat."
Ren Baqian smiled wickedly.
This is due to the fact that I also ate it at the beginning.
"What's in it? Pineapple?" The empress ate Ren Baqian's dumplings, her eyes widened, her face full of embarrassment.
"Mmm, pineapple green mongolia and stone fish meat!" Ren Baqian praised his innovative ability.
"This is passion fruit and barbed turtle meat" "This is river clam mother-in-law"...
Ren Baqian pointed to a few plates and explained to the Empress with great interest. He felt that with his skill and innovation, he could at least win a place in the culinary competition. Combining the sweetness of fruit with the umami of fish and ghost meat has a strange appeal.
Although the taste seems a bit strange, but you will get used to it once you eat it.
The empress tasted everything, then silently pulled back her own plate, and pushed all of Ren Baqian's plates back.
Fortunately, there are fruits next to it. I can barely eat two dumplings and two fruits.
After a difficult meal of dumplings, Ren Baqian dragged the Empress out to release the Kongming Lantern.
Six hundred and sixty-six Kongming lanterns the size of half a person are placed in a large courtyard, everywhere.
"Can this fly into the sky?" The empress was a little skeptical, and made a frame out of bamboo rafts, and then covered it with a layer of white cloth, besides that, there was a small oil lamp underneath.
"Naturally. Does Your Majesty have any wish? Write it on it, and it will be taken to the place closest to the sky, and maybe it will come true." Ren Baqian took a stack of cloth strips, paper and pen and asked.
"What I want to do, of course I can do it. If I can't do it, it's useless to write it on it. You might as well send Li Fu to the sky, so that he won't worry about it every day."
"Even if you write about Guotai Min'an! It's always an expectation." Ren Baqian smiled.
The Empress thought for a while, and she really wrote the words "Guotai Min'an" on the cloth strip prepared by Ren Baqian, and then asked people to tie it under the Kongming lantern.
Ren Baqian also wrote a "Food Grain Harvest"
The empress thought about it and wrote "Father and Rain"
Ren Baqian: "The fortune of the country is prosperous"
Empress: "The country is strong and powerful"
Ren Baqian: "Hundred Years of Love"
The empress looked at him, thought for a while, and finally wrote down the words "Xin Xin Nian Nian".
Ren Baqian then picked up the pen again and wrote "Bring a precious son early!"
Blood rushed to the face of the Empress, she kicked Ren Baqian on the leg, and flew out in a circle.
After a long time, Ren Baqian came back limping and asked people to light those Kongming lanterns and let them fly.
As the half-person-high Kongming lanterns gradually rose into the sky and slowly rose in the air, hundreds of lights of different heights, like a ladder to the sky, are extremely beautiful in the night, like a beautiful picture scroll.
The background is an endless galaxy, reflecting each other!
"Won't it fall?" The Empress suddenly thought. If the oil lamp falls, it may cause a fire.
"Your Majesty, even if it falls in the air, the lamp oil will be blown away, so naturally nothing will happen.
Only then did the empress feel relieved, and looked up at the beautiful scenery in the sky with a relaxed mood.
As the night wind blows, the Kongming Lantern slowly drifts from the top to the south of the city.
The lights in the sky in the night were naturally seen by countless people, and many places started to make noise, and some people even came out of the room after hearing it and looked up at the night sky.
Just like the fireworks last time, this time it is also a shocking beauty.
"It floated out of the palace, it must have been made by a ghost." Tonglan stood in the yard pouted, but still admitted: "It's pretty, I don't know how to do it, I'll learn from him later."
"The idea is ingenious!" Tong Zhenye also said in the yard.
In the Yunyan Building, countless girls were lying on their windows looking at the sky outside, feeling envious in their hearts. Many people thought how wonderful it would be if they were that lamp, and could fly freely.
In an inn.
"Zhuo Hua, come out and have a look." A young man kicked open Zhuo Hua's door.
"Baby Bear, you don't know how to knock on the door?" Zhuo Hua scolded angrily.
"So hypocritical!" The young man said contemptuously, then grabbed Zhuo Hua's hand and ran into the yard, pointing to the sky and saying, "Look!"
"It's so beautiful!" Zhuo Hua saw the scene in the sky, and stars appeared in his eyes.
"I heard from them that the fireworks were set off during His Majesty's birthday. It was so beautiful. It's a pity that I didn't see it." The boy said regretfully.
On King Street, Li Fu was lying on the roof, looking at the scene in the sky, left the wine glass on the roof, disappeared in a flash, appeared in the air after a while, grabbed the bottom Kongming lantern and dropped it on the ground, after seeing the structure clearly, he revealed A pensive look.
Qin Mansion, Qin Chuan said loudly: "Bring the old man's bow, I want to see what it is."
"Father, they flew out of the palace." A young man with a similar appearance to Qin Chuan reminded him.
Qin Chuan looked at the Kongming Lantern in the sky, feeling like a monkey scratching his head. He was really curious. After thinking about it, at most he would be kicked by His Majesty, so he boldly said: "It's okay, just bring the bow."
Not long after, Qin Chuan bowed his bow and set an arrow, a string sounded, a light went out instantly, and the Kongming Lantern also fell down.
"My lord, I picked it up, and there are words on it." A moment later, two servants hurried back holding Kongming lanterns.
"What did you write?"
"I'm illiterate!" The two guards looked aggrieved.
"Trash." Qin Chuan took the cloth strip and saw the words: "Give birth to a precious child early" written on it, and Qin Chuan's expression immediately brightened.
This thing that flew out of the palace has such a few words on it, I dare not think about it.
"Father, what are you writing?" The young man from before leaned over to take a look, but he didn't realize it for a long time, and then said, "I don't know anything."
Qin Chuan scolded immediately: "Nonsense, I only know about it."
After thinking about it, it's better not to let people know about this, or His Majesty will be furious from embarrassment.
On the second day, in the Shi Mansion, Shi Qing was surprised: "What? Give birth to a precious son early? Your Majesty and Kid Ren... Lord Qin, is this serious?"
"Is the old man still lying to you?" Qin Chuan suddenly said, "You doubt me?" Why do you doubt me? When did I tell a lie
When Qin Chuan came out of Shi Qing's house humming a little tune, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately slapped himself. He clearly said he would not tell others, but he couldn't control himself!