Since they are here to escape the summer heat, it is naturally equivalent to a vacation. Caring about the annoying things between those women every day is a waste of time and life.
Anyway, the matter would not involve her, so she simply left it alone and let the emperor have a headache.
When things happen, she will take her daughter-in-law to eat melons. In short, it's something that has nothing to do with them. It's so boring to figure out the cause and effect before it happens.
The Empress thought so, she simply closed the gate of the Qin Academy, and went out quietly with Shen Yuqing every day.
Let Biling watch Qingxi practice kung fu during the day, and then she takes Fu Qiushui to play in the mountains, and returns at night to give her daughter a massage or open up her meridians.
The mountain range to the north of Huaijing runs from east to west and is a relatively large mountain range. It faces the Yangtze River in the west, and extends beyond the boundary of Huaijing in the east. It is said that the mountains stretch almost to the sea.
As a result, the mountains became a natural moat separating the north and the south, and it was very difficult to cross on land. If you make a detour, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Fortunately, Emperor Rui of the previous dynasty ordered the construction of the Grand Canal, and found a low mountain in the mountains to dig through. This canal connects the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, bringing convenient water resources along the way. It is also a very convenient waterway. At the same time, there are river fresh resources, so many people have turned to fishermen to support their families.
"At that time, there were quite a few people who had no land and could only rent land from landlords. They barely starved to death every year, and their lives were miserable." The empress knew a lot, she said, "Later, Emperor Rui found a shipbuilder. Let them cooperate with the imperial merchant family and let them allocate part of their staff to do fishing business by the canal."
These people have fishing boats in their hands, and they can spend relatively cheap money to hire people without land to help them fish. Although the benefits given are not very good, they can at least keep them fed and clothed all year round, so that they won't be too hungry to survive.
These people work very hard, and it is like a dream to have such an opportunity, so naturally they will not be lazy. Hard-working people can get more reward money from the boat owner, so after twenty years of saving, they can afford a small fishing boat.
With his own fishing boat, gradually he no longer needs the help of the Royal Shang Family. To be honest, this kind of business is not profitable, and they would not be willing to continue doing it if Ruidi promised them a part of the business tax reduction.
After the fishermen can be self-sufficient, they can stop the business. However, the business and tax benefits promised by Ruidi were not withdrawn immediately, and the next two emperors allowed them to enjoy the business and tax benefits for 30 years.
One year of commercial and tax incentives is enough for them to earn back their capital, let alone thirty years? What's more, such an approach can also make those imperial merchants gain the love and gratitude of the common people. At that time, many royal and merchant families were willing to take over the job, but in the end the emperor only ordered a few.
Among them, there is the current Wu family, which is Mrs. Lan's natal family.
"I didn't realize that the Wu family is still a century-old family." Shen Yuqing was very surprised.
She thought that the Wu family would have a few generations at most, but she didn't expect that they were already the imperial merchants of the previous dynasty two or three hundred years ago.
Fu Qiushui smiled, and only said that the head of the Wu family is very smart, and the heirs he has cultivated are not bad. But the rest of the Wu family are a little shallow-sighted. Fortunately, although they don't have great talents, they are not stupid. They each have their own cleverness, so they won't bring down the Wu family.
Before Madam Lan entered the palace, she also used her cleverness to try to pull Qixue into business. Although she was a bit ill-considered, she did have a good business acumen. However, the concubine Gong does not know how to do business, so Mrs. Lan's talents may be used as an opportunity to make money.
As for how to use it...
"Are you going to let go of the palace power?" Shen Yuqing frowned, "You have to think about it, if the concubine Xian gets the palace power, it will be even more difficult to deal with."
Fu Qiushui's tone was light: "What are you afraid of? She still has a few years to live, don't you know?"
How could Shen Yuqing and Fu Qiushui not know what incense Concubine Xian used every day? Although Concubine Xian and the others are trying to hide it, but there is an imperial doctor among them who is an internal response.
Shen Yuqing thought about it too, even if Concubine Xian is really in power, so what? Can she still turn the world upside down
No matter how much she does now, she will still be killed by herself in a few years. At that time, all her plans will be in vain. Does she still have the ability to push a child of a few years old to the throne
"Soldiers come to cover you with water and earth, Qiushui and I will protect you." Shen Yuqing said with a smile, while hugging her daughter-in-law to play hooligans.
The empress was already too lazy to pay attention to her mopping hands, and she just rummaged through the grilled fish on the fire. The grilled fish has been grilled out of fat, and the aroma is tangy.
The belly of the fish was scratched a few times, and the translucent fish meat was roasted tender white. Seeing this, Shen Yuqing immediately took out the seasoning, first brushed a layer of the secret sauce looted from Qingfeng, and then sprinkled cumin chili powder, the taste became even more fragrant immediately.
Shen Yuqing and Fu Qiushui walked in the mountains and forests all morning, teasing rabbits and digging out bird nests, and they were already hungry by now. Both grilled fish weighed more than a catty, and one for each person was just enough to get rid of.
The fish is delicious, the only fly in the ointment is that it has too many spines.
Shen Yuqing likes to eat fish very much, and hates spit spit very much. Later, I don’t know how to practice the unique skill of eating fish without spitting out the bones. It doesn’t matter whether you are fish meat or fish bones, you chew them all and swallow them.
She has internal strength to protect her body, and the fishbone she swallows can't hurt her esophagus and throat at all. And after the fishbone enters the stomach, there is no need to worry. The gastric juice is more powerful than people imagined, and it takes a few minutes to digest the fruit core, not to mention the fishbone.
In comparison, Fu Qiushui felt more painful while eating.
In order to eat the fish, she deliberately washed her hands clean, and then began to pick fishbone with two fingers. Sometimes she bites down and finally picks out the fishbone with her tongue, but it is so embarrassing that she cannot spit out the fishbone, so she simply bites the fishbone with her teeth, and then removes it with her hands.
It was too troublesome to deal with the tiny fishbone. After Shen Yuqing finished eating a fish, Fu Qiushui hadn't eaten a quarter of it yet.
Shen Yuqing stared at her daughter-in-law with burning eyes... Looking at her long, white fingers and neat white teeth, she felt a little thirsty.
"What are you looking at?" Fu Qiushui frowned slightly, and cast a sidelong glance at her.
Concubine Shen immediately sat upright: "I didn't see anything, sister Qiushui, you look so good when you eat!"
Sailor Fu Qiu paused, and stabbed her face with the fishbone with his backhand.
This is a big fishbone, but it is not sharp, and it doesn't poke people like a small fishbone. Shen Guifei looked at her daughter-in-law innocently, and asked her what she was doing.
The empress replied calmly: "It's nothing, just to see if your skin has thickened."
"..." You haven't gotten tired of this stalk yet!
But Fu Qiushui still ate too much. Although Shen Yuqing thought it was interesting to appreciate her daughter-in-law eating, she didn't want her to eat so painfully. After a while the fish will be completely cold, Fu Qiushui probably hasn't finished eating yet.
She thought about it, caught some prawns, took out a clean iron plate and put it on the fire, poured oil on it and grilled the prawns for her daughter-in-law. I took the fish over and ate it, and then peeled the shrimp for my wife to eat.
There is enough spicy oil and seasoning in the sizzling shrimp, but the shrimp meat is locked by the shrimp shell, and the freshness and sweetness of the meat is not destroyed. After peeling, dip it in the delicious chili oil. After eating it, it will leave a fragrance on your lips and teeth. The stimulation brought by the spiciness is intertwined with the taste of the seasoning, but you can still taste the sweetness in it, which is extremely delicious.
Fu Qiushui originally wanted to do it himself, but Shen Yuqing didn't let her get her hands dirty. Forget it when eating grilled fish, the chili oil is red, and the red oil on plain white fingers is not as exquisite as it was at the beginning.
So the empress had no choice but to silently enjoy her companion's service, and ate shrimp from Concubine Shen's hands.
The prawns caught in the creek are very plump, and summer is really a good season to eat prawns. After eating this plate of spicy prawns, Fu Qiushui's gluttons were drawn out.
"Go back and do something else tonight."
Shen Yuqing responded immediately: "Okay, how about the minced garlic?"
"good."
Garlic prawns are also very delicious, and Qingxi loves them the most. Every time she can eat a big plate, she won't even move the rice, just staring at the prawns. The shell does not spit out, which is similar to Concubine Shen Guifei who eats fish without spitting out thorns.
The above is the empress's comment, Shen Guifei listened: "..."
Heh, haven't you heard that you don't spit out the grape skins when you eat grapes
What happened to her if she didn't spit a thorn? It's better than not peeling and not peeling!
Of course, if you complained so much in your heart, how could you dare to say it out on the surface? So she had no choice but to have an attitude of "you are right, daughter-in-law", and did not dare to protest at all.
After the delicious lunch, the two of them continued to enter the mountain to harm other small animals with the delicious aroma of grilled fish and shrimp.
The pure wild mountains are much more interesting than the hunting grounds of the previous autumn hunting. No one comes back to drive out the animals here, even if they meet tigers, bears and blind people, it is normal. But in addition, poisonous snakes and wolves are also very dangerous.
There are hunters in the surrounding villages, but they dare not go deep into the forest to hunt. At most, they would look for small prey in the small hills near the village, and hunting wild boars would be considered a great harvest.
Speaking of wild boars arriving, Fu Qiushui sat on a tree and threw stones down. It is said that he wants to exercise his projection ability, and strive to kill his prey with a stone like Shen Yuqing.
So far, no success.
Not to mention being smashed to death, it is a question of whether it will be smashed or not.
A poor pheasant tied up by Shen Yuqing under the opposite tree was trying to flap its wings and try to fly away, but it was useless. Fu Qiushui threw the stones for a long time, and the blind cat hit the dead mouse a few times, but his strength was too weak to have any effect.
No, it's not useless either. After all, a pheasant also has dignity, and it still hurts a bit after being hit like this.
Frightened and angry, it uttered a dangerous cry at the Twolegs on the tree, wishing it could pounce on Fu Qiushui twice.
"Hahaha, Qiu Shui, you're going to smash it to get angry." Concubine Shen put her arms around Fu Qiushui's waist, and almost fell down without laughing.
Sister Qiushui was still throwing stones with a serious face, unmoved at all.
The pheasant was so angry that it even laid an egg.
"...Eggs?" Fu Qiushui turned to look at Shen Yuqing in a daze, "Peasants can lay eggs anywhere?"
Shen Yuqing almost didn't cry from laughing, she reached out to support her chin, and it took a long time to laugh enough, and her chin didn't dislocate. She rubbed her stiff cheeks and coughed dryly: "Maybe I can't hold it back."
This chicken was caught by her from the chicken coop. At that time, the chicken seemed to be trying to brew something. Shen Yuqing saw it squatting in the chicken coop at first, and thought it was hatching eggs, but when she picked it up, she found that the nest was clean, except for chicken feathers.
It seems that it is not hatching but laying eggs.
Generally speaking, poultry will not lay eggs in unfamiliar places, and will return to the nest to lay eggs, which makes them feel more secure. However, it was interrupted by Shen Yuqing at a critical moment, and was ravaged by Fu Qiushui for a long time. In addition, its poor nest was only three steps away in the bushes, so it was quite a familiar environment. So one didn't hold back and got off.
After laying eggs, refreshed, it continued to growl at Fu Qiushui.
Fu Qiushui: "..." Can you save some effort to incubate the eggs
There is so much movement here, so it is natural to attract something else. Especially eggs are a very good ration for some predators. Not long after the pheasant finished laying eggs, something with a sharp nose came running along with the smell.
It was a wild boar.
Wild boars like to eat bird eggs and chicken eggs, so birds usually start hatching immediately after laying eggs, so as not to hurt predators. This time the pheasant had no time to incubate its eggs, so it was busy trying to challenge Fu Qiushui. It happened that there was another wild boar nearby, and it was immediately attracted by the smell of the bird's eggs.
The wild boar was quite loud when it ran, and it ran over rumblingly, and knew how to slow down. It rushed to the egg, obviously intending to grab it and run.
The pheasant was so frightened that its feathers stood on end. For a moment, it didn't know whether to try to escape or protect the egg. The problem is that it couldn't escape, and was tied to death here by the rope.
Then the wild boar fell down with a bang, and a stone bounced and fell down, and rolled a few times on the ground.
Next to it is the frightened hen pheasant.
Three seconds later, an overwhelming amount of stones fell down. Not only hit the wild boar, but also accidentally injured the poor pheasant lady next to her.
Fortunately, this round of stones is not so lethal, at most it just smashed the pheasant until it continued to crow.
Obviously, Shen Yuqing dropped the first stone, and Fu Qiushui subconsciously threw out the rest after recovering. But the wild boar had already fallen when she threw it, so she threw it for nothing.
"Is it dead?" Fu Qiushui changed the subject awkwardly.
Concubine Shen thoughtfully did not mention the pile of stones, jumped off the tree with her daughter-in-law in her arms, and walked over to have a look.
"It's not dead, it's still fresh."
Fu Qiushui: "..."
"Drag it back to Qing Feng, let him add food to us!" The imperial concubine decided so happily.
He picked up the pheasant chick without any hassle, along with its egg that didn't have a father.
There are two types of eggs, fertilized and unfertilized. The fertilized ones can hatch chicks, and the unfertilized ones are pure egg yolks, which are edible.
This one was not fertilized. As for how Shen Yuqing knew, would she say that she held the egg and looked at the sun for a long time
Originally, she wanted to hatch a chick and raise it for fun. I heard that the chick is yellow, orange and fluffy, very cute. And when they leave the palace in a month and a half, there will be nearly two catties ready to eat, so raising chickens is extremely cost-effective.
Unfortunately, the egg did not hatch.
"Okay." Fu Qiushui pulled her back expressionlessly, "Don't look."
Chickens can excrete anywhere, how difficult is it to raise chickens in the palace? Will Yanjun eat them raw
-shock! The Royal Palace has become a pheasant farm!
Even if there is no UC shock department in this era, I am afraid that people will react in the same way when they hear the news.
Shen Guifei sighed regretfully, and lifted the huge wild boar with one hand without any effort. The other arm is around the daughter-in-law, who is holding an egg in her hand.
As for the unlucky pheasant, it was tied to the wild boar's leg and could not move.
The two quickly returned to the palace, threw the booty on the ground casually, and called for someone to receive it.
It just so happened that Qing Feng came over with a food plate, on top of which was a bowl of chilled crispy cheese, which seemed to be served to Qing Xi who was practicing hard. Concubine Shen raised her hand and snatched the crispy cheese, and presented it to her daughter-in-law.
Fu Qiushui frowned slightly, and helplessly drank half a bowl with a porcelain spoon in her hand, but refused to drink any more. Concubine Shen Gui didn't care, she quickly solved the remaining half by herself, feeling happy in her heart.
How romantic to share a bowl of crispy cheese with your wife.
After finishing the drink, she casually put it on the food plate, seeing that Qing Feng was still staring at them in a daze, Shen Yuqing thought for a while, reached out and took the egg from Fu Qiushui's hand, and stuffed it to Qing Feng.
"Go and dispose of the wild boar and pheasant. Tonight, the palace and the empress want to eat garlic-roasted open-back shrimp and pork."
This pig looks like it is in the prime of life, the meat is neither too tender nor too tough, and it tastes just right. It's fresh, and there should be a lot of dishes in the evening.
The imperial concubine's mind was full of dishes such as boiled pork slices, roasted pork legs, cold pork ears, stir-fried pork liver, etc., and suddenly felt hungry again.
Seeing that the imperial concubine no longer intends to talk to him, Qing Feng silently swallowed the sentence "Cheese is for the princess" that he hadn't said all along. He silently returned to the small kitchen with the plate in his hand, and called a few eunuchs to drag the wild boar and pheasant back.
As for the princess, just make another bowl.
Concubine Shen Gui had a daughter-in-law and forgot about her daughter, she didn't have the slightest intention to ask her daughter's situation. She took her daughter-in-law into the queen's house to enjoy the ice basin, while her son lived in her own house.
The child is weak and easy to catch cold, and he can't use the ice basin. His house is definitely not as cool as the queen's.
The nuns played with little Qiuqiu, and the eight-month-old Qiuqiu was already trying to walk, but the effect was not satisfactory.
Qingxi finally finished training, and after a break, she ran over to play with her younger brother, and tried her best to teach him to call "sister". So far, it seems that the effect is not very good, and Qiuqiu doesn't pay attention to her at all.
The dinner dishes were very rich, which moved Qingxi very much. Wild game always has a special taste. She was used to the taste of livestock, and wild pork, she almost swallowed it with her chopsticks.
There are not many garlic prawns, so Concubine Shen takes care of her daughter-in-law first. When Qingxi recovered from the pork, she found that there was not a single shrimp left.
Most of it was in her mother's bowl, and the smaller half was quickly disposed of by her mother and concubine.
Qingxi: "..." Wow! bully!
"Ah... ah plus... plus..." Qiuqiu was messing around, sitting at one end of the small square table, slapping the table excitedly.
Qiuqiu's big eyes were staring straight at the red dishes on the table, her little nose was wriggling, and her saliva was drooling.
"Aga..."
"What to add, I won't give it to you." Qingxi said angrily.
Qiuqiu's big watery eyes looked over, and her sister's heart softened immediately. Qingxi immediately begged for mercy: "Here, I'll give you a taste, don't look at me like this."
She really can't bear it, my brother is so cute.
Qingxi dipped a small spoon in the vegetable juice and gave Qiuqiu a taste.
I thought that Qiuqiu would be unhappy if he ate spicy food, and then he would never touch spicy food again, but he was happy to lick it. After licking it, she still wanted it, but Qingxi didn't dare to give it to him, for fear that he would have diarrhea.
Concubine Shen Gui, who was full of food and drink, propped her chin and watched the interaction between the siblings with a smile, and did not stop them.
Qiuqiu tasted what he wanted to eat, and was very happy. He slapped the table harder, not afraid of hand pain, just like the silly son of a landlord's family. He excitedly made various unidentified sounds, but no one could understand what he was saying.
After a while, some other words suddenly appeared in those meaningless words: "Sister... Sister..."
Qingxi gave a sharp meal, dropped her chopsticks, and stopped eating. She threw herself in front of her younger brother, extremely excited: "Qiaoqiu shout again!"
Qiuqiu looked at him inexplicably, her watery eyeballs were crystal clear, black and translucent. The chubby little face is cute and cute, and there is a bunch of stupid hair on the head.
Qingxi groaned and covered her face.
No, she can't watch it anymore, she really can't help but hug and kiss her brother for an hour.
After she did this last time, Qiuqiu ignored her for several days!
But the little angel Qiuqiu is a little angel. He saw his sister staring at him through the gaps in his fingers, showing a very cute smile: "Sister! Ah, ah! Ah sister! Sister oh... . .. "
Qingxi came to an end immediately.
Concubine Shen, she is jealous.
"Wuuuuuu, it's my son who smashed it!" The imperial concubine and empress pretended to cry while hugging her daughter-in-law.
The empress pushed her away calmly: "You have never taught Qiuqiu to call your mother."
Concubine Shen would not listen, she had worked so hard to fake her pregnancy for six or seven months and gave birth to her son, unexpectedly the first one to call out was not mother!
The author has something to say: I am so overwhelmed by writing food here without having dinner [Falling into thought]
Thanks to mine: Luo Yun, Liu Yao
Thank you for the nutrient solution: the little one overlooking the mountain stream +5, the sweet dream +2, the cool boy +1, you are really counseling +10, the thin is not subject to +1, the fate +2, Qu Qing +20