When Queen Fu saw Fu Ying coming in, a smile appeared on her pale and thin face. She wanted to hold her up, but she was powerless. Seeing this, the palace maid quickly helped Queen Fu get up and took a special thick cushion so that Queen Fu could lean on it.
Fu Ying stepped forward and held her sister's left hand. Her sister's hand was still so soft and delicate, but the palms were cold. Fu Ying called out "Big Sister" and tears flowed down her face.
When Queen Fu saw Fu Ying crying, she also shed tears. She habitually stretched out her right hand, just like when she was a child, she wanted to wipe Fu Ying's tears, but before her arm was stretched out, she drooped down weakly. Fu Ying saw that her smart and capable elder sister had no strength to raise her hand, so she couldn't care about the royal etiquette that she was still thinking about on the road. She lay on Queen Fu's shoulder, biting the clothes on her shoulder, and cried hard.
Queen Fu was moved and shook Fu Ying's hand with great strength, and said, "Sister Four, stop crying. If you want to be a mother, why is it still like a child? It's not good for the little guy in your stomach to cry again?"
Fu Ying cried for a while, and then she stopped slowly when she thought of the baby in her belly. She raised her head sobbingly, with tears on her face. Thinking that she could not act too sad in front of her sister, she grinned again, but it was even worse than crying.
Queen Fu looked at Fu Ying with love and said, "I cried and laughed, just like a child. How can the fourth sister take care of my nephew in the future?"
After Fu Ying finished crying, reason began to gain the upper hand. She did not ask about her sister's condition and followed her sister's topic: "Sister, this little guy is so naughty. He often moves inside and kicks me inside just now."
Queen Fu said, "The noble lady in Daliang City has a note in his hand. What do you think?" Fu Ying looked at her elder sister in confusion. Queen Fu chuckled softly: "Hou Lang is such a weird person. She actually wrote the eight pregnancies of the Hou family. However, it is very well written. Now pregnant ladies are going to get pregnant, and they all have to look at the eight pregnancies of the Hou family. Now Hou Lang is very famous among the noble ladies of the Daliang."
Fu Ying smiled embarrassedly and said, "I only gave it to the Minister of the Secretariat, why did it spread all over Daliang?"
After Fu Ying arrived at Daliang, she had just finished washing up in the Fu Family compound. Before lunch had been available, her father-in-law came. Fu Ying talked to her sister for a while, and her stomach suddenly yelled "gurgled," and "gurgled".
Queen Fu heard this and said, "I'm also worried. Yesterday my father said you were going outside Daliang City. Today, as you count the time you entered the city, I hurriedly sent someone to pick you up into the palace. Before you have eaten yet, I'll ask someone to prepare for you. I'm a little tired, so I have to sleep for a while. After you finish your meal, we two sisters will chat." Queen Fu said to a palace maid, "Prepare some delicious food for Madam Fu, and make the ones I like to eat."
Seeing that her sister was just chatting with her for a few words, Fu Ying was panting when she spoke, and her head was tilted on the cushion and seemed to be asleep again. Fu Ying felt sad and tears were hanging on her eyes. She didn't speak anymore, but just held her sister's hand.
After a while, a palace maid came in and said to Fu Ying: "Madam Fu, lunch is ready. In the side room, you go and have a meal."
Queen Fu was not really asleep. She was in a daze and vaguely heard the palace maid talking, saying, "Take all the food in this room, I want to watch the fourth sister have dinner."
Several palace maids quickly moved the coffee table and chairs to Queen Fu's bed. The lunch on the coffee table was simple and rich. It was simple because there were only six dishes. In addition to the two fresh vegetables, there were only two plates of meat dishes, as well as two snacks such as plum blossom buns in caves and river drift noodles. Rich means that both meat dishes are famous dishes, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have such a good taste.
The two meat dishes are Wucha shrimp. The method is to first use high-quality new tea from Wudi, soak it in boiling water, then quickly remove it and put it in a white container. Then wash the fresh shrimps and control the water, use a little egg white and starch to slurry, and disperse it into boiling water until the water blooms again, and the shrimps change color, and take it out and put it on Wudi new tea. Finally, pour in a hot and fresh soup with a little salt and blanch it. Wucha shrimps combine clear tea, which is rich and fresh and tender. When you first taste it, you feel it is dull and tasteless. When you taste it again, you will feel fresh but not greasy, fragrant but not vulgar.
Another meat dish is stewed with Guangbai. Guangbai, also known as fish belly, fish bladder, floral gelatin, etc. It has been listed as one of the "Eight Treasures of the Sea" since ancient times. It was first recorded in the book "Qimin Yaoshu" in the Northern Wei Dynasty. By the Tang Dynasty, Guangbai had been listed as a tribute. Guangbai was put into food, seven minutes in hair and three minutes in cooking. The skills of raising hair are extremely high, and the difficulty of raising hair is even higher. Without ten years of skill in stoves, it is difficult to accurately grasp. Generally, oil is until it is loose and penetrates, and the bulb is like a sponge, and the water is reversed.
Rinse again until it is white and has no odor. At this time, the broad belly is fluffy and crispy, and the whiteness reveals light yellow. After the hair is swelled, the broad belly is made of high-quality soup and roasted to taste. After the broad belly is full of soup, it forms a unique flavor of tender, soft, mellow and rich, shiny and fragrant, and the soup is bright and bright. Pick the broad belly with a double chopstick, and the white and soft broad belly jumps and turns between the chopsticks. After entering the mouth, it is soft and crispy, and the lubricating and glutinous, and the mellow and fragrant taste lingers around the tongue.
These dishes are the dishes that Queen Fu usually likes to eat, and it is also Fu Ying's favorite. When Fu Ying was in Zhengzhou, she did not eat authentic stewed glutinous rice. She found several chefs but couldn't make them well, so she had to give up. Fu Ying tasted each dish first and praised: "It was really well prepared, and she deserved to be an imperial chef. It can be compared with the most authentic taste in Daming Mansion."
Queen Fu pursed her lips and smiled: "This chef is the famous chef in Daming Mansion."
Fu Ying said, "No wonder the taste is the same as the one we ate when we were young. Sister, you can try it too." Fu Ying used a small spoon to serve a Wu tea shrimp and sent it to Queen Fu's mouth. Queen Fu has never had an appetite since she was sick. Today, she was in a good mood when she saw the fourth sister. She also saw that the fourth sister was very fragrant. She didn't feel any appetite. After eating a Wu tea shrimp, she tasted the fresh and fragrant smell that she hadn't had for a long time.
Queen Fu said, "Looking at how delicious the fourth sister eats, I also have an appetite, so I will eat another shrimp." Queen Fu ate three shrimps in a row and said, "It's so delicious."
Fu Ying said: "Take another bite to make you feel the belly."
Under Fu Ying's guidance, Queen Fu ate every dish, and her forehead was already sweating slightly, and she said, "I won't eat it anymore. Today is the most eaten during this period."
At this moment, a burst of laughter came from behind the screen: "Looking at how delicious you eat, I feel a little hungry." Then someone walked out from behind the screen. It was Chai Rong. Fu Ying heard a man talking behind the screen, and knew that it must be the emperor's brother-in-law who came, so she stood up quickly and said, "I have seen Your Majesty." After that, she was about to give a big gift.
Chai Rong wore a green robe, with two circling flying dragons on the chest, and his waist was covered with dragon-patterned jade belts. When he didn't laugh, he was not angry and powerful, but when he smiled, he was like the spring breeze blowing on his face. When Chai Rong came in, Queen Fu was eating shrimps. Chai Rong made a gesture to let the maid not speak out, so he stood behind the screen on the left side of the door and watched the queen eat. Since Queen Fu got sick, she has eaten very little every day and often drinks some soup for each meal. Chai Rong was happy to see Queen Fu eating a lot, and waited until Queen Fu finished eating before coming out of the screen.
Seeing that Fu Ying was already kneeling on the ground, Chai Rong said, "Miss Fu, please don't get up. In the inner room, everyone is a family, so there is no need to perform this great gift."
Chai Rong met Fu Ying four years ago. After a few years, Fu Ying became more and more beautiful, very similar to her sister. Chai Rong looked at Fu Ying for a while and said, "Madam Fu lives in the palace and spends more time with your sister. Today she has the best meal."
Seeing Fu Ying a little restrained, Chai Rong smiled and said, "Now you are not in the court, you are not a minister, so you don't have to be too polite. In the future, when there are no outsiders, you will call me the same as your wife (in the Tang Dynasty, I often call the emperor "saints", and as for those who are close to him or his close servants, they call him "masters".)"
Fu Ying was originally a little nervous, but after Chai Rong said a few words, she relaxed and said with a smile: "I don't dare to call everyone, I'd better call His Majesty."
Chai Rong said: "In the inner room, let everyone get closer."
According to Chai Rong's instructions, after Fu Ying arrived at the palace, she did not return to the rich courtyard, but stayed in the palace to accompany her sister. After Queen Fu rested, Fu Ying also came to the side room prepared for her to rest. Fu Ying knew that Chai Rong and Hou Dayong were the same age, and they looked completely different, but their eyes were somewhat similar when they spoke. Thinking that the husband had a lot of risks in the west, he put his hands together and prayed in his heart to Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless the husband.
Chapter completed!