Also eating two dishes was Xie Ning.
The two dishes were very good, one meat and one vegetarian.
She ate them very deliciously.
According to her, there is really no need to fill the whole table.
Although the dining room is designed to have a variety of dishes, even if you only take one bite of the same thing, you can still eat a lot.
But the reality is, looking at so many dishes, it is impossible to eat, and at most I can only take a few bites.
Mrs.
Lin left the palace on the fifteenth day and came back on the second day after the festival.
Hu Rong personally helped Mrs.
Lin get into the soft sedan carried by the two men, and took her to the palace gate.
He then watched Mrs.
Lin get into the car, and then came back to resume her life.
There is no palace banquet in mid-autumn today, but the dining room is still not relaxing.
When Hu Rong went to the dining room, the dining room was busy inside and outside.
Although there will be no palace banquets this year, there are still banquets in each palace.
It cannot be said that there are not even a few dishes for the big festival.
Before Hu Rong entered, a sharp-eyed young eunuch saw him and shouted: "Eunuch Hu is here."
He greeted him diligently.
Looking at his posture, he wanted to kneel down and kowtow to him to show respect.
"Why are you here in person, Eunuch Hu?
If you have anything to do, please send someone over and let me know.
I'll definitely handle it for you."
Hu Rong smiled: "I'm afraid they can't explain clearly what the master has assigned me.
Besides, I haven't been to your place for a few days.
I miss the good soup and tea here."
Eunuch Huang hurriedly wiped the oil and sweat from his face and came out.
The sweat on my face was easy to wipe off, but my body was soaked with sweat, and I didn't have time to change clothes, so I had no choice but to come out.
"Eunuch Hu is here, hurry up.
Make some good tea.
Bring the good tea sent the day before yesterday."
He then said to Hu Rong, "It's hot in the house.
It's better to have the wind in the yard to cool it off.
I won't let you in the house."
Sit down.
Come here now.
Is your Majesty asking me to add some more dishes to watch the moon at night?"
The palace said that everything was done according to regulations, but I can't believe this.
For those who are favored like the imperial concubine, if you want to order any extra dishes, just order them.
As long as they are available in the world, the dining room will do their best to serve them.
For those who are not pampered, it would be good if the dining room would not stop demanding them.
If you want to add something extra, you have to pay in cash and say good things.
On a day like today, it is not easy to use money.
"It's not what the empress ordered."
Hu Rong said with a smile: "It's what your two highnesses wanted.
Your highnesses drew moon cakes.
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I don't know if you can make them."
Although it was not the errand of the imperial concubine, Hu Rong did not dare to neglect the two highnesses.
When Eunuch Huang heard that it was the errand of his highness, he was still full of smiles: "It is rare for your highness to praise you, but I dare not say that you can definitely do it for your highness."
Satisfied, wherever the drawings are, I will personally lead someone to make them.”
Hu Rong took out a piece of paper given by the eldest prince just now.
On it was a mooncake drawing made by the eldest prince.
Eunuch Huang was a little worried at first, fearing that his master's painting would be too whimsical, but when he saw a heart, he immediately put it back in his stomach.
It's not difficult at all, and it doesn't require a lot of finesse, but it's really unique.
"It can be done.
It doesn't take much effort.
It can be done before dinner."
Hu Rong smiled and said, "Of course that's the best."
After this plate of mooncakes was prepared, it was delivered individually and placed neatly in the middle of the round table.
The sun had just set and the moon appeared on the gray sky.
Princess Yuyao pointed to the moon and asked: "Why doesn't it shine?"
The moon was indeed not very bright at the moment, and it looked like a piece of white paper had been cut out and placed lightly in the sky.
The eldest prince smiled and said: "You are too impatient.
The moon has just come out and you have to wait a while."
It was a good time in mid-autumn this year, and there wasn’t even a cloud in the sky.
Not long after the eldest prince said to wait, the sky turned completely dark, and only four palace lanterns were lit in the pavilion, making the moon in the sky brighter and brighter.
The specially prepared large mooncake is in the shape of a regular plum blossom and is placed on the plate in an orderly manner.
The second prince didn't like any of the dishes, but only liked the mooncakes.
He refused to sit still.
Even if the eldest prince and Princess Yuyao coaxed him, he still had to climb up the table to grab the mooncakes.
There was no other way, so the eldest prince had no choice but to take a petal of the "plum blossom" and give it to him.
Although it was just a flap, it covered half of the second prince's fat face.
He was a little dazed by the surprisingly large mooncake, shaking his little head and looking left and right, as if looking for a place to put his mouth down.
After looking at it for a while, he finally opened his mouth and bit it.
The mouth is small and the teeth are few.
The moon cake is very thick, as thick as one finger.
The second prince tried his best to open his mouth as wide as possible, but his little teeth just scraped across the mooncake skin and bit off a little bit of the cake residue.
The people at the table looked at him with a smile.
The second prince was not disturbed at all.
He ate happily from left to right.
He changed the place after gnawing.
It didn't take much effort for the moon cake to become pitted and unrecognizable.
It was covered with sticky paste. of saliva.
Except for this little fat man, no one has ever eaten like this in front of the emperor.
But the emperor was not sullen at all, his eyes were full of smiles as he looked at the three children sitting at the table.
He noticed that the mooncake made by the eldest prince had a complete plum blossom shape when put together, but after being separated into pieces, it turned into mooncakes with different fillings.
Divide it according to the number of people on the table.
For five people, each person gets one petal, leaving the middle as the core.
The emperor looked at the remaining piece in the middle of the plate, and then glanced at the eldest prince.
"This piece can only be kept today, but by this time next year, it will definitely not be left."
Xie Ning also smiled.
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The emperor motioned to Bai Hongqi to place the plate with only one mooncake left in front of Xie Ning.
Yes, by this time next year, there won’t be any mooncake left.
By then, there should be a chubby baby similar to the second prince, holding a piece of moon cake and unable to chew it, but still gnawing hard.
Xie Ning smiled at the eldest prince.
Everyone knew who this mooncake was for, and it was definitely not that they made an extra piece without calculating the quantity.
The guarantee made by Eunuch Huang and Hu Rong was not an empty promise.
He personally led the people to make the mooncakes.
Others don't understand the taste preferences of their masters as well as he does.
For ordinary people, in order to make delicious snacks, you must work hard and have enough ingredients.
Sugar, oil, pickled fruits, candied fruits, etc. are all indispensable.
Only those who eat well will applaud and feel that they have eaten something good.
But for the most noble masters in the palace, they have been eating exquisite delicacies from mountains and seas since their whole lives, fat chickens and ducks, meat, oil, white sugar and rose marinade.
They have been eating greasy food for a long time, which is not unusual at all, especially In such a big festival, I am even more impatient with these things.
At this time, we need to pay attention to simplicity.
There is a saying that is right, it is called clear water to bring out hibiscus, and nature will be carved.
Don't think that light things are easier to make, in fact it's just the opposite.
As long as there are good ingredients, any eunuch from the imperial kitchen can make a plate of pastries that look good and taste good, no worse than those sold in pastry shops outside the palace.
But putting aside the commonly used ingredients, the real skill is to make the snacks brilliantly and satisfy the master.
If Eunuch Huang can be the eunuch in charge of the kitchen, he is a more skilled person than the monkey.
This snack was not requested by the emperor or the imperial concubine, but the eldest prince definitely did not want this plate of mooncakes to eat in the room with the door closed, so this snack was still made for the emperor and his empress.
After thinking about this, Eunuch Huang immediately cheered up, threw off his arms, and tried his best to make such a plate of mooncakes.
The mooncake skin is thin and crispy, and the mooncake filling tastes very light and sweet, but not greasy at all.
There is even a slightly astringent taste like tea in the mouth, but the aftertaste is a long fruity aroma.
Yes, it's fruity.
The pie filling is crushed fresh fruit, not the candied fruit fillings that have been processed through multiple processes of pickling, candiing, and air-drying.
When Eunuch Huang did this, his disciples thought it was too risky.
It's not that I haven't made anything with fresh fruits, but this is making mooncakes.
No master has ever done this.
If you usually learn to cook and test dishes by yourself, of course you can try whatever you want.
Some people try to cook meat with Coptis chinensis, just to see if there will be any other wonderful taste.
But this is a meal for the emperor.
If the emperor eats something that is not to his liking, I will not blame him, but at least I will leave an unpleasant impression in his heart.
What is the most important thing about being a slave?
Of course, the first priority is loyalty, followed by ability.
But there is another thing that everyone understands tacitly, and that is divine grace.
In fact, it is grace that counts.
You are favored and everyone supports you.
If you fall out of favor, there is no need to say anything.
The emperor drank alone during dinner.
Xie Ning only drank a small glass of sherbet.
The eldest prince was the same as her.
As for Princess Yuyao, she found sherbet boring and clamored for a taste of wine.
Bai Hongqi looked at the emperor with a smile.
The emperor also smiled: "Give her half a cup."
"Half a cup is too little, just one cup."
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Bai Hongqi obviously listened to the emperor's orders more.
He took a pot and poured wine for Princess Yuyao, half a cup, no more, no less.
Xie Ning glanced at the emperor, who smiled and nodded slightly to her.
But Xie Ning was still a little worried.
This wine is not rice wine.
Princess Yuyao is young, can she drink it?
Princess Yuyao picked up the wine and smelled the smell of the wine first.
Xie Ning was a little nervous.
She doesn't like the smell of alcohol very much, and she doesn't have much tolerance for alcohol.
Ever since I became pregnant, I can no longer smell the smell of alcohol.
Princess Yuyao is still young and has never touched alcohol, so how can she smell good?
As a result, Princess Yuyao's little nose opened and closed, her eyes squinted, her expression was a bit intoxicated, and she said: "It smells so good."
She then handed the wine glass to the eldest prince: "Brother, smell it, Does it smell good?"
The eldest prince smelled it, shook his head and said, "How does the smell of wine smell?"
Princess Yuyao passed the cup forward again: "It really smells like honey."
Xie Ning glanced at the emperor in confusion.
What kind of wine are you preparing today that still smells like honey?
She couldn't help it, and her eyes were fixed on the glass of wine in front of the emperor.
Otherwise, she would also smell: