While I was talking, the dinner table was already set.
This dinner was much later than usual, so it would be more appropriate to call it a late-night snack.
The dining room is very smart.
The table that was originally prepared has been abandoned long ago.
No matter how much materials and efforts were spent on preparing it, since the master does not eat now, then all these are useless.
The master cannot be allowed to eat again.
It's not fresh, right?
So the table set up now is all newly made.
Usually when the emperor dines in Yong'an Palace, the table is usually full of people.
In addition to the emperor and his concubine, there are also the eldest prince, the second prince and Princess Yuyao.
The emperor's taste is similar to that of the imperial concubine.
The eldest prince's food is light, but light does not mean that the soup is watery.
The people in the kitchen worked hard to make the food nourishing and not greasy or fishy.
Princess Yuyao loves sweet and sour food, and the second prince is a baby with not all his deciduous teeth, so he also needs to prepare separately.
But now it is much simpler to only worship the emperor and his concubines.
The imperial concubine has given birth to the third prince but is still a month old, so soup is indispensable.
Speaking of which, when people in the kitchen talk about the imperial concubine, they always praise her for her good service and considerateness.
There are many concubines in the palace, but the concubine's favor is unique to her.
If anyone else were in her position, she would already be showing off her authority.
But when the imperial concubine wants a snack or a dish, she never bothers anyone to do anything, but she is not like the Shoukang Palace in the past, who only wanted to eat some sparrow soup, fruit stew, etc., as if she didn't bother anyone.
It's like having an identity.
In fact, who doesn't know that the imperial concubine comes from a well-established official family, but the concubine Jin is a merchant girl.
After being granted the title of concubine, she is so public that she doesn't know what to do, and she has the madness to make the poor suddenly rich.
At the moment, only the emperor and his concubine were having dinner, but after the dinner table was set, Xie Ning ordered three sets of bowls and chopsticks to be placed.
At first Qinghe thought it was for Princess Yuyao.
Although the princess had used it, the little girl would inevitably be greedy and wanted to eat a few more snacks.
But after the emperor and Fang Shanggong came back from visiting Shoukang Palace, Princess Yuyao left after saying a few words, but Fang Shanggong stayed in the house.
Qing He stood by the door to wait.
There was no eunuch serving the meal or anyone else waiting in the room.
She saw Xie Ning supporting Fang Shanggong and letting her sit down.
Qinghe's heartbeat and breathing stopped for a moment.
It's not like she has never dined at the same table as her master.
It happened when I was in Yingxiang Pavilion, not just once.
After Fang Shanggong came, they also sat at the same table.
At that time, the master was not the imperial concubine.
But it's different now.
The master is no longer the talented young man who could talk and laugh with them at that time.
More importantly, the emperor is here too With Fang Shanggong's status, no matter how much her master respected her, she would not be able to dine at the same table as the emperor.
Then why is this The master actually helped Fang Shanggong sit down And Fang Shanggong actually sat down Was she dazzled or daydreaming?
Qing He clenched his fists tightly and bit his lip at some point.
Otherwise, she was afraid that she would make some strange noise out of control and alert the three people in the room. what's going on Qing He was feeling frightened at the moment.
Speaking of it, it was quite similar to the mood of Bai Hongqi's Eunuch Bai not long ago.
Naturally, Qinghe was not dazzled, nor was he daydreaming.
Xie Ning supported Fang Shanggong and said softly: "It's already this hour, and I don't expect to sit down and have a good meal.
Let's just put some food in my stomach.
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There will be a lot of things tomorrow."
Xie Ning is absolutely right.
Now that Concubine Jin is gone, she will have to be busy for more than half a month to prepare for the funeral.
The deceased has passed away, and what is more important is to arrange and take care of Princess Yubing.
Fang Shanggong looked at the three sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table, and then at the three chairs beside the dining table.
It seemed that not only the emperor had guessed it, but also the imperial concubine had guessed the inside story to a close.
As the emperor watched from the side, Fang Shanggong sat down tremblingly as his legs became weak while holding on to the corner of the table.
The emperor sat on her left, and Xie Ning sat on her right.
Fang Shanggong looked around, and then realized that he was actually sitting in the center seat.
There are only two kinds of people who can sit at the same table as the emperor and take the main seat.
One is the late emperor and the queen mother.
One is that two old masters who once taught the emperor were invited by the emperor to take a seat at the palace banquet.
However, the two old masters refused to refuse, and the main seat was left empty in the end.
This matter has become a good talk.
Whenever it is mentioned, everyone will praise the emperor for respecting his teachers.
Normally, she wouldn't be able to do this even if she was beaten to death.
But today, Fang Shanggong no longer has the energy to think too much.
The emperor's sudden questioning, the estrangement between mother and son for many years, and the death of Concubine Jin.
Fang Shanggong watched Concubine Jin take her last breath.
At that time, she suddenly remembered that she had lingered on the sick bed many times and was tortured to death by illness.
If she had relaxed a little at that time and stopped struggling to survive, she might have been gone in this world.
In such a trance, she could only hear half of Xie Ning's words: "Tell the kitchen to cook and deliver it."
When Fang Shanggong came back to his senses, he realized that Xie Ning was talking about the bowl of soup placed in the middle of the dining table.
"This is" "This is reunion soup."
Xie Ning said softly, "I had it before when I was outside the palace.
When I was in office with my uncle, people there loved to eat this soup during the New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter how rich or poor they were.
Everyone has to cook hard.”
Fang Shanggong initially thought it was a reunion soup made with fish and mutton stewed together, but when he looked carefully, he found that it was not.
This soup is not the same thing as the reunion soup that is full of wealth and honor.
To describe it, it is more appropriate to say it is a porridge.
Ingredients such as lotus seeds, red dates, and red beans are easy to identify.
In addition to these ingredients, there are other ingredients in the soup.
The cooked soup looks very much like the Laba porridge eaten during the Laba period.
The emperor filled a bowl of soup with his own hands and brought it to Fang Shang Palace first.
Take it and smell it.
The sweet and glutinous aroma is also like Laba porridge.
However, customs vary from place to place.
Perhaps in places where people don’t often hear about it, this porridge has another name called reunion soup.
A bowl was placed in front of the three of them.
Fang Shanggong took a spoonful and tasted it.
The bean paste has a strong taste, is sweet and thick, and feels hot in your mouth.
As soon as you swallow it, your whole body seems to feel warm.
After Fang Shanggong finished the bowl of reunion soup, he also figured out why Xie Ning ordered the kitchen to make such a strange soup.
Reunion soup is something that every family eats when the whole family is reunited.
It is in conjunction with the festival and the occasion.
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She glanced at the emperor.
The soup bowl in front of the emperor was almost empty.
He ate slowly and carefully, as if he was savoring every bite.
This is what reunion soup should taste like.
It's sweet and warm.
After eating it, your whole body feels comfortable and your heart is at peace.
The depression and coldness accumulated in your body before seemed to be dispelled by this bowl of soup
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