Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 88

    The twilight came together, the cold wind whimpered, Wu Qingyi rode back to the British government.

    Gu Yin and Wang Shizheng were both standing at the door while holding lanterns.

    He dismounted and trotted up the stone steps.

    But they didn’t say anything. Mrs Wang urged, “The evening meal has been on the table for a while, let’s go in and eat.”

    The three went to the main courtyard in silence, Wu Zhong and Wu An were both there.

    The father and son also looked behind them, but in the end they didn’t speak.

    Eight Treasures Wild Duck, Deer Carboxy Teal, Dragon Boat Chopped Fish, Oolong Elbow, with a few side dishes and a Sea Cucumber, Mushroom and Shrimp Soup.

    Especially the oolong elbow, which contains tangerine peel, star anise, fennel, licorice and other spices, which is very different from that made by shopkeeper Zhou. Gu Ye likes to eat elbows, this is for him.

      when.

    Everyone had nothing to say that day. After eating quietly, everyone went back to the house to rest.

    Wu Qingyi paused, not going straight to the study in the front yard, but to Gu Yin’s yard.

    Because Gu Ye slept in her house the day before, so there are still clothes he changed in the house, which have been washed and dried and stacked in one place.

    Gu Yin simply packed all these things, and went to his house again to gather all his favorite things together.

    Wu Qingyi came over, and Gu Yin said, “I don’t know if he is used to outside. I know he won’t be short of these things, but maybe he can use them?”

    Wu Qingyi nodded, “I know, I will bring it to him when I enter the palace tomorrow.”

    Gu Yin let out a “hey”, went back to the room, and sat down at the desk.

    On her desk, she always keeps account books or purchase orders. Although more and more people use it now, Gu Yin, as the owner, has It will still do the things that are within.

    Today, she couldn’t read it, and she started to lose her mind shortly after picking up the account book.

    Wu Qingyi stood behind him, caressed her shoulder with a big hand, and said softly, “Xiaoye went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation early this morning, and followed the Queen to Kunning Palace, listen to He said that he had a good time with the little prince, and had lunch there. In the afternoon, he went to the Cining Palace again to accompany the Empress Dowager.”

    Wu Qingyi holds a high position in the palace, but this does not mean that he can arbitrarily spy on the royal movement.

    He has been on duty until now, that is, on the day when Gu Yin and Wang shi first went to the banquet, he made an exception to draw attention to the Cining Palace, but he did not achieve the level of today.

    Gu Yin naturally thought of this too, she stretched out her hand to hold Wu Qingyi’s hand on her shoulder, and said softly, “You don’t have to.”

    He is indeed Jane in the heart of the emperor, but if Emperor Zhengyuan finds him like this, he will definitely be unhappy. It’s even possible to have a grudge against him.

    “It’s okay,” Wu Qingyi turned his palm and pinched her fingertips, “I know that whenever you treat Ono as your own child, then he is also my child.”

    Two palms clasped together, Gu Yin said softly: “Can you let me lean on it?”

    Wu Qingyi nodded, then sat down beside her, Gu Yin rested her head on his shoulder.

    Although it was a touch of comfort, but her soft hair was touching his chin, and if there was a faint scent of head oil and flowers lingering on the tip of the nose, Wu Qingyi was still unavoidable. Beat the drums.

    There was a silent whimper outside the house.

    Wu Qingyi opened her mouth and was about to say something.

    The window lattice was opened from the beginning, Gu Ye put his feet in and half of his face came in, not smiling and said, “What are you two doing?”

    Wu Qing swallowed the words on his lips and swallowed them back in his stomach, Gu Yin sat up straight, and said in surprise: “Why are you back?”

    Gu Ye pushed the door in, and said lazily, “What’s wrong? Can’t I go back to my house after dark?”

    He was wearing a pure white crane cloak, without a trace of variegation.

    The crane cloak was not big enough for him, so he had to lift the hem with one hand.

    He didn’t take it off himself, and stretched his chin toward his mother.

    Gu Yin got up and helped him untie the tie around his neck, took off the crane cloak, and said with a smile, “Have you seen your grandma?”

    Gu Ye picked up the tea cup on the table, and regardless of whether anyone had drank it, he poured two sips of hot tea and said, “I’ve been there, grandpa and grandma are all asleep, I Thinking that I can come back in the future anyway, I didn’t bother them.”

    After drinking tea, he sat down in the Taishi chair and took out the document from his arms.

    Gu Yin and Wu Qingyi watched it together and understood.

    It turned out that Emperor Zhengyuan was going to make him King Lie after recognizing Ye Hui, so he didn’t have to stay in the palace every day, but at night he had to go back to the palace to rest.

    As for King Lie’s mansion, the one next to the British mansion is the one that has been renovated since years ago.

    The waist card that Emperor Zhengyuan gave him was to facilitate him to enter and leave the palace.

    Of course, there are other arrangements in the document, because it involves royal secrets, so Gu Yin didn’t read much, glanced at it and quickly closed it, and put the document in his hand.

    The above things have been explained to him by Emperor Yuan.

    At that time, Gu Ye wanted to laugh but held it back, and asked him tentatively: “I heard that the prince has to live in the palace until he is a teenager, and he can only leave the palace when he is almost an adult? “

    Emperor Zheng Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked him, “You don’t like it? I said before that you have something you are not satisfied with, you can mention it. If that’s the case, then I will…”

    Gu Ye hurriedly said “no”, and felt that he was too hasty, so he slowed down and said, “It’s fine, I’m not the kind of person who loves trouble. People, the mansion has been repaired, it’s a pity not to live!”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan also wanted to laugh, but held back, put down the tea cup and said, “I’m not leaving yet? I might change my mind later.”

    Gu Ye of course knew that he was deliberately teasing himself, so he leaned over and said, “It’s getting late, I’m hungry.”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan said with a smile: “You still have to eat dinner before you are willing to return?”

    “How many meals have I invited you to eat?” Gu Ye counted with his fingers, “One spicy soup, one crab roe soup…”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan grabbed his little hand, “No joke, come on, I’ll treat you to a good meal today. What would you like to eat?”

    Gu Ye was different from him, he ordered the food he liked, and specially explained: “The elbow has to choose the thick skin and meat, my mother always said that this thing can only be eaten occasionally, more What will you get high blood lipids from eating? Today, the chef in the house will do it. At this time, I will definitely not be able to catch up when I go back, and I don’t know when my mother will let the chef do it again…”

    As he spoke, Gu Ye consciously lost his words, paused, and looked carefully at Emperor Zhengyuan’s face.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan stretched out his hand to squeeze his cheek and said that it would not be in the way, “Anyway, we are only one place, no one else, just follow your habit.”

    Although Gu Ye is still not fat, his living conditions are getting better every day, so his face is already chubby.

    It has not been a day or two that Emperor Zheng Yuan wanted to pinch his face. When he used the pseudonym Mr. Lu, he unconsciously stretched out his hand.

    Gu Ye used to dodge before, but he didn’t dodge today, just let him pinch.

    In the back, the **** Shangshan and the palace servants presented the food, and the father and son used it together.

    After dinner, Gu Ye said to him like a young adult: “Don’t be too tired, this is not something that can be done in a day or two, but your health is more important. It’s all said that it’s New Year’s Eve The most supportive, I have gained a lot of weight, but seeing you thinner than a year ago makes people feel uncomfortable.”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan really couldn’t hold back his laughter, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair and said, “How old are you, you look like a butler, and you still take care of me?”

    Gu Ye lowered his body to avoid this time, jumped off the stool and said, “Then I’m leaving?”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan waved his hand: “Let’s go, let’s go.”

    Gu Ye just went out the door, but at the end he stood up again, trotted back and asked, “What do you want to eat tomorrow? I’ll bring it to you from outside.”

    Everyone in the world may be short of food, except for Emperor Zhengyuan.

    But he still smiled: “It’s all right, you can just bring some of it when you go to eat it in the morning.”

    Gu Ye scratched his head, “It’s this hour, I’m afraid I’m going to oversleep tomorrow, can I come at noon?”

    Emperor Zheng Yuan couldn’t say, “You come with your uncle in the morning when you are on duty. After you have eaten the food, I will teach you a lesson with your husband. You don’t know a few characters, how can you do this?”

    Gu Ye replied with a sticky “Okay”, and Emperor Zheng Yuan amusingly asked someone to bring the crane cloak he often wears, put it on the little guy himself, and told the guards who escorted him Be careful.

    He just came back from the palace.

    “How do you say that? I can escape the first year of the first year, but I can’t escape the fifteenth. I didn’t expect that I escaped the gentleman from the Wen family, but I couldn’t escape the gentleman in the palace.” Gu Ye said more and more. Frustrated, he finally collapsed on the chair like a mushy body.

    Gu Ye responded and ran to the clean room by himself.

    “You’re right, His Majesty is indeed a very good person.” Gu Yin worried for a whole day, and now she is relieved.

    Emperor Zheng Yuan found the lost and found child, but he was still willing to let the child live outside the palace first. This was naturally a sign that he was afraid that Gu Ye would not be used to it, so he loved him and thought about him.

    Although Gu Yin doesn’t know much about him, she will definitely not be a bad person when she thinks of such a father who will put himself in the shoes of others.

    Not long after, Gu Ye ran back with a full body of water vapor, and when he entered the room, he smiled and said, “Why don’t you go and rest? Let’s go to the palace together tomorrow, don’t you? It’s getting late.”

    This little brat!

    Wu Qingyi shook his head amusingly, and left the backyard to the front yard.

    As soon as he left, Gu Ye was even more out of shape. Before he got to the bed, he kicked his shoes and threw himself on the mattress.

    Gu Yin also went to wash up, and when he came back from the wash, he found that he had not slept, his eyes were shining, obviously he wanted to talk to her.

    As soon as Gu Yin lay down beside him, the little guy opened the chat.

    “They are all very friendly. Grandma and His Majesty like me very much, even more than I thought. Grandma gave me a lot of things, my wallet is full of golden melon seeds, Jin Lingzi, Grandma said that this is something that is rewarded in the palace, I have checked it, and if it is not marked, it can be sold, and I will give it to my mother.”

    Both Wang’s and the Queen Mother are called A’Nai, but the Queen Mother is several years older than Wang’s, so he called the Queen Mother as Da A’ai to distinguish the two.

    Gu Yin pressed the post in her heart and said no, “The empress dowager gave you, just keep it, and you will walk in the palace in the future, and use these things more than me.”

    Gu Ye said again: “Last time my grandmother said that food in the palace is unpalatable, I still don’t believe it, people say that the food in the palace is dragon liver and phoenix gall! Where is this one? After two meals, no matter how delicious the food is served warmly, there is really nothing to eat.”

    This Gu Yin knew that he was a cook for the previous emperor.

      The time I went with your grandmother was not because there were many people and there were many dishes on the banquet, so we were all steaming bowls with ingredients prepared in advance. eat.”

    Gu Ye nodded, “So it is.”

    Gu Yin heard that he only mentioned the Queen Mother and Emperor Zhengyuan, so she asked tentatively, “The Queen Mother…”

    “Ah, she’s pretty good too. She just kept crying. When I first saw me, I cried, and later asked me how I had been outside all these years. I only picked up the good ones and said, she I almost cried again.” Gu Ye was really helpless, if he hadn’t naturally felt that Queen Zhou was very kind, if it was someone else who cried and cried in front of him all day, he might have felt annoyed.

    “You were born by him, she loves you, and her mood is bound to fluctuate. You have to persuade a little more, do you know?”

    Gu Ye said he knew. He does the same during the day.

    “The little prince…”

    Gu Ye said: “He’s pretty good too, he’s just over three years old, and he doesn’t know how to talk or walk. But he still likes me, I’m always liked!”

    Gu Yin stroked his back and asked softly, “Then you are not unhappy?”

    Gu Ye thought about it and said no.

    Gu Yin looked at him in amazement, so generous is not like him!

    “It was originally. That’s what I thought. Yesterday I thought I was going to separate from my mother, and I felt bad. She must have been more uncomfortable than me yesterday, and I didn’t know who I was. It’s not that she’s still alive… Xiao Lu Zhao is much younger than me, so she didn’t give birth to another child immediately after I was kidnapped. I saved it all, so I’m not upset. “

    “What a good boy.” Gu Yin couldn’t help but put her arms around him.

    “And I think, in the past few years, I have a mother, a grandmother, Wu An who is like a real brother, and an uncle… I have a lot of other family members, the Queen Mother It’s just an extra little Lu Zhao, what a normal thing!” Gu Ye smiled and asked again, “Then good boy, can you go back on what you said last night?”

    “What do you regret?” Gu Yin recalled, “Is it the shipping company that doesn’t want to change its name?”

    “No!” Gu Ye quickly denied, “How can I be so obsessed with money, why does my mother think of me like this?”

    As he spoke, he put his ear to Gu Yin’s ear again, “It’s saying that mother can have children with uncle! I regret it!”

    Well, it’s still that strange “stingy” temperament.

    Gu Yin laughed and wanted to shoot him again.

    The next morning, Gu Ye and Wu Qingyi went out of the house together.

      It’s very convenient to come here.

    The whole family had a smile on their faces.

    Gu Yin has been distracted for the past two days because of the little guy’s affairs, but this day is not good and no longer tired. After getting up, she packed up and went to eat for heaven.

    In the morning market, almost no one eats hot pot barbecue, and Wangtianlou on the same street is cheaper and tastes not bad, it can be regarded as making a little word of mouth, so food is Tianyi There were not many people on the second floor, and the occupancy rate was only 50-60%.

    On the third floor, the situation is different. After the new year, the wives and wives of each family are busy with the big and small affairs at home, and there is nothing to spare. Today is the seventh day of the first lunar month, and the excitement of visiting relatives and friends has come to an end, so many people hurried over to relax.

    The massage department downstairs is full, so if you don’t catch up, you can eat the morning meal on the third floor first.

    Gu Yin said hello to everyone, and they hadn’t seen each other for several days, so they had to exchange a few words when they got together again.

    Gu Yin praised that this lady’s new jewelry was beautiful, and that the lady’s new dress was fresh.

    All the female guests were laughed at by her, and the young woman who was out of temper couldn’t help laughing: “Ms. Gu is not only skilled, but also good at cooking, how to talk is so arrogant People like it? Is this little mouth smeared with honey? Let me taste it!”

    The woman really wanted to look at her face, Gu Yin smiled and avoided it, after a while of laughing, Gu Yin cooked and gave them a dessert, which was considered a little thought on the New Year’s Day .

    During the noon market, a new face came to Light Food Yashe.

    When she came, she found a corner seat and sat down, and looked around curiously.

    After the waiter brought the menu, she thanked her politely, then looked over it carefully, frowning in distress.

    Gu Yin stepped forward and asked, “Look at you, is this your first time here?”

      order something.”

    “Would you like to try our **** milk?”

    The woman nodded, and after a while the waiter brought a small white porcelain cup.

    It is not difficult to make **** into milk, that is, squeeze the juice of old **** and pour it into a small cup, mix fresh milk and sugar in proportion, and heat it in a pot.

    There is no thermometer in this era, so it is Gu Yin’s control of the heat.

    After the milk leaves the fire, it needs to be poured into a bowl with **** juice from a certain height. This is the “bump” in the name. Finally, cover the lid of the cup, and after standing for a period of time, it will condense into a semi-solid.

    The young woman picked up the engraved silver spoon and scooped it into her mouth.

    This **** milk is fragrant and thick, sweet but not greasy, and melts in your mouth. And the **** taste is not so strong that it is pungent, but it covers the fishy smell of the milk itself. Complement each other and complement each other.

    The young woman just came from outside, her hands and feet were a little cold, and after eating dessert with ginger, her stomach warmed up in a short while.

    “Your recommendation is really good.” The woman praised sincerely.

    Gu Yin introduced other things to her later, and the other party listened carefully.

    When Gu Yin finished her introduction, the woman suddenly said: “I’m sorry, I told you so much, I… I’ll just order another flower tea.”

      I was a little uncomfortable to be with her, so I came to talk to her, and it was purely an introduction.

    When I thought of going to another store as a guest, I didn’t like to have a guy with me all the time, and it happened that Mrs. Wen Er came over and was looking for her, and Gu Yin didn’t stay any longer.

    Mrs. Wen Er was in a bad mood today, and she vomited bitterly when she came, saying that she was not busy in her new year, but Master Wen Er was happy. Now there are still people who are rushing to make friends with him and invite him to feast and drink, but they are not at home every day.

    “It’s because he always said that I was not home, and I felt bad about it. I didn’t go out for a day in the past year, and it was the same as before. I don’t know how many times it is too much.”

    Mrs. Wen Er has a straightforward temperament, and she has made a lot of handkerchiefs after she often goes in and out of Qingshiya.

    Women get together, in addition to eating, drinking and playing, it is essential to scold men.

    As soon as she opened her mouth, many people agreed.

    “My husband is like this too. He’s much better than yours. Not only does he disappear, but he also hired a dancer at the beginning of the year. The dancer is enchanting and enchanting. Yuan and the others are compared, but he is fascinated by three things. I’m not happy, my mother-in-law is still… Forget it, juniors and seniors, in short, this year has been enough to confuse people. “

    Seeing them talking louder and louder, Gu Yin didn’t want to get involved in other family’s private affairs and was about to leave.

    Mrs. Wen held her back and said, “Don’t leave first, I’m not feeling well today. I’ll buy all Yashe’s orders!”

    Light Food Yashe’s food is not cheap. If Mrs. Wen Er pays attention to her body shape, she doesn’t eat and drink very much. She only drinks some herbal tea and eats some salad for a day, and it costs two or three taels of silver.

    If it is open to eat and drink, then a person’s daily consumption must have ten taels of silver.

    With the addition of massage items, the consumption will be even more.

    Gu Yin was about to persuade the second wife not to be angry, but the female family member who scolded her husband with the second wife Wen rushed to say: “Don’t fight with me, I will pay!”

    Gu Yin recalled carefully, this woman’s husband’s family name was Liu, and he opened the largest silk and satin shop in the capital, and Madam Liu’s family was also a wealthy businessman who was not inferior to her husband’s.

    Then Mrs. Liu lowered her voice and said bitterly: “Anyway, my family spends hundreds of taels on a dress for the dancer. Instead of letting him spend it casually, it’s better to invite our sisters to have fun. But I don’t use his money either. I’m not afraid of your jokes. At my age, my parents still treat me like a child. During the Chinese New Year, my brother brought me a lot of property, so that I don’t have to hurt myself. I came from a distant marriage, I have few friends and few hobbies, and I have no other place to spend my money, so don’t stop me.”

    Gu Yin didn’t persuade her, and let the waiter announce the news.

    Ya Shenei is a master of money, but thanks to her hospitality, she will always come to say hello to her.

    Mrs. Liu is a person who loves to make friends. When I chatted with you and talked to her, the anger really subsided.

    In addition, Gu Yin knew that she was in a bad mood, so she asked Yuan Xiaoyuan and the others. Knowing that Mrs. Liu’s family was in Jiangnan, they asked a few people to temporarily arrange a small program – Jiangnan’s songs matched with Jiangnan’s songs Xiao Qu’er, plus a few Jiangnan desserts that Gu Yinte made underground.

    Mrs. Liu is really happy, and she is no longer slack, so happy!

    In the corner, the young woman has been quiet all the time, just looking at Mrs. Liu with a hint of envy in her eyes.

    She has such confidence.

    …

    Gu Yetian didn’t get up. When the sky was bright, Emperor Zhengyuan began to deal with government affairs, and he also began to attend classes.

    He was dizzy and hungry all morning.

    At this time, he could no longer eat the warm food in the palace, so he grabbed his waist card after class and left the palace.

    Because Emperor Zhengyuan only gave him a one-hour lunch break, after leaving the palace, Gu Ye went straight to Shiweitian, from the lobby all the way to the back kitchen.

    Everyone was busy during the afternoon market, but the shopkeeper Zhou and the others saw him coming in and out from the corner of their eyes, but they didn’t say anything.

    In the back, Gu Ye grabbed something to eat, no food box, just a pack of oil paper, he put it in his arms and ran out.

    Time is tight, he can only eat and drink in the carriage.

    I didn’t expect that just after leaving the store and before the carriage arrived, someone followed behind him and said, “It’s not good for you to steal.”

    Gu Ye turned around and spoke to a young boy of about ten years old who was proud of himself.