Chu Yunning stepped forward and sat next to the empress dowager, intimately pulled the empress dowager's sleeve, and said coquettishly

: "Thank you, Ning'er, for the love of the Queen Mother."

The queen mother's face became more and more loving smile when she heard this. The queen of palace was displeased when she saw this.

, sat in the lower right position and said meaningfully: "Empress Dowager, Miss Chu was Princess Xiao in the past, and it is understandable to stay in the palace to be filial to the Queen Mother, but now Miss Chu is unknown. If she continues to stay in the palace, I will be worried that she will be criticized."

"The queen is worried too much. Even if Ning'er is not the daughter-in-law of the Ai family, she is also a relative of the Ai family. What's wrong with staying with Ai family?"

After hearing that King Xiao and Chu Yunning had divorced, the first reaction was to keep Chu Yunning by his side and wanted to give him the identity of his adopted daughter, but then he thought, if the two of them make up one day in the future, then Chu Yunning would be King Xiao's sister. The two were not justified, so she gave up the idea of ​​enthroning Princess Chu Yunning.

"Don't be angry, I'm just thinking about the reputation of the harem, after all..." Queen Gong said halfway through, and glanced at Chu Yunning meaningfully, with unblocked contempt in her eyes.

"The emperor is kind. In order to appease General Chu, he made an exception and conferred a child without blood ties as the prince."

"Shut up!" The Queen Mother suddenly became furious, raised the teacup in her hand and smashed it hard at the feet of Queen Gong.

The loud bang made the Queen Gong look so scared that she retreated repeatedly, and a pair of shoes made of Shu brocade were splashed with tea stains.

Queen Gong's eyes flashed with anger, and in a blink of an eye, she suppressed her anger and stood up in fear:

"I am guilty."

The Empress Dowager had a stern face and said in a deep voice: "The Ai family has reminded the queen several times that Beibei is the descendant of the royal family. As the lord of the six palaces, how can you make a verbal problem?"

"I..." Empress Gong's face turned red when scolded, touched the gloomy face of the empress dowager. She was so scared that she dared not argue, so she could only nod and admit her mistake.

The Empress Dowager raised her hand: "Get down, copy the palace rules ten times, and send them to you by sunset tomorrow."

There are thousands of long palace rules, and the Empress Palace cannot finish writing it without copying it overnight. The Empress Palace said embarrassedly: "Yes."

Before leaving, the queen of the front palace looked at her with a murderous look. Chu Yunning smiled back. She didn't know if it was because the palace was too boring. Every woman in the harem found something for herself, fighting around, and never giving up if she didn't fight.

"Ning'er, don't take the Queen's words to heart. No matter what your identity is, as long as you have Ai's family, Cihegong will always be your safe haven."

The Empress Dowager comforted Chu Yunning like a loving mother.

"With the Empress Dowager here, Ning'er is not afraid at all." Chu Yunning snuggled in the empress dowager's arms. She took advantage of her father's glory. At that time, General Chu stood beside Emperor Mingwen with all his controversies. He saved the Empress Dowager many times and made many good relationships.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager had a thick filter for Chu Yunning. No matter what mistakes he made, the Empress Dowager thought she was innocent and forced to do so.

"I heard from my aunt that you have not had any appetite in the past two days. Is it because the weather is too hot?" Chu Yunning looked into the empress dowager's pulse with his fingertips and found that the empress dowager was depressed and had no appetite for many days, and he was a little worried.

The Queen Mother sighed: "I'm old and useless."

"What are the Queen Mother talking about? You are still in your prime." Chu Yunning used his ability to make the Queen Mother smile.

At noon, Chu Yunning planned to cook a table of dishes for the empress dowager himself. The empress dowager pity her for too much effort. After refusing, she could not resist Chu Yunning's wishes, so she agreed with a smile.

The kitchen in Cihe Palace is very big and everything is available. Aunt Chang worried, "Princess... Will Miss Chu do it?"

After a moment of getting used to it, Chu Yunning almost didn't change it. He smiled back, lifted up his sleeves and put on an apron, and skillfully picked a few vegetables to wash them in the pond.

"Don't worry, Aunt Chang, I can do it."

Aunt Chang looked at Chu Yunning half-believingly, but when she saw that her technique became more and more proficient, she felt relieved.

There were chicken, duck, geese and fish meat on the chopping board, all of which were freshest. Chu Yunning picked a fish and cleaned the scales in a few seconds. He picked a knife, removed the thorns and chopped them into paste, made into small balls and placed them on a plate for later use. He took a few tomatoes and slowly boiled them into a sticky shape in the pot.

Then I passed the fish balls all over the tomato soup, waited for the fish balls to change color before taking them out, sprinkled with green scallions, which looked very attractive.

I made a dry fried tenderloin, which was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, a plate of braised pork and a plate of sweet and sour cucumber strips. I remembered that the Queen Mother’s hometown liked spicy food, and looked at the rabbit head that was not processed in the corridor, so I made a spicy rabbit head, with a total of eight dishes and one soup.

The Queen Mother looked at the table and had never seen it before and was stunned: "You did all these alone?"

"yes."

The Empress Dowager looked at Aunt Chang again.

"Empress Dowager, Miss Chu's cooking skills are almost as good as the Imperial Kitchen. No, she is more powerful than the Imperial Kitchen." Aunt Chang was almost stunned when she watched the whole process.

During this period, Chu Yunning also tasted her a piece of braised pork, which was neither oily nor greasy, and melted in her mouth. The taste is still so good that Aunt Chang is still smacking her lips.

"How come the mother and mother have a fragrance today?"

Emperor Mingwen came outside the door when he heard the sound. Chu Yunning curled his lips. It was such a dog's nose, and he came as he smelled the smell.

"Please pay tribute to the emperor." Wu Yangyang and his group greeted Emperor Mingwen.

Emperor Mingwen waved his hand: "No need to be too polite, get up."

After sitting down, Emperor Mingwen looked at the table full of dishes and exclaimed: "Has the little chef changed in his mother's harem? Why do you think it's different from the past? Eunuch Mo, pass on my decree and reward me!"

Before Eunuch Mo left, Chu Yunning leaned over to thank him: "Thank you, my daughter, for the reward of the emperor."

Emperor Mingwen was surprised: "Are these done by Miss Chu?"

"No, this child is very filial. I think it's hot this day and the Ai family loses appetite, so I did these things."

The Empress Dowager seized the opportunity to praise Chu Yunning: "The emperor is busy with official duties every day, and the old woman of Ai's family has no fun at all. Thanks to Ning'er's concern, the emperor must reward Ning'er well."

"Son-member, listen to the queen of my mother." Emperor Mingwen pondered for a moment and looked at Chu Yunning: "Then I will give Miss Chu the identity of a female official, and follow the third consul's daughter's palace."

"Emperor, what kind of reward is this?" The Empress Dowager was puzzled.

Chu Yunning understood, and couldn't help but breathe in his heart. This is not a reward, it is clearly a disguised imprisonment!

Give her a righteous identity and work for Emperor Mingwen as a reasonable person!

mean!

"I beg the emperor to take back the order. My daughter never dares to ask for anything else, it depends on her heart." Chu Yunning said gritting her teeth.

Emperor Mingwen noticed Chu Yunning's gritting teeth, and a faint smile appeared between his eyebrows and eyes: "A gentleman said something, how can he regret it? Chu Yunning, don't let my expectations for you in the future."

Chu Yunning took a deep breath and wished he could slap Emperor Mingwen's smiling face, which was so gloomy.

"Since that's the case, it's good to have a status. Ning'er, thank you." said the Empress Dowager.

With the gesture of the empress dowager's eyes, Chu Yunning thanked her.

"You have a good time today, come and try Ning'er's craftsmanship." The empress dowager invited Emperor Mingwen to stay for dinner. Chu Yunning silently said in her heart, "Don't stay." Emperor Mingwen looked at Chu Yunning as if he heard her voice, and agreed with a smile.

"It's my fault, I will always come to accompany my mother in the future." Emperor Mingwen picked up the chopsticks and picked up the fried tender bamboo tips for the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother tasted it twice: "How come she smells like chicken soup?"

"When I go back to the Queen Mother, Zhujian did make some use of chicken soup." Chu Yunning put a bowl of tomato and fish ball soup for the Queen Mother. It was so sour and appetizing, and it was not prickly.

The Queen Mother tasted the fish balls, which were tender, juicy and particularly appetizing, and said in surprise: "Is this made of fish?"

"yes!"

"Why are you so many strange ideas?" The empress dowager's appetite was so strong that she ate several small fish balls, and she praised her endlessly.

Chu Yunning lowered his eyes and explained: "When Prince Xiao was imprisoned, Beibei was too young to eat something hard, so I studied this."

When the empress dowager heard this, her eyes were slightly red, and she pulled Chu Yunning to feel pity again: "Good child, the hard days of the past have passed, and the road ahead is still long."

"yes."

Emperor Mingwen glanced at Chu Yunning, and a sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth, but soon when the empress dowager saw it, she became calm again and couldn't wait to serve a bowl of soup, which was indeed delicious.

"No wonder the mother praised her and the taste was really great."

The queen mother's eyes suddenly fell on the spicy rabbit's head, and Chu Yunning immediately picked up one and put it in the queen mother's bowl.

"This is a spicy rabbit head, the Queen Mother tastes it?"

"It's really unheard of. This is the first time I have seen someone make a rabbit head into a dish." Emperor Mingwen wiped the corner of his mouth and put down the chopsticks, obviously not interested in spicy rabbit heads.

The empress dowager was not good at dispelling Chu Yunning's enthusiasm, but she had no idea how to put it in. Chu Yunning took the chopsticks to demonstrate to the empress dowager and put the peeled meat in a bowl. The empress dowager tasted it, it was so fresh and spicy, and very tender.

"This is what you think of yourself?"

Chu Yunning nodded.

The Queen Mother rarely eats such spicy and refreshing food. With iced sour plum soup, she opened her taste buds in one go and ate three rabbit heads in one breath, but she couldn't stop at all. The Queen Mother even found the trick to eat rabbit heads.

Seeing this, Emperor Mingwen frowned. Seeing that his mother's posture did not seem to be a fraud, he picked up the chopsticks again, but Chu Yunning quickly picked up the last rabbit head and placed it in the empress dowager's bowl: "Empress dowager, how does it taste?"

"Excellent!" The empress dowager quickly finished eating all the rabbit heads, but she was still unsatisfied.

Emperor Mingwen's chopsticks were still awkwardly in the air. He looked at Chu Yunning in anger and had to turn a corner and pick up a dry-fried rabbit meat.

"Ning'er, I'll make a few rabbit heads for the Ai family tomorrow." The empress dowager hasn't had such a satisfying meal for a long time.

"If the Empress Dowager wants to eat, Ning'er can make it at any time, but this thing should not be greedy. Ning'er will make some other things for you tomorrow."

The Empress Dowager was completely captured by Chu Yunning's cooking skills. She ate a lot of this meal. If it weren't for Chu Yunning's stopping her, she would have to eat again. Chu Yunning said coquettishly: "The Empress Dowager is not allowed to eat anymore. If it's food accumulation, the stomach will be uncomfortable. Will Ning'er accompany you to digest food in the yard later?"

"Okay, I'll follow you!" The empress dowager couldn't stop smiling. The more she looked at Chu Yunning, the more she liked her, and she sighed in her heart that Xiao'er was not lucky.

Chu Yunning looked back at Emperor Mingwen, and then he found that most of the dishes on the table had been eaten by Emperor Mingwen.

Just when Emperor Mingwen was embarrassed, Eunuch Mo immediately said: "Emperor, there are ministers waiting for you in the previous dynasty."

"My mother, I still have to surrender in advance."

Emperor Wen of Ming was very lucky.
Chapter completed!