Author: A long walk back

It was still at the Shiting place two days ago. Xinyue was already standing there waiting. When she saw Wen Mingtang passing by, she rolled her eyes angrily and said, "Why are you taking so long?"

Wen Mingtang looked at Xinyue, who was looking for nothing, and said calmly: "As soon as I received the news, I immediately put down what I was doing and came over without any delay."

What she responded to was a cold snort from Xinyue, and she said, "In half an hour, you will go to the Qianyuan Hall to deliver tea on behalf of the tea-delivery maid from the imperial kitchen."

Wen Mingtang looked at her and asked, "Is there no medicine in the tea?"

The question was so straightforward... Xinyue's face darkened, and she moved her lips, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she still didn't say anything. Probably because she didn't want to waste more words with her, she just said with a cold face.

He said: "No." Then he glanced at her sideways and said, "After you deliver the tea, I will let Zhao Sishan leave the palace today."

Wen Mingtang stared at the expression on her face for a moment, then smiled and said "Okay".

After Tong Xinyue finished meeting, Wen Mingtang returned to the messy little kitchen. Tong Xinyue could only talk for a cup of tea. The two maids who had just been cowered in the corner by the exploding glutinous rice balls had already wiped the oil stains on the table.

It's clean, it's obvious that he is a diligent person on weekdays.

At this time, seeing Wen Mingtang coming back, he quickly asked Wen Mingtang: "Master Wen is going to do some work?"

"There's still half an hour." Wen Mingtang said, looking at the table that had been cleaned up by the two of them, thinking for a while, and said, "There is still time, but we can make the most important wrapping of the fried glutinous rice balls first."

"What is a wrapping?" When the two palace maids heard this, they cleared their hands in the kitchen, their faces full of confusion.

Wen Mingtang smiled and took over the dry steamed buns brought from the imperial dining room in the morning. While peeling off the skin of the steamed buns, he said: "Before frying in the oil pan, the surface of the glutinous rice balls must be coated with a layer of egg liquid and steamed bun crumbs.

Then put it into the oil pan. The temperature of the oil should not be too high. Once it is fried to a certain shape, it needs to be taken out immediately. Only in this way... can the fried glutinous rice balls not fall apart and splash out. "

Hearing the words "fall apart and splash out", the two palace maids laughed innocently. It was not difficult to imagine the egg liquid coating, but this was the first time they heard about the wrapping made of steamed bun crumbs, so they looked at each other.

, put down what he was doing, and watched Wen Mingtang carefully as he made this so-called wrapping.

In modern times, fried glutinous rice balls need to be coated with a layer of bread crumbs. Of course, there is no such thing as bread crumbs in Dayong. So Wen Mingtang planned to use steamed bun crumbs to make bread crumbs. Peel off the surface.

Cut the steamed buns with one layer of skin into small dices and put them into the pot. Stir fry them quickly without adding oil. After the moisture in the diced steamed buns is dried, take them out again, pour them into the gauze that has been spread out, and then put them into the pot.

Wrap it in gauze, crush it with a rolling pin through the gauze, and you will get a homemade "bread crumb".

"The name of this thing is bread... oh no, steamed buns bran," Wen Mingtang poured the prepared steamed buns bran into the jar and said to the two palace maids, "All rolled bread, wrap it with egg liquid and then put it in this steamed bun bran."

Roll it in a circle and then put it in the oil pan to make the skin extra crispy, fragrant and unique in texture."

The two maids firmly remembered this most important step and nodded.

At this moment, the Queen's confidants came over.

After Wen Mingtang washed his hands, he followed the palace officials to see the queen.

After some greetings, the Queen spoke: "Master Wen, someone from the Qianyuan Hall just now asked for a special Osmanthus Longjing tea. It takes some effort to brew this tea, so I didn't give it to you just now. The tea is ready now."

Sorry, I wonder if Master Wen can go on my behalf and deliver tea to the guests of Qianyuan Hall?"

Hearing this, Wen Mingtang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Seeing that she did not agree immediately, the Queen was also a little surprised. She pondered for a moment, and when she was about to speak, she heard Wen Mingtang say: "I dare not hide it from the Queen. Just now, the popular lady in front of Concubine Jing came to visit.

I gave tea to the guests of the Qianyuan Palace. After delivering the tea, I allowed Zhao Sishan to leave the palace. I didn’t even have time to mention this to the empress, but it was unexpected that the empress would also ask me to go to the Qianyuan Palace...

…”

She did not hide anything from the Queen. She was in the Queen's Palace, and Xinyue came over to report the letter. Even though the guards in the Queen's Palace were far away when she spoke to Xinyue,... Wen Mingtang didn't feel that this was the time to hide anything.

, it is better to tell the whole story and highlight the word "sincerity".

People are most afraid of being wavering, being dishonest when they should be honest, and not hiding things when they should be concealed.

Concubine Jing, Xinyue wanted to attack her, so she should obviously hide it, so... the queen should be sincere. This is not only because she trusts Lin Fei, but also because Wen Mingtang doesn't feel that this wise queen

She would willingly let Concubine Jing reach out to her.

Seeing Wen Mingtang say this, the Queen understood. After thinking for a moment, she pushed forward the tea she had prepared and said: "In this case... just bring the tea and snacks and go see Qianyuan.

The Lord of the Palace...Jingguo Gong."

Now that Wen Mingtang had come clean, the Queen did not hide anything anymore. After raising her hand and waving away the left and right, she said to Wen Mingtang: "I and Your Majesty have some inside information about Wen Xuance's case that is not clear yet. However, when people are fighting, they are often the same."

The time when you are least defensive.”

Originally, she wanted to go round and round, but now that she was a cheerful person, the Queen also explained her intention.

Wen Mingtang understood: It turned out that the purpose of delivering tea was to provoke Duke Jing.

This was the queen's intention, but she didn't know what Xinyue's intention was? Although Xinyue said that the tea was not poisonous, Wen Mingtang kept it in mind and took a detour with the tea and asked the queen's side who was knowledgeable in medicine to

After checking it and confirming that it was indeed non-toxic, the confidants of the palace took tea and snacks to the Qianyuan Palace.

…

Since the Queen and Concubine Jing had sent things at the same time, the Qianyuan Hall had naturally been arranged so that not a single guard could be seen. This situation... Wen Mingtang, who walked to the Qianyuan Hall, felt a little inexplicably funny and calmed down.

She brought tea and snacks and pushed open the ajar door.

When the scene in the palace appeared before his eyes, Wen Mingtang, who always prided himself on being relatively calm, trembled in his hand, and the tea and snacks that came from different directions fell to the ground at the same time.

The falling tea cup and the sound of the porcelain plate breaking woke up Duke Jing who was sitting on the couch and dozing off with his chin propped up in the palace. He raised his eyes and looked towards the source of the sound. When he saw Wen Mingtang appearing outside the palace,

He frowned and was about to speak when he saw Wen Mingtang, who seemed to be stunned, stretched out his hand and pointed tremblingly behind him, covered his lips and let out a scream.

This scream made Duke Jingguo instinctively turn around and look in the direction she was pointing. When he saw a purple face with tongue sticking out, his expression suddenly changed and he exclaimed: "Routine!"
Chapter completed!