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Chapter 41 (Catching Insects) Like Weeds(1/2)

Jiang Yanyi made the egg tart with a small bowl very big, and she was so full that she burped after eating two.

Half of the remaining egg tart liquid was still there. She was afraid that it would be broken, so she poured it into the egg tart crust and baked in the oven.

With the first experience, Jiang Yanyi was able to control the heat better this time, and none of the baked egg tarts were burnt.

The thousands of folds on the egg tart crust have a clear texture. The egg tart liquid in the middle is slightly swelled after being heated. The golden egg tart is paired with a small white porcelain pear blossom-shaped bowl at the bottom, which looks so exquisite.

Jiang Yanyi thought she could consider including egg tarts in the dessert menu of the hot pot restaurant.

She took out the egg tart and let it cool. She used torches tongs to clamp the large unburned charcoal in the fire pit under the oven into the earthen pottery jar next to it. The earthen pottery jar was pressed with wooden boards, and the charcoal fire would soon be extinguished in an oxygen-free environment.

This is a common way for ordinary people to collect charcoal. When cooking, pick out the charcoal from the stove and store it in a jar. In this way, you can save some charcoal in winter and save some money on buying carbon.

A knock on the door suddenly came from the shop in front. With the experience of Hu Baiwan causing trouble in the morning, both of them were more cautious.

Jiang Yanyi went to the shop in front in person and saw through the crack of the door that it was the housekeeper of the Feng Mansion next door, so she opened the door.

Fuxi took the two servants and smiled and clasped his fists at Jiang Yanyi: "I'm really sorry to bother with my neighbors."

Jiang Yanyi hurriedly said, "Where are you saying this, you're out of here. There was a thug in the shop this morning. Fortunately, the soldiers of the mansion drove away the thug."

Fuxi then said: "Are you injured by the person under the ruffian?"

"It's not." Jiang Yanyi stepped back and gave up his debut: "You can go into the store and sit down, I'll pour you a bowl of tea."

Fuxi waved his hand: "The rascals come again to cause trouble. The neighbors just ask people to come to the mansion to inform you. There are many soldiers in the mansion, but a rascal is still no problem."

"Today, it's not for the sake of tea. The Queen Mother of the Great has a poor appetite these days, so she often puts bowls and chopsticks without a few bites of food. The people below can only find ways to make some snacks that suit her taste. I heard that my neighbors are good at cooking, so I came to ask for help."

Jiang Yanyi smiled and said, "I have little skill in dim sum, so I dare not show off my skills in the chefs in the front office of the palace. But it was just a coincidence that I made some dim sum today. Look, if I feel it is okay, it is also an honor for the shop to present it to the Taihuang Concubine."

As he said that, Jiang Yanyi signaled Okra to take the egg tart from the kitchen.

Soon, Okra brought out six egg tarts on a drag plate, and a sweet milky smell instantly filled the air.

When Fuxi was working in the palace, he also saw many snacks made in the imperial kitchen. When he saw this snack, he still had to say that it was really exquisite.

Jiang Yanyi picked up one and handed it to him: "Try it."

Fuxi took a bite, looked quite surprised, and praised: "Does this base be used for the Luohan cake? This crispy feel is good! It's so tender on top that it looks like milk tofu, and the neighbors are really skillful!"

The Arhat cake is named because the inside of the cake is layered and looks like a stack of Arhats. It is also folded several layers when making egg tart crust. The two have some similarities.

"You are too proud." Jiang Yanyi said with a smile.

Fuxi hesitated for a moment and said, "I have a reluctant request. Can the neighbors be willing to teach the chef of the royal palace to make this snack? This hundred taels are considered to buy the snack recipe for the neighbors. Don't worry about the neighbors. The chef of the royal palace is never a story, and it is only made in the palace for the imperial concubine."

He said as he took out a silver note of one hundred taels from his sleeve.

Selling a recipe for making egg tarts for 100 taels is definitely a sure-fire deal.

It has already spent a lot of money to set up the store myself, and I have to buy ingredients and other things later. The money I had in my hand was really tight. The people from the Fengfu came to the door at this time. They were just about to doze off when someone handed over a pillow.

Jiang Yanyi was a little moved, but he was worried that the other party was Feng's mansion and had already received a lot of favors from Feng Shuo and was unwilling to take advantage of him. He said, "In the future, the girl in the family will have to rely more on the protection of the mansion. She just had a snack recipe, so how could she still charge you money."

She knew that the imperial concubine was noble. If she bought food outside, if there was any problem with the food, it would be difficult to explain. Giving the prescription to the royal palace and letting the chefs in the royal palace make it themselves is the safest way.

Fu Xi smiled and said, "Since the neighbors open the door to do business, how can they make the neighbors suffer? The royal palace collects the menu and gives them all the price. Don't refuse the neighbors."

When he said this, Jiang Yanyi felt much more at ease. He didn't just be so generous to her.

If you know that money and goods are paid, you won’t feel guilty in your heart.

Since Feng Shuo made some tricks that day, Jiang Yanyi has reflected on himself day and night, fearing that he would take advantage of others.

How to describe this feeling? It’s like a male classmate who likes you when he was in school. You think you can’t have any chance of both of you, so he told the other party clearly, but if the other party buys you a breakfast or something, you will accept it as you wish.

This is a joke.

After confirming the transaction, it is better to choose a date than to meet the date. Jiang Yanyi asked Okra to take care of her family and followed Fuxi to teach next door.

The Protectorate Mansion is the courtyard of Qijin. After Jiang Yanyi entered the mansion, he once suspected that he was hiking on a university campus. The reason was no different, it was too big...

She now understands why Fuxi said before that the Xikuang courtyard in the mansion was idle. The courtyard was so big and Feng Shuo was alone. The only mistress in the mansion was the Taihuang Concubine, so naturally some small courtyards would be empty.

Jiang Yanyi didn't know that Fuxi deliberately took her around in a big circle just to pass by the flower room.

Along the way, Fuxi occasionally introduced some courtyards. When he passed by the flower house, he said with regret: "The two masters in the mansion don't like to serve flowers and plants. It's a pity that such a large flower house has been empty. I wanted to rent out the flower house several times, but I couldn't find a tenant..."

Jiang Yan thought of the pot of peppers in his backyard, and there was a thought surgingly surging in his mind. She asked tentatively: "I see that the flower house in your mansion is so well built, even if it is rented, the rent is not cheap, right?"

How could Fuxi not know that this was the little girl exploring him? He said, "The prince's mansion didn't expect the little rent earned by renting a flower house. It's just that our family saw that the flower house was empty and felt that this place was wasted."

Jiang Yanyi hesitated for a while and spoke: "Butler, can you rent the flower houses in your mansion be rented on a par with no amount of money? "

Fuxi said: "It is natural. If your neighbor wants to use a flower house, just use it directly, so why do you still need rent..."

"The rent must be paid." Jiang Yanyi quickly interrupted Fuxi's words. Thinking that the pepper seedlings were about to be established, she smiled in her eyebrows and eyes: "Since she has been a neighbor with the mansion, how can she always take advantage of the mansion?"

Fuxi nodded secretly. Seeing that she was not greedy for a little bit of a small advantage, she realized that the girl in front of her was really not good at picking up anything.

In the end, Jiang Yanyi rented a small piece of land in the Protectorate's House at the market price.

After she taught the chef of the royal palace to make egg tarts, she devoted herself to the pepper seedlings when she got home.

Capital, imperial palace.

Outside the Tibetan Palace, a begonia bloomed brightly, and the bouquet stretched out half of the palace wall, making the withered and yellow fallen trees on the side even more desolate.

The autumn wind was squeaking, and a group of palace maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground outside the hall, and the coldness was dipped into the kneecaps little by little through their clothes, but everyone did not dare to breathe.

A begonia was swept down by the wind and floated to the upper embroidered with golden dragon-turning cloud patterns. The new emperor stood with his hands behind his back, his face was cold, and his auspicious phoenix eyes were covered with haze. He said to the people in the hall: "If you refuse to eat for a day, I will let them kneel outside here for a day!"

The autumn in the capital came late, and it was fine during the day. At night, it was also very cold. Many palace people were so scared that they trembled when they heard the new emperor say this, and kowtowed to the inner hall and cried: "Empress Xipin, please have a meal!"

Jiang Yanxi walked out of the hall slowly. She had been on a hunger strike for two days. The already thin man now had a pitiful pointy chin, his skin was pale, his lips were not much bloody, and he was even a layer of skin cracked.

She said weakly: "You can only use this method, right?"

The new emperor's face suddenly became ugly.

The eunuch who was following the Xindi hurriedly said, "Empress Xipin, I let the imperial kitchen stew your favorite snow clam soup, should you drink some?"

The palace maid who was told to him came forward with a tray, but Jiang Yanxi only glanced at the soup in the white jade bowl, raised his hand and knocked it to the ground.

Looking at the new emperor's increasingly ugly face, she rarely felt a little revenge in her heart.

She looked at the new emperor, even though her body was weak, her voice was not loud when she spoke, but every word was like a needle pricking. "You are the emperor, I can't resist you. I have implicated the nine tribes and even sent to death...ha..."

She even laughed and cried: "I'm not afraid of death anymore. Do you think I'm still afraid of you? What does other people's life or death have to do with me?"

The palace people who were kneeling all over the ground were panicked when they heard what she said, and kowtowed like a garlic: "Miss Xipin, please be kind to you! I don't want to die..."

Jiang Yanxi only glanced at the group of crying palace ladies, and then dragged his tired bodies and turned around.

However, before she could take a few steps, the new emperor suddenly grabbed her waist and picked her up to the inner hall.

She was too thin, and there was almost only a bone left under her gorgeous robe. When the Xindi picked her up, he felt that she was fluttering, which made his heart feel a little suffocated.

Jiang Yanxi struggled desperately, punched and kicked, and even grabbed his dragon robe and scratched his face, but it was useless.

When the new emperor pressed her to the bed, she almost closed her eyes with her fate.

He always used strong power to her.

However, the new emperor did not forcefully strip her clothes as usual, and only ordered in a deep voice: "Let's come."

A bowl of Bazhen Soup was delivered to him, and he raised his head and poured it into his mouth, leaned over and fed it to Jiang Yanxi.

Jiang Yanxi closed her lips and refused to drink. He pressed her jaw with his hand. He didn't know how he used force, so he let out Jiang Yanxi let go.

After feeding the soup, most of it flowed out. Jiang Yanxi was so choked that she coughed.

The new emperor wiped the corner of her mouth with a bright yellow scarf and asked in a cold voice: "Do you drink it yourself or do you want me to feed you like this?"

Jiang Yanxi's eyes slid into her temples: "I'm dead, it's up to everyone's wishes, and I can be free myself."

The veins in the new emperor's hand swelled up, and he squeezed her chin hard, and said viciously: "Without my permission, you don't even have the right to die!"

"Look, if I want to punish Jiang Jing'an, can't I find a reason!"

When Jiang Yanxi mentioned Shangshu Jiang, she finally panicked. She was sad and hated: "You are shameless! My father devoted his life to you, you are a fool!"

The eunuch who was waiting outside heard Jiang Yanxi's scolding and did not dare to say anything.

If others dared to scold the new emperor like this, Xiang Shang would have lost his head, but this was Jiang Yanxi's scolding. The new emperor just sneered: "Continue to scold."

Jiang Yanxi closed her eyes and did not look at him. Her voice was full of self-deprecating: "I am just a laughing stock in the palace. Even if Your Majesty raises a canary, it is much more interesting than if you are consuming it with me. The Empress Dowager cannot tolerate me, the Empress cannot tolerate me, and the eldest princess cannot tolerate me. Everyone said that I have used all the tricks of fox charming to hook His Majesty..."

"Who dares to make such a rash statement? I ordered someone to pull his tongue!" The new emperor said with a fierce aura.

Fan Sheng became young and weak, and he killed Fan Shengnian, and the court was unstable. The empress dowager and the eldest princess learned that all the reasons were because of her, so they naturally had no good expression on her.

He also had to use the Fan family. In order to stabilize the Fan family, he could only first sign the daughter of the Fan family as the imperial concubine.

Fan Shengnian was taken by the queen by tricks. The queen is now pregnant and protected by the empress dowager and the eldest princess. He can't move the queen, but the Fan family learned the inside story and is now fighting with the queen's relatives.

The Fan family's rights were granted by him and he could take them back at any time. If the Fan family could take the opportunity to trip up the queen's relatives, he would not be slapped by relatives in the court in the future.

The new emperor calmed down: "I have killed Fan Shengnian..."

Jiang Yanxi sneered and interrupted him: "Your Majesty really doesn't know who the one who harmed me?"

The palace fell into a brief silence. After a long time, the new emperor said, "When the queen gave birth to a dragon heir, I will depose the queen."
To be continued...
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