The three or four maids who were in charge of serving the dishes in the kitchen were whispering among themselves, and the gossip was all about Yan Ruocheng's involvement in the eldest prince and being targeted by General Li.
"The eldest prince's taste is really not that bad. The princess he chose is obviously not a lady. You didn't see the way she kicked her eyes and cursed fiercely. She is almost like a shrew in the market." Maid A said teasingly.
"I don't know how lucky she is to be able to hook up with the eldest prince. This has caused the eldest prince to become so inferior that he feels inferior even if he is next to her." Maid Yi Yi said.
"She even asked me to bring the best meal to her in the morning. She didn't know that these meals were specially left for her by the eldest prince. It was really difficult for the eldest prince." Maid Bing also interrupted.
"Maybe if we work hard, the eldest prince might also like us. Our figures are not much different from those of the eldest princess. Her figure seems to be even worse than ours. At least we are much younger than her." Maid A
Said with a wicked smile.
Yan Ruocheng was holding a basket of wild vegetables and standing at the door of the kitchen. When she heard them talking bad about her, she became very angry.
"How difficult is this for my husband?" she said loudly.
Several maids were so frightened that they quickly saluted her: "See... see the great imperial concubine..."
"I used to be a servant just like you. The difference is that I will not speak ill of my master behind his back. I am short-sighted and compare other people's shortcomings with my own strengths. Just rely on it.
With this kind of character, the eldest prince will not look at you twice, especially you!" Yan Ruocheng pointed at this maidservant in particular and lectured.
"This slave deserves to die. Please calm down, the Imperial Concubine!" Maid A immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
"Don't bother, I'm not convinced, and all I'm talking about is nonsense about survival. If I were another queen, I'm afraid you would be dead by now. Since you guys are idle talking, go over to Huan Nu's place and help with the laundry.
Yan Ruocheng said with an order.
Several people looked at each other, obviously not wanting to obey.
"Don't go yet! Do you really want me to call someone to arrest you?" Yan Ruocheng's voice became more severe.
They quickly kowtowed and left.
"Hey, imperial concubine, don't be angry, don't argue with these little girls. They talk freely and often chat." Aunt Li, the imperial concubine, said while cooking.
"Aunt Li, I picked some wild vegetables and want to fry them for the eldest prince to eat. How do you think they should be fried to make them crispy?" Yan Ruocheng is very familiar with Aunt Li. Aunt Li is the wife of the deputy imperial chef Lao Zhang.
The two of them worked together in the imperial dining room. In the past, in the palace, Yan Ruocheng usually went to the imperial dining room to cook side dishes and so on, and always asked Aunt Li to cook them.
"Soak it in water and fry it directly. It will be crispy with less salt. After I finish frying the remaining fish and shrimp meat, I will fry some for you and give it to the eldest prince." Aunt Li glanced at the wild vegetables in her hand and said.
"In that case, I'll cook it. Aunt Li, keep busy and don't worry about me." Yan Ruocheng rolled up his sleeves and wanted to cook it himself.
"Well, okay. I'm still cooking General Li's food and wine." Aunt Li said.
Yan Ruozhen took a look at the fried fish and shrimp meat and asked, "Does General Li often use fish and shrimp meat to serve wine?"
"Yes, we also want to stir-fry the kind." Aunt Li said.
Yan Ruozhen thought for a moment and said, "Aunt Li, I will personally deliver it to General Li later."
"Imperial Concubine, you should stop messing with General Li. He is old and angry." Aunt Li persuaded.
"He just has a lot of anger. I think it has something to do with his habitual diet. We can take the opportunity to have a good talk with him," Yan Ruocheng said.
In the afternoon, General Li finished training his soldiers and returned to his rest tent to eat fish, shrimp, side dishes and drink some wine.
Yan Ruocheng seized the opportunity and came into his tent with wine and food.
"General Li, the fish, shrimp, side dishes and wine you want." She pretended to be respectful and put it on the table herself.
"Imperial Concubine, please come here personally with the side dishes. Do you want to negotiate peace with me?" General Li sat down and said.
Yan Ruocheng poured him a glass of wine and said, "You can put it this way. I hope General Li has a lot of wine and doesn't care about the previous verbal dispute with me. I must not deliberately go against General Li."
General Li took a big gulp of a glass, put a few pieces of delicious shrimp into his mouth and chewed it. While chewing, he said: "Since you know your mistake, I am not targeting you. It's just that the enemy soldier stayed in the camp all day, and I have it."
It is my duty to interrogate him. Will you still stop me from interrogating him?"
"They will still stop him." Yan Ruozhen said suddenly.
General Li stopped his chopsticks and asked, "Are you still not convinced?"
"My disagreement with General Li is all because of the enemy soldier. It has nothing to do with whether he is convinced or not. If he is forced to question this enemy soldier, he will be tortured. I will definitely not sit idly by and ignore it. So I will definitely stop him.
." Yan Ruocheng said slowly.
"So you're talking nonsense to me?" General Li couldn't stop talking while eating shrimp pieces.
Yan Ruozhen pointed at the shrimps he picked up and said, "I actually wanted to talk about your own condition, General Li."
"Illness? What are you talking about?" General Li asked displeasedly.
"You like to eat fish and shrimp, and you also like to drink. As you get older, you will suffer from gout. You have heavy bags under your eyes and a lot of anger, which proves that your liver energy is insufficient, and your liver is weak and you have many dreams. Do you always have trouble sleeping?
This is because the key reason why liver qi is not comfortable is that the Qi Chakra is blocked due to internal injuries of the seven emotions." Yan Ruocheng explained.
It was not that she was unsure about coming to him. Before she came to him, she had talked with Lieutenant General Long Dong about the previous fight. General Li's every move was based on gravity and would not stretch the joints too much. And she
I also checked with the imperial doctor and found out that he had prescribed painkillers for General Li.
"Imperial Concubine, I've heard that you know medical skills, what do you think? Do you want me to believe that you have superb medical skills and let you come to see a doctor? Do you think you can compare with the imperial doctor?" General Li said in his tone that he was simply worried.
She treated him like a fool.
"The imperial doctor has prescribed medicine for you. I just want to say that taking too much painkiller will have no effect. You are the most trusted general of the Holy Emperor. It is reasonable for me to care about your health. The matter of the enemy soldier first
Putting it aside, what I want to say now is that I have a secret recipe that is more effective than taking medicine." Yan Ruocheng said.
"What's the secret recipe?" General Li was interested. He had been taking painkillers recently, and as she said, the more he took them, the less effective they became.
"The secret is to stop talking, stop eating fish, shrimp, meat, and drink alcohol. Instead, eat light vegetarian dishes." Yan Ruocheng said simply.
"It's nonsense again. These imperial doctors have told me this a long time ago. It won't be of much use." General Li rolled his eyes at her and said.
"After you stop talking, you have to take a medicated bath. The herbs for the medicated bath are secretly prepared by me. I won't go into detail about this." Yan Ruozhen continued.
"Is your secret medicated bath really effective?" General Li was a little curious.
"Of course it works. When I was working as a doctor in the village, I had no idea how many people with gout came to see me every year. They were all cured by me and then went to work." Yan Ruocheng said boastfully.
He began to be a little concerned, so he took advantage of the fire and continued: "The medicinal bath is just the basics, and there is my unique massage technique, just like this shrimp."
She picked up an unpeeled shrimp, pricked it with her fingers, peeled it, brought it to his mouth, and said, "General Li, taste it. It will be different."
General Li opened his mouth dubiously, ate it and took a look.
"Hmm? It's a little chewy." I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but the shrimp meat that she pricked all over it is more elastic than before, and it's a little fresher and sweeter.
"This is the power of my unique fingering skills." Yan Ruocheng succeeded in deceiving, and she was secretly happy. She just stuffed some umami seasoning powder on her fingernails. The shrimps were sticky with seasoning powder, which made them sweeter.
"This shrimp may be better cooked. You can peel a few more and have a look." General Li crossed his arms and said.
"Just peel it off, no matter how many of them you have, they're all the same." Yan Ruocheng had already dipped a lot of seasoning on the handkerchief he was wiping his hands with.
She peeled the shrimps, and General Li ate them with relish.
The soldiers outside passed by and saw their interaction, and they were puzzled. It was unimaginable, and it spread a lot.
In Huang Chenling's tent, the imperial doctor was helping him with acupuncture.
"Your Majesty, if you still feel uncomfortable, I suggest that you continue to stay in bed and rest without exerting any physical exertion." Dr. Zhang said after administering the acupuncture.
"I feel much better now. Dr. Zhang, recently I sometimes feel dizzy and have stars in my eyes after riding a horse for too long. Is this all because of working too hard?" Huang Chenling asked.
"Your Majesty, these are some of the sequelae caused by you falling off your horse and hitting your head. After the head was concussed, the symptoms that appeared were dizziness in mild cases and coma in severe cases, so you had to stay in bed to rest. In addition, you have an arrow wound.
If the body and blood energy are insufficient, this symptom is more likely to occur." Dr. Zhang said.
"So that's it. You go ahead and cook the medicine. I'm going to rest." Huang Chenling said.
"Yes, Wei Chen resigned." Dr. Zhang picked up the medicine box and left.
Huang Chenling lay quietly and looked at the door. Usually at this time, Yan Ruocheng would appear. But it was empty. No one came.
What is she doing? She's accompanying the imperial brother again, and she can't escape and come to him for a moment?
General Li pushed even further and asked Yan Ruocheng to peel off the whole plate of shrimps.
"General Li, all the shrimps have been eaten. If you don't believe what I said, I will leave." Yan Ruocheng wiped his hands and said.
General Li took a sip of wine and said, "How can you make peace with me if you lose your patience so quickly?"
Yan Ruocheng cursed in his heart: You are trying to push your limits! You are not trying to make peace!
"General Li doesn't want to make peace with me at all," she said flatly.
General Li saw her peeling a plate of shrimps and said, "Let the enemy soldier recover from his injuries first. The Holy Father also ordered me not to interfere with your treatment. So I will not question him for the time being."
You can rest assured."
"Thank you, General Li, for your understanding. So, can you not be so mean about the meals of the eldest prince and me?" She smiled and said.
"What are you talking about being mean? What does it have to do with the eldest prince and your meals?" General Li asked in confusion.
"Didn't you order the imperial chef to reduce our food supply and leave it to the soldiers?" Yan Ruocheng said.
"This order is from the Holy One. It is not directed at you. It is for all the generals to reduce food. There is not much food in the camp. They just let it out deliberately to say that it is enough so that the soldiers can go to war with peace of mind. I only eat so little today.
Fish and shrimp pieces and wine." General Li said.
"It turned out to be a misunderstanding." Yan Ruocheng said.
"Don't rely on me for sneaky things. Many things are sometimes done by smart servants, and I'm just too lazy to take care of them. The methods you just mentioned can be used to treat gout, so please help me treat it another day.