At the beginning of noon, the sound of bells outside mixed with the noisy chirping of cicadas in midsummer came into the study room specially designed for the prince's enlightenment in Nansan School. The enlightenment master who was standing at the front teaching Manchu glanced out of the clean glass window upon hearing the sound, and then
Putting down the blue-sealed book in his hand, he smiled at the three little boys sitting in a row in front of the desk and said:
"Third elder brother, fourth elder brother, Prince Changquan, let's learn here first. You go back and remember to complete today's homework. We will continue tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow, master."
When Yin Xiaozhen and Xiao Yinzhi saw Master Manyu bending down to salute, they quickly stood up from their chairs and raised their little fists in a sweet voice as a salute in return.
After a beat, the somewhat listless Xiao Changquan heard his master announcing that school was over, and immediately shook his head, stood up from the chair like a spring, and said goodbye to his master.
After Master Manyu left first, Xiaosi, who was sitting in the middle, lowered his head and closed the book spread out in front of him. He carefully stroked it with his hands and pressed the cover to ensure that there was no corner left.
After folding the pages of the book, he pulled out the dog backpack that he had placed in the hole in the table, stuffed the book in, put the schoolbag on his back, and quickly came to an aisle away from him and sat on his right hand side.
In front of Changquan's desk.
Looking at his little cousin who sat back on the chair again, with his head lowered and listless, Yin Xiaozhen couldn't help but pursed his thin lips, lying on Changquan's desk with his two short arms, leaning forward and tilting his head, waiting
After seeing the shallow dark circles under Chang Quan’s eyes, he couldn’t help but ask with a loud voice:
"Brother Changquan, you didn't have any rest last night, okay? When I was studying, I saw from the corner of my eye that you were pecking at the rice several times."
At this time, Xiao Yinzhi, who had packed up his things and came over, heard Xiao Si’s words and said in confusion:
"Yes, cousin Changchangquan, why are you so sleepy today? Master has reminded you several times."
Changquan raised his head and saw the concerned and worried eyes of his two little cousins standing in front of the table. He couldn't help but open his mouth and yawned. Then he stretched out his hands and rubbed his face violently to cheer himself up before letting go.
The books on his desk were stuffed into his schoolbag. He stood up from the chair, pulled Xiao Yinzhi and Yinziao Zhen out of the door, and sighed:
"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that there was a little lack of ice in my room last night. I was woken up by the heat in the middle of the night, and then I didn't sleep well. That's why I was so sleepy this morning that I wanted to lay down on my desk and have a good sleep.
"
"Is the palace also short of ice?"
When Xiaosi heard this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Changquan nodded and said nothing more.
When the three brothers crossed the threshold and walked out of the small courtyard where classes were held, the palace attendants waiting outside to pick them up also hurriedly stepped forward.
"Third Brother, I'm here to take you back."
When the young eunuch of Zhongcui Palace saw his young master coming out, he immediately walked out from the shade of the lush trees and trotted up to him, bent down and picked him up.
"Xiaosi, cousin Changquan, then I, I, I, I will go home first."
Little Yinzhi, who was held high in the arms of the little eunuch, waved goodbye to Yinziaozhen and Changquan who were standing on the ground and left first.
"Huh? Mom, hasn't Ama arrived today?"
Changquan asked confusedly to the nanny who was walking towards him alone.
Grandma shook her head.
"Strange, why didn't Xiao Xizi come here today?"
After Yin Xiaozhen turned his head left and right and found that Zhang Tianxi could not be found, he murmured in confusion.
"Forget it, Xiaosi, let's go to the gate of Nansan School first. Maybe Xiaoxizi is waiting outside the gate."
"Yeah, okay."
Xiao Si felt that what his little cousin said made sense, so he walked side by side towards the gate with him. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the gate, he saw Concubine Jing and the little prince hurrying over from the west palace road.
"Eniang! Brother Prince!"
Xiaosi didn't expect that E Niang and Prince's brother would come to pick him up from school today. His eyes lit up and he ran towards them with his short legs on his two short legs in surprise.
"Gan'e Niang! Cousin of the prince!"
When Changquan saw the children, one large and one small, unexpectedly appearing here, he ran over with equal joy.
When Qingyan saw her son and godson running towards her happily like two little rabbits, she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she picked them up at the right time.
"Changquan, your Ama hasn't finished handling the matters at hand, so why don't you go back to Chuxiu Palace with us for dinner today?"
Qingyan smiled and raised her hand to touch the little melon-skin hats on the heads of the two little guys who rushed to her.
"Uh-huh!"
Changquan nodded immediately and called his nanny over.
Xiao Si walked to Yin Reng and was about to hold hands with the prince's brother and return to the palace together. Suddenly he saw the little prince holding an apricot yellow bag in his right hand and asked curiously:
"Brother Prince, what are you holding in your hand?"
"This?"
Yinreng shook the small bag and said with a mysterious face: "It is a delicacy from the Changsheng Heaven. Eating it will make you feel happy."
Hearing his words, Xiaosi and Changquan glanced at each other in unison, and then looked straight at the small bag, trying to see clearly through the silk what was inside.
Qingyan saw the three children still standing here without moving, so she hurriedly urged:
"It's too hot outside. You can talk about it after we return to the palace."
When the little ones heard what the imperial concubine said, they obediently continued talking with their little mouths and followed Qingyan forward.
About an hour later, when the group returned to Chuxiu Palace, washed their hands and faces, finished their meals, and lazily leaned on the backs of chairs to eat, Yin Xiaozhen slid down from the high-legged carved chair and walked away.
He went to Yinreng's side and picked up his wooden handrail, pointed at the apricot bag and said softly:
"Brother Prince, brother Prince, please hurry up and take out the delicious food. Si Si can't wait any longer."
"Yes, yes, Changquan wants to see it too."
Chang Quan also quickly got up from his chair and ran to the other side of Yin Reng in a few steps.
The little prince leaned back on the chair and turned his head to look at the expectant eyes of his two younger brothers, feeling an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.
"Ahem, don't worry, you two. I will show you Changshengtian's treasure right now."
Yinreng coughed twice and cleared his throat, then stood on the ground, picked up the small apricot bag placed in the gap on the side of the table, and placed it in front of the three of them.
Xiaosi and Changquan heard that the prince's brother was described as "baby" and saw that Yinreng had opened the drawstring at the mouth of the bag. They couldn't help but hold their breath. Their curiosity was also raised to the highest level. They poked their little heads and thought.
Have a look in the bag.
The next moment, he saw Yin Reng's own background music of "Dang Dang Dang Dang" and took one out of the bag, a dusty "earth lump"?
Yin Xiaozhen was confused for a moment, thinking in his mind: "...What kind of weird and ugly thing is this?"
Xiao Changquan also widened his eyes, somewhat doubting the prince's cousin's taste.
"One, two, three!"
Yinreng took out his three round little potatoes one by one from the small bag and placed them on the table as if they were holding an auction, and said in an increasingly high-pitched tone.
He wanted to hear the compliments from his two younger brothers, but the three brothers had different thoughts this time. Xiaosi and Changquan looked at the unspeakable brown-yellow round balls in front of them, with extremely strange expressions on their faces.
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When Qingyan, who was sitting opposite, saw this scene, she quickly lowered her head and took a sip of scented tea, holding back her laughter.
"Xiaosi, Changquan, is it possible that you two have seen potatoes before?"
Yinreng realized belatedly that the two younger brothers didn't say anything at all, and he was a little confused about the situation.
Xiaosi used his left hand to pull the edge of the huanghuali wood table, then stood on tiptoes, stretched his short right arm hard, and reached a small potato that was closest to him. He was waiting to remove the small potato, which was about the same size as his right hand.
He took it into his hand, squeezed it carefully, poked it, and then asked with a reluctant smile:
"Brother Prince, is this the delicious food you are talking about?"
Yin Xiaozhen is extremely conflicted. He usually has a simple "Zhenxue rule" for eating: most of the good-looking ones are delicious; most of the ugly ones are unpalatable.
To be honest, there is no way this gray round egg can pass Xiaosi's aesthetic taste. Previously, he heard from the prince's brother that this was a delicacy from Changshengtian, and he thought that this thing must be exquisite, delicate and extraordinary.
Refined, rare in the world, the difference is so big now, as if one sky and one earth are the same. For a moment, Xiao Si deeply felt that his expectations along the way were mispaid after all! He wanted to say something, but look
Looking at the smile on the prince's brother's face, he still swallowed the word "ugly thing" deeply into his stomach.
Qingyan put down the teacup in her hand and saw her son, Xiaoxiao, standing next to her nephew's left hand, as if he was singing a big show, with a cheery smile on his face, but his eyes were full of sadness. She really couldn't help it.
"Puch!" I laughed out loud.
When the three children heard her laughter, they immediately focused their attention on her.
"Baocheng, let's go. Let's take the potatoes to the small kitchen and show the chef how to fry them into French fries."
Qingyan stood up from the chair with a smile, then stretched out a hand and grabbed three small potatoes in her hand, like walnuts, plated them in her hand, lowered her head and took another look at the injury.
Baocheng, who had become naive, couldn't help complaining in his heart again, Kangxi really cheated his son, and he didn't know how many French fries he could cut out of such a tiny little potato.
The little prince happily took one of his younger brothers by the hand and followed his aunt out of the hall quickly.
When Qingyan and the three little ones crossed the threshold of the small kitchen, she was leading the maids and eunuchs to sort out the ingredients and clean the stove. The fat and white royal chef, who looked like Maitreya Buddha, walked away with a smile on his face.
He stepped forward, bowed to several people and asked:
"I have seen your Majesty. I wonder if there is anything else you would like to eat here?"
"Master Bai, do you know about an ingredient called 'potato'?"
Qingyan stretched out her right hand and handed three potato eggs to Bai Yuchu.
Chef Bai picked up a small potato from the imperial concubine's hand, tried his best to open his slender eyes that were almost squeezed into a crack, looked at them carefully, and then shook his head in embarrassment and said sincerely:
"Reporting to your Majesty, I may have little experience and have never seen this kind of food, but from the appearance, it looks like a plant tuber growing in the soil, right?"
Chef Bai rubbed the yellow floating soil on the surface of the potatoes and guessed.
"Yes, yes, these grow in the soil like radishes. I once ate a delicacy called 'french fries', which was fried with this thing. Can the master make it?"
This was the first time that the little prince heard that someone could accurately tell where potatoes grew. He felt that Bai Yuchu was a knowledgeable person, so he immediately raised his head and looked at him and said excitedly.
"Excuse me, Your Highness, do you only have three potatoes?" Bai Yuchu asked with some confusion, holding the small potatoes in his hand.
"Yes, there are only three of them now."
Yinreng put his hands behind his back and said with some regret.
When Bai Yuchu heard what he said, he felt even more conflicted.
For a chef, both good and rare ingredients are very attractive to them.
He has lived for more than half his life, and this is the first time he has seen potatoes as an ingredient, and the little prince reminded him that a senior has already made the finished product of "french fries". His hands are itchy and his heart is itching to try it quickly.
Plant vegetables, but only three of them are too "rare"!
Chef Bai was worried that if his cooking was accidentally ruined, even if the masters were kind and did not express their anger, he would feel very regretful for wasting "rare" ingredients!
Qingyan still treasures this imperial chef. After all, he has good skills and a humble character. She deliberately dug it from Kangxi's "mouth". Seeing the expression on Bai Yuchu's face, she can guess more or less what he is thinking.
, he simply stuffed the remaining two small potatoes into his hand, smiled and said to him:
"Master Bai, I think the cooking methods for different foods are actually universal. Since His Highness said they were French fries, he probably washed the potatoes, peeled them off, and then fried them in a pan.
Fried, you can use your brain to think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiaosi, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said that he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well." The best way is to wash the potatoes, peel off the skin, and then put them in the oil pan and fry them. You can use your brain to think
Just think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiao Si, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said that he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well." The best way is to wash the potatoes, peel off the skin, and then put them in the oil pan and fry them. You can use your brain to think
Just think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiao Si, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said that he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well." The best way is to wash the potatoes, peel off the skin, and then put them in the oil pan and fry them. You can use your brain to think
Just think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiao Si, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said that he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well." The best way is to wash the potatoes, peel off the skin, and then put them in the oil pan and fry them. You can use your brain to think
Just think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiao Si, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said that he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well." The best way is to wash the potatoes, peel off the skin, and then put them in the oil pan and fry them. You can use your brain to think
Just think about it, maybe you can make new delicious food."
When Bai Yuchu heard Concubine Jing's words, he made a decision in his heart. He bowed to the first and third children again and said respectfully:
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty and Your Highness, but this is a new ingredient after all. I still need to study it for a while. It's hot in the small kitchen. Please go back to the main hall to rest for a while. After I cook it, I will put it on a plate for you.
Sent over."
Qingyan nodded and knew that staying here with the others was adding pressure to the people in the dining room, so she lowered her head and discussed with the three little guys:
"Why don't we take a lunch break first? Maybe when we wake up, Master Bai will make the fries?"
"Uh-huh!"
Yinreng nodded in agreement.
Xiaosi and Changquan's expectations for "french fries" also dropped because of the potato's appearance, so they nodded in agreement.
After Qingyan heard that Xiao Si and Chang all said that they wanted to sleep with the little prince, she packed the three of them and sent them to the main hall in the backyard. She also ordered the palace servants to bring a large basin of ice before she felt sleepy and returned to the front yard.
Rested.
When the three little guys saw the imperial concubine leaving, they took off their shoes, lay on the big bed and continued talking.
Yin Xiaozhen rolled over twice and rolled next to Chang Shen. Remembering what he couldn't understand at noon, he got up and swung his feet, put his elbows on the bed, held his cheeks and asked doubtfully
:
"Brother Changquan, you are the heir apparent, why are you still lacking ice?"
When Yinreng heard Xiaosi's words, he turned to look at the two people beside him and said curiously:
"Xiao Si, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Prince, Brother Changquan said he lacked ice last night and was too hot to rest well."