The Thirteenth Prince looked excited after hearing this. He did not respond, but looked at the Tenth Prince.
The tenth brother did not leave immediately. He packed the food box and carried it himself. Then he raised his chin and motioned for the thirteenth brother to follow.
Liang Jiugong said hurriedly: "Master Ten, should I still be carried by a slave?"
"Need not!"
Brother Ten immediately hugged him in his arms: "It's not heavy at all..."
While talking, the group of people arrived in front of the royal chariot.
This is a luxurious carriage that is over a foot long. In order to reduce the weight, it is made of no rare wood and is simply carved from pine wood.
The carriage is like a room.
Kangxi was sitting upright. There was a fixed small table in front of him, with a plate of meat-stuffed sesame cakes and tea sets on it. There were horizontal seats on both sides of the small table.
Seeing his two sons coming in, Kangxi pointed to the horizontal seat: "Sit down and fill in a few mouthfuls..." While speaking, his eyes fell on the food box in Brother Ten's hand, and he was a little surprised: "Old Ten brought his own food.
Already?"
The tenth elder brother showed off a little bit: "To return to Khan Ama, it was the ninth elder brother who sent it... The ninth elder brother was worried about the ninth elder brother's diet, so she prepared a lot of food in advance..." After saying that, he opened the food box,
He took a pork jujube and ate it: "This is a pork jujube. It has been dried and smoked with fruit wood. It can be stored for ten and a half months even in hot weather..." Then he took several others and ate them in turn, and finally praised them.
: "This dried fruit is especially good. You don't need to drink water after eating and your mouth won't feel dry. It's just right to eat on the road... Khan Ama will try it too..."
Kangxi nodded reservedly, pinched a piece of dried fruit and put it into his mouth. He immediately felt sour.
It is indeed different from the candied fruit made in the imperial dining room. It has not been mixed with honey and sugar, and the sourness of the fruit itself is very obvious. After eating this piece, the mouth and tongue will be filled with saliva, and the nausea caused by the heat will be reduced a lot.
"Just bring these?"
Kangxi took another piece and asked, disapproving that the amount was a bit small.
"He Yuzhu brought two food boxes and sent the other one to Fifth Brother and the others..."
The tenth prince replied honestly.
Unfilial son!
Kangxi hummed softly. He thought that Brother Jiu was an adult and knew how to please his father-in-law, but he still didn't see it.
If brothers all share the same food, don’t they know how to show respect to Amma?
However, Kangxi's anger was relieved a lot when he thought that there was no such thing as Concubine Yi.
Brother 10 was hungry before. Snacks were just snacks after all. They were enough to satisfy his craving, but they were not full, so he ate half a plate of sesame seed cakes with meat.
It is smaller than common sesame cakes and crispy. Use a small plate to avoid leaving any residue on your clothes.
Thirteenth Brother was thirteen years old, the age when "a half-grown boy would defeat me", so he ate the other half of the plate of sesame seed cakes and meat.
Kangxi looked at his two sons. It happened to be a coincidence. I wonder if it was because they were both born in the longevity palace. Although they were not born from the same mother, they looked like brothers. Not only were their eyebrows similar, but they were also slender in stature.
high.
Now, the tenth prince...
The previous thin and slender oval face has become a little wider, and the originally unflattering facial features have become much softer.
Kangxi was most concerned about the prince's growth. He knew that this was all the fault of Dong E's family. Although he was still young, it was his sister-in-law's style, and he was quite satisfied.
It stands to reason that Liu's case of murdering Prince Fujin has been decided for a long time. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has also reassigned people to work in the second station, and the people who had previously gone to the third station have also returned to the third station.
However, because the Ninth Elder Brother is friendly to his brothers, the Tenth Elder Brother's daily meal distribution these days is still led by the Second School.
Looking at the thirteenth elder brother again, Kangxi felt that he was not pleasing to the eye because he was too thin.
Remembering that the ninth elder brother had been starved, Kangxi looked at the thirteenth elder brother and said in a kind tone: "How is the food supply in Zhaoxiang's dining room?"
Brother Thirteen was stunned by the question, his face showed confusion and he didn't know how to answer.
When Kangxi saw it, his heart sank: "But there is a slave named Nada who refuses to obey discipline?"
The thirteenth elder brother was still confused. It took him a long time to say: "My son doesn't know either..."
Kangxi frowned: "You don't know whether you eat well or not, and whether you serve carefully or not?"
The tenth elder brother watched from the side, knowing that the father and son were talking at different angles, he laughed in his heart, and then felt sour.
As expected, he is the son of a favorite concubine, and he is very concerned about him.
He thought of his late mother, lowered his eyes, and became more and more uncomfortable, with no intention of opening his mouth to help.
I didn’t understand it at first, but now I think about it, in order to protect the prince, Brother Khan was not the only one who neglected and treated his son with neglect and cold treatment?!
Even the mother concubine, who has been a noble concubine for more than ten years, has never held the power of the palace for a day, and the only role of a noble concubine is to be "noble".
Does the early death of the mother and concubine have anything to do with being treated coldly?
The tenth prince originally had no feelings for the prince, was neither close to him nor resentful, but now he felt disgusted.
Is he the only son?
Could it be that others picked it from the coal pile?
"Khan Ama, my son's daily meals are received from the dining room of Qianqing Palace... The morning and evening meals are also received from the dining room of Qianqing Palace..."
The thirteenth elder brother came to his senses and replied truthfully: "On the other side of Zhaoxiang's office, there are Shuda and grandma in charge, but my son has never asked..."
Kangxi pursed his lips, knowing that he was "concerned and confused" and forgot that his thirteenth brother was studying in the study room every day.
At that time, the elder brother's house was repaired, and the elder brothers who moved the palace moved in one after another.
By the time the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother, the youngest of whom were six years old, were about to move the palace, the elder brother's house was already full. It happened that Zhaoxiang House had just renovated the house, so the two of them were placed in Zhaoxiang House. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye,
After all these years.
There is no prince's dining room in Zhaoxiang's residence, only one dining room in Zhaoxiang's residence.
When the incident at the two offices came out, Kangxi ordered Zhao Chang to investigate the elder brother office and Zhaoxiang office.
Because Zhaoxiang's location was in the northeast of the East Sixth Palace, Concubine Hui had always been keeping an eye on her. Concubine Hui was the most careful in everything she did, but she did not make any mistakes.
There are a lot of problems with my brother's place.
A nun in charge of Qiandong No. 2 Institute was a distant relative of Concubine Rong. This relationship was not reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Although it cannot be directly said that Concubine Rong interfered in my brother's practical affairs, it is inevitable that she would get the news.
Kangxi was unhappy, but he thought that Concubine Rong's daughter was marrying far away, and after many births, he only had one son, the third elder brother, and he couldn't bear to care about it.
In Qiandong No. 5 Institute, there was an in-law of the Shang family who was on duty, but after Zhao Chang checked, he found that this person was arranged by the seventh elder brother himself.
Prince Chun Fujin was from the Shang clan and had never interfered in the affairs of the seventh elder brother.
Kangxi felt sour in his heart that he could not intervene to discipline him, otherwise people would misunderstand him and think that he did not want his elder brother to get close to Prince Chun.
Then there is Qianxi Third Institute...
Kangxi glanced at the Tenth Prince. Long before Concubine Wen Xi passed away, there had been a personnel change in the Third Institute, and several stewards who were related to the Niu Gulu family were let go.
Looking at the time, it should be arranged before the imperial concubine's deadline...
The imperial concubine is not happy for Niu Colu to get close to the prince...
She has a loving mother's heart and is a rare understanding person, but it's a pity that she is so unlucky.
There are also five Qianxi Institutes, and there have been several personnel changes in the past two years.
The new women in charge are all in-laws and clan members of the Wanliuha family, the biological mother of the twelfth prince.
Kangxi began to wonder if the Wanliuha family was relying on the prince's power to set up a camp. After investigation, he found out that it was the twelfth prince who arranged it himself, and also used Sumala's favor...
But fortunately, the "slaves bullying the master" like the Liu family of Qianxi No. 2 Institute were not found out, otherwise Kangxi would really have arranged for people to purge the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
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Shu Shu and Brother Jiu both woke up after their lunch break and felt much better.
The fifth elder brother and the tenth elder brother also sent people to bring food.
The food box sent by the fifth elder brother contained beef jerky and milk tofu.
This beef jerky is different from the ones Shu Shu has eaten in later generations. It is not the fried semi-dry beef jerky, but completely dry. It is as long as a forearm and as thick as two chopsticks.
Shu Shu was a beef fanatic in her last life and wished she could eat beef every day. In this life, beef has become a rarity.
The current law prohibits the slaughter of cattle, horses, mules, and donkeys, except for the cattle used to sacrifice the imperial mausoleum, and the soldiers and civilians of other clans are prohibited from slaughtering cattle, horses, mules, and donkeys. Those who slaughter their own horses or cattle privately shall be punished with a hundred sticks; those who slaughter camels, mules, and donkeys shall be punished with eighty sticks and sinews. When Zhang entered the official position, he accidentally killed and died of illness and did not sit down.
Therefore, even from a family like the Shu Shu family, it is extremely rare to have beef.
Shu Shu immediately took a piece of beef jerky and put it in his mouth.
Dry and unable to bite.
It took a while for my saliva to wet my lips, and then I bit off a piece as big as a broad bean.
This beef should be marinated with salt and Sichuan peppercorns and then roasted dry. There is no fishy smell, but a strong beef aroma.
"Try it, sir, this is delicious!"
Seeing Brother Jiu looking at him eagerly, Shu Shu shared it without hesitation and handed a piece to his mouth.
Brother Jiu took it, chewed it a few times, and said puzzledly: "It still tastes the same, nothing new, how come you eat it so deliciously?"
Shu Shu smiled: "This is beef. I can't eat it even once a year. Doesn't it taste delicious? I used to eat this a lot?"
"Fifth brother always has this in his pocket, and he gave me a lot of it earlier. I dislike hardness and don't like to eat it... If you like it, go back and say hello to fifth brother and ask him to help you pour more..."
Brother Jiu said seriously, Shu Shu quickly waved her hand: "No, no, it's just a snack, just try it, how can you eat this all the time?"
This beef is not the daily supply of the Imperial Kitchen. Needless to say, it must have come from Ningshou Palace.
The Qing Dynasty prohibited the slaughter of cattle and horses, but Mongolia did not, mostly out of filial piety.
The Queen Mother loved and raised her grandson so much that she was willing to leave it to her fifth elder brother. This was because the old lady was so compassionate and others could not take advantage of her.
And this milk tofu...
Ersuo also makes milk tofu, which is similar to the hardness between tofu and dried tofu. It can be eaten dipped in sugar, or fried and made into shreds.
The milk tofu in front of you should be made using the traditional grassland method.
The size of an adult's palm, light yellow, hard and dry.
I still couldn't bite it, so I could only slowly hold it in my mouth and open a corner. There was no sugar mixed in, so it tasted sour.
Brother Jiu was sitting next to him, watching Shu Shu's expression change from anticipation to disgust, and couldn't help but laugh: "Haha! It's rare, and there are things you don't like to eat..." As he spoke, he pulled out a small plate.
: "I'm about to vomit..."
Shu Shu spit it out from Jian Ruliu, rinsed her mouth with water, and felt relieved. She commented: "The milk tastes full, but there is no sugar added, it is too sour... We will do the same thing later, and we will make some sugar-added ones ourselves.
It doesn’t need to be dried so hard, it should taste a lot better..."
Seeing her talking about food, Brother Jiu looked like he was still unfinished. He opened another food box and said, "Try this, Lao Shi bought it from Yuqian..."