Chapter 9：

As soon as he returned to the East Palace, the rain poured down.

The sky was gloomy, and even the palace was much darker. Before Shen Zheng, candles were lit in the palace.

Pei Yan returned to his Purple Heaven Hall, while Tao Ti lay on the couch like a salted fish.

There was the sound of crackling rain hitting the window. Her mouth was bulging with sweet-scented osmanthus and chestnut cake, which slightly cushioned her stomach, and she kept her mouth shut with a plate of sugar-steamed pastry. It is a sweet milk fragrance.

Seeing the edible appearance of the princess, Linglong couldn't help thinking: Didn't Yongweihoufu arrange noodles? How could the princess be hungry like this?

After hesitating for a moment, she respectfully said, "Prince Princess, is dinner still arranged as usual?"

Tao Ti gave a "um", thought about it, and added, "You make the kitchen a little heavy, I don't need to eat so light."

Linglong was stunned, and immediately bent over to respond, "Yes."

After about an hour, the sky outside was completely dark. Exquisite palace lanterns hung on the promenade, and Pei Yan and his feet arrived at Yaoguang Hall before and after dinner.

The prince is here, so it seems that tonight's dinner is still light, but with Tao Ti's order, there is a thick sauce braised duck wings on the table.

I saw the thick sauce evenly enveloping the fleshy duck wings, with a layer of green onion and coriander on the surface. Under the warm yellow candle light, it exuded a seductive luster, and the fragrance was overflowing.

Tao Ti picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. With a slight sip, the duck meat melted to the tip of his tongue, and even the bones were stewed and crispy. The mellow sauce had a slight sweetness, and the duck meat was more and more lining. Fresh and delicious.

Although it was not the spicy dish she was looking forward to, this dish was very good, and she ate two bowls of duck wings with this sauce.

Seeing her eating so happy, Pei Yan couldn't help asking, "Is this dish so delicious?"

Tao Ti wiped the corners of her mouth with the handkerchief, and said, "The braised duck wings in sauce is actually not difficult to make, but it's more difficult to make. It's pretty good to be able to make it like this."

Pei Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's pretty good? Have you ever tasted better than this elsewhere?"

When it comes to eating, Tao Ti is full of energy and her eyes are bright, "I make better than this."

Pei Yan was startled slightly, "You... can cook?"

Tao Ti blinked her black eyes, her white face was a little proud, "Yes, I'll try it for you if I have a chance."

Hearing this, the palace people who served in the hall were a little disdainful: the chefs in the East Palace were all imperial chefs carefully selected and sent by the emperor. Like them, the ladies of the aristocratic family who do not touch the water of Yangchun, they can make a few cakes. It's incredible. She's better, and she opens her mouth, dare to compare with Yuchu without shame?

Why can't she go to heaven if she can!

After dinner, Pei Yan held a book and read it at the table. Tao Ti didn't disturb him, holding a notebook by herself and leaning on the couch to read it.

The spring rain outside the window, the candlelight swaying inside the room, illuminates the tranquility and peace of this room.

Until the night got deeper, Fu Xirui came in with the decoction as usual.

Tao Ti was a little drowsy looking at the densely packed traditional characters. As soon as he smelled the bitter medicine, he immediately got up from the couch-he was about to drink the medicine.

Pei Yan raised his head and drank the medicine, and was about to put down the medicine bowl. At a glance, he saw the little girl holding a box obediently standing in front of him.

"Drinked?" Tao Ti opened the box in his hand, took out a piece of honey kumquat from it, and passed it straight to his mouth, "Come on, open your mouth."

This gesture of feeding surprised the palace people, and Fu Xirui also hurriedly said, "Prince, you..."

Before I could say the next words, I saw the prince faintly glanced at the candied fruit, and then opened his mouth in cooperation.

Palace people, "!!!"

"You have to chew to let the sweet and sour taste spread out to suppress the bitterness of the medicine." Tao Ti looked at him with a look of concern, "How? It shouldn't be that bitter after eating candied fruit?"

Pei Yan slowly swallowed the honey kumquats and smiled, "Well, it's not bitter anymore."

"That's good." Tao Ti opened his eyebrows and put the candied fruit box on the table, suggesting, "In addition to honey kumquats, there are also carved ginger, dried apples, dried apricots...you can try something else. ?"

"No need, just one piece."

Tao Ti looked at him in surprise, her slick eyes rolled around and asked, "Your Royal Highness doesn't like sweet food?"

Pei Yanwen said, "It's usually okay, but this candied fruit is a bit sweet for solitary purposes."

It is too sweet? Tao Ti looked down at the candied fruit box divided into four compartments, reached out and took a honey kumquat and put it in his mouth.

After this bite, she couldn't help frowning. Is the sugar in the honey frying pan free of money? This thing is so sweet that you can taste the sweetness and sourness of kumquats?

Then she tried a few other things, all of them too sweet.

Tao Ti squeezed a small face and nodded dullly, "It's a bit sweet."

Seeing her like this, Pei Yan comforted softly, "You have prepared preserves for Gu, and I am very grateful for this feeling..."

"It's just a trivial matter. I promise you will prepare it, so you won't break your promise." Tao Ti pulled out a smile and reached out to cover the candied fruit box. "Don't eat it anymore. If it is too sweet at night, it will easily lead to tooth decay."

Taking advantage of the stall where Pei Yan was washing, Tao Ti asked all the servants in the palace to taste the candied fruit. They all thought it tasted good, not sweet.

Hearing these answers, Tao Ti distributed a box of preserves to the palace people, thinking about it: Maybe the people of the Great Yuan Dynasty are more addicted to sweetness, so the preserves in the palace can also be made into popular tastes?

For now, Pei Yan's taste is quite close to his own. Well, she has to find a way to make some not-so-sweet candied fruit, or to give him medicine.

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Perhaps it was because she was tired after returning to her family's house yesterday, and Tao Ti overslept the next day.

When she saw the bright sunlight outside the window, she wore her messy hair and asked Linglong nervously, "What time is it? Where is the prince? When did he leave? I got up so late, did I miss the queen's greetings? "

Ah ah ah ah how to do, lie-cause delay ah!

Linglong was stunned by the question of her continual question. After a daze, she said, "Go back to the princess, it's almost noon now. Your majesty got up right away. He saw the princess you are still asleep, so he said, "Go back to the princess. Please tell me the servants, don’t disturb you. His Majesty also said that the prince only needs to go to the Queen’s and empress to greet her on the first and fifteenth. This is what your majesty meant."

"!!!"

Tao Ti's eyes lit up, is there such a good thing?

After thinking about it, I can understand that, after all, Empress Zhou is not the prince's mother, and she is probably not happy to think that she is swaying in front of her. Moreover, the main role of marrying into the East Palace is to take care of the prince, not to serve the mother-in-law.

Hey, the emperor is a darling madman, but he has some good points with him.

Tao Ti was in a good mood when she thought that she could sleep happily in the future.

After freshening up, the Dianshan Bureau also delivered lunch.

While serving the dishes, Linglong explained, "The afternoon meal in the palace is usually used with Taifu and the others."

"Yeah, I see." Tao Ti answered, staring at the dishes on the table, and a question mark slowly appeared in his heart.

What sauce chicken meatballs, soy sauce ribs, soy sauce fish fillets, soy sauce eggplant...

Most of the dishes are cooked in soy sauce.

Perhaps it was because the restaurant saw that she liked the sauce braised duck wings very much, so the dishes for lunch today were changed to this way?

Tao Ti, "..."

Just... don't know how to say it.

The little **** of the Dian Food Bureau saw that she hadn't moved her chopsticks for a long time, and asked cautiously, "Princess, but this dish does not suit your taste?"

Tao Ti returned to his senses and looked at the little eunuch, "Is there any chili in the dining room of the East Palace, or what kind of spicy seasoning?"

"Spicy?" The little **** was startled, and replied after thinking for a moment, "There are cornel, pepper, sea pepper, Chinese pepper, millet pepper, croissant..."

Both? !

Tao Ti's eyes lit up, ah ah ah ah, her hot pot, spicy soup, hot and sour noodles, chopped pepper fish head, boiled pork slices, spicy fried rice noodles, spicy chicken, spicy duck neck...all hope!

She immediately stood up and said excitedly, "Linglong, accompany me to the dining room."

Seeing that the master was going to the dining room, and the caller had to follow Linglong, Zi Shuang, who was also waiting by her side, was a little anxious, and didn't know what was going on with the master. Can't go on like this!

Zishuang's eyes rolled around, and he said hurriedly, "Master, the dining room is heavy with smoke, you are precious, and how do you go there? If you have anything to order, please come over by Supervisor Yuan from the Dianshan Bureau."

Tao Ti glanced at her, "Nothing to order, I just want to go to the kitchen to have a look."

Zishuang choked and wanted to talk, Tao Ti already took Linglong out.

Zishuang bit her lip biting bitterly, and she didn't know how flattering Linglong this little hoof was in front of the master, so that the master could value her so much! It's so annoying!

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Donggong said that big and small are big and small. Not long after, the prince went to the dining room to spread.

"Have you heard that the princess thinks that the food served in the dining room tastes bad, so I lost my temper on the spot. I didn't say anything when I fell the chopsticks, and even went to the dining room and Xingshi to ask the crime... Now the dining room on duty will be unlucky. Slightly."

"No? She's not satisfied with the food that Yu Chu cooks?"

"Who knows... Anyway, I have long heard that this prince is not a good stubborn. Before she got married, she cried and made troubles and hanged herself. She refused to marry us in the East Palace. Only a few days after marrying in. It won't stop again!"

The rumors spread like wildfire, and there are even multiple versions. The princess raised the table, the princess slapped the little **** who served the meal, and the princess said that he wanted to replace all the chefs in the dining room.

When this word was heard in Pei Yan's ears, it had already turned into the princess's anger and wanted to smash the dining room.

Pei Yan, "..."

Hua Jianping is still muttering in Balabala, "His Royal Highness, you really have to take care of the princess! Whoever eats the food in the East Palace dining room is good, she is good, so picky! She smashed the dining room today, tomorrow Don’t you want to knock off the roof of the East Palace?!"

Pei Yan looked at him calmly, "Where did you hear these words?"

"When my subordinates first came here, all the palace people I met along the way were talking about it."

Pei Yan pursed his lips slightly, and then called the **** Fu Xirui in, "Where is the prince now?"

Fu Xirui hesitated for a moment, then lowered her eyes and replied, "The princess... seems to be in the dining room."

Unfolding shrugged his shoulders, he showed Pei Yan a look of "Look, I didn't lie to you".

Pei Yan coughed slightly.

Zhanping was startled, "His Royal Highness, don't be angry with such a woman."

Pei Yan didn't say a word, after a while, he stood up and walked out of the study.

"His Royal Highness, where are you going?" After Zhanping finished speaking, he couldn't help but patted his head.

Thinking of this, he walked quickly and yelled, "Hey, your lord, wait for your subordinates, and your subordinates will go with you."

This excitement can't be missed!