Chapter 223

223 steamed pastry with sugar

"What!" Mrs. Yan Ru's eyes widened and she could hardly believe her ears. The other party was willing to let it go?

"Are you really willing not to investigate..." Mrs. Yan Ru was dazzled by the unexpected joy and stammered.

Shen Qingru looked at the other party's overjoyed expression and hooked his lips: "since Yan Rujia can't afford to lose 500000 liang of gold, I can't force others to do it." seeing that Yan Rujia's people all showed a sigh of relief, Shen Qingru said slowly: "Although the Regent's house is magnanimous, I believe Yan Rujia is embarrassed to let it go. It is said that Yan Rujia has a oracle bone rubbings engraved with the full text of the great mercy mantra, which is a hundred years old. It is most effective to pray for blessings. It can barely replace the family heirloom of the Regent's house as a blessing. What does Mrs. Yan Rujia think?"

Mrs. Yan Ru's smile froze on her face.

Yan ruxuewei's face turned white and jumped out and scolded, "Shen Qingru, you dream! That's the treasure passed down by my Yan Rujia for a hundred years..."

At that time, a respected Zen master gave it to the head of Yan Rujia's family a hundred years ago. Since she got the rubbing, Ding Xingwang, a convenient person of Yan Rujia's family, has gradually prospered. The family has always been a treasure handed down by Yan Rujia's women from generation to generation. Yan ruxuewei finally obtained the oracle bone rubbing from her grandmother as her dowry. Unexpectedly, Shen Qingru had the cheek to ask her for the oracle bone rubbing Film to compensate!

Oracle bone rubbings are unique in the world. Their value far exceeds that broken bead chain. Shen Qingru is really cruel.

"Shen Qingru, you can't cheat my oracle bone rubbings. I'll never give them to you!" Yan ruxuewei shouted hysterically, and her beautiful face became extremely ferocious, which stunned Prince dolly who stood aside.

Shen Qingru lowered her eyes and said coldly with a smile on her face, "in that case, please ask Mrs. Yan Ru and miss Yan Ru to set a date and when to deliver 500000 liang of gold? Or we can go to Yan Ru's house to pick it up in person."

"You... You just..." Yan ruxuewei was speechless, but Mrs. Yan Ruwei interrupted her with an ugly face: "shut up, how much do you want to make a fool of yourself?"

She knew that Shen Qingru wouldn't give up easily. She was waiting for her here. Mrs. Yan Ru was angry, but she didn't dare to show half a cent on her face. She wanted to show weakness to Shen Qingru and took the opportunity to bargain back the 500000 taels of gold and accompany tens of thousands of taels of silver. But Shen Qingru pretended to be generous, but openly asked Yan Rujia's precious oracle bone rubbings for compensation The son made Mrs. Yan Ru completely helpless.

In front of everyone, the other party has made concessions. If she should not come down again, Yan Rujia's face will be really lost.

"Tomorrow morning, the oracle bone rubbings should be sent to the Regent's house." Mrs. Yan Ru squeezed out this sentence almost word by word, biting her teeth.

Yan ruxuewei's face is as gray as death. Now she's really finished. She gave up her family heirloom and there must be no good fruit to eat when she goes back. Mrs. Yan Ruxue Wei's face is white and stands there trembling. She feels that every second in the hall is suffering.

"Report back to the empress. My concubine suddenly has a headache. If you want to leave now, please forgive me." Mrs. Yan Ru saluted empress Yan Ru with an ugly face. She can't stay any longer. Naturally, others know what she's doing for "headache".

Empress Yan Ru glanced at her faintly: "yes."

Mrs. Yan Ru rudely pulled Yan ruxuewei out of the palace. Before she went far, she heard Yan ruxuewei's sharp cry.

"Mother, I'm wrong. Mother, please forgive me..."

Yan Ru empress is so beautiful that even the big maids around her sigh that Mrs. Yan Ru is too depressed. She has to punish Yan Ru Xuewei before she goes out of the palace. Isn't it a joke?

The singing and dancing started again. The people looked at the graceful and moving dancers in the hall, immersed in the graceful dance and forgot the scene in the hall just now.

Empress Yan Ru sits high on the Phoenix seat. Her beautiful Phoenix eyes seem to inadvertently sweep Shen Qingru. The other party is holding her cheeks to enjoy singing and dancing, and she is very focused. The big maid in waiting beside her heard the empress sneer: "useless!"

Yes, Mrs. Yan Ru is so depressed when she is old, which makes people laugh. On the contrary, Shen Qingru is watching the song and dance as if nothing had happened. Compared with the two, she is really superior. No wonder the empress is so emotional.

She never understood why the empress valued a 16-year-old young woman so much and regarded her as a strong enemy. Now it seems that miss Qingru is really not a simple person.

Shen Qingru stared at the dancing dancers, but the light from the corner of her eyes kept spinning on empress Yan Ru. Empress Yan Ru must have a second move, but what is that second move?

Sitting under empress Yan Ru, the first girl with beautiful eyebrows and eyes sat straight, but quietly shook her head where empress Yan Ru couldn't see. Shen Qingru was slightly surprised, but saw the girl pointing to a plate of sugar steamed crispy cheese on the table and shaking her head nervously.

Judging from the girl's dress, she should be a princess in the palace. The Turkic emperor has only three sons, but there are a dozen daughters. However, except for the princess Ding'an and the princess Xindu from Queen Yan Ru, all the others are from low-ranking concubines. Compared with the princess Xindu who likes luxury and wears rich clothes, the princess is a little shabby in front of her, except The gold collar worn around my neck has no more jewelry. But even the gold collar worn around my neck has lost its color. It is obviously an old thing.

Even if a Turkic princess is not spoiled, her status in this palace is not much higher than that of ordinary palace maids.

The Turkic princess seemed to be warning her. Unfortunately, the woman next to the Turkic Princess happened to lean over and talk to her. The Turkic princess smiled and talked to her as if nothing had happened.

Shen Qingru stared in surprise. There was a plate of sugar steamed crispy cheese on her desk.

The old imperial concubine saw her stunned, patted her on the back of her hand and asked in a low voice, "what's the matter with Qingru?"

Shen Qingru smiled and shook his head: "it's all right, grandma, don't worry."

With singing and dancing, how can there be no wine? The nectar and jade liquor in the imperial cellar of the Imperial Palace was brought up by the slim palace women. As soon as the amber liquor entered the golden cup, it scattered bursts of refreshing wine fragrance. The old lady took a deep breath and drank the wine in the golden cup.

"Sure enough, it's a good wine! Qingru, pearl, you can try it!" the Turks are heroic in nature. Almost everyone loves drinking, and the old princess is no exception. While drinking happily, she greeted Shen Qingru and Xu Mingzhu: "this wine is not high. You can also have a few drinks."

Xu Mingzhu picked up the glass and took a bite to kill it. She licked her lips and said, "good wine!"

Shen Qingru hesitated for a moment, and then picked up his glass and touched his lips. It was really refreshing and refreshing. It was no less than the famous Yuquan wine in summer.

Empress Yan Ru smiled on her lips: "the old lady is really a heroine among women. As expected, women are not as good as men. However, although the wine is good, we can't drink more. Our palace specially ordered people to cook some snacks to press the wine for everyone."

"Don't bring it up soon." empress Yan Ru gave an order, and the close maid immediately commanded the people to put the glazed jade plate in front of them.

Placed in front of the old lady was a lily red jujube soup. The palace lady smiled and said to the old lady, "the old lady just introduced a few glasses of wine. The queen was afraid that the old lady would accumulate food, so she specially asked her slaves to prepare this warm tonic soup to help digestion, so as to calm her mind, nourish yin and moisten her lungs."

The lily and red jujube soup was stewed over a slow fire, emitting the sweetness of red jujube and the fragrance of lily. The old lady smiled at her speech and said, "thank you for your kindness."

In front of Xu Mingzhu was a dish of almond tofu. The female in the Palace said softly: "The empress always remembers that Miss pearl went to the palace when she was a child. She liked this almond tofu best. This dessert looks easy to make, but it takes a lot of time. You have to take the sweet almond, grind it carefully, boil it with fish fat, and filter out the residue again and again. Only then can you have such natural fragrance of lubrication, generate saliva in your mouth, produce saliva at all times, quench thirst, moisten your lungs and relieve asthma."

Xu Mingzhu's face was slightly stiff and said thanks. Shen Qingru looked at her faintly. She always felt that Xu Mingzhu's attitude towards empress Yan Ru was strange. It seemed that there was something between her and the old princess that she didn't know.

In front of Shen Qingru was a sweet steamed crisp cheese. The grand maid still smiled with a bright tongue and said, "if I say, the Queen's favorite is miss Qingru. This sweet steamed crisp cheese is a summer food. The queen was afraid that miss Qingru would miss her hometown food. She specially asked the kitchen of the imperial palace to try it again and again before she made this."

"Use milk, wine, rock sugar and the ancient method of three steams and three boils to get rid of the smell. Put it into solidification, fry sesame, walnut, pine nuts and other things, grind them and sprinkle them on them, decorated with green and red silk. It makes people's fingers move."

"Miss Qingru, taste it quickly. Don't live up to your mother's kindness." the big maid smiled and urged, and a trace of evil flashed across her eyes.

Sugar steamed crispy cheese... Isn't it sugar steamed crispy cheese that the Turkic Princess pointed out to warn her just now?

Could it be that queen yanru poisoned the sugar steamed pastry?

Looking at the expectant eyes of the big maid, Shen Qingru smiled, gently picked up a piece of sugar steamed crispy cheese and put it on her mouth, slowly bit it and chewed it between her lips and teeth. The big maid looked at her without blinking. Shen Qingru glanced faintly, and the big maid took back her sight.

There must be a ghost in this sugar steamed cheese!

Empress Yan Ru sat high on the Phoenix seat and glanced at Shen Qingru. When she saw the girl gently bite off a mouthful of sugar steamed crispy cheese, empress Yan Ru's lips gently aroused a sneer.