Chapter 325

The Empress Dowager refused to obey: "you are so anxious to bring Mrs. Xiao back. Do you see that she looks like me when I was young? Do you have other ideas?"

"Oh, my darling, I've never been that kind of person. Mrs. Xiao is just a little yellow haired girl. How can I compare with you?"

"The little girl with yellow hair is young. You men like young ones."

"What if she's young? She's so bored that she can't say a word with three sticks. I'd better face her than my old housekeeper."

The Empress Dowager burst into laughter.

Seeing this, the national master hurriedly asked, "then... Do you agree that I take Mrs. Xiao back?"

After all, the Empress Dowager was old and not easy to fool. She soon put away her smile and said, "no!"

"Why not?" Asked the national teacher.

"The more worried you are, the more I can't rely on you. Let you worry. Who let you lose our daughter? Also, you verbally say you don't like Mrs. Xiao, but I see you are very interested in her. Well, I'll let her out of the palace in two days and let you worry for a few days."

"You... Oh, you little goblin, what do you think I should do with you?" The national teacher looked helpless.

However, he can only let the empress dowager, otherwise he is really worried that the Empress Dowager can do anything.

Women's jealousy is terrible.

……

The national teacher carefully comforted the empress dowager, ate a meal with the empress dowager, and worked very hard with the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager was not angry.

But the national master did not dare to ask Ye Xiaoxian to come back, otherwise the Empress Dowager was really angry. He was worried that he would annoy her by accident.

However, when she left, the national master told the empress dowager, "Mrs. Xiao is a famous cook. Do you know this? If you let her live in your bedroom, don't let her eat for nothing. Let her cook some dishes for you when she is free. Didn't you eat her dessert last time? It's very good."

The Empress Dowager sorted out her messy clothes after sleep and said, "if you don't tell me, I can't remember. OK, I don't raise idle people here. Let her show her skills. After all, she is from the countryside and is used to doing rough work. Yesterday, I observed her hands. They are very rough. Looking at her hands, I thought she was a woman of thirty or forty years old, which is even rougher than mine."

The national master took the Queen Mother's hand and kissed it: "do you think every woman can maintain it so perfectly like you?"

The Empress Dowager took her hand back and said, "Jing knows how to make me happy."

"I don't coax you to be happy. Who am I coax to be happy?"

“……”

Ye Xiaoxian has been secretly looking out of the house.

She counted the hours. It was two hours before the national teacher came out of the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Hehe, sure enough, there is adultery and love, and the Empress Dowager is with the national teacher. The Empress Dowager knows about her and xiaobaoshan.

After the national teacher came out, he recruited a Mammy to pass on Ye Xiaoxian.

Ye Xiaoxian pretended that she didn't know anything. When she met the national teacher, she was also surprised: "master, you're here too."

The national master was not angry and said, "I saw me when I came. Don't pretend you don't know now."

Ye Xiaoxian saw that the national teacher looked tired again. She didn't have to guess what he had just done inside. She said, "yes? Just saw a man come in and look like the national teacher, but I didn't dare to speak. I'm afraid I'm mistaken."

After a while, the Empress Dowager also came out.

The national master cleared his throat and said to Ye Xiaoxian with a serious look: "the Empress Dowager said that she likes you very much and falls in love with you very much. In those days, you will stay in the palace and accompany the Empress Dowager well. Of course, you can't eat and drink for nothing here. In your spare time, make some dishes or snacks for the Empress Dowager to taste."

Ye Xiaoxian thought the national master came to pick her up. Unexpectedly, it wasn't.

It seems that the national master is a little afraid of the Empress Dowager.

Although he was very reluctant, he had to say, "yes!"

The national master looked at Ye Xiaoxian and the Empress Dowager. I thought, well, your mother and daughter have actually met. In addition, the mother has also eaten the food cooked by her daughter. It's perfect.

Thinking of this, he shook his sleeve again, and then strode out of the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Ye Xiaoxian looked at the Empress Dowager again. The Empress Dowager looked at Ye Xiaoxian contemptuously: "don't go to cook!"

Ye Xiaoxian had to say respectfully, "yes!"

……

There is also a kitchen in the Empress Dowager's bedroom. The ingredients can be ordered to be prepared by the maids.

Ye Xiaoxian inquired about the Empress Dowager's favorite taste in advance. She knew that the Empress Dowager liked a light diet. She was afraid of getting fat, so it's best to make things with low calories and not greasy.

After thinking for a while, ye Xiaoxian cooked three dishes, a small shrimp tofu, a pumpkin sweet scented osmanthus soup, and then made a crispy raw fish with fresh fish.

When making these dishes, ye Xiaoxian is very serious.

After all, she is a cook. Even if she hates another person, she should respect her cooking.

When the ingredients are ready, let mammy bring them to the Empress Dowager.

After mammy took the ingredients out, ye Xiaoxian found that the sleeves of her clothes were broken. She must have just accidentally scratched them while handling the ingredients.

When she entered the palace, she only had one suit of clothes, and the sleeves of this suit were very large, which was not suitable for work. Therefore, when cooking, she rolled up the sleeves into a big bundle and put them on her shoulder.

Now after cooking, she was sweating and her sleeves were broken. She came out to enjoy the cool in the garden. She planned to ask the old Mammy to find her a change of clothes when the Queen Mother's maid came out.

The Empress Dowager has also begun to eat.

The things ye Xiaoxian made are very delicate. Osmanthus and pumpkin are dotted with several red dates. Tofu looks light. It is only drenched with some oil juice. There are all kinds of side dishes next to Crispy Fish.

The amount of these things is not much, but there are many kinds, which can not only meet the needs of taste, but also not support.

The Empress Dowager tried everything a little. She only felt refreshing and appetizing, but it was not greasy at all. It tasted delicious, not salty but not light, which was very to her appetite.

And eating these things can make people feel better.

She thought: just let Mrs. Xiao stay in the palace for a few more days.

……

In the evening, a maid of the Empress Dowager came to ask for instructions. She said that Mrs. Xiao wanted to take a bath and change clothes. She asked the Empress Dowager what to do?

It's mainly because Mrs. Xiao is not a palace maid. If she is a palace maid, she can wear the clothes of a palace maid. She is an official family member and can't treat her badly.

The Empress Dowager thought, just let Ye Xiaoxian wear the clothes of a palace maid.

I was left to cook. What I wear is not what I wear.

But on second thought, if so, it would be out of the tongue. People thought that the Empress Dowager was stingy and jealous.

The Empress Dowager simply asked Mammy to pick out some clothes she had worn before and said it was for ye Xiaoxian.

The Empress Dowager herself is not fat. Up to now, she is still Fufeng weak Liu, so it is completely appropriate for ye Xiaoxian to wear her clothes.

She wanted to see how much Ye Xiaoxian looked like her.

……

After taking a bath, ye Xiaoxian changed the Empress Dowager's clothes.

The Empress Dowager's clothes were smoked with incense. There was a faint smell of pollen on them, and maybe the Empress Dowager's own smell.

I don't know why. After she put on these clothes, she always felt as if she had smelled the smell somewhere, and she liked the taste. It seemed that the taste could make her calm.

She thought that it should be the incense specially adjusted by the Empress Dowager looking for the imperial doctor in the palace, which has the effect of calming the mind and refreshing the brain.

After taking a bath, I heard the old lady call her and said that the Empress Dowager asked her to play chess in the bedroom.

Ye Xiaoxian also went.

There are many exquisite candles in the Queen Mother's bedroom. The light is not very strong. In addition, her bedroom has all kinds of screens and silk, so it looks a little dreamy.

It seems that the Empress Dowager still has some girlish hearts.

When ye Xiaoxian came in, she saluted the Empress Dowager first.

The Empress Dowager sat lazily at the first desk and asked Ye Xiaoxian to sit opposite.

Ye Xiaoxian also sat down.

There was a game of go on the desk. The Empress Dowager pointed to go and asked Ye Xiaoxian, "can you?"

"Back to the empress dowager, No." Ye Xiaoxian said.

Of course she can't play go. She can only play Gobang.

The Empress Dowager looked contemptuous: "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, what would you be like?"

Ye Xiaoxian thought for a while, and then said sincerely, "back to the empress dowager, these four kinds, slaves and maidservants can't do the same."

The Empress Dowager asked, "what about the needlework?"

Ye Xiaoxian thought of her purse and said, "I'll embroider a purse or something."

The Empress Dowager sneered, then changed a lazy position: "so, you can only cook."

"Yes." Ye Xiaoxian replied.

The Empress Dowager said, "everyone says you're like a mourning family. You don't look like anything except wearing these clothes."

Ye Xiaoxian said, "everyone grows up in a different environment. Things he didn't touch when he was a child will not grow up naturally."

The Empress Dowager blinked and said, "you are very good at finding reasons for yourself. In fact, you are of low birth."

"What the Empress Dowager said is very true." Ye Xiaoxian said again.

Anyway, what she said is what she said. She depends on others and can't refute it.

The Empress Dowager asked someone to withdraw the chessboard, pour tea on the table, and then said to Ye Xiaoxian, "Ai family, it's interesting to see you. Although you don't know much, you have a lot of ideas. Where did you learn cooking?"

Ye Xiaoxian moved out of the set of fooling the Minister of rites and said, "it was taught by an expert."

"Where's the master?"

"When he left, he didn't want to leave his name. He just passed on his cooking skills to his maidservant and left."

"Then you are very diligent. Although you can't play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, you seize the opportunity to learn cooking. You are also a woman with ideas."

"Thank the Empress Dowager for her praise."

Ye Xiaoxian feels that the Empress Dowager is here to make fun of her today, or be bored. Find someone to pass the time.

"How did you combine with General Xiao? Introduced by the matchmaker or set up by your parents?" The Empress Dowager asked again.

Ye Xiaoxian said the situation: "the maid is the daughter-in-law of a child. She was supposed to marry General Xiao's brother, but his brother died early. Later, General Xiao came back. In order to save money, my mother-in-law asked me to marry General Xiao."