At this time, Beiqing's palace is busy.
Beiqing is cold. The temperature suddenly drops after the early winter. Often after the first snow, they have to start moving.
Twenty miles east of Shangjing, there is a hot spring area. A different palace has been built on the hot spring area. Generally speaking, it is more comfortable than living in Shangjing.
Therefore, after the first snow, they will move to other palaces. Now everyone in the palace is busy packing up.
Ye Xiaoxian also packed her things under the arrangement of Suxin.
As the imperial chef of the little emperor, she must follow. She has nothing but simple clothes. It's very convenient to put them away.
Put away the clothes, went to the kitchen to cook a meal, sent it to the little emperor, and then told the little emperor a story.
When she was ready to come back, the little emperor suddenly called her, "leaf, wait."
"Emperor, is there anything else?" Asked Ye Xiaoxian.
As the Empress Dowager is still busy with the relocation, there is only the little emperor in the bedroom tonight.
But the little emperor seemed still worried about the Empress Dowager. He glanced at the door and made sure that the Empress Dowager didn't come back so soon. Then he said to Ye Xiaoxian, "leaf, stay here and accompany me?"
Ye Xiaoxian looked at the hour. The Empress Dowager had regulations. She couldn't stay in the little palace too long. She said, "emperor, you should rest."
"I know, but it's too dark and snowy. I don't want to be here alone."
Ye Xiaoxian took a look at the people waiting beside him. These are people. How can the little emperor be alone?
The little emperor said, "there is no one to talk to."
"But the story is over." Ye Xiaoxian said.
The Empress Dowager stipulated that each time she told a story, it should not exceed two quarters of an hour.
The little emperor said again, "it's OK not to tell a story. Let's chat."
Ye Xiaoxian originally wanted to move out of the Empress Dowager to refuse him, but when she saw his childish and eager face, she couldn't bear to say, "what does the emperor want to talk about?"
The little emperor said, "you've been in the palace, and you don't have a family around. Are you lonely?"
"..." Ye Xiaoxian didn't expect the little emperor to ask these questions, so she smiled bitterly: "without relatives, you will always be lonely."
"It's still close relatives, isn't it?" The little emperor asked again.
Ye Xiaoxian nodded: "yes, just like the Empress Dowager to you, it's more severe, but you know, there is no second person in the world who can love you like the empress dowager, because you are related by blood."
The little emperor was thoughtful.
Ye Xiaoxian smiled: "emperor, your mother now manages everything every day. She has to deal with many things outside. In the palace, she has to take care of you. She is a good mother. If you feel pressure sometimes, you should be more considerate of her and try to grow into a big man. Of course, you may not understand it now, but you will understand it when you grow up."
The little emperor asked her, "from which script did you see these words?"
Ye Xiaoxian smiled: "emperor, these words don't need to be seen from the script. They are the experience of life. They can only be realized at a certain age."
"Didn't you say you had children? What about your children?" The little emperor asked again.
Thinking of Dongdong and Xiaoxia, ye Xiaoxian only felt a burst of heartache.
After a while, she said leisurely, "they have always been in my heart. One day, I will go back to see them."
“……”
That day, ye Xiaoxian talked with the emperor for about half an hour.
The Empress Dowager dealt with things outside the palace. When she returned to the bedroom, she saw that ye Xiaoxian had just come out of the emperor's bedroom.
The Empress Dowager frowned.
But she didn't send Ye Xiaoxian here, but after ye Xiaoxian went away, she called the mammy next to the emperor to the bedroom.
"Why did cook ye leave so late tonight?" Asked the Empress Dowager.
Mammy replied, "Your Majesty asked her to stay and talk."
"What did you say?" The Empress Dowager asked again.
Mammy told the Empress Dowager exactly what she had just talked.
When ye Xiaoxian advised the little emperor to be considerate of the empress dowager, the Empress Dowager's always serious face was slightly moved.
She said these words to the little emperor!
So it's not a bad thing to keep Ye Xiaoxian with the little emperor.
……
The next day.
Ye Xiaoxian went to prepare breakfast for the little emperor early in the morning.
As everyone is busy on this day, there is no need to tell a story. After delivering breakfast, it's time to leave for another palace.
After ye Xiaoxian took care of them, she also followed Suxin and them into a carriage.
There were Eight maids in the carriage, all in the yard with Ye Xiaoxian. They had been chatting inside.
"I still have to live comfortably in other palaces. There's not much work to do there. I can make hot soup when I'm not on duty."
"I miss the hot soup over there. Every time I soak it, my face is red and my whole body is slippery, like shelled eggs."
"Ha ha, it's like playing there."
“……”
Ye Xiaoxian occasionally inserts two words, but generally speaking, she doesn't talk much.
These are young unmarried women. They have less common language with Ye Xiaoxian.
Their carriages are not in position with the team. They can only go after the Royal relatives and ministers in front of them leave.
Because it was too cold outside, the door curtains and curtains of the carriage were closed, and there was an oven inside, tight.
After waiting for about an hour, their carriage finally moved and should have started.
The carriage had to cross the street, which was full of people watching the excitement.
Ye Xiaoxian vaguely heard the people talking: "it's good. We can take shelter from the cold every year, but we can't. We have to stay here and suffer from the cold every year."
"If you have a good baby in your next life, you can also be relatives of the emperor, so that you can go to the soup pool every year."
"I'll fight for it."
“……”
When passing one of the street corners, a strong north wind suddenly blew. The wind opened the windows of the carriage and made a "pop" sound.
The cold air came in, and the girls inside were crying cold.
Ye Xiaoxian was sitting by the window. She had to take the initiative to close the window.
However, when she put her head out, she seemed to see a familiar figure in the crowd.
Tall and majestic, mixed with a group of tall Beiqing people, it is also a unique existence.
Baoshan?
At that moment, her heart seemed to jump out and almost shouted his name.
However, the figure just shook in front of her eyes and soon disappeared in her sight.
Ye Xiaoxian stared at the direction he had just stood, and shook her head hard.
Is she wrong?
The girls in the carriage were urging her: "leaf, what have you been doing? Why don't you close the window?"
"Don't you look at the men outside?"
"Are there any good-looking men? I'll go and have a look, too."
“……”
Ye Xiaoxian quickly closed the window.
……
Xiao Baoshan got the news last night.
Before Yingfeng restaurant, there was a female cook who made a first-class roast whole sheep in Shangjing. Later, Empress Dowager Xiao took a fancy to it somehow, so she was called to the palace and hasn't come out yet.
According to the cook's age and body shape, Xiao Baoshan concluded that the cook was a leaf.
He had eaten her roast mutton. Although the taste of the roast mutton in the windward restaurant was not very similar to hers, it was eight or nine.
When he was having a headache about how to save her, he heard that the emperor was going to move to another palace. Should the leaf follow?
So he waited in the street.
But Beiqing's carriage is different from Daqi. Daqi is not cold here. Most carriages use curtains, but here they use doors. Everyone's carriages are tightly closed. He can't judge which car Ye is in, nor can he directly call her name in the street.
……
Because the snow was shoveled in advance, the road to other palaces was very smooth. There was no wheel slip and congestion. It arrived at four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
After arriving at the other palace, the maids and eunuchs were busy again, busy moving things and finishing things. The eunuch managers were carefully directing for fear that something might be broken during the handling.
Ye Xiaoxian doesn't have to carry anything. She just needs to take her luggage.
There is also snow in the other palace. The temperature is not higher than that in the capital, but after entering the yard, you can feel the heating inside.
The other palaces are cleverly built. There are hot springs in each courtyard. The hot air of the spring water is dense around. When it is cold, it will be very comfortable to sit by the spring and soak your feet.
Ye Xiaoxian is arranged to a small yard and still lives with Suxin.
During this migration, only a part of the people came out of the palace, about a third of them, and the others were royal relatives and relatives.
Ye Xiaoxian had just put her luggage away and was about to go to the yard to bubble her feet. At this time, father-in-law Chen came and said he wanted to take her to the kitchen to familiarize her with the environment first.
Ye Xiaoxian had to follow.
The kitchen in other palaces is not as big as that in the Imperial Palace, but although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of internal organs and all kinds of ingredients.
When Duke Chen brought Ye Xiaoxian here, he asked Ye Xiaoxian to cook the meals of the little emperor and the Empress Dowager.
After that, Duke Chen led her to deliver food to the little emperor and the Empress Dowager.
There is a white palace in the other palace, which is similar to the western architectural style. It is said that a Hu designer came to guide them to build it. It is very warm in winter. There is a fireplace inside, which is much warmer than the ordinary courtyard.
After ye Xiaoxian and father-in-law Chen sent the food in, they saw that the Empress Dowager and the little emperor were lazy.
Also, after running around all day, they are also tired, so today's story telling session can be avoided.
After ye Xiaoxian delivered the meal, the Empress Dowager asked her to go back to rest first and leave father-in-law Chen to serve here.
However, when ye Xiaoxian walked out of the White Palace, she was suddenly stunned.