Watching Him Rise Up

Chen Ming'an was the Imperial Scholar whom Princess Ronghua, Zhu Huaizhen, had set her eyes on in the Golden Imperial Hall.

However, he refused the bestowed marriage, saying, "Your Hi...

Chapter 532 Dinner

Chapter 532 Dinner

"Zhenzhen, I believe that she humiliated your body and dignity in your previous life. You must take revenge on her in this life. She deserves to die." Chen Ming'an said cautiously. He was relieved when he saw that Zhu Huaizhen looked normal.

Chen Mingan had also suffered such humiliation, and it was simply worse than death.

Thinking of this, he decided to make tea himself to comfort Zhu Huaizhen.

So, he set out on the rectangular table, in order: a gilt silver teapot, a gilt silver teacup, a gilt silver tea grinder, a gilt silver tea basket, a gilt silver tortoise box, a gilt silver salt stand, and a glazed teacup. Then, gathering his sleeves slightly, he took the fire tongs in his left hand and took a steamed green tea cake from the gilt silver teapot. He placed it on the stove to bake, and with his right hand, he fanned the fire with a yellow brocade silk fan embroidered with a phoenix perched on a phoenix tree.

Afterwards, he smashed the baked tea cake into pieces with a wooden mallet and placed them in a gilded silver tea basket. Then, he picked up a gilded silver tea grinder, crushed the broken tea cake into powder, sifted it into a fine powder with a gilded silver tea sieve, and carefully poured it into a gilded silver tortoise box.

For the first boil, boil clean water and add a little snow salt, the water droplets are like fish eyes or crab eyes; for the second boil, the salt water boils again and the bubbles are like gushing springs; for the third boil, scoop out a ladle of water for later use, then hold the bamboo tongs and stir it in the center of the tea pot to form a vortex, then scoop a spoonful of tea powder along the vortex and pour it in, the water vapor is like rising waves.

Zhu Huaizhen took a sip of the warm tea, his eyes turning cold: "Chen Mingan, she deserves to die more than a little."

"She was not the mastermind in the murder of Concubine Xue, but she was an accomplice." Chen Ming'an whispered.

There must be something hateful about a pitiful person.

Zhao Lian'er regards Zhu Huaizhen as a thorn in her side because she doesn't want to lose him.

"What else?" Zhu Huaizhen asked leisurely.

She became a little angry when she saw Chen Mingan holding his forehead and falling into deep thought.

In Chen Mingan's mind, is Zhu Huai really so petty?

Zhu Huaizhen felt bored and simply stopped eating crabs and ate the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall that Qiu Niang had carefully prepared.

Sugar-heart abalone, pineapple sea cucumber, white shark lips, young deer tendons, claw meat, golden shark fin, ivory clam meat, spider fish glue, quail eggs, ham, pork ribs, clean winter bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms, chrysanthemum mushrooms, wild pine mushrooms, morels, snow bamboo fungus, Shaoxing wine, eighteen ingredients, eighteen delicious flavors. The moment you lift the lotus leaf covering the jar, the rich meaty aroma is so fragrant that even a Buddha would jump over the wall.

"Zhenzhen, tell me. I will accept whatever you say." Chen Mingan whispered.

"Zhao Lian'er doesn't have a good reputation in Nanchu. She announced to the public that she needed to take Jade Ganoderma. Jade Ganoderma is snow-white all over, with a texture like jade, and the flesh is delicate and free of impurities. Jade Ganoderma grows on the top of snow-capped mountains and is extremely difficult to collect. Her mother, the queen, recruited batches of people to climb to the top of the snow-capped mountains to pick it so that she could eat Jade Ganoderma every day. Many innocent people died because of her. The most ridiculous thing is that she wanted to eat Jade Ganoderma in order to save her life. The imperial physician said that Blood Ganoderma would be enough and there was no need to make too much trouble." Zhu Huaizhen sneered.

"Then she deserves to die. She is so ashamed of Nan Chu." Chen Ming'an sighed helplessly.

"Zhao Lian'er also has a bad reputation in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. You have heard that the only one who gave up everything for her is Du Zichun. In fact, there are eunuchs and guards in the palace who are willing to die for her and leave no place to be buried." Zhu Huaizhen softened his tone.

She is really being stubborn by arguing with Chen Mingan.

Zhao Lian'er will be burned at the stake, this is an unchangeable fact.

Chen Mingan is now powerless, and unless he wants to marry Zhao Lian'er, he insists on keeping her.

"Chen Ming'an, you should prepare the final dinner for Zhao Lian'er." Zhu Huaizhen waved his hand and dismissed the troupe.

She was thinking about whether she should give Chen Ming'an a knockout drug to prevent him from causing trouble on the day of the fire.