The emperor was not satisfied with the doctor's words and glanced at him again. The doctor quickly said, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, is often in the Palace of Heavenly Purity reviewing memorials. Your Majesty needs to rest. Your Highness should not bother His Majesty here."
The emperor nodded repeatedly in agreement. "Yes, yes, the imperial physician is right. Crown Prince, you should go to the Imperial Study to review memorials. The Imperial Study is far from the Eastern Palace, so you can take the memorials there. Stay away from me."
Xie Qing said helplessly, "Yes, yes, I'll take my leave then. Xiaoluzi, take the memorial back to the East Palace. Humph, do you think I'm willing to face an old man like you? I'm going back to see my wife."
"roll!"
The emperor picked up the notebook and threw it at Xie Qing in annoyance.
Xie Qing dodged it nimbly and walked away with a swagger.
Concubine Li was already ill, and after this trip, she collapsed and couldn't get up when she returned.
When Qin Wan came to see her, the Sixth Princess was crying and complaining, "She's just a guilty concubine. Is it really necessary for you to come here in person? Now you're sick in bed, who can feel sorry for you?"
Concubine Li couldn't open her eyes, her head was dizzy, and she could only hear the Sixth Princess's mumbling.
She forced her eyelids open and murmured, "The rabbit dies and the fox mourns..."
Unfortunately, her voice was too soft for the Sixth Princess to hear. "Mother, what did you say?"
Qin Wan observed Concubine Li's mouth movements and guessed, "Perhaps what Concubine Noble said is about the grief of the rabbit's death. Sixth Princess, Concubine Noble and Concubine Ru are both concubines in the harem. Perhaps she has some feelings, which is why she dragged her sick body on this journey."
"Death settles all debts. Even if there were some disagreements in the past, now that the person is gone, the matter is over."
Concubine Li nodded slightly and squeezed the Sixth Princess's hand again.
Seeing this, Qin Wan pulled the Sixth Princess out and said, "The Imperial Concubine is ill now. If you were to be by her side, you should have been quiet and caring for her. If you keep crying like this, the Imperial Concubine will be worried about you. How can you expect her to recover?"
The Sixth Princess pouted and said, "Why don't you just say I'm in the way?"
"You're just in the way." Qin Wan pulled the Sixth Princess's hand and said with a smile, "It's almost the end of the year, and I have a lot to do. Your mother is ill, so it's time for you to take on the responsibilities. For the time being, you and the Seventh Princess will help me with the palace affairs."
"Ah?" The Sixth Princess pointed at herself in disbelief. "I, can I do this? Palace affairs are so complicated, can I do this?"
Qin Wan smiled and said, "You are about to get married. Even though the youngest son of the Yu family is not the one who inherits the family business and takes on family responsibilities, you don't have to be a clan wife and manage such a large family business."
"But you still have to manage your little household, and your dowry and property, right? Besides, there are many things you can ignore, but you can't be ignorant of or unaware of. From now on, until you get married, learn how to manage palace affairs from me. Once you handle them well, managing your little household will be a piece of cake."
"Don't worry, handling palace affairs will only take half a day in the morning. You can return to your mother in the afternoon. It won't delay your care for her."
The Sixth Princess swallowed her last words and just confirmed again: "Seventh sister, will you come and study with me?"
"Of course." Qin Wan nodded affirmatively: "Although she hasn't decided on a marriage yet, it's time for her to talk about marriage. It doesn't matter if I learn sooner or later. I can take care of one, and it will be easy to take care of two. Let's do it together."
Since the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qin Wan has been managing palace affairs with the two princesses and Concubine Min.
There are more things to prepare for the New Year in the palace. Since Rupin was a convicted concubine, her death would not affect any arrangements in the palace.
Qin Wanchu was in charge of the palace power, so the palace banquet was mainly based on Concubine Min's opinions. Overall, it was managed according to the previous years, with slight changes based on the actual situation this year.
Qin Wan mainly taught the two princesses why they had to do this and whether there were any traditions or taboos involved.
Around the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, the heavy snow, which had hardly stopped, finally collapsed the house.
Thanks to the efforts of Xie Qing and Qin Wan, there are fewer victims in the capital, but more outside the capital.
There is no way, many things are beyond our reach.
In the palace, preparations were being made for the New Year, but because of the disaster, expenses in all areas had been cut back a lot, and the New Year atmosphere was not very strong.
Qin Wan didn't want the New Year to be lonely, and it would not be good for the beautiful princesses in the palace to continue to be so depressed. So she took several princesses with her to experience the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year among the people.
They could not leave the palace, but they could follow the folk customs.
Apart from other things, the most fun thing is making various foods.
The 23rd is the day of sticky sugar melons, which is also the Little New Year. People offer sticky sugar melons to the Kitchen God so that he will only say good things when he goes to heaven and keep people safe when he goes to the earth.
Twenty-four: Sweep the house.
The palaces throughout the palace are very clean.
Qin Wan took them to clean some remote temples.
It’s not that these princesses are really asked to sweep and clean, but it’s quite interesting to have some fun playing around.
Twenty-five: Make tofu.
This time, Qin Wan really asked the princesses to get up early in the morning and gather in the East Palace.
"I asked the imperial kitchen to send over a small stone mill. Let's grind the beans together to make soy milk. The beans were soaked last night." Qin Wan personally showed them how to grind the beans.
It was the first time for the princesses to do such rough work, and they were extremely excited for a moment.
The Sixth Princess rubbed her hungry stomach and said, "We haven't had breakfast yet. Does my sister-in-law have anything to eat?"
Qin Wan smiled mysteriously: "Of course I have it, but it requires the soy milk that the princesses grind. Come on, everyone."
The Sixth Princess became even more curious when she heard this: "Shall we drink soy milk?"
"No, let's eat tofu pudding." Qin Wan took out some tofu brine and gave it to her.
Several princesses used to say that they cooked their own food, but that was just talk. They never even went into the kitchen, so they were considered to have cooked it themselves.
Now that they are really doing it themselves, it is a different kind of fun. They are all very motivated and are reluctant to give up even if they cannot pull the millstone, even if they can only turn it two or three times and then stop.
It took the princesses and palace maids more than an hour to make a bucket of soy milk.
Qin Wan led them to cook soy milk and make tofu. It took them three hours, until dawn, to make a pot of tofu pudding and a piece of tofu that was more than a foot long and three inches thick.
Qin Wan had someone bring the braised soup, a bowl of tofu pudding for each person, and a golden and crispy fried dough stick: "Come, try the breakfast you made yourself."
The Sixth Princess couldn't wait to take a sip of the tofu pudding she made. It was so delicious that her scalp tingled: "It's so delicious!"
Qin Wan smiled and said, "Princess, you can take the tofu pudding back later and let your mother taste it."
Qin Wan saw the princesses off and took the food box to the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor.
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