Chapter 55: The pressure from the mountain was not in vain
"You servants, why didn't you warn me when someone came?" Concubine Rong frowned and scolded the palace servants in the hall, who immediately knelt down and apologized.
"That's fine this time, but if you do it again, I will not let you off easily!"
After venting her anger, Concubine Rong ordered her attendants, "What are you still standing there for? Help him up quickly."
Xianglu personally stepped forward and extended her hand to support Chu Liuzheng. "I was negligent. Miss, please get up quickly. Are you still able to stand?"
Chu Liuzheng took advantage of the situation and fell on her, almost knocking the unprepared Xianglu to the ground.
"I'm sorry, I really have no strength in my legs and I couldn't stand steadily for a moment." Chu Liuzheng pushed hard against Xianglu, stood up straight with his legs, and tried to pull Xianglu with an apologetic look on his face.
"Ah!" Xianglu cried out softly, her face distorted. "Don't, don't pull me, my waist is twisted."
[My Taishan Pressure Skill was practiced in vain, but I'm just a little lighter, otherwise I would definitely crush you.]
Chu Liuzheng has learned some life-saving skills during his years in the palace.
If you can't win openly, just try to cheat people, and you will definitely win.
"Useless thing!" Rong Guifei didn't expect that she had just tormented Chu Liuzheng once, and before she could do anything to Chu Liuzheng, she had lost someone first. She felt ashamed, "Hurry up and carry him away!"
Immediately, several palace maids came forward and carried the motionless Xianglu away.
Chu Liuzheng wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and asked obediently, "Madam, shall we make tea now?"
Concubine Rong was angry, but she had no excuse to vent it, so she ordered, "Zhang Baorong, take her to the tea room."
"Yes." The head eunuch Zhang Baorong bowed and accepted the order, then made a gesture of invitation, "Young lady, please come with us."
"Thank you, Eunuch Zhang."
Chu Liuzheng bowed to Concubine Rong and walked out with Zhang Baorong.
Looking at Chu Liuzheng's back, Concubine Rong curled the corners of her lips downwards, and her jade-white fingers brushed across the emerald jade bracelet on her wrist. She wanted to see what tricks this little vixen had.
The tea room of Huaqing Palace is located in the side room of the small kitchen. It is fully equipped with all kinds of tea utensils. There are even three kinds of water for making tea: mountain spring water, dew water and snow water.
After Zhang Baorong finished his introduction, he took a large teapot as tall as his forearm from the shelf and brought it to the table.
As soon as the lid was opened, a rich and intense aroma wafted out.
Chu Liuzheng had never smelled such a tea fragrance before, so he couldn't help but move closer out of curiosity and look down into the jar.
I saw round beads mixed among the reddish-brown tea leaves, and I had no idea what they were.
Zhang Baorong said, "Our queen is a precious lady. She has a habit of drinking tea. She must drink the tea leaves picked out from the incense pills. They must be complete and without any defects."
Looking at the balls in the jar, which were the same color as tea leaves and not much bigger than rice grains, Chu Liuzheng felt the deep malice from Concubine Rong.
【Isn't this intentional torment? 】
Zhang Baorong said, "I heard that you are very good at making tea, and I think your tea-dividing skills are also excellent. I will give this pot of fragrant tea to you. Please divide it all."
【all? ! 】
Chu Liuzheng took a deep breath in his heart. According to what the damn eunuch had just requested, it would take even the whole night to divide up such a large jar, right?
"Eunuch Zhang, a cup of tea doesn't require that much tea." Chu Liuzheng decided to use his power to pressure him. "I have to go back to Wenhua Palace to be on duty. If His Majesty doesn't have tea to drink when he returns, he might have to look for me. Then I'm afraid that will implicate Concubine Rong."
"Don't bother with two people for the same task. Since the Queen asked you to serve the tea, you should do it yourself."
Zhang Baorong held a whisk in his hand and looked at her with a pair of eyes that looked like they were smiling.
"Her Majesty is always considerate of us servants. If the young lady is really too slow and misses the time, Her Majesty will send someone to report it to His Majesty. Given His Majesty's love for her, I'm sure she won't offend her."
[Damn it! It's clearly just too much work to do, but this damn eunuch is saying it's because I'm too slow. What a shameless capitalist!]
Chu Liuzheng choked on a mouthful of Lingxiao's blood and wanted to spit it in the face of the gloating eunuch in front of him.
[Don't get angry, don't get angry, if you get angry you will become ill and no one can help you.]
[A higher-ranking official can crush a lower-ranking official. People have to bow their heads under someone else's roof. They can't let their heads be cut off or their blood shed. She's a noble concubine and you're just a little maid. Don't mess with her!!!]
Chu Liuzheng's lips curled up into a standard, toothless smile. "I'm going to start serving the tea. Eunuch Zhang, would you like to stay here and watch?"
Zhang Baorong was very busy in charge of the affairs of Huaqing Palace and had no time to watch a little palace maid serving tea.
"I have something else to do at home, so I won't be accompanying you." Zhang Baorong called in two young eunuchs. "They will be guarding the small kitchen door. If you have anything, just tell them."
Chu Liuzheng glanced at the two young eunuchs. Are they preventing her from escaping?
"That's redundant, isn't it? If running away was possible, I would have already run away. Why would I have come here?"
Chu Liuzheng nodded, "I understand. Take care, Eunuch Zhang."
Zhang Baorong winked at the two young eunuchs before leaving.
As soon as he left, the two young eunuchs did not stay in the tea room for long, but went to guard the door of the small kitchen.
Chu Liuzheng turned his wrist and tilted the teapot to pour some of the tea into a clean basin.
She picked up the bamboo tweezers and tried to separate them.
The small incense balls are round and difficult to pick up with bamboo tweezers, and they fall out of your hands easily.
If you use bamboo tweezers to pick up tea leaves, you must control your strength, otherwise it will easily crush them.
Chu Liuzheng picked up a few pieces and gave up.
The small incense pills are similar in color to tea leaves. If she really separated them piece by piece like this, she would go blind.
She straightened up and looked around, trying to find an easy solution.
At the same time, a petite green figure ran across the bluestone slabs and headed towards Changchun Palace.
In the main hall of Huaqing Palace, sand was leaking out of the hourglass on the table, and a small hill had accumulated.
Two young palace maids knelt in front of the imperial concubine's couch, holding the beauty's delicate hands, carefully brushing flower juice on the trimmed nails, and then wrapping them with gauze soaked in the medicine to fix the color.
Concubine Rong stretched out her arms, spread her fingers, and began to wait boringly.
She moved her slender white fingers and asked the eunuch standing beside her lazily, "How's things going in the tea room?"
Zhang Baorong smiled maliciously, "To answer your Majesty, I'm picking tea leaves right now. I'm afraid my eyes are about to go blind."
Concubine Rong snorted softly, tilted her head to glance at the sunlight outside the window, and frowned slightly, "The sun is still a little dazzling."
Zhang Baorong stepped forward and lowered the gauze curtain halfway, which could block the direct sunlight without making the light in the hall too dark.
He said, "Your Majesty, winter has already arrived. While the sun is still shining, we should take the things in our palace out to dry, especially the leather, to prevent insects from infesting and ruining the valuables."
"Then let's dry them in the sun." Rong Guifei leaned back on the soft pillow and blew gently on the gauze on her fingers. "I remember the sun shines best over by the small kitchen, so I'll set up a pole and dry them there."
Zhang Baorong's eyes rolled, "Yes."
He stepped back and was about to tell someone to get something when he turned around and saw Chu Liuzheng walking in with a tea tray.
He was stunned and tilted his head to look at the hourglass on the table.
It's only been a short time. Even if there were more people, it wouldn't be able to be divided so quickly.
(End of this chapter)
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