Chapter 275: Bamboo Rice Escape
Shuangrui came over to pull her away, but the young lady clung tightly to Su Ruojin.
Zhong Wanhui is different from normal people. Su Ruojin signaled Shuangrui to stop pulling. It was almost evening. "Brother Jin, we'll see you when you're free."
Zhao Lan: …
As the Imperial City Chief, Zhao Lan was familiar with the situations of various noble families in the capital, so he also knew that Zhong Wanhui had low intelligence. He did not care about it and let A Jin go back first.
At the door, Su Yanli and his two sons were chatting with Su Yanzu. When they saw the mother and others come out, they stopped chatting.
"Ah Zhen..."
Su Yanli and his wife stood together.
Su Yanzu came over and saluted, "Sister-in-law——"
Cheng Yingzhen nodded and half-saluted in return, "Second Uncle."
My brother and his family were sent abroad as officials and rarely come back to Beijing. Su Yanzu invites his brother and his family to visit the Prince Consort's residence tomorrow.
Su Yanli waved his hand, "Grandpa, the summer harvest has just ended and we will start summer planting soon. Let's go when we have time."
"Then..." Su Yanzu asked his nephews and nieces to go over and play.
Su Yanli looked at his eldest daughter.
Su Ruojin looked at Zhong Wanhui beside her. She was following him wherever he went. She was in no hurry to return to Weizhou, so she nodded and agreed, "Dad, Mom, then you guys go back first. I'll go back in two days."
Su Sanlang and Su Silang also wanted to stay with their elder sister. "Just now at the banquet, we made an appointment with Ning Qige to go to his house for horse racing."
Go to the Ning family? Su Ruojin gets nervous when she hears about the Ning family now. She will ask Ning Ning to take her niece back and she will not go when her brother goes to the Ning family.
Princess Yuehua came out and the Su family members came forward to pay their respects. Princess Yuehua subconsciously stroked her belly and was noticed by Su Ruojin. She looked at her uncle and found out that the princess was pregnant.
The look of surprise in the eyes of his eldest niece made Su Yanzu feel uncomfortable. In front of his brother's family, even when the princess motioned for him to help, he pretended not to see it, and remained serious and stern.
Yuehua's outstretched hand was caught by the maid who was quick-witted and quick-handed. She glanced at the man and nodded slightly to Su Yanli's family as a greeting. After getting on the carriage, the maid lifted the curtain and she said politely, "Master Su and Madam Su, bring the children to have a simple meal tomorrow."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Su Yanli stepped forward, "I have already told Grandpa, the summer planting has begun and the county is busy, so my husband and I will go back tomorrow. Ah Jin will bring his younger brother and sister to trouble Your Highness."
"You are too polite, sir." Yuehua looked at Su Ruojin, "Ajin, come early tomorrow to talk to me."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Yuehua smiled.
Su Yanzu said goodbye to his brother's family, got on the princess's carriage, and disappeared from the Su family's sight.
Su Yanli also took his family away.
Su Ruojin said, "Dad, I want to wait for Ning Ba Niang, or Madam Zhong. Miss Zhong is still following me."
Su Yanli frowned, "Whether it is Ning Ba Niang or Madam Zhong, they have all left." He was standing at the door waiting for his wife and daughter, and saw that these people had already left.
"What?" Su Ruojin's eyes widened in shock. This was the operation. Wasn't it said that in ancient times, when a rich lady went out to visit someone, there would be a notice, and the various procedures were very complicated? Just throwing the person to her like this?
Su Ruojin even wanted to kill someone.
Cheng Yingzhen panicked: "Sir..."
Su Yanli had heard from his daughter and wife about the Zhong family's desire to marry when he came to the capital in March. He said, "I thought the Zhong and Ning families had already discussed it with Ajin."
What to talk about?
Su Ruojin was so angry that her heart ached, but she couldn't vent her anger on a mentally retarded girl.
Really...
"Ajin, what should we do?" Cheng Yingzhen subconsciously blocked her eldest son's gaze, preventing him from looking at Zhong Wanhui.
Su Ruojin noticed her mother's little action, and then looked at Zhong Wanhui. She was like a child who had done something wrong. She hid behind her, lowered her head and picked her hands, not looking at anyone at all, including Su Dalang.
She knew the little lady's thoughts.
Her little thoughts...
The angry Su Ruojin suddenly wasn't angry anymore.
Since the Zhong Ning family has such little thoughts, she doesn't care about them. The adults let it go, and the young lady is persistent. It's none of her business.
After thinking it through, she was no longer angry, "Dad, let's go home."
Su Yanli didn't leave, "Why don't you send the young lady back to the Minister's Mansion or the Duke of Ning's Mansion?"
"No need to see you off." Su Ruojin snorted, "Let's go home." As long as it wasn't his eldest brother, she didn't care.
There were four servants following Zhong Wanhui all the time, one was a maid and one was an elderly nanny, who took care of Zhong Wanhui's daily life, and two guards who guarded the door of the Su family's house.
As if she knew that Su Ruojin was not going to chase her away, she not only ate dinner, but also ate a lot. Not only that, the Su family also arranged for Zhong Wanhui to sleep in the guest room. She did not refuse and went to bed obediently.
Su Family: ...
Cheng Yingzhen: "Ajin, are you going to follow our family forever?"
Su Ruojin answered affirmatively, "No."
"But look at this child, he is so well-behaved in our home, he eats when he is told to eat and sleeps wherever he is told to sleep, just like a..." child bride.
Su Ruojin put her arms around her mother and whispered something in her ear, which startled Cheng Yingzhen. "What, really?"
"Almost." Su Ruojin said, "Normally, I wouldn't be wrong."
"But...but this child's intelligence is about the same as my younger sister's, why..."
"Mom, her intelligence is not growing, but the body will continue to grow as it ages."
Cheng Yingzhen: ...For a moment, I really couldn’t digest what my daughter said.
"So your brother is okay?"
Su Ruojin nodded, "According to the persistence of the young lady, my brother is safe for the time being."
Tomorrow she will go to her uncle's house as a guest. The day after tomorrow, Sanlang and Silang will go to Ning Mansion, and she will go with them and send them back. If the Zhong and Ning families still allow Miss Zhong to stick to her, then don't blame her for being rude. She will just...
On the second day, Zhao Lan came early in the morning and happened to meet Su Yanzu and his wife returning to Weizhou. Because Miss Zhong was clinging to her eldest daughter, Cheng Yingzhen brought Su Xiaomei back to Weizhou.
"Teacher, are you back now?"
Su Yanli repeated the busy farming schedule. This time, he did not even go to see Minister Fan, and devoted himself to farming. "Summer planting is over, and there are still canals to be cleared. Anyway, I will go back first. If Zijin is free, go to Weizhou to play."
"Okay, teacher."
Zhao Lan sent Su Yanli and the other two out of the city gate and went directly to Fu Ma's mansion to meet A Jin.
Su Yanzu and Princess Yuehua got married in March and found out she was pregnant in May. It has been more than a month now, which is the time when morning sickness is the worst in the first three months. She vomits everything she eats. This is also the reason why she didn't meet the mother and daughter of the Su family when she went to Prince Jin's Mansion yesterday. She was so vomited that she stayed in her room and didn't want to move.
It is estimated that if it was not for the invitation from her uncle, Princess Yuehua would not have invited her siblings to come and play.
Su Ruojin gave his uncle a disdainful look and said, "I wouldn't have come if I had known."
Su Yanzu smiled awkwardly, "Ajin, do you have any delicious food that His Highness can have a few bites of?"
So this is the purpose of inviting her here!
I really didn't realize that he treated his wife well! That's not right. He treated Shangguan Yu the same way before, so the Su brothers all love their wives very much.
All right, considering this, Su Ruojin asked Su Yanzu, "What does Princess usually eat?"
Su Yanzu called the maids around the princess over and told them to give to Su Ruojin one by one.
The chefs around the princess have basically tried most of the light meals. Even those that Su Ruojin had not thought of, the chefs around the princess had tried.
Then what else?
"Your Highness, is there anything you want to eat?"
The eldest girl shook her head.
"Ajin?" Su Yanzu felt depressed when he saw that his niece, who was good at cooking, couldn't do it.
Su Sanlang and Su Silang were both of an age where they could play with their buttocks taper off. They had already gone to play in the corridor outside. Su Ruojin was worried, so she left the wing and stood in the corridor.
Su Sanlang and Su Silang ran to the corridor to break off bamboo branches and started fighting with them.
Seeing that they were having fun, Su Ruojin turned around and was about to ask her uncle to try making some cold noodles, but her eyes flashed to the shady green bamboo forest. She thought, "I got it. Let's try making some fragrant bamboo tube rice."
"Uncle——"
Su Yanzu saw the joy on his niece's face, "Ajin, what's wrong?"
"I thought of making something for Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Su Yanzu's eyes lit up, "What?"
"Uncle, cut down two of the thickest bamboos in the yard."
Su Yanzu was an elegant scholar, and of course he had eaten rice cooked in bamboo tubes. He instantly understood what his niece was going to do. Yes, why didn't he think of it? Bamboo rice is very fragrant and will definitely let His Highness have a few bites.
Su Ruojin did not give up on the cold noodles she had originally prepared. After all, if she made a few more, there would definitely be one that the princess would like.
She made three things, one of which was bamboo tube rice. Bamboo tube rice has different cooking methods in different places. To make it for pregnant women, Su Ruojin chose the conventional method.
First, stir-fry bacon, peas, mushrooms, chopped radish, etc. in a pan to bring out the flavor, then mix them with the rice, put them in a bamboo stick with a bottom, add water, and steam them in a steamer.
The second is cold noodles, which is the ultimate summer heat reliever. The most important thing is that now it has chili peppers, so the taste can be perfectly replicated in the future.
Wash and steam the noodles, cut the side dishes, mix the sauce, prepare the toppings such as light soy sauce, rice vinegar, mashed garlic, chili oil and pour them on the cut cold skin. You can smell the chili oil even if you are standing outside the kitchen. The pungent smell stimulates the taste buds and makes you keep secreting saliva. There are only two words to describe it - I want to eat it.
The third is rice porridge, which is just plain white porridge without anything added. Su Ruojin asked someone to go home and get some side dishes for the porridge, such as pickled vegetables, kimchi, salted duck eggs, and preserved eggs. There were salty and sour, spicy and sour, and all kinds of flavors. The main feature was that as long as you can think of it, we have it.
The bamboo tube rice was fragrant, and Su Yanzu thought the princess could eat a few bites. "This cold noodle is spicy..."
"Take it and try it first. If Your Highness doesn't want to eat it, don't you still have your uncle?"
That's right.
Su Yanzu asked the maids and servants to carry the food boxes to the princess to eat.
Su Ruojin sighed, "Let's go and eat too."
Su Sanlang cheered, "Sister, Brother Jin has sent Dad back to the Princess's Mansion."
Su Ruojin brought her three little followers to the wing hall. Zhao Lan came back on horseback. It was mid-June and it was extremely hot. He was sweating all over. He had just taken a shower and when he sniffed, a refreshing fragrance filled his nose.
"Ajin, what is it?"
"Brother Jin, it's bamboo tube rice."
In the hot summer, just hearing the sound of bamboo made Zhao Lan feel cool and happy.
Several people sat around the table. Su Ruojin handed each person a bamboo tube and a bowl of cold noodles. "Try it."
"Thank you, sister. You've worked hard."
Su Sanlang is a rough but delicate person with a sweet mouth, and he stole Zhao Lan's lines.
Zhao Lan: ...Then I can only give Ah Jin a big smile.
"Eat, eat, eat it all, why are you being so polite?"
Several people picked up their chopsticks and lowered their heads to eat.
In the princess's room, Yuehua was so exhausted from vomiting that she leaned on the couch. There was a wooden fan in the room blowing ice water, so it wasn't hot at all. However, she had no desire to eat and was visibly losing weight.
"Jingshu - the meal is here. This is made by Ajin himself."
Princess Yuehua's maiden name was Jingshu.
Hearing Su Yanzu's gentle and considerate voice, even though she was angry yesterday and wanted to make him angry, she couldn't help but look at him, "You asked your niece to come just to cook for me?"
Half of it was for cooking, and half of it was because he was thinking about his niece and the others. But at this moment, facing the princess's inquiries, Su Yanzu certainly acted as if it was all for her.
"What else?"
Yuehua, who was angry, finally calmed down and said, "You have a conscience."
"Come and eat."
Su Yanzu came over to help her and took her to the table.
As soon as the old woman opened the lid of the food box, the fragrance of the bamboo tube rice instantly drifted into Yuehua's nose, instantly making her hungry.
"What a clever Jin."
"Of course." Su Yanzu said proudly.
Yuehua glared at him.
Su Yanzu handed her the spoon. Yuehua scooped a spoonful and gently put it into her mouth to chew. The light fragrance of the bamboo tube, the sweetness of the rice, the salty fragrance of the bacon cubes, the sweetness of the Wan beans, and the juice of the radish, all the flavors filled her mouth, making her unable to help but swallow it.
After swallowing it, she was afraid of vomiting and waited carefully.
In the end, she felt nothing at all. She was delighted and said, "Shaobai, I didn't vomit."
"Then eat a few more bites."
"Okay." Princess Yuehua took one mouthful after another. When she had finished nearly one-third of the tube, she suddenly felt unwell.
Su Yanzu quickly scooped a spoonful of porridge for her and said, "Press it down."
Yuehua took a big sip of warm rice porridge from Su Yanzu's hand, and her stomach, which had been feeling sick, felt better instantly.
Huh?
"Shaobai, it works."
Su Yanzu scooped another spoonful for him, then picked up a piece of refreshing pickled cucumber for her, "I tasted it just now, it's sour and quite appetizing, you try it."
I don’t know if it was because of the filter on the delicious food made by Su Ruojin, or because the person she loved was feeding her, but Yuehua felt that her appetite was surprisingly good today. She ate a lot of white porridge and fragrant and salty bamboo tube rice.
"I've always known that Lan'er likes the food that Ajin makes, but I didn't expect that even white porridge is so delicious."
Su Yanzu: ...
He would drink two small bowls of white porridge with pickled cucumbers in the hot summer, eat a bamboo tube rice, and finish a bowl of cold noodles.
He also ate a lot today.
"When Ah Jin was cooking, our chef stood by. You should have learned it. I will ask them to cook for you every day in the future."
"good."
He was the man she had chosen. Yuehua looked at the gentle and caring man and sighed secretly that it was worth it that she had waited for so many years, and finally the day had come when the water had dripped through the stone.
In the afternoon, the weather was hot and she couldn't go back right away, so Su Ruojin went to the kitchen to make ice cream for Zhao Lan and her two younger brothers. After all, the princess's mansion had abundant ingredients.
Su Yanzu asked, "Can pregnant women eat it?"
Su Ruojin shook her head, "No."
"Then..." Su Yanzu felt embarrassed to trouble his niece.
Su Ruojin made a dessert for Princess Yuehua and took out a chilled apricot in syrup from the ice bucket. The apricot was peeled and cooked, and then chilled in ice water. It was sweet and sour and delicious, especially suitable for pregnant women.
If she had the sterilization technology, she could have canned it and sold it. Unfortunately, without the sterilization technology, she can only make and eat it now, and it can only be called candied apricots instead of canned apricots.
"Thank you, Jin."
Su Yanzu quickly handed the candied apricots to Princess Yuehua like a treasure. For the princess's mansion, this candied apricot was really ordinary, but Princess Yuehua admitted, "Ajin's is different from the chef's. It makes me feel cool and comfortable when I eat it."
Who would cook and eat fresh apricots? Only fruit farmers cook and dry them to make preserved fruits because they are afraid of not being able to sell them. Ordinary people rarely use them to make sweet soup, and they can't relieve coughs like pears.
It was not until the evening, when the weather had cooled down, that Zhao Lan took the Su siblings home.
Su Yanzu and his wife wanted to keep them, but Zhao Lan refused, "Uncle, I can't bear to let Ajin be your cook."
Su Yanzu: ...He didn’t mean that!
Zhao Lan gave him an understanding look, took Su Ruojin and her brother and a follower to his own restaurant for dinner, then sent them home, and then he stayed for the time being.
Without the teacher and his wife, he thought he could spend some time alone with Ah Jin. But his future brother-in-law came back from the Imperial College and called them all to the study room, where they stayed until they were all sleepy before going back to their rooms to rest.
Zhao Lan was just about to secretly ask the young lady out when he found that she was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. She had been either on her way to cook delicious food or on her way home from visiting guests all day, and she was really tired from all the running around.
Zhao Lan, who is caring about others, would never be willing to cling to others.
Take a shower and go to sleep!
On the second day, Zhao Lan brought a few people to visit the Ningguo Mansion. This was an appointment made by Ning Qilang and the two brothers of the Su family. They went to the Ning family racecourse. It was a hot summer day and the sun was shining directly on their heads, but the boys were not afraid and rode for nearly an hour.
Su Ruojin took a deep breath. She must be sunburned!
Ning Ba Niang smiled and said, "It's okay. It's Chenshi (7 to 9 in the morning) now, not the time when the sun is the hottest."
What is June? It is the hottest time of the year. Even at eight or nine in the morning, it is still very hot.
Su Ruojin fanned herself with her hands, and in her peripheral vision, Zhong Wanhui followed her closely.
She tapped her fingers secretly, trying to find a way to keep the person.
After nine o'clock, these young masters finally couldn't stand the scorching sun anymore and took a break. They all took a bath, changed their clothes and came out to eat lunch.
After dinner, some played chess, some boasted.
Su Ruojin pretended to have a stomach upset and went to the toilet while holding her stomach.
Ningning and Zhong Wanhui accompanied her.
My grandma’s legs, they never leave my side!
But!
With Zhao Lan here, is there anything that can't be solved?
Su Ruojin was listening to the noise outside in the guest room. When she heard that there was no movement outside, she gently opened the door of the guest room. Mao Ya and Ye Huaizhen were each supporting a young lady. They had been drugged, but the drug only lasted for a short time.
She put on a maid's clothes and left Ningning's yard without saying a word.
Less than half an hour later, an inconspicuous carriage left the gate of Ning Mansion.
Santai sat in the carriage, "Second Madam, let's leave the city now."
"good."
Damn it, I finally got rid of it.
When Ningning and Zhong Wanhui woke up, Mao Ya and Ye Huaizhen were still guarding the door. Their maids and servants brought in tea, "Mrs. Ning, Mrs. Hui."
Ning Ning felt something was wrong, "What was I going to do just now?"
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