"Your Majesty, please let me know."
"There's a new maid in the Cining Palace, and she's very good at making tea," Zhong Zhiheng said with a raised eyebrow and a slight smile. "But the Empress Dowager is keeping a close eye on her, so she's probably not an ordinary person."
"Yes, I understand. Please rest assured, Your Majesty." Dai Jingfeng bowed hurriedly.
"Okay, go down." Zhong Zhiheng waved his hand.
"Yes. I'll take my leave." Dai Jingfeng then bowed and left.
When Zhao Ruhai came in to help Zhong Zhiheng wash up, a cup of untouched Mengdingshihua fell on his boots. Zhao Ruhai immediately felt his shoes soaked, but he didn't care about that. He knelt on the wet carpet, kowtowed and apologized: "Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty, please calm down!"
"What kind of tea did you brew? How dare you bring such tea to my face?" Zhong Mingwei said in a deep voice, staring coldly at Zhao Ruhai who kept kowtowing. He thought about the tea he drank in the Cining Palace. He immediately became more annoyed, "If you think your life is too long, you can treat me like this in the future!"
"I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!" Zhao Ruhai was so frightened that he didn't even dare to breathe. Facing the wet carpet, he was very puzzled. He usually made tea like this, and Your Majesty never complained. Why did he suddenly dislike his craftsmanship today?
"Why are you still kneeling there?" Zhong Zhiheng said coldly, "Get out!"
"Yes. I thank the Lord for His grace!" Zhao Ruhai hurriedly got up from the ground as if he had heard of an amnesty.
"Come back!" But before he took two steps, Zhong Zhiheng called him again.
Zhao Ruhai was so busy that he turned back. He bowed and said, "Your servant is here."
"Go..." Zhong Zhiheng frowned and thought for a long time, then continued, "The one who danced well last time..."
"Liu Changzai." Zhao Ruhai said hurriedly.
"It's her, let her come over." Zhong Zhiheng said lazily.
"Yes, I will send someone to fetch Liu Changzai right away." Zhao Ruhai said hurriedly with a bow.
August 16, 2013
Ningguta.
"Did I say you snored last night? Did you grind your teeth?" Ah Chou sat on the kang, stirring the noodles in the bowl, and nervously looked at Lu Mingwei who was sitting in front of the stove and making fire. "Did you talk in your sleep?"
"I wasn't snoring or grinding my teeth," Zhong Mingwei said to Ah Chou with a smile as he added firewood to the stove, "I was just talking in my sleep."
"What did I say?" Ah Chou was startled and his eyes widened immediately, obviously he was very nervous.
Why is Achou so nervous?
Because last night, Ah Chou had a dream, a good dream about Zhong Mingwei and her, so how could she not be nervous? If she said something she shouldn't have said, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
"You said you really wanted to eat noodle dumpling soup," Zhong Mingwei said seriously, but the seriousness on his face did not last long, and he couldn't help laughing. "So, today I specially asked you to make noodle dumpling soup."
"Tsk!" Ah Chou looked disdainful and unbelieving, but he felt relieved in his heart. He pouted and said, "Even if I was talking in my sleep, I would definitely be talking about wanting to eat big fish and meat. How could it be noodle dumpling soup?!"
Zhong Mingwei smiled softly and said a little embarrassedly: "Hasn't it been a long time since I last had it?"
"I was eating it a few days ago." As Ah Chou spoke, he took a spoon, covered the sticky noodles with one hand, squeezed out a lump of noodles from his palm, took the spoon with the other hand, and put it into the boiling soup.
Zhong Mingwei's eyes followed the white and tender dough balls one by one. He felt it was magical no matter how he looked at them. "Girl, was this also taught to you by Aunt Xiang?"
"No, I learned this from Eunuch Xie. Sometimes when I went to deliver clothes to the imperial kitchen, I would stay in the kitchen for a while to watch how they cooked," Ah Chou continued to squeeze the dough and winked at Zhong Mingwei slyly, "But they made meatballs, and I copied them to make dough balls. Isn't that very smart?"
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