Chapter 408 Dumplings
Luo Qinghan said expressionlessly: "Because I don't want to take you to the temple fair."
This answer was so straightforward that Luo Yechen almost choked to death!
Luo Yechen angrily pounded the bed: "I don't care! I want to go too! Why can you two go out and join in the fun while leaving me in the post station? I don't accept it! I want to go to the temple fair too!"
Xiao Xixi reminded: "Your leg is still injured, so it's not convenient for you to move."
Luo Yechen: "I can use a cane!"
Xiao Xixi: "Why bother?"
Luo Yechen angrily accused: "You just said you were good friends with me, but now you want to abandon me, do you still have a conscience?!"
Xiao Xixi: "But didn't you just refuse to be friends with me?"
Luo Yechen shouted angrily, "Just now was just now, now is now, I changed my mind now, is that not okay?!"
Xiao Xixi's ears hurt a little from being yelled at.
She shrank closer to the prince and whispered, "Your Highness, he is so pitiful and alone. Let's do a good deed and take him with us."
Luo Qinghan said coldly: "I don't know when the relationship between you two became so good? Did you do something unspeakable behind my back?"
Xiao Xixi and Luo Yechen shook their heads at the same time.
"No!"
Luo Qinghan: “…”
It seems that they must have done something unspeakable.
Luo Qinghan sneered: "You two have quite a good understanding."
This laughter made people's scalps tingle. Xiao Xixi and Luo Yechen shuddered at the same time and felt even more guilty.
Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to be in a bad mood, he still agreed to take the eldest prince, the oversized light bulb, with him.
Xiao Xixi felt that since it was Chinese New Year, they must eat dumplings, as that would add to the festive atmosphere.
Last year when she celebrated the New Year in the Eastern Palace, she specially asked Baoqin to cook a big pot of dumplings. This year when she celebrated the New Year outside the palace, this procedure could not be missed.
Xiao Xixi specifically asked Eunuch Chang to get some ingredients for making dumplings from the imperial chef.
She said excitedly, "We have nothing to do anyway, let's make dumplings together!"
Luo Qinghan had never made dumplings before, and he didn't think there was any special meaning to making dumplings. He just simply thought that Xiao Xixi looked very cute at the moment, and he didn't want to disappoint her.
So he responded, "Yeah."
Luo Yechen looked at them in disbelief: "Don't we have a royal chef? Why do we have to make dumplings ourselves?!"
Xiao Xixi: "You don't understand. The dumplings we make ourselves have a more festive feel, and I have to add some surprises to the dumplings."
Luo Yechen asked cautiously: "What surprise? What are you planning to do?"
Xiao Xixi: "Don't be afraid, I just want to wish everyone a good omen."
She laid out the ingredients one by one.
Eunuch Chang was helping out on the side.
Luo Yechen angrily said, "Just make dumplings, why do you have to do these things in my room? Can't you go somewhere else?!"
Xiao Xixi said without even looking up: "Isn't this to take care of you, the injured? Your leg is injured and it's inconvenient for you to move. We will make dumplings in your room so that you can participate in our activities and avoid feeling lonely and cold later."
Luo Yechen snorted, "I won't feel lonely or cold!"
Xiao Xixi asked the prince next to her.
"What kind of dumplings do you like?"
Luo Qinghan said calmly: "It's all right."
Xiao Xixi checked the ingredients and said, "We can make stuffing with egg and leek, pork and cabbage, or three fresh stuffings. These three should be enough."
Luo Qinghan: "Yeah."
He had no idea how to make dumplings, so he just did whatever Xiao Xixi asked him to do. At this moment, he was like a responsible tool.
Eunuch Chang reminded quietly, "The dough you rolled is too big, you need a smaller one."
Luo Qinghan said calmly: "It's okay, Concubine Xiao likes to eat bigger dumplings."
When Xiao Xixi heard this, she immediately nodded in agreement.
"Yes, I like to eat big dumplings. Your Highness can roll the dough a little bigger and thicker so that the dumplings won't fall apart when they're put into the pot."
Luo Qinghan nodded to show that he understood.
Eunuch Chang wanted to speak but stopped himself, and wanted to speak again.
If the dough is so thick, can it be cooked through?
By the time the prince had rolled out the dough, Xiao Xixi had already mixed the fillings.
She began to teach the prince how to make dumplings step by step.
She had not made dumplings very often, so her technique was not very proficient, but at least she was better than the prince, a novice who was trying it for the first time.
Eunuch Chang looked at the dumplings they made, each one fatter than the last, and wanted to remind them that they were making dumplings, not buns. But when he saw how focused they were, he thought better of it.
Hey, as long as you are happy!
Luo Yechen was originally pretending to be asleep, but after hearing their voices, he couldn't help but secretly open his eyes to see what they were doing.
Seeing that they were concentrating on making dumplings, Luo Yechen stretched his neck to see what the dumplings looked like.
Xiao Xixi noticed his movements and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"
Luo Yechen immediately retracted his gaze and snorted disdainfully: "I just want to see how ugly the dumplings you make are!"
Xiao Xixi: "How can it be ugly? The dumplings we made are so pretty!"
She likes to eat meat, so she wrapped the dumplings into round shapes and stuffed each dumpling with meat filling.
She couldn't help drooling whenever she thought of the big dumplings emitting a rich aroma after being cooked.
In order to get a good omen, Xiao Xixi secretly stuffed copper coins into some dumplings.
Eunuch Chang took the dumplings to the kitchen.
Then the palace maids and eunuchs came in and cleaned the table.
Luo Qinghan sipped his tea leisurely and returned to his cold and indifferent look, completely devoid of the clumsiness he had just shown when making dumplings.
Xiao Xixi held her chin with both hands and said expectantly, "I really want to eat our dumplings soon!"
Luo Yechen spared no effort to pour cold water on her: "With your level of skills, the dumplings you make will definitely taste terrible!"
Xiao Xixi counted on her fingers and said, "We made a total of one hundred dumplings. The Crown Prince ate thirty, the First Prince ate twenty, and the rest are all mine, hehehe."
Luo Yechen was very dissatisfied: "Why can I only eat twenty?!"
Xiao Xixi: "Didn't you just say that dumplings must be unpalatable? In that case, then you should eat less."
Luo Yechen was so angry that smoke was about to come out of his nostrils, but he couldn't refute it.
Today's lunch is dumplings.
When Eunuch Chang came in with three bowls of dumplings, Luo Yechen jumped off the bed with his injured leg and was the first to grab the largest bowl of dumplings.
Xiao Xixi was stunned by his action of snatching food.
She looked at the prince aggrievedly and complained.
"He stole my dumplings."
Luo Qinghan looked at the eldest prince with a chilly gaze: "Can you have some shame?"
(End of this chapter)
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