The Miracle Doctor’s Two-Faced Toddler

Yu Wan always knew that Zuixianju's reputation had been spread, but she didn't know that it had already reached the palace.

For Yu Wan, a place like the imperial palace almost lived in legends. Can she really enter the palace to cook for those royal concubines?

"Stinky tofu, you make the best ones, the ones made by others are not as smelly as yours!" Master Qin said fairly.

Yu Wan glanced at him lightly: "Thank you..."

Master Qin showed his face and smiled: "Tianxianglou is so powerful, I haven't even been in the palace to cook. I will publicize it later, and our business will be able to reach a higher level!"

That's right, Tianxianglou was opened by Concubine Xu Xian's elder brother, none of its cooks entered the palace, so why is it the turn of a new up-and-coming Zuixianju?

Yu Wan always felt that the pie fell from the sky, which was a bit unreal.

"Master Qin, do you know which lady wants to eat our Zuixianju's food?" Yu Wan asked.

Master Qin winked and smiled: "Guess?"

Yu Wan laughed: "I can't guess, you can just say it."

Master Qin straightened his back and said, "Concubine Xu Xian!"

Concubine Xu Xian? Isn't that the second prince's biological mother? Is she going to eat Zuixianju's food?

Yesterday, she just rejected the second prince's "marriage proposal". Today, Concubine Xu Xian announced the chef of Zuixianju into the palace. Could it be a coincidence?

"Did Concubine Xian tell me to go?" Yu Wan said.

"What? You don't like it? The reward is very generous! This amount!" Master Qin gestured, "Besides, the nobles in the palace are not short of money. If you are happy with the meal, if you give a reward, you will have the money to build the house." landed."

This is the truth, Yu Wan understands that Master Qin called her because he really thought it would be beneficial.

"Well, since you asked, I'll tell you, I wanted to sell you." Master Qin rubbed his nose resentfully.

It turned out that it was Concubine Xu Xian's servant who "specified" to let Yu Wan go. At that time, the palace servant ate a bowl of stinky tofu in Zuixianju and asked Master Qin who invented this method. Master Qin said it was from Zuixianju The second head of the family, the palace people told Master Qin, then let her enter the palace together to cook for mother.

In Master Qin's opinion, this is a matter of course. Since Yu Wan invented stinky tofu, her craftsmanship is higher than that of the masters. Would it make sense not to ask her to go to the palace?

But in Yu Wan's eyes, all this seemed to be different.

The timing of Concubine Xu Xian announcing her to cook in the palace at this juncture is too delicate.

But the "Yizhi" has already been issued, if she doesn't go, it will be "resisting the order and disrespecting".

Yu Wan calculated it in her heart, and said to Master Qin: "Okay, I will change into my clothes and enter the palace with you."

In order to avoid family worries, Yu Wan didn't say anything about the second prince, nor did she mention that it was Concubine Xu Xian who summoned her. She only said that Zuixianju had accepted a business from the palace, and she would come back as soon as she went.

On the way to the palace, Yu Wan asked Master Qin about this Concubine Xu Xian, who is so powerful in the harem. Master Qin was not curious why she asked such a question. After all, they were going to cook for Concubine Xu Xian. It was especially important to find out what this empress liked. important.

"Speaking of this lady..." Master Qin told Yu Wan everything he knew.

After hearing this, Yu Wan couldn't help feeling that the history of this empress' family fortune is simply an ancient version of grassroots counterattack.

Concubine Xu Xian was born in a merchant family. The Xu family at that time was not the Xu family it is today. In Xuzhou, it was barely considered a third-rate wealthy businessman. It took a lot of money to clear up the relationship and choose her daughter as a beautiful girl.

Speaking of which, it was also because the number of Xuzhou's beautiful girls in that session was not filled, so the Xu family picked up a leak.

The merchant's status in the Great Zhou was very lowly, so Concubine Xu Xian became the last show girl in the team. Her appearance was quite outstanding, but there were so many beauties in the harem, and the most indispensable thing was a beautiful woman.

"It's luck that she got into His Majesty's eyes." On the carriage, Master Qin continued, "At that time, Empress Ma was just pregnant with the eldest prince, so she was inconvenient to serve Your Majesty, so she picked a few lovely girls from among the beautiful girls." Put it in your own palace."

"Concubine Xu Xian is one of those beautiful girls?" Yu Wan asked.

Master Qin shook his head with a smile: "No, at that time there was Concubine Li, who was very much loved by His Majesty, and the beautiful girls couldn't compare to her. But soon, Concubine Li was also pregnant with a dragon son."

Yu Wan paused: "Wait, isn't the second prince the son of Concubine Xu Xian? How could it be the dragon son conceived by Concubine Li first?"

Master Qin said: "The child was not born."

Yu Wan had heard about some princes from Baitang, and knew that the first prince was five years older than the second prince, and Concubine Li was conceived in the same year as Empress Ma, that is to say, in the following five years , no more prince was born in the palace until... Concubine Xu Xian gave birth to Yan Huaijing.

Yu Wansi and here, the cold is born from the feet.

Master Qin continued: "When Concubine Li found out that she was pregnant, she followed the example of Queen Ma and found a few young and beautiful women."

"Concubine Xu Xian was picked by Concubine Li?" Yu Wan asked.

Master Qin shook his head again.

All the beautiful girls who entered the palace would be won over to some extent by the high-ranking concubines. This was not only a means to compete for favor, but also a capital to settle down. Although the wrong backstage died quickly, but no backstage died faster, and Concubine Xu Xian was one of the few latter.

"At that time, she was just a promise." Master Qin said.

No one is optimistic about Xu Xu, who is alone. Her green card will never be sent to the emperor. If there is no accident, she will die of old age in the palace for the rest of her life.

"But guess what she did?" Master Qin asked with great interest.

"What?" Yu Wan asked.

Master Qin seemed to have thought of something funny: "She grew vegetables in the harem."

Yu Wan was surprised.

Master Qin said: "One day, His Majesty ate a very delicious cabbage, and asked which royal chef made it, and he was rewarded a lot, but the royal chef said, it's not because of his good cooking skills, but because the ingredients Xu promised to grow are good."

The emperor went to Xu Ying's residence, which was a desolate old palace. Xu Ying rolled up his sleeves, took a hoe, and cultivated the field in the backyard, which caught the emperor's eyes.

The emperor lived in the cold palace for many years when he was young, and he often couldn't get enough to eat. That's how the empress dowager grew vegetables for the young emperor and the young King Yan.

It was an experience that the emperor most wanted to look back on. No one dared to touch it, but Xu Xu promised to risk his beheading, boldly forcing the emperor to recall every detail of the cold palace.

Concubine Xu Xian is the daughter of a merchant, but not a country girl, how can she know how to farm? Can Baitang know how to farm? how is this possible? So whether it is plowing the land or growing vegetables, it is just another scheming.

Yu Wan got to know this Concubine Xu Xian a little more: "Will she be favored forever afterward?"

Master Qin smiled self-deprecatingly: "Where is the honor and favor that never fades? I have also lost favor, but I won the situation in the end."

The emperor handed over the power of the six palaces to Concubine Xu Xian not because he doted on her and wanted to love her fiercely in bed, but because in the eyes of the emperor, she was the most suitable woman to lead the harem.

For such a capable woman, it seems that today's summoning is not a coincidence anyway.

...

Those who entered the palace with Master Qin today, besides Yu Wan, were two cooks from Zuixianju, both of whom Master Qin brought from Jiangzuo. They were in their early thirties and worked steadily. Ask your uncle for cooking skills.

Master Qin was extremely confident in bringing the two of them along.

But Yu Wan secretly thought, this trip, is there really something about cooking?

The carriage arrived at the palace, and eunuchs were waiting there early.

"Eunuch Wu, I kept you waiting!" Master Qin greeted with a smile.

It seems that this is the palace maid who tasted the dishes in Shangzui Xianju. Yu Wan glanced at him indiscriminately. He was a few years younger than Uncle Wan, and he looked more handsome. He looked kindly and kindly, but his eyes flashed inadvertently. Sharp edge.

To be able to work under Concubine Xu Xian is definitely not someone who is waiting for nothing.

"Are these the chefs from Zuixianju?" Eunuch Wu looked at Yu Wan and the others with a decent smile.

"It's a little girl?" A surprised tone.

Master Qin smiled and said: "She is the second in charge of Zuixianju, don't look like a little girl, she might have done it! Miss Yu, this is the Eunuch Wu I mentioned to you just now."

Yu Wan stepped forward and greeted Eunuch Wu.

Eunuch Wu just glanced at her with a faint smile, without showing any extra expression, and then said to Master Qin: "Follow me to see your mother first."

Lord Qin was so excited that he could still meet the imperial concubine!

I thought that if you enter the palace to cook, you will be taken directly to the kitchen...

A group of people followed Eunuch Wu to Xianfu Palace.

The Xianfu Palace is very large, after passing through several gates and turning several turns, it was only at the side hall of the Concubine Xian.

Eunuch Wu stopped outside the hall and said respectfully: "I want to report to your empress, the people from Zuixianju are here."

"Xuan."

It was a soothing yet majestic voice.

Eunuch Wu led Yu Wan and his party into the side hall.

On the main seat directly above the side hall, Yu Wan met the rumored Concubine Xu Xian.

She is wearing a purple palace attire and eight-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head. She has picturesque eyebrows, exquisite face, slender bare hands, and well-proportioned joints. Sitting upright on the palace, she has an unspeakably powerful aura.

As expected of a woman who has dominated the harem for twenty years, this aura alone is not something ordinary ladies can have.

"Kowtow to your mother to greet you." Eunuch Wu reminded.

Master Qin lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt down: "Qin Zuo kowtowed to see the concubine Xianfei, and the empress is blessed and safe."

Behind Master Qin, Yu Wan and the two cooks also bowed down one by one.

The three of them were pretty stable, and they didn't embarrass Master Qin.

"Is there a girl's house?" Concubine Xu Xian's tone seemed a little surprised, "Raise your head and let me take a look."

Yu Wan raised her head slowly.

Since she entered the palace as a cook in name, Yu Wan really dressed like a cook, a plain white tunic skirt, an apricot-colored cotton spring dress, no powder and daisy, and only a single bun in her blue hair. Dressed up, no one in the crowd would look at it, but Concubine Xu Xian not only looked at it, but also looked at it many times.

To say that the facial features are more delicate than Yu Wan's, there are too many, but she is the first one who looks so comfortable.

Her demeanor is also serene, just looking at her like this, a restless heart seems to be able to calm down slowly.

The years are quiet.

These words flashed through Concubine Xu Xian's mind for no reason.

"Your Majesty." The nurse in charge called her in a low voice.

Master Qin didn't dare to look around indiscriminately, but he also felt that Concubine Xu Xian had been watching the Second Master for too long.

Concubine Xu Xian picked up the hot tea handed over by the nurse in charge, and took a sip lightly: "I hit it off with this girl, let her stay and talk with Bengong, you go prepare dinner."

Master Qin frowned strangely, didn't he call the name to eat the stinky tofu she made? What does it mean to leave a narrative? If they don't cook enough flavor later on, whose fault is it?

Qin Yue always felt that there was something he had overlooked, but before he could figure it out, he asked Eunuch Wu to lead him to the small kitchen of Xianfu Palace.

Concubine Xu Xian didn't ask Yu Wan to get up.

Yu Wan knelt on the cold floor for half an hour.

The spies outside the palace secretly felt that something was wrong, and turned around to report to Yan Huaijing, but the men in black under Concubine Xu Xian blocked him...

kitchenette.

Master Qin put the jar of sour bamboo shoots on the stove, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: "Oh! I remembered! The second prince once saved Miss Yu!"

It happened during the God of Cooking Competition. Yu Wan was framed by her peers and locked in the ice cellar. It was the second prince who rescued Yu Wan upstairs. The second prince concealed Yu Wan's identity to preserve Yu Wan's reputation. But others don't know, so don't he and Yu's family know too?

It wasn't that they didn't suspect it at the time, but the second prince didn't follow up afterward, so they gradually regarded it as a kind act of the second prince.

But what if... it wasn't a simple act of kindness?

Could Concubine Xu Xian have misunderstood something and summoned Yu Wan?

Master Qin wanted to stab himself to death with a knife: "I... how could I forget such an important stubble! I'm such a pig brain! I, I, I... I let the lard fool me!"

Master Qin left the jar and walked out. Just as one foot crossed the threshold, Eunuch Wu walked over with a smile: "Boss Qin, where are you going? Madam's food is ready?"

Master Qin smiled and said, "I suddenly remembered that some ingredients were left on the carriage, and I'll go get them right away."

Eunuch Wu laughed and said, "This is the imperial palace. Are there any ingredients? If there really aren't any, the miscellaneous family will get them for you."

Master Qin's heart sank, and he couldn't deliver the news...

Second Prince's Mansion.

After reading the dossier and the information sent by the spies from Zigong City, Yan Huaijing was about to enter the palace to pay her respects to Concubine Xu Xian. As soon as she left the palace, she saw a young eunuch waiting respectfully at the door.

This is the servant of Concubine Xu Xian.

"Waiting here alone, what's the matter?" Yan Huaijing asked with a frown.

The little eunuch said: "May I ask that the Second Highness is going to pay her respects?"

Yan Huaijing responded lightly.

The little eunuch said: "Your Majesty said, before His Highness decides which girl to marry, there is no need to go to greet her."

Yan Huaijing frowned: "Mufei really said that?"

The little eunuch Fu lowered his body and said: "Yes, Your Highness, if you have made up your mind, I will take you here to pay your respects to the empress."

Yan Huaijing clenched her fists tightly: "No need, you go and tell Concubine Mu that I will visit him... another day."

The little eunuch bowed and said, "Send off Your Highness respectfully."

...

In Xianfu Palace, Yu Wan had already knelt on the cold and hard floor for half an hour, her knees were swollen, and there were bursts of piercing pain, but she didn't show it on her face, His back was still straight, and his figure was cold and stubborn.

Concubine Xu Xian peeled the orange stalks indifferently, and when she reached the ninth one, she finally said casually: "Do you know why I asked you to kneel here?"

Being tactful in dealing with things is for those who need to be tactful, such as Yan Ruyu, then you can't be too rude, but Xu Xianfei really doesn't pay attention to a little village girl.

"It's because of the Second Highness." Yu Wan's expression was calm.

Concubine Xu Xian smiled faintly: "You are smart, it seems that you have admitted that you seduced my imperial son."

Yu Wan said neither humble nor overbearing: "I said I didn't seduce, will your empress believe me?"

Concubine Xu Xian looked at her condescendingly: "I've seen a woman like you a lot, with a pure and innocent look on her mouth, but more bad water in her belly than anyone else. The Second Highness is in the royal family and has never been in contact with you." These women in the market place are fresh for a while, so they will inevitably be fascinated."

Yu Wan said slowly: "Your kind? With all due respect, my background seems to be higher than that of your mother."

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and the Great Zhou Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed merchants. Farmers were only poor, but in terms of background, they ranked ahead of merchants.

"You are so brave!" Concubine Xu Xian hates people talking about her background the most. No matter how prosperous the Xu family is today, it can't change the fact that they used to be merchants. What a mockery.

Empress Ma has long since fallen out of favor, she is only one step away from ascending the throne, and this step is her birth!

Concubine Xu Xian put down the half-peeled orange, and looked coldly at Yu Wan who was kneeling on the ground, as if she had no fear at all: "Even the princess dare not be so presumptuous in front of me, I am tired of seeing you! Is it because I have my son who loves you, so I dare not do anything to you?"

Yu Wan shook her head: "I've never thought so, everything is my concubine's own speculation."

Concubine Xu Xian smiled coldly: "Ben Gong's conjecture? Well, then you tell Ben Gong, who borrowed your courage? What made you ignore Ben Gong so much?"

Yu Wan said calmly: "If you want to commit a crime, why don't you have any excuses? I am lying respectfully at your mother's feet today, won't you take your anger out on me?"

Concubine Xu Xian sarcastically said: "Excuse me? What do you mean, you did nothing wrong at all, it's all because I wronged you?"

Yu Wan raised her eyes and met Concubine Xu Xian's bullying gaze: "I don't know where and how much I heard about the matter between me and His Highness the Second Highness. The reason for the conclusion, the empress does not even ask me what I said, she just blindly thinks that I seduced the second prince, forgive me, I am indeed wronged."

Concubine Xu Xian paused every word: "Slick tongue!"

"Ma'am." The nurse in charge shook her head at Concubine Xu Xian.

Concubine Xu Xian said in a low voice: "I know this well."

The nanny in charge was implying that Concubine Xu Xian should not really kill Yu Wan. After all, Yu Wan is the woman the second prince likes. Killing her is a small thing, and mother and child are separated. There are many ways to settle her!

Concubine Xu Xian can sit in her current position, how can she really lose her composure? It's just to scare Yu Wan, but since this trick doesn't work, just change it.

Concubine Xu Xian's anger dissipated, and she slowly raised the corners of her lips: "I have heard about your father's case."

Yu Wan's eyes moved slightly.

Concubine Xu Xian took a full look at her expression, smiled sarcastically, and said: "It doesn't matter who steals whose military exploits, what matters is who His Majesty wants to protect. Do you think your father will still have a way out if the charges are settled by then?"

"Why does Your Majesty think that the person His Majesty wants to protect won't be my father?" Yu Wan asked back.

The nanny in charge shook her head, this girl is too courageous, who is being questioned?

Concubine Xu Xian sneered: "Don't tell me, you still don't know the relationship between the Yan family and the Young Master's Mansion, right?"

Yu Wan looked at her without blinking: "Your Majesty, what you mean is that His Majesty's preservation of the Yan family is only for the face of the Young Master's Mansion?"

"Could it be because of your face?" Concubine Xu Xian sarcastically asked.

Yu Wan lowered her eyes and whispered, "Young Master Yan is... so important to His Majesty?"

Concubine Xu Xian raised her eyebrows and said: "Heavy as Mount Tai, better than parent-child."

The corners of Yu Wan's lips twitched: "Since that's the case, I advise your empress not to make the same mistake again and again."

Concubine Xu Xian couldn't understand what Yu Wan was talking about. Concubine Xu Xian looked at Yu Wan strangely: "You leave my son, I will promise you, no matter how angry your Majesty is at that time. Gongdu saved your father's life for you."

Yu Wan smiled faintly: "Your Majesty, you don't need to threaten me. I had no intention of marrying into the Prince's Mansion. Didn't the Second Highness tell your Majesty? He proposed to marry me as his side concubine, but I refused."

"You!" Concubine Xu Xian stood up angrily!

Yu Wan said calmly: "Isn't this the result that the empress wants? What is the empress angry about? Is it possible that I am only allowed to be heartbroken and forced to leave your son, and not allow me to look down on your son? Maybe in In your eyes, your son is a sweet potato, but in my eyes, he is nothing."

"Bitch!" Concubine Xu Xian rushed down the steps, raised her hand furiously, and slapped her down!