Concubine Shu was the first "empress" Jiang Yingliu (Xiao Liu'er) saw when he entered the palace. At the tender age of twenty-five, she had already become the principal of Yihua Palace and the emperor's wife. An old man in his latent residence was pregnant with three princesses.
The strange thing is that this empress, whose natal family background is powerful, has a bold temperament, and is very fickle, does not fight for it. She is also said to be the number one invisible figure in the harem. What is her role in the palace? Role?
Concubine Shu is a "ruthless" character. She is ruthless because the food she cooks is so delicious that it has firmly captured the taste buds of the harem people.
Xiao Liuer hit the nail on the head when it comes to Concubine Shu’s evaluation: “She doesn’t compete externally, and she can be called the number one invisible person in San Gong and Sixth Hospital. Internally... internally, she is a cook.”
Although the cook's skills in relation to her are indeed "to the point", saying that Concubine Shu is a cook is really underestimating her. She should be called a culinary genius!
How good is her cooking skill? Lotus leaf cake, sturgeon soup, goose web duck, ham stewed elbow, chicken marrow, bamboo shoots, shredded yam, shrimp balls, chicken skin soup... she can make everything, even the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room of Yong'an Palace cannot compare with her.
In addition, he is also keen on "innovation". If the dishes are successfully tested, they are left to his sisters and children to eat. But the experiments are unsuccessful? Then send it directly to Yong'an Palace and feed it to the emperor.
You have to ask why she is so bold? It can only be said that "people with high skills are bold", because anyway, "her craftsmanship is better than the sum of all the palaces even if she ruins the dishes."
Concubine Shu’s cooking skills are good, and there is not only physical evidence, but also human testimony. Xiao Liuer's face became rounded after half a month in the palace. She almost quarreled with the third princess Jiale over a braised lion's head. Jiale was even "fat as a ball" by her mother. Even before Concubine Chen When the provocation came, her nanny couldn't even hold Jiale away, and she almost got out of the way.
Even Wen Zhaoyi, who always likes to quarrel with Concubine Shu, also vaguely praised her, "Arou, you can't do anything else, but your cooking is very delicious."
The steady and generous Concubine Xian also praised "It's a good thing that Ah Rou doesn't cook every day, otherwise we would all be fat as balls."
It's hard to convince everyone, but Concubine Shu made everyone fall in love with her (dishes), and her cooking skills are so good The most outrageous thing is that the emperor doted on Xiao Liu'er and rewarded her with a pair of little white rabbits. However, this "blessing" made Xiao Liu'er very painful. She stared at the rabbits every day, with a sad face.
Concubine Shu was afraid that Xiao Liu'er would miss someone after seeing things, so she hurriedly comforted her, "Xiao Liu'er, don't be sad, don't be stupid, that's how the emperor is. If he loves you, just love him." If he gives you something, just accept it, but don’t believe it when he says he likes you! Xiao Liu’er... you don’t really think about people when you see things, do you?”
But who would have thought about Xiao Liu’er’s mind? It turned out that she was thinking about the Hongyunlou taro rabbit that Concubine Shu told her. It is braised with taro and rabbit. It is spicy, fragrant and especially delicious... Looking at the little rabbit given by Yu is like looking at a living taro. Rabbit, but who dares to make the rabbit given by the emperor into a dish? She wouldn't even dare to borrow Concubine Shu's courage. Not being able to eat rabbit meat, Xiao Liuer stared at Yu Rabbit with resentment every day. Together with the third princess, she devoted herself to causing accidents every day to cause the rabbit to die tragically:
"...Empress, you said I would Will the rabbit die if it is thrown out of the window? Will it affect the taste if it dies? "
Emperor Chong is not as good as Shu Fei's dish, which shows Shu Fei's cooking skills. It really grasped the stomach of the harem people.
Does Concubine Shu like cooking? like! How can you make it so delicious if you don’t love it? It is even written in black and white in the book: "Concubine Shu loves to cook and is very good at cooking. She is very sorry that she cannot become the female official of the Shangshi Bureau. She likes people who eat well."
But...if Concubine Shu had not entered the palace, would she still cook?
Concubine Shu is the daughter of a general. She has been loyal to her family for six generations and guarded western Liaoning for the emperor. "Concubine Shu has practiced martial arts with her father and brother since she was a child. In western Liaoning, she often pretended to be a young ranger and fought against injustices everywhere." Before Zhao Xun entered the palace and became the crown prince, Concubine Shu was dashing and heroic to say the least, but she looked like a tomboy to say the least.
She only started to learn cooking after entering the East Palace.
She did not cook to compete for favor, but something happened that affected her life and the passage of time made her completely devoted to cooking, so that she did not fight for power, and later became After marrying Concubine Shu, she also became "invisible".
Before marrying the emperor, who was still the prince at the time, Concubine Shu lived in the vast western Liaoning. She was cheerful, innocent and skilled in martial arts. After becoming the prince's concubine, she was still a daughter of no famous family. She helped her maid Ji Xiang, and became friends with Shen Yunyao, who was the Crown Princess at the time. His favorite thing was to tell her about Liaoxi, and he would also use his fists and kicks on a whim, and he could climb a tree as soon as he turned over.
In the memory of chamberlain Li Fugui, she "is worthy of being the daughter of the Zhou family in Yingzhou, Liaoxi. It's a pity that she was not born a man, and her skills cannot kill the enemy in front of the battle and make meritorious deeds. She can only be used to climb up trees." The princess picks fruits."
Logically speaking, such a bright and "unruly" woman is like an unruly wild horse, and her heart should be full of grassland. Why did she form a fate with the kitchen? ?
The book mentions that when Concubine Shu was still Zhou Zhaoxun, in order to make Aunt Jixiang more relaxed, she took the initiative to learn cooking from her and help her share the burden.
Zhou Zhaoxun is kind-hearted and simple. Although he loves to learn, his learning is very superficial. He just wants to help Aunt Jixiang. What really made her concentrate on cooking was after Aunt Jixiang's accident.
Zhou Zhaoxun loved to dance with guns and sticks, and he was a valiant and individual person. He once gave the Crown Princess a small exquisite dagger, and he used the dagger to tell the Crown Princess stories about knights and knights every day. , the two of them were talking and laughing and living happily, but Xu Liangdi somehow heard about the gift of the dagger, so she pestered her aunt, Queen Xu, to go to the princess's residence to listen to stories to relieve her boredom, and brought a large group of people with her. Kill to the East Palace.
Empress Xu smiled and asked the Crown Princess to show her the dagger, and the Crown Princess promised to obey. It was originally a scene where the whole family was enjoying themselves, but the next second, the plot took a 180-degree turn. A big change happened. As soon as the dagger was handed to Queen Xu, Xu Liangdi falsely accused the Crown Princess of "taking over Feng Jia holding a sharp weapon" with the intention of assassinating her.
You must know that such "treasonous and unethical" behavior was already punishable by death at that time. If you are not careful, you may even kill several tribes. In this situation, Aunt Jixiang stood up and took the blame, insisting that she had changed the dagger. Under all kinds of torture, she still insisted that the original thing she was playing with was just a wood carving, and that she had secretly changed the dagger in order to commit an assassination. The Crown Princess and Zhou Zhaoxun was finally acquitted of the crime of "assassination", but Aunt Jixiang died here.
This incident had a great impact on Concubine Shu at that time. She realized for the first time that the "chivalrous knights" in the palace could not even protect themselves, let alone eliminate evil, promote good, and fight injustice. There was no way here. There is no "righteousness" and "righteousness" that one pursues, only "right" and "profit".
If Concubine Shu was willing to get into cooking because of her kindness, then it was guilt and maturity that made her really start to delve into cooking. Before that, she thought that the so-called palace was just restricting her " "Personal freedom", she can no longer ride a horse, can no longer play with a gun, and can no longer see her relatives whenever she wants. There are rules and regulations everywhere in the palace, and even climbing a tree has "no rules", but at least her spirit is free. The morality of chivalrous people she admires is still there, and the loyalty and purity of human nature she believes in is still there. She has a good friend Yaoyao, and the attendants around her are kind-hearted people like Aunt Jixiang and Li Fugui. She can tell them about chivalrous people in Western Liaoning, and she can make people Her thoughts wandered so far away...
But the appearance of Xu Liangdi completely broke her fantasy - this palace is not only a cage that imprisons a person's body, but also an iron chain that imprisons a person's spirit. The cage is a battlefield, and since it is a battlefield, someone is bound to die for it.
The death of Aunt Jixiang shattered Zhou Zhaoxun's dream of being a knight. She began to understand the cruelty in the palace, and in order to survive, she must find another spiritual sustenance.
Did she find it? She found it.
That is to inherit the mantle of Aunt Jixiang and cook well.
"The years in the East Palace were like years, and the hard work made Zhou Zhaoxun cook even better than Aunt Jixiang..."
It is ironic that the stories Zhou Zhaoxun loved to tell at the beginning were all It is a story about a knight. When it comes to the dagger, it means "a young knight in western Liaoning used it to punish many evil people who caused harm to the village." Later, after becoming a concubine, the stories he told his daughter and Xiao Liu'er were "There is a famous palace outside the palace." Our restaurant is called Hongyun Restaurant, and Hongyun Restaurant has a dish called Taro Rabbit, which is braised with taro and rabbit. It’s spicy, fragrant, and especially delicious..."
Such a straightforward and outspoken person A person, who could point out the emperor's acting and pretentiousness in order to vent his anger on Yaoyao, so that the emperor almost died of anger and refused to set foot in Yihua Palace again, could still be willing to live for himself and his daughter, the third princess. She silently endured Xu Liangdi's conspiracy, remained silent like a quail when faced with Concubine Chen's difficulties, and ignored the humiliation of being a "favorite concubine" at every stage in the palace.
Later, the late Queen Shen Yunyao died, and Concubine Shu suddenly lost one of her spiritual sustenance. She fell seriously ill and coughed until she was "half dead". After recovering from the illness, she still relied on cooking to cook in the harem with other sisters. They lived a good life, but after Xiao Liuer became the queen and sat firmly in the middle palace, and the three princesses also grew up and got married, Concubine Shu finally exhausted her energy and spirit, just like an oil lamp that has burned out the oil, and the oil is exhausted and the lamp dries up. Slowly came to the end of life.
Concubine Shu’s family is all in western Liaoning. She entered the palace at the age of seventeen. Except for her daughter who was lucky enough to be born and survived, she never saw any other family members. On the day when she sent the third princess out of the palace to get married, she looked at her daughter every step of the way. Stepping out of the deep palace that had trapped her for twenty years, she said, "Let's go, go far away, and never come back."
For her, this palace is magnificent on the surface, but in the end it is a cage. "Everyone has their own destiny. Is there a big difference between living one year more and one year less in this palace? It's just To live in a cage."
When she was nearing the end of her life, Concubine Shu joked with Xiao Liu'er and said: "Actually, I only learned to cook when I entered the East Palace. Am I good? I am self-taught. My mother said that I am not like a girl when it comes to wielding swords and guns. She would be shocked if she saw my cooking."
"I am not a girl. I haven't cooked anything for my parents to eat." When she said this, she became aggrieved, with a cry in her voice, "Xiao Liu'er, I haven't cooked anything for my parents to eat."
Shu. The concubine is the best at cooking, but she has cooked for most of her life but has never been able to cook for her parents. But in other words, if the concubine Shu did not enter the palace, would she still cook?
Maybe not. She is such a sassy woman. She should be able to live out her dream of being a chivalrous person, robbing the rich and giving to the poor, fighting injustices, and occasionally being taught a lesson by her elders. She doesn’t have to worry about it. Her three brothers Always protect yourself, and when the time comes to get married, that person is your rightful son, a well-educated, gentle and quiet person on the surface, but he loves to listen to you tell the story of Liaoxi. Couple...
Maybe I still do. Talent is a very mysterious thing. Maybe that day, the hot heroine's hand touched the kitchen knife and spoon, and she was so excited that she actually cooked a large table of dishes for the family. Mom and Dad She was so shocked that her eyes almost fell out, and she praised, "I didn't expect Ah Rou to have such skills. I can't bear to go to my husband's house like this!"
However, there really are parallel worlds in the world. ? Are things in the parallel world really so beautiful?
We don’t know and can’t know. We only know that in this world, Concubine Shu died in the winter when she was forty years old. Twenty-three years after she entered the palace, there is still a daughter who can She was considered very lucky to be draped in linen and mourning for her. The emperor posthumously named her the noble concubine Zhongmin and buried her in the concubine's mausoleum.
"The Willow on the Palace Wall" is really a very nice and easy-to-read novel. Every woman in it has her own legend. You might as well take some time out to read this little book.
I am Mu Mu, see you next time!