nycdaug Chapter 225: My belly is full after eating
Chapter 225: My belly is full after eating
As soon as the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict left, the steward of the imperial kitchen came over with tears on his face.
There was no other way, so he sent almost everyone in the imperial kitchen out to find out what sweet potatoes were, but still no one knew. He even wanted to find a mouse, paint it red, and roast it for the envoy to eat.
But Xin lost his job because he neglected the envoy over a meal, so he had no choice but to come to Emperor Beichen.
It must be said that he came at the right time. If he had come earlier, before Nangong Ling and the others arrived, he would have definitely been scolded by Emperor Beichen.
However, Emperor Beichen already knew that the sweet potatoes were made by Han Yiyi, so he was no longer worried. Therefore, when he heard that the envoy wanted to eat sweet potatoes, he spoke directly.
"Okay, okay, I understand. I will let him taste our sweet potatoes later. You go down first, and the sweet potatoes will be sent to the imperial kitchen in a while!"
When the head steward of the imperial kitchen heard what Emperor Beichen said, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and hurriedly bowed and retreated.
In less than half an hour, Han Yiyi followed the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict into the palace, and Yun Xiao also followed. Of course, his main role was to carry sweet potatoes.
The two entered the imperial study and were about to pay their respects when they saw Emperor Beichen excitedly getting up from his seat and quickly walking towards them, speaking.
"Okay, let's stop with all this formalities," he said, taking out a sweet potato from the sack and asked excitedly.
"Is this sweet potato?"
"Yes, this is the sweet potato. It tastes great and has a high yield!" Hearing Emperor Beichen's question, Han Yiyi hurriedly replied respectfully. She was using this sweet potato to "take" some good things from the person in front of her, so her attitude naturally had to be more attentive.
"How to eat it?" Emperor Beichen shook the hard object in his hand and asked.
"There are many ways to cook it. You can steam it, boil it, roast it, make porridge with it, or use it to make sweet potato vermicelli or hot and sour noodles. Even after washing it, you can eat it raw."
Hearing Han Yiyi's words, Emperor Beichen swallowed subconsciously, thinking of what the people in the imperial kitchen had just said, that the envoy wanted to eat sweet potatoes, and hurriedly asked someone to send some to the imperial kitchen first. Worried that the people in the imperial kitchen would not know how to cook, he directly asked Han Yiyi to go with him.
After Han Yiyi left, Emperor Beichen seemed to notice Yun Xiao who had been standing silently. Seeing Yun Xiao's jade-like face, Emperor Beichen couldn't help but raised his eyebrows and asked pretending to be ignorant.
"Are you the eldest son of the Yun family whom Changning rescued from prison?"
Hearing Emperor Beichen's question, Yun Xiao quickly knelt down.
"I am Yun Xiao, a commoner, honored to meet your Majesty!"
Looking at Yun Xiao kneeling in front of him, Emperor Beichen only said "hmm" lightly, but no one asked anyone to stand up.
Emperor Beichen didn't say anything, so Yun Xiao didn't dare to stand up. In Yun Xiao's opinion, Emperor Beichen was still angry about the Yun family's malicious raising of grain prices and his grandmother beating Han Yiyi in the street, so he wanted to teach him a lesson.
At this time, Emperor Beichen looked at the person in front of him, whose jade-like temperament could not be concealed even when he was kneeling, and said to himself, "Nangong Yuan, this is the only way I can help you vent your anger."
In the imperial study, in order to satisfy the envoy's appetite and let him see the world, Han Yiyi not only made steamed sweet potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes, but also made candied sweet potatoes for him.
Qiu Jin stared at the plates of sweet potatoes being brought in, his eyes wide open.
The palace servants wanted to serve him meals, but he politely asked them to leave.
After waiting for everyone to leave, he couldn't wait to take a roasted sweet potato and put it in his mouth. The skin of the sweet potato was roasted golden and crispy, exuding an enticing aroma. After taking a bite, he squinted his eyes slightly in enjoyment.
After eating a roasted sweet potato, his eyes moved to the candied sweet potato. Qiu Jin didn't know what the dish was called, but he felt that its golden color and crystal clear sugar threads made him salivate.
He couldn't help but pick up the chopsticks and picked up a piece. Unexpectedly, when he pulled it lightly, the sugar threads were cut like silk, thin and long, which made him even more curious.
I couldn't resist putting it in my mouth and instantly felt the sweet taste. The perfect combination of the soft sweet potato and the crispy sugar thread was really unforgettable.
Qiu Jin closed his eyes slightly and savored the candied sweet potato carefully, feeling the sweetness and deliciousness that he had never tasted before. At this moment, he really wished that he was a princess sent here to marry a foreign princess, so that he could eat such delicious food all the time.
Suddenly, he remembered that the purpose of his coming here was to introduce the sweet potato to his own country. He couldn't help but become anxious and hoped that Emperor Beichen would agree to sign a treaty with them, Nanjing, as soon as possible.
In order to let Emperor Beichen also taste the sweet potato, I made an extra portion for Qiu Jin just now.
When the eunuch chief said that Han Yiyi had returned, Emperor Beichen looked at Yun Xiao, who was still kneeling on the ground, and spoke as if he had just remembered something.
"Hey! Look at my brain, I actually forgot to tell you to get up. Hurry, get up quickly. The ground is cold. Don't catch a cold!"
Yun Xiao: ...He shouldn't have come on this trip.
Emperor Beichen elegantly picked up a piece of peeled roasted sweet potato with chopsticks. As soon as he put it in his mouth, his eyes lit up.
"This, this is sweet potato, the taste is really extraordinary." Then he took another bite of the candied sweet potato and praised it highly. He ate several bites in a row before reluctantly putting down his chopsticks.
Then he gave a look to the chief eunuch beside him. The chief eunuch understood and led everyone in the imperial study away, including Yun Xiao who had just been allowed to stand up.
As for Nangong Ling and his wife and the two little ones, Emperor Beichen had already ordered people to take them downstairs to visit the courtyard.
After everyone went down, Emperor Beichen straightened his expression and asked Han Yiyi.
"Changning, do you know why I let you into the palace?"
Hearing Emperor Beichen's question, Han Yi responded unconsciously.
"Isn't it for these sweet potatoes?" However, Han Yiyi was still a little curious as to why the envoy from Nanjing knew about sweet potatoes and specifically asked to eat them.
"It's because of this sweet potato. Now I know that this sweet potato was made by you? But do you know how I know about sweet potatoes? Moreover, is the output of this sweet potato really over a thousand kilograms?"
Originally, Han Yiyi thought that Emperor Beichen had learned about it from the two little guys, or from Nangong Ling and his wife. Now that she heard him ask this, she thought there must be something she didn't know, but she still answered first.
"This sweet potato was indeed taken out of my system, but the yield is more than a thousand kilograms. As long as we carefully fertilize and turn the seedlings during planting, the yield per mu can be at least eight thousand kilograms!"