C213 (1/2)
Wang Rong and asked about the plants from the southern sea. Since the weather had been cold recently, they had already prepared all the plants and moved them to the greenhouse. The Empress wanted to watch, so she let Wang Rong and her imperial manor send in the offerings. There were three of them in total, and they all chose the most beautiful three basins.
Wang Rong pulled His Majesty along to study the dishes. There were some things that she recognized from the food on the plates, but she also recognized them from the food stalls. She really didn't know much about the dishes since they were grown in the fields. Fortunately, a pot of chili peppers looked easy to recognize, the short plant placed in a blue and white porcelain vase, hanging red chili, like a small lantern, happy and cute.
Zhu Yijun was first attracted by this scene, ”This bonsai is rather interesting, it looks pretty good during the new year, how many are there?”
”It's even more effective than bonsai.” Wang Rong He said.
She paid attention to the last two plants she wasn't sure of. Because they were all green leaves, and there were no fruits on them, one was a green climbing plant, it was trimmed so that it hung right around the edge of the flower pot but did not reach the ground, the leaves were quite large and covered very tightly.
The last kind of dwarf plant, which stood erect, was taller than the pepper plant, and had four or five branches on one branch, and four clumps of obovate leaves, which could not be identified.
Zhu Yijun looked at her zeal and asked, ”What? Is this your new ornamental plant? ”
”That shouldn't be the case.” Wang Yunhe said, she asked, ”Is there a root underneath this?”
Wu Dai nodded, ”I only wanted to plant him alive, and the things below should have been seeds. I kept them there and didn't move at all.”
”Go get me a small spatula.” She rolled up her sleeves and was about to dig with her own hands.
”Empress, let me dig.” No disease.
”I'll do it myself.” Wang Rong He said, upon seeing this, Zhu Yijun took her shovel, ”Tell me, I will dig.”
Wang Rong smiled at him and narrowed his eyes, ignoring his image as he squatted on the ground and looked behind him, ”Dig from the side first, see if there's anything underneath, gently.”
This was also Zhu Yijun's first time doing this, it was dirty and tiring to dig the soil out of the flower pot. However, when he turned his head to look at Wang Rong and her eager little eyes, he felt that as long as she was happy, he shouldn't let Wang Rong do all this.
”What are you looking for?” Zhu Yijun asked her.
”I've been looking for it for a long time, it's good stuff anyway.” Wang Rong said hopefully, ”I hope it's them.”
A series of roots the size of two fingers were dug out from beneath the short vine. Below the plant were even more plump and round, almost half the size of a finger.
On the surface, Wang Rong had a look of joy, but Zhu Yijun looked at her, ”Is this what you're looking for?”
”Looks like it.” Wang Rong said with a smile, and took the initiative to peck Zhu Yijun on the face, ”Your majesty, you've worked hard, let me do it next.”
Wang Rong and Ying Ying took the two items that still had dirt on them and personally washed them. The palace maid, who was serving the entire palace, watched helplessly as the Empress personally did this crude work.
After the peanuts were washed away, it was still easy to recognize them. Wang Rong opened one and took a look. There were two white and fat peanut kernels inside. She threw one into her mouth. It was the taste. Looking at the clean, seemingly sweet potato, Wang Rong and the others were once again troubled. It was far from the size of the things in her memories.
He cut it open and took another sniff, taking a probing bite. The taste was not as good as the previous one, but it seemed to be the same as the previous one. Wang Rong tilted his head in confusion. No matter what, he had to get familiar with her first.
Then, she went to the small kitchen and filled the pot with what looked like sweet potatoes. After boiling the washed peanuts and ingredients, she got someone to bring a pot of red lanterns, which was the nickname of Chili Pepper. Under the regretful gaze of palace maid, she mercilessly plucked a few chili peppers, and the small kitchen had a portion of meat prepared and cut it along with Jiang Ya, ready to stir-fry together with the newly plucked chili peppers.
Because of Wang Rong He's actions, Qixiang Palace's dining table had been prepared in advance. After the supervisors' meals were arranged, Wang Rong He came in, followed by three palace maid s carrying three plates.
”You've been messing around over there for a long time, and I was still not allowed to look at it. Why did you come up with the last three trays?” Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
”This is a big surprise.” Wang Rong He said.
She sat on the brick bed, and after palace maid placed three plates of food on the table, he retreated to the side to serve her. Wang Rong said to Zhu Yijun, ”This is the chili fried meat, this is the salted boiled peanuts, and this is the steamed sweet potato.”
”Those pots are not for potting, but for eating?” Zhu Yijun laughed, ”You've eat and drink too much, how can you be interested in these things?”
When I was a kid, I read a book written by people who travel overseas. There are a lot of weird things in it, just a few things I don't have.” Wang Rong He said, ”Look at the grapes, if Zhang Qian hadn't brought them back from the Western Regions, a species that originally didn't exist in the Han Dynasty, we would have lost a tasty fruit.
”So, outside of our country, there must be a very wide area of land. There are a lot of species and a lot of delicious things there. I hope we can get them onto our land and grow some delicious things.”
Zhu Yijun laughed involuntarily upon hearing this, ”I don't even know if I should call you ambitious or naive and delicious.”
Wang Rong first used her chopsticks to pick up Chili Pepper, then Zhu Yijun stopped her, ”This kind of never eaten before. It can only be eaten by eunuchs after three days of observation, don't you want to die?”
”I'll test the poison for His Majesty.” Wang Rong said with a smile.
Wang Rong did not care about Zhu Yijun stopping her, she had even eaten chili fried meat, and peeled boiled peanuts to eat, and finally ate the steamed sweet potato, it was not sweet at all, causing Wang Rong and to frown.
”Is it not delicious?” Zhu Yijun said, he had been paying close attention to this whole time, ”Quickly spit it out.”