Chapter 154: Handing over the Emperor’s Food
Su Xiaoxiao found out after asking that no one knew how to eat the eel soup.
"I just saw some eels whose internal organs have not been cleaned. Wouldn't it be dirty to eat them directly?"
Although Pei Yuan did not dare to look at Su Xiaoxiao, he still expressed his thoughts.
Su Xiaoxiao picked up a smaller eel with chopsticks. The internal organs in its belly had not been cleaned yet.
I saw Su Xiaoxiao holding the eel's head with chopsticks, and then using another chopstick to pick out the eel's spine from the middle, along with all the internal organs in the eel's body.
What was left was the white and firm meat of the eel, which looked very delicious. Su Xiaoxiao put the eel in her mouth and it immediately melted in her mouth.
Su Xiaoxiao ate very happily, followed by Dabao. He immediately imitated Su Xiaoxiao and started eating. Unexpectedly, he did the same, imitating the same, and started eating immediately.
Over there, Su Xiaoxiao began to drink the eel soup. It turned out that the essence of this dish was in the soup. In fact, the vegetables in the soup were the best things. Su Xiaoxiao made a slurping sound while drinking the soup with great enjoyment.
Chunxiang and Qiuye had already begun to eagerly enjoy the eel soup. At present, Pei Yuan was the only one who was watching everyone eat here with his stomach growling.
"It smells so good! Daddy, if you don't come over to eat, it will be gone!"
Dabao reminded Pei Yuan at the right time, telling Pei Yuan that if he didn't come over to eat, the eel soup would be gone, and he would probably be hungry.
At this time, Pei Yuan didn't care so much anymore. He really couldn't resist the aroma of the eel soup, otherwise, he wouldn't have come to eat.
Compared with these, Pei Yuan felt that it was more important to fill his stomach first.
After eating it, Pei Yuan actually forgot all about the initial appearance of the eel. There was only umami taste in his mouth. The eel soup was so delicious.
Pei Yuan ate one bowl of rice after another and finally couldn't stop eating. He hadn't eaten Su Xiaoxiao's food for a long time. All the cooks at home couldn't compare to the delicious food cooked by Su Xiaoxiao.
In Pei Yuan's heart, Su Xiaoxiao's cooking is the most delicious.
After lunch, Su Xiaoxiao was busy sending Chunxiang and Qiuye away.
Pei Yuan didn't agree at first, "I brought this to serve you. Why did you refuse my kindness?"
Pei Yuan said that just let the two of them clear the table after dinner, and there was no need to bother Su Xiaoxiao any more.
Su Xiaoxiao shook his head and said: "If you still have the temper of a general and need someone to serve you, you might as well leave together and take away all the bits and pieces you brought here."
When Su Xiaoxiao said this, Pei Yuan quickly compromised.
He had no choice but to say to Chunxiang and Qiuye: "You two go back to the General's Mansion first. You are no longer needed here."
The two little maids quickly asked Pei Yuan in a tearful voice, "General, did we behave badly? That's why you drove us away?"
The two of them said that we came here and didn't do any work. We were still served here by Su Xiaoxiao and had such a delicious meal. It seemed that Su Xiaoxiao must have thought that we were here just to eat. That's why he treated them like this and prepared to drive them away.
The two little maids were frightened
Pei Yuan quickly shook his head and said: "No, this is what Miss Su meant."
"Let's go." The two little maids were quite reluctant to leave. After all, Su Xiaoxiao had not ordered them to work since they arrived.
This thing seems quite comfortable, and secondly, so far, it seems that they have never had such delicious food in the General's Mansion.
Xin asked why his general Pei Yuan was willing to come here. It didn’t matter whether he liked Su Xiaoxiao or not, but Su Xiaoxiao’s food was extremely delicious.
After Chunxiang and Qiuye left, Su Xiaoxiao saw Pei Yuan starting to place his things in the room.
He first found Su Xiaoxiao's room and prepared to put his luggage in it.
Su Xiaoxiao quickly stopped him, "Wait a minute, what are you thinking? Now Dabao and Xiaobao each have a room, and you actually want to come over and sleep in the same room with me, no!"
"ah?"
Pei Yuan began to show his coquettish and innocent face again, "No."
Su Xiaoxiao resolutely rejected Pei Yuan. In the end, Pei Yuan had no choice but to choose a room closest to Su Xiaoxiao's room, which was the room opposite Su Xiaoxiao's room that was almost the same size and put all his things in it.
Su Xiaoxiao had no other choice but to let Pei Yuan do whatever he wanted. Forget it, who told the children to like him?
After Su Xiaoxiao learned about Pei Yuan's identity, she was always worried about him hiding her identity before, feeling that he had deceived her.
But Su Xiaoxiao couldn't let go of Pei Yuan in her heart. After Pei Yuan left, she missed him very much.
I can't sleep thinking about him every night, but I still can't accept the fact that he lied to me.
What's more, Pei Yuan also had a marriage arranged by the emperor, which Su Xiaoxiao couldn't accept even more.
Su Xiaoxiao knew that after Pei Yuan lived here, Tang Xiaoman would inevitably come to harass him every day, and it would probably be lively by then.
Xiaobao is particularly attached to Pei Yuan and always pesters him to teach her how to read. Whenever she sees Pei Yuan resting, she will go up and put her arms around Pei Yuan's neck and pass by with a three-character book. Although she is only three years old now, she usually studies. If it were early, it would be time to start receiving enlightenment education.
For example, poetry, songs, simple arithmetic, these should not be left out.
Su Xiaoxiao and the others took a nap at noon. In the afternoon, Li Zheng came to inform each house that it was time to pay the official grain. Su Xiaoxiao's household registration was in the Sujiazhuang of her uncle and aunt in the neighboring village. She had to bring the grain to Pay it over there.
It is said that in ancient times, there was a huge mountain pressing on the heads of the people, and there was no way to avoid taxes and corvee.
At this time, the border was not stable, and the country had to raise troops to fight. Naturally, the taxes that weighed on the people became much heavier.
The people are already working hard enough, and there are even some officials who are trying their best to squeeze them.
The most irritating thing about these people is that no matter how bad the lives of the poor people are, they have no food left to eat themselves, and they even have to pay the imperial food to them.
Su Xiaoxiao came to Sujiazhuang. This was the place where she was born. The place where the original owner was born carried her childhood. But now she saw that her fellow villagers were being bullied by the officers and soldiers who collected grain. Of course, she couldn't bear to come out to meddle in other people's business. .
"Master, we can't hand over this grain. We don't even have any left over for the New Year. What can we give to the country?"
(End of chapter)