Becoming The Real Rich Daughter After Divorce

The kitchen is quite hot in summer, and the cooks in Hou's mansion were all curious when they saw Qiao Jinniang coming.

But I also know that this young lady who is now the most favored lady in the mansion dare not say anything other than flattering her.

It was almost evening, and this summer night already made people lose their appetite, so what Qiao Jinniang planned to cook was some appetizing food to cool off the heat.

After working for about half an hour, Qiao Jinniang followed the maid and brought out the dishes one by one.

Marquis Anyuan ordered people to put these dishes into food boxes.

Qiao Jinniang saw An Yuanhou packing the box and asked, "Didn't father eat it by himself?"

Marquis Anyuan said: "Your Majesty ordered you to cook, for father to enter the palace to serve food, do you want to go together?"

Qiao Jinniang shook her head repeatedly. She felt very depressed after going to the East Palace.

She was absolutely unwilling to go to the palace.

Qiao Jinniang said again: "Since they are sent to the palace, I'm afraid the dishes will get cold, so I'll put some glutinous rice on a charcoal stove and put them under the food box..."

Marquis An Yuan said: "Okay."

...

Marquis An Yuan sent the dishes to the palace, and as soon as he entered the emperor's bedroom, he saw Lu Chen coming over.

Marquis An Yuan hurriedly saluted, "I have seen Your Highness."

"Master Hou doesn't need to be too polite, I will have to rely more on Master Hou's teachings in the future."

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it." An Yuanhou said repeatedly.

Lu Chen's gaze was on the food box in An Yuanhou's hand, "This is?"

Marquis Anyuan said: "These are some home-cooked dishes made by my little girl. They are not available on the table. I will bring them to His Majesty to taste."

Lu Chen frowned and said, "When you sweat when you go out in summer, why go to the stove in the kitchen?"

Marquis An Yuan also thought the same way, but the emperor's order was hard to disobey, he said with a smile: "Jin Niang is also a person who loves to cook."

Emperor Huilin heard the voice outside and asked, "Qiao Qing is here?"

Marquis Anyuan repeatedly handed the food box to the eunuch at the side. After the emperor's father-in-law took it, he went to test for poison with silver needles before putting it on the emperor's dining table.

The queen came slowly and said: "Your Majesty let the courtiers cook like this, if it spreads, the fame of this life may be ruined."

Marquis An Yuan said from the side: "It's okay, it's my daughter's blessing to be able to cook for His Majesty."

Emperor Huilin said to Marquis Anyuan: "Aiqing has a heart, I will never forget Miss Qiao Er, Wang Quan, you choose a box of treasures from the Queen's private treasury, bring it back to Marquis Anyuan and give it to Qiao Er Second Miss."

Marquis An Yuan knelt down to thank him again, and then left with Eunuch Wang Quan.

Sitting beside the empress, Lu Chen said to Emperor Huilin, "Father, the kitchen is smoky and hot, and it's not like there are no other cooks in the imperial dining room, so why let Jinniang cook?"

Emperor Huilin said angrily: "Go, go, since you feel sorry for Miss Qiao Er cooking, then you can eat in the imperial dining room today, and don't come here to be an eyesore."

Lu Chen: "..."

Empress Zhou smiled and said, "Chen'er must have gotten used to Jinniang's skills a long time ago, right?"

Lu Chen said: "She doesn't go to the kitchen very often. She is good at making pastries, marinating marinated meat, etc. It's too tiring and hurtful in the kitchen. Even if she wants to, I can't bear it."

The queen sighed, "Now she is going to marry someone else, but you know you can't bear it? Do you really want to watch her marry Li Yun?"

Lu Chen pursed his lips, "Of course not, the divorce letter she cares about, and the minister who demoted his wife to concubine will give her an explanation. The minister has already ordered someone to investigate the divorce letter. The handwriting of this divorce letter is forged , but it doesn't look like it was sent by Chang'an.

Concubine Yongxian and the others seem to be unaware of the matter between Jinniang and me, and they have checked from past post stations. The letter of divorce should not have been passed on from Chang'an. Maybe someone in Lin'an did it on purpose, so we have to go to the matter. Lin'an investigation can reveal the truth. "

The queen took a sip of rice wine lightly, "It's really not easy for you, Qiao Jinniang is already preparing the dowry, and you just remembered the divorce letter now?"

Lu Chen said slowly: "As long as the divorce letter is not true, my marriage with Qiao Jinniang is still going on."

Emperor Huilin tasted a bowl of fish slices, appetizing and refreshing. He was still wondering why the fish had a faint aroma of wine. Hearing what Lu Chen said, he said:

"Then how can the marriage count? You don't feel ashamed when the prince of a country enters a merchant's house, but I feel ashamed!"

Lu Chen cupped his hands and said: "Then father can directly give up the position of grandson to Brother Tuan, so that the ministers will not lose face of the royal family."

Emperor Huilin ate a piece of fish, swallowed it and said, "How dare you think about it? What's the name of this dish?"

Lu Chen glanced at it and said: "This is a rotten fish fillet. Jinniang is excellent at making rotten stew. The rotten duck feet and rotten chicken are delicious. In autumn and winter, there are drunk crabs that are the best in the world." tasty."

The queen tasted it and said: "It's really good, but Chen'er, you said that the divorce letter doesn't count, but you have to know that there are laws in our Tang Dynasty. If a man marries, the woman who marries also has the right to divorce her husband."

Lu Chen said: "I don't believe she dared to divorce me."

The queen felt that, according to Qiao Jinniang's temperament, she might not dare to divorce her husband.

...

Early the next morning, it also started raining in Chang'an, which had little rain.

Qiao Jinniang was thinking about making some distiller's grains. Yesterday she found a lot of unused distiller's grains in the kitchen of the Hou's mansion, which was a good thing.

She was processing goose meat and goose paws with the maids in the courtyard.

Yuyan came in from the Moon Gate and said, "Miss, Miss, Mr. Li is here, and now he is kneeling by Mrs. Hou's side to plead guilty, do you want to go and see?"

Qiao Jinniang washed her hands with red stains, untied the straps on her body, and went to Mrs. Hou's courtyard under an umbrella.

I saw Li Yun kneeling on the eaves of the corridor, the raindrops falling along the eaves had already soaked Li Yun's clothes.

Qiao Jinniang went over to Li Yun and said, "Cousin please get up first."

Li Yun looked at Qiao Jinniang with guilty eyes and said, "Cousin, no matter whether the marriage is successful or not, it is indeed my fault that you were laughed at by all the noble girls in Chang'an."

"Mrs. Hou annoyed me and punished me to kneel. I deserved it."

At this time, Mrs. Qiao came over, saw Li Yun kneeling outside the door, and heard the maid who came to report that she had knelt for a quarter of an hour, and Mrs. Qiao was also annoyed.

Mrs. Qiao went directly inside, and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, since the marriage has already been withdrawn, why do you treat our brother Yun like this?

He will take the imperial examination in a short time, and he is also famous. Do you deserve him to kneel like this? "

Mrs. Hou said: "He came to plead guilty by himself. You don't know what those daughters said about my Jinniang yesterday. Jinniang has suffered such a big wrong. Why can't I take it easy?"

Mrs. Qiao Er snorted softly: "This is because Qiao Jinniang looked down on my brother Yun and wanted to enter the gate of the royal family!

It's not good for me to talk about retiring, so the nobleman in the royal family found Ruyu and plotted against my brother Yun!

Rather, it gave her a justifiable reason to retire and marry into the royal family!

As a second marriage, Jinniang is worthy of entering the royal family?

For the position of side concubine, she has worked so hard! "

Qiao Jinniang asked Li Yun, "Is what Second Aunt said true? Ruyu was ordered by the crown prince?"

Li Yundao: "Ruyu's confession was indeed tricked by nobles in the royal family.

She was afraid of offending that nobleman, and she was also afraid that that nobleman would think of other ways to deal with me, so she agreed to that nobleman to find you in Zhiwei Pavilion..."

Qiao Jinniang clenched her hands tightly, gritted her teeth and said, "Lu Chen is simply deceiving people too much!"

After finishing speaking, she held an umbrella and left Hou Mansion with Nuomi.