The Salted Fish Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

26-30

Chapter 26

With the words of the Fourth Prince, Geng Qingning had no more worries and lay back on the bed. She slept soundly until the sun was high in the sky, and then she got up refreshed.

Grape made the bed with a smile and hung the bed curtains, "The master specifically asked not to disturb you, so that the princess can rest."

Xiao Tao next to her still looked proud. Geng Qingning recalled that she seemed to have experienced this scene last time. At that time, she didn't understand it much, but now she couldn't help but feel that the Fourth Prince was so nice and considerate.

Could this be the suspension bridge effect, where the brain mistakenly took the trembling heart as an accelerated heartbeat?

When Geng Qingning watched the palace fighting drama, she actually couldn't understand why all kinds of charming beauties would fall in love with an old man in his thirties or forties, or even over fifty. Could it be that they were all blind?

Now that she is in this environment, she can understand it a little bit. Apart from other things, there are many opportunities for her heart to beat faster. Unfortunately, her brain is stupid and she can't tell whether it is love or fear. In order to keep her body alive, she can only define it as love.

But speaking of it, the Fourth Prince seems to be quite special to her. Princess Niu Hulu entered the mansion with her, and she has only seen the Fourth Prince once so far. However, the Fourth Prince is willing to take care of her, a small eunuch in the Lanyuan.

After thinking about it, she still couldn't figure it out. She could only attribute it to the fact that the salted fish system had opened a particularly large golden finger for her in order to allow her to lie down safely.

Geng Qingning shook her head and threw away all these crooked ideas. Anyway, her life was saved now, and the Fourth Prince seemed to be really good to her, so why bother herself.

After she had put her worries aside, Geng Qingning realized that she was hungry. She had slept through her breakfast, so she naturally didn't eat it. Now that she thought about it, her stomach felt like it was pierced by hunger.

Grape took out a gold-painted and colorfully painted rosewood tray like a treasure. Geng Qingning looked closely and saw several styles of cakes on the white porcelain plate.

She was happy then and picked up a five-nut pastry.

The five-nut pastry looks like a modern egg yolk pastry. It is called five-nut pastry, but it is actually made of pine nuts, walnuts, peanuts, black and white sesame seeds, melon seeds, cashews, and Xinjiang red fragrant concubines mixed with plenty of maltose syrup, kneaded into a ball, stuffed into the dough, and slowly baked in the oven for three quarters of an hour on a low fire. Before taking it out of the oven, brush it with a layer of egg yolk liquid and bake it for a while.

The whole five-nut pastry looks golden yellow and tastes so crispy that it falls apart. The nuts inside are all sifted by the eunuchs one by one. They are of the best size and appearance. They are filling and delicious, and the more you chew, the more fragrant they are.

The five-nut mooncakes were really wronged. Geng Qingning thought as he ate them. He remembered that in the past, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the five-nut mooncakes were always complained about by many people because they were unpalatable. Now it seems that some unscrupulous merchants used poor ingredients, which ruined its reputation.

A word of mouth can make a good thing bad.

The nuts were too solid, and Geng Qingning's cheeks felt sour from chewing. He looked at the Ruyi milk rolls next to him.