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Chapter 33
33. Steamed Cake with Fresh Fragrant Rice
Pei Nianyu said lazily, "Why do I feel itchy?" Lou Yefeng's movements froze in an instant, and he felt a little worried.
Could it be that the master has noticed his unruly thoughts?This can be...
At this time, he was already somewhat regretful, and he would not have been so unscrupulous if he had known earlier.
I am too presumptuous...
Lou Yefeng secretly looked at the master's expression, seeing the drowsiness on the master's lazy face, and he couldn't tell whether the master was angry or not for a long time, so he couldn't help but feel his heart hang up little by little.
Pei Nianyu just got Lou Yefeng's stealth gift package, stretched his waist very contentedly, then turned his head to look at Lou Yefeng, and saw that his cold facial features were a little bit at a loss when he was caught, Immediately the mood is good, like the sunshine outside the window, softly and brightly.
He suddenly approached Lou Yefeng's face, raised his eyebrows:
"Yefeng, did you just...did something bad? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"I... subordinate..."
Lou Yefeng heard that the master didn't seem to "discover" his secret relationship, and his heart became more and more flustered, his face turned blue and red, he didn't know whether to admit it or not.
After a long while, he saw that his master was still staring at him, his eyes were burning, and his expression was half a smile. There was a ghost in his heart, so he couldn't hold it anymore, and confessed honestly:
"The subordinate knows the mistake, the subordinate just...just now..."
Lou Ye's head was getting lower and lower, and he really didn't know what to say.
However, Pei Nianyu leaned forward and hugged his neck, her long hair hung down on her sides, her breath completely enveloped him, and she gently and persuasively said:
"Just what? What did you do wrong?"
In front of him was the master's gentle smile, blowing his breath like an orchid across his face, Lou Yefeng was in a state of confusion:
"I... my subordinate just secretly kissed you..."
The gentle smile on the corner of Pei Nianyu's mouth gradually...turned into a smirk:
"Oh? How many times have you kissed?"
Lou Yefeng didn't dare to look directly at his master at all:
"I... my subordinate... kissed you five times..."
Pei Nianyu's scheme succeeded, and suddenly he grabbed his broad shoulders and hugged him with great effort:
"Huh? Even dare to take advantage of the master? Say it yourself, what should you do?"
Lou Yefeng was in great embarrassment, he knew in his heart that the master was taking this opportunity to tease him again, so he couldn't honestly say, please punish Yunyun, otherwise it would spoil the atmosphere of the master.
However, he has never had any skillful experience in flirting. Although he has often been teased by his master recently, he seems to have made no progress at all.
As soon as the master got so close to him, his own mind wandered away, his mind was full of thoughts, his chest was thumping wildly, and he couldn't think of how to respond to the master.
"Master...how are you going to punish..."
Seeing his uncertain look, Pei Nianyu gently held his palm, smiled slyly, and said:
"Your level of kissing is too poor, I'll teach you."
After finishing speaking, before he could react, he leaned over and bit his lips.
Lou Yefeng became more and more nervous. He wrapped his hands around his master's body, but he didn't dare to hug him tightly. He just lay on his back, letting all his strength go, and let his master gently plunder him between his lips and teeth..
While carefully trying to respond to his master, he also tried to control his movements so as not to appear too presumptuous.At the same time, I hope that the master can stop... for a while.
After the kiss, Pei Nianyu didn't get up immediately, but looked up into Lou Yefeng's eyes.
Sure enough, the deep black eyes were filled with tenderness and a touch of expectation, and at the same time there was a bit of joy.At the corners of his eyes there were already traces of years of wind and frost, but they did not conceal his handsomeness at all, only making the affection in those eyes appear more calm.
It's just that he just wanted to look at his Ye Feng's rare expression of emotion for a while, but after being discovered by his master, Lou Yefeng hurriedly suppressed this expression in the next second, lowered his head slightly, and turned his eyes toopen to go.
Lou Yefeng felt a little remorse again in his heart, he...was too out of control again.
...The master's gentle kiss just now was like falling into fairyland for him, not to mention, his master looked at him with such serious and passionate eyes.
That was a look he had never seen in the eyes of his master.
Even though the master treated him well and respected him enough in the past ten years, because of the Peach Blossom Gu, the master always looked at him with three points of politeness and three points of alienation.
Whenever he couldn't restrain the indescribable affection in his chest, and secretly went to see his master, it was like looking at a fairy who was not in the world, and he didn't dare to blaspheme at all.
But now, the master has no scruples... and has feelings for him.
Of course he could feel that his master really liked him, gave him warmth and cared for him.The master is already very gentle in his temperament, and now all this gentleness is poured into him, like a gift from heaven.
He originally thought that he would silently guard his wishful thinking until he died of old age, but the master has always regarded him as the most trusted shadow leader, so he is satisfied.
But now...he didn't know what he could give back to his master for his kindness.
Pei Nianyu saw him in a daze, and his expression was a little imperceptibly gloomy, and wondered what Ye Feng was thinking?
So he reached out and rubbed Lou Yefeng's head, messed up his hair, and said with a smile:
"Come on, get up, and help me get dressed."
"...Yes, Master."
Lou Yefeng quickly came back to his senses, secretly thinking that he had really neglected his duty, even this little thing needs to be reminded by the master.
It's just that at the same time, even he didn't realize that he was pleased with his master's order to serve him, so he hurriedly got up and dressed.
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By the time the two of them dawdled and cleaned up (mainly Pei Nianyu was dawdling), it was more than half an hour later than usual. Fortunately, Pei Nianyu didn't need to go to court, and he had nothing to do.
If Pei Nianyu hadn't been thinking about the breakfast he had prepared last night, he might have found a way to dawdle for a while and continue to get close to Lou Yefeng in that room.
The two came to the small kitchen in the back hall of Hanqiu Pavilion to "inspect the work". Pei Nianyu entered the door and asked:
"Yun Shao, what happened to the pot cake that you were staring at last night?"
Yun Shao got up from the stove, patted the ashes off her body, and hurriedly came to greet Pei Nianyu:
"Master, after steaming overnight, it should be fine, I can already smell the fragrance."
Pei Nianyu rubbed his hands expectantly.
"Thank you for your hard work. This steamer cake needs to be cooked for a long time. It is not fresh if it is made a day in advance, so it can only be steamed overnight."
Yun Shao took the two cooks and moved the small clay pot off the stove, and then lifted the layer of thin wood and cloth covering it, and suddenly, a clear and sweet fragrance filled the small room.spread out.
It's just that Pei Nianyu just wanted to see how the lotus leaf rice cake he tried for the first time was, but his face was covered by the instant steam, and he didn't see anything, so he was a little frustrated.
Yun Shao pursed her lips and smiled:
"Master, don't worry, it must be delicious when it smells."
Pei Nianyu had no choice but to go outside the house and wait for a while until it cooled down before entering.
However, as soon as he went out, he met He Qi.
...There were still two big dark circles on his face, and he looked at him with resentment.
He Qi's facial features were rather serious, and he didn't seem to be easy to provoke. Pei Nianyu immediately felt as cold as he owed him ten thousand taels of silver for his resentment.
Pei Nianyu looked at him and was taken aback for a moment:
"Old He, you...?"
He Qi replied solemnly:
"Master, can my subordinates change shifts..."
He Qi was in unspeakable misery. He stayed on the tree and listened to his master and Lou Yefeng chattering all night. Finally, he stayed up until the morning, thinking that he could finally be freed.What is Lou Yefeng playing with?
kiss your sister kiss...
His heart was so tired, his teeth were on the verge of falling out after hearing so many hypocritical sweet words.In the end, because of the delay of the master, he was half an hour late to finish the work of guarding.
He Qi always felt that it was difficult to appease, so he came to try to ask for benefits.
And Pei Nianyu looked at him, somehow thinking that you should change it if you want, tell me what are you doing?
Then he saw He Qi standing at the door of the kitchen, not intending to move his feet at all, and realized:
"Thank you for your hard work, go in and eat something before going back to change shifts..."
"...Thank you master..."
He Qi finally found some comfort in his heart, so he went in and unceremoniously scooped up a piece of cake.
The lotus leaf steamer cake was placed in a pottery steamer, and on the top was a layer of jujube paste that had been steamed overnight until it was extremely soft, mixed with the sweet aroma of candied dates and red beans, and it was a piece of red, tightly covering the rice below.
When he scooped it down with a shovel, it revealed a layer of white glutinous rice underneath, sticky and thick, crystal clear and smooth.Mixed with the bottom lotus leaf, the fragrance of glutinous rice and lotus leaf is subtly and harmoniously mixed together, and the sweet but not greasy jujube fragrance is gently surrounded.
Desserts always have the magic power to heal tiredness, and anyone who sees them will brighten their mood.
He Qi thought to himself, it was worth it to exchange this bowl of cake made by the master for a night of suffering.
At the same time, Yun Shao and the others also shared the lotus leaf rice cake in the steamer.
At first they would ask their master for instructions, but later Pei Nianyu thought it was troublesome, so he simply acquiesced in their behavior of rubbing food, and there was no need to report it, even eating before him was no problem.
Yun Shao and the others naturally felt it. Although the master used to treat others generously, at least the rules of respect and inferiority have not changed much, and they all follow the old rules.
However, the master suffered a serious illness some time ago, and after waking up, his temperament seemed to be much more casual, and even these rules were laughed at by the master.
After He Qi left here, Pei Nianyu was just about to eat his share, but another black shadow fell over his head.
"See His Royal Highness King Yu."
"Hmm...? Are you Xiaosheng's shadow guard?"
Pei Nianyu looked at him, but didn't recognize him.
"Yes. This subordinate is ordered by the master to come...come...that...ask His Royal Highness King Yu if there is anything...that..."
"……delicious."
The shadow guard was very embarrassed, that's what Pei Niancheng's order was originally said, and he had no choice but to tell Pei Nianyu that way.
"Where's Li Han? Why isn't he here this time?"
"Return to Your Highness, Li Han is in charge..."
"……Ok."
It's the end of the year, and Pei Niancheng is so busy with government affairs that he even forgot to ask Li Han to come to his place to get takeout for a few days, so it is very possible that Li Han, as the shadow leader who handles confidential information, will be busy with him....
Pei Nianyu turned and went into the house to serve his brother a takeaway with love, but he was speechless as soon as he entered the door.
"I said you guys... can you take it easy when grabbing food..."
The steamer was not big, Yun Shao took Jiang Xue and a few maidservants, and each of them divided some, so there was only less than a small bowl left in the jar.
Not only that, but the steamed rice cake looked good when it was just steamed, but the glutinous rice and jujube paste were extremely soft and sticky. After a few spoonfuls and shoveling, the remaining rice cake was completely mushy.lump.
The red and white are mixed with each other, and even the slightly burnt part on the edge of the pot is mixed in together, and it is far from being as neat as when it was just out of the pot.
"This... um..."
Pei Nianyu was a little embarrassed.
He didn't know if it was appropriate to give this kind of food to Pei Niancheng... Although he himself didn't care how the food looked, after all, he was born in an orphanage in his previous life.love.
But Pei Niancheng has been wearing it for many years, and what serves him every day is the highest standard of life quality in this era.
Although it doesn't look good, it doesn't affect the taste, but... Pei Niancheng is... after all, the Son of Heaven, right? This is so ugly, it's a bit...
cough.
Fortunately, the shadow guard didn't know Pei Nianyu well, so he didn't dare to enter the house, so he just waited outside the door.Pei Nianyu turned his back to him, blocking his sight, and then thought of a way:
He simply gathered up all the lotus leaves at the bottom of the steamer, and took the remaining rice cakes in. Then he tied the lotus leaves with silk thread into an elegant flower, stretched the lotus leaves, and made a concave shape.
In this way, this bag of lotus leaf cake is still very good from the outside.
As for Pei Niancheng's expression when he took off the silk thread and saw the scene inside... then he didn't care.
Pei Nianyu put the lotus leaf pouch into the food box with some guilt, and let the shadow guard carry it away.
He turned around and looked at Yun Shao angrily:
"It's too much, didn't you leave some for me?"
Lou Yefeng appeared at the right time, and handed him a porcelain plate with some embarrassment:
"Master, I have served you before."
Pei Nianyu's expression suddenly changed from cloudy to sunny, first he hugged Lou Yefeng and kissed Lou Yefeng:
"It's Ye Feng who treats me better."
Then he lowered his head to see: in the middle of the light blue porcelain plate, there was a complete round rice cake firmly placed. The upper layer was warm red jujube paste, which was thickly red, and the lower layer was snow-white and translucent glutinous rice, which was translucent., distinct, mellow and lovely.
The thick juice of the top layer of candied dates is still flowing onto the rice cake, which looks extremely sweet.
"Um... this is?"
Lou Yefeng said:
"Yes, this is the most central piece, I reserved it for you directly, master."
Pei Nianyu was in a good mood, took a mouthful with a spoon, and fed the first mouthful into Lou Yefeng's mouth first:
"Your reward."
"Well……"
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At the same time, in the inner hall of the palace.
Pei Niancheng looked at the table of hard-to-eat imperial meals in front of him with a cold expression, silently counting how long it would take for the shadow guard to come back.
However, after a while, he waited for Li Han who came back after finishing his work.
When Pei Niancheng saw that he was dressed in dust, he said:
"Running all night, thank you for your hard work. Later, the shadow guard will bring over the food made by brother, why don't you stay and eat?"
Li Han glanced at the untouched dishes on the table, knowing that the owner might not want to eat these things again.So he flatly refused:
"My subordinates thank the master for his kindness, but there are still some finishing matters to be dealt with, so I will take my leave first."
——After several times watching the eyes of the master who said he wanted to give him some, but actually reluctantly parted with him, Li Han was too embarrassed to rub the master's only spiritual comfort.
So he simply slipped away.
After a while, the shadow guard who took the food came back, and there was a big green lotus leaf in the food box, with dewdrops still dripping on the lotus leaf, and it was bulging and full of something.
Pei Niancheng dismissed his surroundings, and opened the lotus leaf bag full of expectation:
"..."
It's hard to say.
What the hell is this?
It's so blurry that can't see what it is!
He looked at the rice cake that had gone through the bumps all the way and looked even more mushy than before, feeling a little aggrieved in his heart.
As the emperor of the Da Jing Dynasty, am I only worthy of eating such an ugly thing...
Brother, do you not love me anymore!
However, Pei Niancheng couldn't resist the hunger in his belly and the aroma of glutinous rice, so he picked up the spoon and tentatively took a mouthful.
So sweet and so soft.
... really fragrant.