mtl008 Chapter 285 Sugar-coated bullets
Chapter 285 Sugar-coated bullets
Outrageous!
Guo Luoluo deserves to die even more!
She can't have children herself, and she doesn't allow her eighth son to marry someone else. Does she want him to have no descendants?!
Emperor Kangxi was furious and felt that the Eighth Master was not a man: "We are all princes, how come others dare to do it, but he is afraid of his wife like a tiger?"
This is actually a bit of an exaggeration. The Eighth Master is not afraid of Guo Luoluo, he just doesn't want to have children with his concubine.
But Emperor Kangxi didn't know this. He just thought that he came from a poor family and had no confidence in front of Guo Luoluo.
As he thought about this, he remembered Wei Shi, who was a noble lady. It was indeed a bit low.
It’s better to mention it, otherwise my son will be embarrassed when he grows up.
Although Emperor Kangxi planned all these things in his mind, he hated Guo Luoluo to death for looking down on his son's background.
If her parents had not passed away, she would have embarrassed the other party and scolded them for not knowing how to raise a daughter.
It is still the Niohuru family who knows how to raise a daughter. Such a good child should be married to the prince.
At this time, he didn't care at all that there was a "side" in front of Lin Mingyan's "Fujin". Anyway, it was better than Guo Luoluo.
Lin Mingyan was sitting at home when the pie in the sky fell on her head. Rewards from the palace continued to be carried into her Linfengju.
She looked at these exquisite gifts and silently thought that they were all sugar-coated bullets of feudalism.
But I still couldn't help feeling happy. After all, this sugar-coated bullet actually hit me, and it made me feel ecstatic.
Different from the ordinary ornaments and antiques before, this time's rewards included many novel Western gadgets.
For example, the table clock and Western pocket watch were much more exquisite than the ones the Fourth Master bought for her on the market.
She was holding a particularly beautiful pocket watch with a large ruby inlaid on the cover. What was rare was that it was polished to a translucent finish and emitted a warm glow.
It opened with a click, revealing a small picture of the Virgin Mary and a dial inlaid with a circle of clear rubies.
"Hiss" Lin Mingyan exclaimed rarely.
After entering the Fourth Master's mansion, she had actually become accustomed to seeing good things. She had no idea how many pieces of jewelry the Fourth Master had given her.
Those jewels are not ordinary items, and there are many rubies bigger than this one.
Even rarer sapphires and emeralds have also been seen.
Lin Mingyan's horizons had already been broadened.
However, the polishing technology at that time was still not good enough. Although the gems were good, they would not be bright enough if they were not polished well.
But the gems inlaid on this pocket watch are different. The gems look crystal clear and pure, and their value is rising rapidly.
Du Juan came over to take a look, and her eyes widened: "Master, even the wife doesn't have such a treasure, right?"
Lin Mingyan thought to herself, let alone a concubine, there were probably not many people in the Qing Dynasty who had this.
I didn't expect Emperor Kangxi to be so generous this time.
What woman doesn’t love jewelry?
If you don’t love it, it means you haven’t reached that consumption level yet.
Lin Mingyan, who had reached this level, happily took out her pocket watch and replaced the original one.
That one is also very precious, but it is made of local kingfisher feather craft, and the pattern is a magpie on a plum tree, which has a good meaning.
Sadly, it has now been replaced by an eight-carat ruby pocket watch.
When the Fourth Master came back from a busy day, he saw her showing him her treasure: "Master, look."
The Fourth Master took a look at the bright red pocket watch. It was indeed pretty, but he didn't feel much about it.
He had no interest in these dead things. It would be more pleasing to raise a ferocious Tibetan mastiff.
But he said readily, "Cha Cha likes gemstones? This is not hard to come by. I'll ask someone to buy some from the south."
Jiangnan is a prosperous place with more new things than Beijing, so it is better to buy from there.
Moreover, Yuli has now established itself in Jiangnan with its excellent glass, and has long become a major force in the local area.
Lin Mingyan was very accustomed to these gifts from the Fourth Master. Whether it was clothes or jewelry, he never left her without one.
She nodded: "Okay, I want any color."
The Fourth Master nodded to indicate that he remembered, and pulled the woman to the bed and kissed her, but he didn't do anything else.
He thought of Cha Cha's last pregnancy. He had never paid attention to her and she was still acting up during the pregnancy.
I didn't feel anything at the time, but now I break out in cold sweats when I think about it.
If Cha Cha or the child were hurt, he would regret it to death.
Lin Mingyan didn't think it was a big deal. After all, the child was being raised in a culture chamber and nothing would happen to him.
She felt where the Fourth Master was excited and rubbed against him.
The Fourth Master hissed and dodged, saying in a hoarse voice, "Shh, don't move."
He will be fine if he slows down, but there is no guarantee if he continues to rub it.
"It's okay. Didn't Doctor Niu say that before..." Lin Mingyan used Doctor Niu's words at the hot spring villa as a guarantee.
The Fourth Master shook his head: "Those are all unreliable folk doctors. They cannot be trusted."
He asked the imperial physician, and the physician told him not to do it if possible.
In fact, the Fourth Master was just being too picky. After all, it would be better for the imperial physician to take a one-size-fits-all approach to such matters.
If something goes wrong, won’t they be the ones to suffer?
Anyway, the punishment will not be imposed on a civilian doctor.
After hearing what he said, Lin Mingyan gave up, curled up to the side, and fell asleep in a short while.
The Fourth Master looked at her sleeping face in the candlelight left outside, and called her a "heartless little thing" in his heart, then let out a breath.
It took me a long time to finally fall asleep. I didn't dare to stay up too long the next morning and went to work.
That winter, a kind of vermicelli became popular in Beijing. It was crystal clear and was absolutely delicious when paired with mutton soup.
After the Little New Year, it was time to put down his pen and take the annual holiday, and Emperor Kangxi finally had some free time.
The Fourth Master brought mutton noodles into the palace. This time, he was in Concubine De's Palace. He and the Fourteenth Master cooked mutton noodles by themselves.
Emperor Kangxi praised it very much: "A bowl of mutton rice noodles is even warmer and more delicious than mutton noodles."
"I never thought that the sweet potato, which was once so hard to swallow, could be transformed into something like this."
Sweet potatoes, which he once looked down upon, have transformed into taro balls and vermicelli, which really opened his eyes.
He had actually tried vermicelli when it became popular, but it tasted better when cooked by his son.
The Fourth Master also said, "You don't know, Father Emperor, that one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can only produce twenty kilograms of flour, and the remaining fifty kilograms of dregs."
"There are a lot of residues, but there's nothing we can do about it, it has many meridians," Emperor Kangxi didn't know that it was called dietary fiber.
The Fourth Master said, "These residues can be used to feed pigs, and the effect is better than rice bran."
Although rich families use rice bran to feed pigs, poor families also save it for food during the lean period.
But sweet potato residue is different, no one wants to eat it.
"In these two months, the pigs fed with sweet potato residue have grown twenty kilograms more meat than other pigs!" The Fourth Master's eyes were full of light.