Chapter three hundred and seventy-ninth sister and brother (a)
The brightly lit Jinxiu Palace was as warm as spring. A small square table was placed in the middle of the hall. There were not many dishes on it, only less than a dozen exquisite side dishes. Concubine Dong and Jia Sidao sat on one side. Jia Sidao just glanced and saw that these dishes placed on the table were basically all the dishes he liked to eat on his usual occasions, at least they were the ones his predecessors liked to eat.
There were no palace maids or eunuchs serving in the hall, and even Dong Songchen was driven out of the door by Concubine Jia. In the huge hall, there were only two siblings sitting adjacent to each other. Their seats were not arranged according to the order of superiority and inferiority, and everything seemed very casual.
This is a family dinner.
"Si Dao, try it while it's hot. I haven't cooked for many years, and I don't know if it's up to you." Concubine Jia's emotions have calmed down a lot at this time, but the joy and warmth in her beautiful eyes cannot be covered up anyway.
Speaking of the first time cooking in these years, it was obvious that Concubine Jia was a little inconvenient and looked at Jia Sidao with some anxiety.
Although when Jia Sidao first saw more than ten side dishes on the table that looked very delicate but were obviously different from the meals from the imperial kitchen, he had already guessed in his heart that these side dishes were made by his sister. At this moment, when he heard Concubine Jia say it and confirmed his guess, Jia Sidao felt a little sour in his eyes.
Given Concubine Jia's current status, if she had not loved her younger brother very much or even like a loving mother, she might not have the chance to cook in her life.
Picking up the chopsticks, Jia Sidao picked up a piece of vegetable and put it in his mouth, chewing his head slowly.
"What? Isn't it delicious? It's all my fault. I haven't cooked for so many years, so I shouldn't have made these things randomly. If I don't eat them, I won't eat them anymore. I'm going to ask the Imperial Seal to go to Cai again." Concubine Jia blamed herself and stood up in a hurry, obviously trying to order the Imperial Seal to renovate a table of food.
"Sister, it's delicious! It's just because it's so delicious that I'm willing to speak." Jia Sidao hurriedly swallowed the vegetables in his mouth randomly, grabbed Concubine Jia and said softly.
The moment she turned around, Concubine Jia seemed to see her increasingly strange brother's eyes flashing again. After looking closely, she only saw Jia Sidao's clear eyes as jade as she was looking at herself quietly, as if the crystal clear that had just passed was just an illusion. If it weren't for Jia Sidao's same red eyes.
"Sister, you can sit down and eat together." Jia Sidao looked at Concubine Jia and said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll eat too." Concubine Jia hurriedly sat down again. The first thing she did was to pile the small bowl in front of Jia Sidao into a hill in a moment.
"Si Dao, in a few more ****, we will go south to Guangzhou."
"Um."
"Are all things ready?"
"Yeah. All are ready."
"But there is something missing. I'll ask the palace to prepare you to bring it. The journey here is long, and Ruoxi..."
"Sister." Jia Sidao raised his head, looking at Concubine Jia who had never eaten a bite of food, but had just kept adding bricks and tiles to the hills in front of him and said softly: "Sister, everything is well prepared. My brother-in-law has given me a lot of things, and the boat can't be loaded. You can rest assuredly in the palace and take care of my nephew. You can go out to relax and don't make these things for me in the future. The smoke is too big, and you still need to rest well. Also, sister, just say whatever you have, and we siblings don't need to avoid anything."
From the first meeting of Concubine Jia, Jia Sidao had already felt that his sister must have something to say to him today, but she didn't know how to speak. Moreover, Jia Sidao guessed what Concubine Jia wanted to say. On the way here, Jia Sidao had already thought about it and wanted to have a good relationship with his sister.
Whether you admit it or not, at least in your heart, Jia Sidao has already admitted this sister.
After hearing Jia Sidao's words, Concubine Jia hesitated for a while: "Sidao, sister, a female, is not easy to interfere in the military and national affairs. But I thought you are now in the court, and you are a second-ranked person and have a good relationship with Meng Shuai. The prime ministers are also polite to Sidao. The official family is even more polite to Sidao. You are leaning on your right-hand man. My sister can't figure out why you have to travel thousands of miles to remote places like Guangdong. You are in the capital, and my sister can often see you. Guangdong and Lin'an are so far apart, and it is even more unfamiliar with people. What if someone interferes? Now, you, my brother and sister depend on each other. What if you have anything to do, what should you do to your sister?"
Speaking of this, Concubine Jia was already filled with tears in her eyes, which was obviously extremely emotional.
"Sister, I know that you care about me. In fact, even if you don't tell me this today, I will have a good talk with you before leaving Lin'an City." Jia Sidao put down his chopsticks and looked at Concubine Jia and said. "My sister is in this deep palace, I must be not very clear about the current situation. Now, the prosperous prosperity of my Song Dynasty has already been internal and external troubles."
"I've heard some mentions from the officials, but wasn't it because I had Sidao and Meng Shuai that I beat the Mongols in Xiangyang City?"
Jia Sidao sighed in his heart. His sister was in the deep palace and could know the battle in Xiangyang, because she was in Xiangyang City at that time.
"I just happened to the time of the battle in Xiangyang. The main reason is that my brother-in-law and Meng Shuai were well-organized." Jia Sidao said slowly, "If it weren't far away, just talk about the Lin'an famine not long ago. If my Song Dynasty was really prosperous, how could such a thing happen in Lin'an City, where the capital is located? If there are hunger on the road, the matter of changing children and eating is really not a rumor."
"ah!"
Perhaps because he had just become a mother, when he heard that Yi Zi was eating, Concubine Jia was obviously much more nervous than Lin'an's great famine.
"In the Battle of Xiangyang, the Mongols just voluntarily retreated for some reason. If it weren't for God's will, I guess Xiangyang City had fallen into the hands of Mongolia at this moment, and the Mongolian cavalry could have crossed the river south to Lin'an at any time. I wouldn't be able to sit here and say these words to you, sister."
Hearing Jia Sidao's words, Concubine Jia suddenly lost her appearance and grabbed Jia Sidao and looked up and down: "In the future, you will not be allowed to do this again. There are countless capable people in the court, and it is not the turn of Sidao to lead the troops to fight."
Concubine Jia said that Jia Sidao laughed silently. He really didn't know that it was better to be like this.
He understood that it was impossible to explain reason to women.
But looking at Concubine Jia's concerned eyes, Jia Sidao really didn't know how to refuse and had to bite the bullet and said, "Okay, I'll tell you that sister, I will definitely not lead the troops to fight myself unless I have to!"
"Be good, this is my good brother!"
Chapter completed!