Ancient Foodie Survival Guide

Chapter 45

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On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, when the people of Xie Guogong's mansion arrived at the river bank, the people had already surrounded the bank with three floors and three floors.

Jiang Shuyao followed Xu's carriage into the restaurant, and just a few steps into the restaurant, he was stopped by someone, and when he looked back, it was Xie Xun.

Xie Xun wanted to participate in the race, so he came here early to prepare and did not go with them.

At this time, he suddenly ran to the restaurant a little far from the starting point. Jiang Shuyao thought that there was something important, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

Xie Xun is different from usual. Today, he packs up very energetically, and his uniforms are bright, which makes his face as white as jade, and his face is full of vigor and vitality. Even his estranged and cold face in the past is full of vigor and vitality. A young man who loves to gallop on horses.

"I'm going to participate in the race in a while."

Jiang Shuyao nodded, waiting to hear what he said.

Who knew that Xie Xun ran so far, just to say this, he added: "Remember the color of my uniform."

Time was running out, he put down this sentence, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

"Hey!" Jiang Shuyao was confused and stopped him quickly, but Xie Xun was like a fish in the water, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. She could only see his bright and dazzling figure getting farther and farther in the crowd.

Jiang Shuyao was helpless and muttered, "Just to say these two words."

Xu's figure sounded from the stairs on the second floor: "Third siblings, what's wrong?" She walked to the second floor and turned around, only to find that Jiang Shuyao was gone.

"It's okay." Jiang Shuyao quickly caught up with the corner of her skirt.

As soon as she went upstairs, someone called her from the corner: "Mrs. Xie."

She turned around and saw Ge Qingshu looking at her in surprise.

"You are here too." She walked over to greet Xu graciously, and then grabbed Jiang Shuyao's wrist, "What a coincidence." It seemed that she had a lot to say to her.

Seeing this, Mrs Xu said, "The two of you are chatting, I'll go first."

After she left, Ge Qingshu couldn't wait to say: "Lin's restaurant opened a few days ago, I called someone to see it, and they reported back that the restaurant was crowded with people, business was booming, and you could smell the fragrance from far away."

Jiang Shuyao smiled and said, "Did you ask someone to join in?"

Ge Qingshu said frankly: "It's not a compliment, I'm a glutton, so I deliberately asked the servants to buy some for me." Her tone was flat, and there was a trace of resentment, "But the restaurant doesn't sell hamburgers."

Jiang Shuyao explained: "I thought that the hamburger was still not suitable, so I changed some food and sold it, but it will always be sold in the future. Of course, it still depends on how my mother arranges it. I don't understand business."

Ge Qingshu sighed regretfully and urged again: "I don't know when I will be able to open a family in the capital? The Roujiamo that my servant bought for me last time was already cold when I brought it home."

Jiang Shuyao saw Ge Qingshu complaining about not eating hot food with his extraordinary and celestial face, and couldn't help laughing, and said to her, "I brought some zongzi today, do you want to eat some?"

Although she didn't know what the dumplings were in her mouth, Ge Qingshu still nodded without hesitation.

Jiang Shuyao stretched out his hand, and Bai Zhi immediately handed over the food box.

Today, Jiang Shuyao was going to play outside for a day, so Jiang Shuyao thought about bringing a few zongzi, and let the staff in the restaurant steam it during the meal. After all, the Dragon Boat Festival lunch is always incomplete without the zongzi.

Ge Qingshu's maid happened to be carrying a box for pastries, so Jiang Shuyao put a few dumplings in it: "The taste is salty or sweet, and you can eat it directly after steaming it."

Ge Qingshu thanked him, and then he remembered to invite Jiang Shuyao into the room to talk. After all, it was always inappropriate for the two of them to stand outside.

Ge Qingshu is pretty and loves food. Jiang Shuyao and her also had something to talk about. Just as she was about to nod her head in agreement, a loud drumbeat suddenly came from afar.

Jiang Shuyao was startled and puzzled, Ge Qingshu explained to her, "The dragon boat race is about to begin."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Shuyao hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'll come to you later, I have to go to see the dragon boat." After speaking, he hurried away.

Ge Qingshu stood on the spot, sighed, and said indifferently: "What's so good about picking up a dragon boat, it's so noisy."

"Miss, Madam Xie's husband is going to pick up the dragon boat, she should hurry to see it."

Ge Qingshu sighed resentfully: "That's it, that's it."

When Jiang Shuyao hurried back to the room, Xie Pei was already standing by the window shouting. She hurried over and saw that the dragon boats were originally lined up neatly at the starting point, and in the blink of an eye, they slid out of the river.

Because of the painful experience last time, Lin Cheng had a headache when he saw the dark clothes. This time, the team uniforms were made extremely bright and dazzling red, which was particularly conspicuous on the river surface.

Jiang Shuyao recognized the dragon boat where Xie Xun was at a glance, and Yizhou Yanhong threw a lot of others away and charged ahead from a distance.

"It looks like the third brother and his team will come out on top!" Xie Pei said excitedly.

"Is there a reward for winning?" Jiang Shuyao asked.

"Of course, the saints will reward them in person, and sometimes the empress and concubine will also reward them." She said with a beaming expression, and only after she realized that she was talking to Jiang Shuyao, her voice froze, and she turned her head away awkwardly.

Jiang Shuyao didn't care about her, and watched the game with all his attention, and then watched Xie Xun's team shine brightly on the stage.

It was the first time that Lin Cheng won the dragon boat rowing. When he stepped on the stage, he was nervously on the same foot. Looking at the people next to him, they were basically the same as him, except for Xie Xun.

Seeing Xie Xun keep turning his head and looking into the distance, he wondered, "What are you looking at?"

Xie Xun made a "no" and didn't answer.

His eyes fell on Jiang Shuyao, who was shrunk to a small point in front of the restaurant window, and pursed the corners of his mouth, wondering if she saw him.

The emperor is getting older, and he likes to see the energetic young man. When he sees them come up, he will not be stingy.

Lin Cheng was terribly excited, but Xie Xun didn't feel much, and he stood out among the group of people with composure.

Concubine Lin's eyes fell on him, and she suddenly said, "I am really happy to see the concubine today. Although the emperor has already rewarded it, the concubine also wants to reward him."

"The emperor will reward you, then this palace will reward your family members." She waved, and the eunuch hurried forward to deliver the reward.

The reward of the imperial concubine will not be too expensive, that is, to help the fun, Xie Xun took the reward and thanked everyone together.

After getting off the high platform, everyone can't wait to see the reward, everyone's is different, but Xie Xun's share is particularly eye-catching.

Gorgeous workmanship of the golden hairpin of Ping Tilian lies in the jewelry box, shining brightly. It was only then that everyone remembered that Xie Xun married Concubine Lin's niece, and when they saw Bing Tilian on the hairpin, they all screamed and coaxed.

Xie Xun closed the box with an expressionless face, and the base of his ears crept into a blush.

Originally, I wanted to give the reward that I got to the Jiang family, but now I see Bing Dilian on this hairpin, how can he give it away

Seeing that Xie Xun didn't respond, everyone felt bored and dispersed, leaving only Lin Cheng standing beside him.

He coughed, pretending that he had no intention of mentioning it: "Since all the houses are here today, I just happened to go and see the old lady."

Last time I went to the Lin's restaurant to eat happily, but I bumped into many colleagues and was caught by Xie Xun. No matter how thick his skin was, he couldn't hang it, so he only went there once and didn't go again.

Now that Jiang Shuyao is also beginning to move around him. First, he wants to get close to his sister-in-law and ask her if she intends to open a store in the capital, or to establish a good relationship, so that she can go to Xie Guogong's mansion next time to have a meal; It shouldn't be like going to the street to buy cakes to make snacks like in other provinces, maybe there is something fresh to eat.

Thinking about it this way, I felt that I was rowing the dragon boat desperately just now, and I wasted a lot of energy. Now my stomach is empty and I am hungry.

Xie Xun didn't think much about it, and led Lin Cheng to the restaurant where Xie Guogong's mansion was.

After Jiang Shuyao gave Ge Qingshu zongzi, there were not many remaining zongzi, so he asked someone to borrow the stove in the restaurant to steam it, which happened to be served with lunch.

As soon as Xiao Er left, Xie Xun came back, followed by Lin Cheng.

After he came in, he respectfully saluted the old lady and glanced straight at the table.

He used to make the old man happy, and the old lady was happy when she saw him.

While replying to the old lady's words, Lin Cheng sifted through the food on the table, this is not, this is not... His eyes were fixed on the zongzi.

This looks fresh.

Xie Xun's eyes were sharp, and he quickly noticed Lin Cheng's absent-minded and perfunctory appearance, and followed his eyes to look at the dumplings.

Well, he knew that Lin Cheng missed his mother so much, so he didn't go back for dinner, so he came here to meet him.

He walked over and asked Jiang Shuyao, "Is this for me?"

"Well." Jiang Shuyao replied, "leave one for me, and the other four are yours. There were originally more, but I gave Miss Ge a few, and that's all that's left."

The zongzi was brought by Jiang Shuyao. The people from Xie Guogong’s mansion were too embarrassed to take it even if they were curious and greedy. There were five steaming zongzi on the white porcelain plate, which were fresh and sweet.

Xie Xun nodded, holding four hot zongzi and pulling Lin Cheng out of the room.

Lin Cheng's eyes were glowing, and as soon as he left the room, he stared at the dumplings and said, "What does it taste like? Is it delicious?"

Xie Xun said: "I don't know, I'll try it." The zongzi was neatly opened, and the sweet and fragrant heat overflowed instantly.

The glutinous rice was pinched into a horn shape, golden and white, with reddish-brown fine bean paste faintly running out of the glutinous rice.

Xie Xun took a bite without haste, and pulled out a few sticky sweet threads from the soft glutinous rice, which made a sticky sound when chewing.

"Well, sweet, delicious."

After he finished eating one, the servant took the zongzi leaves, and Xie Xun started to peel off another one.

"This is salty, the egg yolk is salty and delicate, the red oil is soaked into the rice, the meat is tender and smooth, and it melts between the rice. It's delicious."

One more down.

Lin Cheng was in a hurry and was thinking about how to hint Xie Xun to give him one when Xie Xun suddenly said: "It's a pity that it's too little for me to eat, it should have been yours, but you heard that my wife gave it to her. ."

Lin Cheng's mind instantly flashed the picture of himself chewing glutinous rice dumplings, and his heart ached. He was completely fooled by Xie Xun's serious appearance. He didn't expect Xie Xun to have four zongzi in his hands. No matter how he didn't eat enough, he should give one to himself who didn't have any.

He looked eagerly at Xie Xun eating zongzi, and suddenly smelled a fragrance on the tip of his nose. He turned his head and saw that Xiao Er walked past with a plate of zongzi and knocked on the door of a room not far away.

"My zongzi." Lin Cheng whispered sadly.

Ge Qingshu, who had just returned to her room after visiting her grandmother, happened to hear this sentence. She looked at the zongzi on the small second-hand in the distance, and then looked at Lin Cheng. She suddenly said, "It's mine."

Lin Cheng didn't expect a person floating beside him, and was startled.

He blinked and looked at Ge Qingshu, Ge Qingshu's eyes were cold, he squinted at him, and his tone was cold: "It's my zongzi."

Then the skirt didn't move, and he walked away gracefully.

Lin Cheng, who was inexplicably intimidated:

So aggrieved, huh.