The prince came out on top in the relationship competition, but it was of no use. As the prince, it was impossible for him to pack some leftovers and return to the palace.
Regrets are regrets, but seeing everyone looking at him resentfully, the Crown Prince was relieved.
"Where is my cousin, I'm leaving, I have to say hello to her." The prince said dignifiedly, thinking that he should have a good relationship with Jiang Shuyao, so that he can come to eat next time, and if possible, ask for more recipes It would be better to go to the East Palace.
Xie Xun's eyes swept across the group of bright eyes, looking eagerly at his partners. Oh, it's so obvious that they're thinking about her daughter-in-law.
He said: "Your Highness's words are not good. After all, my wife is a woman, so I don't want to meet foreign guests." Xie Xun patted his sleeves, his body was tall and straight, and his tone was indifferent.
Looking at the hospital, he is the only one who still maintains his demeanor.
He stood up and looked at the sky: "It's getting late, it's time for Your Highness to return to the palace." He looked down at the messy table, and then glanced at his colleagues, all of whom were flushed with food and full of spring breeze.
Enough is enough, let's go.
Who is not a good person in this room, but collectively pretended to be stupid, pretending that they couldn't hear what he meant to see off. At this moment, they had a tacit understanding that they were like half-twins.
"By the way, Bo Yuan, when will the Lin family's market open in the inner city? We can't just open those at the wharf." Since the last time they ate the food of the Lin family store at the wharf, they have been thinking about it. I have been looking forward to it for a long time, but I only waited for the news that the Lin family's store opened on the pier outside the city.
Jiang Shuyao would chat with Xie Xun before going to bed, so Xie Xun still knew the Lin family's plan.
"The Lin family shouldn't open a store in the inner city. My mother-in-law wanted to do something that would benefit the poor. Wouldn't it be against the original intention to open a restaurant in the inner city?" Xie Xun replied earnestly.
Everyone was stunned when they heard the words. Xie Xun said this, and they remembered the first-come-first-come-first-served rule when selling meals in the Lin family's market. Whether it was the poor people or the servants sent by high-profile families, they all paid attention to first-come, first-served, and no queue cut. It's possible, that's why they haven't eaten since that time, just because the little servants who need to hurry can't grab the men who are squatting.
The people present here are all court officials who are concerned about the livelihood of the society and the people. After hearing the actions of the Lin family, their hearts are faintly touched.
Sure enough, the rumors were not credible. They all said that Mrs. Xiangyang was hot and jealous, and her body smelled like copper. But seeing the micro-knowledge, how can a person with such a heart be as unbearable as a rumor.
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but think of Jiang Shuyao, who was also tired of rumors.
Except for the prince, everyone else had seen the former Jiang Shuyao, and the impression in their minds was vague, they only remembered the thick makeup on her face and the antics she made to entangle the beautiful man.
handsome man…
Thinking of this, everyone raised their heads and stared at Xie Xun.
I once thought that Jiang's daughter would marry Xie Boyuan, and their thoughts were: It's dangerous and dangerous, but fortunately, I am not as handsome as Bo Yuan.
But looking at him now, I silently shed two lines of tears in my heart: It's so difficult, so difficult, why am I not good-looking enough.
They comforted themselves that although Xie Boyuan had delicious food every day, his wife was far inferior to him in appearance, and she was not so enviable... That's weird, woo woo woo, even if she is a salt-free girl, they have to praise the country and the city for this skill. .
Xie Xun felt that their eyes were strange, thinking that there was something dirty on his face, he lifted his sleeves and wiped it.
The group of people didn't leave because they wanted to wait for the second round. He was not polite, and simply saw off the guests neatly: "Okay, let's go, I'll take you out."
Well, everyone sighed regretfully in their hearts and walked out with their bulging stomachs.
The old lady looked at the sky and circled the hall anxiously.
"Let people go and see if they have the big kitchen set up." When she frowned, the vertical lines between her brows were very obvious, and she looked particularly harsh and harsh.
The mammy nodded respectfully, and hurriedly told the maid to do it quickly.
After a while, the maid who went out to inquire about the news came back, and replied timidly: "Old Madam, the third room did not let the big kitchen prepare meals."
Hearing this answer, the old lady sneered: "Oh, I thought the third child was a smart one, but I didn't expect that he was also someone who couldn't tell the difference. His Royal Highness and so many ministers were in the courtyard, and he really dared to let the Jiang family be responsible. Meal, is this determined to hold face and not admit defeat?"
She talked a lot, but the maid didn't dare to speak, and when she took a breath, she dared to continue to report: "Old Madam, I went to the third room to see, His Royal Highness and the others... It seems that they have enough to eat. Very happy."
The old lady was stunned for a while, her anger was still on her head, and she subconsciously thought she had heard it wrong.
"What did you say?"
The maid hurriedly lowered her head and said more respectfully: "The third room is in full swing, and you can hear laughter and laughter across the courtyard wall. The servant asked someone to ask, saying that the ingredients in the small kitchen were used up, and the large kitchen was even more evenly distributed. In the past, it seemed like that, and I didn’t have enough fun.”
The voice fell, and the room fell into a strange silence.
The atmosphere was so overwhelming that the maids did not dare to breathe loudly, for fear of angering the old lady.
Just when everyone was so frightened by the old lady's reaction that she was about to break out in a cold sweat, she suddenly spoke up.
The voice was still calm and calm on the surface, but there was a taste of gritted teeth in secret: "Is what you said true?"
The maid answered yes, and lowered her head even lower.
The old lady forced herself to calm down and denied it for a while, "Impossible. If other officials like it, I will treat them as having fun and cheer them up. But in the third room is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who has never eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas. , I haven't seen any novel food, how could it be possible to like the food made by Jiang's so much, it's totally unreasonable - I know, His Royal Highness - it must be for the third child's face." She found a reason, and was extremely angry because of this reason, "No, no, I can't let the third child be like this, and I can't let them lose the face of Duke Xie's government."
"Hmph, where is it bad to have such a face? It's absurd to ask His Royal Highness and colleagues from the East Palace to carry Jiang's sedan chair! It's ridiculous!"
She stood up, now it was time for her to save the scene.
When the prince came to the mansion, the old lady packed up. She straightened her cuffs without wrinkles and said solemnly, "Go to the third room."
A group of people rushed to the third room with serious faces. Before they reached the third room, they ran into the friends in the East Palace who were full of food and drink and were driven away by Xie Xun.
They were so fed up that they walked with their stomachs stretched out all over the place.
The hot pot had a strong smell, and they were wearing high-quality materials, which breathed and absorbed sweat and odor at the same time, so before they could get to them, a strong spicy hot pot smell penetrated into the old lady's nostrils.
She looked at the group of people in front of her in disbelief, suspecting that she was dreaming.
What about the elegant and unparalleled Crown Prince? What about the young and handsome Lin family boy? There is also a talented Guan family from a family of poetry and calligraphy, and a grandson of the Li family raised by the Wenchen family for generations... Who is this group of lazy guys in front of them? !
When they were sweating, they rubbed their sleeves and rubbed their hair a bit messy. In addition, they were all flushed from eating, and they looked like drunken dudes wandering the streets. Delicious food without the slightest hint of drunkenness.
"My favorite is the mutton roll."
"I am different. There are many side dishes on the table, but I only love duck intestines."
"Hey Lin Wenrao, you're ashamed to say that there are only two plates of duck intestines in total, and you alone have a whole plate."
"Humph, who's to blame for being slow?"
It was Xie Xun who saw the old lady standing in the darkness first.
"Mother?" he called out.
The bickering Donggong friends immediately silenced and looked here.
The old lady took a deep breath, walked out of the darkness, and bowed to the Crown Prince.
The prince returned to his serious appearance in a second, and hurriedly helped her.
As he got closer, the hot pot smell on his body became heavier.
The old lady raised her head, and saw oil spots on his collar!
She raised her head silently, her eyes just falling on the prince's lips.
He had just eaten hot pot, and his lips were red, shiny, and a little swollen, and they looked strangely charming.
The old lady felt as if a thunderstorm fell and happened to hit her.
Looking at other people, all of them have red lips and red cheeks, giving her the illusion that men in Beijing are beginning to apply mouth grease.
She was dazed by the lightning strike, and she forgot all the prepared remarks, and opened her mouth mechanically to say some polite remarks that "the government of Xie Guo's mansion was not well received".
The prince quickly blocked her words: "Why did the old lady say this? If today's dinner is called a poor reception, then I am afraid that few banquets can be called proper reception." Xie Boyuan was still standing behind! In case he hears it passed on to his daughter-in-law, will he still want to eat in the future!
The rest of the East Palace also thought of this, and hurriedly followed the prince's footsteps to praise the dinner, holding high the banner of "Jiang's craftsmanship is awesome".
The old lady was even more dizzy, and she was a little unsteady for a while.
Impossible, how is it possible? The third child must have made them do this! That's right, the third child actually begged them to take care of Jiang's face... She persuaded herself, but at this point, she could no longer convince herself.
"Mother, what's wrong with you? Why is your face so bad?" It was Xie Xun who found something wrong with her and gave her a hand.
The old lady returned to her senses and said uneasy: "It's okay, it's okay."
Her face was very bad, Xie Xun quickly asked the maid to help her back.
The old lady walked erratically, and as soon as she left, everyone returned to the look of a sluggard who was full of food and drink, each with oil spots on his body, ignoring it, and arguing that he was gossiping and writing poetry.
"Bo Yuan!" A woman's voice came from behind, and the little friends in the East Palace immediately straightened their postures.
They turned their heads in the direction from which the shouting came, and saw Jiang Shuyao, who was dressed simply but couldn't hide her beauty, trotting towards this side.
Jiang Shuyao has always had the thoughts of a modern woman in her bones. She doesn't think that women can't see outsiders. She thinks that her husband's colleagues are leaving after dinner, and her wife, who handles dinner, must come out to see off guests.
Because it was a summer night, she wore a thin shirt with a cool color, which made her skin frosty and snowy, and her black hair was piled high, revealing her fair and slender neck. The person in the painting has strayed into the mortal world.
The East Palace friends are stupid.
Fairy, who are you
"Bo Yuan." Jiang Shuyao stopped beside Xie Xun, panting slightly, "Why didn't you tell me when the guest left?"
Crowd: ? ? ! !
So this fairy is the Jiang family? !
Words cannot describe the inner shock of the people in the East Palace. What about the vulgar girl? How vulgar is it? What about the heavy makeup and funny look
The beauty alone is not enough to shock them, but thinking of her cooking skills, everyone can't wait to go back to the day when she deliberately fell into the water and entangled Xie Xun, and jumped into the water to save her.
Who said she was not worthy of Xie Boyuan? If she is not worthy, Xie Boyuan will die alone!
Stupid people are still stunned, and smart people have begun to seize the opportunity.
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
Hiss, who is this skinless and faceless person
Everyone turned their heads to look - Lin Cheng laughed so brightly.
Jiang Shuyao didn't know Lin Cheng, but guessed who he was, nodded and smiled at him, then turned to Xie Xun and said angrily, "Why didn't you say anything when you were leaving? I also told them to bring some desserts, after all, hot pot It's a little greasy."
After saying this, she smiled embarrassedly, and said politely to Lin Cheng: "I have prepared some cold drinks to remove the fire, but I don't know if it suits the taste."
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Cheng nodded frantically: "Yes! All! Of course! Thank you, sister-in-law!"
This is so useless, I really don't see it!
Everyone expressed their serious condemnation, and scrambled to say, "Hello, sister-in-law!" "Hello, brother and sister!"
This group of people suddenly spoke up and greeted them, as loud and imposing as they shouted military training slogans, which frightened Jiang Shuyao.
Jiang Shuyao: Am I familiar with this group of people
The prince took a slow step: "Cousin!"
This sound was particularly prominent, which attracted Jiang Shuyao to look.
After seeing the prince's face, she was extremely puzzled: Who is this? If I remember correctly, how old is Concubine Lin's son
Xie Xun's paralyzed face twitched faintly. It was too embarrassing. He quickly drew Jiang Shuyao's attention away: "Cough, you don't need sweets, they can eat it."
Before Jiang Shuyao opened his mouth, everyone had formed an alliance and objected to Xie Xun with righteous indignation: "If you don't support it, sister-in-law has a heart." "It's hard work, sister-in-law." "I love desserts the most."
Xie Xun: … Forget it, I give up.
So Jiang Shuyao ordered the maids to bring the fairy grass to burn for them.
She doesn't cook much, mainly eats it herself, and just remembered, she also packed some for them. One small bamboo cup per person, with spoon and reed tube.
The burning fairy grass is made from fairy grass. The boiled soup is filtered, added with rice milk and wheat starch and boiled. After cooling, it condenses into a black and clear jelly shape, diced into a bowl, and added with crushed peanuts, taro Rounds, candied dates, raisins, and red beans boiled with brown sugar, and finally pour a tablespoon of milk tea to cool off the heat and quench thirst.
The maids handed the bamboo cups, and everyone looked back curiously.
The milk tea has a sweet tea and milk fragrance. The burning fairy grass is cut into pieces. It is black and bright and translucent. It floats up and down in the milk brown milk tea. There are red beans, raisins, mung beans, etc. around it. The colors are rich and it looks sweet. tasty.
After Jiang Shuyao finished delivering the burning immortal grass, he nodded to Xie Xun, then turned and left.
Everyone held the bamboo cups and said goodbye to Jiang Shuyao dog-leggedly, which made her quicken her steps.
As soon as she left everyone's sight, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly picked up the spoon and scooped a spoonful of burning fairy grass that was so curious to the heart.
The burning fairy grass is slippery, and the spoon can hardly be scooped. The jelly-like burning fairy grass is very elastic, trembling with the shaking of the spoon, put it in the mouth, a slightly bitter and fresh taste immediately scrapes away the heavy spicy aftertaste.
The burning fairy grass has a delicate taste. In order to extinguish the fire, Jiang Shuyao deliberately added fire-clearing Chinese herbal medicines, such as the turtle shell of the hawk-billed turtle, tuckahoe, dandelion, etc., so it tastes a kind of deep and mellow bitterness. This bitterness is not unpleasant. On the contrary, the greasy and hot stomach was instantly refreshed, and before chewing it carefully, the burning fairy grass slid all the way down the throat into the stomach, which made people feel refreshed.
The milk taste is sweet, the tea taste is fresh, the red beans boiled with brown sugar are rich in honey, and the raisins are sour, sweet and chewy... All kinds of rich sweetness and the cool and slightly bitterness of the Guiling paste blend together. Summer nights immediately become refreshing and pleasant.
The crushed peanuts are crisp, the beans and raisins are chewy, the burning fairy grass is smooth and tender, scooping a spoonful of rich ingredients into the mouth, while feeling the chewing ingredients, the sweet milk tea slowly swaying in the mouth, this taste is really wonderful.
The Donggong Cengfan team stretched their brows and eyes and raised the corners of their mouths. After Xie Xun mercilessly sent them out of Xie Guogong's mansion, they suddenly realized that such a small cup is not enough.
sister in law! Can you refill
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When the old lady returned to the yard, she always felt tightness in her chest. She couldn't figure out which joint she was thinking about.
Mammy rubbed her temples for her, not daring to say a word.
Thinking about the picture just now, she felt a burning pain on her face, and when she remembered the words she said in front of Xie Xun that day that she looked down on Jiang Shuyao, she felt tightness in her chest and shortness of breath.
She didn't want to believe it, let alone admit it.
She found countless reasons for comfort: even if the crown prince had a good time, could it really be all her credit? They must have given the old third face; even if she showed this cooking skill, it still can't change her ugly reputation, she is still the object of ridicule after dinner by the noble mistress of Beijing; it's just a meal, Could it be any big deal, what big impact could this meal have
With these reasons in mind, she barely fell asleep.
After tossing and turning all night, I slept extremely unsteadily, but I managed to fall asleep, and when I woke up the next day, I finally felt a lot more comfortable.
She regained some energy, and just after being served to wash up and get up, she saw Xu shi come in from the outside with a happy face.
After saluting, Mrs Xu asked, "My mother is not feeling well, why did you get up so late today?"
The old lady waved her hand, reluctant to say more: "I'm in a hurry, what's the matter?"
Xu Shi has been married for many years, and rarely shows such a cheerful and happy appearance in front of the old lady.
"Of course it's a good thing." There was joy in her voice, "The Empress gave us a lot of things just now. She said that the sweet drink made by the third siblings was very suitable for her, and she praised her for her ingenuity and virtuous—"
Seeing the old lady standing in a daze with a stiff expression, Mrs Xu hurriedly shut her mouth.
"Mother?" she asked cautiously, "I have already sent all the rewards to the third room, you are going to join in the fun and cheer—"
Before she finished speaking, the old lady suddenly lost all her strength and fell softly on the slump.