When Sheng Weiqiao heard that Xuan Yu Feng said that she should not cook to celebrate her husband's birthday, she was very puzzled: "Why? Aunt, didn't you think that I didn't know this and that, and said that I should learn more things? ? It’s rare that I plan to be a virtuous person, but why don’t you support it and oppose it instead?”
Xuanyu Feng said "hmm" and said, "Have you ever cooked? Can you cook it?"
"Of course I have done it!" Sheng Weiqiao said with confidence, "I am also very talented! Let me tell you, when I went to sea for the first time, on the boat, Ah Xi and the others were all very kind to me. They were neither cold nor hot, but after drinking the soup I made by myself, they became very enthusiastic towards me! In those days, every time I saw them from a distance, they smiled brightly!"
Before Xuan Yu Feng heard this, Ni Yanying said curiously next to her: "My cousin is actually good at cooking? With all due respect, I have always felt that with my cousin's background, most likely she has never cooked at all!"
After hearing her words, Sheng Weiqiao suddenly remembered that at this moment, outsiders didn't know that Rong Suihe was from Tortoiseshell Island. They all thought that Rong Suihe had a close relationship with Tortoiseshell Island, mainly because of the Sheng family. He suddenly felt awe-inspiring and did not dare to tell the details. He said vaguely: "I'm not really good at it. I don't cook much. I just did it on a whim in the past two years. After that, I didn't cook anything with my own hands. I just ate ready-made food."
Ni Yanying covered her mouth and smiled and said: "This is why cousin Bingxue is smart. How many people have been cooking for their whole lives, but their skills are still terrible. My cousin occasionally does it, but it can make people linger. Isn't it an extraordinary talent?"
"My cousin is so complimentary." Although Sheng Weiqiao was wary of her cousin until now, she still enjoyed being so obedient. After hearing this, she said with great interest, "How about this, we have been practicing bow and horse hard these past two days. Yes, how about I go to the kitchen to show my skills later and make some soup for you?"
Just as Ni Yanying was about to agree, Xuan Yu Feng's face suddenly changed and she shouted: "No!!!"
Hearing the strong objection in her aunt's tone, Sheng Weiqiao was stunned: "Why?"
"You are no longer the little daughter you were when you were the apple of the eye in the Sheng family!" Xuan Yu Feng said in her heart, why? Because your aunt, I don’t have the same tolerance towards you as Mi Zhen. If you dare to serve the food you gave Mi Zhen to me to eat, I just want to annihilate the relationship out of justice, okay
However, because of Ni Yanying's presence, Xuan Yu and Feng were not polite when it came to harming their direct relatives and nieces. They did not want to ruin Sheng Weiqiao's face in front of outsiders. At this moment, his mind changed, and he straightened his expression and reprimanded righteously, "You are now But the princess of the county! She is the wife of the clan, the wife of the governor of Yizhou! How can you act and speak in this small backyard instead of considering your current status? "
Sheng Weiqiao said blankly: "No! I have listened to the advice of Mi Zhen and Mr. Leyang, so I won't celebrate Mi Zhen's birthday."
Isn't this a sign of general knowledge
"It's just that it's not a big deal, it's not a success at most, don't you have the idea of making more progress?" Xuanyu Feng sighed and said earnestly, "For example, the victims of the disaster in Xu Lianshan, although I have been resettled, but my life is not that good, right?"
Sheng Weiqiao said thoughtfully: "What does aunt mean...?"
"Won't you give away the expenses you originally planned to spend to celebrate Mi Zhen's birthday and take advantage of the opportunity to gain some good reputation?" Xuan Yu Feng said, "Anyway, you didn't plan to worry about this, and you don't lack the money, right? ?"
"... But even if you do this, what's wrong with me personally cooking a few side dishes for Mi Zhen?" Sheng Weiqiao looked at her inexplicably, "As long as we don't hold a banquet, we can't say that we won't eat for the sake of the victims. Alright?"
She sensed something was wrong and said suspiciously, "Auntie, don't you think... you don't trust my craftsmanship?"
Xuan Yu Feng said in his heart, isn't this nonsense? If I trusted your craftsmanship, I would have made it and tried it a long time ago! After all, I have been your direct aunt for more than ten years, and I haven’t even had a bite of the tea you made yourself. If I hadn’t heard Le Yangwen describe the horror of your craftsmanship, I would have scolded you now. She was unfilial to her husband and even made soup for Mi Zhen for several days, but she has never made anything for my aunt, not even a bowl of boiled water!
However, in front of Ni Yanying, Xuan Yu Feng said deeply: "Nothing! Although you are a bit squeamish, you are always smart. Others don't know this. Don't I, my aunt, know it too?"
As she was racking her brains to think of countermeasures, Ni Yanying asked thoughtfully: "Foster mother, do you think that if you want to win over people's hearts, it would be too simple to just give away the money that your cousin gave to your cousin's husband to celebrate his birthday? After all, my cousin before When I first came to Yizhou, I led the female relatives of various families to donate money and materials to the victims of the disaster. Now here it is again, even under the guise of letting my cousin-in-law not hold a birthday banquet, it is my cousin and her cousin-in-law alone. Investment, but because the whole world knows that my cousin is rich, it is inevitable that some people who are lucky enough to look at Shu will think that for my cousin, mere wealth is not worth mentioning and cannot reflect her true feelings?"
Xuanyu Feng glanced at her happily, raised her hands and said: "Yan Ying is right! That's the truth! Although our family is not short of money, we can't be taken advantage of for nothing! It's not enough to contribute money and effort, so Do you want to do something stupid?"
Sheng Weiqiao muttered: "Well, what about my aunt and my cousin... what do you mean?"
"I don't have any new ideas." Ni Yanying said hurriedly, "But I have heard before that some people celebrate birthdays, of course it is for the elderly. The female relatives of the family will cook and make cakes themselves, and then distribute them to the poor in the city. People.”
I asked Xuan Yu Feng, "Father, what do you think about letting my cousin make some cakes to give to the victims?"
Xuanyu Fengshi secretly said: "I thought you were considerate just now, why did you trick me again?"
It would be okay if the food Sheng Weiqiao cooked was not delicious. After all, it would be good if the victims of the disaster in this world could survive. If you want delicious food, you are overthinking it.
The problem is that the food Sheng Weiqiao cooks is life-threatening. The situation of the victims is not good to begin with. If the weak ones are really eaten and killed, wouldn't it be a thankless task? Maybe even all the hard work during this period has been wasted!
Thinking of this, Xuan Yu Feng said: "There are thousands of victims. How can Qiao Er do it alone? Besides, we are all learning bow and horse right now, and we can't spare the time at all. I don't think it's better than this. Li: You sisters go to the kitchen together and watch the cook make a batch, then tell them you made it together and just send it over!"
Ni Yanying said hurriedly: "This is all my cousin's hard work and my adoptive mother's idea. Who am I? Where can I be mentioned?"
"Since my cousin is helping to see me, shouldn't I mention you?" Sheng Weiqiao felt something was wrong in her heart. She always felt that her aunt prevented her from cooking for Rong Suihe. There seemed to be other reasons, but she had always thought that she was very talented in cooking. I have personally tasted the soup I made, but I couldn't imagine the truth. At this moment, in front of Ni Yanying, I couldn't ask Xuan Yu Feng, so I suppressed this doubt in my heart for the time being, and said with a smile, "Otherwise, we can't. Do you want to work for nothing?"
Their cousins pushed it aside for a while, because Ni Yanying insisted on not accepting the reputation, and Sheng Weiqiao Tongxuan Yu Feng also had no intention of making the Ni family famous, so after paying tribute, they decided to let Sheng Weiqiao personally supervise a batch of pastries, under the guise of "personally" The banner "Let's Cook" was sent to the victims.
After the conversation ended, Jinli and others came up to ask for instructions on a few trivial matters, so Xuanyu Feng took Ni Yanying and left.
That night, Sheng Weiqiao told Rong Suihe: "I don't know if I'm overthinking it. I always feel that my aunt is trying every means to stop me from cooking for you?"
"How could it be?" Rong Suihe was frightened when he heard this, and said quickly, "Auntie has always been the most supportive of your learning, right?"
"That's the truth, but today my aunt said a lot of things. I listened to her, but she said she didn't let me cook." Sheng Weiqiao thought hard, "I don't know what the reason is?"
Rong Suihe said: "Well, it may be like this: Auntie has always been treating you as a pet peeve. You have never cooked at home. Now that you have to cook for me, can she not feel bad about it?" I said you'd better follow your aunt's order. After all, it's not easy for her to accompany us all the way to Western Xinjiang. As juniors, we should follow the order no matter what. Besides, you have married so many cooks, you can't let them three Do you have a free day?"
"It's not like I plan to wash your hands and make soup for you all day long!" Sheng Weiqiao pushed him and said with a smile, "What do you think of beauty? I don't think it's okay to do it once in a while. Besides, if my aunt is jealous, I won't You can't think of a few of her favorite dishes to honor her! What's there to worry about?"
Rong Suihe was sweating coldly when he heard this, and said quickly: "But we haven't had any leisure time now! I think maybe my aunt is afraid that you are too relaxed?"
This argument makes some sense. Sheng Weiqiao muttered: "Relax? Indeed, it's not time for us to relax yet."
"Isn't that it?" Rong Suihe said earnestly, "We are worried about external and internal troubles at the moment. We have so many things to worry about in the front hall and in the backyard. Auntie definitely hopes that we will focus on serious things as much as possible instead of spending all day long. Thinking about trivial matters?"
Then he said, "Aren't you worried that Ruru will take a detour to Western Xinjiang? I wrote a letter home to Nanfeng County and Chang'an before, mentioning this matter. Counting the days, it's almost here?"
Such easy talk finally made Sheng Weiqiao stop delving into it.
In this way, on Rong Suihe's birthday two days later, Sheng Weiqiao followed Xuan Yu Feng's suggestion and just watched the people in the kitchen enthusiastically make a bunch of cakes. After they were finished, they packed them up and sent them to the place where the victims were resettled... Xuan Yu, on the other hand, Mrs. Feng personally cooked a bowl of longevity noodles and asked Sheng Weiqiao to send it to Rong Suihe as a birthday celebration: "We in Nanfeng County have a custom of cooking noodles on the mother's birthday, although I am only your aunt. , neither my aunt nor my mother-in-law, but since those two are not here now, this birthday will be different from usual, so let’s just make do with it!”
She originally did this out of sympathy for Rong Suihe, but it was Sheng Weiqiao who gave him the noodles. At that time, Rong Suihe was so frightened that he wanted to ask someone to bring a pile of bowls and divide them all!
In the end, it was Sheng Weiqiao himself who said: "This is the noodles my aunt cooked for you. Speaking of which, I have never tasted her cooking!"
Rong Suihe breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but after taking a bite, he felt that he should actually ask someone to bring a few bowls to share. This side is not cooked at all, okay? !
Moreover, Sheng Weiqiao's cooking skills are two extremes: Sheng Weiqiao puts salt in every pound, but this aunt doesn't put salt at all, right
What are the habits of their aunt and nephew
Don’t you take a bite of the food after you make it
The female family members who grew up with fine clothes and fine food but lack of strict family rules are really... terrible!
Rong Suihe roared in his heart. After eating the noodles with great difficulty, he still pretended to be touched by how delicious it was... This made him extremely regretful. Why did he say that the tenth day of October was his birthday
He should have chosen a date earlier and celebrated his birthday before coming to Xijiang!
But thinking about it, I am not saying that I will leave this Western Territory soon. I may continue to stay here after the new year. When the birthday comes, it will still come, and there is really no way to avoid it.
Then he sighed secretly, glanced at the copper leak in the corner of the room, and thought to himself that no matter what, the day was finally over!
When Rong Suihe faced the empty noodle bowl and tried to express his gratitude to Xuan Yu Feng and his admiration for the noodles he had just finished eating, he was thousands of miles away in Chang'an.
In the backyard of Guangling Prince's Mansion, the Zhao sisters were looking at each other speechlessly over a bowl of bird's nest porridge.