Li Meirou was still talking back, but when she turned her eyes to see the flowers she brought over, she was indeed not as energetic as when she first came. Mrs. Feng loves flowers like her life, if she is really hurt and cold, it would be considered easy for her aunt to tear her up.
Thinking of this, Li Meirou feels like sitting on pins and needles. I struggled in my heart for a long time, but in the end I still couldn't make it to the end of the banquet. He just found an excuse and left early. That gorgeous camellia was protected three layers inside and outside by her, for fear of the slightest mistake.
After dismissing the unsightly guys, Yu Xiaocao ate and drank at the banquet. The chefs in the Zhen Guogong's mansion are very skilled, and for this flower fight, the Guogong's mansion also spent a lot of capital. Except for the meat dishes, all the green vegetables are purchased from the greenhouse. It is impossible to even think about buying these two tables of noodles for a few hundred taels.
During the banquet, Princess Minglan sandwiched a piece of crispy and delicious green vegetables, and said: "In the past, if I wanted to eat something fresh in winter, I would grow some vegetables like flowers in the greenhouse. Don't say anything. Eat it open, even on the dinner table on weekdays, it is difficult to see a plate of green vegetables. The ones grown in the greenhouse are not enough for banquets and New Years. Now it’s good, what fresh food do you want to eat? , almost everything can be bought. Even melons and fruits can be eaten in winter!"
"Isn't that right! Sister Xiaocao, tell me how your brain is so long, you can actually figure out a way to grow vegetables in a greenhouse! You are really my savior!! Do you know? The thing I fear most is cabbage Radish, but in winter, except for all kinds of meat, there are only two kinds of vegetables. Eat it, the taste makes you want to vomit; , Cuishengsheng, people look at the appetite.
Like their Gongqing's family, the family has a big business, and they can afford to eat vegetables every day. But there are quite a few young ladies from fourth-rank and fifth-rank families present here, and their father and brother work in the Qingshui Yamen. This vegetable is much more expensive than meat, and they can't eat it whenever they want.
Fruits after meals include sweet watermelon, glutinous and delicious melon, and small tomatoes the size of pigeon eggs. This kind of small tomato uses the spiritual power of the small sky-butting stone to trigger genetic changes. The size is smaller, but the taste is better, and the spiritual power in it is much more than that of ordinary fruits and vegetables.
In order to avoid the obvious changes in the human body caused by the spiritual power in eating small tomatoes, very few small tomatoes are grown, and most of them are kept for their own consumption, and only a very small part is sold outside. That price, ten taels of silver per catty, almost sparked a fight for it. Because it is sold in limited quantities, each family can only buy one catty per day, and selling ten catties a day will be enough, so we can only try something new.
For today's banquet needs of the Duke of Zhen's government, he either queued up for several days without sleep, or asked his close friends to help them queue up to buy. What? If you want a servant in your family, you have to change it up and buy more times. Once you are found out, you will be blacklisted in the fruit and vegetable store. Besides, there are so many powerful and wealthy businessmen in Beijing, how can one family be allowed to eat alone? Under the watchful eyes of everyone, no one really dared to cheat openly!
Among the fruit plates served, sliced watermelon and cantaloupe accounted for the majority, and there was only enough small tomatoes for each lady. Everyone here is knowledgeable, no one dares to slander Princess Minglan for being stingy, on the contrary, being able to treat guests with small tomatoes is really doing enough to save face!
It was the first time for those ladies who were born in poverty, their fathers and brothers were not high in official positions, to taste such a delicious "fruit". Satisfaction, let a person aftertaste for a long time.
He Wanning finished eating a small tomato in two bites, and looked at the remaining one on the plate. Except for Yu Xiaocao at the main table, when the tomatoes came, everyone took one and tasted it carefully. Even Princess Minglan was reluctant to let the little tomato, which was so hard to eat once, be given to the guests in order to carry forward the spirit of being the master.
"Sister Xiaocao, don't you want to eat it?" He Wanning saw Xiaocao reached out to the fruit plate, took a piece of cantaloupe, chewed it slowly, rolled her eyes, pointed at the small tomato and asked with a smile.
Yu Xiaocao had a panoramic view of her expression, suppressed a smile, and thought: After all, she is a teenage girl who can't resist the temptation of delicious food. And look at those ladies who took a small tomato in their hands and couldn't bear to take a bite for a long time—who is the ignorant bumpkin
"Sister He likes it, eat that for me!" These melons and fruits are all grown by myself, how can there be less of these at home? He Wanning is a little girl with a straight temper, but she has no evil intentions. Such a person, if he likes someone, can give his heart to him. Of course, if you don't like a person, you will show it on your face without reservation.
He Wanning was waiting for her words: "Then I'll be impolite! Hehe..."
"Look at your worthless appearance! The eldest princess will miss you to eat or drink? Shame on someone else's house!" Yuan Xueyan laughed and cursed jokingly, knowing her temper.
Like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, He Wanning ate the small tomato in one gulp, sighed, and said, "Don't you know, there's nowhere to buy this thing if you have money! Wait three or five days in line at the fruit and vegetable store, It may not be possible to buy back a catty! My grandma is not very interested in other melons and fruits, but she has a special liking for this small tomato. It was hard to get back a catty, and most of them were given to her elderly. You said , can I snatch food from the mouth of my grandma who hurt me on the tip of my heart since I was a child?"
"Who told you to slap your face swollen and pretend to be fat, and say that you don't like to eat it?" Yuan Xueyan knew the reason, and while joking, she still quite agreed with her friend's behavior in her heart.
With a bitter face, He Wanning said, "If I didn't say that, my grandma would definitely be reluctant to eat it, so she would save it for me! Grandma has been hurting me for almost fifteen years, so why not if I hurt her once? Poor me , Every time grandma eats small tomatoes, I have to find an excuse to avoid it. lest she see me drooling."
People who pay attention to filial piety are not so bad no matter how bad they are! Yu Xiaocao felt that this friend was worth making, but in front of so many people, she couldn't promise anything, so she just asked in a roundabout way: "What does Sister He do for fun?"
"But read books, practice swords, and occasionally run a few laps at the racetrack in the suburbs. When my brothers go hunting, they sometimes take me with them." Dress like a tomboy.
Yu Xiaocao pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "I have a little red horse with good legs. If you are interested in another day, let's go for a picnic together. On the hill near Huangzhuang, there are many pheasants and hares. I can't shoot arrows." , but they can play tricks, catch prey and barbecue at the foot of the mountain... "
outing? It's winter, and the cold weather is not a good idea. However, what He Wanning is interested in is not the "outing", but the location of the outing—near Huangzhuang! What is Huangzhuang most famous for now? Greenhouse vegetables! Next to the Zhuangzi of King Yangjun, there are even more famous greenhouses of melons and fruits! ! It contains her favorite small tomato...
These greenhouse vegetables, greenhouse vegetables and fruits, Yu's sister is also half the owner, right? She has gone as a guest, so why not entertain her with food and drink? Maybe I can take some when I leave...
"Okay, okay! When shall we go?" Thinking of this, He Wanning was eager to try, wishing to leave the Duke's Mansion and go to Huangzhuang immediately.
Seeing He Wanning's reaction, Princess Minglan didn't understand anything, and immediately said, "Sister Yu, you can't favor one over another, just invite her and not me?"
"It's my honor to be able to invite the princess. I will post a post some other day to invite the princess, Sister He and Sister Yuan to go on an outing together! Please do me a favor!" Friends, of course you can't ask for more. Now, the godmother doesn't have to worry that she won't be able to make friends.
Coming out from Duke Zhen, not long after the carriage left, He Chun whispered: "Miss, the king of Yangjun is in front, is he waiting for you, miss?"
Linglong glanced at her, and the smile on her face faded: "What about your rules? How can you talk too much about master's affairs?"
He Chun lowered his head and said tremblingly: "Yes! I know my mistake, please punish me!!"
Yu Xiaocao took a look at Linglong, nodded, and said: "The monthly penalty is three months, go back and reflect on yourself!"
"Yes!" He Chun cursed in his heart that he was overstepping. The kindness of the master does not mean that the slave does not have to abide by his duty. She also received high praise among the noble ladies for her handmade soap, and she was a little smug. In the future, we must keep this lesson in mind, and we must not let down the trust and promotion that Miss has placed in me.
"How is it going? Is today's flower fair going well?" Zhu Junyang, who was riding on the wind, saw a familiar carriage approaching, and rode his horse to follow, and his voice came in through the window.
Yu Xiaocao lifted the curtain of the car and looked outside at the enchanting man in a black brocade robe embroidered with ink and bamboo. Those phoenix eyes that seemed to be able to take the soul away, shone with a deep wave of light, and looked towards her direction. The slightly raised corners of the eyes added a bit of seductive style. The vermilion lips were pursed lightly, at this moment it was as if the ice and snow melted, and the earth was full of spring. Monster, what a real monster! Seeing the big girl and the young daughter-in-law on the street blushing and staring at this guy, Yu Xiaocao was filled with emotion.
"What's the matter? You were bullied? Who is it? Tell me!" Zhu Junyang Jun's face was immediately covered with frost, and a murderous aura lingered around him.
Yu Xiaocao shook her head honestly, and said: "You think too much, no one bullies me! This flower fair was quite successful, and the flowers you brought here are all famous products. However, in terms of preciousness, naturally they can't match my prime. Guanhe Ding'. I won a lot of prizes today, and everyone who sees it will have a share, how about sharing half of it with you?"
"I don't care about your little girl's things!" Seeing that the little girl didn't show any strange expression on her face, Zhu Junyang's heart was half relieved. The other half, let's talk about it after he inquires about it!