Shu Huan was pouring ginger vinegar into the crab shell, when he heard this, he only raised his eyes to look at her, and said lightly: "Cousin is very talented, play by yourself, I don't know."
Zhang Hanfang proudly raised her eyebrows to look at Gu Xiran: "Cousin?"
Gu Xiran smiled back: "I'm sorry, I don't have a talent for poetry, and I don't know how to."
Zhang Hanfang was suffocated in her heart, not to mention the loss, but also a feeling of being in a dilemma, so she had to scan the others, trying to find someone who agreed with her proposal, so that she could go down the steps.
Du Qiu kept silent, just bowed his head to drink.
Ji Danqing smiled gently: "I can only watch, hear and ask, and don't know how to recite poems and make mistakes."
Aunt Yun picked up the wine glass and drank it first, wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, and then said softly: "Yan Niang will punish herself first."
Mother Du is kind-hearted, seeing the awkward atmosphere, she didn't know what to say, she raised her chopsticks at the end and said, "Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, everyone eat vegetables."
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Zhang Hanfang was so angry that she had no choice but to twist her veil under the table and secretly scolded these guys for being vulgar, but she didn't know why at the moment, seeing that Shu Huan was even more distasteful than before, she just wanted to step on her hard. The soles of her feet let others know that she is actually a worthless, poor girl who does not make it to the big hall.
Therefore, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of dishes, Zhang Hanfang, who saw everyone just shaking the dice and eating wine, couldn't bear it any longer, and said: "Ming Luan, bring the piano."
One sentence interrupted the chatting and laughing at the banquet, and everyone stopped in a tacit understanding. Some were drinking Suye soup, and some were washing their hands with Suye water.
Jingmei and Huiyun took the maids with great interest to remove the leftovers from the table, and brought on the table boiled edamame and taro, as well as sliced watermelon and a broken foot as big as two fists. The pomegranates and moon cakes are also indispensable, all served in mahogany boxes painted with gold and flowers, which look extremely delicate.
The cook who tried making mooncakes for Shu Huan that day also brought up a plate of pastries, and said with a smile, "Second Mistress, look at this, okay?"
Shu Huan heard the words and went to see the moon cakes, thinking that she should have taught her how to make moon cakes, but the appearance was different. They were all made extremely small, not much bigger than a chess piece, and they could be eaten in one bite. Besides the common round shapes, there were also There are all kinds of styles, even the colors are different, so I couldn't help laughing: "This is interesting, it's so small and pleasing, if you don't have a stomach full of wine and food, you really can't eat it."
She said that she first picked up a round one and took a bite. It was stuffed with ham. The puff pastry on the outside melted in your mouth, and the shredded ham inside was full of fragrance. The taste was indeed much better than the one I tasted a few days ago. It's just that before she could speak, Gu Xiran had already snatched the remaining half of the mooncake from her hand and threw it into her mouth.
"Not bad." He nodded after tasting.
Shu Huan cast a gloomy glance at him, stood up, brought the mooncakes to everyone, and asked them to share. Naturally, no one would touch the steamed mooncakes in the exquisite box on the table.
The cook was also happy to see that everyone was enjoying the meal, and said with a smile: "The pigeon egg style has egg yolk stuffing inside, and the crabapple style has red bean paste, as well as fresh meat, abalone, crab meat, chestnut paste, lotus seed paste, and so on. Five kernels, hawthorn, osmanthus, roses…”
He kept talking, there were things that Shu Huan said according to his memory, and some things she hadn't said, which surprised her a bit, and turned her head to look at the cook twice, unexpectedly, he would draw inferences about other cases from one instance. .
Seeing Shu Huan looking back, the cook couldn't help lowering his head and said: "I thought it would be better to have more taste, so I added all the fillings that can be used in ordinary dim sum, but the coconut flakes that the second grandma said can't be bought at the moment. I always feel bad when I make matcha, so I have to go back and try two more times.”
"Ouch!" Mother Du couldn't help laughing: "I really didn't expect that this mooncake can be made with so many tricks."
At this time, Gu Xiran picked up an egg yolk mooncake and was eating it. Hearing this, he said with a smile: "Mooncakes mean reunion, and there are always better styles, but usually no one eats them. These are pastries. Let's make them more often in the future."
The cook promised that he was going to leave, but who would have thought that Gu Xiran would also be moved in the same way as Shu Huan, and asked him his name after the reward was given.
"My little one's surname is Zhen, and his name is Shun."
Gu Xiran smiled: "It's really smooth."
In a word, everyone laughed when he said it, but Zhang Hanfang was left aside, he couldn't get into the excitement, and he felt wronged immediately. Fortunately, Ming Luan had already fetched the qin, lit Qiongxin incense in the incense burner, asked her to tune the qin, she took the opportunity to leave the seat and sat down at the front of the qin table, within a short while, the sound of Lingling qin could be heard intermittently. It rang.
Although Shu Huan doesn't know the rhythm very well, but in all fairness, Zhang Hanfang plays pretty well, at least the melody is melodious, and the artistic conception is also somewhat. If she is not too annoying, tasting incense and listening to the piano under the moon is a joy in life, especially at this moment. Slightly drunk after drinking, there are tea and cakes at hand, fruit snacks, and the bright moon is in the sky, the breeze is gentle, and the heart is very smooth.
Thinking silently, she couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
It’s really like thinking about relatives during the festive season. I didn’t feel the excitement just now, but when I calm down now, there is a lingering longing and sadness in my heart...
She sighed, and felt someone reach out and hold her hand.
Shu Huan raised his eyes and saw that it was Gu Xiran. His eyes reflected the moonlight, deep and scorching, and he obviously thought of something.
The two sat holding each other's hands under the table for a while, when Shu Huan suddenly heard the sound of the piano becoming agitated and high-pitched, the faint and piercing sound of golden ge, and couldn't help frowning slightly, before she could see what Zhang Hanfang was going to do When I heard the sound of "Zheng", one of the strings broke.
In the eyes of the ancients, it was unlucky to break the string, and it was even more ominous during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhang Hanfang's face turned pale in an instant.
"Girl..." Mingluan rushed forward to change the strings for her, but she suddenly stood up and asked, "You did it on purpose, you played this kind of piano for me because you wanted to see Are you making a fool of me?"
Ming Luan was taken aback by her drinking, his eyes widened in shock, and he tried to defend himself: "I dare not..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhang Hanfang say to Guan's mother behind him: "Slap her mouth"
This is not a lesson to the servant girl, it's clearly a simmering evil fire in her heart, eager to vent, she just made up an excuse, and she exploded out of nowhere.
Mama Guan thought bitterly in her heart, but she had no choice but to go forward, and slapped Ming Luan across the face.
Zhang Hanfang taught her maid a lesson, and others naturally couldn't care less, but the good interest was suddenly disturbed, Du Mu and others all excused it was getting late, and avoided it.
This time, Shu Huan didn't stay any longer, it's normal for people to disperse at the end of the banquet, let alone why they stay here, watching Ming Luan get beaten? She only asked the maids to bring up the lamps to give them away, and she herself should not stay to watch Zhang Hanfang's outrageous outburst. She didn't even bother to say hello to her, so she left hand in hand with Gu Xiran.
They still have to worship the moon
Let’s say I do as the Romans do, but in fact I just want to pray silently, hoping that those relatives who live in different time and space can live in peace and happiness for a long time.
It's just that they didn't know that Zhang Hanfang, who was behind him, bit his lip and watched them leave, with a look of unwillingness and hatred in his eyes.