The Red Chamber: My Stunning Confidante with a Variety of Styles

Write down the shortcomings of His Highness King Qin, the more the better.

This is the subject of the second round of screening.

Seeing such a topic, all the girls frowned.

They didn't know what the purpose of the question was, and they didn't know how to answer it.

After hesitating for a long time, they still couldn't guess the meaning behind the question, so they had to give their own answers based on their feelings.

They don't know why, but Hongyu is very happy to watch.

Many people's answers were extremely tricky, like a girl who wrote down more than a dozen of Jia Jue's shortcomings in one go.

Lust is ranked first, but unfiliality is ranked second.

The reason turned out to be that Jia Jue didn't have a child. The so-called unfilialism has three aspects, and the greatest is having no offspring. This is Jia Jue's reason for being unfilial.

However, some criticized Jia Jue, and some praised Jia Jue.

Some people even bluntly said that Jia Jue is perfect and has no shortcomings at all.

Others say that Jia Jue is a fairy descended from the sky and has no shortcomings at all.

There are many others like this, and Hongyu is overjoyed to see them.

Of course, apart from these slightly funny ones, there are quite a few meaningful ones.

Just like what she was optimistic about before, Liu Fang, Chen Tong, Lu Yun and others answered better, and what they said made sense.

And Xia Lan, whom she valued, took her quite by surprise.

There is only one shortcoming of what she wrote about Jia Jue:
The benevolence of a woman is soft-hearted.

She cited a few things that happened to Jia Jue before, and she believed that as long as Jia Jue was more ruthless, he could save time and effort and achieve better results.

After reading her answer, Hongyu frowned slightly. She was a little undecided, so she gave her answer to Jia Jue.

Jia Jue flipped through her answer for a while, and a gleam flashed in her eyes:
"Sister Hongyu, please bring her here."

"Oh? Did you fall in love with her?" Hongyu asked.

Jia Jue shook his head and smiled faintly, "You'll only know after seeing it."

Hongyu glanced at him, nodded, and turned to leave.

However, Jia Jue's smile made her realize that this matter was not that simple.

……

"National girl Xia Lan, I have met His Royal Highness King Qin."

Seeing the girl in front of him saluting gracefully, Jia Jue smiled faintly.

Just like Hongyu said, this Xia Lan is indeed a rare beauty, with extremely exquisite facial features, a first-class enchanting figure, and a very special temperament, which makes her stand out from the rest, beautiful abnormal.

"Miss Xia, do you know why the king called you here?" He asked her.

Xia Lan glanced at him and nodded, "I probably know it. It should be that my answers to the questions are in line with His Highness's wishes."

Jia Jue shook her head: "No, you guessed wrong, I'm not satisfied with your answer."

If ordinary people heard him say that, they would definitely show surprise and flustered emotions.

However, Xia Lan didn't have any special emotions. She just looked at Jia Jue quietly, neither sad nor happy, and asked neither humble nor overbearing:
"Please also express your Highness."

Jia Jue chuckled, "I heard that you were born in Wu County, Jiangnan?"

"Yes." Xia Lan nodded.

"Ben Wang has been to Jiangnan a few times, and he misses the delicacies of Jiangnan very much, and the snacks in Wu County are extremely delicious. I will never forget it." Jia Jue's eyes showed nostalgia.

Xia Lan nodded lightly: "Your Highness is right, Jiangnan pastries and snacks are indeed the best in the world."

Jia Jue smiled and said, "I heard that the girl is versatile, even cooking is outstanding?"

Xia Lan bowed slightly: "It's not worthy of His Highness's praise, it's just that I know a thing or two."

"The girl is too modest." Jia Jue asked, "I wonder if the girl can make your Wu County's special gourmet cakes: squirrel mandarin fish, green snail shrimp, squid eel paste, squid lung soup, beggar's chicken, plum cake?"

"Your Highness said that women can know it, but the plum cake is not from Wu County, but from Wuxi." Xia Lan said.

"It turns out that I misremembered." Jia Jue smiled, "If the girl knows how, I should ask the girl to show her skills."

Xia Lan nodded softly: "Your Highness is so elegant, how can a girl refuse to follow?"

Jia Jue clapped her hands, stood up, and led her into the kitchen.

Xia Lan is indeed good at cooking. After coming to the kitchen, she feels like a fish in water, without any sense of unfamiliarity, and her cooking skills are even more proficient. Whether it is knife skills or cooking skills, she is indeed impeccable.

Not long after, a table of sumptuous dishes was born from her hands.

"It seems that today is a lucky day." Jia Jue smiled and sat down at the dining table.

"I hope Your Highness will not dislike the poor cooking skills of civilian women." Xia Lan said softly to Jia Jue.

"How could it be? These dishes are full of color, fragrance, and taste, and you can tell they are rare delicacies at a glance." Jia Jue smiled.

Xia Lan picked up the jug, came to Jia Jue's side, and filled his glass with wine: "Your Highness, please use it."

Jia Jue nodded with a smile, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then picked up a piece of fish and put it in his mouth.

"Good! It's delicious and refreshing. It's a rare delicacy. Even the master chef of Songhe Tower is nothing more than that." Jia Jue's eyes lit up and he praised.

Xia Lan smiled slightly: "Your Highness is an expert, and the cooking skills of the folk girls are learned from the masters of Songhe Tower."

"Good! Famous teachers produce excellent apprentices!" Jia Jue praised.

"Your Highness is absurd, you can't afford to be a girl." Xia Lan smiled softly.

Jia Jue smiled, took another bite of Biluo shrimp, chewed it slightly, but frowned slightly:

"This green snail shrimp is fresh, but why does it have a little fishy and salty smell?"

Xia Lan frowned slightly when she heard the words: "No way, this dish of Biluo Shrimp and Minnv has been done hundreds of times, there is no mistake."

"Really?" Jia Jue looked at her suspiciously, and took another sip, but after tasting, she still frowned deeply:
"I can't be wrong, I can't miss my tongue."

Xia Lan blinked, picked up the chopsticks with some doubts, took a bite, and put it in her mouth.

After savoring it carefully, she finally shook her head slowly:
"Your Highness, the girl didn't taste anything strange, could something be wrong?"

Jia Jue put down his chopsticks and shook his head again:
"Girl, food is one of my great hobbies, and my tongue is also extremely sensitive, so there's nothing wrong with it."

"This..." Xia Lan frowned slightly, hesitated for a while, and then asked:

"May I ask Your Highness, what kind of smell is this fishy and salty smell?"

Jia Jue pondered for a moment, then looked at her with a faint smile on her face:
"My king's tongue told me, this is the breath of the sea."