By Jia Xiuzhen

After drinking two dishes, they all sat down, and Yue Lan finally suppressed the fire.In addition, "Pearl Fragrance Jasmine", "Naughty Ring", "Yuqian Longjing", "Mengding Yellow Bud", "Yangxian Purple Bamboo Shoots" and "Dongting Biluo" were directly brewed for everyone. Kiln Shadow Green Tick Flower Covered Bowl.It is paired with a cloud-carved and painted apricot box, with tea and food inside, honey yellow and purple, light red and thin emerald green, all of which are extremely delicate and delicate, very different from the fashion in Beijing.

Xichun smiled, picked up a ripe apricot to eat, gasped, and began to look around.Suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed: "Sister Yanyue, come here! I have something to say to you!"

When Yanyue heard this, she quickly approached, saluted and said with a smile: "Fourth Miss looking for me?"

Xichun pointed to Xing'er in the box and said, "Tell me quickly, how is this Xingzi made?"

Yanyue glanced at it and said, "This is a raw Xing'er, which has never been made before."

Xichun pointed at her with her finger and said: "Don't coax me, apricots can have this smell. I asked Ruhua and them to round up the forest early in the morning. It's still waiting for this moment! Hurry up and ask the truth, or I will ask Sister Lin asked you to come, so you can't go back home!"

Yanyue couldn't stop laughing when she heard the words, and realized: "Don't dare to deceive the girl, it's really not candied fruit..." Suddenly remembered something, said, "Oh, by the way, maybe it's because of the ginger plum powder? "

Xichun took a piece of the cloud-headed fruit hairpin and fed it to her mouth, then stared at her.

Yanyue smacked the scent, nodded and smiled: "That's right. Because of the Spring Festival Gala this year, the spring sun is not enough, although the fragrance of this apricot is weaker than in previous years. We have already picked the best one, but the taste is still not good. It’s just a piece of it. Now it’s just summer, and it’s not suitable for eating too raw or cold. So I thought of this method, made powder with ginger juice, mixed with the layer of plum cream scraped from the top of the salted plum, and used it to dip the fruit. It also removes the cold and dampness, and adds flavor. The girl really knows this way, and she eats it as soon as she eats it."

Xichun narrowed her eyes and said with a smile: "Sister Yanyue, don't you think you can coax me over with just a few words! That Jiang and Mei..."

Yan Yue hurriedly said: "Jiang Meishuang'er."

"Well, well, it's Jiang Meishuang'er, where did you put it? Don't you hurry up and hand it over?" Yingchun hit her and said angrily, "It's getting worse and worse. If you don't know, treat it like a robbery by Yanyue." It's over."

Yan Yue smiled apologetically and said, "Girl, it's useless even if you rob me today. The tea and food are all prepared by Rong Rong and the others at home, and those ingredients are naturally there. We only use the tea picked by the girls here, Just change the order of the snacks. But I didn’t bring those things with me.”

Xichun was not in a hurry, nodded and said: "No rush, we have more than this one, let's settle it." Seeing that Yingchun narrowed her eyes, she quickly shook her head and said, "Second sister, I'll ask another question. , just ask one, and the other...the other will be discussed next time!"

Yingchun laughed, and Yanyue said from the side: "It's nothing, you can just ask, the little one will know everything." Yingchun laughed, shook her head and said, "Come on, come on, I don't care about your lawsuit. .” Said he went to Yue Lan.

Here, Xichun asked in a low voice: "Sister Yanyue, last time I ate a piece of fried bait cake at Sister Lin's place. I only thought about the taste after eating it, and later let us cook it here, no matter what It doesn’t taste like that. I changed several kinds of bait cakes, and I even coaxed out all the bait cakes made by my brother Mitian Xuenuo, but it still didn’t work! What kind of cakes did you get?”

Yanyue smiled and said: "Miss, you have used your strength in the wrong place! The bait cake is just a mixture of New Year's glutinous rice and round-grained rice, and it is not expensive. The taste is due to the oil! The oil is made from various The mountain mushrooms are dried and then fried, and they are paired with several kinds of cooked and shade-dried rice grains. They are soaked together with the dried mushrooms for three or two years. This fried pancake is specially added as bait, cake and barley It’s a fresh fragrance, our girl has also praised it.” After thinking for a while, he said, “By the way, it seems that this time there is also this one, I’ll go find it for the girl.”

Xichun hurriedly stretched out her hand to hold her: "Hey! Sister! Sister, listen to me. Let's not open it here. After the meeting is over, you can go to my place with me, okay?"

Yanyue Tingrong and the others are obsessed with cooking, now that Xichun, a girl from the government's mansion, knows so much, wouldn't she be her confidant?Immediately nodded in agreement.Xichun was very happy.

Daiyu was happy to see that everyone was enjoying themselves.Just as he was about to speak, he looked up and saw a group of people coming from the opposite side, but it was Qing Xiao and Mother Xin.Xiangyun had seen Qingxiao's skillful hands before, and was very impressed. Seeing her coming, he dragged Baochai to talk with her.Qing Xiao greeted several people, Xiang Yun said with a smile: "Didn't you hide somewhere to do your sewing again?" Qing Xiao replied with a smile: "I just made some clothes and sent them to our girl. Take it back to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion."

Xiangyun looked back at Daiyu, and saw that she was wearing a sky-blue cross-neck gown with a tooth-colored pleated skirt underneath, which was not particularly eye-catching.At this time, when I looked closely, I found that the flowers embroidered in the wind shook on her clothes, the petals were in a phoenix dance, which seemed to be divided into distances, and the color of the clothes often changed to a faint purple when she was moving, which was very rare.Baochai also noticed it, and said hesitantly: "I heard that there is an embroidery technique in Lin'an called 'Mist Lost Pear Blossom', could it be this?"

Qing Xiao said with a smile: "That said, it refers to the embroidery pattern after embroidery. This whole set of methods is called 'Xu Ling Du Ying', which is embroidered layer by layer with soft silk as the base and light cover on top. The whole picture is embroidered on different layers, which gives a sense of reality and distance. Because of the lightness and color difference, the color rendering after layering is different, and the opening and closing of each layer is different when moving, and the color changes are subtle and unpredictable. name."

Xiangyun shook his head and said: "Listen to this, this pattern is going to be embroidered on Qingrong! That thing can be torn apart with a little force, how can it be used for embroidery? And it is so light and thin, if you want to embroider, the silk thread is too thin to embroider." I don't know how many strands to split!"

Qing Xiao said with a smile: "The girl really knows the samadhi of embroidery. You can only use the "sparrow needle" for this embroidery. This needle is only available in the south, and now there are only one or two that are still doing it."

Xiangyun said to Daiyu again: "Sister Lin, you have to use such complicated methods for your current clothes, these girls are really pitiful."

Daiyu laughed and said, "You're still arguing for them! I can only cut it down, but they like to toss themselves, and it's fine if they can't stop it."

Qing Xiao said: "That's not the case! The girl always refuses to make more clothes. We have less work, so we have to work hard on the tailoring method. Otherwise, what should we do?"

Xiang Yun said: "It's not enough? I've lived here for a while, and I haven't seen Sister Lin's clothes are too heavy. If this is not extravagant, I don't know what is extravagant."

Sister Xin laughed beside her and said, "Girls don't know something. Because the ancestors of our Lin family were all lonely seedlings, and the mistresses all hoped to have a daughter, so they went back to the Buddha to make a wish. At that time, the old lady, after she made a wish, she got a response. She was so happy that she decided to double the share of the girl in the family. Who knew that the one who was born was a brother. Afterwards, the princess married to the Lin family, and she was like The previous example doubled the number of girls in the mansion.

For so many generations, almost every generation has made a wish to add cases.When it was time for our wife to get a girl, I couldn't help laughing when I looked at the statutes in the mansion, saying that if several generations of grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and great-great-grandmothers hadn't left enough property, if I had to rely on the master, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to afford the girl's share.It's just that our girl was weak when she was young, and my wife was afraid that her luck would be ruined, so she just said, "half the previous quota."But still can't use those.

Now that the girl has come to Beijing, she asked her to reduce the allowance by half again, and said that she often lived with her grandmother, so another [-]% was deducted.It was still to be reduced, but the servants of the family came to dissuade them. They all said that they should not be too much, and they failed the heart of the ancestors.That's all.When you're not at home, you have nothing to do with your daily diet, so you have to skip it, but the clothes are fine.What the few of them are doing now is actually not yet complete, because the girl stopped them, so they had to put in more effort. "

Everyone was fascinated by what they heard, every family has sons who are precious, but this Lin family has had sons for generations but not daughters, but daughters are extremely precious.Li Wan said with a smile: "It's strange that Taoist aunt let you enter the ancestral hall to preside over ancestor worship. The ancestors of the Lin family saw that they had finally hoped for a daughter, so how could they blame them?"

Baochai also laughed: "I've never heard of such a thing, it's really interesting."

Daiyu smiled wryly and said, "Sometimes... the behavior of the ancestors... was a bit too capricious..." After saying this intermittently, the group of people laughed.

When the banquet was over, Daiyu invited Xiangyun to sit in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Xiangyun said that he would first send the crimson stone ring he brought to the Xiren before coming, so Daiyu took the others by himself.Yingchun took Yuelan to Daoxiang Village together, but Xichun wanted to go back to Ouxiangxie with Yanyue, so Li Wan asked her: "Why, don't you go to our place?" Xichun pouted: "Lan'er is not here... I have something to do I have to go back first." Li Wan saw that Yanyue was following her with a food box, and she didn't know anything else, so she just pulled Yingchun and left with a smile.

Let's say that Xiangyun and Baoyu arrived at Yihong Courtyard, Xiren was visiting outside the gate of the courtyard, and when they saw them coming, they rushed up to meet them.After joking and joking, Xiangyun took out the ring for Xiren, and only then did he know that Xiren had already got it from Baochai.Yin said with a smile, "It turned out to be Sister Bao. I thought it was Sister Lin who gave it to you."

Xiren said: "Miss Lin doesn't stay here much now, she often goes home. Last time you asked someone to deliver the ring, she was not in the mansion, and Zijuan took it. But Miss Bao saw that I was there, so she turned around and gave it to me. Me alone."

Xiangyun sighed: "Since Zijuan has collected it for Sister Lin, I'm afraid she has thrown away the jewelry and hairpin rings that filled mountains and seas."

Xiren nodded and said: "Ms. Lin's daily clothes are in accordance with the seasons. Although the mansion still puts hairpins for tailoring like the third girl and the others, it is almost never seen that she uses them. We sometimes feel emotional when we talk about it in private. It is said that the pearls of the Xue family are as precious as earth and gold as iron, and Miss Bao prefers plain looks, but Miss Lin is very elegant."

Baoyu listened and laughed, "It's because you don't understand. Silk flower and phoenix hairpins are all the same thing. The most important thing is that they can stand out from others. Look at the pair of butterflies with jade wings in Sister Lin's hair today, white jade The first two sapphire inlays on the wings are inlaid very well, and there is a very thin black crystal along the edge, which seems to be alive, but how could they think of it! This is so smart and refined, but it is very suitable for sister Lin. The hairpin on Dai Bao’s sister’s head is a bit nondescript. Therefore, after all, people wear flowers, not flowers.”

Xiren smiled and sighed: "Okay, okay, what the second master said is naturally correct. We didn't say anything bad about Miss Lin, so we recruited you."

Xiangyun also said: "In the eyes of Brother Bao, no one can compare to your sister Lin. But that's just a matter in your own eyes, don't bother us."

Gossiping for a while, Xiren asked Xiangyun to help make a pair of Baoyu shoes.

Xiangyun smiled and said: "Sister Lin has many needlework masters, we have never even heard of those needlework skills, why don't you ask sister Lin, but me instead?"

Xiren said with a smile: "I beg you for your needle and thread. We have never even met the people around Miss Lin. How can we ask others? If we ask Miss Lin, it seems to be begging her to do it. How can it be possible? Our master has been begging for a sachet for almost two years and still hasn't seen a trace of it."

Just as he was talking, Jia Zheng sent someone to ask Baoyu to meet the guests, but it turned out that Jia Yucun had come.Baoyu was annoyed: "This man is the most annoying. He insists on seeing me every time he comes back." But he didn't know that Jia Yucun believed in luck the most. He knew that Baoyu was born with jade, and he was extraordinary.He is connected with Jia's family again, how can there be any reason not to get close?Therefore, when you come to visit the housekeeper, you always have to call Baoyu to meet him, which is also the way this kind of people do things.

As soon as Baoyu left, Xiangyun and Xiren talked a lot about Huizi's private room, so they resigned and went to Xiaoxiang Pavilion.Cui Mo followed in a low voice: "Girl, do you want to call them?" Xiangyun was puzzled, and Cui Mo said: "I saw that Miss Lin had more than a dozen girls, and she brought me one... "Xiang Yun laughed out loud: "Silly girl! We are not looking for trouble, we need a large number of people to deal with it. Besides, we can't talk freely when those people are in front of us." Thinking of something again, With a sneer, he said, "I'm the first one to be frugal when I say such a vain battle. Now I have to insist on such a show, and I know the bitterness inside, but I don't know who is living for whom!"

When he had arrived at the place, he stopped talking.Daiyu welcomed her in, Xiangyun looked around and said, "It seems to be different from what I saw earlier." Daiyu smiled and said, "Everywhere was renovated before moving here, and this place has also been slightly changed. "The two entered the room, Daiyu moved to the side room, and Mo Ge'er brought tea.Xiangyun smiled and said, "Still drinking?" Mo Ge'er was also happy when he said that.

As he was talking, he saw Daiyu's desk was full of huge hard-shell books, so he reached out and took a look. It was a map of overseas scenery made by Mo Ge'er and others, and the inside page was inscribed "Yi Jian Tu Zhi".Xiangyun didn't know what was going on, so he flipped through a few pages and said with a smile, "Where did this book come from? It's even more sensational than Yi Jianzhi."

Mo Ge'er laughed and said, "We did this ourselves. Although we borrowed Yi Jian's name, it's true."

Xiangyun pointed at her and smiled: "I know you girl, and you coaxed me face to face! Is this all true? Then tell me, this Fangyu, it is said in "Gujin Notes" that "whale, Big fish in the sea, after all, it’s just a rumor. It’s good for you here, you even have paintings, and even painted a picture of this fish! You said it wasn’t made up, so maybe you’ve seen it before?”

Mo Ge'er said: "Although I haven't seen it, it was drawn by someone who has seen it."

Xiangyun smiled and said, "It's really such a big fish, what kind of net is needed to catch it!"

Mo Ge'er curled her lips and said: "That fish was not born for people to catch, so why should it grow according to this? The girl just doesn't believe it, we have a bone of that fish in our house, it's just a side bone , it is more than ten feet long and weighs seventy or eighty catties."

Xiang Yun became more and more disbelieving, and said: "Just now I said that there is no net to catch, but now I say there are bones, since I can't catch it, where did you get the bones? But the preamble does not match the afterword."

Mo Ge'er said: "The girl didn't see the words 'comet comes out, the whale dies' written on it. It is so big that sometimes it strays into the bay island and cannot go back to the sea.

According to what she said, Xiangyun just didn't believe it, but he refused to put down the album.Daiyu was afraid that Mo Ge'er would talk nonsense in a hurry, so she hurriedly found something to send her away.How could Mo Ge'er not understand what she meant?So I just went out silently and squatted under the wall to sulk.

The more Daiyu thought about it, the more amusing she became, and then she said to Xiangyun, "You don't know how much effort they put in to make this, and I can't let you doubt her. Last time I talked about the coconut fruit full of sweet water, I only doubted it." How can there be such a long fruit, where did the water come from! The girl said, "Dongpo has said that 'good wine makes a forest not wait for a ceremony', is that also a deception?", After a while , I got two shells, it’s really rare, how come the fruit really grows into a wine sac, I really don’t know how the tree came up with it.”

Xiang Yun said: "From what you say, is it possible that this thing is for drawing to relieve your boredom?"

Daiyu nodded, then shook her head again: "You can't say that..." It's just that the matter involves Dao Lin Ruhai's current whereabouts, but it's inconvenient to say more, so she stammered, "It's just a casual chatter, who would have thought they would get excited, Now there are more nuns in charge to encourage them, but they are not tired of it!"

Xiangyun flipped through the book by himself, and when the book was exhausted, he sighed: "Sister Lin, you are living a comfortable life. Many people with their own talents are always around you. .Eat, wear, wear, and even hear about it, all others can't think of, I don't know where the blessing came from."

Daiyu said calmly: "You just look at these, how can I have nothing to worry about? Let alone my father's business, let's talk about the group of capable people you talked about. I am with them every day, I'm a little ashamed of myself. I'm not as good as I am in everything. I'm not as good as I am, but I really don't know what I can do. I can do it so well and enjoy it so much. It makes me wonder if I'm going to live this life in vain?"

Xiangyun laughed and said: "You are just worrying about the sky without reason! No matter how good they are, they are just slaves, each serving you according to his ability. You just enjoy the honor and honor. How can you compare with them? According to what you said, I'm afraid that the old lady can't remember the menu cards in the big kitchen, isn't she even a cook?"

Daiyu shook her head and smiled, "It's not the same thing." But she didn't know how to explain the words "what's the use of life", so she had to point out another thing: "Anyway, whether you believe it or not, what you just read It’s all true. You think you’re talking nonsense to deceive people. You’ve never seen anyone who can really deceive you.” Turning around, he said to Xueyan, “Give a copy of Guiliu’s to Yun. Look girl."

Xueyan went to the inner room to fetch a similar large booklet, Xiangyun took it and flipped through a few pages, then laughed and said: "I've heard of this girl before, but I only heard that she was dazed and reckless, but I didn't expect to see her again." She has such a talent for writing. She is so free and unconstrained this day, thanks to her being able to come to her senses. She thought about going there, as if there really was such a place! It’s so much fun. How much effort this thing takes, I think I’m really too busy. "