Chapter 86: Dinner in the Shen Mansion
Since Shen Ji'an was brought into the Kyoto prison, although the affairs of the Shen Mansion have not changed from before, the maids and servants below are obviously much more cautious, and those who are a little clever know that the masters above are not in a good mood, and if they make a mistake at this time, they are really uncomfortable, and they deserve to be punished.
Now that Shen Ji'an has finally been released from the prison, the Shen Mansion is full of joy from the master to the concierge below, and the inner house is even more lively and chattering.
The dinner was arranged in Bishui Tingli, not far from Shou'an Hall. Bishui Ting is a two-storey octagonal pavilion-like attic, a pool of living water from bypassing from Bishui Ting on three sides, the door is open on the other side, entering the gate, it is an eight-sided landscape screen, bypassing the screen will find that it is extremely warm inside, in addition to levying a wide couch bed, a row of chairs are placed on the left and right sides of the lower hand of the couch.
The reason why Bi Shuiting is close to Feng's Shou'an Hall is because this was originally specially designed by the three masters of the Shen family to honor Feng's family, and Feng's family also likes to talk with juniors here on weekdays.
Ascending the stairs from the first floor, the second floor is an octagonal pavilion with windows. If you open the windows facing the water, you can see the scenery of the entire back garden of the Shen family, no matter what season it is, the scenery here is one of the most beautiful viewing places in the Shen Mansion.
In the winter when Shen Junqian just came back, he saw a snow scene here, the world was white, not to mention the entire Shen family, at least half of the Shen family could be seen.
The banquet is placed on the second floor of Bishuiting, and now Bishuiting is full of people, not only on the second floor of the pavilion on the table and chairs, but also deliberately changed the curtains, into the Bishuiting on both sides of the trees are also tied with red silk, on both sides of the gate even red lanterns are hung.
There was still some time before the dinner, and at this time, the old and young masters of the Shen family were in the inner house, and the ladies were busy with each other, only the girl and the slightly younger group were talking to the Feng family.
Shen Yuzhen is also here, she is a guest, she doesn't need to be busy, she just sat next to Feng, looked at a bunch of flowery girls, and suddenly smiled and said to Feng and Yan: "Oh, I didn't think that now when I see this group of little girls here from my mother, I realize that I am all old, I really can't compare to these little girls." ”
The Ma family is not there, Shen Junxuan, as the eldest girl in the Shen family, has to take on the responsibility of the master, "Aunt is not old, if this appearance is really visible, I am afraid that the person who doesn't know will still be Sister Xuan'er." After saying that, he laughed first.
Xu Yaqin is also here today, and she is far more familiar with Shen Yuzhen than the rest of the Shen family, because Shen Yuzhen is the second lady of the Xu family first, her second aunt, and then the eldest lady of the Shen family. She is now sitting under Shen Yuzhen, and as soon as Shen Junxuan's words were finished, she also smiled and said, "Second aunt, this is self-humility, Cousin Xuan is right." Don't you know, when the second aunt took Ya'an and Yaping's cousins out all these years, I don't know how many of us in Wenzhou mistakenly thought they were three sisters!"
"Ouch, ouch, it's terrible, now these villains' mouths are so sweet, I have to blush. You are all too good at talking, I am an aunt and aunt for you, but I can't resist it, hurry, two good girls, you can get around me, if you continue to talk, I will have to dig a hole and get into it. Shen Yuzhen's exaggerated tone and expressions kept moving, which made a group of little girls laugh, and even the Feng family at the top also smiled.
Mama Yan, who was serving Feng's side, said to Feng with a smile, "Old lady, the old slave has never seen our Miss Jiazhen like this in his life, it's really rare!"
Mama Yan also grew up watching Shen Yuzhen grow up since she was a child, and the former Miss Shen immediately retorted to Mama Yan's words, "Mama Yan said this, but it depends on Yuzhen's jokes, how can you say that you also watched Yuzhen grow up, how long has it been, Mama, this is just that if you have a new person, you will forget about me, the old person." ”
"It seems that our eldest lady is amazing, this mouth is really loveable and hateful, grandma is stupid but you can't say it, I think you are still about to spare grandma, I am." "Mama Yan was different from other slaves, but she took the sentence comfortably.
The servants outside were busy for a while, and the atmosphere on Feng's side was also very good, Feng sat on it and listened to everyone chatting about clothes and food or something fun below. Feng Shi didn't interject a few words, but also talked about a few fresh foods that he had eaten in places he had been to when he was young, and everyone was refreshed when he heard it.
Although Shen Junqian loved to walk around in her previous life, in this life she was in addition to the previous Maozhou, which is the Laizhou she is staying in now, she was too young in Maozhou before and almost never went out, and what she knew was really limited, and what she knew in her previous life was not necessarily the same as in this life, and she had nothing to explain how she knew it, so she simply pretended to be curious and the baby kept listening to others.
When everyone was chatting hotly, Ma's, Xiao's, and De'anqi came to invite the old lady, and Feng led a large group of people to Bishuiting.
Seeing the red lanterns hanging everywhere in Bishuiting from a distance, Shen Junqian was a little shocked: "Ah, it's so festive, it feels the same as the New Year?"
Feng Shi nodded, "It's good to be festive, it's not a big deal to be happy with our own people, or it's the most comfortable to look at this arrangement, and you can know that it's a good day at a glance." ”
"Look at what the old lady said, isn't it a good day, the third brother can get out of the prison, this day is the best, and it is not auspicious in the yellow calendar. Isn't it, third brother and sister?" Ma Shi lost face before, he had long wanted to regain some face, but he didn't dare to rush forward like before he thought about it, but now he heard Feng Shi praise before he spoke.
De'an has always been beaming today, even Ma, who doesn't like it very much, looked at it a lot, and said with a smile: "That's not, I don't know others, for me today is the best day of the year, old lady, I've been thinking about it today, I want to find a time to go to Qinglong Temple to make a wish, do you say it's okay?"
Qinglong Temple is the national temple of Dayin, this temple is on the Qinglong Mountain in the west of the capital, and the incense has been very vigorous. On weekdays, not only dignitaries and nobles, but also people in the palace go to incense from time to time, and there are even more people in this vicinity, and it has never been broken for 365 days a year.
However, this temple is also a very strange temple, the appearance is ordinary and the statues inside do not have too much sense of splendor, but they have a special good hall, often take in some unattended children and the elderly, there is also a cheap pharmacy under the mountain, often free of medical expenses for poor people, so the reputation of Qinglong Temple has always been excellent. I heard that there were several masters in it, the most famous of which was a master named Withered Leaf, but few people could see him.
The older the Feng family gets, the more respect they have for Buddhism, and when they hear De'an say this, they also agree very much, "You are right, you should go to Qinglong Temple, burn pillar incense, and also go to our Shen family's bad luck." ”
Shen Yuzhen thought about her son, her heart moved, and asked De'an: "When is the county lord going to inform me, I will go too! I haven't been to Qinglong Temple for a long time, and it's really good to go when I have time to go out this time." ”
Shen Junqian couldn't help but say beside her: "Third aunt, can I do it too?"
Dean smiled and said, "Cheng, why not, if your mother doesn't let you go, let her reason with me." He smiled and went to look at Shaw.
Xiao Shi just didn't see it, and continued to lead everyone to the second floor of Bishuiting.
On the second floor of Bishuiting, there is only a large round table on the top, and the bottom of the large round table is also separated by a screen, with men and women sitting on one side.
As soon as Feng Shi came in, everyone invited her together first, and then sat down in different places. When everyone was seated, a string of maids who served the food stepped forward and rotated to serve the dishes on each table.
Today's dish is also a sumptuous one, but the staple food is divided into several types, including lotus leaf rice, purple rice porridge, soup dumplings, colorful dumplings and so on. What pleased everyone the most was the Baihua wine that Xiao took out, but this wine tasted shallow, and the Shen Jizhong brothers didn't like it very much, but the ladies liked it very much.
De'an took two glasses, "It's still stained with the light of the second sister-in-law, this wine is really good, it tastes like fruit wine, it is not intoxicating but has a fragrance that fruit wine does not have, and the taste alone is not good." It seems that next year I will have to order more with Sanwei. ”
"That's right, I'll order more, and then I won't drink it myself, and it's also excellent to give it away. Shen Yuzhen also agreed with De'an's words.
Shen Junqian didn't feel much after taking a sip, although she didn't like wine, but in her previous life, as a world with a long wine culture, she had also tasted a lot of good wine, which was not comparable to the world now, and this hundred flowers were not much surprising in her opinion.
There is a dim sum snack that Shen Junqian likes very much, the appearance is crystal clear and similar to dumplings, but the juice is really crisp when you eat it, and it is called water chestnut cake, which is mainly made of water chestnut flour as raw materials.
There weren't many of these pastries in front of everyone, and Shen Junqian was still a little unsatisfied after eating herself, and she was turning her head around. I saw that a maid sent another one to herself, and when I asked quietly, I found out that my second brother specially asked someone to send it over. was immediately happy, and Shen Junluo on the side happened to see it, and looked at her sadly at the moment. Shen Junqian turned his head to look, and immediately secretly covered his mouth and smiled, it turned out that because Tuanzi was young, he followed the table of the female dependents, Shen Junluo took care of her, and De'an accompanied Feng's on it, probably because Tuanzi also likes horseshoe cakes, and Shen Junluo's own share was given to Tuanzi.
It turns out that this is the difference between an older brother and a younger brother.