Chapter 152: Flowers and Incense (Part II)
Cui Mengzhang watched the lady and the maid hurriedly back, and she didn't know which lady the other party was after the chat.
"May I ask if you are the Founding Lady, Mrs. Pei?"
Cui Mengzhang turned around, and the person who spoke was a girl who was as rich as a hibiscus out of the water, she had a woman's hair in a bun, a hairpin with pomegranate flowers, followed by two mothers-in-law, holding a little girl who had not yet reached the age of dancing spoons, like a jade carving, with a little cinnabar in the center of her eyebrows, like a jade girl in front of the Guanyin seat.
"I am, you are ......"
Woman: "My husband is Dali Temple Qing Wu Yue, his mother's family Hedong Liu, it seems that my family and your parents have some distant relationship, but it is not that my little sister and I often pray in the nunnery, I don't know much, if you don't dislike calling me Qingchi, this is my sister Chengxin." ”
She mentioned her name and surname, Cui Mengzhang remembered that the Boling Cui family and the Qinghe Cui family did have an in-law relationship, and Liu Qingchi and Liu Chengxin were said to have met the lotus bloom in front of the Buddha when they were born, and there was a Taoist monk from the capital to approve the order, named from "the stone lonely cloud peep hue, Qingchi Haoyue shines on the Zen heart", Qingchi Haoyue Yu Zen heart is clear and empty, and also responded to this name, the two sisters have been brilliant since childhood, and later sent to the nunnery to practice with hair, until Liu Qingchi grew up, the two sisters were able to leave.
Later, Liu Qingchi married the current Dali Siqing, and it is said that this Lord Wu is about to be promoted.
This is not the reason why Liu Qingchi came over, the key is that his father-in-law seems to have said it......
Liu Chengxin and Pei Shuo have a marriage contract!
It was the deceased who married the Liu family back then.
Thinking of Pei Shuo, Cui Mengzhang felt uncomfortable again, "Qingchi, let's talk as we walk." ”
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Sun Changxin walked another way to meet the eldest princess, and the eldest princess beckoned to come and sit down, where the small hall could see everyone in the garden.
The eldest princess took out the glass bottle and shook her wrist, the clear liquid swirled in the glass bottle, and the bottle reflected the light, Sun Changxin looked at the eldest princess curiously, and saw her hand over the bottle to her: "This is the rose dew made by a maid in my house, saying that the rose is boiled together with the steamed mountain spring water, you can't use makeup powder during this time, just use the dew to pat your face every morning." ”
"How can this work. Sun Changxin subconsciously pushed back: "It's too precious." ”
The eldest princess: "You are the nephew and daughter-in-law of the palace, and you are the year-old friend of the palace who has nothing to talk about, you are more valuable than the rose dew, take it." ”
She looked at the eldest princess shyly, and opened the rose dew with her nodding in agreement, and suddenly a fragrance of roses scrambled out from the bottle, and she could smell the sweet fragrance without getting closer, and her mood suddenly became better.
"Zhuang Xuan, thank you. She tightened the gilt lid and put it in her sachet, and fearing that it would spill on the road, she put it in her sleeve along with the sachet.
"What's the welcome, this rose dew can be drunk. The maid of the main palace made three parts of rose dew, which is edible, one part is used with filtered rouge, and then steamed in a pot, and the rouge produced has the fragrance of roses, and one part only takes a few drops, and wipes it off on the wrist, collar, and behind the ear, which can replace the sachet and lavender. The eldest princess said, speaking of this, looking at the noble ladies in the garden, she was eager to move:
"How can this palace show off to them?" The eldest princess wanted to show off for the first time in her life, but she didn't know how to start
Sun Changxin couldn't cry or laugh, co-authored this flower-viewing banquet is to show off that his maid can make rose dew, and then think about it, rose dew is a strange commodity in the capital, winter passes, spring is the blooming of flowers, is the best time to make fragrance dew, if you succeed in making rose dew, jasmine dew, magnolia dew came into being, to summer lotus dew, orange leaf dew, autumn wood dew, winter sour orange dew, plum blossom dew, can have topics all year round.
"Hey, Zhuang Xuan, are the sour orange dew you sent and this rose dew made by the same maid?" Sun Changxin asked, "That's simple, you invite a few ladies to drink rose dew, they will be curious when they smell the fragrance." ”
"That's right. The eldest princess smiled, and with a wave of her hand, she sent a maid to invite the ladies who knew each other to sit down.
Without her opening her mouth, the ladies took the first step to praise the eldest princess's flowers for blooming well, and the maids brought a few roses and honey water, and the white porcelain was filled with clear plum and red soup, and the mist was faintly visible, and there was no need to get closer, and the rich aroma had already told the guests what it was.
Several ladies stopped chatting, and invariably picked up the white porcelain cup, smelled it first, and then tasted it: "Is it a combination of roses and tea? It seems that I can't drink the taste of tea." ”
"It's supposed to be a method like plum blossoms frying snow. ”
"No, if it's 'plum frying snow', the color of the soup will not be similar to that of red plums, and it should be more red or cherry-colored. ”
The ladies argued to no avail, and they turned their eyes to the eldest princess, and the host's family said justice.
The corners of the eldest princess's mouth rose, "The method is not complicated, use a small spoon to pick up the rose dew and stir it in the honey water, and take it every day to nourish your skin." This dew is not sold in the market, and the roses used in it are not the most showy and unremarkable in the garden, but they are usually used as pastry fillings. ”
Rose dew mixed with honey water.
Several ladies looked at each other, feeling that the white porcelain bowl in their hands was a little more valuable, and they tasted it more cautiously as if they were drinking gold.
"With the blessing of the eldest princess, we can taste the rose dew given by the Holy Lord, which is really a blessing for three lives. ”
Eldest Princess: "Madam, you're wrong, it's made by my maid." ”
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"How is it possible, this fragrance is not bad for the rose dew given by the emperor!" one of the ladies could not help but be excited, "The courtier has lost her temper. ”
The eldest princess finally felt what kind of mood they were feeling when they proudly showed off their dew, and the mood was very refreshed!" She smiled and bent her eyes, "At that time, the maid didn't believe it when it came out, but the fragrance was really good." ”
Happy, she generously asked the palace maid to serve the bottle of rose dew with a particularly complicated method, only opened the lid, the aroma is intoxicating, Rao is one of the ladies is good at making incense, and the husband's family is also a royal merchant who supplies spices, she also can't smell the method from the fragrance for a while, only feels that she is in a sea of roses, and her spirit is relaxed.
Madame: "The eldest princess has a lot of capable people, and I can't wait for it." ”
The eldest princess: "Where, it's just a product of the maid's whim, which consumes both time and a lot of materials, unlike the fat powder dew produced by Mrs. Ning's Frangipani Pavilion, which is concerned by the ladies of the capital." ”
Mrs. Ning's heart lifted, she didn't know what the eldest princess meant by this, and secretly thought to herself.
Sun Changxin saw a cat with bright fur in the flowers, and curiously moved to the railing to hold his abdomen with both hands, and took a closer look at the cat.
The cat was so bent on fluttering at the butterfly that it didn't notice that there were still people staring at it.
The butterfly is like a cat teasing stick, east and west, flying to the moon arch and flapping its wings to attract the attention of the little white cat.
It stopped, and it was accumulating, vowing to pounce on the butterfly.
Pounce -
"Oops!"
At the same time, there was a bang, and the porcelain plate fell to the ground and bloomed.