Chapter 41 Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival
The green shade on both sides of the road sends each other, the sunset shines in the evening, there are carriages and ox carts on the official road to rush to Nanxun County one after the other, the carriage walks in the front, followed by an ox cart, there are two male servants, loaded with all kinds of gifts. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Well, it's so unlucky these days, I should have gone to the Pei family's courtyard in the morning, but it turned out to be either eating the wrong thing, or encountering heavy rain, fortunately, at this speed, I can arrive before dark. The manservant, who didn't have to drive the car, said to another companion.
As soon as the words fell, the ox cart suddenly jolted, the two were thrown away, and the car stopped.
"What's going on?" the grumbling manservant looked back, but fortunately the gifts in the car were fine, and the good ones were still in the car.
"Maybe it's a stone. The manservant who was driving was unimpressed, and flicked his whip to start again.
"Moo-" the old ox called, lifting his hooves and straining forward, the wheel of the car turned twice, the ox could not pull back a few steps, the gift on the wooden board slipped obliquely, fell into the muddy pit, the mud splashed, polluted the snow-white screen partition, and several batches of silk fell to the ground, stained with dust.
"Oops!" the manservant looked back, and was so frightened that he hurriedly pushed his companion, and the two jumped out of the ox cart and quickly packed up the scattered gifts. "This is all for the eldest young master, what should I do now? I knew that I rushed to Nanxun County yesterday. ”
"Don't say anything, push the car out first. The servant who drove the cart interrupted his self-pity, and the two of them worked together to push the wooden cart out of the mud puddle from behind.
The handlebar ears were alert, and when he found that the sound of the ox cart behind him was missing, he stopped, and the maid sitting next to him didn't know why, and asked softly, "Is there something wrong ahead?"
"No, it's the ox cart behind that hasn't followed. Jumping out of the cart with a handlebar, he instantly understood, "The wheels of the ox cart are stuck in a mud puddle, and I will go over and push it." ”
The maid lifted the curtain and truthfully reported the situation to the people inside.
"It's been hard for you all the way, but we have to enter Nanxun County at night, the eldest young master may be in a hurry, you let the handlebar and those two hurry up." ”
Young Master Pei, who the woman was thinking about, was now eating happily.
The kitchen has newly entered the seafood river fresh, and the chefs have used eighteen kinds of skills to strive for Pei Shuo's happiness and reward one or two.
Ginger and scallion choke sea crab, boiled snails, steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli, alpine vegetables in soup, steamed osmanthus fish, baked shrimp with sea salt, fried rice with sea urchin, steamed pork ribs, seaweed egg skin rolls, and a pork rib soup with red beans and lotus root.
The upper and lower jaws bite, a porphyr, the shell of the sea crab is easily bitten open, the outside of the shell is wrapped in green onion and ginger juice, the taste is excellent, and then taste the sweet crab meat inside, the freshness of the crab meat is more and more highlighted, to deal with the pair of big tongs, both hands are broken, and the meat in the tongs is completely pulled out, if it is dipped in a little red Zhejiang vinegar, it is another flavor.
Pei Shuo grabbed two handfuls of snails, one for A-Yao, and the other for himself, so he asked people to take down this dish and leave it for later.
There is also sea salt baked shrimp, the bamboo cage is paved with a layer of snow-white crystal sea salt, and the bottom is faintly revealed light red, and then look closely, the original shrimp is placed on the bamboo cage, covered with sea salt, similar to salt-baked chicken, but the actual shrimp meat is still fresh and sweet, and there is no need for dipping sauce, and the salty taste of sea salt brings out the freshness and sweetness of the shrimp.
There is also sea urchin fried rice, which is ...... Well, it's a bit bland, the oil is heavier, the fried rice is rich, and the sea urchin is rustling, like eating duck egg yolk.
"So satisfied!"
The last soup clears the mouth, the pink lotus root also drinks the clear soup that brings out the original taste of the ingredients, and Ah Yao squinted happily.
The maid brought a hot handkerchief for him to wipe his hands, the tea rinsed and spit out, and the cold leftovers on the table were removed by the other maids, and he asked Ah Yao, "Have you eaten well?"
Ah Yao nodded vigorously.
"Go, take you somewhere, but blindfolded. Pei Shuo smiled slyly, asked for Ah Yao's consent, took out the prepared black cloth strip, blindfolded Ah Yao, and led her to a certain place.
It was pitch black and couldn't see anything, like a visually impaired person, no light, couldn't see others, the moment Ah Yao was blindfolded, the whole person was highly nervous, holding Pei Shuo's hand tightly, and couldn't pull it off: "Where are you going to take me, it's not far away?"
"Relax, please entrust me with your eyes for the time being, I am your eyes...... Here we have to cross the threshold. Pei Shuo led A-Yao, and gradually reminded her how to go, and if there were any roadblocks nearby that needed to be bypassed or go directly.
The time of being invisible is extraordinarily long, A-Yao has been cheering herself up in her heart, believe in Pei Shuo, you must believe him, just do team building, if he dares to be unfavorable to her, see how she cleans him up!
"It's coming, it's coming. Every time A-Yao asked, Pei Shuo was always perfunctory.
There is a gravel road at your feet, and there are many places to pave cobblestones. Ah Yao's mind was spinning rapidly, but before she could find the answer, Pei Shuo had already untied her blindfold and showed the answer in front of her.
"Look!"
The three autumn laurel gardens are full of golden osmanthus flowers, the flowers are fragrant, but more importantly, whether it is the corridor or the pavilions, or the trees, there are colorful lanterns, the willows on the moon, the five-color lanterns, the fireworks sticks held by the maids, the grass near the lake, the servants put the fire trees and silver flowers, which has the festival atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Wow!" Ah Yao was dizzying, the maid and the mother-in-law all gathered in the open space in front of them, stretching their necks and talking, "What are they doing?" Ah Yao turned around.
"You forgot so quickly? Two days ago, I said that I was going to hold a lantern festival here in 'Sanqiu Guizi', so that the maids and maids in the other courtyard also participated, and the front ones were all looking at pictures and guessing riddles, and if you answered correctly, you could get an ingots lantern, or a fish lantern. ”
A-Yao replied: "Of course I know, but you brought me over blindfolded, and I haven't been here for Sanqiu Guizi, how can I be right." Can I guess the riddle too, and will there be a reward for guessing it?"
Pei Shuo pointed to the lantern hanging in the corridor: "You can also guess, there are anagrams prepared over there, which are slightly more difficult than them, but there are other rewards, depending on the difficulty, answer the moon cakes, tangerines and seal red correctly." ”
"Oh yes. Ah Yao's eyes lit up, "I'm going to try!"
Like a flower butterfly, she rushed to the bottom of the verandah, picked up a quicksand note hanging with a lantern tassel and looked at it.
"You wrote this?"
"Well, you can guess what it is. ”
Ah Yao read it for a long time, she could read every word on it, and she understood its meaning, but if she wanted to type a word, she would ...... I couldn't think of it, so I could only put it down and pick something else to see, but I watched several in a row, guessed a few, and took a few oranges, Feng Hong really thought too much, and Pei Shuo's money was not so easy to make.