Chapter 42: A Mass of Harmony

Mu Chenghuang knew that Yang Baolin deliberately looked for the stubble of the Qi palace maid must not only be for the sake of that day's anger, the Qi palace maid originally lived in Xiangye Hall, but I was afraid that at that time, the two would have a disagreement, but this Qi palace maid has always been a heartless person, and she was born much better than Yang Baolin, so it is inevitable that this cautious Yang Baolin will take the opportunity to retaliate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

I really don't know how much resentment this is, so that Yang Baolin is like this in front of Mu Chenghuang.

"The palace only knows that the banquet is about to start, and the father and the queen mother can't be kept waiting. ”

Yang Baolin raised his head and crossed his arms in front of his chest: "That's it, I've trained enough today, why don't you hurry up and take the dress back and wash it again?"

Mu Chenghuang watched the palace maid Qi get up with the dress in her hand, looking like a promise, and felt that the innocent Qi Cainu she had seen before was like two people, and the palace maid Qi kept her head down, just saluted Mu Chenghuang, and left in a hurry without saying a word.

The banquet of the Taihe Hall is extremely generous, from the front of the pillars of the four people on both sides of the yellow rosewood low coffee table, there is a pier behind the head, each guest who enters the palace has a small eunuch who specially guides the way, this kind of banquet in the palace has always been exquisite, even the seats of the guests have to be adjusted repeatedly for a long time, especially this time the palace magnates come more, it is necessary to consider which girl and which noble girl have a feud because of a satin before, which son has and which son has been unhappy because of a lonely book, and the Prince Yu and the British Duke who competed for the beauty of the little phoenix fairy are extremely difficult to arrange。

According to the grade, both of them should be in front, but there are so many positions in front, if they sit close, big eyes to small eyes, thunder and fire, if they sit far away, there must be one to sit in the back position, and finally took a compromise approach, let Prince Yu sit close to the emperor, after all, it is his own brother, and no one dares to say anything, but near the British Duke, the people who sit are all royal nobles of the first grade such as Prince Su and the eldest princess, and they also raised his face, and it is not easy to say anything.

The British Duke is naturally happy, the new beauty, is trying to talk and laugh very happily, this dynasty, it is normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, if he only spoils one room and does not accept the concubine room, he will be ridiculed for being a strict wife, Mu Chenghuang is sitting opposite the British Princess, is watching the British Duke talk endlessly and show off how moving the dance of this little phoenix is how moving, how fascinating, Li Su next to the British Duke seems to be in a good mood, just because he can be close to the eldest princess, although the two are next to each other, but due to etiquette, they only occasionally drink and talk, it seems, it is a good match。

Mu Chenghuang originally thought that Mu Chengyao would not show up today, but he still sat next to her dignifiedly, but his face was a little pale, just when Mu Chenghuang was holding the tea cup, he accidentally touched Mu Chengyao's hand, that hand was as cold as an ice cellar, Mu Chengyao's illness seemed to be not light, and even the words were much less.

And Mu Qinyi happened to sit diagonally opposite Mu Chenghuang, from her angle, she could just see Mu Chenghuang's side face, as well as a very elegant eating appearance, but Mu Chenghuang from the beginning of the banquet, this chopsticks have not stopped, although eating very slowly, but this appetite is really a little broad, Mu Qinyi stared at her silently, occasionally taking a sip of tea.

More than half of the banquet, many people are prepared before the thin gift offered, the queen mother one by one, no matter what is sent, are showing a satisfied smile, the turn of the eldest princess, only to see the painting presented a brocade box, the box opened, inside is a string of Buddha beads made of jade, different from other Buddha beads, this string of Buddha beads is not strung up with a Buddha rope, but also with jade connection, if the person who knows how to see, you will be able to see at a glance, this string of elegant Buddha beads is actually carved out of a whole piece of jade, although the beads and the beads are dead, but this seems to be swaying with the wind, but it is more and more lifelike。

"Thinking that there is a jade Buddha in the side hall of the Queen Mother, but I feel that something is missing, it turns out that there are no Buddha beads hanging on this Buddha, Chengqing is a little careful, and I just hope that it is not a snake to add enough. ”

"Where is the painting of snakes," if Empress Dowager Pei just smiled politely before, but now when she saw this jade Buddha bead, her eyebrows and eyes were also smiling, and she ordered someone to take this jade Buddha bead closer, and praised, "This is the icing on the cake." ”

The eldest princess's mother, Duan Guifei's mother's family, is already generous, plus the eldest princess is favored by the queen mother and the emperor, there are indispensable good things in this palace, and the words of praising the eldest princess rise with the wind, and Mu Chengxin also praised it lukewarmly: "The eldest sister is really generous, I don't know how much this jade Buddha bead carved from a whole piece of jade is worth?"

Mu Chenghuang bowed his head slightly, Mu Chengxin's question was very lacking in morality, how can this thing of faith be measured by value casually, no matter how many silver taels the eldest princess said, it is not suitable.

Li Su next to him immediately echoed: "The gift is in a heart, not to mention that it is a pure thing of the Buddhist family, how can it be stained with that copper smell?"

Mu Chenghuang looked at Li Su sideways, this Li Su was quite protective of the eldest princess, and said everything Mu Chenghuang thought in his heart, Wu Zhaoyi immediately smiled and took the words: "Look at this jade, you know that it is worth a lot." Then, he set his eyes on Mu Chenghuang and said with a smile, "Now it's almost Chenghuang." ”

Although the concubine did not shoot the concubine and the eldest princess back then, but fortunately, her mother's family was also generous, naturally it was a lot of help, and every time she gave a birthday gift, it was indispensable to send some fresh and rare things, and now the concubine died, I remember that on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, Mu Chenghuang sent a pot of chrysanthemums to the Queen Mother, and on the day of the Spring Festival, she sent a jar of red plums, and the co-author didn't know how many flowers she had in Jinglan Palace, to be honest, it wasn't that Mu Chenghuang wanted to be perfunctory for a while, but she had been immersed in the pain of losing her mother before, and she really didn't have the heart to prepare a congratulatory gift.

Some people knew Mu Chenghuang's habit of sending things, so he smiled and said: "Did the fifth princess bring Yueji or Begonia today?"

"Neither," Mu Chenghuang Yingying got up and slowly spoke under the watchful eye, "Chenghuang personally cooked in the morning, made some pastries, and specially presented them to the Queen Mother." ”

With a snort, Mu Chenghuang clearly heard the whispers around him, there is everything in the pastry palace, it is better to send some rare flowers.

When Empress Dowager Pei heard this, she only had a kind smile on her face: "I have a heart." ”

"Wenzhi, bring it up. ”

Wen Zhi deliberately wore a water-red dress today, the cuffs were also embroidered with red silk threads, a brocade box in his hand, his arms were long and wide, and a half-opened lotus flower was engraved on it. ”

Wen Zhi opened the brocade box in response, Empress Dowager Pei's originally faint eyes suddenly wiped a trace of joy, the curvature of the corners of her mouth was a joy that could not be hidden, and let Mama Gu hurriedly clip a piece out, on the turquoise pastry, there was a standard italic blessing character written on it, Mama Gu was about to dig out a small piece with a silver spoon for Empress Dowager Pei to taste, but Empress Dowager Pei stopped with a smile: "You don't know, this pastry is to eat it bite by yourself." After that, he took it into his mouth, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he opened it for a long time: "It's exactly this taste." Leaned over and asked Mu Chenghuang, "Where did you learn it?"

Mu Chenghuang said: "Chenghuang is not as good as the eldest sister to read poetry and books, in addition to fiddling with flowers and plants on weekdays, I love to read some ancient food books, and accidentally saw a Baling authentic snack sister group, thinking that the queen mother is a Baling person, you can learn to do it, in order to meet the occasion, and this sister group has changed a little, named Fushou cake, but also to please a good fortune." ”

Empress Dowager Pei entered the palace at the age of fifteen, and has not returned to her hometown for more than 40 years now, although there are many masters in the palace, none of them can make the taste she really likes, when the emperor was there before, she had specially invited Baling's pastry master to enter the palace to make some food, but at that time, it was because her sister was pregnant, and naturally she was going to eat her sister first。

The more I thought about it, the more the aroma of this Fushou cake melted in my mouth was the more full of the taste of my hometown, and the Empress Dowager Pei looked at Mu Chenghuang's eyes more and more tender, and others saw the Queen Mother for the first time so happy, so they couldn't help but ask about the origin of the pastry, and learned that it was the pastry that the Queen Mother had been thinking about for a long time.

Empress Dowager Pei has always paid attention to eating etiquette, and each dish only needs to be ordered, but this Fushou cake can't help but eat two, and asked Mama Gu to put away the rest, Mu Chenghuang got up and said respectfully: "If the Queen Mother likes it, when do you want to eat it, just let someone come and give an order, Chenghuang immediately made it and sent it to the Queen Mother." ”

"Hmph, sycophant. Mu Chengxin snorted softly when she heard this, and immediately met with a roll of the eyes of Wu Zhaoyi, who was sitting next to her, "Do you also have the ability to be a sycophant? I said that today's banquet makes you like the Duchess and the prince of the country, did you see it just now, but people are helping the eldest princess." ”

Mu Chengxin rubbed his handkerchief: "The prince has never looked at me squarely, and I can't do it." ”

"Stupid. Wu Zhaoyi frowned and said, "Won't you find a way to make him notice you yourself? If you can have half of Mu Chengyao's ability to lead men, and let the son of the guilty minister, the nephew of Lord Shangshu and the only son of General Huang's family follow her ass in a mess, will I worry so much about your marriage? After Wu Zhaoyi finished speaking, she looked at Mu Chengyao, who was pale and speechless, raised her eyebrows and said, "She is sick, it seems that her illness is really not simple." ”