Chapter 331: Ume
Just as there is no such thing as absolute fairness in the world, it is human beings who have a preference. In terms of eating, Lin Yu's taste is light, and he prefers the taste of the food itself, that is, the quality of the ingredients is the most critical, you can eat a little bit of sweet and sour, but it must be within a moderate range. Xiaobai, as a man, still has a love for fish and meat, and at the same time, as a martial artist, he also likes sweets with high energy. Qingqing prefers mellow aroma, doesn't like things that are too sweet, and doesn't like to eat sour, and contrary to Qingqing, Yin Susu likes to eat sweets, sweet and sour things are her favorite, such as preserved fruit pickles such as black plum.
There are three nearly 100-year-old plum trees in the palace of King Qi, although they are very old, they are well cared for, and they can still produce many plums every year. Moreover, the pickled plums made in the palace of the king of Qi, such as black plums, are all very famous in the capital, and two small baskets are sent to the palace every year. Because of his relationship with the Qi Palace, Yin Susu also loves to eat, and he asks for some every year, and when he sends things to each other, the Qi Palace's side often sends some over.
Therefore, Concubine Li, who handled this matter, didn't take it very seriously, Lin Yu sent a snack the day before yesterday, and the empty box happened to be filled with preserved fruits and black plums and other things to send back to the past. However, the palace silk flowers ordered by King Qi to be given to Lin Yu and the jeweled flowers and hairpins and other jewelry sent by the season made her a little difficult.
"It is said that the righteous daughter is always one level worse than the biological daughter, but the prince has spoken, and they are all the same as the others." Concubine Li looked at the jewelry in the box, a little embarrassed, "But even if it is the same amount, there is a difference between three, six, nine and so on." Of course, the gold hairpin inlaid with gems and the silver hairpin inlaid with beads are of course different, even if they are the same gemstones, they are also a little different. It's actually okay on weekdays, but recently the third child came back to live. Besides, if the gift is poor, I'm afraid that the county lord of Ninghe will not be happy. ”
The grandmother beside her knew what she was talking about, and King Qi's third daughter had a conflict with her husband two days ago, and ran home to live in the Qinglou where her husband frequented. The one is the most trouble-loving, and he doesn't have any heart, and he will get into trouble when he knows what he does.
"Actually. It's easy to do. Seeing that Concubine Li was a little embarrassed, Mama came up with an idea, "You only pick eight of the good ones and the middle and upper grades and send them to the county lord of Ninghe." Just send it over and ask if there is anything else to add, and then she will distribute it however she wants. Even the third child knew the way, and he didn't dare to mess with the county lord of Ninghe. The original position is not as good as others. The prince also faces the county lord. She made a fuss last time, but she suffered a lot of losses. ”
Concubine Li laughed and said, "Who let her not marry a good husband, the good family that the prince chose was unwilling to marry a little white face, and now she lives on the side of the palace." ”
The county lord has always been a little brainless, and Concubine Li had already offended her, so she was happy to see her deflated. Mama has been with her for a long time, and she knows what this matter is. So he laughed, "That's a heartless person, even if she knows the Tao this time, she won't be able to please if she goes to make trouble, there is a prince in front of her to speak, and the county lord in the back to help block it, and it has nothing to do with Mrs." ”
"The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was a really good idea, so I did it. If you want to say that the first one is given to Qingqing, there is nothing to say, there is no princess in the house, and several little princes are not crowned princes, she is the county lord, and she is the most noble. Concubine Li smiled and instructed someone to prepare preserved fruits, black plums and other things, and asked someone to hand Qingqing the jewelry that the shops and workshops under the palace had brought up to replace and replenish the female relatives in the season.
"When you see the county lord at that time, you will say that I don't know the preferences of the girl Lu Daoyu, and let her help you choose it." Concubine Li said to the big girl who was holding the box.
"Know, ma'am." The side concubine is not as good as the princess's concubine, although there is a concubine, she can only be called Mrs. on weekdays.
Qingqing looked at the large box of jewelry sent by Concubine Li, smiled, but didn't care much, but opened it to take a closer look. There is a silver building under the name of the Qi Palace, and it is very large, and it can almost rank third in the capital, so the jewelry offered to it every season is a fine product, even if there is a difference in the degree of preciousness, but even if it is silver jewelry, it may not be as good as gold jewelry.
Qingqing was holding a silver hairpin at this time, this silver hairpin is a lily of the valley hairpin, made of transparent clear light purple crystal into a small lily of the valley flower embellished on the silver hairpin, the stamens of the flower are made of thin gold wire, exuding the unique moist luster of gold.
"Miss's eyesight is really good, this hairpin is really exquisite." Concubine Li's maid, who was standing aside and waiting, complimented.
Qingqing smiled lightly when she heard this, and said, "Exquisite, this is not the most exquisite, there are several items in this box that are even more delicate than this one." However, this thing reminds me of the past, that Lantern Festival, Xiaoyu also bought a lily of the valley hairpin, but it was just silk flowers, and we were not so rich at that time. ”
Qingqing remembered that Lin Yu liked the lily of the valley silk flower very much, and the lily of the valley was also a flower that Lin Yu liked very much, so she took the hairpin and looked at it over and over.
The girl looked at her with a little nostalgia, and said with a smile, "This time there are actually four such lily of the valley hairpins, and one is made of pink crystal, one is made of transparent crystal, and one is made of light blue gemstones." The county mainly likes it, just stay, or wants other styles, and tells the people below to do it. ”
Qingqing smiled, "Since that's the case, I'm not welcome, this thing is not very valuable, and others can't say that I have taken it." ”
She left four lily of the valley hairpins, two gold inlaid eight treasure hairpins, a jasper hairpin, a sandalwood white jade hairpin, and other necklaces and earrings all chose to be expensive and medium. The ones that can be sent to the palace are all good, so even the medium jewelry is beautiful.
"Go get another box." After the selection was finished for a while, Qingqing asked someone to take the box again, and the girl ring held a small makeup with two layers of Nanmu, Qingqing looked at it and nodded, opened it, and asked the girl ring to put it in the same way.
"County Lord, do you want to keep this lily of the valley hairpin?" The girl asked with the hairpin. "If you could stay, what colors would you like?"
Qingqing originally planned to send them over, but after thinking about it, she changed her mind again, and smiled softly, "I thought that the one that Xiaoyu didn't have seemed to be white, and I would like to leave a light blue one, which also matches my name." ”
It was all packed up for a while, and Concubine Li also sent someone over there to say that the preserved fruits and the black plums that were special products in the house had been loaded, and asked Qingqing when they would be delivered.
Qingqing handed the box to the visitor, and ordered, "I've heard that the black plum in our house is good, since the can was opened today, ask someone to send some over, I haven't tasted it yet." ”
The man took the box, agreed, and went to reply to Concubine Li, and then Concubine Li arranged for someone to send the things over, but it was sent to Lanyuan in the afternoon.
Lin Yu was asking the steward about the small flower hall of Lanyuan, and happened to receive something from someone else. However, she didn't like to eat sour either, and she knew that the box of black plums was not for herself, so the housekeeper asked someone to send the black plums to Yin Susu, and Lin Yu took the jewelry sent by the palace back to the house to look through it. One is that this thing is named to himself, and the other is that Yin Susu has a flower letter shop and a silver building under his name, so a rich man, there is no shortage of jewelry, and there is no need to ask her if she wants it.
However, when I opened the box and saw the two lily of the valley hairpins, no one knew about the mood swings. But there is no one, and it is not that no one knows about the road, Xiaobai went out of Lu and came back, thinking that he hadn't seen Lin Yu for a day, so he came over to take a look. He wanted to surprise Lin Yu, but when he jumped in from the window, he saw Lin Yu taking the lily of the valley hairpin and looking at it carefully, the expression on his face was very complicated, and he seemed to be a little nostalgic and a little sad.
"Do you like lily of the valley very much? Or is there a story in it? ”
"Ah, it's you." Lin Yu seemed to have just noticed him coming in, which was different from her usual sensitive reaction, Xiaobai relied on a man's intuition, faintly jealous, but it was difficult to say.
Lin Yu didn't notice his delicate mood, put down the lily of the valley hairpin, sighed softly, and said to him, "Why did you still jump in through the window this time?" If you don't go through the gate, will someone stop you when you walk through the gate? ”
Xiaobai listened to her tone, not only was she not surprised, she seemed to be a little complaining, and her heart was even more pantothenic, "I want to surprise you, it seems that I am stupid, if you don't want to do things, you will definitely notice, when you think about things so preoccupied, you don't notice it, but you are only surprised but not happy, I am about you to dislike, and I can't please you." ”
Lin Yu caught a glimpse of the bag of things he was holding in his hand, faintly exuding a mellow aroma, and couldn't help but say a little strangely, "What are you holding?" ”
"Last time you said delicious ......, forget it, anyway, you liked it at the time, and you may not like it now." Xiaobai said a little depressed, and the loss on her beautiful and delicate face was clear at a glance.
Lin Yu remembered suddenly, once the two went out together, and saw a seller of sauced beef in a small alley, the fragrance wafted far away, Lin Yu felt very good by the taste, and it was really good. But that place is far away and far away, and the boss only makes one pot a day, although he said that he wanted to eat again, but he went twice and didn't rush to catch up.
Lin Yu was really annoyed at first, but looking at the sauce beef, he couldn't help but be gentle, "What kind of temper are you doing, we are all engaged, you are still not at ease." ”
I don't feel at ease if I don't get married, Xiaobai wants to say this, but looking at the warm pupils of the girl opposite, and feeling that she is such a gentle and quiet person, I really think about it. He opened his mouth and was about to say something when the door slammed open.
"What's going on?" Xiao Bai and Lin Yu turned their heads at the same time and asked.
"Miss, something happened!"
"What's wrong?" Lin Yu looked at her flustered, looked at her and said, "Say it slowly." ”
"Ume, that Umeli is poisonous! Someone seems to have died. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you CBBCA classmates for the peace charm and pink ticket! Anyway, I like to eat all kinds of plums, and I also like plum wine.