Chapter 124: Family Banquet
"Oops!" Su Miao realized at this time, "I ate yours too!" β
"It's okay, I've eaten enough. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info" Song Chen smiled, reached into the small basin on the table to wash it, and as soon as he took it out, Su Miao handed him a dry handkerchief.
"Give!"
Su Miao raised her face and smiled so well-behaved and sweet that Song Chen's heart immediately rippled, and she didn't remember that this was a banquet where everyone was present, so she involuntarily reached out and touched Su Miao's face, wiped the corner of her mouth with her thumb, and wiped off a bit of crab roe on it, if it weren't for Su Miao's suddenly red face to remind him, he would almost have to put his fingers in his mouth and lick it clean like the two of them were eating together-now that there are so many people in the room, it's better to be more restrained- Song Chen moved a little stiffly and put his hand into the washbasin on the table.
"Hmm...... It seems that I am going to step up preparations for my good son's dowry. Tang Yun nodded and said meaningfully.
Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu's table next to her was also talking about it, Xiao Jingyu twisted her chin: "After I go back, I have to pick and choose and prepare more dowries for our family Miaomiao, will sixty-eight be a little less?" Xiao Jingyu poked Lin Jin's arm next to her.
Lin Jin was also dealing with hairy crabs, but he didn't pay much attention to the movement of Song Chen and Su Miao's table diagonally opposite. He put down the crab's clean crab legs, and frowned while washing his hands: "It's not cost-effective to eat such a little bit of meat after a few tosses." β
"......" Xiao Jingyu glanced at her, didn't speak, and thought in her heart that Tianjian Peak had something to pick as Miaomiao's dowry, and then bring it to Xiaojiabao early, and then transport it to the capital together, and Miaomiao would definitely have to come from the side of Selangora City when she got married.
"This chrysanthemum wine is good!" Lin Jin poured a glass for Xiao Jingyu, "I heard Miaomiao say that there are still a few bottles of plum wine buried in the courtyard, dig a jar and taste it in two days, to see what is the difference between it and the original liquid she brewed when she was in Tianjian Peak." β
"Speaking of which, Miao Miao does have a talent for winemaking." Xiao Jingyu's transfer power was deviated, "The craftsmanship is not inferior to the products of the most famous winery in Dalan, which may be the instinct of our doctors and pharmacists." β
"I'm also going to try it recently, if I can add some medicinal herbs to the wine, so that the wine can exert its medicinal effect, and there is no need to decoct the medicine." Xiao Jingyu has been to Hengqingtang a few times, and now she has a deep interest in doing business, "This kind of wine should be quite popular with Jianghu people!" β
"Well, why don't you add flamingo to it?" Lin Jin teased, "In this way, you don't need to drink medicine if you are cold in winter." β
"That's a good idea!" Xiao Jingyu's eyes lit up, "You can use not too strong wine, and then the amount of flamingo can be controlled very little, so that the average person's body can stand it." Drinking it in winter can warm up the body and improve the body's ability to resist wind and cold......"
The hairy crabs have been eaten, and the chrysanthemum wine has been drunk, and the banquet has come to an end. Everyone went back to their suites to rest.
After Zhuangzi was taken over by Song Chen, the first change he made was to rebuild the courtyard, he accepted Su Miao's suggestion, and felt that if it was divided into a courtyard like King Jing's Mansion, it would occupy a large place and it would not be practical, because they would only come to live for a few days at most, and there was no need. The courtyard in the Zhuangzi was changed to a special style - the courtyard and the garden are in the middle, the house is on the periphery, and a circle is built around the courtyard, with a total of two floors, each floor has fifteen suites, adding up to thirty suites, even if each master has one, the entire Jingwang Mansion is enough to move in.
Each suite is divided into a bedroom, a bathroom, a study and a bright room, which is similar to the room I lived in when I lived in King Jing's Mansion. Not long after this peculiar courtyard was built, everyone in Jingwang's Mansion felt very new and came to stay for a few days. The news spread, and other Zhuangzi owners on Yanyuan Mountain had the opportunity to come in and visit, and they planned to build this according to the same after going back, which can be regarded as a new style that led the courtyard pattern of each Zhuangzi last year.
It's night, there's nothing to say.
It may be due to the fact that they drank chrysanthemum wine the night before, the weather was cold, the quilt was warm, everyone slept very comfortably, and the late autumn was also late, so they got up a little later than usual. It was almost time for everyone to get up, and a large family was busy around the oversized stone table in the courtyard preparing to have breakfast, when Ma Dong suddenly led someone in.
The people in Jingwangfu are very familiar with this person, and usually the people who come to Jingwangfu to deliver the decree are this Tailin Laifu. Seeing his appearance at this time, everyone subconsciously straightened their clothes, and saw Laifu helping to wave their hands: "Don't be busy, big guy, the Sprinkle family is not here to announce the decree today, the emperor will hold a family banquet in Yanyuan Palace at night, let the Sprinkle family remind everyone to go to the banquet!" β
This Yanyuan Mountain has a lot of Zhuangzi of royal relatives, but the largest Zhuangzi still belongs to the emperor, built in the highest place of Yanyuan Mountain, occupies a small half of the mountain, named Yanyuan Palace. Yesterday, Song Chen and Su Miao saw them from afar when they reached the top of the mountain.
Laifu quickly left, it seems that there are other Zhuangzi to be notified by him, and before leaving, he also specially emphasized: "The emperor specially told the restaurant to invite Lin's seniors, Xiao's seniors and Miss Su to be sure to come with their faces." β
Lin Jin glanced at Xiao Jingyu, she was also a lord who had always been respectful of the royal family. Xiao Jingyu glanced back at him: "Yes!" I just gave you a taste, and the imperial kitchen in the palace is comparable to my family's wonderful craftsmanship......"
At the sixth quarter of the Shen hour, they began to set off for the Yanyuan Palace on the mountain by horse-drawn carriage, and there were quite a few horse-drawn carriages encountered on the way. This Chongyang, the entire Dalan Chaoye bathed for three days. The royal relatives in Selangor City will come to climb Yanyuan Mountain and then stay in Zhuangzi. Emperor Song Hengyuan's family was no exception, but they took another special mountain road, so they couldn't see it when they were on the road. The day after Chongyang, Song Hengyuan would hold a banquet to invite the imperial relatives who remained on the mountain, which was also a habit that began since he ascended the throne, so the Zhuangzi on the mountain was built more and more, and the bigger and bigger it was, it was best to let the whole family have the opportunity to appear in front of the emperor. Because the banquet in the Yanyuan Palace is different from the one in the palace, the family banquet in the palace is only with the descendants of the descendants, and this family banquet on the tenth day of September invites the whole family.
Although Lao Jing has many protΓ©gΓ©s, and four of his five sons are officials, they are not the kind of sharp, so the popularity in the court is very good, and he greeted the families along the way, and soon reached the top of the mountain.
Because in the past two days, the entire royal family of Dalan, as well as a large part of the royal relatives and relatives, have almost gathered in Yanyuan Mountain, so although it seems that the comprehensive guards of Yanyuan Palace on this mountain are tighter than usual, in fact, the entire Yanyuan Mountain is a secret sentry, and half of the Royal Forest Army has been mobilized to the mountain.
The Golden Autumn Festival is known as the world's favorite and most knowledgeable orchid, and there will be a common theme in the whole territory, which is to taste hairy crabs. The family banquet in Yanyuan Palace this night was no exception, and the most important dish was hairy crab.
is different from the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs they ate in Jingwangfu last night, and at this banquet, they ate Taihu Lake crabs. The hairy crabs in Taihu Lake are famous for their large size, and the taste is comparable to that of Yangcheng Lake, and one alone is almost ten taels, so it is even more popular with Su Miao and Lin Jin. However, the Taihu crab is still steamed and served on the plate after being steamed like other hairy crabs, so the procedure for eating it is still the same "troublesome".
The process of eating crabs, for Song Chen and Su Miao, is also a repetition of last night's process. Song Chen is already very skilled and natural, and it is very natural for Su Miao to accept care, but it is a little eye-catching in the eyes of the people next to him.
Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu's table was arranged at the first table on Song Hengyuan's right, the most honorable position except for the emperor. Almost all of the people present were human spirits, and they had already heard from various sources that these two strange faces who looked like they were only in their thirties, but they were actually famous all over the world, in fact, they were already hundreds, and an eighty-year-old Lin Jin couple. The martial arts supreme is the martial arts supreme, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu sat there ordinarily, and they had a momentum, although it was not intimidating, but it also made people dare not peep more.
And the suppressed curiosity was immediately released on the apprentices Song Chen and Su Miao, who were sitting behind these two people. The interaction between the two during the meal was seen one by one, including a group of princes and princesses.
Song Jin was sitting opposite Song Chen, and he had already seen the two of them get along when they went hunting together last year, and he was no stranger to it. Speaking of which, in fact, the second prince Song Heng, the prince Song Yu, the sixth prince Song Po, the third princess Song Yan and the fifth princess Song Yu who were present actually got along with Song Chen and Su Miao, and they had a good impression of their free and easy character. When other people had the opportunity to see Song Chen, they were all in the palace banquet, and when they saw him, they felt very cold and unkind, but they didn't expect him to have such a warm side, and they were very curious about this Su Miao in their hearts.
Of course, there are also those who are not used to seeing and feel disdainful. Song Hengyuan's harem is not huge, and the establishment should have everything, but there is only one queen Xiao who can give birth to a child, two concubines Qin Guifei, Chen Guifei, Xian Fei, Liang Fei, Shu Fei, De Fei, Li Concubine and Rong Concubine.
Among them, the crown prince Song Jin and the sixth prince Song Po are born to the queen, Qin Guifei is the mother concubine of the second prince Song Heng and the third princess Song Yan, Chen Guifei has the fifth prince Song Yu, and the virtuous concubine gave birth to the eldest princess Song Hao and the fifth princess Song Yu, the third prince Song Yu and the second princess Song Yu are born to the good concubine, the concubine has a son and a daughter, the seventh prince Song Yu and the fourth princess Song Yu, the concubine De has the fourth prince Song Yu and the sixth princess Song Yan, the concubine has the seventh princess Song Yu and the ninth princess Song Jue, and the concubine Rong has the eighth prince Song Shen and the eighth princess Song Yu.
The sixth princess Song Yan and the eighth princess Song Yan have always been good friends, at this time, they are sitting together and they feel that Su Miao is too pretentious, who else is not pampered here, they are still doing it themselves, she is a person in the rivers and lakes, and she is also exquisite!
Su Miao's feelings have always been very keen, and in this kind of occasion is no exception, and her perception of good and evil is very high, instinctively heard two low cold snorts from the side with a faint malice, she glanced back curiously, she has no dealings with these princes and princesses, who will be dissatisfied with her?
I didn't expect Su Miao to turn her head, and the eyes of Song Yan and Song Ji, who were discussing in a whisper, were bumped head-on by Su Miao, only diagonally separated by three or four tables, Su Miao's eyes were big and bright, and I could see that these two princesses, who were usually rude and willful, subconsciously lowered their eyes and avoided them, but they quickly reacted again, why should I be afraid of her? Then he doubled his eyes and looked backβ
Su Miao looked funny, covered her mouth and turned around happily, her hand was pulled down by Song Chen, and she fed another crab leg meat. Su Miao bit the meat and shook her head: "Ah Chen, I'm full!" β
Song Chen ate it by himself, and the people who had paid attention to Song Chen before all gasped, and the contrast was too great.
After eating hairy crabs, this banquet is over, the palace people clean up the plates and tableware on the table, put every three short tables together into a triangle, and have a better relationship, just sit together in twos and threes and chat.
Song Hengyuan and the queen went to Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu's table early in the morning, and brought the old king and the old princess with them. Seeing that the crown prince took the crown princess to Song Chen and Su Miao's table, Song Yan hurriedly walked over.
"Miss Su, it's been a long time." Song Yan and Su Miao greeted each other, the last time she went hunting, she and Xiaobai had a little conflict, but later, after Su Miao gave a nest of fire foxes to Song Jin, and Song Jin forwarded another one to her, the unhappiness had long disappeared, and she had been thinking about the two white foxes that Su Miao had caught at that time.
Su Miao nodded, and had a rare impression of Song Yan, who had only met twice: "Third princess." β
"Miss Suβ" Song Yan sat down and asked eagerly, "I heard that the pair of white foxes you hunted last year gave birth to baby white foxes?" β
ββ¦β¦ Be. "When she and Song Chen left Selangor City last year, they handed over Bai Ling and Bai Long, a pair of white foxes, to Lin Yi to help raise, not long ago, they did give birth to a litter of four little white foxes, two of which were given to Song Yi and Song Wanchun in Jingwangfu, and the remaining two recognized it as the boss after Xiaobai came, and followed it all day long in the backyard.
"Uh......" Song Yan rarely squirmed so much, she said in great embarrassment, "Then-Miss Su, can you give me one?" β
"You can't make a cloak at such a young age!" Su Miaowan refused, the two white foxes had spirituality, she didn't want to mutilate their children, Song Yi and Song Wanchun were allowed to adopt them after they only treated them as pets and never harmed them.
"No, no, no!" Song Yan's face was a little red, she had been to see the white fox that Song Wanchun got in King Jing's mansion, the little white fox was very cute, she was reluctant to kill it, "I just think it's cute and want to keep it for fun, I won't kill them to make a cloak!" β
"Really?" Su Miao looked at her suspiciously, didn't she ask Song Heng to help her beat the fox to make a cloak?
"Really, really!" Song Yan nodded eagerly, "The fire fox that Brother Prince's brother gave me has been in good condition, I want one more to be its companion." (To be continued.) )