Chapter 123: Chrysanthemum Wine
After King Jing's illness recovered, Sun Zhengyuan moved out of Cuihu Garden the next day and lived in another courtyard specially arranged for him. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he and Tang Tai are close friends, and they are not outsiders, so the news that Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu are coming in two days will not be hidden from him.
At noon on the twenty-fourth day of August, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu rode together with Xiaobai to King Jing's Mansion.
Xiao Jingyu woke up after being in a coma for forty years, this incident had already stirred the entire rivers and lakes, and Sun Zhengyuan naturally heard the news. The last time he was in Tairu Villa, he had just arrived on the front foot, and Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu left on the back foot, and they missed seeing each other for half a day, which made him very regretful. He was very excited to have the opportunity to meet them this time, originally Su Miaozuo mainly gave him the remaining flamingo, but later Xiao Jingyu saw that he was careful and cherished, so he said that he would send someone to send him two seeds later, which made Sun Zhengyuan even more surprised.
Lao Jingwang's illness has basically been cured, and the follow-up diagnosis and care can be handed over to the doctors in the house, plus Xiao Jingyu and Su Miao, Sun Zhengyuan has no use in staying in Jingwang's mansion, and he said goodbye and went back on the second day after seeing Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu. On the other hand, he was also anxious to go back and wait for the flamingo seeds sent by Xiao Jingyu.
When Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu arrived in Selangora City, they refused King Jing's invitation and chose to live in the Lin Mansion, and Su Miao naturally moved back. Although Song Chen was not very happy, there was no way, he wanted to stay in the Jingwang Mansion, and he couldn't stop Su Miao from doing his filial piety in front of his master and his mother! However, Song Chen also went to Cuihu Garden early every day to greet his grandfather and grandmother, and then he didn't eat breakfast, so he ran to the Lin Mansion, and then greeted his master and his wife, and by the way, he had a simple but very delicious breakfast made by Su Miao.
However, the taste of the buns that Song Chen ate that day was a little strange, he paused in the action of chewing in his mouth, and brought up the buns in his hand to take a closer look at the filling inside-why did this bun taste like a peach?
"Is it delicious?" Seeing this, Xiao Jingyu looked at Song Chen with a smile, "The filling that Shi Niang personally adjusted!" ”
"......" Song Chen looked at the master, his old man was calmly drinking porridge, and he hadn't moved his chopsticks towards the bun yet, and then looked at Miaomiao, who was cutting the peeled salted egg in half and putting it on the small plate in front of the master and the master respectively.
Seeing Song Chen's indescribable appearance, Xiao Jingyu also grabbed a bun suspiciously, took a bite, and paused: "...... It's okay! ”
"You taste it." Xiao Jingyu put the rest of the buns into Lin Jin's bowl, and went to grab another meat bun and took a bite.
"Today, the master wants to make vegetarian buns for the master to eat." Su Miao, who was peeling eggs, looked at Song Chen with a grin, "But it just so happens that the shiitake mushrooms are gone, and the master said that the master usually loves peaches, so she cut a few big peaches sent by Lin Jiu and mixed them in......"
Song Chen chewed a few times, drank another mouthful of porridge, and swallowed the bun in his mouth, the half of the bun on the plate in front of him had no way to continue eating it no matter what.
Lin Jin also naturally sandwiched the buns that Xiao Jingyu stuffed into his bowl on the plate: "Peaches are not delicious when cooked, I have also added peaches to it when I used to cook white porridge, and I have already tried it......"
Fortunately, Su Miao deliberately kneaded the dough less at the beginning, otherwise it would be a big waste if the large plate of fillings was wrapped.
After breakfast, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu usually go to Hengqing Hall to have a look, and then go shopping. Although the reputation of the Lin couple is great, Lin Jin has seen the head and tail of the dragon all the year round, and there are not many people who know his appearance, and after his hair is blackened, there are even fewer people who recognize him, Xiao Jingyu has not appeared for decades, and there are even fewer people who know him, so he is quite comfortable walking on the street.
Su Miao also took them to the hidden valley where the immortal flower was found, and later Xiao Jingyu took Lin Jin a few more times, and also brought some seeds of uncommon medicinal herbs, leaving them there, saying that it would be better to see if the medicinal effect would be better if it grew in this valley.
By the time Shenanda City and the surrounding mountains and rivers were almost strolled, it was almost the Chung Yeung Festival. King Jing invited Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu early in the morning, and agreed that they would take Su Miao to celebrate the festival together.
On the day of Zhengzhongyang, Su Miao had just finished freshening up and walked out of the door, when Xiao Jingyu, who was passing by the gate of the yard, grabbed her and pinned a small coral pink daisy to her head. In Dalan, there are many customs in Chongyang, among which hairpin chrysanthemum is one. Xiao Jingyu also inserted a red cosmos in her own bun.
In addition to hairpins, wearing dogwoods is also one of the customs. Xiao Jingyu has sewed a few sachets by herself in the past few days, and she, Lin Jin, and Su Miao have one by one, and even Song Chen's share has been preserved. After she hung up the sachet containing dogwood for Su Miao, Song Chen had just arrived, and she hung it up for him.
King Jing and Lin Jin spent Chongyang together, in fact, they went to climb together. Today, they were going to climb Yanyuan Mountain, and they had originally made an appointment to meet at the foot of the mountain at three o'clock, but Song Chen was used to coming over every day to say goodbye, so he still ran over.
Song Chen hung up the sachet, and it was almost time to leave. Lin Jin and Song Chen were still riding horses, Xiao Jingyu and Su Miao were in a carriage - they brought a lot of things with them this trip, and when Su Miao came to Selangora City last year, she brewed a lot of chrysanthemum wine, and she was ready to drink it at this time, so she brought a few jars. In addition, I have prepared some materials, and I plan to make Chongyang cake in Zhuangzi later, and I can't bring so many things when I ride a horse.
When I arrived at the foot of Yanyuan Mountain, I saw that the Jingwang Mansion and a large family had also arrived. Climbing requires hiking, Lao Jingwang's body has fully recovered, and at this time he is also standing in the crowd of people who are ready to go up the mountain, as soon as Lin Jin and the others arrived, everyone began to set off for the mountain.
The horses were left at the bottom of the mountain, and a special guard was sent to guard them. The others pulled the carriage and walked slowly behind the masters. The Zhuangzi that Song Hengyuan had given to Song Chen earlier was halfway up Yanyuan Mountain.
Lao Jing Wang and the princess are old, and their bodies cannot be compared with young people, and Song Henghuan's four brothers are all civil officials, and they are all sedan chairs in and out on weekdays, and even horses are rarely ridden, not to mention those ladies and ladies, who can't climb until they are still halfway away from Song Chen's Zhuangzi and get into the carriage. Song Chen, Su Miao, and Song Yi continued to hike, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu didn't get into the car, and when they arrived at Zhuangzi, they no longer climbed up, and they all went to Zhuangzi to rest.
Such a short mountain road, for Su Miao, it was as if she had never climbed, as soon as she entered Zhuangzi, she brought the materials into the kitchen to prepare to make Chongyang cake, and a few young masters went fishing and pulled Song Chen over.
Half an hour later, the Chongyang cake made by Su Miao was freshly baked, and the people carried the steamer directly to the yard, lifted the lid, and a fresh sweet fragrance overflowed, which immediately attracted people in and outside the house. Su Miao placed a large wooden board that had been cleaned on the large stone table, and then took out the wooden basin containing the heavy yang cake in the steamer and buckled it upside down on the large wooden board. The moment the wooden basin was taken away, everyone's eyes were attracted by the chongyang cake on the stone table!
The chongyang cake in the steamer is a rice cake steamed from rice flour, there are nine layers, and the color of each layer is different, that is because Su Miao added the juice of different ingredients to the rice cake, namely spinach, carrots, black sesame seeds, roses, pumpkin, kiwifruit, purple cabbage, chrysanthemum, jasmine, bright and colorful colors, just looking at it makes people very appetizing, coupled with the burst of sweetness, the crowd who had just climbed the mountain and had empty stomachs were suddenly hooked out of their appetite.
Su Miao used the long knife that usually cuts watermelons to cut a few times, and the nine-colored Chongyang cake was suddenly divided into small pieces of about the same size, and the people sent dishes one after another, and put the Chongyang cake on the plate and sent it to the hands of the masters who sat down around the stone table.
Although Su Miao had deliberately cut it into smaller pieces, this was always a rice cake, and after everyone ate two pieces in a row, Su Miao persuaded the old people: "This will be very full if you eat too much, everyone should keep their stomachs for lunch!" ”
Then the crowd stopped.
"This can be eaten cold with hot tea." Su Miao made a lot, just planning to make snacks for them to eat when they were cold. For the rest of the chongyang cakes, Su Miao asked the subordinates to pack them up and distributed two boxes to each master, and they went back satisfied.
After the lunch break, Song Henghuan's brothers and daughters-in-law accompanied several old people to enjoy chrysanthemums and drink tea and chat, and the juniors were all let go out and continued to climb.
This time it was even slower than in the morning, Xiaobai was impatient, and the lion rushed up first, and there were many people who climbed Yanyuan Mountain during the Double Ninth Festival, Su Miao was afraid that it would collide with someone, so he also chased after him. Su Miao and Xiaobai were not there, and Song Chen was impatient to walk slowly with them, so he ran away.
Song Jun, the fourth prince of Jingwangfu, who had just passed his twentieth birthday, looked at the three figures that went up quickly with envy, and sighed: "I don't know if it's too late to learn martial arts now......
By the time Song Chen, Su Miao and the others came back, it was almost time for dinner.
The dinner of the Double Ninth Festival is also very grand, so when I went out early in the morning, several cooks from Jingwangfu also brought it, and the output of the farm was rich in variety, so the dinner dishes that night were better than those in Jingwangfu.
The chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and pigs raised in the Zhuangzi, the fish caught at noon, the shrimp touched, the cucumbers, fruits and vegetables in the fields were all used, as well as all kinds of seafood such as abalone cucumber wings and belly brought out from the Jingwang Mansion. In addition, there are hairy crabs sent by Zhuangzi in the south of the Jingwang Mansion, all of which are carefully selected round umbilicus female crabs, with convex yellow shells, which is the time to eat. The chrysanthemum wine that Su Miao and they brought over was also presented, firstly, it was a festival, and secondly, the crab was colder, and when eating, drink some wine to ward off the cold.
Because there were guests at this dinner, the habit of using a round table for the family banquet in Jingwangfu was changed, and a low table was used for the banquet. In the large hall, there are rows on the left and right through the wide aisles, and they sit opposite each other.
There were two people sitting at each table at the low table, King Jing and Princess Jing, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu, the eldest lord Song Hengjing and his wife, and so on. Song Chen naturally sat at the same table with Su Miao, and ate well in front, but when it was time to eat crabs, Su Miao stopped.
"What's wrong?" Song Chen discovered the abnormality as soon as possible.
"Ah Chen, this crab is more difficult to peel than a shrimp." Su Miao wrinkled her nose and responded, "There is little meat, I won't eat it." "She usually eats a lot of crab roe soup dumplings, but she didn't expect to eat such a small one, and she has to use all kinds of tools, and she has to dirty her hands, and in the end she only has a little bit of meat, which is not cost-effective.
“…… This crab is not small, and the hairy crab is the largest one. Song Chen explained that when he and Su Miao traveled to the Eagle Country and went to the Sea Country before, they had also eaten a lot of crabs, but they were all very large sea crabs, all of which were cut piece by piece, and even the crab legs were cut open to the shell, and there was a lot of meat, so it was easy to eat, so Su Miao felt that this crab was small and troublesome to eat. Miaomiao usually finds it troublesome to even peel shrimp shells, and now it is difficult for her to peel the big shells.
"I'll peel it for you?" Song Chen said, and used a small spoon to scoop out the crab stomach on the crab cover that had just been removed, and then handed the crab cover and the small spoon to Su Miao, "It's good to use this scoop to eat, crab roe should be eaten while it is hot." ”
Su Miao looked at Song Chen's movements, and thought to herself that this crab was really troublesome to eat, but scooping a small spoonful of crab roe into her mouth was indeed delicious, much more delicious than a small soup dumpling with crab roe.
Song Chen saw that Su Miao began to eat, and she also removed the cover of the crab in front of her and began to eat the crab roe.
After eating the crab roe, it was time to get to the crab body, Song Chen used small scissors to cut the crab mouth and crab lungs clean, and picked out the crab stomach, and then poured some vinegar on the crab with a small spoon, and then handed the crab and the small spoon to Su Miao: "Miao Cheng, finish the paste first, and I will teach you to eat meat later." ”
Song Chen naturally took the small spoon that Su Miao had just used to eat the crab cap in his hand, repeated the process just now, and ate it...... Su Miao also naturally took the small spoon that Song Chen had just used and continued to eat......
Tang Yun and Song Henghuan, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu, Lao Jing Wang and the princess, and a few other people, who noticed their movements, all glanced at each other when they saw this-uh, they were all intimate like this? It seems that good things are near......
After eating the crab roe on the crab with a small spoon, Su Miao learned Song Chen's movements to break the crab body in half, and then tore it along the crab legs, dismantling the crab meat and eating it. After eating the crab meat, as soon as she saw Song Chen's action of dismantling the crab leg meat, Su Miao didn't want to move anymore, she took a sip of chrysanthemum wine: "I've eaten it!" ”
Song Chen didn't think about it, so he put a chopstick between the crab leg meat that had been removed and stuffed it into her mouth: "The crab leg meat is strong, don't waste it!" ”
Su Miao chewed twice and nodded: "That's what you said." ”
Then she took a sip of wine, and Song Chen stuffed a chopstick crab leg meat, and slowly ate the crab legs of the two crabs. (To be continued.) )