Chapter 236: Mid-Autumn Festival

The Zhao Mansion in Beijing has to hold a family banquet in the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, and this year is naturally no exception.

In previous years, the Zhao family's two bedrooms and three bedrooms were in their hometown, and although the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was lively, it was not a reunion. Last year, Huiya was outcast, Zheng was seriously ill, and the second room was miserable, although the owners of the third room were in Beijing, but there was a bit of gloom after the reunion, and they dispersed after a while.

And this year is a completely different scene, Huiya is back, Zheng's body is also better, and the masters of the three rooms of the Zhao family have all gathered, which can really be called a family reunion. In addition, Master Zhao climbed the big tree of the Dingguo Mansion and successfully got rid of the impeachment crisis of the three princes, which added a bit of joy to this Mid-Autumn Festival.

This Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet is different from the family banquet in the morning and dusk in the past, and it is placed in the garden of the Zhao Mansion. The moon is full, the osmanthus is fragrant, and everyone in the Zhao family sits in one place, eating, drinking, tasting the moon and laughing, which is really beautiful.

The population of the third room of the Zhao Mansion is also quite a lot, and a table naturally can't sit down. Mr. Zhao sat at one table with his sons and slightly older grandchildren, while Mrs. Zhao sat at another table with her daughters and children.

Taste the food and staggered, Rao is weekdays between the concubines and concubines there are a lot of intrigues, between sisters some small things to compete for favor, in this beautiful situation now, they are all forgotten, one by one laughing.

The dishes are like flowing water, and the good dishes that are not often eaten on weekdays are all on the table today. Hui Ya smiled and picked out the Save cloth dishes for her mother and the people sitting next to her, and was quite satisfied with the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, praised a few words from time to time, and poured a glass of wine for Mrs. Zhao herself. Thank you for her hard work.

Although Mrs. Zhao is smaller-minded and tighter-handed, she is not a bad one, although she is a little dissatisfied with Huiya because of the mooncakes, but Huiya's style and gratitude at this banquet make her feel that the original dissatisfaction in her heart seems to have been washed away by the wine. His face was flushed. The smile is also a lot more sincere.

Halfway through the meal, everyone's stomachs had a little foundation, and they saw that the maids who served the dishes came up again. In his hand, he was holding a huge steamer, and it still had a fresh fragrance.

The steamer was opened, and under the steam, Huiya saw red crabs that were bigger than an adult man's palm. The entire steamer was filled, and my eyes lit up suddenly. Now is the time for the crabs to plump up. The crabs bought by Zhao Fu are all full of yellow fat and huge, just smelling this fresh fragrance, Huiya can't help but want to drool.

"I'm going to eat crabs, I'm going to eat crabs!" Save sitting next to Huiya. is the youngest child in the mansion now, and he is the heart of Mrs. Zhao, so naturally she doesn't have as many scruples as others. Before anyone else could do anything, he was already clamoring.

"Good, good. Eat the crab while it's hot!" It's a good day, Mrs. Zhao looked at the scene of the family reunion, and she was in a very good mood, and now her distressed little grandson wants to eat crabs, where can she not admit it, and let Yahuan put a crab on her lips with a smile, and the people next to her can start.

"Save Cun, you are still young and can't peel it yourself, can my sister help you peel and eat it?" Huiya smiled and said to Save, Save is still young, not to mention that he can't peel, even if he can't peel, Mrs. Zhao San won't let a little person make crabs by himself.

Seeing Save nodding and looking at herself expectantly, Huiya smiled and separated her hand with a kerchief and gently helped him peel the crab.

This crab is really not small, counting the legs the size of an adult man's palm, Huiya first broke off the crab legs one by one, cut the pointy toes with small scissors, and then cut the two ends of the crab legs neatly, leaving only a small part of the crab's thighs.

"Come, be careful to pinch this crab leg, poke out the meat with chopsticks or small clippers, and eat it slowly while standing with ginger juice." Huiya put the cut crab legs into Save's plate and said to him with a smile. The crab legs can easily cool down in this autumn weather, so Huiya first processed the crab legs for Save to eat slowly, and then processed the crab shell part.

Mrs. Zhao San looked at the way Huiya handled the crabs, and raised her eyebrows slightly, if the girls dismantled the crabs for Save, they would definitely expose all the crab meat and give him no skin shells to eat, but Huiya did the opposite, leaving him half of the work.

"So you can still eat like this?" Save looked at the finger-length crab legs on the plate, his eyes lit up, he stretched out his little hand to pinch the crab legs, and began to poke and eat with chopsticks.

Seeing Save's happy little appearance, Mrs. Zhao's eyes lit up, and when she looked at Zheng and Huiya, her eyes softened even more, for a mother, being good to her is just one point, but being good to her child is equivalent to being good to her by three points.

Just now, Save was clamoring to eat crabs, but in fact, he wanted to dismantle the crabs by himself, and there were more ingredients to play by the way, after all, he was young and had never dismantled the crabs by himself, and he felt very eager to try. Of course, there are reasons why I like the fresh smell of crab, but crab meat is only more fragrant than chicken and so on, and it is not so attractive to Save.

Huiya piled four or five crab legs in the small plate for Save, and seeing that he couldn't finish eating for a while while with great interest, he cut another one for Zheng's, but the crab was very cold, and Huiya was afraid that Zheng's health would not be good, so she persuaded her to eat less.

"You take care of yourself, you've been busy for a long time, and you haven't eaten a bite yet." Zheng looked at Hui Ya's very friendly appearance towards her younger brother, she was proud and distressed, and she was busy urging Hui Ya to eat, and she also ate the crab leg clean.

Huiya smiled and nodded, quickly processed the remaining crab legs, and ate them with sauce and vinegar, only to feel that they were full of flavor and delicious, and they couldn't help it. I hurriedly dismantled all the legs of a crab and ate them all, and then I felt relieved, and began to slowly lift the lid of the crab and eat the yellow and meat inside.

Zheng's right sat the sensible and considerate Huiya, and the left sat Fang Shaxiang, after all, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival and the day of the whole family reunion, Zheng didn't want to leave her alone in the small cross-courtyard and was cold, so he took her to the family banquet.

It's just that Zheng's kindness has become a different meaning in Fang Shaxiang's eyes. After Xiao Zheng got married, Fang Shaxiang hated Zheng for marrying her mother to the one surnamed Sun, and also hated her mother for leaving her to marry herself, causing her to live a life under the fence at a young age, and life was worse than death.

So the moment when the whole Zhao family was reunited and laughing, in Fang Shaxiang's eyes, it became a mockery of her own * naked, especially when she saw that Huiya was so considerate to Save, but ignored herself, Fang Shaxiang even ripped the kerchief in her hand, and her eyes burst with resentment. (To be continued)