Chapter Ninety-Six
83_83499 Du Qiyue's ice cream has been unanimously praised by the relatives, now the latest trend of cold drinks in Dafeng Dynasty is honey bean smoothie, red beans or mung beans are boiled thick and then cooled and sprinkled on the snow or ground ice powder, this kind of cold drink is to reduce the heat, how delicious but not necessarily, after eating the bean juice poured on the top, there is only ice below.
In comparison, the ice cream made by Du Qiyue is much more delicious, every bite has a strong milk flavor, the texture is soft and smooth, and every bite is cold and sweet, which is simply delicious. It's just that the portion is too small, the dish is so small, not as big as a palm, and it only contains less than half of the ice cream, and it can be eaten up in a few bites.
The youngest son of Zhao Guogong's family is only three years old, and he is the youngest in today's family. This child has been martial arts since he was a child, his body is hot, he can't stand it when it's hot, and he loves to eat ice at home. He finished eating his share of ice cream in three or two bites, and ate a small half of what his sister had left, but he still felt that it was not enough, so he turned his head and wanted to eat his mother's, but found that her mother had already eaten her share of ice cream, and her face wrinkled and she made a fuss, clamoring to eat another one.
Zhao Guogong's wife, Li Shi, hurriedly reassured him, such as ice cream, which is a small portion per person, is generally made according to the number of people, and there are basically not many of them. "You've already eaten a plate and a half, and if you eat it again, your stomach will hurt, good boy, can you eat something else?"
"But this plate is so small, it's not half the size of the cold drink I eat at home! Mother, I'm so hot, I want to eat more. The kid said.
"Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, didn't my mother tell you when I came out today, you have to be obedient, otherwise you will go home and ask your father to give you a board." Li immediately covered his son's mouth and whispered.
The child didn't care, twisted her body and shouted loudly for another ice cream, Li's expression became very embarrassed, everyone in the room was looking at her, and she also saw several adults' relatives secretly laughing at her. Li only felt that his face was about to be lost to his youngest son, and his teeth were itching, but he had to apologize to Prince Ronghe with a smile.
"This kid is greedy when he is young, which really makes the princess laugh."
"It's okay, kids are like that. To be honest, I don't think enough of this ice cream tastes so good! Princess Ronghe said while glancing at Princess Haoyu out of the corner of her eye, and saw that her expression changed for the better when she heard her praise Du Qiyue's craftsmanship for being very good, and she knew that her ass was right, so she said: "Brother Qing'er, you go and give Chef Du the set of four treasures of the study that the master gave me before, and then ask if there is anything left in the kitchen, if there is, I will bother Chef Du to make some more, just say that the ice cream is very delicious, and everyone can't eat enough!" ”
"Alas, the slave knows." Brother Qing immediately responded with a smile, he made Du Qiyue unhappy just now, and now he is taking the opportunity to give a reward to improve the relationship, this is a good errand.
In order to divert the embarrassing feeling just now, Li said with a smile after Qing Ge'er left: "Speaking of which, Chef Du's appearance is really good, I heard that he stayed in Dadu to take the imperial examination, if he can be admitted to the top prize, it is very promising!" ”
"With such a good appearance, even if it's just a little showman, it's good for the concubines of each family to marry and be the main room." The grandson of the royal history couple, who was good friends with the Li family, answered.
"Yes, as long as you are admitted to Xiucai, you will always be a slaughterer for the official in the future, but this good character is rare, not to mention this good skill, if you marry him, wouldn't you be able to eat these delicious snacks every day, this ice cream is really unbearable." Liu Fulang of the Hanlin Bachelor's family covered his mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile.
Doctor Guanglu's wife, Zhao, finished eating all the snacks on the plate, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, this child's appearance is really first-class, if he can be admitted to a lifting person, I will have to think about it for our family's Yan'er." ”
The atmosphere that was originally eased by joking suddenly stiffened again, and Dr. Guanglu's daughter Hu Yan'er had a bad reputation in the capital. Today's Zhao is not Hu Yan'er's biological mother, but Hu Yan'er's current personal big girl, who climbed into bed and became a concubine at the beginning, and was troubled by his wife Qian at the time, and even had two sons lost. Later, Zhao fell ill and died, and Zhao gave birth to a son within a year and became his wife. She was originally born well, but later her family fell and became a girl, so it's okay to be the wife of a Guanglu doctor.
Zhao because of the Qian family was embarrassed before, and lost two sons in a row, and the heart of the Qian family is extremely hateful, now that the Qian family is dead, the Zhao family saw Hu Yan'er who looked very similar to the Qian family, so he transferred his anger to Hu Yan'er, and since the first two years, in the name of concern, he often met Hu Yan'er at the gathering of his relatives, and the discussion was unreliable, and Hu Yan'er's reputation was completely ruined. Because these things are only circulated among the inner family, outsiders don't know, although Hu Yan'er is innocent, but her reputation in the inner family is bad in the end, where will the wife of a serious family be willing to hire her as a wife.
Now that Zhao said this again, the relatives present couldn't help but show a mocking smile. Although Du Qiyue is a cook in the countryside, but people have the love of Princess Xunyu, so the son-in-law of the first-class family can also marry, a concubine of a third-grade idle official, and her reputation is not good, she even dares to say such things in front of Princess Xunyu, and she is not afraid of offending Princess Xunyu.
Zhao Yiyun sat on the side and listened quietly to the whispers of these ladies, feeling angry that others coveted his own people and happy because his own people were liked. But I'm still a little happier, anyway, no matter what others think, Du Qiyue is his. Zhao Yiyun reached out and touched the ring he carried in his purse, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.
Zhao Yue'er heard those relatives keep talking about Du Qiyue's benefits, and thought of Princess Xunyu's undisguised love for Du Qiyue just now, so she made a small calculation in her heart, and pretended to be dissatisfied and said to Zhao Yiyun: "Cousin, doesn't that Chef Du often come to our house, I heard that he brought a lot of snacks to your cousin, it must be delicious, and my cousin doesn't give some to my sister to taste?" ”
The smile on the corner of Zhao Yiyun's mouth disappeared immediately, his eyes crossed over Zhao Yue'er, and he said, "I remember that the doctor asked you to control your diet, especially dim sum, and you can't eat more." ”
Zhao Yue'er was speechless for a while, glared at Zhao Yiyun secretly, and said in a questioning tone: "Cousin, it doesn't matter if you don't give it to me, but you should always send some to my father and mother, after they are your elders, and after your uncle and aunt died, they took care of you everywhere, cousin, you should be filial to your elders as a junior, why don't you send some to my father and mother at all?" ”
Zhao Yue'er didn't suppress her voice, the people who were looking at the Zhao family just now all looked at them, Zhao Yiyun's face did not change at all, he raised the teacup and took a sip, and said: "I have always eaten extremely light, but my uncle and aunt like to eat food with a strong taste, so naturally I can't give my uncle and aunt things that they don't like to eat." ”
"I think my cousin wants to stay with the cook for a while, and the two of them stay in the study for a long time each time, and they don't know what they're doing." Zhao Yue'er snorted, and her voice became louder.
"Do I have to make it clear to you who I talk to now?" Zhao Yiyun asked rhetorically.
"That's not what I meant, cousin, don't avoid my question!" Zhao Yue'er said with a glare, looking like she didn't plan to let Zhao Yiyun go. She thought she had humiliated Zhao Yiyun, with a vague look of triumph on her face, but she didn't know that most of the people sitting could see her little pride.
Princess Xunyu has always been a person who loves the house and Wu, and she is also the most protective of her shortcomings, Du Qiyue likes Zhao Yiyun, so she also likes Zhao Yiyun, Zhao Yiyun and Zhao Ziqing's family do not deal with each other, and she naturally does not like Zhao Ziqing's family. At this moment, Princess Xunyu's rude behavior made Princess Xun Yu even more upset, she rubbed the corners of her forehead, and then leaned back on the stool with a tired and impatient expression.
Princess Ronghe has been paying attention to Princess Haoyu's every move, and at this time, as soon as she saw Princess Xunyu's appearance, she knew that Zhao Yue'er's actions offended her, and immediately waved her hand to stop the singing on the stage, and said: "How is this play so gentle, I am sleepy when I listen to it, change it and sing a festive one." ”
The drama on the stage immediately changed to a play, and babbled and sang again, but the sound of beating gongs and drums was a little more cheerful, but the singing was still those things, swallowing slowly, and refusing to let go of a word for a long time.
Zhao Yiyun looked at the drama on the stage, but his mood was much better, Princess Xunyu's attitude towards him before was just good on the surface, he was not at ease in his heart, but now Princess Xunyu's attitude reassured him, if he didn't really approve of him, he would never do it.
Du Qiyue had nothing to do after making snacks, but it was not good to leave the kitchen casually, so he and Qiu'er carried two small benches and sat in the shade of the kitchen door to rest.
"Du Langjun, why are you sleeping here, it's hot here, wait for Du Langjun to go to sleep in the pavilion on the side." Qing Ge'er pointed to a small pavilion not far from the kitchen and said.
"Qing Shilang, are you coming over to have any orders from the princess?" Du Qiyue yawned with his sleeve over half of his face and asked.
"Alas, Du Langjun, the dim sum you made is really delicious, and the princess rewarded Du Langjun with a set of newly obtained four treasures of the study, and sent a servant to send it over." Qing Ge'er put a brocade box in his hand into Qiu'er's hand, turned his head and said to Du Qiyue with a smile: "Du Langjun, the ice cream you make is really delicious, but there are too few things, and the masters feel that it is not enough to eat, so the princess sent a servant to ask Du Langjun, is there any ice cream?" If there is more, let Lang Jun make another one. ”
"There's still ice cream, but it's too cold, and I'm afraid it's not good to eat more." Du Qiyue said that he was a little worried that those relatives would eat more cold things and blame him for their stomachaches.
"Don't worry, Du Langjun, in addition to the ice in the house every summer, the big families in the capital also eat a lot, as far as our princess, we have to eat one or two bowls of honey bean smoothies every day, all of which are packed in four or five inch bowls, and it doesn't matter if you eat a few more ice creams." Qing Ge'er gestured with his hand to the fifteen-inch bowl and said.
Du Qiyue really didn't expect the people here to be able to eat ice so much, but think about it, there are no good cooling tools here in summer, except for eating something ice to relieve the heat, there is nothing else to do.
"Okay then, Qiu'er, you go get some more, and get one for Qing Shilang first." Du Qiyue instructed Qiu'er.
Brother Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, he was a little greedy when he saw the princess and them eating ice cream just now, but Brother Qiu still excused himself and said: "This is for the masters, where can I eat it!" ”
"I know, you decent subordinates around the masters have not been rewarded by the masters, I have done a lot today, and your princess will definitely reward you with some to eat later, I am also borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, and by the way, I apologized to Brother Qing for my previous attitude, I was too excited before, and I spoke a little heavier for a while." Du Qiyue smiled and said.
As soon as Qing Ge'er heard it, he knew that Du Qiyue was going to inquire about what happened just now, so he sat down and said, "Then I will thank Du Langjun, so that I, as a subordinate, can eat such a good thing in advance." But please don't take Du Langjun to heart about what happened just now, whoever encounters something like that will be angry. Our princess has already sent someone down on a bad day, and it is estimated that there will be a result when the banquet is dispersed, and I will definitely inform Du Langjun immediately when the time comes. ”
Qiu'er quickly broke an ice cream and gave it to Qing Ge'er, and Qing Ge'er sat and talked to Du Qiyue while eating, quietly flattering Du Qiyue.
At this time, a mother-in-law hurriedly walked over with a bamboo basket with a yellow fruit, and stopped to say hello when she saw Qingge'er.
"This is the yellow fruit sent by the country again?" Qing Ge'er asked.
"No, I heard that a large cart was sent to the palace, so this is not for all families. There was a big basket outside, and the lord asked me to send some over, saying that it was for the princess to add joy to the fruit bowl. The woman said, and went into the kitchen with the basket.
Du Qiyue stretched his neck to take a look, and saw that the things in the basket looked similar to lemons, and was about to ask, when he heard Brother Qing say: "It's not to add joy, every summer wastes the boss's strength to send these over, the yellow, orange and orange round looks good, and the smell is refreshing, but you can't eat it, and you can sour a row of teeth with a bite." ”
"This is called Huang Guo'er?"
"The serious name is a bit weird, I don't remember it, anyway, we all call this Huang Guoer. This fruit smells and tastes a little like an orange when it is cut and inside, but it is very sour. Eat is not eaten, but also put in the fruit bowl to see and smell, occasionally there are people in the house who have a bad appetite, cut into slices to make tea to drink, but it is like hawthorn soup, but not as delicious as hawthorn. Brother Qing said, feeling a little proud that he knew these things that ordinary people didn't know.
Du Qiyue was sure that the yellow fruit was a lemon, so he said to Qing Ge'er: "Can I take one or two for it?" ”
"What does Lang Jun want this for?" Brother Qing asked curiously.
"I have a drink that is best for summer, and it really takes a very sour fruit to make it, so I just use this lemon... Huang Guoer try. Du Qiyue said, he thought that Zhao Yiyun's body couldn't eat anything too cold, I'm afraid I didn't eat a few bites of ice cream just now, and now that he has lemons, he just made him some lemonade, put a little ice cube in it, and eat it comfortably.
"Yes, even if Du Langjun uses it, it will be for nothing if he puts it horizontally and vertically." Qing Ge'er said