Inner Garden.

On the ground, on the roof, the sun was covered with freshly picked locust flowers, as if a thick snow had just fallen.

The rich fragrance of flowers permeates the courtyard unscrupulously, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies.

"Young lady, there are still several locust trees on the back mountain that have not been picked, do you want to go again?" Sweating profusely, Ah Hua put the cloth bag in his hand on the stone table and asked breathlessly.

"Go, go, pick as many as you want, stay for a few days, the flowers will bloom, and you can't pick them." Shen Qingli lowered his head and put the cleaned acacia flower bones into the basket, and handed them to the peach branch, which was happily brought aside to dry.

Ah Hua answered, hurriedly turned around and left.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he collided with a person, and his bronze wall-like body knocked that person to the ground and fell to the ground.

Mu Yunchao got up from the ground with a sigh, and before he could see who the person who hit him was, the generous back of the perpetrator had already walked out for a long time.

Taozhi hurriedly ran over to take a look, and said with a smile: "Fourth young master, are you okay?" Ah Hua that girl is reckless, don't mind. ”

"The fourth brother is here." Shen Qingli saw Mu Yunchao grinning in front of him, and smiled at him, "Why do you have time to come here today?" ”

"Guozijian has a day off and wants to go to the study to find a few books to read." Mu Yunchao grabbed a handful of acacia flowers, smelled them, and immediately had an intoxicated look on his face, "It's so fragrant!" ”

Then he glanced at the locust flowers in the garden, and asked suspiciously, "Why is the second sister-in-law picking so many acacia flowers?" Do you want to make sachets? ”

"Where to make sachets, you have to eat." Shen Qingli smiled, kept picking up those acacia flower bones, spread them evenly in the basket, and said, "Your second brother has a bad appetite recently, I plan to make some acacia dumplings and boil some acacia porridge for him, and you can stay and eat together!" ”

"Then I'm in for a treat!" Mu Yunchao said with a smile on his face, "It's just that my second brother is too picky about eating and doesn't like to eat sweet, I'm afraid I won't eat these." As he spoke, he smiled again and said, "His taste is different from ours, he likes to eat snakes and scorpions!" ”

"He doesn't even want to eat snakes and scorpions lately!" Shen Qingli sighed.

Shen He had already cried to her with a sad face, saying that every time he cooked, Shizi only ate a little bit, and he didn't have the confidence to do it.

Probably too tired lately!

"As long as the second sister-in-law made it herself, he will eat it." Mu Yunchao smiled teasingly, and then asked a little mysteriously, "Second sister-in-law, I heard that the cousin of the Wu family is here, how does she look?" Is it as beautiful as a fairy, or as ugly as no salt? ”

Shen Qingli saw his interested, so he smiled and said, "Since you are so curious, why don't you go and see for yourself?" ”

"Where to be curious, I'm just asking." Mu Yunchao smiled and said, "Everyone lives in the same mansion, and they will meet sooner or later, I heard that they have been going to Muying Hall every day for the past two days to ask for peace, and they seem to know how to be polite." ”

He naturally knew that the uncle of the Wu family was a well-known gambler, but he was just curious about what the daughter raised by the gambler would be!

"Of course, the Wu family used to be a scholarly family, but it has only declined in recent years." Shen Qingli didn't know much about her mother-in-law's family, but it was certain that her family was good before, otherwise, how could her mother-in-law marry into the Hou Mansion.

Mu Yunchao nodded yes.

After choosing the acacia flower, Shen Qingli got up: "Fourth brother, I'm going to the kitchen to cook, you go to the study to read!" Later, your second brother will come back and call you over for dinner. ”

"The second sister-in-law has to cook more, I have a lot of food." Mu Yun smiled at him and went to the study excitedly.

In Shen Qingli's previous life, he liked to eat acacia flowers, and knew that acacia flowers could not only make dumplings, but also make cakes, porridge, and glutinous rice cakes.

It is best to use unopened flower bones, because the pollen is all in the unflowered bones, and the fully opened locust flowers usually lose a lot of pollen, and the taste is naturally not as good as the flower bones.

Wash the locust flowers first, scald them with boiling water, take them out, then soak them in cold water, dry the water, and transfer them into the meat filling to be dumpling filling, tender green calyx, white buds, and then with red and white pork belly, it can be said that the color and flavor are complete, and you have an appetite when you look at it.

The eggs that are beaten into the acacia flower are the locust flower egg cake.

Glutinous rice flour and honey are combined, plus blanched with boiling water, put on the stove and steamed to be the locust flower glutinous rice crystal cake.

Except for dumplings, everything else is sweet.

I don't know if Mu Yunting likes to eat or not, anyway, these should be the favorites of the capital, considering that there are many people in the house, Shen Qingli deliberately made some more Huaihua glutinous rice crystal cakes, and instructed Taozhi and Ah Hua to send a plate to each room, how to say that it is also a seasonal delicacy, so that everyone can try it.

Because Mu Yunchao was there, Shen Qingli asked people to put the food on the side of the flower hall, took a handful of cherries, carefully placed them around the plate, covered them with gauze, and patiently waited for Mu Yunting to come back and eat the acacia flower banquet she had carefully prepared.

By this time, he would have been back a long time ago.

But now, waiting left and right, no one is seen.

Ah Hua scratched his ears and cheeks and ran to the gate to look at it three times, but he didn't see Mu Yunting come back, so he was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

Mu Yunchao was also hungry looking at the book in the study, looking out of the window from time to time, it was already time to eat, why didn't he start the meal, until Taozhi walked in with a plate of pastries, and said that the fourth young master would fill his hunger first, and wait for the prince to come back and start the meal.

Mu Yunchao said that he was not hungry, but his eyes touched the crystal cake on the plate, his eyes lit up, he reached out and grabbed those pastries and stuffed them into his mouth.

Momozhi pursed her lips and smiled, and stepped back.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Mu An hurriedly walking in from outside, saw Taozhi, and hurriedly said: "Taozhi, you tell the young lady that the prince has something urgent to go to Jingzhou, hurry back to the house to pack some change of clothes, and I will come back to get it later!" With that, Mu An hurriedly walked out, he still had to go and talk to the master!

As soon as Shen Qingli heard that Mu Yunting was going to Jingzhou, he immediately packed up a few changes of clothes for him, and by the way, he put the glutinous rice cakes on the dinner table into the food box, and remembered the dumplings on the kitchen board, so he repeatedly told Taozhi to go to the kitchen to cook dumplings and bring them to him together.

Momozhi and Ah Hua hurriedly went to cook dumplings.

After Mu An came back from Yiqing Garden, he saw that in addition to the burden, there was also a food box in his hand, and he knew that there were pastries and dumplings in it, and he suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, the pastries can still be eaten, how to eat these dumplings......

The young lady's wishes were not easy to disobey, so she had to hurriedly get on the horse with the burden in one hand and the food box in the other, and galloped away.

West Hill Enclosure.

Twenty or thirty guards were practising their shooting on horseback, and in all directions, they were filled with a dense set of targets.

From time to time, arrows whizzed by, some hit the bull's-eye steadily, and some hit the stones on the side, and were bounced back with a thud and broken.

I saw Situ Kong walking over with a calm face, picking up the broken arrow, and shouting at the guards: "Stop, stop for me." ”

The guards stopped in response and looked at Situ Kong in unison.

Grandpa Guo said that he would select a few guards with accurate archery skills from among them to go to the prince's guard camp on an errand, and this errand was naturally good for them.

The prince's guard, as the name suggests, is to protect the prince's safety when he goes out.

Huang Funuo doesn't go out a few times a year, so the errand of the prince's guard camp is naturally very leisurely.

Everyone wants to go.

And the person in front of them decides whether they stay or go.

"From now on, wherever my arrows go, you will shoot them." Situ Kong's face was calm, he bent down to pick up his bow and arrow, and shot it at a boulder halfway up the mountain.

The others followed suit.

"The last person to make a move, out of the ranks." Situ Kong said with a cold face.

A young guard walked out in a daze.

"Let's go!" Situ Kong said calmly.

The guard was stunned for a moment, touched his cold gaze, and withdrew without saying a word.

"Come again!" Situ Kong turned around again and aimed at a tree not far away, and before the sound of arrows came out, two arrows were shot out in advance.

"Get out of the line!" Two more people were eliminated.

The others looked stunned.

Xu Zheng and Xia Yunchu sat on the roof and watched for a while, and suddenly felt bored, according to this selection method, when will a strong and capable Praetorian Guard battalion be selected......

Just as he wanted to turn around and leave, he saw a red figure appear on the training ground.

The two continued to watch with interest.

The woman had a willow waist and a cherry blossom mouth, and she was carrying a bamboo basket on her arm, seeing her take out the kettle from the bamboo basket, Yingying walked up to Situ Kong and delivered the kettle to him.

Situ Kong took the kettle expressionlessly, raised his head and drank it, the woman gently took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth for him.

"This woman's name is Hongsheng, and she is Mr. Situ's concubine." Xu Zheng whispered.

Xia Yun first saw Situ Kong holding the hand of the red dress, bowed his head and said something, and the red dress looked shy, so he smiled: "Mr. Situ is now highly valued by His Royal Highness the Prince, and he is accompanied by a beautiful woman, which can be described as a spring breeze!"

Xu Zheng smiled and didn't squeak.

The red dress bent down and picked up the bamboo basket, and under the man's eager gaze, he left with a red face, and when he walked out of more than ten zhang away, he suddenly heard a familiar voice from the man behind him: "Red dress." ”

Redcoat smiled and looked back.

A cold arrow roared towards her, instantly stabbing her in the chest, and then, several arrows flew over her graceful body one after another.

She slowly fell.

His eyes were full of horror and confusion.

"If you don't shoot arrows, don't come tomorrow." Situ Kong glanced at everyone coldly, and turned around and left in stride.

The two looked at each other, and it took a while to recover from the shock of Shicai.

Not far away, Cuizhi looked at the red figure who fell to the ground with a pale face, her body shook, and she hurriedly reached out to hold a tree beside her, before she could barely stand firmly.

She never dreamed that Mr. Situ, who had always been gentle and elegant, would be so ruthless to his concubine...... R1152