In just a few days, it is a little summer.

In such a hot season, Emperor Wen was very sympathetic to let the officials in the city subtract one hour from their duty, and postponed the curfew in the city by one hour. So the night market is prosperous, Emperor Wanhua is in the evening, the lights are not reduced, the merchants are still there, and the voices of people everywhere are boiling, so it is not lively.

The people are happy, and the palace is also singing and dancing, and the feasts are continuous.

But no kind of banquet can compare to the big feast on the third day after the summer heat.

Because that day was Emperor Wen's birthday.

At the beginning of the year, Pei Ran, the head of the household department, listed this expenditure separately early, which was as much as 200,000 taels. The Inner Court Division also began to rack his brains to arrange this feast of hundreds of officials as early as half a year ago, and all the things used were purchased with the best items. But even then, the silver must not be enough.

It must not be enough.

If there is a surplus, how can it show sincerity to the Holy?

Therefore, Pei Ran also prepared another sum of silver, and waited for the Inner Court Division to ask for it. Of course, this money will not really be spent, just a book, in fact, how the chief eunuch of the Inner Court Division and himself should be divided is based on the rules of previous years, according to the rules.

In the birthday celebration of the saint, the silver was added to the face, and the people below were happy to share the silver. What a joy it was.

The officials have also tried their best to prepare their congratulatory gifts, but there is a very good way to send congratulatory gifts.

Those with high official positions naturally have to be given heavier, and it is not good if they are not heavy. Being light is not only disrespectful, but also forcing subordinates to be difficult to behave. But if it is too heavy, it will be suspected that it will be rubbed too much oil and water. At this time, it is much easier to have a wealthy wife.

For example, Pei Ran, the head of the household, looks like he has a clean sleeve on weekdays, but his wife is the daughter of Wei Guogong and a family. How much silver was used in the congratulatory gift, but it was only said that the husband and wife were jointly honored, and they covered up the past with a word. Therefore, when Pei Ran sent someone from Nanhua Island, thousands of miles away, to collect moss jade and cast it into a whole rockery and send it to the imperial garden, the officials of the Manchu Dynasty were only dumbfounded.

There are also otherworldly ones like Ye Zhiqiu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Ye Zhiqiu's calligraphy is a must in the court, his handwriting is wonderful, moist and powerful, and he is rarely willing to inscribe for people. Now the Dragon Birthday celebration, Ye Zhiqiu personally wrote a big longevity word, Mrs. Ye copied the thousand-character Buddhist scriptures in hairpin flowers, took it to the Yudou Temple to open the light, and then attached it to the longevity word, which shows sincerity.

Everyone knew that Ye Zhiqiu's calligraphy was exquisite, and when they saw Mrs. Ye's handwriting later, they found that her skills were not under her husband at all, and they couldn't help but be amazed.

Such a boss will not give his subordinates too much headache, anyway, they are skilled, and the gifts they give are not worth estimating, so they will look at it themselves.

Of course, there are also fools who think they are doing well.

In order to give congratulatory gifts, Lao Cao saved money on weekdays and changed to gnaw white steamed buns, and finally felt sorry for his son Cao Xiwen when he was growing up, so he didn't let him gnaw with him. After gnawing enough for two months, the birds faded out of their mouths, and only then did they save five taels of gold.

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Cao took the five taels of gold and asked the goldsmith to make a pure gold longevity peach. But the peach is too small, so small that it looks like a jujube, and he is not satisfied. I had no choice but to make a hollow peach again. I can't touch it after the fight, for fear of piercing the peach wall with all my might.

Lao Cao carefully held the golden peach and offered it, thinking that this piece of heart should be enough. Naturally, he didn't know that the peach had just been sent to the Inner Court Division, and it was melted into gold the next day.

The most eye-catching of all the gift-givers and the one who doesn't care about what others give is Mu Yunzuo, the current court master.

He gave a chariot chair and a Kowloon agarwood carved from thousand-year-old nan wood.

The attached ceremonial table says that the minister is willing to support people in this life and protect His Majesty's country for thousands of generations.

The words are nice, but some people muttered in their hearts, is this Taishi hiding another meaning.

I gave you the dragon chair.

Of course, no one dares to say these damaging words.

If Mu Yunyou was still alive, no matter whether his younger brother had this intention or not, he would definitely stop him. It's a pity he's gone.

The strange thing is that Li Taijun didn't stop him.

Oh, speaking of this Li Taijun, he sent a hand-made spice, which is said to have been made by picking 28 strange flowers and plants for half a year, and it is the most effective to concentrate on the pillow.

Who knows?

Anyway, when Gonggong Li saw this spice for the first time, he guessed that it must be the same as the grass pillow last time, and he turned around and put it in the warehouse until he was old.

In fact, among the people who gave the gift this time, there is another person who has also attracted great attention.

That is the crown princess Zhu Zhijie.

Her home country is full of treasures in the world, and she is a royal descendant, with a first-class vision, I really don't know what kind of treasures she will give.

But Zhu Zhijie is also a delicate mind, she didn't look for any treasures first, but found Gonggong Li and asked, what is the saint's favorite?

Gonggong Li said one word with a smile.

Tea!

Zhu Zhijie knew it in her heart.

After that, there was no follow-up, and nothing was seen from her.

Until the day of the feast, the royal relatives of the palace and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty all sat on the hall of longevity. When the dishes were served, everyone knew that the dishes of each dish on the banquet were designed by Zhu Zhijie after repeated consideration.

And there is one thing in these dishes: tea.

This is her congratulatory gift.

According to her request, the feast began with a cup of fresh mushrooms with white tea and shrimp balls to clear the stomach, then a double cold dish of meat and vegetables with willow silk and green noodles and a double cold dish of Buddha white eyebrows mixed with fresh lotus root, followed by a bowl of stewed peach with four-leaf gourd with Wusang tea and plum, simmered fish lips in a thousand years of red robe, fried lotus heart with blue sea hair, and fried bell with perilla double leaves, accompanied by the staple food of eight treasures of tea and phoenix bone porridge and stewed rice with green tea oil bamboo shoots, and then a bowl of four-leaf gourd stewed peach to moisten the mouth.

At first, when the imperial dining room saw her giving such instructions, his face was respectful, and he didn't take it seriously at all. As soon as the feasible person makes a move, he will know if there is one. When the imperial chefs saw that she was cooking in person, she only showed her hands, and they were immediately convinced, and there was no objection.

The original state banquet of the Cangwu Kingdom, each

There are three cold and three hot dishes in front of people, and they serve food twice in total. When I arrived at Zhu Zhijie's place, it was changed to one soup, two cold, four hot, two rice and one soup, and a total of five dishes were served. Not only is the process more exquisite, but the dishes are also newer and more curious.

Such fragrant dishes were brought to the hall, and everyone sitting there had never heard of it, and even Emperor Wen was overjoyed and full of praise. Everyone didn't expect that a brilliant crown princess could have such a clever mind.

Emperor Wen held a silver chopstick in his hand and took a bite of the fried lotus seeds with the tip of the blue sea and tasted it carefully, and Long Yan said with great joy, "Although the tip of your blue sea hair is fragrant, it is not as mellow as the tip of my Cangwu Miaodai, but after stir-frying with thin oil and then with lotus seeds, the aroma is exposed and not noisy, which is really just right." ”

Zhu Zhijie heard this, and said with a gentle smile, "My father's comment is very concise, I often use the soaked black rock green needles to chop and stew the lotus seeds when I am in Bihai, but Bihai likes cold food, I am afraid that my father and the adults here are not used to eating, so I changed to stir-fry in hot oil. ”

Emperor Wen listened to her and praised her, "It seems that I, the tea garden behind the Evergreen Palace, should also let you go in and take a look to see if there is any good tea that can be eaten, and take it to ponder." ”

Zhu Zhijie had already heard that Emperor Wen's tea garden was planted with famous teas all over the world, and even the black rock green needles of the blue sea were also cultivated, and I also heard that Emperor Wen spent several years of hard work to graft the black rock green needles of the blue sea with the four-leaf golden gourd of the cangwu together, and cultivated a new tea that inherited the strengths of the two families.

The appearance of this tea is extremely ugly, after frying, it curls up into grains like burnt millet rice, but once it is boiled water, it changes its appearance, not only the brown is golden like amber, and the leaves are like silk, and the silver quill is densely covered. What's even more peculiar is that this tea is an aroma when it is just brewed, and when it is cool, it has a different flavor.

Because of this, this tea was given a nickname by Emperor Wen, called Wu Yanchun.

Zhu Zhijie couldn't be happier when she heard that Emperor Wen allowed her to enter the tea garden, and she hurriedly bowed and thanked her.

Hubu Shangshu Pei Ran caught a glimpse of this situation, and was busy making fun of the next head, "As the so-called good horse with a good saddle, Your Majesty's good tea will definitely shine and complement each other after the hands of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess." ”

The rest of the ministers also said yes one after another, fearing that they would be left behind.

Only Mu Yunzuo looked at it coldly and didn't say a word. According to his temperament, it would be polite not to rob Bai Peiran of a few words. In his eyes, Pei Ran's "rusty talent" should have been pulled out a long time ago, if it weren't for the weakness of the Taishi Mansion now, where would he be allowed to be crowned like a monkey and noisy in front of people.

Well, bear with it, out of sight is pure.

Mu Yunzuo turned his head away, and he suddenly saw his mother eating vegetables and thinking about it.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

Li Taijun was called by him, came back to his senses, smiled slightly, and said, "It's nothing, the old body just thinks this dish tastes good." It seems that this crown princess of the Bihai Zhu clan does have a bit of skill. ”

Mu Yunzuo looked at the dish in front of her strangely.

Shiso Futaba fried bell.

Everyone in Cangwu likes to eat perilla, what can be so special about this?

How did he know that Li Taijun was right-hearted

It's suspicious of this dish.

There is tea in every dish, but this perilla double leaf does not seem to have it, but Li Taijun can taste it, among these two leaves, one leaf is perilla, and the other leaf is a kind of grass in Yin Mu country, called Leng Xin Lian.

When the cold heart lotus is fresh, it can be used as a seasonal vegetable into the meal, and it can also be used as a tea leaf to soak in water after drying, and it is a half-grass and half-tea thing that is often eaten by the people of Yinmu country. The tea itself is not harmful, but if a person with insomnia takes it, it will aggravate the symptoms.

Li Taijun pondered, this thing is only produced in the old land of Yinmu, if it is said that it is to be found in the imperial capital, it is only in the medicine garden on her Taishi's mansion, how did this princess find these fresh cold heart lotus?

And when it comes to people with insomnia, isn't it the holy predicament?

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