Chapter 24: Lotus Porridge

"What's going on? Where are all the flowers that have just bloomed? And what about the lotus pod? Shui Zhi stretched out his hand to stop a rough maid passing by to change water, and twisted his eyebrows and interrogated.

The little girl's face was only twelve or thirteen, and she was caught coldly, she didn't know what she was doing, and she thought she was going to bear this crime, so she fell to the ground tremblingly, didn't dare to look at people, and said busily: "Yes, it's the Oiran lady's side, the two sisters...... Taken away ......"

"Forget it, let's get to work." Hearing that it was Shen Yuan, Mo Yuyuan didn't say anything anymore, and waved his hand to signal Shui Zhi to retreat.

There were no flowers to appreciate, so Mo Yu had to go back to the building. Shui Yun went to pass the meal, and before she could come back, she heard the scarlet clouds knock on the door. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Scarlet Cloud holding a large tray in his hand, smiled and bowed, and said to Mo Yuyuan: "Miss picked the lotus flower pod with her own hands, peeled the lotus seeds, and made pure heart lotus porridge, please taste it." ”

The porridge noodles are sprinkled with pink lotus petals cut into thin strips, glutinous rice and barley soaked overnight in advance, fresh lotus seeds are peeled, the porridge is boiled in hot water with lotus petals and lotus stamens, rolled into rock sugar, and poured into cold water for a while before serving. Shen Yuan specially removed each lotus seed to the lotus heart, and instructed him to throw two or three grains into the hot water and scald them together, which not only did not bitter the tongue, but also lowered the fire and cleared the heart.

Mo Yuyuan smiled and nodded, and motioned for Shui Zhi to take it: "Miss has a heart, thank you for me." It's been raining and wet these days, and my legs are starting to hurt again, but there are a lot of things, and I can't take care of her, how is Miss? Do you have a cold? ”

Scarlet Cloud lowered his hand and replied: "If you go back to Mrs., Miss is fine, and you still have the spirit to come out for a walk." ”

"That's good, there you go." Mo Yu beckoned and sent a little girl to send Scarlet Cloud out.

The lotus porridge has arrived in front of it, and it has not yet entered the mouth, it has felt fragrant, the lotus seeds are fresh and sweet, the glutinous rice is fragrant and soft, and the barley seeds are also stewed rotten, and the grains are bursting with flowers. In the past, although the Leng Xiang Pavilion was lively, the affairs of the seven, seven, eight and eight were often too late to be counted according to the order, but when the guests were few and clean, all kinds of accounts and miscellaneous items piled up had to be cleared. Now that the sky is finally clear, Mo Yu is ready to take Shen Yuan to the Taoist Temple to make incense.

Outside the city of Mojing, there is a jade mountain in the northern suburbs, there is a Taoist temple in the mountain, the name of the immortal temple, the emperor of the three officials is enshrined, and the cigarettes are prosperous every year. Regarding the theory of ghosts and gods, Mo Yuyuan's thoughts have always been complicated.

When she was young, she followed her parents' New Year's Festival to worship the gods, and she also believed that there were arrangements in the dark, and there were really gods in the three feet of her head. Later, after a series of accidents, Mo Yu Yuanyuan figured it out again, if he was really blessed by the gods, he had never done anything wrong, why was he always suffering? So when she came to Mojing that year, although she heard that the incense of immortality was effective, she never wanted to go to the incense to pray.

Or later, in the twelfth year of Qiren, Shen Yuan had an accident, and he couldn't be saved, Mo Yu Yuanyuan was sick and rushed to the doctor, three steps and one kneeling under the jade mountain, five steps and one worship, seven steps and one kowtow into the concept of eternal life, no sleep, no drink or food, pray to God, kowtow and offer incense. I didn't think that it would really work, and after a few days, she went down the mountain and returned to the Leng Xiang Pavilion exhausted, Shen Yuan had already woken up, and she was getting better day by day.

In this way, if you don't believe it, you will become convinced, Shen Yuan can't go out, so Mo Yuyuan went to repay her wish in person, and asked for a peace buckle for her, and strung it into a sword spike to suppress the anger of the sword soldiers. That's it, every month or the first day of the new year, or the fifteenth, but if there is nothing else, the ink mandarin duck must also go up the mountain to incense.

I just heard Scarlet Cloud say that Shen Yuanken went out for a walk, and Mo Yuyuan felt that it was a good omen, and she should be asked to pay her a visit in person, and the first day of the next month would be a good day.

Thinking about it, Shui Yun had already come back from breakfast, and the lotus porridge had just run out, and Mo Yuyuan looked at the shredded mushroom and chicken porridge that was sent, and suddenly lost her appetite.

"This lotus porridge is really good, Shui Zhi, you will follow you to the kitchen later, and tell them to learn to make it, and you don't have to let the young lady peel the lotus seeds by herself." By the way, meet the cook woman surnamed He again, and see how she behaves. ”

"Whoa." Shui Zhi agreed and handed over the chopsticks.

Breakfast was being used in both places on the third floor, and the rooms downstairs were also passing rice and soup, but there was no movement in the Yingying room, and she didn't see her maid fetching water to wash. It's not that the top brand doesn't eat the fireworks of the world, on the contrary, she has too strong worldly fireworks. This kind of breath is the icing on the cake when appropriate, so that the whole person is fresh and smart, just one look can be intriguing, but once it is too full, it overflows, and the clumps cannot be dissolved together, so they often dull their minds and do all kinds of things that outweigh the losses.

"Girl, you'd better get up......"

In the room, only half a gauze curtain hung in front of the bed of the warbler, the bed was covered with a water-red mandarin duck quilt, a piece of ice and jade snow shoulders were exposed, and a roll of green silk was pressed and splashed with ink, and the chest rose and fell slightly with the breathing, and a tempting scenery appeared and disappeared from time to time. The maid knelt in front of the bed for a day and a night, her voice was hoarse, and her eyes were covered with red silk.

Guanying heard the maid's persuasion, and for the first time in the world, she didn't get angry and scolded, and sat up suddenly, and the mandarin duck was slipped down, and it was a scene of Bai Shengsheng making people blush. The maid hurriedly lay down, wishing that she could get into the cracks in the ground, God knows what she, the top master, wanted to do.

She waited in horror for the scolding to come, but the other party didn't say a word, exposing her jade-like body to the air. The strange silence lasted for a long time before a fluttering voice sounded above her head: "You say, am I so good-looking?" ”

The maid didn't dare to raise her head when she died, she moved her biting white lips, and tears almost fell out: "Okay, good...... Pretty! Good looking......"

"Then why didn't he come to see me! None of them came! The warbler suddenly became hysterical. She had been lying down for too long, and the water and rice had not entered, so she should have lacked strength so as not to disturb the quiet outside. But her maid knelt in front of the bed, clearly feeling that her eardrums were about to break, but she was afraid that if the partition wall really had ears, she would hear it clearly.

The maid didn't dare to speak, but she heard a muffled beating sound from the bed one after another, and she knew that it was the top brand who was beating the bed with that scratched hand again, and the wound must have been cracked open again, and the medicine cloth that had been changed many times must have been soaked in blood again.

"Please open the door, and the kitchen will deliver the soup."

The knock on the door sounded inappropriately, the warbler ignored it, the maid didn't dare to make decisions without permission, and the people outside kept knocking, and it seemed to knock on people's hearts. The maid finally couldn't stand it, glanced at the warbler, and almost crawled to open the door.

The warbler in the house was still the same, and she only dared to open a narrow slit and cover her body as much as possible. Fortunately, there was a little girl outside the door, just in her teens, holding a tray in her hand, with a white porcelain bowl and a small spoon on it.