Chapter Forty-Nine: Sit and Drink the Water
The indoor environment is elegant, the furnishings are chic, and a faint fragrance lingers on the tip of the nose.
"Today, I invite everyone to come, and I specially set up this tea party, which is cheeky to wash the dust for yourself, and you must not restrain it. Everyone tastes it, the crabs that have just been caught in the Yunhu River are still to taste. Wen Er smiled lightly, and his gestures were so elegant, where could he see the gangsterism of the general's family, but like the lady of the lord's family.
I remember reading a book I used to read that a woman who cultivates both virtue and appearance should be described as "the belief and cultivation of beautiful women, and the practice of etiquette and poetry", and I think Wen Er is like this.
Compared to her, I really have to go back to the cave and cultivate again for 800 years.
As soon as I had cleaned my hands, the maid gave me a cotton towel on a silver plate. After a while, he held the golden silk nanmu tea tray, and there were two jade cups on it, which contained green salt water. I was stunned, thinking it was for me to drink, so I picked up the cup and pecked it, smacking my lips, well, salty, not very tasty.
Changji said coldly: "This is for gargling."
I was stunned for a moment, and with a grunt, I had already swallowed the last bite.
Glancing at me speechlessly, I silently put the cup down.
After rinsing my mouth, I think it's time to drink tea and get down to business!
Who knows, the maids came out with trays carrying large and small utensils. Meng Jie came over and told me that this is called Eight Crabs, which is an essential weapon for eating crabs.
I sighed and cursed: It's really troublesome, can you use it so cumbersome to eat a crab, just pick it up and pull it open. The first time I ate this, I didn't have much experience, so I had to follow the example and fiddle with Changji. He smiled at me and patiently guided me, but I was clumsy and never found the trick.
I threw the crab back on the plate, picked it up angrily, and took advantage of people's inattention, leaned to the eclipse's mouth, sniffed the lunar eclipse, and didn't start with disgust.
I touched its head and agreed, "Vision."
I suddenly regretted coming to participate in today's tea fight, if I want to fight tea, I was thinking about drinking a few cups of tea and finding an excuse to sneak back, but I want to eat what crabs, eat it, why is it so torturous.
Everyone was too busy to open crabs, and they didn't care about talking, and naturally they couldn't take care of me. I felt bored sitting there, so I consciously or unconsciously looked at other people's behaviors, trying to find a little joke in their crab eating to pass the time. But they were so boring that they didn't give me any laughs.
The banquet was more fun, the two eyes were round, staring at the crab on the plate, picking it up and knocking it, and putting it down, as if they couldn't take it, and finally simply stopped getting it. She put her hand on the table and quietly watched Qin Luoxue. Suddenly, she straightened her back and pushed the crab in front of her to him, as if she was waiting for him to take out the crab meat and put it on the plate, she was delicious and ready-made. Her performance is dull and cute, and she is very cute. I think it's cute, let alone a man. But Qin Luoxue was unmoved, always kept a calm face, absentmindedly took out the crab meat in the crab shell, and before the banquet minister grabbed it, he swallowed the crab meat in one gulp.
The banquet was shocked: "Why did you eat it yourself!"
"Why can't I eat it, I made it." Qin Luoxue said expressionlessly.
Yan Chen's face turned crimson with anger, slapped his palm on the table, and shouted at him: "Stingy, really stingy!"
Qin Luoxue raised her eyes and stared out the door, as indifferent as ever.
"Mine for you." Baili Yuan pushed the crab meat he had removed to the banquet minister, his expression was gentle, but his tone was helpless.
Yan Chen held his cheek with one hand, and pushed the crab meat back angrily with the other, and said, "Don't eat it."
Baili sighed and stopped persuading. Looking back at Wen Er, his eyebrows and eyes became softer and softer.
Tao Ruo and Sheng Yunjiang only cared about bowing their heads and drinking tea, but they never said anything, Wu Pingqi and Meng Jie were discussing what art of war, intoxicated by it, and they couldn't get involved with the third person.
The copper kettle was boiling, squeaking and steaming, Wen Er carefully padded a cotton towel before taking the pot down, and while the water was boiling, he rushed directly into the purple sand pot and handed it to Changji. When Changji went to pick it up, the hands of the two unintentionally touched. The moment they looked at each other, Wen Er's face turned red, and he put the pot down shyly, and immediately stopped looking.
I chuckled in my heart, and I couldn't help but react to Changji. He didn't care much, but he was still obsessed with ordering tea. And Wen Er is now red-faced. I sighed in my heart, she looks so good when she's shy, Changji should have seen it too.
"What's wrong with my mother, I blushed like this." Sheng Yunjiang pretended to be surprised, and his tone was not lacking in ridicule.
"I'm not shy." Wen Er frowned, hurriedly stopping her words, her eyebrows and eyes full of tenderness.
Sheng Yunjiang smiled even more wantonly: "When did I say that you were shy, why are you still in a hurry to admit it, there are really three hundred taels of silver here."
Tao Yu'er echoed the conversation, and said with a smile: "It's rare for a mother to be shy, presumably because of someone."
"Okay, as long as you talk a lot, it's better to eat more tea if you have this kung fu." Wen Er gave her a sneer, and poured her another cup of tea.
Sheng Yunjiang smiled silently, and when she looked at me, her smile rippled. When he looked at Changji, his eyes froze. I don't know if I was wrong, or if I was overthinking, but there seemed to be a little melancholy and loss in her dark and uncertain expression.
I was silent, absentmindedly pulling off a crab leg.
Wen Er grinned and said to me, "But you can't get used to eating this crab?"
"No, I'm just not very good at it."
Wen Er saw that I couldn't do it, so she took the crab in my hand and smiled at me: "The princess should be the first time to eat crabs, no, it doesn't matter, Yu Niang will pick out the crab meat for you, and you can eat it directly when the time comes."
Wen'er wants to dismantle the crab for me, which makes me very uncomfortable and a little embarrassed.
I said no, she had to help.
Her delicate fingers untied the rice rope that bound the crab, and her gestures were graceful, not like opening a crab, but like painting. She has done a full set of crab kung fu, cutting, knocking, digging, smooth movements, and flowing water. After a short time, a whole hairy crab is shelled and the meat is extracted.
"All right, princess, try it."
"Thank you." I smiled and took the crab meat in the shell.
Changji snorted coldly: "Lazy, stupid, and greedy." I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I leisurely put a chopstick into my mouth and chewed it slowly, the taste was very delicious and sweet.
I lowered my head to eat the crab meat, and in the afterglow, Meng Jie's eyes seemed to be looking at this side, I thought he was looking at me, and he was a little awkward. When I looked up, I saw that he was actually watching a lunar eclipse, with a light smile on his lips, and I breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved. For some reason, I don't even want to see Meng Jie lately, or rather, I'm afraid to see him.
I put down my chopsticks and suddenly had a headache. As soon as I saw a flower, I almost fell to the ground, Changji hurriedly stabilized me from behind, and said in a worried tone: "Are you sick?"
"No, I just have a headache."
Suddenly, there was a lot of greetings in the house, and they all came up to me to ask me where I was uncomfortable.
"Let me see!" Meng Jie quickly turned from the other side and pulled my right hand to call for me.
I froze and withdrew my hand.
"I just have a headache, and the pulse shouldn't do anything."
Meng Jie looked at me unhappily and snorted coldly: "I haven't heard of looking, hearing and asking, this disease is all over the place, and it is related to each other, maybe your headache is caused by other diseases, and let me see, I can prescribe the right medicine."
I shut up and didn't say anything, obediently stretched out my hand, holding my breath and waiting for him to call out the result, and everyone looked up at me one after another, with worried faces, all of them were very concerned. Among them, Wen Er was the most enthusiastic, and while instructing his subordinates to bring me a screen, he asked Meng Jie what medicine he needed to prescribe, so that she could let people fry it.
Meng Jie didn't reply, his brows furrowed slightly, but Changji replied bluntly: "Wait quietly for his pulse."
Everyone and I were confused, and looked at Changji in surprise.
Wen Er was stunned for a moment, staring at him blankly.
Changji hesitated for a moment, finally relieved himself, and said softly to Wen Er: "Her headache is just an old illness, and it is not in the way." It is better to let the Meng Jie pulse run out, and then decide whether to use the medicine. You don't have to rush. ”
Wen ear and chin bowed, low eyebrows.
Meng Jie removed his hand from my veins, as if confused, and said hatefully: "It's strange, I really can't tell you what's wrong."
My eyelids jumped, and my headache was still ongoing. He fed me another painkiller, and after half a column of incense, my headache improved slightly.
Meng Jie said: "I'll give you acupuncture to try and see if it works."
I didn't want to trouble others, especially if that person was still Meng Jie, so I forced myself to say that I was fine. Changji slapped me on the head: "What's okay, you give me a good life to sit and don't move!"
I wanted to cry without tears, and I raised my eyes to stare at him, thinking that I was already miserable and that he was still so cruel to me, it was so annoying. Can't he be as gentle to me as Wen Shisanniang is to him!!
"You have a headache, don't underestimate it. At a young age, you fell into an old problem, do you think it's worth showing off? If you don't heal as soon as possible, I'm afraid that you will suffer from your sins in the future. Meng Jie said lightly, and took out the needle bag he was carrying, and wanted to administer the needle to me.
This needle was thin and long, glowing with cold light, and I was terrified to see it, as if the needle in Meng Jie's hand was not a needle, but a knife in the butcher's hand. He stabbed me in the head, but I subconsciously avoided it, refusing, "I don't hurt anymore, I don't need acupuncture anymore."
Meng Jie squinted at me and said with a smile: "Aren't you afraid of pain?"
I looked at Changji, and his face was heavy.
Baili Yuan also cared: "You still try this acupuncture method, maybe it will be your headache symptoms."
"I'm most afraid of pain, I don't want to get a needle!!" I refused 120,000 points.
Meng Jie's hand under the needle was really accurate, and before I could react, a needle was inserted in my head, and I was speechless and choked, gritting my teeth in pain.
I looked at Meng Jie's gentle expression, and I always felt that he was gloating, so I was furious: "Laugh at the fart."
"When did I laugh?" Meng Jie smiled lightly and stuck another needle in my head.
I raised my hand and pointed at him and asked indignantly, "You still say you didn't laugh, look, look, you laugh again."
"Be quiet, what should I do if I prick the wrong acupuncture point later." Changji commanded in a deep voice, and I immediately shut up. He sighed and looked at Meng Jie, who gestured to him, and he handed over the needle bag on the table. Meng Jie took it and slowly helped me with the needle.
Changji asked in a deep voice, "How do you feel?"
"It doesn't hurt much." I'll be honest with you. It seems that this acupuncture is quite helpful for my headache. I shook my head from side to side and looked at Changji with a stupid smile. It was very rare for Changji to take care of me, and I looked back at Meng Jie with a short breath, and bowed my hand to him politely: "Thank you." He gave me a roll of the eye.
"The princess is still young, why does she still have a headache?" Wen Er asked with concern.
Meng Jie's smile suddenly brightened, and he leaned towards Wen Er and smiled: "This may be called pre-aging." I gave him a fist.
I restrained my fierce expression and said to Wen Er as softly as possible: "This is a problem brought out of the mother's womb, it can't get better, but it can't die." Out of the way. ”
Raising her eyes slightly, she sneered at Shangshengyun Jiang Rinhan, and her heart was suffocated, she seemed to be surprised that I had found her, and then she changed to the gentleness of a spring breeze again.
It's really fast enough to change faces.
Wen Er nodded knowingly, but still said: "Xuge's medical skills are exquisite, if you let him take a look at it for you, maybe it can still be cured."