Chapter 62: Pastries
When she returned home, Shui Ying's maid came to ask her to go to Shui Ying to play, and Ling Xiao had already gone first.
Yan Qingge carefully washed his face with hot water, until he couldn't see any traces of crying, and then went to Shui Ying's side.
After getting along in the past few days, Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao have a lot of close relationships with Shui Ying. Shui Ying is a slow character, and her favorite thing is to eat snacks and be idle. In addition to the compulsory courses stipulated by the academy, she did not choose any of the other courses, as long as she had a holiday, she ate a little at home and slept at home.
Although there are not many noble girls like her in Bailu Academy, there are at least seven or eight people. Others, even if they sign up for additional courses, don't take it too seriously. There are almost no people like Ling Xiao who come to learn something sincerely.
In the evening, Shui Ying invited the two of them to eat, and the food was served, a table was fragrant, with braised abalone, phoenix wings piercing the clouds, crab roe grilled kale, thick duck paws hanging in a clay pot, boiled fish with eggplant, and fried tiger claw bamboo shoots with ginger and tooth mushrooms. According to Shui Ying, the chef who cooks today is invited from the south, and the taste is different from that made in the north.
Yan Qingge tasted it, and sure enough, it tasted excellent. Shui Ying didn't know if she had eaten too much dim sum or what, she only ate two bites of each, then stopped chopsticks, and only drank a small bowl of the chicken wine soup on the last cook.
She smiled and persuaded Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao, and said, "This chicken wine soup is filled with beef spinal cord and honey moxibustion licorice, which is the most beneficial to qi." My mother said that I had a deficiency in my womb and told me to eat more of this. The two sisters also use more, which is good for the body. ”
Yan Qingge drank a bowl, and sure enough, he felt that the taste was excellent, mellow and fragrant.
Ling Xiao smiled: "It tastes good." I don't cook southern food at home, and I used to think that southern food was sweet and greasy, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious. ”
Shui Ying smiled: "Sister likes it, let's just eat together in the future." My little sister has no ambitions, she likes to eat and drink the most, we have a kitchen in our yard, and the cooks are specially found by my parents, and cooking for one person is done, and two or three are also done. ”
Ling Xiao was not polite to her, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's have dinner together in the future." I asked my family to send some recipes, all of which were good things that I couldn't find outside, so I borrowed flowers to offer Buddha and asked Sister Shuiying to try them. ”
As he was talking, the door curtain was lifted, and Shui Ying's personal maid Hongying walked in and said, "Miss, Miss Yuan Zhenzhen asked someone to borrow something, and asked for the set of dim sum molds for flowers at 24 o'clock." ”
Shui Ying's face fell, and she said unhappily: "Don't borrow it." ”
When the red warbler left, Shui Yingcai said angrily: "The sisters of the Yuan family are fighting the law, and they want to use me as a raft." Then, she looked at Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao, and said seriously: "If you meet the three sisters of the Yuan family, you must ignore them and carefully kick their noses in the face." ”
"Yuan sisters? Could it be the child of Prince Zhao's family? Yan Qingge asked curiously.
"Which one else could be. More than a dozen daughters of Prince Zhao's family sent three to study, and everyone ignored them because of the smoke and miasma that made trouble all day long. Shui Ying said.
Yan Qingge thought about it for a while, and probably understood what was going on.
Prince Zhao is the only surviving brother of the current emperor, although he has no real power, but he is quite loved and often can enter the palace to accompany him.
Before being reborn, one of Prince Zhao's daughters married her cousin, the crown prince, as a side concubine, and after the crown prince ascended the throne, she was made an imperial concubine. It's a pity that the emperor died early, she had no one to cover, and she was very miserable by the Queen Mother Yan Shuyu. It is likely that at this time, the Yuan sisters already knew that one of them would marry the crown prince, so they would fight back and forth for this only place.
The next morning, Yan Qingge met Yuan Zhenzhen.
Ling Xiao had a secret weapon class in the morning, she finally woke up Ling Xiao and sent her away, and then she was in the yard with a book and basking in the early sun for a while, and she saw a bright girl at the door with three or four maids coming over.
This girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, because it was colder in the mountains than outside, she wore a cotton shirt with brocade flowers, a leather skirt with engraved silk gold and silver ruyi patterns, and behind her was a crimson mouse-inlaid gray wind hair cloak, the collar buckle was an eight-treasure fluorite spider buckle, and a set of golden jewelry on her head. This girl has handsome eyebrows, and when she saw Yan Qingge, she tilted her head and said with a smile: "Who is this sister I haven't seen before?" ”
"My name is Yan Qingge. I haven't asked my sister for a name yet. Yan Qingge said.
The girl's eyebrows furrowed, her face was serious, she looked Yan Qingge up and down a few times, and snorted with her nostrils: "You are the Yan Qingge, that's it." ”
Yan Qingge is also strange, the last time she performed "Guangling San" in public in the piano art class, there were still people like the first time she saw her.
The girl flicked the corner of her cloak and didn't greet her, turned around and entered Shui Ying's house, and said crisply: "Sister Shui Ying, don't sleep." Yesterday I asked someone to ask you for a mold to make a snack, why don't you give it to my sister. ”
Shui Ying was still sleeping, and when she heard the call, she reluctantly shouted outside in a daze: "Sister Zhenzhen, please go back." I won't borrow that mold from you. borrowed you, Sister Nian Nian said that she couldn't come to ask for another one immediately, and Sister Qianqian probably followed behind. I'm just a few sets of molds, like the last time, I knocked you out, and I used it myself. ”
Yuan Zhenzhen was unceremoniously rejected by her, and walked out with a cold snort, without looking at Yan Qingge in the courtyard.
After a while, Shui Ying walked out and said very unhappily: "Sister Yan, don't take it to heart, this Yuan Zhen is really so ignorant." Relying on his father to be Prince Zhao, he does everything, but in the end he is just a concubine, but he is even more out of line than Yuan Qianqian, the concubine of the family. ”
Near noon, Ling Xiao, who was sweating profusely, came back, and when he was eating, he said mysteriously: "I heard someone in class say that the prince will go to the outer courtyard in the next few days, and I don't know if it's true or not." ”
Shui Ying suddenly realized: "No wonder Yuan Zhenzhen borrowed a cake mold from me, it turned out that he wanted to make cakes and send them to the prince by himself." ”
Yan Qingge silently looked at the almond white lung in front of him, and finally knew why Yuan Zhenzhen was so hostile to him, it turned out that people had long known that she was the one who had a marriage contract with the prince. It seems that in the future days in Bailu Academy, she will have to be careful of the three sisters of the Yuan family.
Within a few days, the prince really came, and although he didn't go to the inner courtyard, the news still came.
Because it was a women's red class that day, the teacher Liu Fuzi had never been strict, so the girls gathered together with embroidery bandages, and whispered with bright eyes that you said a word and I said a word, almost every sentence was related to the prince.
The three sisters of the Yuan family didn't come to class, and they didn't know if they went to the outer courtyard to find the prince as the other girls said.
In short, Yan Qingge had no interest in this sick and crooked prince, and naturally he would not discuss it for half a minute, but obediently embroidered a purse in the corner.
Her purse was for herself, embroidered with a verdant gourd vine, a huge yellow gourd hanging on it, and a big wine urn on the ground, and next to the wine urn flew a few little sparrows with a big red halo embroidered on their faces.
Shui Ying, Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao gathered in the corner to embroider quietly, no one said the prince, seeing that Yan Qingge's purse was almost finished, Shui Ying loved it very much, and Ling Xiao spoke first: "This purse was given to me!" Yan Qingge smiled and twisted her cheeks: "If you didn't take the purse I carried, how could I make another one." What do you want so many purses? ”
Shui Ying was embarrassed to ask for it, so Ling Xiao said: "Then you can make an exact one for me again." I love the little sparrows above. ”
Yan Qingge reluctantly agreed, nodded to her, and promised to give it to her in a few days.
Shui Ying envied the good relationship between the two of them, thinking that when she and Yan Qingge got acquainted with each other in a while, she would also ask for a good-looking purse. Although she also has dexterous embroiderers at home, the embroidery patterns she makes are not as fun as Yan Qingge's.
When I got home in the afternoon, Gui Yan, who stayed in the courtyard, greeted me with a smile and said, "Miss, Miss Yan, the eldest prince and the little prince Yan sent a lot of things, saying that they were rewarded by the prince, and they were specially sent to you." ”
As he spoke, he took out two boxes.
The contents of the box are all exactly the same, except for a set of books, there is also a finely polished green cloud head hosta, and a string of one hundred and eight Canaan wood bracelets. In addition, Yan Xiuyu also specially sent Yan Qingge a box of pastries to eat, which were specially bought and sent from Beijing.
Yan Qingge smiled and tasted the Poria cake in his mouth, this Poria cake was made into a small leaf shape, with a fragrance in the mouth, without adding any sugar, but the taste was very good, and I don't know where Yan Xiuyu found the good things.
She gave the Poria cake to Ling Xiao and Shui Ying, and Ling Xiao pouted, "Brother Lie doesn't know to send me some pastries." ”
"You don't like to eat, what's the use of giving it to you? I might as well give you a few whips. Yan Qingge laughed at her.
Shui Ying was eating Poria cake intently, not interjecting, and pursing her lips and smiling beside her.
As she was talking, Hongying hurriedly came over and said, "Miss, Miss Yuan Qianqian is here, I don't mean that you borrowed the pastry mold of Miss Yuan Zhenzhen the day before yesterday, and I want to ask you to understand." ”
Shui Ying was very unhappy and said, "Where did I borrow it, tell her not to spew blood." ”
As he was talking, a petite girl walked in and said arrogantly: "Who is spewing blood?" Shui Ying, you make it clear. ”
Shui Ying was a little annoyed, put down the half of the Poria cake she was holding in her hand, and said, "Where did you get the evidence, I borrowed her mold." ”
Yuan Qianqian's eyes were sharp, and she pointed to the Poria cake on the table and said sharply: "You still said you didn't borrow it?" I saw this Poria cake next to the prince's brother today, and this is exactly what he eats! Who doesn't know that you are the only one in the entire inner courtyard who has a complete pastry mold, if you hadn't borrowed the mold for Yuan Zhenzhen, where did she get this new pattern pastry. ”
Yan Qingge saw that Yuan Qianqian's fingers were about to poke into Shui Ying's eyes, so he stepped forward and said, "Sister Yuan, don't talk nonsense." This pastry was just sent to us by the little prince Yan, and I want to eat the one he gave the prince. ”
Yuan Qianqian looked at Yan Qingge seriously, and said angrily: "You are the Yan Qingge?" Wow, who doesn't know that Yan Xiao Wang Ye is your uncle's student, where is this pastry given by Yan Xiao Wangye, it is clearly from you! Do you still want to be shameless? The prince's brother doesn't know you at all, so you just stick it up! I tell you, he won't marry you, the daughter of a broken family! ”