Jin Ran greeted everyone in the Zhang family with a smile: "Lixiangyuan still has some things, you can go to the main courtyard with me for lunch first." There are a few pairs of humps in the kitchen today, and the soup stock is excellent. There are some fresh bamboo shoots and shrimp or something, grandmother, this is your favorite food. ”

Old Madam Zhang smiled and nodded, today's result was already the best result she expected. The fact that the Zhang family arranged them so close shows that his daughter still has a little attachment to the Zhang family in her heart.

With the status of the Sheng family now, these few points of attachment are enough, as long as the Sheng family still has the past feelings in their hearts, they can sometimes help the Zhang family. Mrs. Zhang was already very satisfied.

Even though Jin Ran was not very happy to be so close to the Zhang family, since the Zhang family had opened her mouth, she had no reason to give her mother a shame in front of everyone. I can only quickly order someone to clean up and fiddle.

This is also easy to clean up, Suri, there are maids cleaning in Lixiang Garden, although Lixiang Garden does not live in people, but it can't let a good yard be dusted all over the yard. The tidying up in Jinran's mouth was just asking everyone to move the cage quilt that was originally prepared in the East Cross Courtyard to the Lixiang Garden. It's all easy to clean up,

But it also takes a certain amount of time to clean up, so Jin Ran asked everyone to go to the main courtyard to eat together.

At lunchtime, Jinran's fathers and brothers, only Jinran's third brother had the kung fu to accompany his grandfather's family who came from afar to have a meal today, and the others were busy with official business in the yamen, so they didn't have the kung fu. Only Jinran's third brother is young and his position is not high, but he doesn't need to be on call all the time.

Mrs. Zhang is the oldest person in the house, so she is usually the one who will be the main seat. Mrs. Zhang excused herself a few words: "How can anyone still let me sit on the main seat in your house?" ”

Old Madam Zhang hurriedly pulled Jinran's mother up: "This is the Sheng family, you should sit here." ”

Zhang's didn't go up, she pressed her mother on the main seat: "Mother, what are you talking about, is it possible that you are not my mother in the Sheng family?" You're an elder, so you have to sit here. ”

As she spoke, she walked to the old lady of the Zhang family: "Okay, mother, sit down." It's getting late, so let's eat early. ”

Jin Ran also followed behind and greeted the people of the Zhang family: "Come, everyone can sit at will." As she spoke, she pulled up Zhang Qi, who had been silent, and Jin Ran whispered to Zhang Qi: "You will sit next to me for a while, right?" Zhang Qi nodded with a smile, she had just said a few words with Jin Ran outside the door when she was stabbed by the other girls of the Zhang family, and she was continuing to reminisce at this moment.

For lunch, there is the hump that Jinran and Mrs. Zhang said just now, and the hump is accompanied by milk soup and bamboo shoots, which is exceptionally delicious and appetizing, and even Mrs. Zhang, who originally had some tea and rice, also drank two small bowls.

Jin Ran saw that today's lunch, the people who came were some daughters, so he told the kitchen to make some bite-sized bean skin vegetarian brocade buns, these vegetarian brocade buns are filled with some vegetables and fruits grown by the Sheng family Zhuangzi, in this early spring when the crops are not abundant, it is particularly precious.

Among them, Zhang Zi was even more pantothenic acid while eating. She also grew up swallowing gold and jade freely, and she is most familiar with these precious foods.

Not to mention the hump, it is extremely rare, although the Hua Dynasty is rich in land and resources, but this hump also needs to be transported from thousands of miles away in the north, and it is rare that the taste of the hump after the transport will be so fresh. This not only shows that the hump is originally good, but also means that the Sheng family's link from the chef to the transportation is also leaky, and the Sheng family's wealth can be seen with just a small bowl of milk soup.

Not to mention the bowl of little whitebait that every lady has at hand.

This whitebait is caught in the North Sea, and the adult body of each small fish is no more than the length of Zhang Zi's thumb, and the flesh is extremely tender, one by one because of its slender body, this small fish can even be seen in their internal organs, of course, the whitebait served on the table has long been removed from those dirty things.

The reason why Zhang Zi knew about this whitebait was also because of Mrs. Zhang. Although this old lady Zhang is a female dependent, she is the person with the highest rank in Zhangfu, and she is a super-first-class fate, so she usually celebrates the New Year's holidays, and the relatives of Zhang's family are old friends, and even sometimes the emperor will give some things.

A few days ago, the Zhenguo Xuanwang Mansion, which was in Jinling with Zhang's mansion, sent a small whitebait to Mrs. Zhang. In a bowl the size of a tea cup, there was only five or six whitebait soup, but it was praised by the subordinates of the Zhenguo Xuan Palace, who came to deliver things.

The subordinate said that this whitebait is a specialty of the North Sea, and its reproductive ability is extremely poor, and sometimes it only catches one or two hundred catties a year, and half of it has to be dedicated to the emperor. The rest of the money has also been taken away by the rich from all over the country. A small fish can be sold for as much as 100 taels of gold, which can really be said to be worth a thousand gold.

But today, the Sheng family entertained them....... Zhang Zi's mood was complicated.

She gently lifted the bowl in front of her, and it was full of small fish, and she couldn't count how many fish there were.

Mrs. Zhang was very dignified, she picked up the spoon and slowly dug up a mouthful of fish meat and filled it into her mouth: "I really didn't expect you to eat small whitebait here." You should keep these precious things for yourself. She glanced at Zhang's complainingly: "Where do these children deserve to eat such things?" This little whitebait is the most nourishing and nourishing, you have to keep it for Ran'er in the future, even if you don't plan to give it to yourself, you have to think about my granddaughter, right? ”

Zhang didn't expect a bowl of fish soup to provoke her mother to say this, she smiled gently: "Mother, you can eat it with confidence." This thing is missing, and no one is indispensable to Jinran. This was originally sent by Jinran's fiancé, General Fang. I just pulled a little bit out of her hand. There's more! ”

Old Madam Zhang looked at Jin Ran in surprise, and she was relieved: "I said it." This general is really good to us, and he is married by the emperor, how decent. ”

She opened her mouth and exclaimed: "I was blessed to look at my granddaughter coldly in Jinling before, not to mention the degree of advance and retreat, and she has such a good-looking appearance." ”

Old Madam Zhang didn't care about eating, she picked up a handkerchief and wiped her mouth: "Luo'er, you haven't talked to me in detail yet." Why did the emperor suddenly get engaged to our family? We are in Jinling, and the news is not very well-informed, and the matter of Jinran's engagement only found out to me when you sent me a letter. Hey, I'm so confused, I can't even remember to ask you. ”

Jin Ran frowned secretly in his heart, Jinling is indeed far away from Kyoto, but it is not enough for an old lady of a big family to know nothing about Kyoto? Unless someone ......

Jin Ran secretly swept around several aunts, unless someone deliberately didn't want his grandmother to know, and secretly blocked the news.

Seeing his mother so anxious, Zhang understood that his mother would not be in the mood to eat if she didn't ask carefully.

She couldn't help but laugh and took a few small nests of noodles for Mrs. Zhang: "Actually, this thing is not sudden. We have long wanted to see Fang Tianji, before I went back to Jinling with Ran'er, Ran'er's father and my sons didn't have the time to go back, so they still looked for Fang Tianji to escort them. ”

Mrs. Zhang suddenly realized: "Oh, it turns out that you fell in love with each other at that time? This is not bad, I also know a little bit of the family background of the general's family, there are no parents in his family, and only one sister has entered the palace. Although there are many inconveniences without parents and elders, don't you still have you in Kyoto? Besides, there are no parents, and it will be easy for Jinran to take care of the house when she marries in the future. ”

The Zhang family knew that this was Old Madam Zhang who was worried that she was not satisfied with Fang Tianji, so she smiled and nodded: "No, this Fang family is really a good family." Fang Tianji, others can also be regarded as motivated. At a young age, he has already become a first-class general. ”

"But people like us don't care about that." Zhang continued: "The main thing is that this Heavenly Halberd is really good to Jin Ran. If there are any good things or things that are rewarded, they are all sent to Jinran in a hurry. ”

As she spoke, she pointed to the silverfish on the table: "This is, the emperor rewarded Fang Guifei a lot, Fang Guifei gave some to Ran'er, and then sent some to Fang Tianji, but I didn't expect Tianji to send all his share." ”

Jin Ran made Zhang's face blush: "Mother, don't say it." ”

Zhang smiled: "What's wrong?" Are you still shy? This Fang Heavenly Halberd is good to you, why can't I say it? ”

For a while, the few people in the Zhang family who were familiar with Jinran also began to tease Jinran.

Jin Ran was embarrassed for a while, and everyone stopped teasing Jin Ran. The main thing is that if you don't stop, the food on the table will be cold.

The topic between Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhang is not over yet, and Mrs. Zhang sighed: "Jinran is not yet sixteen, and he is engaged so early." The girls of our Zhang family are not too young, and there are so many girls who have not said that they are married. ”

As she spoke, she sighed and looked at the girls sitting around the table: "If it weren't for the fact that I am old now, the power of the Zhang family now would be far inferior to when you got married." I still remember that when you were still in the boudoir, there were four big maids, and there were as many as eight second-class maids, not to mention the others. ”

"Now," Mrs. Zhang's words were a little more emotional: "Now these girls are all bare, and there is only an ignorant little girl around them." How can it be glamorous in the past? ”

As she spoke, Mrs. Zhang became sad, and she wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "Today's Zhang family is just a mansion, and the old and young are desperately supporting the brand of this mansion." The face is full of flowers, but inside—"