Approaching the end of the New Year, Lin Chengen's family, who are far away in Huizhou's hometown, also brought their families to Beijing for reunion, and Lin Chengde will order someone to go back to his hometown to pick up the old lady and his half-brother Lin Chengen's family to come to Beijing for reunion.

The Lin family is a scholarly family, the main forces of the Lin family are in Huiyang Erzhou, Huizhou has more sages and talents since ancient times, since Taizu, the Lin family is divided into two veins, after hundreds of years of changes, only Lin Chengde and Lin Chengen are left in the big house, and the second room and one vein later because of the official entry into Yangzhou in Yangzhou, it has not moved back, so many years of frequent contacts have not been frequent, since the current emperor ascended the throne to establish the Jin State, Lin Chengde served as the general of Zhenyuan in the capital to lead the soldiers and horses, and Lin Chengen served as the secretary of the Huizhou town government in his ancestral hometown to consolidate the rear, And for the Lin family to privately train masters for Father Lin's use, so over the years, Lin Chengde has been able to have a clear insight into things in various places, and it all depends on these masters to organize secret investigations.

After all, as a big family, you must always make all kinds of plans for the whole family. Lin Chengen has only two daughters under his knees, both of whom are less than the age of Jing, but they are also very cute, the eldest daughter Lin Qingshuang has a quiet and introverted personality, and the younger daughter Lin Qingyi is only ten years old and is also lively and smart.

Before the storm came, it would always be extraordinarily calm, nothing happened for a few days, Lin Qingzhi was just reading and painting at home, occasionally the eldest brother Lin Qingji would come over to fight and play a few games on the chessboard, Xiao Mufeng was busy entering the palace to take care of the emperor and had no time to doppelganger.

The weather is very good on this day, the climate is also a little warmer, get up early in the morning, cast a sparse shadow over the branches, after going to the plum garden that day, Rongyue will go to the plum garden every morning to pick plum blossoms and come back and insert them into the bottle, seeing that Rongyue is pruning the branches and leaves for the Junzi Orchid and placing them on the side of the plum blossoms, Lin Qingzhi couldn't help but quip: "Rongyue, you go to pick plum blossoms every day, I'm afraid that the evening water in the other corner will be lighted by you, if your father knows to be careful to fold your legs." ”

"The master has always been kind to his subordinates, Miss don't scare the slave maid, besides, even if the master blames him, isn't there still a young lady to back, I'm not afraid." Rong Yue stuck out her tongue while cutting flower branches.

"You Nizi is getting more and more sharp-tongued, why are you getting more and more presumptuous with me for so long." Rongyue knew that Lin Qingzhi was not really to blame, and she didn't care.

Ah Fu, who was cleaning on the side, took advantage of the situation to make up for the knife: "Rongyue will become a tigress if she continues like this, be careful that she can't marry in the future." As soon as she finished speaking, a handful of plum blossoms had already flown to her side, Lin Qingzhi couldn't help but shake her head, these two people were used to bickering, she knew in her heart that the subordinates in the house were involuntary as slaves, after all, their origins were determined by heaven, so they were also extremely tolerant and not strict with their subordinates.

A burst of laughter and slapstick also makes people feel happy, so they called Rongyue to take the Jiuxiao ring and put it on the case in the courtyard, the Jiuxiao Huanpei is Xiao Mufeng in the early years of his travels from the Jianghu people to buy the guqin given to Lin Qingzhi at a high price, according to legend, this qin is made by the first generation of Lei Wei of the Shuzhong luthier family Lei during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and it is used in the succession ceremony of the third son of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

The jade hand was frivolous, only to see that the Qianqian jade fingers plucked on the strings, and the beautiful and agile sound flowed out from between the fingers, like a thin flow through the heart, sometimes slowly like gurgling water, clear and clear as from the deep valley and secluded mountains, sometimes as fast as thousands of horses galloping, sometimes low back euphemism like whispering, sometimes high-pitched and upright like towering mountains.

After the song was played, Ah Fu and Rongyue were still immersed in the sound of the piano, only to see a beautiful woman wearing a light blue classical gauze skirt slowly coming with her palms touched. He was followed by two maidservants in silver-red jackets and buns, one of whom was carrying a three-tiered vermilion food box.

"Hearing the sound of Ah Zhi's piano, I lingered around the beam for three days." The person who spoke was Wei Yao, the granddaughter of Wei Qian, the prince of Wei Guo, who was appointed as the Taifu, who had both ability and political integrity, was generous, and had taught the emperors of the three dynasties. Although he is close to old age, he is in good spirits, but now that he is old, the emperor gave him the title of Duke Weiguo to enjoy his old age at home, and he can not be involved in political affairs. Wei Guogong was famous in his life, and Lin Qingzhi was also taught by him and admired him deeply.

Wei Yao and Lin Qingzhi were born in the same year, the two are close friends in the boudoir, and they are very close friends, often gossiping in a place, tasting tea and playing chess, especially in the past two years, they often go in and out of the Lin Mansion, Lin Qingzhi saw Wei Yao come to show a smile, only to see Wei Yao's soft hair on his head gently coiled, a crystal bun on his head, two big black eyes embedded in his delicate face, a delicate and beautiful nose, a small mouth with a well-defined outline, a rosy cheek casting a faint shadow, two sky blue earrings flashing on the earlobe, and a string of pearls hanging on the neck, emitting a faint halo, reflecting even more pink jade, the eyebrows are elegant, the complexion is white and red, very delicate.

After receiving the qin case, a person walked into the room, beckoned Wei Yao to sit down, and Rongyue took the freshly brewed Pu'er tea and poured it and handed it to her.

"I heard my grandfather say that there are two kinds of raw and cooked Pu'er, raw tea is suitable for drinking in summer, which can clear heat and remove fire, and ripe tea is suitable for winter to warm the stomach and nourish qi." Wei Yao said with a serious face with wide eyes.

I took a sip of tea, the tea soup was slightly bitter at the beginning, but it quickly penetrated through the teeth to turn bitterness into sweetness, and the aroma was very good, which made people warm and refreshed.

"What A-Yao said is very true, this is also what the eldest brother brought over a few days ago, and he also said that it can warm the stomach and nourish the qi, it seems that you and the eldest brother want to go together." Lin Qingzhi took the teacup and said with a light smile.

Hearing Lin Qingzhi's words, a subtle trace of shyness appeared on Wei Yao's face, "So Brother Qingji also likes Pu'er, why didn't you see him in the mansion?" ”

Since Lin Qingji rescued Wei Yao who fell off the horse at the Jockey Club two years ago, Wei Yao has often come and gone to Lin Mansion, although he used to have a very good relationship with Lin Qingzhi, but every time he passed the house in the past two years, he asked Lin Qingji intentionally or unintentionally, how could she not know Wei Yao's thoughts, but the falling flowers were intentionally ruthless, but Lin Qingji had no love for her, so she had not been enthusiastic, but she had never married a wife, but she also gave Wei Yao hope.

"Ah Zhi, I have nothing to do in the past few days, and I have researched several new dishes at home, and I specially made them for you to taste." Wei Yao's eyes lit up and his eyebrows danced and he said.

The biggest hobby of this Miss Wei is to like to study and make a variety of food, love to study some novel recipes, very ordinary and inconspicuous ingredients in her skillful hands can always change a variety of strange food styles, last year's birthday of the Queen Mother, on the ingenuity of rice flour mixed with summer commonly used lotus seeds, roses to make a novel style, unique taste of longevity peach, won the Queen Mother's joy, but also gave a set of imperial porcelain plates as a reward, specially for holding a variety of dishes to eat.

Wei Yao said that he beckoned the maid Tan'er to take the food box, and opened it by himself, the food box has three layers, which are carefully laid with cotton clothes to avoid the heat dissipating, and the first layer of blue disk is placed in the style of six lotus flowers, lifelike as if it has just been picked from the lotus pond, layers of puff pastry, shaped like a budding lotus, shy and moving, the crisp layer is clear and crispy, as thin as cicada wings. The filling looms in the middle, and it looks like a plump little lotus pod.

"Miss Wei, where did you get fresh lotus flowers in the cold winter, and besides, you can't eat this lotus directly." Rong Yue looked surprised, but Wei Yao showed a smug look on her face but didn't say anything.

Bi'er on the side covered her mouth and smiled: "Rongyue, take a closer look at whether this is a real lotus, Miss started to make these foods this morning, and it took two hours to make them." ”

"A-Yao's craftsmanship is becoming more and more perfect, I'm afraid that the imperial chef in the palace will be ashamed of himself when he sees it, so it's cheap, and I can taste your masterpiece for the first time every time." I'm afraid that many people will not envy it. Lin Qingzhi also sighed at Wei Yao's ingenuity on the side.

"In fact, there is no secret, a few days ago on Silk Street, I saw the lotus crisp sold in the pastry shop with the style of lotus flowers, the color and taste can not be counted, so I came back and tried to improve it myself, fortunately, it is not too bad, you help me taste it to see if it needs to be improved, see if it suits your appetite." Wei Yao said with clear eyes.

"Crisp pine sweet but sweet but not greasy, no flavor, if your craftsmanship can not be satisfied, then there is no second person can do better than you, if you were born in an ordinary family, I am afraid that you can open a restaurant in Luoyang City, it must be more famous than the drunken fairy building on Xishui Street, and it is guaranteed to be famous in the entire imperial capital." Lin Qingzhi on the side smiled and sighed, seeing that Rongyue next to her was already so hungry that she couldn't hold it back, she beckoned Rongyue to come over and taste it.

In the remaining two layers of food boxes, two side dishes are placed on each layer, the second layer is Longjing shrimp, one is red plum beads, the color matching looks very pleasing to the eye, and the bottom layer is chicken shredded white fungus and jade shoot bracken.

"Every time you come, you bring so much food, our little gluttonous cat is the most happy for you to come, as long as you don't come for three days, Miss Wei will not come for a few days." Rongyue knew that Lin Qingzhi was making fun of her, and she rarely showed a shy look.

"It's Miss Wei's craftsmanship that is so good, Miss, aren't you also able to eat a lot more than usual every time Miss Wei sends something."

It happened to be time for lunch, Lin Qingzhi instructed Rongyue to take out the green plum wine brewed this summer, and chatted with Wei Yao while eating.

"Recently, Uncle Guo's eldest son has been in big trouble." Wei Yao held up the white porcelain wine cup and said.