Seeing Peony's beaming and expectant face, Madame Bai couldn't help but say, "You like this banquet very much?" ”

Peony hurriedly collected the joy on her face and explained: "I have been in poor health since I was a child, lingering on the sickbed, and missing many beautiful things. I was seriously ill in the autumn of last year and almost died, and since then, I have figured out that life must be happy, and I have to live anyway, so why be sad all day long? Don't say that people are annoyed to look at it, even if you look in the mirror, it doesn't look good. ”

Mrs. Bai said: "Life must be happy, this is the truth, I underestimated you before." ”

Peony smiled and looked at the head.

Pan Rong and Jiang Changyang stood side by side, Pan Rong was tied with a beautiful silk apron by the maid, but Jiang Changyang just rolled up his sleeves.

As soon as Liu Chang's chopsticks knocked on the wine glass, the two of them put on a posture, focused on moving, peeling and deboning, slicing, the movements of the two people were clean and neat, the hands were up and down, and the sense of rhythm was very strong, not so much that they were cutting fish, but more like a gorgeous knife performance, the knife flashed, and the fish shreds on the plate were quickly piled up into a hill.

The maids kept taking half of the shredded fish they had cut out and putting them on a small porcelain plate covered with fresh perilla leaves, and then served a small plate of eight spices made of garlic, ginger, orange, white plum, ripe chestnut, japonica rice, salt, and sauce, and poured a cup of brown rice tea fried with fried yellow rice and green tea, and the fish was served to the guests.

Madame Bai whispered to Peony and explained: "There is a fixed number of fish on each person's board, and the two of them are going to compete faster than whomever cuts thinner and thinner." You see, the gap is out, right? She used chopsticks to flip the fish shreds on the plate to show Peony, at first glance, she couldn't see anything, until the chopsticks picked up, Peony found that the thickness and fineness were completely different.

Jiang Changyang's cut was thin and thin, and Madame Bai blew lightly on it, and it actually floated, while Pan Rong's cut was not so light and thin, obviously twice as thick as Jiang Changyang's.

Madame Bai took Pan Rong aside and said with slight disdain: "His skills are similar to those of our cooks, and he is embarrassed to show off in public." He dipped a spoon in Bahe, put it on the plate of the peony, and sighed: "This thing is cold, you are weak, eat less." ”

As if to verify what Mrs. Bai said was true, with a soft sound of "ho", Jiang Changyang finished cutting the last fish on his board, put the knife on the cutting board, smiled lightly and waved it at everyone, turned around and stood aside to wash his hands with the ginger soup sent by the maid to remove the fish, picked up his robe and sat back in the banquet. At this time, there were still two or three fish lying on Pan Rong's board.

Liu Chang laughed and said, "Ah Rong, you lost!" Do you still cut? ”

Pan Rong also felt bored, put down the knife with a "snap", stretched out her two hands and let the maid come up to wash his hands and wipe his hands and arrange his robes, and said lazily: "Chengfeng, I have practiced hard for two years, but I am still not as good as you." Well, what I said must count. ”

Liu Chang smiled: "Naturally, you can't compare to him who has held a knife for many years, you should be convinced." ”

The county lord of Qinghua smiled: "What kind of bet did you make? ”

Pan Rong smiled narrowly: "Secret." As he spoke, he glanced at Peony, and when he saw Peony looking, he turned to Madame Bai and threw a wink.

Madame Bai turned a blind eye and only asked Peony: "Have you ever seen this flower today?" What do you think? I looked around for a long time, but I didn't see what kind of breed it was. ”

Peony smiled: "This flower happens to have the same surname as Mrs. The demeanor is good, compared with my potted flowers, they have their own merits. ”

The jade plate is white, the color is white like jade, the petals are hard, the stamens are occasionally petalized, the lotus type, the flowers are straight up, the advantage is that the amount of flowers is high, and the flowering period is early. Liu Chang's plant is just a postponement of the flowering period, and the same plant has several flowers with a high degree of stamens, and it is a variety that is not available among his peonies to marry, so it is regarded as a rare thing by him and deliberately taken out to show off.

In fact, Peony privately thought that according to the viewing eyes of everyone at this time, compared with the jade floor and Yaotai Yulu that are also white, the jade plate white will definitely think that the Louzitai pavilion-type jade floor Diancui and the hydrangea-shaped Yaotai Yulu are more beautiful and precious. It's just that the relationship between the two is delicate, and in front of Mrs. Bai, she is not good to comment.

Madame Bai smiled, pointed to Pan Rong, who was pestering Jiang Changyang and laughing, and said softly: "Someone wants to calculate your flowers, you should be careful." ”

Peony was stunned, it turned out that Pan Rong had helped him for this purpose before, was he also afraid that Wei Zi would be taken away by the county lord of Qinghua? She raised her eyes and looked at Madame Bai seriously, and whispered, "Whether you are sympathetic or for whatever reason, I am very grateful to you for reminding me. I won't give those pots of flowers to people anyway, and I won't sell them. ”

That's the capital for her to live in the future, and she won't abandon them unless she has to.

"In that case, I will try to persuade him to dispel this thought." Madame Bai glanced at the peony fixedly, shook the embroidered orchid fan in her hand, and sighed almost inaudibly.

Peony suddenly lost her good mood. She uneasily adjusted her legs, which had become numb from not being accustomed to sitting on the floor, and looked down at the exquisite utensils and delicate food in front of her, thinking that when that day came, her life might not be as luxurious as it is now, but she would certainly not be so worried about it now.

After a while, everyone was full of wine and food, and entered the flower appreciation link, Liu Chang smiled and said: "Everyone here knows that the cold house has planted a few flowers, and it is lucky to barely get into the eye, and every spring and early summer, it can always add a little fun to you in your spare time." This year, however, is different from previous years, we have recently obtained a jade white plant, which is different, not only blooming much later than the ordinary jade white, but also the traces of two flower types blooming at the same time. ”

After finishing speaking, he was not in a hurry to unveil the green yarn immediately, but looked at everyone with a smile, and after listening to the good words of congratulations, he got up and prepared to unveil the green yarn in person. But as soon as he stood up, the county lord of Qinghua blocked him with a fan, and said with a smile: "Zishu, how about giving me a sneak peek?" ”

That's what she meant by being the one who lifted the veil. Peony thought to herself, it's just like a modern person cutting the ribbon, I like to invite a leading star to cut it, and this kind of behavior is nothing against the self-respecting nature of the county lord of Qinghua. Since the Liu family wants to support her, she should obey.

Who knew that Liu Chang laughed and pushed over: "Everyone who comes is a guest, if I let the county lord have a sneak peek, wouldn't I mean to snub other guests?" No one will be there next time. "I went straight to uncover the green yarn.

The county lord of Qinghua smiled and said: "You are such arrogant, there is always no one in your heart. As he spoke, he glared back at Peony fiercely, and Peony was inexplicable, just thinking that she was crazy and abnormal.

Everyone got up one after another to look at the jade banbai, and then went to see the pots of flowers brought out of the peony yard. Peony also followed Mrs. Bai to enjoy the flowers, and took advantage of the time to give Yuhe a look, Yuhe understood, got up and left.

After a while, everyone began to comment on poetry, and Peony would not, and was unwilling to plagiarize anyone's poems to achieve his own fame. Seeing that Li Xun had already walked out of the banquet venue alone, he took advantage of everyone's concentration and thinking, and no one paid attention to him, so he took Mother Lin and Yuhe out with him.

The county lord of Qinghua has never given up paying attention to the peony, and when he saw this, he quietly raised his chin at one of his servants, who nodded and quietly withdrew.

Pan Rong also pulled Jiang Changyang and motioned for him to follow him out. Jiang Changyang glanced lightly at the contemplative crowd, turned around and followed Pan Rong out of the banquet venue.

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