Chapter 40: Eating Crabs
Fang Xuan's food rose, and told Sandalwood to go to the store to tie up a few crabs and go back to steam them at night with wine and food, Fu Yu saw that she liked it, and volunteered to pick crabs.
As soon as she rinsed her mouth here, Gu Chen pushed the door in.
"Lord Wang." Fang Xuan, Wen Xi, and Qin Gan, several people stood up in unison and saluted him respectfully.
Gu Chen was very satisfied, nodded and excused, sat down on the main seat with a golden knife, swept around, and saw that there were eight wooden tooth carvings and plum blossoms in the wing room, and Ling Han's interstitial screen separated the inside and outside, and the high table that was rising step by step put pens, ink, paper, inkstone, chess, calligraphy and painting and other things for backup, a wisp of green smoke rose from the cloisonnΓ© enamel beast ear furnace, and there were many inscriptions on the four walls.
He glanced at it, but it was all flat, and he withdrew his gaze and landed on the empty and clean table.
Following his movements, the atmosphere was dull for a moment, Gu Chen frowned, seeing that Fang Xuan was still that unfazed appearance, he smiled reservedly and hypocritically, "Duan Ning thank you for the invitation, I'm really scared." β
After the fight, Qingyun came in, stunned for a moment, and listened to Gu Chen's mouth, high up in the tunnel, "Cousin, don't be afraid, this king heard that HB Fuhe Xian is the most famous, especially this Yunhe Tower, which is the best at cooking, and it is just a good thing to taste." β
"Thank you, Lord Wang."
As he spoke, the man had already brought the food to the table.
It was exactly the same as the previous dish, Qingyun felt more and more confused, but for some reason, he had to be silent on one side, and he obviously lost to his master who had lost the half-chess of the master of the clear space, and he really didn't like to eat vegetarian food, but those officials kept saying that it was annoying, and if they happened to meet here, it would be difficult to shirk, so they simply pulled the Duanning County Lord to block the behavior of deaf ears.
"The steamed crabs in the cage are coming-" The guy sang and said, one line with soy sauce dish and ginger vinegar plate, and one line said earnestly, "This official, the crab steaming method in our building is different from other places, the crab roe is fresh and fat, the crab meat is sweet and greasy, white like jade and yellow like gold, the most is to clear heat and detoxify and nourish the liver and yin, especially for women, it has the effect of nourishing and beautifying the face, even the prefect has eaten it with his wife." β
He smiled, and after speaking, his eyes fell on Gu Chen, "The official loves Mrs., and it is not wrong to order the crab in our building, this lady is really a blessing, not only beautiful as a flower, but also married a wishful husband like an official, and the husband and wife are affectionate, I don't know how many girls are envious of HB Mansion." β
"Ahem." Fang Xuan was full of food and drink and was about to take a sip of tea to relieve his greasy, when he suddenly choked on a sip of tea in his throat, and waved his hand again and again, "Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
"Let's go down!" Gu Chen couldn't tell what his expression was, he threw a piece of broken silver casually, and the guy caught it with a wave of his hand, and he smiled even more, and walked back away, "The official has a lot of money, and the lady gave birth to a noble son early." β
"Ahem, ahem, ahemβ"
Gu Chen raised his eyebrows, smiling, "My cousin's body doesn't seem to be very good, it's better to eat more crab paste to make up for it." β
Fang Xuan poured a sip of tea, suppressed the cough, and smiled, "The prince said that he laughed, how can Duan Ning take your heart." Looking at Wen Xi, he made a look, "Lord Wang, Duanning, this maid is the best at peeling crabs, so it's better to let her serve the prince for dinner." β
Wen Xi stepped forward to wash his hands and peel crabs with an expressionless face.
"Why, this king specially ordered to make my cousin's favorite food, is it not to taste?"
"Hehe, how could it be."
"County Lord!" Sandalwood ran up from downstairs, and shouted before she entered the house, "The slave and maid personally watched the store catch a lot of fat crabs, Fu Yu has already sent them to the boat, let's still steam and eat at night...... Good ......"
When she saw Gu Chen, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, her voice was so small that she could barely hear it clearly, and she shrunk her neck and moved to Qin Gan's side.
Gu Chen saw at a glance that she still had unwashed crab roe on her hands, and then looked at Fang Xuan's appearance that was neither salty nor light, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
He hooked the corners of his lips, did not move the crab meat and crab roe that Wen Xi had removed, reached out and sandwiched a shrimp, tasted it slowly, swallowed it before saying leisurely: "Cousin likes it." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pushed the full plate of crabs in front of him, "This king takes care of his cousin's heart with his fist, and hopes that his cousin will remember." β
"Duan Ning doesn't dare to forget." Fang Xuan touched his stomach under the table, with a smile on his face, and said word by word.
After a meal, she almost reached her throat, and finally waited for Gu Chen to put down her chopsticks, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief and put down the lion's head that had been eating for almost a quarter of an hour.
Gu Chen caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye, and then he was more comfortable, and asked someone to remove the table and change the tea, and leisurely get up to watch the poems around him.
Sandalwood didn't know when she went downstairs, begged for a plate of hawthorn jujube mud cake, and said distressedly: "The county lord eats some of this, the most delicious is to relieve greasy." β
She waved her hand, she couldn't eat anymore, and she got up and paced in order to eat and pretend to appreciate poetry.
"Peach blossoms are like soju and oil, and the suburbs should be traveling. Slightly tired and let go of teaching into a noon dream, and stay with spring sorrow. [Note 1]
Fang Xuan tugged at the corners of her mouth.
"I heard that my cousin learned poetry and literature at an early age, and his reputation is full of Annan, what do you think?" Gu Chen turned around and asked when he saw this.
Fang Xuan turned his back to him, not knowing whether he had eaten too much or was tired of his unrelenting temperament, he frowned with a pair of long eyebrows and sighed, and when he turned around, he was already smiling, "Duan Ning is not talented, please also ask the prince to give advice." β
This poem is written by Li Qianchun, a former champion of the former conviction and his friends, Li Qian, who is a talented man with eight buckets and five cars, is especially good at sophistry, and often refutes the old party faction of the central and central Qin to the ground, and is the most loyal supporter of Tang Barley, a sword in the hands of the new party, not to mention that she is a woman who is "famous in Annam", that is, the scholars of the Hanlin Academy also love and hate Li Qian, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty dares to compete with him.
Cabinet Minister Tang Rui once said: This person can be said to be good at reading and making good use of books, and he will stand alone in the world in his writings. [Note 2]
If he ordered a word and a half at this time, he would spread it out in the future, so that Li Qian knew that although the gentleman did not compete with women, no one could say that he was stingy and arrogant and could not say anything about it, and the poem did not pay for it, which means that he did not approve of it, but he could only pick on his own and not allow others to set fire, Fang Xuan didn't want to be incomplete before he entered Beijing.
Gu Chen was naturally not afraid of Li Qian, and nodded, "The poem is a good poem, but it is not fresh and strong enough, and it is inevitable to live in a mud." β
"Yes." Fang Xuan was noncommittal.
Although Gu Chen studied under Zhang You, a scholar of Hallym University, he has never liked to dance and write and make ink, and when he was ten years old, he worshipped her uncle Jingwu Hou to learn riding and archery martial arts, and it is said that he is still very outstanding.
Even Qingyun noticed the perfunctory tone in his tone.
Gu Chen was hit in the chest by her two words, and he couldn't go up or down in one breath, and he was stuck there.
He eased up, his face gloomy, "This king can recite poetry at the age of three, and read history at the age of five, what does my cousin think?" β
Qingyun didn't seem to know the boastful master in front of him, his eyes widened, and he listened to Fang Xuan still say in a plain tone: "The son of the prince Zhenlong, it is really extraordinary, Duan Ning admires it." β