Chapter 66: Plum Blossom Cake
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It was already dark, the snow was still pouring down, and the house on the west side was lit up with candles and silver frost charcoals, and the room was warm.
Ji Yunyun leaned on the head of the bed and read by candlelight, Chunzhi was cooking tea and warm wine on the side, cutting the wick from time to time, and heard the sound of the courtyard door being pushed open in the silence, and then there was the sound of footsteps clattering in the snow, Chunzhi hurriedly put down the scissors in his hand, went to open the door, and welcomed the spring peach outside the door into the house.
Chun Tao put the umbrella in her hand outside the house, entered the door with a food box, Chun Zhi patted the snowflakes on her body for her, and said to Ji Yunyun: "Girl, I bought dinner back." ”
"Take warm hands." Ji Yunyun put down the book, touched Chun Tao's cold hand, and stuffed the hand warmer in her arms into her hand. The food box has two layers, she opened it and looked at it, and instructed Chunzhi: "The food on the upper layer is sent to Mr. Fang, and sent it with this pot of warm wine." ”
Haruka took out the food from the lower floor and put it on the table, then put the warm wine into the food box, then carried the food box, picked up the umbrella placed outside the door, and went to Mr. Fang's house to the east.
It's not in the house, so there are so many etiquettes, and when Chunzhi comes back, Ji Yunyun asked the two maids to eat with her.
After eating, Chun Tao and Chun Zhi cleaned up the table and went to the kitchen to boil hot water for her girl to wash. Ji Yunyun was thinking about the Jade Buddha, put on a cloak and just went out, and was about to go to Mr. Fang's house, when there was a knock on the courtyard door.
Ji Yunyun looked at the room with the lights on the east side and the door closed, and then looked at the two maids who had never lit a fire and were busy in the kitchen, hesitated for a moment, then picked up the oil lamp from the house, lifted the skirt, and carefully walked through the courtyard that had fallen a thick layer of snow to open the door.
When he opened the door, the dim light of the oil lamp shone on the comer, and Ji Yunyun recognized that it was Mr. Fu who saved the girl next door, so he said, "Mr. Fu came to Mr. Fang so late?" Come in. With that, he turned sideways and let him into the courtyard.
"If the old party doesn't come out, how can you let the distinguished guests open the door?" Mr. Fu came into the yard, walked under the eaves, put away his umbrella, and dusted off the snowflakes on his body.
"Mr. Fang was busy making jade for me in the house, and he couldn't leave." Ji Yunyun took off the hat on his cloak and explained.
"I'll go in first." Seeing that he was looking for Mr. Fang, Ji Yunyun turned around and wanted to go back to the house.
"Hey, wait." Mr. Fu coughed lightly and called her away, and handed over the food box in his hand, "My nephew came to see me today and brought some more plum blossom cakes, I can't eat them alone, so I will send them to the old man, you can also take some." ”
Ji Yunyun hurriedly refused, "No need, since it was given to Mr. Fang, how embarrassed am I to ask for it." ”
"He can't finish it alone." Mr. Fu said as he took out a plate full of plum blossom cakes from the food box and stuffed them into her hand, "Just take it." ”
After speaking, he turned around and went to Mr. Fang's house.
Ji Yunyun had no choice but to enter the house with plum blossom cakes.
Finally, the fire was raised in the kitchen, water was poured into the pot, and Chunzhi looked at the stove, and when Chun Tao returned to the house, he saw an extra plate of snacks on the table.
She asked curiously, "Girl, where did this snack come from?" ”
"Mr. Fu came here just now, and it was originally sent to Mr. Fang, and he also gave us some." Ji Yunyun flipped the pages of the book in her hand under the oil lamp, and pushed the plate in front of her, "Taste it, it's sweet and crispy, and the taste is no worse than that of Dingxianglou." ”
Chun Tao took a piece, just took a bite, and her eyes widened with deliciousness, "Girl, I didn't expect there to be such delicious pastries in this county." ”
Ji Yunyun smiled and asked her to put a few pieces of spring branches on a plate and take them to the kitchen.
In Mr. Fang's house, as soon as he opened the food box, Mr. Fang was surprised and said: "Oh, old man, it's very generous, this is the signature plum blossom cake of Homesickness, it sells five boxes a day, which is more difficult to grab than the dim sum in Dingxianglou in Beijing, why are you willing to send it to me, or on this snowy night?" ”
After speaking, he looked at Mr. Fu suspiciously, "It can't be that you have something to ask me, right?" I can tell you, Widow Lin is the first thing I took a fancy to, and I will not give her to you just because of a box of plum blossom cakes. ”
Mr. Fu angrily picked up a piece of dim sum and stuffed it into his mouth, "Eat yours, who will rob you." ”
Carrying the empty food box out of Mr. Fang's yard, he walked slowly to the alley with an umbrella, where a carriage stopped, and Mr. Fu took the umbrella and lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.
"I'm an old arm and an old leg, I still have to help you send you courtesy in this weather, go quickly, I'm freezing to death." Mr. Fu rubbed his frozen hands and told Feng Ji to catch the car.
Feng Ji sat in the front seat, waved his horsewhip, and the carriage turned around and headed for Mr. Fu's house.
"I guess whose girl it is, looking at her bearing and dress, it doesn't look like an ordinary official eunuch, and she has such a beauty, if she grew up in the capital since she was a child, she would have been famous far and wide, but I have seen the most famous girls among the nobles in the capital, and she is not one of them." Mr. Fu touched his chin, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "The second girl of the Pingguo Mansion, I heard that you came back from Zhuangzi a year ago, and you were saved by her in Mianzhou?" ”
Qi Cheng leaned against the wall of the car, raised his eyes and said, "I heard that you went to Yicui Building in the county a few days ago?" The old arms and legs still go to the Qinglou to toss blindly, the second prince has not given up looking for you, this is only an hour's journey from the capital, if it is discovered by his people, the prince and I don't know if we can save you again. ”
"I'm going to Yicui Building to be a serious business, not to visit the kiln!" Mr. Fu argued with a red face.
Qi Cheng said lightly: "It's nothing to love shopping, anyway, you haven't married a wife, and when the prince becomes the throne in the future, it doesn't matter if you live in the Qinglou." ”
“…… Who says I love kilns? Mr. Fu was very aggrieved, and he was still arguing a few words, but the carriage stopped and had arrived at the door of the house.
Qi Cheng lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage.
It wasn't until the people left that Mr. Fu suddenly reacted, he lifted the curtain and shouted outside: "Hey, are you deliberately changing the topic?" ”
Qi Cheng had already entered the courtyard and didn't look back.
The candle lights in Ji Yunyun's house were lit overnight, and the two girls, Chun Tao and Chun Zhi, slept for two hours, and then went to Mr. Fang's house to replace the cold tea with a freshly brewed one for him, and then look at the completion progress of the Jade Buddha.
The snow squirmed all night, and only stopped when the sky was slightly bright, Ji Yunyun opened her eyes and saw the bright light outside the window, turned over from the quilt and sat up, as soon as she moved, Chun Tao, who was napping by the bed with her head propped up, also woke up, rubbed her sleepy eyes and said, "Girl, you are awake." ”
"What's going on with Mr. Fang?" Ji Yunyun asked Chun Tao to serve her and asked.
"It's almost done, Harueda just went over and looked." Chun Tao served her and got dressed, and picked up the copper basin on the shelf, "I'll go to the kitchen and bring hot water to wash the girl." ”
After purifying his face and applying balm, he had just put on the earrings in front of the bronze mirror, Chunzhi pushed open the door and hurriedly came in and said, "Girl, the jade Buddha is carved." ”
"Quick, pack your things and go home." Ji Yunyun hurriedly got up, asked the two girls to pack up their things, and she went out to Mr. Fang's house.
It snowed all night, and the outside of the house was white, so he took the Jade Buddha into the carriage, and the two girls also moved the bedding and bedding they brought over into the carriage, and after saying goodbye to Mr. Fang, Ji Yunyun took the two maids into the carriage and hurried to the capital.
On weekdays, it takes an hour to travel from Yunyang County to the capital, and a heavy snowfall last night made the driver dare not speed up, even slower than usual. Fortunately, the hour was still early, and it was just the beginning of the hour, so he should be able to go back to the Guogong Mansion before the second uncle.
The carriage walked for more than an hour and entered the city gate, and Ji Yunyun and the two girls were relieved. Seeing that he would be able to go back to the house in time for another stick of incense, Chunzhi lifted the curtain of the car, and said briskly while looking outside: "It's still so early, the second master must be ......."
She was halfway through her words, then suddenly paused, put down the curtain of the car and looked at Ji Yunyun nervously, "Girl, I saw the second master in front." ”
Ji Yunyun was stunned for a moment, and was about to pick up the curtain to look outside, when the carriage slowed down, and the voice of the second master's personal servant sounded outside, "But the carriage of the Guogong Mansion, which girl and young master in the mansion is inside?" ”
How did it happen? Ji Yunyun and the two maids glanced at each other, poked their heads out of the curtain of the car, and saw a carriage parked on the side of the road in front of them, and Ji Minghan was standing on the side of the road wearing a big hat and a personal servant.
"Second uncle." She shouted at Ji Minghan.
"Wan'er?" Seeing her, Ji Minghan wrapped his coat tightly, took two steps forward and asked, "It's just snowing, and you're going out?" ”
"I stayed at my uncle's house for one night yesterday and was about to go home." Ji Yunyun took out the excuse she said yesterday and prevaricated, and asked, "I heard that the third sister said that the second uncle is coming back today, why didn't he go home on the side of the road?" ”
"The snow was too thick to pay attention to for a while, and the wheels of the carriage fell into the pit and couldn't get up." A gust of cold wind blew, Ji Minghan shivered, rubbed his hands and said, "I just ran into you, uncle took your carriage back to the house together." ”
So saying, he walked towards the carriage to get on.
"Second uncle, wait a minute!" Ji Yunyun was stunned and hurriedly stopped him.
Ji Minghan teased the corners of his robe for a moment, and looked at her suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”
In addition to her and Chun Tao Chunzhi, there are also bedding and the jade Buddha in the carriage, if the second uncle is allowed to get into the carriage, he will definitely find out. But if the second uncle is not allowed to get into the carriage for no reason, it will definitely not work.
Ji Yunyun was racking her brains trying to find a valid reason, Ji Minghan saw that she didn't speak, lowered his head and continued to tease the corners of his robe to get into the carriage.
Ji Yunyun's heart instantly rose to his throat, and just as Ji Minghan was about to lift the curtain and enter the carriage, a deep male voice sounded behind him, "Lord Ji." ”
Ji Minghan paused for a moment, turned his head to look, got out of the carriage, straightened his clothes, and bowed to the person behind him, "Shizi." ”
Qi Cheng got down from the carriage behind, glanced at the situation on the side of the road, and asked, "Lord Ji, is this carriage broken?" ”