The old lady fell, and Zhu'er waited for the girl to take the awakening medicine and put it on, and woke up after a while. Let Mei'er go to Beifu to see.

After Mei'er went, she came back to report that the eldest girl and the eldest aunt had secured the second wife, and now that the second master was out of the house, the second wife didn't bother much.

After listening to Mei'er, most of the old lady's worries were gone.

After noon, Mei'er and Ju'er brought food to the old lady, but the old lady didn't want to eat it. Suddenly, I thought of the punishment of Zhuang Yu the night before, and I was unhappy this morning, so I said that I would go to Xifu to have a look, find a place to have fun, and drink a glass of sweet wine to relieve my sadness.

Therefore, the old lady asked Zhu'er and Mei'er to hold the pavilion of the Yuexinhu promenade to the Xifu Building.

When I went to the promenade pavilion lake, I saw a group of young men and women with red flowers and willows from a distance, so unhappy. They set up a stove on the stone pier in the middle of the bridge and put pots and pans of ingredients on it.

When a girl saw the old lady coming, she said to everyone, "The old lady is here." ”

Zhuang Jue, Zhuang Pu, Zhuang Qi and other brothers and sisters ran all the way to greet them.

After the stone pier stove, the old lady smiled while watching, and pointed to the chili peppers on the side, and said, "I can see that my teeth are soft, how can I eat it?" Isn't it spicy? ”

The crowd laughed.

entered the pavilion and let the old lady sit on the main seat, and the old lady didn't let go of the girls, but only took Yu Li's hand and sat together.

That Zhuang Yu said: "Old lady, today I will take care of the sweet wine with the camp official, and Mr. Guan and Sister Ayu will take care of the dishes!" ”

The old lady squinted her eyes and smiled, and slapped Zhuang Yu on the head.

Everyone was talking in the pavilion, and when they saw Ayu rolling up her sleeves, she went to the pier to chop vegetables and heat the pot, and her movements were very skillful.

The old lady said strangely: "When I was young, I couldn't compare to Miss Ayu. You pampered young ladies should learn more from others. As the old saying goes, if you can cook, go out of the hall, enter the court, and have children, a woman's life can be described as a complete family. But you have to be like this, keep it! ”

I don't know if the old lady sighed or blamed, and the brothers and sisters didn't dare to say a word.

Only Mr. Guan smiled and said: "The old lady thinks too much about the young lady in the house, they have many strengths, and we people in the countryside can compare." It is said that heaven is respected, pampering is precious, and self-nourishment is cheap. In contrast, we live on our own merits, and we have our own pleasures, and it is not enough to look up. ”

The old lady sighed and asked Zhu'er to serve sweet wine. Where did Zhuang Jue and Zhuang Pu ask Zhu'er to find it, the two brothers left their subordinates, went to serve it together, and poured her a full cup.

The old lady took a sip slowly, her eyebrows tightened, she licked her lips and said, "What does this smell like?" It's so sweet. ”

Zhuang Pu said: "Old lady, this is the flower of the old locust tree outside our courtyard, the honey that is soaked, we just call it locust flower brewing." ”

The old lady put down the wine glass, picked it up again, looked at it carefully, smelled it for a while, smiled slightly, then raised her head to a glass, and then instructed to fill it.

Cao Yingguan was behind him and quipped: "Old lady of the in-laws, you drink fast, you have to eat this wine slowly." There are several more in the future! ”

The old lady turned her head and said to Cao Yingguan with a smile: "What are they?" ”

Cao Yingguan grinned, and his chin pointed to Zhuang Jue.

Zhuang Jue took over and replied: "There are rose dew wine, wine, as well as the new bayberry wine and chrysanthemum wine from the south. ”

The old lady asked, "Is there any bamboo leaf wine?" ”

Everyone was stunned by the question.

The old lady waved her hand and let everyone play separately, ignoring her, she poured what she wanted to drink.

When she heard the bamboo leaf wine, she remembered a person in her heart, that was Bojing Laoni, who saw Bojing Laoni for the first time that day, she came out of the view, and Yu Qi went to ask for shelter, and saw that Bojing Laoni wanted to boil a pot of Jing'an bamboo leaves.

Now the old lady talks about bamboo leaf wine, although the tea and wine are irrelevant, but the old lady pointed to this "bamboo leaf" should have a big story.

Then, I couldn't help but think of the incident entrusted by Bojing Laoni when he was dying: "You ask your grandmother, when Emperor Feng died in the eleventh year, she could enter the palace?" ”

Yu Qi's thoughts were flying, his eyes were staring at the old lady, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while, so he said to the old lady in a daze: "Eleven...... Eleven years, you enter the ...... ......"

On the edge of the pavilion, Zhuang Yu was joking with Zhuang Qi, the two of you pushed me and knocked down Zhuang Yu next to him, Zhuang Yu turned around and pressed on Yu Qi's body, just waking up Yu Qi to finish speaking.

The old lady seemed to hear something, turned her head to look at Yu Qi, and asked her, "Son, what did you just say?" ”

Yu Qi pretended to be calm and shook his head.

The old lady thought that the wine was coming, and she was a little deceitful, and she heard something wrong in a trance. They smiled and said that they didn't care, and they covered each other.

At this moment, Fusheng greeted from the shore of the outer road of the covered bridge and said loudly: "Bei Ziye is here, Bei Ziye is here." ”

When everyone heard this, they cheered one by one, as if some big man was coming.

Zhuang Qi and Zhuang Yu were the happiest, one on the left and one on the right hugged the old lady.

Zhuang Yu wanted to say to the old lady that Bei Ziye Suyuan, then Zhuang Juyi gently pushed her away, and said first: "Old lady, let me tell you, Su Yuan hurriedly called people back and forth, saying that he would bring a few baskets of Tianjin sea crabs today, and there are fresh conch conch on the South China Sea!" ”

Zhuang Yu was slightly dissatisfied, and blamed Zhuang Qi for his anger: "Second sister, you are also overbearing, you are allowed to tell the old lady, but you are not allowed to say it!" ”

As if he had won the battle, Zhuang Xuan turned his head and went to the shore of the covered bridge, and several other sisters followed. Zhuang Yu did not move, and sat down next to Yu Qi.

Zhuang Ying and Zhuang Pu also sat down.

At this time, Xie Ayu brought an urn plate, which was filled with some cabbage, and the soup was submerged, and the white and red vegetable stalks were like a clear stream that could see the bottom at a glance, and the clear soup was low and watery, and there was no appetite.

The corners of Zhuang Di's mouth twitched a few times, revealing a look of disdain.

Zhuang Yu raised his eyebrows, and his eyes were full of bones glaring at Zhuang Pu on the opposite side.

Zhuang Pu turned his head to look at Ayu.

Ayu looked proud and said with a smile: "Taste it, how does it taste?" ”

Zhuang Jue turned to the side and said, "Shall I wait for your return to the pot?" I like meat. ”

Mr. Guan smiled, picked up the chopsticks and handed them to the old lady, meaning to ask first.

The old lady sighed with a relaxed and happy face, took Mr. Guan's chopsticks, took a piece of mouth, chewed a few times, and nodded frequently, saying: "Very delicious, the vegetables are tender and juicy, and they fit my mouth." What is this dish called? ”

Ayu smiled: "This is the boiled cabbage created by our husband." ”

After speaking, Ayu said to make other dishes.

Zhuang Puqi was surprised, and also picked up the chopsticks to take a bite, not very comfortable, frowned, and said, "It's a little lighter." There is no salt in Shu to make such a dish? ”

Mr. Guan explained: "Eating a dish is to eat its essence, and cooking can produce the essence. If oil and salt are mixed in it, the original taste is gone, and the original sweetness is gone. Raw into the fat, bright and delicate to make people coveted, that should be in response to the old saying 'gold and jade in the outside of the ruin' and 'buy the pearl back pearl' the same reason. The former ancient eater Yuan Tang Kitchen God wrote a book "Food and Nutrition Miscellaneous" that said: "The food book knows its taste, and the sweetness should be appropriate", which is the reason. ”

Mr. Guan was right, and Zhuang Jue suddenly couldn't help but want to taste it, so he snatched Zhuang Pu's chopsticks and ate them.

After that, she nodded in admiration like an old lady, and said to Yu Qi: "Sister, you can taste it too." ”

Yu Qi couldn't push it, so he took the chopsticks, sandwiched a piece for Zhuang Yu, and tasted a piece himself.

The old lady said: "This day is the same as this dish, sweet and self-aware, 'this' should be." ”

As soon as the sound fell, the laughter of everyone came from the corridor.

The people in the pavilion knew that Su Yuan was coming.

So, Zhuang Yu greeted him and walked to the pier to wait. After a while, a few servants such as Fusheng and Caitong brought a few baskets of seafood. Su Yuan talked and laughed with Zhuang Qian and others.

Zhuang Jue couldn't help but open the basket, only to see a basket of large sea crabs with crystal blue flowers, a basket of prawns, a basket of fresh shellfish and a few Tiandi snails the size of a human head.

Zhuang and his sisters scrambled to play with the sea objects.

Su Yuan had already moved to the pavilion, first greeted the old lady, and then greeted Yu Qi.

Zhuang Pu patted Su Yuan's shoulder and said politely: "Blessed by Tuobeizi, we didn't even have a piece of meat for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

The old lady pointed at Zhuang Pu and smiled, silently, and asked Zhu'er to help her up and walk to Zhuang Yu to see the sea crabs.

Zhuang Pu asked Su Yuan curiously: "Why do you have so many seafood in your house?" Have a business that doesn't work by the sea? ”

Su Yuan said: "Where is it, it's just a gift from the Tianjin Foreign Business Chamber of Commerce." ”

Zhuang Pu was stunned, remembering that he hadn't introduced Mr. Guan, so he began to introduce and salute each other.

Su Yuan looked at Mr. Guan's quietness, thinking that he was just a literati, and asked casually: "How do you call Mr. Guan's full name?" ”

Mr. Guan said: "The humble surname is Guan, and the cheap name is dang." ”

Su Yuan asked: "What are the words of Mr.'s table?" ”

Mr. Guan said: "Zhenshi." ”

Su Yuan smiled, and then asked, "Do you have a number?" ”

Mr. Guan bowed and replied, "Save it." ”

So, several people sat together, Yu Jue and Zhuang Yu looked embarrassed on the side, and wanted to get up and leave, at this time, Zhuang Jue ran over with dancing hands, holding a big sea crab in his hand.

Zhuang Yu said happily: "After a while, this is just mine, you are not allowed to rob it!" ”

After speaking, Zhuang Jue left, walked a few steps and turned his head to wave to Yu Qi and Zhuang Jue, calling them over.

Because of this, Yu Qi and Zhuang Yu had to get out and go over to look at the sea in the basket together.

Seeing these things, Yu Qi couldn't bear it for a while, and tears flowed. Once upon a time, in the south, my parents used to cook seafood for consumption.

In those years, my sister had not yet entered the palace, my younger brother was still young, my father and mother bought some sea crabs, and after steaming, my mother bothered to boil Beijing sauce, and the family ate with He Meimei, and admired the moon at home. Now it's just a quick change, unique, and under the fence.

Even if there is an entrance to seafood, it is the pity of others after all.

Yu Qi's thoughts, afraid that he couldn't help but leak his emotions and attract everyone's attention, so he quietly turned around and lay on the railing and looked at the middle of the lake.

At this moment, the lake is rippling, the withered grass and yellow leaves, and the autumn scenery is at a glance.

I don't know where Sanxi and Huiyuan came from, holding a cloak and putting it on her, Zhuang Xi turned around and saw it, so he walked over.

Zhuang Xuan's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that Yu Qi had tears, he said, "What's the matter?" Who upset you? ”

Zhuang Xuan didn't care that his voice was loud and small, and he shouted angrily to Zhuang Jue who was not far away: "Third brother, what happened to your sister?" ”

This sentence calmed the people around the fire boiler and the sea crab basket behind him.