Dream back to Chang'an City 124 The birthday banquet of the Duke of Lu's mansion
"Lord Chen, please inside, please inside!"
"Mrs. Liu, go this way, Mrs. Wang and they are all here just now, and they are enjoying the flowers in the yard with my wife!"
Today is the birthday of Cheng Zhijie's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sun, but the Lu Guogong Mansion has no big deal, mainly a few close colleagues of Cheng Zhijie and their Cheng family and the relatives of the Sun family.
Don't look at Cheng Zhijie's poor family when he was young in the romance, and there is a blind old mother, so he sells illicit salt.
But that's not the case at all.
Cheng Zhijie's great-grandfather and grandfather were officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty, one was Yanzhou Sima and the other was Jinzhou Sima.
By the time he arrives at his father, he is already in the world of Dasui, but his father is still Jeju Dazhongzheng.
So it can be said to be a proper official family.
And Sun's family may be a little worse, but Sun's father turned out to be a county magistrate, and he can be regarded as an official lady.
"How can I say that today is also my sister's birthday, and my brother-in-law is Lu Guogong, so why don't you make a big deal for my sister."
It was a cousin of the Sun family who spoke, when she married a side branch of the Fanyang Lu family, she looked down on her sister and felt that she was married to a martial artist.
It's just that I didn't think that later, this martial artist followed Li Shimin to conquer Chang'an, and his identity also rose, and he became the Duke of Lu Guogong of the Tang Dynasty.
Although on the surface, it seems that this Lu Guogong is not as good as the Lu family in the five surnames and seven hopes, but it is not known how many times stronger than her side branch.
It happened that on her birthday last month, the family did a big deal, so she couldn't help but feel a little proud.
"My sister laughed, in fact, where is the need to have a birthday, I just invited my family and friends to come over for a small gathering."
"My sister can't say that, we women, Shaohua is easy to pass away, this year will be a year old, and you can't make contributions like their men, in this life, don't you just point to the children of the father?"
As he spoke, he raised his orchid finger: "Hey, on my birthday last month, my family Cheng'er also went to Dongyue to buy me a ring, I said no, he still has to go, you said that we are mothers, how can we not brush them off a piece of filial piety!" ”
"That's what my sister said!" Sun said with some envy: "Your family Cheng'er entered the Prefecture Thorn Shi Mansion at a young age to follow Lord Thorn Shi to do things, I think the future is worry-free, unlike the bastard boy in our family, it is good not to be beaten by his father for three days." ”
Several other Sun sisters are also laughing, Cheng Chumo and his group of brothers have done a lot of messing around in Chang'an, but today is Sun's birthday, and they are just saying good things about children to coax her.
Seeing that he had the upper hand, Sun's cousin became even more proud, and her speech became more and more arrogant.
But among the female dependents of the Sun family, except for the Sun family, who has the highest status in her husband's family, the Sun family does not speak, and the other female dependents have nothing to do with her.
"Ladies and ladies, you can take your seat!"
Chatting and chatting, someone came to invite.
"Hey, this Chang'an is good at everything, but there is less food, sisters have the opportunity to go to our Fanyang, I must invite you to taste our food there, now Fanyang has also come to many Dongyue people to open restaurants, and the dishes are even more varied, I am sure that you have not eaten."
Everyone sat down, and then the first course was served, and most of the people were stunned.
"What is this?"
"I haven't seen it......"
"It's so crystal clear, it's really beautiful."
Cheng Zhijie also has a light on his face, today's dishes are all made by Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng and the chefs in Li Yuanji's mansion.
I don't know where His Majesty's imperial chef and the two prince's cooks learned their skills, but the dishes are beautiful and delicious.
Look, just this first crystal skin jelly shocked many visitors.
"Sister, this dish ......"
Sun's cousin sat next to her and asked with some confusion.
"I heard that it is called crystal skin jelly, it is all the emperor's favor, and today I specially called the chef in the palace to make it."
As she spoke, she picked up a piece, and there were crushed peanuts and flower petals in the transparent jelly, which was definitely a top-notch snack in terms of appearance.
Dip it in the prepared dipping sauce for a great taste!
Just this dish, it seems to be slapping in the face, and no matter how much Cousin Sun's cousin is, he will never feel that he can compare to the dishes made by these imperial chefs.
Fortunately, she kept her mouth shut, and the next few dishes were more amazing than the last.
These cooks learned how to stir-fry, and Tang Ping once went back and brought back a few good pots to give to them.
Now this batch of imperial chefs trained by Xiao Luo have one or two special dishes.
After all, involution is everywhere, if you cook for the emperor and the prince, if you can't always be a little chef, where will you put this face in the future?
The visitors can also see His Majesty the Tang Dynasty's favor to Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie.
After the meal, everyone moved to the backyard again, and in the afternoon, the troupe was invited to sing and play leaf play.
But first, several sons of the Sun family surrounded them.
First of all, the youngest son Cheng Chubi gave him a handkerchief, this little guy is only five years old, and he doesn't know where to find a colorful handkerchief.
Straight to the Sun family and a group of sisters laughing back and forth, Sun touched the head of his youngest son: "Chu Bi, thank you!" ”
Then the second son, Cheng Chumo, gave a beaded flower, which was decent, the children of the Cheng family were similar, and the monthly money was so little, so the gift was naturally not a valuable thing.
However, of course, Sun was very satisfied, and thanked his second son with a smile.
The last one to come up was naturally the boss Cheng Chumo, but Cheng Chumo didn't take out the gift first, but pulled the two younger brothers and sang a happy birthday song to Sun.
At this time, people had never heard such funny songs, but when they saw that the three brothers sang seriously, they were also moved by their filial piety, and nodded again and again.
Sun Shi even had tears in the corners of his eyes, and said again and again: "Okay, good, happy mother, happy birthday, as long as you are good, mother is happy every day." ”
"Mother, this is what I sent you!" Cheng Chumo took out the box from his sleeve, but he still kept an eye on it: "Mother, let's wait until I go back to the room to open it." ”
Sun knew that this eldest son was usually the most naughty and the most face-saving, so he estimated that this gift was an ordinary object, and he was afraid of losing face, so he asked himself to go back to the room to see it.
was about to nod in agreement, but the cousin next to him said: "You are really, your filial piety is in everyone's eyes, even if you send a stone, your mother is also very happy, what is there to hide?" Or is there some rare treasure in it, let's open it to all of us! ”
After saying that, he wanted to take the box from Sun's hand, but Sun wanted to hide, but the lid of the box was originally given.
Although my cousin didn't get the box, the lid of the box was still open.