Chapter Seventy-Three: Please
He Lingjiang has already made it clear to He Xiangshan what should be said, and it is not up to her to decide how to choose.
It was early spring, and the sun was getting brighter outside, so she stayed in her room and taught Aman to draw talismans.
"Seven Niangzi, the fourth lady of the Sun family sent a greeting post." Qiong Zhi entered the house with a name poster.
He Lingjiang put down his pen and reached out to take the post.
Sun Rujin said on the post that he has something to ask for advice and hopes to visit him tomorrow.
He Lingjiang has been fine recently, so naturally there is no reason to refuse. She picked up a pen and wrote a reply and handed it to Qiongzhi: "Send someone to send it." ”
Soon after breakfast on the second day, Sun Rujin took two maidservants to the door of He's house.
After she worshiped the Song family, Qiong Zhi introduced her into He Lingjiang's small study: "Sun Siniang wait for a while, and the maid will go and invite the seventh lady to come over." ”
Sun Rujin smiled lightly: "Thank you for your hard work." ”
Qiong Zhi bowed and ordered someone to serve refreshments, and then went to call his own lady.
He Lingjiang came all the way with an umbrella, Sun Rujin looked sideways at the sun outside, the sunshine in early spring was warm, shining warmly on people, she looked at Aman who was collecting the umbrella, and said suspiciously: "He Qi Niangzi, who are you?" ”
He Ling Jiang smiled lightly, sat down opposite the low table, and said, "I've been feeling unwell lately, and I can't get sunlight, so I'm extra careful when I go in and out every day." No, I am stuffy in my room these days, and I rarely go out. ”
Sun Rujin suddenly said: "In this way, I came a little unlucky......
"It doesn't matter." He Lingjiang stretched out his hand and dialed the small stove for boiling tea with a silver firecracker, "It's rare that someone accompanies me to make tea, and the fourth lady came at the right time." ”
The tea on the low table boiled and made a slight sound.
She rolled up her sleeves, scooped out a scoop of water and put it into the teacup beside her, and then held the teaspoon in her hand and stirred around it. After boiling evenly, take the teaspoon, throw the ground tea from the center of the whirlpool, and then stir gently with a tea whisk to make the tea powder evenly watered.
The fragrance of tea rises, which can be described as a golden cage and a silver spoon of green and white cups, and the furnace is full of green incense.
The tea soup began to foam, and the color gradually changed from emerald green, milky green to milky white. When the tea soup was rushing and splashing, He Lingjiang poured the scoop of water that he had scooped out earlier into it, and the tea soup suddenly cooled down, stopped boiling, and foamed out.
She scooped the tea soup into the teacup, smiled lightly and handed it to Sun Rujin: "Fourth lady Sun, taste my tea-making skills." ”
Sun Rujin stretched out his hand to take it, the tea foam bit the tea cup tightly, and it did not disperse for a long time.
With this skill alone, He Qi Niangzi's ability to make tea is not low.
She lowered her head and took a sip, only to feel that the fragrance of the tea soup spread from the tip of her tongue to the entire mouth, leaving a fragrance on her lips and teeth.
Sun Rujin couldn't help but smile and praised: "He Qiniang's skill in making tea is really ashamed. I never thought that in addition to painting, the Seven Ladies were so proficient in cooking tea. ”
He Lingjiang picked up the teacup and took a sip before saying, "Sun Siniang praised it falsely." ”
Her skill in making tea is just forced to practice. Master loves tea, and as an apprentice, she has to serve left and right to make tea for him.
Sun Rujin put down the teacup and said with a smile: "The Seventh Lady and I are also acquainted, and it is too rusty to call me Sun Siniang all the time." My nickname is Jin Niang, and the Seventh Lady calls me so. ”
He Ling Jiang Cong admonished: "Even so, Jin Niang can also call me by my name directly."
Sun Rujin smiled: "I recently developed a few fresh dim sums, and I was thinking of giving them to Ling Jiang to taste." Since you have made tea, my snack is taken out at this time, and it is just right. ”
As she spoke, she motioned to the maidservant behind her to bring the food box, which contained several plates of delicate and lovely pastries.
"I've always loved tossing these foods so that ginger can taste them. This dish is called Yulu Ball, this dish is jujube paste cake, and this dish is through flower cakes. In particular, I put a lot of thought into it. ”
He Lingjiang followed her instructions and saw the flower-shaped bean paste looming under the translucent skin, delicate and clear. Come to think of it, this is the reason why the flower cake got its name.
She took a piece and bit it gently, only to feel that her mouth was soft and glutinous, and her lips and teeth were full of sweetness.
"How?" Sun Rujin tilted her head slightly, smiling and waiting for her to respond.
"It's delicious." He Lingjiang's eyebrows and eyes were slightly curved. Although she is not very careful about eating, she has traveled a lot over the years, and she has naturally seen and eaten a lot of things. This is indeed the only one of many pastries.
Curious, she asked, "How is it made?" ”
Sun Rujin didn't hide his secrets, and directly said the trick: "The skin of this transparent flower cake is Wuxing rice made of "cooking incense", which is ground into a fine powder, and then added sucrose and water to steam until translucent, and kneaded into a dough. The filling is the white horse bean of "Eat Tooth Drunk", remove the bean skin, pound it into fine sand, place it in the mold, make the shape of a flower, and embed it in it. ”
She said it was simple, but it took a lot of effort to do it.
"Jin Niang has a heart." He Lingjiang ate the flower cake in his hand, and then took a sip of tea soup from the teacup.
Such a combination has a different taste.
She put down the teacup and asked in a low voice, "Jin Niang is visiting today, but there is something to look for me?" ”
On the shore of Mingyue Lake that day, she said that she didn't want others to know that she had saved Sun Rujin, and she didn't need her to come to thank her.
Since then, Sun Rujin has really fulfilled his promise, and has never come to the door to bother, only in the name of friendship between the two, and sent some gifts from time to time.
Now, she actually visited her in person, thinking that it was not just as simple as wanting to be friendly with her.
Sun Rujin smiled: "Since Jiang Jiang guessed, I said it bluntly." ”
"You saved me in Mingyue Lake that day, which shows that your attainments in occult arts are quite high. My aunt has been sick in bed for a long time, and she has been diagnosed and treated by famous doctors, but she has not improved. On the day I went to the lakeside to put river lanterns, it was to pray for my aunt. ”
"Recently, the weather has become warmer, but my aunt's body is getting weaker and weaker, and I asked the doctor to come and see it, but I can't say why. Therefore, I thought, Ah Niang's illness is caused by colliding with evil things? ”
"I came here today, and I also wanted to ask Ling Jiang to come to Sun's Mansion to see my aunt. It's just that now it seems that it is inconvenient for you to leave the house, and it is not a coincidence that I came. ”
He Ling Jiang shook the tea cup in his hand slightly: "Since Jin Niang came to look for me, I have no reason to ignore it." Although I am physically inconvenient and rarely go out of the house, I will not go to the point where I will not go out of the door. It is not difficult to go to Sun's mansion. ”
"Ling Jiang agreed?" Sun Rujin was overjoyed.
She knew that He Lingjiang didn't want others to know about her occult arts, and she thought that she would come this time, afraid that she would end up without a problem, and thought that she would come a few more times in the future. Unexpectedly, she agreed so easily.
He Lingjiang said with a smile: "I received a lot of gifts from Jinniang before, and now I have eaten the pastries you made yourself." People say that they take people short and eat people with soft mouths. Now that Jin Niang has opened this mouth, I naturally have no reason to refuse. ”
Sun Rujin's face was slightly red: "I did intend to be friendly with Ling Jiang before, I just hope you don't have to worry about me." ”
She recently sent so many things to He Mansion, because she intended to please her, but she was thinking about A-Niang's illness, and one day, she asked for He Qi Niang's head.
This mind is indeed impure.
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