Chapter 256: Banquet (1)
Several clouds of weather in a row plunged the entire north into cold all of a sudden.
"Do you want to go out today?" Zhao Yunlan watched Li Mingren put on his shoes and tidy up his clothes.
"Well, there have been no cases in the past few days, and there are still a few distant villages that I haven't visited, so I'm going to finish my visit today."
Zhao Yunlan: "Can your colleagues still stand it?" ”
"They couldn't stand anything, so they ran away for a day, and I didn't force them to go for the next few days."
"Then I see that you are followed by a large group of people every day."
Li Mingren: "Hahaha, those are all voluntary. Our Xiao Chen is the most conscious one. ”
"Xiao Chen? Hey, you can't call people indiscriminately. Zhao Yunlan reacted for a while before remembering that Xiao Chen that Li Mingren said was Chen Yiqing.
Li Mingren: "Don't worry, you are still measured." I'll just say it in front of you, right, Xiao Zhao! ”
"Hey, don't say it, it's been a long time since I've heard that call me."
Li Mingren: "Huh? ”
"Ah, my mother called me that when I was a child, my father is Lao Zhao, why don't you just call me Xiao Zhao." Zhao Yunlan dealt with the past in a haphazard manner.
After the two had breakfast, Li Mingren went out with a bag of things.
"What did your master take?" Zhao Yunlan called out to He Wen and asked.
He Wen: "The hand-torn sauce plate duck that the old man tore out, He Hua and them tore it out last night, and there were some cakes and a small jar of wine." ”
"Is he going to the office or going on an outing?"
He Wen lowered his head, "Madam, the little one went first." ”
Zhao Yunlan waved her hand, thinking that it was no wonder that a large group of people followed every day.
"Haruka, bring the invitation. I'll send out the invitation after writing it today. ”
Haruka: "Yes, ma'am. ”
Zhao Yunlan has a document in hand, which Ye Sheng has sorted out with Li Mingren in the past few days, and all the connections recorded in it are Shiyang County's network maps.
Zhao Yunlan wrote the invitation according to this information, as well as the seating arrangement for the banquet.
Unconsciously, the morning passed, and Zhao Yunlan twisted her neck: "Hey, it's so sour!" ”
Chunxiang heard that she came forward to massage Zhao Yunlan, "Madam, this strength can still stand it." ”
Zhao Yunlan felt the comfort coming from her neck and said, "Well, that's it." I accidentally wrote all morning, and sure enough, I couldn't use too much force, and my neck and wrist couldn't stand it. ”
Haruka: "Then Madame will have lunch first." ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Well, let's set the meal!" ”
At this moment, He Hua has been standing outside the door and waiting for a long time, just waiting for Zhao Yunlan to speak and set the meal.
"Eat and continue, there is still a small part to be written."
"Isn't Madame taking a lunch break today?"
Zhao Yunlan: "No, we have to arrange seats and check the recipes in the afternoon, this is the first time our family has a banquet in Shiyang County, we can't be sloppy, I have to stare at it myself to rest assured." ”
He Hua served the dishes, and Zhao Yunlan ate alone at noon, so there were not many dishes, but they were also extremely rich, probably because they spent too much energy in the morning, and Zhao Yunlan ate a lot.
After eating, Zhao Yunlan went to the garden for a walk, and then devoted herself to writing invitations.
An hour later, Zhao Yunlan finally raised her hands, "Ha~ It's finally finished." Haruka, I've given you a task to check these invitations, I don't want to read this anymore, my eyes are swollen and hurt. ”
Haruka: "Yes, ma'am. ”
"Look slowly, I'll go for a walk in the garden. When I went to see the garden at noon today, I always felt that the garden was too bald, and I had to think about how to dress up. Li Hua, Xiao Zhen, Xiao Man, come on! Zhao Yunlan shouted as she walked out.
Li Hua: "Madam, what do you command?" ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Go to the garden and take a look, it's too bald over there, go and help me think about how to dress up." ”
Xiao Zhen Xiaoman also rushed over: "Madam." ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Well, everyone has arrived, let's go." ”
Zhao Yunlan looked at the bald garden, and didn't think that she was going to have a banquet this time, but now it's too late to plant flowers and trees, and she sees that the day after tomorrow is the eighth day of the new year.
"There are two plum trees in the garden, the problem is that now is not the time to bloom. And the leaves of the other plants and trees are almost gone. Zhao Yunlan pointed to the unknown bushes.
Li Hua and the three of them listened silently in the back, their minds were a mess, and they really couldn't come up with an idea.
"Forget it, since you don't have it, don't want it. Li Hua, you arrange for someone to take a look at the flowers and trees in this garden, except for the two plum trees, don't move, if there are other valuables, leave them and transplant them to the soil against the wall over there, if they are ordinary flowers and plants, just pull them out and leave the place for me. All the weeds were plucked and the ground was leveled a little. ”
Although Li Hua was puzzled, he still responded: "Yes, madam." ”
Zhao Yunlan: "If you don't know how to take care of these flowers and plants, you will go outside and invite someone to come back, in short, I will clean up this garden today." ”
Li Hua: "Yes. ”
Zhao Yunlan thought that this garden was big enough, and there was really nothing to watch, so let everyone eat and have fun. In terms of eating, in addition to the dinner dinner, Zhao Yunlan plans to make a buffet at noon. This garden is also large enough to be divided into a banquet area and a play area, and the fun items are some literati students love to play pot throwing and playing chess. I can also sell my own backgammon and building blocks.
There are many gardens in the backyard of the county government, so the female guests are set up in another garden, the garden was originally called 'Moon Garden', and after Zhao Yunlan moved in, it was renamed 'Ink Garden', this yard is quiet, Zhao Yunlan is her own small park, and she writes here on weekdays to look at the account book. Nowadays, it is the perfect place to entertain female guests.
This is the first time for Zhao Yunlan to entertain guests as a superior, and she can't help but be a little nervous, after all, in this remote small county, there is indeed no nobleman who can compare with the county order. If you want to, you have to go a little further north, the military generals over there in Motong County. But this time, Zhao Yunlan did not invite generals in the banquet list, this was discussed with Li Mingren, and the two felt that this had nothing to do with those generals, and of course they were also testing the bottom line of becoming a general.
"Just clean up the 'ink garden' here, and come back tomorrow to decorate it. After a while, let Li Hua bring someone to check it again, especially the row of bamboos in the corner of the wall, and probe underneath, so as not to appear a scary fairy. Zhao Yunlan explained to Xiao Zhen Xiaoman beside her, while packing up the drawings she had left here before.
"Yes, ma'am." After the two of them got down, they immediately went to arrange for someone to come and sweep the garden.
Zhao Yunlan returned to the main courtyard, Chunxiang almost finished checking the invitation, and couldn't help but praise: "Sure enough, my Chunxiang is capable!" ”
Chunxiang blushed and said, "It has to be taught by Madame." ”
"Hey, hey, it sounds like your lord is back. Go check it out! Before Zhao Yunlan could walk out, Li Mingren ran in.
"Lady has worked hard today, look at what good things I brought you."
Zhao Yunlan looked at it: "Nuclear ~ cough walnut!" It's still fresh! Did you pick it? ”
Li Mingren: "Hahaha, I picked it up, I came back from a mountain village, and when I saw that it had fallen to the ground, I picked up a bag and came back." ”
"Hurry up and get a hammer to hammer one and taste it." Zhao Yunlan couldn't wait, because this walnut was very big, when she was in Lijia Village, she had only seen it a few times in Wang's medicine, and there were no walnut trees in Lijia Village, so Zhao Yunlan had never eaten walnuts here.
"I just picked up these walnuts and got a slurry stain on my hand, so don't do it, lady."
Zhao Yunlan smiled slightly: "Okay, then you can help me hammer one, anyway, your hands are dirty." ”
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