When the dishes were served, Lu Yangge realized that today's flower-viewing banquet in the Zhenguo Mansion was ingenious.

Not to mention the delicacies of the mountains and seas, just a few of the dishes made of flowers attracted everyone to taste them, and they were all praised.

One of the flower cakes has a crispy outer skin and a soft and sweet filling, and it tastes like a faint floral fragrance. After eating, the aftertaste in the mouth is still sweet, which makes people want to stop eating another piece.

Gongsun Wanying tasted it and praised: "This cake tastes so good, you can taste it quickly." ”

As he spoke, he diligently pushed the plate containing the flower cake in front of Lu Yangge: "It's really delicious, I've never eaten such a delicious cake." ”

Lu Yangge pinched a piece and handed it to Shen Zhengqing, took another one for himself, and pushed the plate of flower cakes to the center of the table.

Lu Yangge tasted it and knew that this flower cake was a new signature snack made by Ruyi Lou.

Unexpectedly, the Zhenguo Mansion invited the dim sum master of Ruyi Building to come over for this flower-viewing banquet, and the price should not be cheap.

The flower cake plate was pushed to the center, and seeing that the big guy didn't move, Qi Yuan reached out and took a piece.

She heard that today's Zhenguo Mansion held a banquet, and specially invited two chefs from Jixianglou to come to help, including the best dim sum chef in Jixianglou.

She also heard that the new dim sum launched by Jixianglou this time will be made first in the Zhenguo Mansion, and the Jixiang Mansion will be launched on the second day after the banquet in the Zhenguo Mansion is over.

In recent years, with the increasing fame of Jixianglou, when a banquet is held in Beijing, it is already a very face-saving thing to invite a master chef from Jixianglou to cook at home.

The Zhenguo Mansion can invite two masters, and even the dim sum master can be invited, so it can be seen that as the legend goes, Jixianglou is opened by the Zhenguo Mansion itself.

A plate of eight pieces, went to four, and already went halfway. Four other pieces were stacked on the plates, and the girls sat down separately, and none of them reached out first.

"Why don't you eat it?" Zhu Chengyun took a piece first, and then took a piece for his cousin next to him.

Liu Wanru hurriedly waved her hand and refused: "I, I don't eat." ”

This snack is puff pastry, and it is delicious to eat, but you must always pay attention when you eat it, and if you are not careful, you will lose crumbs.

If you don't take it properly and the crumbs fall on the table, it will be a shame.

Especially at this table, several of them are the ladies of the previous dynasty, and they look down on them the most from the countryside.

Zhu Chengyun couldn't guess his cousin's thoughts, and seeing that she didn't eat or reluctantly, he handed the piece that belonged to his cousin to Lu Yangge: "If you like to eat, give it to you." ”

"Okay, thank you." Lu Yangge took it, broke it, and gave half to Gongsun Wanying, and another piece to Shen Zhengqing.

This flower cake is really delicious, Gongsun Wanying and Shen Zhengqing are not polite, and they accept it with a smile.

The remaining two pieces, Wu Anhou's two girls took them.

Seeing that everyone was eating dim sum, especially the county lord of Huaiping and Gongsun Wanying, they also used handkerchiefs to support them when they ate dim sum, but because a piece of dim sum was broken, some of the crumbs still fell on the table.

Liu Wanru's eyes fell directly on the table, looking at the floating dim sum crumbs. Before she could withdraw her gaze, the maid who was waiting by the side hurriedly wiped off the fallen cake crumbs with a wet handkerchief, and then changed to a dry handkerchief to dry it.

When everyone finished eating snacks, the maids on the side were busy bringing warm water to wash their hands and change their handkerchiefs.

Liu Wanru didn't eat snacks, so naturally she didn't have to clean her hands anymore.

She twisted the handkerchief in her hand, looking at Lu Yangge, who was being served by the maid to wipe her hands, and felt jealous and hateful in her heart.

This is a dim sum made by the master of Jixianglou, and I heard that four pieces cost two taels of silver. In their countryside, two taels of silver can buy a big fat pig.

The county lord of Huaiping is just like her, a girl from the countryside.

However, her aunt is the queen, and her aunt is only the niece and daughter-in-law of the queen mother, and the identities of the two are very different.

There is also Gongsun Wanying, who was talking and laughing with the lord of Huaiping on the side, didn't they, the ladies of the previous dynasty, think very highly of themselves, look down on the upstarts of the court, and disdain to have more dealings with them?

But why did this Gongsun Wanying smile like a flower when she saw the county lord of Huaiping and Miss Shen.

Liu Wanting thought to herself, these ladies are just puppets.

If she had put the crumbs on the table, they would have laughed at her behind her back.

But after changing the county lord of Huaiping and the princess girl, they all pretended not to see.

A girl who is still in the Prime Minister's Mansion, what do you say about a century-old family, don't you teach these rules?

The other is just an orphan, raised in the countryside for more than ten years, and now he has become the lord of the county, so he is high, and everyone has to hold it.

Thinking of herself, her aunt married into the Zhu family, and because the aunt and grandmother of the Zhu family became the queen mother in the palace, the family followed suit.

After my aunt arrived in Beijing, she finally tried her best to bring her and her brother into Beijing, just to use the power of the Zhu family, while the Queen Mother was still there, to find a good family for them, and to change the lintel of the Liu family.

Liu Wanru originally thought that as the queen mother, it was better to show them a family at random than to have a poor boy in the countryside.

But she and her brother have been in the capital for more than half a year, and they haven't even seen the face of the Queen Mother, let alone ask the Queen Mother to give her a marriage.

When I came, my aunt told her to move around more.

My aunt was thinking about it, and wanted to send her to the Qin Palace, even if she was a concubine, it would be better to go to the countryside to marry.

But she didn't want to go to King Qin's mansion, King Qin was weak and sick, and marrying King Qin was tantamount to being a widow.

If King Qin can't be humane anymore, when the time comes, she won't even have children, and once King Qin dies, what good can she do as a concubine.

It is better to pick a family among these court nouveau riche in Beijing, such as the Zhenguo Mansion.

Even if you are a concubine for Tang Shizi, it is better than marrying into the Qin Palace.

But my aunt won't let her enter the Zhenguo Mansion, and my aunt still wants to marry her cousin to Tang Shizi.

Thinking of my aunt's repeated saying that it was for her good, for her good, why could my cousin marry Tang Shizi, she could only be a concubine for the sick and crooked King Qin?

It seems that my aunt is unreliable, so she can only save herself.

Liu Wanru stared directly at Lu Yangge opposite, and an idea slowly rose in her heart.

If her eldest brother can marry the lord of Huaiping, and let her eldest brother blow the pillow wind when the time comes, will she also be able to promise a good family business.

The queen doted on the county lord of Huaiping so much, and as soon as the county lord of Huaiping entered the capital, she begged the emperor to give her the title of county lord, and she didn't even care about her niece.

It can be seen that the weight of this Huaiping county lord in the queen's heart is different.

The handkerchief in Liu Wanru's hand became tighter and tighter, and her heart beat with the thoughts surging in her heart.

The girls at a table didn't notice Liu Wanru's demeanor, and between everyone talking, the cold dishes, dim sum, and fruit plates had been removed, and the hot vegetable soup was on the table.

The sound of silk and bamboo on the side is endless, and the banquet is staggered, and everyone speaks happily, looking happy and harmonious.

(End of chapter)