Chapter 42: Provocation
The next day, everyone got up late, and Cheng Qingwan sat on the bed and yawned.
"Wanwan, you're up soon, Lord Yuan let us go to lunch."
"Lord Yuan? Why? Cheng Qingwan turned her head suspiciously and asked.
Song Qiaoqiao took a set of clothes and put it on the bed: "I don't know, I asked Azhu to talk about it just now." Aunt Cheng asked you to wear this outfit, and she said that today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it should be a New Year's greeting. ”
Cheng Qingwan glanced at the bright red clothes, then looked at the goose yellow on her body, and pulled the corners of her mouth: "This...... It's not the fabric I chose. ”
"Aunt Cheng said that this color is festive and suitable for the New Year."
"My purple color is also festive!" Cheng Qingwan glanced at her: "Your goose yellow is not festive, or you wear this." ”
Song Qiaoqiao pursed her lips helplessly, and said softly: "If you don't wear this, you can only wear old clothes, and Aunt Cheng didn't do the fabric you chose at all." ”
Cheng Qingwan opened her mouth several times, but she held back the dirty words in her mouth, and then put on her clothes resignedly.
She walked out and sat down in front of the mirror, glanced at the head of the jewel that was placed aside, thought about it, and took a hairband to tie it up.
The beauty in the mirror is wrapped in red, and even if there is no powder on the face, it is also bright and moving.
When Cheng Qingwan walked out of the house, everyone was stunned for a moment.
It was Cheng Hua'er who reacted first, and looked at her with relief: "Our family is wearing red, and it really looks good." ”
"A-Niang, you are Huang Po selling melons, selling and boasting."
Everyone smiled and walked towards the carriage, Song Qiaoqiao came up to her and asked softly, "I thought you would bring the set of noodles that Lord Yuan gave you yesterday." ”
Cheng Qingwan drove the carriage, turned around and said solemnly: "I want to too, but I don't know how to coil my hair." ”
Song Qiaoqiao looked at her expression, thinking that it was a major reason, but she didn't expect it to be this, and she was suddenly helpless.
"If you call me, won't I come?"
"So, why don't you come now?"
Song Qiaoqiao looked at her for a while, and sighed: "Forget it, you look good like this." ”
When the carriage stopped, the two men outside were freezing enough.
As soon as I entered the house, I went straight to the stove.
Seeing this, Yuanqi hurriedly asked Ah Zhu to bring two hand stoves over.
"Is it warmer?"
Cheng Qingwan drank a cup of hot tea and nodded: "It's much better now." ”
When Yuanqi heard this, he got up and greeted everyone.
There are several stacks of dim sum on the table, all of which come in a variety of shapes and smell very sweet.
Cheng Qingwan took a square pastry and took a bite, full of chestnut fragrance.
"This is the chestnut cake in the capital, what do you think?" Yuan Qi asked as he handed over a cup of tea.
"The chestnuts are so fragrant, sweet but not greasy, and they are delicious." Cheng Qingwan subconsciously took a sip of tea and asked in surprise, "This is milk?" ”
"Is the milk tea paid by Fanbang delicious?"
"It's delicious." Cheng Qingwan took another sip and exclaimed.
Yuan Qi smiled, and put another piece of hibiscus cake on her plate: "Trying this?" ”
The scene in front of Cheng Hua'er couldn't cry or laugh, this Lord Yuan, who didn't entertain a room of people, circled around Wan Wan alone.
"My lord, the pavilion chief and his wife and Miss Su are here." Ah Zhu walked up to Yuanqi and whispered.
"I'm not seeing you today, let them go back." Yuan Qi replied while sandwiching pastries for the person next to him.
"Yes...... They said they were here to pay New Year's greetings, after all, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, so it was not good to drive people back. ”
Yuan Qi paused for a moment and thought for a while: "Invite people in." ”
Ah Zhu answered and walked out.
The people at the table heard it and were hesitating to leave, when they walked in.
"Lord Yuan, you have a guest here." As soon as the pavilion chief entered the door, he looked at the people in the room with a smile: "Yesterday Yunwei was young and couldn't speak, don't mind." Today I am here to make amends and pay a New Year's greeting by the way. ”
Yuan Qi had a faint smile on his face and motioned for them to take a seat: "It's okay." ”
The pavilion chief took a gift box and handed it to him, smiling: "This is a jade pendant made of fine mutton fat jade, it should be regarded as an apology, and please accept it with a smile." ”
The box was opened, and inside lay a piece of jade pendant of excellent color, carved with two magpies standing on the branches of plum blossoms, which means happy eyebrows.
Yuan Qi didn't even look at it, so he pushed it back: "The pavilion chief is polite, I have never loved these accessories, so don't waste such a good thing on me." ”
When the pavilion chief heard this, there was a trace of stiffness on his face, and then he gave Su Yunwei a look on the side.
Su Yunwei hurriedly handed over the box in her hand and said shyly: "Brother Yuan, I heard that you can't sleep easily at night, so I made you a sachet with calming herbs in it." ”
When Song Qiaoqiao heard this, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she hurriedly pulled the person who was eating pastries seriously on the side, leaned over and said, "Eat it again, everyone is so attentive!" ”
Cheng Qingwan put down the pastry and raised her eyes to take a look.
Su Yunwei is also wearing red today, with a bright dress and beaded hairpins, which makes her delicate and lovely.
She leaned into Song Qiaoqiao's ear and whispered, "I bet a penny, and Yuanqi won't accept it." ”
Song Qiaoqiao rolled her eyes when she heard this, I didn't call you to let you guess!
Before she could say anything, she saw Yuan Qi push things back.
"Thank you, I've been sleeping well lately."
Su Yunwei was disgraced, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she looked at her sister pitifully.
The Pavilion Chief's wife patted her hand a few times, signaling to be calm.
Cheng Qingwan didn't see any drama, so she lowered her head and ate the pastries in front of her.
Before the mung bean cake was eaten, I heard the person next to me: "It's about to start, eat less." ”
"What's so delicious?"
"Eight treasure duck, cherry meat, yellow braised shark fin, bird's nest porridge ......"
Cheng Qingwan immediately put down her chopsticks and sat very well-behaved: "I won't eat, when will I eat?" ”
Yuan Qi looked at her like that, and laughed dotingly: "It's almost over." ”
Su Yunwei looked at this scene and scoffed: "Sure enough, it's a village woman in the countryside, and her eyes lit up when she heard the name of the dish." ”
Cheng Qingwan reached out and took a piece of hibiscus cake and fed it to Yuanqi's mouth.
Seeing him eat, she raised her eyebrows at Su Yunwei, so angry that she almost dropped the teacup in her hand.
Of course Yuanqi knew, but he just touched her head dotingly.
Cheng Hua'er, who had not spoken, glanced at this side lightly, and then said, "I remember that Miss Su is an authentic Huaxian person." ”
"Yes, my father is the most famous squire in Huaxian."
Cheng Hua'er chuckled, took the teacup, and took a sip elegantly: "That being the case, I don't think Miss Su has ever eaten those dishes." Don't talk about you, even the pavilion chief hasn't eaten it. ”
"You, you talk nonsense, of course I've eaten it."
"These dishes are eaten by the big family in the capital, and only the relatives of the emperor and the country eat them, Miss Su is from Huaxian County, and she has no official position at home, where did she eat them?"
Cheng Hua'er's tone was gentle, without half emotion, but it made Su Yunwei's face red.
"What Mrs. Cheng said is reasonable, the ingredients for these dishes are very troublesome, and the raw materials for a dish will cost ten taels of silver."
Ah Zhu's words made the pavilion chief and his wife gasp, that meal came down, not a few hundred taels of silver, and sure enough, the Yuan clan was not called in vain.
They glanced at each other, and they were even more sure that they wanted Su Yunwei to climb this high branch.
Cheng Qingwan looked at the faces of the three people, and just wanted to applaud and applaud what A-Niang said.