The arrangement of Mrs. Tai's birthday banquet fell into the hands of Wen Yingqian and Bai Qiuyue, and it would be her eightiesth birthday in a few days, so naturally the two of them were going to start planning for the birthday banquet.

Wen Yingqian proposed that the birthday banquet should invite a royal chef, she paid more attention to the style of the dishes, because the people who came were all dignitaries, so they naturally paid more attention to eating, including chopsticks, bowls, spoons and other things should be that kind of exquisite, so Wen Yingqian specially ordered people to customize these tableware for this banquet, and the customized ones were all gilt pattern styles, and Bai Qiuyue thought of saving a sum of money for the general's mansion, but she felt that the blue and white porcelain style was excellent, elegant and showed the noble temperament of Mrs. Tai, but Wen Yingqian did not adopt it at all, She said coldly: "Don't you think the blue and white porcelain style is too petty?" How can there be a noble gilt pattern? ”

"My sister is right." Bai Qiuyue knew Wen Yingqian's temperament, she wouldn't adopt other people's opinions, so naturally she didn't say anything, but she saw that Wen Yingqian was too extravagant and wasteful in her diet and tableware at the banquet. This time, there were a lot of people coming. Mrs. Tai's 80th birthday is an important birthday. I don't know when we will get together in the future. So there were thirty tables of feasts.

Several of Shao Yifei's uncles, including Mrs. Guanhua's relatives and friends, and Shao Yan's relatives and friends all received invitations and wanted to come over in their busy schedules.

According to Wen Yingqian's proposal, it is to advocate style, so he specially invited the imperial chef of the court to cook, but I saw that the imperial chef was always a little contemptuous, which made people feel that it was not easy to contact, and it was full of style.

As soon as he came, he began to show off his skills, turning the spoon, turning the pot with full momentum, and he also performed carving carrots, only to see him carve the carrots into a peony flower with three or two clicks of his hands, and carved out the dragon and phoenix in the envy of everyone, which really has no kung fu and can't carve like this.

Yu Feng praised again and again on the side, he took these carrots he carved in his hands and took a closer look, and saw that the knife work was really good. The dragon's scales were carved.

The imperial chef took out another post, and began to write the dishes of the birthday banquet with a brush on that post, sprinkled with enthusiasm, divided by two by two, and a series of dish names were prescribed.

His dishes are very valuable from the name of the dish, the royal Buddha jumps over the wall, the birds are facing the phoenix, the soul is burned, the donkey is stuffed with warm and cold flowers, the eight immortal plates, etc., the staple food is the yellow queen mother rice, sweet snow, pastries and snacks have gold and silver sandwich flowers, crystal plum cakes, crystal dragon and phoenix cakes and so on.

Yu Feng, who had never seen the world, had never seen the names of these dishes, so he asked curiously, "How is this Soul Destroying Burn made?" ”

"What a scorching scorching! This dish is based on the magpie tongue, and the main ingredient is the tip of the sheep's heart, a sheep can only take four taels of meat, to go through a very complex process, and finally can be roasted! Naturally, you people have never seen it on weekdays, because folk chefs can't make such dishes! The imperial chef's understatement made everyone hear it in a fog.

"What about the Yellow Queen Mother's rice?" Zixuan asked curiously, feeling that she was lonely.

The imperial chef looked down on her a little, and said ignorantly, "It's made of shredded meat and egg yolk." ”

After that, the imperial chef also answered the dishes they asked one by one.

"At the end of the day, they are rich and noble, and they are so particular about eating! Just hearing the name is delicious! Zi Xuan admired again and again.

After the imperial chef opened the name of the dish, he ordered a group of people to go to the market to buy ingredients. Chicken, duck, fish, pork, lamb, seafood, vegetables, etc., these ingredients are simply generous. So Bai Qiuyue and Wen Yingqian sent Yu Feng and a group of family members to buy ingredients.

And Bai Qiuyue and Wen Yingqian began to plan how to arrange the scene of the birthday banquet again.

Bai Qiuyue and Hua Chen and other people were full of joy, talking and laughing to buy some lanterns, some auspicious ornaments, some firecrackers, bonsai, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

I didn't expect them to just hang up. Wen Yingqian came over domineeringly, she didn't say a word, and the rest of the family ripped off all the ornaments proposed by Bai Qiuyue, and threw the lantern to the ground for no reason! And said to Zi Xuan and Ah Xiang, "Hang up the lantern I chose!" Then put up the decorations I picked! ”

I saw that the lanterns selected by Wen Yingqian were palace glazed enamel lanterns, which were expensive at a glance, compared to Bai Qiuyue's lanterns of ordinary people's homes, the lanterns she picked were simply symbolic of identity, Bai Qiuyue knew that Wen Yingqian was deliberately targeted, and she didn't bother with it, but wanted to pick up the lanterns on the ground and hang them elsewhere.

But Wen Yingqian stepped on the lantern on the ground, and said with an arrogant and arrogant expression: "Sister, the lantern you picked is too ordinary, don't you think that such a lantern matches the identity of Mrs. Tai?" These things you've chosen are so cheap that I'm swapping them out to keep you from being ridiculed by the guests! You don't know, everyone who comes here is a dignitary, and when they see that the things you buy are so cheap and so ugly, who won't laugh behind their backs! ”

"Sister, these things are made by hard-working people, they are all ingenious and exquisite, how can you say that these things are ugly? Only people with ugly hearts will see that everything is ugly! I think these things look good! Bai Qiuyue said unrelentingly.

"You!" Wen Yingqian was angry and wanted to beat her, but Bai Qiuyue was not to be outdone and said, "You fight!" Hit me in public! It's best to be seen by Mrs. Tai too! Then you can't rely on you for doing such a thing! Bai Qiuyue's posture was upright, proudly like a pine tree, Wen Yingqian couldn't help but put her hand away, snorted a little unhappily, glanced coldly at the decorations that she threw on the ground, and said to her family with a sneer: "Dispose of these decorations she bought!" It's an eyesore! What are you buying? Such inferior goods! If you are seen by others and don't know, you still think that the people of the General's Mansion have such a taste! ”

When Bai Qiuyue was about to argue with her, Mrs. Tai came over, saw the things on the ground, and asked with some surprise: "Why do you have to throw away these good things?" ”

At this time, Bai Qiuyue pretended to sob, Hua Chen understood what she meant, and deliberately patted her shoulder comfortingly, and Mrs. Tai asked with concern, "What's the matter?" Hua Chen frowned slightly and said: "Mrs. Tai, you don't know, these are all carefully selected by Aunt Bai, and just now Mrs. threw these away, and said that the things of civilians are very ugly, and that Aunt Bai has no vision!" ”

Wen Yingqian hurriedly explained: "Grandmother, I think your status is noble, and your 80th birthday is a major event in the world, Qi Neng is sloppy, I also think about you and think about you, so I stopped Sister Qiuyue from hanging these cheap things." These things don't match your identity at all! Although Wen Yingqian tried her best to explain, as a nobleman, she has her solidified cognition, that is, the things of the poor are always inferior, and they can never compare to the things of the nobles! Including the status of the pauper, it is inferior all his life!

She thought that Mrs. Tai, as a nobleman, also had the same perception as her.

Although Mrs. Tai was born in a noble family, she has always advocated thrift and thrift, and in the past, Mrs. Guanhua was also close to the poor people, and never ignored the attitude of the poor, she heard this, naturally a little displeased, so she said with a slight anger: "Qianqian, you must not think so in the future, do you know, our clothes are from the hands of the poor people in your mouth, and our food is planted by the farmers!" Where can our life be separated from their sweat! What you just said surprised me! I didn't think you'd think that! The lanterns picked by the autumn moon are beautiful! Why did you stomp on her? ”

Mrs. Tai obviously noticed the trampled lantern at her feet, and looked at Wen Yingqian with some disbelief. She originally thought that Wen Yingqian was the kind of child who was a little pampered, but very cute and kind, but today's words simply surprised her!

It turned out that Mrs. Tai came for a walk in a good mood, and saw Bai Qiuyue and Wen Yingqian hanging lanterns, and didn't want to disturb their work, so she watched quietly for a while, but she didn't expect to see the scene of Wen Yingqian bullying Bai Qiuyue, which made Mrs. Tai completely see the other side that Wen Yingqian did not show in front of her! And it was Bai Qiuyue, which impressed her, because she was originally a little resistant to Bai Qiuyue's identity as a concubine, and thought that the Qin family was also a concubine, thinking that Bai Qiuyue was the kind of person who took away all of Shao Yifei's love, just like the Qin family took away all of Shao Yan's love.

However, the Bai Qiuyue she observed on the side was neither humble nor arrogant, and she was arrogant, and when she thought of her observations in the past few days, she felt that Bai Qiuyue had a bit of a shadow of Guanhua.

However, she didn't reveal it, and she didn't say that she had just seen the picture of the dispute between the two, and Wen Yingqian was afraid that her image in her grandmother's psychology would plummet, so she put her arm around her grandmother and said coquettishly: "Grandmother~ I know, I won't in the future." ”

"It won't be." Mrs. Tai touched Wen Yingqian's hand and said lightly. glanced at Bai Qiuyue, and said to Bai Qiuyue: "Qiuyue, thank you for your hard work." If you didn't hang it just now, continue to hang it. I like to have it everywhere to be happy! ”

Bai Qiuyue smiled brightly at her grandmother and said, "Yes! Grandmother, I'm going to hang up the place that wasn't hung up with Huachen! So, I went to hang up with Huachen. Mrs. Tai looked at Bai Qiuyue's back as she left, and suddenly felt a sense of pity inexplicably.

In fact, Mrs. Tai is a very good-hearted person, and she is usually the most unaccustomed to bullying people. She has the heart of a bodhisattva, in her later years, she already looked down on glory and wealth, birth, old age, sickness and death, she can naturally perceive people as kind as her character, she knows that Bai Qiuyue is such a person. Wen Yingqian is not such a person.

Wen Yingqian saw that Mrs. Tai did not have a displeased look, so she said to Mrs. Tai: "Grandmother, waiting for your birthday, I will definitely make you very happy, because I have prepared some songs and dances for you!" I'll even dance for you myself! ”

"Really?" Mrs. Tai scratched Wen Yingqian's nose and said with a smile: "Qianqian really has a heart, I am looking forward to that day!" ”

Sure enough, in the next few days, Wen Yingqian invited a group of musicians and dancers to rehearse in the courtyard, in her words: "I want to give everyone an unforgettable birthday banquet!" ”