She took out the thirteen incense prepared here, perhaps because the medicinal materials used were better than hers, and the smell of the fragrance was more mellow, and the dishes she made would definitely be on the next level.

Just when their back kitchen was in full swing, the three or five friends who participated in Cui Zhiyun's banquet also came in the direction of Qujiangchi Courtyard.

The residences of these nobles are almost all in the Fang Market on the side of Qujiang Pond, or in the Fang Market opposite Qujiang Pond near the Imperial City, plus ox carts and horse-drawn carts to travel together, and the speed is definitely not slow.

At that time, they had already arrived at the Qujiangchi Courtyard one after another, and when everyone saw clearly that it was Cui Xian who was greeted in front of the door, their expressions were uncontrollably surprised.

Cui Xian himself didn't feel anything, and patiently explained:

"The eldest brother entertained the distinguished guests inside, and a certain person greeted everyone at the front door. Sixth cousin, tenth cousin, twelfth cousin, please come in! ”

It was a relative of his mother's Lu family, a member of Fan Yang's Lu family, so Cui Xian called the other party's cousin.

Lu Liulang looked at Cui Xian, who was so polite and family-like, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Why can't such a person be the eldest son of the Cui family? If Cui Xian has the identity of Cui Zhiyun, it is not difficult for them to marry the Cui Lu family and have two surnames.

It's a pity that Cui Xian, a child of a family who has consolidated the status of the family, is subject to the words of others in an era when he pays attention to identity and bloodline, just like himself.

He said in a tone that seemed to be comforting: "The fifth cousin is really hard, and it is also a good choice to greet guests at the door, so I can make more friends." You continue to be busy, and my cousin will take a few younger sisters to enjoy the scenery inside. ”

"Fifth cousin is fine."

After Lu Shiniang and Lu Shiniang saluted Cui Xian, they followed Lu Liulang's steps and walked towards the interior of Qujiang Courtyard.

They have to come to this annex several times a year, so they don't have to worry about getting lost at all, and after walking for a while, they will separate according to their preferences.

Lu Liulang went to other children of the family to drink and talk together, while Lu Shi Niang and Lu Shi Niang went to find their friends.

When he saw the cousin of the Cui family, the smile on his face was even stronger, and he immediately saluted and shouted, "Fifth cousin, seventh cousin." ”

Cui Wuniang and Cui Qiniang immediately turned their heads to look at the visitor, at this banquet, the two of them could fully support the posture of the host's family, who let the female guests have no preparation to receive people, the two of them arrived early in the morning, and ordered the servants early to have the current scene.

After seeing clearly that it was someone from the Lu family, the faces of the two of them were unnatural for a moment, but they quickly recovered, and there was really a person in the middle of the seat who the entire Luoyang City knew that the two sides were not used to each other - the fifth lady of the Taiyuan Wang family.

People have come to me, and that must not be stopped.

Cui Wuniang immediately put a soft smile on her face, and said with a smile: "The two cousins are here, please take a seat, just now a few of us were still talking about why everyone hasn't come yet, and a few people are bored sitting here." ”

Lu Shi Niang and Twelve Niang definitely didn't believe this kind of words, because across the stream from the few of them, there was Cui Jialang and his party, and they must have all looked straight at each other, how could they have the heart to discuss others.

Many of the purposes of this trip are similar, and after finding this position, they are reluctant to leave.

Cui Qiniang looked at the expressions of several people, quickly got up, invited the two to sit at a low table at the back, and shouted: "Two cousins, come to the table, I heard that the eldest brother specially prepared fresh food for this banquet today, if you don't sit at the table, I'm afraid you will miss the opportunity." ”

Hearing this, Lu Shi Niang and Twelve Niang didn't have time to continue to look at Wang Wu Niang, and immediately sat down in their nearest position.

As soon as I sat down, I curiously asked Cui Qiniang about what she had just said.

"Does my cousin know what my eldest cousin is preparing?"

"I heard that I bought a food recipe from a traveling merchant, and it tastes very good, so I want to invite my friends to get together today, and let the people give us a copy later."

When I heard the first half, everyone's expressions suddenly gloomy, they were all rubbing their own brother's post today, and it was normal to not prepare for their share.

But when I heard the second half of the sentence, I immediately became happy again, and continued to flatter Cui Qiniang.

On the contrary, Wang Wuniang on the side felt that something was wrong, was there anything to eat that had to be enjoyed by a man?

I don't know why her face suddenly turned red when she thought of this little brother, and she felt very regretful about her decision to force Seventh Brother to come here, and even wanted to run away for a moment.

At the same time, Cui Zhiyun, who looks beautiful, also has a bad imagination.

Just when her mind was turning around, Wang Liuniang, who was sitting next to her, felt that her sister's face was not quite right, and asked curiously:

"Sister, it's very cold today, why are you so red?"

When the others heard the voice, they all looked in the direction of Wang Wuniang, and found that it was a gorgeous color that was difficult to ignore, and they all made bad noises in their hearts.

Cui Wuniang hurriedly asked: "Wu Niang is not feeling well, you can go to the guest room to rest for a while." ”

"It's okay, I just smelled something and was choked."

As soon as these words came out, Lu Twelve Niang's face immediately became wrong, she went out this morning and deliberately used the strange fragrance she had just obtained from the Western Regions, Wang Wuniang's words sounded to her as a sarcasm that the spices she used had a strong smell and did not smell good.

And she is also the closest person to Wang Wuniang's seat, thinking of this, the Jinpa she hid under the table is about to be torn apart.

The banquet was not calm, and Cui Xian, who welcomed guests outside the door, also ushered in a new situation.

He didn't expect that the eldest brother would actually invite the scholars of the Hanmen he had met outside, as well as the disciples and the white body.

As soon as he thought that he was going to greet such a person, he felt that it was an offense to his identity as a child of the family, and his face did not reproduce the gentle smile that had just greeted the children of other families.

Du Mingzhao and the others were also accustomed to such situations, as if they hadn't seen Cui Xian's stiff face, they smiled and saluted and shouted, "I've seen Cui Zhizhong." ”

After doing your proper etiquette, you quickly walked to the courtyard.

Cui Xian felt even more offended to himself when he saw such a picture, and his face turned pale, until he saw Qinghe Cui's face, and his face returned to normal.

Soon after the people of Qinghe Cui's appeared, it was almost time for the banquet to begin, and after Cui Xian went in together, he happened to meet everyone who was preparing to start having fun.

He sat down and began to talk with the other five surnames.

At this time, it was not long before the stipulated time to serve, and Zheng Wan was also putting the finishing touches on it.

She first showed everyone how to use the carved small animals to fit perfectly into the plating, and even showed a posture like a phoenix's tail on the plate.

A few crayfish are placed at the top, and the others go down, but the number of crayfish in the next layer grows more and more until they form a phoenix-like picture in the middle of the plate.

As for the mixed vegetables, they are laid on the bottom layer to add a touch of color to the red crayfish.

After all the teaching, Zheng Wan began to prepare for the rest by himself.

I saw her take out the mediocre cucumber slices from the plate, and somehow flip and fold her hands slightly, and a simple and innocent flower appeared in front of everyone.

When she placed the flower on the side of the plate, the original intense red food was immediately reduced in tone, and it did not look so attractive.

But it is this kind of differentiated color and outfit that makes people notice the aroma of the food, and the smell makes people appetite.

Now everyone in the back kitchen has a good eye for this red crayfish that looks a little scary, even a bit like a bug, and with a strong fragrance, it makes people drool when they look at it.

If they didn't know that this was the food of the host's feast, they really wanted to taste it themselves.

Holding back the desire in his heart, he stared intently at the maid in charge of serving the food and took the crayfish away.

The order of serving was the same as Cui Zhiyun imagined, and the first thing that appeared in front of everyone was thirteen spiced red crayfish.

Before the maidservants showed up at the banquet with thirteen-spiced red crayfish, everyone could already smell the fragrance that was spreading in the air.

The people of the time are so fragrant, and even in the eyes of the children of the family, if there is no good fragrance today, then there is no need to go out, so the men and women who appear here today are the same as Lu Twelve Niang's practices, and they all smoke high-quality spices in their clothes.

But compared to the ever-strong fragrance in the air, they suddenly felt that the spices on their bodies were useless, and even the saliva in their mouths was constantly secreting when they smelled the fragrance.

It wasn't until the maid placed the thirteen-spiced red crayfish on the low table that everyone realized that their saliva just now was completely out of physiological instinct, not their own gluttony.

The dazzling red food on the table, the flowers made of emerald green cucumbers decorated on the side, and the childlike little animals, everyone felt that their eyes were bright.

The only thing that is more frightening is that the appearance of this food is not very in line with the aesthetics of the times, even though Zheng Wan has tried his best to hide the crayfish pincers at the bottom, but there are still a lot of them exposed through the gaps.

After receiving a series of shocks, everyone's hearts and eyes invariably looked in the direction of Cui Zhiyun, who was sitting at the top.

Cui Zhiyun noticed everyone's gaze, immediately stood up from the table, and explained:

"This thing is called red crayfish, it is also an edible shrimp, the method is obtained from the hands of a traveling merchant in the Western Regions, called thirteen spiced red crayfish, the taste is wonderful, and a friend is specially invited to taste it together."

Hearing that it was a traveling merchant in the Western Regions, everyone's frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and they knew that this thing was destined to be in the Western Regions and could not be connected.

And there is a practice in the Western Regions, that means that they have already tasted it?

Looking at the confident appearance of the Cui family Dalang, everyone's wandering hearts suddenly fell, and they were drooling just now when they smelled the fragrance of the red crayfish, and now they heard that they could eat it, and everyone didn't care about anything.

After Cui Zhiyun took the initiative to pick up the first chopsticks, everyone couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks in their hands and hurriedly stretched out the red crayfish on the plate.

Wang Qilang picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth, compared to the fragrance he had just smelled, the fragrance of the red crayfish after entering the mouth was really rich, and for a moment he even felt that he had buried his face in a pillow full of spices, and the aroma was dizzy when he took a breath.

And when the tip of his tongue touches the fragrant shell of the red crayfish, he can't help but suck the soup on the shell, which is rich in flavor and amazing.

When the tip of the tongue feels that the aroma of the crayfish shell has been sucked clean, immediately use your teeth to peel off the shell of the crayfish, revealing the tender shrimp meat inside.

As soon as he took a bite, the elastic texture of the shrimp meat was immediately revealed in his mouth, and he could even feel the shrimp "dancing" in his mouth, mixed with the fragrant soup, and he could not satisfy him with one bite at a time.

When he wanted to eat another one, he found that there were only two left on the plate in front of him.

Wang Qilang's eyes immediately turned into a sharp sword and stabbed at the fifteenth brother on the side, his eyes stared at the other party's constantly chewing mouth, and at the same time, he quickly put the thirteen spiced red crayfish placed between the two of them to his outer position.

When Wang Shilang was eating and wanted to put one on the chopsticks in his mouth, he immediately found the death look from the seventh brother.

He was frightened and stepped back suddenly, and said weakly: "It's Brother Qi, you eat too slowly, you didn't mean it." ”

"Then the rest is so-and-so, you eat the fruit on the table."

Wang Qilang viciously left such a sentence that was not a threat, and quickly disposed of the remaining two, otherwise he didn't know how much he could eat.

The male guests are all happy, but the female guests are not in such a good mood, looking at the disgusting creatures in front of them, no one dares to move the chopsticks at all.

Even though Cui Qiniang said before that Cui Zhiyun specially prepared it, and the male guests also ate happily, they didn't even want to move the chopsticks.

Wang Wuniang waited for a while, and found that no one moved chopsticks, including the girl from the Cui family, but she couldn't wait, the fragrance of the thirteen-spiced red crayfish in front of her was too strong, and her heart was tickling.

So, with the surprised eyes of the other girls, she took out a red crayfish from the plate and used two pairs of chopsticks to take out the meat first.

Then she directly put the white and red shrimp meat into her mouth, and the second her tongue touched the shrimp meat, her eyes widened in surprise, what a delicious thing this is!

The fresh meat is springy, tender and smooth, and mixed with the rich flavor of the soup that has been completely integrated into it, it is simply a rare delicacy in the world.

As soon as she finished eating one, she couldn't wait to eat the next.

Even she felt that she was not fast enough, and the red crayfish she ate could not satisfy the craving that burst out of her body, so she turned to look at the maid serving behind her, and shouted:

"You peel the shrimp!"

"No."

Wang Liuniang, who was sitting next to her, was the first to notice that something was wrong, at first she thought it was the fifth sister's heavy taste, but when she smelled it, her stomach began to stir.

Taking advantage of her unpreparedness, she decisively picked up one from the shrimp peeled by the maid, compared to the terrifying appearance of the red crayfish when it was served, it was still like this, and the appearance of only shrimp meat was a little more acceptable to her.

When Wang Wuniang saw this scene, she couldn't wait to reach out and grab it, but she just happened to hold one and couldn't spare her hand at all.

And Wang Liuniang was even more proud, eating the shrimp meat that was fragrant and tender in her mouth, and felt that she really shouldn't judge the taste of food just by its appearance.

The two of them felt that they had already eaten the shrimp before they could eat it.

Naturally, his gaze shifted to the red crayfish on the other people's tables, and Wang Wuniang asked with a rare cheekiness: "Do you eat the crayfish on your table?" Don't eat ......"

"Eat!"

Lu Shi Niang and Lu Shi Niang replied decisively, just looking at the appearance of the two girls of the Wang family, they knew that the taste of red crayfish was not ordinary, and they could also let the maid peel the shell before eating it like them.