Chapter 35: The Mid-Autumn Banquet (I)
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yun Yifeng was still very busy as the lord of a city, and he received the ministers early in the morning, as well as the foreign envoys' congratulations, originally the banquets of these foreign ministers were arranged in the evening in previous years, but because this year Yun Man made a group of new friends like the beginning, so he specially arranged the banquet for the ministers at noon, and the evening was changed to a family banquet, only invited some royal relatives and their families.
And on Yun Manqing's side, early in the morning, a large group of people went back to the southern capital again. From the street to the end of the street, I ate a lot of snacks and snacks, and bought a lot of fresh gadgets.
"Wow, what is this selling?" Wan Ruo and his party followed Yun Manqing to a place where many embroidered bags were hung.
"Just look at it, this is a sachet seller. ”
"But why do people who sell sachets still sell flowers?" asked Wan Ruochu puzzled.
Without waiting for Yun Manqing to answer, the boss gave her a puzzle: "The girl is from out of town, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also a good season for people to reunite with beautiful people, the girl can buy some sachets and flowers, and when she sees her favorite Lang Jun when she goes shopping, or when she sees a handsome and dashing son, she can throw it with sachets and flowers to express her admiration." ”
"Wow, that's okay, but it sounds like a lot of fun. As he spoke, he took out some broken silver and bought a lot of flowers and sachets to distribute to the big guys.
The three men all looked at her expressionlessly and continued on their way.
"Don't regret it, when you see a beautiful girl, you won't have anything to throw away!"
"Miss, don't you already have His Highness Yebai, why do you still want to buy these things?" Yinzhu asked a little puzzled, and muttered in his heart, "Isn't this another dissent, no wonder His Highness Yebai's face has become ugly." ”
"Sister Yinzhu, what you said is not right, throwing sachets and flowers at others is an appreciation and praise for others, everyone has a love for beauty, it does not mean that you want red apricots to go out of the wall. Yun Manqing said and stuffed some into her hand, and added, "Especially for someone like you who is not married and he is not married, you have to throw more." ”
"I don't want it, I'll follow Miss for the rest of my life. ”
"Silly Yinzhu, a long life, who knows what will happen in the future. Listen to Manman, it's right to cast more. "Although she bought so many at the beginning, she only chose a bouquet of purple flowers and a purse embroidered with a pair of people, and accelerated her pace to keep up with Yebai.
"For you. As soon as he said this, he sent the things into Yebai's arms, and walked forward calmly.
Yebai was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he held the thing tightly in his hand.
The women on the street, when they saw Yebai, they were still in a wait-and-see state, and when they saw what it was like the first delivery, they were all ready to move, and they threw flowers and purses at them one by one.
"Wow, that boy in white is the most handsome, I like it!"
"I like that one in purple clothes, look at those streamer Danfeng eyes, he just glanced at me, Mom, I can't stand it!"
"I think the little man in blue flowers on the edge is not bad, and he is also personable!"
"So what are you waiting for, sisters, vote!"
As soon as the words fell, many flowers and purses smashed at them overwhelmingly, and in an instant, the scene was a little out of control.
"Mom, it's crazy!" As soon as the first words fell, he was picked up by Yebai's shoulders and flew away, away from the crowd.
"Oh my God, you women in the Southern Capital are crazy too. "At the end of the street corner, Katafu was the last to flee the battlefield and run to meet everyone.
"What are you panicking about, and it's not throwing rotten leaves and rotten eggs at you. Ruruo Chu covered his mouth and smiled.
"Yes, they are showing their love for you. Yinzhu also learned from her own young lady, and made fun of the style.
"If you can't accept this kind of enthusiasm, is this okay?" Yun Manqing said, stuffing the selected flowers and purse into the sleeve of his coat, and ran towards the gate of the City Lord's Mansion with his head lowered in embarrassment.
As if Chu and Yinzhu looked at the somewhat shy piece of wind and smiled, they quickly kept up with Yun Manqing's pace.
No one noticed that there was an extra pale white flower behind the tulle coat at the beginning.
The Mid-Autumn Festival dinner finally came in everyone's anticipation.
The banquet was held in the county lord's Yunying Palace.
The palace people have been arranging in the main hall since the morning, and there is a long brown dark pattern table in the right place, on which a lot of food has been arranged, a long-mouthed jade pot, a jade wine glass, and the silver and white double chopsticks, neatly placed on the porcelain white chopsticks pillow. The back of the chair is carved with a dragon pattern, and the handles on both sides are dragon heads with red beads in their mouths, and the place where they hold hands is a dragon body painted with golden dragon scales.
Everyone has basically arrived, Yebai and his party were arranged as guests in the head seat in the east, and Yun Manqing was originally going to be arranged to sit with Yun Yifeng, but she refused, so she sat on the head seat opposite Yebai.
Because it was a family banquet, the number of people attending the whole banquet was about 20 people. Yun Yifeng's generation does not have many collaterals, only two cousins, and more than a dozen people from the two veins. Because the old lord of the city was the son of an old man, his cousins were much older than him, not only were they married, but even their children were not much younger than him.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. As soon as the dusty Yun Yifeng came in, he apologized to the people present.
"The city lord has a lot of opportunities, so what's the point of us waiting. The one who spoke was Yun Yifeng's Uncle Lobby, who was already over a hundred years old, and his hair and beard were all white, but he still looked very tough. The grandson who was supporting him on the side was Yun Yifeng's nephew Yun Yitian, who was only a few years younger than Yun Yifeng.
"Let's take our seats and start eating. After speaking, he said to the leader Yebai: "Brother Night, don't be restrained, you big guys, try more of the food of our Nandu." ”
Yebai looked at Wan Ruochu, who was a little nervous, and smiled, "We won't be polite." ”
After some politeness, the palace people began to serve food.
The first dish is a soup called the dragon and the phoenix. The soup is filled with a chicken and tender loaches. The chicken has some dates and white lotus buried in it, while the loach has been stripped of the bones, and the meat is fresh and delicious in the mouth. The palace man took a turquoise jade bowl and filled it with milky white soup and placed it in front of everyone. A scent enters the nose.
"Wow, this soup is so fresh!" As if I had tasted the soup for the first time, I couldn't help but praise it, but when I bit the white lotus, there was still something unnatural, after all, it was my family, so why not be in a hurry.
Yun Yifeng saw that she obviously praised the soup for being delicious, but why did she drink it with a mouthless expression. Yun Manqing on the other side also found out, but she couldn't hide her words like her brother, so she asked her directly: "Didn't you say that the soup was delicious, why did you have such an expression that you couldn't swallow, sister?"
Yun Manqing said a word, and everyone looked at Wan Ruochu. And she just used a spoon to scoop a few lotus seeds, and she didn't know whether to eat or not to eat in her mouth, but in this bowl of soup, the palace people scooped a lot of lotus seeds.
Ziyan saw it, couldn't help laughing, and deliberately said to her, "Ruochu girl, this is just an ordinary lotus seed, it's okay." ”
As if he glared at Ziyan for the first time, he said secretly, of course I know!
When she finished hating Ziyan and was about to start eating lotus seeds, the lotus seeds in the spoon were gone, and then she looked at the night white bowl on the side, there were several more.
Just when she felt a little embarrassed, the palace people had already started to serve the second dish, which was a small cold dish with an open flavor - Qinglong Woxue. Select the most tender and greenest cucumber and cut it into small slices, mix it with vinegar, and then arrange it in the shape of a coiled dragon on top of a thin layer of crushed white sugar, which is very vivid.
The soup was drunk, the stomach was opened, and the main course was served.
The dishes are actually similar to what they ate at Avon Zhai that day, but today's main dishes are meat dishes, so almost halfway through the feast, everyone feels a little full. Just when everyone thought that the dishes in the back were almost the same, several palace people came with a big silver plate, and when everyone saw the contents clearly, they couldn't help but praise it. It turns out that inside this silver plate is a huge egg pancake, which is not a fried egg, because there are fresh shrimp, minced meat slices, peeled melon seeds, small pine nuts, and a layer of white sesame seeds is sprinkled on the surface of the egg, which smells particularly fragrant.
"This is a big moon pancake specially made by the Imperial Dining Room, just like the round moon in the sky, I hope that everyone can have this day every year, and be able to reunite with the most important people. After Yun Yifeng finished speaking, he instructed the palace people to cut the big moon full pancakes.
This cake is mainly made of eggs and flour, and after frying, the outer layer is golden and crisp, and the ingredients inside are very soft, and it is very delicious to eat.
"Not only does this cake have a good meaning, but it also tastes good, and the method is very peculiar. "It's as if when I first said this, I had already eaten several pieces.
"If the first girl doesn't have to be in a hurry, there are delicious things to eat later. Yun Yifeng was very happy to see her eating so happily.
"Ah, there's something delicious, but I feel like I'm full. After eating four or five flatbreads, she really couldn't eat them, so she touched her stomach and put down the silver-white chopsticks in her hand.
"Don't worry, the latter one is not a dish, it doesn't take up much of your stomach, and besides, it's okay to eat a full twelve points once in a while. Yun Manqing said to her mysteriously.
Not long after she finished saying this, the palace people rushed in again, and one of them held a small round jade bowl in front of everyone. Inside the bowl was some solidified, milky white stuff.
"Wow, it's my favorite after-dinner freeze. Yun Yifeng's little nephew, who was only seven or eight years old, happily said as he took a small spoon and scooped up a small piece of white stuff and put it in his mouth.
As if they saw that children liked to eat this thing very much, they hurriedly dug a spoonful and put it in their mouths, and it was really soft and smooth, sweet, and had a faint milky fragrance.