Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 270
It wasn't until the dishes were served that Lu Yange realized that today's flower viewing feast at the Duke's Mansion was ingenious.

Not to mention delicacies from mountains and seas, just a few of the dishes made of flowers attracted everyone to eat with their chopsticks, and everyone praised them.

One of the flower cakes is crispy on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside, and has a faint floral fragrance.After eating, the aftertaste is still sweet in the mouth, which makes people want to stop and can't wait to eat another piece.

Gongsun Wanying took a sip and praised: "This cake tastes really good, please try it."

As he spoke, he graciously pushed the plate containing the flower pancakes towards Lu Yange: "It's really delicious, I've never eaten such delicious pancakes."

Lu Yange squeezed one piece and handed it to Shen Zhengqing, took another piece for himself, and pushed the plate of flower cakes towards the center of the table.

Lu Yange took a sip and knew that this flower cake was a new signature dessert made by Ruyilou.

Unexpectedly, for this flower viewing banquet, the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion invited the pastry chef from Ruyilou, the price should not be cheap.

The plate of flower cakes was pushed to the center, and seeing that the big guys hadn't moved, Qi Yuan reached out and took a piece.

She had heard about it. Today, the Zhen Guogong Mansion held a banquet, and specially invited two chefs from Jixianglou to help. Among them was the dim sum chef with the best craftsmanship in Jixianglou.

She also heard that the new dim sum launched by Jixianglou will be made in the Zhenguo Mansion first, and the Jixianglou will launch it the next day after the banquet in the Zhenguo Mansion is over.

In the past few years, as the reputation of Jixianglou has grown, it is already a very honorable thing to invite a master chef from Jixianglou to cook at home when a banquet is held in Beijing.

The Zhen Guogong Mansion was able to invite two master chefs, and even a dim sum chef. It can be seen that, as in the legend, the Jixiang Building was opened by the Zhen Guogong Mansion's own family.

A plate was eight yuan, and four yuan was gone, and half of it had been gone.Another four pieces were piled up on the plate, and several girls sat down, no one reached out first.

"Why don't you eat it?" Zhu Chengyun took one first, and then another for his cousin.

Liu Wanru hurriedly waved her hands and refused: "I, I won't eat."

This pastry is made of puff pastry, so it is delicious to eat, but you must always pay attention when eating it, otherwise crumbs will fall off if you are not careful.

If I didn't take it properly and the crumbs fell on the table, it would be a shame.

Especially at this table, several ladies from the previous dynasty looked down on them the most.

Zhu Chengyun couldn't guess what his cousin was thinking, seeing that she didn't force her to eat, he handed the piece that belonged to her cousin to Lu Yange: "If you like to eat, here you are."

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

The flower cake was really delicious, both Gongsun Wanying and Shen Zhengqing accepted it with a smile.

The remaining two yuan were taken by the two girls of Marquis Wu'an.

Seeing that everyone was eating dim sum, especially Princess Huaiping and Gongsun Wanying, they also used handkerchiefs to hold their dim sum when they ate dim sum, but because one piece of dim sum was split apart, some crumbs still fell on the table superior.

Liu Wanru fixed her gaze on the table, looking at the floating crumbs.Before she could take her eyes back, the maid who was waiting by the side wiped off the fallen cake crumbs with a wet handkerchief, and then changed to a dry handkerchief to wipe it dry.

After everyone had finished their snacks, the maids on the side brought warm water for everyone to wash their hands and change their handkerchiefs.

Liu Wanru didn't eat any snacks, so naturally she didn't need to wash her hands anymore.

She twisted the handkerchief in her hand and looked at Lu Yange who was being wiped by the maid, feeling jealous and hated in her heart.

This is a snack made by the master of Jixianglou. I heard that it costs two taels of silver for four yuan.In their countryside, two taels of silver can buy a big fat pig.

Princess Huaiping is just like her, a girl from the countryside.

However, her aunt is the empress, and her aunt is just the empress dowager's niece, so the identities of the two are very different.

There is also Gongsun Wanying who is chatting and laughing with Princess Huaiping at the side. Don't they, the ladies of the former dynasty, think highly of themselves, look down on the upstarts of the court, and disdain to associate with them?

But why did Gongsun Wanying smile like a flower when she saw Princess Huaiping and Miss Shen.

Liu Wanting thought to herself, these ladies are nothing but couples.

If she spilled crumbs on the table, they would probably laugh at her from the country behind her back if she didn't tell her face to face.

However, Princess Huaiping and Miss Gongsun pretended not to see it.

One is a girl from the Xiangfu, and she is talking about a century-old family. Don't you teach this little rule?
The other is just an orphan who has been raised in the countryside for more than ten years. Now that he has become a princess, he is so high above that everyone has to support him.

Thinking of myself, my aunt married into the Zhu family, and because the Zhu family's aunt became the empress dowager in the palace, the family followed suit.

After my aunt arrived in Beijing, she tried her best to bring her and her elder brother to Beijing. She just wanted to use the power of the Zhu family to find a good marriage for them while the queen mother was still there, so that they could change their ways. The lintel of the Liu family.

Liu Wanru originally thought that as the empress dowager, pointing them to a family at random was better than matching 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 Queen Mother, let alone asked the Queen Mother to give her a marriage.

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

My aunt had thought about it, and wanted to send her to the Prince Qin's mansion, even if she became a concubine, so she could go to the countryside to marry.

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

If King Qin is no longer humane, then she will not even have children. Once King Qin dies, what good will she do as a concubine.

It's better to choose a family among the upstarts of the imperial court in Beijing, such as the Zhen Guogong Mansion.

Even being a concubine to Prince Tang is better than marrying into Prince Qin's mansion.

But my aunt won't let her enter the Duke of Zhen's mansion, and my aunt still wants to marry her cousin to Prince Tang.

Thinking of my aunt who kept saying that it was for her own good, why could my cousin marry Tang Shizi for her own good, and she could only be a concubine for the sick King Qin?
It seems that my aunt is unreliable and can only help herself.

Liu Wanru stared straight at Lu Yange who was opposite, and an idea slowly rose in her heart.

If her elder brother can marry Princess Huaiping, and let her elder brother blow the pillow wind, will she also be able to make a good marriage.

The queen doted on Princess Huaiping so much that Princess Huaiping begged the emperor to make her a princess as soon as she entered the capital, even ignoring her own niece.

It can be seen that the Princess Huaiping has a different weight in the queen's heart.

The handkerchief in Liu Wanru's hand was clenched tighter and tighter, her heart was beating thumping because of the thoughts surging in her heart.

The girls at the table didn't notice Liu Wanru's expression. While everyone was talking, the cold dishes, snacks and fruit plates had been removed, and the hot vegetables and soups were on the table.

The sound of silk and bamboo can be heard all the time. During the banquet, everyone was talking cheerfully.

(End of this chapter)