Da Suining

Chapter 35 Fake cry
In February, the snow has melted, the grass has sprouted, and the water in the moat is also high. Small merchants and hawkers in Qingcheng are hawking along the street, people come and go in several big alleys, and artists on the overpass are also busy from morning to night. The whole city came alive.

Xiangfu.

All the charcoal basins in winter were put away, the hand stove was also put into the cabinet, all kinds of cloaks were washed and folded into the cages, the ones covered in the twelfth lunar month were dried in the sun and put away, and the women in each house hugged the thin ones again. Put on some bedding.

When the warm wind blows, the vegetable sprouts on the open space in the backyard also stretch out, making them extraordinarily green.

Madam Su, who was beside Mrs. Xianglao, told the little girls to take good care of the flowers and plants in Dongkuayuan, and brought rose flower cakes and Dingsheng cakes by herself, and replaced the water in the teapot with warm water.

Xiang Suining accompanied Mrs. Xiang to play cards. It was mid-noon, and his stomach began to growl.

"These two kinds of dim sum are rare, who made them?" Mrs. Xiang saw the pink cake and the bright red pastry, and felt that the color was very good, unlike the past dim sum, which was either white or yellow.

Su Momo hurriedly picked out a piece of rose flower cake and handed it to Mrs. Xiang, and another piece of Dingsheng cake for Xiang Suining, saying: "Madam, let's taste how it tastes."

Madam Xiang chewed it, her mouth was full of fragrance, the smell of roses was very strong, she was satisfied, she smiled and said: "This dessert looks good, and the taste is also good."

"It was said in the kitchen that this is called rose flower cake. Eat it to nourish your face, and the more you eat, the younger you will become. The old lady eats a piece, and she looks much younger." Su Momo joked with a smile.

Mrs. Xiang's smiling eyes narrowed: "You mother-in-law is also chewing and talking incoherently. What's the name of the pastry in the second girl's hand?"

"According to the kitchen, it's called Dingsheng Cake. When the capital was established in the early Southern Song Dynasty, the Yue family army went out many times to protect the territory. The people in the city sent Dingsheng Cake along the way, hoping that they would be able to settle down and win." Su Momo smiled. Said: "The second girl eats this Dingsheng cake, which is also appropriate for the occasion."

"It's so good." Mrs. Xiang was served by Madam Su and ate a few more cakes, and praised: "This cake is soft and glutinous, and the taste is very good. There are such skillful people in our kitchen." ? Did you buy a new lady in the kitchen?"

"No, it is said that a servant named Qiniang did it."

Xiang Suining had been cooking in the kitchen for several years, she knew Qiniang, she was taciturn, with a slender figure, as if she could be blown away by a gust of wind.She is inconspicuous in the kitchen, she is not as good as the wives who are in charge of cooking. She used to do some washing and cleaning, which seemed to be half a penny a month.

It's rare for her to have such a craft.

Before the snacks were finished, Tang Xiaoniang came.

Because Tang Xiaoniang came to make clothes for Xiang Suining, Mrs. Xiang didn't treat her harshly.

Su Momo hurriedly brought the brocade stool over.

Tang Xiaoniang sat sideways, and asked Mrs. Xiang with a smile: "Mother is playing cards. Seeing that Mother is in a good mood, I can have some snacks. How does it taste?"

Madam Xiang nodded.

Madam Su has already brought tea to Tang Xiaoniang.

Tang Xiaoniang held the tea and said with a smile: "I'm tired of eating those things in the kitchen all the time. I just think they have no skills. No, the kitchen made small snacks. The meaning is good. I eat them as well." I think it's appropriate, so I specially rewarded each of them with a hundred dollars, and I must work hard in the future."

"It's so good, treating the servants seriously is the teaching of our ancestors." Mrs. Xianglao gave a rare compliment.

Xiang Suining felt strange. In the past, no matter what kind of birds and beasts Tang Xiaoniang ate, with wings or without wings, as long as it was delicious or expensive, she would eat it alone behind closed doors, lest Xiang Suining smell it. Wei'er, let the kitchen make delicious food for everyone to enjoy together, how do you feel that the weasel is going to give the chicken a new year's greeting?
Maybe she is careless?

Tang Xiaoniang was enlightened by a Bodhisattva?
Suddenly, there was a burst of crying.

Xiang Yan hugged her bundle and knelt down in front of Mrs. Xiang, shaking off the bundle, it was the clothes made by Liuyunfang.

"Okay, why are you crying?" Tang Xiaoniang scolded her with tea: "Your grandmother is above, why are you crying and crying, there is something that your grandmother can't decide for you."

Mrs. Xiang felt that she was put on airs, so in order to avoid being bombarded, she put down the sign and said seriously: "I am a bad old woman, what can I do, this mansion is no longer my world."

Tang Xiaoniang's complexion changed.

"If you have anything to say, just say it. My eyes are swollen from crying. It won't go away in a while. How will I see people in a few days?"

Xiang Yan immediately stopped speaking.

Just now for acting, it seems too painful to cry. If the eyes are swollen from crying, wouldn't it be a disadvantage when going to the banquet?
The play is over.

Xiangyan stopped crying, not a single tear was on her face.

But Tang Xiaoniang told the maidservant Chunyu: "Third Miss is crying like this, wipe away her tears quickly."

Chunyu hurriedly pulled the handkerchief and stepped forward, gently pressing Xiangyan's face.Xiangyan lowered her head again, snorted a few times with her handkerchief, and cleared her nose.

Xiang Suining watched all this with cold eyes.

This is not the first time seeing Xiangyan crying, every time she cries, others will be unlucky, now in Dongkuayuan, grandmother is the elder after all, so there will be no unlucky, so who else?Of course it was aimed at her.

Sure enough, Xiangyan shook off the bundle, and the clothes inside fell out.

"The clothes are fine, what are you throwing on the ground?" Mrs. Xiang thought it was a pity, and asked Su Momo to pick them up. Su Momo picked up the clothes, but found that there were several holes in the top, as if scissors had been dropped.

15 A thing of two denarii, a crime.Madam Su held up the clothes for Mrs. Xiang to see.

Mrs. Xiang also felt sorry: "The clothes that are so raw, what do you cut them for? I didn't say you three girls, you have some temper, I know it, but who are you angry with? What do you cut it for? Cut it You are happy, what will you wear the day after tomorrow?"

Seeing that Mrs. Xiang was about to go astray, Tang Xiaoniang hurriedly corrected her: "Mother, it's too late for Yan'er to like this dress. How could she cut it for no reason? It was cut by someone else, so I came here to let my mother uphold justice."

"Who cut it?" Mrs. Xiang was puzzled.

"Yan'er, tell me. Tell your grandmother."

Xiang Yan squinted at Xiang Suining.

"Third Miss, don't rely on Second Miss, I don't believe it." Mrs. Xiang naturally protected Xiang Suining.

Xiangyan started howling again, with a very sad look: "Grandmother think about it, why do others want to cut my clothes, only the second girl, she thinks I am more beautiful than her, she is not convinced, she wants me to go, only she..."

Xiangyan was weeping like complaining, she pointed at Xiang Suining, her eyes could shoot fire.

Mrs. Xiang still defended Xiang Suining: "Third Miss, that's just what you thought. You can't count the things you imagined."

"It was the second girl who cut it."

"Third girl, if you want to talk nonsense again, ask your mother to hire a doctor for you as soon as possible, and see if you are seriously ill. Don't blame grandma for not loving you, I just want to make you angry at me, I don't want to see you make a fuss without evidence, so go back."

(End of this chapter)