Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 296 New Tea and Old Tea

  Fresh crucian carp with shredded meat, parsley and green soup.

The daily banquet in the Hou Mansion is so extravagant, the materials are extremely exquisite, the workmanship is extremely fine, and the dishes are extremely complete. It is like a full banquet in Han Dynasty. . It's just such a meal, I don't know how much silver taels it will cost, but it must not be a small amount.

  After the meal, a little maid brought a cup of fragrant tea to Zhu Pingan on a small tea tray.

  Zhu Ping'an noticed that the old lady in the Hou's mansion hadn't served fragrant tea yet, but this little maid served herself a cup of fragrant tea first. From the corner of his eye, he noticed the ladies of the Hou Mansion, including Fatty Zhou, and looked at him with probing and joke-seeking eyes, as if they were waiting for this country bumpkin to make a joke.

  From their eyes, Zhu Pingan knew that this cup of tea came on purpose just after thinking about it.

  After being reborn in Ming Dynasty, although I never rinsed my mouth with tea after meals, I have seen the Dream of Red Mansions, and I know the habit of these wealthy families to rinse their mouths with tea after meals.

  So, I can only disappoint everyone, Zhu Pingan took the teacup and slightly hooked the corners of his lips.

  Look, the bumpkin took the teacup, heck, he really drank it as tea, heck

  The Sixth Miss of the Hou Mansion stared at Zhu Ping'an with her big eyes without blinking, and many little stars flashed in her pupils excitedly.

Zhu Pingan took the teacup and held it up as expected. In the white porcelain bowl, there were pieces of slender tea leaves like sparrow tongues. The tea color was emerald green and exuded a faint tea fragrance. It was really good tea. Ah, it's a pity, but it's for gargling, what a luxury.

  In the eyes of everyone, Zhu Pingan picked up the teacup, and then took a big sip, a big sip.

   Actually took such a big sip.

  It's like a cow chewing peonies, it's really worthless.

  In the living room, except for Li Shu's master and servant, everyone else had smiles on their lips, waiting to see Zhu Ping'an's joke. Especially the Sixth Miss of the Hou Mansion has shifted her gaze from Zhu Ping'an to Li Shu, and when Zhu Ping'an makes a fool of herself, look at Li Shu's expression.

  However, to the disappointment of the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion, Li Shu didn't show any nervous expression on her face. In Li Shu's heart. Even if Zhu Pingan didn't know that it was gargling tea, so what, this Hou Mansion is just a group of toads in the well guarding the little glory left by their ancestors, and they can't see Mount Tai with a single leaf! They are all a group of self-styled, self-righteous toads.

   Just the next scene. The Sixth Miss of Linghou Mansion and the others were once again disappointed.

After Zhu Pingan took a big sip of tea, he looked at the little girl who brought the tea. Under Zhu Ping's gaze, the little girl slowly took out the bowl, and then Zhu Ping rinsed it with tea. After rinsing his mouth, he handed the teacup back to the little maid again.

  This bad guy always likes to play tricks on people like this. The corner of Li Shu's mouth curled up into a smile, and then she rinsed her mouth with tea.

  After gargling, another little maid served another cup of tea on a saucer. This cup of tea was the real after-dinner tea.

  Li Shu picked up the teacup, pinched the tea lid with her slender hands and tapped the rim of the cup a few times, cherry lips blew slightly, put the teacup by her lips, Qiongbi sniffed slightly, but put it down again.

   "Fifth sister. Why don't you drink it, but you are not used to it? Why don't you ask someone to make a bowl of sugar water for your sister?"

The Sixth Miss of the Hou Mansion blinked her big watery eyes, and asked curiously like a baby, her expression was full of concern between sisters, but in the words, sugar water, sugar water or something, it was easy to think that Li Shu came from the countryside, with a A faint feeling of contempt.

   "Yeah, I'm not used to it."

  When Li Shu heard this, she looked at Sixth Sister with big watery eyes and a half-smile, with a playful smile on her small mouth.

   It hasn't waited for the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion to smile. Li Shu went on to say:

   "This tea looks like a sparrow's tongue, golden yellow and light green in color, and the tea soup is also bright green and bright, with a clear and high taste. Is this the authentic Huangshan Maofeng?"

  The Sixth Miss of the Hou Mansion was a little surprised, "Fifth Sister has good eyesight."

"However, it is a pity that although this cup is Huangshan Maofeng, the tea buds have shrunk, and the color is green but there is a touch of withered yellow. ?" Li Shu held an embroidered handkerchief in her slender hands and gently wiped her lips, her dark eyes deliberately overflowing with obvious disgust.

  The sixth lady of the Hou Mansion opened her mouth slightly, she was very surprised. She didn't expect Li Shu to be able to tell that it was Huangshan Maofeng, and she didn't expect Li Shu to be able to tell that it was Chen Cha.

"Drinking tea should be new, and drinking should be old. I live at home and often drink new tea, unlike my sister. I am really not used to this old tea. In the past, the mansion still drank new tea. Why do I drink it now?" Chen Cha is here."

Li Shu put down her embroidered handkerchief, stared at Sixth Sister with a pair of clear eyes, her beautiful eyes turned around, she smiled slightly, spoke lightly, and then turned around and casually ordered to the little maidservant Baozi who was standing behind her, "Hua'er, order me down, Flying Pigeon Chuan Shujia sent two carts of this year's new tea, oh, remember to order Longjing before the rain. After this spring, when the new tea is picked, I will send two carts."

   "Good lady."

  The little maid of Baozi puffed up her chest when she heard the words, and responded with a breath of air, then turned around and walked out, full of air, with her feet raised high.

  Everyone in Hou Mansion

   This girl's temper really hasn't changed at all. Zhu Pingan glanced at Li Shu, who was covering her small mouth and full of ladylike temperament, and curled her lips silently.

The dinner in the Hou's Mansion ended just like that, and everyone left separately. Except for the old lady of the Hou's Mansion who said to sit down at the beginning, she never said anything to Zhu Ping'an, and she didn't treat Zhu Ping'an at all. It means being the son-in-law of the Marquis.

  Of course, Zhu Pingan didn't take it to heart at all.

  After the dinner, Zhu Ping'an followed the original path to the guest room. There were maids and servants passing by from time to time along the way, but these servants and servants looked at Zhu Ping'an in a strange way, as if with a sense of ridicule.

  These servant girls knew the master of the Hou Mansion well. Seeing Zhu Ping'an's obviously unfamiliar face, they knew that Zhu Ping'an was the new fifth uncle in the Hou Mansion today. For them, the most powerful person in the Hou Mansion is of course the old lady of the Hou Mansion, and the second is the elder who inherited the Marquis of Linhuai. However, the richest person in the Hou Mansion is the third master. The annual expenses of the Hou Mansion , A lot of it was filled by the third master. Every year, the stewards sent by the Hou Mansion to the third master's place would use carriages and carriages to pull money into the mansion.

  However, what they couldn't understand was that Miss Fifth, the jewel in the palm of the third master's favorite, was promised to a poor scholar from the countryside. This news was known to everyone in the Hou Mansion at the time, and it made many young servants feel dissatisfied. The poor scholars in the countryside are not as good as them. Envious and jealous, the Hou Mansion circulated a lot of stories about the Fifth Young Master. .

  What about getting married, inserting the door backwards, etc. Anyway, every version is not good.

  So, now that I see the fifth uncle himself, I can't help but think of those versions of the stories about the fifth uncle. They didn't dare to say anything on the face, but they scorned them in their hearts.

  (end of this chapter)