Chapter 48

The heavy door opened slowly, and all the candidates, driven by the private soldiers of the Ning Mansion, lined up in four neat teams and walked towards the designated direction.

The crowd who had been discussing just now suddenly quieted down. Seeing the sharp spears in the hands of the private soldiers, they didn't even dare to breathe.

Xu Minyan followed in the team, they were not allowed to walk along the middle of the jade board road, they were only allowed to walk along the side of the stone road.If an unreasonable servant steps on the jade board road, the master who is in a bad mood will be beaten to death directly.

He paid attention to the patterns carved on the jade board road, and vaguely saw the appearance of some kind of divine beast. At this time, the golden finger given by the system showed a line of small characters beside the pattern: "Yuan Ji Divine Beast, the totem of the ancient demon race." One, according to legend, this beast can absorb desire, and then return the desire in multiples, and so on, until the prey is tortured to death."

Xu Minyan was still a little unsure that this Ning family was Ning Jiaoping's family in the original novel, but now he is completely sure.In the original work, Ning Jiaoping once gave the hero a clear and bright jade statue, which is the totem of her family's town house, Yuan Ji.

Not long after, they were ushered into a bright and bright courtyard paved with several jade-staggered roads, and dozens of tables were set up in the venue, with all the ingredients and cooking utensils on them.They still had no choice but to pick the stone path, each standing behind the table, waiting for further instructions.

When Xu Minyan raised his eyes to look up, there was only the eldest lady of the Ning family sitting on top. She was wearing a rose-colored dress today, and her hairpin rings were tinkling. Chew and say:

"Tsk tsk tsk, this fifth aunt is really capable. She promised to come, but she won't come now. It's rare for my father to give her the face to ask her to choose, but she is lucky. Even my father is also fascinated. Come on, I don't know where you are nesting to do dirty things."

She spoke vulgar words, but no one dared to object. Every servant stood with their hands down, as quiet as a pillar.

Ning Jiaoping finished eating three pieces of pastry, patted off the crumbs on her hands, and said, "Forget it, don't wait. Why do you ask her to come up with a question, disgusting or not. Let me do the question today, you..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly heard "Master and Fifth Aunt are here -" and several figures walked out slowly.

Xu Minyan secretly glanced over there, and saw a group of servants surrounding a tall and thin old man who was holding a young girl's hand, smiling so much that his eyes were almost gone from his old chrysanthemum face: "Come on, Xiaoyin, Your eyesight is bad, walk slowly."

Xu Minyan's sight was somewhat blocked by the servant who was in the way, and he couldn't see the girl's appearance, but felt that the girl's figure was somewhat similar to Feiyin.The old man put his arms around the girl's waist and sat down on the soft chair, only then did Xu Minyan see the true face of the fifth concubine——

Feiyin!

Her eyes were still ethereal, her face was expressionless, she didn't say a word when she came, she just sat, no matter where the old man's squinting hands were placed, like a jade Guanyin.

Feiyin's beauty is a bit more mundane than when she was a girl, but she is still overwhelmed, even with a ruthless smile, I am afraid that the old man will be willing to confuse her.

She had lost a lot of weight, her bones were sticky, and her face was snow-white. Xu Minyan guessed that she had some kind of illness, and it had been dragging on until it was cured.Ordinary people whose spiritual power is sealed, even if their spiritual roots are still there, it is even more difficult to re-cultivate like Su Qingzhi.A delicate woman like Feiyin used to rely on her spiritual power to live her life, but once she lost her spiritual power, her physical fitness would decline sharply, and various diseases would come one after another.Coupled with all the misfortunes and displacements she encountered, as well as the intrigue in the Ning Mansion, it was difficult for her body to support her.

Ning Jiaoping was in a strange mood: "You have a big temper, you're just a concubine, you don't even say hello to Miss Ben, are you dumb?"

Xu Minyan: ...Eldest sister, she is blind, she really can't see you.

However, Feiyin didn't seem to hear the harsh ridicule, so she still didn't speak.

Master Ning laughed and squeezed Feiyin's little hand: "Xiaoyin, you too, just ask Jiaoping, don't keep talking, huh?"

Feiyin was still indifferent, her beautiful eyes were half downcast, she ignored her.

The master of the Ning family was not annoyed, he said kindly: "Xiaoyin, what questions do you come up with to test them today? Today is mainly because you are happy, you choose the cook, as long as you are willing to eat well, you can do whatever you want."

Xu Minyan probably understood some of the ins and outs.It seems that Feiyin was unhappy after she got married, and she didn't want to eat anything after she got sick, so Ningfu was looking for a cook everywhere.It's just that I was worried that Miss Ning's family would not like it, so I said in the notice that the dim sum is for young masters and ladies.

Feiyin remained expressionless, she opened her mouth, and faintly uttered two words:

"……moon cake."

Master Ning's family came close to her mouth to hear these two words, and hurriedly announced: "Today's competition is like mooncakes! You guys make it, make it!"

When Xu Minyan heard this, he knew how to do this, and he thought he did a good job.This is a good thing, but it also means that other candidates will do the same, and the taste is probably not worse than his.

How can he stand out from the crowd of more than 30 mooncakes and make Feiyin notice him?

Xu Minyan saw that the other candidates had already started to work on their own, and he also started to prepare. A sudden idea occurred in his mind, and he got a piece of red cloud wooden flute from the storage bag.

He slipped a small blade out of his hand, and lightly scraped the end of the wooden flute twice.Hearing the sound of the blade scraping the wooden flute, he felt a pain in his heart, but thinking of the purpose of this trip, he held back.

He bent his palm into a bowl shape, caught the falling powder, and carefully mixed it into the stuffing.The smell of this red cloud wood is almost inaudible to ordinary people, but Feiyin was born blind and extremely sensitive to smells. Last time she was able to recognize the owner with only a handkerchief. I don't know if she can do it this time. Can you smell this little red cloud wood aroma.

Next, he concentrated on making moon cakes.When it was time for the competition, the contestants put the mooncakes on the tray, and the servants presented them and cut them into small pieces. They were first eaten by a group of slaves who tested the poison, and they waited for a stick of incense before presenting them to the master, Feiyin and Ning. Jiaoping eats.

Ning Jiaoping picks and chooses, chooses a piece that she likes, puts it in her mouth and tastes it, her eyebrows frowned, she doesn't say yes or no.The master of the Ning family on the opposite side also ate a little bit, but he felt that it was sweet, but he didn't think it was anything special, and he didn't want to continue to try other things.

Feiyin didn't want to taste it.She had been feeling unwell recently, and the doctor had told her not to eat greasy and heavy food, and it was such an uneasy occasion, she didn't want to stay for a second.However, when the servant presented the tray in front of her, she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance——

This, this is not the aroma that will appear in mooncakes.

Her memory vaguely went back to a few years ago, when she was an ignorant girl, carefree, there were patches of red cloud trees planted behind Qingchenmen Mountain, which bloomed every ten years and bore fruit every 30 years.When she just came out of the dark room, she didn't understand anything. One day, she followed the scent of the back mountain, but she stumbled and bumped into Su Qingzhi's arms.

The girl's face was red at that time, but she didn't know why.Later, Su Qingzhi picked many red cloud flowers and gave them to her. Although she couldn't see them, she could imagine how brilliant and unparalleled these flowers should be.

Feiyin couldn't help herself, stretched out her slightly cold pale fingers, touched the small piece of mooncake, brought it to her lips, took a bite, and finally became convinced that it was not her illusion, but Chiyunmuxiang.

The taste of sawdust powder made her mouth dry and astringent, but she was so excited that she shed tears.She grabbed all the small pieces that contained red cloud wood, held them in her hands and ate them.Red cloud wood is not a tree that ordinary people can plant, it is a fairy plant that is fed by aura.Ordinary cooks would not put red cloud wood powder into mooncakes, she is not stupid, she knew that this cook must have an unusual background.

Brother Su must have sent someone to rescue her.

Seeing that Feiyin actually ate, and even ate so much in one go, Master Ning's family couldn't help being overjoyed: "Who made this mooncake?"

Xu Minyan knew that the matter was done, he breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward and said, "It was the villain Xu who did it."

When Feiyin heard that the person's surname was Xu, she tried her best to recall, she seemed to have seen someone with the surname Xu.When I went to Lingxi Gate that time, the senior brother of the genius Qin Hanchuan.She remembered, and heard that Senior Brother Xu of the Pohua Seat, Fengya Wushuang, raised a little bird and fed it all red cloud fruits, so there was always some faint scent of red cloud fruits on his body.

Master Ning recruited a servant and wanted to reward him heavily. Just as he was about to talk about the kitchen errand, Ning Jiaoping suddenly sneered: "Father, you are so hasty to recruit someone without asking your daughter's opinion?"

Master Ning smiled until his face was full of creases: "Jiaoping said, Jiaoping said."

Ning Jiaoping pinched a small piece of mooncake in her hand, squinted her eyes: "I think this piece is delicious, let's hire someone who will make this mooncake."

Master Ning said: "Okay, okay. Who made this piece? I'll go to Missy's small kitchen to make desserts for our Jiaoping."

The person who made the mooncake was about to stand up to receive the credit, when Ning Jiaoping's expression changed suddenly, she threw the mooncake on the ground, stepped on it, twisted it vigorously, and pointed at the dirty and greasy piece: " Fifth Yiniang, I just saw you eating mooncakes so happily, it must be because I didn’t eat good things when I was a lowly slave. Miss Ben is happy today, why don’t you come and taste these mooncakes too?”

Xu Minyan was very angry, he turned his head to look at Feiyin, only to see that Feiyin didn't bat an eyelid at this kind of provocation, and said lightly: "...No, I'm full."

However, Ning Jiaoping didn't intend to just let Feiyin go, she suddenly raised her voice: "Bitch, don't be shameless!"

Feiyin smiled miserably: "Oh, I can't wait to lose my life."

Ning Jiaoping was burning with anger, she strode over, swung her arms and slapped Feiyin's pale cheeks fiercely, suddenly she felt a gust of wind passing by her side, and her arms suddenly stopped in the air——

Xu Minyan came to her at some point, smiled politely at her, and pinched her wrist with two fingers: "Miss Ning, hit the bitch in your eyes, don't get your hands dirty."

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