Yangcheng

This time, the Spring Appreciation Gathering by the Rocking Star Lake is the biggest event since the beginning of spring.

Early in the morning, the eldest princess made a decision, and the theme of the Gathering was "Shangxie".

If Tang Jianwei is not mistaken, this "Shangxie" should be the folk song of the Yuefu, the song about love.

Let's do it, it's easy to talk about love.

Although Tang Jianwei has never been in a serious relationship with someone's young lady, but she has always been loving, and has watched these two come over since she was a child. Coupled with the descriptions in countless classics and scripts, she wants to express a " The idea of ​​"passionately in love" is not too difficult.

With a bright color, it is best to have a colorful steamed cake, which symbolizes the unpredictable and lively mood when in love, and is also very hungry.

There must be a scene where the magpie bridge meets. Use red bean cake to make a weaver girl, mung bean cake to make a cowherd, and build a delicate and delicious magpie bridge with pasta in the middle.

Before cooking, Tang Jianwei has the habit of drawing the whole picture of the dishes in his mind.

The more complicated and huge the theme is, the more it needs to draw a complete appearance in advance so that it can be revised and adjusted.

Paper is available these days, but it's expensive.

Even in the Tang Mansion in the past, they cherished paper very much.

After writing on the front and writing on the back, you must write the entire paper, and you can't wait for the words to be piled up before you can feel at ease.

In Liantao Mansion, as long as you go to the leader in charge, you can get two pieces of hard yellow paper every day.

This hard yellow paper is different from the cheap white paper. It is waxed on the surface, making it strong and beautiful.

In the circle of the aristocrats in Beijing, hard yellow paper is reluctant to be used on weekdays, and only when writing love letters do they have the heart to tear up a piece of paper.

The eldest princess is really generous to her retainers, just look at the exquisite dresses of the cooks in the Liantao mansion, all the food, clothing, housing and transportation are under the eldest princess's account, and they don't feel bad at all when they squander it.

No wonder so many young ladies are willing to seek refuge with the eldest princess.

Tang Jianwei drew up all the ideas of "Shangxie", and after discussing with the cooks, he began to divide the work and prepare.

This time there are as many as a hundred people at the banquet. Tang Jianwei plans to prepare [-] meat dishes, [-] vegetarian dishes, [-] aquatic products, [-] staple foods, [-] snacks, and various alcoholic beverages.

These cannot be done by her alone.

One of the responsibilities of the head chef is to organize and supervise all the cooks in Liantao Mansion. Everyone will work together to make the eldest princess happy and let the guests of the eldest princess return home happily.

The cooks got the task and went to work separately.

The cook who followed Tang Jianwei to stew the beef was named Shu Yi. She was young, but she worked very quickly. She had been here for three years, so she was considered an old man here.

She puts on a smiling face to everyone all day long, and she doesn't hesitate to ask anyone to help. She is quite the kind of person that people like.

After Tang Jianwei came to Liantao Mansion, she was the first one to initiate a conversation.

Guang Shuyi lit a fire and added firewood, Tang Jianwei put the whole piece of beef into a copper pot filled with water, put in spice balls, waited for it to be cooked and picked it up.

Guang Shuyi asked curiously: "Why don't you use that big iron pot to stew meat?"

"An iron pan is better for cooking."

"Why do you think of cooking in an iron pot? The cooking method of cooking is also very fresh. I have seen recipes for cooking in ancient books, but it is a pity that the oil is difficult to extract and the heat is difficult to control. If you accidentally stir fry Excessive, waste of meat and oil."

Guang Shuyi was a little excited: "Sister, teach me two tricks when you have time! I also want to learn how to cook!"

Tang Jianwei didn't say good or bad, but just sighed a little: "When will I be free? After the spring banquet, it's time to spend summer, and then to enjoy autumn. I'm afraid we have to wait until the windy winter day, Your Highness." Only then can I take a break from the banquet."

It is impossible for Tang Jianwei to teach others the ancestral unique skills that A Niang gave her, but he doesn't want to hurt Guang Shuyi.

Fortunately, she prevaricates first-rate.

The pot gradually heated up, and the bubbles slowly floated up from the bottom of the water. Tang Jianwei was preparing other ingredients while waiting for the meat to be cooked.

Speaking of the eldest princess, Guang Shuyi's face flushed slightly, and she looked at Tang Jianwei with envious eyes.

"Your Highness...does he love you very much?"

Tang Jianwei was making the sauce, and he didn't look away when he heard her words, he just had a migraine expression.

It hurts, it really hurts, she will lose a layer of skin when she rubs her palm.

Guang Shuyi said: "I have been in Liantao Mansion for three years, and I haven't worked as a chef yet."

Tang Jianwei naturally heard the disappointment in her words, so he could only smile awkwardly:

"This chef is all tiring work. The eldest princess doesn't let you be the chef, that's because I feel sorry for you."

"I haven't been to Taiping Mansion for a year, and I haven't spoken to His Highness."

Tang Jianwei: "..."

This time I really can't take it.

Guang Shuyi asked her again: "Has Your Highness favored you?"

Tang Jianwei almost spilled the sauce in his hand.

The current little lady actually talks so deeply in broad daylight!

Tang Jianwei, who was not a human being, felt a little hot on his face, and said in a low voice:

"Guang Siniang, if others listen to these words, they will probably laugh at us."

Guang Shuyi was sitting on a low chair, using the tongs to stir the firewood, and set up a space for the firewood to let air in, and the fire burned even more vigorously.

With his chin resting on his knees, Guang Shuyi whispered:

"If I could have a word with His Highness, I'd be willing even if I didn't sleep. Unfortunately, there's no way..."

Hearing her words, Tang Jianwei felt very uncomfortable.

This infatuated woman reminded her of an event long ago.

In fact, she liked someone.That person was none other than Wu Xianyi who had been verbally engaged to her and had disappeared now.

That was her unrequited love.

Wu Xianyi had never been interested in her, and she could tell that.No matter how much she secretly sends love, it's just a hot face and a cold ass.

After being injured a few times, Tang Jianwei also figured it out. Her engagement with Wu Xianyi was just a marriage between the Tang family and the Wu family, and it was just to consolidate the strength of the two families in Boling and in politics.

Wu Xianyi has always put the Wu family's interests first, and did not object to this marriage, not because she had any affection for Tang Jianwei, but because she didn't want to go against her parents' orders.

Even if the two get married, the best result is to respect each other as "guests".

Wu Xianyi doesn't like her, she knows better than anyone else.

At the age of 15, Tang Jianwei forced himself to stop thinking about Wu Xianyi, and for a long time, there was no disturbance in his heart.

Now when I think of this person again, I feel calm.

It's just that it's easy to be inspired to sympathize with other people's sad things.

The day before the Chun Ya Gathering, Tang Jianwei, a group of cooks, and housekeepers first came to the shore of the Rocking Star Lake to prepare.

They packed up the whole night and waited in full force, just for the next day's Gathering to go smoothly.

Fortunately, the weather was beautiful, and the next day was sunny and sunny, with a slight chill, which was harmless.

Tang Jianwei stayed in front of the stove all night last night and basically did not sleep. As soon as the sun came out, the warmth on her body made her even more sleepy.

When it was almost noon, guests entered the venue one after another, and two young ladies greeted them one by one at the door and took them to their seats.

Those two ladies, Tang Jianwei, had never met before, they looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, their faces were still a little immature, but their manners of hospitality were very sophisticated.

The surface of the lake is shimmering with waves, and the shore is full of flowers. It is a good place to enjoy spring.

Tang Jianwei looked at the lake, his eyes were sore from not sleeping well, and when he yawned, tears rolled down in pain.

The scene where she wiped away her tears with the back of her hand happened to fall into Tong Shaoxuan's eyes.

Tong Shaoxuan and Changsun An came to the Spring Appreciation Gathering together, and just handed in the invitation card to enter the temporary garden. Before he could appreciate the luxury, he saw the man standing on the shore of the lake in the distance, quietly wiping away tears. Beautiful lady.

Tong Shaoxuan was a little distracted by the beautiful woman's crying face, and she didn't react until Changsun An called her.

When he went in with Changsun An, Tong Shaoxuan couldn't help but look back, the beautiful lady had already left.

Boling Mansion is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Tong Shaoxuan's heart was still beating.

As a woman, she hadn't thought about whether she would marry a woman or a man in the future, but the man just now had a gender-neutral attraction.

It is so breathtakingly beautiful, yet so fragile that people want to hold it in their hands and take good care of it.

Who is she...

Tang Jianwei yawned as he went to the back kitchen.

She is really sleepy, I hope that today's Gathering will end early, and she will go back and have a good sleep.

"I said, sister Shaoxuan, don't think about it here."

Changsun An didn't know what she saw, but after looking somewhere, the little lady's face turned red, what else could it be?

He must have been thinking wildly when he saw the beautiful woman.

Changsun An took Tong Shaoxuan's arm, greeted the sisters he knew, and whispered to Tong Shaoxuan:

"Do you know who are the servants at the Eldest Princess's Chunya Appreciation Party? They are not ordinary maidservants. They are all retainers of the Taiping Mansion and belong to the Eldest Princess."

"The eldest princess?"

Changsun An looked around, but no one noticed them at this time, so he gave a brief but focused description of the eldest princess's habit of collecting beautiful ladies...

After listening to it, Tong Shaoxuan was shocked: "In Su County, we only heard about the beauty of the eldest princess. This is the first time I heard what my sister said. Sister, if this is the case, how did we come to this place of tigers and wolves today? ? Let’s run away while the eldest princess doesn’t show up.”

Changsun An knew what she was worried about and couldn't help laughing:

"Oh, my good sister, you think so well. My sister has a pretty face, but the eldest princess has seen thousands of beauties, who can easily fall into the eyes of the eldest princess?"

Tong Shaoxuan's blunt words caused the heat that had just disappeared on his face to rise again immediately.

"You, don't worry, don't talk about being recruited by the eldest princess to fill the 'harem', just being able to take a look at her old man is the virtue accumulated by the ancestors in eight lifetimes. Sister, don't think about those messy things, today we are here to get acquainted For the female officials. The eldest princess’s gathering guests are mostly female officials from the court, let’s get to know each other here first, it’s best for you to get to know one or two, and master more contacts, which will be of great benefit to your future official career.”

Tong Shaoxuan thanked Changsun An.

Changsun An is the granddaughter of Tong Shaoxuan's grandmother's younger brother, so she is indeed a distant relative, but she came to Boling this time, and the Changsun family attached great importance to it, and specially asked Changsun An to receive her.

Taking her to eat and play, and taking her to the Eldest Princess' gathering to accumulate contacts, Tong Shaoxuan was very grateful, and naturally believed in her words.

The ancestors of the Changsun family had a close relationship with the Cang Gaozu Wei's family. Back then, the Changsun family assisted the Wei family in conquering the country, bestowed titles and rewarded fiefdoms, and the Changsun family also produced some high-ranking officials and talents one after another in the past hundred years. In spring or Boling in Kyoto, the Changsun clan is deeply rooted and flourishing.

Changsun An has not yet entered an official position, but he is also a celebrity in the circle of the aristocratic family in Boling Mansion.

She took Tong Shaoxuan around the elegant gatherings and introduced her to the female officials she knew well.

Tong Shaoxuan is 15 years old this year. He is petite and cute, and his beautiful skin is enough to attract people. He is a well-known child prodigy in Su County.

During the conversation, the allusions were easy to come by, and the witty words followed one after another, which made everyone laugh constantly.

While they were chatting and laughing, the eldest princess came.

The appearance of the eldest princess immediately caused quite a commotion.

Tong Shaoxuan and Changsun An retreated to the outermost table, secretly watching the legendary eldest princess.

Tong Shaoxuan had just knelt and sat firmly, when he raised his head, he met the eldest princess sitting on the high platform behind the crowd.

Tong Shaoxuan blinked, closed and opened them again.

The eldest princess is still looking at her.

Tong Shaoxuan was flustered by the unavoidable direct gaze of the eldest princess, and the eldest grandson An added insult to injury by saying:

"Sister Shaoxuan, why do I feel... the eldest princess has been looking at you?"

The corner of Tong Shaoxuan's mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "Sister, stop joking, the eldest princess is obviously looking at you."

As he spoke, he immediately took a bite of the custard that just came up in front of him, feeling overwhelmed.

When the milk cake entered the mouth, the sweet and rich frankincense immediately drew Tong Shaoxuan's attention.

tasty--

Tong Shaoxuan was shocked as he looked at the half-bitten milk cake in his hand.

Am I really ignorant?

Boling A small custard can open my eyes?

When Tong Shaoxuan and Milk cake looked at each other, the eldest princess who had already withdrawn her gaze asked Tao Wanzhi beside her:

"Who is that little lady eating milk cake?"

Tong Shaoxuan: Wait a minute, why am I still childish, "petite" and cute?Am I not Gongjun?

Tang Jian smiled slightly and stroked the puppy's head: he is only 15 years old, and he still has a chance to grow taller.

Tong Shaoxuan: Do I have a chance to grow tall and mighty?

Tang Jianwei: You can be tall, but you can also consider being tall.Let's think about the words Wei and Meng?