Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2307 It Turns Out to be Hidden Here 3.0

There is a beautiful spot in the front yard of Wudinghou Mansion, with flowing water, a bamboo bridge, and a pavilion that can be used for banquets.

This pavilion is not a pavilion in the ordinary sense. Although it is like an ordinary pavilion in that it is transparent on all sides and has no obstructions, it is much larger than an ordinary pavilion and is not much different from the flower hall of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion next door.

The layout inside the pavilion is also quite elegant and seems to have taken some thought, giving people a feeling of spring flowers as soon as they enter.

Xue Ruitian arranged the family dinner this time in this pavilion, which was surrounded by rockery to block the wind, and with a few charcoal braziers placed in the corner. It was not as cold as the side hall and was relatively ventilated.

"Here." Jin Miaomiao looked at the layout of the pavilion and sighed, "The layout here still maintains the same style as when Aunt Xue was here."

"My mother likes this style, and I don't have any particular preferences in this regard, so I'll just keep it this way. It looks good, right?"

Xue Ruitian smiled and asked the Third Master and Old Madam Ning to sit at the head of the main table. He, Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Xiao Fengqi sat with them, while the others went to the small tables next to them.

I originally wanted to ask Sister Ning Cheng to come over, but she refused. She needed to take care of the children, so it was really inconvenient.

Xue Ruitian thought about it and agreed, so he asked Xue Mu to arrange for someone to send food to Sister Ning Cheng, as well as some food for the baby, so that she wouldn't be too busy chatting with them and would not be able to take care of them.

Ning Cheng should actually sit at the main table next to Old Madam Ning, but he really didn't want to eat at the same table with his elders, so he hurriedly slipped to the children's table next to him and sat next to Jin Miaomiao and Hongye.

"He came here dejectedly." Hongye gave Ning Cheng a duck paw, "One of our brothers braised it himself, it tastes good."

Ning Cheng thanked Hongye, picked up the duck feet, took a bite, and said, "If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't be able to eat the braised duck feet." He turned his head to look at the main table where tea was used instead of wine, clicked his tongue twice, and said, "Just toasting this and that will take up a lot of my energy. It's better to come here and eat and drink happily." He looked at Qi Zhifeng who was sitting opposite him, "But Master Qi, why are you here too? Shouldn't you be over there?"

"The reason is the same as yours. Brother Fengqi is enough at that table. I don't need to show up." Qi Zhifeng looked at the snacks that had just been served, took a half-cut pig's trotter and took a bite. "I'm still a baby, so I won't make small talk with those adults."

"Indeed!" Jin Miaomiao sat down, stretched out her hand and pinched Qi Zhifeng's cheek, and said with a smile, "Look at this chubby, soft little face, he is indeed still a baby!"

"Hmm!" Qi Zhifeng snorted twice and said, "By the way, aren't Brother Xiaoyun and the others coming to eat?"

"They have other things to do, so they won't come." Jin Miaomiao looked at Qi Zhifeng and raised her eyebrows slightly. "Why do you like pig's trotters so much? Last time we had dinner, I saw that you liked to nibble on this."

"Not just pig's trotters, sheep's trotters are also fine." Qi Zhifeng smiled, "Brother Nan said that I don't like to eat good meat, but I love these tendons. To be honest, those meats taste the same no matter how they are cooked, and they are not as delicious as these tendons."

"No matter how delicious it is, you should take it easy. There will be more delicious food later!" Jin Miaomiao looked at Ning Cheng over there, "You too, you are so full of snacks that you can't even eat a proper meal."

"Okay!" Qi Zhifeng took a bite of the pig's trotter, looked at the servants of the Marquis' Mansion who were already carrying the main dishes not far away, and nodded, "Isn't it here?"

Jin Miaomiao turned around and looked over, then turned back to Qi Zhifeng and smiled, saying, "There are a few dishes you like on today's menu, as well as the dessert you said you liked last time."

"Thank you, sister!" Qi Zhifeng saw the servants walk into the pavilion, and turned aside to ask them to serve the dishes. Looking at the dishes they placed on the table one by one, there were indeed a few of his favorite dishes. He was so happy.

After the servants left the pavilion, Jin Miaomiao moved Qi Zhifeng's favorite dishes in front of him.

"Really?" She looked at Qi Zhifeng, "Ice-boiled lamb, roasted lamb back, pickled cabbage and black sausage, and this scallion lamb bun, are all your favorites, right?"

"Well, especially the blood sausage. Although my chef also makes it well, I like the one made by Grandpa Mo better. The last time I went back, Grandpa Mo wrote down the recipe for me, and I gave it to my chef, but he just couldn't make it taste like Grandpa Mo did."

"There's another one." Hongye pointed to a dish on the table, "Shallot and egg. Are these what you like?"

"All of them!" Qi Zhifeng smiled, "And this small pot of tea is also my favorite." He looked at Hongye, "Half of this table is my favorite. I feel a little embarrassed!"

"What's there to be embarrassed about?" Hongye smiled, "It's our job to entertain you, right?"

"We are a family, there is no such thing as hospitality or not, right?" Qi Zhifeng took the bowl of tea handed over by Meilin and said with a smile, "Thank you, Sister Xiaolin, you can eat with us."

"Okay!" Merlin and Jin Miaomiao exchanged glances, then looked at Shen Cha and Xiao Fengqi who were whispering at the main table, and nodded at the same time.

Qi Zhifeng looked at the two of them, followed their gaze, and saw the two people with serious expressions who were talking about something. He raised his eyebrows and reached out to pull Jin Miaomiao's sleeve.

"Sister Miaomiao, did something happen? I see that Sister and Brother Fengqi don't look too well."

"I'm just asking about some things. Nothing else happened. Don't think too much about it." Merlin put a few pieces of mutton, blood sausage and sauerkraut on his plate. "Didn't you say you were hungry just now? Why don't you eat?"

"What do you want to know?" Qi Zhifeng stuffed a piece of blood sausage into his mouth and looked at Jin Miaomiao eagerly. "Tell me, maybe I know something."

"You know?" Jin Miaomiao motioned for Merlin to sit down and eat with her. "Do you know anything about those two?"

"Them?" Qi Zhifeng frowned, looking a little unhappy. He snorted twice and said, "Why are you thinking of them again, sister? People like them are not worthy of your remembering them at all."

"Not again, but they should have left something here, and we just happened to want to find those things." Hongye looked at Qi Zhifeng's mouth stuffed full, like a little hamster, and couldn't help but stretched out her hand to poke it, "It is indeed a baby, really a little cute."

Qi Zhifeng finally finished eating and swallowed what was in his mouth, took a sip of tea from the small pot, looked at the red leaves, and then at Jin Miaomiao.

"You left something here? What is it?"

"We only know that they probably left something behind, but we're not sure what it is." Jin Miaomiao touched his chin and said, "Master Xiao interrogated the clansmen who were in partnership with them. He should know more or less whether they took anything with them when they went to Linhuang Prefecture. It's impossible for them to get something for nothing, right?"