Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 234 Returning
Since it is the royal residence that entertains guests, especially the food and beverages for specially invited guests, it is natural that they have exhausted their efforts in color, fragrance and taste.The most conspicuous thing on the long table is a golden and crispy Sushan (fried food platter); fried food with various salty and sweet tastes is made into the shape of mountains, rocks, figures, flowers and birds.Then use preserved fruit, honey juice, gravy, and cheese to embellish the colorful colors such as green and red, and snowy and flowing springs.

Then around this prestige, large-scale high-end artwork like Sushan, there are various fish-shaped, banana-leaf-shaped, lotus-shaped, peach-heart-shaped dishes, all transparently painted with flowers and birds and vines. ; All kinds of cold cuts and cooked food.There are crystal jelly (meat) drenched in sweet and sour sauce, preserved rouge dipped in sesame seeds, honey-roasted fish white with prunes, five thousand shredded shredded poultry meat mixed with sauce, and stuffed shrimp roe fruit balls.

Then there are the colorful lacquer plates that serve as delicate snacks and snacks for the belly.There are red silk cakes arranged in various flower shapes, short cheese sticks, dragon crystal dumplings, sweet-scented osmanthus jelly, snow top cake, lamp plate cake, seven rolls of fruit, Hangong chess (printed cake), single cage golden milk pastry , Mandala sandwich cake, Jinlingzhi (egg butter fried), Jinyinjiahua (crab roe and crab meat roll)... Finally, there is a foot-wide Gulouzi (mutton pancake)
Then, placed in the gaps between these colorful lacquer plates, there are also small cups for appetizing and digesting food, and small bowls of five-flowered things.With washed petals and green leaves as a cushion, there are golden chestnut (raw fish roe mixed with mashed garlic), sugar crab (marinated crab in bad taste), bright shrimp (drunk shrimp), joint bream (flour stuffed dried fish), and fish in soy sauce ( Fish and mutton sauce), Chimingxiang (carved bunches of dried meat in several colors), Jiulianxiang () and a series of cold food.

The last circle around the outermost edge of the long case is a circle of colorless (transparent) glass cups placed in smashed ice cubes.Inside are fresh fruits and candied fruit of various colors floating in it, exuding a faint air-conditioning drink; at a glance, there are ebony plums, red fruits, yellow peaches, broken pears, kumquats, red bayberries, green plums, pomegranates, ringos, lychees, cherries Wait, the fresh fruits that are in season or the rare fruits that are out of season.

In addition, there are some names, which are really not the memory of Jiang Tian's predecessor, and can be recognized on the spot.But it didn't prevent him from walking forward, took a pair of chopsticks, a spoon, and a twelve-petal lotus-pattern plate of thin-bodied porcelain, and picked them out as he wished, slowly savoring the present moment; it was like returning to the original arrival During the social activities of the expedition team, the high-end cafeteria that I have been to several times is like a scene.

"Supervisor, how are you doing?" However, Linghu Xiaomu, who came here as a follower and was still dressed in men's clothing, couldn't help but lightly opened her lips and said, "After all, I was invited to come to the house for some time. Kindness and relationship..."

"Why not?" Jiang Tian said disapprovingly: On the almost intact ancient building, he cut off a large corner with all his strength, and picked a bird "foraging for food on the top of the snow" on Sushan Mountain, "I'm hungry Well, the host has thoughtfully provided food and drink, if I continue to act as Joe, wouldn't I have failed to live up to his hospitality?"

"Could it be, could it be... Supervisor, don't you have any other ideas at all?" Linghu Xiaomu was a little helpless and angrily said: "Anyway, King Guangling is also rich in wealth and has a good reputation in the clan. People; as Cheng (Shi Lian) said in his dealings with Xin (fairness), whether he wants to be rich and comfortable, or to have a smooth career, it is..."

"Why do I have other ideas?" Jiang Tian, ​​who was carefully considering the dishes before the long table, suddenly turned around and sent a trembling golden chestnut into her slightly parted lips; She was silenced. "The rich future they talk about is just a dispensable embellishment and process to me."

"What's more, where in this world is there any future and wealth that can be easily given away without paying the price and hard work?" Jiang Tian suddenly reached out and wiped the few fish roes on the corners of her mouth, and then continued: " There is an old saying that goes well, every gift given by fate has already marked the price secretly; it depends on whether you can afford the price?"

"..." However, Linghu Xiaomu was suddenly at a loss for words when she heard the words; the next moment, amid some sudden touch and inexplicable emotions, she was choked by another mouthful of green cake balls. Living.Coughing and rubbing his chest again and again, he drank a few sips of ice flakes Baikou drink together; only then was he able to recover;

"It turns out that you already knew..." At this moment, Linghu Xiaomu said in a low voice full of displeasure: "It's a pity that I am still self-righteous and want to..."

"Know what? Is it an instruction from Wu Desi behind you? Or a task secretly entrusted to you?" Jiang Tian interrupted her disapprovingly: "Isn't this expected and cleaned up? Since you were born here, How can I easily get rid of the potential shackles and fetters? But I still have my eyes on you, little fox girl; whoever wants to do it for someone else!"

"Unexpectedly, the officer valued the concubine's body so much?" However, Linghu Xiaomu couldn't help but raise her head when she heard the words, and her tone was full of complicated feelings: even if she knew that what the other party said might be hypocritical coping words , but I couldn't help but feel a slight wave of anticipation in my heart, just like the fleeting dream bubbles on the morning dew.

"Of course it's because, among the few people I just met, you are the only one who is good-looking, able to do things without being slowed down, and whose style of work satisfies me," Jiang Tian replied straightly without hesitation : "So, at this moment, who is better than you?"

"If that's the case, I'd really like to thank the officer for his love." Linghu Xiaomu breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, isn't this what she was looking for at the moment; but she said calmly with a little disappointment: " Then I hope that after my concubine grows old and discolored, the officer can promise me a decent departure, and the chance to spend the rest of my life in peace is..."

"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Tian slapped her tight thigh unceremoniously: it also interrupted Linghu Xiaomu's self-pitying thoughts: "Do you think you have experienced these things?" After the incident, can you still retreat with ease, or is it possible that the future court will risk leaking secrets and let you go out?"

"So, is this concubine being dragged down a road of no return by the officer's means?" Linghu Xiaomu, who was holding her leg and couldn't help rolling her eyes, showed a sincere smile when she heard the words He said with an indescribable obsequiousness, "The officer is really cruel. He didn't want to cover it up at all, and he just picked me up so easily."

"So, just take care of the present first, why think so far in the future?" Jiang Tian scooped up a chopsticks of fish meal soup again, fed it into her mouth and said: "This is a dangerous and dangerous fish. How can those who are in it ensure that they will stick to it until the end? So, with my ability, I will do my best to keep you safe."

"Of course, you're not too involved right now, and you still have a chance to quit." Then, Jiang Tian looked at Linghu Xiaomu, whose face was faintly flushed, and whose expression was a little subtle, and continued: "At least in the moment , I can guarantee that no one can pursue the relationship with you..."

"The officer is so cruel!" However, Linghu Xiaomu couldn't wait to interrupt him: "The officer let me see those strange things hidden in the dark, do you still think that the concubine can return? Do you go to those unchanging daily life? Since the world has changed a lot, can I escape even if I am in Wu Desi?"

"Perhaps on that day, with ignorance and full of fear, she died out of nowhere. If so, why can't she face it calmly?" However, her face flushed more and more, and she scrambled to herself Said: "What's more, maybe in this world, there is no safer place than the officer's side."

"You're right, since it's inevitable, you should face it bravely; at least there are very few people in this world who have such determination and courage." Jiang Tian heard the words, but he couldn't help but to her Some changed slightly: "Since this is the case, we might as well take a longer view; look at Mrs. Cen in this department? Even when they are old, there are still many people who want to bow their heads and go all out to encourage them."

"..." Linghu Xiaomu heard this, but his eyes gradually brightened, and he immediately showed a bright smile to Jiang Tian and said, "It's because I am short-sighted and restless, which makes the official laugh." "

In fact, after what she saw and heard these days, especially what she experienced in the underground of Xiqu Fanfang and Taixing Water City, she has already understood a fact.It's just that I can't go back to the Wu Desi in the past, the boring, step-by-step daily life, or I can't say that I don't like the means and style of those people.

Seeing this, Jiang Tian also nodded, and secretly said: "Plan plan."After feeding her a little chicken soup for the soul, he also set up a ready-made example and goal by the way.The main thing is to avoid too much stimulation from what I have seen and heard these days, which will cause psychological shadows and mental problems, and even the tendency to gradually become black, although she is already a little bit black now.

However, the next moment, he saw Linghu Xiaomu leaning over on his own initiative; and he said in a faltering and thin voice: "If the officer wants to do something, can you stop this concubine from falling asleep..." Jiang Tian couldn't help but move in his heart, is this an active pillow agreement?This is really a pleasant surprise.So, he returned the interaction without hesitation.

However, on a rockery somewhere far away, there are also people using binoculars/telescopes made by Seiko to look at the situation in the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)