beauty heart thorn

Chapter 30

The Wu family's banquet will be the day after tomorrow.

Gu Mingzhu drew the drawings for a day and a night, and finally drew the layout of the Thirteen Gardens.

Chun'er saw that she had been busy for two days and got up almost before dawn, her eyes were blackened, she couldn't help but feel distressed and said: "Miss, don't rush to be busy at this time, take care of your body."

Gu Mingzhu just said: "It's okay, I'll just be busy for a while."

In the evening, Guan Da sent the menu.

"Miss, take a look."

Gu Mingzhu flipped through it and asked casually, "Uncle Guan, do you know someone who makes pastries?"

Guan Dao: "Which kind of pastry does the lady refer to?"

She thought about it, and happened to catch a glimpse of the pear blossom cake Chun'er made for her: "That's it."

There are three pastries placed in the small plate, shaped like pear blossoms, small and delicate.

It took Chun'er all afternoon to make it. The fragrance of pear blossoms is sweet but not greasy.

"Well... I have someone here, but I don't know if it suits the taste of the young lady. In this way, when I come tomorrow, I will bring some here, so that the young lady can taste it for herself."

"Alright."

Gu Mingzhu looked down at the recipe again, made some comments, and finally said: "Now that I have a name, a layout, and a chef, it's easy to do errands. This recipe..."

She picked up the pen, swiped it down, and quickly said, "It's done!"

Passing the recipe back to Guan Da, he said, "The ingredients must be fresh, and the waiters are quick and discerning..."

"500 taels..." Guan Da lowered his head and muttered.

He didn't care to listen to what Gu Mingzhu said, and hurriedly looked down.

He drew up a total of thirteen signature dishes, in order to correspond to the name Thirteen Gardens, but with a swipe of a pen, Gu Mingzhu set the price of each dish at around 1000 to [-] taels.

Guan Da's expression twisted, and he looked at Gu Mingzhu in shock: "Miss..."

Gu Mingzhu smiled: "What's wrong?"

"This...isn't this robbery!"

Gu Mingzhu chuckled and said, "Uncle Guan is right, I just want to rob."

"Miss, even if it's opened, no one will come..."

"No hurry." Gu Mingzhu looked extremely calm, she called Ah San, and handed him the blueprint she had drawn: "Just arrange it according to this way, give me a confirmation letter, how many days will it be finished?"

Ah San took the blueprint, unfolded it, her expression brightened, she was obviously shocked: "Miss... this... this is..."

"Tongue fight?"

Guan Da took a closer look.

He didn't understand the layout, but he also felt that the painting was vivid. After looking at it for a while, he pointed to an empty space and said, "Miss, are you planning to ask someone to sing it?"

Gu Mingzhu said: "I bought the Spring Garden Troupe, and they will perform in the Thirteenth Garden from now on."

Ah San clicked her tongue and said a word: Miss, is this enough money? "

Gu Mingzhu smiled: "Why panic, when the Thirteenth Garden opens, the money will come back."

Ah San felt that Gu Mingzhu's idea was so good that he had to remind her: "Miss, the location of our restaurant is not good, and you still set the price like this, the devil is here!"

"Don't talk to me here, with this layout, how many days can this building be finished?"

"It will take four or five days at the earliest."

"Go to work."

"Yes."

Guan Da and Ah San went out.

Gu Mingzhu walked out of the house, and the peach blossoms were in full bloom in the courtyard. She folded a few, thought about it, went back to the house and put a vase in it, looked at it with her chin in her hand, and had an idea in her heart.

Chun'er couldn't help laughing when she came in: "Miss, are you fascinated by flowers?"

Gu Mingzhu tilted her head to look at her: "Chun'er, I'm going to make peach blossom cake."

Chun'er was surprised: "Miss, do you want to eat peach blossom cake?"

Gu Mingzhu said: "No. Give it away."

Chun'er asked, "Who do you want Miss to give it to?"

"You teach me first."

On the second day, Gu Mingzhu finally officially posted the Wu family's banquet.

Maybe I'm not busy today, Gu Xiurong came back at noon, Gu Mingzhu heard the news and went to find him with the banquet sticker.

"I'm so angry!" Gu Xiurong said angrily.

"I said earlier that you would hit a wall." It was Xu Jue's voice.

"Forget it, one step first is one step."

Gu Mingzhu knocked on the door and walked into the room: "Brother, Xu Shizi."

Gu Xiurong's angry face suddenly dissipated, saw the banquet sticker in her hand, and said, "But it's for the Wu family's banquet?"

Gu Mingzhu just used this pretext to make a cliché, and said along the way: "Exactly, this is not too important, and the presents are too annoying."

Gu Xiurong smiled: "The house is just such a thing, you can choose."

Gu Mingzhu put down the post and said, "I heard you angry from afar, is it for business?"

"No problem." He picked up the banquet post, looked at Xu Jue, and said, "What do you mean by this post from the Wu family?"

The two did not shy away from Gu Mingzhu when they talked about things, and she was also happy to listen.

Xu Jue sat beside him, wearing regular clothes, glanced at the post, and said, "Who knows..."

"Don't you still know?" Gu Xiurong didn't believe it: "You're trying to fool me again? You said it's good to drink."

Xu Jue smiled lightly: "Whoever wants to drink with you, I made an appointment with someone to go hunting in the paddock in the suburbs of Beijing in the afternoon."

"hunt?"

"The second son of the Wu family is also going, will you go?" Xu Jue said.

"They didn't call me, what am I going to do?"

"Then you have wronged him. The second son of the Wu family looked for you three times yesterday but he didn't see you."

Gu Xiurong didn't know about this, and said in surprise: "Yesterday? Yesterday I was ordered to inspect, and I was so busy that I didn't touch the ground. I guess I missed him."

Xu Jue turned to look at Gu Mingzhu, and said, "I heard that Wanwan is good at riding and shooting, why don't we go together tomorrow?"

"But the Wu family's banquet poster tonight..." Gu Mingzhu looked puzzled, and said, "You guys should go..."

"The banquet was very boring. It was all female relatives. Can you sit there? And this banquet is nothing more than a purpose, to choose a wife for Wu Jingming."

Gu Mingzhu couldn't help sighing, Xu Jue's mind is really transparent!

This time, the Wu family really wanted to choose a wife for Wu Jingming.

The Wu family is a hereditary marquis, and the old Marquis died early, with only two sons. The first son, Wu Jingyan, is now the Marquis of Jingan. The second son, Wu Jingming, is 22 this year. There is only a servant girl by his side to serve him. Now he has reached the age of marriage. The old lady set up this game, trying to choose one among many famous women.

Gu Mingzhu also knew that in this banquet, the youngest daughter of the Bai family was the one that Wu favored in the end.

Gu Xiurong said: "The Marquis of Jing'an was reprimanded by the Holy Majesty just now, and now he is doing things like this, and he is not afraid of being offended. However, the Holy Majesty reprimanded him, but he did not do anything to him."

"His mother is the eldest princess after all, how could the emperor really treat his own nephew? The banquet clearly shows that a family is not as good as his family and is easy to control. Looking at Jiangling, there are only the Bai family, the Yue family, and you , the newly appointed Vice General of the Habayashi Army."

Gu Mingzhu was surprised: "My family? But my brother is only a third-rank general!"

At this moment, a servant's voice came from outside the door: "My lord, the second son of the Wu family came to pay a visit."

The three of them looked at each other, and Xu Jue smiled and said, "Look, isn't that why I invite you here?"

Gu Xiurong stood up and said, "I'll go back as soon as I go."

There were only two people left in the study.

After a moment of silence, Xu Jue spoke first and said, "Don't go to the Wu family banquet."

Gu Mingzhu had to look up at him: "Why? My family background is not as good as that of the Bai family and the Yue family."

"Why do you think Wu Jingming insisted on inviting your brother to go hunting? A third-rank military officer, it sounds like nothing special, but Xiu Rong is in the Habayashi Army. Who dares to look down on him?"

Gu Mingzhu thought for a while, then said in surprise, "You mean, the Wu family favors me?"

"If you go, there will be nothing to do with the Bai family and the Yue family."

Gu Mingzhu lowered her head.

In her last life, she didn't go to the Wu family's banquet to post, and it was already July when she got married, and Gu Mingzhu only heard about the Wu family's affairs from Yun Zhao.

The fact that the Wu family favored her was something that Gu Mingzhu never expected.

"Don't go to the banquet." Xu Jue said again, his tone paused: "Come hunting with me."

Gu Mingzhu's heart skipped a beat.

Xu Jue was beheading her peach blossoms?
Gu Mingzhu was silent for a moment, then said: "Then I'll go hunting with you."

(End of this chapter)