food queen

Chapter 350 Feast (3)
The top-quality Khotan white jade is greasy like mutton fat and warm to the touch, and the wine in the cup is like honey, with a faint fragrance.This is the Xiangxue Niang specially found by Master Shao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites. This wine is extremely mellow in the mouth, but once it enters the throat, it is hot and scorching, as if an extremely sharp knife was cut straight from the throat to the intestines.

After drinking for three rounds, the Uighur King, the Northern Mongolian King, these Northwest men who are used to drinking strong alcohol don't feel any better, and Count Caesar and his wife are already a little dizzy.

At this time, "The Drunken Concubine" on the outside stage just reached its climax.The clear and gorgeous voice of the famous female dancer in the capital is already extremely low, like a dream and unreal, and her dancing posture is extremely soft, like a willow in the wind, falling low and low among the flowers and rain in the sky, with the lingering sound curling up, the spin is fixed, and the arms are light. Strands of slow yarn spread out like clouds, and finally spread out into a very bright flower, which was in full bloom on the red carpet.Yingying has a beautiful face, like a stamen in a flower, which sets off a pair of bright eyes that are gazing, looking around, those civil servants who know how to play have already cheered.

"it is good!"

"Okay!"

There was cheers outside the Misty Rain Pavilion.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Empress." Godfather Andrew stood up and gave a deep salute to his superior, then looked back at Earl Caesar and Mrs. Caesar who were both standing up, and nodded again: "I, Earl and Mrs. Fei Leng Cui, have a meeting tonight. This gift is for the beautiful empress."

"Oh! Thank you." Yun Shuo was in a good mood when he heard that the Western Earl had a gift for the Empress alone, so he asked, "I don't know how rare it is. Please present it so that we can all see it."

Count Caesar and his wife bowed slightly towards the empress, the count glanced behind him, and the accompanying officials of the count's mansion came forward with two boxes in their hands, knelt down on one knee, and raised their hands above their heads.

Yun Shuo glanced at Wu Miao, Wu Miao nodded and walked forward with a shake of Buddha Chen in his hand, and opened one of the silver boxes.The black velvet bottom of the box is covered with budding roses inlaid with several sapphires and diamonds.

The whole rose is about the size of a real rose, and each petal of the rose is a whole sapphire, and the largest petal is the size of an egg yolk. The whole flower is composed of seven gems, and the stamens are inlaid with fine diamonds.

Diamonds are very difficult to see at this time, and everyone doesn't know its value, but the six star rays flashed by the sapphire are enough to blind everyone's eyes.

The people sitting in the Misty Rain Pavilion are all the pinnacles in the circle of wealth.

Needless to say about the others, Lian Yunshuo and Han Qian, as the most honorable empresses of the Dayun Dynasty, jewels are like dust in their eyes, but they have already attracted their attention.

"Well, it's pretty pretty." Yun Shuo said lightly, then turned to look at Han Qian.Han Qian was mainly shocked by Caesar's generosity, but jewelry and other things were not her favorite, so she quickly regained her composure after being shocked.

"It's pretty good-looking. The Earl and Madam are interested." Han Qian nodded in greeting.

Countess Caesar pointed to another box, Wu Miao turned around and opened the box, and inside was a royal blue western-style women's dress.

The clothes were neatly folded in the box, the skirt and sleeves were not visible, only the neckline was visible.But the gorgeous jewels and embroidery on the neckline are enough to attract the attention of everyone present.

"This was originally my dress, but I think it will be even more beautiful if the empress wears it." The countess spoke in Western language, and Andrew's godfather next to him promptly translated: "I visited the empress last time. Afterwards, the countess asked the maid to change the dress to the queen's size when she returned to the post house. I hope the queen will like it."

Han Qian smiled and raised the wine glass in his hand and said to the Countess: "Thank you Count and Madam for the great gift, I like it very much."

After Andrew's godfather translated for the countess, he bowed to Han Qian and said with a smile, "Madam said, as long as the empress likes it."

Han Qian nodded with a smile, and then said to Xu Jianghui next to her, "Aunt Xu, go and fetch the emerald Pisces vase from this palace, and give it back to the countess."

Xu Jiang Huifu agreed and turned to go down, and after a while, he really came out with a mahogany box.

Han Qian smiled and said to Countess Caesar: "This is my dowry—the dowry is something prepared by my natal family when I got married. I will give it to Countess today as a return gift, and I hope you like it."

Although this emerald carved Pisces vase is not the treasure of Han Qian's bottom of the box, it is still quite priceless.

Naturally, the fineness of the jadeite is of the highest quality, and if it is not good, it will not be able to catch the eyes of the eldest princess. Prepare a dowry for her daughter, and the carving work is really good. Finely crafted.The shape of the vase is that two goldfish jump up from the waves, their tails are entangled with the water spray, each making a leaping dragon gate shape, each opening its mouth to respond to each other, forming a bottle mouth for flower arrangement.

Jade is the essence of Chinese culture. Feilengcui is now in business with Dayun. The porcelain, silk, and tea of ​​Dayun Dynasty are loved by the nobles on the other side of the ocean, but what they most like and can't wait for is jade.

Because although Dayun people love gold and silver, they love beautiful jade more.All the good jade stones are kept in the bottom of the box by the big families and nobles. Even if some of them fall into the hands of wealthy businessmen, they are kept as heirlooms or used as betrothal gifts for their sons and daughters, and no one is willing to sell them out.

As soon as this Pisces jadeite vase was taken out, everyone present in Yanyu Pavilion took a deep breath, and the eyes of several courtiers who love jade turned red—such a good thing, the empress gave it to this Westerner with just one word. !It's so distressing!

Zhishan Suji couldn't help but pursed her lips, she liked this jade very much, but she had nothing to say because of her face.

Mrs. Caesar naturally liked the emerald Pisces bottle very much, she hurriedly raised her wine glass to toast Yun Shuo and Han Qian, and happily expressed that her husband and wife would present a dance for Empress Dayun.

Andrew translated Mrs. Caesar's words to Han Qian, and Han Qian immediately stood up and applauded to show his welcome.

Western dance music, of course, must be accompanied by Western music.

Earl Caesar did not bring a musician with him, but the missionaries know the rhythm, and hymns are sung every week in the church. Except for the grand piano, which cannot be carried into the Yanyu Pavilion, other instruments such as violin, French horn, organ, etc. can also make do Play a tune.

The strings were plucked, and the brisk and unrestrained music overflowed, filling every corner of the hall. Andrew played the plywood himself, "Da da da, da da da." A jade-style dance music was played melodiously.The gentleman Earl Caesar bent his knees and stretched out his hand, pulling his wife to slide to the middle of the banquet hall, dancing lightly.

Han Qian had heard of western dance before, but had never seen it.

(End of this chapter)