The 26th day of the twelfth lunar month is probably the favorite day in the mansion, especially at night, the whole mansion can have a good meal of meat.

In the backyard, Ranbi was in the kitchen and told Rui Niang: "Although there are a lot of meat recipes, you should cut the slices thinner, otherwise the lard will be stuck on your mouth at 26. You must not go to heaven during the New Year!"

Rui Niang talked little, and she just laughed after hearing this.

There were a few greedy girls who had been greedy and pinched fried meatballs aside and ate them. Some of them were also pinched fried tofu slices. There was a smaller girl who squatted on the ground and ate happily with a small plate. Ran Bi looked at it without realizing that the plate was full of fried oil shuttles and sprinkled with some fine white sugar: "What are you eating? If you don't eat good meat and meatballs, you squat here to eat oil shuttles!"

The little girl ate a mouthful of oil: "I love this bite the most! I look forward to it every year during the Chinese New Year!"

"You're just the oil shuttle!" Before Ran Bi could finish his words, he heard a girl coming and shouting: "Sister Ran Bi, go to the front yard to have a look! But the butcher shop is opened!"

After hearing this, Ranbi hurried out of the kitchen: "Which front yard? Is it the girl's place or the wife's place?"

"The girl's yard! The Wen family has moved all the butcher shops in!" The girl's voice caused the little girls in the kitchen to run to the front yard. She was holding fried croquettes and fried tofu slices in her hands, and holding a plate of oil shuttle...

Just in Xiaoxiao's yard, under the big crabapple tree, there were more than 30 large urns and small jars arranged. Xiaoxiao was checking one by one, and the girls all came up curiously. This was amazing: "Oh, this is a small urn fried croquette! It's still hot!" The girl who spoke had just finished eating half of the fried croquette in her hand. She wanted to taste the taste of other people's fried croquettes, but she didn't dare to take them. She was soon attracted by the big urn next to her: "Oh, such a big meat! This is a whole pig's hind legs! It looks hard and red!"

A bigger girl next to her joked about her: "This is bacon! It's air-dried ham! It's fresh and fresh when it's cut into the soup!"

The girl walked to the next urn: "I recognize this, it's a sausage! Rui Niang has also made a lot of it this year!" As she said that, she looked at the sausage-tied rope with a label: "Who of you knows the words to help me recognize it!"

When Xiao Dier saw that the girl was particularly happy, she walked over to help the girl recognize words. She was not surprised when she saw it: "There are so many chefs in Wen's family who poured sausages! There are Sichuan, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Zhejiang! The taste is even more diverse, including spicy, sweet and spicy, autumn oil, mushrooms, and pine mushrooms... There are actually lotus root powder, osmanthus, and orange candied fruits here!"

The girls all opened their eyes. There were only two types of sausages filled in their kitchen, spicy or non-spicy. Who would have thought that sausages could be divided into so many categories? They were even more than zongzi mooncakes!

The girl also looked smiling: "I haven't eaten this kind of candied sausage before. Let's pick a few of them later, so we can try them all!"

The girls were so happy that a few of them bravely came to the girl: "Oh, how colorful the rice in this jar is!"

The girl smiled and said, "This is Yunnan's five-color flower rice, which will not fade when cooked. It is as beautiful as a rainbow!"

"It's really rare to die. This is how the rice grows, or is it dyed?"

The girl patiently explained to everyone: "The one used to dye black is maple leaves, the one used to dye red is red and blue grass, the one used to dye purple is purple and blue grass, and the one used to dye yellow is gardenia. In this way, the rice will have medicinal effects, and you can strengthen your body by taking it!"

Everyone was so surprised.

The girl looked in a good mood: "Let Rui Niang steam some five-color flower rice later, each with a small bowl!" As she said that, she looked at the food in the other jars: "Everyone should also make some other things, and everyone in the mansion will try it!"

The girls were so happy that they almost made somersaults. Our girl was so bright! This master from the Wen family was even brighter! Although we don’t know which master it is, we all recognize this master!

Xiaoxiao looked at the jars of sweet white wine: "Take a jar of wine to the master, and add a bowl of fried crispy meat to make the wine dish!"

Xiaoxiao rubbed the note in his hand, couldn't help but expand it again and looked at it. There were only seven words on it: You were one step faster than me.

...

The front yard was even more lively. Qifan looked at the table of delicious food, and saw a girl coming in with a jar of sweet white wine. Finally, she couldn't help but say, "Which boy is this from the Wen family?"

Shan Niang couldn't guess: "I sent half of the New Year flowers in the garden a few days ago, and today I sent meat like mountains and seas. I always feel that this is not like the work of the fourth young master."

Wen Xixiu looked noble all his life, it would be fine to send some flowers, but I really couldn't imagine that this young master was asking him to send meat...

Ci Gu also suspected on the side: "That's the Third Master?"

Qifan didn't know much about these younger generations: "Isn't it still the same Jin San before? Why did he become Wen San again? In terms of appearance, the young men in Kyoto are not as good as Jin San."

Never saw Qifan discussing other people's appearance like this. Shan Niang smiled unconsciously and said, "Sanlang used to think that Jin Sanchang was not good."

Qifan touched his nose: Did I say this?

He heard Shan Niang say again: "The two young men of the Wen family are very good."

Qifan asked unconsciously: "What did Xiaoxiao say?"

"Why is it so easy for girls to talk straight? Sometimes it said it was given by elders of the Wen family, and sometimes it said it was given by Xizi."

Qifan picked up a piece of crispy meat and ate it. It tasted very good: "My businesses have no contact with the Wen family, only those black teas, and I still talked directly with their father..."

Shan Niang understood Qifan's meaning as soon as she heard it: "On the 26th day of the first lunar month, the Cao family is going to hold a plum blossom banquet, and I have also posted a post to our family, so the Wen family must have gone there too."

This is the opportunity to take a good look at the two young masters of the Wen family. Qifan nodded: "At that time, our family will go to the Cao family to have a banquet."

Ci Gu knew Shan Niang’s thoughts in her heart, and she would do it as long as she was attracted to Xiaoxiao. The child knew that as a mother, she would naturally be willing to let her daughter find a satisfactory husband.

Ci Gu opened the jar of sweet white wine: "Wow, it's such a good wine! The smell of wine in the room is floating!" As she said that, she poured wine for Qifan: "Master tastes this wine! Every girl doesn't eat wine, so this wine is obviously prepared for the master!"

Qifan took a sip of wine expressionlessly, and felt it was a rare good wine in his heart, but on the surface he still said, "Let's talk about it after seeing it."

Shan Niang thought of Jin Zhonglun and felt a little regretful for a moment. After all, she was a childhood sweetheart. The two relatives were getting close to each other and asked unconsciously: "Is there any movement from the second young master Jin? Xiaoxiao took someone's garland after all, and it would not hurt him."

Ci Gu said, "The girl made it clear last time. It was because the elders of the Jin family were too tight. The girl helped the other party a favor, and she didn't count it." After thinking about it, she said, "The Jin family sent an old tree to participate in some good deer antlers a few days ago. I heard that Mr. Jin gave our girl a box of candies."

Shan Niang nodded thoughtfully and said nothing. It should be a matter between the elders, but the Jin family's etiquette has always been thorough, so Shan Niang would also send a four-season gift box from the Tang family, one of eight Zhejiang specialties, and eight pairs of good brocade from Shanghai Yige.

The Tang family and the Jin family have always had the closest ritual exchanges, after all, they have the relationship between Jin Baodi.

Every time this time, Zhan Yan of the second wife was the most ruthless. In the past, Huanyan had stopped him, feeling that girls would inevitably lose their identity if they were rushing to do this.

This year, no sister was talking in her ears, Zhan Yan lost her mind: "Just return to a four-season gift box and a New Year meat gift box? This is too little, right? At least they sent ginseng here!" He said this, and turned his eyes and asked the girl beside him: "Is this the ones who give to the third room?"

The girl hesitated and said, "Every room is filled with people participating in deer antler."

Although they are all the same things, the quality is different. If the same ginseng is spent thirty years, can it be the same?

Zhan Yan remembered the Bitao Banquet that made her heartbroken again. Jin Zhonglun gave the garland to Tang Xiaoxiao like that. He was already discouraged, but every time he saw him in the theater, he was always unwilling to give up!

The best man in the world is the best man in the world. How can I let go easily?

"I heard that he is not spending the New Year in Kyoto this year?"

The girl knew who the girl was talking about: "I heard that Mr. Jin left as soon as he entered the twelfth lunar month, saying that she wanted to buy singers himself."

"Hmph, he is afraid that the elders will urge their marriage during the New Year," Zhan Yan showed a wonderful expression, and he was a little coquettish. "His younger brother is engaged, and my second brother, who is the same age as him, has also decided... He will not be the target of public criticism for this New Year!"

It's really funny, angry, and heartbreaking.

The girl standing beside her was naturally the girl's confidant. She bit her lip and said, "I heard that the Jin family's return gift this time is different from the old lady and Grandma Chen, and the other house heads..."

"Say something!"

"Only... Miss Fifth, Miss Seventh and Miss Eighth have one more candy box than everyone. This candy box is said to be given by Mr. Jin Er." The girl said and took two steps back slightly, for fear that the girl would be angry.

Zhan Yan's doubts were greater than his anger: "These three girls? Xiaoxiao, Han Er and Keju? If Tang Xiaoxiao could make sense, then Han Er was so stupid and so small. When did Jin Zhonglun know them?"

"I just asked, and said I often make an appointment to play cards together..."

Zhan Yan clenched his fists bit by bit, and suddenly he smiled again: "It seems that no one is blind, and he knows to go up and grab something when he sees good things." The more he thinks about it, he becomes more angry, "Can she play cards?! I haven't seen her win cards!"

At a moment, another maid came in and said, "Girl, I heard that the Wen family sent a lot of New Year's goods to the fifth girl, which was extremely sumptuous!"

"This Wen Si is quite willing to go out," Zhan Yan guessed that it was Wen Xixiu. The two of them were looking around and trying to hide their keen eyes. Now they have delivered all the New Year's goods to their homes, which shows that they are planning to cross the road.

Zhan Yan suddenly became happy: "I have to go to the old lady's place. I have to talk about such a happy thing to him! If you want to talk about it, the Wen family and the Tang family are really a match!"

He said that wind is rain, Zhan Yan put on a big cloak and planned to go out. He remembered something for a moment and then turned around to remind the girl: "Don't call the wife to know about the gifts from the Wen family. Before, he was so angry that he had a headache because of the gifts from Sister Weng's family!"

...

Jin Zhonglun was in a hurry at that time, and before leaving, he only had time to receive a cute gift. It was a small embroidered screen with a yellow handkerchief embroidered on it: a big tree with golden handkerchiefs hanging on it, and a small person stood on the bottom. Because the embroidery was too small, it was impossible to see whether it was a man or a woman.

At the same time, there was a note with no end on it and said: We all think that Brother Jin Er is the best, really.
Chapter completed!