MTL - The Crown Prince Chases His Wife-Chapter 21 housewarming

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, auspicious spirits should be exorcised, and there will be yang, anger, Tiancang, and Jingan. It is suitable for traveling, relocating, entering the house, offering sacrifices, praying for blessings, and building. The auspiciousness was chosen by the supervisor of Qintian, and the master of Zhaoren County moved to the mansion. 【1】

The main mansion of Zhaoren County, there is a lotus pond where the plum forests are connected to the north. The lotus leaves are swaying gently in the warm wind, and the red and white lotus flowers are dotted in the middle. A lonely crane swims quietly in the reeds by the pond. Open in the pavilion of the lotus pond.

It took two months for the reconstruction of the main residence of Zhaoren County to be completed. The original houses and palaces have not been changed too much, only Lin Yuan Huamu has made major adjustments according to Qin Yan's preferences.

The housewarming banquet is only a small gathering, and the guests are coming one after another.

After the beginning of summer, the heat was unbearable, and the large and small court meetings were changed to the Prince’s Mansion in Xishan. In the past, civil and military officials had to enter the palace before dawn, but now it is also dark, but they are going out of the city to the Prince’s Mansion in Xishan. Many courtiers even set up Zhuangzi mansions in the western suburbs and moved their families out of the city, so that they could go to court and escape the summer heat.

After the meeting dispersed, Prince Feng Zhan came from the Prince's Mansion next door to the main mansion of Zhaoren County. Princess Changle Feng Yunchao arrived at the Prince's Mansion early in the morning, and was there with Prince Feng Zhan.

I don't know where the rumors came from, Qin Yan loves jade, and most of the gifts from the guests are jade.

Princess Jingyi Feng Yuyao knew that Qin Yan was good at painting, so she sent a white jade carving study room; the second prince sent a sapphire landscape character inkstone; Changle princess Feng Yunchao sent a jasper ganoderma pattern ornament; the prince sent it on behalf of the saint A set of white jade chess pieces. Only the prince himself did not send jade, but Feng Zhan sent a coral tree.

It is a long summer, but today is not too hot, the sun is just right, and the breeze is not dry.

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The people in the pavilion were seated in separate seats, with the crown prince sitting at the top, and the second prince Feng Xian and Changle princess Feng Yunchao were seated at the bottom and left respectively.

The second prince is next to Shen Ci, opposite to Shen Ci is Princess Jingyi Feng Yuyao, and at the end opposite to Prince Feng Zhan's seat is Qin Yan, the host of today's banquet.

Now, let's have a banquet.

A musician in the pavilion next to him sat cross-legged on a rattan mat, stroking Hengqin on his knees. In the sound of the piano, Feng Yuyao asked Qin Yan in dissatisfaction:

"Where's the western dancer I want?"

Qin Yan laughed, this girl is still thinking about it. Qin Yan explained to everyone:

"The heat is hot, and the fire of the heart is easily hyperactive. It is better to have a clear mind and calm the air. Therefore, there is no singing and dancing banquet today."

After speaking, Ji Nanfeng, dressed in a moon-white brocade robe, with a handsome appearance and a warm temperament, stepped into the pavilion, and a group of maids with trays behind him also filed in.

After the ceremony, Ji Nanfeng opened his mouth to introduce the drinks and dishes.

"Part of the dishes at today's banquet were prepared by the guests from the imperial dining room in the palace, and some came from the dining room of the Zhaoren County Lord's Mansion."

"There are two kinds of fine wines at the banquet, one is the imperial wine of the palace, the golden stem dew, and the other is the self-brewed pear blossom white in the palace. The royal wine in the palace is familiar to all the nobles. And this homemade pear blossom white is taken from The pear flowers that just bloomed in the south of the Yangtze River in Zhongchun were made in three months, and they have a unique flavor, so you can choose by yourself.”

The first prince, Feng Zhan, motioned to Song Zhi who was standing beside him:

"Try it."

Song Zhi took the wine jar with pear blossom white on the maid's tray, and poured a glass into the azure glazed wine cup in front of Feng Zhan. In the transparent wine liquid, a complete pear flower was suspended, and even the stamens were clearly identifiable. The end is very moving. The fragrance of wine and pear blossoms overflowed immediately.

The second prince Feng Xian and the two princesses also ordered Pear Flower White.

Shen Ci looked at Qin Yan,

"Yanyan brewed by yourself?"

Hearing this, everyone at the banquet also looked at Qin Yan. Qin Yan motioned to Shen Ying to fill the wine cup in front of her, glanced at Ji Nanfeng who was standing beside her and replied:

"It's Mr. Ji's arrangement."

Ji Nanfeng nodded and continued to introduce the dishes as the maids served the dishes one after another.

"Twelve Items of Imperial Cuisine in the Palace: Bainiao Chaofeng, Braised Duck Tongue, Double Crispy Shrimp and Eel, Simmered Chicken in Yellow Mud, Pingjing Ding Hoof, Baiyun Rouge Slices, Silver Silk Fish Rice, Assorted One Piece Pot, Eight Treasures Tofu, Flowers Cooked quail, lotus duck sign, three crispy soup,”

"Six items of seasonal dishes in the dining room of Fuzhong: winter melon and turtle skirt soup, almond bergamot, chiliu cabbage, mixed bitter gourd, soy shrimp in **** juice, and fried with honey."

Whether it's drinks or dishes, there are attendants at each seat who test poison with silver needles.

Feng Yuyao tasted the green mixed bitter gourd, which is bitter and sweet, and sweet and fragrant. But, it's not delicious.

Feng Yuyao's little face wrinkled and asked:

"What do you say about eating bitter gourd?"

Ji Nanfeng explained:

"In "Plain Questions: Xuanming Five Qi Chapter", there is a description: "The five flavors enter, sour enters the liver, pungent enters the lung, bitter enters the heart, salty enters the kidney, and sweet enters the spleen."

"Summer summer is heavy with dampness, and bitterness can clear heat and dry dampness, use bitterness to relieve heart fire, and use bitter yin to reconcile summer yang heat;"

"Bitter melon is bitter in taste and cold in nature. It enters the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, and is a good product for clearing heat and eliminating thirst in summer" [2]

"And suffering, and don't eat too much. "Qianjin Yaofang" says, "Seventy-two days in summer, save suffering and increase pain, so as to nourish lung qi. "The soy shrimp with **** sauce is fragrant and slightly spicy, and it has the function of increasing pungent and nourishing the lungs."

Everyone knew it, and they sighed that the food in the Zhaoren County Lord's mansion was not extravagant, but it was very particular.

Feng Yunchao inadvertently glimpsed that the Merlin beside the lotus pond seemed to be cut off by a wall. He seemed to remember that when he came to the palace before, there was a whole piece of Merlin. The plum blossoms in winter are spectacular.

In doubt, Feng Yunchao asked Qin Yan:

"Zhaoren County Lord, dare to ask why a wall was built in the plum forest? Isn't this ruining the natural scenery of that forest?"

Qin Yan stopped his chopsticks, but did not speak.

Feng Zhan's hand holding the wine cup froze, then put down the wine cup and said coldly,

"Walls are built alone."

Hehe, no one can answer this.

Feng Yunchao... Now I can rest assured, the prince and the prince have no intention of being the master of Zhaoren County.

Second Prince Feng Xian... It seems that there is one less competitor.

Feng Yuyao... Yanyan also has no idea about you, Your Highness.

Shen Ci... It's good that the prince has self-knowledge.

Qin Yan…

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Among the flowers and branches of the wine cups, everyone was slightly drunk.

Seeing this, Qin Yan said:

"Everyone, you can follow me to Songpo and let go of the alcohol."

Everyone got up and left the table, Qin Yan led the way, and everyone set foot on the mountain path beside the lotus pond.

There is a fruit forest planted at the foot of the slope, and you can smell the fruit when passing by.

The trees on both sides of the mountain trail are high and low, the green bamboos are shaded, and the trunks are sparse and dense. There are some unknown wildflowers scattered along the trail, and the flowers are stretched and wild.

Along the mountain path, there is a small stream flowing down slowly, and it enters the lotus pond at the foot of the slope. This is the spring water drawn from the nearby Yuquan Mountain.

The wind blew the leaves, the grass swayed gently, the trees were rustling, and there was a rustling sound.

Not long after, everyone stopped at a stone platform. There are several piles of large stones with moss beside the platform, each stone must be accompanied by a pine, and the leaves and stones depend on each other. Looking out from the east of the stone table is the lotus pond where the banquet was held just now.

Surrounded by trees and bamboos next to the stone platform, there is a diabolo building surrounded by a circle of herbs that repels insects and mosquitoes.

It is noon now, but the pines and cypresses here are lush, and the trees are towering, casting a large shade of shade.

The bamboo shadows moved by the sun, and there was silence.

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Everyone took their seats in the prepared seats, Qin Yan was seated at the bottom of the root carving tea sea opposite the seat of Prince Feng Zhan.

Shen Ying took a jar of jade spring water introduced into Songpo and placed it beside the tea table.

Qin Yan cleans his hands and boils water in a clay pot. When it boils for the first time, take the jade spring water and press it to stop the boiling. When the second boils, take the jade spring water and press it again to stop the boiling. fire.

Scrubber, scalding, pouring tea, washing tea, and pouring soup three times in a high-raised kettle.

In the purple clay pot, the green-brown fresh tea leaves swirl and slowly unfold, infiltrating the bright orange-yellow tea soup, and the fragrant orchid fragrance overflows.

Qin Yan divided the pot of tea into six cups, which were brought to the banquet by the maid.

"This is Dahongpao, the mother tree of Yangyayin Forest in Minzhong County, Yangzhou. It is warm in nature and suitable for digestion and drinking after feasting. Today, I borrow the "Seven Bowls of Tea Poems" by tea fairy Lu Tong."

The first one, "a bowl of throat kiss." Qin Yan said slowly.

Everyone watched the color, smelled the fragrance, and sipped tea.

The second one, "Er Bowls Broken Gushang."

The third one, "Three bowls to search for dry intestines, there are only 5,000 volumes of text."

The fourth light, "The four bowls sweat lightly, and the injustices in life are scattered to the pores."

In the fifth cup, before Qin Yan could speak, the second prince Feng Xian grabbed the white and said, "Five bowls of muscle and bones."

In the sixth light, Feng Yunchao took over the words: "Six bowls communicate with fairy spirits."

In the seventh light, Feng Yuyao smiled and said, "I can't eat seven bowls, I only feel that the two armpits are habitual and fresh."

After drinking, everyone laughed in unison.

At this moment, the good wind is blowing, the pines are bursting, the water is gurgling, the cranes are singing, the music of the piano, and the fragrance of tea are lingering, and there is a kind of Qingyuan under the forest.

Looking at Qin Yan on the opposite tea table, Feng Zhan's mind flashed the scene in Meishan at this moment...

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It was a bit sultry at this time, and the maids of the two princesses shook their fans. The second prince Feng Xian also took out a jade fracture fan from his waist and shook it slowly.

Shen Ying also opened a Xiangzhu fan, ready to drive away the heat for Qin Yan.

Feng Yuyao's eyes lit up when she saw it,

"Shen Ying, your master has drawn a new fan? Show me now."

It was just a gadget, Qin Yan didn't say anything to stop it, Shen Ying handed the folding fan to Feng Yuyao.

Feng Yuyao opened the fan, looked at both sides, tsk tsk,

"Yanyan, your painting skills have improved again. How about this fan for me? Take mine for you."

Feng Yuyao shoved her original fan to Shen Ying.

"I don't care, I accept it."

Qin Yan glanced at the fan in Feng Yuyao's hand from the femininity of the young guard in the palace.

Feng Zhan just glanced at the folding fan in Feng Yuyao's hand, and the word "Drunken Mountain" was written vigorously and forcefully at the inconspicuous corner of the fan.

Is that Qin Yan's book? Didn't she say that Fuzhong people have no culture?

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Qin Yan was a little tired in the afternoon, and it was not easy to drive away guests directly, so he said tactfully:

"There are guest rooms in Fuzhong, you can choose one of your own to rest."

"Yanyan, I have a yard, I don't need a guest room." Feng Yuyao said proudly.

"Zhaoren County Master, then I'll be bothering you." The second prince Feng Xian was not polite. There was no progress in his relationship with Qin Yan, and he would not leave.

Feng Yunchao looked at the prince Feng Zhan, Feng Zhan was about to say goodbye, suddenly a dull thunder rolled through the air, and the sky instantly became gloomy.

It was a shower, and the pea-sized raindrops fell instantly.

It seems that if people do not keep guests, God will.

Everyone immediately entered the bamboo building next to the stone platform to take shelter from the rain.

The bamboo building has only one floor, but it is still open and bright. It is elevated by a few steps. There are several rattan chairs in the building. Everyone patted the little rain on their bodies, and then each found a rattan chair to sit down and rest, waiting for the rain to stop.

Ji Nanfeng asked the maid to smoke mugwort leaves and artemisia annua in every corner of the house to repel mosquitoes.

At this time, the rain was getting heavier, and the torrential rain hit the bamboo building and flowed down the eaves like a waterfall.

Feng Yuyao looked at a square bamboo table with a wooden plaque on it, and asked suspiciously:

"Yanyan, what is this?"

Qin Yan replied in a low voice, "Ma Hanging."

"How do you play this?" Feng Yuyao seemed to be a little interested, and she was idle anyway.

Qin Yan saw that Feng Yuyao seemed to want to play, she was also interested, and her sleepiness was gone. She hadn't played cards for a long time, and her hands were itchy. lock up?

"Would you like to come and hang a horse, it's very interesting to play in Yizhou!" Qin Yan urged everyone in the bamboo building.

"You don't?" Qin Yan looked around, everyone was inexplicable.

Yes, how can the prince and princess know these market things, Qin Yan smiled.

"Mr. Ji, Shen Ying, Shen Ci, let's play a few laps and demonstrate to you nobles, you can learn."

The torrential rain trapped everyone here, and they had no other choice but to let the host Qin Yan make arrangements.

After playing for four laps, Qin Yan managed to close the three houses by himself. Qin Yan smiled,

"Who are you going to try?"

Feng Yuyao was also aroused, "I'll come, I'll come."

The second prince, Feng Xian, also sat down, "I will come too."

Feng Yunchao was not interested in such mundane things, she looked at the prince Feng Zhan.

Feng Zhan frowned, slightly surprised.

This Qin Yan was able to enter into such mundane affairs in an instant from the elegance of his previous talents.

Feng Zhan got up and walked to the card table and sat opposite Qin Yan.

"Come here, Mr. Ji will give out the chips." Qin Yan sat on the poker table, as if he had changed.

Feng Yuyao sat above Qin Yan, and the second prince Feng Xian sat below Qin Yan.

Shen Ci went to the soft slump under the south window of the bamboo building, rested on a rattan pillow, listened to the sound of rain, lay down and took a nap.

Feng Yunchao sat next to Feng Zhan to watch the battle.

In the rain, the maids with minoyi and hats brought sour plum soup.

A prince, a prince, a princess, and a county lord were hanging on their horses in a bamboo building in the rainy forest.

In the first few laps, Qin Yan took the lead, but after that, the crown prince Feng Zhan gradually got to the point, and Qin Yan and Qin Yan almost touched the three by themselves.

The second prince, Feng Xian, kept feeding Qin Yan with cards, and he was not happy to lose. Feng Yuyao alone felt that he was playing with him, and the more he played, the more irritating he became.

In the end, the host Qin Yan won the game.

"One chip is one tael of silver. His Royal Highness lost two taels to me, the second prince two hundred and fifty taels, and Yuyao six hundred taels. Please send someone to my house another day." Qin Yanshu won it in his hands. of chips, with smiles in his eyes.

"No, Yan Yan, do you have to accept all the money?" Feng Yuyao grimaced, not having fun and losing money.

"There is a saying that there is no father and son on the card table, one yard is one yard, Xiao Yuyao, if you win the money, I will invite you to see the dancer of the Western Regions!" Qin Yan was in a good mood.

Feng Zhan, who was sitting opposite Qin Yan, leaned back on the bamboo chair, narrowed his long and narrow eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, looking at the woman opposite the woman who was counting chips brightly and flamboyantly at the poker table.

Is this really the powerful woman who manages Gucheng and runs the Mulan Racecourse?

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Summer thunderstorms come and go. Shen, the rain stopped.

The breeze was blowing, and the wind brought some earthy smell, mixed with the smell of grass, as well as the fragrance of pine branches and wild flowers, all brewing in the slightly moist air.

At sunset, the birds threw into the forest, and the sound flew around Bishan, but the evening clouds left no guests.

Everyone went home happily.

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That night, at the Prince’s Mansion in Xishan, Feng Zhan was approving the books in the study room. Today, he was delayed too long in the main mansion of Zhaoren County, and the books had accumulated into a mountain.

Feng Zhan squeezed his eyebrows lightly. He was going to show his face at the housewarming banquet in Zhaoren County's main mansion today and left, but he never thought that he would go to taste tea after the luncheon, drink tea and then stay to fight, even if it rained heavily, It's not that I haven't rushed to handle official business in the rain. What's wrong with me...

Thinking of this, Feng Zhan seemed a little irritable.

At this moment, in the silence of Wanshan, a faint sound of Xiao suddenly sounded. Feng Zhan frowned, he was happy and quiet, there was no musician in the mansion, and without his advice, no one dared to play music in the mansion.

"Song Zhi." Feng Zhan's tone was quite hesitant.

Song Zhi came in in response.

"Where is Xiao Sheng?" Feng Zhan also had some guesses at this time.

"His Royal Highness, your subordinates are listening, it seems to be at the Zhaoren County Master's Mansion..." Song Zhi's voice gradually faded away, that person, he can't handle it.

Feng Zhan frowned, that Zhaoren County Master did things in a ruthless manner, and remembered that once it came out, it would not stop in the days to come.

Thinking about this, Feng Zhan was a little curious.

Qin Yan has the elegance of cooking tea from a spring under the forest, and the vulgarity of only recognizing money but not people at the card table. The vulgar and elegant room, people can't figure it out.

Is there such a woman in this world?

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The shadow of the moon is in the sky, and the mountains are vast.

In the main mansion of Zhaoren County, Qin Yan was reclining on the soft couch under the south window of the bamboo building. Qin Yan rested on the moonlight, closed his eyes, and listened to the chirping of night insects and the frogs drumming in the grass. Suddenly I heard the sound of bells coming from the Dajue Temple on the other side of Yuquan Mountain.

"It's a wrong tone." Qin Yan suddenly opened his mouth.

Shen Ying heard the words and said to Jiang Mu who was playing flute on the stone platform outside the bamboo building:

"Young Master Jiang, the master said a wrong tone."

Jiang Mu frowned and stopped the music, just about to speak, when Ji Nanfeng came up,

"Mr. Ji."

Ji Nanfeng nodded and stepped into the bamboo building.

"Master, be more revealing, don't be greedy."

Facing such a casual master, Ji Nanfeng felt more and more like an old mother.

Qin Yan got up lazily, took a cup of lotus leaf porridge handed over by Ji Nanfeng, tasted a few mouthfuls and put it down.

With the lamp in Shen Ying's hand, stepping under the moonlight, she descended Songpo.

What a nice day!

The author says:

Curiosity is the beginning of love.

[1] In this article, "Ji Shen Yi drives... builds." Adapted from Lao Huang Li;

[2] In this article, "Summer heat and dampness...a good product for polydipsia." Adapted from sources, the source is unknown.