Rise From the Humble

Fresh crucian carp can be eaten with silk noodles and parsley and green soup.

The daily banquet in the Hou Mansion is so extravagant. The ingredients are extremely exquisite, the workmanship is extremely fine, and the dishes are extremely complete. It is like a Manchu-Han banquet. The taste is also amazing, as if you have suddenly gone to a restaurant after eating for a long time. . Just such a meal, I don't know how much silver it will cost, but it will definitely not be a small amount.

After the meal, a little maid brought a cup of fragrant tea on a small tea tray and handed it to Zhu Pingan.

Zhu Pingan noticed that the old lady of the Hou Mansion had not yet served fragrant tea on the table, but the little maid served herself a cup of fragrant tea first. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that several young ladies in the Hou Mansion, including Fatty Zhou, looked at him with probing and joke-seeking eyes, as if they were waiting for him, a country bumpkin, to make a joke.

From the look in their eyes, Zhu Ping'an knew that this cup of tea was intentional just after thinking about it.

After being reborn in the Ming Dynasty, although I have never rinsed my mouth with tea after meals, I have seen the Dream of Red Mansions and I am familiar with the habit of rinsing my mouth with tea after meals in wealthy families.

Therefore, he could only disappoint everyone. Zhu Pingan took the tea cup and slightly curled his lips.

Look, that country bumpkin has taken the teacup. Hehe, he didn’t really drink it as tea, hehe.

The sixth lady of the Hou Mansion stared at Zhu Pingan with her big eyes without blinking, and many little stars flashed excitedly in her eyes.

Zhu Ping'an took the tea cup and lifted it up as expected. In the porcelain bowl as white as jade, there were slender tea leaves like tongues. The tea was green in color and exuded a light tea fragrance. It was really good tea. Ah, what a pity, but it is used for mouthwash, what a luxury.

In the sight of everyone, Zhu Pingan picked up the tea cup, and then took a big, big sip.

He actually took such a big sip.

It's like an ox chewing a peony, it's really useless.

Except for the master and servant Li Shu, everyone in the living room had a smile on their lips, waiting to see Zhu Pingan's joke. Especially the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion has turned her attention from Zhu Pingan to Li Shu. When Zhu Pingan makes a fool of herself, look at Li Shu's expression.

However, what disappointed the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion was that Li Shu did not show any nervous expression at all. In Li Shu's heart. So what if Zhu Ping'an didn't know that it was mouthwash tea? The Hou Mansion was just a group of toads in the well guarding the glory left by their ancestors. They are all a bunch of self-righteous toads who are stuck in their ways.

Just the next scene. The sixth lady of the Hou Mansion and others were disappointed again.

After Zhu Pingan took a big sip of tea, he looked at the little maid who brought the tea. Under Zhu Pingan's gaze, the little maid slowly took out the basin, and then Zhu Pingan rinsed it with the tea. He rinsed his mouth and handed the teacup back to the little maid.

This bad guy always likes to tease people like this. The corner of Li Shu's mouth curled up into a slight smile, and then she rinsed her mouth with tea.

After rinsing his mouth, a little maid brought another cup of tea on a saucer. This cup of tea was the real tea to drink after the meal.

Li Shu picked up the tea cup, held the tea lid with her slender hands and tapped the rim of the cup a few times. She blew the tea cup slightly with her cherry lips, then put the tea cup to her lips, Qiongbi sniffed slightly, but then put it down.

"Fifth sister. Why don't you drink it? But you can't get used to it? Why don't you have someone make a bowl of sugar water for your sister?"

The sixth lady of the Hou Mansion blinked her big watery eyes and asked like a curious baby. Her expression was full of concern between sisters, but in her words, sugar water, sugar water, etc., it was easy to think of Li Shu coming from the countryside, with a A slight feeling of contempt.

"Yeah, I'm not used to drinking."

Hearing this, Li Shu looked at Sixth Sister with her big watery eyes, half-smiling but not smiling, with a faint playful smile on her lips.

Before the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion burst into laughter. Li Shu then continued:

"The tea leaves look like a bird's tongue, the color is golden and tender green, the tea soup is also bright green, and the taste is noble. Is this the authentic Huangshan Maofeng?"

The sixth lady of the Hou family was a little surprised, "The fifth lady has good eyesight."

"But it's a pity that although the tea in this cup is Huangshan Maofeng, the tea buds have shrunk, and there is a hint of withered yellow in the green color. The tea aroma is low and deep. If I guessed correctly, this Huangshan Maofeng is probably old tea. ?" Li Shu held an embroidered handkerchief in her slender hands and gently wiped her lips, a trace of obvious disgust deliberately overflowing from her dark eyes.

Miss Hou's sixth lady opened her mouth slightly, and was very surprised. She didn't expect Li Shu to be able to tell that this was Huangshan Maofeng, and she didn't expect that Li Shu could also tell that it was Chen Cha.

"Drinking tea must be new, and drinking wine must be old. I often drink new tea at home, unlike my sister, who is really not used to drinking this old tea. When I came here in the past, the tea I drank in my house was still new, why do I drink it now? Chen Cha is here."

Li Shu put down the embroidered handkerchief and stared at Sixth Sister with a pair of clear eyes. Her beautiful eyes moved, she smiled slightly, and spoke lightly. After speaking, she turned to the little maid Baozi who was standing behind her and casually ordered, "Hua'er, tell me, go ahead, Fei Ge, the messenger, will send two carts of this year's new tea, oh, remember to ask for Longjing before the rain. When the new tea is picked after this spring, I will send two more carts."

"Okay ma'am."

When the little maid Baozi heard this, she puffed up her breasts, responded with a strong voice, turned around and walked out, looking very proud and raising her feet high.

Hou's people

This girl's temper really hasn't changed at all. Zhu Ping'an glanced at Li Shu, who was covering her small mouth and full of ladylike temperament, and curled her lips silently.

The dinner party at the Hou Mansion ended like this, and everyone left. Except for the old lady of the Hou Mansion who said "please take a seat" at the beginning, she never said anything to Zhu Pingan again, and did not take Zhu Pingan seriously at all. It means to be the son-in-law of the Hou family.

Of course, Zhu Ping'an didn't take this to heart at all.

After the dinner, Zhu Pingan walked back to the guest room along the same path. There were maids and boys passing by from time to time along the way. However, these maids and boys looked at Zhu Pingan in a strange way, as if they were ridiculing.

These maids and servants knew the master of the Hou Mansion very well, and when they saw the obviously unfamiliar face of Zhu Pingan, they knew that Zhu Pingan was the new fifth uncle in the Hou Mansion today. For them, the most powerful person in the Marquis Mansion is of course the old lady of the Marquis, and the second most powerful person is the eldest man who succeeded the Marquis of Linhuai. However, the richest person in the Marquis Mansion is still the third master. The annual running expenses of the Marquis Mansion , many of them are filled by the Third Master. Every year, the stewards sent by the Hou Mansion to the Third Master use carriages and carriages to bring money to the mansion.

However, what they couldn't figure out was that the third master's most beloved daughter, the fifth lady, was promised to a poor scholar from the countryside. This news was widely known in the Hou Mansion at that time, which made many servants and stewards feel unsatisfied. The poor scholars in the countryside were not as good as them. Out of envy, jealousy and hatred, many versions of the story about this fifth uncle were circulated in the Hou Mansion. .

Things like marrying into a wife or inserting a door into someone else's house. Anyway, every version has bad things to say.

Therefore, now that they saw the fifth uncle himself, they couldn't help but think of those stories about the fifth uncle. They didn't dare to say anything on their faces, but they despised him in their hearts.