Fortunately, at this time, Xue Wang and Xue Baochai had serious matters to discuss, so they didn't find that Yang Zhi's situation was wrong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother said that a few days to invite so many familiar young masters to dinner, thank you for the funeral etiquette, Grandpa Zhang has arranged for people outside to prepare, but my brother wants his daughter to take a look at this menu, be sure to ask for plain and elegant, no big fish and meat to perfunctory, my daughter understands this, or ask my mother to pass the purpose."

"My son, you also know the difficulty of inviting guests to eat," Xue Wang sighed, "In the past, when your Lao Tzu was here, if it was an ordinary guest, it was just that, but those important guests, if you want to entertain well, it is not an easy matter, you have to inquire about what they taboo, what not to eat, what they like to eat, this is all exquisite, in the past, the prefect of Suzhou passed by here, I heard that he did not eat beef and mutton, all four-legged ones did not eat, our Jinling customs, no sheep is not a feast, I have to change them one by one, Fortunately, our ducks are good, and we made eight treasure ducks with Huiquan water and Taidiao, and then brought up the fresh saury anchovies, which is not a loss of courtesy. ”

"Feel at home, this sentence, easy to say, difficult to do, I'm old, I can't think of any fresh ways, you young people have bright heads, I still want you to think about it, I'll think about what is missing on the side."

"Since it is to entertain them, you can't use too vulgar things, the dim sum at home has always been not bad, and there is no need to tell them to be careful, just to make them carefully, although the mulberry is over, but our mulberry cake is also excellent, presumably other families do not have it."

Xue Baochai looked at the list, "Today's season, the anchovy has a lot of spines, and it is not very good, I heard that the young master of the Songjiang patrol will take a basket of four-gill plum blossom perch, this is good, but it is not prepared by our family themselves, borrowing flowers to offer Buddha is nothing, fortunately, Grandpa Zhang said that a few days ago from Siam, I brought back a few Siamese cypress pigs, and there are several elephant trunk mussels. ”

"Is that enough?" Xue Wang asked, "Don't be too stingy. ”

"It's not enough there," Xue Baochai said with a smile, "These things are all overseas, and now I'm afraid that except for the Wang family, the rest of the family has such fresh overseas food, so it can't be, and my brother has also prepared a new dish, saying that he wants to show everyone his hand." Looking at this, there is some meaning of returning to the basics and not working. ”

"Speaking of which," Xue Wang became interested, "what good things did your brother come up with again?" ”

"My brother said that when the time comes, a few of us will be together with the two-bedroom and four-room wives, and we will also open a table in the inner courtyard, take advantage of this east wind to be happy, and let my daughter sell a pass, and then we will know."

After a few days like this, Xue Pan got the letter of reply from Jingzhong, and became more and more calm and calm, but ordered Li Qing to collect all these medicinal materials in Jinling at all costs, and prepare a large number of production of plague avoidance pills, for a while he forgot about the Xue family's satin shop, on this day he just returned to the inner courtyard, and commanded Yang Zhi again, and suddenly said that the lights were dim, and he couldn't read clearly, and suddenly said that he was thirsty, and he wanted to drink Lu'an tea, and suddenly said that he wanted to eat hot aloe vera soup, which made Yang Zhiren turn over on his back, and Yang Zhi muttered in his mouth, The hands and feet did not stop, and they were called by Xue Pan like the wind and did not stop.

Just sent the aloe vera soup, the mother-in-law who guarded the yard came to report, saying that Aunt Mei was coming, Xue Pan hurriedly put down the book, stood up, and welcomed Aunt Mei in, because of the last time she was captured by Xue Shou, Aunt Mei is now going out with a careful heart, all go out with a hood, and pass the cloak, today's cloak is crescent white, the corner of the cloak is embroidered with a few pale yellow plum blossoms, very fresh and elegant, Xue Pan does not know the number of etiquette, Aunt Mei is also a professional and technical talent, I don't know much about the number of etiquette, So the two of them sat down naturally, Xue Pan ordered Yang Zhi to pour tea, Yang Zhi silently glanced at him in his heart, poured the tea, and sat in the compartment, pretending to be doing needlework by the light, and this one was eavesdropping with his ears pricked up.

"I already have what the uncle told me to make a few days ago," Aunt Mei took out a piece of satin, "Please take a look, uncle, I can only do this, and it is not enough to be able to do it." ”

Xue Pan took the satin, put it on the round table, opened it and took a look, among the satin, the pure black like a black cat like a black cat's oily and shiny fur is the most precious, the Dayue Dynasty advocates water virtue, except for the big wedding ceremony with red, the rest of the time is used with both color and bright yellow, in addition to the color, that is, the stone blue and the rain over the azure are more precious, this horse is the rain over the azure, Chai Rong asked the craftsmen who built the firewood kiln, saying: "The rain has passed the sky and the clouds are broken, and this color will be the future." This satin is such a color, as if it has just rained on the horizon, but it is all elegant cyan, and the azure after the rain is the most suitable as the base of landscape painting.

Open it and take a look, you can see the sentence of Qin Guan's "Man Tingfang" inscribed by Xue Baochai in the past, "the mountains wipe the clouds, the sky is even decaying grass, and the sound of the horn is broken" Qin Guan's sentence of "Man Tingfang", the sky is slightly cloudy, and the weeds on the roadside are all used to re-embroider the method, turning the satin between, the weeds seem to be gently blown by the breeze, the clouds shine on the azure color, and the sun shines down faintly, and the poems and paintings match, which is very good.

After this pair of embroidery, there are countless patterns, among which there is a picture of Bai Suzhen Xu Xian swimming in the lake together, this side looks, the weather is excellent, the West Lake is calm, the umbrella is also co-authored, and then look to the side, the clouds are dense, Xu Xian will open the umbrella, the West Lake is faint, and it is about to make waves.

Xue Pan admired it very much, "Aunt Mei's craftsmanship is really a hundred times stronger than Hui embroidery!" ”

The "Hui embroidery" that Xue Pan said was a woman in Gusu, Jinling Province, in the past, named Hui Niang. Because he was also a scholarly eunuch, he was originally good at calligraphy and painting, but he occasionally embroidered one or two pieces of needlework for tricks, not for sale. All the flowers embroidered on this screen are imitations of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasty famous branch flowers, so their format and color are all elegant, and they are not blindly rich and colorful. Each branch of the flower side is inscribed with the ancients of the old sentence of this flower, or the poems and songs are different, all with black velvet embroidered grass words, and the handwriting hook, turn, weight, and break are no different from the pen grass, nor is it stronger than the city embroidery handwriting board. He does not profit from this skill, so although the world knows, there are very few winners, and there are many people who have nothing in the rich and noble family of the world, and they are called "Hui embroidery" today.