Every year, the Chang'an Marquis Mansion sends the osmanthus cake to the king of the stove is the highlight. The girls in the fourth room didn't want to look at it. But even if it is a competition, the original four girls in the house are all eight immortals across the sea, each with their own ability.

There has never been a precedent for stepping on someone else.

Old Madam Hou was no longer in the mood to taste the Dingsheng cake, and she didn't want to continue to ask Su Jinxuan.

"Jinxuan must remember that you are the second young master of the Chang'an Hou Mansion, Mrs. Chang'an Hou is your mother, and Rou Jia is your sister-in-law." Mrs. Hou asked Mama Xu to take the pastry from Su Jinxuan's hand, and let him go out without waiting for him to answer.

Even Mama saw Mrs. Hou's displeasure, and her movements eased a lot.

"The dried osmanthus flowers are all picked by your own hands?" Old Madam Hou asked.

Mama Lian subconsciously looked at the two batches of pastries beside Mama Xu. One dish was broken, but there were no bite marks.

"The second girl helped to pick it, but the slave maid kept watching." Mama Lian replied truthfully.

Old Madam Hou was silent for a moment, and then ordered, "Bring the second girl over." ”

In the Hou Mansion in Chang'an, the courtyard of Mrs. Hou is the most leaky. But even so, Nagafang can still get some news. Mrs. Hou did not pick a plate of the girls' pastries, so she sent them to the front yard. The news that there was something wrong with the dried osmanthus in the big girl's plate of pastries came to Da Huang and Su Roujia.

Su Roujia was making tea unhurriedly. She listened to the injunction, and just asked Da Huang lightly: "Mother thinks that this can bring Su Zhenyi over?" ”

Da Huang looked at his daughter's graceful movements, and was very satisfied.

She replied, "How could I have such extravagant hopes." The second girl is just a stone asking for directions. Those two can't be dealt with by me myself the first time. ”

Su Roujia gave a cup of tea to the rhubarb family, and said in the hot mist: "If this stone can make some marks, mother should not throw it out of the house so quickly." My aunt's eyelids are shallow, and she can pinch the Shizi sisters at any time. ”

Da Huang smiled and nodded, agreeing with his daughter's train of thought. Thinking about success or failure, she hooked her lips and smiled: "If it's useless, I'll throw it out this time." A few days ago, I heard that the second son of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites had made pockmarks, and the originally scheduled marriage was also withdrawn. ”

"Although the eldest uncle is an idle job, the second cousin is his daughter-in-law, and she is also the daughter of our Chang'an Marquis. Mother still has to get by on face. Su Roujia's words were gentle, but there was no pity in her eyes.

Da Huang's words were even more decisive and decisive: "The girls of the Hou Mansion have grown up one by one. They should always be asked to know who this Chang'an Marquis Mansion should rely on in the future. ”

Compared with the long room, the second room is much less well-informed.

The people sent by Mrs. Hou all arrived at the door, and the four girls in the courtyard were still pinching the arms of the second girl.

"You are useless, you know to choose dried osmanthus for Mama Lian to please, why don't you know to come back with a good jar." Thinking of the pastries that people said were at the forefront of the eldest girl Su Roujia and the third girl Su Zhenyi, the fourth girl was so angry that her teeth itched.

The people around Old Madam Hou would not easily offend the four girls, but they did not dare to delay Old Madam Hou's orders.

After telling the meaning of Mrs. Hou, the fourth girl let go of Su Zhaoning's arm.

The pain from the long nails couldn't be relieved for a while, so Su Zhaoning simply pinched his palm with his nails to transfer the pain.

The voice of the four girls still came from behind her.

"If you are self-righteous, you will only ask for hardship! Wild ducks don't eat mud either! ”

Mud Su Zhaoning turned a deaf ear to this. Although she has no sources, she knows what she has done. Old Madam Hou sent someone to invite her, presumably because the previous calculation had taken effect.

I just don't know where it went.

Su Zhaoning lowered his eyebrows, as docile as before, and walked into Mrs. Hou's room.

Mama Lian came over with a cup of tea.

Su Zhaoning turned sideways and gave Mama Lian's salute, and then saluted Mrs. Hou.

Old Madam Hou knocked the teacup with the lid of the white porcelain cup and said, "Zhaoning, you have always been meticulous in your work, how did you make such a big mistake this time." Your eldest sister's jar of dried osmanthus has such a big negligence, your aunt, I'm afraid I can't protect you. ”

Su Zhaoning hurriedly knelt down and bowed: "Grandmother Mingjian, Zhaoning is a dried osmanthus selected according to the practice of the past. Big sister's jar of dried osmanthus, Zhao Ning didn't understand what was wrong. ”

"Mama Xu, you give the pastries made by the eldest girl to the second girl." Old Madam Hou didn't change her expression when she heard Su Zhaoning's words, but just instructed Mama Xu behind her.

Mama Xu brought the plate of osmanthus cake that had been broken open to Su Zhaoning's eyes.

I saw that on the broken Dingsheng cake, each piece was clearly visible the blackened dried osmanthus inside.

"How so?" Su Zhaoning's face was full of surprise, she pinched a piece of pastry and took a bite, and her brows immediately wrinkled.

"It's bitter." Su Zhaoning picked out a dried osmanthus flower from the pastry and put it in his mouth.

"It's all so bitter." Su Zhaoning looked at Mrs. Hou with a confused expression, and confessed, "Back to grandmother, when Zhaoning picked the dried osmanthus flowers, he really threw away all the dried osmanthus flowers that had turned black. The color of the big sister's dried osmanthus is definitely inferior to that of the grandmother, and it is impossible for such a problem to occur. ”

Old Madam Hou's first suspicion was not Su Zhaoning, she only deceived the other party once. Now seeing that Su Zhaoning's expression did not seem to be fake, Old Madam Hou deepened her doubts about the other person.

She has a lot of granddaughters under her knees, and she has only met Su Zhenyi in these years when she is really satisfied.

Favoritism and doubts coexisted, and Mrs. Hou decided to let Su Zhenyi explain to herself in front of Su Zhaoning.

"Zhenyi girl, come out."

I saw that in the inner room, the third girl, Su Zhenyi, walked out with a pair of beautiful Danfeng eyes.

Her voice was choked, and her words were full of grievances: "Zhenyi didn't do anything to be sorry for the big sister. ”

Seeing Su Zhenyi's appearance, Su Zhaoning understood a lot of his intentions for Mrs. Hou's Rhubarb family.

The fifteen-year-old girl in front of her combed a double-ring bun, inserted a green jade hairpin in her jet-black hair, and drew a plum blossom-like flower on her forehead.

It is said that the eldest girl of the Hou Mansion of Chang'an is upright and elegant, and the color is beautiful. But compared to the villain in front of him, Hibiscus has to take two steps back, and Peony has to be envious for three points.

The third girl, Su Zhenyi, is very young, and her beauty is already visible. Such a posture is not talented, and you have to provoke others first.

Mrs. Hou is not a man after all, and her pity for beauty should be lighter. She patted the back of Su Zhenyi's hand for comfort, and the meaning of doubt in her words did not diminish.

"Since Mama Lian opened the collection of dried osmanthus flowers, only Zhenyi you and Zhaoning have touched the jar of dried osmanthus of the eldest girl. Now that jar of dried osmanthus is in a nutshell of problems, you two always have to tell the reason. ”

This is what it means to let the two of them accuse each other.

Su Zhaoning spied out Mrs. Hou's intentions, but she just lowered her head and was silent.

Her calculation today, the gamble is the word "and" that Mrs. Hou cares about. Even if it's just a superficial "and".

She and Su Yingying, two sisters, were bullied by the four girls and Xiao Huang behind their backs. Even the two sisters in the third room are not harmonious. It's just that these battles are never on the surface.

On such a grand occasion as today's stove prince, the eldest girl's pastries have been calculated, and Mrs. Hou wants to open her eyes and close her eyes and still say that the Chang'an Hou Mansion is harmonious, but she can't.

If you love "harmony", how can you like "noise"?

Su Zhenyi is not as patient as Su Zhaoning. Her temperament is originally coquettish and straightforward. Therefore, such a big thing as being wronged immediately came out.

"The dried osmanthus in the long room is only used by the eldest sister, and this Dingsheng cake will not use up all the dried osmanthus flowers of such a big can. Take the dried osmanthus flowers from the long house, and pick them one by one, isn't it clear at a glance? Su Zhenyi proposed.

This idea was naturally thought of by Mrs. Hou a long time ago. She put the jar of dried osmanthus that she had taken a long time ago in front of the two of them.

"Zhaoning, do you pick alone, or is Zhenyi with you?" Old Madam Hou asked.

Su Zhaoning glanced at the porcelain jar with a white background, lowered his eyes, and replied, "Let grandmother arrange it." ”

Su Zhenyi didn't wait for Mrs. Hou to ask, so she replied first: "Grandmother, let Mama Lian pick." This result is the most just, and people can't question it. ”

Mama Lian is the old man next to Mrs. Hou, and Su Zhenyi has sold her a good word by saying this.

Old Madam Hou nodded in response. Half an hour later, all the jars of dried osmanthus were sorted.

Because Mama Lian is an old man who selects dried osmanthus, so when she picks, she subconsciously divides the remaining dried osmanthus into upper, middle and lower three grades, each of which makes a bunch.

"Old lady Mingjian, there are no dried osmanthus that have turned black in this jar of dried osmanthus." Mama Lian stepped aside and displayed three stacks of dried osmanthus flowers in front of everyone.

Su Zhaoning was not surprised by this result. She painstakingly selected and carefully placed it, in order to let Su Zhenyi take on the fault of scheming against her sister.

Changfang and Su Zhenyi's two cans of dried osmanthus are in excellent condition. Two cans of dried osmanthus, and none of them had any problems.

The real problem lies in the glutinous rice flour.

The glutinous rice flour used in the long house is not made in the public. Su Zhaoning once heard people mention that the coarse glutinous taste brought back by the eldest young master Su Jinyu from Quzhou is excellent, that is, it is much longer than the steamed in the capital.

It is not a freshly picked osmanthus, and if it is steamed for a long time, the color will change somewhat. Coupled with the cooperation of the long house, there will definitely be problems with the winning cake made by the big girl.

However, it is not only this problematic winning cake that needs to be pushed to Su Zhenyi.

Su Zhaoning squatted down, inspected the three piles of dried osmanthus flowers, and said to Mrs. Hou: "Grandmother, these dried osmanthus flowers are not intended for the eldest sister. Historically, the color of the dried osmanthus in the house has been high and low, in addition to the grandmother's all the complete dried osmanthus, the big sister's is missing a petal of dried osmanthus for more, the worst is only missing two corners, but there are many dry osmanthus flowers missing three petals. This jar may have been taken by mistake. ”

Old Madam Hou obviously wanted to find a mistake between the second girl, Su Zhaoning, and the third girl, Su Zhenyi.

Therefore, after listening to Su Zhaoning's words, Su Zhenyi immediately became vigilant. She blurted out questioning words: "How can the second sister remember so clearly, didn't she have a plan a long time ago?" Besides, how many petals are missing from this dried osmanthus and how to fill the cans are all you said, and what others can testify? ”

"Even Mama, when you watched the second sister fill the cans, did you check them one by one?" Su Zhenyi looked at Mama Lian.