In the temple, all officials were solemn and reported the matters in the memorials. It was said that this year, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The emperor smiled and stroked his beards.

No major incident happened in the morning court, so I happily retreated.

On the way back, I went to the yard to buy breakfast to fill my stomach. Pei Zhengwen and his colleagues were chewing cakes and walked side by side. The colleagues said, "In the year of the bumper harvest, the rice prices have dropped. Why don't the vendors exchange some good rice to make cakes? The cakes are too hard and cannot be bitten. Do you have any important things today? Take you to Sun Niang's Foot Shop at noon. Her cakes are well made."

"It's okay." Pei Zhengwen spit out two words. His incompetent son has been to this store recently. He doesn't act like a monster and cultivates his character. He sees it. It's worth going to Sun Niang's Foot Shop. It's because the store hides mystery. He glances at the cake and eats it in a few bites. He doesn't waste it: "A good harvest is a good thing. Beware of the northern and northern barbarians going to the south to beat grass valley."

"Haha, I don't think this year."

In fact, Sun Niang's Foot Shop is on their way home or to the military camp, without taking a detour.

Sun Niang's foot shop was closed, and several old diners surrounded him. His colleagues squeezed over. A piece of red paper was posted on the door of the shop, and the black letters were a little floating, as if the person who wrote the letters were happy and his pen was light. He said, "The cook and the hairpin will be closed for a day."

"Oh, what a pity, we came here unfortunately, the cook and the hairpin." The colleague shrugged at Pei Zhengwen.

"It's okay, come again next time." Pei Zhengwen said. It's delicious, but it's a bad meal. It's enough to be full. Years of military life have made him not care about his desire to be in the mouth.

Suddenly, a burst of rapid horse hooves came from the street. Someone exclaimed and some cursed in the distance. The fast horse flew past Pei Zhengwen and his colleagues and ran towards the palace. That was the scout!

Pei Zhengwen's face darkened, he looked at his colleagues, and walked back tacitly.

...

The ceremony was carried out in an orderly manner.

One plus a hairpin, wearing a skirt, and pays homage to the teacher.

Two, add hairpins, go to hairpins, hold a pearl and phoenix hairpins, and wear a curved skirt. Two, worship teachers and elders.

Three plus hairpins, remove the hairpin, wear pearls, flowers, silver hairpins, make hairpins, change into a long skirt with a large sleeve, and show the inheritance of three prayers.

Finally, I offered wine, looked at the moon and gave A Yao a few words of admonition, and explained: "You are Yao who 'shoulder' who 'received me with wood peach and repayed me with Qiong Yao'. Now I hope you are like the Yao light that 'refined all things', shining brightly, leaving a shining light in the eternal river, and you have never left the world in vain."

Yaoguang is the one who nourishes all things. It means providing direction for food and everything. Wangyue hopes that she can leave her reputation for cooking. She has high hopes. A Yao feels pressured, but she is also fascinated by the flashing light of her long river, touching the softness deep in her heart.

The ceremony is over.

Wangyue went to the kitchen to cook, and there was no need to worry that it was too late to prepare. She hired a team to help, cook fire and wash vegetables, prepare ingredients, cut fish and meat, and cook stock. She had to change her clothes, roll up her sleeves to do the final steaming, cooking, frying and frying. The people and things in the yard were left to A Yao to deal with.

Aunt Wang sighed, although A Yao invited guests, there are still people in the kitchen, and there are quite a few chores who are temporarily tidying up, Wang Yue is really interested.

"A Yao, you are so beautiful!" After the hairpin, Pei Shuo approached A Yao's side, his eyes shining brightly. A pool of clear pond reflected the sky light, which also reflected A Yao's appearance, as if she walked out of the skylight lake. "You look so beautiful in a big sleeve shirt! There is also the phoenix hairpin and flower crown on your head."

"Is it really good?" A Yao embarrassedly held the golden phoenix hairpin, with a flying glow on her cheek. The phoenix hairpin was a phoenix. She was inserted into the small tip of the fallen horse bun and exposed her side face. She held a ruby ​​the size of a rice bead in her mouth, and was decorated with three pearls of the same size, making her look cute.

The pearl flower ornaments and silver hairpin are inlaid with golden chestnuts on the outside, and the osmanthus pattern is made with silver in the middle, and the stamens are inlaid with pearls. It is inserted into the bun, and the curve is like a hair crown.

"Yeah!" Pei Shuo nodded vigorously, plucked up the courage, and asked shyly: "That... the first wooden hairpin, do you like it?"

A Yao blinked her eyes and there was a more guess in her heart. She stared at Pei Shuo, making him even more embarrassed. She didn't want to show her fear and glanced at something else.

"You made the wooden hairpin?"

"Yes, yes!" Pei Shuo was very honest on this point. After affirming his actions, he felt a sense of pride of "I am amazing, I can give it a waist first". He looked at the ebony hairpin with regret: "I begged Master Wangyue for a long time before she could answer to use the ebony hairpin. If I had known that you had added the hairpin twice in the next two times, one was gold and the other was silver, I would have made a copper hairpin, but I was afraid that you would not like it and refused to accept it."

"These two were rewarded by the eldest princess." A Yao said softly, "I like this hairpin very much."

Ying Niang chewed melon seeds, and said she didn't like the person she didn't like, a stubborn child. Pei Shuo grew up to be a handsome talent. I think Pei Xingzhi should be not bad either. Thinking of Ying Niang's mouth under the flower tree back then.

"At the end of the month..."

Pei Shuo was about to invite A Yao to the east suburbs to see the red leaves, but Pei Bo hurried over with a grim expression: "Young Master, General, please go home immediately!"

"Go back quickly, I'll make you a delicious meal," A Yao helped persuade him.

"Well, I'm just going to make something delicious for me when I come again." Pei Shuo refused to let go, and Yao Cuishengxiang said goodbye to A Yao, and they went home with Uncle Pei.

She didn't know that when Pei Shuo left, he would see him next time he would be a few years later.

Mo Xingle saw bird's nest in the crowd like A Yao. Before A Yao could go over to say hello to the bird's nest, Pei Shuo came over. After taking a look at the bird's nest, he found that Mo Xingle was already talking to her.

"Bird's Nest Girl, I haven't seen you for a long time." Mo Xingle greeted Bird's Nest. When he approached, he found that the bird's Nest's clothing had changed, like a maid from a family.

"Brother Mo, you are here too." Bird's Nest said with a smile.

The bird's nest seems to have changed, grown taller, and looks better. Mo Xingle looked at her face, and may have lost her carefree childishness. Her thin eyebrows and the corners of her eyes that were stretched upward are calm, making this cardamom girl a few years older.

"You two sisters really don't look the same. They obviously look similar, one is calm and the other is still like a child." Mo Xingle joked: "Why didn't I see you in Sun Niang's foot shop? Are you following Miss Wangyue?"

Bird's nest smiled and shook his head.

"Sister Bird's Nest!"

A Yao sent Pei Shuo away, and rushed over like a butterfly. Bird's nest apologized and smiled at Mo Xingle, and walked towards A Yao: "It's all over the hairpin, and it's still like a child."

"I'm still a baby." After A Yao said that, she was shocked by the bird's nest. "I'm not ashamed. Okay, your wedding ceremony is over, and it's time for me to go back and report."

A Yao was stunned for a moment, "Is the eldest princess who asked you to come?"

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have been here." Bird's Nest wanted to rub her head but had nowhere to do it. She straightened the flower hairpin on her head, "Tell the girl, I'm going back."

A Yao quickly grabbed the sleeve of the bird's nest, "Can't you stay here for a while? Let's leave after dinner... Or is it because of what I said last time that has implicated you?"

As soon as she spoke, she cried her face in the bird's nest.

"Don't take it to heart, I'm fine now. You're right. Our family used to...so even if she cooks for noble people, she might not be willing to eat it. Now she has been transferred back to the kitchen to take charge of the eldest princess's meal, which is a blessing for me. Speaking of which, I want to thank you."

Bird's nest was attached to A Yao's ear and said in a voice that two people could hear, and finally, "Now she already knows the existence of you and the girl, which should be considered a tacit consent. Come on, do it well, I'll wait to meet you in the kitchen of the eldest princess's mansion next time."

A Yao nodded, her mind was still muddy, and the bird's nest words were hidden in her hiding name and Wangyue. What exactly happened to the fundamental reason for coming to the capital to overturn the case.

Bird's Nest smiled and greeted the others, and left in the ox cart.

"It's time to eat!"

Li Gang shouted, and the fragrance of the food also floated out.

There are a table of people in Sun Niang's foot shop, Aunt Wang, Yu Niang, Yu Niang's husband and Mo Xingle, A Yao Wangyue, Niang Yan and Yingniang's table of the same table.

If you don’t have any questions, take out the internal organs on your chest and wash them. Put a few pieces of mellow tangerine peel on your chest and apply sauce. Spread the whole chili with a layer of yellow mud and turn it into an oval mud chicken ball, wrap it with lotus leaves and tie it with hemp rope, bury it in the fire pond, bury it with soil, cook it with fire, and cook it with a hammer before serving it. Even the chicken feathers can be taken off one piece, mixing the fragrance of lotus leaves, and the chicken is tender.

Stir-fried clams with perilla-flavored beans are also an alternative appetizing spice. After picking up the clams, the light yellow meat and sauce are sucked into your mouth.

Taro is made, chopped and marinated into the taste, spread the taro and steamed in a pot. A little fat in the ribs exudes oil, allowing the taro to absorb, the taro powder is glutinous and has the taste of gravy. The ribs are also stained with the aroma of taro, complementing each other, just like the wonderful combination of bamboo shoots and fat meat.

Make one fish and two fish. Grass carp and take the bones of the fish, make the soup, chop the fish into fish paste and add egg white and starch, wrap it in it like wrapping the chopped pork belly paste, roll it into a fish ball and put it in the pot and cook it. Finally, put seaweed and shrimp skin in the soup, drip a few drops of shrimp oil, sprinkle with chopped green onion, clear soup fish balls, this is one of them, and make a slightly sour and appetizing fish soup, perfect.

Aunt Wang also sighed: "It's much better than me to cook. I can cook very well. Today I've learned about it."

Mo Xingle interrupted: "That's right, Miss Wangyue is one of the best cooks in Nanxun."

There is also a dish of brewed bitter melon. The melon sac in the middle is sap and poured into the meat paste. It tastes bitter first, deep in the tongue, and chews until the meat paste is chewed until the teeth and fresh sweetness of the meat paste are. Then the bitter melon slowly returns to sweetness.

The taste of bitterness and sweetness makes everyone sigh that it is delicious. When thinking about the difficulty of life, they dig out the delicious dish deep in their memory. It has nothing to do with value or taste. It just happens to appear at the worst and gives them the best comfort, becoming the driving force for hope and yearning for a better life.

"It's delicious." Li Gang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "It's as happy as Li Rou brought me out of the mountain village and we made money to eat the first full meal in the capital."

"It will get better in the future." Li Rou said softly.

"Li Rou, when I make more money, I will invite the chef to cook nine dishes and one soup and enjoy it."

Sun Niang's eyes were wet. She thought that the couple at Sun Niang's foot shop had become her own support. Seeing the decline in business in the store, she had no time to take care of it. When sesame oil chicken noodle soup was used to make the death come back, she lowered her head and took a few more mouthfuls of rice, blinked her eyes to remove the water vapor so that she would not be seen by others.

Suddenly, there was a piece of taro in her bowl, which was picked up by Song Fang: "Eat taro, the taro is sweet."

"good."

A Yao bit her chopsticks and looked at Wangyue. She also thought of the roasted sweet potatoes and the rough and hard-to-choke rice, as well as the bitterness after coming to the capital. Fortunately, the bitterness she had suffered was like this brewed bitter melon, slowly regaining sweetness.

Saw the guests away, and the courtyard returns to quiet.

Wangyue and A Yao returned to the house and carefully reminded her to be cautious in the capital. At night, the kitchen was brightly lit and smoke was scattered. Wangyue was still teaching the secret methods of palace dishes, whether the ingredients were good or bad, which parts were suitable for fire roasting, which parts tasted good, and I wish I could become the old man who passed on my life, and could teach me what I had learned all my life overnight.

A Yao knew that it was coming again when she was leaving, so she listened more attentively and lived up to the expectations of Yingyue.

At the third update, the full moon in the sky and the stars dotted.

The continuous fire light illuminates the winding and twists of the mountain road, and the fire light sways like a long snake in the mountains and forests. Looking closely, it turned out to be a marching force. The head carried the military flag and the flying flag was clearly visible under the illumination of the fire. This is the Pei family army, who followed the emperor to fight the country and fight on the battlefield, and made the northern and southern barbarians frightened.

Pei Zhengwen led the way, Bo Bu and Yang were wearing silver armor and rode a red horse. After his long tail, almost to the end, Pei Shuo followed the team with a long spear. His merits were not enough to allow him to follow the vanguard.

As Pei Zhengwen expected, the Beiyi came to Caogu again in autumn and occupied two small border counties in succession. The big city was still guarding before it was broken. The news came back to the capital. Pei Zhengwen asked for a battle to capture the border town. After receiving the imperial edict, he ordered his troops to set off. Before setting off, he called his incompetent son back and asked him if he wanted to follow him.

Since he chose the path of military merit promotion, Pei Shuo was determined without hesitation.

He didn't even have time to tell A Yao about the notification, and he took his luggage with him from Yanmen and set off with the army.

Bird's nest is like walking on a tightrope in the eldest princess's mansion, and finally finds the position of the people around you, keeps a low profile, works for the eldest princess tremblingly, and quietly waits for the opportunity to overturn the case.

A Yao sent Wangyue away, and the house was deserted, but unlike the scene when she first arrived in the capital, she learned that the bird's nest was in the Princess's Mansion, and they occasionally communicated and could reunite with her during festivals. A Yao prepared a case in the Sixth Bureau of the Fourth Bureau of the Official Office, and slowly managed herself. From the fact that others thought she was young and unwilling to invite her, Mo Xingle invited her to have a few more family dinners, and recommended her to other officials who had enough money. The reputation of the Fourth Bureau of the Sixth Bureau of the Fourth Bureau of the Sixth Bureau was accumulated and fermented, and everything was developing in a good direction.

A miserable life is just a moment, and there will always be a day when the bitter rain ends and the wind clears. The clouds clear the sun, and the water washes the blue sky.
Chapter completed!