Chapter 41 Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival
The green roads on both sides were greeted by each other, and the sunset was shining in the evening. There were carriages and ox carts on the official road, one after another, heading towards Nanxun County. The carriage was in the front, followed by a ox cart, and there were two male servants carrying all kinds of gifts.
"Ye, I'm so unlucky these days. I should have arrived at the Pei family courtyard in the morning, but I either ate the wrong thing or encountered heavy rain. Fortunately, at this speed, I could arrive before dark." The male servant who didn't have to drive the car said to another companion.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the words were finished, the ox cart suddenly bumped, the two were thrown and the car stopped.
"What's going on?" The complaining servant looked back. Fortunately, the gifts in the car were fine, and they were still in the car.
"Maybe it was crushed to the stone." The driver was not concerned and shook his whip and set off again.
"Moo——" the old ox called out, lifting his hooves and moving forward with difficulty. The wheels turned twice. The ox couldn't pull them and took a few steps back. The gifts on the wooden board sloping and falling into the muddy pit. The mud foam splashed, polluting the snow-white screen partitions. Several batches of satin fell on the ground, staining the dust stains.
"Oh no!" The male servant looked back and looked back, and was so scared that he quickly pushed his companions. The two jumped out of the ox cart and quickly packed up the gifts scattered all over the floor. "This is all for the eldest master, what should I do now? I had known that I rushed to Nanxun County yesterday."
"Stop talking, push the car out first." The servant who drove the car interrupted his self-pity, and the two worked together to push the wooden cart that was trapped in the mud pit from behind.
The handlebar ears were quick, and he stopped when he found that there was less sound from the ox cart in the back. The maid sitting next to him was unclear, so he asked softly: "Is there something wrong in front?"
"No, the ox cart behind didn't follow." He jumped out of the car with a sharp look. He immediately understood, "The wheels of the ox cart are trapped in a mud pit, I'll push them over."
The maid lifted the curtain and responded truthfully to the people inside.
"You have worked hard all the way, but we have to enter Nanxun County at night. The eldest young master may be anxious. Please ask the handlebar and those two to click quickly."
The woman was thinking about Master Pei, now eating happily.
A new seafood and river food was introduced in the kitchen. The chefs used eighteen skills to make Pei Shuo happy and give him a reward.
Ginger and onion choking sea crabs, white scallops, steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli, soup with alpine vegetables, steamed mandarin fish, sea salt baked shrimp, sea urchin fried rice, steamed ribs with noodles, seaweed egg rolls, and a dish of red beans, lotus root rib soup.
With the upper and lower jaw bite, the shell of the sea crab was easily bitten open. The outside of the shell was wrapped in green onion and ginger juice, which tasted great when sucked. When tasted the sweet crab meat inside, it further highlighted the deliciousness of the crab meat. When dealing with the pair of big tongs, you can break the meat in the tongs into strips and pull it out in a strip. If you dip it in a little red Zhejiang vinegar, it will have a different flavor.
Pei Shuo grabbed two snails, one for A Yao and the other for himself, so he asked someone to remove the dish and leave it later before eating. The bamboo sticks put on light yellow snail meat, and the soy sauce mixed with mustard juice was particularly chewy. The mustard sauce was also very appetizing and refreshing. The pungent spicy taste rushed straight into the forehead, as if it was pierced through the Ren and Du meridians. The esophagus and even the nasal cavity were connected. The spicy taste dissipated and replaced by a cool and comfortable feeling.
There are also shrimps with sea salt baked. The bamboo cage is covered with a layer of snow-white and crystal sea salt. The light red is faintly visible underneath. When you look closely, you will put the shrimps on the bamboo cage and cover them with sea salt, which is similar to salt baked chicken. However, the shrimp meat is still fresh and sweet, and there is no need to dip the sauce. The salty taste of sea salt makes the shrimps sweet.
There is also sea urchin fried rice, which is a bit dull. The oil is heavy. The fried rice tastes rich, and the sea urchin is rustling, as if you are eating duck egg yolks.
“So satisfied!”
The last soup was clear and the pink lotus root was drunk to make the pure soup that tasted the ingredients. A Yao narrowed her eyes happily.
The maid brought a hot handkerchief for him to wipe his hands, rinse the tea and spit it out. The cold residue on the table was removed by the other maids. He asked A Yao: "Have you eaten it?"
A Yao nodded vigorously.
"Let's go, take you to a place, but you have to blindfold your eyes." Pei Shuo smiled sly, and with A Yao's consent, he took out the prepared black cloth strip, covered A Yao's eyes, and led her to a place.
It was pitch black and could not see anything. It was like a person with vision impaired, without light, and could not see others. The moment A Yao was blindfolded, she was extremely nervous and held Pei Shuo's hand tightly, unable to pull it off: "Where are you going to take me? Not far away?"
"Don't worry, please entrust your eyes to me temporarily, I am your eyes... I have to cross the threshold here." Pei Shuo led A Yao and gradually reminded her how to go, whether there are any roadblocks nearby that need to be bypassed or directly.
The time that cannot be seen is particularly long. A Yao kept encouraging herself in her heart. Believe in Pei Shuo, you must believe him. Just pretend to be a team building. If he dares to be unfavorable to her, see how she dealt with him!
"It's getting faster." Every time A Yao asked, Pei Shuo was always perfunctory.
There were stone paths under her feet, and there were many places to lay pebbles. A Yao turned her mind quickly, but before she could find the answer, Pei Shuo had already unbuttoned the eye mask strip for her and showed the answer to her.
"Look!"
The Sanqiu Osmanthus Garden is full of golden osmanthus flowers, with rich fragrance of flowers, but more importantly, whether it is the veranda, pavilion, tower, or trees, colorful lanterns, the moon is on the willows, the five-color lanterns, the fireworks sticks held by the maids, the grass near the lake water, and the servants set fire to silver flowers, which gives the Mid-Autumn Festival festive atmosphere.
"Wow!" A Yao was overwhelmed with his maids and servants, and the mother-in-law gathered in the empty space in front of him, stretching his neck to discuss, "What are they doing?" A Yao turned around.
"Did you forget so quickly? Two days ago, I said that I would hold a lantern festival at the 'Sanqiu Guizi', so that the maids and servants from other courtyards could also participate. The front was full of riddles of pictures. If you answer correctly, you can get a ingot lamp or a fish lamp."
Chapter completed!