The chef hired by Wenyuelou was good at it, but he only had one recipe, and the food was cooked in a decent way. When Su Wan ate it, the taste was no different from what Jianjialou made.
Moreover, Lotus City has also added a lot of local specialties to Lotus City, such as lotus seed soup, fried lotus, lotus porridge, etc. Su Wan ate a piece of fried lotus, which was crispy and fragrant. It was quite good and the preparation was very simple. , the price is also the lowest.
Wash and dry a lotus flower, then wrap it in flour and fry it in a pan. After frying, sprinkle some seasoning powder on it, and finally put it back together on the plate to look like a lotus flower. Eat it piece by piece. Take it out and eat it.
However, the fried food is too hot, so it’s really hard to eat too much.
The group of people were eating snacks, drinking tea and chatting at Wenyue Tower. Unknowingly, more than half an hour passed. There was a knock on the door. The room was quiet, and then they heard the maid asking outside the door: "Guest, there is a girl." She said she is here to see some people, her name is Zhang Xuzhen, but I wonder if the guests want her to come up?"
"Miss Xuzhen is here." Nian Jinniang suddenly became happy, "Let her come quickly, we are all waiting for her."
The maid heard the words and said: "Please come up now, the guests will wait a moment."
After a while, the maid brought Miss Xuzhen up. Miss Xuzhen was wearing a cyan waist-length skirt, with a lotus hairpin on her head, and two lotus hairpins on the side. She looked elegant and elegant. clean.
Although the face is not as beautiful as Qinglian, it is still elegant and beautiful.
She stepped forward and saluted: "Xuzhen has met a few of you."
Her tone was light and gentle, but neither humble nor overbearing.
Nian Jinniang said: "Miss Xuzhen, why are you so polite? Get up quickly. Now you are also the Lotus Girl this year. Logically speaking, we should respect you."
Zhang Xuzhen was not shy. He got up and said: "There is nothing worthy of admiration for the Lotus Girl today, but don't worry, girl, as long as we work harder, the reputation of the Lotus Girl will always get better."
She always wants to keep the reputation of Lotus Girl upright.
Nian Jinniang gritted her teeth and said, "This is all Qinglian's fault. She caused so many things, but she asked you to clean up the mess."
Zhang Xu really didn't want to echo the criticism of Qing Lian, but she couldn't say anything that didn't concern her. She also resented Qing Lian in her heart. It ruined the reputation of the Lotus Girl, and it affected them, and indirectly caused her death. It was another incident that killed her sister.
She said: "I heard that Miss Qinglian was beaten just after she left."
"Been beaten? Really or not?" Nian Jinniang was surprised and happy at the same time. She rubbed her hands and felt very happy, "Who beat her? How serious was the beating?"
The girls next to them also showed smiles as if they were watching a good show.
Zhang Xuzhen said: "I don't know who it is, but there are several ladies. I heard that they all bled after knocking their heads."
"Fight well, fight well, that's what people like her deserve."
"It's just that I don't know what to do and what not to do without fighting."
"Miss Xuzhen, you must be hungry. Sit down and have something to eat. It's thanks to you that you won her over. Otherwise, if she had been allowed to occupy the position of Lotus Girl again, this Lotus City would not have been filled with chaos."
"You are our great hero!"
"that is."
Zhang Xuzhen was pulled to sit down at the table. A lot of food was quickly pushed in front of her. She was a little embarrassed: "Actually, I am not a hero anymore. This is all..."
At this point, she was a little embarrassed. She didn't know how to speak for a moment. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea to calm down. Then she considered her words and looked at Su Wan.
"It must be this lady who said she would give three thousand taels of silver earlier. I don't know what to call her."
"My husband's family name is Li."
"Mrs. Li." Zhang Xuzhen pinched his sleeves, feeling a little nervous, "I came here this time, actually, not to ask for money, and I didn't hide it from Madam. I, a lotus girl, didn't come here with honor. In fact, I am not qualified to ask for a wife." Money."
In fact, their methods were not very clever. At that time, many people saw that there was something wrong. If they wanted to dig deeper, it would be easy to find out. However, everyone did not want Qinglian to continue to be the Lotus Girl and turned a blind eye. That’s all.
Moreover, the girls participating in the competition insisted that she picked the lotus pods, and there was no direct evidence from others.
In a few days, everyone in Lotus City should know the reason, and she no longer has to hide anything.
At this point, she lowered her head and wanted to explain to everyone: "We actually don't want to do such a deceptive thing, but we really don't want Qinglian to be the Lotus Girl anymore."
"Because of her, all of us girls participating in the competition have been implicated. I don't know how many people have sent messages overtly or covertly, asking us to accompany this young man or that young man. We are really angry."
"We want to be lotus girls. Even if we can't become lotus girls, we are still girls from a serious family. What do they think of us? Are we the girls from Fengyue Tower?"
Having said this, Zhang Xuzhen was a little excited and even shed tears.
"We are a family of serious girls, not those shameless people."
"Not only that, we are often harassed by those second-rate people, and the things they say are not clean. Even our family is often harassed because a girl competes in the lotus picking competition. Our parents and family members are also harassed. I can’t hold my head up after being talked about.”
As for the sister who was bullied by the second-rate man and threw herself into the lake, Zhang Xu really didn't say anything, nor would she say anything.
Although she said that some of them might be more sympathetic to their plight, she didn't want her sisters to be mentioned and discussed even if they were dead, and they would bear such a stigma even after they died.
The only people who know about these things are the sister's family and twenty-two of them. To the outside world, they all say that she accidentally slipped and fell into the water.
"My family thinks I shouldn't participate in the lotus picking competition, but I don't want to, and none of us want to let Qinglian continue to occupy the position of Lotus Girl and continue to tarnish the reputation of Lotus Girl."
"So twenty-two of us got together in private and thought of this way to pull Qinglian down."
After hearing what Zhang Xuzhen said, several people felt emotional and angry at the same time. They didn't mean to blame Zhang Xuzhen and others. They just felt that Qinglian was really harmful to others.
Nian Jinniang was the most angry: "There is such a thing! There is such a thing! She really does a lot of harm to people! Since I have become a lotus girl, can't I be a little bit like a lotus girl?"
"She is like this, doesn't she have any responsibility in her heart?"
Qin Zhizhi snorted: "What kind of responsibility does she have in her heart? As long as she is happy and gets what she wants, she doesn't care whether others live or die. Those people are the most selfish."
Du Mingzhu continued: "And it's shameless."
Du Mingzhi asked Zhang Xuzhen curiously: "Then why is it you who wins?"
Zhang Xuzhen hesitated for a while, a little embarrassed to say: "Just, we discussed it at that time and planned to introduce someone, and we drew lots at that time...I just happened to catch..."
