Shen Tianshu only listened to the first few words spoken by Huang Tingshan, and he clearly understood the routine of the mother and daughter.
Yuanshi took advantage of her status as an elder and tried every means to make the girl who was a threat to her daughter look embarrassed.
Huang Tingshan exaggerated her excellent relationship with the royal family members to attack potential competitors she had targeted.
This kind of unscrupulous method, that is, in a place like Huguang, if it were used in the capital, it would have been laughed at behind the back.
They were just relying on the relationship between the noble concubine in the palace and the emperor's eldest son, so they were a little unscrupulous.
The performance at the next table didn't catch Shen Tianshu's attention at all, but Shen Yunhui, who had never participated in such an occasion, was stunned. She couldn't help but approached Shen Tianshu and whispered: "Sister, this Miss Huang, maybe she is the prince concubine that the concubine and the princess are interested in, right?"
However, Shen Tianshu couldn't help but think of Li Zihan's words that day and couldn't help but smile.
Looking at Li Zi'an's doting look on his sister, if she doesn't get Li Zihan's approval, Miss Huang's ambition to be the crown prince may not be so easy to realize.
"Sister, why are you laughing..." Shen Yunhui thought she had said something wrong and asked a little helplessly.
"Who is the Crown Princess, and what does it have to do with us? Let's just stay there." Shen Tianshu said, pushing the fruit box in front of Shen Yunhui and said, "Don't you like to eat melon seed candies? , try it.”
After all, Shen Yunhui was still young, and she had never thought about how her identity could be related to the Prince's Palace, so Shen Tianshu quickly diverted her attention, picked up a piece of melon seed candy and put it in her mouth, eating it until her eyes were filled with tears. One light.
"Sister, this tastes different from the melon seed candies sold outside."
"This is a recipe from the palace. It must have been made by the chef of the palace." Shen Tianshu's words were not nonsense. The Queen Mother likes to eat snacks such as melon seed candies and peanut candies, but she is afraid of overeating and causing constipation. Wang, one time she went to the palace to diagnose the Queen Mother's pulse and mentioned this, so she wrote this recipe to the imperial kitchen, and she tasted it as soon as she ate it.
The two sisters were just talking in a low voice, but they couldn't stop the people next to them from wanting to listen.
"Hey -" Huang Tingshan said in a long voice, "What this girl said seems to be true. May I ask if you have been to the palace or to Prince Rui's Mansion?"
"It doesn't seem very polite to eavesdrop on other people's conversations, right?" Shen Tianshu didn't even bother to raise his eyelids to such a person.
"What a joke!" Huang Tingshan said reluctantly, "Today is a banquet at Prince Rui's palace. Everyone is in the pavilion. Don't you allow others to listen to what you say?"
"Since the girl knows that this is Prince Rui's Mansion, do you dare to ask your surname Li?" Shen Tianshu frowned slightly impatiently.
"You..." Huang Tingshan was so choked that she almost rolled her eyes, "It doesn't matter what my last name is, at least I can go in and out of the palace often. But in the past few years, the palace has hosted banquets, and I have never seen you. I love you sisters. I’m not interested in talking, but since I heard you, I’ll teach you a lesson. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know anything. The worst thing you can do is pretend to understand and talk nonsense.”
The girls surrounding Huang Tingshan all echoed in agreement.
"That's right! Could it be that you heard Tingshan say that you are very familiar with the palace, so you want to join in the fun? It doesn't matter whether you have that identity or not, whether you are worthy or not!"
"Do you think the rules of the Prince's Palace are so easy to follow? If you talk nonsense, you may bring trouble to your father."
"I'm really convinced that I have to show my eyes even if I haven't seen the world." The person who spoke at this time seemed to know the situation of the Shen family better, and sneered, "So, this kind of mother died early, and the stepmother died too early. People who can't stand up to the stage are just uneducated."
Shen Tianshu ignored the other words, but the last words he spoke really crossed her bottom line.
Shen Tianshu slowly raised his head and looked at the girls at the next table.
A pair of almond eyes no longer had the gentleness before, and were as cold as ice picks.
Shen Yunhui trembled all over.
Here it comes, here it comes again!
The look I saw when I was kidnapped comes again!
She was secretly glad that she was not the one being glared at by her eldest sister this time.
Shen Yunhui glanced at the girls at the next table with sympathy and thought, "You must offend anyone, but you have to offend my eldest sister."
When Fang Fu saw this situation, he just wanted to come out to smooth things over. After all, Shen Tianshu was an honored guest that the prince had promised him. How could he let someone be wronged in his own palace?
But before she could speak, Shen Tianshu said: "Since Miss Huang mentioned that some people pretend to understand and talk nonsense, let's talk about it in detail.
"Miss Huang just loudly praised the black tea prepared by the palace today. I think many people nearby heard it. It's a pity that you made a mistake. The tea used for the banquet in the palace today is indeed a kind of black tea, but it is not Anhua black tea. The tea is old green tea produced locally in Wuchang Prefecture and special grade tea produced by the famous tea-making family He Family.
"Old green tea can not only produce fluid and quench thirst, but also keep out the cold and refresh you. It is indeed suitable for drinking in winter. Although it is not as famous as Anhua black tea, it actually has a unique tea aroma that Anhua dark tea does not have. I like old green tea Most of the people here are old tea drinkers. Once they get used to it, they just like this one, but they won’t change it no matter how much Anhua black tea they give them.”
Everyone around was stunned. To be honest, they were both black tea. Not everyone could taste the difference between the two teas.
Everyone is not here to drink tea today. Everyone is busy socializing and socializing. Drinking tea is just to quench your thirst. How many people will focus on this.
What's more, some people haven't even touched the tea cup on the table.
But after hearing what Shen Tianshu said, many people immediately began to savor the tea.
Fang Fu never expected that Shen Tianshu would be so strong-tempered that he would retaliate in public like this.
However, the people in Prince Rui's Palace originally looked down upon the Huang family and her daughter. If it weren't for the birth of a noble concubine in the Huang family, these two unattractive things might not even be able to open the gate of the palace.
So she immediately agreed: "Miss Shen is right, the royal family's tea for entertaining guests today is indeed not Anhua black tea, but the special old green tea made by the He family..."
Unexpectedly, before Fang Fu could finish her words, she was interrupted by an angry Huang Tingshan: "Who are you? You have the right to interrupt when the masters are talking? It's true that as many masters as there are servants, the whole family has no rules and no education. .”
Fang Fu's face suddenly darkened when she heard this. She was a servant and Huang Tingshan was a guest in the house. She would have to endure even a few beatings, let alone scolding her a few times.
But Huang Tingshan's words scolded Li Zian as well.
Although she knew that Huang Tingshan must have regarded Fang Fu as Shen Tianshu's maid, she could not change the fact that she insulted the prince.
