In the spacious courtyard, maids and servants dressed in blue servant uniforms and red scarves tied around their waists served and arranged the dishes in an orderly manner.
On every low table, a variety of delicacies are placed on the small square table. The dishes are exquisitely arranged, and you can tell at a glance that you have put thought and money into them.
The front yard was very lively. After the bride's sedan arrived, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks never stopped.
Cui Lu pulled the red silk and looked at the woman in a red wedding dress opposite, feeling so beautiful that she felt so beautiful.
No wonder everyone likes three wives and four concubines. It turns out that different women have different tastes.
The two of them were walking towards the mansion when a voice came from outside: "The King of Yan has arrived."
King Yan is here?
Cui Lu was excited and quickly gave the silk to others, and went to greet the guests in three steps at a time.
"Your Majesty is here, the flowers are shining brightly!" Cui Lu was very happy.
In Yancheng, King Yan was equivalent to the local emperor. Cui Lu was subordinate to him, but he still wanted to have a good relationship with him.
The King of Yan was twenty-five and six, wearing an indigo straight robe, which made him look majestic, handsome and unrestrained. He smiled brightly: "Our Yancheng lover finally married the side wife, otherwise we, I am afraid, we will be beaten by the family." The tigress can’t stop talking about it.”
Wang Xingmin, who also came to congratulate me, also laughed: "Your Majesty is so right. I don't even dare to think anything wrong. As long as my tigress tells me some clues, she will use the Marquis to educate me. Officials speak softly, and the official is not as big as the Marquis, but Huahua has more guts than the Marquis. It is said that the Marquis does not have concubines, so what qualifications does a lower official have to have a concubine? It is really..."
He smiled coquettishly, and the people next to him laughed.
"The Marquis married his concubine only when he was forty years old. This newly married concubine must be the Marquis's favorite, right?" At this time, a deep voice came out among the laughter.
The voice was very soft, but it was impossible to ignore.
Cui Lu looked at the young man next to King Yan.
He looked to be in his early twenties, dressed in purple clothes and looked as elegant as an immortal. If it weren't for the obvious protruding Adam's apple under his neck, Cui Lu would have suspected that this person was disguised as a man.
"Who is this?"
Wang Xingmin immediately stopped laughing, put his hands in front of him, hunched his back slightly, lowered his eyes and said nothing.
The people next to him didn't recognize him, and they all looked at him curiously like Cui Lu.
King Yan smiled and said, "He is a friend of this king."
"The prince's friend is also the friend of the lower official. Your prince, the auspicious time has come. The lower official licked his face and asked the prince to be a witness. I wonder if the prince can reward me?" Cui Lu knew how to climb up the pole.
This not only gives him face, but also gives Chen Mianmian face.
Although she was a concubine, she married Cui Lu under the witness of King Yan, and her status in the Hou Mansion increased by three points.
When the news reached Du Shi's ears, her smiling face froze for a while.
In the hall where the female family members were sitting, everyone saw Du's strange and angry face and all understood it tacitly.
When it comes to which woman in Yancheng is the most enviable, Du Shi comes out on top.
When it comes to which woman in Yancheng is the most hated, Du Shi comes out on top.
Du is the person who makes people envious, jealous, and hateful.
He is envious of women all over Yancheng and is also jealous of women all over Yancheng.
Now that I have finally seen Mrs. Du's dejected appearance and forced smile to welcome his wife into the house, all the women here feel extremely comfortable.
Where in the world is there a man who is committed to the end?
No, if you don’t spend it when you are young, you will still spend it when you are old.
Unless, he's hanging on the wall.
Dead men are the most dedicated!
Xu Wanning did not go to the front yard to greet the guests. She took the initiative to ask Ying to stay and take care of Cui Yunfeng.
After all, in such an occasion, it didn't matter whether she, a junior, showed up. Only if Du Shi didn't show up would something happen.
For the sake of the Hou Mansion and Cui Lu's face, no matter how much she hated her, Du could only endure it and force a smile.
What happened in the front yard quickly reached Xu Wanning's ears.
She was minding her own business, eating the food prepared in Ningyuan's small kitchen and drinking pear blossoms, feeling very uncomfortable.
Qing Xing also drank a glass of wine, and the sweet pear blossom wine made her mouth taste a lot sweeter. "Who bought this Lihua Zui? Is it Lihua Zui from Lihualou? I heard from people in the house that the pear blossoms are drunk." I bought all the pear blossoms I bought for a month, where did this come from?"
Chen Wang covered his mouth and smiled and said nothing.
Hongmei also smiled, "Drink, I won't be able to stop your mouth if there is something delicious to drink."
Qing Xing smiled and said, "I'm glad, miss. I'll go ahead and ask."
Xu Wanning knew that she would not cause trouble, so he just let her watch the fun, "Go ahead."
"Miss, remember to leave two more drinks for me."
"Okay." Xu Wanning picked up the wine bottle lovingly and poured herself a glass.
This pear flower drunk is really delicious.
Fragrant and sweet.
It's a hundred times better than the wedding wine in the front yard.
forecourt.
After finally seeing the guests in the hall, they sat down and looked at the fine wine and food on the table. After hearing that the food in the Marquis Mansion was so good, they all started to look forward to it.
They all follow the quota and eat with open belly.
As Cui Lu raised the first glass of wedding wine, "Everyone, this is the Lihua Zui of Lihualou. I bought a hundred jars. You must drink it to your heart's content."
King Yan smiled, "With a hundred altars, wouldn't the Lihua Tower not be open for a month?"
Someone replied, "Then I'll have a good drink."
"Me too."
Everyone raised their glasses one after another, and those with quick hands had already put it into their mouths and drank it down.
This is Lihua Zui from Lihualou!
Eight taels of silver for a pot of pear blossoms.
"Bah! What kind of wine is this! Why does it taste so bad?"
Some people are the first to say it, and some people are the second to say it.
"Bah, bah, bah."
"Ahem, cough, what kind of wine is this?"
Some of the guests drank, and kept vomiting. Some of the guests drank, and some of them took tentative sips. The weird smell that couldn't be told whether it was smelly or rancid made people almost nauseous. Some of them often got drunk after drinking pear blossoms. The female guest vomited just from the smell.
"vomit……"
Seeing that everyone was like this, Cui Lu quickly took a sip.
Once he drank it, he spit it out.
This is not a pear blossom drunk!
Pei Heng only raised his glass symbolically throughout the whole process. He has a keen sense of smell, and he could smell the wine when it was poured out.
This is not pear blossom drunkenness, this is horse urine mixed with water.
"Who arranged this?"
Cui Rongfa ran out quickly: "Master Hou, Master Hou..."
"What kind of wine is this?"
"This is Lihua Zui, Lord Marquis, it's written on the wine jar!"
"Try what this is!"
Cui Rongfa quickly took it, took a sip, and spat it out, "This, this, this..."
What's this?
Cui Rongfa, under Du's instruction, tampered with Cui Lu's wedding.
Originally, Cui Lu asked him to buy a hundred jars of Lihua Zui from Lihualou, so Cui Rongfa bought fifty jars from Lihualou and bought the other half from another store. They mixed the two together, which cost him a lot of money, and the taste was not much different. Generally, Hard to spot.
But what you are drinking now has nothing to do with Lihua Zui!
"Isn't this horse urine?" Someone had raised a horse, smelled it, and found out what was inside.
The guests eating the wedding wine whispered, Cui Lu looked at King Yan, and he also frowned.
Cui Lu shouted: "Hurry up and prepare the Dahongpao to rinse the guests' mouths."
"Yes, yes, yes." Cui Rongfa was also a little scared, and quickly went down to watch people making tea.
The tea is Dahongpao sent by Xu Wanning.
The servants made tea and served it to the distinguished guests one by one.
Cui Lu smiled apologetically: "Dear guests, please bear with me. The servant made a mistake just now. This is the Dahongpao. Please rinse your mouth."
Pei Heng held the red porcelain tea cup and did not move.
Big red pouch?
I was impatient and drank a big mouthful, then vomited it all out again.
"Master Marquis, just give us some wild tea to rinse our mouths with. Why do you say it's Dahongpao?" someone said dissatisfiedly.
Cui Lu was a little angry: "You all heard it with your own ears just now. I asked my servants to soak you in Dahongpao to rinse your mouth."
A businessman in the tea business in Yancheng asked cautiously: "Master Hou, have you been deceived? This is indeed cheap wild tea, the kind that the tea stalls sell in large pots with ten copper plates, and it is indeed not the expensive red tea." Robe!"
Cui Lu suddenly looked at Du.
Du Shi didn't play tricks on this stall, "How is it possible? This is a high-quality Dahongpao that my daughter-in-law brought from her natal family. It comes every season. How can it be wild tea."
The daughter-in-law brings high-quality Dahongpao from her parents’ home every quarter.
"Mrs. Hou is so generous to let her daughter-in-law use her parents' things to show off her husband's family." Pei Heng sneered.
From the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar maid, stretching her neck to watch the excitement.
He smiled wider.
Cui Lu's expression changed instantly.
As an outsider, who has the right to say anything wrong about them?
But the King of Yan who brought him here not only did not reprimand his friend, but even nodded invisibly.
It seems that you agree with what he said?
Cui Lu's face almost fell under the table, so he could only let everyone enjoy the food.
"I'll ask the people in the Marquis' Mansion to buy good wine and tea as soon as possible. You can eat the vegetables first."
He also put a lot of thought into it.
In addition to home-cooked dishes such as chicken, duck, and fish, each table also has a portion of shark's fin and bird's nest.
Some people use chopsticks first to eat vegetables, others use spoons first to eat shark's fins and bird's nests.
After taking the first bite, some people started to look weird.
Shark fin?
Bird's nest?
People next to each other began to discuss, and the quiet voice slowly turned into a loud voice.
"Master Marquis, were you deceived when you were buying something?" A boss of a supplement business stood up and said, "This shark fin doesn't seem to be shark fin."
"It's not shark fin?" Cui Lu was shocked when he heard this: "How is that possible!"
"Really not, it seems to be a fan. Moreover, this bird's nest should not be a bird's nest, it should be... a snow swallow."
Snow swallow is a supplement that is very similar to bird's nest. However, bird's nest is the saliva spitted by swallows, while snow swallow is the gum extracted from the pith of wood.
Although the two things have similar names, similar shapes, and similar effects, the price...
In fact, it’s not much more expensive, maybe twenty or thirty times more expensive.
Cui Lu's eyes almost popped out of his head.
He hasn't started eating bird's nests or shark's fins yet. He just went to apologize to King Yan.
Someone else spoke: "Master Hou, this fish meat is all pink, it must be a fish that has been dead for a long time."
"Although this fish is fresh, its gallbladder is broken and the fish is very bitter."
"You can't eat it if it's too bitter, you'll be poisoned."
"This chicken is a bit smelly..."
"The butt of this chicken hasn't even been cut off. Oh my God, there's still shit on it."
"This duck is an old duck, right? The meat is too hard to bite."
"The meat seems to be from a sow. Can it be eaten?"
Cui Lu: "..."
He felt like his face had been stepped on.
Needless to say, he will definitely be the first laughing stock in Yancheng in the next few years!
