Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 412 Cake Bait
The summer sun in Nanchu is scorching, and the spectators at the racecourse have awnings for shade, but most of the practitioners participating in the competition don't bother to squeeze in.

The aristocratic family's family has a box to enjoy in the box.Fortunately, there are many trees scattered around the racecourse, and most of them stay under the trees.

However, under the trees where clusters of teenagers gather everywhere, there is a tree that looks very different.

Not only were there gathered under that tree some teenagers who obviously should have stayed in the boxes at this time to enjoy the melons and fruits offered by their servants, but also because there was a large piece of cloth under that tree.

And what is placed on the cloth is not a beautifully crafted lacquer box in the hands of other aristocratic families, but a huge steamer.

Against the backdrop of the exquisite meals of the people around, it looks quite bold.

Even compared with the roasted leg of lamb taken out of the sheepskin pocket of the Liao people in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is not much worse.

"This..." Jiang Yuanyuan followed behind Ji Jiashu, looking at the big steamer that he had never seen in the palace, he was speechless for a while, so he went to the street for a private visit, and met him in the steamed bun shop on the side of the street Been to such a big steamer.

"What are these things..." The teenagers under the surrounding trees couldn't help whispering when they saw this scene, but when the lid of the steamer was lifted, the steam and fragrance rushed out like arrows, and the whispering disappeared. Instead, there were bursts of "gudong" swallowing.

Every family has snacks with dry food, but not only are they exquisite and expensive, they are already cold at this time, but I did not expect to see such steaming snacks outside the box.

It's not just hot air, the steamer is not full of cakes, but divided into many compartments, filled with all kinds of things, which makes people dazzled.Noodles, rice, meat, frankincense, each fragrance is extremely attractive.

The teenagers who saw that they couldn't eat went through a torture.

"What, what are these?" Jiang Yuanyuan, who originally wanted to avoid the invitation of the old man Mengyang, suddenly didn't regret his decision, and looked at the big steamer on the cloth in amazement.

"Hall...Second Highness?" As soon as he opened his mouth, the teenagers beside the steamer, who couldn't help but want to make a move, found him, and immediately fell to their knees, "Second Highness, why are you here?"

"Excuse me, excuse me," Jiang Yuanyuan waved his hand, "I came here today in a humble suit, so you don't need to be polite, just pretend that I don't exist."

He stared at the steamer on the ground with great interest, "By the way, what are these? I've never seen them before."

when you don't exist...

The other teenagers beside the steamer were all stiff and couldn't speak for a moment, but at this moment Ying Baoyue poked his head out from the side of the steamer, glanced at him and smiled, "Maybe it's a picnic platter?"

"Assortment platter?" Jiang Yuanyuan blinked, "All made with this steamer?"

"No," Ying Baoyue smiled and said, "The steamer is only used to keep warm. The lunch box in the house is not big enough, so I used this."

"In the house..." Jiang Yuanyuan paused, and looked at Ji Jiashu who was also looking complicated beside him with a strange expression, "Your steamer is big enough."

"This seems to be used by servants to cook..." Ji Jiashu slightly supported his forehead, feeling the subtle eyes of the young people around him, he felt that the reputation of the Nanchu National Teacher's Mansion was changing, and his father might recognize it when he returned from retreat. I don't know the Southern Chu State Teacher's Mansion anymore.

"Really," Jiang Yuanyuan said, recalling Ji Jiashu's previous words, and looked suspiciously at Ying Baoyue, "Princess, you did all this? Do you do so much?"

Ying Baoyue looked around at the people on the cloth, and said succinctly, "There are too many people, so let's do more."

There are many people... smoothly...

Jiang Yuanyuan looked around at the teenagers under the tree, and his expression became subtle, "There are indeed enough of you."

There were quite a few people who didn't participate in the competition. He guessed that the two wearing veiled caps were the Ji brothers and sisters. There were also a few people around the woman, and even a certain Nanchu stepson was among them, which made him even more unexpected. And someone who put his head down and hoped he wouldn't find out.

"Zihan," Jiang Yuanyuan squinted his eyes and looked at Chen Zihan who was standing next to Chen Zichu with a fist on the ground, "I didn't expect you to be here."

A certain guard who was dragged by his elder brother with his master on his back froze into a statue, "Second Highness, this minister is my elder brother..."

"I brought him here," Chen Zichu said with a smile, "I heard that Her Royal Highness's dim sum is delicious, so brothers should share the blessings."

These two brothers who have been fighting since they were young are talking about being blessed to share...

By the way, this group of people just fought to the death on the court...

Jiang Yuanyuan's expression became more subtle, but at this moment the girl in front of her didn't respond to their conversation, she just quietly raised her head and glanced at him.

"By the way, what is Second Highness Nan Chu going to do here?"

Jiang Yuanyuan's back stiffened, and he never imagined that he would be asked this question one day.Although he was indeed an uninvited guest, it was the first time someone asked this question.

"Second Highness, he..." Ji Jiashu stood aside and had to say with a complicated expression, "Second Highness just happened to hear that I was coming over for dinner, so they came to have a look..."

Come for dinner?

Ying Baoyue looked at Jiang Yuanyuan who was standing beside Ji Jiashu, and smiled, "The Second Highness must have eaten everything, for these..."

"I've never seen these before," Jiang Yuanyuan asked, pointing to something that looked like cake bait in the steamer, "What is this?"

"Roujiamo." Ying Baoyue said.

"This?" Jiang Yuanyuan pointed again.

"Finger cakes."

"Then this one?"

"Chinese savior crepe."

"and this?"

"Bird eggs filled with biscuits."

……

……

All right.After asking around, Jiang Yuanyuan was sure that he had never heard of these snacks.

"So people in the former Qin Dynasty all ate these things?" The young prince calmed down and smiled, "It's really an eye-opener."

"This..." Ying Baoyue felt that the former Qin had been misunderstood once again, and looked at the eyes of the young people around who were looking at the steamer but couldn't do anything because of Jiang Yuanyuan's presence, she patted the cloth on the ground, "If possible, the Second Highness come up Try it?"

"Okay." Jiang Yuanyuan nodded without hesitation.

Ji Jiashu looked more complicated on the side.

"Speaking of which..." Jiang Yuanyuan walked towards the steamer, looked back at Ji Jiashu who was walking side by side, squinted his eyes and smiled, and suddenly said, "Just now you said you were coming for lunch, and you thought that your fiancée was doing it just for you. of."

Ji Jiashu paused, then looked at Jiang Yuanyuan helplessly, "You think too much."

That's right, I thought too much.

Seeing the people around the woman, Ji Jiashu walked up to Ying Baoyue without saying a word.

"Master Ji?" Ying Baoyue looked at him.

"Sorry," Ji Jiashu whispered in the middle of the barrier, "I brought the Second Highness here."

He couldn't let this person go back even if he brought it, Ying Baoyue smiled indifferently, "It's more lively together."

……

……

It was indeed lively under the big pagoda tree beside the racecourse, but at this time, under a tree in the barren hills outside the racecourse, there were only two teenagers, which seemed rather bleak.

"Obviously I can eat with His Highness Mingyue." Zhao Guang held the pastry that had lost its heat, and looked at Li Ji who was slightly lifting his mask and gnawing on the bait in his hand, "Why should I?" Want to accompany you to eat in the wilderness?"

"You don't have to come," Li Ji said lightly.

"I didn't come because His Highness Mingyue asked me to bring you two cakes," Zhao Guang curled his lips.

"She..." Li Ji's eyes paused, "Has she been discovered yet?"

He quietly looked at the cake bait in his hand.

Zhao Guang's eyes froze when he heard the words, and the next moment he looked serious, looked at Li Ji and asked, "Second brother, did you do something when the lottery was drawn before?"

　Cake bait: the general term for cake food.Volume [-] of the language version "Jijiupian": "Cake bait, wheat rice, and sweet bean soup." Yan Shigu's note: "When the noodles are steamed, they are cakes. The words of cakes are also combined, and they are combined; steamed rice It is bait, and the bait is what it says, and it is sticky." Yan Zhi of the Northern Qi Dynasty pushed "Yan's Family Instructions: Names and Facts": "Whoever is sent for military service, shake hands and send him off, or give pear and jujube cake bait, everyone will give it away "Tang Bai Juyi's "One Hundred Rhymes of Cui Shilang's Poems by Cui Shilang, Hanlin Qiansheren, Retired to the Rites of Wei Village": "Cake bait is awarded in the morning, and clothes are given in cold and summer." : "(Women) make arsenic cake bait in the Yin market, and treat her husband and wife."

　　
　
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