dream of red mansion

Chapter 534 Sweet Potatoes
"Hey, what is this?"

Xiangyun picked up an oval object from Mu Pinger's skirt and asked curiously.

All the girls were suspicious and came up to have a look.

"What is this?" Daiyu also expressed that she didn't know.

Dirty, it looks like something just dug out of the soil.

"Sister Bao, do you know what this is?"

The reason why Shi Xiangyun didn't ask Jia Qing was because she knew that Jia Qing would definitely be jealous and take revenge on her eloquent tongue just now.

Baochai has been sitting there.She knew this thing, but seeing that Jia Qing didn't say anything, she was happy to hide it for him, so she shook her head with a smile.

The maidservants around knew or didn't know, because they were blocked from seeing clearly, so they didn't make a sound.

Tanchun said, "This looks like a sweet potato. I seem to have seen Huan'er eat it before."

She was also a little uncertain.

"Is this a sweet potato?"

"Is this what sweet potatoes look like?"

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Jia Qing was speechless. How would they feel if the poor people all over the world knew about their appearance after seeing the western scenery?
"Hey, have you seen enough? Return it to me when you've seen enough. I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes. Does anyone of you have a fire book?"

"Roasted sweet potato? Didn't the third sister say that this is sweet potato?" Xichun had to ask, who called Jia Qing her brother.

"Silly sister, a sweet potato is a sweet potato."

Touch the head habitually.

"Oh, can it be eaten just by roasting it like this?"

Xichun has never eaten sweet potatoes, or did not know they were sweet potatoes.Roasted sweet potatoes, then I have never heard of it.

Some of the maids brought a fire bag, Jia Qing took it, found an open space and began to pile up firewood to make a fire.

Daiyu frowned and said: "We had a good poetry reception, but you made a mess of it, if I knew it, I wouldn't have invited you."

Jia Qing pouted.

Shi Xiangyun was very enthusiastic, and together with Qingwen, he was trying to help out, obviously because he wanted to satisfy his appetite.But she saw that there were only three sweet potatoes in Mu Pinger's skirt, but there were so many people here, how would they get them if they weren't diligent?
"Just throw it in like this?" Xiang Yun asked.She thought it would be sweet potatoes skewered on a tree branch and roasted.

"of course."

Seeing Jia Qing burying the sweet potatoes under the charcoal fire, Xiang Yun frowned and said, "Why do you do this? Couldn't it be skewered and roasted cleanly?"

Jia Qing was surprised and said, "Not clean? I didn't tell you to eat the soot outside."

Hey, it really is Miss Qianjin, how do you know folk music.

Choked by Jia Qing's words, Xiang Yun stretched out his hand and hit Jia Qing twice, finally moved a stool over, sat quietly and waited.

Seeing Xiangyun and Jia Qing fighting, Daiyu was not happy, she came up to find fault and said: "Second brother, we sent people to invite you in turn and you didn't come, but when you came just now, you deliberately threatened us, you need to be punished! "

"Punish me for what?"

"Just now we have written quite a few poems. You just came here, and you will be punished for writing one poem first. If you don't write well, you will be punished for others."

Do not do well and then punish others?When I don't know what you think, little girl?
But, fight your mind, who is afraid of whom?

"Poetry, are you sure?"

Daiyu suddenly became alarmed, but before she could regret it, Jia Qing had already continued: "Well, I will take advantage of the time when the sweet potato is not ready, and recite a poem."

Jia Qing was inexplicably serious, stood up slowly, looked at all the sisters in front of him, starting from Daiyu, suddenly stretched out his fingers to touch them one by one, and said in his mouth: "One, two, three, four."

All the sisters glared at him immediately, if Jia Qing hadn't treated them equally, he couldn't help but hit him.

Jia Qing didn't realize it, even Baochai's order was not enough, so he had to order the servant girl again: "Five, six, seven or eight."

Jia Qing's attacks were too broad, and it was difficult for everyone to say anything, Daiyu said, "Are you composing poetry?"

Tanchun and the others were equally surprised.Could it be that there are nine, ten, eleven, ten, 23 and fourteen in the back?
That may be called the most straightforward and tasteless "poem" in history.

"Of course it's a poem, listen up, 'eat the royal millet'"

Most of the women are intelligent people, and upon hearing this turning point, they knew that Jia Qing was probably reverting to his old ways and wanted to play tricks again.

The third sentence is not a good word at first glance, and the fourth sentence is probably even more hateful.

Daiyu is ready to silence her at any time.

Jia Qing looked around, his eyes were smug, and he wanted to say the sentence in his heart, but for his own consideration, he finally smiled and said:
"There are so few chickens and ducks and so many phoenixes."

Uh.
The girls don't know how to describe their feelings now.It's like someone is threatening to kill you with a knife, and suddenly the knife turns into a candy. The point is, this candy doesn't seem like a good candy at first glance!
There are so few chickens and ducks and so many phoenixes?
Are you complimenting them? It doesn't sound like it.

"Second brother is getting worse and worse, what a chicken, duck and phoenix, it's so hard to hear." Xiangyun said.

"Hmph, I think what the second elder brother wanted to say just now is that there are so few phoenixes and so many chickens and ducks!"

The semantics of the third sentence and the fourth sentence did not match at all, and as clever as Daiyu, she quickly understood what Jia Qing originally wanted to express.

Jia Qing stared wide-eyed and said, "Sister Lin, you must speak with evidence. How is it that you wronged a good man so unjustly, how is it different from Qin Hui?"

Seeing that he didn't recognize him, Daiyu changed her mind and said with a smile: "Oh, that's right, then you should tell me quickly, who is Phoenix?"

"You are all."

"Then who is the chicken?"

"Um, I am, I can do it."

Daiyu chased after him: "Then who is the duck?"

All the girls laughed.They all saw Jia Qing's teasing just now, and they all applauded Daiyu in their hearts.

Jia Qing's forehead was sweating.He couldn't afford to offend most of the people here.

In desperation, he caught a glimpse of Xiao Muzhu who was also laughing, Jia Qing was taken aback, then furious, well, even a little girl like you dare to laugh at Brother!
"Well, it's the little wood. The little wood is the little duck!"

Mu Ping'er, who had suffered an indiscriminate disaster, immediately put a smile on her face, and it was wrong to accept it, and it was wrong not to accept it.

When everyone sneered at Jia Qing, they knew they were bullying the weak!
"That can't be done, you didn't point to Ping'er girl just now, so naturally it can't be counted."

Daiyu is as careful as a hair, especially when she is serious.

Jia Qing slapped his forehead and yelled, "Oh, my sweet potatoes are burnt because I was too busy talking to you!"

Then he ignored everyone and squatted down to fiddle with the sweet potatoes in the fire pit.

Daiyu stomped her feet on the spot, staring at Jia Qing's back, as if considering whether to kick him into the fire pit.

"Okay, Second Brother is just joking, why should Sister Lin catch him and not let him go?"

Tanchun smiled and helped her to the side.

Xiangyun sat for a while, couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Are you all right?"

Jia Qing took a pine branch, dug out the smallest one in the fire, knocked on it, and said with a smile: "Okay, you can eat it."

These three sweet potatoes are wild, so they are not too big, so Jia Qing saw and dug them up.

"How do I eat this?" Although Xiangyun was tempted, he didn't know how to handle it well, so he didn't grab it.

"Haven't you all eaten?"

Shi Xiangyun, Tanchun Xichun and others all shook their heads.How could they have eaten such down-to-earth things.

Jia Qing asked Baochai who was sitting and talking with Yingchun over there: "Hasn't sister Bao eaten?"

Baochai laughed and said, "I've heard it from others, but I haven't tasted it myself."

Speaking of it, whether it is Daiyu Xiangyun or the Sanchun sisters, they are all boudoir ladies who do not work hard and do not distinguish five grains.Only Baochai, because she was a few years older than Xiangyun, and after her father died, she had to help her mother with some accounting and even business dealings, so it was much easier.

But it's also limited. How can I do such an image-affecting thing like eating roasted sweet potatoes.

"Hey, that's because you have no luck." Jia Qing said, picked up the roasted sweet potato that had been slightly cold for a while, patted it clean, broke the two halves, and immediately revealed the golden-yellow, fragrant roasted sweet potato meat.

"Which one of you wants to try?"

Daiyu disliked it, and Tanchun and others hesitated, so Xiangyun took advantage of the situation and said, "Give me a taste first."

So take half of it.

This time, she didn't ask how she ate it.He tore off the skin, put it to his mouth and blew it before taking a light bite.

"Huh~?" Xiangyun took a small bite again, and then said inarticulately: "It's delicious!"

"Brother, I want to try it too."

Jia Qing paused, looked at the sweet potato skin left in his hand, licked his lips, and comforted Xichun with embarrassment: "This one, wait for the next one to be cooked. Well, these two should be almost done. "

The old trick was repeated, and Jia Qing dug out the other two to clean them up.

Because of Shi Xiangyun, most of the people wanted to taste it, so Jia Qing asked someone to bring a plate and a knife to cut the carefully peeled sweet potatoes into pieces and put them on the plate.

It suddenly became like a snack, and everyone felt good about it, so they all came over and picked a piece to taste.

A dozen or so servant girls were already hungry, but their masters were all there, and there were only so many roasted sweet potatoes in total, so they didn't dare to fight for it.

It's not that they are all so short-sighted, but that this is baked by the second master himself. If you miss this time, you don't know when you will be able to eat it next time.

Daiyu just ate a little, then quickly wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "You have hooked up the greedy girls, now it's up to you to do business."

Among the maidservants, only Qingwen was fed a piece by Jia Qing, and she was blushing and hiding aside.The other maids all looked at Jia Qing eagerly.

Jia Qing said: "What are they doing to me when they're greedy? You can't let me cut meat for them, right?"

Daiyu laughed even more: "But there is nothing wrong with it. In the past, there was a Buddha who cut meat to serve an eagle, and now there is a second master of the Qing Dynasty who cut meat to serve a girl. It will surely become a beautiful story through the ages."

Jia Qing looked at her, and said: "My meat is not as fragrant as sister Lin, I should give this good name to my sister. Don't thank me, who calls me a brother, brother should let my sister!"

"Bah." Asking Jia Qing to cut my flesh, Daiyu didn't think much of it, but when Jia Qing said it the other way around, she became a little apprehensive, hum, to actually want to cut my flesh, he's so weak in the first place, scoundrel!
After being teased by the two brothers and sisters, the maids realized that they were showing their faces, and immediately restrained themselves a little.

Ying'er suddenly dared to say: "Second Master, what did you mean just now, as long as there are plenty of sweet potatoes, can we let us roast them?"

She didn't dare to ask Jia Qing to bake for them.

Jia Qing said: "Oh? I saw those dug up on the road just now, and now they are gone. Could it be that Miss Ying'er still has these things with her?"

"I, I saw something like this planted in Grandma's Daoxiang Village."

Jia Qing was surprised: "Unexpectedly, Miss Ying'er would recognize this kind of thing, I admire it."

This kind of common people's food, these masters and ladies can't recognize it when it's dug out of the ground, let alone a plant, when it's buried in the ground.

Not to mention them, even in later generations, some children who have lived in big cities since childhood may not necessarily recognize this thing when they go to the countryside.

"Then who is going to steal it?"

Jia Qing roasted for a long time, but he didn't enjoy himself.Even if it was him, after arriving in Jia's mansion, he would not have a chance to eat roasted sweet potatoes.

For little girls like Xiangyun Xichun who have never eaten roasted sweet potatoes in their whole life, the first time they tasted it, it was even more delicious, so they all urged the maids to follow Yinger to dig it out.

(End of this chapter)