Red apricots make spring

Chapter 108
Harmfulness is not allowed, and defensiveness is indispensable.

Even though she found that the carriage sent by the Shen family to pick her up was exactly the one she saw Lu Ce and the girl in Feishang riding in, before getting into the carriage, Wen Rou asked the respectful housekeeper carefully in front of Mei Xiang. After learning about the situation in Shen's residence, the butler stared at her wide-eyed and looked at her like a Martian for a long time before uttering a sentence: "Dazhao's Prime Minister Zuo is surnamed Shen."

Oh!Prime Minister Zuo's surname is Shen, so what does that have to do with Shen's residence?Rourou didn't wake up in the morning, and her brain reacted a little slower. She didn't realize something was wrong until she almost asked the doubts in her heart. Fortunately, she stopped her mouth in time and cursed herself as an idiot in her heart!However, although she had guessed that the girl in the scarlet dress was an extraordinary person, she did not expect to be the prime minister's daughter, so she was still greatly taken aback, and did not come to her senses until Piao Piao Hu Hu got into the carriage and sat down.

Ok!It doesn't matter whether she is the prime minister's daughter or the royal princess, anyway, she is a commoner, and there is no interaction between the two of them. After entering Shen's residence, she can teach the girl in red clothes how to make two kinds of cakes casually, and she can continue to live her own life. This is a leisurely civilian life.

Of course, this kind of calm and calm thought was what moved her mind when she was sitting in the carriage. After she really entered Shen's residence, she was still a little shocked by the ostentation here.

She admitted that the Shen residence did not have that upstart-like flamboyance where gold, silver and jade objects were piled up all over the room, and celebrity calligraphy and paintings were pasted all over the walls.Even the vermilion lacquer on the pillars of the veranda is a bit dull, but there are still carved beams and painted buildings, terraces and terraces, and groups of servants walking through the whole house.The entire Shen residence reveals a restrained nobility and low-key luxury, as well as a bookish charm accumulated over a long period of time.

Sitting in the mansion where Shen Mengyi, the fourth girl of the Shen Mansion, entertained guests, she gently looked at the jade-colored plum celadon teacup in her hand, then glanced at the maidservant standing beside her, and suddenly found that the maid was wearing clothes, The material was better than what she was wearing, and the jade pendant hanging around her waist alone seemed to be quite valuable. She was indeed from a rich family, which made her even more of a maidservant than a maidservant.

Gentlely smiled, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and looked at the furnishings in the whole mansion boredly, waiting impatiently, Shen Mengyi finally walked in lightly surrounded by two maidservants.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting." Shen Mengyi walked closer before showing an apologetic smile to Wenrou.

Today, her face was not covered with a veil, and she was wearing a silver-red gauze dress as thin as a cicada's wings. It was elegant and opaque, and her whole person seemed to be enveloped in the haze and mist. It was true that her gentleness could clearly see her extraordinary face. She is as elegant as a hibiscus, her crow's hair is loosely tied into a bun, a white jade hairpin with moiré pattern is inserted obliquely on her temples, and a bright red lotus petal ingot on her forehead adds to her beauty.

"It's not long since I arrived." Rou Rou withdrew her gaze, and pretended to be hypocritical.

Shen Mengyi smiled, asked her to sit down, and then said: "I bought those pastries in your shop last time, and tasted them when I came back, and they tasted really good. Even my father, who is so particular about food, praised him all the time. For a moment, I had the idea of ​​apprenticeship, and I hope that Miss Wen will not blame me for being presumptuous."

"Where is that, Miss Shen is amazing." Rourou was about to wipe off her sweat, not because of the hot weather, but because she really couldn't bear this kind of polite nonsense, but she had to perfunctory, and even began to regret why she came up.

Fortunately, Shen Mengyi didn't say a few polite words before turning to the main topic, please teach her how to make pastries gently.This is a gentle skill. She finally felt that the conversation was not so boring, but she had to tell Shen Mengyi the truth that the cakes she made needed special ovens and molds. There were no such things in Shen's residence, so some cakes could not Done.

Unexpectedly, Shen Mengyi smiled at her and said: "Miss Wen, don't worry about this, I've already been prepared."

Ready?Wen Rou's first thought after being surprised was, could it be that the chef in Shen's mansion also has pastry chefs from time travel?But after thinking about it again, I know that this possibility is really too small, so small that it can be ignored, then...

Shen Mengyi observed her words and expressions, saw Wen Rou frowned slightly, and immediately apologized: "I originally asked the housekeeper in the house to prepare some utensils for making pastries for me, who would have thought that he would ask a craftsman to do it in private without the girl's consent?" I'm so sorry about the ovens and molds in the girl's shop."

Rourou was really angry, she didn't put up a "welcome to visit" sign in front of her shop, why did she ask a craftsman to do it in private, it was too light to say, she sneaked into her in the dark of night Check out the things in her shop in her shop, okay?But now that's over, what can she do?You can't stand up and turn against others, accusing them of stealing commercial secrets, right?Huh huh, officials at the first level can crush people to death, not to mention that now the servant of Prime Minister Zuo is oppressing her, a commoner!Tolerate!bear it!
"Forget it!" She squeezed out these two words from between her teeth, but her voice was somewhat abnormal, which made the two maidservants around Shen Mengyi look at her twice, and one of them, Lu E, who had seen her before, He smiled and said, "You look very reluctant, with a bitter expression like eating yellow lotus."

"Lue! You're too talkative!" Shen Mengyi scolded her.

Gentle but raised her hand to touch her cheek, thinking is it really so obvious?It seems that her patience is still not perfect, and she was exposed in person.She smiled wryly and changed the topic: "Miss Shen, what kind of pastry do you want to learn?"

Shen Mengyi thought for a while and said, "Let's learn crystal jelly and cheesecake first." As she spoke, she got up and led Rourou to the kitchen.

Wenrou entered the kitchen and took a look, and found that the place called the small kitchen was bigger than the whole house she was living in right now. She looked around and saw that everything was well prepared, so she had nothing to say. I have to teach.

Crystal jelly is easier to learn, and Wenrou plans to teach this first. Fortunately, there is agar powder extracted from agaric in the kitchen, so it doesn’t need much work to continue. I added some rock sugar to it and simmered it slowly over low heat. Then I picked a watermelon from the fruit basket, cut it in half, and filtered out the clear juice from half of the watermelon, and set it aside for later use.For the other half of the watermelon, she picked the seeds and carved them into small, crystal-clear red lotuses with a knife, and placed them in a round cup-shaped mould.

At this time, half of the soup in the pot was boiled, so she turned off the heat and filtered out the impurities in it. When the soup was warm and cool, she poured the filtered watermelon juice into the mold and quickly poured it into the mold. Put the mold on a large piece of ice that Lue asked someone to bring beforehand, let out a sigh of relief: "Okay."

"Okay?" Shen Mengyi was already dumbfounded.Of course it wasn't because of the complicated steps to make the crystal jelly, but because of the gentle and exquisite carving skills that completely shocked her.

"It will be fine after freezing for a while." Gentle nodded. During the process of making, she had already explained the points that need to be paid attention to one by one. Using Qiong powder to make all kinds of crystal jellies, she didn't understand why Shen Mengyi wanted to learn this.

"You—" Shen Mengyi said in a daze, "Can you teach me how to carve watermelon flowers?"

Rou Rou looked at her white fingers like jade porcelain, and then at the knife in her hand, she shook her head in embarrassment and said, "You can cut all kinds of fruits into pieces, and they taste the same."
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(End of this chapter)