Qing Fu Jin

Chapter 126 Knowing how to eat crabs (second update)
Although Li Fangcao was born in the royal family, although King Annan has always admired the culture of the Central Plains, but because she is the youngest daughter and the youngest child, she is always favored as the youngest. Li Fangcao has not been restrained since childhood. He is very good at martial arts and fighting, but literature etiquette is a mess.Guo Jiashi asked about her knowledge of poetry at this time, so she basically died at the sight of the light.

"Well, this..." She frowned in thought.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Could it be that Princess Fangcao has too many poems in her memory, so she doesn't know which one to memorize?"

Everyone laughed, and some aunts covered their mouths with handkerchiefs, winked at each other, and watched her joke.

Li Fangcao gritted her teeth and said loudly: "Fu Jin, I don't know how to recite poems. I haven't learned poems and songs since I was a child, but my kung fu is very good. Even if we are the bravest warriors in Annan Kingdom, we may not be able to recite poems. Beat me!"

She looked up proudly.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "It is said that people have their own ambitions. Whether it is studying literature or practicing martial arts, they are all skilled in one skill."

Li Fangcao nodded vigorously, and Fujin was really understanding.

"It's just..." Guo Jiashi laughed dryly, and said, "Our aristocratic women in the Qing Dynasty always need some ink in their stomachs. Even if they are not doing learning, they still need to rest. Like us Bozhe, we like it." A woman like Ling Bo who is gentle and spouts lotus flowers."

Ling Bo lowered his head with a smile.

Li Fangcao pursed her lips and puffed her cheeks, feeling a little discouraged.

"Forget it, forget it, reciting poems is just for the occasion, for pleasure, and it's not worth worrying about. Let's go sit in the waterside pavilion in front."

Everyone agreed, so they went to the water pavilion together.

Some maidservants have already entered the water pavilion, preparing tea, melons and fruits, and dusting off the non-existent dust.

After everyone entered the water pavilion, they took their seats. Through the railing around the water pavilion, they happened to see the blue lotus leaf lotus.

There was a servant girl behind Guo Jiashi gently playing the fan, but Ling Bo liked to do it by himself, so he took a round fan and waved it in his hand.

"By the way, I heard a piece of news a while ago, saying that the emperor is going to marry your natal family to Prince Yong."

When everyone heard the gossip, they all showed interest.

Xilinjueluo asked, "Huh? How did I hear that the emperor wants to marry the Fucha family?"

Ling Bo smiled and said: "You are all right, but they are two different things. What Fujin said must be the rumors that spread in the womb a few days ago. It is said that Si Fujin took Hongli to the palace to pay his respects. The emperor has always loved it." Hongli, every time he enters the palace, he always takes him for half a day, and that day he asks about an anecdote related to Hongli."

It turned out that one day Li Rongbao's Fujin Fuhui held his daughter Hezhuo and met Sifujin at a party. Hongli was about half a year older than Xiaohezhuo. When he met Xiaohezhuo, he fell in love with him somehow. , while Fu Hui and Si Fujin were talking, they actually held He Zhuo's little hand who was sleeping soundly.

Fuhui and Sifujin didn't realize until they were about to part after they finished talking, and when they were going to break Hongli's hand, he refused, and started crying instead, while Xiaohe Zhuo was woken up by him, and also started crying.

For a while, the two adults were in a hurry, coaxing them, saying that they would not be separated.

I don't know if the child Hongli understood, but he stopped crying.

He stopped crying, Xiao He Zhuo actually stopped crying, and fell asleep with tears in his eyes, but Hongli stared at her non-stop with a pair of agate-like eyes.

Sifujin casually said with a smile that maybe Hongli would find Xiaohezhuo to be his daughter-in-law.

Kangxi also heard this joke, so that day when Hongli followed Sifujin into the palace, he teased the child and asked him if he wanted to marry Hezhuo as his bride.Unexpectedly, Hongli, a child who can't speak yet, started giggling, as if answering Kangxi's words.Kangxi found it interesting, so he joked that Huang Mafa would marry you.

So rumors spread in the palace that Prince Yong was going to have a son and daughter with the Fucha family.

After Ling Bo explained it like this, everyone understood, and they all laughed and said that children are real, they are very cute, but they didn't take Kangxi's suggestion of marriage seriously.

But Ling Bo knew that in the near future, He Zhuo would really marry Hongli.

"Then the emperor wants to marry your Fucha family, so what's going on?"

Speaking of this, it is actually the matter of Wu Zhu and Ma Wu.

After returning to Beijing, Wuzhu confessed to Kangxi the reason for returning to Beijing. Kangxi summoned Ma Wu for questioning, and Ma Wu expressed his affection and said that he wanted to marry Princess Wuzhu.Kangxi asked him if the old man Mi Sihan agreed.

Mi Sihan didn't know about it at that time. When Ma Wu went home and asked, he was beaten up by the old man first, and then asked how many people knew about it before him.Ma Wu then said that apart from the queen mother and the emperor, only Ling Bo knew about it, and all three of them had agreed.

Mi Sihan thought for a while, and he didn't have much dislike for Wu Zhu, but he heard that her pungent temper was quite to his liking. Since Ling Bo, who had a feud with her in the past, agreed, he didn't mind her. There's nothing to object to, besides, the Fucha family's four sons-in-law, and many other sons-in-law, should have a son-in-law, so they agreed.

"So, this matter has been settled?"

Ling Bo nodded and said: "It's probably not far from ten, I must be waiting for Na Cai."

Everyone said congratulations.

Guo Jiashi said: "This is really a happy event."

She smiled for a while, then suddenly turned to Li Fangcao and said, "We just talked about ourselves, but we forgot about Princess Fangcao, must the princess be bored?"

Li Fangyuan was already drowsy, but when Guo Jiashi asked her, she immediately lifted her spirits, waved her hand like a conditioned reflex, and said, "No, no, it's very interesting."

Everyone covered their mouths and laughed.

She immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing, and couldn't help being annoyed.

Guo Jiashi also laughed secretly, but she snorted and said, "What's so funny."

Everyone hurriedly restrained their expressions.

At this time, a servant came to report that lunch was ready, and the masters were invited to eat in the restaurant.

Guo Jiashi hurriedly invited Li Fangcao enthusiastically, and Li Fangcao was also happy to get rid of the embarrassing situation in front of him.

Entering the restaurant, a group of aunts were chattering about assigning seats. Guo Jia's face sank, and everyone immediately held their breath, and quickly stood up in front of their respective seats. Guo Jia held Ling Bo's hand, and Xilin felt Luo Shi and An Zhuxian were on the other side of her, and the aunts dared not take their seats until they were all seated.

Such a scene, Li Fangcao felt very strange.

At this time, she realized the gap between the main wife and the concubine's room.If she married Bo Zhe, would she have to be like these aunts, respectful and fearful to his wife Ling Bo, and act according to her face?
Her seat was between Guo Jia's and Xilin Jueluo's. Guo Jia saw her bewildered face, guessed what was going on, and didn't point it out. He just nodded and called a big maid to come over.

"What's the dish today?"

The servant girl smiled and said, "The cook heard that the princess is coming, so he specially prepared a crab feast."

"Oh? It's still hot, are the crabs already fat?"

The servant girl smiled and said: "It must be just right, the cook will prepare it."

Guo Jiashi nodded in satisfaction.

After the big maid finished speaking, the maids in the kitchen brought up side dishes like flowing water. All the dishes were exquisite and made people's index fingers move. In the middle, there was a large plate of steaming crabs with glowing red crab shells. , fat crab claws, full of temptation.

Then, the maids served a set of eight crabs to everyone present.

Small square table, round waist hammer, long-handled axe, long-handled fork, round-headed scissors, tweezers, chisel, and small spoon, there are eight items in total, all of them are made of silver in front of others, only the one in front of Li Fangcao is made of gold, It is golden and dazzling.

Li Fangcao was a little dumbfounded looking at these tools that looked more like works of art.

She had never used such a delicate tool for eating crabs.

Looking at her face from the corner of Guo Jia's eyes, she knew that she was at a loss. The eight golden crabs were given to Yaerjiang by a rich businessman in Suzhou. Find it out, specifically to frighten Li Fangcao.

Although such a small amount of gold is not worth anything in Li Fangcao's eyes, but with eight extremely delicate and shiny objects in front of him, if he hadn't used them before, his movements would definitely be extremely clumsy.

First, a girl caught a big crab and put it in Guo Jia's bowl, and then everyone started to move.

I saw them put the crabs on the small square table, and cut off two large claws and eight crab legs one by one with round-tipped scissors.

Seeing that Li Fangcao was motionless, an aunt suddenly chuckled and said, "Could it be that the princess doesn't know how to eat crabs?"

"Who said I can't!"

A big crab was also placed in Li Fang's grass bowl. She picked it up and put it on the small square table. Like others, she picked up the round-tipped scissors and cut off the crab's legs slowly to delay time and facilitate observe.

Seeing that everyone was concentrating on dealing with the crab in front of her, and no one seemed to be paying attention to her, she glanced around and finally set her gaze on Ling Bo's hand.

Ling Bo has finished cutting the crab's legs. He gently taps around the crab shell with a round hammer, then splits the back shell and navel with a long-handled axe. Or fork or knock, take out the golden and shiny crab roe or the milky white sticky crab paste, and take out the snow-white and tender crab meat.

Each tool is used in turn, and each function is played alternately, as if playing a cadence of food music.

Li Fangcao stared straight at it, and didn't even realize that her crab fell on the table.

However, after Ling Bo picked out the crab meat, he didn't eat it himself, but brought it to Guo Jiashi.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "I said you can't eat crabs now, so why did you act? It turned out that it was for me. You are really filial."

Ling Bo smiled.

Li Fangcao wondered, "Why can't Lingbo eat crabs?"

Everyone looked at her.

Guo Jia said: "Ah, I forgot, the princess doesn't know yet. Our young Fujin was diagnosed by the doctor in the morning. He said it was a happy pulse, and now he has twins!"

Everyone laughed and said congratulations again.

Coincidentally at this time, a little maid brought another tray, and Xiushu took a bowl of fragrant japonica rice porridge from the tray, and four dishes of side dishes that had already been matched, and put them in front of Ling Bo one by one.

"The cook knew that Shao Fujin was shy, and was afraid that he had a bad appetite, so he specially made these appetizing side dishes, and wanted Shao Fujin to eat more tonic, so he made the porridge thick."

Li Fangcao suddenly found the crab in front of her, turning its belly up and baring its teeth and claws at her.

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(End of this chapter)