Chapter 18
Cui Xingzhou practiced with the soldiers in the military camp all day long, which was different from the young men and ladies who spent their leisurely life in the government office.
Although in addition to the plate of crab roe bread, Lian Qilan also carefully prepared a small bowl of bird's nest soup and a plate of honey jerky.
But these exquisite snacks are delicious. After a few bites, the stomach and intestines are not as good as the noodles, radish buns made by Li’s mother.
However, Cui Xingzhou still politely left one on the plate to express his fullness and praised his cousin for his ability to cook snacks for a lot of improvement.
Lian Qilan's cheeks flushed, and she said that she would make some exquisite things to deliver to her cousin if she had the chance in the future.
She did not mention her father's previous recommendation letter to her cousin, but instead talked about the concubine's daily life today. Seeing that her cousin's smile had some sincerity, she stood up and said goodbye tactfully.
However, before leaving, she looked at the half-old purse with incense hanging around Cui Xingzhou, and felt sweet in her heart. She smiled and said, "This purse is not well embroidered. It is hard for you to wear it on your body. Let me take the time to get rid of my time tomorrow and embroider a new look for my cousin..."
Cui Xingzhou curled the corner of his mouth and said lightly: "I don't like to pursue new things, so I don't need to change it if I use it. Thank you for your cousin's intention first."
The purse on his waist was indeed the engagement item sent by his cousin to a matchmaker when he was engaged.
To be honest, the embroidery worker is really good. According to the matchmaker, it was embroidered by Miss Lian himself. The unique style of the orchid in the valley is very suitable for men to wear. So in order to express his gratitude to his cousin, he has always worn it on his body.
Just as Cui Xingzhou said, he is a person who doesn’t like to pursue new things. As long as he uses things smoothly, he can continue to use them.
This is true for purses and people. He has no great expectations for his future wife, and he does not expect any great effect of the needlework and threading skills in the boudoir. His wife only has a gentle and virtuous personality, and he has his own maid to do those tasks.
However, he always believed that the purse was full of the tenderness of needles and threads sewn by Lian Qilan - until he saved Liu Miantang.
Liu Miantang determined that Cui Xingzhou was her fiancé.
However, Liu Miantang did not have the vanity of the lady in the boudoir. When he heard him ask about the purse implicitly, he honestly explained that although the purse was her dowry, it was not her hand. But when the maid was marshaling the dowry list halfway, she suddenly found that she had brought a few purse, so she bought it from a foreign embroiderer at the inn.
It is said that the embroidered lady was invited by an official in Zhenzhou to do a dowry and "article" and business like this is a tacit secret in the Gaomen Mansion of Dayan.
Although all the ladies from high schools are known to be omnipotent in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, they occasionally have shortcomings. There are many embroidery girls who work as replacements. Most of them wander in foreign lands and make dowry for the ladies who are not well-informed in needlework, but do not seek fame. Each family has a unique embroidery look, which has made the reputation of the client's cleverness.
It was a coincidence that the embroiderer's needlework was probably the Lian family. She was also lazy and tried to save trouble. She only felt that one was a bride who married into the capital and the other was a noble girl from Zhenzhou. She probably couldn't get into it.
So the purse was sold to Liu Miantang at a high price. When he arrived at the Lian family in Zhenzhou again, he asked the owner to choose the style. The pattern of green grass orchid was also selected. The embroidered lady sewed one in a gourd, which became a token of Lian Qilan's engagement.
It was precisely this accident that made Liu Miantang identify that the man wearing a half-old purse was her husband Cui Jiu.
When Cui Jiu saw that Miantang took the purse given to him by Miss Lian as his own, he was also a little surprised. After asking deeply, Miantang answered honestly.
This made Cui Jiu see clearly the secret vanity of Lian's cousin.
However, he would not take this kind of detail and needlework into consideration. It is normal for the lady in the boudoir to pursue good reputation.
But today when Lian Qilan mentioned this, he couldn't help but wonder whether it was his cousin's good needlework or the embroidery lady who hired a "substitute" needlework?
I was already upset, but after being given some advice from my future brother-in-law, I became even more bored.
After seeing off the Lian brothers and sisters, Cui Xingzhou asked Mo Ru to prepare casual clothes. After changing them, he put them on light clothes and walked in the countryside along the dirt road outside the military camp to dissipate his mood in the countryside fields.
Under his governance, Zhenzhou has opened up many new farmlands, planting rice that is ripe a year. The seedlings in the fields have grown taller.
Many paddy fields have raised many crabs like roe-baked crabs in the ponds that regulate water volume.
The deliciousness of "June Yellow" cannot last for too long. When the shell becomes hard, the taste will also change.
The servant, who saw the master looking at the pond and fishing crabs, was insane, and immediately understood it and ran to ask the farmer for the price.
Soon after, he bought two large cage crabs and asked excitedly: "Prince, do you want the chef from the barracks to steam the crabs for you at noon today?"
Cui Jiu thought about the rough style of the chef cooking in the military camp, and felt that he would definitely let down the deliciousness of the crabs, so he said, "Go back and call the carriage, and go to Lingquan Town for lunch..."
When I arrived in Lingquan Town, I found a restaurant to make the serious chefs more delicious.
He thought so, not planning to go to the house on North Street.
But the prince's plan could not keep up with the change. He found a remote restaurant in Lingquan Town. As soon as he got off the carriage, someone called out in surprise: "Husband!"
Cui Xingzhou turned around and concentrated, and saw a woman wearing a light smoke-colored pleated skirt trotting over with surprise. The old servant Li's mother followed behind in anger.
"I just went to deliver meals to Mr. Chen. From a distance, I recognized it... it was my husband's carriage, but Mom Li said it was no, and she... She almost couldn't catch up with the carriage!" Mian Tang had just run a few steps and was slightly panting, her cheeks flushed, and her pink neck made her pink neck whiter.
It was because she had not moved her muscles for a long time that her ankles were painful. When she arrived in front of the carriage, she subconsciously supported the carriage to relieve the pain.
When Cui Xingzhou saw that she was halfway through her excitement, she suddenly stopped talking and guessed that it was her old injury.
I didn't know what she had encountered at the beginning, and my tendons were broken. Although Zhao Quan continued it for her, it was definitely impossible to reply to her before.
Such injuries are most afraid of intense activities. At this time, she should be in pain.
Thinking of this, Cui Xingzhou reached out and stabilized her arm so that she would not stagger and fall.
The jade arm I bought will be very soft this year. Cui Xingzhou unconsciously tightened his palms...
At this moment, Li's mother also came after her breathlessly, kneeling down to the prince and said, "Wang... the boss, the old slave can't stop his wife, so he can't even ask the boss..."
Liu Miantang came to admit it on the street during the day, but it was really not right! Li's mother originally wanted to get the prince to punish him. But halfway through his words, she saw the meaningful eyes of King Huaiyang, immediately stopped her mouth so that she would not reveal any flaws.
Miantang also recovered from the pain at this time. Because he was so distracted just now, he didn't pay attention to what Mother Li said. He only asked in a weak voice: "Official, why don't you come back to the town? Are you going to have a meal at this restaurant?"
As she said that, she glanced at the two cage crabs in the servant Mo Ru's hand.
Mo Ru was always alert and quickly lied to the master: "The boss knew that his wife loved to eat crabs, so he went to the countryside to buy two cages, preparing to make crab roe buns for the restaurant, and then take them back to the house to eat..."
Liu Miantang does love to eat crabs. When she was not healed from her injuries, she yelled to eat crabs in autumn. But Li's mother was scolded by her face, saying that the boss was short of money and that the family had good food and drink, so how could she have money to buy crabs?
Since then, she has never asked for anything to eat with Li's mother. Unexpectedly, her husband is thinking about herself and has been rushing to buy so many crabs.
She felt sweet in her heart, looked at Cui Xingzhou's handsome face and said softly: "What crab roe buns are made? The crab shells in June are soft, and spicy fried is delicious! Yesterday, I bought the neighborhood homemade fermented black bean sauce on the street, and I just fry them, so I can save money and make money in vain."
Cui Xingzhou originally wanted to drink by himself, but the thought of meditating on the railing completely turned into a waste of time.
He looked at Liu Miantang's happy eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, as if he had made up his mind, and slowly said, "Since you like spicy crabs, then stir-fry them..."
So Cui Xingzhou helped Liu Miantang get on the carriage again and returned to the North Street courtyard.
But this time Cui Xingzhou no longer concealed his hiding, but after getting off the carriage, he held Miantang back and then helped Miantang's wife off the carriage under the gaze of the neighbors who were stretching their necks.
There have been many different opinions about what kind of official Liu Miantang is, but they are basically like dandy and wandering.
Now that the sun was bright at noon, everyone could see clearly the appearance of this unemployed official Cui Guanren.
My goodness! No wonder such a charming lady willingly manages business for him! She turned out to be such a tall and heroic man!
I saw Guanren Cui wearing a long moon-colored gown, with wide shoulders and narrow waist, thick black eyebrows, deep eyes and calm temperament. He looked like a merchant. If anyone believed it was an official, he would believe it!
In short, such a man and Miss Liu are really a perfect match made in heaven and earth!
Grandma Yin was enthusiastic and said to Liu Miantang first: "Miss Cui, but you are back? Do you want to come and sit down? My newly fried melon seeds are delicious when you eat them!"
Liu Miantang stood beside Cui Xingzhou, raised his voice and showed off: "No more seats, the official went to the countryside to buy crabs for me, which delayed the meal and had not eaten yet!"
As she said that, she took the official's hand and went back to the house with a smile.
The neighbors always privately argue that her husband is a liar. Today, the husband finally came back during the day and asked them to see his husband's appearance, which was definitely not the unbearable person they said.
Cui Xingzhou also had his own calculations in his heart.
Liu Miantang has been here for so long, but no one has contacted her. Maybe... she was deliberately left behind by Lu Wen. It is very likely that the thief was tired of playing with Qingqing and beautiful women, so he maliciously abandoned her.
Since this is the case, he would rather make a big fuss and reveal his own traces, just to take Liu Miantang as the outer room. Then Lu Wen has always wanted to find out his own reality. If he found out that the person next to him had become the new favorite of the King of Huaiyang, even if his affection is gone, he would definitely be suspicious that Liu Miantang would leak the secret to him, taking care of it and taking action...
Thinking of Lu Wen intending to contact Shi Yikuan and taking the path of reunion and becoming a good person, Cui Xingzhou sneered in his heart - the thief wants to wear official skin? See if he agrees!
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