Chapter 41

On both sides of the road, there are carriages and ox carts on the official road, driving one after another to Nanxun county. The carriage goes first, followed by an ox cart. There are two male servants, loaded with all kinds of gifts.

"Well, I'm so unlucky these days. I should have gone to Pei's house in the morning. As a result, I either ate the wrong food or encountered a pouring rain. Fortunately, according to this speed, I can arrive before dark." The valet who didn't have to drive said to another companion.

But as soon as the voice fell, the ox cart suddenly bumped. They were thrown and the car stopped.

"What's going on?" The complaining Valet looked back. Fortunately, the gifts in the car were all right. They were still in the car.

"Maybe it's a stone." The driver's footman didn't think so, so he shook his whip and set off again.

"Moo -" the old ox shouted, raised his hoof and walked forward with great effort. The wheel of the car turned twice. The ox couldn't pull it. He took a few steps back. The gifts on the board fell obliquely and fell into a muddy pit. Mud foam splashed, polluting the snow-white screen partition. Several batches of silk fell on the ground and stained with dust and stains.

"No!" The footman looked back and hurriedly pushed his companions. They jumped out of the ox cart and quickly picked up the scattered gifts“ This is all for the young master. What should I do now? I knew I rushed to Nanxun County yesterday. "

"Stop talking and push the car out first." The driver's servant interrupted his self pity, and the two worked together to push the wooden cart into the mud from behind.

The handlebar ear was alert. When he found that there was no sound of the ox cart behind him, he stopped. The servant girl sitting next to him was unknown, so he asked softly, "is there something wrong in front?"

"No, the ox cart behind didn't catch up." The handlebar jumped out of the car. With sharp eyes, he immediately understood, "the wheel of the ox cart is stuck in the mud. I'll push it."

The servant girl opened the curtain and truthfully responded to the people inside.

"It's hard for you all the way, but we have to enter Nanxun county at night. The eldest young master may be in a hurry. You'd better hurry up with the handlebars and the two."

Young master Pei, whom the woman is thinking of, is eating happily now.

New seafood and river food were introduced into the kitchen. The cooks used 18 skills to make Pei Shuo happy and reward him.

Steamed scallops with ginger and green onion, sea crab, boiled flower snail, minced garlic vermicelli, soup of Alpine vegetables, steamed mandarin fish, baked shrimp with sea salt, fried rice with sea urchin, steamed spare ribs with powder, laver egg rolls, and a soup of spare ribs with red beans and lotus roots.

As soon as the upper and lower jaws were bitten, the shell of the sea crab was easily bitten open. The outside of the shell was wrapped with onion and ginger juice. It tasted very delicious. Then, when you tasted the sweet crab meat inside, it highlighted the delicacy of the crab meat. When you broke off the pair of pliers with both hands, you would completely pull out the meat in the pliers. If you dip some red Zhejiang vinegar, it would be another flavor.

Pei Shuo grabbed two handfuls of snails, one for a Yao and the other for himself, so he asked people to remove the dish and eat it later. The bamboo stick proposed light yellow snails, stained with soy sauce mixed with mustard juice, which was particularly chewy. The mustard sauce was also very appetizing and refreshing. The pungent smell went straight to the forehead as if it pierced Ren Du's two veins. The esophagus and even the nasal cavity were connected, The spicy taste dissipates and is replaced by a cool and comfortable feeling.

There is also baked shrimp with sea salt. The bamboo cage is covered with a layer of snow-white and crystal sea salt, and the bottom is faintly light red. When you look closer, it turns out that the shrimp is placed on the bamboo cage, covered with sea salt, which is similar to baked chicken with salt, but the actual shrimp meat is still fresh and sweet, and there is no need to dip. The saltiness of sea salt sets off the freshness and sweetness of shrimp.

And sea urchin fried rice. It tastes... Well, it's a little bland. It's heavier. The fried rice tastes rich. Sea urchin rusts like eating duck egg yolk.

"So satisfied!"

The last soup cleared her mouth, and the pink lotus root also drank the clear soup that made her boil the flavor of the ingredients. Ah Yao was happy.

The maid brought him a hot handkerchief to wipe his hands, rinsed the tea and spit it out. The cold and residual dishes on the table were removed by other maids. He asked ah Yao, "are you ready?"

A Yao nodded vigorously.

"Go, take you to a place, but cover your eyes." Pei Shuo smiled cunningly. With the consent of ah Yao, he took out the prepared black cloth, blindfolded ah Yao and led her to a place.

It's dark and can't see anything. It's like a person with visual impairment. He has no light and can't see others. At the moment when ah Yao was blindfolded, the whole person was highly nervous. He held Pei Shuo's hand tightly and couldn't pull it off: "where are you taking me, far away?"

"Relax your heart. Please entrust your eyes to me for the time being. I am your eyes... I have to cross the threshold here." Pei Shuo leads ah Yao and gradually prompts her how to go, whether there are roadblocks nearby that need to be bypassed or directly.

The invisible time is very long. A Yao has always encouraged herself. If she believes Pei Shuo, she must believe him and be a league builder. If he dares to be bad to her, see how she can deal with him!

"Fast, fast." Every time a Yao asks, Pei Shuo is always perfunctory.

At the foot is the gravel road, where there are many pebbles. A Yao was spinning in her mind, but before she found the answer, Pei Shuo had untied her eye patch and showed her the answer in front of her.

"Look!"

The osmanthus garden in the third autumn is full of golden osmanthus flowers with fragrant fragrance, but more importantly, whether it is veranda, pavilions, or trees, there are colorful lanterns, willow shoots on the moon, colorful lanterns, firework sticks in the hands of servant girls, grass near the lake, and servants set off fire, trees and silver flowers. This is the festival atmosphere of the Mid Autumn Festival.

"Wow!" Ah Yao was dazzled. The servant girls, servants and women gathered in the open ground in front of her, stretched their necks and talked one after another, "what are they doing?" A Yao looks back.

"You forgot so soon? Two days ago, he said that he would hold a lantern party here in the "three autumn Guizi" and let the servant girls in other hospitals also participate in it. In front of them are all looking at pictures and guessing puzzles. If you answer correctly, you can get a Yuanbao lamp or a fish lamp. "

A Yao replied, "of course I know, but you blindfolded me and brought me here. I haven't been here yet. How can I match the number. Can I also guess riddles? Will there be rewards if I guess correctly? "

Pei Shuo pointed to the lantern hanging in the veranda: "you can also guess that there are word puzzles over there, which are slightly more difficult than them, but there are other rewards. Depending on the difficulty, you can answer moon cakes, tangerines and red seals correctly."

"Really." A Yao's eyes brightened, "I'll try!"

Like a butterfly, she rushed to the veranda, picked up a quicksand paper hanging from a lantern tassel and looked at it.

"Did you write this?"

"Well, I can guess what this is."

A Yao read every word on it for a long time. She could read it and understand its meaning. But if she wanted to type a word, she... Couldn't think of it. She had to put it down and pick something else. But she looked at several times in a row, guessed several, and took several tangerines. As expected, she thought too much about sealing red. Pei Shuo's money was not so easy to earn.