Chapter 1167： Two more (1)

Chapter 1167 Second update (1)

Everyone began to take their seats.

This is a very spacious and bright dining room, with a large round table in the middle and twelve pear wood chairs, and some half-person-high decorative cabinets are placed against the wall around it. Orchids, violets, etc. On the top of the wall, there are two posthumous works of the masters of the previous dynasty, one is misty and rainy south of the Yangtze River, and the other is Qunfang Begonia. To the east of the painting are two wild grasses, which are vigorous and powerful, and they look like runaway horses soaring into the sky and leaving away in the dust; It moves like a dragon flying into the sky. Comes from nothingness, and returns to the void [Note 1].

It's a pity that the signature was not signed, and I don't know who made it.

Princess Deqing took a second look, and was supported by the maid to enter the table.

The Geng family originally had two houses, the second house guarding the border, and the long house, which is the head of the Geng family, stayed in Shengjing. The ancestors of the Geng family started with refining weapons, which can be traced back to the Xuanyuan Dynasty. At that time, the Geng family was just a merchant, and it was considered an imperial merchant. It relied on selling weapons every year to maintain the family business. Later, it probably made more weapons. A powerful weapon division, played a vital role on the battlefield. It is said that once Emperor Xuanyuan conquered the Yan Kingdom, because the city gate was closed and could not be attacked for a long time, a very clever young man of the Geng family created a kind of explosive flow flint, which blew the city gate into pieces. Since then, the Geng family has officially been reused by the royal family. During Emperor Xuanyuan's reign, the Geng family's limelight was once comparable to that of the royal family.

But it may be a proof of the truth that prosperity must decline. The Geng family succeeds in Xuanyuan, and loses in Xuanyuan. Speaking of which, the hands of the Geng family are not clean. Those who want to climb to the top of power, who hasn't stepped on a few bones? Can't stand a word search. The emperor doted on them, so he just turned a blind eye and closed his eyes. Once the emperor wanted to destroy them, it was just a matter of flipping his hands.

However, in the process of killing all the families, a pregnant maid who was pregnant was sent to the epidemic area to die because of smallpox and escaped the catastrophe. The servant girl's smallpox miraculously healed, and she gave birth to the last bloodline of the Geng family, who is now enshrined in the Geng family's ancestral hall.

Master Geng Shiliu learned the lessons of his predecessors, once lived in seclusion in the mountains, and had no intention of becoming an official. He also warned his descendants not to be greedy for power and go to the muddy water of the royal family. In the first few hundred years, everyone still remembered the ancestral precepts of the Sixteenth Master. Slowly, the descendants went from studying to scientific examinations, to teaching, and finally embarked on a path of intrigue. Perhaps the Geng family has that kind of talent in their bones. Once they enter the court, they are like ducks in water. In just two hundred years, they have grown from a commoner to a family of first-class meritorious service, to the Geng family's generation. A mighty general, a consort comparable to a powerful prime minister, the head of the Geng family did not hold any official position in the court, and he was like a wild crane all day long, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was busier than any of the Geng family members.

Patriarch Geng smiled and ordered the servant girl to serve the dishes. These things that Mrs. Geng should have implemented, he, a man, also handled them very beautifully.

"They are all southern dishes. I don't know if you are used to them." He said with a smile.

Princess Deqing said politely: "Let Patriarch Geng worry about it."

The maid presented a plate of steamed scallops with minced garlic vermicelli, and the aroma of chopped green onion and shellfish permeated the whole room instantly. Patriarch Geng personally picked one for Princess Deqing: "Our children love this dish the most, Princess Deqing I must have eaten it in Xiliang, but I can guarantee that it is not so delicious!"

The seafood in Xiliang was transported from the south, many of them died on the way, and the ones that survived were half-dead, and the quality of the meat was not high-quality. Therefore, everyone including Ning Yue didn't like seafood very much. But when they arrived in southern Xinjiang, they discovered that seafood can be so delicious.

(end of this chapter)