Chapter 1236

When Mrs. Liang was thinking about getting rid of lianfangzhou, lianfangzhou was arranging to receive all the ladies.

This time, she invited young men of her age, Liang Yi's wife and the second young lady of Liang family.

For those old ladies, Lian Fangzhou didn't invite them, but he posted that he didn't dare to work with the elders. He just gathered with his peers and joked and joked. In the first month, he held a formal banquet for the elders, and each of them gave gifts: a nice calming spice from the capital city, a pair of refreshing and soothing chests The stagnant cloud brocade bag, a pair of horn combs produced by the old shop in central Beijing and a string of eighteen hand strings of amber or honey wax.

Things are not very valuable. They are more valuable than intentions. After all, they are all good things in the capital. In this South Sea city, there is no money to buy them.

In Liang's mansion, Mrs. Liang naturally received such a gift.

In curiosity, I opened my eyes and saw that Lian Fangzhou was prepared to do everything in a thoughtful and proper way, but my heart was even more depressed and depressed. I immediately pushed the life person away and stopped appearing in front of her!

More hate in the heart bite teeth: this woman, very scheming! So willing to work hard, how can I hook a man? It's no wonder that her son, who is smart and has always been careless to women, is also caught by her!

Even the day of Fangzhou's treat is on the sixth day of the first lunar month. It's a very good day. The bright sunlight shines down on it. It's warm and makes people feel lighter.

As early as yesterday, the rectangular flower hall at the top of the Xie mountain in the small garden of Yamen's back residence has been cleaned and arranged.

In the early morning of today, the courtyard under the porch outside the gate is full of blooming azalea, camellia, osmanthus, lilies, rose, cyclamen and other flowers. They are gorgeous and beautiful. They send out elegant flower fragrance in the sun, adding a bit of charming.

In the hall, there are unique flower arrangements on the desk windowsill of the tea table. On the seats of chairs and couches, there are thin cotton brocade cushions with exquisite embroidery. The red copper censer is decorated with fragrant plum blossom.

In the corner of the porch outside the door, the small black clay stove and silver frost charcoal for tea making are all ready, just waiting for people to make ready-made tea.

The kitchen is busy, too.

All kinds of snacks and pastries have been continuously prepared since three days ago, which are naturally exquisite things in the capital.

Some of them have been stored for a long time and will not change their taste yesterday. Some of them have complicated preparation work, but they need to do it now and eat it now to make it perfect. They are ready together. It is estimated that the guests are almost ready to start.

There are also lunchtime meal, also in the busy start to prepare.

The menu was prepared and purchased three days ago. The main dishes to be prepared are roast duck, fried chicken slices, cherry meat, Wensi tofu, fish in golden soup, Longjing shrimp, some local delicacies, plus one longan bamboo fungus duck soup. There are 13 dishes in total.

The chef is naturally the chef in the mansion in Beijing.

It's not easy to choose these dishes. Lian Fangzhou is easy to find out the taste preferences and taboos of these young men at the banquet.

It's not easy to make. This piece of chicken with Hibiscus is very trivial and requires a lot. It's the most important dish to test the chef's Kung Fu. If it's a little careless, it can't achieve the effect of "white chicken as delicate as Hibiscus". The smooth, tender and delicious taste will be greatly reduced.

For example, when smashing chicken puree, we should not only smash the chicken to be really rotten like mud, but also carefully pick and clean even a little bit of fascia, or the sliced chicken will not be tender enough!

For example, when adding soup and egg white hung from old hen, chicken bone, old duck, pigeon, pig bone, Yao Zhu, longan meat, ginger, white pepper and so on to the smashed chicken mud, how much to add at one time and how to stir after adding all depend on the experience of the chef. If the key step is not done accurately and in place, the final chicken piece will contain granules, And it's not easy to be a piece, easy to be scattered.

For example, when cooking chicken slices, the oil temperature should not be too high. If the oil temperature is too high, honeycombs will appear and the color will not be right. When thickening, it should not be too thick or too thin. It should be just right to form a transparent glaze thickening, so pouring it on the chicken slices not only looks crystal clear and attractive, but also tastes more delicious!

All in all, it's a very laborious table.

Lian Fangzhou, relying on these to win the favor of all the young ladies, is willing to work hard to enter the local gentry and ladies.

Not long after breakfast, the guests came in succession!

Bitao with decent mother servant girls at the door to meet, Lian Fangzhou in the front courtyard of the hall waiting.

When the guests enter the second door, they are welcome out.

Most of the guests at the banquet today had a visit to Qiuxing Temple last time. They had seen the powerful means and bright personality of the young and beautiful political envoy's wife. In addition, they didn't fall out of favor in front of the political envoy's adults at all. They cleaned up the back house with thunderous means. No one dared to ask her to be big. They couldn't help but bring them with them Part awe.

When meeting each other, they were courteous and considerate. No one was arrogant, arrogant, or deliberately difficult. They enjoyed each other.

When the guests arrived in Qi, Lian Fangzhou got up with a smile and invited them to have a tour in the garden.

Naturally, all the people laughed and said that they were surrounded by them.

Today, it's just for fun. Even the sincere enthusiasm and conversation expressed by Fangzhou are all the dressing, rouge, water powder, jewelry and various anecdotes that women's families naturally like. Gradually, all of them are relaxed and easygoing. They are more straightforward and casual when talking and laughing.

In other words, people have never been to the garden of the Yamen's backyard. The former wife of the political envoy did not like social intercourse. For one thing, the relationship between the government and the local tyrants was antagonistic. For another, she despised the women in these remote areas at all. She thought that their characters were vulgar, their manners were not good enough, and they were not worthy of communication at all!

This time, I stepped into the middle of it. I couldn't help but look around for curiosity and giggle.

Even Fangzhou showed full interest. He listened to what people said with a smile and said: "the garden is empty. It's not interesting to see. When next spring comes, I want to rearrange it! Sisters who know Nanhai County who is the most able to design and decorate gardens? I'd like to recommend one or two of them. What flowers and grass do you have in your family? I'm begging for them. Don't be stingy! "