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Chapter 140
140. Birthday celebration is Baiqianchun
Ever since Lian Xiao caught the wind, He Yanjun has been thinking about how to make a birthday gift that can annoy Lou Yefeng.
She has no money herself, so there is really no need to ask He Qi for money to buy gifts.The prince has never seen any precious and rare things, and it doesn't show her "intent", does it?
After thinking about it, I am afraid that only things made by myself can have one or two outstanding features.
Alas, it's really bald, and have to bother to make a birthday gift to help the prince complete the task.If it wasn't for Lou Yefeng...otherwise she wouldn't take the initiative to give any birthday presents, it's too late to avoid suspicion.
He Yanjun thought about his various experiences in learning how to make dim sum recently, then turned around and went into the small kitchen to search for ingredients.
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A few days before Pei Nianyu's twenty-fourth birthday, senior officials in the mansion came to ask him how to do it for this year's birthday.
For Pei Nianyu, this so-called prince's birthday doesn't matter if it's a big or small thing, but it's just a festival for the mansion.
According to the usual practice in previous years, a banquet will be held on the prince's birthday, and rewards will be given out, so it is considered a blessing for many servants in the mansion.Pei Nianyu didn't care about how to live, but there was no need to cut off the benefits of those who worked hard every day in the mansion, so he ordered it to continue as usual.
The birthday banquet is naturally organized by the big kitchen, so he just doesn't have to eat it, and when the time comes, he can just reward it and distribute it to the people below.
The fourth day of March.
Pei Nianyu needed to get up early in the morning to worship his ancestors, so he got up earlier than usual.
Lou Yefeng came over to help him put on his clothes and tie his hair, his movements were a little bit more nostalgic and affectionate than usual.Looking at the master's rich and handsome demeanor and gentle and beautiful facial features, he felt a little sore in his heart, and his fingers slowed down unconsciously.
Such a beautiful master... I don't know how long I can stay by the master's side.If the master really reconciles with..., will the master drive him away?
Lou Yefeng thought to himself.
Now it seems that the master is still satisfied with his service, and his martial arts is about to recover, and his status as a shadow guard will be justified by then.
If the master really doesn't have feelings for him in the future, he and the master haven't really had anything happened anyway, so he can't be regarded as the master's bed partner.Being a shadow guard again, the status will not be too embarrassing.
Lou Yefeng was thinking like this, but suddenly something felt empty in his heart.
A bed partner not counting as the owner ... bed partner ...
When these three words appeared in his mind, Lou Yefeng felt as if a vicious bug had jumped into his body.One side devoured his mind left and right, burning the flame of jealousy in his heart.
He really, really wanted his Master's demand.He has guarded the master for ten years, how much he wants to give his body and everything to the master.
He was going crazy.
Lou Yefeng stared at the master who was close at hand, his fingers trembling slightly.Then he quickly lowered his head and put his hands back together, and at the same time secretly reminded himself that he was already content to be a shadow guard by his master's side.
As for whether he is really satisfied or not, only Lou Yefeng knows.
Pei Nianyu, on the other hand, was looking at himself in the full-length mirror.
This birthday makes me twenty-four years old...
Pei Nianyu sighed faintly:
"Another year old."
Lou Yefeng pursed his lips and did not speak.
The master is one year older, so why not him.He is an orphan, and the exact date of his birthday is unknown.I only know roughly that he was born in July.
After half a year, Lou Yefeng will be thirty-one years old.
Thinking of this, Lou Yefeng was suddenly pricked in the heart again.Thirty-one years old, he can only be a shadow guard for another four years...
Be a shadow guard for another four years to accompany the master...
Not enough, not enough.
Lou Yefeng's heart began to churn with various feelings again.
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After getting dressed, Pei Nianyu went to the apse to worship his ancestors as usual.
It's just that after entering the ancestral hall, Pei Nianyu couldn't help thinking about what his younger brother did when he worshiped the ancestors last time.
He was silent for a while, and finally ignored his scumbag father's tablet.Instead, he turned his head and respectfully put incense on the tablet of his mother, the nobleman Lan, who was the first emperor, and arranged the sacrificial fruits.
After worshiping the ancestors, it's time to pay respects to the birthday.He was sitting in the hall of Hanqiu Pavilion, listening to the executives report to him the birthday gifts from other Capital City mansions, and at the same time giving him casual orders to return the gifts according to the routine.
Although he seldom walked around with other mansions, of course others would not refuse to give birthday presents so viciously.
The gifts outside the mansion are all well-regulated calligraphy, painting, jade and playware, and then there are rewards from the palace.Pei Niancheng brought a copy according to the rule given to the prince in the palace in previous years, and it was nothing more than wishful stuff.
However, after that, Eunuch Wu from the palace suddenly came and said that His Majesty gave His Royal Highness King Yu another gift——
Eight plates of imperial meals.
Pei Nianyu's face turned dark all of a sudden.
Imperial food, is the imperial food made in his palace edible??
Did his younger brother give him eye drops and tell him to teach those apprentices well?
Pei Niancheng's prank really choked Pei Nianyu.
After sending Eunuch Wu Bingzhong away, there were big birthday plates from everyone in the house.The birthday plate was full of red paper birthday characters, silver ingots and other things, these were not very valuable, they were just for the servants to express their love for the prince, and Pei Nianyu naturally took this opportunity to reward some silver coins.
For the birthday plate, the maids headed by Xia Yao shared a share, the government officials headed by senior officials shared a share, and the shadow guards also shared a share.
Pei Nianyu looked at the birthday plate put together by the shadow guards, and the silver ingots were two yuan less than what the others gave, so he couldn't help but curse Old He in his heart for being stingy.
As for it, two silver ingots are reluctant.
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After the process was finally completed, Pei Nianyu just wanted to ask Lou Yefeng what gift he had prepared for him - he remembered that before the New Year his family Ye Feng would rather borrow Lao He's money to buy gifts for him.
It's just that before asking, Yun Chi, as the big maid of Wenhong Room, came to report Miss He's birthday gift.
Pei Nianyu raised his eyebrows, glanced at Lou Yefeng next to him without any trace, and understood what He Yanjun meant:
"Come on."
Yun Chi walked out slowly, and then eight maidservants came in carrying a large platter.
Pei Nianyu took a closer look and found a plate of noodles!
"Back to the lord, this is the 'Qingfeng Sannong' snack plate that Miss He specially made for the lord, please have a look."
I saw that the dim sum plate was clearly a huge carved ornament.The plate is made of blue-gray hard cake as the ground.
Then on the left side are two pale pink longevity peaches, overlapping and standing on the bottom.The birthday peaches are not fat like ordinary birthday peaches, but thin and thin. The two birthday peaches are in the shape of a mountain—the location of the mountain is a common picture layout in landscape paintings, so it can be seen at a glance.
On the high place on the right side of the chassis is a large platform, on which hangs a strand of white dragon beard as thin as a hair.It is not only the meaning of making birthday noodles, but also the meaning of making waterfalls in this layout.
Under the waterfall composed of dragon beard noodles, a small silver plate is half embedded in the chassis, and the silver plate contains clear soup with green leaves-referring to the waterfall falling into the green lake.
And there is a gazebo by the lake, and under the pavilion is a man dressed as a literati made out of dough, playing the piano.The rest of the flowers and plants around the pavilion are all made of dough, baked and painted with different colors of toilet water for coloring.
Pei Nianyu couldn't help but praise:
"What a clever hand!"
It is extremely complicated to knead the human figure and the qin with the dough, and it is thanks to He Yanjun's dexterity in playing the qin that he can do this.Moreover, the layout of "Three Breeze Lanes" is like a painting, and the characters in the painting are Pei Nianyu himself. The whole work can almost be said to be extremely artistic.
——There is nothing wrong with it except that it tastes bad.
As for why it doesn't taste good...
In order to shape the dragon beard noodles, He Yanjun waited for the noodles to cool completely before serving them.So it's basically... a mess.
And those doughs, in order to pinch the shape, it is impossible to stuff them with any fillings, it is really a pure dough, it is delicious to see the hell.
But apart from the taste, this work is already perfect in terms of appearance and conception.Never have the local beetles of the Dajing Dynasty seen such delicate and elegant pastry.
Pei Nianyu thought in his heart that when He Yanjun took over the pastry shop in the future, the threshold of the shop would be broken every day just because of the arrangement of pastries for this birthday festival.
"I don't know how much time Yanjun spent on making this arrangement..."
And Lou Yefeng who was on the side saw the "Three Breeze Lanes", and immediately froze in his movements.
"The subordinates don't know that Miss He has such abilities."
"Oh, I had nothing to do a few days ago, so I taught her how to make snacks while listening to the piano. I didn't expect that she was quite talented and learned very quickly."
Lou Yefeng heard the master's words of praise, he couldn't help touching a small box in his arms, his eyes darkened.
That's right, why didn't he think that he could please the master by cooking some exquisite food.Compared with He Yanjun's magnificent presentation, the thing he prepared...
It's really too cheap.It's cheap and plain looking.
Thinking about it now, how could something like that be worthy of its master.
Seeing the change in Lou Yefeng's expression, Pei Nianyu turned to ask him:
"By the way, Ye Feng, where is the gift you made for me earlier?"
Lou Yefeng was silent for a moment, then said lightly:
"Master, forgive me, the things haven't been finished yet. The shop's craftsman was busy a few days ago, so it was delayed for some time."
Pei Nianyu couldn't help raising his eyebrows, which obviously sounded like a lie.But what exactly did Lou Yefeng do that he didn't dare to show him?
"Is it really not done well?"
"……yes."
Lou Yefeng lowered his eyes, not daring to look at his master.
He was really afraid that after the master saw the slightly ugly gift he had prepared, he would discard it casually, or show a slight look of disgust.
This, he thought, was beyond his control.Rather than being disgusted by the owner... it's better not to take it out.
Pei Nianyu asked twice to no avail, and suddenly felt tight in his chest, which almost made him breathless.
This incident caused a lot of trouble, for their "plan" to cooperate with He Yanjun's performance, who knew that the gift given to him by the old building was lost!!!
Forget it, after eating the old building, it will not be too late to get this gift back.
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Title: Celebrating a Birthday Is a Thousand Years of Spring——Yan Shu's "Whispering the Clothes"