Rebirth of the third master of the ring of the Red Chamber

Yuanchun tossed and turned all night, couldn't sleep, and finally closed his eyes in the morning, but was awakened by the nightmare again, walked to the dressing table, stared at the haggard self in the mirror, and sighed deeply.

"Your Majesty, drink this bowl of porridge and go back to catch up on sleep. Anyway, Princess Wangfei has already gone, so there is no need to wake up in the morning and evening. Look at you, your eye circles are dark." Baoqin persuaded with distress.

Yuan Chun pushed the porridge bowl away, and said with a wry smile, "Mother has done such scandalous things, and asked the prince to watch from the beginning to the end. I have no face to live. What else do I want to eat?" After crying for a while, I habitually asked, "Shut up today, where is the prince? What are you doing?"

Baoqin replied in a low voice, "My lord sent someone to the mansion early in the morning to pick up Brother Huan, and said that he would host a banquet for him today."

"Oh? A banquet?" Yuan Chun pondered for a while, then suddenly wiped away his tears and laughed lowly, sighing, "I'm really confused! Although my mother has died, the two prefectures of Rongning and Ningxia are still there, and the Jia clan is still there. Wang Bagong is still here, I am the legitimate daughter of the Jia family after all, I have become the side concubine of the Royal Jade Butterfly, even if the prince is unhappy, he will not despise me!"

Smiling and sighing in front of the mirror, Yuan Chun felt refreshed for a moment, and beckoned to Baoqin, "Come and dress me up. I will find a chance to meet Brother Huan later, and we can turn hostility into friendship with him. The prince is only close to him." It's just to win over the Jia family. If he really has some scheming tricks, he will know that I am the prince's side concubine, the dignified daughter of the Jia family. No harm."

"What the empress said is true. You are the concubine of the prince. You are ordered by the second rank, and you have the full support of the Jia family behind you. He is only a concubine, and he is still young. How can he overwhelm you? You were the one who wanted to get rid of you last night." It's gone." Baoqin was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to comb the master's hair.

But it is said that Jia Huan boarded the carriage with the support of the third prince's personal servant Cao Yongli, and walked to the palace in the morning light. After entering the door, he walked through many narrow paths and came to the front yard.

Although the Prince Jin's Mansion occupies a vast area, it is not as luxurious and beautiful as the Jia Mansion. Like the Third Prince himself, it is square and peaceful with a majestic atmosphere. The garden is not planted with exotic flowers and plants, but towering trees. In addition, some wild camellias and rhododendrons are cultivated as decorations. Jia Huan appreciates the simple and simple style.

"You are here!" The third prince stood under a big tree and looked up at the sky.

"What is this for?" Jia Huan pointed at Xiao Ze on the tree.

"Pick toon buds. By the way, this should be a toon tree, right?" the third prince asked shamelessly.

Jia Huan picked up a tree bud that Xiao Ze threw on the ground, sniffed it, and said with a smile, "That's right, it's Chinese toon. Why, are you addicted to eating it?"

"That's right, the smell is too fragrant. I was thinking this morning how delicious it would be if it was made into dumplings and dipped in vinegar." The third prince looked expectant.

"When you say it, I feel hungry too!" Jia Huan rubbed his stomach.

Xiao Ze firmly grasped a tree trunk, and shouted out of breath, "My lord, is there enough for a meal? Look at your size, I have picked everything I can. I really can't do anything about those twigs! "

The third prince smiled softly, "There are only a few Chinese toon trees, are they enough to fit between the teeth? There is still one in the study, go and pick it!"

Xiao Ze lamented in his heart: I knew it would be no good for Wang Ye to mix with Third Master Huan!It's always me who is tossing!

The dumb brothers and sisters sympathized with Brother Xiao very much. They pinned the hem of their clothes to their waists and wanted to climb a tree to help them, but they were torn off by Jia Huan and scolded, "You guys are so thin and tender, how can you compare with old Xiao? What if you fall?" What to do? You don’t need to go up a tree to pick toon, just find a long bamboo pole with a hook and hook it down.”

The third prince stroked his palms, "Good idea, why didn't I think of it. Go and find a bamboo pole with a hook."

The eunuch Cao Yongli was busy,

Xiao Ze complained, "Master Huan, why didn't you come earlier! I won't have to suffer if I come earlier!" After speaking, he slid down the tree.

Jia Huan said with a smile, "Co-authoring and working for the prince is a crime in your heart, um, I know!"

The third prince nodded, "I know too."

Hearing this, Xiao Ze slipped on the soles of his feet, fell from mid-air with a plop, and couldn't get up for a long time.The two masters looked at each other and laughed frantically.Or the dumb brothers and sisters had a conscience, and went to help them in a hurry.

Cao Yongli quickly brought a bamboo pole and hooked off the buds on the top of the branches with barbs, while the dumb brothers and sisters picked up bamboo baskets from below.The third prince rolled up his sleeves and said, "They are in charge of picking Chinese toon, we are in charge of digging bamboo shoots, and we eat wild vegetables and barbecue at noon, what do you think?"

Only then did Jia Huan notice that he was wearing an old dusty robe, looking like a hard-working man, and couldn't help jokingly said, "Yesterday I told me that there was a banquet in the mansion. I want guests to help you with work. Take a look, is this young master a man of rough work?" While talking, he spread his arms and twirled around, asking everyone to admire his extravagant and extraordinary purple brocade robe.

"Don't panic! Those who don't help have nothing to eat! Don't worry, I've prepared coarse clothes for you, and you can do whatever you want." Prince Jin picked him up, strode into his bedroom, and picked him up with his own hands. Put on a coat of coarse cloth.

Jia Huan had no choice but to pull out the dagger from his boots, and followed him to dig spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in the front yard.

"This bamboo shoot is very fat and tender, so it must be delicious." The third prince chopped off a bamboo shoot and sighed as he peeled off his coat. "After I came back, I always thought of the days when we were looking for food and relying on ourselves in Mangshan Mountain. It's very strange. It was so difficult, but it always reminded me, and it became more and more memorable to me.”

"If you like, let's go hunting together. When I was in Lijia Village, I would go hunting in the mountains every winter. It would be fun for two or three months." Jia Huan also showed nostalgic expression.

The third prince said with a smile, "Every year, my father will hold an autumn festival in Lushan, which lasts for one month. How about you go with me this year?" As long as you think of being able to gallop on the grassland with Huan'er and explore in the dense forest, He felt extremely looking forward to it.

"Okay," Jia Huan agreed without hesitation, stood up and patted the hem of his clothes, "This is enough to eat, shall we go back?"

"You don't need to go back. The environment in the bamboo forest is quiet and peaceful. Let's have lunch here today. Come, dig a hole for me." The third prince pointed to a soft and dry land.

"Why dig a hole? To bury you?" Jia Huan raised his eyebrows.

The third prince rewarded him with a chestnut, and said dumbfoundingly, "Dig a pit and build a stove, let's make a fire, season ourselves, and grill by ourselves, just like we did in Mang Mountain. Since I came back, I feel that everything I eat tastes wrong. Come to the chef and ask, what should you do?"

"Why? Something wrong with your tongue?" Jia Huan moved closer to him and looked at him carefully.

The third prince squeezed the boy's lips that people love and hate, and continued, "It's not my tongue that's wrong, but their cooking skills. Do you know how to cook cabbage in clear water?"

Jia Huan nodded while digging a hole, "Yes, boil the water, add some salt and cabbage, scoop it up and serve it on the table, it's done."

The third prince laughed, waved his hands and said, "It's wrong, put an old hen in a clay pot and simmer for a day and a night, remove the slick oil and chicken, leave the soup base and continue to cook the lean pork, after a day and a night Remove the slick oil and pork, and leave the soup base to continue cooking the abalone. After a day and a night, remove the slick oil and abalone, and add the carefully selected innermost tender yellow cabbage sprouts to the soup base. It will be soft and melt in the mouth. , just took it out and put it on the plate. This is a dish of boiled cabbage in clear water."

"Chicken doesn't taste like chicken, meat doesn't taste like meat, fish doesn't taste like fish, and cabbage doesn't taste like cabbage. What is this food?" Jia Huan was speechless.

The third prince hugged him by the shoulders and sighed, "Isn't it? The taste is second to none, the main reason is that the cost is too extravagant. Only after I called the cook over to ask, did I know that I have to eat a meal..."

"How many brick and tile houses have been eaten?" Jia Huan interjected.

"At least seven or eight seats." The more the third prince said, the more depressed and angry he felt.

Jia Huan patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "You are already saving money. In Jia's mansion, the old lady Shan has to eat five or six hundred taels of silver for every meal, not to mention Mrs. Wang, Jia Zheng, Dafang's family and Ningguo mansion. There is only more, no less. Jia’s family also has a famous dish called eggplant, which peels the eggplant that has just come down, and only needs to clean the meat, cut it into small nails, fry it with chicken oil, and then use chicken breast meat Mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five-spice rot, and dried fruits of various colors, all cut into nails, simmered in chicken broth to dry, collected sesame oil, mixed with bad oil, put in a porcelain jar, sealed tightly, and taken out when ready to eat , stir-fried chicken and melon, and put it on a plate. Such a cold dish needs more than a dozen chickens to match, not to mention other delicacies..."

The third prince sneered, "Jia's mansion is famous for its extravagance in Beijing. If nothing else, look at my mansion. It only cost 24 taels of silver to repair it. Look at Jia's mansion again. It costs more than 5 taels for a big stone lion, not to mention the pavilions, pavilions, carved galleries and paintings." He paused, shook his head and sighed, "The royal family is declining and the family is rampant. Turning the tide..."

Jia Huan rushed forward, covered his mouth and begged, "Third brother, please do me a favor, don't let me listen to your family's secret affairs, I haven't lived enough yet!"

The third prince spat out the mud in his mouth, hugged the boy into his arms and rubbed it well, and said with a smile, "Okay, I won't say anything! You must live a good life. See if I changed this day and this place... "The last sentence was almost whispered while biting the boy's earlobe, like an illusion.

However, Jia Huan knew that it was not an illusion. The man in front of him was concerned about the country and the people, with noble morals and a firm mind, but he was full of thunderous methods and great talents.Even if he has never read the original book, he also knows that he is definitely not someone in the pool.

Xiao Ze walked into the bamboo forest with his dumb brothers and sisters, saw the two tumbling together, the corners of his mouth twitched unconsciously, and he said helplessly, "You two, please stop making trouble, look at this dirty body, you should eat later Already!"

Jia Huan pushed the third prince away, spat out the bamboo leaves in his mouth and said, "No, I have to take a bath!"

"I'll accompany you!" The Third Prince laughed, picked up the young man and strode away.

When the two came back after changing into brocade clothes, the stove had already been set up and the fire was burning hot. The pork belly on the grill was rattling and spitting oil, and the rich aroma made people move their index fingers.

Another low table was placed beside the stove, on which was placed a large plate of wild vegetables, including black fungus, white straw mushroom, yellow spring bamboo shoots, green Chinese toon, and purple bracken, all cut into cloves and fried with sesame oil. It is steaming white steam, surrounded by sauces, salty, sour, spicy, fragrant, everything that one expects to find, and a plate of thin steamed noodles.

The third prince pointed to the table full of dishes and asked, "Do you know how to eat this dish? I mentioned it to the cook yesterday, so he made it like this. I tried one in the morning. It tastes pretty good."

Jia Huan gave him a squinting look, spread the steamed noodles in his palm, scooped up a spoonful of diced wild vegetables, and asked casually, "What flavor do you like?"

"Spicy and sour." The Third Prince couldn't help laughing.

Jia Huan wrapped the diced wild vegetables, made them into siu mai shapes, dipped them in some hot and sour sauce, and handed them to the third prince's mouth.

The third prince naturally swallowed it, and chewed it carefully, but saw that Jia Huan asked the waiter for a plate of fresh lettuce leaves, wrapped the roasted pork belly in it, added a spoonful of diced wild vegetables and a little sauce, and handed it to his mouth as well .

"This leaf is raw, can it be eaten?" The third prince frowned.

"Whether you like to eat or not." Jia Huan made a gesture and put it in his mouth.

The third prince hurriedly caught it in his mouth, chewed it twice, his eyes became brighter, and he clapped his palms and sighed, "The vegetable leaves are raw, so the juice is very rich and fresh, and the astringent taste contained in it relieves the greasyness of the pork belly, and synthesizes a kind of meat. A new taste. Delicious! It is said that Huan'er loves and knows how to eat, and it is true!"

"You just know." Jia Huan wrapped a piece of barbecue and stuffed it into his mouth, squinting his eyes to enjoy it.

Xiao Ze followed suit with his dumb brothers and sisters, and couldn't stop eating.

The third prince wrapped one for the young man, and asked softly, "How about the college entrance examination? I think it's time to release the rankings?"

"Hurry up. Before I came back, I had put down 1 taels of silver, betting that I would win three yuan." Jia Huan said casually.

Xiao Ze was choked by these words, looking for water anxiously with a pale face, the dumb girl hurriedly grabbed his hair and raised his chin so that his brother could pour wine down his throat, causing Xiao Ze to cough again earth-shatteringly.

There was endless commotion around him, but the third prince turned a blind eye to it, and said with a smile, "Then you've made a lot of money? Your father must be very happy to hear the news."

As soon as the members of the Jia family were mentioned, Jia Huan felt nauseated, and frowned, "I don't know how much I'll earn, it depends on whether the odds go up or down. Can we not mention Jia's house during dinner? Bad luck!"

"Well, it's okay if I don't mention it. Eat yours!" The third prince shook his head and laughed, and stuffed a wild vegetable bun into his mouth.

After a meal, the guests and the host enjoyed the meal, Jia Huan patted his bulging belly, squinted his eyes, and nodded his head, like a sleepy cat.

The third prince tried to persuade with a suppressed smile, "I can't sleep when I'm full, be careful of food accumulation! Come on, let me go for a stroll in the garden." After saying that, he half dragged and half hugged the boy to the backyard.

"There are all kinds of koi in the pond, and they look so colorful under the sunlight. You sprinkle the bait and they will come out." The third prince stuffed a bag of millet into the boy's palm, his tone full of pampering.Seeing the young man sprinkle one after another, he hurriedly stopped him, "Take it easy, they will die if you sprinkle too much!"

"It's time to pick it up and eat it." Jia Huan didn't seem to care, but his misty eyes had gathered divine light, and he looked very happy.

The third prince rewarded him with a chestnut, but he planned to catch some later for Huan'er to take back to raise. It's rare that he likes things other than weapons and food.

A group of people came across the pool, first a lady with a beautiful appearance and noble temperament, when she saw the young man half-embraced by Prince Jin, she showed an extremely excited and nostalgic expression, and stared straight at her.

The corner of Jia Huan's mouth twitched, staring at her and said, "Could that be the legendary Jia Yuanchun, the eldest sister of the Jia family?"

The third prince opened his lips and smiled, "Congratulations, you guessed right."