It seems that I am still too full [travel]

I saw a young gentleman standing behind the dark blue felt curtain. The young gentleman was wearing a red dress and a jade crown.When Master Shen saw this person for the first time, he was certain in his heart that this Young Master must be that Young Master Xie who is said to have the skills of a god.When Shen Sen met Xie before, he felt that he was an extraordinary person, but seeing Mr. Xie in Zhu Yi today, he knew that the gods had another face.

Cen Yu took the lead to meet him, and greeted him with a smile on his face, "Master Shen, I have admired your name for a long time, and I, Cen Yu, now the two of you have come from a long way, so I really feel lost to welcome you. Mr. Shen, you are safe here."

Shen Rong is worthy of being an old fox in the shopping mall who has been running the Shen family for more than ten years. At this time, he quickly recovered from the surprise when he saw Xie Shi, and chatted with Cen Yu calmly.

"Thank you, Patriarch Cen, for the invitation. I have heard that Patriarch Cen is young and promising, and he is handsome. When we met today, I realized that he is so young!" After turning around, "This must be the famous Mr. Xie, right? I have admired Mr. Xie for a long time!"

Xie Shi smiled slightly, in front of outsiders, he was a noble and polite fan, "Master Shen has praised me absurdly. Compared to Xie, Master Shen deserves such a great reputation."

After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, they entered the room and sat down.Shen Rong inadvertently looked at the wall, and there was a huge landscape painting hanging there. Even an "layman" like Shen Rong could feel the emptiness and depression in the scene in the painting. There is a gray tone, revealing despair and sadness.After a closer look, the inscriber of this painting is Wang Hong, a great painter of the former dynasty.

Wang Hong is a celebrity of the former dynasty, known as the No. 1 landscape painting of the former dynasty. The Mongolian cavalry set foot in the Central Plains. After the establishment of the new dynasty, Wang Hong was summoned by the new dynasty. However, he claimed to be a survivor of the former dynasty and refused to be an official. , and later escaped into the mountains and disappeared without a trace, and Wang Hong's paintings have become swan songs. Now someone asks for a painting of ten thousand gold, but it is said that it is still not available. I did not expect to see it here.However, Shen Rong thought about the rumors about the identity of Patriarch Han that he had received before, and couldn't help but realize something in his heart.

Under the hanging painting, there is a large pear wood chi carving case in the middle. On the case is a three-foot-high Tianhuangshi Nine Dragon Passiflora pattern statue. There are twelve nanmu chairs in the bottom two rows, and there are small tables on the left and right. There are several stoves and vases on the tables, burning agarwood.

Not to mention Mrs. Shen, even Xie Shichu was surprised by the furnishings when he stepped into the house, "You have so many good things in this house, so you are not afraid of being missed by thieves?"

At that time, Cen Yu said with a smile: "This is a matter of face. When the businessmen who work with me enter this room, they see the magnificent furnishings inside, and everything is priceless. They have to look at me, Cen, and know My financial resources are so strong that I unconsciously lower my profile."

What Cen Gu'an said made some sense, at least such a large piece of Tianhuang stone carving in front of him really surprised Shen Rong and his son.I don't know when, Tian Huangshi became popular among high-ranking officials and nobles, everyone regarded it as a treasure, and merchants pursued Tian Huangshi, because the jade was golden and transparent, symbolizing wealth, and meant to make money. Even Shen Rong was only as big as a palm , Cen Yu's noodles are very good.

The four of them sat down on the nanmu chairs on both sides, and suddenly saw the two servants coming with large lacquer boxes, and took out fine points and put them on the left and right small desks.This detail is not complicated, only a plate of plum blossom cakes and two bowls of almond tea.

As soon as the servants put the things on the table, Cen Yu began to show off, "Master Shen, Mr. Shen, you two have a good time today. This plum blossom crisp is the first fresh thing. I'm sure you have never seen it before. Do it The plum blossom petals of this plum blossom crisp are collected from the old plums that my lord planted when he was a teenager. It is also a recipe of Tanwei, which was made under his personal guidance. The first oven just baked this morning is here. Come on, try it now."

Shen Rong was fine, after all he had never tasted Xie Shi's cooking skills, nor had he ever bought pastries from Bazhen Pavilion. He only heard that Mr. Xie had the reputation of "Yi Ya" and was well-versed in the art of cooking, so he even Most of them noticed that Patriarch Han was really addicted to plums as rumored.On the other hand, Shen Sen, when he heard that it was a new food invented by Xie Shi, he immediately took the wet cotton cloth next to him to wipe his hands, and went to the plate.

I saw six plum blossom crisps on the plate, each of which was exquisite and delicate, in the shape of plum blossoms on the outside, with layers of puff pastry on the edges, delicate and beautiful like flowers, so beautiful that people couldn't bear to eat it, and before they got close, they could already smell the faint fragrance of flowers.The puff pastry was baked just right, crisp and thin like a butterfly's wing, and it fell off when touched, and it was even brighter and crispy after one bite. To Shen Sen's surprise, the filling of this puff pastry was actually plum blossom sauce!If the plum blossom cake just now could only smell the dark fragrance, then the honey sauce made from plum blossoms flows between the lips and teeth at this moment, making people feel like they are in the plum forest, wandering in the sea of ​​fragrance and unable to return.

Shen Rong also curiously picked up a piece of plum blossom crisps, smelling the fragrance of flowers, put it in his mouth, raised his brows slightly, and then concentrated on tasting it carefully. After tasting one piece, he sighed: "Using flowers in food, I never thought I could taste it like this." It is really delicious, full of ingenuity, and extremely elegant, and there is no such dessert in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the hometown of pastries." This plum blossom is a symbol of elegance and purity of a gentleman. What's more, the plum blossom sauce inside is so sweet and fragrant that it makes people exhale like flowers. It is indeed an elegant delicacy.

The Shen family father and son were full of praise for the plum blossom crisps, and Xie Shi and Cen Yu also started to taste them.I don't know if it's because I learned that these are the petals from the plum tree that Han Ji planted by hand when he was young. Xie Shi only felt that the plum blossom sauce had a different taste compared to the one he tasted when he opened the bottle in the morning. During this time, the four guests of honor were silent, savoring this treasure carefully.

After tasting a piece of plum blossom crisp, drink a small bowl of almond tea that is finely ground with a small mill to warm your heart.I don't know if it's an illusion, but Shen Rong, who had relapsed laryngitis due to the fatigue and bumpy journey, only felt that the foreign body sensation in his throat disappeared, and he felt much more comfortable.

Shen Sen said: "I have eaten the pastries in the winter fruit box launched by Bazhen Pavilion before. Although candied fruit, bean cakes and milk pastries have their own merits and are all excellent products, I like the milk pastries inside the most, especially the puff pastry. Puffs and buttered abalone. I dare say that there is no dim sum shop in the south of the Yangtze River that can match this buttered abalone. I heard that since Bazhen Pavilion came out, many dim sum shops have opened Imitation, but none of them are satisfactory, Dong Shi imitated. Another thing is quite a pity, the four-season cake in the store has been taken off the shelves because of the season, and I have not been able to taste it.” Yuxi’s team organized,

It was rare for a guest to be so straightforward, Xie Shi naturally gave him enough face, and Dang even said that the four seasons of the coming year would be the cake, so he asked the caravan to send it to him.

Perhaps it was the delicacies that narrowed the distance between all of you present, and the chatter broke out immediately. Shen Rong stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "In the past, I only knew that the Bazhen Pavilion of Cen's family was booming, but now I know that customers are coming like clouds, and it is so lively." Very soon, when Shen’s carriage reached the store, it was almost blocked, and there was a dilemma.”

Hearing this, Cen Yu waved his hands again and again, and said modestly: "Master Shen misunderstood, today you two just happened to meet the Shangxin day in the pavilion, and it is the Shangyuan Festival, so it is so lively."

Shen Sen heard this from the side, and asked curiously: "I wonder what kind of good things are new in the pavilion?" Just before going to the small building, Shen Sen glanced at it, and saw that the store was almost full of ladies and wives in luxurious clothes. , one by one, as if they didn’t need money for their things, their eyes were red-eyed, and before they left, the servants who followed them all had big bags and small bags, but the guests who paid a lot of money were still smiling, as if they had picked up some big bargains.If he hadn't come for an appointment, he might have already entered the store to have a look.

Cen Yu smiled mysteriously and clapped his hands. Panda'er, who had just led the distinguished guests upstairs, came out from the back room, followed by two other servants, each holding a sandalwood box in their hands.

"It just so happens that Cen has prepared a new treasure from the Eight Treasures Pavilion as a gift for the two distinguished guests. You can take it apart and have a look."

This is a normal human relationship between merchants, and it is not a big deal. The Shen father and son did not refuse. After thanking Cen Yu, they opened the box. Naturally, the box was made of precious materials, and it was carefully carved by skilled craftsmen. The purpose of this outer packaging is to set off the preciousness and rarity of the contents in the box, but the Shen family is rich in the world, and the two Shen family sons have never seen any valuables, so this kind of thing is not attractive to them, so they don't stop. On the box, but just open it.

The contents of this gift box are basically the same as the beauty gift box that Xie Shi prepared for Mrs. Han at the beginning. The most common one is two-color cream blush, one is rose color and the other is peach red, because refined flowers are added Essential oils and floral dew are more fragrant than most rouges in the world, and more importantly, they are more colorful and not easy to fall off.Another advantage is that this natural product does not hurt the skin, and is very healthy. According to what the female shopkeeper in the shop advertised to those noble ladies, this rouge can beautify and moisturize the skin after a long time of use.

It is the first time that these two things, the eyeshadow palette and the rotating lipstick, have appeared, and they are also the most popular among the guests. The Shen family and his son have never seen them before. Only after looking at the incense raft with instructions for use in the gift box did they understand these two things. usefulness of things.

"Such novelties must be liked by the women in the family. I would like to thank Patriarch Cen in advance." At this time, the two men of the Shen family hadn't realized the attraction of these things to the women in the family. On the return trip, I only followed the plan and bought the rose dew and other things that the women's relatives urged me to buy.

Unexpectedly, when they returned to their hometown in Suzhou, there were only three sets of "Hua Xiangrong" beauty makeup gift boxes, which became the eyes of the female family members of the Shen family, because there were only three sets, and it was not enough for the twenty or so girls in the family to share!So who to give it to? This is a question. In the end, according to Cen Yu's original intention of giving gifts, he returned these things to the respective wives of the old lady, Shen Rong and Shen Sen.

For this reason, many wives such as Mrs. and other wives in the other rooms were so angry that they tore off a lot of veils, and even the little girl Shen Rong who had not left the cabinet ran to complain to her mother, saying that her father and elder brother were bothered when they were away from home. She never missed her, and in the end it was Mrs. Shen who comforted the little girl and shared the new products of Bazhen Pavilion with her to be coaxed.

Who would have thought that this little negligence almost caused a dispute in the family!But this is something for another time, so I will not express it here for the time being.