Flowers fly everywhere in spring city, and cold food is the east wind to resist the willows.

After two rains, the Cold Food Festival arrived among the flying poplar flowers.

In Yaoguang Hall, Xu Wenchan, wearing a tender yellow dress, held the "limited drink" Dongling Herbal Tea on the Cold Food Festival, and talked about the recent lively fun in Chang'an City.

"Recently, Zhou Muyan from the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion has been in trouble! I heard that she was offended by some big shots when she bought silk in the sky. She admitted her mistakes in public, but she was slapped twice. Ah, it's so satisfying!"

Taoti's mouth twitched, "Two slaps..."

"Yes, I heard that I was shooting from left and right, and I was having sex!"

“…”

After hesitating for a moment, Tao Ti decided to dispel a rumor.

After she talked about the whole story of the day, she added, "The next day, the Prime Minister's wife went to the palace to meet the queen, and called me to Ganlu Palace, said a lot of scenes, and gave me a lot of gifts, saying that she was apologizing. Well, at least this attitude is quite good."

Xu Wenchan's eyes widened, and his chubby face was full of admiration, "Wow, Ati, you are really great!"

Taoti, “Ha???”

"I have been asking for information before, wanting to know which hero is, who is not afraid of power and dares to fight Zhou Muyan. I didn't expect it to be you! You are really worthy of being my good friend, and I really vented a rant for me this time!"

"What do you mean? Is there a festival between you?"

"Yes, there is a holiday!"

She responded very simply, took a deep breath, with a rare seriousness on her face, "Actually, I know that the noble girls in Chang'an City look down on me, how do they arrange me behind me? I know Yemeni... They just said that, I recognize me like this. But this Zhou Muyan is really hateful. She just makes fun of me, but she still says bad things about my family! I can't stand this!"

Xu Wenchan put down the teacup and angrily told Zhou Muyan about the grudge between her and Zhenbei Hou Mansion.

The matter is actually very simple. Xu Wenchan's seventh brother was over 20 years old and had not yet married. Although the Xu family was a military general for generations, Xu Qige was a literary young man with chopsticks, poetry, songs and essays. He did not like those carefree and careless women in Yunzhou. His biggest dream was to marry a talented woman in Chang'an who was well-educated, gentle and knowledgeable in this life. From then on, she only envied mandarin ducks but not immortals.

So as soon as the Zhenbei Hou family arrived in Chang'an, the Hou's wife began to arrange the marriage of Xu Qi Ge, handing the prayers from each family and his residence, and looking at the young lady from house to house.

It happened that autumn that year, Princess Jinrong held a poetry meeting, and Zhou Muyan happened to be the first in the poetry meeting, and everyone called her a "talented woman".

When Brother Xu Qi heard that the sixth girl of the Zhou family was a talented woman, he asked Mrs. Hou to go and see her--

"My brother is not necessarily her. He just wanted to give it a try and let my mother see each other. If it is successful, we are not successful. We are not a family that will stick to each other. But she is good. She joked with the noble girls behind her back, saying that my seventh brother is just a lump of wood, a toad who wants to eat swan meat. Can a rough martial artist from the north deserve her?"

Xu Wenchan said angrily, "The problem is that she has never seen my seventh brother at all! It's not that I boasted that although my seventh brother is not as elegant as His Royal Highness, he is also elegant and elegant! The people of Yunzhou City all praised my seventh brother as a jade-faced young man. I told me that Zhou Muyan is not worthy of my seventh brother... Alas, because of her broken mouth, my seventh brother's reputation has ruined!"

Tao Ti was stunned when she heard this, silent for a moment, and asked, "Since your seventh brother is not like that, let your mother take him to the banquet more often, will the rumors be broken?"

"I'm not very busy, my seventh brother is especially disgusting at those banquets. He used to be talking about a thousand miles of marriage, but later after Zhou Muyan's incident, he took the matter of marriage even more indifferent. Now he always talks about fate sometimes and never forcing it... Good guy, but I almost snatched over several times."

Xu Wenchan shrugged and spread his hands and said, "Now do you know why I hate Zhou Muyan so much?"

Tao Ti nodded. If someone dared to arrange her family behind her back, she would definitely be annoyed.

"So, you really vented a snoring for me this time! But... didn't you really hit Zhou Muyan?"

"I really didn't beat her, so I just used a catcher to her, and I definitely didn't touch her face." Tao Ti looked sincere, fearing that she would be hit.

"Hey, that's strange. She didn't even come to the flower viewing banquet at the Duke of Pingguo's mansion a few days ago. She is most passionate about this kind of occasion on weekdays." Xu Wenchan leaned her mouth and thought, "Did she really gets tinea pulp and didn't go out?"

"Spring ringworm?" Tao Ti was stunned.

"I don't know where the news came from. It said that the Zhou family hired an imperial doctor overnight. The maid also saw Zhou Muyan's face flushed and swollen. It was scary!" Xu Wenchan said, "The Zhou family said to the outside world that she had erythema, but the noble girls all felt that she was swollen by the two slaps, so she found such an excuse."

After hearing such a twists and turns, Tao Ti could only sigh that the three of them became tigers, and the ancient people's gossip enthusiasm should not be underestimated.

But why did Muyan suddenly get erythema this week? And it was the second day after they had a fight.

Is this a coincidence?

Tao Ti thought for a moment, then thought that it was spring now, and there were many people with pollen allergies.

It seems that Zhou Muyan is too unlucky! However, the person who valued her face suddenly ruined her face. She is afraid that she will jump wildly at this moment.

Xu Wenchan said happily, "Anyway, as long as she is unlucky, I will be happy."

"You are not afraid of letting others hear these words, saying you are cramped?" Tao Ti teased.

"It's not just a stern person, I'm afraid I'm going to say that I'm vicious, right? But that's what I think. I just hate her. Even if she's in front of me, I dare to say frankly that I hate her."

Speaking of this, Xu Wenchan paused and looked at Tao Ti, "Ati, do you... think I'm not good at this? If you think it's not good, I can change it!"

Tao Ti drank all the remaining Dongling Herbal Tea in the cup and said, "There is a good side of a human heart and a dark side. As long as you can control the dark side and do not harm others, there is nothing to criticize. Not everyone can become a glorious saint."

Xu Wenchan blinked his round almond eyes and touched his chin with his fingers, "Although I don't understand very well,... you speak so well!"

"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't understand." Tao Ti stood up slowly, patted her shoulder, and smiled slightly, "Let's go, go to the kitchen to make delicious food?"

As soon as he heard about the food, Xu Wenchan immediately became excited, "Okay, I'll help you!"

The Cold Food Festival is very close to the Qingming Festival, and later the two festivals gradually merged. In modern times, people celebrated the Qingming Festival more often, and few people celebrated the Cold Food Festival. However, in the Dayuan Dynasty, the weight of the Cold Food Festival far exceeds that of the Qingming Festival. On this day, people would go outings, visit graves, worship ancestors, drink Dongling herbs, and eat chicken and push buns.

From three days ago, the kitchen started to deliver children and steamed buns. This is a kind of pasta, which is made into various shapes with noodles, including swallows, insects, snakes, rabbits, and tigers. Then it is decorated with red beans, black beans, pepper seeds, red dates, and peanuts. It is served in a pot and steamed, and then it can be eaten.

Taoti tasted it on the first day of the kitchen, because it was just steamed out of the pot and it was quite soft and sweet. But when the steamed buns cooled down, the taste was not so good. But the steamed buns were made vividly, which was quite suitable for crafts.

"Ati, what are you doing?"

In the kitchen, Xu Wenchan looked at the various ingredients in front of her in surprise, brown-red bean paste, fried white sesame seeds, plump peanuts, red salted egg yolks, braised dried tofu, pickled pickles, fresh bamboo shoots, selected pork leg meat, rose sauce... a long table filled with a full set.

"Make green dumplings." Tao Ti took off the blanched mugwort from the stove and started making mugwort juice.

"Qingtuan? Isn't that for sacrifice..." Xu Wenchan muttered in a low voice, "That is sweet and greasy, not delicious at all."

"Don't worry, I'll make a few more flavors, there's always something you like." Tao Ti smiled and saw that she was bored standing aside, so she asked her to help her do something simple and relaxing.

Xu Wenchan was not at all embarrassed, rolled up her sleeves and started to work hard. After crushing a large plate of peanuts, a layer of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Taoti asked, "Do you want to take a break?"

"No, no, I'm fat, so I'm prone to sweating, and I'm not tired at all." Xu Wenchan's face was flushed, with two dimples deep, "And I find it seems interesting to make food!"

"Yes, it's a very happy thing to be relaxed and making delicious food. Of course, I'm happier when I eat it!"

"That's right!"

The two foodies looked at each other and smiled, and they had a tacit understanding.

In modern times, there are disputes over sweet and salty rice dumplings and sweet and salty tofu, and naturally there are disputes over salty and sweet green treasures. Taoti didn't know the taste of Pei Yan and others, so she thought about making some salty and sweet mouths.

She arranged four flavors, including pickled vegetables and tofu stuffing, fresh bamboo shoots and pork stuffing, rose bean paste stuffing, peanut and sesame stuffing, and salty and sweet stuffing, and you can choose from it.

The green mugwort juice, glutinous rice flour and lard are placed in a certain proportion in the basin, and the force is moderately mixed into a soft dough. After the dough is about the same hardness, divide it into equal-sized dough, wrap it with various fillings, and knead it into round, soft green and green balls.

"Ati, will this be a little too much?" Xu Wenchan stretched out his finger and calculated, it was more than a hundred.

"It's okay, this can be left for three days, and most of it will be given to people, not too many." Tao Ti said, asking the palace people to put the wrapped green rice dumplings on a plate and steam them.

She and Xu Wenchan returned to the hall to drink a pot of honey jasmine tea. Not long after, a palace servant came to report that the green dumpling had been steamed.

Tao Ti got up from the couch, and Xu Wenchan immediately jumped down and went to see it together.

When we arrived at the kitchen, several little palace maids were also huddled aside, curiously trying to see what the green ball would look like.

Under the gaze of everyone, the steamer lid was slowly lifted open.

I saw a white mist blowing into my face. When the mist dissipated, small green and green balls were neatly lying in the steamer. The unique fragrance of mugwort came to my nose, as if it steamed a pot of vitality, and the lingering spring scenery of willows is intoxicating.

"Wow, it looks so good, they all look like jasper."

"It's really beautiful, this color and taste, it looks delicious..."

Listening to the low-key discussions of the palace people, Tao Ti turned to Linglong and smiled, "Today's Cold Food Festival, everyone has worked hard. Later, you can count the number of green balls and give each palace servant in our palace half to try it out. Take one to eat it yourself."

Tao Ti did not hide her special treatment for Linglong, and the other palace ladies would not be dissatisfied with this special treatment. After all, Linglong is the personal palace maid around the Crown Princess, and her grade and qualifications are higher than theirs, so she is naturally qualified to eat one alone.

Linglong responded, and the palace maids all smiled excitedly and hurriedly thanked him.

Tao Ti picked up two portions of green rice dumplings with four flavors, one for her and one for Xu Wenchan, and the rest were ordered by the palace people to be charged with the plate.

Two foodies were holding a plate and sat in the courtyard full of peony flowers and ate. At that time, the spring was shining brightly and the fragrance of grass was light and long.

Just as the two were about to start eating, a noise suddenly came from the door.

Tao Ti was slightly stunned, Linglong quickly bent down and said, "Crown Princess wait a moment, I will go out and take a look."

"Yeah, go." Tao Ti said.

Xu Wenchan had already picked up a green ball and ate it. What happened outside had to do with her? The most important thing is to eat delicious food first!

When I opened my mouth and bite it, the first thing I touched was the soft and delicate skin of the green rice dumpling. When I ate the rose bean paste filling wrapped in it, the fragrance of roses mixed with the fragrance of mugwort, as if I were in the sea of ​​spring flowers. The bean paste was sweet but not greasy, and it was endless aftertaste!

Xu Wenchan narrowed his eyes happily and commented, "The skin outside is cold, the bean paste filling inside is warm, not greasy at all, and it has a rustling texture, which flows warmly into my mouth. This is really the best bean paste I have ever eaten!"

Taoti smiled and said, "Take something else."

Xu Wenchan immediately picked up another one. This time it was a green ball with fresh bamboo shoots and pork stuffing. After biting it, the tenderness of the spring bamboo shoots and the deliciousness of the meat stuffing suddenly turned into juice and stuffed her mouth. The green balls were fragrant and smooth and glutinous, and the spring bamboo shoots were crisp and chewy. There was no need to say more about the satisfaction of filling the mouth with the meat stuffing. These ingredients were combined together and were filled with spring atmosphere.

The two were just having a good time, Linglong had already turned back, and there were two... children behind her?

The little girl Tao Ti knew, the Sixth Princess Feifei.

As for the slightly older and pretty little boy beside Feifei, Tao Ti guessed that it must be the fifth prince of Concubine Xu’s family, right?

Sure enough, Linglong whispered, "The Crown Princess, the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Princess are at the door... I feel a little embarrassed to come in."

After Linglong said this, the Sixth Princess's little head drooped even lower, and she called out shyly, "Sister-in-law, I'm blessed."
To be continued...