Chapter 228 Hairpin

"Princess Ronghua, I will consider your request carefully." The Eighth Wise King Zhao De clasped his hands together, said "Amitabha", and left without a trace of anger.

"Your Highness, it's a pity that he left now. He missed the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall." Tu Mi joked.

With Zhu Huaizhen's explanation, Tu Mi finally understood why Zhao De was hypocritical.

Tu Mi does not hate villains, but he hates hypocrites very much because he has no idea how to deal with them.

"Tu Mi, he won't eat Buddha Jumps Over the Wall." Zhu Huaizhen said sarcastically.

Then, Zhu Huaizhen finished a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.

Sugar-heart abalone, pineapple sea cucumber, white shark lips, young deer tendons, claw meat, golden shark fin, ivory clam meat, spider fish glue, quail eggs, ham, pork ribs, clean winter bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms, chrysanthemum mushrooms, wild pine mushrooms, morels, snow bamboo fungus, Shaoxing wine, eighteen ingredients, eighteen delicious flavors. The moment you lift the lotus leaf covering the jar, the rich meaty aroma is so fragrant that even a Buddha would jump over the wall.

"Your Highness, are you going out recently?" Tu Mi asked.

"It depends on my mood." Zhu Huaizhen smiled and his eyes moved.

However, Zhu Huaizhen's mood was the opposite of the weather.

The sky outside was clear and bright. Zhu Huaizhen was lying on a beauty couch surrounded by black lacquer and gold-painted scrolls of poetry and paintings, holding a round fan with a mahogany handle embroidered with pomegranates, cats and butterflies, and moving it up and down, his posture as lazy as a Persian cat.

Orioles chirp at dawn in the jade trees of Jinling, flowers bloom early in the Qinhuai waterside pavilions. Who knew the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build his red mansion, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his mansion collapse. Here, amidst the mossy, blue tiles, I once slept in a dreamlike state; I've witnessed fifty years of rise and fall. No one in Wuyi Lane is surnamed Wang, ghosts cry at Mochou Lake, and owls roost on Phoenix Terrace. Dreams of the ruined mountains are the most real, the old land hard to lose. I don't believe this map is changing manuscripts. I'll compose a lament for Jiangnan, and sing it until I grow old.

A mouthful of rich and colorful flavor, with sesame salt, bamboo shoots, chestnuts, loofah kernels, and walnut kernels, and spring immortal seagull tea with swan osmanthus, rose, and brine, and paired with "Peach Blossom Fan", life is complete.

Then, when he found it was raining, he was so happy that he asked Tu Mi to prepare the carriage.

On rainy days, not only umbrellas and hot tea can be distributed, but also Danai cakes can be sold.

To make this Danai cake, plums are picked, peeled, and pitted. They're then blanched briefly in water boiled with white plums and licorice to remove the sourness, then air-dried and left to cool thoroughly. Then, nuts are mixed in with crushed nuts—Zhu Huaizhen likes pine nuts, Tu Mi likes walnuts, and Lou Li likes cashews—and mixed with honey, then rolled into small balls. Finally, the nut and honey filling is stuffed into the plums, steamed until cooked through, and then cooled.

Tu Mi made a lot of Danai cakes, but since they were just sitting there anyway, she sold them all at a low price.

Therefore, Zhu Huaizhen became the fairy sister in the eyes of children, gradually overshadowing Zhao De.

About three days later, it was rainy again, and Zhu Huaizhen received a box of hairpins.

Items such as the silver-gilt bridge hairpin with floral pattern, the gold hairpin inlaid with gems and autumn mountain pattern, the gold hairpin with baby playing with lotus pattern, the hollow fan-shaped silver hairpin, the silver-gilt chrysanthemum pattern hairpin, the silver-footed gold phoenix hairpin, the gold hairpin with engraved floral pattern, the gilt hollow carved flower and bird pattern hairpin, the hollow silver flower hairpin with twined branches and three phoenixes and pomegranate pattern, and the silver-gilt bridge hairpin with floral pattern are relatively valuable.

"Your Highness, what you obviously want is the hairpin." Tu Mi couldn't help but frown.

This hairpin has one strand, while the hairpin has two strands. Zhao De comes with bad intentions.

However, Zhu Huaizhen picked up a hollow, twined three-phoenix pomegranate patterned silver hairpin and pinned it to her bun, smiling sweetly and charmingly: "Tu Mi, do I look good?"

Seeing that Zhu Huaizhen was still in the mood to joke, Tu Mi knew that he must have made up his mind, so she stopped worrying.