There is a lake in the Ye Mansion, and there is a Qingliang Pavilion beside the lake, which is specially used for cooling off in the summer. This banquet was held in the Qingliang Pavilion.
Guests arrived one after another and were led to the Qingliang Pavilion by maids. As soon as they stepped into the pavilion, they felt a cool breeze and felt so comfortable that all the pores on their bodies opened up.
Looking again, there was actually a huge iceberg inside the pavilion!
The iceberg is about ten feet high, and is carved with flowers, birds, figures, and auspicious beasts, all of which are lifelike. How much ice must be used to create such a large ice sculpture!
Around the pavilion, there were many ice basins and ice jars placed as if they were free of charge, constantly supplying cool air outwards.
Now is the season for ice, and ice tickets are hard to come by. Other families have to use ice sparingly when they get it, but the Ye family is so extravagant.
The wealth of the Ye family can be seen from here.
Everyone couldn't help but feel envious.
The pavilion is next to the water, and the lake is sparkling. Occasionally, a breeze blows, carrying the cool air in the pavilion and blowing across the body. It is so cool!
The cabinet is very spacious, with desks on both sides, on which are placed snack boxes and fruit plates.
A female member of the family secretly tasted the snacks in the box and immediately couldn't stop eating.
"Mom, this is delicious." The girl who tasted the spicy strips said to her mother.
The girl has a slightly plump figure and a chubby face, and her appearance does not quite conform to the current mainstream aesthetic of pursuing slenderness. However, she has fair skin and a pair of big, round eyes, which makes her look very pleasing.
Her name is Lin Yuzhu, which means like pearls and jade, which shows her parents' expectations for her. Unfortunately, Lin Yuzhu has been a foodie since she was a child. While other girls have already developed a sense of beauty and secretly learned how to apply rouge and draw eyebrows from adults, she only thinks about eating.
I have been a little fat boy since I was young.
Fortunately, as she grew older, her figure became slimmer and she did not become fat. She was just a little fuller than the average girl.
She herself is very open-minded and doesn't care even if people criticize her figure and appearance.
The family members were also helpless about this.
Her mother, Zhang, saw her immediately take a look at the food on the table and said to her, "You're a guest in someone else's house. You better take it easy. If you get a reputation as a glutton, I wonder how you'll ever get married."
Lin Yuzhu stuck out her tongue. "But Mom, it's really delicious. Besides, isn't the host's intention to serve it to guests? You should try it too. I'm not lying to you, seriously."
She picked up a piece of mung bean milk cake and brought it to her mother's mouth.
Zhang is no less greedy than Lin Yuzhu in giving birth to her daughter, a foodie. However, she has a physique that doesn't easily gain weight, so no matter how much she eats, she remains slim. After getting married, she learned to exercise restraint, so she hasn't gained any bad reputation because of it.
However, her daughter did not inherit her physique. She would gain weight if she ate too much. Fortunately, she had a small frame, so even though she looked chubby, she was not actually fat.
Seeing her daughter handing the food to her mouth, and the pastries looked good and had a sweet smell, Zhang had actually been tempted for a long time. She used her round fan to cover her eyes and put the pastries into her mouth.
The pastries are small and bite-sized.
Seeing Zhang's happy expression, Lin Yuzhu said, "How is it, mother? It's delicious, right?"
Zhang couldn't deny it in good conscience. "Even if it tastes good, don't eat too much. Be restrained."
A snack box has a total of nine small grids, a circular grid in the middle, and eight grids of the same size surrounding it in a circle. Each grid contains a snack.
But in fact, each grid is only the size of a woman's palm and can't hold much. For example, the mung bean milk cream cake is only half the size of a mahjong tile and only contains five pieces in total.
Small but good, this quantity was carefully calculated by Xue Huan, so that the guests can have a taste of the flavor but not eat enough.
In this way, customers who have been tempted by the snacks will come to the snack shop and contribute to sales, right?
After trying the mung bean milk cream cake, Lin Yuzhu couldn't help but look at the other dishes. Each one looked delicious.
Especially the red ones that make people drool when they smell them. She has never seen them before, but they look delicious.
She glanced around and saw that the ladies were either chatting or admiring the flowers together. No one was paying attention to her. She quickly picked up a spicy strip and put it into her mouth.
Mmm, so spicy! But also addictive!
There weren't many spicy strips in the box, just a few, so Lin Yuzhu finished them quickly.
She quickly wiped her mouth with a handkerchief to destroy the evidence.
Sitting behind the desk next to them were the Fang family’s mother and daughter, Li and Fang Wenwen.
Li was chatting with the guests at the table, while Fang Wenwen was leaning on the railing, admiring the scenery outside the window.
The lotus flowers on the lake are pink and delicate, the green lotus leaves are graceful and elegant, red and green alternating, and the breeze blows by, bringing a fresh lotus fragrance.
Fang Wenwen has a slender and graceful figure, with a jade bracelet with a very watery texture hanging on her thin and white wrist. Her profile as she enjoys the scenery is very calm and beautiful.
However, Lin Yuzhu knew that all this was an illusion.
There is probably no one in this world who is more vicious-tongued than Fang Wenwen.
Lin Yuzhu was often ridiculed by her.
Normally, she would never initiate a conversation with her, but at this moment, she glanced at the untouched spicy strips on the other person's table. She couldn't bear it any longer, so she swallowed her saliva and moved towards Fang Wenwen, "Fang Wenwen, I see that the food on your table is untouched."
Fang Wenwen glanced at her and said, "Do you think I'm like you? I'm just like a pig and I only know how to eat all day long."
Her tone was gentle and her expression was normal. Except for Lin Yuzhu who was standing relatively close to her, no one knew that a knife was spitting out of her mouth.
Lin Yuzhu puffed up her cheeks. She had heard such words so many times that she was immune to them.
For the sake of delicious food, she wouldn't bother with her.
"If you don't want to eat, how about I help you with it?"
"If you want to eat it, just say so. Why bother saying it's for my own good? Take it, and don't show me that piece of fat anymore."
Lin Yuzhu: “…”
Okay, I'll bear it!
Lin Yuzhu took all the spicy strips in the box, ate two of them in small bites, and breathed a sigh of satisfaction. There were still three left, so she wrapped them in a handkerchief and put them in her purse, deciding to take them back for her father and elder brother to try.
If she hasn't eaten it, then her father and elder brother definitely haven't eaten it either.
She is still very confident when it comes to eating.
Alas, I wonder when I can go to Yingxianlou to eat crayfish again?
The last time she went there, she spent all the money she had saved for her monthly allowance on a single meal. She felt so bad about it, but crayfish was really delicious!
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most delicious food in the world.
Speaking of which, this spicy long snack tastes a bit like crayfish.
She had never tasted this kind of spiciness anywhere else.
Could this be a new snack that the Ye family is preparing to launch?
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