Chapter 76 The Past
"Your Highness, I didn't go there." Xiao Ge laughed softly, his voice still clear.
"Well, that means there is a sad past." Zhu Huaizhen muttered to himself.
Therefore, Zhu Huaizhen no longer asked about it.
Since Xiao Ge wanted to spend the rest of his life in Zhu Huaizhen's Ronghua Princess Mansion, she would accompany him. Anyway, Xiao Ge was handsome and elegant, very pleasing to the eye.
So, Zhu Huaizhen lived in the princess's mansion for the first time.
She started a troupe of opera singers and took Xiao Ge to watch operas every day.
Today's performance is "Peach Blossom Fan", her favorite opera.
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.
Tomorrow is "Romance of the West Chamber", Taohua's favorite opera.
The warm, mellow jade wine, white and cool like water, is likely filled with tears of longing. I fear I won't even be able to eat the food before me, my stomach filled with resentment. "Empty fame in a snail's horn, tiny profit in a fly's head," the mandarin ducks are torn apart. One on this side, the other on that, each sighing deeply.
The day after tomorrow we will be performing "The Peony Pavilion", my eldest sister's favorite opera.
It turns out that all the vibrant flowers are now abandoned to the broken wells and dilapidated walls. What can be done about the beautiful scenery? Who can enjoy the joyful moments? Morning flies and evening rolls away, clouds and mists adorning the emerald pavilion; raindrops and wind, misty waves and painted boats - the people of the brocade screen look down upon this beautiful time.
Taohua came to find her and told her that a new teahouse had opened nearby, offering rose-marinated melon seed tea, salted bamboo shoots, sesame and osmanthus tea, melon seed, chestnut, salted bamboo shoots, sesame and rose tea, salted cherry tea, osmanthus and green bean tea, walnut and pine nut tea, candied golden orange tea, osmanthus, sesame and smoked bamboo shoots tea, coriander and sesame tea, etc., all of which were the flavors that Zhu Huaizhen was very curious about.
Zhu Huaizhen waved his hand and had no interest at all.
Haha, with beauty in front of you, why drink strong tea? You should keep your mind clear and desires few. Just drink Taoyao tea brewed by Xiao Ge.
Take the peach blossoms on the third day of March and the white dew on the third day of September, and set out a set of tea-making utensils including a copper wind stove, willow charcoal, wrought iron fire tongs, small green bamboo clips, locust wood water cubes, and Yuezhou jade bowls, and wait for the first boil to produce small bubbles, the second boil to produce gushing springs, and the third boil to produce surging waves.
Taohua was not discouraged and collected many desserts to seduce Zhu Huaizhen.
Tsk tsk, Taohua has spent a lot of money on things like honey-floating crispy pear blossoms, spring water, ice and snow cold yuanzi, Bijian bean cake, jade leaf cake, buttered abalone, big resistant dates, candied lychees from Jiandao, lotus crisps, and rice mooncakes.
Unfortunately, Zhu Huaizhen was unmoved.
It turned out that Xiao Ge stewed Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for Zhu Huaizhen.
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.
Taohua still did not give up, and went to find Princess Zhu Huaishu of Rongyang, and in the name of Zhu Huaizhen, asked for a bunch of small gadgets from all over the world, including rolling lanterns, kaleidoscopes, horseshoe locks, nine-linked rings, ceramic rattle balls, glass bubbles, Huarong Road, small spinning tops, etc.
"Your Highness, he doesn't even want to tell you about his past. How can he be sincere?" Taohua was furious.
After he finished speaking, Zhu Huaizhen's eyelashes trembled, and he was finally moved.
She really wanted to know Xiao Ge's past.
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