While talking, a girl came in bringing snacks and breasts from outside. Then Jia Mu asked Jia Lian to eat snacks first to cushion her stomach.
Two little girls, each holding a black lacquer mother-of-pearl box in their hands. When they opened it, they found two snacks in each box.
There are two kinds of steamed food in one box, one is lotus root flour and lard sugar cake, the other is pine pulp goose oil roll.
The other box contained two kinds of fried snacks, one was exquisite fried dumplings, and the other was butter-fried cakes.
Someone over there brought hot tea and hot milk.
Jia Lian was indeed hungry, so he drank tea, picked up a small fried dumpling and ate it, then picked up a pine-leaf goose oil roll and ate it.
Jia Mu smiled at Yuanyang and said:
"You can see that he is really hungry. Look, how often have you seen him like to eat greasy things like this?"
While they were talking, someone brought in a kang table. Four women followed, all holding large lacquer boxes, and a table was set up in no time.
It turned out that in the kitchen, I heard that the old lady left Master Lian to eat alone, so naturally she didn't dare to neglect it, and the several cooks started working in a hurry.
Now I cooked the rice with the old lady's usual Oden rouge rice, and paired it with four side dishes. I also made chicken marrow bamboo shoots, tiger skin pigeon eggs, fried pheasant cubs, a bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, and a bowl of rice.
Bowl of shrimp ball and vegetable soup.
Yuanyang knew that Jia Mu and Jia Lian still had something to say, so she waved her hands to the girls serving the dishes, and the little girl quickly went down quietly.
Jia Mu said to the maids waiting in the other rooms:
"You all go out and let Lian Er eat freely."
The maids in the room also quickly retreated, and only Jia Mu, Jia Lian and Yuanyang were left in the room.
Just as Jia Lian was about to speak, Jia Mu smiled and said:
"Eat your fill first, and I'll wait until you're full to say anything else."
Jia Lian chuckled:
"Then my grandson will be embarrassed."
Jia Mu smiled even more:
"I'm afraid you'll feel embarrassed, so I sent everyone out. If you eat in front of me, what else can you say about 'showing your ugliness' or not 'showing your ugliness'?
Just eat it, I want to see how ugly you can be."
Jia Lian didn't want to be polite anymore. He first poured out half a bowl of rice, scooped out a few spoonfuls of soup and soaked it. He ate it in a few big mouthfuls. Suddenly he felt that his stomach was extremely hungry. So he poured out another half.
After a bowl of rice, I ate it in a hurry with the vegetables.
Elderly people love to watch their juniors eat, and Jia Mu is no exception.
Seeing Jia Lian eating deliciously, Jia Mu also found it interesting. She also whetted her appetite, so she asked Yuanyang to take the lotus root powder and cinnamon sugar cake. She also broke off half a piece to eat, and handed the remaining half to Yuanyang, smiling: "Look at the way he eats, it reminds me of the time when Mr. Guo was young, following him on horseback from school. He was hungry, but he ate without caring.
Nowadays, the children in our family are well-raised. Besides being sick and needing to avoid food, how can we be hungry?
When they were young, the wet nurses were afraid that the children would get sick if they kept eating too much. These little people would eat whenever they were hungry, but they had to eat in moderation. When they grew up, they just sat and studied, but they didn't
For example, when the Duke of Guo was young, he rode horses and led troops, so children like him didn't eat much."
At that moment, Jia Lian had almost finished eating, so he put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said with a smile:
"If my grandson gets sick because he ate too much today, then it will be all the fault of the old lady. Who told the old lady that the food here is so fragrant and delicious?"
Jia Mu laughed:
"Bah! You have such a big face!
Now that you are a father, why do you still think of yourself as a child with a nanny following you? How can you still be 'stoking food to support yourself and get sick'?"
Jia Lian also laughed, but changed the topic back:
"Now that the children and grandchildren are full, please tell the old lady what grudges Prince Zhongshun has against our Jia family?"
Jia Mu asked Yuanyang to pour tea for Jia Lian, then she sighed softly and said:
"Hey, the things in this are not on the table. It's really hard to talk about.
Our Jia family has a martial arts background. We all followed the founding grandfather to carve out the country with one sword and one sword. We can also be regarded as a group of heroes in the court.
He has also been on friendly terms with the Prince of Beijing, Xining, Dongping, and Nan'an for many years, and he has never had any sworn enemies in the court.
Although the Jia family has completely handed over military power since your grandfather's generation, there are still many connections among those who lead the army. With such a foundation, we don't need to provoke others.
, others don’t dare to provoke us easily.
Later, your grandfather said: 'You can't manage a country immediately if you want to be rich and prosperous for a long time. If you want to be rich and prosperous for a long time, your children and grandchildren must learn some skills to help the emperor govern the country.'
In order to give up martial arts and pursue literature, I chose a child from the Lin family in Gusu who loves to read for your aunt. As expected, Ruhai later won the title of Tanhualang.
It's a pity that God didn't fulfill people's wishes. Most of the children and grandchildren are unwilling to study hard. There is only one Pearl, so... well, let's not mention it."
The old man liked to talk about decades ago, so Jia Lian could only listen patiently.
Finally, Jia Mu said:
"Emperor Taizong treated our family very kindly. He gave us rewards every now and then, and we became closer to the royal family.
But during the ten or so years that the Supreme Emperor reigned, he became more and more estranged from us. But at that time, we were equally respectful to several princes and did not favor one over the other. So when the Supreme Emperor's prince passed away, many of us hugged the prince's lap.
People are trembling, but we are still safe.
The current emperor is the second prince of the Supreme Emperor, and Prince Zhongshun is the third prince. Their relationship has always been close, and we dare not offend him.
At that time, although the second prince already had four sons, the Supreme Emperor liked Shui Daochang, the only son of the third prince, the most. He even said personally that the child had the appearance of an emperor as he had eyes like a dragon and a phoenix, and Yu carried soup on his shoulders.
'Many people in the court followed the emperor's wishes and said, 'holy son and holy grandson', and saw that the third prince would ascend to the position of prince.
Our family did not participate in this bet, but who knows, if someone sits at home, disaster will come from the sky.
In the 14th year of Yuanhe, after the Qingming Festival, the dignitaries in the capital loved to go out for an outing, and the young people even loved to go horse racing and enjoy the flowers.
Shui Daochang, the only son of the third prince, returned from a horse race in Xishan and passed by a grass bridge when he suddenly fell off his horse and died.
This incident shocked the government and the public. The Supreme Emperor, who was Emperor Yuan He at the time, also ordered a thorough investigation. In the end, it could only be determined to be an accident. Emperor Yuan He was extremely sad."
"The only son of King Zhongshun died in his family. Could it be related to our family?" Jia Lian couldn't help but interjected.
Jia Mu sighed:
"Our family is the most unjust.
We were completely unaware of this incident at first. It took about a year for us to realize that King Zhongshun had begun to target our Jia family. We inquired in many ways, but we had no clue.
It took another three or four years before I got the news through twists and turns, saying that someone secretly said that it was your father who killed Prince Zhongshun."