Chapter 1,164, Pastries on a Plate

The tea house is not very far away. Zhang Qilan followed the maid and walked through a few corners to get there. Zhang Qilan also asked clearly along the way. This tea house manages a total of six tea and cakes. The way in is winding. , it’s not far or close to this tea house, the distance is not much different.

When we arrived at the waiter's office, there were quite a few people inside, including the ladies who were doing the cleaning, and the maids who were taking things in and out. They all looked busy, although they would exchange words from time to time and move quickly.

Zhang Qilan followed the maid to a place where pastries were placed.

There are many kinds of pastries here. They are put on plates one by one and have not been taken out yet. Many of them have just been steamed and are still steaming.

"Can I pick a few items to take with me?" Zhang Qilan looked at the busy people in the tea room and asked.

"Of course, Miss Zhang, you can bring whatever you like, and I'll just hold it for you!" the maid said with a smile.

Zhang Qilan looked at it and picked out a few pieces of warm, steaming snacks. You could tell at a glance that they were freshly baked, and they also had a sweet aroma that whetted your appetite: "Two pieces of each of these types, Please help me load two plates, one plate at a time."

"Yes!" the maid responded, loading two identical plates for her.

Zhang Qilan looked at the two sets of plates and frowned, "Are there any more beautiful plates?"

"This...servant, let's go look for it." The maid hesitated and replied.

"Then go find her quickly. Let's wait here!" Zhang Qilan's maid said.

The maid retreated in response. It was unclear whether there were any more outstanding dishes that went inside. There were quite a few dishes brought over from the waiter, and quite a few were sent to various resting pavilions. What was left behind, I really don't know.

After the maid left, Zhang Qilan gestured to her maid, who tremblingly took out a small packet of medicinal powder from her arms and sprinkled it on one of the plates of cakes. There was originally some fine powder, which was too hot to release. After steaming it for a while, it disappeared soon.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the powder of the medicine was almost invisible, Zhang Qilan moved a few pieces of cake to a plate, so that the cakes in a butterfly were either drugged or not. Be careful. I made a note of which pieces had not been drugged, and gently wiped my hands with a handkerchief.

Two plates are placed on the table. They seem to be exactly the same, but in fact they both contain several pieces of medicine and several pieces of myrrh. The required plate is placed in front and the other plate is placed in the back.

Zhang Qilan and the maid started to work together, and they moved very quickly. There happened to be several racks of steamed rice in front of the table, and the people coming and going were so busy that no one noticed the small movements between them.

After doing this, seeing that no one noticed them, Zhang Qilan and the maid walked out boredly, and waited outside the tea room.

Not long after, the maid from the Princess Mansion ran out sweating profusely with a few exquisite plates in her hand. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Zhang Qilan was still outside. She ran up and said, "Ms. Zhang , what do you think of these plates?"

She had already searched around inside, and when she saw that the pastries on the two plates were still there, but the person was not there, she thought Zhang Qilan was impatient with waiting, so she hurriedly chased him out.

"Just these two!" Zhang Qilan picked two identical plates with red flowers and blue backgrounds.

"Miss, I think the original one still looks good." The maid she brought said with a smile, "Look, the previous pattern was still red plum. Isn't it your favorite?"

Hearing what she said, Zhang Qilan hesitated, "Really, those two are good-looking?"

"I really think it looks good as before." The maid nodded and said with certainty.

"Then...just use the original one!" Zhang Qilan thought for a moment without any idea.

"Slave, go and get it now!" the maid said with a smile.

Zhang Qilan nodded.

Since she nodded, it meant that there was no need to change again. She didn't go in this time, so she asked her maid to go in with the maid from the princess mansion.

After a while, the two maids came out again. The maid she brought was holding a plate full of pastries. It was the plate they had chosen before. The plate had not been changed.

"Why is there only one plate?" Zhang Qilan looked at it and asked.

"Miss, I think it's better to put another plate here. When this plate is used up, I will ask someone to come and get it. I just asked them to put the plate aside. If you want to use it, miss, you can just bring it over. Going out this way will get cold quickly, so it’s not good to eat too much cold food!”

The maid advised.

This was reasonable, so Zhang Qilan didn't say anything else. After letting his maid give a purse to the maid in the princess's mansion, she asked for the direction of the pavilions in front of her, found a place to walk slowly, and passed there. It's much faster than going around in a twists and turns.

Shao Wanru went all the way, but still didn't see anyone else, and then sat down to rest in another place nearby. The scenery here was also good. There were several selected gorgeous flowers planted on the edge of a bamboo forest. The flowers were large and rich in color. Very attractive.

There is also a piece planted beside the pavilion, which is as bright as clouds.

Shao Wanru walked over, smelling the fragrance of flowers. He sat down and looked around. The bamboo forest seemed to be in front of him, and the sea of ​​flowers reflected in it was even more beautiful. This pavilion was close to a courtyard next to it.

It looked like this courtyard was an empty courtyard with the door open. There were only two princesses living in such a big place, and they were all staying temporarily. Many places were empty.

Yu Jie poured her a cup of tea, and Shao Wanru took it and took a sip. Looking at the beautiful scenery in front of her, her eyes became leisurely as she recalled what happened just now.

"Yujie, have you seen the cluster of flowers at the entrance of the pavilion just now?" Shao Wanru asked.

Tiny little flowers growing on the bushes. She had never known such flowers.

"I have never seen them before, and I think they look like wild flowers in the mountains. How can people like the two princesses like the wild flowers in the mountains? The flowers don't look as colorful as the one in front of me, and they don't grow as well as this one." Yujie shook her head. She just felt that these flowers did not look like they were carefully cultivated, but more like they grew wild.

How could noble princesses like Princess Yutao and Princess Yuyan grow such wild little flowers!

Yujie couldn't figure it out.

Shao Wanru was silent for a moment, and was even more sure that these flowers were unusual. They had only been in Beijing for a few days, and neither Princess Yutao nor Princess Yuyan had been out of Beijing. Where would they find such wild flowers? As for others, , it is even more impossible to send such wild shrub flowers to them.

If you want to give it as a gift, you should also give it to those precious flowers and plants.

No one would be so embarrassed to give away these things.

Excluding these two items, there is only one item brought from the country of Ao. A small and remote country has some methods that others cannot imagine, such as the evergreen grass at the beginning, and these flowers that I can't figure out now.

"Princess, isn't this Miss Zhang?" Yu

Jie suddenly saw Zhang Qilan walking slowly towards the intersection, and her eyes lit up.

Shao Wanru looked up and found that Zhang Qilan had also seen them, and walked over with a smile, looking at the maid behind her, holding a plate in her hand, with fresh pastries still steaming.

"I've met Princess Chen!" Zhang Qilan came over, tilted her body towards Shao Wanru with a smile, and said with a bit of mischief.

Shao Wanru stood up, "Why are we two so polite? Sit down. I heard you were in front before, but I didn't expect you to run behind me!"

"Originally I was in front of you, but then I wanted to get some fresh pastries, so I went to the tea room and asked the tea room to find some freshly baked pastries for me!"

Zhang Qilan smiled and asked the maid to put the pastry down and push it gently with her hand, "Let's try it together. This is freshly baked, so it's fresher than the ones left here."

There are also pastries on the stone table, but they are no longer steaming. The pastries in Zhang Qilan's hands are still steaming. You can tell at a glance that they have just been out of the pan. The sweet aroma of the pastries reaches your nose, which is very tempting.

After shopping for a while, I was hungry, but it was not time for dinner. Plus, the food was delicious, which really made me want to eat.

Zhang Qilan said that he took a piece first, and after tasting it for a while, his eyes lit up and he nodded: "Try it, it's really good!"

Then he pushed the pastry in front of Shao Wanru.

The two of them had been very casual when they were dating before. They had done this kind of thing like sharing cakes frequently. Zhang Qilan did it very naturally. She nodded while smiling and rolled her eyes. She looked very pleasant, as if she had no scheming at all. of.

Shao Wanru's eyes were filled with inexplicable sadness, and there was a hint of depth in his clear eyes. His eyes fell on Zhang Qilan's face, the corners of his lips curved, a polite smile, and then he slowly extended his hand.

When did it actually get to this point!

When his finger fell, it originally landed on a small round pastry. Zhang Qilan happened to push the pastry towards Shao Wanru again at this time. This time, it was a small square pastry.

I was picking up a piece at random, but my hand landed squarely on the square piece of pastry.

"It's really good, Princess Chen, give it a try!" Zhang Qilan was still giving in, with a bit of coquettishness in her smile. She looked cute in a way that made people feel cute. Her smile now is very flattering. like.

Shao Wanru picked up the pastry in his hand and took a closer look. There were tiny sesame seeds on it, but he didn't know what the filling was inside.

He took it and sniffed it gently between his nose.

"Isn't it very fragrant? It's very fragrant. I heard that some cakes are not from our Dongcang Kingdom. They should be the recipes brought by the two princesses. I smelled them just now, but I can't smell anything. It seems It’s a little weird, different from what we have here, but it tastes really delicious!”

Zhang Qilan said softly, took another bite, then took it between his nose and smelled it, and said enthusiastically, "I still can't taste what's in it, let alone smell it, you try it."

Her smile was very gentle, as usual, and there was a trace of pastry powder on the corner of her lips. Although it was inappropriate, but we were on such a good relationship, of course we wouldn't care.

Looking at the pastry in Zhang Qilan's hand, and then at the pastry in his own hand, Shao Wanru opened his mouth and slowly bit into it...

Finally we have reached this point...