Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 535;
Chapter 530;

When Li Yu returned to Zhuangzi, he asked casually;
"Hey lady, how did we make the Xiongxiazi's bone soup last night?"

Lady Liu hurriedly stepped forward;
"Back to the Lord, I have explained everything when I came out. The concubine looks like she was cooked at that time, and I guess it is almost the same!"

"Oh, so, I am very happy today. The major farming activities have already started. My lady can arrange someone to invite the elders with the 21st surname to come and enjoy lunch with us today. Let's get together more. Let's talk about the two new surnames. , The Zou family and the public loser haven’t had a party with everyone yet, so let’s take advantage of Xiong Xiazi’s opportunity today and let’s get together, oh yes! Don’t forget to ask someone to invite the old lady to come and have a taste.”

"No, but let me tell you my lord, the house of my concubine is not that big, and there are many patriarchs here..."

Before Mrs. Liu could speak clearly, Yuqin, who was following up next to her, yanked her sleeve severely, and then suddenly came to her senses and quickly shut her mouth.

Yuqin has been on duty for the past three days and has been following around. Recently, she thought that her wife had awakened and learned skills, but she didn't expect to return to her original form in just a few days!

As if she was about to mess things up, Yuqinde told the old lady several times in private, and recently arranged ideal errands for Yueru and her two close sons. Of course, she must repay and take care of this little lady. I didn't dare to let this lady go on, so I ruthlessly tugged at my own lady, and hurriedly stopped her;
"My lady, although our house is not a big one, it is more than enough to entertain the elders. We can set up three or four tables in the main hall, and we can sit down easily, and we can't run out.
The gentleman said that he wanted to have a lively party, and the servants felt that they should follow the order of the gentleman. How about all the elders sitting together to eat and drink?
In the past, there was always a big scene in the mansion when the party was held, but the party was a party, but everyone had a case, and it was difficult to talk from a long distance. The elders were all old, how could they have the strength to shout and talk, Ma'am, don't you think so? "

"Eh yes! Yes yes yes, Yuqin, you are right, if you want to have a lot of fun, you can sit in the main hall to have fun, and you don't need to separate, let alone divide the tables, just use the Eight Immortals table made by your husband, come here! "

The servants who followed Mrs. Liu quickly agreed;

"The villain is here, please give orders."

"You guys first ran back to set up, added four tables in the main hall, and then went to the mansion to ask the chefs and second chefs on duty in the patriarch's small kitchen to serve. Since the party is going to be like a show, let's use the meat of the bear blind It’s up to them to decide, and they will just make arrangements for other dishes.”

"only!"

After the four servants agreed, they ran away from the team. Li Yu listened to the arrangement and nodded, walking unsteadily into the back of Zhuangzi;

"My lady made a good arrangement. Yuqin is right. Now that there are Eight Immortals table chairs, you don't have to kneel and eat as before. You can sit together and talk without raising your voice. What a wonderful thing." , I think future gatherings can go on like this.”

"It's the concubine who remembered."

As soon as the group of people entered from the so-called North Head of Lijiazhuang, the lively scenes on the streets on both sides began to make noise, selling everything, and they all greeted Li Yu enthusiastically when they saw Li Yu coming.

"The villain has met Lord Hou, and good luck to Lord Hou."

"Wanfu, my lord."

"Morning, Lord Hou."

"Can you speak? It's too early for Master Hou to have lunch?"

Li Yu happily mingled with the common people;

"No courtesy, you're welcome, you guys who should be doing business, hurry up and recruit people, don't run away from business, don't blame me!"

"Hahaha, Lord Hou, you are really good at talking, don't worry, the business is going well, it's all Master Hou TOEFL."

"Huh? Boss Zhang, your rattan chairs are pretty good this time. They look better than those last month. Come and ask Ben Hou to sit down and try them out. If they are comfortable, I will take care of your business, Lord Hou. It's no wonder that you have a paralyzed old mother to take care of you, and you have to travel dozens of miles to go to the market..."

"Hey, thank you, Lord Hou, for taking care of me. Lord Hou, please don't sit in a hurry. The villain will clean it up for you. Hurry up and wipe these two carefully."

The man who sold the wicker chairs took a cloth towel to wipe it while he was talking, and the country woman standing next to him also came up to help.

What kind of official is Hou Ye? How can these country people understand?I only heard that he is a third-rank official who is quite powerful, even the biggest official in Lantian behaves like a civet cat in front of Lord Hou!Ordinary people dare not neglect!otherwise?If you are charged with disrespect, you will not be beaten to death in the lobby of the county government office!

Li Yu stopped it nonchalantly;

"Okay, okay, I don't look dirty, alas, I walked for a while, I sat and rested."

Li Yu sat on a wicker chair while he was talking, leaning against the backrest with Erlang's legs crossed, shaking his legs and feet happily, a large group of maids and guards immediately surrounded the booth selling wicker chairs.

The boss and the husband and wife did not dare to lift their nervous heads. The woman had never seen such a scene. She lowered her head and secretly looked at a group of maids serving the Lord. They turned out to be all clothes made of high-quality fabrics. A group of strong men with big arms and round waists followed, and the woman was trembling with fright, and she couldn't help but moved a few steps behind her man.

Li Yu looked left and right at the wicker chair under his buttocks, muttering;

"Yes, it's true, it's true, but the backrest is a little low. If it is a foot higher, it will be able to support the spine."

Boss Zhang bent over with a smiling face;
"Why don't you give these two to Master Hou first, and the villain will make you two with higher backs when I go back tonight, and I can bring them tomorrow. Master Hou, you can rest assured that these two are too low to ask for money. It counts as being filial to you."

"Ok?"

Mrs. Liu immediately said;
"What nonsense are you talking about? Could it be that my Lord Hou is the kind of person who bullies and dominates the market, how can I be short of a few pennies from you?"

"Yes, yes, madam, please calm down, madam, the villain knows how to behave. This is all given by the villain on his own initiative, and it is not the business of Lord Hou."

It's not right to say a word to make Mrs. Liu messed up, and it's not right not to say it. Li Yu looked at Mrs. Liu's expression of not knowing how to get angry, puffed up her cheeks angrily, and said happily. With a typical aristocratic status, she didn't know how to negotiate with such poor people at all. Li Yu didn't say a word, just sat and admired Mrs. Liu's expression.

Seeing the frightened look of the couple selling rattan chairs, Mrs. Liu turned her head to look at the guard beside her as if she had realized something;

"You all get up, people think we are bullies when we are so close!"

"It's the big steward."

"It's a lady."

A group of guards got the order to leave quickly and scattered on the wide street. Lady Liu noticed that after the guards walked away, the couple visibly shivered a little, and put on a kind face;
"You know that it's not called rules. When you go to other places to do business, the filial piety you pay won't work here. Our Li family doesn't like this, and we won't bully anyone. As long as you don't take this If the streets are occupied too much, my Lord Marquis will give you money according to your price when he buys your things, and you can just say what you want."

Boss Zhang didn't dare to answer indiscriminately, the woman next to her was very scared but still lowered her head and replied;
"If you go back to my wife, it's 35 yuan a handful."

Li Yu turned his head and picked up a rattan chair in his hand, swaggered away and walked forward, Manager Liu casually gave orders to Yuqin;

"Since Mr. Lang said he wanted to take care of his business, he bought everything and arranged for someone to take him to the mansion to collect the money."

"It's a lady."

Yuqin casually arranged for Ling'er, the third-class maid, to stay and settle the bill, and then followed in the footsteps of her own wife.

Li Yu took a few steps into the alley of Mrs. Liu's house, and her nose twitched violently a few times, swallowing the meat pie in her mouth.

"The hu rou bing from Wang's family is getting more and more delicious. It seems to be similar to the pancakes in our kitchen."

Tanchun beside him smiled and followed;
"My lord, I heard that I learned the craft from a chef in our mansion, so the business of the meat pies in the Wang family has been getting better and better in the past two months."

"Oh, so it's like this? It's delicious, but it's insignificant compared to the taste of Xiong Xiazi's meat. Come here boldly. If you don't mind me eating a bite, I'll give you this. Lord Hou, go eat it." Xiong Xiazi, let's go."

"Thank you, Master."

The guard Liang boldly took over Li Yu's hu meat patty with only one bite, and he ate it up after only three or five bites. Well, he always told his brothers that he could eat [-] meatloaf sold by the Wang family, but none of his brothers came to bet on him, so he never had the chance to let go of his belly and eat his favorite meatloaf. meat pie.

Li Yu quickened his pace and walked into the yard, and came to the kitchen to check how the bone soup was doing.

"Hehe, this Xiong Xiazi's meat was cooked in a stewed pork pot, no wonder it smells gluttonous."

"Greetings to the Patriarch, first boiled it in the bone broth for a few hours, then threw it into the braised meat pot. By now, it has been cooked through for a long time, and the taste has gone into the meat. Patriarch, if you try it salty, it's not enough. Just add some salt, this is a new stewed broth made today, made from the bones of Xiong Xiazi, try it..."

The chef fished out a piece of lean meat for Li Yu and put it in a ceramic bowl. Li Yu picked up chopsticks and peeled off a large piece and put it in his mouth;

"Hmm... oh~ it's so hot,...not bad, it tastes good, this soup is powerful enough, much more flavorful than lamb bone soup, you should try it too, my lady."

Mrs. Liu also tasted a large piece of meat, and her complexion immediately became extremely exciting;

"The stewed meat soup made by Lang Jun's method is really delicious, and the taste is so delicious that the courtiers and concubines want to bite off their tongues."

"That's right, Marquis, my ability is not something that ordinary people can do. Since it's delicious, you should eat more. Otherwise, all the elders will come in a while, and it will be enough for you to work. Even if you find time to sit down and eat, it will take a while." It's after that."

"Yes, Xie Langjun is distressed."

Li Yu handed the ceramic bowl to Mrs. Liu who was standing at the door of the kitchen, and even pinched his ass before turning around with a smile;

"I said Chef Liu, have you learned how to make bear's paws from me?"

"Go home, Master, I've learned it. You can see that there are so many accountants in the kitchen today. I can't read, so I can only ask the accountant to read it for me, and then I made it according to what you wrote."

"Is the red grilled bear's paw ready?"

"I haven't returned home yet. According to the method you wrote down, I steamed it until it was half ripe, and it was just right. Take it out and let it cool. You can see it in these pots."

"Yes, the bones have already been picked out. After a while, the second time of steaming must be thoroughly steamed so that the shallots, ginger, bean paste, and chicken soup are tasty. You have to remember."

"Patriarch, don't worry, everything will be done according to what you wrote, and you will never make a mistake."

"That's good, and there are winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and ham slices added to the pot for the third time, but they are all very cooked, and it doesn't take less than a stick of incense to make it. Thicken it with cornstarch and oil and turn it over. I can eat it, but don’t feed it for too long, okay, I won’t talk anymore, I will go to the main hall and wait for the elders, it seems that there are a few coming from the outside, you go to work.”

"It's the head of the house, you go slowly."

Li Yu carefully explained what Xiongpao did, and then he exited the kitchen. In the yard, he saw the old lady Liu gossiping with several elders, and Li Yu walked into the main hall unhurriedly. "

"I have seen the patriarch."

"Meet the master."

"Meet the owner."

"No, no, no, how many times have I said it, you guys don't need to be too polite when you grow up, and no one cares about it for you, just sit down, Tie Dan, you are much more active today than before."

Manager Liu's son was almost the same as Li Yu, and responded with a playful smile;

"Last night, I heard that the patriarch got two blind bears. I guessed in my heart that you, the patriarch, are definitely going to invite the elders to come and have a taste, so I am not full for breakfast today, so I am waiting!"

Seeing how close the little girl's son was to the patriarch of this generation, Mrs. Liu laughed from ear to ear and cursed;
"Speak well, you little bastard can't be indiscriminate with the patriarch, how decent is it!"

Li Yu didn't care and came to the head and sat down;
"Old lady, sit down."

"Thank you Patriarch for your seat."

"Master Lin, Master Zou, Mr. Gongshu, please sit down."

"Xie Patriarch."

Several people sat down and greeted each other politely. Not long after, the other elders arrived one after another. They all saluted Li Yu before they started to meet each other. The main hall immediately became lively.

"Master Liu, I would like to congratulate your Liu family here. I heard that last night, the patriarch added three senior managers to your number one surname Liu. You will have to treat me another day."

Liu Cheng, the steward of chariots and horses, responded with a relaxed expression. He went back last night and directly asked his two sons to take the woman there. , Finally, there is no need to fight to the death.

"It's a good thing to borrow your blessing, Mr. Liang, please sit down."

"Okay, please, my in-laws too, please!"

Gongshuban sat next to Mrs. Liu and the two of them didn't know what they were talking about. It seemed that they were talking about the past, and they were both serious for a while and relaxed for a while.

Zou Shuyi's Aye, Mrs. Zou, was all smiles, chatting and laughing with many of the patriarchs. It seemed that she had integrated into the aristocratic circle of the Li family.

Li Yu and the head of the Lin family got together and didn't know what to say. The head of the Lin family kept nodding in agreement that they listened very seriously. In today's scene, my mother had a seat, and my son had a seat, but the Liu family The lady is not qualified to sit down. She was busy inside and outside the house, and finally sat down as arranged by the elders. Then she sat down on the wicker chair brought back by the owner in the yard, and sighed.

With today's excitement, even Yueru, who was not on duty, heard the news of the party here, and rushed back to serve his wife. The two personal maids were stunned when they saw her sigh, and Yueru spoke first;
"My lady, what are you sighing about?"

"It's nothing."

Yuqin smiled mysteriously;
"Madam, don't you see that the old lady is sitting on the table, and even our husband is sitting on the table inside, but you are not qualified to enter?"

Anyway, she is not an outsider, and there is no need for Mrs. Liu to talk nonsense and politely. She nodded and did not speak.

Yueru carefully persuaded;

"Miss Qi, don't blame the slaves for talking too much. We have regained power. This is already a very powerful thing. For us, there is nothing more affordable than this. Madam, we dare not think about it anymore. We should think about it." Serving the Patriarch well is serious."

"Well, Yueru, you are right. You can't be too greedy. Now that you have regained the power of the inner house, and you are loved by your husband, you don't dare to be greedy anymore. Just keep these achievements and don't make mistakes."

Yuqin next to her also softly comforted her;

"That's right, what the lady said is right, but it's not difficult to be eligible to enter in the future, don't you think the old lady is just a woman? Or she always sits at the top of every party..."

"How can I compare with A Niang? I dare not. A Niang is very strong. There are so many people in Niang's family, and the Liu family here is a strong backing. She is also the wet nurse recorded by the old patriarch in the genealogy. How can we do that?" To compare? There is no way to compare, alas..."

"Miss, I don't agree with your slaves. If the old lady is qualified to go in, you can too. It's just a matter of time, so why worry about it?"

"Huh? You mean...?"

(End of this chapter)