The Red Mansions

Chapter 26

After listening to Mei Ren's self-report, Jia Yun secretly sighed that the world is really too small.

After thinking about it, Jia Yun asked, "Do you still want to seek death?"

There is a saying that it is difficult to persuade the damn ghost with good words, and mercy does not save oneself.

If Mei Ren still wants to ask for death, he won't care about it anymore. He can save Mei Ren once, but he can't save her twice or three times...

The charming person shook her head, and replied: "I don't want to die anymore, this servant just wants to live now, and I hope the young master will take this servant, this servant is really hardworking."

Jia Yun smiled and said, "You know, I'm actually from the Jia family, I'm the third brother of the Jia family, and I usually have a lot of contacts with Jia Baoyu and the others. Aren't you afraid of embarrassment when you see them again?"

The charming woman was startled, pondered for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "Your servant is just a weed on the side of the road. She can do nothing but be a servant girl. Now she is homeless. The fact that you can rescue this servant shows that you are kind and kind. Follow along." Young master, it's better than following other strangers!"

Jia Yun smiled and said: "Forget it, I'll take you in for now, let's make an agreement, if you are not used to staying in my house within half a year, I can let you go."

"My servant, thank you for taking me in. I will repay you in this lifetime. I will definitely not leave you. Even if you want to beat and scold me, I will not leave." Charming said gratefully.

Jia Yun chuckled, and said, "Don't call me son, you're not used to it, just call me Brother Yun!"

Charming exclaimed: "The young master is Brother Yun?"

"Oh? You know me? Oh, yes, that guy Jia Baoyu often comes to my house for dinner, and he should have talked about me after he got back." Jia Yun said with a smile.

Charming nodded and said: "Grand... Yun... Brother is right, Second Master Bao often talks about you these days, saying that the food you cook is very delicious, and there was a fuss in the house a few days ago because of this matter." Great storm!"

"Oh? What's going on?" Jia Yun asked curiously.

The charming man replied: "I heard that it was Er Bao Bao who couldn't finish eating, saying that the food cooked by the cook in the house has no soul, and later he argued with Miss Lin about it, which made Miss Lin cry a lot."

Jia Yun nodded, seeing that her clothes were all wet, she ordered: "We have plenty of time to talk about something, you go and change into clean clothes first, or you will be in trouble if you catch a cold."

Charming hummed, got up and bowed to Jia Yun, and went to the grass not far away with her bundle.

After a while, Mei Ren changed her clothes and came back, her appearance and temperament changed drastically, she looked radiant, and she looked like a different person from before.

Jia Yun got up, looked around her carefully, and said with a smile: "Your name is indeed correct, charming, haha..."

The charming little face blushed, she gritted her teeth and lowered her head, a little shy.

Suddenly, she thought of something, quickly took off the burden on her body, took out the body deed and a large bag of silver from it, handed it to Jia Yun and said, "Brother Yun, this is the slave's body deed and the savings you have saved over the years. Take it!"

Jia Yun took a look at her and took her body deed, but the money was confiscated.

In fact, with his status now, he is not qualified to use servants, at least he must have the status of a scholar.

So accepting the charming body at this moment is just to make her feel at ease.

The charming man stuffed the silver into Jia Yun's arms, with tears rolling down her eyes, she whispered, "Brother Yun, you can take it, otherwise I will panic, afraid that you will drive the servant away!"

After being kicked out by Jia's house once, Meiren was very scared. For her, Jia Yun's ability to take her in was tantamount to letting her live her life again.

Jia Yun weighed the silver and quickly opened it to see that there were more than thirty taels of silver and some jewelry inside. Not to mention the jewelry, the silver alone was 360 taels.

"Have you saved it for many years?" Jia Yun asked.

Mei Ren hummed, nodded and said, "I have been saving since I was seven or eight years old, and this servant is the same age as Brother Yun."

That is to say, the savings that had been saved for seven or eight years were passed on to Jia Yun.

Jia Yun sighed secretly, put away the silver, and said: "Forget it, I will keep these silver and jewelry for you, and you can just ask me for it when you want to use it."

Charming said oh, and didn't say anything more.

Today, it is impossible to practice, so Jia Yun took the charming man to lead the donkey, and they walked home together.

When she got home, Jia Yun saw Yuanyang chatting with Mrs. Bu in the kitchen, talking and laughing in a cheerful atmosphere.

Seeing Jia Yun coming back, Yuanyang bowed and suddenly found Meiren again, and couldn't help being surprised: "Sister Meiren, why are you here?"

Mei Ren's eyes were red, and she choked up with sobs, "I'm following Brother Yun now."

Yuanyang took a breath, nodded and sighed: "That's fine, I didn't know when you left in the morning, it made me worry for a while..."

Yuanyang, Meiren, Xiren, Qianxue, and Zijuan all entered Jia's mansion in the same batch, and they have a deep relationship. After hearing that Meiren left in the morning, she was still sad for a while.

While Yuanyang was talking to Meiren, Jia Yun came to Mrs. Bu and whispered to her about Meiren's life experience.

After hearing what happened to Mei Ren, Mrs. Bu sighed straight away: "She is also a poor child. Anyway, if you want to take her in, Mother has no objection, but Mother doesn't need anyone to take care of her. You should keep her alone!"

Jia Yun frowned and said, "Mother, if you have a charming person to accompany you, you won't be lonely if you usually talk, won't you? My son is so young now, he has hands and feet, so where does he need someone to serve him?"

Bu Shi is soft-hearted, Jia Yun changed her mind with a few words, and agreed to let the charming follow her.

So Jia Yun hit the iron while the iron was hot, called the charming woman, and told her to follow Bu Shi from now on.

Mei Ren quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Mrs. Bu a few times. It was only at this moment that her heart that was hanging on her body finally fell to the ground.

Yuanyang was happy that Meiren had found a good home. After a few words of congratulations, she made eye contact with Jia Yun and left first.

After Jia Yun said a few words to Mrs. Bu, she asked Meiren to take a bath in hot water so as not to get sick, and then turned around and went to the yard.

At the gate of the courtyard, Yuanyang waited for Jia Yun to come up and down, and asked, "Brother Yun, do you know how to cook court dishes?"

Jia Yun nodded and said, "I will do it."

Palace dishes are dishes exclusively for the royal family.

It is characterized by strict material selection, fine production, beautiful shape and color, and its taste is clear, fresh, crisp and tender.

The court cuisine is mainly represented by several ancient capitals, which can be divided into southern flavor and northern flavor.

Nanwei is represented by Jinling, Yidu, Linnan and Yingdu.

Northern flavors are represented by Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Yanjing, and Shenyang.

Its common feature is luxury and rarity, and the classic style of side dishes has certain specifications.

In terms of raw material selection, imperial cuisine has unique advantages that other flavor cuisines cannot compare with.

It can freely select top-grade folk cooking ingredients, famous and high-quality native products paid tribute from all over the world, and widely collect rare treasures from all things in the world.

However, there are strict requirements on the origin, texture, size, and location of these raw materials.

Sometimes in order to adjust the taste, some common raw materials in the market are also used, but the cooking is exquisite and the auxiliary materials are expensive, which cannot be compared with folk dishes.

The characteristics of palace cuisine can be summed up in the eight characters of "rare, rare, elegant, and weird". It is particularly exquisite in color, quality, taste, shape, and utensils. It has a royal and elegant temperament and is very artistic.

Yuanyang smiled and nodded and said: "That's good, about the height of the queen, Mr. Xi invited the theater troupe to the mansion, and will set up a few tables at that time, please brother Yun to help cook in the big kitchen of the mansion, just do ten. Let's have a court dish!"

Jia Yun pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make a menu right now, some ingredients need to be prepared in advance..."

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Rongguo Mansion, behind the rockery.

Xiren looked at Yuanyang in surprise, then said in fear: "Are you saying that Meiren almost committed suicide by jumping into the river? Or did Brother Yun save her?"

"Yes, Meiren told me this personally." Yuanyang nodded.

Xiren heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, otherwise we would have lost another sister. As the saying goes, if you survive a catastrophe, you will have future blessings. Maybe life will be easier in the future after Meiren followed Brother Yun."

Yuanyang nodded and said: "I see that Brother Yun is a good-looking man with a very righteous mind. Even if he fails the imperial examination, with his ability, he will be able to live comfortably from now on. Meiren should have an easy life in the future."

After pondering for a while, Xiren said: "I will take time out of the mansion later to meet the charming woman and enlighten her. To be honest, I am still afraid for a while after hearing you say that she threw herself into the river. Fate!"

"Hey, our maids don't know how to do anything other than serve people." Yuanyang sighed, "It's lucky for Meiren to be saved by Brother Yun. If she encounters a kidnapper or something, she is so beautiful. How much do you think you should suffer?"

Xiren shook his head and said: "She is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. Even if she encounters a kidnapper, she will probably kill herself. Hey, by the way, does the old lady know about this?"

Yuanyang nodded and said, "Such a big matter, do I dare not report it to her?"

Attacker said: "What did the old lady say?"

"I didn't say anything, I just let out a long sigh." Yuanyang replied.

(End of this chapter)