Shangshi female official

Chapter 14 Thousand Carved Chrysanthemum Tofu 2
Wang Yifu's legs were so weak that she almost knelt down. Yan's mother was originally from Taizhou, Jinling Prefecture. She was afraid of being cheated, so she just randomly chose a nearby place to say it. , could only reluctantly respond: "Efu didn't go out much when she was a child, so I don't know the names of places."

"I'm from Taizhou. I'm close to your mother's hometown, so I can barely be considered a fellow villager."

"Mommy loves her. My mother should be very happy to have a fellow like Nanny."

"Your mother is in Yunzhou now?"

"Not anymore, my mother passed away two years ago."

"Is there anyone else in the family?"

"My father is still there, and there is a younger brother at home."

Nanny Chen suddenly felt that she was asking a funny question. If she had come prepared, the answers to these questions would probably have been drawn up.

"Do you still want to study?"

Wang Yifu held her breath and concentrated on preparing to continue to accept Nanny Chen's investigation of her identity, but she didn't expect that Nanny Chen's conversation changed, which caught her by surprise, and asked stupidly, "Mom, are there any books here?"

Nanny Chen got up, went to the shelf in the east corner, took out two yellow paper books, and handed them to Wang Yifu, one titled "Book of Changes" on the cover, and the other titled "Zhou Yi Annotation".

"If you can read, you will save a lot of work. Start with these two books. Don't think that if you read the books, you can be lazy and not learn cooking. If you don't learn cooking well, you will still be kicked out by me."

"Eve understands, but why did Mammy let me read these two books?"

"When I was young, if I had read these two books earlier, I probably wouldn't have been demoted here."

Wang Yifu knew in her heart that Nanny Chen probably guessed that she didn't just come to learn cooking skills to serve the royal family, and maybe she would cause trouble for her. Nanny Chen kowtowed her head three times, and said, "Thank you, Madam, for your great kindness, Yifu, and I will definitely repay you in the future."

Mother Chen laughed twice, and said: "Great kindness and great virtue are not counted. If you study well, you will come to a critical moment in the future. Just don't let me down."

"Eve understands!"

"Okay, you go."

Aunt Zhou was holding tea and passed by Wang Yifu, who jumped out like a rabbit, walked up to Nanny Chen, and served the tea, "Don't you want to take another look? Have you decided to trust her?"

Nanny Chen collapsed on the armchair and said, "Ting Lan, I dreamed of Yan Shu last night."

"Yanshu? Is it Yan Sishan?"

"good."

"The old man's visit to the dream reminds you of old love."

"When I brought her up, she was still a little girl. I watched her grow up, cook well, taught her to read and write, and treated her like my own daughter. I know my daughter. It's hard to believe that she It's the kind of people who behave badly."

"So, you don't believe in Wang Yifu, but in Yan Sishan."

"You still know me. Yan Shu is my best apprentice and the person I trust the most. If Wang Yifu was sent by her, I think Yan Shu wanted to tell me the truth back then."

"I'm just afraid of the truth, it's not that simple."

"I'm getting old, and the only regret before I die is probably Yan Shu. If she was wronged, I can't bear to let her die in an unclear way."

"I understand you, but I'm afraid that you will get involved and be in danger again."

"Don't worry, I have my own concerns. You go to the Shang Palace Bureau tomorrow to pay your respects, and by the way, help me bring two boxes of Sanhezhai's glutinous rice balls to Yuqianzuo and hand them over to Wei Zhangzuo."

"Do you need to say anything to Mr. Zhang Zuo?"

"No, just send Guozi."

Wang Yifu was holding two books and happily going back to put them away. When she passed by the practice field, she saw Shen Ci's back, and thought that she might as well study with her, so as to have a companion. Then she secretly called Shen Ci at the door, Shen Ci turned her head and saw her, and hurried out to see what was going on.

Wang Yifu showed Shen Ci two books to read, and said quietly: "Mother Chen knows that I can read, so she borrowed two books from me to read, Shen Ci, why don't we read and learn together."

Shen Ci glanced at her, then turned her head slightly, holding the sundress cramped in her hands, unable to say a word for a long time.

"what happened?"

Shen Ci smiled awkwardly, and said after a long time: "I...I can't read."

Holding the book in her arms, Wang Yifu scolded herself for being reckless, then she took Shen Ci's hand and said, "I can teach you."

Shen Ci's embarrassment dissipated instantly, and she asked: "Are you willing to teach me?"

"You teach me how to cook, and I teach you how to read. It's better for the two of us to learn together than to do it alone."

Shen Ci's face cleared the clouds and mist to see the light, and said happily: "Okay, let's learn together. Then call the heart words, the three of us together."

In the later nights, even if there was a stormy day, there was always light in the corner of the west hall of the training ground. Wang Yifu taught Shen Ci and Xu Xinyan to read stroke by stroke, and Shen Ci taught Wang Yifu how to make various dishes.

Xu Xinyan was embroidering on the side, and the embroidered patterns were always three together. When the warm wind blows, it will be early summer.

On the day of the knife skills assessment, Wang Yifu was in high spirits. The content of the assessment announced by Madam Chen was what she had demonstrated.

A deboned chicken, a piece of coir raincoat, a piece of carved flowers, a piece of crushed cucumber, sliced, shredded, diced and seven tofu samples.

The girls practiced for a month. Although some of them failed to keep the complete appearance of a chicken, and Qiandiao chrysanthemum tofu was also limited, they still did the basic things. The same.

"You have studied well, but don't slack off. You have to practice every day, and some of your content will be assessed every month in the future. If you pass the test today, you may take the test next month. Don't relax your requirements on yourself."

"Yes, Mammy."

"In addition to knife skills, there is one more thing to test today."

The girls in the courtyard were all puzzled. In addition to learning the rules, they only taught knife skills and some ingredients in cooking in this month.

"Use the ingredients you cut to make a dish, and you can go to the West Hall to get the side dishes and seasonings you want.

Now just after Sishi, there is still plenty of time, and the end time is set at Weishi. Before Weishi, prepare the dishes and bring them to the pavilion in the north, where we a few nuns will try your handicrafts. "

The unexpected exam questions caught the girls off guard. Only Shen Ci and Qiu Nanxue could calmly deal with them. One was full of confidence and the other was calm.

Madam Xia suddenly had a whim, and suggested to Madam Chen: "My lord, since the test questions are suddenly added, how about adding a lottery?"

"Oh? Sounds very interesting, what do you want to add?"

(End of this chapter)