Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 313
In Suiyuan, after eating Wen Shusheng's chicken soup, brother and sister Lu Xingwan's eyes lit up.Especially Lu Xingwan, who is usually weak and has a poor appetite, has always eaten less, but today he ate bowl after bowl of this chicken soup.

One must know that before eating the chicken soup, she also ate the three pockets that Wen Shu had clipped. For this reason, Lu Yuancheng was worried that she would cause problems if she ate like this.

Therefore, while preventing Lu Xingwan from continuing to eat, he asked Wen Shu which cook made the chicken soup, and if he could invite her to speak.

In fact, what he thought in his heart was that it would be great if he could hire her into the Hou's mansion to be Wan'er's cook, so that Wan'er could maintain such a good appetite all the time.Wen Shu was startled after hearing this, and then slowly pointed to himself.

"You did it!" Lu Xingwan's eyes widened, "This table is full of dishes."

"Yeah." Wen Shu nodded embarrassedly, and said impressively, "It's very expensive to hire a cook."

This time, Lu Xingwan's eyes widened even wider.

Lu Yuancheng was both surprised and not surprised by this result, what was surprising was that she had such good cooking skills.Not surprisingly, given her picky nature, it was reasonable to be reluctant to invite a cook.

Therefore, there is no doubt about her words.

"However, the taste is not bad." Wen Shu said modestly.

"Very good, so Miss Wen would like to go to the Hou's Mansion to be a cook?" Lu Yuancheng said.

"Cook?" Wen Shu blinked.

"Well, just do it for my sister-in-law, and don't worry about the rest. The monthly salary is thirty guan." Lu Yuancheng asked himself that this condition is good, and she should agree.

Lu Xingwan also looked over expectantly.

However, if such a good condition was placed in the past, Wen Shu would definitely agree without saying a word.But now that she has opened a tea shop by herself, and there is a world of mountains and seas waiting for her to explore, it is not a good choice to work in the Hou's Mansion.

Therefore, she shook her head decisively.

"Why?" Lu Xingwan was a little disappointed.

Wen Shu thought for a while and said with an excuse: "My father is old and needs to be taken care of. Besides, the Hou family has a lot of business and rules, so I am lazy by nature."

Wen Shu's biggest taboo point is that the big Hou family has no freedom, and she is really lazy.Every time she enters the mansion, no matter where she goes or what she does, the feeling that someone is watching her really makes her feel very uncomfortable.

But the brothers and sisters of the Lu family are kind to her, and Miss Lu is delicate and frail, so logically speaking, she should help her in this way.

The difficulty is that the secret to the deliciousness of this chicken does not lie in the secret recipe, but in the "chicken" itself, otherwise she would just give her the secret recipe.Keji. It's not that Wen Shu is uncomfortable, but there are actually two reasons why it's not easy to take it out.

For one thing, the number of chickens is not large and cannot be supplied for a long time.Secondly, this chicken is too unique, and she is just an ordinary commoner with no name and surname.

If you always give some special things, it will inevitably arouse suspicion.

What other people gave, bought outside, these excuses can only be used once or twice, and it will not work if you use too much.So she can only "shamelessly" attribute the secret of delicious chicken soup to her craftsmanship.

Only in this way can some doubts be relieved.

In order to avoid Mr. Lu asking about the secret recipe later, Wen Shu preemptively said: "However, it's okay to go to the mansion to make a meal or two for the eldest girl once in a while."

"This is a way. If it really doesn't work, you can go out of the house to eat at Mrs. Wen's house in the evening, and I will pay for the food." Lu Yuancheng said.

Wen Shu: "."

This is a matter of food money.

Forget it, let's take one step at a time. With Miss Lu's temperament and body, she probably doesn't like to go out too much.

They are accompanied by delicious food, and they are happy and harmonious, but they don't know that the aroma of the chicken soup has attracted the attention of other guests in the garden, and it has also caused complaints from the chefs in the courtyards.

In the Furong Courtyard, a beautiful but extremely thin woman was asking the chef, "Where does this fragrance come from, don't you really know?"

The lady in charge of the kitchen is so miserable.

She is the top cook in Suiyuan. Although the food she cooks is not so delicious that people will lick the plate clean, it is always okay to eat half of it.But today the table was full of dishes, except for the outermost cold dish, which seemed to have been touched by someone, everything else was left intact.

This is slapping her in the face!
The lady in charge of the cook was a bit dazed in embarrassment, and said awkwardly: "I really don't know, and I haven't smelled this fragrance on weekdays. I think it is a cook brought by the guests of some courtyard."

Hearing this, the beautiful woman frowned even deeper.

Seeing this, the man at the side said, "I'll go out and look for it, at worst I'll look for it one by one."

"Wait, I'll go with you." The woman got up and said.

"Are you okay?" The man showed worry on his face, "I'd better wait here in Ansheng, I'll come as soon as I go."

"It's okay, even the smell is good." The woman shook her head and insisted on going out with the man.

The man couldn't resist her, so he could only say: "Okay, then I will support you, please slow down."

The two of them went out together, the woman caressed her stomach which was not yet swollen and sighed, "This child has not been born yet, if he tortures people like this, what will happen in the future?"

"I heard that embarrassment is only the first few months, and it will be fine later." The man comforted.

"hope so."

While the man was helping the woman to go outside, Qin Jingyang in the courtyard next to him also put down his chopsticks.There were many dishes on the table in front of him, including delicacies from mountains and seas, and he ate a lot, but he always felt that something was missing.

Smelling the scent wafting from the air, he said to the man next to him, "It turns out that the scent wasn't made by our cook."

The man said with a look of embarrassment: "I thought it was, but I didn't expect it to be so. Ya Nei is interested in this fragrance?"

"Aren't you interested?" Qin Jingyang asked back.

How fragrant!He sniffled, showing a drunken look.

Seeing this, the man said: "Then I'll go out and help the yamen find it. If it's the cook in the garden, I'll call her to cook a dish for the yamen on the spot. If it's the cook of another family."

"How?" Qin Jingyang looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"Then we have to find a way to let her do one for the yamen, even if it costs a lot of money."

"Okay, it's not that serious. I'm just curious. It's the best if you can eat it. If you can't eat it, don't force it too much. Let's go and have a look."

"Hey, okay, okay."

There are five courtyards in Suiyuan. At this time, except for Wenshu and the Songbaiyuan where the others are located, people in other courtyards are all moved by the news. Those who have not eaten are happy to see Lie, and those who have eaten are entitled to take a walk. In short, they are all very curious about the source of this fragrance. .

Just as other guests were rushing in, Wen Shu was enthusiastically inviting the brothers and sisters of the Lu family to taste fresh fruits.It's strange that Lu Yuancheng thinks she's picky, the sixteen dishes on the table also include two kinds of salty and sour and two kinds of fresh fruits.

Although the peaches grown in Jingshan were big, sweet, juicy and delicious, Wen Shu didn't dare to take them out easily, at least not on this occasion.After all, there is already a chicken soup with a more peculiar taste, so the peaches on the table at this time are ordinary peaches on the market.

Of course, it's a treat anyway, so Wen Shu has to choose carefully, at least to look good.Therefore, although the peaches on the table taste much worse than the fresh peaches from Jingshan, they still look quite pleasing in appearance.

"This is the last garden, it should be here." A voice came from outside the courtyard.

The waitress at the door said responsibly: "The guests inside are still eating, so don't disturb them. If you have nothing to do, please leave."

"I have something to do, I have something to do, please send a message to the young lady, just say outside the right door, Qingtang Lane, Guo Jia Dalang, please see me." The man who supported the woman said.

Outside the right door, Guo's house in Qingtang Lane, that's not the third envoy, Guo Xianggong's house.Qin Jingyang stroked his chin and didn't hum. He was happy and relaxed when someone took the lead.

The three envoys are in charge of the country's finances, and they are known as "planners". Their status is only a little bit worse than that of Shen Zhizheng.At this time, Guo Dalang has already registered his name, if the people inside come out immediately, he will save trouble.

If the insider refuses to come out, it won't be too late for him to try again.

(End of this chapter)