time travel farm girl

The Lin family's kitchen is incomparable to Boss Chai's chaotic little back kitchen.

When the steward of the kitchen led a group of ladies and servants who were staring at Zisu in astonishment, Mrs. Lin, who was going to pick up Zisu, stepped on a steady pace, without a face, and walked in with a heavy presence.

"Mother Lin."

Including the steward, everyone bowed to Mrs. Lin obsequiously.

Zisu also followed to salute Mrs. Lin, but she understood something in her heart.Servants are also divided into direct lineage and cousin lineage, just like Mrs. Lin, but judging by her surname and everyone's attitude towards her, she must be Mrs. Lin's domestic servant, and she has some respect in the Lin family. Maybe she is taller than Mrs. Liu out a lot.

But Zisu guessed correctly, this Mrs. Lin was Mrs. Lin's nanny when she was young, and she has been in charge of Mr. Lin's courtyard since she got married and started a business.When Mrs. Lin was temporarily transferred to Furong Town, she also came to be the housekeeper of the inner house, and her man assumed the duty of stewardship of the outer courtyard. Dare to underestimate?

"The master has already sent a message. It's three o'clock for dinner, and there are still two hours left. You can start to prepare." After speaking, he looked at Zisu and said lightly: "What do you have?" You can tell me directly if you need to.”

Zisu raised her eyes to look at Granny Lin, saw the solemn face on Granny Lin's face, thought for a while, and said, "I need three people to stay and help me, and I don't need any other idlers."

"Just three?" Mrs. Lin looked at Zisu suspiciously.

Zisu nodded and said, "A cook, a fire girl, and a vegetable washer."

Mrs. Lin was still hesitating, but Zisu had already handed over the basket she had brought, "Mom, please check, I will start to do it after checking."

Mrs. Lin winked at the steward of the kitchen, and the steward stepped forward to take the basket in Zisu's hand. When he opened it and was about to check it, he was dumbfounded. The basket was full of small bags sewn with white cloth. Bag.

"This is..." He looked at Zisu hesitantly.

Zi Su smiled and said: "Our family's unique secret recipe, those dishes are made so delicious with these seasonings."

"What are they all?"

The steward frowned and went to untie the cloth bag.Zisu didn't stop him, and after he untied the cloth bags one by one, he saw that the cloth bags were full of dried fruits, black or big or small, with a faint medicinal smell odor.Dang even changed his face, and said to Zisu: "These things can't be put away, who knows what they are."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Zisu simply nodded, "Okay, you don't have to let go."

The steward of the stove heaved a sigh of relief, but Zisu took it and said, "The cooked food is not tasty, so you can't blame me!"

When she said this, not to mention the steward of the kitchen, even Mrs. Lin's face changed. The reason why she specially invited Zisu to cook at home today was to say that the adults were happy to have a concubine. It is Mr. Lin who has important guests to entertain.If the feast is not satisfactory... Mrs. Lin thought for a while, then winked at Mrs. Liu behind her.

Mrs. Liu turned back and walked out in a hurry. Not long after, she brought a silver needle and handed it to Mrs. Lin respectfully.

Mrs. Lin stepped forward, took the silver needles and tried them one by one, seeing that there was nothing wrong with the silver needles in her hand, she breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to the steward, "Okay, let's start, keep an eye on it. "

"Yes, Mom."

Mrs. Lin turned her head back and said to Zisu: "Show your true skills, my lord eats well, and you will be rewarded a lot."

"Yes, Mom." Zisu replied crisply.

This time, Zisu prepared eight meat dishes, four vegetables, and four cold dishes.A total of sixteen dishes!From the plate to the display, it took a lot of thought and research.And in order not to spoil the original taste of these dishes, she even marked the mysterious cloth bags in the basket respectively, and memorized which cloth bag goes with which dish!

A Kung Pao Ding was originally a very simple recipe, but after she put the white cloth bag in the chicken and seasonings to taste, it became not so simple!

The cook who stayed behind looked at the cloth bag in her basket from time to time. Seeing that she had to take out a cloth bag for every dish, she either mixed it with seasoning or put it in the pot when cooking. I stole one and went back to study it. There are eight cloth bags in the partial raw perilla basket, one more and one less, which is clear at a glance.I have no choice but to give up!

After a while, all the dishes were ready, and Zisu said to the girl who had been lighting the fire in front of the stove with lowered eyebrows and downcast eyes: "Okay, you can go and echo Mama Lin, and you can start serving the dishes."

The girl didn't say much, she nodded, stood up and walked out.

On the other side, Zisu had already taken a small plate, and said to the girl who stayed with the side dishes: "You help me, set aside a small plate for each dish."

The cook and the maid looked at her in surprise, and said, "Why?"

Zisu raised her delicate brows, and said righteously: "There is a lot of filth in the gate of the mansion. I know who is good and who is bad in your yard. If someone kills someone with a knife and tampers with the food I cook, I will jump." Even the Yellow River can't wash it away."

The cook and the servant girl were startled by what Zisu said, and the next moment, they didn't say anything else, and each took out sixteen small dishes, no matter whether it was meat or vegetable, cold or hot, they all set aside a few. dish.

Zisu looked at the two of them and said, "You two can keep an eye on these dishes. We are the only ones in the kitchen. If something happens, I won't shoulder it alone."

The cook's face turned pale from what Zisu said, and he took out a bunch of keys and handed them to the round-faced maid, "Chunxiang, put away all these dishes, don't let others see them."

Without further ado, Chunxiang took the key and went back to open a cabinet about a person's height on the west side of the kitchen, then put the small dishes on a red lacquered tray and locked it up.

Seeing how tense they are, Zisu's heart was relieved.

In the big mansion gates I saw in the previous life, such incidents of killing people with borrowed knives were not uncommon among aunts and wives.It's fine for them to fight back and forth, but they often involve irrelevant people like her, one carelessness can result in death, so she can't help being careless and cautious.Although there is only a freshly baked aunt in this yard, Mrs. Liu doesn't seem to be a kind person!

After a while, the servant girl who started the fire came back, followed by Mrs. Lin with a serious face.

When Mrs. Lin entered the kitchen, she first glanced at Zisu, and then at the cook. After the cook nodded, she turned around and went to the Eight Immortals table on the side where vegetables and food were placed.

Seeing this, he couldn't help letting go of his previous negligence and hesitation, and there was a faint smile between his brows.

On the long table, there are eight hot dishes, chicken nuggets with chopped pepper, fish with spicy perfume, white sliced ​​meat, duck with sweet-scented osmanthus, steamed egg custard, braised beef in soy sauce, fried squid in sauce, and pork liver soup with clams.The four vegetarian dishes are steamed bamboo shoots with powder, fried beans with pickled vegetables, three vegetarian dishes, and braised tofu.The four cold dishes are refreshing shredded radish, bracken mixed with mashed garlic, coir raincoat cucumber, and preserved egg with chopped pepper.

The sixteen dishes are eye-catching, whether they are meat or vegetable combinations or the arrangement of dishes.

Mrs. Lin walked up to the two dishes of fried squid in sauce and clam and pork liver soup, frowned for a long time, then turned her head and said to Zisu, "You also made these two dishes?"

Zisu nodded. Earlier, she was suffering from a lack of material and was suffering from either chicken or meat. She didn't want to find these two things in the corner of the kitchen. Seafood, this is not easy.Fortunately, those flower clams are not all smelly, otherwise it would be a pity!

"What's the matter?" She looked at Pozi Lin and asked hesitantly.

"It's nothing." Mrs. Lin waved her hand, looked at Zisu hesitantly, but finally couldn't hold back, and said softly, "How do you know how to cook these two dishes?"

"When I was young, my uncle and I went to many places and ate dishes from many places. I have eaten this before."

"Where did you eat?"

Zi Su said without thinking, "In a small town near the sea, I can't remember the name."

Granny Lin nodded, and then she turned her head and said to the four good-looking and tall maidservants behind her, "Serve the food, and place it according to the arrangement on the table as you remember."

"Yes, Mom."

The servant girls filed in and out, their graceful figures twisted into a unique scene.

Granny Lin rolled her eyes at Zisu, paused for a while, and said, "You wait here, don't wander around."

"Got it, Mom."

After Mrs. Lin left the kitchen, Zisu got up to find a bowl, looked up at the maid named Chunxiang, and said with a smile, "Sister Chunxiang, do you have tea?"

Chunxiang was guarding the cabinet with full vigilance. Hearing Zisu's words, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes. Do you want it?"

Zisu nodded.

Chunxiang glanced at the cook, and seeing that the cook had no objection, she turned around and grabbed some tea leaves from another white porcelain jar, found a tea cup with blue flowers on a white background, and brewed it for perilla. past.

"Thank you, sister Chunxiang." Zisu looked at Chunxiang with a smile, then glanced at the cook, and said softly, "If my lord is satisfied and there is a reward, I will not miss you two."

"Hey!" Chunxiang blushed, and said softly, "You deserve it, and I didn't do anything."

Zisu smiled, pointed to the chair beside her and said, "Sister Chunxiang, sit down, you've been busy for so long."

Chunxiang hesitated for a moment, but finally sat down.

Zisu took a sip of the tea cup and said with a satisfied face, "This tea is really fragrant."

Chunxiang smiled, "It's not a big deal, grandma has this year's new tea before the rain, and it smells really good after brewing!"

"Yuqian tea, it must be very fragrant." Zisu agreed, then paused and said, "Sister Chunxiang, I see that many of those clams are broken, why didn't you cook and eat them before?"

Chunxiang turned pale when she heard the words, and quickly glanced at the cook who was also holding a teacup and sitting by the door drinking tea, and said softly: "This thing is brought by the master's guest, we have never seen it before, how come know what to do."

The guests are brought!

Zisu recalled Mrs. Lin's expression, lowered her voice and said, "I don't think we have any of these things. Master's guests came from far away, right?"

Chunxiang shook her head, "I don't know."

The only thing Zisu can be sure of is that this guest must have come from the sea, after all, the squid and clams are all seafood.There must be a sea in the Great Xia Kingdom, but God knows where the sea is!But looking at the squid, it is still fresh, and it seems that it is not far from Furong Town!Where is it?

Zisu was still ignorant, when the sound of small steps could be heard in the ear, Chunxiang stood up quickly, and even the cook who was drinking tea at the door stood up quickly, craned her neck and looked out the door.

"Congratulations Miss Tao, our master is very happy to eat, let Miss Tao be rewarded."

Zisu pushed the teacup in her hand, and stood up immediately. She stood still, and Mrs. Lin was surrounded by stars, and she looked at Zisu with a smile.

"Master has something to say, five taels of silver!"

As soon as Mrs. Lin finished speaking, a young maidservant in Tsing Yi came out from behind her, with a gleaming five taels of official silver on a tray in her hand.

For a moment, everyone in the room looked at Zisu with envy and jealousy.

"Mom, can you exchange this silver tael for me with broken silver?" Zisu looked at Granny Lin timidly, and before she could open her mouth, she said loudly, "It's not because of me alone. Without their help, I would do it too." Not as good as this."

After saying that, she looked at Chunxiang, then at the cook, and finally at the burning girl.

Granny Lin followed Zisu's gaze for a while, and couldn't help but change her opinion of Zisu a little.Thinking about how many guests he would have to entertain in the future, he was afraid that Zisu would be a regular visitor in this mansion, so he wanted to sell her favors, and then turned around and told a woman behind him.

"You took this ingot of silver and went to the counting room, and exchanged it for broken silver."

The mother-in-law withdrew.

Zisu jumped in front of the maid, moved a chair and put it in front of Granny Lin, "Mom, sit down."

Mrs. Lin raised her eyebrows slightly, looked at Zisu with a half-smile, and said, "You are so clever and you can cook well, why don't you stay and work for our lord, how about it?"

Of course, Zisu didn't think what Mrs. Lin said was true, but she still showed full joy and embarrassment on her face.

"Mom, I'm clumsy. I can't do anything but cook."

"It's enough to know how to cook." Mrs. Lin looked at her jokingly and said, "In our house, there is no shortage of other people, but there is a shortage of good cooks."

Zisu was still waiting to talk, but the woman who had gone to change the broken silver came back at this moment, and presented the broken silver in the tray to Granny Lin for a look.Mrs. Lin rolled her eyes, nodded, and signaled her to send it to Zisu.

Seeing that the plate was full of pieces of broken silver, Zisu thought for a while, took three pieces of broken silver each, and handed them to the cook, Chunxiang, and the fire girl.He took another piece of broken silver, about one or two taels of silver, and brought it to Mrs. Lin.

"Mom, these are silver coins. I bought the mothers a drink."

Following Zisu's movement, everyone was silent for a while, and then there were quite a few whispers.

Mrs. Lin looked at Zisu with admiration. It is not easy to have such a delicate mind at such a young age!She smiled and signaled the woman next to her to accept it, and said, "What, do you want to stay?"

"Thank you, Mom, wait until I'm older." Zi Su replied neither humble nor deceitful.

Mrs. Lin smiled and nodded, "Well, let's wait until you are older."

On the other side, seeing what happened, Zisu bid farewell to Mrs. Lin, and Mrs. Lin signaled Chunxiang to take Zisu down.

Zisu followed Chunxiang around several small gates, walked back to the back alley of the Lin Mansion, got into the carriage, and was about to wave goodbye to Chunxiang, when a chaotic footstep suddenly sounded in her ears, she stopped and looked up. look.

Then she saw an unfamiliar maid chasing after her, and said loudly: "Chunxiang, quickly detain her, something has happened."