delicious little cook

Chapter 10

Everyone in the kitchen ate dinner one after another. The cooks and apprentices had food and vegetables, and the handymen ate the servant's meal delivered by the western kitchen, which was specially used to cook meals for the servants.

The cooks and cooks finished their meal, put down their bowls and chopsticks, wiped their mouths, and went back to rest. The apprentices cleaned up the two kitchens. The boys used up all the ingredients in the red kitchen, and the girls occupied the white kitchen. Not giving in, they had no choice but to give up their plan to practice pastry, and went to the yard to wash dishes with the handymen.

However, there were a dozen or so girls in a kitchen, and they were all making pastries, so there were still some conflicts. Bai Kou didn't want to hear the girls swearing at her voice, so she also went to the courtyard and took a big broom to start sweeping up the garbage all over the floor.

The girls use the ingredients with discretion, each person does not use much, and the amount made is enough for one or two people. If you share it with each other, there will be nothing left after a few bites. There is nothing to waste.

After Baian finished cleaning the kitchen and the yard was tidy again, it was almost time to prepare supper. After a short rest, Wen Gushan and the stewards came back to make supper for the masters.

Supper is simple, nothing more than some tonics, girls come to get them on time, it doesn't matter if the masters eat or not, but there must be something, even if it has been kept warm on the small stove in the tea room, in case the masters want to have a drink .

After completing this round of work, today's work is considered over. Everyone went back to their respective yards one after another to prepare for bed. Bai Kou stayed behind and cleaned up the kitchen. Then he took some flour and began to practice pastry skills.

"Bai Kou, you really want to practice secretly by yourself." Lu Doudou's voice suddenly came from the door, and her face appeared before Bai Kou's eyes.

"Boss Wen didn't say he couldn't stay alone." Bai Kou smiled lightly and continued kneading the dough with his hands.

"Aren't you sleepy?"

"Sleepy, but the night is long, no one is around, and I am the only one in the kitchen, why should I go to sleep?"

"Pfft! You can really say that!" Lu Doudou sneered at the dough, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm hungry, let's make some noodles."

Lu Doudou rubbed her stomach, "It seems to be a little hungry again."

Bai Kou looked down at the size of the dough in his hand, "Fortunately, I grabbed a few extra handfuls of dough."

"Can you have a third share?" Suddenly there was a young boy's voice in a changing voice outside the door, with a teasing tone, but Bai Kou and Lu Doudou almost jumped up in fright.

"Who!?" Bai Kou picked up the rolling pin in his hand and suddenly turned around and drank in a low voice.

Lu Doudou covered her mouth with her hands, leaned against the long table and shivered, and involuntarily recalled the terrible memory of almost falling into the well during the day.

A young man was leaning against the door frame, with his arms folded, his taut sleeves revealing his hidden muscle strength, his eyes were bright, and the light in his eyes could be seen even in the dim candlelight of the kitchen.

Seeing who was playing such a prank, Bai Kou put down the rolling pin and gasped for breath.

"Brother, at night, people will scare people to death."

"Well, sorry, I'm just hungry and came here to find something to eat."

"Don't you need to serve the elder?"

"At this time, the Eldest Master is served by the Eldest Mistress and girls."

The boy stepped into the kitchen while talking, stretched his head to look, and saw an unformed dough on the chopping board, curled his lips in disappointment.

"Go, go, don't stand at the door, stand at the other end of the long table, in case someone comes over and sees a strange man there, something will happen if nothing happens." Bai Kou waved her hands like a duck. With a rolling pin, push the opponent aside.

But when she turned around and wanted to put down the rolling pin, seeing Lu Doudou still in shock, she couldn't help but let out an "ahhh".

The young master also noticed that Lu Doudou seemed to be in trouble, so he raised his eyebrows.

"Is this apprentice a little less courageous?"

"My servant's hands are dirty, slap her twice for me to bring her back to life." Bai Kou finally remembered what she should call herself in front of this young man.

"Well, you're so easily startled, you have to consider whether to remove her." The boy walked over, rolled up his sleeves, and was about to make a move.

"Don't! This is because I was almost scared by someone deliberately crashing into the well during the day!"

"Huh? The conflict between your apprentices is already this deep?" The boy looked surprised.

Bai Kou looked out the door vigilantly.

"There was no one outside. When I came in, I turned around and went back to sleep."

"When I was talking to you this afternoon, someone heard a voice saying that we were talking to a man."

The boy rolled his eyes and smiled.

"Presumably I wasn't found?"

"As far as the front and rear feet are concerned, if you walk a step or two slower, you will be seen."

"And you seized on this point and firmly refused to admit that you had a private meeting with a man. You must have fought back. The other party was not reconciled, so you deliberately played tricks?"

"Yes."

"Tsk, there's so much excitement in the kitchen that I didn't notice."

"what!?"

The boy didn't say anything else, he pinched Lu Doudou's sleeve with his left hand and pulled off her hand, raised his right hand high, crackling, making four crisp mouths back and forth.

Bai Kou reconfirmed that this guy must be a martial artist, and he grasped his strength so well that Lu Doudou's face was only red but not swollen.

Lu Doudou was woken up by the four slaps, and she didn't know if she was in pain, so she shrunk her shoulders and began to cry.

"I have to cry outside and cry, it sounds annoying."

The boy was not as friendly to Lu Doudou as he was to Bai Kou, he frowned and scolded in a low voice.

Lu Doudou wiped away her tears, and really went outside the kitchen to cry.

Bai Kou silently scooped up a few more spoonfuls of flour and added it to the dough, added water and kneaded it into a big dough.

And the young man moved the candlestick on the long table, then walked to the top of the table, dragged out the high stool underneath and sat down, hiding himself in the shadow that the candle could not reach, but he could clearly see every detail of Bai Kou's body. action.

If someone stood outside the kitchen door, they would only see Lu Doudou crying and Bai Kou kneading dough, but not the boy.

Bai Kou kneaded the dough and put it aside for the time being. She went to the food shelf to see what side dishes were there. After searching for a long time, she only found a few wilted shallots.

"I'll go, it's really clean, there's no vegetables left."

Bai Kou muttered softly, and was about to go to the yard to wash the onions.

"Let me do it."

Lu Doudou wiped away her tears and walked in. Without saying a word, she took the onion from Bai Kou's hand and went to the well.

(End of this chapter)