delicious little cook

Chapter 146 Finding someone to be a shooter requires sincerity

Three or four days have passed since Miss San's birthday, except for Miss Tong San who wrote a letter of greeting to Da Furen and sent her some snacks. Everything in the Duke's mansion is peaceful, and the third old master's family has not sent anyone to ask. Whether Gu Hui is doing well or not, he didn't even come to a letter, as if he didn't care about throwing this granddaughter to the back of his mind.

In fact, the Eldest Master and the Eldest Madam have been concerned about this matter, and secretly made some inquiries and preparations.

The disappearance of the third elder Gu Xiaoshan’s parents and daughter-in-law Ou’s disappearance seems to have been concealed. The eldest master Gu Yun’an has not heard any gossip among his colleagues, and the political opponent who fought with his third uncle seems to have not gotten any information, otherwise such an important matter It's enough to read several books in a row.

Gu Yun'an had no intention of intervening in the past grievances of his concubine, he felt that both sides were on the table, and in such a situation of life and death, the saint on the throne ignored it.

Such an attitude of the sage already shows his attitude. I am afraid that Gu Xiaoshan's official career is really more than auspicious, and it is considered a good end for him to be a dignified official.

What's more, Gu Xiaoshan's reason for being caught is indeed the tail left by one of his parents when he was an official. It was originally just a historical conflict between a few local gentry clans, but he meddled in the middle, provoking conflicts among the clans. Then he benefited from it in the name of mediation, and made friends with local rich people to endorse his official career in a way that harmed the interests of others.

He did these things that hurt others and benefited himself, which naturally made people talk a lot. Then, for his own reputation, he wanted to gain both fame and fortune, and then put these messy things on the heads of his subordinates, sacrificing them as stepping stones to pave the way for himself. The official circle of contacts is intricate. After so many years, someone suddenly appeared to confront him in various ways.

In order not to compromise the future of his children and grandchildren, Gu Xiaoshan is going to do his best.

Although Gu Yun'an wouldn't throw stones at his third uncle, but in order to avoid being beaten up by others for his family's reputation, he also made two-handed preparations.

First, he sent guards outside to change into civilian clothes, and kept an eye on the movements of the dowry shops and properties of the Au family day and night. Gu Xiaoshan needed money to clear his joints, so he had to sell these properties, and he didn't have any certificates of house deeds and land deeds, so he must have thought It must be in Gu Hui's luggage, sooner or later he will find a reason to come to the door and ask to take Gu Hui home.

Therefore, for the safety of the Ou family's property, the Au family first asked the Ou family to write a document internally, entrusting all the items on her dowry list and the annual income of the land and paving to the government agent for the treatment of Gu Hui. , Pay for the living expenses in the Duke's mansion, and the dowry for the children when they get married in the future.

The dowry is the woman's private property. If the husband, children or relatives of the in-law's family want to receive it in full, they must either transfer the property while the person is alive, or the inheritance after the person's death. However, the Qu family swore to God that he did not write a transfer letter, so the Duke of the country will do it. This kind of preparation will make it very difficult for the Gu Xiaoshan family to find the Duke's mansion to get back their daughter-in-law's dowry property, because first of all they have to reasonably explain the whereabouts of the eldest daughter-in-law, the Qu family. There must be a report record.

Now we are waiting for Gu Xiaoshan to come to his door in such a hurry. Yushi and his political opponents are all lurking in the dark to catch him. And they can't last long if they want to hide the family situation. His eldest daughter-in-law has The circle of wives she is acquainted with, and the shopkeepers and accountants who run the business for her also contact her regularly every month.

Ou's abandonment of all actions to escape from the family desperately is tantamount to setting her husband's family on fire, and the flames will lick their bodies sooner or later.

The Elder Master and the Eldest Madam lamented that Ou, who had been submissive for so many years, privately ordered Mama Pang to take good care of the child for the sake of the child's courage.

During the days before the third young master Qiu Wei, Bai Kou was finally free. She had nothing else to do except hurry up and practice horseback riding. She didn't even need her to cook lunch in the East Kitchen, and Zeng Zhu only wanted her to sit by the side and write the menu. That's fine.

With nothing else to do, Bai Kou tossed new dishes in the small kitchen, and cooked a lot of devilish stuff that looked first-class but was actually dark.

Of course she did it on purpose, she wanted the girls to release news when chatting with others, don't think that making new dishes is easy, it will take countless experiments and failures.

After Tong Mingli wrote a letter and sent snacks to the eldest lady to thank her cook, the eldest lady didn't understand what she meant, and returned a horse of this winter's new material that hadn't been on the market yet as a gift.

Tong Mingli was a little disappointed that she didn't get the expected snacks in return, but she couldn't continue to attack the Duke's wife, so she turned to her cousin and gave her a box of freshly made autumn pancakes. Get ready for the holidays in August.

When Gu Wan got the box of autumn cakes, someone sent a piece to Bai Kou, but when it was delivered, there was only half of it left, and the other half was eaten by that person walking all the way. The puff pastry skin is gone, only the thin layer of bean paste is left.

In front of the other party, Bai Kou didn't say anything, but accepted it with a good temper, and threw it in the trash as soon as the person turned around and left.

"Why did the second lady come under her command? She asked us to do the same when she sent snacks, but she still ate half of it. Isn't that disgusting?" the girls muttered dissatisfiedly.

"Miss San's birthday is over, why does Miss Tong send snacks to the house?"

"You forgot that you gave it to our wife earlier, saying that it was to thank the cooks in the mansion for their good craftsmanship."

"It's a pity that the dessert is sweet. The young master rewarded us with one glance. It tastes really good."

"Bai Kou, Miss San seems to have made up her mind to ask you to be a shooter. Do you want to help her?"

"No. It's not rare to eat what's left in other people's mouths. Let's do it separately."

Bai Kou clapped his hands, started to roll up his sleeves, took a piece of oiled paper and rolled it into a paper tube, and found a copper bowl with a lid with a suitable capacity, "Go to the East Kitchen to get such a bag of soybean flour, and make a bowl of red bean paste."

Immediately, a girl took the things and carried a basket to the East Kitchen. First, she wrapped a bag of soybean powder, said hello to Zeng Zhu, and then went to the ice cellar to make a bowl of bean paste stuffing.

While waiting for the two ingredients, Bai Kou led the rest of the people to do other preparations, stirring glutinous rice paste and steaming it in the pot.

Donkey rolling is really simple and delicious.

According to the old custom, Rong En Tang and Ji Cheng Tang will each send a copy, and the eldest lady will ask Mama Pang to give some to Gu Hui, while the second wife and the young ladies will use a snack box covered with oil paper Come to pack it, so as not to send the tableware back and forth, if their servants are lazy and don't wash it and make themselves sick, and give two boxes at a time, if they are satisfied, the remaining one box will be sent to Tongfu as a gift in return.

It was Xiaoqian who went to deliver the snacks. She had a sharper mouth than Xiaojing. After delivering the snacks, the second lady asked about the autumn cakes earlier. Xiaoqian pretended to be stupid with an innocent face of panic.

"Second Madam, please forgive me. The maidservants didn't know that the autumn pancakes were samples for Bai Kou. They thought it was Erfang's servants who ate pancakes and went for a walk in our Wenling Courtyard. If we didn't take half of the pancakes away, we threw them away. gone."

The second madam suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, she responded casually and sent Xiaoqian back, and then dragged the servant who sent the letter down to beat the board.

"These servants are becoming more and more disrespectful. They acted recklessly just because they were old-fashioned and old-fashioned. Before they didn't wash the dishes, someone was fined. They didn't learn their lesson, and they dared to steal the pancakes they sent!" Mrs. Tong patted the table angrily.

"These old servants are respectable in the mansion because of their mother's dowry. Since they are old, let's find a chance to change them if they are useless." Third Miss Gu Wan said.

"That's right, mother, change it quickly. I heard that the date for the third brother to move the yard has been fixed. During the days of Qiuwei, he came back from the examination room and lived directly in the Zhongming Courtyard. It is connected to Jicheng Hall. If my aunt sees with her own eyes that our servants behave so badly..." Fifth Miss Gu Chan echoed her sister's suggestion with concern.

The second madam thumped in her heart, and once again ordered the old servant to be dismissed after beating the board, and drove home to eat herself.

(End of this chapter)