delicious little cook

Chapter 149 The Night of Zhongmingyuan
Bai Kou got up the next day and was busy working in the new kitchen. The square yard, the oven, the charcoal room, the firewood room, the storage room, the utensil room were all available. People can also turn around, the ventilation is good and the light is bright.

Looking at the clean and tidy new kitchen, Bai Kou was in a good mood. She picked a duck from the ingredients sent from the warehouse and made a crispy duck that showed the skills of a chef. The girls and servants were attracted to watch, and when the duck was finally fished out of the oil pan, the smell made mouth water.

In the afternoon, the sixth young master came back from the ethnology school. After meeting his mother, he ran to the new kitchen. When he entered the courtyard, he could smell the aroma of freshly baked chicken cakes. The young master smiled happily.

The second young master and the third young master spent nine days in the tribute courtyard, and Bai Kou cooked all kinds of new dishes in the new kitchen for at least seven days. It was cold, and Jiang Xian was on the market, and the crab and shrimp were delicious.

Although the East Kitchen took the photo, Zeng Zhu no longer gave her any work. The task of the temporary assistant was over, but she was given the name of a supervisor, who was mainly responsible for making new menus and re-educating the detainees. return.

A third-class little cook came to guide the old cooks to restore their enthusiasm, and they had to obey even if they refused.

On August [-]th, the last day of Qiu Wei, every candidate was exhausted and haggard. Parking was still not allowed at the gate of the Gongyuan, but it was crowded with family members or servants of local candidates.

Naturally, the Duke's Mansion also sent people there, but Gu Yun and Gu Jing successfully met in the Gongyuan first, and as soon as they stepped out of the gate, they were seen by the sharp-eyed servants, who stepped forward to take the bags from the hands of the young masters, and surrounded them to the outside street Go, get in the car and go home.

The carriage entered Babu Lane directly from the side door, put down Gu Jing first, and then sent Gu Yun to the gate of Zhongmingyuan.

Mei Lun, Mei Huan, Xiao Qian, and Xiao Jing were waiting at the door. Seeing the carriage stopped, Mei Lun Mei Huan stepped forward to welcome the young master to get off the car and walked inside first. Xiao Qian and Xiao Jing followed behind with their bags. .

Gu Yun glanced at Aunt Su and the little girls who were waiting in the second entrance hall, and found that the number was wrong, and they had already entered his main courtyard.

"Why are you still an old man? Where's the newcomer?"

"Waiting for you to choose, young master, there are too many candidates." Meilun replied in a low voice.

"Let Bai Kou decide."

"She won't do it. She insists on waiting for you, young master, to choose what you like. They are serving you. It is only right that you are satisfied."

"Where is she? Why didn't she meet me in the courtyard?"

"She's preparing dinner in the kitchen next door. Tonight's festive feast will be held in Rong En Hall. There are many new seasonal dishes."

Seeing that there are new dishes tonight, Gu Yun doesn't care about Bai Kou's lazy behavior of not picking newcomers. After staying in the Gongyuan for nine days, he now misses the taste of porridge and side dishes very much.

The five masters and servants hurried up to the platform of the main room and turned to the bedroom. Xiaoqian and Xiaojing temporarily put their bags on the Luohan couch outside, then went out and walked around the corridor to the ear room at the east end, which was the bathroom. The hot and cold water that had been prepared earlier was mixed into suitable warm water in the bathtub.

There are four rooms in this section of the bedroom. It looks like two bright and two dark rooms on the outside, but they are connected inside. The ear room next to the bedroom was changed into a walk-in closet under Bai Kou's strong suggestion, and a custom-made clothes rail And hangers, all the clothes inside and outside the four seasons are classified into different categories, which can be hung or folded, and are distinguished according to the wearing occasion and color.

The quilt cabinets are all on the top of the head, the double-door wardrobe is no longer needed, and the drawers are completely changed. In the drawers, put hand-woven rattan baskets of appropriate size to store underwear, underwear, and odds and ends. The basket is also divided with bamboo slices. One basket can hold four pairs of socks or two pairs of calf-nosed jackets. The ones that are being worn are placed in the upper drawer, and the brand new lower drawers are neatly opened.

When the walk-in closet was completely organized, the old matriarch and the three wives were alarmed to visit together, and then the ladies and maids from the mansion also came to visit one after another. There is plenty of room for everyday clothing jewelry.

One end of the closet is connected to the bedroom, and the other end is connected to the bathroom. There is a curtain between the two doors. Once it is closed, the walk-in closet is completely covered, and it becomes a passageway in front of the window from the bedroom to the bathroom.

Gu Yun took off his coat under the beautiful waiter, and was just as dumbfounded when he walked into the ear room wearing only his middle coat, and he went to the bathroom after looking around for a while.

The bathroom has also been separated from wet and dry, with several screens blocking the left and right, separating different functional areas, and preventing peeking from the outside to preserve privacy. Several custom-made storage carts are placed. Dirty clothes basket, the narrower upper layer is for bath towels and bath products. When sitting in the bathtub, you can put the cart in a handy place. After bathing, you can calmly dry off the water and put on your clothes before going back to the bedroom.

Gu Yun finished freshening up in his brand new bathroom, and the maids helped him dry his hair into a bun, put on new clothes, and went to Jicheng hall to meet his parents through the kitchen.

Today was the holiday, and the officials in the Yizhi Division were finally allowed to go home for the holiday, but they could not come back after arriving at the government office early tomorrow morning. The ban was not officially lifted until the release of the list in early September.

I chatted with my parents about this year's exam questions and my own thinking about answering the questions, but the elder stroked his beard and refused to comment.

"Your elder brother won the juren examination and the honor of juren within a year, and was called a prodigy. If you and your second brother also won the juren, then there would be three young juren in our family. Outsiders would call us a family of three prodigy , I don’t think it’s such a lucky thing. Your second brother has studied two years longer than you, and he can still fight a little bit. Maybe he will win. Just treat it as an experience, relax and relax these few days, and then do it after the results are released. The next step is to see if I can go to a government school to study for a few years."

"Yes, Daddy."

"Okay, my son just came back, don't make him nervous again." The eldest lady interjected with a smile, "It's getting late, we should go to your grandmother's place."

The family of four immediately got up and went to Rong En Hall.

The masters, wives, young masters and ladies gathered together, and three tables were opened for the banquet. The tables of the ladies entertained themselves in the warm pavilion. The fresh shrimp and crabs of the season were the protagonists of the festival banquet. The masters and ladies have tasted them these days. The young masters and ladies thought it was very fresh and they ate it happily. The elder who had been locked up in the official office for half a month also liked it very much. Every dish was delicious.

Gu Jing and Gu Yun, who were also in urgent need of fresh food, were so absorbed in eating that they had no time to talk, and were frequently teased by their elders and brothers.

After the family banquet was over, everyone sat in the yard eating seasonal fresh fruits and gossiping about the family life, which made the old lady laugh constantly. In the end, she sent the two grandchildren back to the house to rest because they felt sorry for the hard exams of the two grandchildren.

After returning to Jicheng Hall, the family of four went to rest. Gu Yun went back to Zhongming Courtyard from the kitchen. He paid special attention to it. There were only maids and servants heating hot water in the kitchen, and Bai Kou was not there.

Going out of the kitchen and up the aisle, Gu Yun stretched his long legs and stepped up the steps of the corner door, and stood in the veranda of his main courtyard. Looking up again, Bai Kou was standing there on the porch outside the study, yawning boredly, under the moonlight. Her figure is slender and graceful, showing a girlish figure faintly.

Gu Yun approached quietly with a smirk on his face.

(End of this chapter)