delicious little cook

Chapter 16 The little one is capable

In the whole yard, only the white kitchen where Bai Kou worked was lit, so Third Aunt Nie didn't notice that Bai Kou followed her out. She hurried out of the corner door, scolded the person hiding under the wall, and Threatening to file a complaint with the stewards and driving him back to sleep.

Through the half-covered door panel and the dim light of the lantern in the narrow passage, Bai Kou recognized who it was just by the figure without listening to the sound.

During the day, he suffered from dysmenorrhea to the point that he couldn't get out of bed, but at night he became active, and he knew how to kill people with a knife, so he asked the woman at the door to help him.

It's a pity that the guards who came tonight are in the same family as this aunt. Mengmei's wishful thinking was wrong after all.

In fact, Mengmei's countermeasure is very simple. Just like her, she sacrifices her sleep time, spends her time in the kitchen every day, uses her years of learning skills, and makes delicious food to flatter women. Good relationship, there will always be some convenience in the future.

However, many of the apprentices feel that the situation of the final assessment is still uncertain, and they are unwilling to start to engage in favors now, for fear of spending time and energy, and it will not be worthwhile for them to fail in the end, so many people are now wholeheartedly flattering Wen Gushan and the stewards, Want to know the latest news about the assessment.

After all, there is less than half a month left before the third assessment.

There are many princes and nobles with titles in the capital, and many descendants of the nobles have become playboys, or even prodigal sons. There are only a handful of nobles with a stable and respected position like Duke Xian.

Even the handyman in the kitchen sometimes chatted and said that after the expiration of the eldest son Ding You's term and the end of the ceremony, he might take a further official position and become a Beijing official.

If the speculation becomes a fact, then a few months later, two major events, two big banquets, and countless other small banquets will follow one after another.

So the kitchen is in urgent need of additional staff.

Hearing the footsteps of Aunt Nie and Mengmei leaving separately, Bai Kou stroked the new scar on the tiger's mouth on her left hand, and secretly swore that in order to become an official cook, she must pass the examination.

Waiting patiently until there was no more movement in the aisle, Bai Kou returned to the kitchen to clean up, and then started making noodle soup for four people.

The kitchen is an important part of the back house, and there are outsiders who come and go here at night, even if it is the guards in the mansion, once outsiders know about it, it will cause gossip and hurt people's reputation, so there are special women in charge of night patrols here , they themselves are usually wives and daughters of men's nursing homes, and they know some superficial boxing skills.

Mengmei wanted to tarnish her reputation. Who knew that Guard Nie and Third Aunt Nie were in the same family. This was a pleasant surprise. There was no disturbance at all, and the trouble tonight was solved.

It seems that he has to think about it carefully, how to repay Mengmei's "consideration" over and over again.

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When Third Aunt Nie came to the kitchen with the three night guards, Bai Kou had already prepared all the ingredients and was cooking the noodles when they arrived.

The four women are all about the same age, in their 40s. They are all little sisters who grew up together. The leader of the three nursing homes is the older sister of Aunt Nie, who is usually called Aunt Wu. The face is serious and full of aura.

Bai Kou politely greeted the four aunts first, asked each of them about their tastes and dietary restrictions, and then turned to cook the noodles.

These aunts are all born at home, and they know all kinds of rules in the house well since they were young. Seeing Bai Kou's etiquette in place, her appearance is kind and pleasing, her eyebrows are curved and her eyes are naturally smiling, they feel comfortable, so naturally they don't deliberately embarrass her , eat what you have, not picky.

In a short time, Bai Kou presented four bowls of noodle soup with rich ingredients, red sauce, green vegetables, yellow egg flowers, and white noodles. The four aunts showed joy, and couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks to pick up the noodles.

Seeing their happy expressions, Bai Kou felt relieved and didn't gossip with them. He packed up his tools and went to the well to clean them.

The women didn't talk much either, they just raised their heads to take a break every few bites, exchanged satisfied glances with each other, then lowered their heads and continued to eat.

When Bai Kou came back with the cleaned pot and chopping board, he saw that these aunts had already finished the big bowl full of noodles, and there was some noodle soup left at the bottom of the bowl. They ate at the same speed as big men, and they didn't think the noodle soup was hot. mouth.

"Aunts, are the noodles still delicious?" Bai Kou asked with a smile in a homely tone while returning the pot and chopping boards to everyone.

"It's not bad, but I have lived up to the skills I have learned." Aunt Wu wiped her mouth, like a food critic commenting casually.

Bai Kou saluted with a smile.

Aunt Wu glanced at Bai Kou, hooked her fingers, greeted her old sisters and left.

Bai Kou cleaned up the kitchen by herself and went back to sleep.

In the dark squatter, Bai Kou carefully walked past the bunk, but suddenly she was firmly grasped by someone's wrist. stared at her dead.

Bai Kou didn't want to fight with someone at night, so she quickly grabbed the other person's long hair and pulled hard, with the strength to drag him off the bunk, and finally the other party let go with a cry of pain.

The girls who slept in the same bunk were disturbed, some turned over, some babbled, Bai Kou quickly climbed into her bunk, undressed and lay down as if nothing had happened.

Early the next morning, both Bai Kou and Meng Mei behaved normally, treating each other as transparent people, which is easy to do.

But other girls are not so easy to let Mengmei go, she has not settled with her for dirtying everyone's clothes, the whole morning the girls always use words to run on Mengmei intentionally or unintentionally, which made her angry several times He wanted to throw away his things and give up, and occasionally when no one was paying attention, he would stare at Bai Kou with hatred, as if he wanted to gouge out her heart.

Under Bai Kou's orders, Lu Doudou quietly watched Mengmei's every move, seeing Mengmei's malicious eyes a few times, and her heart trembled with surprise.

During the lunch break, the girls squatted in the small courtyard to hurry up and wash their clothes, but Lu Doudou found that Mengmei thought that no one had seen her, and went to the direction where the male cooks lived. Curious, she followed her quietly, and was surprised to see Mengmei Walked into the small courtyard where Wen Gushan lived alone, and then clearly heard the sound of the door latch falling.

Lu Doudou stood in the shadow and counted quietly, but after counting more than 200, Mengmei did not come out. She didn't know what a kitchen apprentice had to talk to the kitchen manager alone, but she just felt that she couldn't stay any longer, and stood on tiptoe quietly. Quietly back to the sidewalk, pretending nothing happened, went back to the small courtyard to take a nap.

(End of this chapter)