delicious little cook

Chapter 27
Bai Kou turned around and opened the seasoning cabinet, took out dozens of bottles and jars inside and put them on the long table, opened the lids one by one to smell and taste.

After such careful selection and screening, she really picked out a third of the seasonings that she thought were not good, and rearranged the rest in the cabinet according to her classification habits.

"Return these to the warehouse and let them buy them again. Some of them are broken, and they dare to take them out and put them in the third young master's small kitchen."

"What!?" Not to mention the beauty, the maids and women standing outside the door were all shocked, and they all rushed into the kitchen and stretched their necks around the table to look.

"The ones I picked out have problems. The quality is not good, and the smell and taste are not pure enough." Bai Kou picked one out of a bunch of jars, and opened the lid for everyone to smell.

"This yellow fur ball is bad."

Bai Kou fanned the mouth of the jar with his hand to let the smell inside out faster.

Everyone sniffed hard and found that it was a very strong fragrance.

"This scent is very fragrant, what's wrong?"

"Yellow hair ball is a new spice that came from overseas in the past few years. At first, it was used by the crew to cook fish to remove fishy smell and increase the aroma. The processed yellow hair ball looks like ball tea, and the dried high-quality product only has a faint floral fragrance. Now Such a strong smell indicates that it has been severely damp, and if you smell it carefully, you can smell a musty smell."

The jar of yellow fur ball was passed around, and everyone smelled it carefully for a while. The musty smell hidden under the strong fragrance was not easy to distinguish. Fortunately, there are many people in the kitchen now, and a few people with a keen sense of smell could smell it out. Show disgusted expression.

Bai Kou picked up another jar and opened it, and poured some of the yellow and black powder on the lid.

"This one has a slight burnt smell. The masters didn't control the heat when frying. In order not to waste it, they ground it into powder, and mixed some first-class products in a certain proportion and sold it as second-class products. This is allowed. Yes, most of them are bought by ordinary people who are more sensitive to the price to eat at home, or bought back for the servants to cook like our government. But no matter what, this level of seasoning is not for the masters to use No one who purchases or manages the warehouse should make such a low-level mistake."

"The people who buy belong to the warehouse. They either buy second-class goods as high-quality ones, or the warehouse secretly trades second-class ones for first-class ones to fill their own pockets. In short, there is something wrong with the warehouse!" Meilun frowned, her face full of scowl.

"The sky is bright and the sun is shining, the storeroom is full of heart and blood, and you dare to tamper with the grandchildren's things!" Mei Huan was three years younger than her sister, unable to hold back, she couldn't help but patted the table and started cursing.

"I don't dare to make rash judgments. The two elder sisters turned around and reminded the young master. I believe that the eldest lady can make her own decision."

"Okay." Meilun nodded, and glanced at the girls and women beside her.

All the maids and mothers quickly waved their hands to silence and exited the kitchen.

"The people in Wenlingyuan don't gossip about outsiders. This matter will be handled by the eldest lady. You can just say what else you need in the kitchen." Meilun was more polite to Bai Kou, and was even a little happy that the young master chose her to come. Be a chef.

"Okay." Bai Kou covered all the opened jars, "Then I'll go back to the East Kitchen now and bring over the ingredients for dinner and supper."

"Wait a minute, I forgot to give you a waist card."

Meihuan immediately went to Meilun's bedroom and brought back a small belt with silk tassels without her sister's warning.

"This waist card can help you walk in the inner house, don't lose it."

Bai Kou took the waist card with both hands, it was small and exquisite like an ornament, only half the size of a palm, with two characters "First Class" engraved on one side and three characters "Wen Ling Yuan" engraved on the other side, and the handwriting looked like it was newly engraved.

The clothes she was wearing were not suitable for hanging a waist tag at all, so Bai Kou wrapped the silk tassels around her wrists a few times, and thanked the Meilunmeihuan sisters again before leaving.

Mei Lun watched her go, and ordered Mei Huan to bring two trays, put the seasoning jars on the table on the trays, and send them to the young master's main room, hoping to tell him after he woke up.

As soon as the things were put down, the two sisters heard the sound of the green gauze cabinet being opened, and turned their heads to see that the third young master came out in neat clothes.

"Master, you haven't slept?" Mei Lun Meihuan was a little surprised.

"I heard you yelling in the front yard, how can I sleep?"

"We are the ones arguing about the young master. But there is a reason."

"There's a chef here, and you're overjoyed at the thought that you'll be able to soak up some food?" Gu Yun said casually, as if joking.

The beautiful and beautiful sisters shook their heads with serious expressions.

Gu Yun immediately suppressed the smile on his face, "What's going on?"

Meilun pointed to the two trays on the table, "These are the seasonings picked out by Bai Kou just now, and they are all problematic, some of which are not of first-class quality, and some are severely damp and deteriorated."

Gu Yun's face turned dark.

"Is it the purchase that is used as a good one to reimburse the account, or is it the warehouse that is stolen and the storage is not good?"

Meihuan grabbed the jar of yellow fur balls and handed it to her sister, and Meilun opened the lid to show the young master.

"Bai Kou said that the dry yellow fur ball should only have a faint floral fragrance. Such a strong fragrance means that it has been damp, and there is a little musty smell underneath the fragrance. Several girls and women can smell it."

Gu Yun's jaw muscles visibly tensed and then relaxed, "Where are the other cans?"

"The only thing that has deteriorated due to moisture is the yellow fur ball, and the rest are shoddy." Meilun picked up the can of yellow and black powder seasoning that Bai Kou had shown earlier, "This one has a bit of a burnt smell, so it should be a second-class product, no It should be used by the masters, so I don’t know if there is a problem with the purchase or the storage.”

"Where are the Baikou people?"

"She went back to the East Kitchen to get the ingredients for the young master's dinner and supper, and will be back later."

"She slipped fast."

"If the young master has something to ask, it won't be too late when she comes back."

"Forget it, she found out the problem, and the rest has nothing to do with her. Go, ask Mama Pang to come over."

"Yes, sir."

Meihuan responded and left immediately.

In less than a stick of incense, Mama Pang came over with Meihuan. When she was at the Da Furen's side, Meihuan only said that the young master had something to ask, but now she entered the room and saw the seasoning jar, and Mama Pang knew what it was. Whatever happened, he was immediately full of anger.

"It's against them, you dare to fill your own pockets with inferior goods! If it weren't for the young master's new small kitchen, I wouldn't have discovered such a bad thing at all! It's actually the master's head!"

"Mother Pang, I will leave this matter to my mother. I don't care about the result. I just need to add new ones to my small kitchen in time."

"Young master, don't worry, those people in the storeroom just took this opportunity to clean up, so that they don't get confused by eating too much oil and water, and forget who is in charge of the house. I will report to my wife and ask the young master to borrow two maids. Give me a hand."

Mei Lun Mei Huan and the others took up the tray to send Mama Pang out, and when they reached the gate of the courtyard, they called two little maids, found two big handkerchiefs to cover the tray, and carried the tray to the eldest lady for Mama Pang.

Mama Pang hurriedly went back to see the eldest lady. At the East Kitchen, Bai Kou had already saluted Mr. Wen and the stewards, but right now everyone was busy making afternoon snacks for the masters, and no one came to watch Bai Kou .

Wen Gushan also didn't ask Bai Kou to wash her hands and go to work. Since the third young master was at home, the chef would naturally be by his side, so he let Bai Kou take care of herself and sent her back to the courtyard of the third-class chef to tidy up the housework. Let's get the young master's ingredients again.

Lu Doudou excitedly told Bai Kou where her new room was, and Bai Kou answered with a smile, and left through the corner door.

(End of this chapter)