delicious little cook

Chapter 289 The Whispers in the Tent
Empress Ye lived in the palace for a long time, and it was rare to hear some interesting things in the market place. It was indeed a small talk when she called Mrs. Gu, and the chat became more and more intense. People passing by outside the tent could hear the laughter coming from inside.

When the maid was about to replace with new tea again, she was stopped by Queen Ye.

"I heard that Bai Kou makes good milk tea, and it's getting late now, why don't you make us a pot to finish?"

"Your Majesty ordered, it is the maid's honor, but I have a request, please allow the maid to check the tea making utensils and tea leaves used by the Empress first, there is a secret to delicious milk tea, that is to mix various tea leaves in different proportions, It gives you a different taste.”

"That's right."

Bai Kou bowed and walked to the small fire pond where tea was brewed. The palace maids took out the tea set box and put all the utensils and tools on the tea table.

The queen's tea set is of course a fine workmanship, but it should be an old style that has not been replaced for many years without any improvement. Even the mesh of the tea filter for filtering the tea dregs is too sparse and not fine enough.

After looking at the tea sets, and then looking at the tea leaves, there were more than a dozen small portable tea pots lined up on the table. Bai Kou opened them one by one to check, and then put the different tea pots together like playing a combination game, and picked them up from the satchel. I took out a pen and paper and wrote the milk tea recipe according to the present, and then changed the tea pot after writing, and it was a new recipe, and I copied it down again.

Empress Ye praised Bai Kou when she saw that it took no brains to write. Madam Gu also praised a few words by the way, telling the queen that Bai Kou not only practiced calligraphy every day, but also began to learn more difficult bookkeeping and tax law knowledge, and worked hard to be a The best inner house steward.

Ye Junting looked at it disapprovingly, and felt that Bai Kou was showing off her abilities too much, as if there was no other capable person in the world except her, what was she doing as a manager who knew so much knowledge about bookkeeping and tax laws? That's it, could it be that he wants to steal Gu Yun's money by tampering with the account?

Thinking about it this way, Ye Junting looked at Bai Kou like a housekeeper.

Bai Kou wrote several pages of milk tea and tea recipes in one go, each page was a recipe, and then tore it out and handed it to the maid to pass on to the empress.

Queen Ye read each page, and handed it to the maid to keep it away, so she can still serve tea.

"Bai Kou has written so many prescriptions, I want to try them all. Today is too late, how about the day after tomorrow? Later in the morning, Mrs. Gu, you bring Bai Kou, and Ben Gong will call my siblings, your mother-in-law, and let's have a chat together Homemade, ask Bai Kou to cook these recipes and taste them."

"I would like to obey your mother's order." Mrs. Gu leaned forward to salute.

"I would like to obey my mother's order. Thank you for your love." Bai Kou went around the tea table and saluted respectfully. When she straightened up, she raised her right hand again as if she had something to say.

"What do you want to say, little girl?" Queen Ye really had a good time this afternoon, smiling constantly.

"Please allow the servant girl to bring her own tools, Madam."

"Oh? Is my tool not good?"

"If you go back to your mother, the tools of your mother are naturally exquisite in workmanship, but the old style with a long history can be used as an antique outside the palace, and the tools used by the servant girl are of a new style, and they are used to it. Some are not handy."

"Well~~~, I have a good eye. This tea set in this palace is indeed an old thing. It was given to our old lady by the first emperor when he was young, and the old lady passed it on to me. I have lived in the palace for many years. What are the styles of the new tea sets, you can come with the tools the day after tomorrow, even Bengong can learn a lot.”

"I would like to follow your mother's order."

After a while, Queen Ye and Mrs. Gu drank tea, and Mrs. Gu got up to leave.

The palace servants sent Madam Gu out to get into the car, took Bai Kou along the way, and let her off the car at the side road to go back to the small camp.

As soon as the carriage left outside, Ye Junting threw herself on Queen Ye to act like a baby, wanting the milk tea recipe just now.

"Auntie, that Bai Kou is too picky. If you don't have a good tool, you can't cook it. Let your niece cook it for you according to that recipe?"

"So she is an expert, but you are not." Queen Ye touched Ye Junting's face lovingly, "Okay, it's getting dark, you should go back too, lest you can't see your feet clearly in the dark."

"It's okay, aunt, my niece will stay with you for a while."

"Did you get into trouble outside?"

"No! Why did my aunt say that?"

"What you are doing now is simply trying to please you after causing trouble. Who can tell you to avoid people, which royal family have you offended?"

"No, I just don't want to go out and meet people."

"Bullied?"

"It doesn't even count."

"What's going on? Don't hesitate, I don't have time to accompany you."

"It's...it's...it's my elder brother and sister-in-law bullying me..." Ye Junting pouted, her face full of displeasure.

"How did they bully you?"

"They want me to marry into the clan."

"It's a good thing. It's good to marry the prince or the prince's son."

"Don't marry into the clan."

"Is it up to you to choose?"

"Auntie, please help your niece, your niece should not marry into the clan."

"But you have a sweetheart? Who is it?"

"No! I don't have a sweetheart!" Ye Junting twitched, couldn't sit still on the chair, stood up abruptly, said hello to the queen aunt, and ran away quickly.

"Run so fast, and say you don't have a sweetheart~~"

Seeing that Ye Junting had run away, Queen Ye was not in a hurry to chase her back. Anyway, she didn't run far, so she just ordered the maid to take her back to her parents. As for her sweetheart, I will wait until the winter hunting is over and return to the capital. How can I have time now? Take care of her daughter's private affairs.

Some of the palace maids went after Ye Junting, grabbed her and arranged for a carriage to take her back, and some of them waited for the queen to rest in the tent, and the husband and wife had to eat together during dinner.

The big tent of the Son of Heaven is in the middle, the queen's tent is on the right, and the tent of the beloved concubine Zhao Xianfei is slightly behind the left hand. It is also the concubine who was conferred the title of Liangdi when the crown princess was elected. After so many years of ups and downs, there are only these two women Accompanying each other until today.

But in Concubine Zhao Xian's tent, the atmosphere was far less relaxed than Queen Ye's. The tent was not soundproof, and the people inside spoke very quietly, and there were servants outside who kept an eye on the movement around them, for fear that someone would stop in front of the tent and overhear a few words.

"Have you found out clearly? That Bai Kou really belongs to Bai Yehong's family?" Concubine Zhao Xian said with a mosquito-like humming voice as she leaned on her couch.

"It's absolutely true, ma'am, those boys who got close to Gu Shizi have already spread the news, and some members of the Fine Food Department of the Ministry of Rites also think that Bai Kou looks good and belongs to their old Bai's family. "A eunuch in his 40s bent down and whispered back next to the couch.

"Little hairy kid is lucky."

"Ma'am, she's just a girl, it's no big deal."

"It doesn't matter right now, it's just an eyesore. After finally cleaning up all the people surnamed Bai in the palace, another person surnamed Bai appeared and entered the Gu family's door to be a servant. Gong's surname, who knows what will happen to them in the future."

"Mother, now everyone knows that she is from the Bai family, and she is a servant of the Gu family. If she is moved because she is an eyesore, I am afraid that people will find out the old case immediately."

"What are you afraid of? How can there be any evidence for what happened back then? Isn't she in charge of Gu Yun's business? Since she has to go out often, find a chance for her to act like a robber and murderer."

"Yes, empress, I will arrange it now, and I will do it when I return to the capital."

"Do it decently, and don't raise suspicions."

The eunuch bowed and retreated, the maids approached and helped Concubine Zhao Xian, dressed her up, and then had dinner with the saint and empress.

Concubine Zhao Xian's confidant old slave, in front of the mirror, inserted a gold hairpin with a phoenix tail inlaid on the master's hair bun.

"Young lady is so pretty."

"No matter how good-looking she is, she's still not a concubine."

"Your Majesty will make your wish come true."

"Humph~"

(Author's note: The third update is finally done today.)
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