delicious little cook

Chapter 374
Bai Kou's seafood feast has been prepared for three or four days, and all the masters in the mansion, including the concubines, have a share, because during the New Year's Eve dinner, the concubines can also sit alone at a table.

After setting the date for the seafood feast, although Gu Yun went out to play polo with his friends that day, he returned home early in the afternoon, and there was a surprise when he got home. The second and third masters arrived home a little earlier than him.

There are fewer and fewer local official affairs at the end of the year. Except for routine affairs, no one goes to the yamen to file a lawsuit at this time. There has always been a tradition in the official circles of Zhili. So after the two lords finished taking care of their affairs, they handed over the official office to the local county magistrates, and they traveled all the way from their respective places of work, and arrived home early.

But when the two masters arrived home, one was naturally angry and the other happy.

The second master didn't even sit on his butt, he first heard about the housework in this house these days, his nose was almost crooked, Gu Wan and Gu Chan's two daughters quickly grabbed him and advised him not to quarrel with his mother.

Although Gu Xu has been tortured terribly by hangover these days, he has finally fully recovered. Although he is dissatisfied with the girl who killed and injured his mother, as a filial son, he can't contradict his mother for a few servants. Embarrassed, except for greetings in the morning and evening, he used the excuse of recuperating not to step into the main room.

The second master feels sorry for his son's sufferings these days. It doesn't matter if he drank the saber and got drunk and failed to meet Gan Yuwen. The second master was angry at being tortured by his mother, angry that his wife is so old that she has a brain Being so unclear, how is she doing now? She has ruined her own reputation, and even blackened the lintel of the Duke's Mansion.

The second wife didn't look good when she saw her husband just came back, she sat in the bedroom and cried again, the second master was terribly annoyed, he hurriedly changed his clothes and went to the Rong En Hall to greet the old mother, when he met his third brother, he had arrived a while earlier.

The two brothers greeted each other, and the third master first congratulated the second brother. The Gan family in Pingzhou is a well-matched and good family. It is his best fortune for Gu Xu to be able to marry the eldest son's daughter.

Hearing the words "Gan's" in Pingzhou, the third master felt guilty. During the Chinese New Year, he would definitely invite Gan Yuwen to his house as a guest, and he had to be careful not to hear any rumors. Gu Xu is already in his early twenties, otherwise he will definitely be picked on.

Seeing that the second brother's expression was not right, the third master knew why he was troubled, so he couldn't provoke him any more, so he sat for a while, resigned from his mother and brother, and went back to rest.

The old matriarch sent the maids back together, and had a good talk with the second son, letting him think about how the future of the father and son will go in the future, and he can't let his wife hold back the family.

"Son, you can remember that when your mother gets old, the three of you brothers will separate. If you cause too much trouble for your elder brother now, don't blame him for refusing to talk to you in the future. For the sake of Duke Ye For the glory of this plaque, he has his due responsibilities, don't always test his endurance again and again."

"Son understands, mother rest assured."

The second master promised again and again, and sat for a while before resigning, but he still didn't talk to his wife. He just called his son to the study and told Gu Xu about the family background of the Gan family in Pingzhou. He got a powerful boost and reminded his son to write to Gan Yuwen early and invite him to come to his house during the Chinese New Year.

Gu Xu himself is very concerned about this kind of thing, he knows what to do without his father telling him what to do, but he just recovered from the hangover, so he didn't have time to start writing.

The father and son talked about the family life, and then separated for a while to rest. Before dinner, the husband, wife and children and the concubine set off to Rong En Tang for dinner, and tried the seafood feast.

Bai Kou led the cooks and cooks in the east kitchen to perfectly manage several tables of seafood. All the masters and masters enjoyed eating. The seashell soup was very popular, and every table had a good drink of this soup. It is clean, the third master and the third wife have been boasting non-stop, saying that they have never had this delicious seashell soup in the local area, and it must be included in the signature menu, but it must be served once for all banquets.

The second master and the third master also happened to be in time, and the family members took care of them for this dinner, and the whole family ended the happy dinner happily.

Bai Kou's order had already been prepared and handed down to the servants. The maids who waited on him paid close attention to whether the young master had symptoms of seafood discomfort. Gu Yun himself felt good, and fell asleep after taking a hot bath.

But in the middle of the night, the second wife was woken up by the itching from her sleep, turned on the lamp and got up to check, and found that there were small red rashes on her arms and back, which were extremely itchy.

The second master asked the maids to wait for his wife to dress, and then called for a car to be prepared, and asked Gu Xu to accompany him, and sent his wife to the Tai Hospital urgently. The development of the disease due to dietary discomfort can be urgent or delayed, and it is more time-saving to send her to the hospital directly.

The second wife is still not willing to go to the imperial hospital. She doesn't want to go to such a strange place to be checked by strangers. She is determined to ask the imperial doctor to go home for a consultation. The maid hurriedly set off.

After tossing around for a while, watching the carriage leave, the lights in the main courtyard of the second room were finally turned off one after another, and they fell asleep again.

After dawn, the whole family knew that the second wife was sent to the hospital overnight, and she is still in the Tai Hospital and has not come back.

When Bai Kou heard about this, she repeatedly confirmed with Pang's mother that only the second wife had gone to see a doctor, so she calmly started preparing the stewed Fushouquan soup. Add two more seafood dishes, the second lady will now have to avoid eating seafood, and others will still eat it.

After preparing all the seafood ingredients for the stew, Bai Kou went back to the room and wrote a new New Year's Eve menu and presented it to the eldest lady. The eldest lady felt that there were only two hot seafood dishes too few, so she added a cold dish on top. Only then did he accept the menu and prepare to show it to his mother-in-law. The New Year's Eve banquet will not be officially settled until the elder patriarch nods his head.

Guan Xiumei and the others heard that the second lady went to see a doctor overnight, so they ran to the ladies and blamed Bai Kou.

Gu Wan and Gu Chan were already worried about their mother's health, and felt that what they said was quite reasonable, so they became a little dissatisfied with Bai Kou.

The second wife finally returned home from the imperial hospital in the evening. Gu Xu first went to tell his father about her mother's condition. The imperial doctor diagnosed that her condition was not serious. If the medicine was applied properly, the rash would disappear in a few days. The second wife took off her clothes and put on a pair of Sitting on the bed with a serious illness, she complained to her daughters that the maidservants in the Tai Hospital were overbearing and rude, and she was in pain from head to toe.

The daughters felt sorry for their mother for suffering for so long, so they hurriedly asked the girl to prepare hot water for her to wash up, and then followed her mother's words and scolded Bai Kou, saying that she was the only one in the house because she was meddling in the seafood feast Like a cook, she is blind and capable.

Hearing what the daughters said, the second lady also felt that Bai Kou was to be blamed, and she made a note of her in her heart, and she would be dealt with sooner or later.

(End of this chapter)