delicious little cook

Chapter 375

Bai Kou spent two days making various preparations step by step, and even freed up a wine jar of saber wine. She started to stew the Fushouquan soup from the moment she got up, until the dinner was served, and she personally served it. The Taijun's dining table, in front of the seven masters, took off the lid, tore off the sealed lotus leaf, and a fresh aroma mixed with the aroma of wine rushed towards everyone along with the scalding heat.

The throats of everyone couldn't help sliding up and down, only caring about taking deep breaths.

"Old Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, this is Fu Shouquan." Bai Kou took a step back and stood up straight, and said with a smile, "Old Madam, please allow this servant to serve you soup."

The old matriarch laughed happily, watching Bai Kou put half a bowl of clear soup in front of her first, then Bai Kou walked around the table, serving soup to the masters and wives in order of seniority, when it was the second lady's turn, the second lady because Don't eat, smell the soup but can only wave his hands away, Bai Koo passed her and continued to serve the third master and third lady with soup.

The second wife was eating other dishes on the table, and the audience praised how delicious the soup was. The old lady also specially thanked the third daughter-in-law for bringing back so many seafood, otherwise she wouldn't be able to make up the ingredients that this soup should have.

The third lady smiled and thanked her mother-in-law again and again, and the third master couldn't help showing complacency on his face. The daughter-in-law's kindness is really good.

The second lady was even more aggrieved. The New Year gifts she brought back were all related to Wenwan. After all, she came from a family of poets and books, so she had a natural love for Wenwan, and Pingzhou is a rich place with The Gan family is a traditional scholarly family with a well-developed literary and entertainment market, where you can buy many masterpieces. But when you return to the capital and compare with Sanfangyi, the piles of seafood are obviously more impressive.

It's just unbearable.

Except for the second wife, everyone ate this dinner very happily and satisfied. The old lady ordered this soup as the main soup for the New Year's Eve banquet, and she also prepared a portion at noon on the second day of the first lunar month to entertain her back home. The two granddaughters of Gu Xian and Gu Jie.

Bai Kou responded with a loud voice.

The next day, Mama Pang returned the New Year's Eve banquet menu that the old lady had seen to Bai Kou. There was no change on it, so she just followed suit.

Bai Kou took the menu to the East Kitchen and started the countdown to the New Year's Eve banquet.

Being so busy, Bai Kou didn't miss the Zhongmingyuan's errand, as if she really has three heads and six arms, and within the scope of her responsibility, there is no omission that can be ignored under her nose.

Under this tense and busy rhythm, New Year’s Eve, the day of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, finally arrives. During the day, all the men go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and the women decorate the Rong En Hall. Lighted up, several important main courtyards were as bright as day.

Before dark, all the masters and masters in the mansion, including concubines, gathered in the Rong En Hall. The old matriarch sat at the head of the main hall, and the children and grandchildren were sorted in order of seniority, kowtow to the old matriarch to celebrate the new year.

The previously closed idle rooms in the main building were cleaned and arranged into a restaurant, which accommodated everyone, each with its own seat, much more spacious than the last time I tried the seafood feast.

The old lady is treated equally here, and to her they are all her descendants, so the concubine's children are only divided into men and women, sons and daughters-in-law sit at the old mother's table, and concubines sit at the same table.

Fu Shouquan served in a wine jar was served first. There were several pigeon eggs in each urn of soup. According to the number of people at each table, there was exactly one person. Sitting and watching her family drink soup, Bai Kou Dan made her a cup of chickpea curd, and there was also a pigeon egg in the soup.

The east kitchen was very busy, all the stoves were on high fire, Cui Lin was the best at the white case, he was in charge of the white case alone, Zeng Zhu and Huang Dahai were in the red case stove, and each took care of half of the stoves , Watching the cooks and cooks do their jobs well, Bai Kou is only in charge of the oven and inspection.

The habit of the New Year's Eve dinner in the mansion is to end the banquet before the second watch, and then the masters sit in the Rong En Hall until the third watch, and the whole family has another meal, and after the old lady has distributed the New Year's money, everyone will disband and go back to rest. Those who are willing to stay up late to watch the new year stay up late, and those who can't stay up go to sleep. Even each room has a whole box of fireworks prepared for those who stay up late to beat the drowsiness.

It's just that the old matriarch, Ye Guogong, his wife, and Gu Yun can basically only take a nap, Yinshi will get up and prepare to go out to the palace to pay New Year's greetings, while the second and third bedrooms can rest at home and entertain their respective guests.

When the stoves in the east kitchen were turned off one after another, the melon and fruit snacks that were used to set the table at the New Year's Eve were brought out. The cooks and cooks who had been working hard since dawn were almost exhausted, and some The family members are busy changing clothes and going home to spend the New Year with their families, and the single cooks left behind have to take care of the aftermath, because even the handyman has a small nest in the back street.

With such a count, only the newcomers who entered the mansion this year were left to work. Ten people, five men and five women, left Bai Kou and Meng Mei one after another. The remaining eight people looked at the two big kitchens that were in a mess. They didn't even have the energy to wring a wet rag to wipe the table, and their stomachs were already empty by now. Fortunately, the Baian kitchen had left some snacks for them to fill their stomachs.

Bai Kou was almost exhausted. The whole day's labor was far beyond what the child's body could bear. She followed everyone into the kitchen and swallowed two steamed buns indiscriminately, and left the rest to others. , Stumbled back to Zhongmingyuan to sleep.

The maids helped Bai Kou to light up all three of her rooms with bright lights. She didn't even look at it. She rushed into her bedroom without washing her face or hands, pulled up the bed curtain, took off her clothes and lay down directly, unable to bear it any longer. up.

The girls in Zhongmingyuan cooked the New Year’s Eve dinner by themselves, and Bai Kou left them some simple and easy-to-make seafood ingredients, so that they could all have a delicious and good New Year. Take the sweet soup she drank to her room.

The door was unlocked, everyone went in and found that the bed curtain was drawn, the clothes that had been taken off were strewn about on the hangers, and the shoes were taken off here and there, all kinds of messes that were rare to see, knowing that she must be exhausted today, Everyone put down the sweet soup and left on tiptoe without waking her up to eat.

At about three o'clock, the tea room of Rong En Tang started to cook Jiaozi, which are actually dumplings, with various fillings of meat and vegetables, and there are many strange dumplings mixed in. There are also Bao Xiaoqian and Xiaoyinqian. When making dumplings, everyone is laughing and saying don't break your teeth.

When eating dumplings, there was naturally a lot of laughter. Anyone who ate special dumplings would shout out loudly. Gu Yun didn't eat strange dumplings, but he was lucky in wealth. His table had more than 100 dumplings wrapped in gold and silver coins. He ate all of his son's money, and got three gold, three silver and six coins, which made the whole family congratulate him that he will definitely make a lot of money next year.

After eating dumplings, the grandchildren kowtow in front of the old lady in order of seniority, say some auspicious words to celebrate the New Year, and happily receive a lucky red envelope.

Firecrackers and fireworks started to be set off again in the courtyard. After a lively and lively play, the New Year's Eve banquet finally ended.

(Author's Note: Happy National Day everyone! Happy Holidays!!!)

(End of this chapter)