delicious little cook

Chapter 42 Official Notice to Move the Yard

Now that I have reached the level of being vegan, I can only make the menu according to the monk's vegetarian food. Fortunately, this old grandmother is not very picky about food. Apart from the taboos of being vegan, she has nothing special to pay attention to, but the taste is actually too spicy. .

"This old lady eats spicy food, Mama Pang, what do the other people at the same table taste like?"

"You can cook one or two spicy dishes for her alone, and the other dishes should be bland."

"Well, since it's a filial piety banquet and it's vegetarian, tofu must be the main character?"

"That's natural."

"The maidservant will make some more tofu dishes. I just want to go to Yachifang to buy tofu."

"Do you have to go there to buy?"

"Because the servant girl is most familiar with the various shops in Yachifang, the ingredients we practice cooking are supplied by these shops, and the workshop never restricts apprentices to practice craftsmanship in the house, allowing us to go shopping, get familiar with the ingredients, and understand the prices , Practice eyesight at different vendors, learn to distinguish good from bad, genuine from fake and high quality, our apprentices have also been to Yirenfang a few times to see the rare goods on the street."

"I see, what is the name of the tofu shop you recommend?"

"Baojia Tofu was originally a well-known and time-honored tofu shop, but before the maid was bought into the mansion, I heard that their brothers were breaking up, the old mother favored the younger son, the bowl of water was uneven, and the sisters-in-law quarreled , The brothers turned against each other, which caused discord in the family and affected the business, so I don’t know what’s going on now.”

"This is really a difficult scripture for every family... Is their tofu so good?"

"Their family has the most complete range of tofu, from old tofu made in tofu boxes to extremely smooth tender tofu. If you order one serving, the maid can make a table of pure tofu that meets the requirements of vegetarianism."

"What you said makes me really want to send someone to take a look. What is the exact address of the shop? Is it too late to buy it now?"

"If they do business normally, it's too late now. Go there early tomorrow morning. Their tender tofu sells the fastest. Spend a little more money and buy a mold for the tender tofu, otherwise the tofu will shatter if bumped all the way. Yes, next time I just need to buy a mold to take with me.”

"All right, I've written it all down. Let someone go and have a look tomorrow morning. If it doesn't work, I'll find another place."

"Well, Mama Pang sit down for a while, and the servant girl will find a pen and paper."

Bai Kou got up and went out, first went to the kitchen to find a piece of small charcoal, then asked Meilun for a piece of white paper that looked like a flower, then went back to her room and wrote down the address of the tofu shop.

Mother Pang walked away with a smile on her address.

Bai Kou cleaned up the bucket and rags, asked Meilun for some more blank paper, sat in his room and wrote the menu silently, including the main ingredients, auxiliary ingredients, seasonings, and even cooking oil, and left it to the lady to consider.

When it was almost noon, Meilun came in and called Bai Kou, reminding her that it was time to go to the East Kitchen, only to see that she had filled those few blank sheets of paper.

"Sister Meilun, please pass this on to Mama Pang to prepare some menus for the filial banquet when you have time later."

"Okay, I'll send Meihuan to take it later. Go wash your hands, I'll wait for you at the corner gate of the garden."

Bai Kou looked at his hands, they were covered with charcoal powder, and ran away quickly with his tongue out.

Meilun went to find her sister with the menu and asked her to deliver it to Pang's mother.

"You see, Bai Kou is much stronger than us. In the future, she may just pass Xiaoqian and Xiaojing and become the big girl beside the young master."

"I didn't expect her to be literate."

"Why would the madam let the young master mess around? I must have checked it out and found out that Bai Kou is useful. For a person like her, the young mistress will still use her when she comes in. Don't think about being a person in the house anymore. Bai Kou just Block it here."

Meihuan nodded depressedly, put the menu on the table and pressed it with a sewing kit, and prepared to deliver it to Mama Pang in a while.

Meilun reckoned that Bai Kou should have finished washing her hands, so she hurried to the corner gate of the garden and waited. After a while, Bai Kou came over, and the two went to the east kitchen together.

Everyone in the east kitchen was already busy making lunch, and when they saw the big girl next to the third young master came, they all looked at him curiously, Meilun went straight to talk to Wen Gushan, and left after a while.

Wen Gushan bit the long cigarette stick, and told the four stewards what Meilun had said, and then through the mouths of the stewards, spread the news about Bai Kou moving into Wenling Courtyard.

The kitchen immediately boiled like a frying pan, and everyone admired it.

The male cooks all shook their heads and sighed, laughing at themselves that this good job could only be reserved for cooks, no young master would dare to put a male cook in his yard, what if he hooked up with those beautiful girls.

The cooks gathered around Bai Kou to congratulate her, and joked that if she becomes prosperous in the future, don't forget everyone.

Bai Kou said with a smile that everything is easy to talk about.

"Bai Kou, you moved to Wenling Courtyard, are you still going to come back to work?"

"Come back, of course I have to come back. If the third young master is not at home, I will come to work. I just live in Wenling Courtyard, not transferred there. The third young master is sympathetic to me, and let me walk less at night, so as to save the time spent by the ladies in each door." bother me."

"I really envy you. This is close service. It is uncertain how to develop in the future."

"Oh, I have served the third young master, and in the future, I will be assigned a steward and be the steward's wife, which is much better than us spending our entire lives in the kitchen."

"The manager's daughter-in-law is too far away, so let's not mention it now." Bai Kou lowered her head pretending to be shy and begged for mercy.

"Yo Yo Yo, how far is it, in a few years it will be the age to get married, just right."

"What are you talking about, don't you need to work?" Lu Meihua, who always had a cold face, appeared like a spirit behind her.

Everyone was bluffed by her and immediately dispersed.

After the lunch time was over, everyone took their lunch breaks. Lu Doudou took Bai Kou to the back door together. In the morning, she asked the woman at the door to call the shopkeeper for her, and made an appointment to go shopping at this time.

A peddler who specializes in doing business outside the side door of a big family, his burden is full of daily necessities that everyone needs, and the five hundred Wen has been in his arms for a whole morning, and now he has gone out for more than half of it. I bought three, two new buckets, a large roll of waste cloth for face towels and foot towels, a set of tea sets, willow branches for brushing teeth, two cattail fans, a set of scissors, rulers and chalk for needlework, and a needle. Large version, a whole box of silk threads of various colors, and I bought a pair of needles and threads for the janitor woman as a tip for her help.

Bai Kou made an appointment with the peddler tomorrow morning at the east gate of Babu Lane to do another business, and she wanted to buy another set for her own use. The peddler happily carried the burden and went home to stock up.

The two of them moved back to the small courtyard with a lot of painstaking efforts, attracting everyone's attention again, but Xiulan and Mrs. Qian just watched indifferently, Mengmei shook the face towel in her hand and pretended to be busy, Only Wanqiu and Hongsu stepped forward to help, took the things and helped them put them in Lu Doudou's room, filling up the empty space in no time.

(End of this chapter)