delicious little cook

Chapter 50
"Who's hungry?"

Someone outside the kitchen answered, and then Mei Lun Mei Huan and Xiao Qian walked in with the tableware.

"I'm hungry." Bai Kou pushed the plate, "Come on, there's not much left, just drop it after eating."

"It's kumquats. I just sat here and ate a lot." The little girls complained quickly, took the tableware, and at the same time quickly took a few cups and poured sour plum soup for everyone.

"Ah, I heard earlier that the kumquat came to give the lady a reward, and the young master also gave it. Bai Kou, it's already in your room." Meilun said.

"Want to know what the young master rewarded?" Meihuan smiled narrowly, then took a bite of the meat-stuffed spring roll, and immediately turned her attention to the food, "Well, it's delicious!"

"What's the reward?" Bai Kou was really curious.

"Madam rewarded the study room, right? The young master rewarded the copybooks." Meilun tried hard to be serious, but she was also eating, so there was no seriousness at all.

"I know my handwriting is ugly. Thank you, Mrs. and Young Master, for your kindness." Bai Kou sipped the sour plum soup, smiling brightly.

"Also, the young master said that if you run out of pen, ink and paper in the future, it will be directly paid out of his share, and you don't have to buy it yourself. This is the first time you have ever experienced this before. The young master attaches great importance to you. Work hard, don't worry about it." Let him down."

"Bai Kou, you are amazing!" The little girls looked up at Bai Kou with staring eyes.

"Bai Kou, the young master is getting older, and there will only be more and more women in the yard in the future. Since you have the ability to write and count, you should do it well. Even if the young mistress enters the house in the future, your dignity will be indispensable."

"Okay, as long as the third young master has a day for me, I will definitely not let him down." Since the eldest lady and the third young master both value themselves, Bai Kou of course expressed his loyalty without hesitation.

In this kind of mansion, a servant who gets the master's attention is like reaching the sky in one step, and she is not stupid.

"Ah, by the way, when the sixth young master comes back the day after tomorrow, he will definitely come here for dinner and cook more delicious food. The sixth young master likes to eat meat. He is not picky about his food. He eats both fat and lean meat, as well as sweets." Meihuan was silent at first. While eating, I suddenly remembered an important matter, and patted the table repeatedly to order.

"The Sixth Young Master isn't at home?" Bai Kou thought for a while, and indeed, she hadn't seen the eldest lady's second son in the past few days.

"A group of boys from relatives gathered together and went up the mountain to learn to be a qualified hunter. I can't even tell what they did. They went there for half a month. If there is no accident, they will return home the day after tomorrow."

"Could it be self-abuse training in the mountains for half a month with only basic supplies? What you eat every day depends on what prey you hunt?"

"It seems to be almost what you said, but it shouldn't be self-torture. The sixth young master is very excited, and he doesn't look like he is going to suffer."

"Yes, if it's dangerous, Madam won't let him go."

"How old is Sixth Young Master? Can he hunt prey to feed himself?"

"It shouldn't be that they want to hunt and fill their stomachs by themselves, otherwise the seventh young master would not have followed. That young young master is only seven years old, and the third master loves him as much as his own eyeball."

"Oh, that is, a group of boys from relatives went to the mountains to escape the summer heat for half a month, hunting, fishing, and enjoying the leisurely life of a leisurely farmhouse."

"Hey, yes, yes, your statement is quite close."

"Having eaten the farm food in the mountains for half a month, I should miss the exquisite side dishes at home. Okay, let me draw up a menu for the third young master to have a look at."

After talking about the business, eating, and the rest time is over, the kitchen is cleaned up and dinner is started. There is still a slice of shredded tofu left for the third young master to taste.

During dinner, the bowl of soup really caught Gu Yun's amazement. Mei Lun Meihuan also told the young master about the rumors that Bai Kou said during the day about the east kitchen. When she came back again, she sent a message to Bai Kou that the new manager of the kitchen warehouse had been appointed, and she was asked to go to the West Kitchen tomorrow to get to know each other.

Bai Kou wrote down the name of the new steward, and after preparing supper for the third young master, she sat in the room and began to write the menu after washing up.

Now that he has the authorization to directly contact the steward, he can arrange the daily diet of the third young master as a whole, and he no longer needs to be restricted by what ingredients are available in the east kitchen.

As the grandson of the Duke's Mansion and the future Duke, he is happy and everyone is happy.

Gu Yun read a book and saw that it was almost midnight. After eating supper, he came out to take a walk in the yard, waiting for the girls to prepare hot water for him to take a bath. When he looked up, he saw that the last room in the west wing where Bai Kou slept was still lit. A figure bowing his head and writing was printed.

Bai Kou worked hard all night to write, her hands hurt her neck, she wasted a lot of paper, and finally wrote the menu for five days. The words like a dog crawling can only be regarded as barely recognizable, and she can't bear to look at them a few times .

Practicing calligraphy, you must practice calligraphy well starting tomorrow!

Gritting her teeth, Bai Kou cleaned up the table and turned on the lamp to sleep.

Early the next morning, while the third young master was taking a shower in the bathroom after practicing martial arts, Bai Kou asked Mei Lun Meihuan to help put the stack of menus by the third young master's dining table, hoping that it wouldn't disturb his appetite.

After Gu Yun finished his bath, he came out to have breakfast. Sure enough, he first saw those papers that looked like ghost drawings, held them in his hands and looked at them for a long time, before finally picking out one, and decided on the dishes to eat today.

Mei Lun Meihuan waited on the young master for dinner, then sent him out, and then returned the menu to Bai Kou, telling her which one the young master had chosen.

Bai Kou hurried back to the room, copied the selected menu, made a complete list of main and auxiliary ingredients and condiments, and then hurried to the west kitchen.

The kitchen warehouse is located on the side of the west kitchen, because every morning a truckload of fresh ingredients is brought in, and the goods are unloaded in the west kitchen, and the warehouse will then separate the ingredients needed by the east kitchen and send them there.

Now the warehouse has been cleaned by hand from top to bottom. The new manager is a gray-bearded old man, known as Yan Bo. Despite his age, his eyes are full of charm. Seeing Bai Kou, he is also very polite, and he does not rely on the old to sell the old. When I went through the list in her hand, I didn't dislike her ugly handwriting. I browsed through it carefully, and then called a few young people to guide everyone to pick up things from different shelves.

"Uncle Yan is very capable, have you done similar errands before?"

"Ahahaha, I'm old and not talented. I used to manage a few shops for the former Duke, and worked as a shopkeeper for a few years. I have already spent my life at home. The old man needs the old to come out and bring new people. The old is naturally obliged."

Bai Kou gave two thumbs up with reverence.

"Uncle Yan, the servant girl will contact you directly in the future. I will trouble you a little more in the next few days. In a few days, I can get the daily list of ingredients and make preparations for you in advance."

"The little girl knows how to do things, and she should be like this, but the small kitchen in Wenling Courtyard is newly built, so it doesn't matter if you take your time, if there is chaos in the middle of a busy schedule, the gain will not be worth the loss."

"Thank you Yan Bo for your understanding."

While talking, Bai Kou filled a large basket with the ingredients she wanted and put them at her feet. The handymen in the west kitchen cleaned up everything. After the count was correct, Bai Kou thanked her and left.

(End of this chapter)