delicious little cook

Chapter 526 Eating Tofu Has a Price
"Okay, Xiaopi, I remember, is there anything else?"

"No other food is as good as shrimp skin. If you want to add more, two or two soy products a day are essential. This is the simplest. Cook a bowl of tofu soup and add some shrimp skin. You have both, and you can cook it yourself in the East Palace. Use a tea stove or a small red clay stove, cook a big bowl during the day, eat it warm, and then go for a walk outside. When the weather is good, you can take a walk for an hour a day, and you must get more sun.”

"As long as we do it, can we ease the pain of our princess?"

"It's not relief, but complete disappearance. Pain shouldn't occur. Pain means that the body lacks nutrients and needs to be replenished as soon as possible. You can't think it's normal just because most pregnant women are like this. This is wrong. In fact, you can put it another way. You must be able to understand that children in their teens begin to develop physically and have growing pains, but parents know to feed their children all kinds of food. Why does the same principle happen to pregnant women and they have to wait until the symptoms are severe before they become ill? Go to the doctor? If the pregnant woman is not good, how can the fetus be good?"

"I understand! I really understand!" Lixiang's heart suddenly brightened, she nodded her head desperately, and the little eunuch who had been standing beside her also had a look of surprise on her face.

"Yes, growing pains!" Pang's mother suddenly slapped her thigh, "Ma'am, since Bai Kou started serving the eldest son last year, he has grown a lot in the past year, and now they are more than the master, but I have never heard him say Leg cramps in the middle of the night or something like that, the young lady and the second young lady had some growing pains when they were growing up."

"Hey, it's true when you say that. It's true that I haven't heard Brother Yun say that if he has cramps in the middle of the night and can't fall asleep, the most is that he has a little muscle pain from too much exercise." Reminded by Pang's mother, the eldest lady nodded slowly while recalling .

Li Xiang was on the verge of crying with joy, and she was still a little uneasy before leaving the palace today, wondering if there would be a useful solution, but it turned out that this trip was not in vain.

"Ma'am, the servant girl will take this elder sister to the small kitchen first, and teach her a few more soups, so that the princess won't get tired of drinking shrimp skin tofu soup every day."

"Okay, let's go."

Lixiang wiped her eyes, saluted and bid farewell to the eldest lady, followed Bai Kou and left quickly, the little eunuch who came with her was also led by the girl to rest in the tea room of Jicheng hall, and soon someone brought him a bag from the small kitchen A big bowl of hot mutton soup and a plate of meat and vegetarian skewers.

The big guys in the small kitchen were busy making lunch for themselves, Bai Kou asked someone to light a small red clay stove, and she took a few simple ingredients at random, and taught Lixiang how to cook soup in the cafeteria.

A small stove, a small pot, two bowls of water, any vegetable dish, cook it in the pot, pour egg liquid, thicken a little thicken, pinch a pinch of shrimp skin with three fingers and throw it into the soup, stir well, and wait for the aroma to come out Just start the pot, pour sesame oil on it, and it takes a cup of tea in total. Even cooking a bowl of noodle soup and adding some shrimp skin to the soup is the same.

Bai Kou taught Li Xiang several simple and easy-to-make shrimp skin soups, and Li Xiang learned quickly. Bai Kou demonstrated how to do it once, and she could make it like a cat, and the seasoning was naturally according to the taste of the princess. Bai Kou is also special. I told her that the soup with shrimp skin must be eaten during the day, and it will be better to go out to bask in the sun after eating it. The blood circulation of the body at night is not as good as in the daytime.

Lixiang felt that this suggestion was very reasonable, and kept it in her heart without saying a word.

After learning about the soup, Bai Kou also treated Lixiang to a big bowl of mutton soup, and then she sat beside her with a pen and paper to write down the recipe of the shrimp skin soup she just taught, so that Lixiang could go back to the palace so that she could do business.

After Lixiang finished her soup and tidied things up, Bai Kou accompanied her back to Jicheng's main room to thank and say goodbye to the eldest lady.

After seeing off the guests, the eldest lady called Bai Kou to stop, and gave her a new task, to write the menu for the pregnant woman's meal for Gan. This granddaughter-in-law has two dowry cooks of her own, so Bai Kou only needs to write the menu, It's not necessary for her to cook it herself.

Bai Kou readily agreed, anyway, her relationship with the Gan family was good, but she didn't know if the second wife would be happy to take care of her daughter-in-law's food when the second master and the second wife came home for the New Year.

In the evening, the men came home one after another, and they were all very happy to hear that the Gan family was happy, but Gu Xu didn't come home. A friend invited him out for the holidays, and asked the servant to come back to get a change of clothes. Today, the men have a place to spend the night eating and drinking. , Also save the night.

The happy atmosphere in Gan's courtyard, which had been up all day, fell to the bottom at this moment. I thought that I would tell Uncle Xu the good news as soon as he got home, but he didn't come home tonight, and Gan's mood was a little depressed. The maids didn't dare to talk too much, they helped her change her clothes and went to Rong En Hall to spend Laba with the old lady.

In the main room of Rong En Hall, all the children and grandchildren at home were present, and the old lady especially took Gan to sit beside her. At this festive time, the eldest lady didn't scare Gan Shi with the matter of the princess, she just mentioned it in passing during the chat, asking Gan Shi to ask Bai Kou to write the menu for whatever she wanted to eat, pregnant women must not lose their mouths.

After the dinner party was over, everyone went back to their houses. Bai Kou also came back from the East Kitchen, changed his clothes, and was called to the ear room by Gu Yun.

"I heard that a special guest came this morning?"

"Yes, the princess' condition is not good during her pregnancy, and she is in a hurry to go to the doctor."

"Is your suggestion really effective?"

"Whether it works or not, you will have to take it for half a month to see the truth. The princess's physical loss is a bit scary. It's really amazing that the lady gave birth to your four children."

"But how did the Crown Princess suffer such a severe loss of health? An imperial doctor who can enter the imperial hospital is not bad, and the breadth of knowledge is enough."

"As long as it is a time when human beings are beyond their power, the imperial physicians are the same, or there is a conspiracy theory, the imperial kitchen did not cooperate? Did the pregnant women not give the crown princess what they should eat? The portion provided is not enough? That is the influence of Concubine Zhao Xian Range, she dare not bet on whether the Crown Princess is pregnant with a boy or a girl this time, if it is really a boy, and the Crown Prince has another legitimate son, it will be bad news for Concubine Zhao Xian's faction."

"Then you have to check the recipes of the princess these days."

"Then check it out, just for reassurance. If the imperial kitchen is innocent, it's really a matter of the level of the imperial doctors. They need to learn new knowledge and expand their knowledge."

"Well, okay, after a few days, if the princess's condition really improves, then we suggest to the prince to check the recipe records of the East Palace in the past few months, and the prince will definitely check."

"The servant girl would rather the East Palace keep a low profile. Even if the princess's condition improves, she should not say anything. If she wants to investigate something, she will investigate it in private. When she enters the palace to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, and see what rewards she has received, she will know whether there is any way for the servant girl. It worked."

"Are you worried that if someone is really playing tricks, they will quietly tamper with the archive records once they learn that the princess is getting better?"

"Both the Superintendent of Food and the Imperial Kitchen are the forces of Concubine Zhao Xian, so we have to guard against them, right? Right now, the two sides are just fighting in secret, and it would be ugly if it was brought up on the table. It would cause a series of major problems that could have been avoided. It is not a joke to frighten people that the competition will harm the country's destiny."

"Okay, you're right, I'll find someone from the government school to deliver the news tomorrow."

"Hey, you have a good network now, do you still have a buddy who can directly send news to the East Palace?"

"Zhan Shifu, have you forgotten? Master Shao also has a nephew who is studying in the government school."

"Oh, I forgot. I haven't been to the tea room for a few days. I haven't seen Miss Shao Wu for a long time. Her leg injury has healed up. Are you engaged now?"

"You ask me, I don't know."

"What are you suddenly nervous about?"

"How can there be?!" Gu Yun flicked Bai Kou's forehead with his fingers, "Don't set me up."

"No." Bai Kou wrinkled his nose at Gu Yun, and stretched out his hand to him, "My sister's lawsuit is over, where is the account book?"

"Is it really a deal?"

"of course."

"Bai Rui is free, and I still want to make her owe me a big favor with this."

"It's a good idea. If you can use money to solve the problem, you definitely don't owe favors." Bai Kou stretched out his palm in front of Gu Yun's nose, "Hurry up, ledger."

"It doesn't count."

"Say it earlier, the servant girl will ask the butler for it tomorrow." Bai Kou resigned her hand and wanted to leave.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Gu Yun hugged Bai Kou's waist, turned her around again, and pinched her face.

"Why do you talk about money and money? Talking about money hurts your feelings, do you know that?"

"Talking about feelings hurts money, young master."

"Are you going to talk back when I say a word?"

"If it makes sense, then of course it's not worth it."

"You're even more energetic."

"No... um..." Bai Kou's voice stopped abruptly.

Gu Yun didn't listen to her whimpering, lowered his head and attacked with precision, and taking advantage of the opportunity when Bai Kou opened his mouth to speak and had no time to shut it up, he quickly rushed into her mouth, turned around twice, and then retreated immediately, only lightly touching her lips. She caressed her back and forth, then slowly tightened her arms, hugged her in her arms, and moved her lips from Bai Kou's lips to her forehead little by little.

Bai Kou felt that there was something hot on his stomach, and he moved his waist lightly, wanting to stay away from this strange heat source, and then immediately heard Gu Yun's strange muffled sound from above his head, and the next moment his The lips moved to her ear and bit it lightly.

"Don't move around." Gu Yun's deep voice was full of anger.

"Why don't you memorize "Historical Studies" from beginning to end? Think about the differences between the previous four dynasties and the current state?"

"Good advice, it's more effective than a basin of ice water. If I really figure it out, I can write a [-]-character theory."

"You can start drafting now."

"Why don't you comment on it?" Gu Yun blew into Bai Kou's ear maliciously.

"My maidservant has little knowledge, so I won't waste your time, maidservant still has work to do with maidservant." Bai Kou trembled for a moment, then quietly raised his heel and stepped on Gu Yun's toes.

Sudden pain in his feet, Gu Yun immediately lost his breath, Bai Kou quickly broke free, got out, made a face at Gu Yun, and put on his shoes to dodge others.

Gu Yun rubbed his poor toes without any temper.

(End of this chapter)