delicious little cook

Chapter 646 Don't let the second wife get what she wants

"A few days ago, the princess Cheng who was opposite us arranged for the fifth lady to go out to enjoy flowers and drink tea. The mother and daughter met the prince and concubine of the county. At that time, she didn't express her opinion, and the second lady secretly asked people to inquire. After a while, the county prince's mansion probably didn't take a fancy to our fourth lady, and disliked her poor cooking skills, because during the family feasts, young daughters-in-law would cook the family banquets, and our fourth lady never participated in the conversation. Communication related to cooking skills, as a class circle, people must have inquired about it."

"Oh, I'm in a hurry now? What did you do so early? How much effort did the palace chief go to find a descendant of the county king of the same age, and they finally realized that they have no ability to climb up?"

"Second Madam is really in a hurry. That's why I want to ask Mrs. Bai to help me teach Fourth Miss how to cook. At least I can cook a table of home-cooked dishes by myself."

"Home-cooked food is not good. You just said that all the daughter-in-laws in the family can cook family banquets. This level is much higher than that of home-cooked food. My second aunt is still thinking about taking advantage of it."

"If the white manager can guide, the level of home cooking must be very high."

"No, Bai Kou is not free, so I told my mother to go back to my second aunt like this. Bai Kou is so busy every day that I don't have time to take care of other people's housework." Gu Yun refused without thinking.

"Then..." Pang's mother glanced at Bai Kou, but Gu Yun caught her gaze and patted the table displeased.

"It's useless to look at her. It's only useful if I nod. Did you forget what you just said?"

"No, no, this old slave will report back to our wife."

Seeing that the young master was really angry, Mama Pang left quickly. Gu Yun kept staring at her back, watching her put on her shoes and go out. Bai Kou silently walked to the tea tray and poured a cup of tea in Gu Yun's hand.

"Are you really angry? Mama Pang is just here to pass on a message, so there's no need to be angry with her."

"I'm not angry with her." Gu Yun muttered, grabbed the teacup and took a few sips.

"Second Madam has the Eldest Madam to refuse. She is a mother who only cares about her daughter, so she doesn't have to take it to heart."

"Even if this kind of thing happens again in the future, even if I'm not around, you'll just say no, just say what I said, you don't need to give those people face, and those who make it difficult don't have to be polite to them."

"Yes."

Seeing Bai Kou's low-browed, pleasing-to-eyes look, Gu Yun felt a little uncomfortable, "Don't you secretly listen to the second room behind my back."

"No, Miss Fifth's maidservant can't do it. I don't know if she really doesn't have the talent to cook, or she just came to play in the kitchen. These days, she said that she is studying cooking seriously, but she can't do anything. The kitchen is terribly tossed, and the four bodies are not working hard, and the five grains are not distinguished, and I have seen a living example."

"She's never been in the kitchen before, so it's understandable if she doesn't know the original appearance of the ingredients." Gu Yun said that he didn't have the confidence in his heart.

"Unknown ingredients taught me to know them, and she didn't know them after they were cut, and she knew them again after making dishes. Isn't there an egg beater in the kitchen? It's a simple thing that children can learn after watching it several times. When Miss Wu makes steamed eggs, let her beat the eggs first. She can overturn the whole bowl, and the egg liquid will flow everywhere, and everyone has to clean up. I haven’t learned a few basic dishes yet, so I want to use my imagination She has created new dishes, and she needs to re-match the plates with the dishes. The spoons used to scoop sugar, salt, starch, and soy sauce and vinegar in the kitchen are different in size. Miss Wu can use the spoon for scooping vinegar to scoop a full spoonful of salt into the dishes, and the cooked dishes I can't eat it at all, and I blame the cooks for not explaining clearly in advance, what are they doing with so many fancy spoons."

If Bai Kou didn't talk, he couldn't stop once he said it. The East Kitchen has been really miserable these days.

Gu Yun was dumbfounded and sighed deeply.

"I'll go and tell the eldest lady at night that everyone will get more rewards for the East Kitchen's annual rewards. They will continue to endure the hard work."

"The hardest thing is Zeng Zhu, the head of the kitchen. She is the second wife's dowry cook. It is unambiguous that the fifth lady orders her. Why don't you ask the eldest lady to come forward and persuade the second lady? If the fifth lady really doesn't cook Don’t force yourself to be talented in cooking. East Kitchen has a limited amount of ingredients every day. Everyone washes and cuts them up. Fifth Miss can waste a lot of vegetables just by learning how to handle them. In the past few days, she has also learned how to stir-fry vegetables. , and other people have to put the green vegetables into the pot first, she is afraid of splashing oil, so she doesn’t mention the appearance of the stir-fried green vegetables, it’s just edible. And it’s strange that when eating shabu-shabu, Miss Wu knows that the green leafy vegetables You can eat it after throwing it into the pot, but she won’t mess with it when you’re blanching the vegetables in the kitchen for display, and the good vegetables have to be scooped out before they’re taken out.”

"Okay, okay, I know that Dong Kitchen has been working hard these days, I will ask the eldest lady to come forward to help persuade, and you also tell Dong Kitchen, no matter how stuffy you are, you must bear it, and you are not allowed to mock behind your back. Miss wastes too much and can't cook enough meals, so hurry up and report to Da Furen, they don't need to carry it around by themselves, they will always keep in mind how angry they are, and I will give them an annual reward at the end of the year." Gu Yun rubbed his forehead, unable to bear to listen any longer.

"Yes, the maidservant thanked the prince on behalf of the East kitchen."

Gu Yun shook his head and stopped thinking about the second bedroom. He and Bai Kou packed up a table of jewelry, locked them in his money box, and sent them to the third aunt in a few days.

After dinner, Gu Yun went to say good night to the elders, resigned from his grandmother, went out to his parents' room, and talked about the message from Pang's mother earlier, Gu Yun told his mother what Bai Kou told him about Gu Chan's performance these days Listen, please ask my mother to come forward and advise the second aunt, if Gu Chan really wants to learn cooking skills, then follow the instructions of the cooks and don't take it for granted. In addition, everyone in the east kitchen has suffered, and the annual reward at the end of the year should be more. Reward their hard work.

The eldest lady was helpless towards her two sisters-in-law, rubbing her forehead and being speechless for a long time.

"The boy in your second aunt's eyes is the grandson of the county king. His grandfather, the old county king, is still there. He is a big family with no family division. His father and uncle have several rooms. During the holidays, the daughter-in-law cooks and cooks for family banquets. On the surface, Gu Chan's conditions are good. His father is a fifth-rank magistrate, his elder brother is a concubine, his two cousins ​​are Juren, and his uncle is Ye Guogong. In fact, he is quite attractive, but this is all external , because of the glory of her father and brother, but she really doesn't have the talent to show it personally. If she wants to be the grandson's wife, she must have the ability to run a big family. practice."

"Gu Chan's temperament can't control a big family. She has never been a straightforward person who speaks and does things quickly. She is only suitable for marrying young people who live alone. There are such boys in the name post given by the palace chief, and their identities are more than Gu Yan's fiancé is Gao, but the second aunt has her eyes on that grandson, so there's nothing I can do about it."

"Let them support themselves. They can't see the facts clearly and want to marry high. If they drag Gu Chan into an old girl in the end, that's their own fault, and we can't blame us."

"They are eyeing Bai Kou now, and want her to teach Gu Chan. Bai Kou has no time to meddle in their affairs, but they can't let them do what they want."

"Understood, you are my son, if I am not toward you, can I still be toward them?"

With his mother's guarantee, Gu Yun felt relieved, and he talked about preparing Gu Yan to add makeup, and asked his mother to ask the third aunt when it would be better to send it over.

The eldest lady had already known about this from Pang's mother before, so it was easy to say, so Gu Yun resigned and returned to Zhongming Courtyard to tell Bai Kou not to worry about the second room.

The next day, the eldest lady took care of the housework, went to the second room and the third room to sit down, and politely declined their request for Bai Kou to teach Gu Chan cooking in front of the second sister-in-law. The Xilefang workshop is the most important thing if you spare extra energy to manage the internal affairs of other houses. The imperial court calculates the tax that Gu Yun can pay every day, and gives a lot of support in the open and in the dark. If nothing happened, once those jealous colleagues in the bureaucracy took the opportunity to make trouble, the future of Gu Dagong and Gu Xu would be affected.

The second lady is naturally concerned about her son's official career. The elder brother is the Duke of Ye. If his official career is damaged, at least he still has a title. Don't mention the matter of borrowing Bai Kou anymore.

Seeing that the second sister-in-law had dismissed her thoughts, the eldest lady resigned after a short exchange of greetings, went to sit with the third sister-in-law, and chatted about the preparations for Gu Yan's marriage, and said that Gu Yun had already prepared makeup, and the sister-in-law agreed After a few days, the long room delivered the prepared congratulatory gifts one at a time, so as not to be a little bit here and there.

After chatting, the third wife inevitably talked about what the second room's Gu Chan did recently, and that beauty in Gu Jing also knew how to cook and make some side dishes, so the small kitchen that Mengmei used to use has always been kept, and that beauty often goes there. The East Kitchen fetched some ingredients, and naturally heard and saw some gossip. The third room has long known what Gu Chan has been doing these days. When the third lady mentioned it now, the eldest lady sighed repeatedly and couldn't help nagging .

Bai Kou is currently inspecting the business on the street. Before Grandma Xu gave birth, the congratulatory gift from her and Gu Hui included several petal-shaped bibs, sewn with snap buttons instead of strings. These days Grandma Xu must have passed The natal family spread the news, and the shopkeeper Bi in the shop said several times that someone came to ask about the buttons, so Bai Kou first went to Lao Tie Ji to get some completed snap buttons and a few brand new petal-shaped saliva towels Then go to the shop.

I was chatting with shopkeeper Bi in the shop. The clerk welcomed a servant woman in and went directly to the cabinet to ask if there were any buttons. The shopkeeper Bi immediately took them out. With the bib as a sample, the customer would understand the use of the button. A few words In a short time, a business was done, and they even wanted to add some money to buy this water towel back so that they could do business with the mistress.

Bai Kou winked at the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper Bi went ahead and sold the bibs.

(End of this chapter)