delicious little cook

Chapter 695
Gu Yun's heart skipped a beat. After waiting for half a year, there was finally news, but he knew that now was not the time to ask further, so he had to endure it for the time being and celebrate the New Year happily.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, fireworks were lit in the courtyard, and the old matriarch distributed lucky money to the juniors. Even the palace chief and his wife got one each. After that, they went back to the house to rest. They went out, and before breaking up, the two made an appointment for dinner tomorrow night.

The Rong En Hall has already ended. After seeing off the guests, Gu Yun went straight back to his Zhongming Courtyard. The maids had already prepared hot soup for him to bathe in. After a comfortable bath, he rolled into the warm bed and fell asleep soon. It's over, and he didn't play tricks to keep Bai Kou like he did last year.

Bai Kou had been busy all day for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner and she was exhausted. She also told her maids to go to bed early when the prince went to bed, and she had to get up early to serve tomorrow.

So after the lights in the main room were turned off, the maids brought hot water and went back to the room to wash, and gradually the whole Zhongming Courtyard turned off the lights and became quiet.

Every year on the first day of the new year, the masters who want to enter the palace get up at Yinshi, wash up and eat, and then set off. When the carriage reaches the street, it encounters the carriage of Gong Zhangji and his wife. Gu Yun wants to ask Gong Zhangji to come to his carriage. But Cheng Wang just waved his hand and asked the driver to follow Gu Yun's carriage, and did not change the carriage.

When Gu Yun saw this, he stopped arguing. He knew that the news brought by the caravan could not be covered in the time of this one-way trip, and he would have to wait until tonight to find out the details.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Yun couldn't help complaining a little bit to Gong Zhangji, since he couldn't tell him the news earlier, why did he let him know that the caravan was back? Isn't this intentional to hang him.

After the carriage entered the imperial city, Gu Yun calmed down. When the carriage stopped outside the palace gate and the officials who entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings were sorted by status, Gong Changji still got Gu Yun's eyes. , he smiled triumphantly, raised his legs and went to where he should stand, while the carriages of the women's family members continued to walk in after verifying Zhengzheng, and got off at Yongxiang at the junction of the front court and the harem.

The maids in the Zhongming courtyard sent the young master out, closed the courtyard door and climbed back to bed to sleep in the cage. This is the only day in a year that they can do whatever they want.

Bai Kou slept until the sun was up, got dressed and got up, walked around the mansion after breakfast, and distributed red envelopes to her subordinates, as a personal annual gift from her boss. All the money was poured into the new construction, but as the owner, Gu Yun still got a piece of his profit. After splitting with Bai Kou, both of them had a good year.

Bai Rui was the same as last year. She took her daughter to Grandpa Zhang's house to celebrate the New Year when she was young. Bai Kou didn't have to go to the street anymore. After walking around the mansion, she went back to her room to look through the recipes of her ancestors to pick out some suitable for the New Year. The girls from Jichengtang and Zhongmingyuan sat in the cafeteria of the small kitchen and ate a good meal.

In the middle of the afternoon, the masters who came to the palace to pay New Year's greetings returned home, and there was something more added to the regular rewards, which was for Gu Yun. He was praised by a sage for his workshop, and especially during the luncheon, he was repeatedly given wine and gifts. The imperial family of the Manchu Dynasty and all the civil and military officials envied the food, and Gu Yun'an, Duke of Ye State, also received a lot of compliments from his colleagues, who praised him for raising a good son.

Gu Yun walked into his warm bedroom in a cold suit, warmed his hands with a cup of hot tea first, and then his rewards were unloaded one after another and carried into the room to be opened in person. Every year, the regular rewards were similar and slightly different, so he ordered Qinglan to make a booklet directly. If it is stored in the warehouse, it will be more interesting to add gifts.

Because now he has the status of an imperial merchant and knows that he is good at poetry and prose, so the things that are bestowed are mainly study rooms and small literary items, which are all things for boys. What caught the attention of Gu Yun and the girls was that A small abacus of solid gold, with a gold chain, which hung conveniently from the belt.

Gu Yun put down the teacup, picked up the small abacus and played with it for a while, then stuffed it into Bai Kou's hand.

"Take it and play."

Bai Kou weighed his small abacus, real gold is too heavy, but he still feels a little disgusted.

"too small."

"It's convenient for you to go out." Gu Yunping stretched out his hands to look at his knuckles, which were made from practicing martial arts since he was a child, and shook his head, "Only your hands are suitable, and these are actually given to you by a sage."

Bai Kou tried to fiddle with the abacus beads a few times, and reluctantly agreed with Shizi's statement.

The other girls didn't care about this, they took turns around Bai Kou to borrow her golden abacus to play with, and feel the texture of pure gold.

Gu Yun didn't spoil the girls' interest, he checked by himself for anything else he was interested in, when he opened a long and narrow paper box that he thought was a brush box, he saw that there were actually two white jade praying mantis hairpins inside, one thicker and longer, the other The branches are thinner and shorter, but the difference is not obvious when you look at them alone. Only when you put them together can you know that they are a pair of praying mantis hairpins. The thick and long one is for men, and the short and thin one is for women. Above, the woman's praying mantis holds food in its mouth, and they are all carved vividly. The two tentacles are made of silver wires, which match the color of white jade. The silver wires will shake when you take a light breath. The solder joints come.

This looks like a hairpin that is more suitable for collection rather than daily use. Gu Yun looked at it carefully for a moment, put the women's hairpin back into the box, and only held the other hairpin. He asked the maids to help him wash his face, change his clothes and comb his hair. Hairpins, and told Qinglan and others to register and compile the books, send these additional rewards to the ear room, and move the others to the small warehouse.

Qinglan responded and told the little girl to move all the boxes to the next hall, and she came to register one by one, so as not to hinder the rest of the prince in this bedroom.

Seeing that she had nothing to do with her, Bai Kou wanted to go back to her room to put away her golden abacus, but was called into the inner room by Gu Yun to wait for him to take off his heavy winter court clothes, and watched Feihua and Miao'er call hot water to wait for him to wash his hands and face , and then sit in front of the mirror and recomb your hair.

Gu Yun looked at his face in the vanity mirror, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the mirror was still small.

"The big mirrors in the workshop are ready to go on the market, do you think I should also get a big one for combing hair?"

"Yes, I will make you a dressing table with a half-length mirror embedded in it. Is it for one person or for two people? If it is for two people, I don't know if your young lady will be willing to share it with you in the future, or would she rather Prepare yourself as a dowry."

"You think too much, just be a single person."

"Then when I'm free, I'll draw a picture for you?"

"Draw a few more patterns, don't care if it looks reliable or not, just draw it, I just need to make one for myself, at least every master and master in the mansion must have one, and there are patterns to prevent them from messing around."

"Okay, let me think about it slowly."

"Don't worry, I'll do it when I feel inspired."

"Yes, son."

While Gu Yun and Bai Kou were chatting, the maids quickly combed the young master's hair, carefully fixed it with the mantis hairpin, and then helped him change into new clothes, put on a cloak, and sent him out.

Aunt Su, the doorkeeper, watched the son pass through Babu Lane and enter the front yard, she bolted the door of the Zhongming Courtyard, and hurried to the main courtyard. Tonight, the son was having dinner at the Chengwang Mansion, and Bai Kou said at lunch that everyone Barbecue together, don't you want to hurry over and cook a piece of ingredients.

(End of this chapter)