delicious little cook

Chapter 71 Just to make you unhappy

After dinner, Lu Doudou asked Bai Kou to go back to sleep together, but Bai Kou was thinking about the unfinished vegetarian banquet menu, so she declined Lu Doudou after thinking about it, and decided to go back to Wenling Courtyard to work.

"Wenling Academy is already busy? Didn't the news just be released today, girl Fangliang?"

"Sister Meilun is the oldest. The third young master said that he must marry her this year. She is the oldest first-class girl. Only she knows the ins and outs of many things. She has to hand over everything without making mistakes."

"Oh, this sounds like the most tedious kind of errand, so there's nothing you can do. You can go back and do your work, but can you come out tonight?"

"what happened?"

"Didn't it be said a few days ago that everyone would prepare the dishes by themselves and set the menu for the filial piety banquet, and it will be done tonight."

"I definitely can't come. The third young master is at home at night. I can't leave when he is at home. After finishing my work, I have to go to supper. After the kitchen is cleaned up, it will be late at night. Even if the third young master asks me to watch, the night watch The wives of all schools will annoy me."

"Oh, yes, it's too inconvenient for you to do things in the kitchen at night, so forget it."

"Forget it, anyway, the coming day will be long. After the filial banquet is held, the house will resume normal social interaction. There will be various banquets to be held. I'm afraid everyone will be too busy to touch the ground."

"Well, yes."

"Then I'll go first, and I'll listen to your details tomorrow."

The two waved goodbye, and Bai Kou hurried back to Wenling Courtyard.

First go to the chore yard next door to wash off the sweaty exercise clothes, and take advantage of the good sun at noon to dry them in the afternoon.

Then go back to the house to take a nap, get up in less than a stick of incense, sit in front of the window and spread the paper, quickly write a vegetarian dish with charcoal sticks, Wen Gushan's filial piety banquet menu is about to be set, she wants Get ahead of him and hand over the vegetarian banquet menu to the eldest lady.

Bai Kou didn't directly draw up a ready-made menu. She followed the basic principles of cold dishes, hot dishes, soups, and staple foods, and wrote the names of more than a dozen dishes for each category, together with the main and auxiliary ingredients and simple cooking instructions. A large stack of papers, masters, please consider and choose slowly.

After finishing writing in one go, Bai Kou handed over the stack of papers to Meihuan and asked her to run errands to deliver it to the eldest lady. She hurriedly washed her hands and started preparing afternoon snacks for the third young master. She originally wanted to test the oven, but it seemed It can only be done at night.

The eldest lady got the stack of menus, and quickly invited the elder to discuss it together. Although the old matriarch's table was full of female relatives, as the new patriarch and the head of the Duke's Mansion, how could the elder be a hands-off shopkeeper? Sitting at the table, pointing at the paper while chatting, first choose from the taste of the dishes.

After school, Gu Chen returned home. After seeing his parents, he went back to his room to shower and change clothes. Then he happily ran to Wenling Courtyard to eat snacks with his brother. It was given to the girls of Wenling Courtyard.

The young masters were eating, and the small kitchen was temporarily free. Bai Kou asked the girls to wash the large baking trays and other items that were delivered yesterday, and save them for the evening. The smaller ones are still waiting for craftsmen to make them, but they have already Don't hinder Bai Kou from baking some simple snacks.

Like sesame crisps.

The girls were washing their things, and Bai Kou rushed to the ice cellar to get the butter that he had bought from Yirenfang in the warehouse. I picked up a piece and hurried back to Wenling Courtyard, threw it into a small copper basin and waited for it to soften at room temperature, then turned around and started preparing for dinner.

The sixth young master still stayed in Wenling Courtyard for dinner. After the meal, the two brothers went to Rong En Hall to say good night to the old grandmother. The other elders had just left. There is also a draft menu that the eldest son and daughter-in-law first picked out.

The old lady talked about the family life with her two grandsons, and asked them to sit next to each other and help them go through the details. There were nearly a hundred dishes in total, and the old man was dazzled by seeing this dish. He didn't forget to tell his grandchildren about his dissatisfaction with the current head of the kitchen, Wen Gushan. These errands that he should be responsible for have been delayed for too long, and he is not as quick as a new cook.

The two brothers helped the grandmother each choose a few dishes. They knew the third grandmother who was a vegetarian. Get a brand new set of kitchen knives cutting boards pots and pans.

After sitting at the grandmother's place for some time, the two brothers went back to Jicheng Hall to say good night to their parents. After chatting about some household matters, the elder gave the eldest son a few articles copied from outside, and Gu Yun immediately went back to Wenling Courtyard to read.

Before and after the second watch, Mei Lun Mei Huan quietly came in to deliver supper and change tea. In addition to the soup that must be served every night, there was another plate filled with half a plate of long sesame shortbread, because there were no flower molds. , so the shape is not perfect, but the taste is not bad at all.

The maids put down their supper and retreated quietly, not daring to disturb the young master's thoughts of reading.

Gu Yun finished reading the article given by his father in one breath, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that food was already placed on the corner of the table. He reached out and took a piece of shortbread, tasted it and found it was salty, crispy and delicious, he nodded in satisfaction .

In the middle of the night, Gu Yun finally wanted to take a bath and prepare to go to bed, Mei Huan went into the study to clean up, and saw that the supper was clean.

In the early morning of the next day, Bai Kou got up and immediately changed into the exercise clothes. After dawn, Wenling Court sent the third young master to go to school step by step. After marinating the ingredients, let the little girl send it to the ice cellar for refrigeration. She wiped her mouth and went to the small school yard of the nursing home. She was so busy yesterday that she practiced several moves in the room before going to bed at night.

Kungfu can be seen by experts without practicing for a day. Aunt Wu saw that Bai Kou practiced much more proficiently today than yesterday, and knew that she was not lazy. She praised her and continued to let her run five laps to warm up before coming back to learn The following boxing moves.

After an hour of rigorous training, Bai Kou rushed back to Wenling Courtyard, ate a few pieces of sweet shortbread specially left last night to replenish the calories consumed, showered and changed, and went straight to the East Kitchen.

Third Aunt Nie was waiting for Bai Kou outside her hut, when she saw her enter the door, she pulled her into the room.

"Bai Kou, tell your aunt, did you run an errand for the old lady behind Wen Gushan's back?"

"Does he know about the vegetarian banquet menu?"

"This is really the case!?" Third Aunt Nie patted her chest, looked at Bai Kou and smiled, "Well done, let's see how proud he is."

"Didn't they only serve one dish last night, and the menu was delivered this morning?"

"Humph, that's all that Wen Gushan is capable of. If he can come up with a new menu, he won't share the credit with everyone. He was very happy when he went out in the morning, and he was gloomy when he came back. There was a commotion in the kitchen, and I went over to join in the fun, only to find out that he had been trained by the old matriarch, and he was very ashamed. Bai Kou, be careful for a while, don't let him find a chance to get angry."

"Okay, the servant girl knows, thank you for reminding me."

"Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated you yet. The third young master has reused you and asked you to practice martial arts. This is when he will take you out in the future." Third Aunt Nie and Aunt Wu are siblings, so they naturally communicated with each other.

"The people in the East Kitchen don't know about this, so I asked my aunt to keep it a secret. The personnel affairs here are already chaotic enough. One thing more is worse than one thing less."

"Don't worry, I'm the only one who knows that your Aunt Wu and the others are not talkative. Go quickly, it's getting late."

Bai Kou saluted and ran away quickly.

(End of this chapter)