The cook is very busy

Chapter 55
The old lady has always loved fragrance, and the maids in her room are no exception, and the cuckoo is the best one.

Ziqing was at the old lady's place earlier, serving under Du Juan, so he is very familiar with the scent of her body.

Seeing her standing next to him, Ziqing looked at her in confusion, what are you doing?

Du Juan half-covered his mouth with a handkerchief, "I thought you were simple-minded, but you are an idiot. You didn't even look at how much money it was before you dared to make your fingerprints."

The two maids in the room rushed over when they heard this, and laughed at the first look, the older one took a look at Du Juan, and said to Ziqing.

"Look at your simple and honest appearance, can't you still not know how to count or read?"

Ziqing was stunned for a moment, feeling strange, then changed his mind, and said with a shy face, "Yes, yes, I can read the characters."

Seeing Du Juan looking over, Ziqing stretched out a hand and said hastily, "I can recognize the number from ten fingers."

The big maid couldn't help laughing again when she heard it, "It's true that you are a dumb girl, but you are not stupid, and you just look at those who have a lot of money."

"Hehehe, then you should act quickly, and the stamped money will be yours anyway." The one behind Du Juan smiled the most.

Du Juan tapped her forehead lightly, although she was smiling, she didn't seem to be smiling.

"As far as you think, the black and white words here are [-]% more, and the money received over there will not be accounted for. When the time comes, the higher-ups will investigate it, and the extra ones will be scooped out with your little hoof!"

The accountant listened to what he said, looked up, pulled the notebook over calmly, crossed out the word "three liang", and ticked the word "two" in the pen.

The bearded accountant on the opposite side of the table watched, and took out two pieces of broken silver from the solid wooden box.

Ziqing didn't want to stay here any longer, so he took his fingerprints, took the money and left.

Dong Cui was waiting for her outside, and the two of them went out of the yard together, Dong Cui asked curiously, why was there so much movement in the house, she could hear it from outside the house.

Ziqing just said it was nothing, he made a mistake, thinking it was a wage increase, he didn't want Du Juan to be on good terms with the two, so he made them laugh.

But Dong Cui put on a straight face, complaining directly to Ziqing, saying that she usually wants to chat with her about family affairs, but she yelled that she didn't want to hear it, now it's all right, it's a joke.

"The old lady is in charge of distributing monthly money to the servants in the mansion. Du Juan has to keep an eye on the count, so he has to follow."

Complaints are complaints, if there is anything Ziqing doesn't understand, as long as Kekou asks, Dongcui will tell her.

Ziqing smiled at Dongcui, took her hand and walked forward, strolling around the garden, chatting leisurely.

Anyway, there are people busy in the stove at the moment, so the two of them chatted for a while.

Dong Cui thought about bypassing Mrs. Chen and going back to the house, putting away the money first, and then taking a leave of absence from the house tomorrow to send back the money from the past two months
Ziqing touched the two taels of silver in his bosom, thinking that he should go back for a while, it would be the most heartwarming to put the silver up first and lock it in the cabinet.

Thinking of this, Ziqing subconsciously touched her waist. It's okay not to touch it, but she was shocked when she touched it. The key to her cabinet was gone!

"Could it be where you get the monthly money?" Dong Cui helped to search around, but there was still nothing, so she just said something casually.

After Ziqing heard this, she said to Dongcui and hurried back. On the way here, she still felt the key. It locked all her belongings in the house, so she kept it close to her body.

In the past, she used to put it in her belt and pull it out with a red string. If she wanted to unlock it, she just pulled it, but she just lost it without thinking about it.

Ziqing went all the way back, and before he reached the yard, he saw Du Juan approaching, holding her key tied with a red string in his hand.

Du Juan also saw her, and rushed up helplessly, handed her the key, and said admonishingly.

"You, you are always a stupid master, you can even leave the keys in your own house, how can you be so careless."

Ziqing took the hand, grinned cheerfully, thanked repeatedly, and asked how Du Juan found it.

"Where did I find it, I just went up and felt sore, I looked down and saw this thing, thinking that when the old lady was in the house, only yours was tied with a red string, this No, I hurried to bring it to you."

Ziqing held the key in his hand and rubbed it together, smiled at Du Juan, "Why don't you say that this master can be called for nothing, and this is just a favor for me. In the future, if the girl finds a good husband's family, I will have to find a place." Great gift."

Some time ago in the old lady’s room, Ziqing saw that Du Juan’s fragrance was very good, so he called her master half-jokingly. Ziqing understood that this kind of fragrance mixing is a handy skill that Du Juan would never teach her. Yes, the two of them were just joking around.

Du Juan blushed, pretended to be angry and spat at her, then they talked for a while, and went to the other courtyard together.

Ziqing wondered, Du Juan didn't need to pay attention to the distribution of money, why did he leave with her.

When she was wondering, Du Juan asked her if she was used to living in the back kitchen, but there was something she could say.

Seeing these warm words, Ziqing talked to her a few more words, but somehow they got involved with Erya.

She stuffed the key back into her waist and asked, "What's wrong with Er Ya, is there anything wrong with her?"

Du Juan smiled, "It's nothing, I heard that you are from the same village, so I wanted to ask how this girl is, is she a good girl?"

Ziqing paused, and didn't know what to say, but the Erya got a lot of rewards these days, most of them were given by the old lady's house, she was good and bad, Du Juan didn't know.

She rolled her eyes, smiled, and said casually, "Oh, this erya, if you want to say that she is sensible, she is a kid again, if you want to say that she is ignorant, she has entered the back kitchen and so on. If it’s done well, otherwise it won’t please the old lady, giving her hairpin and clothes will make people jealous.”

Du Juan watched Ziqing finish speaking, and instead of saying anything, she laughed along with her, agreeing with the old lady's words even more in her heart.

This girl looks ordinary and simple, but the bad water in her stomach is a jar, but she is a lotus root, so she has a lot of ghosts.

Didn't he just push back what he asked her about?

"Hearing what you said, I'm also relieved. This little girl will do things when she is obedient. The old lady is very satisfied."

Du Juan was still smiling, and finally said something to Ziqing, "If you look up to your heart, as long as you work hard, you can also get a lot of rewards like that second girl."

The smile on Ziqing's face faltered, Du Juan's words were quite profound, it's not that she couldn't hear it, but at the moment she could only pretend to be stupid and let it go with a smile.

Du Juan looked at it and knew that he had listened, so naturally he also smiled. Both of them greeted each other with smiling faces, but they had their own concerns.

When they came to a fork, Du Juan said that he was going to answer the old lady, and the two separated.

Du Juan walked onto a corridor, and because he had something on his mind that he didn't pay attention to, he made a turn and almost bumped into Mu Shaofeng.

She blushed with a soft cry, then stepped aside and saluted, "Master Fu'an."

Mu Shaofeng was fine, seeing that it was Du Juan, he waved his hand, "Let's do it, the master is still at the house today?"

Du Juan could hear the irritability of the old man's tone, and hurriedly said that the old man went out to do some errands early in the morning, and returned home to meet guests at noon, and now rested in the front yard.

Mu Shaofeng responded and left in a hurry. Du Juan looked at his back and wondered, "What's the matter, sir, I've been looking for you for the past two days..."

(End of this chapter)