The cook is very busy

Chapter 72

Ziqing came out of the house yawning, mother, I was really sleepy, I stayed too long in the pickle house with the Fourth Young Master yesterday, and I didn't come back to sleep until midnight.

She rubbed her eyes, and went to fetch water in the yard with a wooden basin. Fortunately, Mr. Mu was open-minded. He told someone to bring the bowls and chopsticks back when he knew that the back kitchen was busy with work and the banquet was not resting. The cook can go to work two hours late, and if each room wants to eat, it will be cooked in the small kitchen in the nursery.

She heard from Dong Cui yesterday that every house and courtyard has a small kitchen, but it will only be opened during the New Year holidays when the back kitchen is too busy due to the lack of staff.

At this moment, all the maids in the other courtyard went to work, and she was the only one left. Ziqing fetched water and washed slowly. A maid came in with a pile of washed clothes. Seeing her, she paused, and then said with a smile, " Sister Ziqing, get up."

Ziqing was also taken aback, she just saw this girl, she didn't intend to say hello, this girl is from the second room, her eyes usually grow to the top of her head, and she doesn't like to do rough work in the back kitchen My own self, why did you take the initiative to greet me today?
Holding the cloth towel for washing her face, she laughed, "Yeah, didn't you wake up just now? Why are you back?"

The girl smiled, "I just took the clothes away and put them in the room first."

Ziqing nodded, and the two of them dispersed like that. After she cleaned herself up, she left the yard and rushed to the back kitchen.

But it's very strange, why those maids and servants on the road all looked at her, some couldn't stop looking at her, and some greeted her like the girl in the second room for the first time.

With a stiff smile on her face, she went all the way to the back kitchen. She originally wanted to find Erya Dongcui, but for some reason, she made Mrs. Chen call out to teach her a few words. Hey, no matter what, he pointed at her today.

Ziqing asked Mrs. Chen to finish the training, and then she went out with a basket. She had to go to the vegetable garden to pick some fresh vegetables, but when she got out of the yard, she was dragged aside.

She fixed her eyes and found that it was Dong Cui, "Sister Dong Cui, what are you doing?"

Dong Cui looked inside, and hurriedly dragged Ziqing back, "Sister, you should be more careful these two days, Mrs. Chen is very angry, but I'm sure she won't find your thorns."

Ziqing frowned, what's wrong with this old woman, she didn't step on Mrs. Chen's tail, why did she want to blow up with her?
Dong Cui looked at her with a look of perplexity, then thought about it, and told Ziqing that the whole backyard had spread this morning, saying that she came to the back kitchen with Fourth Young Master last night, and the two of them sat together. After spending the whole night, talking and laughing with Coke.

"Sister, you should be more careful these days. Aunt Chen is making troubles. Her daughter puts the fourth young master's work under her command. She just points out that one day the fourth young master will take a fancy to her and tell her to take the house away, but you and Four young masters came out..."

Ziqing was stunned when he heard this, his eyes widened, and he looked straight at Dongcui, "Hey, wait, wait, sister Dongcui, where should I go with the fourth young master? Sitting in the yard for a while—"

"What!" Dong Cui looked surprised, and tugged at Ziqing, "So, it's true. Today, I heard that girl from Juan'er said that she was on vigil last night. You and the Fourth Young Master are here, and everyone in the yard doesn’t believe it, it’s true that the co-authorship is true.”

Ziqing looked at Dongcui, and really wanted to slap her in the face, why is her mouth so grinning, and she grinned before she heard what he said, and now she can't be fooling around.

Dong Cui looked at Ziqing, and saw that the woman was preoccupied, as if there was something going on, and her heart was itchy, so she pestered her and asked, "Sister, why don't you go to the back kitchen with Fourth Young Master? Are you coming?"

Ziqing frowned, "What do you mean staying up late at night, this is me, I was that last night, I was that..."

Dong Cuizhi looked at her, waiting for her to continue, but after waiting for a long time, the woman faltered and couldn't utter the whole sentence, she said anxiously, "Oh my sister, you are so anxious, why don't you say it?" !"

Ziqing didn't know what to say, "Oh, sister Dongcuiji, what do you want me to say, did I meet Si Shao on the way back yesterday, he said, he said he wanted to go, I Just take him away."

Dong Cui looked suspicious, "Si Shao didn't sleep at night and said he was going to visit the garden, so you led Si Shao to the back kitchen?"

Ziqing said that he didn't believe it anymore, and responded a few times with a stubborn mouth. What else did Dongcui want to ask, Ziqing hurriedly dragged her out, and told her not to ask any more, thinking that this matter was under the hood. Just pass it on, don't make a big fuss.

However, the sky failed to fulfill the wishes of the people, and the news spread faster and faster in the next few days, and it became more and more unseemly.

Some said that the fourth young master came to look for her specially that day, some said that the fourth young master hugged her to look at the stars and the moon as soon as he came, and some said that she was pulling the fourth young master's stars, and the noise was very loud.

Mother, why do these people always have trouble with the stuff in the sky!

Ziqing originally wanted to hide, and tried his best to concentrate on his work these days and not talk to others, but the matter still came to him.

She and Dong Cui were washing the dishes for noon by the pool when a young man came over and told her that the master was looking for her and told her to go there quickly.

Ziqing felt weird, why did this master go after her so hard, could it be that all these bad winds have blown into the front yard?

Seeing that Ziqing was still in a daze, Dongcui hurriedly pushed her, telling her to follow quickly, Ziqing had no choice but to untie her waistband, put down her sleeves and went out with the boy.

Although Ziqing didn't know what it was, she thought it had something to do with what happened that day. She asked the boy on the way, but the boy was very tight-lipped, and she knew it when he said it.

She followed the young man into a yard, and the young man stood at the entrance of the yard, pointing straight at the opposite room, letting Ziqing go by himself.

Ziqing came to the front of the house and saw a plaque hanging on the door, engraved with the words He Xing Tang, she just looked at it, and a man came out of the house suddenly, almost bumping into her.

Mu Shaoyi saw who was coming, and frowned slightly, "Why are you here?"

Ziqing was stunned for a moment, "I, I was washing dishes in the back kitchen, so someone came and said that the master called me... Ouch!"

Before she finished speaking, Mu Shaoyi grabbed her hand and went into the inner room. Mu Guanxiong was standing angrily in front of a calligraphy and painting. Seeing Mu Shaoyi coming back, he was taken aback for a moment, then looked Seeing him holding her hand, his face became even uglier.

Mu Shaoyi asked straightforwardly, "Father, what did you ask her to do?"

Mu Guanxiong took a few steps forward angrily, "What are you doing! I called a rough envoy to ask what's the matter. Don't forget, I'm still your father! I can still be the head of this family!"

Mu Shaoyi's tone was cold, "Father, if you have anything to ask, just ask me."

"You!" Mu Guanxiong pointed at him, and when he saw Mu Shaoyi holding Ziqing's hand, he became even more angry, "You, you, let me go!"

Ziqing took a look, and hurriedly struggled to pull out her hand, but the fourth young master seemed to be deliberately against his father, and held her hand tightly again, interlocking his fingers, exerting all his strength.

Mu Guanxiong let out an angry roar, looked around, and finally picked up a book from the desk, and greeted Mu Shaoyi.

Mu Shaoyi stood upright and indifferent, resignedly waiting for this moment, Ziqing stared at it for a moment, stretched out his hand involuntarily, and snatched the book from Mu Guanxiong's hand.

The two father and son in the room, including Ziqing, were all stunned on the spot after thinking about it...

(End of this chapter)