Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 153 Catching a cold

That night, Zheng Jingyan failed to go back home to visit Yiqing as he wished, and as he was approaching the capital, there were too many things to do. At this critical moment, he used his thoughts, even if he wanted to love his children, he couldn't take care of them.

The weather in March can change a lot. There was a spring rain in the middle of the night, which brought a little cold wind. The old lady Zheng was awakened by the sound of the rain. Madame and Mrs. Fang Zheng came to see you, and hurriedly asked Chunnuan to take out the medicine box that Zheng Jingyan had prepared for her grandmother, and rummaged through the pills for the old lady who had caught a cold due to the convulsions. Send someone to report to Yuhuiyuan to see if Master Hou is back?If he didn't come back, let the young lady send someone to the Prince Qin's mansion to invite him. Grandma is sick, so why don't he go home and have a look?

Mrs. Zheng remembered that her grandson had said that she was busy with family and country affairs these days, not playing. She understood in her heart, so she stopped Fang Zheng from reporting to Yuhui Court: "Yan'er is the most filial, If he comes home, he will naturally come to see me! Qing'er is busy, so don't bother her... It's just a sneeze and runny nose, it's no big deal, why are you shouting?"

Mrs. Fang Zheng had no choice but to give up, and asked Xianghong to go to the Changxi Courtyard in private. After a while, Feng Yuejiao came, and saluted the old lady and Mrs. Zheng shyly. The old lady Zheng took her to comfort her, Mrs. Zheng asked her to sit down, and Mrs. Fang Zheng taught: "You can't sit down now. After two days, Yan'er will come back and do the wedding for you. You will no longer be that delicate girl waiting for marriage, but this Daughter-in-law, you have to be filial and serve your elders! The old lady is a little unwell today, and she needs to drink hot tea from time to time, and I want you to do all of this!"

Feng Yuejiao lowered her head and thanked her eldest aunt for her guidance, then obediently stood behind the old lady, serving tea and preserved fruit from time to time, being considerate and soft-spoken, just like a new wife.

Mrs. Zheng felt uncomfortable looking at it, didn't she have nothing to do?Still wearing girl's clothes, is that okay?But the old lady didn't object, so she had nothing to say.

There are not many guests in Rongpinghou's mansion in the past few days, they are all from his own family, so they are not afraid of being laughed at.

Yiqing was taking care of business in the meeting room of the second gate, and when she learned that the old lady had caught a cold, she asked Mama Chi to go to the kitchen first, and watched the cook cook a bowl of old ginger soup for the old lady, saying that she would wait until she was done. I went to the kitchen to make a bowl of porridge for the old lady, and brought it over for lunch.

Old Mrs. Zheng smiled and said to Mrs. Zheng: "Qing'er is caring, she is not in vain! She is so busy and still misses cooking for me... Sigh, how filial a child is!"

Feng Yuejiao took the ginger soup from Mama Chi's hand, sniffed it, and frowned slightly: "Old lady, this soup is dark and has a choking smell, can I really drink it?"

Mrs. Fang Zheng stepped forward to look at it, and said, "Hey, this ginger soup is cooked like this? Don't tell me the kitchen doesn't wash the pot? Qing'er just gives orders, she doesn't drink it by herself, and she doesn't go to see it herself! Yuejiao , you should taste it first to see if you can drink it, and you don’t have to let the ancestors drink it to death!”

After hearing this, Mama Chi quickly laughed and said, "Auntie is really good at joking. The young lady's order is for the old lady to eat. How dare I be sloppy? I stood in front of the stove and watched them do it with my own eyes. The kitchen has special pots for making vegetarian food. Most of them are sand pots for stewing soup and medicine. They have been washed three times. This is old ginger. Order some brown sugar, and that’s it! Pour it out of a sand jar, this old slave has already tasted it twice!”

The old lady cast a reproachful look at Fang Zheng, smiled at Mama Chi and said, "I have to drink some ginger soup to sweat when I'm cold. It's hard for Qing'er to understand this, and she put brown sugar in it. You tasted it, is it delicious?"

Mother Chi replied: "Ginger is quite spicy, with brown sugar added, it's sweet and spicy, the taste is a bit weird, but it's not bad!"

The old lady laughed: "I can eat some spicy peppers. I follow the taste of the old master, but I don't like to drink ginger soup. When I was young, my mother forced me to drink it. Now my granddaughter-in-law wants me to drink it! Well, then Just bring it and drink it!"

Mrs. Zheng got up and went to pick up the ginger soup that Feng Yuejiao was carrying, and delivered it to the old lady. She watched the old lady drink it up one gulp, nodded her head and said, "It's not difficult to drink! It's very good after drinking it. Good!"

Mama Chi stayed by the old lady's side to gossip, telling some funny jokes about the young lady's work in the second hall, and it was noon while talking and joking, and when the lunch came, Yiqing also returned to Anhe Hall.

The table full of chicken, duck and fish could not arouse the old lady's appetite. Hua Yu opened the food box in her hand, and Chun Nuan took out a casserole from inside, opened the lid, and a fresh and attractive smell wafted out. Seeing the appearance of that pot of porridge, he suddenly smiled and said repeatedly:

"Is this just greedy for me? I'm about to lose my stomach, why don't you bring it to me!"

Yiqing walked to the porridge pot, Feng Yuejiao also rushed over, and whispered shyly, "Let me do it!"

Yiqing looked her up and down, and smiled: "How dare you work on a girl for such a thing? With a daughter-in-law, it's not the turn of the spoiled girl in the boudoir to run around and spread chopsticks to serve food! What is this? Let outsiders see , You still think our family has no rules! Go sit down and scald your delicate and tender hands carefully!"

Feng Yuejiao blushed, with tears in her eyes, bit her lip, stood there aggrieved with a bowl in her hand, didn't move, and didn't move away.

Yiqing just served a few bowls of porridge, and motioned for Huayu and Chunnuan to help serve everyone. She smiled and brought a bowl to the old lady, stirred it with a spoon, and said with a smile:

"This is porridge with pickled vegetables and lean meat. I specially chopped the tenderest mustard greens and chopped the fresh tenderloin into puree. Mix it in the porridge and it's ready! The recipe is similar to that of cold salad, but This is mixed in when the rice porridge is rolling, it’s cooked, eat it with confidence.”

The old lady smiled from ear to ear: "You girl, you are coaxing me again! Porridge is just porridge, how can it be prepared like cold salad? But grandma loves this color the most, look at this green, shredded pork It's fresh and pink, it's really satisfying to look at!"

"Then eat it quickly! It's delicious and sweet, eat it while it's hot, sweat it out, and keep you safe tomorrow!"

The old lady picked up the spoon and took a bite into her mouth, then she squinted her eyes and smacked her lips and said, "Okay! Okay, it's really good! I've never eaten such delicious porridge! What's it called? "

Yiqing said, "Porridge with lean vegetables and lean meat."

She thought to herself that it was actually porridge with mustard greens and lean meat. People in the capital called mustard greens porridge.

It would be even better if preserved eggs were added to the porridge, but unfortunately the people in Dahua Dynasty didn't know how to make preserved eggs, and she didn't know how to make that stuff either.

The old lady drank the porridge one mouthful at a time, while humming: "Qing'er, you teach them, and you can make it at night... tomorrow, I will do it for me!"

Yiqing smiled and agreed, and went to see Mrs. Zheng, she also ate very well, so she felt relieved. Some people don't like to eat mustard greens with a slightly bitter taste, but they don't know that mustard greens have many benefits. Like an old lady who has a cold, she should eat more eat some.

(End of this chapter)