food queen

Chapter 744
"That Yan Wenzhen is really powerful. I heard that the princess of the General Hussar's mansion had been arguing with his son for half a year because of her. I heard that the little general was so indifferent to greeting the princess every day. face."

Wang Muqing gritted her teeth with hatred: "What's so good about her, let one or two men do this for her!"

The dowry maid snorted, and hummed with her mouth curled up: "She is now a celebrity around the empress! I heard that the empress entrusted her with the purchase of the imperial dining room. I can't live without her every day!"

"So, we can't do anything about her, right?" Wang Muqing said with a wry smile, "I'm such an idiot, even the princess of the Hussar General's Mansion can't do anything about her, let alone me, a civilian. woman."

"Young Mistress, we can't do anything in the open, but we can think of a way to do it in the dark."

Wang Muqing shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, with our little power, we can't even rely on the edge of the palace, what can we do. Go and pack your things, let's go back to our mother's house."

"Young Mistress, are we going back like this?" the dowry maid asked in confusion.

"If you don't go back, why stay here? Looking at the current situation, the wife can't do anything to him. After all, they are mother and son. How could they hurt the relationship between mother and son for me? I can only rely on my mother's family for this matter." It’s gone.” Wang Muqing stood up and looked at the furniture arrangement in the room. The room was as big as the carved rosewood canopy bed to the pedals and pedals. From the precious porcelain on the Baibao Pavilion to the spittoon in the corner, all of them were meticulously arranged by her natal family. Selected dowry.

It's really not reconciled to leave like this.Wang Muqing sneered coldly: "Bai Shaoyu, I, Wang Muqing, am not so easy to bully, let's wait and see. If you don't kowtow this time to plead guilty to carrying the big sedan chair, don't even try to bring my aunt back!"

Wang Muqing took the two dowry maids to pack their bags and returned to her mother's house.Bai Wang knew about Wang Muqing's return to her natal family, but she didn't have the face to take care of it, so she had to let it go.

Bai Shaoyu was doing accounts in the pharmacy, and he came back after three days of busy work.The housekeeper's wife who entered the house surrounded him, and all kinds of things came to his head, making him dizzy again.

"What's the matter? You even showed me the charcoal fire accounts in the kitchen?" Bai Shaoyu frowned and asked.

"Oh, sir, my wife is not feeling well these days, and we dare not bother her."

"The wife is not feeling well, where is the young mistress?"

"Young mistress has been back to her mother's house for three days!"

Bai Shaoyu took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, where is Ginkgo?"

"The servant is here." Ginkgo hurriedly stepped forward to agree.

"All these things in the house are left to you, and you take care of the trivial matters first." After Bai Shaoyu finished speaking, she got up and walked inside.

Ginkgo was so frightened that she didn't know what to do for a while, the maids and women on both sides rushed up to congratulate her no matter if they were sincere or not.Ginkgo shook her hands, and hurriedly ran after Bai Shaoyu's footsteps.

Bai Shaoyu was physically and mentally exhausted at this time, and when he returned to his room, he lay down on the couch and closed his eyes.Ginkgo had served him since he was a child, so she was naturally a caring and caring person. Seeing him like this, she didn't dare to make any noise, so she hurried forward to help him take off his boots, put his legs on the bed, and took a fan and fanned him gently.

Wang Muqing lived in her natal home for half a month, but she never left Bai's house in her heart while she was in her natal home.

Ginkgo was favored and promoted to aunt from a maid in the house, and the news that she helped Bai Wang's family with housework reached Wang Muqing's ears, and Wang Muqing hated it even more.Her father, Wang Jing, threw down the teacup and scolded Bai Shaoyu for spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife, and for being a beast without etiquette or shame.

Wang Muqing's two elder brothers were filled with righteous indignation, they found someone to watch Bai Shaoyu, took advantage of him to rob him on his way home at night, took him to a small alley and beat him severely.

Bai Shaoyu was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. When Bai Wang saw it, he hated and felt distressed. While applying medicine to his son himself, he cursed at him. The troubles at home are also turned on their backs.

His son was beaten, and Bai Wang had to take things to Wang Muqing's house to make amends and apologize, and wanted to take Wang Muqing back.After all, if you don't go this time, the next step will not be as simple as a beating.

However, Wang Jing is not such an easy person to deal with. In addition, when the Bai Wang family was married to Wang Jing, the Bai family was being stumbled by Shao Junwen, and the business was at a low point. The Bai Wang family let their son marry Wang Muqing. The meaning of flattery is that the daughter of the family has been in the house for almost two years now and has been guarding the vacant room all by herself. This matter cannot be left to anyone.

Bai Wangshi went to Wang's house and was ridiculed. When he came back to see his son who had been beaten with a bruised nose and a swollen face, he felt angry for a while and fell ill.

Yan Wenzhen was in the palace, both the small dining room and the imperial dining room were busy, and she had to think about the recipes in her spare time, so she didn't have any spare time.It was already late autumn when she heard Xu's talk about Bai Shaoyu's family.

At this time, Wang Muqing had already lived in her mother's house for three months. After Bai Shaoyu recovered from her injury, she came out to take care of the business. Her concubine Ginkgo took care of all the family affairs. Moreover, Ginkgo's stomach was really strong, and now she was two months pregnant. up.

Mrs. Xu was also very worried because she hadn't seen Yan Wenzhen for a long time, so she quietly begged Shao Yanran. Shao Yanran asked someone to find out the time when Yan Wenzhen checked the ingredients in the imperial dining room, and asked Mrs. Xu to go with her nanny to give it to her. The empress went to the palace to see Yan Wenzhen on the grounds that she would present the novel vegetables cultivated in her vegetable garden.

After hearing these nagging words from Mrs. Xu, Yan Wenzhen sighed: "Everyone has their own destiny, and now I can do nothing about Brother Shaoyu's matter."

Mrs. Xu sighed hurriedly: "What the girl said is that the slave also couldn't help but say something more because he saw that the Wang family was doing things so cruelly."

Yan Wen also sighed, frowned and said: "I can't blame him for being angry. Brother Shaoyu was sorry for him first. If the nanny has a chance to see him, she should also persuade him. Since the two of them We are already married, so let's live in peace and stability. I also know Wang Muqing, she is a very good girl, brother Shaoyu should cherish it - how can things in this world be as you wish?"

"Young lady speaks clearly." Xu said hastily, "If I have a chance to meet that old master of the Bai family, I will definitely convey what Miss Bai said."

Yan Wenzhen turned to look at a little girl behind her, who hurriedly handed a box to Mrs. Xu.

"What is this that is so heavy?" asked Xu wonderingly.

Yan Wenzhen smiled and said: "This is something that the empress rewarded me, and I won't need it if I keep it. Brother nanny is not too young, and it's time to find a good marriage. This nanny will use it. These things are good for dowry. Very respectable."

"How can this be done!" Mrs. Xu quickly pushed the box into Yan Wenzhen's arms, "The girl is alone in the palace, we are humble and unable to take care of her, now we want to buy the girl's things!"

"Nurse told me this, it's nothing to do with me as my own. My things are yours. We didn't separate each other before life and death, but now the nanny despises me?"

"That's not it. We have always regarded the girl as our own family, but these things were given to the girl by the empress, and we must never take them."

"Although these are rewarded by the empress, they are not presumptuous items, and ordinary people can also use them. The nurse just doesn't want them, because she is afraid that something will happen to Wenzhen in the future, and you will be troubled again?"

"This..." Xu didn't know what to say.

"Nurse, don't evade it. Don't forget to let me know when grandma decides to get married." Yan Wenzhen laughed.

"It's natural." Xu hugged the box, lowered his head and held his sleeves to wipe away his tears, "We don't know what great virtues we have accumulated in our previous lives to meet such a living Bodhisattva like a girl."

"Oh, it's so boring for the nanny to say these things." Yan Wenzhen looked at the sky and said, "Okay, it's getting late and the palace is busy, so I won't keep you any longer. You and Uncle Xu are getting older, then Do business if you can, don’t force yourself if you can’t, your body is important.”

"Yes, we have remembered what the girl said. The girl should take good care of her health in the palace." Xu hurriedly got up and gave Yan Wenzhen a deep blessing, and retreated.

Yan Wenzhen looked at Xu's hunched back, smiled wryly and sighed.But after two or three years, the nanny seemed ten years older.

In the winter of the 12th year of Qingping, it was the emperor's birthday again.

The empress said that she has not celebrated the emperor's birthday properly for so many years. This year, Princess Tianxin is born, and the weather is good, the frontier is peaceful, and the grain is plentiful. She must celebrate the emperor's birthday properly.

So as soon as October entered, the palace began to prepare for the Longevity Banquet.

Although the Emperor's Longevity Banquet is a state banquet and should be arranged by the Ministry of Etiquette, the Empress only trusts Yan Wenzhen when it comes to meals.Moreover, the emperor's birthday banquet was entrusted to the Ministry of Rites, but the matter of the banquet was naturally decided by the empress.

Yan Wenzhen accepted the Queen's order and began to search for ingredients, draw up menus, and try out new dishes. He was so busy every day that he never touched the ground.Seeing that she was really working hard, Mother Xu divided the nanny's meals from her to others, and only asked her to devote herself to preparing the dishes for the Longevity Banquet in addition to cooking the emperor's daily meals.

The Emperor's Longevity Banquet was held in Nanyuan. The ministers of the Ministry of Rituals arranged wonderful singing and dancing, while the Empress arranged for the noble children to shoot plums together with the Emperor.Among these noble children, Shao Juncong, Han Jun, Wei Jingyao and others are naturally indispensable.

In the Nanyuan imperial dining room, it was extremely busy, with dozens of stoves firing at the same time. Even in the twelfth lunar month of winter, the imperial cooks were sweating profusely.

(End of this chapter)