The Chronicle of the Rebirth of the First Daughter

Chapter 28 Kitchen Personnel
"Old lady, Yuechan has something to discuss with you!"

After eating, Yuechan stood beside the old lady and asked carefully.

"Oh?" The old lady was surprised by this, she looked at Yuechan with a smile: "If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Yuechan thought for a while, then smiled gently: "It's like this, isn't Aunt Liu going to straighten up soon, our house will hold a banquet in a few days, I just think that Aunt Liu has been considerate to the old lady all these years, yes My mother is also very respectful and takes good care of us little ones. It is really not easy, and I am happy for her in my heart. The old lady also knows that we juniors don’t have anything good to congratulate her. I thought about it for a long time Remembering that there are still many disaster victims in Chang'an City recently, I simply took out my private money to buy some rice, and set up a porridge shed outside the mansion to give some porridge to those victims. The two of them can be regarded as accumulating merit for Aunt Liu, is it okay for the old lady to look at it?"

After Yuechan finished speaking with a sharp tongue, she observed the old lady's expression very carefully. Seeing that the old lady was startled for a moment, she then laughed, knowing in her heart that the old lady might be right.

Sure enough, the old lady pulled Yuechan over, took her little hand and smiled very kindly: "It's hard for you, you know this at such a young age, if Meier knows that you think of her like this, maybe What kind of joy is it?"

While talking, the old lady looked at the girls standing around and raised her eyebrows: "Some people say that I prefer Yuechan on weekdays, and you have seen it today, can she be loved by anyone? Poor Jian, This kind of knowing the cold and knowing the hot and caring, shouldn't I be partial to some of them?"

Yuechan lowered her head, and was stunned for a moment, not understanding what the old lady meant when she said this abruptly, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that the old lady was beating someone, and she didn't know what was going on in the past few days. It was some unsightly servants who were gossips, saying that Hao Yu was the only seedling in the house, the only male, who would be the one to set up a family in the future, but the old lady and the master who didn't see how much they loved him made him treat the sick man all day long. Miss Yuechan, who was sick, was in pain to the bone.

Huan'er quietly told Yuechan about such things, and Yuechan wanted to find a chance to find some people to beat her hard, but she didn't want the old lady to say it first.

It can be seen that the old lady is not confused at all, and she knows everything about the house, she doesn't say anything, it's because she likes to hide, but if something happens to her, the old lady will not be kind Soft people.

After thinking about this, Yuechan felt relieved, at least the old lady is still on her side now.

When Yuechan was stupefied, Fei Cui laughed first: "What the old lady said is true, we can look at the eldest lady anywhere, this appearance is really top-notch, it is worthy of being raised by the old lady herself."

"Jade is still sensible." The old lady nodded with a smile.

After hearing this, Yuechan looked at Fei Cui's complacent look, and the discontent in Jing Jing's eyes, she pouted secretly, this Fei Cui really didn't know what to do, even though she was a big girl in the old lady's house, but the old lady's house She is not the only girl, she wants to be top-notch in everything, coaxing the old lady to be happy, leaving almost all the important things to her, but it makes other girls feel uncomfortable, afraid that after a long time, the other big The girl will also secretly find trouble for her.

Seeing the girls fighting openly and secretly in the old lady's room, Yuechan shook her head in her heart, saluted the old lady very respectfully, and said with a smile: "Since the old lady agrees, I will take my leave first, and when I go back, I will collect some money and let someone buy it." Things, it’s better to give up porridge for a few days.”

The old lady nodded and let Yuechan go down.

As soon as Yuechan came out of the main room, she was thinking in her heart that she must stay away from Fei Cui in the future, and she also had to warn the girl in her room not to have close friendships with Fei Cui. Focusing only on small things, without long-term vision, she is far behind her sister Pearl.

While thinking about it, Yuechan went back to the room and asked Huamei to sort out her silver, then took the pair of cards and led the two girls, Huamei and Huang Ying, to a hut in the backyard not far from the kitchen. The window is very open and transparent, which is suitable for discussion.

When Yuechan arrived at Xibaoxia, she sat down on the bamboo couch against the wall, and asked Huamei to call some women in charge of the kitchen to come over.

After a while, Huamei brought five women in charge into the room. Yuechan looked at it and nodded involuntarily, thinking that these women are clean and tidy, and the rules are not bad. of.

The five women stood in a row underneath, all of them lowered their heads and raised their brows very politely, Yuechan looked at each of them, but they didn't know each other very well.

She winked at Thrush, and Thrush understood, pointing to the lady on the westernmost side who was wearing a blue dress, an apron tied in front of her body, her hair was neatly combed, and she was wrapped in a blue calico cloth with a long face and big eyes. Said: "Miss, this belongs to Wang Wu's family, and is the chief manager of the kitchen."

Yuechan took a look, and nodded to Wang Wu's family: "Aunt Liu entrusted me to take care of the kitchen for now. I originally said that I was too young to take care of it, but Auntie said that you are all old stewards. Yes, I am very measured in doing things, and there will be no chaos. I just entrusted the big takeover to come over. I didn't take care of this before, and I didn't know what to do. I came to you today to hear what you think .”

When Wang Wu's family heard this, they hurriedly took a step forward with a smile: "Miss said that we are all old people in the house, and we know what to do and what not to do. If you have anything to say, please let me know. Of course we'll do it."

Yuechan smiled: "It's not a matter of doing it or not. In a few days, there will be a banquet in our house. You have done it in previous years. It must be not bad, but this year's banquet is not ordinary. There are also a lot of distinguished guests coming, so you must not go on a business trip, if someone makes a mistake, not only our family's face will be damaged, even you, the old face of several lifetimes will also be lost."

These words stunned the housekeepers for a moment. They didn't expect that the young lady's words were full of soft nails. She said to herself that the young lady of everyone's background is not ordinary. Look at her demeanor, it's true. No way.

"Yes!" Wang Wu's family responded, "We will do our best."

"It's good to do your best." Yuechan laughed: "You guys have worked harder these few days, take care of the kitchen, make up for what is missing, and tell the housekeeper if anyone wants to be lazy and slippery. There are people cooking, so as to keep the kitchen clean and perform their duties."

Several people responded, and Yuechan saw that they were all honest, so she took a sip of tea and said, "I have one more thing for you to do today."

"Miss, please order!" Several people all agreed.

"It's like this..." Yuechan told the story of the porridge, and said with a smile: "Just taking advantage of the fact that the kitchen is not very busy these few days, you have people buy things, and then send a few people to come every day. At noon every day, I went to serve porridge outside the mansion. Let me tell you, our Meng family is not a family that seeks fame. I don't want to punish those who have too little soup and water."

"Yes!" Wang Wu's family responded, and said with a smile: "Miss, don't worry, we will naturally not mess up the business of doing kindness."

"That's it!" Yuechan smiled: "After you've been busy for a while, you've all done well, and the subordinates have been well controlled. If I'm not on business, I'm not mean, so I will tell the old lady and Auntie, I will give you money."

Hearing that there was a reward, several managers all smiled, very happy Shen Yuechan saluted and thanked her.

With Yuechan's words, these people were cut and beaten, she gave a soft and thorny warning, and promised benefits, but no one dared to say anything.

When the five stewards left, Yuechan secretly smiled. She has learned how to use tricks now. This is what she learned from watching Emperor Tianchen talk with the officials during the time she was floating in the palace. Thinking about it now, she is really overqualified. Well, I don't know how to use the imperial mind to manage the kitchen, and I don't know how to let the officials outside know.

Yuechan thought, for a while she was very bored, floating in the palace every day to watch Emperor Tianchen fight with the ministers, seeing that Emperor Tianchen was giving both kindness and power like this, slapped him for a sweet date, and watched the officials have disputes or not. To add fuel to the fire, he asked the officials to divide into factions. As long as they weren't fighting fiercely, he would turn a blind eye and close one eye. It was because of this method that the Jokhang Kingdom was stable and peaceful.

Looking around every day, although Yuechan is simple, she has also learned a little bit. Today, when she saw these managers, she couldn't help showing them off. Unexpectedly, it was really effective, but it made Yuechan happy.

After giving the order, Yuechan took Huamei and Huang Ying back to the house, and Huamei was busy watching the little girls clean the yard, and packed some out-of-season clothes into boxes.

But Huang Ying was fine, so she sprinkled a handful of incense in the incense burner in the house, lit it and closed the hollowed-out lid, and suddenly a burst of cold fragrance hit the house.

After a while, Huang Ying saw that Yuechan was reading with a book, so she took out her embroidery work and sat down on a small stool not far from Yuechan, and began to embroider flowers swiftly.

Yuechan read the book for a while and felt her eyes ached, so she put down the book and walked to Huang Ying to watch her embroider. Seeing the green branches and green leaves of peonies embroidered by her, the flower shape was huge and rich, full of the charm of peony, she couldn't help applauding secretly , I thought that Huang Ying's embroidery is really bright.

"Huang Ying, teach me how to embroider when I'm free!" Yuechan sat down beside Huang Ying and asked.

Huang Ying didn't mind, the embroidery needle almost pricked her hand, she turned her head and put down the embroidery cloth and nodded: "Miss is willing to learn, so I am naturally willing to teach, but I am afraid that my work will not be good, and miss will be delayed..."

Before Huang Ying finished speaking, Yuechan saw Huan'er poking her head outside the curtain, and knew that she had something to do, so she stood up and said, "Huan'er, come in!"

Huan'er opened the curtain and came in, walked up to Yuechan and whispered: "Miss, I have heard everything you said."

"Oh?" Yuechan responded, motioning for Huan'er to elaborate.

Huan'er looked around and saw that there was no one else except Huang Ying, and she also knew that Huang Ying was Yuechan's confidant, so she whispered: "The Wang Wu's family is Qin'er's aunt in Aunt Liu's room, and there is another Liu Hai's family. They are responsible for small stir-fry, they were chosen by Aunt Liu from outside, and many of them are the mother of a little girl in Aunt Liu's room..."

Yuechan was taken aback when she heard that, she didn't expect Liu Mei to stretch her hand so far, and three of the five managers in the kitchen belonged to her.

"The other two ladies also know about it. One is the mother of Fei Cui, and the other is the mother of Bi Yu, the wife's girl. After Bi Yu married, the wife passed away, and the woman in charge was squeezed out. The seat will be lost."

After Huan'er said something, Yuechan nodded, and said in her heart that although Huan'er looks honest, she has a lot of eyes, and she is very detailed after inquiring about things. It seems that she will have to do more in the future. The work of human beings requires people to make the best use of their talents.

Seeing that Huan'er had finished speaking, Yuechan encouraged her with a smile: "You've done a good job, I'll ask your sister Huamei to give you some money later, so you can take care of it."

When Huan'er heard this, she immediately became happy, thanked Yuechan repeatedly, and then went out.

(End of this chapter)