Chapter 918: Half coaxing and half deceiving
On this day, because of the addition of Zhu Ying, the eldest lady, the little Zhang's chickens and dogs jumped.
Lao Liu Tou and Ah Liu went to the cooper in the village, and hurriedly bought ready-made new wooden basins, wooden barrels and other kinds of utensils for the eldest lady to make.
Wu and Aunt Liu were busy tidying up the main house where Zhang Shou originally lived alone, after all, there are always some differences from men to women.
As for Zhang Shou...... Zhu Ying found out in a blink of an eye that the person suddenly disappeared. Although she was a little annoyed, she could only secretly persuade herself that the coming day was long, and since she had stayed, she was afraid that she would not have the opportunity to visit Zhang Shou at close range?
However, for Miss Zhu, everything in the Zhang family is shabby but fresh. It's not that she hasn't lived outside, but it's the other courtyard of the family, and there are countless servants following behind to flatter, the same is carefully selected from utensils to food, and the same is the so-called wild fun, which is just to make her laugh, where is it like now, everything has to be urgently purchased and cleaned up?
Seeing that everyone else was busy, thinking that Zhang Shou seemed to think that he couldn't do anything without a girl, he suddenly left the familiar environment of Zhao Guogong's mansion, and she wanted to familiarize herself with the new environment, she rolled up her sleeves and went to the main room to volunteer to help. However, when she accidentally turned over the wooden basin and almost splashed all over the water, Wu couldn't stand it anymore.
She sent the gorgeous lady directly to the study room separated from the main landlord's house.
Then a cup of hot tea was served, and the eldest lady was asked to "have a good rest".
Zhu Ying was very glad that Zhang Shou was not here at this time, otherwise he would have seen her clumsy scene, and she couldn't know where to put her face when she had just said a big thing!
At this moment, she took a sip of bland tea, and her eyes suddenly fell on the row of bookcases against the wall, and her eyes couldn't help but light up for a while. I took a few books and flipped through them casually, but found that there were only four books and five classics, and there was not even a book of words that the daughter of the boudoir often circulated in private, and she felt bored.
But at this moment, she casually took out another book, opened it, and found that it was a post about learning characters. Seeing that although the handwriting was barely upright, it was weak and weak, not to mention the bones, she couldn't help frowning tightly.
Even if she hasn't been diligent in practicing handwriting since she was a child, she writes better than this!
"Growing up in such a peasant family, how can that person not be mediocre?"
Zhu Gongquan's words that pointed at the back of Zhang Shou's head before seemed to suddenly ring in her ears again. It was as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on her head, and suddenly thought that Zhang Shou grew up in the countryside and could not come into contact with a famous teacher.
Distraught, she dropped the post, then put it back in place as if to cover it up, and took another copy casually.
But when she opened it, she saw that it was a child's handwriting at a glance, and she glanced at the bookshelf and found that there were more than a dozen books similar to binding, and she felt that her mood was even more complicated.
Several generations of emperors are the most fond of calligraphy, even her father and a military general are a good hand, she was forced by her grandmother to practice a handful of passable words, if Zhang Shou can't even write well, how to be out in the future?
is so handsome and refined, and the beautiful boy who is beyond the reach of many noble children in the capital should be three yuan and first, cross the horse and parade the street, and enter and exit...... In short, you should stand at the highest place in the court and let those laymen be ashamed of themselves!
It seems that she is right to stay, why didn't Dad find him a famous teacher!
went around to the outside room and saw that the Wu family was busy with Aunt Liu, and Miss Zhu, who was worried about it, immediately slipped out.
When she entered the east and west wings of the inner courtyard, she found that there was no one at all, so she thought about it and came to the outer courtyard. But I saw that the door was empty, and it was quiet everywhere, only the kitchen seemed to be moving. Knowing that the two male servants of the Zhang family had gone to buy things, she almost thought that she was a thief, but when she went to the kitchen door and lifted the curtain, she saw that the person who was busy inside was Zhang Shou!
Zhu Ying almost subconsciously asked, "Why are you cooking?"
Zhang Shouzao heard the movement at the door, and smiled without looking back at this time: "Do you want to say that the gentleman is far away from cooking? I'm sorry, you also saw it at the noon picnic before, I don't have that taboo." If you really can't bear to kill, then go vegetarian. While eating cattle, sheep, fish and shrimp, while sighing sadly and killing, that is a hypocrite, not as good as a real villain!"
He paused for a moment, and continued slowly: "Your eldest lady suddenly stays in the countryside where there are no good things, and she can't even drink good tea, if you can't eat enough, then when the people from your family come over, won't they think that we have treated you slowly?"
He believes in never getting tired of eating, never getting tired of being fine. I think that when I first crossed over, Aunt Liu's craftsmanship was evaluated as good by her mother Wu, but it became monotonous and boring for him. Fortunately, he was a lonely gourmand in his previous life, otherwise he would definitely be caused by the monotonous food tricks in the countryside!
Of course, he had to make a recipe for this, which was given to him by an old gentleman who had read poetry and books......
At the moment, it's not to please the eldest lady, but a certain young man who is familiar with him pinched half a basket of wild vegetables and sent it, and if he doesn't deal with it, he will be old!
Thinking of the noon meal, Zhu Ying still didn't understand, Zhang Shou seemed to be able to make delicious food at hand, precisely because he often cooked. But the more this happened, the more she felt that her heart was not good.
How can such an elegant and handsome little gentleman, who is definitely a scenery in the last dynasty, be worth spending energy on this kind of thing?
After thinking about it, she tiptoed forward, wanting to see what Zhang Shou was messing with, but she didn't want him to say without looking back again: "There are either sharp kitchen knives in the kitchen, or hot steam, and it is even more difficult to clean up when the pots and pans are broken! ”
I was disgusted just now in the main room, and when I heard this disgusted tone again, Miss Zhu, who was muttering because of Zhang Shou's handwriting, suddenly asked angrily: "Can you still compare to the famous chef in the capital?"
"Huh. Zhang Shou smiled, "How much is a table of famous chefs in Beijing worth? However, you never get tired of eating home-cooked food, and as for celebrity chefs...... Some of them are real skills, some of them are famous, and there are few famous chefs who can make people eat for ten days in a row. ”
Zhu Ying was speechless for a moment. A well-known restaurant in the capital, she gets tired of two meals!
She opened her mouth, and suddenly wanted to ask Zhang Shou what was going on with the clumsy handwriting, and she hoped to hear from him that it was not his handwriting, but Wu's or someone else's handwriting, but when the words came to her mouth, she finally held back.
Besides, calligraphy can be practiced, it's a big deal that she will grind her grandmother after returning to Beijing, and find an old Hanlin who is full of learning to teach Zhang Shou to write well!
Yes, yes, she must not let him know that she has secretly read the practice book on his shelf!
Zhang Shou didn't know how the eldest lady's heart was turning back and forth, he was half-coaxing and half-deceived, and finally persuaded people to leave.
Although she muttered in her heart, Zhu Ying was still looking forward to this dinner. At the noon picnic, she tasted the food while enjoying the food, and sat together at dinner, wouldn't it be better to look at him in the open?
However, when it was time for dinner, she was waiting in the main room only to see Wu coming in alone with a plate. When she saw Wu's smile on the table, it was a plum-shaped box and two small bowls with lids, she couldn't help but be stunned.
And when the lid of the box was opened, she was even more puzzled. It wasn't because she knew some of the dishes and some of them she had never seen before, but that she found that although there were many kinds of dishes and were extraordinarily rich, they should only be enough for her.
"This is cold amaranth, stir-fried plantain, steamed rabbit meat with lotus leaf powder, steamed small fresh fish stuffed with wine, soup dumplings, wild vegetable egg cake...... These two small bowls are steamed rice with tofu and surimi soup with shiitake mushrooms and ham. ”
Wu, who personally sent these over, smiled embarrassedly, and then continued: "Ah Shou said, Yingying, you are living in the countryside for the first time, and you must not be used to eating with strangers suddenly, it is better for everyone to share the food." ”
When Wu left with a smile, Miss Zhu, who was left in this huge main room and had to enjoy this exquisite dinner on the square table alone, couldn't help but slap her chopsticks on the table, and she was so hateful.
When did I say that I couldn't eat at the same table with strangers, and I didn't eat with you at noon!
Zhang Shou, I didn't dislike your bad words, do you dare to dislike me!