Chapter 150: Food and Clothing
Dong Ruyi was directly stunned, and muttered: "Bingqing jade is as clean as Zhilan, and the flowers and moon look like cannas." The style is still there, and it seems that Xi Shi is smiling. ”
Xianglan blushed suddenly, she covered her face with a handkerchief, and said, "Miss, you..." and ran out.
Dong Ru giggled, and just a poem casually came.
After Xiangju finished explaining to Liao's mother, as soon as she entered the house, she saw Xianglan sitting in a daze in the hugging building.
Xiangju said, "Why are you here?
Xianglan dared to say that she was teasing Miss, but she was teased by Miss, and hurriedly blushed and said, "Miss is writing in it." ”
Dong Ruyi was thinking about something, but Xiangju didn't bother her, just quietly went over to grind ink.
After a while, Zhou's mother came back with a smile.
Zhou's mother hugged Xianglan in the building and said, "Let's go, the house says to go." ”
Dong Ruyi looked at Zhou's mother and said, "The second lady said that she will pay for all the food and clothing?"
Mother Zhou smiled: "Well, isn't it, the second lady said, they all came to me, and the silver was naturally from me." also said that I usually look at each other, which is too foreign. ”
Dong Ruyi said: "Then it's okay, I will make this year's autumn clothes and winter clothes together, and then tell Liao's mother to pick expensive things to do, let's also improve the food, and the daily dishes don't need to be made with my favorite food, such as pearl crab soup, stewed crab roe lion's head, steamed eight treasures, Longjing shrimp, osmanthus swallow wings, fried birds, West Lake vinegar fish, crystal bear paws, Jinling duck, chicken shredded rolls, these are all on again." Oh, by the way, there must be three sets of ducks in Yangzhou's famous Fumanlou, this is the signature dish of Fumanlou, I heard that it was still thought out by Liao's mother when she was a girl, and then we will all open our eyes. ”
Not to mention Xianglan and Xiangju, but Zhou's mother was dumbfounded, just the names of these dishes in Dong Ruyi's mouth, I am afraid that one or two hundred taels of silver will be paid for a table.
Dong Ruyi continued: "Well, there are also the ink and rice paper I use on weekdays. Let the second wife, no, this son has to be called great-grandmother, let the great-grandmother buy me for half a year first, forget it, I think it's better to buy it for a whole year. I don't have to be cheaper, just order from the second uncle, the second uncle is our own business, who will support the show if we don't have it? I have to tell the second uncle that I don't need to save money for my great-grandmother, as long as it is cheaper than the market. ”
In this way, Dong Ruyi moved to the second wife with great fanfare.
On the first day that Dong Ruyi moved to Rongfutang, the housekeeper's mother in the small kitchen of Rongfutang came to see the second wife.
She knelt on the ground and said, "Mrs. Tai, it's not the slave who came to complain to you, it's really that Miss Ruyi's food is too expensive, and the slave and maid can't be the master." ”
As she spoke, she handed over a menu with two rows of dish names written on it.
The second lady glanced at it, frowned, and said after a while: "Hmph, it's a person who can eat, but she can't eat much alone, give it to her." ”
The kitchen steward was depressed, and when he saw the second lady say this, he couldn't say anything more, so he could only retreat.
She felt in her heart, "Miss Ruyi really can't eat much by herself, but the ones she wants to eat have to be bought whole." Let's not mention the other dishes, just talk about the steamed eight treasures, and the eight treasures alone have eight treasures and eight treasures of the sea. The eight treasures of the sea are bear's paw, monkey's head, handakan, flying dragon, tiger kidney, elk, ginseng, bracken, etc., and the eight treasures of the sea are shark fin, sea cucumber, fresh shellfish, purple abalone, mullet eggs, eel belly, fish skin, etc. Let's not talk about the other ingredients, just this bear's paw. Monkey head, no matter how powerful your Dong family is, will people still sell you for a pound and a half? Naturally, you want to buy a whole one and raise it first, and then kill it when you want to do it. Okay, even if your Dong family is rich and doesn't care about this idea of silver, then buy it back, people have made steamed eight treasures, so what should you do with the rest of the bear body and monkey body? It's not good that all the masters of the Dong family eat the leftover things, right? Besides, those mountain delicacies and game are all made by the chefs of the big restaurants who specialize in mountain delicacies. ”
The second lady held her forehead with one hand, and Aunt Hu stepped forward to gently touch her temples when she saw it, and said, "Mrs. Tai's headache can only be recuperated, and the slave maid only hopes that the eighth master can take the eighth grandmother back early." ”
The second lady shook her head and said, "She's too tender." ”
On the second day when Dong Ruyi came to Rongfutang, Aunt Hu stopped talking, and finally said softly: "Miss Ruyi will make new clothes, and she will roughly add one or two hundred taels of silver." ”
The second lady said, "Isn't the share in our house enough for her to make clothes?"
Aunt Hu whispered: "Mother Zhou said that Sister Ru's summer clothes this year, the Chen family has already made them." Now if my sister grows fast, I can't wear it again next year, if it's wasted, it's better to do it directly in autumn and winter, but the clothes in the autumn and winter seasons are added together and the silver in the summer is not enough. ”
The second lady rubbed her forehead again, and Aunt Hu still stepped forward to rub her temples.
Aunt Hu said again: "Today, the Xiangju girl, said that Sister Ru didn't have much rice paper for writing on weekdays, and she used it all to buy with the help of the second master of the Chen family, saying that she was going to buy it for a year at a time, and asked the slave where the silver came from?"
The second lady listened to Aunt Hu's words, and she was so angry that she couldn't say a word, and this feeling was to buy enough things for a year from her.
The second lady said: "How much silver does she want, give it to her, I want to see what tricks she can toss." ”
Aunt Hu hurriedly took out a list and put it on the small table, she was also depressed, but the second wife's money was in her hands, and she couldn't do it if she didn't ask.
The second lady's head ached, and she pointed to the amount of silver on the paper and said, "What kind of paper is this? Why does it cost 3,000 taels of silver a year?
Aunt Hu explained in a low voice: "I heard that it was the rice paper of Xuanzhou Mansion, and the slave was afraid that Miss Ruyi would be deceived by the Chen family, so she secretly asked people to inquire, and at this price, it was still cheaper to buy." ”
At this moment, Aunt Hu didn't even call Sister Ruyi, and directly changed it to Miss Ruyi.
The second lady gasped and said, "Then this ink is really worth this silver?"
Aunt Hu said: "Yes, it is said that Huimo is at this price, and the piece that Second Master Chen brought is at least twenty taels of silver cheaper than the outside." ”
The second lady sneered: "She uses such good things now?"