There are guests coming to the ceremony, and the busiest should be the stove room. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info housekeeping is also done after the dots, only three meals a day to do, and to follow the spirit of the new nobles, not a little sloppy.

Three days before the Wang brothers and sisters came, the Tongzhou Royal Mansion had sent someone to send a post describing Miss Gongzi's daily housekeeping and eating habits, so that the mansion could prepare it first. There is no special requirement for Fang Xun, but this Wei Zhen account post is sprinkled with dozens of pages, details, no details, from the beginning of the young lady's life and all aspects of the line of work have been standardized, the requirements for the stove room are, the taboo next to the table is not outside, and each meal also needs a roast pigeon.

The stove room is also prepared according to the requirements, specially selected the most lush mountain forest in Tongzhou to raise the pigeon, caught a cage, only pick three months old, more than one day can not, as usual the taste is the richest, the meat is the most delicate, and by the old imperial chef in Wuyi Lane skillfully pickled, embedded with jade delicacies, charcoal fire slow roasting for two hours, to the outside crispy and tender after the open flame slightly scorched skin, put on the jade plate, decorated with cherries, meaning phoenix beads, auspicious and peaceful. When the roast pigeon is done, although the stove room has mixed tastes, but the only pigeon exudes a strange fragrance in the house, which is coveted, and provokes the maids to come and look.

"In the end, it's our old imperial chef, this kind of skill only teaches Miss Tongzhou to open her eyes!" said the thin maid.

The fat maid quickly covered her mouth and said softly: "Then Miss Weizhen is taboo with the name 'Miss Tongzhou'......"

"Why is that?"

I didn't see the fat maid answer, but I heard Zhang Bing, Xie Quan's cronie and steward at the door of the stove room, personally come to the stove room to supervise the affairs, and gave a solemn order: "Is lunch ready?" The maidservants hurriedly dispersed to work separately, and the thin maid replied: "I just made Miss Weizhen's pigeon, Uncle Zhang Bing sees whether it will be sent the same or sent together? ”

"Let's send it together. But you have to be quick. Zhang Bing glanced at the stove room, and saw that the maid and cook were performing their duties, the stove was fully open, the green smoke was blowing, and the scene was warm and urgent like a war march, so he was also satisfied, and turned his head to inspect other affairs in the house.

When I was young, after a busy time, Miss Wei Zhen's lunch was all done, but left and right, I didn't see Miss Wei Zhen's housekeeping maids come to pass the dishes, but in this way, the other dishes were okay, and the pigeon was cold and it was very unstandard. Sent someone to pass the word, only to inquire that the maids were taking care of the housekeeping, and they were too busy to pull away, and the maids in the stove room were even more anxious, if they delayed lunch, they didn't have to bear the blame, the fat maid shook the dough in her hand and said: "It's better for me to pass it!"

Chu Meng listened and looked back, a burst of white smoke rose around the fat maid's body, it was just in front of the face, and the water was also added when it was time to knead, so he put down a basket of vegetables and fruits washed in front of his knees, wiped his hands and said, "I'll go." ”

The fat maid heard a thank you and waited nervously for the dough, Chu Meng got up and straightened the slightly loose bun, and pulled the handmaid's clothes that had been soaked in greasy, and slapped a red acid branch hollow edged wooden case from the side, and put several plates of hot dishes neatly on the table, and each plate was covered with a small silver and gold-edged jade-topped lid specially made according to the plate to maintain the flavor and temperature of the dishes. The first dream was properly loaded, and she tried her best to mention it, but she didn't move the first time, she tried the second time, and finally barely picked it up, swaying like the wooden case leading her and staggered to the side room, the back left the fat maid and the old imperial chef worried, this wooden case plus the dish is enough to have dozens of catties, this small body bones will not fall halfway.

Fortunately, although the road swayed from side to side, in the end it was safely transmitted to the wing garden where Wei Zhen lived, and there were still maidservants inside and outside the house doing the finishing work, and Yinglang was standing under the eaves porch to monitor them.

"Serving the food, why did you come, the young lady's stomach has been called three rounds!" Yinglang saw the first dream, and hurriedly opened the curtain to help her enter the house.

"There are not enough people today, so I neglect Miss. ”

Chu Meng ran all the way urgently, and was covered with heavy objects, when he settled in the young lady's inner room, he was already wheezing like a cow, and he smoked a hot body in the stove room before, and a layer of fragrant sweat was already condensed on his neck, and he only spasmed his arm and put the wooden table on the young lady's dining table, and unloaded the vegetables on the table in the same way, and the room was suddenly full of aroma and coveted. Chu Meng said while swinging: "This is stuffed white fish, this is three sets of duck, this is Liangxi crispy eel, this is crystal meat, and this is boiled dried silk...... This is the roast pigeon named by the young lady. ”

Wei Zhen was looking at the lake in front of the window lattice, and he didn't turn his head, only glanced at the first dream and the dishes on the table with a light from the corner of his eye, and said coldly: "Hmm." When you are done, go down. ”

"Yes......" Chu Meng hesitated for a moment, and then saluted, "Today's stove room is not full of manpower, I neglected Miss, please forgive Miss!"

"Hmm. Got it. ”

"Miss Xie is magnanimous, the little maid retreated first. ”

After Chu Meng retreated from the room, Wei Zhen walked to the table, covering his snort with his shirt sleeves. This table full of delicacies is of the highest quality regardless of the shape and fragrance, but Virgin's face is like frost, and she said coldly: "Yinglang, pour all the dishes on this table, and by the way, ask someone to wipe all the floor tiles all the way into the house." ”

Yinglang was confused when he heard this, but he only replied in a low voice: "Yes." ”

"I don't know what kind of heart this king Xie Erjia'an has, but he actually sent an inferior maid to deliver food to me. Wei Zhen snorted again, her eyebrows tightened, and she shook her robe, she had already stepped back from the previous splendid water ripple gilt dress, and changed into a much more low-key gold peony medicine crepe robe, pasted with Cui Yudian, but according to the eyes of this mansion, it was still dazzling.

"Yinglang saw that the palace treated us with a lot of thought, and Miss look at this roast pigeon, it cooks better than our Tongzhou mansion. ”

"If you want to eat, then you can take it and eat it." ”

"Yinglang dare not ......"

Wei Zhensu said: "Yinglang, when you look at things not only on the surface, you can be regarded as following me." You think this dish is cooked for me, and it is all for the face of his king and his family. ”

"Miss, since Miss said that this is not good or not good in Wuyi Alley, then why did you come?"

Wei Zhen sneered: "Aunt Zhao of the Xie family opened her mouth, although she is a concubine, she always invites Wang Xie and the second family on behalf of her, how can she not give face?

"In the end, Miss is thoughtful!" Yinglang has been serving Wei Zhen since she was a child, and seems to have touched her temperament, and hurriedly complimented her at this time, Wei Zhen naturally heard her ingeniousness, but she didn't want to be too harsh and embarrassed, and wanted to choke Yinglang to teach her to avoid these hypocritical words, but she thought about it and swallowed it.

"Yinglang, you have to remember, this trip is not as unscrupulous as a child, we are here to do business in the capital, not to have fun, everything must be checked. ”

"Miss is right. Yinglang went to pour all the dishes that the maid had touched, so as not to pollute the lady's beautiful treasure. ”

In addition to lunch today, the dinner at night is a family banquet, grand and grand, at this moment is the most white hot time to prepare, the thin maid is washing the plate back, is hitting the main door, seeing Yinglang standing at the door with a wooden case, full of thought that the dish is cold, so the young lady called Yinglang to call the stove warm, and said: "This kind of chores call us to do it, why bother Yinglang girl, you come in person." Unexpectedly, after eating Yinglang's cold noodles, he only replied: "Miss asked me to pour these dishes." ”

This sentence is not loud or small, but the eyes of everyone in the busy green are attracted together, the stove room has no voice for a while, only the fire is snoring and squatting dishes, everyone's faces are all stunned and surprised, the older maid hurriedly came over and asked: "Girl, forgive me, is there anything in the stove room that is not good to snub Miss?" The people in the stove room are stupid, please make it clear. ”

Yinglang put down the wooden table that he found a table to place sundries, and replied simply: "Miss is not in a good mood for lunch, and I can't swallow it, so I asked me to bring it back and pour it." Regardless of everyone's painstaking self-reflection, they wanted to stop her from getting to the bottom of the look, and turned back. And when Yinglang returned to the house in Xiangyuan again, he saw that Miss Weizhen had eaten some baked naan cakes brought by Tongzhou, so he said: "Pity Miss's daughter's body, for the prosperity of the house, I can't even support the small stove in the garden." ”

Wei Zhen was rinsing his mouth with tea, and when he heard this, he said: "When you follow the customs, you must have the appearance of sending people under the eaves, and you need to give face to the owner's family, but also show your own demeanor." I'm also full, so let's go and visit Aunt Zhao when I'm ready. ”

Yinglang listened to the scorching stuffiness that came in from outside the house, and in the afternoon it was when the sun was strong, and he thought about it for a while: "Miss, let's also learn from Jianye people to take a nap and then go around, are the young ladies and ladies of the noble family all lazy?"

"Then Aunt Zhao can sleep, but we can't sleep and then go to worship, even if she sleeps, our family has to wait outside for the hour to show sincerity. The garden in Wuyi Lane is tall and lush, and compared to Tongzhou, you have nothing to say about the heat. ”

As he was talking, Zhang Bing from the house came. As soon as Zhang Bing entered the door, he greeted Wei Zhen with an earnest face, and finally boiled down to the fact that he had not moved his chopsticks for lunch today.

Zhang Bingdui said with a smile: "Today's cooks are not doing the dishes properly, and the old servant has already made them rectification, and Miss Wang's attention is more included." ”

"Don't do their business. Wei Zhen seemed to be a reasonable, Shuxiu boudoir, bowed and said, "Wei Zhen is tired and lazy, and he doesn't know the taste of food, so Uncle Zhang Bing specially came to ask, and Wei Zhen really didn't want to go." ”

"Then you want the Imperial Doctor to take a look?"

"Uncle Zhang Bing has a heart, Wei Zhen is tired from the journey, and it is good to rest and rest, so there is no need to make such a big move. ”

"If the young lady has any instructions, just show it, the old man has explained that the good student will take care of the two distant guests, and the young lady will treat Wuyi Lane as if she is at home in Tongzhou, and you must not be polite if you have anything to eat. Zhang Bing saluted and was about to say goodbye, and added, "The old servant heard that Fu Xuan Gongzi was ordering someone to purchase Huaxi Pills before, and he only taught his subordinates to help the young lady purchase some together, and it is always beneficial to collect tonic pills." ”

Wei Zhen thanked Zhang Bing, and called Yinglang to personally send Zhang Bing out of the Xiangyuan, and when Yinglang came back, he saw the usual cold face, only to see Wei Zhen leaning on the window drawer, with nothing in his eyes but looking from afar, although his eyes were full of flowers and willow green, there was a faint and tired feeling, and he knew that Miss was suspicious again, and hurriedly asked: "Miss, who is this who has made Miss sad again?"

Wei Zhen opened his mouth, and he was interested: "I have been secretly paying attention to it for me these days, and I have asked who is eating this flower breath pill in the two mansions, I expect that Aunt Zhao is also a little old, and it is not suitable to take this kind of girl's breathing pills, but this flower breath pill is so precious, and there is no young lady of the same age in the two mansions, it is quite strange who Fu Xuan procured." ”

"Miss, what are you doing with this leisure, that's the son of Fuxuan! The eldest son of the dignified Chen Jun Xie family, and with such an amazing appearance, he naturally knows tens of millions of girls of all kinds, and it is not surprising that he has exchanged a few gifts from them. ”

Wei Zhen also felt some truth when she heard it, and she didn't say much, but the crux of her heart was always like thorns growing at that end, piercing her heart and lungs, and disturbing her peace.

"Warbler waves. Wei Zhen ordered, "Check the gifts brought to Aunt Zhao at home, and go with me a little later." Maybe she really fell asleep later. ”

Yinglang took out a Baohu green woven ribbed belt edging brocade box from the back cabinet, which was also inlaid with an agate, and said, "Miss, I have already prepared it." ”

Wei Zhen stepped forward, gently put the finger of the greasy jade on the brocade box, looked at it for a moment, and ordered: "Go and change the purple gold cloud box, green is the poorest color in Baise, only the maid girl is green, although she is a concubine, but the person who is a concubine is more sensitive to these details, and she always does not want others to treat her as a concubine, and Princess Nankang also died first, and now she is also an elder of a house, we must always give face to others." ”