Seeing the hostess coming, Aunt Zhao hurriedly pretended to look like she had just come off the stove: "Boss, why are you here?" The meal was ready right away. ”

"What did you do, why is it so fragrant?"

"Stir-fried meat with cabbage, and stewed radish bone broth."

Tang Xueqin looked at the freshly fried dish, the green vegetables were green, the meat slices were thin and tender, and they were full of juice, which was completely different from the past, and couldn't help but wonder: "This is not what you did, right?" ”

Aunt Zhao scratched her head in embarrassment, and smiled: "Boss, don't blame the slave for being lazy, it's really Miss Ning who offered to cook, and the slave couldn't persuade ......"

Tang Xueqin was noncommittal, and looked at Ning Xi with a gentle smile: "Let's see if the master is back, let's start dinner when I come back!" ”

"Yes!" Aunt Zhao was happy in her heart, this is what it means to agree to let Ning Xi cook, then it will be much easier in the future, and this Ning girl looks really good at craftsmanship, just now that the fragrance came together, her saliva almost didn't come out. Usually she eats until the main family eats first and then eats the leftovers, and this time I don't know if there is much left, Aunt Zhao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and knew that she had secretly put it up a little and hid it just now.

"Mother, it's delicious." Ning Shaotong moved his chopsticks like flying, and quickly stuffed the meat slices into his mouth, "I have never eaten such delicious meat." ”

Ning Wenhao also smiled and said, "I didn't expect Xi'er to learn this hand." ”

Ning Xi smiled faintly: "If you do more, you will be fine." "When the bone broth is a little cold, pick one up and give it to Ning Shaotong to eat, teach him to suck out the bone marrow inside first, and then the five-clawed golden dragon grabs the bone and tears off the muscles outside the bone to eat.

Whether it is the bone marrow in the barrel bone or the muscles outside, it is salty and sweet, and it is extremely delicious! This salty and sweet seems to be the innate taste of the barrel bones, the soup is not light or salty, just right, and the taste is rich, this is the beauty of marinating the bones first, if there is no pickling procedure, the taste will definitely be greatly reduced.

"Since you know how to cook, you can also cook the meals of the guests of the inn in the future, the guests have long said that the food in the store is not good." Tang Xueqin said.

Although Ning Xi was a little surprised, he still agreed happily, since he was under the fence, of course he had to know a little.

The family was eating with relish, and even Tang Xueqin, who had always eaten little, added an extra bowl of rice for the first time when she suddenly heard a sharp knock on the door.

As soon as Aunt Zhao pulled the bolt open, the door was pushed open by someone, and a young man dressed as a boy came in, and sniffed violently: "What are you doing delicious!" ”

Aunt Zhao recognized that this was a guest in the store in front of her, and said politely: "This young master, this is an inner house, and they are all women and children, and they don't greet guests." ”

The young man was dissatisfied: "Since there is such a good cook, why is the food in the front store so unpalatable as pig food?" ”

Aunt Zhao, who is responsible for cooking "pig food" every day, is not happy: "This dish is made by the niece of our boss, how can a good girl go to work for you old men?" ”

"Can't I give the money? Without further ado, whatever you eat today, make me a portion of the same! After saying that, he took out a small ingot of silver and slapped it on the table.

Ning Xi looked at this young man, her skin was snow-white, her facial features were delicate, and even her exposed hands were white, tender and smooth, and then looked at her neck, there was no Adam's apple at all, it was clearly a girl's family, and she didn't know what others thought, she didn't believe that they wouldn't be able to see such an obvious woman dressed as a man.

Before she could say anything, Tang Xueqin smiled and picked up the silver on the table: "Master, please wait." Ningxi, go cooking. ”

Ning Xi, who was still thinking that it had nothing to do with helping with the cooking, suddenly became unhappy, as a famous chef in his previous life, where had he ever been called like this: "This soup can't be stewed for two hours, and there are ready-made ones here, why don't you just take a look?" ”

I didn't expect this to be a careless one: "This is okay!" At that moment, he took the bowl and chopsticks handed over by Aunt Zhao and ate them unceremoniously, "Well, yes, it tastes so good, I haven't eaten such a delicious food when I'm so old!" ”

After eating a few more bites, I suddenly remembered something: "In the future, I won't eat those big pot dishes in front of you, just eat here with you, how much silver a day?" ”

Tang Xueqin took out the abacus and calculated "crackling" for a while: "If you eat three meals a day here, even if you have eighty yuan!" ”

The man thought for a moment: "Deal!" Suddenly, he was a little embarrassed and said, "The piece of silver I gave you just now should have a few dollars, you can calculate it for me, can it reach Shaotian?" ”

Tang Xueqin reluctantly took out the silver she had just tucked in from her belt, and muttered while looking for a poke to weigh it, "What kind of uncle do you have if you don't have money!" ”

Of course, the people who can come to live in their small and dilapidated inn are not rich people, so when Ning Xi appeared in the big kitchen of the inn in the afternoon and cooked dinner for the guests, the guest named Meng You came again to find incense, and after knowing that Ning Xi was the cook who cooked very deliciously, he couldn't help shouting: "If I had known that the chef had also changed here, I wouldn't have spent the unjust money of eighty wen a day." ”

Ning Xi had no choice but to comfort her: "I promise to help you cook better food alone every day, besides, you are a girl's family, don't you feel uncomfortable eating with a bunch of old men every day?" "The inn is a package of rice, when eating to take a meal system, ten people a table, a big bucket of rice, a big pot of vegetables on the table to eat, live here are some rough people, when eating there are everyone, there are like to take off their shoes and squat on the bench to eat, there are like to eat while talking about the mouth full of rice, and eat the west snoring like a pig to eat, and all are hungry ghosts reincarnated, a little slower even the scum can not grab.

Meng thought about it again, the meal a few days ago really disgusted her, eh, no: "How do you know that I am a girl!" Why, am I not pretending to be? ”

Ning Xi told her that she was a person with eyes who could see it, and Meng sighed again: "That's no way, it's inconvenient for a girl's family to walk outside!" ”

"Then why don't you go to a better inn? At least be safe. ”

sighed again: "Actually, I don't have much silver on me, and a good inn costs two or three hundred wen a day, where can I afford to live." ”

Ning Xi suddenly had a good impression of this foodie girl who was reluctant to eat.

Slowly the two became acquainted, Meng You, a girl's family lived in a man's pile, and when she was depressed, she talked to Ning Xi, and unconsciously poured beans into a bamboo tube and told Ning Xi everything about herself.

It turned out that her original name was Meng Shuangshuang, Lishui people, now sixteen years old, she had a good family background when she was young, but when she was eight years old, there were changes in the family, the man was exiled, and the woman was not an official slave. Meng Shuangshuang was bought by a large family and became a little maid in their young master's house, and gradually developed feelings with the young master in getting along day and night.

But Meng Shuangshuang is a strong concubine who is unwilling to be at the mercy of others, and the young master is also very affectionate to her, swearing that she will not marry. The relationship between the two was naturally unacceptable to the young master's family, so the two made an appointment to elope.

The young master helped her forge her identity, and arranged the guide to Yunhai City, so he hired a carriage for her to set off first, and the two met in Yunhai City within a month.

But now, she has been waiting for him in Yunhai City for more than 20 days, and there is not much entanglement left on her body, so she has no choice but to transfer from the Yunlai Inn with a better environment to the Ningjia Inn to continue waiting.

"Then what if he doesn't come and you run out of coils?"

"Then go find some work to do, and wait while you work! He promised me that I would come. Meng Shuangshuang said indifferently.

Well, Ning Xi admits that foodies have an optimistic heart.

After waiting for more than ten days, Meng Shuangshuang ran to the city gate every day to look, and after a long time, even the soldiers guarding the city gate knew him, among them was a city guard named Wang Dafu, and he brought her several delicious food, every time he talked to her, he would blush and stammer, and when he came back to tell Ning Xi, Ning Xi suspected that people had taken a fancy to her.

On this day, Ning Xi accidentally heard the guests chatting in the courtyard, and heard that a new merchant came from Lishui, so he hurriedly ran to the city gate to call Meng Shuangshuang back.

"This big brother, have you heard of the Jiangjia family in Chengbei in Lishui?" Meng Shuangshuang asked the merchant expectantly.

"Of course I've heard of it, who of us Lishui people doesn't know the Jiangjia in Chengbei!"

"Have you heard about what's going on in their family lately?"

"Isn't it just the happy event of the eldest young master of the Jiang family!"

"What, the eldest young master of the Jiang family is married?" Meng Shuangshuang grabbed someone's arm in surprise.

The merchant withdrew his arm dissatisfied, and carefully straightened the folds on it: "You are also a person, what does it matter to you when people get married?" No matter how hard it is your turn! Let me tell you, the eldest young master of the Jiang family is the eldest lady of the Luo family, and they are a match made in heaven! That scene that day, it was really ten miles of red makeup, I have never seen a more beautiful marriage in my life! ”

"Impossible! He said he wouldn't marry anyone but me, he said he was going to come to me, you liars, I don't believe it! Meng Shuangshuang shouted loudly.

"What's the matter with you, it's up to you to ask yourself, and you don't believe it! I deceived you very well, I don't believe you can just find someone to ask, as long as it comes out of Lishui, there is no one who does not know about it. ”

"You're lying!" Meng Shuangshuang jumped up and wanted to hit someone.

Ning Xi didn't expect her to be so violent, so she hurriedly stepped forward and pulled her away: "Don't worry, let's slowly find out the truth about the matter of the eldest young master of the Jiang family, and now go back to the room first." ”

"I'm not going, I'm going back to him, I'm going to make it clear to him face to face!"

Ning Xi's strength was not as strong as hers, and she was about to be rushed out, so in a hurry, she picked up the rolling pin next to her and knocked it down on Meng Shuangshuang's head, and Meng Shuangshuang fell to the ground softly without saying a word.