Thirty or forty miles of driving, the sun set on the horizon. The carriage that sent the coffin to the Lin family www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion stopped next to the post house on the side of the road and chartered a three-entry courtyard. The little maids were busy driving the carriage into the yard, Zijuan got down from the carriage with Daiyu in her arms, and on the other side, a girl also got off with a few aunts. In order to avoid the prying eyes of idlers, the ladies all wore hats.

The group entered the courtyard in an orderly manner and settled down to rest. The people in the post house asked the little guy where the nobleman came from, and heard that it was the family of the late Lin Ruhai, who patrolled the salt and wanted to send the coffin back to his hometown for burial, and they did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly called the men in the back kitchen and stable to get busy, and after a while, the hot water and the good forage for feeding the horses were sent over.

At this time, the post house sent a dark-faced girl to deliver the recipe, and the housekeeper asked the maids to let them go, so that the girl could send the recipe directly into the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is specially for women, and Daiyu is watching Zijuan and Xueyan make the bed with the two girls, using the bedding they brought. Aunt Ye stared at the little girls on the side, and wanted to roll up her sleeves to help, but Daiyu pulled her sleeves and pressed them on the chair: "Good aunt, hurry up and rest!" I'm tired of traveling tomorrow! ”

Aunt Ye couldn't cry or laugh, so she grabbed Daiyu and let her sit beside her. At this moment, a stammering voice of a strange girl came from the dark shadow outside:

"Miss, madam, the post house has brought you a menu."

Aunt Ye said "come in", and sure enough, a girl in a cloth dress with a dark face came in, who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, and held a cookbook in her hand.

When Daiyu left Yangzhou and went to Rongguo Mansion for the first time, she was not yet six years old, and she hadn't eaten Yangzhou City's dishes seriously for four or five years. Aunt Ye said with a smile: "You don't have to look through it, there are so many dishes, you can't pick them until tomorrow?" ”

So he told the girl that he wanted the same fried yellow buds, the same steamed white jade bergamot, and a salty crispy chicken. Aunt Ye was thinking about it, and Daiyu next to her looked at the recipe and said, "Add another jade roasted wheat and a Wensi tofu soup." Saying that, Daiyu said to Aunt Ye: "The chicken is too greasy, why don't you change it to a lighter one?" ”

Aunt Ye knew that it was because she was not allowed to get meat during the period of filial piety, so she said with a smile: "It's not chicken, it's made of gluten, but it's very similar to chicken." ”

When Daiyu heard this, she knew that she was too careful. So I handed the recipe to the girl from the inn, and listened to her recite "fried yellow buds, steamed white jade bergamot, salty crispy chicken, Wensi tofu soup, jade roasted wheat" as good, so I nodded. The purple juan next to him had already taken a handful of copper coins and asked the snow goose to take them as a reward. Aunt Ye asked the girl to go to the other two aunts.

Before leaving Yangzhou, two concubines found Daiyu and proposed to go back to their hometown, so they each sealed a thousand taels of silver and went back to their hometown. Now with the coffin sent back to Suzhou, in addition to Aunt Ye, there is also an Aunt Yao and an Aunt Du.

There are also large and small kitchens in the post house, and the black girl is in charge of the small kitchen that specializes in making food for the young lady's wife, and the other big kitchen also sent someone to ask the housekeeper for the recipe. At this time, a little girl came out to spread the word: everyone has worked hard all the way, you can add some meat dishes as appropriate, but you can't drink alcohol, so as not to make mistakes.

The faces of all the servants were full of joy.

At one time, all kinds of dishes from the inner courtyard were delivered, and another steamed rice with lotus leaves was delivered. Although the dishes are all vegetarian, they are just as fragrant and appetizing. The stir-fried yellow buds are fresh and tender in color and pleasant in aroma. The steamed white jade bergamot is steamed with cabbage wrapped in tofu filling, accompanied by mushroom hanging broth, and decorated with bright red wolfberries, which is as crystal clear as white jade. Wensi tofu soup is cut into very fine filaments, but the bottom tofu is not cut, put in the soup stewed with fresh bamboo shoots and mushrooms, fluttering and stretching, very much like a blooming silver peony. Then there is the salty crispy chicken that looks crispy and golden on the surface, and the aroma is overflowing, and the jade roasted wheat is green and bright. Sure enough, it was appetizing.

Aunt Ye personally served a bowl of rice to Daiyu, and took some fried yellow buds with chopsticks in Daiyu's bowl, and said with a smile: "You try it, these are all dishes eaten by ordinary people, but can you still eat it?" ”

Daiyu took the chopsticks and tasted them, and they were really refreshing and delicious. At this time, Zijuan held another bowl of rice to Aunt Ye, still standing at the table and serving the food. Daiyu feigned anger and said to Zijuan: "I don't see you so attentive on weekdays, and now there are no outsiders in the house, what are you doing with a shelf?" Sitting down to eat with a bowl is the right thing to do. ”

Zijuan was originally to take care of Daiyu, but I was afraid that she was too young to be manipulated by Aunt Ye, so she took out the rules to wait. Listening to her joke like this, I knew that I was taking everyone in the house as my own family, and I realized my own hard work. Zijuan was happy and worried in her heart. I am happy that Daiyu treats her like a sister, and I am worried that Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng of Rongguo Mansion are both greedy and vicious people, and Daiyu's situation is very difficult.

While thinking wildly, she went to call Snow Goose over, and the two of them each served a bowl of rice and sat down at the table.

Aunt Ye saw that Daiyu was not holding a shelf in front of the close-fitting girl, and the master and servant got along very easily, and she was sympathetic to the subordinates, so she also let go of a little restraint. Although it was outside, it was not as good as at home, but the master and servant got along harmoniously, and the dishes were very fresh, so everyone added a bowl.

In the outer courtyard, Jia Lian and Lin Mo each lived in a separate room, and the housekeeper also ordered someone to send recipes to these two rooms. Lin Mo ordered a stir-fried yellow bud and asked for a piece of rice. The housekeeper hurriedly ordered someone to pass the word: "The eldest lady has told me, the journey is hard, please don't have to be vegetarian, you can order whatever you like." ”

Lin Mo excused himself and said: "One dish and one meal are enough, there is no need to add more." The housekeeper had no choice but to ask the kitchen to follow suit.

Jia Lian, who lives in the side room, has already ordered eight treasure gourd duck, braised silver carp head, crab roe lion head, crystal meat, Liangxi crispy eel, etc., and asked for a pot of wine. The butler took the menu and frowned again. Let's not talk about whether Jia Lian can finish eating more than a dozen dishes, and he doesn't waste money on a few dishes, but he has already told him not to drink, lest this second master of the Jia family drink and make trouble, and he will only lose the dignity of the Lin family.

It's just that Jia Lian is a guest, and the housekeeper can't control his behavior, so he struggled for a long time, but he still asked the guys at the post house to send it up.

For a time, everyone had dinner and arranged a night patrol and a rest of rest. In the middle of the night, there was a commotion in the courtyard.

It turned out that two girls got up to replace the person on duty at night, trembling and walking in the courtyard, one of them was suddenly hugged from behind coldly, and the man was full of alcohol, and moved his hands up and down.

As soon as the girl's scream sounded, the night watchman in the outer courtyard rushed in. I saw that under the faint moonlight, a black shadow really pressed a person on the ground and was tearing the person's clothes, and the other person was trembling with fright, and was desperately shouting "Someone". When the people who were on the night vigil saw it, their blood rushed to their brains, and they picked up the flat poles, wooden sticks and other things, and kicked the black shadow far away, crackling it.

"Don't fight! Stop it! The black shadow hurriedly begged for mercy and shouted. The housekeeper was wearing his clothes and hurriedly walked over, listening to this voice was very familiar, who was it not Jia Lian? At this moment, another person rushed next to him and grabbed Jia Lian under the stick, it was Wang'er. It turned out that he woke up, saw that there was no master in the house, and when he heard the noise outside, he immediately knew that something was wrong.

As soon as Jia Lian got the vacancy, he ran away with a roll, leaving Wang'er in place. The girl next to her had already been helped up and sent back to the house, and she was hiding her face and crying bitterly. The housekeeper hated the and debauchery of the people from Jiafu, but he injured Jia Lian, and he was afraid that the people from Rongguofu would not forgive. Therefore, he instructed his subordinates: "Don't chase it, just hit the one in front of you!" ”

When Wang'er heard this, she also hugged her head and shouted: "You are wrong, there was no one else just now, it was me who made this girl lightly!" ”

When everyone saw that this man had really admitted his mistake, and listened to his words very ugly, they avoided several fatal places such as his head, face, and chest, and beat him severely.