In the whole courtyard, only Bai Ko's working kitchen was lit, so Aunt Nie didn't notice Bai Ko coming out at all, she hurried out of the corner door, scolded the people hiding under the wall, and threatened to complain to the stewards, and drove the people back to sleep.

Through the hidden door panel, through the dim light of the lantern in the aisle, Bai Ko did not need to listen to the sound, and recognized who it was just by the figure.

During the day, I had menstrual pain so much that I couldn't get out of bed, but at night I was actually lively, and I knew how to borrow a knife to kill people and find a mother-in-law on the door to be a helper.

It's a pity that the guards who came tonight are actually a family with this aunt, and Mengmei's wishful thinking is still wrong after all.

In fact, Mengmei's way to counteract is very simple, just sacrifice her sleep time like her, spend it in the kitchen every day, give full play to her ability to learn art for many years, and make good food to pat the mother-in-law's ass, as long as you have a good relationship, there will always be some convenience in the future.

However, many of the apprentices feel that the last assessment is undecided, and they are unwilling to start engaging in personal relations now, for fear that they will spend time and energy, and they will not be able to get the final election, so many people are now flattering Wen Gushan and the stewards and want to inquire about the latest news about the assessment.

After all, there is less than half a month left before the third assessment.

There are more princes and nobles with titles in the capital, and many descendants of the lords have become sons of gentlemen, or even losers, and there are only a handful of lords with such a stable status and respect as the Duke of Xianguo.

Even the handyman in the kitchen sometimes chatted and said that when the period of the eldest lord of the world expires and the ceremony is over, the official position may go further and become a Beijing official.

If the speculation becomes true, then in a few months, two major events, two big banquets, and countless other small banquets will follow.

Therefore, the kitchen is in dire need of additional manpower.

Listening to the footsteps of Aunt Nie and Mengmei leaving separately, Bai Qiao stroked the new scar on the tiger's mouth on her left hand, and secretly swore that in order to become an official chef, she must pass the guò assessment.

Patiently waiting for no more movement on the mezzanine, Bai Ko returned to the kitchen to clean up, and then began to make zuò noodle soup for four people.

The kitchen belongs to the back house, and there are foreign men here at night, even if it is a guard in the house, once it is known to outsiders, it will cause gossip and hurt people's reputation, so there are special women in charge of the night patrol here, and they themselves are generally the wives and daughters of the men's nursing home, and they know some superficial fists and feet.

Mengmei wanted to ruin her reputation, who knew that the Nie guard and this Nie Third Aunt were a family, this was an unexpected surprise, and it solved tonight's trouble without any turmoil.

It seems that you have to think about it, how to repay Mengmei for being so "considerate" over and over again.

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When Aunt Nie came to the kitchen with the three female nurses who were on night patrol, Bai Ko had already prepared all kinds of ingredients, and she just waited for someone to come and cook noodles.

The four women are all about the same age, in their forties, they are all little sisters who grew up together, the one who is the leader of the three women's nursing homes, and the maiden sister of Aunt Nie, who is called Aunt Wu on weekdays, has a stern face and full of aura.

Bai Ko first saluted the four aunts, asking each of them about their tastes and dietary taboos, and then turned to cook noodles.

These aunts are all born in the family, they know all kinds of rules in the house since they were children, seeing that Bai Ko etiquette is in place, her appearance is kind and pleasing, her eyebrows and eyes are crooked, and she is born with a smile, they are comfortable, and naturally they will not deliberately embarrass her, eat whatever they have, and are not picky.

After a while, Bai Ko presented four bowls of rich noodle soup, red sauce, green vegetables, yellow egg drops, and white noodles.

Seeing their happy expressions, Bai Ko relieved herself, did not leave to gossip with them, and packed up her tools and went to the well to clean.

The women didn't talk to each other, but they raised their heads to rest after every few bites, exchanged a satisfied look with each other, and then lowered their heads and continued eating.

Bai Ko came back with the cleaned pot and cutting board, and saw that these aunts had finished eating the big bowl full of noodles, and there was some noodle soup left at the bottom of the bowl.

"Aunties, are the noodles delicious?" Bai Ko asked with a smile as he put the pots and chopping boards back to everyone.

"It's okay, but I live up to the skills I learned." Aunt Wu wiped her mouth like a food critic casually commenting.

Bai Kom smiled and saluted.

Aunt Wu glanced at Bai Ko a few times, hooked her fingers, and beckoned her old sisters to leave.

Bai Ko cleaned up the kitchen alone and went back to sleep.

In the dark squatter house, Bai Ko walked carefully in front of the shop, but suddenly she was firmly grasped by the wrist, and the other party used so much force that it seemed to want to break her wrist, and at the same time a pair of angry eyes stared at her.

Bai Ko didn't want to fight with someone at night, she quickly grabbed the other party's long hair and pulled it hard, in order to drag the person directly off the bunk, and finally got the other party to let go quickly with a cry of pain.

The girls who slept in the same bunk were disturbed, some rolled over, some murmured, and Bai Ko quickly climbed up to his bunk, undressed and lay down as if nothing had happened.

Early the next morning, Bai Ko and Mengmei both looked normal, treating each other as transparent people, which was easy to do.

But other girls are not so easy to let go of Mengmei, she has not finished settling accounts with her about soiling everyone's clothes, and the girls have always squeezed Mengmei with words intentionally or unintentionally throughout the morning, so angry that she wanted to throw things away several times, and occasionally when people were not paying attention, she stared at Bai Ko's gaze as if she wanted to rip out her heart, full of resentful feelings.

Lu Doudou was instructed by Bai Ko to quietly pay attention to Mengmei's every move, and saw Mengmei's malicious eyes several times, and his heart trembled.

During the lunch break, the girls squatted in the small courtyard and hurried to do the laundry, but Lu Doudou found that Mengmei thought that no one saw it, and went in the direction where the male chefs lived, and she quietly ended up in curiosity

Lu Doudou stood in the shadow and counted quietly, but after counting more than two hundred, she didn't see Mengmei come out, she didn't know what a kitchen apprentice had to say to talk to the kitchen manager alone, but her intuition couldn't stay any longer, she tiptoed back to the mezzanine quietly, and went back to the courtyard to take a nap as if nothing happened.