Three or four days have passed since Miss Tong's birthday, except that Miss Tong San wrote a greeting letter to the eldest lady and sent a bag of snacks, there is nothing else new, the Guogong Mansion is peaceful, and the third old lady's family has not sent anyone to ask Gu Hui if she is doing well, and she has not even sent a letter, as if she has left this granddaughter behind and does not care.

In fact, the eldest lord and the eldest lady have been worried about this matter, and secretly made some inquiries and preparations.

The disappearance of the third old lady Gu Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law Ou seems to have been concealed, and the eldest master Gu Yunan didn't hear any gossip among his colleagues, and the political enemy who fought with his third uncle didn't seem to get any information, otherwise such a serious matter would be enough to participate in several books in a row.

Gu Yunan had no intention of interfering in his uncle's past grievances, he felt that both sides were on the table, and the saint on the throne ignored such a life-and-death situation.

The sage's attitude has already explained his attitude, Gu Xiaoshan's career is really fierce and auspicious, and it can be regarded as a good death for him to be decent.

What's more, Gu Xiaoshan's handle was indeed the tail left by him when he was the official of either of his parents, it was originally just a historical contradiction between several local squire clans, he mixed in the middle, provoking the contradictions of various clans to be greater, and then he profited from it in the name of mediation, and made friends with the local clans to endorse his career in a way that harmed the interests of others.

He did these things that hurt others and benefited himself, which naturally made people talk about it a lot, and then for the sake of his good reputation, he wanted fame and fortune, and put these messy things on the heads of his subordinates, sacrificing them as stepping stones to pave the way for himself, and the officialdom and personal circles are complicated, and after so many years, someone suddenly came out to deal with him in various ways.

In order to prevent the future of his children and grandchildren in this room from being affected, Gu Xiaoshan also has to work hard.

Although Gu Yunan would not fall into the trap for his third uncle, he also made two preparations for his reputation so as not to be beaten upside down.

First of all, he sent guards outside to change into civilian clothes, and paid attention to the movements of the dowry shops and fields of the Ou clan day and night, Gu Xiaoshan wanted money to dredge the joints, so he had to sell these properties, and he did not have all kinds of certificates of house deed and title deed in his hands, so he would inevitably think that it must be in Gu Hui's luggage, and sooner or later he would have to find a reason to come to the door and ask to take Gu Hui home.

Therefore, for the safety of Ou's property, he first asked Ou to write a document to entrust all the items on her dowry list and the annual interest of the field shop to the agent of the Guogong Mansion, which was used to treat Gu Hui's illness, pay for the living expenses in the Guogong Mansion, and as a dowry for children when she married in the future.

The dowry is the woman's private property, and if the husband's children or in-laws' relatives want to fully accept it, they must either transfer the property while the person is alive, or it will be the inheritance after the person's death, and the Ou family swore to the sky that he had not written a transfer letter, so the preparation made by the grandfather of the country made it difficult for the Gu Xiaoshan family to find the Guogong Mansion to get back the daughter-in-law's dowry assets, because first of all, they had to reasonably explain the whereabouts of the eldest daughter-in-law, Ou Shi, who wanted to see people in life and corpses in death, and there must be a report record in Yingtian Mansion.

Now wait for Gu Xiaoshan to come to the door in such a hurry, Yushi and his political enemies are lurking in the shadows to catch his new handle, and they can't hide the family situation for long, the eldest daughter-in-law of his family has a circle of wives she is familiar with, and the shopkeepers who run the business for her also have to contact her regularly every month.

Ou's abandonment of a desperate escape from the family is tantamount to putting her husband's house on the fire, and the flames will lick their bodies at some point.

The eldest lord and eldest lady sighed with emotion that Ou's courage, who had been submissive for so many years, broke out for the sake of the child, and privately instructed Pang's mother to take good care of her.

In the days before the third young master's autumn, Bai Ko was finally idle, except to hurry up and practice horseback riding, there was nothing else to do, she didn't want to cook lunch in the east kitchen, Zeng Zhu just wanted her to sit next to her and write the menu.

In this spare time, Bai Ko tossed new dishes in the small kitchen, and made a lot of devilish things that looked first-class but were actually dark dishes.

Of course, she did it on purpose, just to let the girls release the news when chatting with others, don't think that it is easy to make new dishes, it will all go through countless failures.

After Tong Mingli wrote a letter to the eldest lady and sent snacks to thank her cook, the eldest lady did not understand what she meant, and returned a new ingredient this winter that had not yet been put on the market as a return gift.

Tong Mingli was a little disappointed that she didn't get the expected dim sum in return, but it was not good to continue to attack the Duchess of the Kingdom, so she had to turn to her cousin and give her a box of newly made autumn cakes.

When Gu Wan got the box of autumn cakes, she asked someone to send a piece to Bai Kom, but when it was delivered, only half of it was left, and the other half was eaten by the man along the way, and the mille-feuille crust that showed the chef's skills was gone, leaving only the thin crust wrapped in bean paste filling.

In front of the other party, Bai Ko didn't say anything, accepted it good-naturedly, and as soon as the people turned around and left, she threw it into the garbage heap.

"How did the second lady give up, she sent a snack to ask us to do the same, and she ate half of it, isn't it disgusting." The girls muttered dissatisfiedly.

"The third lady's birthday is over, why does Miss Tong still send snacks to the house?"

"You forgot to give it to our wife earlier, saying that it was to thank the cooks in the house for their good skills."

"It's a pity that the snack is sweet, the young master will appreciate us all after taking a look, it tastes really good."

"Bai Ko, the third lady seems to have made up her mind to make you a gunman, can you help her do it?"

"Don't. It's not uncommon to eat what's left in other people's mouths, let's make individual ones. ”

Bai Ko clapped his hands, began to roll up his sleeves, took a piece of oiled paper and rolled it into a paper tube, and then found a copper bowl with a lid of suitable capacity, "Go to the east kitchen to get such a package of soybean flour and make a bowl of red bean paste filling." ”

Immediately, a girl took the things and carried the basket to the east kitchen, first wrapped a bag of soybean flour, said hello to Zeng Zhu, and then went to the ice cellar to make a bowl of bean paste filling.

While waiting for the two ingredients, Bai Ko led the rest of the people to do other preparations, stirring glutinous rice paste and steaming it in a pot.

Donkey rolling is really easy to make and delicious.

According to the old habit, Rong Entang and Jichengtang each give a copy, the eldest lady will let Pang's mother divide some to take to Gu Hui, and the second lady and the young lady will use a snack box covered with oiled paper to pack, saving them from sending tableware back and forth, if their subordinates are lazy and do not wash and make themselves nauseous, and give two boxes at a time, if you feel satisfied, the remaining box is just sent to Tongfu as a return gift.

It was Xiao Qian who went to deliver the snacks, her mouth was stronger than Xiao Jing, and after the snacks were delivered, the second lady really asked about the autumn cakes before, and Xiao Qian looked innocently panicked and pretended to be stupid.

"Please forgive the second lady, the maids don't know that the autumn cake is a sample for Bai Ko, and they think that the people in the second room are eating the cake and going to our Wenling Courtyard to walk, and if you don't take half of the leftovers, you will throw it away."

The second lady suddenly sulked in her heart, and casually responded a few words to send Xiao Qian back, and then dragged the messenger down to play the board.

"These subordinates are getting more and more disagreeable, relying on the old skin, old face and old qualifications, they have already been punished for not washing the dishes, and they have not learned a lesson, and they dare to steal the cakes they sent!" The second lady, Tong, slapped the table angrily.

"These old servants are decent in the house because they are their mother's companions, and since they are old, they will find a chance to change them if they are useless." Third Miss Gu Wan said.

"That's right, mother, hurry up and change, I heard that the day for the third brother to move the yard is set, that is, in the days of Qiuqiu, he will live directly in Zhongming Courtyard when he comes back from the examination room, which is connected to Jicheng Hall, if the eldest aunt can see our subordinates behave so badly in the future......" Fifth Miss Gu Chan echoed her sister's construction worriedly.

The second lady chuckled in her heart, and ordered the old servant to be removed after the board was beaten again, and hurried home to eat herself.