The next day, Tong Mingli received a donkey from her cousin at home to roll, and she tasted the taste at the first bite, the taste of the bean paste filling was the same as the pastries on the table at the birthday party, but it was not the taste of the two baked dim sum before and after the banquet.

There are really other cooks hiding in the Guogong Mansion, and it must be that person who is the gunman for my cousin.

After Tong Mingli ate a few pieces of donkey rolling, her mind changed, and she wrote a letter to her cousin, asking her cousin and cousin to come to the house to make osmanthus sauce with her friends.

Cooking and needlework are the most important boudoir education for girls from an early age, literacy, reading, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which belong to the level of the superstructure, the general food and clothing people have limited financial resources can only teach their daughters the two most basic, all over the country and all walks of life to be married girls gather to compete with each other cooking skills and female red is a joy of life and traditional customs, which not only enhances the feelings between sisters, but also allows parents behind them to choose a satisfactory future daughter-in-law.

Tong Mingli's invitation to her cousin to participate in her sisterhood activities is too normal for a girl's daily communication.

Gu Wan's face turned pale when she received the letter from her cousin, how could she have learned skilled cooking skills in the past few days, and hurriedly took the letter to her mother, the second lady was also at a loss, the mother and daughter looked at each other speechlessly, and finally wrote a note to Bai Ko and asked her if she had any dishes that were convenient and suitable for learning and suitable for showing her hands in front of people.

After reading the note, Bai Ko understood what the second lady meant, and the third lady wanted to show her cooking skills in the circle of sisters.

See, one of the consequences of a layman pretending to be an insider is to face this kind of scenario head-on.

Sighing, Bai Qiao still wrote a reply to the second lady, and the two young ladies pretended to be sick and didn't go, the fun of cooking at this kind of sister gathering by the way lies in the casual ingredients, all relying on personal freedom, the third and fifth ladies are full of poetry and books, it is better to find a chess club to talk to the sisters for a day.

This building is really in place, Gu Wan immediately came to the spirit, in addition to her weakest cooking skills, she is confident that she will not lose face in the circle of friends when she reads, but Tong Mingli is different, she spends too much time on cooking, and naturally has no extra energy to take care of other aspects.

The time slowly ended in the tug-of-war of letters between the two sisters, Tong Mingli had already made osmanthus sauce with her friends, and Gu Wan and her sister did not go out to show their cooking skills in front of outsiders.

As we enter August, autumn becomes a top priority.

Autumn in a total of nine days and seven nights, once the examination is completed and walk into the house, in addition to illness and sudden death of various accidents, can only come out on August 15, the eldest lord as the ceremonial secretary in charge of the imperial examination, the night of the first day of August stayed in the official office and was not allowed to go home, the family is only allowed to send some changes of clothes and food the next day, but the family can not meet, things handed over to the official office officials have to leave.

The eldest lord specially brought a bag of instant noodles and a small can of beef sauce in his luggage, which was originally for his own convenience at night, because he also had to do things at night, and put all the trivial things before and after the autumn season in place one by one, and there was no room for any difference, otherwise they would be unlucky from top to bottom.

Originally, those supper snacks were enough for the eldest lord to eat alone for seven or eight days, but only two days later, the family who went to send a change of clothes took home the noodle pockets and empty jars that had been eaten, and the instant noodles and beef sauce were divided among the lord's colleagues.

Bai Ko thinks that the eldest master must have bragged with his colleagues, and the family always brings back a bunch of empty jars when they go to deliver a change of clothes every other day, and those adults actually order food, and the next sauce side dish will ask for this and that flavor.

In addition to the eldest master's supper, the most abrasive thing is the dry food of the two young masters, nine days and seven nights are very testing people's spirit and feelings, and the weather is quite hot, in order to be afraid that the food will rot and deteriorate, and there must be enough meat to maintain the body, Bai Ko made a lot of beef jerky and pork jerky, as well as the ready-made small sausage, and she even made luncheon meat.

In order to check the three gates of the Gongyuan, the beef jerky is diced, the dried meat is shredded, the sausage is sliced, the luncheon meat is cut into strips, the thumb-sized yogurt chicken cake is a big bag, and there are also a large bag of dried eggs, small scones, ** and chive cookies, and a can of honey, which looks like a picnic food.

Gu Yun doesn't like sweets, but in this tense exam process, it is still necessary to bring some sweets in.

The two young masters had the same amount of food, filled a five-layer food box, and in addition to that, they also brought a water cup made of bamboo knots.

The stationery supplies used for the examination are packed in baskets, and the change of clothes and common medicines for nine days and seven nights are wrapped into a burden, and the Gongyuan is in the imperial city, in order not to block the gate of the Gongyuan, the candidates have to get down from the carriage and horse sedan chair and walk in a street away.

In the early morning of the seventh day of August, before dawn, the carriage of the Guogong Mansion was waiting at the Xifang Gate, and the Fang Gate went out immediately as soon as it opened, relying on the advantage that Tianshui Fang was close to the imperial city, and when it arrived at the south gate of the Imperial City, it was also the city gate that was wide open, there were not too many carriages and sedan chairs blocking the road, and the carriage went smoothly all the way to the outer street of the Gongyuan.

The torches lit on the street lit up the whole street, Gu Yun and Gu Jing carried the burden on their backs, the basket in their left hand and the food box in their right hand, and came to the gate of the Gongyuan along the bright street.

Not long after they arrived first, there were more and more candidates rushing to take the exam, and the people at the top of the queue were people who lived near the imperial city, and most of the people who came from the surrounding Zhili were crowded into these squares, so every year when they rushed to take the exam, the inns in these squares were overcrowded and the prices were high.

After dawn, the gate of the Gongyuan opened, and Gu Yunshan, the grandfather of the Wailang Kingdom, the master of the ceremonial system, walked out in a neat official uniform to lecture the candidates, and then stood aside to supervise the soldiers to inspect the candidates.

At this time, the advantages of the family are often best reflected, there are many famous scholars in the family, Gu Yun and the two brothers have the experience and guidance of their elders, they are clean, they don't even bring a penny, and the size of the food they bring is also within the standard, so they soon enter the second gate and begin to divert to their respective houses, and the common students who refer to it for the first time will have various situations.

The eldest lord has been standing outside the gate and watching the last candidate complete the physical examination, and then the Gongyuan closed the door and latched, and he took the long-awaited carriage back to the official office to rest, and then continued to be busy with the things behind the autumn palace, and his immediate boss was already in the Gongyuan with the attendants of the Ministry of Rites.

The young masters entered the examination room, and the Wenling courtyard was also busy, with a bunch of brand-new boxes and cages in the courtyard, Bai Ko took the list and instructed the girls to pack all the items in the three main rooms one by one