When the lunch time is over, everyone has finished eating, the kitchen is washed and cleaned, and the four large basins of rice washing water and hot and cold warm water to be used are lined up on the long table, and a big fire is lit under a stove.

Bai Ko didn't hide it at all, she generously taught everyone how to make this dish, how long the meat should be roasted, and what kind of skin to be roasted before it was withdrawn were very clear, and if there were any questions, just ask, she answered patiently.

After the grilled pork belly was soaked in the rice washing water for a stick of incense, Bai Ko didn't start it, she only moved her mouth and said, the cooks and cooks rolled up their sleeves and competed to wash the meat, Zeng Zhu was responsible for maintaining order, beware of fighting too hard and hurting the harmony.

The meat was washed in turn, and Bai Kom crossed his arms and instructed them to sit in a pot of water and start boiling the meat for two quarters of an hour, and while waiting, Bai Kom asked them to bring the fresh broth that had been boiled in the morning to prepare the soup for the simmering meat.

The boiled meat has to simmer for half an hour, Bai Ko has no time to wait, she repeatedly explained to everyone clearly, simmer enough time to take it out and let it cool naturally and then put it in the ice cellar.

Seeing that everyone nodded in response, Bai Ko went back to Wenling Courtyard, she walked on the front foot, Zeng Zhu threatened and lured everyone on the back foot, asking them to work hard during this time, as long as they had a filial piety banquet, everyone would be rewarded afterwards, otherwise they would have to be sold to the mine.

If you really want to be sold to the mine, it is a dead end, and if you live well in the Guogong Mansion, who wants to see the king of Hades in advance, everyone immediately shook their heads desperately, and promised not to cause trouble.

Bai Ko returned to Wenling Courtyard and just got up from a nap, and the little girl from Jichengtang came to deliver a message, and the manpower added to the ice cellar was prepared, and Bai Ko was asked to go to the ice cellar and wait.

Bai Ko first went to the small kitchen to make an urn of sour plum soup, and then rushed to the ice cellar, and the third woman obviously got the news, and cleaned the small courtyard cleanly, and not a single fallen leaf could be seen.

In the guard's hut, an old man and a young man drank sour plum soup, and it didn't take long to see a large group of people coming in.

In addition to Pang's mother-in-law, who brought eight daughters-in-law in their twenties, Bai Ko also sent the shelves and other items that Bai Ko had added for the ice cellar.

The third woman shrewdly hid the cup she drank in the sour plum soup first, and then followed behind Bai Ko, went out to salute Pang's mother, and then went to help take care of the male servants to put large and small objects in a corner of the courtyard.

Bai Ko saluted Pang's mother, and the eight daughters-in-law put the burden in their hands on the ground, saluted her, and called her Sister Ko neatly.

Coldly being saluted like this, Bai Ko was really not used to it for a while, and responded stiffly, and when he looked up, he saw Pang's mother pursing her lips on the side.

"You only need four people, I'll send you eight, you just pick the good ones and stay, if you don't like them, you can retreat, and I'll send you new ones." This is all Madame's order, and now that there are many things in the house, the masters don't want to hear any more annoying bad news. ”

"The maid must do her best, Mother Xie Pang, Mrs. Xie."

"Here's their list, and they'll hand it over to you. I have something to do elsewhere, so I'll go first. Pang's mother gave Bai Ko a piece of paper.

"Mother Pang walks slowly."

Everyone watched Pang's mother leave, Bai Ko opened the list and named the newcomers, correlating the names with their faces, and then asked them to put on their own cotton clothes, and carried the shelves in pairs, while the third woman of Shui tied a cotton cloak to Bai Ko and handed over a lighted lantern.

Bai Ko walked in the front with a lantern, the daughters-in-law walked in the middle with their things, and the third woman also carried the lantern to escort behind, and a group of people slowly walked into the ice cellar along the ramp at the entrance of the ice cellar.

The ramp is gentle and long, so the large open space on both sides of the gentle slope is reserved for the east and west kitchens, the east kitchen is a lot of bits and pieces, and the west kitchen is mainly a huge number of fresh vegetables and fruits, which must be used up before the morning and evening, and there is never any leftover.

However, thinking about how many people cook for the western kitchen every day, it is normal to use a huge amount of ingredients.

Although the fresh vegetables are packed in a basket, the basket is sparse, but the contents will not fall out, especially the basket containing meat is so directly placed on the ground, people come and go, and the ice cellar is dark, and it is common to kick and step on a foot.

After the shelves of the west kitchen were laid, it was the turn to put shelves for the east kitchen, and the fresh fruits of the masters every day were also placed on the east kitchen, so at the end of the gentle slope, Bai Ko laid the remaining pieces of the shelves there, and the shelves were lined up against the wall, like bookshelves, raw and cooked partitions.

After the arrangement of the two most occupied spaces was completed, it was the turn of the four masters of the ice dark room.

The old lady is old, she uses the smallest amount of ice, there are seven children in the third room, and the population uses a lot of ice, but in Bai Ko's planning, the four ice rooms are all the same size, backed by iceberg-like iceberg ice, and the distance between the area occupied by the east and west kitchens is the territory of the dark room.

If you want better secrecy to prevent someone with a cheap hand from sneaking in and messing with things, you can also make an eye on the canvas with a padlock.

After carefully checking and confirming that it was correct, a group of people panted back to the ground, took off their cotton clothes and squatted in a ventilated shade to drink heatstroke medicine.

But the work was not done, after a short rest, everyone dressed up again, took the whole bundle of small straw bags by the wall and the ice digging tools down, went to the deepest part of the ice cellar, chiseled the whole large ice into small pieces, and then used a Xiaoice shovel to put into the small straw bags, one straw bag is the amount of an ice tray.

In the past, the ice cellar was strictly short of manpower, and the girls in each room and courtyard went down to fetch ice by themselves, and it was difficult to estimate how much to take, and Bai Ko now began to quantify, how many masters are qualified to use ice in each of the four rooms, and how many rooms each master has, she can calculate it clearly, and the number of straw bags is also prepared according to this, which room should take away how many bags of ice every day have a good idea, and whoever takes the straw bags away and does not return them is taking advantage of the public, and then there will be Pang's mother to come forward to pursue it.

The masters want to have face, if they are really asked for a straw bag for a penny, this face is equivalent to throwing it into the dung pit.

The straw bags brought down were filled one after another, everyone returned to the ground and took the remaining bundles of straw bags, Bai Ko looked up and saw the direction of the sun and felt that the time was not early, the third young master was about to go home from school, she handed over the rest of the things to the third woman to take care of, borrowed the basket in her house, carried four bags of ice, and made a record in the book.