"A few days ago, didn't the princess of Cheng on the other side of the door arrange for the fifth lady to go out to enjoy the flowers and drink tea, the mother and daughter met with the princess of the county, at that time people did not express their position, the second lady secretly asked people to inquire, the county princess did not fancy our fourth lady, disgusted that her cooking skills are not good, because when the family celebrates the New Year's holiday, the family banquet is the young daughter-in-law cooks, our fourth lady never participates in the communication related to cooking, as a class circle, people must have inquired."

"Oh, what's the hurry? What did you do earlier? How much effort did it take for the palace chief to find a grandson of the prince of the same age, and they finally found that they had no ability to climb high? ”

"The second lady is really anxious, so I want to ask our white steward to help teach the fourth lady how to cook, at least she can cook a table of home-cooked food by herself."

"Home-cooked food is not good, you just said that the daughters-in-law of other families will cook family banquets, this level is much higher than home-cooked food, my second aunt is still thinking about opportunism."

"If the white steward can guide him, the level of home cooking must be very high."

"No, Bai Ko is not available, call my mother to go back to the second aunt like this, Bai Ko is busy every day, and he has no time to take care of other people's housework." Gu Yun didn't even think about it, so he refused.

"That ......" Mother Pang glanced at Bai Ko, who was caught by Gu Yun and patted the table unhappily.

"It's useless to look at her, I just nodded and I forgot what you just said?"

"No, no, the old slave will go back to our wife."

Mother Pang saw that the young master was really a little angry, and hurriedly left, Gu Yun kept staring at her back, watching her go out with her shoes on, Bai Qiao silently walked to the tea tray and poured a cup of tea and put it in Gu Yun's hand.

"Really angry? Pang's mother was just here to pass the word, so she couldn't be angry with her. ”

"I'm mad at her." Gu Yun muttered, grabbed the teacup and poured a few sips.

"The second lady has her own eldest lady to refuse, she is a mother who thinks about her daughter, and she doesn't have to go to her heart."

"If there is such a thing in the future, even if I am not here, you will directly refuse, just say what I said, you don't need to give face to those people, and the people who will be embarrassed don't have to be polite to them."

"Yes."

Gu Yun was a little uncomfortable when he saw Bai Ko's low eyebrows, "Don't you quietly listen to the second room behind my back." ”

"No, Miss Five's master and maid can't do it, I don't know if she really has no talent for cooking, or she came to the kitchen to play, these days it is said that she is learning cooking skills seriously, but the East Kitchen is tossed to death, the four bodies are not diligent and the grains are not divided, and I have seen a living example."

"She's never been in the kitchen, so it's understandable that she doesn't know what the ingredients look like." Gu Yun said this, and he didn't have the confidence in his heart.

"The ingredients she didn't know taught her to know, and after she cut them, she didn't know them, and when they were finished she knew them again. Isn't there a whisk in the kitchen, a simple thing that children can learn by watching it several times, teach Miss Five to make steamed eggs, let her beat the eggs first, she can knock over the whole bowl, the egg liquid flows everywhere, and everyone has to clean it up. The basic introductory dishes have not yet learned a few dishes, so I want to use my imagination to create my own new dishes, and she has to rematch the plate with the dishes, and the spoons that scoop sugar, salt, starch and soy sauce vinegar in the kitchen are of different sizes, and the fifth lady can use the spoon to scoop a full spoon of salt and put it in the dish, and the dishes that are burned out cannot be eaten at all, and blame the cooks for not making it clear in advance, what are so many fancy spoons for. ”

Bai Ko didn't say it, but he couldn't stop when he said it, and the East Kitchen was really miserable these days.

Gu Yun was dumbfounded when he heard this, and sighed deeply.

"I'll go and talk to the eldest lady in the evening, the annual reward of the East Kitchen, everyone will get more when the time comes, and they will continue to endure the hard work."

"The hardest thing is the kitchen manager Zeng Zhu, she is the second lady's wedding cook, and the fifth lady is not ambiguous at all. Or you ask the eldest lady to come forward and persuade the second lady, if the fifth lady really doesn't have the talent to cook, don't force herself, the number of ingredients in the east kitchen is limited, everyone washes and cuts well, the fifth lady can waste a bunch of vegetables just by learning to take charge, and she has learned to fry the vegetables in the past few days, and others have to put the vegetables into the pot first, she is afraid of splashing oil, and the fried vegetables are not mentioned, but they can be eaten. And the strange thing is that when eating shabu shabu, Miss Wu knows that the green leafy vegetables can be eaten after a while when they are thrown into the pot, but she will not make them when the blanched vegetables are blanched in the kitchen. ”

"Okay, okay, I know that the East Kitchen has been working hard these days, I will ask the eldest lady to come forward to help persuade it, you also tell the East Kitchen, no matter how stuffy you are, you have to endure it, and you are not allowed to mock behind your back, if the ingredients are wasted too much by the fifth lady that day, and you can't make enough meals, you will hurry up and report to the eldest lady, you don't need them to carry it themselves, they will keep in mind the anger they suffer, and I will also give them an annual reward at the end of the year." Gu Yun rubbed the corners of his forehead, and couldn't bear to listen to it anymore.

"Yes, the servant son of the East Kitchen Xie Shizi."

Gu Yun shook his head, no longer thinking about the second room, he and Bai Qiao packed a table of jewelry, locked it in his money box, and sent it to the third aunt in a few days.

After dinner, Gu Yun went to say goodnight to the elders, resigned from his grandmother and came out to his parents' room, and talked about the previous message from Pang's mother, Gu Yun told his mother about Bai Ko's cousin these days, and asked his mother to come forward to advise the second aunt, if Gu Chan really wants to learn cooking skills, just listen to the teachings of the cooks, don't take it for granted, and the sins suffered by everyone in the East Kitchen, the annual reward at the end of the year should be given more to reward them for their hard work.

The eldest lady was helpless against her two concubines, and she rubbed her forehead and couldn't speak for a long time.

"The boy in your second aunt's photo is the grandson of the county king, the grandfather of the old county king is still there, he is a large family without a family, his father and uncle have several rooms, and the daughters-in-law cook and cook family banquets during the New Year's holidays. On the surface, Gu Chan's conditions are good, her father is Wupin Zhizhou, her eldest brother is Shu Jishi, her two cousins are lifters, and her uncle is Ye Guogong, which is actually quite attractive, but this is all external, it is the light of her father and brother, but she really has no talent to do it, if she wants to be Mrs. Shisun, she must have the ability to run a big family, not to mention that she must also have good cooking skills, which is in line with the conventions of other people's families. ”

"Gu Chan's temperament can't control the big family, she has never been a straightforward person who speaks and does things, she is only suitable for marrying young people who have separated their families, there are such boys in the name card given by the palace chief, and their status is higher than Gu Yan's fiancé, but the second aunt has taken a fancy to that grandson, no way."

"Just let them support themselves, they can't see the facts clearly and are bent on marrying high, if they end up dragging Gu Chan into an old girl, it's their own business, and they can't blame us."

"They are eyeing Bai Ko now, and they want her to teach Gu Chan, how can Bai Ko have time to take care of their affairs, can they let them get their wish."

"I know, you are my son, I don't want to look at you, but I can still look at them?"

With his mother's assurance, Gu Yun felt at ease, and talked about preparing makeup for Gu Yan, and asked her mother to ask the third aunt when it would be better to send it over.

The eldest lady had already learned about this from Pang's mother before, so it was naturally easy to say, Gu Yun resigned at this time, and after returning to Zhongming Courtyard, she told Bai Ko that she didn't have to worry about the second room.

The next day, the eldest lady took care of the housework, went to the second and third rooms to sit down, and politely refused their request to Bai Ko to teach Gu Chan cooking skills in front of the second concubine, and the reason was also sufficient, Bai Ko is now a busy man, and he can't spare extra energy to manage the affairs of the inner house of the other room, and the Xile Fang workshop is the most important, the court calculates the taxes that Gu Yun can pay every day, and gives a lot of support openly and secretly. The future of Master Gu and Gu Xu will be affected.

The second lady naturally cares about her son's career, the eldest brother is the Duke of Ye Guo, and at least there is a title if his career is damaged, Gu Xu doesn't have such a good way out, they are all surnamed Gu, and one person has an accident that affects a large family, and the second lady immediately stopped mentioning the matter of borrowing Bai Ko.

Seeing that the second concubine dispelled her thoughts, the eldest lady resigned after a moment of greeting, went to sit with the third concubine, and chatted about Gu Yan's preparations for marriage.

When it came to this chat, the third lady couldn't help but talk about the second room

Bai Ko is patrolling the business on the street at this time, before Grandma Xu gave birth, she and Gu Hui sent a few petal-shaped saliva towels in the congratulatory gift, sewn buttons instead of tethers, these days Grandma Xu must have passed the message out through Guò's mother's family, and the shopkeeper in the shop said that someone came to ask about the buttons several times, so Bai Ko first went to Lao Tie Ji to get some completed snap buttons and a few brand-new petal-shaped saliva towels and then went to the shop.

In the shop, I was chatting with the shopkeeper, the guy welcomed a servant woman in, went directly to the counter and asked if there was a button, the shopkeeper Bi immediately took it out, and there was a towel as a sample, and the guest understood the use of the button, and a few words of work and a business was done, and even people wanted to add some money to buy this towel back so that they could pay the master's mother.

Bai Ko glanced at the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper Bi sold the saliva towel along the way.