After Liu Ming left, Shopkeeper Li invited the little guy in the corner door to go in and report, and not long after, another guy came out and took Du Qiyue and Shopkeeper Li into the yard.

Wu Mansion is a large courtyard with five entrances, enter from the outer corner gate, turn west and pass through the screen gate is the inner gate, inside is a spacious courtyard paved with a cross road. The little guy took Du Qiyue and Shopkeeper Li through the two halls, and then walked along the east side of the verandah, past a hanging flower gate, which is the inner garden.

Wu Mingyao went to Zhao Yiyun's place for breakfast this morning, so he was still in the jade courtyard where Zhao Yiyun lived. The little maid took the two of them across a section of the water covered bridge in the inner garden, and when they arrived at the gate of Shuyu Courtyard, he waved his hand and beckoned a little girl who was feeding birds and birds in the corridor of the courtyard and said, "Cui Tao, you take Shopkeeper Li and this Lang Jun in, and the young master wants to see you." ”

The little girl named Cui Tao glanced at Du Qiyue and Shopkeeper Li, frowned and said, "Wang Xin, why did you bring the men from outside here?" ”

"It was the king's steward who told me to bring people here, and I don't know anything else. What are you rambling, it's serious to bring people in. The little guy said impatiently, ignoring the green peach and turned away.

Cui Tao should be a first- and second-class girl, with a certain amount of decency, so she didn't go in to report, but was stunned at the door, and then lowered her head and led the two of them into the Jade Courtyard.

The Jade Courtyard is only a small courtyard compared to the entire Wu Mansion, but the area is half larger than Du Qiyue's house, and this courtyard is not a courtyard with a general paved road, but a small garden full of all kinds of rare flowers and plants. On the side of the entrance door, there is a row of five or six inverted seat rooms facing north, there are three wing rooms on the east and west sides, and there are five spacious main rooms with an ear room on the left and right sides facing south. There are a few bird cages hanging on the corridor, and there are a few little maids and little brothers in plain cloth clothes around the side of the bird cages, they should be rough subordinates, they are not close, they only gather together and look curiously at Du Qiyue and Li Shopkeeper who came in.

This courtyard is exquisitely built, and the location is on the edge of the main courtyard, it looks like it is for the family, Du Qiyue figured out that he might have entered a place where he shouldn't come, and when Cui Tao led them into the house, he deliberately lowered his eyelids not to look at the scene in the house, and only secretly looked at the furnishings in the house from the corner of his eye.

Shopkeeper Li thought the same as Du Qiyue in his heart, although he knew that Wu Mingyao did not marry a wife, but he felt that this place should be a concubine or a waiter, so as soon as he entered the house, he immediately lowered his head, not daring to look around.

There was no one in the hall, only a little laughter came from the east room, Cui Tao walked to the door of the east house, and did not lift the curtain, just stood at the door and reported: "Young master, someone has brought it." ”

"What, how did you bring it here!" There was an angry rebuke in the room immediately, and then the door curtain was lifted with a "bang", Wu Mingyao strode out wearing a round-necked robe with white embroidered silver edges, and scolded Cui Tao with an angry face: "Don't you know what place this is, how can a foreign man bring it here?" ”

Cui Tao didn't expect Wu Mingyao to lose his temper suddenly, so frightened that his whole body trembled, and said, "It was Steward Wang who asked Wang Xin to bring people in." ”

Wu Mingyao's face became even more ugly when he heard this, and he scolded: "It's just a steward, what he asked you to do, did you even forget the rules?" Give me a fine of three months! ”

Cui Tao was so frightened that she immediately cried, but she didn't dare to make a sound, so she had to cover her face and retreat.

Lian Ming walked out of it, saw how powerful Wu Ming was angry, immediately poured a cup of tea and handed it to him, patted his chest and said softly: "Young master, don't be angry about these unsightly eyes, just turn around and punish you, let's deal with the current matter first." ”

Wu Mingyao raised his head and drank the tea in the cup, put the cup on the table heavily, and said angrily: "Lianming, you go and deal with this matter, and ask Steward Wang if he has lived for decades and has not remembered the rules that should be there." ”

"Well, I'll go now." Lian Ming answered, turned around and went out.

Wu Mingyao glanced at Du Qiyue and Shopkeeper Li, put away the anger on his face and said: "The subordinates are not sensible, this is not the place to meet people, you go to the outer study with me." ”

"Young Master Cousin, wait." Qin Yun walked out of the house and said to Wu Mingyao: "Our young master said, young master cousin, you should take someone to the ear room on the side to talk about things, it will not delay young master cousin, you go out to meet guests." ”

"That's done, you help me get a set of pen and ink to go to the ear room, and I want to make a contract." Wu Mingyao thought about it and said, raising his legs to go to the ear room.

Qin Yun answered, and went to the Westinghouse study to get pen and ink.

At this time, there was a sudden violent coughing sound in the east room, accompanied by a woman's exclamation, Wu Mingyao's face changed again, and he hurriedly lifted the curtain and ran into the house. He lifted it with some force, and the corner of the curtain hung on the silver hook on the side of the door frame, revealing some of the interior of the room.

Du Qiyue was standing facing the door of the east room, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a man wearing a snow-blue fur-rimmed robe sitting on the bed in the room, frowning and coughing. This man is unusually good-looking, a simple comb and scattered waist-length hair behind him is a well-defined face, his cheeks are dyed two blushes because of coughing, the corners of his eyebrows are raised, the bridge of his nose is straight, and a pair of peach blossom eyes with some pain at the moment are even more eye-catching, but his lips are too pale, which deepens the sick look on his face.

Du Qiyue couldn't tell whether this person was a man or a brother, he was not too clear about the difference between the clothes of the Dafeng Dynasty and his brother, and this man looked sick and weak, but he did not have the feminine aura of the brother he had met these days. Du Qiyue just felt that this person was very good-looking, and his heart began to pound when he was good-looking.

It's not a feeling of having a different idea, it's a thrill of simply seeing something beautiful. It's the first time Du Qiyue has seen such a good-looking person!

"What do you see!" Qin Yun, who went to the West House to get pen and ink, heard the coughing sound and ran out, seeing Du Qiyue looking at the room with his head up, he pulled down the door curtain when he rushed in, blocking Du Qiyue's sight.

Du Qiyue also realized that he was a little rude, touched his nose and lowered his head, glad that the people in the room now didn't care about his offense.

This coughing continued for a while before it subsided, and not long after that, Wu Mingyao went out of the east house, and ordered a brother who was in charge of cleaning outside to go out to find a doctor, and then took Du Qiyue and Shopkeeper Li to the ear room on the side.

As soon as she entered the ear room, a little girl came in and poured tea for the three of them, Wu Mingyao took a sip of the teacup, and said to Du Qiyue with a little smile on his face: "Du Langjun, if you don't come again, I will send someone to your house to find you." ”

Du Qiyue stepped forward and made a gesture, while sighing in his heart that Wu Mingyao's face changed faster than turning a book, and replied: "I was supposed to come three days ago, but it rained in the past three days, and there was no ox cart in the village, so I didn't come until today." ”

"If it rains, you can't come, so how can you work in the restaurant on time in the future?" Wu Mingyao asked.

"I'll buy a donkey, unless it's too stormy, otherwise it won't affect my work." Du Qiyue said that the Du family used to have donkeys, which were specially used for Du Fugui to ride to the town to work, but later to see a doctor and do funerals, the family's money was basically spent, and the useless donkeys were sold. Du Qiyue also considered the problem of distance before, so today he came with silver taels, and waited to negotiate with Wu Mingyao to buy one on the street.

Wu Mingyao nodded after hearing this, discussed the details of employment with Du Qiyue, and then drew up the contract. Du Qiyue stared at Wu Mingyao and read it carefully after writing the contract, and only after making sure that there was no problem did he sign his name.

After signing the contract, nearly half an hour had passed, Wu Mingyao saw that it was not early, and then stood up and prepared to go back to his yard to change clothes and go out. Before leaving, there was another cough from the East House, he paused, turned back to Du Qiyue and said, "I don't know if I can trouble Le Ya to make some snacks here?" This house lives my cousin, he is not in good health has not had much appetite, last time I ate the pumpkin pie and crystal lotus cake you made I thought it was good, yesterday he had a cold, his appetite was even worse, just now I only ate a few bites of breakfast. Do you think you can make two more appetizing snacks? ”

Now Wu Mingyao is Du Qiyue's serious employer, of course he will not refuse to this small request, so he nodded and said: "Naturally, it's no problem, I'm afraid that my craftsmanship is rough and it's not good to use it to meet people." ”

"I can't believe that you are not good at making those two snacks last time." Wu Mingyao smiled and said.

After Wu Mingyao left, Shopkeeper Li also went back to Zuifu Building, and Du Qiyue was taken by a girl to the small kitchen of the main courtyard separated from Shuyu Courtyard by only one screen door. This kitchen is estimated to be only responsible for the food of the main courtyard and the sotama courtyard, and there is nothing to do at this time, and a few women and brothers who work in the kitchen are sitting at the kitchen door chatting and picking vegetables slowly.

One of the women stood up when she saw someone coming, and knew from the little girl that Du Qiyue was here to make snacks for Zhao Yiyun, so she took Du Qiyue into the kitchen and asked him what he was going to do and if he wanted to help.

There is a clause in the contract between Du Qiyue and Wu Mingyao, but any dim sum he makes that is not sold elsewhere can be sold to Zuifulou, so Du Qiyue didn't want his method of making dim sum to be seen by Wu Mingyao's subordinates, so he only asked the woman to point out the placement of various things in the kitchen, and let people out.

The woman was also glad to be idle, and when she had finished speaking, she went back to pick vegetables.

Du Qiyue looked at the leftover things on the stove and the ingredients prepared on the table next to him, and thought about the appearance of Zhao Yiyun he saw just now, so he decided to make a pot of pork ribs and vegetable porridge, with meat and vegetables, high nutritional content, and easy to digest. Cook another dish of chicken paste loquat spring, this one tastes good and can stop coughing.

The porridge and broth are ready-made, Du Qiyue took some of each and stewed it in a casserole, then cut the pork ribs into small pieces and boiled them in hot water with green onions, ginger, and cooking wine. Before the ribs boiled, he cut some fresh vegetables, peeled some shrimp out, and after the ribs boiled, Du Qiyue skimmed the blood foam and poured the ribs out into the porridge, and then as long as he waited for more than 20 minutes, he could put the shrimp and shredded vegetables together, and then seasoned.

Next is the *Rong Loquat Spring, which is a little more troublesome. Du Qiyue washed five large loquats, as well as a small piece of white fungus and a small handful of wolfberries. Peel and core loquat and soak it in water to remove the sweetness. Wash the white fungus and wolfberry, put it in another bowl and soak it in warm water.

After preparing these, Du Qiyue cut a piece of chicken breast, cut the chicken breast into a puree, stir-fried, added cooking wine, sugar, soy sauce and boiled, and then added eggs, chopped onions, and tribute vegetables. After the meat filling is ready, Du Qiyue takes out the soaked loquat and fills it into the loquat, and then puts the loquat in the heavy water and steames.

During the steaming of the loquat, Du Qiyue took a large ginger, cut it into shreds, wrapped it in gauze, poured ginger ale on the mortar, and then took out the soaked white fungus and wolfberry and boiled it with ginger juice.

After the loquat is steamed, Du Qiyue pours the loquat into the pot and thickens it with stock, starch and condiments. After hooking the thin thickener, Du Qiyue found a small snow-white plate, took out the loquat and put it on it, then poured ginger white fungus wolfberry soup, cut the cucumber and carved two three-dimensional butterflies on it, which can be regarded as making this dim sum.

At this time, the porridge in the pot was also boiled, Du Qiyue took a small bowl and put a bowl, sprinkled some chopped green onions, and put it on the tray with the plate of chicken and loquat springs, and then served it out himself.