As soon as Ma An's words came out, Li immediately expressed his support. Although, she still doesn't know what Ma'an is talking about.

All along, she objected to the two men in the family drinking booze. She is responsible for the food of everyone in the family, and she is usually most concerned about the family's three meals a day. It didn't seem like a big deal, but it had a different meaning in her heart.

Because there was once a woman, no matter what unhappy things she encountered in her life, as long as she sat at the dinner table, while she picked up the bowl, she could temporarily put down those things that blocked her heart, and eat her heart first with peace of mind.

She has a sentence that often hangs on her lips at the dinner table, saying: "A person's plan lies in food, and only when you are full can you have the strength to do things, even if you are angry, you will not be weak and angry!" ”

She mostly uses this to persuade others to eat well, but when she encounters something particularly unhappy, she will also tell it to herself. Over time, this phrase gradually became her mantra:

Although the first time she heard this sentence come out of the woman's mouth, Li Shi would feel that there was something she didn't understand, because of the difference in identity, she wouldn't ask much at that time. However, in the days that followed, she discovered the advanced meaning of this sentence on her own.

For example, the woman who had to eat well for three meals a day was in good spirits almost all the time. Compared with some young ladies from large families, once they encounter unhappiness and anger, they can't eat, or simply skip meals to vent, and most of them are weak in bed for a few days. Although they usually use fat powder to decorate their complexion, they still can't hide the abnormal sallow yellow color of the skin on their hands when a pair of slender hands are stretched out.

The woman once said that such people rely on 'qi' to feed themselves, but this is not the good qi of the Taoist exhalation, but the masochistic qi. At that time, Li Shi still didn't understand what she said. It was only because of the experience of understanding her previous mantra that from then on Lai had been secretly supportive of all the woman's remarks, although she often made strange remarks.

And that woman was actually the mother of Mo Ye who was sitting next to her and was seriously eating rabbit meat. Her real identity is the granddaughter of Ye Daorong, the No. 1 tea merchant in Xiling, although she has only let the Li family serve for six years. But it made her unforgettable for the past six years. And for this reason Qianli followed to continue to take care of Mo Ye, her second hostess.

This woman's name is Ye Ziqing.

Ye Ziqing is not picky, and there are many things he likes to eat. But her accomplishments in cooking are almost equal to a blank, which she once said directly to Li Shi without being the hostess. So when the old lady sent the Li family to her. She left the cooking to Lai. And she really just let Li Shi take care of the spatula, and she didn't have to do anything else to wash and burn the fire. This once surprised Li Shi, and then she was only grateful in her heart.

Fortunately, the Ye family did not have a lot of money for these servants to invite the family. And some of Miss Ye's strange habits have long been spread among the masters and servants of the whole family. It's just that although she is not as gentle as water, she is sincere and kind to her own people from top to bottom, which makes it very convenient for her to behave at home.

Li Shi obtained many ways to cook from Ye Ziqing, but she also found it strange because Ye Ziqing seemed to have many recipes in her head, but she could hardly do any of them.

Fortunately, Lai's resilience is quite strong. When the master and servant really come together and join forces, they often make things that everyone rarely or never meets. However, it is a dish that feels fresh and even very tasty, and does not cause health problems.

This achievement made Li Shi begin to agree with Ye Ziqing's views from the bottom of his heart, find the pride and confidence that he should have as a chef, and devote himself to cooking. Although she doesn't leave the house, she can make the whole family eat a healthy look with a spatula in her hand, which can also be an achievement that a woman can achieve, which is what Ye Ziqing once said, "a strong rear force." ”

The staple food is often paired with non-staple food and some drinks, and Lai, who began to serve Ye Ziqing closely, soon discovered that this wealthy lady would inevitably drink half a glass of wine after lunch every day. This kind of behavior is really bold among women, and it is almost against women's morality to drink every day. At that time, Ye Ziqing was just a yellow flower girl who had not left the cabinet in her teens, how could she be so reserved?

Therefore, even though Ye Ziqing told her a lot about the benefits of moderate drinking, she still couldn't accept her young lady's behavior for a while.

But she didn't know that her rules of doing things had gradually changed since following the hostess, and it was only a matter of time before she accepted her drinking.

However, when she was finally able to reluctantly accept Ye Ziqing's drinking, and also helped her hide the wine, the hostess seemed to realize something, and began to gradually influence her in the matter of non-staple food and drink, and took the initiative to instill in her some ideas of her own.

Not long after, in the big kitchen of the Ye family's mansion, the Li family was already famous. Because her cooking skills have gone beyond the scope of staple foods, many side dishes, pastries, flower teas and other diets at home are also in her handwriting. And these non-staple foods created by her hand, except for a few that are too weird to make people difficult to get off chopsticks, the others can be regarded as a peculiar new food experience.

Since then, Li Shi has truly agreed with Ye Ziqing's drinking behavior. In fact, there are many times when you don't understand and don't support it, just because you don't understand. And when Lai fully agrees with the feasibility of the 'Ye Ziqing drinking theory' - in fact, this identification is the result of being instilled too much by her - so that when Lai sees him drinking again, not only does he not feel weird, but occasionally comes up to ask for some to come back and taste for himself.

In fact, Ye Ziqing has always been able to consciously adhere to the first rule of 'Ye Ziqing's drinking theory' of 'drinking to benefit the body, and drinking to hurt the body'. This kind of principled behavior makes her words less excuse-making and more truthful.

And this sentence, along with her drinking every day, will be carved in Li's heart, and it has become a very deep memory in the six years that Li served Ye Ziqing. So much so that later, although Ye Ziqing left, she could remember it just by picking up the spatula.

Later, she came to Xingjia Village with Lin Shan, every time she saw Lin Shan having a drink at the dinner table, she would easily think of those years, in the Ye family's boudoir, she quietly took out a jar of wine from under a floor tile under the bed, poured a glass for Ye Ziqing, and then watched the hostess take a sip of intoxication, and praised her clever appearance.

Therefore, after becoming the exclusive chef of Mo Ye and Lin Shan and Ma An, Li Shi naturally kept an eye on the daily drinking amount of these two men who were actually very fond of alcohol when preparing every meal. Lin Shan, in particular, had been admonishing her mistress from time to time in the early years, and now that she was gone, Li Shi subconsciously felt that it was necessary for her to continue her wishes.

When Ye Ziqing was sixteen years old, in order to escape the family affair that her family told her, she rolled up a cover and prepared to run away from home. Of course, this matter couldn't be hidden from Li Shi, who was still her personal maid at the time, but she didn't seem to want to hide it from Li Shi, because she was very reluctant to hide this all-round cook.

And when she directly told Li Shi the idea of running away from home, although Li Shi was shocked on the spot, but seeing her carrying a simple bag and leaving in the silent night, although the various clues in Li's mind had not yet calmed down, he didn't even have time to pack his baggage and went out.

Ye Ziqing was reluctant to let Li Shi, the cook, and Li Shi was even more reluctant to let this hostess who made her grateful to Dade not eat well in the future. Her feelings for Ye Ziqing are both grateful and dependent. This hostess gave her not only a golden life, but also some life wisdom that she had never had before, as well as the confidence and pride that she should have as a chef with a low status in the eyes of ordinary people but has never been taken seriously.

Ye Ziqing's significance to her is no longer limited to her master, but also has become her spiritual guide. If Ye Ziqing is no longer in the Ye family, she will not know how she should face life for a while. That's why she resolutely followed the Lord despite all the terrible consequences that might have been brought about by this move.

It's just that this runaway incident didn't go very well. As a result, Li Shi further realized that he may have overly glorified Ye Ziqing's image in his heart. Although she is much kinder and more interesting than ordinary young ladies, she is still too unskilled in the science of life. Because of the identity of the daughter of a large family, many things are actively or passively accustomed to dependence, once you leave home, many things are not supplied, and you will be sluggish when you start doing things.

Fortunately, her heart has always been very tenacious. Although the days away from home are constantly difficult, the cheerful smile on her face is rarely broken. Li Shi didn't know where her happy power came from, but perhaps it was precisely because of this kind of good heart that her glance and smile kept the gaze of the hurried passer-by who was covered with a coat in the barren mountains and heavy rain through the seam of her hat.

And the person I met by chance in this heavy rain affected almost all the days after my young lady left home. Even the legacy has made her sigh to this day.

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Lin Shan moved a chair to the table, put it on the wine jar, and then flipped his palm, patted off the wax seal, and lifted the lid. The intoxicating fragrance wafted out and proved its identity, which was a jar of aged bamboo leaves.

This fragrance reminded him of that barren mountain and heavy rainy day more than ten years ago.

That day, he avoided his master, the old man of Beili, and quietly slipped down the mountain, walking dozens of miles, just to buy a few jars of glutinous rice wine mass-produced in that town. Although he had already calculated a good day, this day was the day when the glutinous rice wine of the rice family was going to be produced, but it suddenly rained heavily, because the rain was so heavy that he was still a step late and did not buy the glutinous rice wine that he had been waiting for many days.

In order not to return empty-handed, he had to buy two jars of bamboo leaf green.

On the way back, he was so angry and annoyed that he wanted to scold, until he entered the boundary of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and saw that the woods were getting denser, and he began to scold to vent his anger. It's just that he opened his mouth, and suddenly heard a reply, so shocked that he almost threw away the two jars of bamboo leaves in his arms. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Biquge www.biquge.info to vote for recommendations and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation