Mama Jin turned a blind eye, only smiled and put down the osmanthus bird's nest soup in her hand, and took two small bowls of Ru kiln white porcelain one by one, and placed them in front of Lian Er Ye and Ruo Sheng respectively, and said: "I specially asked someone to pick a lot of fresh osmanthus flowers in the autumn of last year, and boiled the second master and the girl's favorite nectar. After speaking, he couldn't help but regret again, "It's a pity that these plants in the house are all osmanthus, if it is planted with golden cinnamon, the aroma must be stronger." ”

Ruosheng lowered his head and sniffed, the fragrance was sweet, it was just right, and he didn't have to take the golden osmanthus to make nectar.

She lifted the spoon, scooped a spoonful and put it in her mouth, the entrance was fragrant and soft, and the heat was just right. Even the chef's skills are superb, not worse than the imperial kitchen in the palace, and the daily flow of water in the kitchen is also impressive. Even the family members are used to living a rich life, and their tongues have been raised.

Among them, Ruosheng is the most difficult to serve.

Flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, as long as she wants to taste it, she must make tricks.

Therefore, she just used a mouthful of bird's nest soup this time, and Mama Jin smiled and asked, "How does the girl feel?" Does it taste good? ”

"It tastes good." If he bowed his head, he immediately said, "Serve a bowl for my mother to taste." ”

Mama Jin heard her say something like that yesterday, and turned around and lay down in her clothes and thought about it all night, although she was still worried and confused in her heart, but she knew that if she was pampered and indulged, she would never speak indiscriminately, and since she said that the Zhu family was good, then there must be a reason for her.

As an old man next to the second master, Mama Jin also hopes from the bottom of her heart that the Zhu family can be a good person and treat the second master kindly and caringly.

So now, as soon as Lian Ruosheng said it, she responded yes and served another bowl for the Zhu family with her own hands.

The house has always been rich in money, but it is just some bird's nest, if you are willing to eat, just let go of the belly and eat it. But for the good taste of the bird's nest soup, it was changed to the ordinary, this small cup of bird's nest soup was at most enough for Ruosheng and her father to use separately, but this time there was still Zhu's margin.

Ruosheng was concentrating on the food on the table, and his heart was like a mirror, and Mama Jin listened to her words in her heart.

Zhu was flattered, and there was only a small bowl left, and even the second master ate happily, so he said that he would keep it for the second master.

"You just use it, and you even think of him first." Ruosheng put down the fine porcelain spoon and raised his chopsticks to pick up a piece of crispy salt and pepper mille-feuille.

At the dinner table, there was almost no sound of dishes and chopsticks clashing.

is looking at the most noisy Lian Erye, the gestures are also elegant and orderly, and the chewing is also quiet.

This is a habit that has been cultivated since childhood, even if even the ancestors are rough people who run the rivers and lakes, but since the generation of Ruosheng's great-grandfather, he has gradually worked hard to get closer to the scholarly family. Otherwise, the Lian family would still be on the edge of the canal, so why bother moving to Kyoto.

The wealth of the family is accumulated from generation to generation.

Even the second master's child, the habits that can be cultivated since childhood, have been deeply rooted in the bone marrow and cannot be forgotten.

Zhu Shi looked at it carefully, and even the second master said, "You eat, I'm not greedy for you." ”

It's not easy to get this, since both the father and daughter said so, the Zhu family couldn't push back anymore, so he took the bowl and spoon.

Ruosheng had silently used up a small bowl of bird's nest soup, and after eating the mille-feuille crisp, he went to pick up a large soup dumpling with thin skin and big filling to eat.

Before I knew it, the plates on the table were empty.

After using the buns, Ruosheng suddenly stopped and ordered: "Bring another bowl of pearl rice porridge." ”

Green Banana's eyes widened immediately.

Mama Jin was also shocked and persuaded: "Girl, use too much food carefully." ”

Eat so much, how can she look like a delicate little girl...... This is clearly comparable to the amount of food of a man in the prime of life!

However, if his face did not change, he smiled calmly: "Somehow, this will be hungry, so let's go and bring the porridge." ”

"Ah Jiu! The girls in Beijing are all thin and beautiful! If you eat a big fat man, what if you can't get married in the future? Second Master Lian looked at her worriedly.

Ruosheng almost choked up when he heard this, he still knew about it.

She shook her head and explained to him helplessly: "This is the time for me to grow my body, and if I eat less, I will not grow tall or strong." ”

Second Master Lian was shocked and said, "Do you want to grow into a tall fat man?" If it doesn't work, it's a mountain! ”

He was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped the green banana and forbade her to serve porridge to his daughter.

Mama Jin figured it out, her own girl is only twelve years old now, this age is the time to be able to eat and drink before she grows tall and good, she has a good appetite and eats a lot, which also means that her body is good and healthy. What's more, if you really don't eat enough, how can you grow dry bean sprouts in the future?

She called Second Master Lian and said, "The girl is slender, don't worry about it." ”

Even the second master was silent with a bitter face.

After a while, he suddenly raised the empty bowl in front of him and handed it to Mama Jin: "Then Mama will also bring me another bowl of porridge!" I'm going to grow tall too! ”

"......" Mama Jin was dumbfounded, "Second Master, if you grow taller, you will knock on the door frame." ”

"Then I'll eat a little bit!"

Even the second master pestered to drink porridge, Mama Jin was helpless, and the Zhu family was also worried that he would accumulate food, so he didn't dare to ask him to eat more.

Only if you are watching from the sidelines, you can't support it.

It's so good, such a bustle was obviously within her reach, but she waited until there was no more chance to look forward to it.

God has a kind heart, and put all the qiē she dreamed of back in the palm of her hand.

This time, with all her might, she has to protect it desperately!

She looked at it with a smile, but her thoughts drifted away.

She remembered the last meal she had eaten on her deathbed. The skill of the finch slave has never grown, and the girl has no talent in cooking or even inferior to her. But her body was so completely ruined that she couldn't even speak, and she couldn't get out of the kitchen at all. The finch slave raised her, took care of her, and accompanied her until the last moment.

When the moment came, she suddenly became greedy and wanted to eat roast chicken.

The finch slave groped for some loose pieces of silver, and went out to buy them.

In early spring, it was warm and cold, and it was already cold when I bought the roast chicken.

The chicken is very lean and the meat is very woody.

She was so weak that she bit for most of the day before tearing off a strand of shredded meat, chewing and chewing, and then crying.

The bird slave thought she was crying because the chicken was too unpalatable, but this thin and woody roast chicken was the "most delicious" one she had ever eaten.

She cried because she knew she would never see the finchman again. This miserable world, and in the future, the poor finch slave will go down alone.

I don't know how the finch slave is doing after she leaves.

Thinking like this, the corners of Ruosheng's eyes turned uncontrollably red, and he hurriedly lowered his head. She and Bird Nu were just strangers who had never known each other, and if it weren't for Bird Slave who saved her, I was afraid that she would have died early on Chinese New Year's Eve that year.

She always remembered the first thing the finch slave said to her - you have to eat more to live.

To live, a man must eat.

When she met the finch slave, she was skinny and skinny, and there were no two taels of meat on her body, so it was no wonder that the finch slave would say such things while holding the rice bowl.

She also knows what it's like to be hungry.

In this life, she doesn't want to be a weak Miss Jiao anymore.

What can people who can't even protect themselves use to protect others?

At that time, people regarded slenderness and weakness as beauty, but such postures were the most useless.

The green banana brought the porridge up, Ruosheng lowered his eyes and ate it, but he quickly calculated it in his heart. The finchman was a year younger than her, and she was only eleven this year. Her mother is a dancing girl from Dongyi, and was bought as a concubine by a wealthy businessman in Pingzhou because of her beautiful dancing, but she was pregnant with a bird slave in the first year, and died less than two months after giving birth to her the following year. The eldest woman is mean, and insults the bird slave as a little Dongyi mongrel all day long, and the rich merchant has long left their mother and daughter behind and looked for another beauty.

When the slave was nine years old, the rich merchant's family became impoverished, and the eldest woman sold the slave at a high price.

She was not as beautiful as her mother, but she had a pair of rare mandarin duck eyes.

One eye is like his father, black and white, and the other inherits his mother's Dongyi blood, which is a pale turquoise blue.

Scarcity is precious, and the young slave is not like a person, but like a thing, which is bought and sold repeatedly.

Ruosheng remembered that she had not escaped until she was thirteen years old, and since then she has been dressed up and made her home alone.

She spent four years in those days.

Now, it's been two years.

Ruosheng thought about the old wounds on the Bird Slave's body that were almost comparable to hers, and his heart tightened.

She didn't believe it, turning Dayin upside down, she would still be able to find a finch slave!

It's been two years late, and the rest of the days, nothing can be said to be too late!

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