On a snowy winter day, if you can stay in a warm room, eat hot pot and chat with three or five friends, well, if you can watch a wonderful ball game again, it must be a very happy thing.

However, Fan Anyang has never had such a leisurely and happy time in her previous life, in the snowy winter, she has to wash cups and dishes, work to earn living expenses and tuition, and sometimes she is so tired that she returns to the rented house, as soon as the door is locked, people lean on the door and fall asleep with a backpack!

Once upon a time, I could sit on the Luohan chair so leisurely, with a smoked cage at my feet, eating the hot soft desserts just baked in the small kitchen, and the hot pear porridge brought by Moxiang, watching Fan Anyang squinting comfortably, eating the newly made sour plum sweet buns in the small kitchen, and couldn't help laughing: "This sour plum sweet buns are really delicious, even the kitchen lady in the big kitchen also teaches them how to do it!" ”

She was ordered by Fan Anyang to send some sour plum sweet buns to Manager Fan and the cooks, after Manager Fan ate them, the smile lines on her face were clearly visible, and the cooks taught her directly.

"It's okay to teach, but don't let them delay the business." Fan Anyang nodded, this sour plum sweet bun just replaced the usual meat bun with the filling, but this stuffing can be exquisite, it is first boiled into a sauce with orange meat and sugar, mixed with kumquat, sour plum, etc., and added licorice, a little cinnamon, the steamed bun is only half the size of the meat bun, steamed out in the basket, sweet and fragrant, greasy to eat in winter, one should be very popular after the meal.

Fan Anyang was a little proud of the popularity of the dim sum she came up with, but when she thought that she didn't make it herself, she was inevitably a little weak-hearted, she didn't want to cook, but when she saw the stove used in the kitchen, she was dumbfounded, she hadn't seen it!

He Zhang's family and Mama Fan didn't dare to let her do it, the sixth girl's hand was to paint with a painting, if she took a kitchen knife, she accidentally scratched her hand. That's no joke.

Without modern gas stoves, ovens and microwave ovens, Fan Anyang's previous experience in making desserts and simple meals would not be useful, so he could only come up with ideas and let others do it.

I didn't expect it. Mo Xiang is so strong, she said casually, they actually did it!

This sweet and sour bun is one of them, she doesn't know if there is a fresh fruit made into sauce in this era, but she didn't expect to mention it, Rui Xue said that she had seen the cook make jam in the big kitchen in Beijing, and it was winter, so she just took the sour orange to try, but she didn't expect it to be made.

"Girl, Ruixue said that this orange sauce can be mixed with water to drink."

"Hmm. Blended in the tea, there is both tea and fruity aroma, just right. ”

As she was talking, Rui Xue happened to come over, and a few maids asked her to make orange sauce to make tea. "Not true. No, it's a good tea, pour it into a tea cup, and then add the marmalade. Fan Anyang said busily.

Ruifang pulled the cloves to make tea, Ruixue went to get the orange jam, and when it was ready, a cup of tea in front of the maids. They each took the marmalade and mixed it into the tea, and a maid on the second door came to report, saying that Manager Fan had something to find the sixth girl.

Ruifang couldn't help muttering, "Why didn't he say something about it?" Didn't Mo Xiang just send the buns over? Mo Xiang glared at her, and Rui Xue squinted and smelled the tea bowl, um. The girl is right, although the aroma of the tea brewed with broken tea residue is slightly insufficient, but with orange sauce, it is sweet and sour, but it is no worse than the tea brewed with fresh fruit.

The little maid who came to invite heard Ruifang's words. His face turned crimson, and he explained sneeringly: "It was after Sister Moxiang came back that it happened, not that Manager Fan didn't mention it." ”

"What's going on?"

"It's a few maids who have just entered the house, and their hands and feet are not clean, and they were caught by the housekeepers and sent to Manager Fan, but Manager Fan said that this is a matter in the inner courtyard, and he can't cross... The more something comes. ”

Acting on behalf of others.

Mo Xiang said a few things, but she didn't say it, Fan Anyang didn't either, she just nodded, and asked Yan Yue to wait for her to change her clothes, Yan Yue took a two-color gold gown and added it to Fan Anyang, and saw that there was still snow outside, and added a snow green woven cotton peony pattern cloak to her, and put on sheepskin boots, Mo Xiang added new charcoal to the gold enamel hand furnace, and asked Rui Xue and Lilac to wait for Fan Anyang to go to the small flower hall at the second gate.

Because of the snow, people who have no jobs are hiding in the house, the fourth lady has taken her children two days ago, and went to Tanglin with the old lady and the second and third rooms, Fan Anyang thought while walking, these maids are definitely not like this recently, but there were many people in the house before, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law did not report it?

Came to the small flower hall, there were more than a dozen little girls kneeling in the hall, ranging in age from eight or nine years old to sixteen or seven years old, the housekeepers' daughters-in-law stood aside, and the chief manager Fan sat on the chair on the wall of the hall drinking tea.

The little girl in front of her with pink makeup is not tall, she seems to be the same age as them, but she is dressed luxuriously, and the two maids who follow behind her are not young, not seventeen or sixteen, look at what others are wearing, and then look at what they are wearing, and the kneeling maids are envious and jealous in their eyes.

When they were bought into the door, they heard that the new people were going to enter the house because the girls in the house and the maids waiting next to the young master were old and wanted to be released to marry.

Who knew that after a few days and a few days of learning the rules, they realized that they had no chance at all, because they were not young, only the little maid under the age of ten could enter the master's yard to be an errand.

They looked at the two maids who were following the six girls, waited for the six girls to take off their cloaks, waited for the six girls to sit down, handed a square blue box to the six girls to hold, and the head manager Fan stood aside and bowed down to the six girls and whispered.

A few young new maids, Xu is more simple-minded, they stared at Ruixue with envy on their faces, when they entered the house, the people explained that if they did a good job, they might go to the masters to be on an errand, and if they were disobedient, they might be sold again.

Among them, the two more clever couldn't help exchanging glances with each other, and secretly regretted in their hearts that they shouldn't have listened to the instigation of a few older sisters, and took advantage of the discomfort of Mama Zhang, who taught them the rules, to sneak out to play with them.

Fan Anyang didn't plan to say anything to these new maids, so he explained a few words to the daughter-in-law who was in charge of the personnel of the inner courtyard, and handed it over to the daughter-in-law.

However, Manager Fan watched coldly, and couldn't help but remind: "Sixth girl, do you really let Mother Lan do it?" ”

"Mother Lan was promoted by her mother. I have to give her a chance to show Xiàn! When my mother first picked these maids, I felt that it was not right, even if they were going to marry in Yanyue, they would replace the maids. You shouldn't have picked sixteen or seventeen years old, and you should have picked seven or eight of them. ”

Take a closer look, these maids are not bad-looking, all of them are beautiful and beautiful, they are in the good time of youth, and they are beautiful enough without makeup, Fan Anyang really suspects that her mother picked these maids, in fact, she planned to give her eldest brother a reserve for the room.

I have to say, Fan Anyang really guessed right!

Mrs. Fan explained this to Mr. Fan before leaving. Let him wait for the opportunity to talk to Fan Amber, Manager Fan can be embarrassed! This kind of thing, how can he tell the eldest young master as a subordinate? However, he couldn't mention it to the six girls, the six girls. How old are you? Can she care if her brother wants to wait in the room or not?

Moreover, he can't even talk to the eldest young master, so how can he mention it to the sixth girl?

Mr. Fan is having a headache, and he doesn't want to cause trouble with these maids! Now that this matter is over, I'm afraid that all of them will be sold, and no one will be left. Who knows that the hands and feet of the people under them are not clean, but they still stay?

This is just a new entry, and I'm still learning the rules! It's so bold, I want to stay for a few more days, I'm afraid that I won't be able to be evacuated by the master's house, right?

"Six girls. Do you want to ask the officials to take people away? ”

Fan Anyang put the tea cup beside him and asked, "Is it true that several of them have unclean hands and feet?" ”

"Yes, they were clever, and they did not go to the courtyard of their masters, but to the courtyard where the fourth lady and the cousin lived. Because the four ladies and they had just left, there were still many small furnishings in the house that had not been collected. ”

Although the four ladies lived in the mansion, most of them were used to their own homes, but there were still a lot of antique ornaments from the Fan family, and the four ladies left before they left.

These maids did not steal large items, of course, they could not hide them, they were small pieces, and they could be played with in their hands, such as amber bergamot hands, small gold table clocks, white jade flounder chimes and other small ornaments.

Fan Anyang looked at the few maids kneeling underneath and thought for a while, "Just let the servants take it back!" Let's just say that it is not necessary for the time being. ”

"Not just yet?" Manager Fan asked hesitantly.

"When the fourth aunt and mother lived with us, there were many people and many things, and there were indeed fewer people who could be used in the house, and now my mother has returned to Beijing, and the fourth aunt and their family went to Tanglin City, there are a lot of people waiting in our house, even if Moxiang and they are engaged, they didn't get married so soon, don't worry, let's pick a good one, since this group is not satisfied, let's go back!" Fan Anyang smiled and bent his eyes, "We can't let that person take us as a wronged person, and send those with unclean hands and feet to our house, and we can only bear it if we look at it?" ”

It's not that I haven't bought someone, last time I helped Du Yunxun pick someone in Ding's house, and the person who sent it was more than a star and a half worse than when I picked someone from my own house, but because her mother was in charge, she didn't say anything, and now she caught the wrong place, naturally she can't be cheap The other party, she remembers, Du Yunxun bought those people, and it only cost one hundred taels, but her mother spent a full two hundred taels!

She automatically wiped out the number of people, and her mother bought nearly twenty maids! And there are many big girls among them, of course, it is more expensive than Du Yunxun to buy people at that time.

"What if the man refuses?"

"Tell those few who have found things on their bodies to detain them, and throw them in his face when the time comes, will he dare to do it?" Fan Anyang raised his eyebrows and asked.

Mr. Fan smiled and went with Mother Lan.

No matter how hoarse those maids shouted and begged for mercy, Fan Anyang returned to the room surrounded by Ruixue, and Lilac asked hesitantly: "Girl, maybe how many of them are good!" Wouldn't it be a pity that you just went back like that? ”

"They came together, and who knows how long they've been with the people? In their hearts, they are a gang, and they don't have a master in their hearts, so they know that they can't run around, but they still listen to those big orders and help them lead away the mother-in-law who guards the door, otherwise how do you think they got into the courtyard? ”

Fan Anyang said in her heart, her mother has been in charge of the family for many years, and it is impossible not to see that there is a problem with those maids, but she still bought them, her mother didn't mean it, right?