068 Watching the Fire - To Emily Leung
A delicious and hearty lunch can not only fill your stomach, but also relieve fatigue.
Cui Ling felt that she was truly alive now.
All the way from Shengjing, because I had to hurry, every meal was made like a war, and I tried to pick and choose some simple ones to make.
Although Shi Xiujin and the soldiers accompanying him thought that the food was delicious, in fact, for her, those dishes were still only at the level of dealing with them in a hurry.
Now that she had settled down temporarily, she planned to make some good food to compensate herself.
The Northwest likes to eat beef and mutton, not to mention roast whole sheep, sauce beef, braised beef tendon, mutton stick bones, and even make a mutton hot pot or something, it is also very haode!
Cui Ling's fifteen years of rice worms in the Dasheng Dynasty made her gradually lose her competitiveness in her previous life and have a bit of an optimistic temperament.
As long as she can eat and sleep well, she can automatically block the surrounding environment, no matter how bad it is, she can be comfortable.
Contentment is the only way to be happy!
However, she also has concerns, that is, she doesn't know how long she will stay in Muzhou City, whether she has to come forward in person to convey Empress Jiang's decree to the ears of every soldier who fought bloodily for the country.
Otherwise, Empress Jiang ordered her to come to the northwest with the convoy, could it be true that it was just to reunite her husband and wife?
Thinking of the cruel eyes of Queen Jiang in the Kunning Palace that day, she felt a little uneasy in her heart.
On the way here, she also thought that with her age and low-key appearance, it was impossible to offend the great god Queen Jiang.
Then there are only the grievances of the previous generation.
It can't be a political struggle, if it is, where can Anningbo Mansion still be stable at this time?
So. There are only emotional grievances left.
Cui Ling thought that her mother had passed away very early. Before that, she and her father Cui Chengkai had always been very affectionate.
Even if something went wrong, it had to be her father.
She struggled to think about it. When he was young, Cui Chengkai was indeed born with a good appearance, handsome and handsome, with the elegance of a scholar and the masculinity of a man.
Could it be ......
Cui Ling patted her heart and decided to stop her thoughts, otherwise she would have to conjure up an earth-shattering conspiracy triggered by an old relationship.
She hurriedly cast her gaze on the peppers.
After a lot of hard work, she couldn't throw it here and get moldy, and she had to find an opportunity to teach the chef how to cook spicy dishes to the chef on the march, so that she didn't come for nothing.
But. These brain-consuming things should be talked about when Shi Xiujin returns.
Though...... Shi Xiujin's brain structure is not normal......
Cui Ling let go of her worries, and squatted in the kitchen wholeheartedly, waiting for the pot where the beef was cooked.
Yuan Wulang looked at her attentive appearance, and couldn't help but lower his voice and ask Brother Yu, "Your fifth aunt is always like this when she is at home?" ”
The so-called lady is far away from cooking.
The kitchen is smoky, hot, full of ingredients, and inevitably some of them are fresh.
It's not good for the ladies to be spoiled by the smoke, and it's not good for them to smell fishy. It's not good to get your clothes dirty.
For the wealthy and powerful families, everything in the kitchen is the cook, and the things made by this cook are not to the taste, so change it. Where can I ask the ladies and grandmothers of the family to go into battle in person?
Besides, whatever the ladies of Shengjing City want to eat, they only need to move their mouths. You don't have to do it yourself.
As long as there are one or two handmaidens and grandmothers with outstanding skills, what exquisite snacks have been made. But it's all counted on their own heads.
Even if it is the painting of his fourth sister-in-law, Su Zi, who is known as an all-round talent, not all of them must bow down in everything.
So. It's really the first time he's grown up to hear of a famous lady who likes to stay in the kitchen.
Brother Yu'er's head kept nodding like a chicken pecking rice, "Well, that's it at home, I often stay in the small kitchen of Tai'an Courtyard all day, and sometimes I say that I want to come to play with me, but because I make some chicken wings, I forget." ”
He sighed heavily like a little old man, "However, when I was at home, Sister Hibiscus helped, and Sister Xiaoli often came over to help, Master Tang and Master Liu, as well as many masters in the kitchen, would do it together, how could it be like now, even Aunt Wu had to come by herself to watch the fire?" ”
Cui Ling instructed Old Man Lu to do other preparations.
Brother Yu is still a child, and it is not easy to send bearded men, and there is no girl waiting in this yard, she has no one to use, so she has to lie on the ground and watch the fire.
Yuan Wulang was a little distressed when he heard it.
Anyway, what about his woman!
Running thousands of miles away, I didn't have to suffer so much on the way, and I even had to do my own thing to watch the fire.
He couldn't help but ask indignantly, "What about the girl you brought with you when you came?" Is it not at ease that the family will not bring anyone, and only let your fifth aunt and a weak girl go out of the house? ”
There are so many big men along the way, and she is the only woman, and the gossip alone has to be unpleasant.
He didn't believe that his eldest brother and sister-in-law would forget this incident, and he trusted his grandmother even more.
Brother Yu scoffed, "The great grandmother called a lot of grandmothers and girls to follow, but the weather became more and more freezing all the way north, and those grandmothers and girls were used to being pampered in Shengjing City, and their bodies couldn't help tossing and fell ill one after another." ”
He sighed, quite distressed, "Fifth uncle, look, our ancestors asked the ladies in the family to practice morning exercises, which is still very reasonable. ”
The convoy that sent cotton clothes and furs to the northwest was in a hurry, and they couldn't give the sick grandmothers and girls to the town for serious treatment, but they were just handed over to the doctors who accompanied the army to prescribe medicine for treatment.
But the disease of wind and cold, whether it is big or small, is not a trivial matter, and it needs to be slowly recuperated.
Where is the convoy to treat the mamma girls?
So I had to give a lot of money to the hospital when I passed through the town.
Along the way, people kept falling ill, and they put down several batches, and finally Sister Xiaoli persevered to Zuihou, but she was still defeated by the wind and cold before entering the border of Muzhou City, and fell ill heavily.
to zuihou. Still strong, alive. Only he and the fifth aunt remained.
Brother Yu thought, although he is young. But those who practice martial arts every day are very strong.
But the fifth aunt was able to persist in the harsh situation of eating and sleeping all the way, and he could only explain it with the Yuan family's morning exercises.
When Yuan Wulang heard this, he couldn't help but look at Cui Ling with admiration.
He secretly asked, "When your fifth aunt is at home, she still practices morning exercises?" ”
On the night of the wedding, her stinging words were still in her ears, didn't she say that her biggest idea in her life was to eat and wait for death to be lazy?
He even abided by the family rules and went to Shangwutang to practice morning exercises.
This point also made Brother Yu very puzzled. "Thinking about it carefully, although the fifth aunt claims to be lazy, she doesn't seem to have pulled down any of them when she reads and cooks."
He raised his eyebrows at Yuan Wulang with a grin, "According to the big sister, this is all love liliang!" ”
Don't look at Brother Yu'er's young age, but he is precocious.
When Su Zihua and Mei Rui lamented Cui Ling's hard work, they once said, "When Gorou left, he asked me to mention more of the five younger siblings' piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." I probably want a talented wife, you see that the five brothers and sisters clearly don't like to read and write, but they still do it, it can be seen that the five brothers and sisters really take Gorou's words to heart. ”
That's it. Brother Yu took it to heart.
He is too young to understand this kind of thing of love and love.
But. He knows how much courage and perseverance it takes to do what he doesn't want to do.
Something that never wants to learn. When it comes to taking the initiative to learn, the hardships that need to be paid are even more insignificant.
Just like him. At first, he refused to learn martial arts, but because of his reverence for his father and fear of his mother, he forced himself to learn it.
Later, he worked hard to make martial arts his only pleasure and hobby, and gradually liked it.
Only he knows how much great spiritual shock he has experienced.
From this, Brother Yu decided that the fifth aunt must have both reverence and fear for the fifth uncle as he did for his father and mother.
Yuan Wulang was stunned for a moment, and then raised his fist to make a posture to be beaten.
He lowered his voice and asked, "You little broken boy, do you know what to love or not, what nonsense?" Yue'er is really, what haode doesn't teach, teach her younger brothers these! ”
After thinking about it, he felt a little strange again, "Your eldest sister hasn't been in the palace all the time, and she hasn't even come home when I married your fifth aunt, how did you see her?" ”
Brother Yu shook his head, "I haven't seen my big sister for a long time. ”
He hung his head and flattened his mouth, "Last time, the eldest aunt thought that the eldest uncle had grown a lot of fat on his waist, and he was not as handsome as when he was young, and the eldest uncle was hungry for several meals, so he wanted to eliminate the fat on his belly, and the eldest sister sighed and said, this is the liliang of love!" ”
What a greedy person the eldest uncle is, just for the eldest aunt's unintentional words, he starved several times, it's not true love, where can he do it?
Yuan Wulang didn't say anything more this time, but his eyes gradually deepened when he looked at Cui Ling.
His heart trembled when he saw that the delicate and slender woman had almost her entire body pressed to the ground in order to master the best heat.
The tall and handsome body "Tengteng" took a few steps forward, he stood beside Cui Ling, and squatted down, "The ground is dirty, Madame should go and sit on the stool, I'll take a look at the fire here." ”
Cui Ling turned her head, and her white cheeks were stained with a little soot.
But she didn't feel it at all, just showed a kind smile, "It's just a fire, there's nothing to do." But little brother, if you are busy, you don't have to be here with me, I have Brother Yu as my companion, and Master Lu to help, it doesn't matter. ”
Although I feel good about this bearded guy, there is a difference between men and women, isn't it?
Even if Brother Yu is here, but this little brother stays here, she is afraid that Yuan Wulang will have ideas.
Well, even if she doesn't like her husband anymore, the marriage of the royal gift can't be annulled, and she doesn't want anything to change with the Yuan family being such a haode family.
But the bearded man did not flinch at all, he decisively learned her to kneel on one knee, looking at the blazing fire burning at the mouth of the stove, and his eyes seemed to be burning with fire, "It's okay, the general has ordered, and I have been asked to follow the lady and the little master these days." ”
Xu was because of the scorching heat of the fire, his voice couldn't help but be a little hoarse, "What does Madame command, just say, no life!" (To be continued......)
PS: The second update is delivered, this chapter is a thank you to emily, xiexie your and Shibi, I am very happy, very grateful, will work hard! Boom!