Chapter 21: The Triple Jump (1)
Since Tianxin joined the ranks of cooks, the order of the rough girls began to be secretly mobilized. Tianxin, who was originally the lowest level, moved, but it was gratifying and changed back to the end, and the feng shui of the lower room was also silently changed.
In other words, Tianxin, who slept on the outermost side and didn't enjoy the warmth of the charcoal basin at all, was changed to the row of Cuigu, and poor Kexi was changed to the outermost. Kexi didn't dare to show a reluctant look, she was sleeping in the penultimate row, so she obediently picked up the futon outside. Tianxin was unwilling, feeling as if she had robbed someone else's territory, but Kexi said with a stammering face: "Good sister, if you enter the inner courtyard in the future, remember your sister's goodness." After all, he is still a few years older than Tianxin, and this appearance of inflammation makes Tianxin not know how to deal with it.
Chunque fanned the flames on the side again, saying cool words, Cuigu couldn't listen to it, and pulled Tianxin over: "Don't take Qiao, let you come in, you can come in, you know that even if you don't come in, no one will be good to you." If you really think about your sisters, if you have good things in the future, give them to her. Now you are doing the work of a cook, no longer a rough girl, you should have moved out of this room, but most of the cooks have families, and you are not equipped with people, so you live for the time being. ”
Tianxin was used to the role of an old hen in her previous life, protecting her younger brother, protecting her roommates, and protecting her friends...... How did I feel that the role had changed today, and for a while there was a sense of dislocation, and I was a little inexplicably moved, only to realize that my little body was really a doll.
Holding Cuigu's hand, Tianxin smiled dependently and got up to move things. Cui Gu helped her get it, and saw that the vanilla also came to help her and Kexi carry some small things, the other two little maids refused to move out, and seeing that the vanilla had moved, they also stood up and expected Ai Ai to say something, but they couldn't intervene, so they only silently carried their own things. Leaving Chunque alone, he rolled his eyes at them and went to his own devices.
Tianxin thinks about new dishes every day, although it looks enough now, but he is always afraid that Jiang Lang will run out of talent and end up being choreographed. Therefore, when Mama Tian asked Tianxin to cook two meals a day, Tianxin replied: "Thank you Mama for your kindness, it's not that Tianxin is unwilling, it's just that ...... Tianxin has only been an apprentice, and now she is making this lunch to add food, and she is already chasing ducks to the shelves, Tianxin is really afraid that the old lady will be tired of it again, but how to be good? Mama has to find a good cook. ”
Tianxin naturally knew that she had to hold on to the stomach of the second elder, so she couldn't let them eat too many repetitive dishes, and she had to leave a thought for them every day, so it was necessary to go all out to make lunch. As for whether Mama Tian can really find a good cook, she can't control it, and even if she doesn't mention it, Mama Tian will definitely secretly find the old and experienced cook, she will never believe that Mama Tian can put the treasure on this eight or nine-year-old baby, she is just Mama Tian's expedient measure. And before Mama Tian found someone to take over, it was important to let the second elder get used to eating her food for lunch every day.
In addition to adding two new dishes to the second elder for lunch every day, Tianxin also took advantage of his free time in the afternoon to make some small snacks and send them to each room. For the extra leftovers, Tianxin will make some side dishes to add some ingredients to the next people. After a few days, the maids and ladies in the kitchen became familiar with her. The maids in each room were bribed by her snacks, and they slowly did not shy away from her when they gossiped.
As the gossip gathering center in the house, there is a lot of news in the kitchen, and Tianxin sorts out and analyzes the news he gets every day, and carefully writes down what he needs. She won't and won't stay in this kitchen for the rest of her life, she must seize every opportunity to jump out, and besides, the water in this house is too deep, and she must analyze who can use it, which people are harmful, and which must be guarded against.
After these days of eavesdropping, Tianxin has a general understanding of the distribution of characters in the mansion. In the old lady's room, there is only one aunt Mo, and it is said that there was once an aunt Wang, but she was sent to Zhuangzi to be raised, I am afraid that she has done something taboo. Xiao Yuqin, the eldest son of Xiao Mansion, has a wife and a concubine, and his wife Wang is the eldest lady in everyone's mouth, and the concubine Chen has nothing to do, so there is only one sister-in-law Xiao Yiqing in the big house.
Xiao Yumian, the second son of the second mother, is also a wife and a concubine. Regarding this second wife, Tianxin's buttocks have been seriously seen, and the concubine is Aunt Zhu who has been aborted. The second wife has a son-in-law, Xiao Yigang, and Xiao Yiwan, who is born in the concubine's room, is also raised under the name of the second wife.
The other two rooms are all concubines. The mother of the third son, Xiao Yuzhong, is the Wang family raised on the Zhuangzi. In addition to his wife, he accepted two concubines, and there were many rooms, and he was the most romantic one in the Xiao family, but the heirs were thin, and he only had two daughters, named Yifang and Yirong.
The youngest concubine of the Xiao family, named Xiao Yuchan, was born by the Mo family, only sixteen years old, and has not yet been married.
Although he understood the structure of the Xiao Mansion, most of them, Tianxin had never met, and only silently remembered in his heart that if he touched it, he would not lose his manners.
In a blink of an eye, Duanyang is near, which is the modern Dragon Boat Festival. Tianxin has been in the house for a month, and it is the first time she has met the house for the holidays. In the past, in Ren's house, early in the morning of Duanyang, Ren's sister-in-law would boil eggs, put them in a finished embroidered bag, hang them around Tianxin's neck, and tie a sachet with a small tiger on her waist, which contained cinnabar, realgar, and incense to ward off evil spirits and drive away plague. Now no one celebrates her like this anymore. Although she is a little gloomy, life must go on, and she has added an extra set of zongzi to her dishes today. I prepared it early, and I just waited for it to be cooked on this day and sent it to the rooms. In this era, there are many kinds of zongzi, such as bean paste, meat, dates, and walnuts. This traditional cooks will make it themselves, and Tianxin wraps egg yolk meat dumplings, eight-treasure dumplings and mushroom dumplings. In addition to the egg yolk dumplings, the other dumplings she wrapped are much smaller than the ordinary, just like the modern mini dumplings, and there are not many of them in each room. For the old lady and the old lady, there was only one box, a total of six, two of each type. In addition to zongzi, Tianxin also filled the box with a small Ai Hu made of a small amount of ayaluo, which was quite childlike.
After having lunch with Aunt Cui, Tianxin waited outside the kitchen. Today's holiday, the things she sent over, the old lady must feel festive, just to see how it will be appreciated. If you reward ordinary objects, it's enough, Tianxin is not rare, so you should leave a good impression on the second elder and plan for the future. Tianxin only gambled that the old lady would not only reward the object, and called her in to see her, which was the first step for her to enter the inner courtyard......
Cui Gu is still eating Tianxin's mini dumplings in her, fiddling with them for a long time before she is willing to eat, in previous years, they are rough girls, not always able to get meat dumplings, can have a red bean zongzi is good, while eating Cui Gu while calculating, and Tianxin said, this small rice dumpling with less materials, but also delicate, if the festival is taken out to sell, small households can be full, large households will not be too full to eat more, it can really sell well. This girl's economic acumen is really family heirloom.
Other girls and mothers-in-law also got mini dumplings. Nowadays, the little girls like to follow Tianxin, because they can always get some small snacks, and the mothers-in-law also like to take the Tianxin home for the children to eat or play. A few leading grandmothers have received a lot of benefits from Tianxin on weekdays, and seeing that Tianxin is so good at being a person, they are also very partial to her. There are only a bunch of three or five family students who are good with Chunque, and they feel very good about themselves, and they see Tianxin, a newcomer, but now they are complacent, and they haven't treated her very much. Fortunately, Tianxin is low-key, and her attitude towards this group of people is always neither humble nor arrogant, so that they can't catch any tricks. Even if you don't like Tianxin in your heart, the things that Tianxin sends, these girls don't push out, they can take them quickly.
The maid Qinru carried the food box and walked towards the kitchen, Tianxin pretended to organize the food box, secretly paying attention. Sure enough, Qinru put down the food box and found Mama Chen. Today, Mrs. Li called Mama Tian to help with the holiday, and the kitchen was handed over to Mama Chen, the second supervisor. After a few words, Mama Chen turned her eyes to look at Tianxin and waved to her with a smile. Tianxin ran to him, Qin Ru said: "Today, the old lady is very happy to see your zongzi box, and the little Ai Hu said that she has not seen you all year round, and she wants to reward you." Always eat your new dishes, the old lady and the old lady only heard me say that although you are small but you are willing to do, this time I want to call you over and see you for myself. In the past, you can be polite, this is your blessing. ”
Seeing that Qin Ru did not forget to show her merit in her words, Tianxin hurriedly saluted and thanked her, greeted Mama Chen again, and followed Qin Ru over. On the way, Tianxin stuffed the zongzi that had been prepared to Qinru, saying that she would not forget her sister's kindness and so on, and held Qinru high, very proud. Qin Ru glanced at Tianxin's small zongzi wrapped with five-color silk threads, which was more authentic than the one in the embroidery room outside, and the spices in it had a faint herbal smell, not pungent at all, so he asked curiously: "Tianxin's craftsmanship is really good, where did you learn needlework?" This spice is also special, not like it was bought outside. ”
My sister complimented me. Tianxin is not good at needlework, and can only play a few lines. This spice was originally told by my mother when I was at home, saying that it was good for the body and could ward off evil spirits. ”
"You have a heart. That's why I always praise you in front of the old lady. Qin Ru knew that he had chosen this good thing cheaply, so he had to show his credit again and again.
Tianxin's purpose is just to leave a line in front of the old lady, which is better than stumbling into it by mistake, so she said: "Thank you sister, Tianxin knows that my sister is good." Tianxin is young and ignorant, so in front of the old lady, she will ask her sister to help her more. ”
Qin Ru responded, but he didn't know what was going on, but he couldn't intervene.