Chapter Eighty-Nine: Tea and Rice
After tossing all morning, no one could successfully complete the silk reeling, such a result was expected by Mama Guo, and she was not angry, and only sent the girls to dinner.
Although Mama Guo is the steward assigned by Tan Zijin, Mu Jincheng is the master in the end, and when he came, Mama Guo did not want to eat in the room, but politely gave him the land, and asked the mother-in-law in the kitchen to make a table of chicken, duck and fish.
Mu Jincheng didn't want to eat those greasy dishes when he looked at them, so he put down his chopsticks after taking two bites of white rice.
"Master, you don't have an appetite?" Bao Ying asked cautiously.
"You go to the kitchen and see if there's porridge or side dishes or anything like that." Mu Jincheng waved his hand.
After a while, Bao Ying brought a plate of salty radish strips, Mu Jincheng tasted it, and spit it all out.
"Do you still have pastries from yesterday? I'll eat some of that. Mu Jincheng rinsed his mouth with tea and asked.
Mu Jincheng was not satisfied with the food, and there was nothing he wanted to eat, so where could the mother-in-law in the kitchen afford it, so he hurried to find Mama Guo.
Mama Guo stepped on small steps, and hurriedly came in and said: "Third master, forgive me, the pastries used yesterday are all from Fengzhizhai, the day is so hot, the rest is distributed to the girls, if you want to eat, I will ask someone to buy it." ”
Mu Jincheng's appetite is confident, there is one of the best Sansheng restaurants in Nancang County outside the Mu family, and the dishes in the house are even more refined, not to mention the small kitchen of the old lady and his wife, flying in the sky, swimming in the water, dragon liver and phoenix marrow, as long as you think about it, you can eat it.
The dishes made by a few vulgar women in the weaving workshop, ordinary people feel that the taste is acceptable when they eat them, but when they meet a noble son like him, who is not tired of eating fine and delicate, he can't swallow it like pig food.
"Forget it, it's too much trouble." Mu Jincheng pursed his lips and refused.
Mama Guo had no choice but to retreat.
Mu Jincheng misses Gu Qingzhu's dishes a little, whether it is the chicken shoot dishes she ate in Changlong, or the noodles and snake banquet she made for him, or even the wotou pickles that she was forced to eat in Laojun Mountain, when I think about it now, it is all endless.
"Master, you can't eat it, you can't stay up in the afternoon!" Bao Ying saw that he was stunned by dementia, and said anxiously.
"Whoever said they wouldn't eat it, bring the freshly brewed tea." Mu Jincheng pointed to the teapot on the low table.
He poured some tea and made rice, ate a bowl of it, and sent Bao Ying to eat all the dishes on the table, so as not to nag Mama Guo when she saw it.
Mu Jincheng came temporarily, and there was nowhere to place him at noon, so Mama Guo came in and asked, "Third master, are you going back to the house now?" ”
"Forget it, if it's weird and tossing people back and forth, I'll stay here." Mu Jincheng said without thinking.
"That'...... The old woman will make room for you. His answer surprised Mama Guo.
It is rumored that he is a loser who can only eat, drink and have fun, but he doesn't look like it now.
"I see that there are a lot of empty houses in the courtyard, just find me a room, don't bother you." Mu Jincheng stood up and said.
"Then the first room on the west side, which is bright and airy." Mama Guo said, turned around and looked for the personal girl: "Xiaolai, quickly help the third master clean up the room." ”
"Mama, how dare I trouble your girl, let's let her wait for you to rest earlier, I'm still busy in the afternoon, I'll just find someone to do things outside." Mu Jincheng said and turned around and walked out of the house.
"Qingzhu, Qingzhu, don't go, you clean up the house for the third master." Mama Guo, who was following behind, glanced at the girl outside and stopped Gu Qingzhu, who was about to leave with her sister.
Mama Guo has seen too many unscrupulous people in the inner courtyard, among these girls, she trusts Gu Qingzhu the most, like Peng Pearl Jia Min and others, she is born to climb the male master's bed, she will not let them have the slightest chance to get close to Mu Jincheng, lest if something ugly happens, and lose the dignity of the eldest lady and Dexing.
And Gu Qingzhu originally wanted to avoid it earlier, but now he couldn't do it, so he had to respond in a low voice.
The girls in the dining room all looked at Gu Qingzhu, with envy, jealousy, and even more hatred for her.
Only Mu Jincheng was overjoyed for a moment.
The bedding in each room was pre-arranged, and Gu Qingzhu spread the brand-new bedding pillows in the fierce midday sunlight on the patio, and then fetched water to wipe the simple furniture.
"Gu Qingzhu, when you saw me yesterday, it was like seeing a ghost, what are you running blind?" Mu Jincheng asked comfortably slumped in his chair.
Gu Qingzhu didn't seem to hear it, so he just buried his head in work.
"Gu Qingzhu, you are so ruthless, you only sent Qingying to send a plate of pastries yesterday, and you didn't even have a pot of tea, you almost choked me to death!" Mu Jincheng sat up and said resentfully.
Gu Qingzhu found a broom to sweep the floor, but still ignored him.
"Gu Qingzhu, I'll talk to you, you're deaf!" Mu Jincheng stood up and shouted in front of Gu Qingzhu with a sullen face.
"Your life-saving grace, I said thank you, let's not interfere with the river water in the future, don't say we know each other outside." Gu Qingzhu leaned on the broom and said coldly.
"You...... You're cold-blooded, I'm ...... Seven-foot ...... No, eight-foot man, is that what makes you feel ashamed! At Mu Jincheng's neck, the green tendons burst and jumped suddenly.
"Yes, you childish ghost, you just don't look down on people!" After speaking, Gu Qingzhu took the broom and left.
"Gu Qingzhu, you ......" Mu Jincheng was speechless for a while, he had been despised like this for a long time!
Baoying, who was stunned on the side, hurriedly supported Mu Jincheng, daring to argue with the third master of his family like this, except for the master of the family, Gu Qingzhu is the first one, and the partial master seems to be angry with himself, there is really nothing he can do about her girl, it is really wronged.
The bedding and pillows were alone in the hot summer wind, Mu Jincheng curled up on the chair and took a nap, and Baoying put together two chairs for him in order to make him sleep more comfortably, but he was also very wronged by his eight-foot big man.
In the afternoon, Mama Guo took the girls to practice silk reeling as usual, and Gu Qingzhu, who had stepped on the empty plane all morning, started from the silk, wore money eyes, circled the lock star, added ladders, and wound silk, and every step was perfect, until she stepped on the pedal, and the silk thread as thin as a hair was very obediently wound to the silk.
Gu Qingzhu suppressed the joy of a success, kept the strength of pedaling on his feet, looked at the tightness of the silk threads, and prepared to peel the threads of the other three cocoons in his hands.
"Qingzhu, you're done!" Gu Daya was beside her, and in a blink of an eye, she saw a thin layer of silk thread wrapped around Gu Qingzhu's silk, shining as bright as moonlight.
Gu Daya's exclamation attracted the attention of the whole room, and Mama Guo hurriedly ran over to look: "Yes, yes, that's it, keep it, don't relax!" ”
"Gee, why did she do it silently?"
"It's really more popular than people, I can't even do silk winding at this time."
"It seems that she is going to be the first to pass the assessment and get paid."
The chattering voice was full of frustration, jealousy, and admiration, and Gu Erni snorted from her nose.
Peng Pearl on the side said flatteringly: "Look at her proud, if it doesn't happen to break the thread, I see that you are no worse than her, maybe you came out on top just now!" ”
"If you have this nonsense, let's sort out your own silk thread!" Gu Erni hated her for not opening which pot to mention, and glared at her.
Peng Pearl pursed her lips and lowered her head to sort out the mess.
When did Mu Jincheng, who has been in brocade clothes and jade food for twenty years, suffer this crime, his neck stiffened when he slept, he yawned while rubbing his neck, and walked into the workshop.
"What's going on?" He saw many people surrounding Gu Qingzhu at a glance, and his instinctive reaction in his heart was that she had done something bad again.
"Hey, it's better for the third master to bring all the blessings and luck to these girls, no, Qingzhu can already reel silk." Mama Guo walked over happily and said.
"Oh." Mu Jincheng was still worried about the noon incident, and responded lightly on his face.
Moodiness is the nature of the third master of the Mu family, Mama Guo has no doubts, seeing that he is fine, she turned around to teach those girls, and the most she said since then is, why are you so stupid, look at other people's green bamboo!
This invisibly attracted a lot of hatred to Gu Qingzhu.
"Mama, someone from the house told you to go back, saying that the second lady was a little uncomfortable." Xiaolai hurriedly came in and said.
"Gee, what's going on? She must have eaten peaches yesterday, she can't eat peaches, follow her Xin'er! Mama Guo panicked for a while.
Tan Zipei was brought up by her, this child is very expensive when he is young, he has to be careful in food and clothing, if he doesn't pay attention, he will be covered with rashes, and when he is heavy, he will not be able to breathe directly, and he will be born in a medical home, otherwise it will be really difficult to feed such a big one.
Every time she eats a new food, she is gambling with her life, so Mama Guo knows everything about what Tan Zipei can eat and what she can't eat, and she also taught her personal girl Xin'er like this, there were too many people yesterday, and she didn't care about it for a while, so something went wrong.
"Xin'er is crying at this time, probably scared, and didn't say anything." Xiaolai replied with a handkerchief.
"Third master, you can help me keep an eye on the weaving workshop for a while, and I'll come when I go." Mama Guo was worried about Tan Zipei, and she was not worried about the weaving workshop, so she said with some embarrassment.
"Okay, you go, the second miss is important." Mu Jincheng waved his hand.
Mama Guo bowed down and hurriedly left with Xiaolai.
For a while, the girls all stood down in a daze, and they whispered in groups of three or five for the sudden change, and Mu Jincheng turned his head to look at Baoying.
"Let's study hard and add vegetables at night!" Bao Ying took three steps forward, coughed a few times, and said in a loud voice.
"Oh!" The girls cheered at once.
Bao Ying turned his head to look at his master, but saw him roll his eyes.
Is it wrong? Bao Ying didn't know the bottom of his heart, and added: "You can't learn, Mama Guo Ming'er will definitely prick you with a needle!" ”
"Shhh The room was filled with the sound of inhalation.
Seeing that the girls were honestly going back to practice, Baoying felt that he was too smart for a while, he turned around and returned to Mu Jincheng's side, straightened his waist, and felt that he had not embarrassed the Mu family and his own master.
Mu Jincheng leaned listlessly on the chair, his eyes were empty, he didn't know where to look, and his mind didn't belong.
He is used to being like this, and Baoying has no way to do it, so he only prepares the tea and takes out a fan to fan him to cool off.