Chapter 29: Daily 1
86_86695 Zhu Youzi is very satisfied with the current life, and the miserable life after more than ten years is finally over.
The people who take care of their own lives are back. His eldest brother became a housekeeper again like when he was a child, and several uncles were responsible for taking care of his own life, which made him suddenly feel that he had returned to his carefree childhood.
The renovated palace garden is lively again. In addition to the family members who are in charge of security and the servants who are responsible for logistics and sanitation work, the eldest brother is very intimate to find all the servants who used to be in the palace in the past, and under their careful service, Zhu Youzi has regained the good life of a child of the heavenly family.
Every morning, I get dressed and washed under the clothes of my mother, and then I have breakfast in the company of my daughter.
The content of breakfast was all ordered by Zhu Youzi to the back kitchen the night before. Except for the special case of something else that you suddenly want to eat, breakfast is generally relatively simple. A cage of bull's eye xiaolongbao, usually filled with mutton, two fried eggs, a glass of milk, and a bowl of marching noodles (instant noodles).
Fried eggs and milk are stipulated by his good son-in-law, although he doesn't like these greasy things very much, but at the insistence of his good son-in-law, he agreed. Not to mention, after eating fried eggs and milk every day, my body is indeed much stronger than before.
After eating, and taking the elixir (nutritional medicine) specially refined by the good son-in-law, Zhu Youzi and Zhu Weiyan listened to the big housekeeper report on the first day of the family in the front hall. Most of them were trivial matters related to some daily expenses, and a small part were some things in the home of several uncles in the son-in-law's back garden, that is, in the big camp in the mouths of the servants.
After all, Zhu Youzi has lived a depressed life for more than ten years, and he still pays more attention to the family's various expenses, but limited to his own mathematical and statistical ability, he can only pay attention to whether the daily income and expenditure are balanced. The son-in-law set up a special account for the palace in the bank, and he would allocate one hundred silver dollars to the account every day, that is, one hundred taels of silver. This one hundred taels of silver is specially for Zhu Youzi's personal expenses, and the treatment of all servants in the palace, salaries, including food, etc., are all responsible for the son-in-law, so Zhu Youzi is only concerned about whether there is a big difference in his daily expenses of one hundred taels.
Zhu Weiyan is different from Zhu Youzi, Wang Shuhui handed over all the financial authority of the palace to Zhu Weiyan. It can be said that all the economic income in the entire palace is now in charge of Zhu Weiyan. At the beginning, Zhu Weiyan wanted to take classes with the children, but Wang Shuhui took her away because he wanted to hand over the management of the palace to her.
The daily expenses of the palace can only be taken out in the bank after Zhu Weiyan has been calculated and sealed. Zhu Weiyan, who is used to living a hard life, and her fourth uncle, who has worked as an account clerk, have learned to manage accounts, and they have carefully calculated the expenses of the palace every day, spending most of their daily time.
On the morning of January 1, 1620, Zhu Youzi woke up late. He woke up from a good night's sleep, opened his eyes and looked at the wall clock, and found that he had woken up quite late to-day, at ten o'clock in the morning. Zhu Youzi immediately thought of something, he was woken up by the movement of military training in the back garden every morning at about six o'clock, and it seemed that today it was because all the servants were on vacation, so he didn't wake him up.
When Zhu Youzi thought that he had slept well, a sense of satisfaction suddenly appeared in his heart. This satisfaction made him lie in bed, and his mind began to wander. He remembered that when he was a child, he had heard an allusion from the professor of the palace, that is, his father's master, an old man in the Longqing period. is talking about the Hanlin Qianzai of the time of Taizu, who once complained that the time of the last dynasty was too early, "The four drums are beating and the clothes are up, and it is too late to see the court at noon." When will you be happy in the countryside, and sleep until the food in the world is cooked. ”
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but mutter. This literati should be killed. Taizu is a rare saint, the emperor is diligent and diligent, without the slightest slack, you are an old Confucian of the Ming Dynasty, leading the court, full of food and warm clothing, what is there to complain about.
With such a thought in his head, Zhu Youzi pulled a red rope at the head of the bed, and the crisp sound of the bell faintly came in from outside. Zhu Youzi couldn't help but think that his good son-in-law was very ingenious, and calling the servants with such equipment was much better than pulling his neck and shouting, and he was really from the background of the family, so he could know such a method.
Zhu Youzi was served by the old mother, and a soft and warm fine velvet robe (Ming Dynasty Taoist robe style flannel pajamas) was draped on top of the white gauze middle sheet. I washed my face and brushed my teeth with toothbrush and toothpaste. Only then did Shi Shiran walk out of the bedroom and go to the dining room to eat.
As soon as Zhu Youzi arrived at the restaurant, he saw his daughter sitting at the dining table, holding a book and reading it carefully. When he saw that he was coming, he put the book away and saluted himself. Zhu Youzi waved his hand and sat down at the dining table.
The furnishings in the dining room are very different from the past, and the son-in-law has replaced all the bulky tables and chairs of the original rosewood here with new style tables and chairs. The sofa circle chair with backrest and the double-layer crystal table are better than the tables and chairs of the past.
After breakfast was set, Zhu Youzi found that he didn't have his favorite marching noodles (instant noodles) today, so he felt a little unhappy, and he said to the eldest brother standing next to him, "Brother Huaiyi, why didn't you have a marching noodles today." ”
Liu Huai, the chief housekeeper, knew early that there would definitely be such a thing at breakfast today. After listening to Zhu Youzi's questioning, he immediately replied, "The night before yesterday, Yibin asked the old slave about the food list of the prince and the county lord, and saw that there was a marching surface. Yibin said that this marching noodle was a temporary diet, and the nutrition was not balanced enough, and if he ate too much, he would become fat, which was not conducive to his health, so he instructed the old slave not to give this diet to the prince and the county lord again. However, according to the orders of Jun Yibin, the kitchen made noodles and noodles from buckwheat. If the prince wants to eat, the old slave will be ordered to come into the kitchen. ”
Instant noodles are a thing that Zhu Youzi likes to eat very much. Earlier, when there were few people, he and his daughter were not very good at cooking, and Wang Shuhui had a lot of things, so he often used this convenience to deal with it.
Zhu Youzi has lived a low-level life for more than ten years, and when he eats instant noodles in his mouth, he is tightly grasped by the rich and smooth taste. In the past few months, although life has gotten better again, and the chef in charge of cooking in the back kitchen is also the master of his father's lifetime, but the taste of instant noodles makes him unforgettable, and he has to eat a bowl every morning.
Zhu Youzi knew that his good son-in-law was very concerned about his body, and his heart was even thinner than the old mother who had been waiting for him since he was a child in the house, but he was still very dissatisfied with the fact that he was so cold and cut off his favorite marching noodles. He was not a man with a city, and this dissatisfaction was expressed in his face.
The big housekeeper Liu Huaiyi is a very cautious person. He had already heard the attitude of his fourth brother Liu Huaiji about his niece, the eldest lady of the county lord. Originally, he was a person who was very disciplined, and he never intervened in the matter between the father and daughter of the world and the guest of honor, and when he saw Zhu Youzi's displeasure, he also stood aside without saying a word.
Zhu Youzi ate the lo noodles from the back kitchen, and felt that they were not as good as the marching noodles in the past, so he ate two bites casually and put them aside. Zhu Weiyan also saw her father's dissatisfaction at this time, gave Liu Huaiyi a look, and waited until her uncle came out of the restaurant before she spoke, "Is my father dissatisfied because Brother Wang Shi did the food in the mansion without authorization?" ”
Zhu Youzi saw that there were only his father and daughter in the restaurant, so he said, "This kid has a lot of things, but it's just a mouthful of things, where can I be so careful." ”
Zhu Weiyan smiled and said to Zhu Youzi, "Father's words are very unconscionable, if the world brother is not nervous about his father's body, how can he care so much about his father's diet." This is also a piece of filial piety to you as a junior. Brother Wang Shi doesn't know how many things he has to do every day, and he is also worried about his father's diet, which is a blessing for his father. ”
Zhu Youzi rolled his eyes and said to Zhu Weiyan, "You're really an outgoing girl, you little girl, you really can't listen to the slightest bit of bad words about that kid." ”。