Chapter 27: The Great Canteen

After dinner, two dishwashers set up a wooden basin next to the cistern in the backyard of the canteen and began to clean the dishes used for dinner.

Due to the busyness of the house for days, even the maids in the backyard were also transferred to the front yard to help, and there were not many people who had time to go back to the backyard maids' canteen to eat.

There are a total of five canteens in Sikong Mansion, three in the front yard and two in the backyard, of which the large canteen in the front yard is used by the masters and guests in the house, the second level is used by the housekeepers and stewards and the personal maids and guards, the latter level is used by small workers including foreign miscellaneous servants and servants, and there are two canteens in the backyard, the smaller ones are used exclusively by the maids, and the slightly larger ones are not restricted by anyone in the house.

However, the ladies and young masters in the house are equipped with small kitchens in their rooms, so the large dining hall in the front yard is not often used, resulting in a shortage of manpower in the large dining hall during the period when the number of visitors in the house is dense.

"It's been eight years since I've been in the house, and for the first time, I feel that the food in the big canteen is so unpalatable", Hua Mian recalled that Xiao Cui tearfully took her hand and said, "Sister Hua Mian, I'm used to eating your cooking, and then I went to the big canteen to eat, only to find that there is a gap between the food", if it wasn't so busy that I couldn't leave, Xiao Cui would definitely sneak back to the small canteen in the backyard.

Hua Mian has never understood why the sects in this country have so many restrictions on eating, and it can last for nearly 400 years.

"Miss Huamian, the dishes have been washed and cleaned, and the floor of the canteen has been cleaned, what do you think there is still work to do?" The cleaning worker came over and lowered his hand and said, since Sister Liu went to the big kitchen to help, Sister-in-law Feng, who was originally in charge of cleaning the maid's canteen, also followed, and Sister Liu temporarily found two small workers to help Huamian do the cleaning work.

"Today's work has been completed, hard work two" There are not many people who come to the dining hall to eat these days, and the cleaning work after the meal is much earlier than the expected end of Huamian "The two can go back first" said goodbye to the two small workers, and Huamian went back to the kitchen to see the puddings she had been thinking about for a long time.

Picking up a white porcelain cup with pudding, holding a small porcelain spoon, Hua Mian chose to sit by the flower bed in front of the courtyard to eat supper today, at this time the caramel on the top layer of the pudding has completely solidified, poke with a spoon, the soft touch of the pudding is passed from the spoon to the hand, scoop a spoonful, look in from the notch of the pudding, only to see the golden pudding swaying slightly, the milk fragrance in the air mixed with the sweet honey aroma, compared to the pudding that I tried in the afternoon, now this has more mature taste after the ingredients are mixed together.

The hardness of the caramel is just right, compared with the softness of the caramel on the pudding, now the caramel of this pudding can be called a perfect condensation, Huamian eats the pudding spoonful after spoonful, the spoon and the porcelain cup collide with each other, making a pleasant "staring" sound, the night wind will send the sound of silk and bamboo on the banquet in the front yard far away, although it is not real, but with the impact of the porcelain in the hand, it can be tasted several different artistic conceptions.

"Sister Blossom Sleep"

Just when Hua Mian was intoxicated by the rhythm, a person suddenly jumped out next to him.

"Sister Yehua" was also happy after seeing the person coming, this sister's temper is very consistent with herself, so she is still a little happy to see her come to Huamian, but isn't there a banquet in the front yard now? How can this Yehua sister still have time to go for a walk in the backyard?