Chapter 2 The Old Lady's Favorite
Changchun Mansion is located in the south of the Yangtze River, directly under the south of the Zhili, under the jurisdiction of four counties: Wujin, Wuxi, Yixing, Jiangyin.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, a total of 1,546 Jinshi have been produced, including 9 champions, 8 Bangyan and 11 Tanhua. Changchun Mansion has a transcendent status in the hearts of Daqi scholars, and it is self-reported on the way to the exam, and the convenience that the three words "Changchun Mansion" can bring is far from being comparable to other state capitals.
Tong Huaiyuan is one of these nine champions, and being able to return to Changchun Mansion as a governor can really be regarded as the emperor's grace. Officials who are released from abroad return to Beijing every five years to report on their work, and those with excellent performance stay in Beijing to serve.
The news of Mrs. Zhizhou's birth of a baby boy has been widely spread in the four counties, but the child's baptism ceremony still adheres to Tong Zhizhou's low-key style.
Mrs. Tong has never lowered her eyebrows and eyes since she started to smile in the morning, and her mouth is full of words, this joyful look is no different from when her eldest son was the top student in high school more than ten years ago.
Although the kitchen of the Zhizhou Mansion is busy but orderly at the moment, the cooks only need to prepare three or two tables of dishes today, and the task is not heavy, but the third lady of the Tong family is sitting at the moment makes their scalps a little numb.
In fact, they are all things that they are used to doing every day, but when they meet the third lady of the Tong family who is more serious about the dishes, everyone who works in the kitchen does not dare to take it lightly.
Tong Qingyan, who was smiling and holding a tea cup and looking at her, didn't feel that her appearance made everyone feel a lot of pressure, as long as she watched the dishes she designated was perfectly presented, she felt like she had won the jackpot.
In the last life... No, to be precise, before wearing here, Tong Qingyan's favorite thing to do was to eat everywhere with her bags on her back, and share the delicious scenery of every place on her Weibo, but she never thought that she would die in the end of eating.
In that era when Internet celebrities are blooming everywhere, I can't tell why I watched the live broadcast of Internet celebrities to eat a certain kind of mushroom in Yunnan and shouted delicious and placed an order, after the price is not expensive and a small package of mushrooms is stewed with a bamboo chicken, the aroma fills the entire nasal cavity at the moment the lid is lifted, and the pot of soup is like a very demagogic Pandora's box, anyway, the final result is that after waking up after drying up a whole pot of mushroom and bamboo chicken soup, she has become the concubine of Tong Zhizhou, Qingyan.
Wen Lan, the daughter of a gentle and clever merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, became her mother, full of poetry and books, and was an official and diligent official, but she was unable to stay in Beijing to serve in the court, and Tong Huaiyuan was her father.
There is also the second uncle of Huaishan Tong, a great wonder boy in Changchun Mansion who gave up studying early and was only willing to do business, because he took the business road, so he married a wife earlier than the eldest brother, and the twin daughters of the second uncle and aunt were three years older than Tong Qingyan.
It has been three months since the ceremony, Tong Manjiao's marriage is still not mentioned, and now Mrs. Tong has successfully given birth to her sister-in-law, and she wants to wait for the old lady to come back as soon as the marriage of the twin flowers should also be put on the agenda.
Listening to the Wen family's family chatting with Wen Lan in the main house of Lan Ju, Tong Huaiyuan did not shy away from holding his meaty sister-in-law Brother Ping and laughing, and the scholar pays attention to holding his grandson and not his son, and feels that distance produces prestige, and he should be strict with his son for the inheritance of the family business.
However, Tong Huaiyuan has never been a strict father, although his eyebrows and eyes are slightly different from the common round and full of Jiangnan people, and he is slightly angular, but he is a very gentle man in his bones.
"Why haven't you seen Sister An for so long?" Mrs. Wen, who couldn't hide her joy with kind eyes, couldn't help but ask about her favorite granddaughter, and the words were asked to Tong Huaiyuan, but her eyes were still glued to her daughter.
Although the eldest daughter-in-law has good medical skills and asserts that this fetus did not damage her youngest daughter by half a point, but when the mother is a hundred years old, she is often worried about the psychology of ninety-nine.
Wen Lan knew what her mother was thinking, the accident of this child, and it took her a long time to accept that Lao Beng's Huaizhu fell on her, although it was exaggerated, but when she gave birth to Tong Qingyan, she suffered a huge loss, and her eldest sister-in-law had already told her that she might not be able to get pregnant again.
Even if the confinement for four months makes up for the deficit in the body, it can only guarantee that there will be no symptoms in the confinement, and I have never thought about getting pregnant again for more than ten years.
The mother-in-law is lenient and peaceful, never mentioning the inheritance of the heirs in person, whether it is to herself or to the concubine Zhou, there is no complaint, always thinking that the peace and security of the family is better than anything else.
The mother-in-law was illiterate, and she fled from the north to Jiangnan, and married her father-in-law who was surrounded by four walls at that time.
Later, the father-in-law happened to save a nobleman who was traveling south to the capital, but he was seriously injured and died, and the only thing he could do before his death was to ask the nobleman to shelter the orphans and widows, and promise them a lifetime of wealth.
After the mother-in-law knew about it, she politely declined, as long as she had 1,000 taels of silver, she would buy a house, a field and a shop, and the rest would be used as the future wife of her two sons.
Later, the two sons gradually grew up and had their own ideas, the old lady was very open-minded, and continued to read if she was willing to study, and helped run two or three small shops at home if she was unwilling.
It is also thanks to the talent of the second master Tong, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and the old lady sees that her youngest son has the ability to decisively let go and start living in the inner house.
At that time, it was only a children's house of a solid family in Jiangyin County, and it suddenly rose to the highest level after a champion Lang, Shinong Industry and Commerce, the bottom of the business row, Tong Erye has been in business for many years and is not as famous as Tong Da Lao once became a champion.
Mrs. Tong did not ruin the marriage contract because her eldest son won the championship, and still insisted that her eldest son marry Wen Lan, the daughter of a merchant in Wujin County.
At that time, he was about to give birth, and the whole family was very happy to hear the news, everyone liked the land of Jiangnan, and no one had the ambition to leave their homeland to go to the capital to make a name.
No matter how big the business of the second master Tong is, he doesn't want to develop to the north, everyone strictly follows the old lady's teachings, and the family is safe.
As for starting from the governor of the state capital when he first entered the government and the opposition, although Master Tong is indeed outstanding in learning ability, it is clear that it is because of the noble man whom Mrs. Tong saved at the beginning, as for who the noble man is, no one knows, and Mrs. Tong also said that she was too sad and painful to ask carefully.
Thinking of the old past is like a dream, after more than ten years, now that his children are in pairs, he has nothing to ask for, and answers for his husband with a smile.
"Sister An, you don't know yet, today her brother washed the three banquets, isn't it time for her to show her skills, and my mother-in-law has prayed for my son for a long time in Tianning Temple, and now that she is back, Sister An wants to cook in person to be the old lady's favor."
The old lady's favorite thing everyone in the house knows, that is, meat. The old lady loves to eat meat, and when she was young, she saved it for her two sons, and raised Uncle Tong and Second Master Tong to be extremely tall and straight, and they were among the best in the entire Jiangnan Prefecture.
Later, the family gradually got better but always felt that the meat cooked by the cook was not delicious enough, and the chef in the house changed wave after wave, or when she was five years old, the third lady of the Tong family sneaked into the kitchen to play, and naughtily added some ingredients to the braised pork stewed on the small stove, and the old lady accidentally ate the shocking delicacy, only to realize the talent of the little granddaughter in cooking.
Since then, the third lady of the Tong family has become the head of the first kitchen in the house, inspecting and guiding the kitchen every three or five times, and improving the food for everyone in the house.
If it weren't for Wen's fetus, the old lady was reluctant to live in Tianning Temple by wronging, and when she heard that the eldest daughter-in-law gave birth smoothly, she didn't have time to pack up her things, so she rushed back overnight with Wang's mother in the car.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Sister An, where is Sister An!" Quick, go get some meat for your grandmother, my grandmother has been suffocating to death in Tianning Temple for a few months! ”
After that, Tong Qingyan stabilized the old lady on the grounds that she would get sick if she was a vegetarian for too long, and only started with the light fish porridge and slowly let the old lady eat meat, and today she went to the kitchen early in the morning to prepare a new dish for the old lady, what is it called Baifu Bao, and I feel that it must be delicious when I hear the name.
At this moment, Tong Qingyan, who was still talking about herself in the kitchen, was carefully cutting the shutters with the fragrance of elegant beans.
A piece of evenly thick and uniform shutter skin cut into the same size and four sides of the same shape, the already mixed meat filling in the pearl with one hand spoon and one hand pinching action into the same size round meatballs, Tong Qingyan skillfully wrapped the meatballs with shover skin, and finally tied a bow with a fine onion.
After wrapping a drawer of 20 baifu bags, they are brought to the stove by Double Happiness, first on the pot to steam two teas, and then down to the milky white fish soup that has been boiled all morning.
Pearl's eyeballs were about to fall out of the pot, and Shuangxi looked at Pearl with a green glow and reached over to cover her eyes.
"Don't look at it, look at it again, your saliva is going to fall into the pot, can Miss leave it for you, these are all made by Miss for the old lady to eat, don't think about it."
Pearl reluctantly turned around, and muttered in her mouth, "The old lady's spleen and stomach are too good, right, what about twenty in a drawer, are you really finished eating?" ”
Tong Qingyan looked at the two girls who were giggling and playing, and she was in a good mood, if beautiful things could not be shared with others, the happiness would eventually be limited.
Over the years in the Tong family, I have lived a very happy life every day, the old naughty grandmother who has a good appetite, the father and mother who are very good and enlightened, the second uncle, the second aunt, the eldest sister and the second sister are also very kind, the only thing to worry about is their own marriage in a few years.
It's not that there are women here who don't marry for life, but there are too few and too few, and they never thought that they could become one of them, so what kind of family they marry to, and whether they can be as happy as they are in the boudoir is the goal they have to work towards.
I believe that my grandmother and my father will help me take care of it, if it is not reliable, then I will never make meat for the old lady again, in that case, she will cry......