Gu Banqin and her biological mother, Aunt Duan, live in a Cuiwei courtyard in the southwest corner of Gu Fu.

In the first few days, she was worried about being a concubine for a few days, but after a while, she was no longer worried.

Because she found that in fact, whether it is modern or ancient, since it is a 'human rights' society, it follows the rules.

As long as you follow the rules, don't make trouble, don't make the eldest lady angry, and keep to yourself, it's not a big deal, although the food for the concubines and concubines in the house is not the best category, but compared to the ordinary poor people, who are not warm and hungry, it is still much better.

Gu Banqin and her aunt Duan belong to the kind of people who keep to themselves, and they never follow other concubines who don't know what to do and have nothing to do, so they know that they stir up trouble all day long, and they are jealous and provoke trouble, so the eldest lady will not target them; But if you don't cause trouble, it means that you don't have any career prospects.

Gu Banqin's aunt Duan is not as flexible as Aunt Liu and Aunt Song in the house, and she solves problems for the head of the house, so it is beneficial, and the housewife will not think of Duan.

It's been two years since Gu Banqin came here, and she just turned ten years old this year.

She combed a flower bud, held a fresh red begonia flower, clasped her hands on her knees, squatted on the wooden corridor in the yard, and looked at Mama Zhang's pickled cauliflower in the yard.

Yes, you read that right, it's pickling cauliflower.

It's the kind of rape flower that grows in the ground, green and lush, and bears yellow stamens.

Zhang's mother was tinkering with the rape flowers in the clay pot while muttering: "If you eat the cauliflower, Miss's body will grow up quickly." ”

God fucking pickled rape flowers!

The pickling technique here is completely different from the modern one, in ancient times, salt and iron was the focus of the national endowment, related to the national economy and people's livelihood, strict control, and it was not easy to buy and sell, so it was not possible to smear and pickle a lot.

So everyone can only cut the food into small pieces, put it in the jar, sprinkle a little water, pick up a small handful of salt and sprinkle it, store it in the cellar or bury it in the backlit soil, and leave it for ten days and half a month, and then they will all live.

If it's a rich family, you can add some honey and candies or something.

Gu Banqin looked at it for a long time, and remembered that there were several jars of honey on top of the wooden cabinet in the kitchen of the mansion, which were hidden by Li Guan Chef of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Gu Banqin thought about it, so she said to Zhang's mother: "I remember that there are a few jars of honey on the kitchen cabinet, and it will definitely be more delicious if you put a little bit in it." ”

Thinking about waiting until the pickling is completed, take it out and drink the food, and when you take a bite, it is crunchy, sweet and sour, and it is very delicious.

Gu Banqin has been here for two years, and I think the most bad thing in this era is that salt and sugar are rare, she is a sweet-loving character, and she can't remember how long she hasn't eaten sugar since she came here, it seems that she got two pieces of honey from the eldest lady during the New Year's Festival last year.

At that time, I was reluctant to finish eating it all at once, but I hid it in the snack box in the room, and when I was so hungry, I took it out and licked it twice, sipping the sweetness in my mouth, but she was so happy.

Mother Zhang glanced at the sixth lady, who was only about ten years old, a small person, standing under the porch, staring at the round almond eyes, with an innocent and lovely style, and smiled slowly: "That's what Chef Li gave to the eldest lady, we can't ask for it." ”

Zhang's mother has been serving in Cuiwei Courtyard for more than ten years, and she is a kind old mother who watched Gu Banqin grow up.

She broke Gu Banqin's desire to eat candy in one sentence.

Gu Banqin stood up stupidly, walked under the cloister boredly, sat on the railing, picked a small flower and played with it in her hand, it was a ten-year-old little girl, her skin was white and red, even if she was wearing outdated old clothes, but it was also lined with a jade carving.

Big eyes, particularly long eyelashes, almond pupils, looking like paint, slightly upturned pink nose, goose egg face shape, with a bit of natural baby fat, even if you are still young, you can see that it is a typical beauty embryo, simply put, it looks like the elders.

The Gu family has a total of five daughters, and Gu Nianshu, the fourth lady of the eldest lady, is not only beautiful, but also has a good background, and everywhere she goes, she is treated like a starry moon, and you can see that it is the pearl of the Gu family.

Thoughts, thinkers, thoughts; Shu means beautiful, beautiful. It is conceivable how precious the fourth mother of the Gu family is.

As soon as Gu Nianshu was born, she had the family style that the Gu family had precipitated for hundreds of years, as if the entire Gu family had all grown up to her, noble and elegant, mentioning the name Gu Nianshu, everyone in Jiankang City knew it, and no one knew it.

Of course, her fourth sister Gu Nianshu is not just a vase with an empty reputation, she is also a powerful person. What kind of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, knitting female workers are also quite outstanding among the sisters.

Except for Siniang Gu Nianshu, the others are all concubines, so they are not so famous.

As a famous family for hundreds of years, the Gu family has produced countless literati and ink writers, which shows that the cultural heritage is profound, and the social status of the Gu family is so high, because of this, the head of the Gu family, that is, Gu Banqin's cheap father, can marry the eldest daughter of another wealthy family comparable to the Gu family-Fuyang Wang's family.

Although the Fuyang Wang family is not as good as the Gu family, there are clansmen who are officials in the court, but they are also considered arbor families in the clan.

The housewife of the Gu family is a serious lady, Gu Fengmao married the Wang family, and the married life is also harmonious, and the husband and wife respect each other like guests.

Gu Banqin sniffed the petals, felt sweet, picked a piece and sent it to her mouth, savoring the rare sweetness, she had never been so eager for all kinds of modern sweets as she was now.

Wu Niang in the courtyard next door was having a treat again, Gu Banqin chewed the petals, imagining what dishes Wu Niang would invite the guests to eat.

The mother of the fifth lady Gu Xiuxian is Aunt Liu, the celebrity around the eldest lady, and she is also very capable of making the little wife a confidant of the eldest wife, because the eldest lady always takes care of her, so although the fifth lady of the Gu family is also a concubine, her life is much better than that of Gu Banqin.

"Ouch, how many times have I told you, don't eat the flowers and grass in the yard, you are a rabbit?"

A crisp voice came from the hall, and it was Gu Banqin's biological mother, Aunt Duan.

In the mansion, all the concubines and concubines have only one mother, that is, the housewife, their own biological mother, can only be called aunt.

Aunt Duan walked out, wearing a dark red auspicious pattern that the eldest lady appreciated a few years ago, after the baptism of the years, the color is not as bright as it was at the beginning, but Aunt Duan just likes this dress, saying that she is dressed in a big and square way, like a lady from a big family.