Chapter 9 Lovesickness
I wish the four girls to come to the door with a prayer post, and the eight maids who led Wei Ruhua to help the kitchen have already prepared a table of meals, and today's main dish is sauce duck.
This sauce duck can waste Wei Ruhua's work for several days, and Wei Ruhua began to prepare before the fourth girl came to the door.
The duck is slaughtered on an empty stomach, washed and cleaned in the anus to dig out the internal organs, remove the trachea and esophagus, and then cut off the duck's paws after washing, hook the nostrils with a small iron, soak it in soy sauce, and hang it in a ventilated place to dry.
After that, it is marinated in the tank, mixed with the mixture, compacted with stones, pickled for half a day, and poured out the brine in the stomach. Then put the duck into the tank, add soy sauce to immerse in the degree, and then put on the bamboo frame, compact it with large stones, and marinate it for a day.
Then wear a fine hemp rope in the nostrils of the duck, knot it at both ends, bend it into an arc with bamboo, put it into the belly from the edge of the abdomen, make the duck cavity open to both sides, put the pickled soy sauce and water into the pot and boil, remove the foam, put the duck in, use the hand spoon to pour the brine over the duck body, until the duck becomes red when the water is waterlogged and drained, and it is dried in the sun for two to three days.
Just listening to the production process is already very tossed, and when it comes to eating, it is also exquisite.
First, put the duck body into the large plate, be careful not to add water, pour Shao wine, sprinkle with sugar, green onions, ginger, steam the basket with a strong fire until there are fine cracks on the duck wings, pour the brine in the abdomen, cool and cut into pieces and put on the plate.
Taking the opportunity of the banquet, each of the eight maidens followed Wei Ruhua to learn to make a sauce duck, but the master led the door and practiced in the individual, and the taste of the sauce duck made by each person will have their own merits.
As soon as the fourth girl arrived at the General's Mansion, she was arranged by Wei Ruhua into the banquet, and the people at the banquet were General Wei Rong.
As soon as the fourth girl saw General Wei Rong, her whole heart was fluttering, and she couldn't eat enough.
And Wei Rong was concentrating on eating Wei Ruhua's banquet, this meal was not easy to come by, it was obtained by sacrificing hue, and it must be eaten back.
After Wei Rong stood up satisfied, he wished the four girls to pick up the chopsticks.
Zhu Si Girl returned to An Guo Gong Mansion from the General's Mansion and became ill, An Guo Gong and his wife went to the Tai Yi Bureau to invite the Tai Doctor to treat Zhu Si Girl, and the Tai Doctor's diagnosis said that Zhu Si Girl was suffering from lovesickness.
The second wife of Zhu and several other girls in the Anguo Mansion didn't think so, they felt that the fourth girl Zhu was so sick that she might have been poisoned by Wei Ruhua in the General's Mansion.
How to treat lovesickness? The prescription given by the imperial doctor is that the bell must be tied to the bell.
Mrs. An Guogong watched her beloved granddaughter lose weight day by day, and she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
She went to Zhu Bijin's room, held Zhu Bijin's thin wrist, and cried and said: "Bijin, whose son-in-law are you pleasing to, you talk to your grandmother, and your grandmother will propose marriage for you." ”
Hearing the old lady An Guo say this, Zhu Bijin's originally godless eyes actually glowed, and she said to the Duchess An Guo: "The person who is happy with her granddaughter is General Wei. ”
Duchess An Guo frowned: "Which General Wei?" ”
Zhu Bijin smiled weakly, "How can grandmother perfunctory me?" Our Great Zhou, is there a second General Wei? ”
Duchess Anguo's heart sank: There is indeed only one Wei general in the Great Zhou, and that is Wei Rong, the commander of Ming Wei.
But how can the precious granddaughter of the good Anguo family marry the commander of Mingwei, who is in charge of raiding the house?
Duchess An Guo could not accept this fact in any case.
The previous Ming Wei commanders did not end well when they changed the emperor, and the last Ming Wei commander still helped the emperor copy the house of the king of Zhongshan, but in a blink of an eye, the emperor burped him when he ascended the throne, because he was the person in front of the emperor.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier, the Duchess of Anguo didn't want to make Wei Rong the son-in-law of the Duke of Anguo, and a few years later, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the entire Duke of Anguo Mansion would be implicated because of Ming Wei's command to make this son-in-law.
It is not easy to build a century-old foundation of the Anguo Mansion.
But now, what should I do about my granddaughter's illness?
If you don't go to General Wei's mansion to propose marriage, will you watch your granddaughter die of illness?
Duchess An Guo couldn't make up her mind, so she still had to discuss the matter with An Guogong, and An Guogong would decide.
After hearing this, An Guogong expressed his attitude without saying a word: "Things in a few decades will be said in a few decades, and now of course it is the granddaughter who matters." ”
Whether the commander of Mingwei will be beheaded by the future emperor is a matter of later words, and being able to marry the commander of Mingwei can also be exchanged for immediate benefits, isn't it? After all, it is the popular fried chicken in front of the emperor.
It's good for people to live in the moment.
An Guogong sent a matchmaker to General Wei's mansion to propose marriage, but he was naturally refuted.
An Guogong came to the door in person again, and General Wei bluntly refused, and that kind of ruthlessness made An Guogong very unhappy.
Thinking of his granddaughter's illness, An Guo Gonglai refused to leave the general's mansion, but Wei Rong used the emperor's pretext to summon him to the palace.
Wei Ruhua went to the flower hall where the guests were greeted and personally served a bowl of dim sum to An Guogong, how could An Guogong be in the mood to eat dim sum?
Wei Ruhua said: "When the fourth girl comes to visit, she eats the noodles I made myself. ”
This made An Guogong couldn't help but be sad and indignant.
If the granddaughter wasn't greedy for that meal, how could she be lovesick?
"So we seem to have caused this disease, but it's like a game that you did, Miss Wei." An Guogong puffed up, "What good are you doing this?" ”
Wei Ruhua said: "Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who wish to take the bait." If Grandpa Guo blames me, he will be wrong. ”
"Could it be that we can't provoke it first?"
"Exactly." Wei Ruhua's reply made An Guogong very angry.
I knew that Miss Wei was a scoundrel, but today I saw it with my own eyes.
"Tell me how we provoked your Wei family."
So, Wei Ruhua asked the stone to call out the flame heart, and said to An Guogong: "This noodle is given to me by the fourth girl, and I invite her to have lunch with my brother at the house is just a return gift." ”
An Guogong was so angry that his face changed color: "We are sick at home, of course you can say anything, if you pour such dirty water on her, I won't give up with you!" ”
Wei Ruhua was not in a hurry, and said: "That's the case, Grandpa Guo went back and asked the fourth girl, but the most important thing at the moment is not how to make my brother willing to marry you and the fourth girl?" ”
An Guogong calmed down, but it was the same, who made them like a brocade to please General Wei.
"I have a solution." Wei Ruhua said.
"What's the solution?" An Guogong came to the spirit.
"Grandpa Guo can enter the palace to ask for a marriage from the saint." Wei Ruhua's voice was crisp.
An Guogong was empowered, yes, as long as he invited to give the marriage decree, what if Wei Rong did not agree to the marriage, would he dare to resist the decree? It's just that he wondered, why did Wei Ruhua help him, what purpose did she have?