Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Power of Fish Sauce
Dian Cui carried this letter with a handkerchief, just like two hot potatoes, in her previous life, she also acted as a messenger girl who conveyed personal feelings between Gui Chuyu and An Peiqing. Every time he saw An Peiqing, he always moved his hands and feet, because this matter was also passed on to Wu's ears, and he thought that she was inappropriate, so he rewarded her with a hard meal. After her reputation was ruined, and with Gui Chuyu's begging, she became Gui Chuyu's dowry from a maid returning to the house.
In this life, if you send letters and messengers to them again, you are likely to repeat the mistakes of your previous life. But if she doesn't go, Gui Chuyu will definitely not spare her.
Aunt Xing saw the unruly appearance of the green god, and couldn't help but worry about whether she had been wronged by the eldest lady. sighed and said, it will be Mrs.'s birthday in a few days, and there is nothing important about today, so you can go back and rest first. He also instructed a mother-in-law: "You go and see how the bacon pickled outside, the melon and fish sauce are doing?" ”
When Dian Cui heard this, he suddenly had an idea and said, "I'd better go." The woman was reluctant to touch the sour-smelling pickles, but when she heard that Diancui took the initiative to go, she let her go.
The fish sauce is pickled by Diancui himself, don't look at it smelling stinky, but if you want to make a dish, it is called a salty fragrance. Diancui cleaned her hands and her face remained unchanged and opened the lid of the fish sauce tank, and suddenly an indescribable smell of stinky fish rushed onto her head, only the hair bun on her head and face was stinky and salty fish, but Diancui did not dislike it, and slightly picked out a little with her nails and tasted it, fresh enough and salty, and picked up the wooden pestle and stirred it twice, and a few drops occupied the sleeves of her clothes, but she didn't seem to see it.
When the fish sauce was almost stirred, Diancui covered the lid, said goodbye to Aunt Xing, and went out of the yard happily to do something for the eldest lady.
From the return to the house to the Taichang Temple Qing Mansion, there is about half an hour's foot, and there is a breeze on the road. In order to preserve the taste, Diancui specially called two people with thick curtains to carry a sedan chair.
The janitor of Taichang Temple's Mansion saw a girl with a graceful posture getting off the sedan chair at the gate of the house, and hurriedly approached to greet him, but he smelled a smell that was difficult to enter.
"What does you smell like on your body, girl? Hurry up, don't pollute our atmosphere. The little guy covered his mouth and nose in disgust and expelled from afar.
Dian Cui didn't seem to understand, and said with a smile: "I was ordered by my young lady, and there are a few things to be handed over to the second son of the house." ”
The little guy ignored it, and just drove it to hurry up and go, how could our young master know you as a young lady from a fishmonger's family.
"What I said is true, little brother, you just let me meet Second Prince An, otherwise I won't be able to cross when I go back to Miss." Dian Cui begged for it.
"Okay, okay, you wait for me to ask, if the second son doesn't recognize it, you don't leave, I can only let the dog go." The little guy covered his mouth and nose and quickly entered the courtyard gate.
"My young lady's maiden name is a jade character," Dian Cui shouted from behind: "As long as you say this, Second Prince An must know." ”
The little guy went in to spread the news, and when An Peiqing heard that it was a young lady named Yu, he couldn't tell if it was Wanyu of the Yin family of Jingzhao Mansion or Miaoyu of the Longtu Pavilion bachelor's family......
The little maid said again: "It's a maid who came, I can't see the appearance clearly, but the figure is slender, fourteen or fifteen years old, but it's ...... The smell of stinky fish and rotten shrimp with this maid's voice is really unpleasant. ”
An Peiqing was teasing a concubine who had a room, and couldn't help laughing when she heard the words, saying that the little girl with a slender body, the taste would not be any worse, how could it stink, and pinched the tip of the concubine's buttocks, and said What do you say, the concubine blushed and twisted her body and fled.
Hahaha, An Peiqing laughed and stomped in all directions to see which little maid beside the "jade".
"Gross! Bah! An Peiqing pointed to Diancui, and said angrily: "You didn't eat, why did you stink so much!" ”
Diancui took out the letter and the handkerchief from his sleeve, handed it over and said, "Second son An, this is what my young lady asked me to pass on to you." ”
An Peiqing refused to accept in disgust, frowned and asked, "Which is your sister and which one are you?" ”
Diancui looked at the pedestrians coming and going, and felt that it was inappropriate to tell the name of the young lady in public, so he deliberately approached him, who knew that he was separated by a palm, and said Take it, get out, but it smoked me, and my eyes hurt. After taking the sweat towel and the letter, An Peiqing disgusted and sent the sweat towel embroidered with mandarin ducks to the arms of the guard, and opened the letter with the smell to take a look.
Oh, it turned out to be the daughter of the family that made head and face jewelry, Gui Chuyu, this girl was born black, and she was not very smart, but she was not as wild as those boring and decent ladies in the capital, which was quite in line with his heart.
looked at the back of the pretty maid again, and then recognized that this maid was the little maid who hid under the bamboo that day and escaped for her!
Interesting and interesting, An Peiqing's eyes flashed with a hint of cat and mouse interest, but he didn't like the smell very much, and went back to let his subordinates smoke the clothes with the expensive Mingting incense three times before removing the haunting stench.
Diancui took a small sedan chair briskly back to the house, walked halfway on, couldn't help laughing, and when he arrived at the door of the house, he gave the sedan chair man five coins of silver, and apologized for saying that today's sedan chair is about to be unpopular, and please forgive the eldest brother.
Where is it, the sedan chair driver hurried to be polite, and they only earned two or three dollars a day by carrying the sedan chair.
Diancui went back to the house, went to Lao Diaotou's flower room to dig a perilla grass, went back to fry it with water, mixed it into the water, took a beautiful bath, and picked a few mint leaves in the crooked jar under the eaves and chewed it carefully, wearing a simple honey collar gown Yao Huang muslin skirt, which was refreshing and refreshing to go to the eldest lady.
"Delivered?" Gui Chuyu looked at her elegant and fresh body, and then looked at her increasingly white pink face, and couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable in her heart, and asked sourly.
"Everything has been delivered to Miss," Diancui replied briskly.
Gui Chuyu snorted, seeing her cheap appearance full of spring breeze, she must have been fascinated by the handsome appearance of An Ergongzi. Gui Chuyu endured the discomfort in his heart and asked, "After Gongzi An saw you, did he say anything or do anything?" ”
"This ......," Diancui hesitated.
"Speak quickly!" Gui Chuyu suddenly scolded, Qiuyue and Dongxue They were startled when they heard the eldest lady's scolding outside, knowing that Diancui was going to be unlucky, but they didn't dare to knock on the door and go in to take a look, Gui Chuyu knew that he had reacted too much, so he lowered his voice and said, "Have you shamelessly seduced him?" ”
With tears in her eyes, Diancui shook her head vigorously and said that the slave maid didn't have it, I knew that it would make the eldest lady unhappy, and the slave and maid would not send anything to An Ergongzi if she died.
When Gui Chuyu heard this, he knew that he was scaring her, so he hurriedly said, what are you afraid of, I just said it casually. The purpose of letting Diancui go was to please the amorous An Peiqing with a beautiful little girl, but when she saw Diancui's pretty appearance, she couldn't help but feel pantothenic in her heart.
Under Gui Chuyu's scorching gaze, Diancui told her about today's events, but she concealed the smell of fish paste before she went, and only said that the little girl in Anfu was above the top and ignored people, and she only saw the second son of An after talking about it.
"Oh? When he saw you, he told you to go? Gui Chuyu asked incredulously.
Dian Cui wiped his tears with grievances, and Dao'an Gongzi disliked the bad smell on the slave maid......
"Poof", Gui Chuyu laughed out loud, saying that he was very concerned about this smell, and also, you are a kitchen maid, what good smell can you have.
"Okay, let's go down," Gui Chuyu smiled this time, and before Diancui went down, he threw a bag of broken silver to her as a reward, Diancui took the silver and turned into a smile, and took the silver with a smile, Gui Chuyu looked at her like a small family, and her heart was even more proud, and the smile on her face was even better.
"How? Did the young lady punish you? Ruohe, who was outside, saw her come out, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask, and the autumn moon and winter snow on the side were also slightly concerned.
Diancui smiled, no, it's okay, tonight the kitchen in the west courtyard will make fish sauce and vegetable oil pancakes, sisters come and eat!
"Okay, I'll be on duty today, and I'll go over to help you when the time comes." Ruohe said happily, and Qiuyue and Dongxue glanced at each other, although the fish sauce cakes were unusual, they were afraid of eating them and smelled, and they would definitely provoke the eldest lady to lose her temper when the time came, so she had to shake her head lightly and refuse the kindness of Diancui.
The dinner of the day, in addition to a few flavors of fish ball soup, boiled vegetables and other light ones, is the mixed vegetable fried cakes mixed with fish sauce, several young masters in the west courtyard actually like this taste very much, what they do is that a few people in the small kitchen and two maids of Yu Rou Ruohe come to eat, Aunt Xing specially took out a jar of orange wine brought from her hometown to drink with everyone.
"Aunt Xing, the young masters have been rewarded again, saying that today's fish sauce cake smells stinky and delicious, and it is a rare and good dish." Coming in was Tong Li, a scholar beside the second young master, and Kong Wu's powerful posture made it hard to imagine that he was a scholar.
"Well, Second Young Master Xie has rewarded it, let's put it aside," Aunt Xing said perfunctorily without raising her head, but all the rewards sent by the Second Young Master are here to be funny, there is nothing serious, and Aunt Xing is used to it and doesn't care much.
At the end, Tong Li said again: "The second young master also said that it will be his wife's birthday in the near future, and he has to bother Aunt Xing to make a few more unexpected dishes to celebrate his wife's birthday." ”
Aunt Xing responded at this time, and Tong Li got up to say goodbye.
Ruohe and Diancui both stood up.
"Brother Tong......" It's just that Ruohe is looking at Tong Li, and Diancui is looking at the thick stack of rice paper that Tong Li carried.
After everyone left, Diancui refused to leave, Aunt Xing sighed and said: "You can take these papers, there are still some pen and ink inkstones in the cabinet below, if you like it, you can also pick it up and take it away." ”
A kitchen maid who knows how to make hairpins and is literate, and she doesn't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
"Today's fish sauce cake was made by you, and this paper second young master should also be rewarded to you. Even if it is from the master, outsiders dare not say anything. Aunt Xing said as if comforting herself.
"Whoa!" Diancui's heart blossomed, although she could go to Yuan Zhiheng to borrow a few books to read on weekdays, but after borrowing and reading it, she would return it, but as for this pen and paper, she was embarrassed to open her hand to hold it. Yuan Zhiheng is no better than the other two sons who live in the mansion, Bai Ye is the nephew of the Wu family, although the family is not in the capital, but the family is only stronger than the return to the mansion, then Yin Chang's father is an official in the local area, although he is not rich, but his daily expenses are not worried. Only Yuan Zhiheng, his family road fell early, he came to the mansion penniless, although he is open-minded and crazy, but sometimes he also has the consciousness of sending people under the eaves, and he will never rely on the generosity and generosity of the main family to be extravagant.
Diancui was taught by Yuan Zhiheng, and she naturally understood some truths, so she never spoke much except for borrowing some books from Yuan Zhiheng. But if she wants to practice calligraphy, she can't help but use paper and pen, and the capital rice paper, pen and ink are expensive, and how can she buy it as a small third-class maid. At present, the second young master's reward is enough for her to practice for more than half a year.