"Is there really a glimmer of error? After a month of rough and dirty work, you are still fat? Gui Chuyu listened to Aunt Xing's words and asked incredulously.

Aunt Xing nodded, to say that there is no leakage, in fact, it is impossible, when it is empty, the little girl will take out some thin copper wires and copper pieces on her fingers and fool around, sometimes she is fascinated, and she forgets to wash rice and pick vegetables.

However, these others didn't notice it, so Aunt Xing hid it and never told the eldest lady.

Yes, she likes this new little girl in her own heart.

Diligent, smart, well-behaved, sweet-mouthed, respectful but not really afraid of her black face.

"If the eldest lady is fine, the slave will go down." Aunt Xing sneered, her eyebrows and eyes were not angry towards her subordinates, and her ugly face was loyal and peaceful.

This is Aunt Xing's way of life, she was a widow in the capital, childless, set up a pot in the alley on the outskirts of Beijing, sold wontons and baked cakes, and her business was passable. She was stout and ugly, and she was glared at by her, and she didn't dare to go to her stall to make a mistake, but when facing customers, she developed a pleasing and kind eyebrow. Later, he was discovered by the omnipotent second young master who walked the streets and alleys, and invited him to the house to be a housekeeper in the kitchen of the west courtyard.

When she went there, no one dared to make a mistake again, including the lazy maids, the cunning mothers-in-law, and the greedy cooks.

After she left, Gui Chuyu dropped the cup, why was she so stupid! This Xiao Cui is like this, beating Xiao Wen Wen and swallowing it, being bullied into the dirt by Qian Laosi's family, and she is silent. She is used to doing these rough jobs, how can she beg for mercy because she can't stand herself, Gui Chu Yu thought about it, if she had this brain, this eldest lady would not be able to take her turn. It seems that she secretly inquired about the affairs of the house, and she thought too much about it.

"Then Xiaomei came in and had a reply?" Gui Chuyu asked Qiuyue beside him.

Qiu Yue said: "The first few days I talked about some daily trivial things, and then I complained that the kitchen work was too tired, and I wanted to plead to come back, but there was no movement in the past few days, and I heard that I was tired and sick." ”

Gui Chuyu sneered, useless things, I would be tired and sick from doing such a little work, I think I was deliberately lazy.

"Forget it, don't care about her, she's useless now, and it's an eyesore to look at, so stay in the kitchen of the west courtyard first." Gui Chu Yu said stupidly.

Useless? Miss, is this going to be done with some cui girl...... Qiu Yue was puzzled, but she didn't dare to ask.

Her young lady is different from other families, the young lady of other families has grown up in the house since she was a child, and the maids around her have also grown up with the young lady since she was a child. Miss Yi has never paid much attention to them, she just thinks that she is called by her subordinates, and the relationship between this master and servant is quite harmonious in all courtyards in the house, only their courtyards are different.

Qiu Yue went to twist the handkerchief and wiped the hands of the young lady, and the calligraphy practice was about to come back today, and the ink splashed into the cracks of the nails, which was not very elegant. Gui Chu Yu went to talk to Aunt Xing and didn't notice it. Rao is Gui Chuyu pays attention to the luxury of the dress, the neatness of the makeup, the exquisite food, and the fashionable and exquisite head and face...... But compared with the real noble girl in the capital, some details are far from enough, which can be seen that she has not really highlighted the grandeur of this family daughter.

For these, several maids are shrewd, not unaware, but unable to speak, Qiu Yue also really mentioned it a few times before, but it made the young lady very angry. She came from a small place, and the deepest thing in her heart is that she is ashamed of herself, and once she became the eldest lady, she didn't want others to look down on her, especially in front of these maids who grew up in Beijing, her young lady's face should be saved.

Aunt Xing returned to the kitchen in the west courtyard from the courtyard where she returned to Chuyu, but saw Diancui pulling up her trouser legs and catching insects in the vegetable furrow of the fence. Seeing Aunt Xing coming back, Diancui hurriedly fetched well water to wash off the mud on one leg.

"The well water is cold, and then wash / Feet boil hot water and mix it up." Aunt Xing frowned and said.

Well! Diancui replied crisply, sweetly.

"Move out the pots of tuberose in the kitchen, the smell is so fragrant, the smell of the meal is washed, be careful of the young masters." Aunt Xing said angrily.

Oh, Diancui said dejectedly.

These pots of tuberose are well opened, and they are placed between fish, meat, vegetables, and other mundane things, which are very beautiful, and the aroma can resist the fumes in the kitchen.

"It's not impossible to change a few pots with a light aroma ......" Aunt Xing couldn't help but say when she looked at her dejected little appearance.

Well! I went to the old man and asked for a few pots of cyclamen and begonias. Dian Cui said, and ran to the garden.

This girl, her temperament is really getting more and more jumpy, Aunt Xing faked a scolding in her heart, so she went to pick a few handfuls of shallots in the vegetable furrow, and the second young master said that she wanted to eat small wontons at noon tonight.

When Dian Cui came back with two pots of gorgeous cyclamen, she saw that Aunt Xing was making noodles, and she added duck egg yolk to this noodles, so that the entrance would be sweet and crunchy.

Aunt Xing never avoids people when she is making noodles, but when she mixes the stuffing, she is not for outsiders to see.

Seeing that Aunt Xing had taken the meat and was about to chop it, Dian Cui put down the cyclamen and was about to go out.

"Come back." Aunt Xing shouted, and Diancui stopped.

"Come here and chop the stuffing." Aunt Xing commanded again.

Dian Cui chopped the stuffing according to her words, and Aunt Xing looked at it and asked what time it was? The kitchen knife in Diancui's hand kept looking at the water leak over there, and it was not noon.

"To make this wonton, the most important thing is this meat, take the lean meat of the hind legs of the pig slaughtered during the time, during this period shall not be in the water, shall not be over-oiled, the production has been for an hour, not too late, I have removed its fascia before you come, you first chop it into a finger-sized piece," Aunt Xing said, then twisted a pinch of fine salt, a pinch of self-aware small ingredients, and then did not put more, and instructed the little cui to chop and stir. When Dian Cui was about to mix the stuffing, she had already rolled out the skin with her hands and feet, and the wontons the size of pigeon eggs were kneaded in the thick palms of her fans.

The clear soup made of pork bones in the big iron pot is gurgling and bubbling, the wontons go in, a cup of tea is cooked, and the elegant white bone china small cup used by the young masters and sons is brought by Diancui, and each drips into soy sauce, sesame oil, fresh lard, shallots, onions, and pepper noodles, and seven or eight small wontons are poured into each bowl. After that, Aunt Xing called someone from outside, and a few little maids ran in, still holding a tray of auspicious clouds and blue flowers in their hands, and three lamps were placed on each tray.

Auntie Cuidao, I'll help send it over together, Aunt Xing said no, you still have something to do.

After the little maids left, Diancui waited to do things, Aunt Xing said You go to brush a ceramic big flower bowl over, after the big flower bowl was brought, Aunt Xing copied the bottom of the iron pot with a bamboo fence, and copied more than a dozen small wontons!

Diancuizui suddenly grinned to the back molars, sat on a small bench, took a full bowl of large flowers, and took a deep breath, it was so fragrant!

Wait, I'll just come when I go, Diancui carefully placed the flower bowl on the table, went to a small inconspicuous wooden cupboard in the kitchen, rummaged through it, and took out a jar from it.

Yes, it was her precious pickle jar.

Diancui found a small plate, took out a few slices of pickled oily and shiny vegetable melon, and found another flower bowl, divided half of the wontons into it, and put it on the other side of the small table.

Aunt Daosheng, let's eat together!

"You really pickled this pickled melon yourself?" Aunt Xing couldn't help asking.

Diancui nodded, and waited for her to taste it with a smile, Aunt Xing saw her looking forward to it, so she picked up a pair of chopsticks, tasted it a little, and immediately said, go, find five plates, and put two or three pieces of each plate to send to the young masters.

Diancui did what he said, and this pickled vegetable melon and this small wonton were eaten together, which was really a top match.

"Will there be anything else besides pickled vegetables?" Aunt Xing asked again.

"I can also think about the craftsmanship of making hairpins." Diancui Road.

Aunt Xing said I know, that day you secretly fiddled with those small copper wire objects, I looked at it, no, you are now working in my kitchen, so you have to put these things first, and it is not impossible for you to take them out and play when they are empty, just don't delay the work in the kitchen.

In fact, Aunt Xing was afraid that she would be looked at by other caring people, to say that although the work in the kitchen was dirty and tiring, there were many people, and the work assigned to her would be much easier. The previous instructions to torture her, firstly, she was instructed by the eldest lady, and secondly, she also wanted to see how this girl's heart and conduct were. In the future, she will not let her do those again, as a woman, she loves to make hairpins, but it does not prevent her from having good cooking skills, Aunt Xing is already completely thinking about her.

Diancui immediately understood and said, "Although I am not proficient, I still know how to cook some food." There are a few dishes of food she said that she learned when she was a concubine in her previous life to please An Peiqing.

Aunt Xing said that you don't need to burn the fire in the future, just be smart, follow the master to fight, and then do the work of running errands and delivering vegetables and passing the word, but remember to do your duty, this west courtyard is full of male dependents, don't cause trouble, remember?

"Aunt Xie mentions, I must do it well, but the eldest lady ...... over there, "How could Diancui not know that Chu Yu asked her to come, in order to torture her and make her ask for mercy."

"It's almost time to worship the ancestors during the Dragon Boat Festival, and all the ladies in the clan will get together...... The eldest lady is busy, how can you have time to care about your little maid who doesn't know the time. ”

The young ladies and young masters are together, and they have to compare poems, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, in order to no longer be at the bottom, they have to study more diligently during the days when they return to Chu Yu.

"Aunt Xing, there is nothing left of the little wontons and pickled vegetables and melons, and the young masters have come to reward them." The little maid who went to deliver wontons and pickled melons and vegetables came back with a smile, holding a small bag of broken silver in her hand, a wolf hair, an inkstone with ink not dry, a rattan hairpin, and a white sock with mud on it......

Diancui's eyes widened, Aunt Xing saw such a "reward", obviously it was commonplace, took the silver, and threw the wolf inkstone into a small wooden cupboard, Diancui took a look, the pen and ink inkstone in it was piled up in a cupboard! But when she saw that Aunt Xing took the rattan hairpin and frowned, she seemed to not know how to dispose of it, but only for a moment, this rattan hairpin was also disposed of like the wolf inkstone, and was thrown into the wooden cupboard. As for the other sock, Aunt Xing picked it up with a fire stick and threw it into the fire under the stove......

Aunt Xing's side disposed of these rewards without changing her face, and the little maid sang and read in a long voice: "The eldest young master will reward two taels of broken silver, the second young master will be a high-grade half-old wolf, Yin Gongzi will be the best Qingzhou inkstone, and Bai Gongzi will wear a white sock for three days, as for the wooden rattan hairpin, it is rewarded by the new son, saying that it is a gift from Qingmei when he was a child, and it is of great significance, please keep it properly......"

Diancui couldn't help laughing, these sons and daughters in the capital really have the legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and they are very reckless and uninhibited.