Chapter Seventy-One: Salt
Xu Jiao and Wu Zhan were already late when they arrived at the old lady's yard, except for them, everyone else came, and she even saw the only son in the second room and the three daughters in the third room.
The third lady only gave birth to one daughter, and the other two were born to the aunt, and on such an occasion, the concubine room had no way to appear, so she could only let the third lady bring it over.
The old lady has never been angry with the third lady because there are only girls in the third room, after all, the three women gave birth to daughters, this is her son himself did not have the life of the son, no wonder women.
Wu Zhan's younger siblings have all returned from their grandfather's house, and they have been there for a few months, and it is not good to stay any longer, they just arrived home today, and they have not notified Wu Zhan.
However, Xu Jiao looked at it, these two younger siblings did not have any emotions exposed to Wu Zhan's arrival, and they didn't have any feelings for him as a big brother on weekdays.
The old lady welcomed them very much, and when she saw the two of them coming, she immediately greeted them happily to take their seats, and said to Xu Jiao with a smile: "I know that you don't like to eat light, so I specially instructed the chef today to find a way to make some delicious dishes, and you will taste them later." ”
"Well, it's hard for the old lady to remember my liking." Xu Jiao is very happy, she is indeed tired of eating light dishes, but fortunately, when she returns to Yuehua Kingdom, she will be able to eat chili peppers.
At this time, an untimely voice interjected: "The old lady is generous, and she can give the guest well, but the guest doesn't know how to be grateful." ”
Sheng Huiyuan is worried about Xu Jiao opening a fragrance dew shop and not giving her fragrance dew, she is the housewife, she doesn't please her, what do you do to please the second and third rooms?
The old lady was very unhappy, she was very unhappy with the eldest son's stepfamily, but now she dared to make sarcastic remarks at the dinner table.
It's really not a housewife at all!
Before the old lady could reprimand her, the second lady and the third lady couldn't help but speak for Xu Jiao: "Sister-in-law, why are you talking like this, do we have to be stingy with food in the Sixian Marquis Mansion?" The second lady spoke.
The third lady immediately answered: "Yes, yes, and Miss Xu is still our Zhan'er's life-saving benefactor, not to mention these things, even if it is more precious and better things, we are willing to give them." ”
The old lady's face was slightly better when she heard their words, and she also fell: "Hui Yuan, you still have to magnify your life and things." ”
In fact, the old lady could guess why she was so yin and yang, it was nothing more than because of the fragrance dew. However, she is not good to Zhan'er, and it is normal for Zhan'er's friends not to care about her.
Sheng Huiyuan was so blocked by the family that she had nothing to say, so she could only admit her mistake obediently, and the old lady let her go.
Who knew that after the dish was served and tasted, she began to be hypocritical again.
"Sure enough, it's good to greet guests, there is a lot of fine salt in it, it's much better than the dishes in our yard."
Xu Jiao was not angry, and even tasted it curiously, wanting to know if it was really delicious.
Actually, it's okay?
Xu Jiao really didn't eat any obvious changes, at most, the dishes did have a little taste, but what big changes were really not, did the eldest lady have such an exaggerated reaction? Xu Jiao didn't know why.
The next day, the craftsmen sent several sets of sofas, and Xu Jiao instructed them to make sofas a few days ago and send them to the friends of the second and third ladies that day.
But she couldn't remember who it was that day, so she brought it here and asked their friends to send someone to pick it up.
The courtyard of the second lady and the third lady was gradually full of sofas, and they had already sent someone to inform their good sister to come and get something, and now they were standing in the yard watching people move the sofas and chatting by the way.
chatting and chatting about the gaffe of the eldest lady yesterday, the third lady couldn't help but roll her eyes, she is an extremely straightforward person, and she has long been unhappy with the eldest lady.
I don't know how her family taught her, it's not easy for a good family to teach such a daughter, and the small family is angry and calculating.
But it's still not good to say such words directly here, lest the good deeds be spread out, and she is either afraid, or afraid that trouble will come to the door.
"She's so weird and stingy, Miss Xu can be regarded as her to death this time." The third lady laughed.
Xu Jiao didn't feel that she was deliberately angry with her, but she didn't want to give her her things, but she didn't expect her to be so narrow-minded, she didn't even have this bit of the city, and she couldn't bear it.
"I didn't want to be angry with her, I just didn't want to associate with her, I didn't expect her to find a reason to embarrass me, it's really unreasonable." Xu Jiao also complained.
One of the ways for women to quickly form an alliance is to complain about a person together, and they are now, the second lady listened to Xu Jiao's words and told her: "She is not a casual reason, I think she really feels sorry for that bit of salt." ”
"Salt?" Xu Jiao asked, what is there to feel sorry for salt.
The second lady nodded and said: "It's salt, salt is precious, and it's fine salt, the old lady only has that amount of salt every year, we usually eat ordinary salt, she is greedy, and the old lady will accompany you to use good things." ”
Xu Jiao recalled carefully, she had always simply felt that the food here was unpalatable because there was not enough seasoning, and now it seems that even salt is not normal.
Xu Jiao suddenly figured out something, raised her foot and found someone to guide her: "Take me to the kitchen to see." ”
The two ladies didn't know what the situation was, she suddenly said that she would leave, and hurriedly asked, in exchange for a hurried voice: "It's okay, I'm going to the kitchen for something, the two ladies are here waiting for someone from a friend's house to drag the sofa away, don't worry about me." ”
Xu Jiao came to the back kitchen and first grabbed someone and pointed to the place where the salt was placed.
"This is fine salt?" Xu Jiao took out two fingers and rubbed them inside, and asked the cook, who didn't know what was going on, and nodded in the kitchen.
But this salt is not fine at all, and even these so-called fine salts are a big lump
"What does the next level of salt look like?" Soon, someone took her to see the secondary salts, which could no longer be said to be salts, and even had a lot of yellow crystals.
Xu Jiao didn't believe what others said, so she asked Wu Hai: "Why is the salt here like this?" ”
Wu Hai nodded, confirming that the salt they ate had always been like this, didn't the princess like it? Also, the royal favor that the princess enjoyed before should not have such salt.
So, in fact, the world has not mastered the method of salt production?
She felt that the time to complete the task of the system was coming, from the children to the elderly, they couldn't do without salt, as long as she made the salt, she would definitely be able to complete the task.