Chapter 167: The Kitchen
The establishment of a small kitchen is not meaningless, it will make the connection between the various yards in the home suddenly become less, and it is basically impossible for people who want to ask Yan Qingge for help on the grounds of food.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the four essential major events in life. "Walking" is negligible for the women in these deep houses, and as for "living", as long as the Yan family does not fall, there will be no worries. "Clothes" never have to worry about Yan Qingge, as long as this is carried out every day, and the "food" that is most likely to cause problems is solved, Yan Qingge will be completely clean.
Moreover, Yan Qingge didn't feel that it was inappropriate to have a small kitchen.
After about two years, after the Northland was defeated, the Northern Barbarians moved inward, and their living habits had a great impact and impact on the Great Zhou while moving closer to the Great Zhou, including the small kitchen.
The Northern Barbarians did not have a system of polyandry and concubines, but a system of polygamy. In other words, they have no distinction between grandchildren, and in order to prevent their children from competing for the family business, once they reach the age of fourteen, they will divide the food. As a result of this, each wife of the Northern Barbarians had their own small stoves, and even different children of the same wife had their own stoves.
The Great Zhou people accept the small stove culture of Xiaobeiman, because the meals made by the small stove are more refined and more pleasant to eat, and more importantly, the people used in the small kitchen are their own people, all under the control of the master, and there are much fewer things.
Facing the questioning eyes of the people in the courtyard, Yan Qingge said irrefutably: "I will immediately invite craftsmen to come in and build new kitchens for each courtyard." Until the new kitchen is unusable, you will still receive food from the big kitchen for the time being. ”
After finishing speaking, Yan Qingge took the roster, distributed all the cooks and chores in the kitchen, and left with Ruyi.
They walked on the front foot, and the people in the courtyard on the back foot blew up the nest, and there was a lot of discussion.
"Is the eldest lady crazy?"
"When the master comes back and sees that the big kitchen is gone, he will be furious. The eldest lady also dared to do this when the master was not there. ”
"The lord may not dare to say anything about the eldest lady, but the eldest lady is the one who wants to be the princess."
"Hey, don't say it! We've all been hungry all day, and it's not time to eat, but let's make something to fill our stomachs first. ”
Slowly, the crowd dispersed. And Mama Xu was lying on the spring bench in the yard, but no one paid attention to her, not even her grandson.
When Yan Qingge read the list assigned to each courtyard in the big kitchen, except for Mama Xu and her grandson, everyone else read it. In other words, Mama Xu will be a lonely ghost in the future.
Previously, the large kitchen was ** outside the courtyards.
The other people outside the big kitchen, even the lowliest mother-in-law who sweeps the garden and pours the toilet, also has a yard to attach to, so that they don't open their mouths to say it, and others don't know which yard she is. Now that the big kitchen is gone, Mama Xu has not been assigned a new place, which can be said to be emptied. Yan Qingge's dislike and dislike for her were so obvious, who would risk provoking Yan Qingge to approach her.
The tree fell and scattered, which is the current situation of Mama Xu. She used her power and villain to encircle a group of followers, but when her majesty swept the floor, those who tended to obey her were also the fastest to abandon her.
The people brought by the Xinguo Mansion surrounded the house for a while, but now they are gradually slacking off. Moreover, the Zhao family should have also heard the news that Zhu Mao was taken away.
In terms of her status and means, it is very simple to inquire about where Zhu Mao was imprisoned and what he has done, but no matter how she investigates this time, she can't find any news. The matter became delicate.
Under the instructions of the Zhao family, intentionally or unintentionally, as long as the Yan family with the name of "the eldest lady asked me to go out to run errands", they can go out.
Because of Yan Qingge's deterrence, there are not many people who pretend to be. But now the Yan family is building a lot of construction, and there is a mess everywhere, and there are still people who drill leaks.
Yan Qingge said that he set up small kitchens in each courtyard, but he really built kitchens in each courtyard, and if the courtyard was small, he would have to tear down a section of the fence and then break ground.
In addition to the stove, lockers, water tanks and other things that should be in the kitchen, each kitchen also comes with a small firewood room and a cellar.
Such a big project made many people who thought that Yan Qingge was just taking advantage of Yan Songnian's absence to exert his power, and they couldn't help but mutter.
In Mingxinzhai, the color bottle and the color bell are serving Aunt Hai, and they persuade Aunt Hai in a good voice not to let her run out. Recently, the kitchen has been built outside, and there is always a big movement, and Aunt Hai has been getting more and more difficult to restrain recently.
The work is going on outside, and the workers are all stout men, don't look at Aunt Hai is old, ugly, and crazy, but there are bad people among those people, and it is much easier to take advantage of a fool than to take advantage of ordinary people.
It took a long time for the color bottle to be bitten by Aunt Hai, and the two of them temporarily calmed Aunt Hai.
Seeing Aunt Hai drooling and hugging the quilt in a daze, no longer shouting to go out, they breathed a sigh of relief for the time being.
Cai Ling looked at the two rows of deep embossing on the wrist of the color bottle, and said worriedly: "Color bottle, you go out and wash it and apply medicine." ”
"It's okay, I'll just wrap it in a handkerchief." Caihua smiled: "You can't hold your aunt alone, and it will be troublesome for her to run out." ”
"Alas! I don't know when the second miss will come back, as soon as the aunt sees the second miss, the illness will be half better. CRBT sighed.
When Aunt Hai heard the title of the second miss, she immediately bounced up from the bed, looked around in panic, and a pair of black and thin hands like chicken feet kept pulling on the bed: "Where is the second miss?" ”
The color bottle glanced at the ringtone complainingly. The two of them had already discovered that since Aunt Hai went crazy, let alone seeing Yan Shuyu, even if she just heard the words Yan Shuyu or Second Miss, she would immediately get excited.
"Sister Caihua, I was wrong, I won't dare to talk nonsense next time." CRBT was sweating profusely, trying to stop Aunt Hai with the color bottle.
It took a lot of effort for them to suppress Aunt Xiahai again.
Aunt Hai's screams had already spread outside.
Because Mingxinzhai is too small and the wall is low, those workers simply knocked down all the walls on one side, built a small kitchen, and then covered the demolished women's wall outside, and Mingxinzhai can be regarded as taking the opportunity to expand.
The two workers who were digging the cellar listened to Aunt Hai's screams, you look at me, I look at you, and shook their heads. In the past few days, they have heard and witnessed it, and they know that this is a crazy woman who lives in Mingxinzhai, this kind of woman can't have children and can't run a family, and she deserves to be served by so many people, and the rich family is really different.
Suddenly, a piercing scream came from the room, crisp and loud, and with a painful pain that made people tremble, and it sounded like a young girl.
But in the blink of an eye, I saw a girl running out of the house, her right hand covering one ear, and thick blood oozing from between her fingers.
This girl is ringtone. Caihua's face was pale, and he walked out with CRBT, shouting in his mouth: "CRBT, your ear, your ear." ”
CRBT turned a deaf ear and rushed out of the yard.
A woman slowly appeared from behind the color bottle, she looked like she was in her fifties, her face was dry and dark, covered with layers of wrinkles, she was wearing a crumpled dress, she was smiling nervously, and there was a line of saliva lying on the corner of her mouth.
This is the first time that the workers digging the cellar have seen the crazy woman of Ming Xinzhai. Before they could come back to their senses, they saw the crazy woman pounce on Caihua, hugged Caihua tightly from behind, and bit Caihua's neck.
Caihua screamed, very miserable, her body shook wildly, wanting to throw Aunt Hai down, but Aunt Hai's strength increased greatly after she went crazy, and she and Cailing were usually together to hold her, but now they can't break free at all.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a line of blood flowed down the neck of the color bottle, and Aunt Hai raised her head suddenly with a crazy look of pleasure, only to see that she had bitten off a piece of the color bottle's meat.
The eyes of the color bottle were black in pain, but Aunt Hai still hugged her tightly from behind, and she cried loudly and begged: "Help! Who's going to save me. ”
The workers were stunned. Hearing the cry for help from the color bottle, they ran over and ripped Aunt Hai away.
Aunt Hai didn't recognize anyone, only clicked a mouthful of silver teeth out of thin air, and almost bit the worker who pulled her several times.
These workers are accustomed to doing heavy work, and they are men, and their strength is naturally not comparable to Aunt Hai, one of them accidentally flew out with his arm when he was dodging Aunt Hai's sharp teeth, and suddenly hit Aunt Hai's neck socket, Aunt Hai rolled her eyes and fainted.
The wound on the neck of the color bottle was very serious, and the blood did not stop, and half of the clothes on her upper body had been soaked with blood. After losing too much blood, she was not so sensitive to pain, and she cried when she remembered the frightening scene just now. I cried twice, and with a flower in front of me, I fainted.
A few mothers-in-law and little girls peeked outside through the door, but they didn't come forward.
"Tell the lord that something is wrong here." A worker said anxiously to the mother-in-law and the little girl.
The mother-in-law and the little girl actually slammed the door and never showed their faces again.
Aunt Hai just fainted, but looking at the injury of the color bottle, if she didn't treat it in time, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to pick it up.
"I remember that it seems to be the eldest lady of the Yan family who invited us, and we will go and report to the eldest lady of the Yan family. Do any of you know where the eldest lady of the Yan family lives? A worker said anxiously.
The rest of the workers looked at each other, all shaking their heads. Yan Qingge sent someone to invite them to work, and did not show up in person, let alone expose any news about himself.
They built a kitchen in the inner courtyard, and the inner courtyard was full of female dependents, and they never talked to these female dependents, and they didn't know anything about the inside of the Yan family. And the place where Yan Qingge lives does not have a kitchen, so they have no way of knowing Yan Qingge's residence.
"I remember that the place called Han Youju seems to be where the Yan family lived. Let's go and talk to the Yan family. ”
"Good! You go. The worker immediately urged his companion to move. He was vaguely uneasy in his heart, because they had been here for so long, and they had never seen the Yan family's master.
When they weren't paying attention, Aunt Hai on the ground frowned in pain, and under her tightly closed eyelids, her eyes rolled wildly, and she muttered a few bytes in her throat: "Shuyu...... Why...... Hurt you...... Younger brother ......"
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