Hua Lanxiang's face struggled for a long time, and finally she whispered: "How can there be such a good redemption?" If the contract is redeemed, it will be a breach of contract, and all the money I have bet on Sun's Mansion will be gone, which is my salary for more than ten years! I wanted this money to be your dowry, but how could I give it? It's all my hard-earned money! ”

This is also true, even if she has money and can use it for her mother, but it is also the silver money that her mother has worked hard to save, and she must be more at ease to use it herself.

Hua Manxi didn't know how to persuade her for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the dishes came up, Hua Manxi ordered abalone porridge, prawns in sour soup, and scallop steamed vermicelli, etc., Buddha jumped over the wall and took a while to come up, she peeled the shrimp for Hua Lanxiang, and scooped the porridge.

Hua Lanxiang has never eaten such a noble thing, that is, sometimes there are banquets in the house, but how many people can stay for them to help roughly? So she eats extra carefully.

When the Buddha finally jumped off the wall, she was so excited that her eyes were red.

On that day, she came to this Jinyutang with Sun Yuan, in fact, she came with Niu Er and others, saying that it was to eat, but in fact, Sun Yuanwai asked them to see what materials were used, and wanted to steal the teacher.

But as soon as the lid was lifted, the fragrance tempted several of their subordinates to swallow frequently, Sun Yuanwai is such a careful person, where can he reward them for eating a bite, and the rest of the soup is taken back to the house to Mrs.

She couldn't have imagined that she would be able to eat a bite of the good food she dreamed of in her lifetime.

"Mother, you can taste it, this Buddha jumps over the wall, the materials are expensive, nourishing, and nutritious, and it is the most suitable for replenishing the body." Hua Manxi scooped a full bowl for her.

"How can we finish eating such a big jar? Isn't that a waste? It's all silver! Hua Lanxiang said anxiously while secretly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Don't be afraid, let's wrap up the leftovers and take them to the academy for Komatsu to eat." Hua Manxi was really full, and only drank a small bowl of soup, so he asked the golden shopkeeper to take a food box over, packed the rest of the dishes, and planned to take them to the academy for Komatsu.

The golden shopkeeper didn't charge for food, and he also gave her all the dividends spent in Manxi during this time.

Hua Manxi took a silver ticket of one hundred taels and put it on the table, and then told him about the flaws in the menu, asked him to push two new dishes every month, and casually said a few methods, and asked the shopkeeper Jin to convey it to Master Jin Daliu, he is an insider, so he naturally knows how to develop new dishes.

Hua Lanxiang was stunned and followed her out of the Golden Jade Hall, and then went to the academy next to her.

She felt that her daughter, she was really unexpected! She's so powerful—maybe it's because of her father.

Hua Manxi has been to the academy a few times, so she is naturally familiar with the road, but she only took two hours off, and she had to go back to Sun's Mansion before the door closed, so she only handed over the things to the uncle who guarded the door and went back to the house.

However, unexpectedly, Sun Mansion had already made a fuss at this time.

It turned out that those little masters were clamoring to eat the dishes made by Hua Manxi, and refused to eat the dishes made by Niu Er, so they didn't eat because of how the subordinates coaxed them, but Hua Manxi asked for leave again, and the eldest lady could only sprinkle her grievances on the steward Zhao Xixi, and punished Zhao Xixi to kneel at the door until Hua Manxi came back.

Seeing Hua Manxi, Zhao Xixi had a look of wanting to cry without tears: "You can be counted as coming back, if you don't come back, my knee will be ruined!" ”

"What's going on?" Hua Manxi and Hua Lanxiang were startled when they saw Zhao Xi's appearance.

Although the two of them had already had a quasi-book, but neither Zhao Xixi nor Hua Manxi thought that the eldest lady would sprinkle her anger on Zhao Xixi's body, Zhao Xixi lowered his eyebrows and cried in a low voice: "It's that the little master and the little young lady are all clamoring to eat the dishes you cooked, and the lady and the master can't do anything about it, I gave you a leave of absence and let you out of the house, so the doctor punished me for kneeling——"

"Shouldn't I take a leave of absence?" Hua Manxi hurriedly helped Zhao Xixi up, and then whispered a word in her ear.

Zhao Xixi is naturally a clever person, as soon as his eyes are closed and his neck is crooked, he faints.

Hua Lanxiang didn't know why, and when she saw this, she could only shout: "Come on, Zhao Xixiao fainted, Zhao Xixiao fainted-"

At that moment, a few people hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhao Xixi, and went to Zhao Xixi's room to rest, among them, a better-dressed maid glanced at Hua Manxi, and said coldly: "You are Hua Manxi, right?" I am the eldest maid Chun'er next to Madame, Madame asked you to go to her after you come back, you come with me. ”

Hua Manxi didn't say much, and followed her into the courtyard of the main house with low eyebrows.

The master's yard, they who do the kitchen on weekdays are naturally not allowed to enter, only the maid who serves the maid can enter and exit.

Although Sun Yuanwai is a big family, the house is not very luxurious, and there are no unusual flowers and plants in the yard, which is decent.

So Hua Manxi didn't make a sound all the way, followed Na Chun'er, all the way to the courtyard of the eldest lady.

"Madam, Hua Manxi brought it." Chun'er asked Hua Manxi to wait outside, and went to report it first.

"Let her in." The eldest lady said in a somewhat impatient voice.

Hua Manxi automatically and consciously went in, and said in a low voice: "Little Chef Manxi has seen the eldest lady. ”

The eldest lady's face was very ugly, and she said unhappily: "Didn't you order you to make dinner today?" How not to do it? ”

"Back to the eldest lady, because the doctor said last time, I want my mother to go for a follow-up visit today and prescribe some medicine, so I took a leave of absence for half a day, and it was Manxi."

"Okay, okay, I'm not such a stingy woman, the little master hasn't eaten for a day, Chun'er, you take her to the kitchen to cook a few dishes, let the little master eat."

"Yes, ma'am." Chun'er blessed her body, although Hua Manxi didn't like such red tape, but she was under the eaves and had to bow her head, so she had to follow the example and salute the eldest lady, and then turned around and went back to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the purchaser specially prepared the ingredients, and Hua Manxi made a calculation and decided to make a few side dishes.

Pick some flower nails, first put some salt to let it spit sand, clean it, boil water, then put in ginger cooking wine, and then pour in the flower nails blanching water.

After the sixtieth nail is opened, take it out, then beat a few eggs into a bowl, put an appropriate amount of salt and rice wine, then put in the sixtieth nail, cover it with gauze, and then steam it in a pot.

After the steamed eggs are steamed, they are drizzled with some soy sauce to make them more delicious.

In addition, Hua Manxi saw that there were fresh morels in the kitchen, so he made another morel stewed chicken.

This morel mushroom is delicious, crisp and refreshing, and is a rare game delicacies, while for chicken, only chicken breasts are used.

Cut the chicken breast into shreds, heat the oil, put the shredded chicken in the pot and stir-fry, add salt, shredded ginger, fry until it changes color, then add morels, then put some soy sauce to adjust the color, a little water, cover the pot and simmer for a while.

When it is boiling, add another pot of boiling water, blanch the cleaned broccoli, then set up a pot and pour the braised chicken and morels into the middle of the broccoli.

In the end, Hua Manxi made another snack, called salted egg yolk baked pumpkin.

Clean the pumpkin, cut it into long strips, then blanch it slightly, take out the pumpkin, heat the oil over low heat, and fry it in the pan until the pumpkin is ripe.

Take a few salted duck eggs, take only the yolk, steam and crush, put them in the pot and stir-fry, then put the fried pumpkin into the pot, evenly spread the salted egg yolk, and then sprinkle with the appropriate amount of salt and pepper to taste.

Just coaxing the child to eat, two dishes and a snack are enough, and after Hua Manxi is ready, he will start to clean and brush the pot.

Na Chun'er asked people to bring the boiled three dishes of tea to the eldest lady's room, and the crying little master smelled the fragrance, and immediately stopped crying and ran to the dinner table.

The salted egg yolk baked pumpkin looks golden in color, which makes people appetite great, and the steamed eggs are even softer and smoother, and a spoonful of it, the steamed egg custard trembles slightly, which is visible to the naked eye, and the morel stewed chicken also exudes a rich and mellow taste, even the eldest lady can't help but taste a few bites.

This dish is really salty and light, and it is fragrant and delicious, especially suitable for children.

The eldest lady instructed the mother-in-law and maid around her to take care of the child for dinner, called Nachun'er to the inner room, and asked, "Chun'er, has she inquired about the little master's preferences when cooking?" ”

Na Chun'er shook her head and said sincerely: "No, she didn't say a word to the slave maid, except for a man named Xiao Ye to help make the fire, these dishes were all made by herself, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, stir-frying vegetables and setting pots, in one go, almost no thinking, skillful posture, neat movements, quite like a restaurant chef." ”

Chun'er used to serve in the eldest young master's study, and she wanted her son to be a girl in the room, but she didn't expect this girl to be very angry, so she begged her son and asked her son to put her by her side, saying that she didn't want to be a concubine, and she just wanted the contract to go home.

She is literate and hyphenated, cautious, and very important to the eldest lady, so she praises the country girl, it can be seen that the country girl really has some ability.

"Who is her mother?" The eldest lady pondered for a moment before asking.

"Hua Lanxiang has been working as a cook in the back kitchen for more than ten years, and she is very timid on weekdays, she doesn't talk much, she has a submissive temperament, and she has no idea." Chun'er paused, and then said, "Moreover, this Hua Lanxiang is a daughter who was pregnant before marriage and gave birth to it, and she has never remarried, and this daughter was raised by her eldest brother and sister-in-law." ”

"Someone who has no idea? Do you dare to get pregnant and give birth to a child before marriage? Still haven't remarried? The eldest lady was puzzled.

"Listening to the mother-in-law below, she is indeed a person who has no ideas, is timid, follows the rules, and is very careful and careful in doing things, but she doesn't understand people." Chun'er replied with a glance.