Xiangru opened the cabinet where the dried goods were placed, and there were all kinds of dried ingredients such as beans, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, dried shrimp, peanuts, red dates, walnuts, chestnuts, etc., which were packed in porcelain jars or sacks with lids, and a note was attached to the body of the jar indicating what the contents were.

Xiangru was picking up the rice in her mouth while thinking about what to cook for the old witch tonight.

Although it is a rebirth through time, with the memory of this shell itself and the work of this day, Xiangru already knows that the food eaten by people in this world is the same as that on the earth, and even the name has not changed, as if it is a copy of the Chinese feudal era, but the historical trajectory is different and a completely unfamiliar dynasty was born, and the life experience of the previous life can be completely substituted here, without any obstacles.

This is easy to do, she doesn't want the work experience of a nutritionist in her previous life to be scrapped here, otherwise she will definitely be in pain, as long as there is an opportunity for her to give full play to her professional ability in her previous life, she has the courage to live well here.

Looking at the jar containing medicinal herbs, these familiar plants made Xiangru feel a lot, her eyes gradually moistened, and when she was about to overflow, Xiangru wiped her eyes fiercely with her sleeve, reorganized her emotions, and focused on the pile of jars in front of her.

There are many recipes for dietary supplements for female menopause, and Aunt Rong's symptoms need to be treated with decoction and food, but there are no medicinal materials in the kitchen, only some unilateral medicinal materials such as wolfberry, dried ***** flower, and mountain corn meat that can be used as ingredients, although they can also be used to make menopausal medicinal diets, but the medicinal properties are not enough, which is not enough to relieve the serious symptoms of Aunt Rong's irritability, irritability, and mental disorder.

Xiangru stood in front of the cabinet for a long time, ate half a bowl of rice before finally thinking about what to do tonight, put down the rice bowl, and took down the jar of dried ***** flowers with both hands.

Let's make ***** flower porridge today to calm your nerves and relieve depression.

Xiangru took a small casserole pot for boiling porridge, took a little dried ***** flowers, japonica rice and an appropriate amount of brown sugar and put them into the casserole according to the proportions, added an appropriate amount of water, put it on the stove to soak for a while, and then came back and continued to eat with the rice bowl.

Lilac came in with a cleaned food box, pot, pot and other large kitchen utensils, and saw Xiangru leaning on the stove in a strange posture to eat, so she came over and asked softly, "Beaten again?" ”

Xiangru chewed the rice in her mouth, nodded, and made an "um" in her throat.

Lilac stroked Xiangru's somewhat disheveled sideburns and patted her shoulder, "Does she have a grudge against you?" From the first day you came to the present, you haven't eaten her whip any day, and she is not tired of beating until now? ”

"No way, whoever calls her my distant relative, whatever she says is what she says, she can't kill me anyway." Xiangru said vaguely.

"What about her bluffing you, what kind of bullshit distant relative, she is more fierce to you than anyone else, I think she just wants someone to serve her, and she doesn't want you to be too idle, so she stuffs you into the kitchen." The fact that Aunt Rong is a distant relative of Xiangru is not a secret in the kitchen, but Xiangru can't remember how everyone knows about it.

"Otherwise, she's the head of the kitchen, and she needs a reason to hit me."

"I think she is eighty percent sick, and she is not lightly ill."

"You're talking about it, she's sick."

"Xiangru, I'll tell you." Lilac was a little scared.

"I'm not telling you." Xiangru opened her round black eyes to show that she was serious.

"Is she really sick? How do you know? ”

"I told you what my dad does, right?"

Lilac nodded, "I said, your father is the langzhong." Ah, what do you see sick with her? ”

"Aunt Rong's is called dirty and dryness, a common disease that women have at her age, most people have milder symptoms, and a little attention to diet will not have much of a problem, and a small number of people have severe symptoms, and Aunt Rong is a serious illness that needs to take medicine. When I was still at home, my father would always prescribe a few of these prescriptions every month, all of them women in their forties and fifties, but it was rare for her to be as serious as her. Xiangru's explanation is a bit misleading, she can't explain the difference between menopause and dryness, but Chinese medicine does attribute menopausal symptoms to dryness.

It's ironic to think about it, it is luck to let a child do the work of a nurse without any protection, to go around among patients all day long, not to get infected with the disease, and the little rudimentary medical science that has been learned is not enough to pay for the high-risk risk that the body once carried.

Lilac was dumbfounded, "If you tell Aunt Rong that she is sick, she will beat her to death." ”

"That's right, so only patience can be relieved when she leaves the palace at the age of fifty."

Lilac sighed, "There are still years to go." ”

Xiangru finished the last bite of rice, and the dry and hard rice was very tired in her mouth, "Fortunately, there are only a few years left." ”

Lilac sneered, "You can still see it." Give me the bowl, and you can go back and get the work to be done, and I'll show you for a while." ”

Xiangru wiped her mouth and ran out of the kitchen.

After a while, Xiangru came back with her sewing basket and put it on the stool by the door, she came to the stove and started to boil the porridge, and then she turned back and took the stool to the stove and sat down, and lit two candles on the stove, and began to embroider new patterns while watching the porridge.

After four years of brutal training, Xiangru Female Red became a big success, and practiced a stunt, and she could embroider directly on the fabric without drawing patterns. In fact, this was all forced out by Aunt Rong, and she had to change the clothes in just a few days, and she didn't have time to redesign the pattern at all, so she could only embroider while designing her hands in her mind.

The embroidery on the palace maid's clothes is mainly plain and elegant, mostly flowers and plants, not out of line, and the color of the clothes must match, in modern popular terms, it is to reflect a kind of low-key gorgeousness in line with the royal style, which belongs to inadvertent show-off.

It's really a shame that the palace will give the palace maid four sets of new clothes every season, otherwise it will always be so endlessly dismantled, modified, and made, and no matter how strong the fabric is, it will be finished.

Xiangru thought for a while, a new pattern naturally appeared in her mind, Xiangru then made a little detail design, and the new pattern based on wood hibiscus was completed in her mind, and she immediately threaded the needle and thread on her hand, and depicted it on the fabric with the thread as a pen.

Lilac and Yinhua came back after washing all the tableware, and after returning the dried tableware to everyone, the two did not leave, but boiled some boiling water in a large pot, and the two chatted while drinking water, and watched Xiangru do work by the way.

In the previous life, I had not been exposed to embroidery, and I played little cross-stitch, at most I sewed buttons for shirts, and the first time I came into contact with embroidery after rebirth, I was like a master, which made Xiangru very excited, and the embroidery was very energetic.

When the ***** flower porridge was boiled, Xiangru also embroidered the outline of most of the sleeves of the hibiscus, but if she wanted to complete all the work in three days as scheduled, she had to work overtime these nights.

Xiangru put the things together on the table far from the stove, asked Lilac and Yinhua to get the bowl, first put Aunt Rong's share in the porcelain cup and put it in hot water to keep warm, and the rest of the three of them shared it together.

After eating, the three of them cleaned up the kitchen together, Yinhua scooped the boiling water that had been boiling in the cauldron into the kettle, and then took Xiangru's sewing basket back to the house first, Xiangru packed the porridge in a food box, the food box in her left hand and the lantern in her right hand, Lilac carried the kettle, and the two went to Aunt Rong's yard together.

entered Aunt Rong's house, Xiangru served Aunt Rong for supper, and Lilac made Aunt Rong's bed.

Aunt Rong expressed doubts about the fact that tonight's supper was porridge, and Xiangru solved Aunt Rong's question on the grounds that the weather was cold and hot and the porridge was warm, and took the opportunity to propose that the winter supper should be based on porridge, and Aunt Rong did not object.

Aunt Rong ate the porridge, Xiangru and Lilac waited for Aunt Rong to remove her makeup, wash her face and feet, until Aunt Rong fell asleep peacefully, Xiangru and Lilac put out the candles in the house and left together.

Go back to the empty kitchen and wash the last few dishes of the day, put out all the fire, and Xiangru and Lilac go back to the house to rest.

In the courtyard, all the stoves under the south wall were boiling hot water, and the girls in the three rooms lined up in front of the stove to get hot water to wash their faces and feet.

Xiangru and Lilac first made the bed, and then came out of the line with a basin, and after washing, they quickly climbed into the quilt while they were warm, and the last girl who went to sleep on the kang put out the candle, and the room was suddenly dark, and the surroundings were quiet, and they soon fell asleep.

Xiangru had planned to work overtime to embroider, but that didn't mean she didn't need to sleep, she would rather get up early tomorrow than go to bed too late, which would affect the quality of sleep.

When Xiangru reopened her eyes from her deep sleep, it was dark outside the window, I don't know when it was, after lying quietly for a while, I heard the sound of knocking on the bang, and after listening carefully, I learned that it was already more than four, and there was more than an hour before it was the hour.

Xiangru gently crawled out of the bed, put on her clothes, lit a candle and took a sewing basket, and went out to the well, where there was a shelter formed by the stove and the corner of the wall, and a small bench was thrown in the corner. This was where she worked during the night shift.

Xiangru put the candlestick on the stove, brought the bench and sat down, and began to embroider intently in the faint candlelight.

This concentration did not raise his head until the candle was burned, and looked at the starry sky above his head, Xiangru put down the needle and thread, shook off his clothes and checked the results of the overtime, all the outlines of the flowers and leaves on the two sleeves have been embroidered, just fill in the color today and tomorrow, as long as there is no accident, the day after tomorrow will definitely be able to take it to Aunt Rong.

Put the things together, roll up the clothes and put them in the basket, Xiangru took the basket and quietly went back to the house, and after putting the basket back in her cupboard, Xiangru came out again to light a fire and boil water. She was not happy to ask her to wash her face with well water on such a cold day.

Around midnight, the three rows of big houses began to have human voices, everyone got up one after another, got dressed and came out to see Xiangru boiling water, and they all immediately came over to fetch hot water. After a hurried freshening up, they rushed to their respective jobs and began their boring work day after day.

Xiangru brought boiling water from the kitchen to wait for Aunt Rong to get up, and after changing her clothes and makeup, just like yesterday's moment, Aunt Rong, who was sitting in front of the dresser, asked how the embroidery was, Xiangru said truthfully that she had just completed all the outlines and was only about to fill in the color, Aunt Rong immediately got up and brought a rattan whip and whipped it again, the reason was that Xiangru's movements were too slow, how could it be possible to complete so much in one night, at least half a sleeve of embroidery.

Xiangru knew that Aunt Rong was addicted to beating people, no matter what she said, Aunt Rong would find fault and beat her as a morning exercise, anyway, she was not afraid of her beating her, but her violent temper really affected the working atmosphere, and the plan to coax her had to be stepped up.

When Aunt Rong finished exercising, she gasped and put down her whip and told Xiangru to roll.

Xiangru rolled over, and soon rolled back again, bringing today's breakfast.

The cook still cooked two kinds of porridge, corn porridge and red bean porridge, but for some reason, after eating a few spoonfuls of corn porridge, Aunt Rong suddenly became angry and kicked over the stool next to her.

Xiangru, who was startled, hurriedly stepped forward to ask the reason, but Aunt Rong, who was angry, picked up the chopsticks and hit them on the wrist joint, which hurt her so much that she retracted her hand, but there was a concerned expression on her face.

"Auntie, isn't the porridge appetizing?"

"Who made porridge out of this corn kernel that was fed to the chickens? Is this for people to eat? It's hard to death, and it's all your teeth. In the future, it is not allowed to make polenta in the kitchen. ”

"Yes. Auntie eat red bean porridge. Xiangru withdrew the corn porridge aside, and put the red bean porridge in front of Aunt Rong.

Who knew that Aunt Rong only took one bite and threw the spoon, "It's too sweet, it's so unpalatable, you go and call Chef Li to come and see me." ”

Seeing that Aunt Rong was angry like this, Xiangru knew that Chef Li was going to be unlucky, and she didn't dare to persuade her, so she hurriedly trotted back to the kitchen to call people.

At this time in the kitchen, people from all the courtyards came to get breakfast, and Xiangru asked a few people in the kitchen what they thought of today's porridge, whether they thought the corn crumbles or the red bean porridge were too sweet.

No one thinks there is a problem, they all say it's very good, Chef Li is an old man in the kitchen, and everyone knows the skill of making porridge.

Xiangru went to call the chef Li with a sinking face, saying that Aunt Rong was looking for it.

Seeing Xiangru's expression, Chef Li roughly guessed that something was wrong, and after handing over the work to others, she left with Xiangru.

Turning out of the corridor of the kitchen, Chef Li asked Xiangru what happened, Xiangru didn't know why Aunt Rong was angry, and only told Chef Li the original story of her performance just now, so that she could be mentally prepared to deal with it.

Chef Li straightened her back and walked into Aunt Rong's house.

Aunt Rong, who was in a slightly more stable mood in the room, saw Chef Li and Xiangru coming in, and her eyes became fierce in a blink of an eye, and she looked at Chef Li as if Chef Li had killed her whole family.

"Li Hehua, you are also an old man in the kitchen, what should you do and what should you not do, do you still use people to teach? Look at the porridge you cooked today, is that what people eat? ”

Different from the previous performance, Aunt Rong did not burst into a rage, but her tone was as cold as a knife, Chef Li knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Xiangru shrunk her hands and feet and stood by the door looking at her nose and nose.

Aunt Rong walked a few laps in front of Chef Li, becoming more and more irritable in her heart, and seeing Chef Li's kowtow like pounding garlic, she was even more angry, and she picked up the rattan whip that she didn't leave and hit her head and face.

Chef Li was not used to Aunt Rong's whipping, and she was beaten to the ground at once, but she couldn't cry out in pain, she clenched her teeth and couldn't make a sound, and Xiangru was shocked to see it on the side. It's one thing to get beaten yourself, it's another thing to watch others get beaten.

Aunt Rong's manic temper didn't stop as soon as it broke out, seeing that she had whipped more than ten whips and didn't stop, Xiangru knew Aunt Rong's habit of beating people, and she picked fewer places with less meat, such as waist and shoulders, and it hurt to whip it down.

Seeing that Aunt Rong didn't seem to have the intention of stopping, she felt that she had to kill someone if she continued to fight like this, and she couldn't call anyone to save her, so she had to grit her teeth and be a messenger of justice to get out of herself, and pounced on Aunt Rong to hold the whip's hand.

"Auntie, you can't fight anymore, stop, you can't fight anymore. If you fight well, Aunt Xiao who keeps up with you won't be able to explain, if you are punished for this, won't you still be the one who suffers. ”

Hearing Aunt Xiao's name, Aunt Rong's movements hesitated, and Xiangru immediately snatched the murder weapon from her hand when she saw this, and dragged Chef Li far aside with a brute force.

"Aunt Rong, Chef Li knows that she is wrong, just spare her this time, not next time. There can't be no one in the kitchen, besides, Aunt Xiao likes Chef Li's cooking skills very much, so you should give Aunt Xiao face and spare Chef Li, Aunt Rong. Xiangru knelt at Aunt Rong's feet and pleaded.

Xiangru frequently brought out Aunt Xiao, the top manager of the female medical hall, and finally saved Chef Li's life, Aunt Rong's violent emotions were controlled and gradually calmed down, looking down at Xiangru and then at Chef Li kneeling in the distance, her face flickered.

"Okay, for Aunt Xiao's sake today, I won't embarrass her, but if there is a next time, you cook won't do it again."

"Yes, yes, Chef Li knows, my aunt will sit down and rest, Xiangru will pour you a cup of tea, and then bring you some snacks."

Xiangru stood up and helped Aunt Rong sit down at the table, but when she was about to pour water, she was slapped off by Aunt Rong, "Clean up your things and get out." ”

Xiangru no longer insisted, and immediately cleaned up what should be cleaned up, holding the food box and kettle in one hand, and helping Chef Li, who was already soft, with the other hand, and didn't know where she got the strength, so she walked out of Aunt Rong's yard with half help and half hug.