Chapter 18: Cooking
Mama Lin's words made her understand that her sister was not very competent, she thought about it all night, and the next morning, she instructed Chunzhi: "Go to the kitchen and ask if there is any fresh osmanthus fish." ”
When she asked the old lady to come back, Harukeda came over and said, "The kitchen said there was no today." ”
After breakfast, Ji Yunyun went out with spring peach and spring branches.
She thought about it all night yesterday, remembering that when she was a child, her younger brother or her was naughty, provoking her mother to scold, and after her mother's anger disappeared, in order to coax them, she would make them a bowl of osmanthus fish soup with her own hands. Mother is a noble and down-and-out family was born, although the family background is far less than the father, but also since the beginning of the ten fingers do not touch the spring water, after marrying the father, learned a good cooking skills, in Linzhou often personally cook for them to eat, osmanthus fish soup is the mother's specialty of the dish.
She also wanted to make a bowl of osmanthus fish soup for her younger brother like her mother back then.
When he arrived at the street selling vegetables, the carriage stopped and stopped, and there were many people on the street, so Ji Yunyun simply took the two maids out of the carriage. When she was a child in Linzhou, she followed her mother to the street to buy vegetables a few times, and she was not unfamiliar with buying vegetables, she stopped in front of a fish seller and asked, "Is there osmanthus fish?" ”
Her clothes and appearance, at first glance, she was born in a noble family, and the vendor was a young man in his early twenties in coarse cloth clothes, who had never seen such a character like a fairy daughter, and was stunned for a long time, until the two maids blocked their girls behind him, and looked at him dissatisfied, he reacted, and hurriedly said: "Yes...... Yes, these are the only ones, which one does the young lady want? ”
"You can just pick one for us, and we want the freshest one." Harueda glared at him.
The peddler hurriedly picked out the biggest and freshest one for them, watched them go away, and then got into the carriage before coming to his senses.
At the entrance of the alley not far away, Feng Ji leaned against the wall with his arms folded, and waited until the carriage slowly left, and the two people next to the fish seller just now followed the carriage, and he followed not far away.
When he watched the carriage enter the Pingguo Mansion and the two people sent by the second prince left, Feng Ji went back to Anwang's Mansion quietly.
Before, the prince was worried that the people of the second prince would be unfavorable to the second girl of the Ji family, so he asked him to send someone to protect him secretly, and he happened to have nothing to do in the past few days, so he came in person. I didn't expect that the second girl of the family rarely went out on weekdays, and when she went out, she actually bought fish.
When he went back, Qi Cheng was practicing swords in the courtyard, and his swordsmanship was so strong that the leaves on the original leafy tree were about to fall off.
Seeing him coming, Qi Cheng threw the sword to the little guy next to him, took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his face, turned around and walked into the room.
Feng Ji followed behind him and said, "Second Miss Ji went out just now and has already gone back to the Guogong Mansion. The two people of the second prince were still quietly following her, and there was no change for the time being. ”
"Keep watching." Qi Cheng walked behind the screen and was about to change his clothes, when he saw that Feng Ji hadn't left yet, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you still in trouble?" ”
Feng Ji's face was strange, and he stopped talking, "Shizi, Second Miss Ji went out just now to buy fish...... I've never seen a lady go out to buy groceries in person......"
Qi Cheng listened, he was also stunned, he remembered what he heard about the life experience of the second girl of the Ji family, who grew up in Linzhou since she was a child, her parents died, and she was not liked by the old lady in the Guogong Mansion, and she was sent to Zhuangzi in Mianzhou for a whole year because she made a mistake. is obviously a young lady who is a relative of the Guogong Mansion, and she has to go out to buy vegetables in person, is she living so badly in the Guogong Mansion?
Feng Ji obviously thought of something with him, and he hesitated: "No matter what the second girl said this season, she also saved the world, should we help her and repay her?" ”
Qi Cheng suddenly remembered that in Mianzhou, the last time the two met before she returned to the capital, she smiled and said that if she wanted to repay her, she would go to the Pingguo Mansion to find her maid Chun Tao. No wonder he wants to repay him so much, it turns out that he is not doing well in the Guogong Mansion.
His throat moved, and he shook his head and said, "It's not time yet, this will involve her too quickly between us, the second prince and the Sun family, and we'll talk about it later." ”
Feng Ji understood that the prince was protecting the second girl Ji, so he stopped, arched his hand and retreated.
didn't know that he was misunderstood that he was not doing well in the Guogong Mansion, so Ji Yunyun took the two maids to the kitchen when he returned to the house.
The kitchen is usually filled with maids from the courtyards of each master, how can there ever be a master who comes in person? Seeing that the second girl was coming, the housekeeper was startled and hurriedly took the maids to salute.
Ji Yunyun said to the housekeeper's grandmother, so that everyone else in the kitchen dispersed, only let Chun Tao and Chun Zhi work beside them, and watched the mother's method of making osmanthus fish soup according to her memory, and got busy.
Rongshantang has a small kitchen dedicated to cooking for the old lady. Ji Yunting was beaten hard this time, the old lady felt sorry for him, and paid her own money to let the small kitchen cook for him three meals a day.
Qingzhu came out of the small kitchen with a food box, and as soon as she turned the corridor, she heard someone calling her behind her, and she looked back and saw that it was Mama Zhao.
"Mama, what's wrong?" When Mama Zhao arrived, she asked with a smile.
"Miss Qingzhu, can you please send this to the third young master as well?" Mama Zhao was also holding a food box on her arm, and she opened it and asked.
"This ......" Qingzhu glanced at it, and was a little surprised to see that there was a bowl of steaming osmanthus fish soup in the food box.
"This is a fish that the second girl bought herself, and made it for the third young master herself. Miss Qingzhu, you can help send it to the third young master. Mama Zhao pleaded.
Since she was transferred to the outer courtyard by the old lady, she couldn't go in and out of the third young master's room casually. Although Qingzhu and Mama Xiao are both people around the old lady, she can see that Qingzhu really cares about the third young master.
Sure enough, Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and opened the lid of the food box in her hand and said, "Put it in." ”
"Thank you, Miss Qingzhu." Mama Zhao was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out the fish soup carefully and put it into the food box carried by Qingzhu.
Qingzhu carried the food box into the house, Ji Yunting was lying on the bed and reading a book boredly, and when she came back, she complained: "Why have you been there for so long?" I'm starving. ”
"I met Mama Zhao on the way and said two words." Qingzhu smiled and took out the food from the food box and put it on the tray, and then brought it to the table next to the bed.
Ji Yunting threw away the book, picked up the chopsticks and was about to eat, when he saw the bowl of osmanthus fish soup on the tray, he was stunned, then picked up the spoon and took a sip, and couldn't help frowning: "Which chef made this?" It's too bad to drink. Didn't you come to the house through a relationship, did you? Go talk to your grandmother and get rid of him. ”
Qingzhu looked at his face from the side and whispered, "This is made by the second girl herself." ”
Ji Yunting originally wanted to throw away the spoon, but he was silent for a moment and asked, "Mama Zhao asked you to send it?" ”
Qingzhu nodded, and said with a smile: "There is no osmanthus fish in the house today, and this fish was also bought by the second girl herself." I didn't know that the second girl could cook, but this osmanthus fish soup looks like it. ”
Ji Yunting snorted, "It's so unpleasant, where can she cook, it looks like it's because my mother used to cook ...... when I was a child."
Saying that, he paused, looked at the osmanthus fish soup with a complicated complexion, stirred it with a spoon for a while, and muttered in a low voice: "It's so unpleasant, I haven't even learned my mother's craftsmanship." ”
Qingzhu listened to him muttering quietly, covered his mouth and smiled: "Since it's unpalatable, why don't you let me take it away and give it to the next person?" ”
"The next person can't drink such a bad soup." Ji Yunting pursed his lips and pretended to be reluctant: "Forget it, don't be embarrassed, I'll take two more sips, just take it and pour it out." ”
When he finished eating, Qingzhu went out with a tray, looking at the empty bowl, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, saying that it was unpleasant to drink two more sips, and he drank the whole bowl as a result. She handed the tray to the little maid in the yard, closed the door, summoned a maid to guard the door, and then went to the outer courtyard to find Mama Zhao.
Ji Yunyun finished lunch and ate in the yard, and Chunzhi brought Mama Zhao in happily.
"Second girl, the osmanthus fish soup you made, the third young master has drunk it all." In front of her, Mama Zhao said with a smile on her face.
"Really?" Ji Yunyun asked in surprise.
"What Miss Qingzhu said, the third young master knew that the second girl made it herself, and she said that it was not delicious, but she still drank it all." Mama Zhao said.
"If it's hard to drink, it's just two sips, why drink it all?" Ji Yunyun complained with a smile, and said to Mama Zhao: "Then Mama will help tomorrow." ”
"It's too serious to say that the second girl is tired, and I am happier than anything else to see the relationship between your two sisters and brothers improve." Mama Zhao smiled and said, "Then I'll go and get busy first." ”
"Send Mama out." Ji Yunyun instructed Chunzhi to send her out.
"Girl, it's not in vain that you've been busy in the kitchen all morning, and your fingers have been burned." Chun Tao was happy and distressed beside her. When did her girl cook when she was so old, this time for the first time for the third young master, despite the fact that her fingers were splashed by the oil star, she made many bowls before picking out a bowl that she was satisfied with.
Ji Yunyun touched the index finger of his right hand wrapped around the gauze, and his eyebrows and eyes were smiling.
For lunch on the second day, Ji Yunting still had a bowl of osmanthus fish soup in his food box.
"It's so unpleasant, how can it be again?" He frowned and pretended to be impatient to taste it, and snorted lightly, "So-so, a little stronger than yesterday's." Then he drank another bowl.
In the evening, the old lady asked Xiao Mama to call her over and ask her about Ji Yunting's situation in the past two days.
"Ting'er's injuries are better? And the meals for these two days, can it satisfy his appetite? The old lady leaned on the couch, turned the Buddhist beads in her hand, and asked.
"The third young master's injuries are already healing. As for the meal, in the meals sent in the past two days, there is nothing else, just a bowl of osmanthus fish soup, which is very liked by the third young master, and he will drink it every time. Mama Xiao replied respectfully.
"Osmanthus fish soup? Is this dish in the meals for these two days? Even if you like it, you can't eat it every day, talk to the kitchen, and change a dish for Ting'er tomorrow. The old lady frowned and ordered.
"Old lady......" Mama Xiao glanced up at her and said cautiously: "This osmanthus fish soup is not made in the kitchen, it is made by the second girl." ”
"She did it?" The old lady was a little surprised, and the grandmother who was waiting on the side hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words in her ear.