Dingxi Hou Mansion, like all people today, has two meals a day, and the meals are sent to each courtyard from the kitchen in order of status.

Now that Mrs. Hou is gone, the highest-ranking housewife in the house is Mrs. Hou Xie.

When Xie accompanied Dingxihou into the dining room, the aunts standing in the room bowed down and saluted.

"Mrs. Hou is resting well?" Everyone will greet each other.

The daughter-in-law of the Hou family in Dingxi does not serve breakfast, this is the rule set since the death of the Da Xie family, Mrs. Hou said that the daughter-in-law is the eldest woman in the family, and the affairs are complicated, so they should have a comfortable meal, and they can come over to talk after the meal, so the aunts in their own house are waiting in front of the eldest lady of the Hou Ye.

Xie Shi nodded slightly as usual to answer, and Dingxi Hou would say a word to the women in turn with a smile, nothing more than good, how are you, what did you do yesterday and other greetings, of course, not everyone will ask, because Dingxi Hou has five concubines, if they all ask, this meal will be cold, but this still makes everyone in the room feel happy.

After the husband and wife sat down, Aunt Zhou would personally hold the hand towel and let Dingxi Hou and Xie wipe it, originally this was made by Aunt Huang, the biological mother of the eldest son, but Aunt Huang's health has become worse and worse in recent years, and Xie exempted her from the rules and did not have to serve every day, so this was taken over by Aunt Zhou.

Then Aunt Song and Aunt Liu would hold two mouthwash teas, and Aunt Zhu, who had just entered the house, was exempted from the rules by the Xie family because she was pregnant, and sat with her, but she still waited for the two to get up respectfully after rinsing their mouths and set the chopsticks away.

During this period, it was silent until the end of the meal, and the concubines were also silent when they added vegetables and rice, only occasionally asking once or twice if they wanted to taste this.

Breakfast was very simple, Dingxi Hou had a good appetite, but after eating two bowls of porridge and a few bites of side dishes, he put the bowls and chopsticks, and Xie only slightly added half a bowl of rice porridge.

Then there is another repeated set of hand rubbing and rinsing.

"Go down and eat." After all this was done, Xie Shi bowed his head and said.

The aunts all gave their respects and left, and when they exited the door, the kitchen got the news and sent the prepared meals to their respective yards.

Aunt Zhou stepped into the courtyard door, Chang Yunqi was sitting in the room looking through the Buddhist scriptures that Aunt Zhou copied daily, and Aunt Zhou's eldest girl, Ah Jin, was laughing with him.

"Why did you come here at this time?" Aunt Zhou washed her hands in the copper basin held by the kneeling little girl, and asked, "Can you eat egg custard?" ”

The young master's and young lady's meals started after Mrs. Hou's house was set up, earlier than the aunts' meals.

"How old am I, I don't like that." Chang Yunqi laughed.

Aunt Zhou didn't look at her either, but said to the girl standing in the room: "Go and tell the kitchen, I'll add an egg custard here." ”

The girl answered and went out.

"Auntie, don't bother." Chang Yunqi shouted helplessly.

Aunt Zhou has already come.

"It's okay, don't bother, although I'm an aunt, I've been in the house for so many years, it's still okay to add an egg custard to the regular meal, and no one will slap my aunt's face for such food." She said lightly.

She reached out and pulled his face to take a closer look.

"I'll take a look when I open my mouth." She said.

Chang Yunqi smiled and opened his mouth.

"It's already done." He said helplessly.

"Let's see if you dare to eat indiscriminately next time." Aunt Zhou herself was relieved when she saw it, patted his face, and said with a bit of reproach.

That day, Yunqi ate Qi Yue's spicy chicken nuggets, not only his mouth was swollen, but also foamed, so that he was not happy to eat, which made Aunt Zhou very worried.

"Which cook made it? There are so many peppers..."Ah Jin asked casually on the side.

Chang Yunqi smiled, and said vaguely, who knows, so he didn't say more.

"My aunt copies this every day, and the words are getting better and better." He smiled and digressed the subject.

Aunt Zhou's words were learned from her grandfather, and she is the best among her brothers and sisters, and she has always been very confident in her own words.

"Speaking of words, I heard your father say that you are not as good as before, it is enough to have your eldest brother in the family to practice martial arts, you should break that mind as soon as possible, and honestly give me reading and learning words is the right way." She said.

Chang Yunqi responded with a smile.

"Then I'll help my mother copy the Buddhist scriptures." He said in his mouth, and sure enough, he sat down and picked up the pen and wrote slowly.

"This is my old man to pass the time, you don't write this at a young age, you have no blood." Aunt Zhou said.

Her voice was faint, with a hint of loneliness and sadness.

Chang Yunqi's pen stopped slightly.

Dingxi Hou added two women to his side in just a few days, and brought back a woman from outside, although this woman has been raised outside for four or five years, but she is also a newcomer if she can enter the house, and yesterday I heard that a girl in Aunt Zhu's house was carried through the room....

It's easy to get old, but you smile when you see a newcomer.

Chang Yunqi looked at Aunt Zhou who was sitting outside and eating slowly through the bead curtain, she had a unique style when she was middle-aged, but in the end, she no longer saw the bright and bright brilliance.

She ate slowly, and the meals on the table were all carefully selected, with good rice, and dishes with full color and flavor, but Aunt Zhou's movements seemed so tasteless.

Chang Yunqi remembered that when he was a child in front of the old lady, his father often came over to eat together, and his aunt was naturally there, and the family sat together with a smile, and her aunt was smiling happily every time she swallowed a grain of rice.

It's just that those days haven't been gone for a long time, and maybe they won't be in the future...

What she eats is not food, it is full of loneliness.

Chang Yunqi sighed, lowered his head and slowly copied the scriptures.

There were the footsteps of the girls and the low laughter in the yard, Chang Yunqi couldn't help but look up through the window, and saw a girl holding a food box and two or three others surrounding her, not knowing what to take from the food box.

The mother-in-law at the door coughed, and the girls hurriedly dispersed.

"Auntie, the egg custard is here." The girl with the food box came in and said.

"Bring it to the young master." Aunt Zhou said.

The girl came over, saluted Chang Yunqi's short body, and shouted the third young master with a smile.

"Put it down." Chang Yunqi knew that it would be impossible not to eat, so he put down his pen and smiled.

Ah Jin personally brought the basin of water over.

"How dare you work sister." Chang Yunqi hurriedly got up and smiled.

"I used to work less, right? Now that the third young master is older, he is becoming more and more polite. Ah Jin smiled, took his hand and helped him wash it himself, and wiped it clean with a hand towel.

"Speaking of which, the only of the four who came out of my grandmother's side is Sister Ah Jin or a second-class girl, right?" Chang Yunqi was dressed by her, remembered something and said, "If Sister Ah Jin hadn't come to my aunt's place, she wouldn't have been..."

"What did the third young master say?" Ah Jin shook off his hand with a smile, "It's Ah Jinlu who is stupid and can't get on the stage, no one wants it anywhere, or it is still taken in by my aunt and grandmother, otherwise I would have gone out early, and I don't know where to give people the call to run around, and I can still stand here and listen to the third young master and sister." ”

Everyone laughed at this.

"If my sister is stupid, we can't have it." The little girls said.

"Hurry up and get your way, here you pestle." Ah Jin laughed and blamed them.

The little girl smiled and was about to leave, but was called by Chang Yunqi.

"What are you out there?" He asked, while eating this egg custard slowly, in order to dissipate the fire and dissipate the heat, it was deliberately made bland and tasteless, which was really not delicious.

"Yes.. Oh, it's called chicken cake.." The little girl thought for a moment before saying.

"Where did it come from?" Ah Jin asked, frowning slightly, "I've said that you've said a few times, don't ask for things in the kitchen, it's your aunt's trouble to cause trouble, how many people are staring at us in private now..."

"Sister, it's not from the kitchen, I remember this order, and I didn't ask for food in the kitchen." The little girl hurriedly said, "I met Ah Hao on the road and asked for her." ”

"Okay?" Ah Jin was stunned, this name was once familiar to her, but now it is a little unfamiliar, it has not been three years....

"Anything else? I'll take a look. Chang Yunqi took over and said.

The little girl answered, took one out of her sleeve, wrapped it in oiled paper, a small piece.

"I'm afraid they'll rob me of it, so I'll hide it first." She grinned.

Chang Yunqi took it and opened the oiled paper.

"Can I eat this?" Ah Jin also came over, looking at the rough-looking pastry, it smelled quite fragrant.

"It's delicious." The little girl hurriedly said, "It's a good job, it's not easy to grab it, this time she went to give her Lao Tzu Niang to be met by me, so I asked for three, everyone shared it..."

She was talking here, and Chang Yunqi had already put the pastry in her mouth.

"Uh-huh." He nodded, and handed it to Ah Jin, "Sister, you can taste it." ”

Ah Jin half-convinced and pinched a piece and ate it, his eyebrows showing surprise.

"It's really good, sweet but not greasy, soft." She nodded.

That's all, girls like her, especially those who came out with the old lady, haven't eaten anything, but if this wasn't made by the dim sum ladies in the kitchen, but by the girl who made it....

"Ahh She asked again, remembering the little girl who was lost and confused.

"yes." The little girl nodded and said, "Ah Hao will make some delicious food, she also fried the oil fruit herself, and they have eaten the sprinkling vines." ”

Ah Jin smiled.

"This girl has been locked up in that yard for the past few years, but she has practiced her cooking skills." She shook her head.

As they spoke, Chang Yunqi was slowly chewing the pastry on the side, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Have you eaten?" Aunt Zhou's voice asked.

"Eat." Chang Yunqi replied casually.

Aunt Zhou looked at the egg custard on the table that had only moved a mouthful and pulled down her face.

"Auntie, it's not too early, I'll go to my father and wife to say hello, I guess they've all passed." Chang Yunqi stood up with a smile, "I'll eat it when I come back." ”

didn't wait for Aunt Zhou to say anything, and ran out of the smoke.

"I'm getting more and more disobedient." Aunt Zhou shook her head and said.

"The third young master is so old, he knows to take care of himself, and his aunt and grandmother can rest assured." Ah Jin smiled, waved her hand, and the little girl packed up her things and retreated.

"What did you just say? Eat and drink. Aunt Zhou sat down at the kang table and asked while opening the scriptures.

Akina was silent for a moment.

"Say, it's really going to be that you can't even talk casually in our house, and that's when I die, no matter how long her hands are, she won't be able to reach me for three years without stopping to knock off the old lady and leave her arms." Aunt Zhou said casually, a mocking smile appeared on her lips.

"Yes." Ah Jin responded, while helping Aunt Zhou to study ink, "Look at the young lady, should I go for a walk?" ”