Xia Ruixi found a chair to stay away, but he couldn't help but want to see what Xia Ruibei was going to take, whether it was poison or dumb medicine. I'm worried about what her Chun'er and Wan'er will do, and whether Mrs. Xia will also want her two lives.

Xia Ruibei looked at the two bottles of medicine with a gray face, and couldn't reach out no matter what, she remembered the nightmare every night, as if she saw Yan'er's frightened and resentful eyes again, and the disgusting feeling of the hot blood splashed out of the hand after the stone fell down. Cold sweat broke out all over my body, and I rolled my eyes up and fainted.

Mrs. Xia frowned, ordered Liniang to come in and help Xia Ruibei to the bed, took the bottle of dumb medicine casually, and looked at Xia Ruixi.

Xia Ruixi was startled, put his hands behind his back and stepped back, and resolutely refused without waiting for Mrs. Xia to speak: "I don't!" ”

"You are all soft-hearted, but there is no way for me not to be wicked." Mrs. Xia sighed, she was originally just scaring Xia Ruibei, and by the way, let Xia Ruixi know how to deal with this kind of thing, and when the goal was achieved, she didn't force it, and called Li Niang to whisper a few words, and Li Niang left with her head down.

Mrs. Xia asked Xia Ruixi again: "How much do Chun'er and Wan'er know?" ”

Xia Ruixi's heart was almost jumping out of his chest, his palms were full of cold sweat, and he said as calmly as possible: "My daughter thought that the fewer people who knew, the better, so they only knew that Beibei wanted to run away and was angry with her father, and they didn't know anything else. Thanks to the two of them along the way, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do. ”

Mrs. Xia stared at her for a while, and said, "Even if you know, don't be afraid, these two girls are strict-mouthed." I always knew that Wan'er was smart and wouldn't talk nonsense. Chun'er, it's very good, just according to what you say, mention her to be a first-class girl in your room. You come here. ”

Xia Ruixi secretly wiped the cold sweat in the palm of his hand on his sleeve: "What? ”

Mrs. Xia pointed to the two bottles of medicine left in the box: "This is for you, I'll teach you how to use it." ”

"What is this?" Xia Ruixi thought wildly, it must be the so-called family secret recipe, which dissolves when it is put into water, colorless and tasteless, and is a harmful poison that God does not know.

Mrs. Xia said: "Here are our mothers and sons, I will tell you directly." You are about to get married, no longer a little girl, some words, some things, mothers must teach you. The situation of the Ou family is complicated, I estimate that in the future, Ou Si's concubines will not be less, so you have to think more about yourself, this, as long as a little bit, put it in the meal or tea, or you can put it in the oil lamp, she is no matter how favored she is, and she will not want to have children. As for this, if you accidentally have it, it can be solved with just a little bit, you know? As long as you have a son, you can hold this in your hand, and let whoever you want to give birth to, and no one can go past you. ”

Xia Ruixi's scalp tingled when she heard this, the set of virtuous and virtuous virtues that Mrs. Xia usually showed and taught them were all shown on the table, in fact, what she wanted to teach them was how to be good-looking and real.

Theoretically speaking, Mrs. Xia is really thinking about her, people like Ou Qingjin, there will be a lot of concubines, whether Xia Ruixi wants to or not, if she wants to ensure her status, she has to use some means, this is the end of being a wife to an outstanding young man in ancient times.

Mrs. Xia finished speaking to herself, and closed the box, "When you leave the pavilion, I will put it away for you, you remember it, no one can tell you, including Chun'er and Wan'er." ”

Thinking of all the possibilities and helplessness in the future, Xia Ruixi was extremely upset: "What if someone finds out?" This is a seven-out sin, how many are he going to find him, I have a dowry, I don't live on him. "What should she do if he really has so many concubines for her to deal with? Turn a deaf ear to? Flee?

Mrs. Xia raised her eyebrows and said, "Nonsense! You are my own flesh and blood, can I harm you? Either you can have the ability to hold him firmly in your hands, just like your sister, close your own door and be optimistic about your own people, even if your mother-in-law is fierce, it doesn't matter if you suffer a small loss, anyway, you are the one who takes advantage in the end. If you don't have that ability, there is only this way to go, if you want to be a bodhisattva, you will wait for the nest for a lifetime! ”

Xia Ruixi sat for a while, and finally took the mahogany box, "I want to learn to cook some home-cooked food." "So far, she also has no way out, if she wants not to take the road of fighting for favor and harming others, she has to surround him in all directions and not give others a trace of gaps. Afraid of wolves in the front and tigers in the back, it is far less vigorous than going forward bravely like a shipwreck.

Mrs. Xia's eyes lit up and she smiled: "That's right!" Cheer up, what your sister and I can do, you can do too! What do you want to learn? I teach you personally. ”

Xia Ruixi said in a low voice: "It depends on what he and his father like to eat, and also, my father said that we have a colorful cat at home, which can catch birds and snakes, and I want to give it to Master Ou Er, where is the cat?" ”

"Your father sent it this morning." Seeing her daughter's hard work, Mrs. Xia was in a good mood: "You are all the same, if you don't force it, you won't succeed." ”

Xia Ruixi looked at Xia Ruibei, and saw that she was motionless, but through her eyelids, she could see that her eyes were moving, and she knew in her heart that this girl must have woken up a long time ago. Then he said: "Mother, is the third sister okay?" ”

Mrs. Xia glanced at Xia Ruibei: "If she is obedient and doesn't cause me trouble, I will try my best to drag it out, and if it can be delayed for a day, maybe I will drag that tuberculosis ghost to death." If she wants to continue to make trouble, there is no way, I have limited energy, I can take care of the old ones, but I can't take care of the young ones, so I have to respond to the Sun family. ”

Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, Mrs. Xia is not as good as Master Xia, she is shrewd and powerful, and she is more ruthless than Master Xia, Xia Ruibei's methods are all learned from her, where can she escape her fiery eyes Jin Qing. As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Ruibei's hand suddenly grabbed the sheet under her, Xia Ruixi looked funny, Xia Ruibei will definitely live in peace for a while.

Speaking of cooking, Mrs. Xia was also interested, and she didn't wait for Li Niang to talk back, so she changed her clothes and took Xia Ruixi to the kitchen. Xia Ruixi looked at Xia Ruibei lying on the bed and pretending to be dead. I felt sorry for her, so I said: "Mother, I'll call the third sister, if she is better, ask her if she would like to go with us, and she will also learn." ”

Mrs. Xia said: "No need, she will lie down if she is willing to lie down." Let's go. When she went out, she told Xia Ruibei's girl Fang'er loudly: "Fang'er, if the third miss wakes up, you let her not have to wait for me, go back by herself, if you don't want to come to dinner, you don't have to come, let the kitchen send two light side dishes and half a bowl of porridge to her room." She wanted to see if Xia Ruibei could stay up with her for a few days, and when Xia Ruibei couldn't stand it anymore, she would come to her, and she would clean up Xia Ruibei.

Just because Ou Qing loves to eat fish, one of the dishes Xia Ruixi learned was how to make the fish she hated the most. Mrs. Xia first ordered the cook to clean up the fish scales and internal organs, tied an apron, raised the knife in her hand, and cut a cut half an inch below the gills and an inch below the tail, and pointed to the incision and said: "See, there is a fishy line on both sides of this fish, and it should be removed before cooking, so that the dishes and soup will not smell fishy." ”

Xia Ruixi heard the words and leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a white silver-white thread like a tendon at the knife edge. Mrs. Xia turned the fish over the other side and concocted it in the same way. Then raise the knife and "snap" the fish with the side of the knife.

Xia Ruixi said: "What is this for?" ”

"Pat it like this, and loosen the string." As she spoke, Mrs. Xia pinched the thread with her fingertips and pulled it out gently.

The cook was amazed on the side: "Today's slaves and maids have finally opened their eyes, no wonder the old man always says that the fish we make is not as delicious as the lady makes, it turns out that the lady has hidden a hand." ”

Mrs. Xia smiled slightly: "This is just the most basic, different fish have different methods. Anything else depends on the taste of the person who eats the fish, whether it is heavy or light. Let's make the simplest steamed fish today, right? You do it, I'll guide you, you'll have to do it yourself sooner or later anyway. ”

Xia Ruixi didn't know how much kitchen method the original Xia Er had mastered, and he worked hard based on the principle of doing more and talking less. She was still able to cook some before, but she could only do it, far from being able to do it well, and it was a little rusty.

Mrs. Xia saw that although she was a little rusty, her hands and feet were quite nimble, and she was not afraid of getting dirty, so she smiled and said: "This is very good, there are still a few months of hard work, you come to learn to cook one or two dishes every day, and even if you are not good at it, you can barely take it out." Although they don't need you to cook at home, it's always good to know how to do one or two more things. ”

Xia Ruixi smiled and put the fish in the steamer, looked at a jar next to the stove, and leaned over to look: "What's in it?" ”

The cook smiled and said: "It's some pickled cabbage, the young grandmother is hurtful, I want to eat it, but I can't wait, the slave maid has to put this jar next to the stove, so that it will be sour faster." "It turned out that Wang's eldest daughter-in-law was pregnant again and wanted to eat sour, so she specially asked the kitchen to prepare it.

Mrs. Xia sighed: "She is a good child, one after another." ”

The cook smiled and said: "Madame, don't be in a hurry, wait for a few years for the fourth young master to become a person, and the young grandmother enters the door, isn't it the same?" I'm afraid that when the time comes, the little young master and the little lady will run around the house, and the lady will still be annoyed. ”

Mrs. Xia smiled slightly, thinking that Xia Ruiyu was already eleven years old, and it was time to find a family business. Mrs. Xia was served by Zhen'er and washed her hands, took off her apron, and thought that Master Ou Er loved sweets, so she said: "Xixi, while the hour is still early, you can learn to make a mung bean cake, it is the simplest, but it must be soft and moderate, the sweetness is just right, and it melts in the mouth, but it is not easy, the proportion of ingredients is very important, and I am afraid I will not be able to master it in a few days." ”

In fact, Xia Ruixi was already a little bored, she didn't like to go to the kitchen by nature, but thinking that she had asked for it, she had to grit her teeth and persevere. Then Mrs. Xia's guidance prepared the mung bean noodles, sugar, honey, sugar osmanthus, sesame oil, and lard, and just steamed the mung bean noodles, Li Niang came.

Liniang quietly saluted Mrs. Xia and said, "Madam, just now the mother-in-law from Qinglian Water Pavilion came to report, saying that the two girls that the master bought from the capital for the third lady, named Xiang'er and Lan'er, were unaccustomed to the water and soil and fell ill. It seems that he is quite sick, please show me how to deal with it? ”