Chapter 121: Catching the Wind and Shadows (5)

Two days later, as Mama Wang expected, Shang Zhengju sent that Mama Liu over.

When she met Mrs. Wei, Gu Xiyan and Liu Mei'er were accompanying Mrs. Wei to breakfast.

Mama Liu is about fifty years old, her eyes are slanted and her mouth is crooked, and she is still trembling when she speaks, like a patient who has gone crazy and has not recovered, she knelt down for a long time and couldn't get up, Gu Xiyan looked uncomfortable for her, but Mrs. Wei's eyes looked at her but she was not a little impatient. When Mama Liu finished greeting her, Mrs. Wei also asked her about her physical condition with great concern, and when she learned that Mama Liu had a little joint pain, she also asked Bao Niang to take a bottle of medicinal wine for Mama Liu: "This is brought back by Maosheng last year, and it is said that the effect is very good, you can also try it." ”

Mama Liu showed a grateful expression on her face, and she saluted Mrs. Wei tremblingly.

Gu Xiyan felt a little worried, she couldn't afford to hold the big knife in the small kitchen like this.

Mama Liu went to the small kitchen after asking Mrs. Wei to say goodbye, and after a while, she prepared a menu for Mrs. Li to give to Bao Niang, Bao Niang didn't look at it, and handed it directly to Mrs. Wei, Mrs. Wei didn't look at it, and said with a smile: "She is an old man in the house, I can trust it." Spread my word and let her decide what to eat for the next few days! ”

Mrs. Wei's trust in Mama Liu made Gu Xiyan feel slightly surprised in her heart. So as soon as she came out of Mrs. Wei, Gu Xiyan asked Liu Mei'er to go to the kitchen to see the new cook, and Liu Mei'er hesitated. Gu Xiyan knew that she was embroidering an interstitial picture of Hanmei Lingxue in the past few days. Preparing to give Mrs. Xu a New Year's gift, follow herself to the small kitchen for a long time, and then she will take care of her embroidery time. Gu Xiyan hurriedly said: "Then you go back to embroider, I'll go to the kitchen and I'll be back soon." ”

The time is indeed a little urgent, and Liu Meier has been rushing to work these nights. I didn't say anything polite to her. The two said goodbye under the eaves, and Duan Yingluo followed Gu Xiyan to the kitchen.

As soon as Gu Xiyan stepped into the small kitchen, she saw Mrs. Li with dry hair.

Mama Liu saw Gu Xiyan. was also stunned, and said hesitantly: "This girl ......"

Gu Xiyan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Mama Wang, and then introduced herself, and Mrs. Li also threw the dried lilies that were stretched out in the basin to make tea for them.

"Mama Wang asked me to learn more from you." The two sat down, and Gu Xiyan said with a modest attitude.

When Mama Liu heard this, a smile appeared on her face: "Mama Wang mentioned it to me when she left." Say you're good at craft. I'm going to make a cup of lily pork ribs and eight-treasure soup for my wife today, and the girl will help me taste it. ”

Gu Xiyan happily agreed.

The so-called Eight Treasures Soup of Lily Pork Ribs is a health soup stewed with lily stewed pork ribs, and then eight kinds of vegetables are put in it as ingredients.

During this period, Gu Xiyan kept chatting with her, and soon, Gu Xiyan found out the origin of Mama Liu.

Sure enough, this Mama Liu was originally in charge of Qi Han's meals in the kitchen of the outer courtyard, so she specialized in health soups, medicinal diets and the like, before that. She is the head chef of Guiyuan's kitchen.

Gu Xiyan took advantage of the fact that a few mothers-in-law were taking care of the dishes in the courtyard, looking like a gossip: "Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Wei are getting older, and they should pay more and more attention to health preservation. ”

Mama Liu looked at the little girl in front of her with a concerned face. smiled: "You are still young, there are some things, you don't understand, this is a person, it's better not to be so eye-catching." ”

Gu Xiyan felt Mama Liu's loving eyes looking at her, and pouted like a child. "You're always like that. Think we're small. But if you ask for advice, one will shirk more than the other. ”

"You guys?" Mama Liu laughed. Where is there still a little bit of a mad patient, the mouth is not crooked, the eyes are not slanted, "Who are they?" ”

"My adoptive mother!" Gu Xiyan really remembered Duan Niang at this time, "It's the same as Mama!" ”

Mama Liu looked at her with a more loving gaze.

Gu Xiyan followed Mama Liu and turned around, handing her this and that from time to time, and when the pork rib soup was stewed, Gu Xiyan tasted a few bites and immediately praised it.

"Mama, you can take me as an apprentice!" Gu Xiyan asked while taking a sip of the soup.

Mama Liu smiled again: "As long as you can see it, follow me to learn!" ”

In the next few days, Mama Liu really treated Gu Xiyan as a junior, and carefully taught her to make medicinal food and health soup. Gu Xiyan used to cook by herself and watched some food programs on TV, but now that someone is carefully guided, and the foundation is good, the progress is naturally a thousand miles a day, plus she is a person who travels through after all, she is well-informed, and she can often draw inferences, all of which makes Mama Liu surprised and delighted, and she is very satisfied.

After so many years in the Qi family, he was finally pushed to Shangzheng's local kitchen as an errand boy, which shows that he is a person with no heart.

Gu Xi's paint is good, once Mama Liu treats Gu Xiyan as her own person, after the chatterbox is opened, it will be like pouring beans, Gu Xiyan can basically get anything when she asks.

For example, once Gu Xiyan asked her: "What kind of powerful cooks are there in Xianji Courtyard!" ”

Mama Liu replied: "There is a Mama Li who is good at making side dishes, there is a Mama Qian who is good at making pastries, and there is Mama Shen who is good at making pickles...... In many places, almost all of the chefs in the house are there. Otherwise, during the New Year's Festival, how could Mama Zhong have no way to borrow people from the courtyards! ”

Gu Xiyan propped her elbow on the table, and while looking at Mama Liu's chicken nails, she said puzzledly: "I heard that the only daughter of Grandpa Guo, the third girl, was brought by Mrs. Xu, and when I entered the mansion that day, I also heard that she had a wheezing attack, why didn't she be good at making medicinal food?" ”

Mama Liu looked around vigilantly and found that there was no one else, so she softly warned her: "You are a guest here." Don't talk nonsense. ”

During this time, Gu Xiyan showed her worries about her situation in front of Mama Liu several times. It seems that Mama Liu heard her words in her heart.

Gu Xiyan smiled: "This is not a bad word!" ”

Mama Liu hesitated for a moment and said softly: "This backyard, after all, is in charge of Mrs. Xu." Back in the day. Mrs. Ye has just given birth, and she is so thin that she only has a handful of bones left, and her heart aches Mrs. deliberately transferred me to the small kitchen of Dexin Courtyard to help, just to use my ability to make medicinal food, but Mrs. Xu insisted that Mrs. Ye was not able to make up for it...... I stayed in Deokshin for two months, and I couldn't get on the stove once. Later, Mrs. Wei found out, and there was no way. Not to mention the ...... of other locals"

Gu Xiyan whispered "ouch". looked disbelieving: "Could it be that even Mrs. Xu dares to ...... the words of the master?"

Mama Liu smiled bitterly: "Master was busy in the northwest camp every day at that time, and every time he finally took the time to come back to see Mrs. Ye, Mrs. Xu smiled on the side and said anything, let him not worry...... Where did he know these things? ”

"Mrs. Ye, don't you tell your master?"

Mama Liu sighed.

"Mrs. Ye, a person is a good person, but he is too ...... It's a little off-centered. Everything, it's all good. Yandi's is not good. Somehow, no matter how close you are, who can kiss your parents and husband. She didn't tell her father anything, and she rarely came to Huaiyuan, and she listened to Mrs. Xu everywhere, and Mrs. Wei ...... here." She immediately stopped her mouth, "Mrs. Wei is the most beautiful among the ladies, she once said that although women are for the sake of pleasing themselves, they must be more for themselves, today we might as well make her Angelica Duobao fish soup." That is, it can wither and nourish qi and blood. It can also lighten pigmentation, Mrs. Wei must like it. ”

How could Gu Xiyan let her be confused like this. hugged Mama Liu's shoulders: "Mama don't worry, I know the depths, there are some things that I will never say no matter what." ”

Mama Liu smiled reluctantly.

"Treasure fish, is there still a treasure fish in this place?" Gu Xiyan would not force people into a corner, and followed Mama Liu's words.

Mama Liu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "The girl doesn't know what kind of mansion this is, only what you can't think of, and there is nothing you can't get......"

Gu Xiyan's thoughts turned to Qi Maosheng, who was far away in Hongtai.

Don't know when this guy will come back?

How's the war going?

If the war is defeated, everything in the Qi family, grievances and hatreds, mottled with blood and tears, is just a shadow behind history......

Is there any point in such a camp?

Gu Xiyan's gaze gradually became confused.

Mama Liu saw it clearly on the side, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Gu Xiyan was awakened by this sigh, and when she looked up, she saw Mama Liu's eyes with pity.

"Girl, I came here because I was entrusted by Mrs. Wei!"

In the tone, there was infinite sighing.

Gu Xiyan's mind flickered, and he nodded, with a helpless face: "...... There's no way around it, and I don't want to ...... like this."

When Mama Liu saw what she said, she was more down-to-earth. smiled: "Master, not a bad person." Although he is very cold to people, he knows that he hurts people. So busy, every time I come back, I go to Chengxi Courtyard to sit. If there is a day, don't be scared by him, you have to serve him well, but I watched him grow up......"

Gu Xiyan hesitated: "But others say, Mrs. Ye, it's the master who gives ......."

It seems that Mama Liu has a very good impression of Qi Maosheng. Before Gu Xiyan's words could speak, her face immediately showed an angry face, and with her crooked mouth and slanted eyes, she looked very hideous, which startled Gu Xiyan and swallowed the unspoken words.

"Those people are talking nonsense." Mama Liu retorted fiercely, "People don't know, I'm in the small kitchen in the outer courtyard, serving my lord's hot water and tea, and I don't know yet." I think back then, when the old grandfather was alive, the small kitchen in the outer courtyard was just a decoration, and the ladies who spent the night in the courtyard were not competing to serve...... Only our master, taking care of Mrs. Ye's decency, came back and partnered in the small kitchen, always eating a few white steamed buns with two plates of pickles......" Speaking of the back, it seemed to be very heartbroken, and tears fell. "And the grandmothers who came from Xizhao. How about our Xizhao, how is our Ye Mansion, the master wants to enter Mrs. Ye's room, and he has to look at the eyes of those grandmothers, and Mrs. Xu is also on the side saying that Mrs. Ye should be ashamed of what Mrs. Ye should be...... They are husband and wife, and they are not concubines...... I just squeezed out Aunt Gao, who was in charge of the inner courtyard, and there was no place for her. ”

Gu Xiyan was surprised, and he was also excited to suddenly buy a lottery ticket and win the jackpot.

She took a deep breath, suppressed the emotions that kept rolling in her heart, and said, "But I heard that Aunt Gao mistook Mrs. Ye because she didn't take good care of Mrs. Ye, so Mrs. Ye miscarried......"