Chapter 10: Lee's Decision

"Don't worry, I won't bother you!" Jinxiu's voice said stiffly, "I just admired his knowledge, and I didn't think about anything else." Speaking of this, her voice gradually choked, "Moreover, Mr. Min is not that kind of person, I, I gave him clothes, hats, shoes and socks, he, he folded silver to me......"

"Ahh Luomei exclaimed in a low voice in surprise.

Shen Muqing, who was eavesdropping through the window lattice, was also surprised.

Splendid has just turned 16 this year, which is the age when it is ready to be released. She has a slender figure, curvaceous curves, a pink goose egg face, and big eyes that are as charming and sultry as spring water. Even in the memory of Shen Muqing's two lives, he has never seen such a beautiful girl...... I didn't expect Mr. Min to refuse such an affair.

I don't know why, Shen Muqing didn't have admiration for Mr. Min's noble behavior, but felt that something gushed out of her heart, making her breathless and the corners of her heart ached slightly.

If it were another case, would Mr. Min also refuse Jinxiu?

For example, Jinxiu is Shen Zhen's daughter......

Shen Muqing suddenly remembered the scene when they first entered the mansion.

A group of skinny little girls were brought to Kyoto by Renyazi Shandong, and everyone had uneasy fear in their eyes...... Mother Wang picked and chosen, and only picked two beautiful ...... Jinxiu and Yingfen Suddenly, a little girl with an abscess on her head rushed in, fell on the ground and kept kowtowing to Wang's mother: "My name is Luomei, I can write and calculate, I will definitely not eat idle dinner, Mrs. buy me......"

The face of the human teeth changed, and he dragged her out. She hugged the door frame and didn't let go, and her tiny nails turned gray and white in an instant...... Shen Muqing knew for the first time that it was not easy to sell his body.

There was silence inside and outside the house.

A flattering voice came from afar: "Two girls, why are you standing on the tuyere and talking?" ”

"Ouch, isn't this Mother Wang? How can I have time to walk around Jingshun Zhai today......" Luomei pretended to greet people easily, "I haven't seen my mother for a few days......"

Shen Muqing closed the window with his hand and sighed gloomily.

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That morning, Luomei didn't stop Jinxiu in the end.

Luomei stood alone under the eaves, waiting for Jinxiu to come back with a blank expression.

Shen Muqing sat at the desk with a copy of "The Analects" and read it indiscriminately, saying that he still had something to do to calm Mei's heart.

It was a long time before the two entered the house.

Jinxiu's expression was in a trance, and her eyes were swollen like peaches, and the result was self-evident.

Luo Mei's eyes were alert, and when she saw Shen Muqing's gaze paused on Jinxiu, she hurriedly smiled: "It's windy outside, and the sand blows are blind." ”

Shen Muqing didn't know what to do, and said with a smile: "If your eyes hurt, go back to the house to rest first!" ”

What else did Luomei want to say, but Jinxiu was already looking like she was about to cry, where did Luomei dare to say anything, and hurriedly bent her knees and said: "Then I'll send Jinxiu out." ”

Shen Mu counted.

Luomei smiled bitterly and hurriedly helped Jinxiu out.

******

Shen Muqing and Luo Mei were speechless all the way and went to the Li family.

It was quiet in the Chaoxi Hall, only two old women stood in the hall and spoke, and when they saw Shen Muqing, they all greeted them with a smile: "Girl, Mr. Liu is here, and Mr. Wang is accompanying him to prescribe medicine in the east wing." ”

Shen Muqing thought about the rockery between the main house of Chaoxi Hall and the hall with Taihu Lake stones, since Mr. Wang and Mr. Liu were in the east wing, it was the same for him to walk from the verandah to the west wing.

So he took Luomei from the west verandah to the main house.

When several maids and daughters-in-law saw this, they curtshled and saluted. When Li heard the movement, he hurriedly said, "The girl is back, why did she come back so late?" Hungry, come to me, make your favorite walnut, pine nut, hazelnut, and jujube cake, and fill your stomach. When Lord Liu goes, we will set the meal. ”

Shen Muqing responded to the past and greeted the Li family, Luomei served and sat on the kang, and Aunt Chen personally cooked Lu'an tea for her to drink. Shen Muqing ate two cakes with tea, and saw Wang's mother come in with a prescription, and said: "Lord Liu said, Mrs. is weak, and it is autumn again, and she can't resist it. Just eat a few pairs. ”

Li didn't look at the prescription in Wang's mother's hand, and said with a wistful expression: "Just follow the prescription to grab the medicine." ”

Wang's mother answered, and Li asked Aunt Chen to set the meal. Shen Muqing took advantage of the maid's daughter-in-law to set up the table and told Mr. Min about it.

"The master said it so quickly!" Li Shi was a little surprised, but then he became happy, "Then the girl will go to the kitchen this afternoon to have a look." ”

Shen Muqing didn't expect it, he didn't expect the Li family to be so eager.

Li smiled and said: "Mu Qing, don't be careless, don't say it, even the rice we eat at home is no less than seven or eight kinds, which kind of rice is fragrant, what kind of rice is glutinous, and what kind of rice is chewy, but you have to recognize it clearly." Otherwise, if you take ginkgo biloba and mix it into long-loin rice, there will be a few points on the price...... And the oil, what is rapeseed oil, what is tea seed oil, what is honey sesame oil, and it must be clearly distinguished......"

Shen Muqing used to think that cooking was a very complicated matter, but now when he heard it, his head became bigger, but when he saw Li's eyes, he had to repeat his voice.

After eating, Li left Shen Muqing to accompany her for a nap, and only woke up at the beginning of the afternoon, cleaned her face again, combed her hair, and Li asked Cui Wei to take two lotus petal silver hairpins, two handkerchiefs from Huzhou, two pieces of hosta flower soap, twelve taels of silver, wrapped it, called the daughter-in-law of Jincai, and handed her the things.

Jincai's daughter-in-law happily thanked the Li family, and stepped forward to give Shen Muqing a blessing.

Li smiled and said: "I heard that the Lin family agreed to let you go because you can make 300 kinds of kimchi - our girl is not going to rob you of your job, you can't hide it for me!" ”

The daughter-in-law smiled all over her face: "Don't worry, Mrs., I will cook the dishes, and the girl will do it." ”

The maids and daughters-in-law all looked at the big feet of the wealthy daughter-in-law and laughed - since the fifteenth year of Qing'an, there were women who bound their feet, and the wind of foot binding has become more and more popular. Although it is better in the north, in the south of the Yangtze River, even when the male family looks at the female family, the first thing to look at is the feet, and then the face.

The daughter-in-law of Jincai didn't think so, and laughed along: "At that time, the family was poor, and I could take care of my mouth, where could I take care of my feet." ”

Lin Jincai and his wife are not the sons of the Shen family, they were bought by Shen Zhen when he was serving as the left political secretary of Sichuan. They were also people who had a few shares of Botian, the only son Lin Ruichun was sick, and he sold all the family assets to heal him, and then there was no life, the Shen family wanted to invite a mother-in-law on the stove, and the daughter-in-law of the rich woman voluntarily sold herself into the Shen Mansion with her good skills. Lin Jincai followed Mr. Wang, his daughter-in-law served in the kitchen, and his son guarded the door in the garden. Five years ago, when he was 14 years old, he was sent to work as an apprentice in a silk cloth shop owned by the Shen family in Hangzhou, and was promoted to second shopkeeper last spring.

Li saw everyone laughing, but he frowned, thinking of his daughter's heavenly feet.

When her daughter was six years old, she invited someone to wrap her feet, she ran all over the yard, and attracted the master, she hid behind the master and did not come out, the master looked at her pitiful and said, "Wait until you are older to wrap it." After two years, the people are older, and they are more and more assertive, and the mother-in-law who invited her taught her not to say anything, and also asked Mr. Min to come out and say that the old man was moved, and this foot was not wrapped into a ......

Seeing Li staring at his skirt, Shen Muqing secretly screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly moved, wanting to hide his feet in his skirt.

But it was late, and Li Shi remembered this heart disease again, and the smile on his face faded, and he instructed Wang's mother on the side: "After entering the rich daughter-in-law, you don't need to go to the big stove, go to my small kitchen on an errand, and don't care about tea and food, just teach the girl wholeheartedly." ”

The room full of people looked at each other, I don't know why Li said that he would change his face, Wang's mother was busy and retreated with her daughter-in-law.

Shen Muqing understood in his heart. asked Orange Xiang to change Lingyun Baihao, which Li loved to drink, and handed it to Li with his own hands: "Don't worry, Mrs., I will definitely follow my daughter-in-law to study hard, and I will ensure that the dishes are even better than the dishes she makes." ”

Seeing her smiling face, Li thought about the hardships she had endured by her side in the past few years and the fun she had brought to herself, and her heart was full of love and resentment. sighed, and finally took the teacup and took a sip.

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By the next day, Shen Muqing began to learn to cook with his daughter-in-law.

What is Lianzhu sauce, what is Yuanling sauce, what is red snail sauce, and how are these sauces made...... What is wax vinegar, what is peach blossom vinegar, what is liquor vinegar, and what kind of dishes are these vinegars used for...... There are too many trivial things to count. Fortunately, Shen Muqing was very serious about everything, and he went in and out of the big hotel in his previous life, so he quickly recognized all these ingredients, and began to follow his daughter-in-law to learn how to raise the fire, how to burn wood, and how to control the heat on the stove.

Shen Yuerong knew about it and told Li that she also wanted to learn from it.

Since making two sets of clothes for Shen Yuerong, the Li family rewarded her with a few more makeup materials and asked her to make a few winter clothes for herself, wanting to detain her in the house. Who knows, this Shen Yuerong is also a character, and she made three jackets and two jackets in a few days, which surprised the Li family, and she didn't dare to underestimate her. Now when I heard her say this, I couldn't find a suitable excuse to stop her, but I was afraid that it would make her look down on her, so I nodded and agreed.

Shen Yue melted into the kitchen, and saw that Shen Muqing actually took a leaky clock and put it in the kitchen, looking at the leaky clock and firewood, she couldn't help laughing: "The girl doesn't have to be so careful, even if she is married, there is also a mother-in-law on the stove at home......"

Shen Muqing smiled and said in a high-sounding manner: "Since my wife let me follow along, how can I fool around casually." ”

In fact, she wanted to take this opportunity to study hard because she only talked about reading well when she was studying in the past, and she was not good at housework......

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