Chapter 14: Cooking
"Your Wangchuan Tower is good." Song Xiu lost face and couldn't help but snort coldly, where is she still in the mood to eat, she glanced at Lin Qingyu coldly and turned around and left. This Lin family's concubine can make the shopkeeper of Wangchuan Tower so nervous, could it be that she has any backing?
She has been dancing with guns and sticks since she was a child, and looks down on those pretentious women, but she is not a brainless person. When he went out, he ordered his subordinates to investigate the background of this Lin Qingyu, but it turned out that she was only the daughter of the Lin family, and she had something to do with Mu Guogong. As for the matter of the Su Gang, it was not revealed for half a point.
"Thank you shopkeeper for relieving the siege, Miaogui, let's go back too." Lin Qingyu thanked the shopkeeper with a smile, not caring at all about offending Song Xiu.
In her previous life, she had been locked up at this time, so naturally she didn't have a chance to deal with Song Xiu, but she had seen it a few times when she became Mrs. Gu Hou, although the other party had never given a good face, but she would not do some unsightly means, but she knew a little bit of Song Xiu's temperament.
Miao Gui glanced at Song Xiuyang's back, and was a little worried: "Miss, will Miss Song retaliate against us behind her back?" ”
"No, it won't." Lin Qingyu shook her head and raised her eyes: "Although she is not easy to get along with and has a poisonous mouth, she is a rare and honest person." ”
Miao Gui said "oh" and didn't speak, secretly slandering her, but she didn't see where this person revealed any integrity.
It was afternoon again when she returned to Lin's house, and when Lin Qingyu went to the side room to find Su Liyun with an oiled paper bag, she happened to meet her giving incense to the Bodhisattva, and a faint smell of incense lingered in the room. Lin Qingyu had already reached the threshold and paused, unconsciously lightening her steps.
Her mother believes in these, and she doesn't go out to fight with others on weekdays, she likes to pass the time by copying Buddhist scriptures in Pear Blossom Courtyard alone, and over time she has a quiet and ethereal temperament. Lin Qingyu always felt very relieved to stay by her side.
"Let's put incense on the Bodhisattva." Su Liyun instructed Fuchun to light the incense and handed it to Lin Qingyu, with some sadness between her eyebrows: "I had a dream last night, and I don't think it's good." You need to pay more attention these days. ”
"Okay, but the dreams are all the opposite, don't worry." Lin Qingyu approached with a smile, and only after finishing the incense very reverently did she say to Su Liyun: "Mother, I brought you something delicious." ”
Su Liyun's face was soft, she turned around and took Lin Qingyu's hand to the main house, and the plain clothes brought out the gentleness and tranquility on her body more and more: "You don't always have to buy me things, my mother doesn't lack anything." ”
Lin Qingyu stared at her slender hand and shook her head seriously: "I only have one relative, of course, I have to be the best to my mother." ”
Su Liyun listened to Lin Qingyu's words and didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so she sat opposite Lin Qingyu under the window of the main house, and asked in a soft tone: "Where did you run today?" You loved to stay at home before you fell into the water, and after that, although you were much calmer, you ran outside every day, and let the old lady know that she would blame you. ”
"The old lady lives by the river, isn't she?" Lin Qingyu snorted twice and muttered, feeling that she shouldn't let such an inconsequential person affect her mood. He eagerly opened the oil paper bag and put it on the table, and said coquettishly to Su Liyun: "Mother, hurry up and taste it, it's really delicious, the chef in our house can't make it." ”
"Okay, mother, eat." Su Liyun smiled helplessly and glanced at Lin Qingyu dotingly. She occasionally felt that Lin Qingyu was a little different, but seeing that she was still an entangled little girl in front of her, she felt that she was thinking too much.
"Mother, I met an old man these days, saying that it was my grandfather." Lin Qingyu poured a cup of tea for Su Liyun, was silent for a while, and leaned on the table to look at her expression seriously: "He wants his mother to be added to the family tree, I didn't rashly agree, that person is called Su Liuzhuo, my mother should have heard a little, right?" ”
Su Liyun's face was very calm, she chewed the pumpkin crisp slowly, and wiped the crumbs on her lips with a handkerchief: "I have been adopted by the Li family for so many years, so I am naturally a member of the Li family, although they are not related to me, I treat them as family, as for the one you said...... Don't bother with it. ”
The Li family's adoption of Su Liyun was also to find a satisfactory daughter-in-law for their son, but later things did not work out, Su Liyun married into the Lin family and never came to see her, and slowly cut off contact, so that Lin Qingyu's impression of the Li family was very light. I only remember that at Su Liyun's funeral in the previous life, a man from the Li family cried very sadly at the door of the Lin family, as if he was the only son of the Li family.
Lin Qingyu wanted to speak and stopped, but after thinking about it, she felt that she should support her mother's decision, after all, not everyone is as vulgar as herself.
She has taken human feelings and sophistication very seriously in her life, and just because of the cry of the only son of the Li family at the funeral, she decided to have the opportunity to go to the Li family to see.
The slanting sun is still around, the light and shadow in the flower hall are mottled, and the small table of flowers and plants placed in the corner is smoked with insect repellent incense, and it is removed during dinner, although the smell of incense is strong, but it quickly dissipates in the open flower hall. Outside the flower hall, there is a wisteria rose, which is already blooming very vigorously at this time, the flowers are like tassels falling all over the branches, and the evening breeze blows to send wisps of fragrance.
Dinner was very simple, really basic, just an extremely ugly scrambled egg with chili and a cabbage soup with little water.
"Fuchun, why is the food in the kitchen so perfunctory?" Su Liyun went to the flower hall and saw the things on the dining table, and frowned. I thought in my heart that her daughter was a tricky person, and if she saw such a dish, she would inevitably have to make a fuss, but she was afraid that she would be taken out by Mrs. Zhao's mother and daughter to make a fuss. sighed slightly: "Quickly let people change the dishes." ”
Fu Chun shook his head and said with some embarrassment: "Auntie, this ....... This is what the young lady did. ”
"Ah Yan?" A trace of confusion flashed across Su Liyun's face.
At this time, Lin Qingyu came over, her sleeves rolled up to reveal a small little arm like a lotus root, holding a porcelain bowl in her hand, and her red little face was covered with crystal beads of sweat: "Mother, I also fried small dried fish." ”
Miao Gui also followed, holding a large plate of braised pork with a small bright color, but it could still be seen from the shape.
"Let the lord know about this, and your young lady will inevitably go to the ancestral hall to kneel." Su Liyun frowned, swept around the silent maid, and took out some of the master's majesty: "Ah Yan is messing around, you girls are also letting her mess around!" ”
Lin Qingyu put down the porcelain bowl, went over and pulled Su Liyun's sleeve, pursed her lips, and her starry eyes turned slightly: "Mother, don't blame them, I had to do it, do you think they can still stop me?" And my mother has never eaten my cooking. ”
"Mother knows that you are a good boy, but don't do this in the future." Su Liyun touched her head and sat down, looked at the four dishes in front of her, took the chopsticks handed over by Lin Qingyu and was a little clueless, and joked with a smile: "Your braised pork looks no different from carbon, and the fish only has a shape." ”
"Mother, don't say it, although it doesn't taste good, it's beautiful." Lin Qingyu was about to say something wrong for a while, and stuck out her tongue embarrassedly: "No, although it doesn't look good, it's delicious!"
Fu Chunwan, who was standing on the side: "Miss, this is boasting." ”
Su Liyun also smiled and nodded: "It's really not modest at all." ”
"I'm telling the truth, I'm following the recipe." Lin Qingyu snorted and felt very unconvinced, and said to Fuchun with some malice: "There is still your share in the kitchen, whether it is delicious or unpalatable today, you can only eat this." ”
Fu Chun also shook his head helplessly.
After all, Miao Gui is much younger than Fu Chun, who has been following Su Liyun, and when she heard Lin Qingyu's words, her face instantly drooped: "Can you not eat it?" Miss, the fish you made tasted so strange. ”
Everyone couldn't help but snicker, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
Lin Qingyu blinked her eyes, a trace of embarrassment flashed on her face, and she coughed in a heartfelt way. said to Miao Guiliang: "Your young lady doesn't want to lose face?" ”
"I was wrong, it is a blessing for a slave to be able to eat the dishes made by the young lady." Miao Gui lowered her head and her eyes fluttered, and she sighed in her heart, it seemed that saying this made Miss lose face, and she still couldn't tear down Miss's stage in front of everyone in the future.
In the past, the young lady was shameless, but it seems that she has really grown up.
"You, you know how to bully Miaogui." Su Liyun glanced at Lin Qingyu strangely, and the previous depression in her heart disappeared completely, she sandwiched a piece of braised braised as if it were in a bowl, took a small bite, and looked at Lin Qingyu with a look of anticipation and wagged her tail, and said honestly: "The taste is average, it can't be said to be delicious, and it can't be said to be delicious." ”
"Then I will practice diligently in the future!" Lin Qingyu nodded with fighting spirit, cooking can't be rushed, it should be learned slowly as a kind of fun. Thinking of Chunyan, whom she had admired before, she asked, "Where is Chunyan now?" I've got to learn from her. ”
Su Liyun was going to persuade Lin Qingyu not to think about these anymore, but when she suddenly heard her mention Chunyan, she also remembered that Lin Qingyu had always liked to play with Chunyan, so she looked at it in embarrassment and glanced at Fuchun. She was circling around this mansion, and she really didn't know about Chunyan.
Fu Chun received Su Liyun's eyes, and his heart was clear: "Chunyan got married at the beginning of last year, but her husband went to the army and couldn't ......come back" The tone was a little regretful: "Now she helps people do some sewing work to make a living, but it's not easy." ”
"That's right." Lin Qingyu nodded thoughtfully: "Why don't you let her go back to the Lin Mansion?" Anyway, Mama Xia is also there. ”
"Mama Xia didn't mention Chunyan to me." Su Liyun sighed, and only thought that Lin Qingyu was kind-hearted, so she coaxed her and said: "The purchase of personnel must be approved by the old lady, and she will not allow Chunyan to enter the Lin family." If you are not at ease, I will ask Mama Xia to bring her some money to subsidize. ”
Lin Qingyu's lips pursed into a line, this old lady of the Lin family is like a living spell, even if she doesn't show up, she can make people tired to the bone.