For more than half a year, it is not a long time, but the 100 students who entered the Women's Culinary Academy from Shantang are like a new life.

Students have at least two eggs per person a day (poultry eggs are very cheap now, one copper coin buys two), the meat and vegetables are properly matched, and the nutrition keeps up, and all of them grow a little.

The Master taught them how to take care of the dormitory environment and personal hygiene efficiently.

With well-fitting clothes and ruddy complexions, they are no longer girls who will be blushing and hunched over when others look at them.

With poetry and books in their stomachs, even if it is only an entry-level study like three hundred thousand, their self-confidence has been rebuilt, and there are more smiles on their faces.

Most of the girls' talent for learning to cook is still very good, and for them, what they learn is the skill that they can live in the future, and no one does not cherish it. Every night after class, the dormitory is full of the sound of Ding Ding Dong practicing kitchen knife work.

They are not the most rolled, the most rolled, are the girls selected by the nobles to learn the craft, although most of the girls' fathers and mothers can be regarded as the stewards of the house.

But they themselves are not very old, and they are at most third-class girls in the house, and they don't have to serve people for a few years, but they have a master to teach them cooking skills every day. Who wasn't a pinching character in the past? After arriving at the college, the private competition is even more powerful, and everyone wants to go back to be a first-class girl after graduation!

If you want to please your masters, you must seize their appetites.

Healthy competition is what Cuihua hopes to see as a mountain chief, and the school rules of the Culinary Academy are still very strict:

In class: do not be late, do not leave early, do not skip class, and ask for leave before class; During the lesson, do not do anything unrelated to classroom teaching.

Bedrooms and canteens: keep the bedrooms clean and beautiful, and develop good personal hygiene habits; Be diligent and thrifty, and cherish food.

House Activities: Behave appropriately, students are strictly prohibited from scolding each other.

On weekdays, if they make mistakes, they will be deducted points, and if they deduct more than 10 points in a year, they will be expelled from school.

This is not the era of compulsory education, and if you do not follow the rules of the academy, you may be sent back to your place at any time. Whether it was from Shantang or the girls of the Xungui family, they didn't dare to make a mistake.

The courses of the college are divided into three categories: one is cultural courses and arithmetic; The second category is the practice of basic skills; The third category is professional courses. Students in professional courses can choose 1-4 cuisines for in-depth learning according to their interests and strengths.

Every morning, when they get up, there are assistant teachers who lead them to boxing, exercise, cook, knead dough and spoon are all hard work.

There are not many people who choose one-year and three-year courses, and most of the students choose the five-year course, so everyone wants to study for a longer time in such a pure learning place.

The Faculty comprises the following professional programmes:

Four local specialties: Shu cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine;

Aunt Qiu's teachings: Department of Medicinal Diets and Imperial Diets;

Prof. Fan Jingjing: Department of Vegetarian Food and Snacks;

Cuihua's own courses are: confinement meals, creative cuisine;

Yao's leadership: pastry department.

Each department has a department head, and the head of the department reports to the mountain chief Cuihua, and also has a superintendent (the spokesperson of Empress Gao).

There is one director of life teaching, ten masters of life teaching (older palace maids from the palace), the organizational structure of the college is relatively simple, and they also belong to crossing the river by feeling the stones.

The mountain chief has a monthly bundle of 50 taels of silver, the head of the department has a monthly bundle of 25 taels of silver, and the master's monthly bundle is 20 taels of silver per person, free of clothing, food and lodging, teachers and students have four days of rest every month, and there are seven days of holiday for the New Year.

All the accounts of the college are coordinated by the superintendent for education, and this year is the first year, and if the cost of the college's house is not counted, there is still a surplus in income and expenditure.

From the second year onwards, each master has a free quota of students who are recommended for admission, and the course is optional.

These benefits are better than the treatment of many men's imperial examination colleges, and there is no objection to the masters who come in.

Now there are only 200 students, and each of them has only two classes a day, so they have a lot of free time.

In their spare time, they either teach each other and improve

I have my own cooking skills, or I use my weekends to get familiar with the capital, and I am thinking about moving my hometown here, so I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Yao, who has relaxed down, has recently become nervous again, and without him, Da Yao's seventh township exam will start. still remembers that when she came to the capital for the retest, Da Yao swore to her that he would assure her:

"Madam, you can rest assured to go to the capital, after you leave, my sons and I will eat and live in the academy, and we don't have to worry about everything. Our family will definitely meet in the capital this year, so you can rent a yard for our family in the capital and wait for the good news of your husband."

Although Yao promised well, he didn't have any score in his heart, not because he didn't believe in Da Yao's writing skills, but because he was unlucky enough to take the exam, the shadow brought by him was too deep.

Not only did Da Yao persuade her, but the three sons also played a package ticket, they are all able to take care of their eldest children, if their mother can successfully apply to become the female master of the Culinary Academy, they can all be wiped out.

In seven months, the Yao family had saved one hundred and sixty-three taels of silver, and the food, clothing, and housing were all in the college, and it really didn't cost much silver.

As the head of the pastry department, most of the time she has spent in the past half year may be the easiest time she has lived in the years she has been married.

The three meals are nutritious and healthy, the work and rest time is normal, the workload is not large, and Yao's complexion is a lot ruddy. After agreeing with her smile, she smiled more, seven or eight years younger than before, and finally she should have the appearance of matching her age.

Da Yao, who was worried about her, really didn't take a step out of the house before the exam this time, until the first night of the township exam, he was escorted to the examination room by his eldest and second son

Unlike Yao's worries, Mi's children are all in the capital, and she is a master without distractions, and her cooking level has improved a lot compared to before.

His son Mi Shutian was hungry and thirsty for learning in the academy and was very happy. He forgot to eat and sleep at the academy on January and Sunday, and in the past, Mi Shi brought his sister to see him.

When he was in Ningjiang Mansion, he was called "Sai Zhuge by his classmates", and when he arrived in the capital, he found that smart and hard-working people abounded. In the first three months of the monthly exam, he got a medium grade, and he didn't dare to be clever anymore, so he buried himself in hard study.

Finally, in this competition in the semi-annual examination, he scored fifth in the same level in the college, which can be regarded as a sigh of relief.

This week, Mi took Yaya and his son Mi Shutian to visit the capital together, Yaya jumped up and down happily, and finally the whole family reunited outside the college.

"Brother, brother, you don't know how good our culinary academy is, eat eggs, steamed buns, two-rice porridge, and kimchi for breakfast, the kimchi in our academy is delicious and delicious."

In Yaya's heart, there are a lot of things to say to her brother, but as soon as the words come out, the most talked about is the food of the college.

Mi Shutian was happy to tease his sister: "No wonder, Yaya, you have become a little pig in the past few months!"

"Hmph, fat is blessed! Brother, you have to eat a little more, otherwise you won't grow tall!"

Mi Shutian: "My brother is two heads taller than you now, and if he grows up, he will be half a cut taller than you, Yaya, don't patronize the horizontal growth!"

"Stinky brother, it's better for you to be different!"

Mi Shi looked at the brother and sister bickering, her mood was flying, she is still the head of the department, who in and out of the department does not respectfully call her: Director Mi, good morning/afternoon!

In each class, the admiring and admiring eyes of the students, which is a satisfying sense of accomplishment other than the recognition of the diners, fascinates her very much.

The children are getting more and more lively, this trip to the capital, they are coming to the right place!

After Fan Jingjing lived in the capital, she was like a fish in water, and she walked around her sister-in-law's house more often.

Xiaolian and Xiaohe are also often taken by her to go in and out of her aunt's house, and occasionally they are willing to stay for one night, and gradually, they are also familiar with the two cousins, and they like to let their brother Xiaochuan guess who they are.

Hu Yiniu and Hu Erniu's renovation project this year is in the city, and it is even more convenient to go home, he and Fan Jingwen have a good time, and they look a few years younger.

"Xianggong, let's take my father and mother into the city to live for a few days, I haven't seen my mother for a few days!" Fan Jingjing is quite willing to listen to Zhang's nagging about the rural anecdotes of Dali Village.

I still want to panic after not seeing it for a few months.

Hu Erniu is happy: "My mother is estimated to be able to come and live for a few days, and my father is probably reluctant to give up his fish pond, and he is still waiting for the end of the year to sell big fish!"

"Our dad is so good, does the fish that eats the earth dragon grow fast?"

"Yes, yes, many people in Dali Village came to see it, chickens and ducks are cheap now, and fish are more expensive, and our father is going to make a small fortune this year!"

"Uh-huh, then let's take my mother to live for a few days, the new clothes I made for my father and mother are all ready, and wait for her to try to see if it fits."

"Jingjing, don't make all the fabrics for your marriage for us, just make your own clothes, and let's buy cloth from my father!"

"Are you stupid? I have to buy it again, besides, this cloth is old when I put it away, and now I make it a new clothes, and I can buy it again when I use it up!"

Fan Jingjing really didn't take these things seriously, she has a thick dowry, and now she has a monthly salary as a husband, and her husband's salary is also paid to her every month. There are not many people in the family, and the expenses are not large, so why not make some clothes?

"Jingjing." Hu Er's eyes are slightly red, his daughter-in-law is much more attentive to her father and mother than him, and she has nothing to say to him, his husband and daughters.

There are hot meals and hot dishes at any time when he goes home, his clothes, shoes and socks are washed clean and tidy, and the daily dressing is picked by the lady herself, and the two daughters are raised cute and clever, and take them out, who would have thought that this is raised by the stepmother?

Moreover, Jingjing also said that now the two daughters are still young, and when they turn three years old, she will have another baby. is obviously a person who likes children so much, and he is not too young, but all this in front of him is still a lot of consideration for him.

He has to work harder to make his wife, children and parents more worry-free!