Chapter 63: The General's Mansion

The General's Mansion is the residence where the emperor remembered Shao Yifei for his merits and rewarded him. I saw that this mansion was very magnificent. Carved beams and painted columns. On the vermilion iron gate, the archway is engraved with the gilt characters of "General's Mansion".

There are two imposing stone lions, these two stone lions are specially designed by the most powerful craftsmen in the city, as if they can come to life in the next second. It gives people a sense of majesty, and the stone lion has a bead in its mouth, and it is said that it is a pearl of the night.

The general's mansion can be seen from the appearance of the magnificent momentum, the upturned eaves corners, and the glazed tiles shine in the sun.

Shao Yifei also allowed his mother and father to move in. The General's Mansion has always been "as big as the General's Mansion, which is worth half of the Blood Yang City." Exaggerated. It can be seen that his mansion is huge.

Walking inside from the gate, you can see a long verandah, there are many trees planted on the side of the corridor, the design of the hollow carved windows, when the sunlight is paved from the window, it adds a touch of gentleness to the general's mansion, and some precious cedar trees are planted in the courtyard, and there are jagged ancient cypresses standing in the mansion, like a majestic general. The carved dragon on the wall, with teeth and claws, is full of energy, as if it is about to take off. There are also some famous calligraphy and paintings on the walls, which makes people sigh at the elaborate arrangement in the general's mansion.

There are more than 100 rooms in the general's mansion, and there are more than 100 maids.

The East Pavilion of the General's Mansion is where the General works and lives. In the middle is a hall. Inside the hall is the place where the banquet is held, and there is a room for Wen Yingqian and the Qin family in the west pavilion. The north pavilion is where Bai Yuhan lives.

And the Qin family and Wen Yingqian, together with Shao Yifei, set a set of rules in the house in Shao Yifei's absence. Including the daily expenses of the house, the expenses of the family and the maids. When Wen Yingqian was taking care of her family affairs, she had a unified bookkeeper.

The ledger records the amount of money that the maid should receive every month.

Those things grown in the house are also allowed to be sold. For example, flowers, such as the fruits and vegetables that the General's Mansion deliberately contracted for farmers to grow on the thin acres of fertile land to subsidize the expenses of the General's Mansion.

Maids are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and those who do well are subsidized, and those who do well are rewarded with wine money. And if the maid or family member in the house commits a crime, the silver tael will be deducted at the lightest, and the punishment will be imposed at the worst. And Wen Yingqian has always been arrogant, so no one in the house dares to disobey her. So everybody is cautious.

There was a family member who was directly ordered by Wen Yingqian to be beaten fifty boards because of the crime of theft, and he was beaten so much that he couldn't get out of bed, and was later driven out of the house.

She refused to be extravagant and wasteful, but she was very good to herself, and heard that Wen Yingqian and Qin had studied a set of beauty methods.

They also deliberately put milk on their faces, bathe with fresh roses, and use a whole pot of roses for each bath, and it takes half a day of labor to dive to pick them. And Wen Yingqian's mother's family is powerful, so naturally there is no doubt that Bai Yuhan is different from Bai Yuhan in terms of clothing, room layout, and daily diet.

Prime Minister Wen originally felt that it was a bad choice for his daughter to marry General Shao, but he had no choice but to respect her choice, and what he could do was to give Wen Yingqian the best living conditions.

Wen Yingqian's favorite drink is to make a beauty soup with poria cocos, almonds, and lilies, which is said to make her skin fairer, so she and Qin eat a bowl every day and are overjoyed.

Wen Yingqian arranged for Huachen, Qiaoyu, Xiaohui, and Bizhu to serve Bai Yuhan.

And Huachen and Qiaoyu's character Bai Yuhan naturally knows. It's just that she doesn't know much about Xiaohui and Bizhu. And listening to Huachen, Bizhu is an honest person, and I don't know what kind of person Xiaohui is, because she hasn't been here for a long time, and it remains to be seen.

Sure enough, Bizhu took the initiative to say that she wanted to work. I saw Bizhu busy driving. Bai Yuhan really thinks that Bizhu is an honest person. Xiaohui also said that she would help Bizhu to work. The two of them also seem to be diligent and can't find anything wrong.

After the two of them are gone. Bai Yuhan, Qiaoyu and Huachen said some heartfelt words. When talking about the story of Miao Jiang's adventure and Liangzhou City a few days ago, Qiaoyu couldn't help but sigh: "What a life! I think it's a pity for Jin Niang. ”

"Do you think Ning Xiangyu will get rid of Huaxin's problem?" Bai Yuhan asked Huachen.

Hua Chen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "According to my understanding of this man, he is a good friend of the general, and he has always had dealings with him, and he has always been attentive. In fact, abandoning Jin Niang in the past was just an excuse for him to change women again, so he deliberately found Jin Niang's shortcomings, and since Jin Niang left, the warbler Yanyan beside him has not been broken, and the poor infatuated Jin Niang was also destroyed to death because he fell into the clutches of bad people, which is really a pity. Hua Chen sighed.

The topic suddenly became sad because of Jin Niang's story. Bai Yuhan diverted the topic, and she glanced around and found that her room had become empty, and many expensive and beautiful furniture were missing.

I saw Qiaoyu say to Bai Yuhan with some complaints: "In the days when you were away, these things were moved away by Wen Yingqian, and Wen Yingqian even said that these precious things are not worthy of your identity." Bai Yuhan was very angry when she heard this, and sighed, although she was very resentful in her heart, she was helpless, only to see her holding Huachen and Qiaoyu's hands, "I only have you like relatives around me now." ”

Hua Chen and Qiaoyu were very moved. And Bai Yuhan went to Liangzhou, and naturally remembered Huachen and Qiaoyu, and brought them priceless red jade bracelets from the Western Regions, and they were very surprised.

"From now on, the three of us are of one mind. I know that Wen Yingqian is malicious to us, but we don't have to be afraid of her, if I have a good life, naturally you will have a good life. Bai Yuhan said seriously.

"Don't worry, Aunt Bai." Hua Chen also said with some emotion.

"Yes, miss, so do I." Qiaoyu hugged Huachen and Bai Yuhan together. What lies ahead is unknown, but as long as they are united, they may be able to resist the wind and rain.

And everyone knows about General Shao's entry into the battlefield.

And for a long time, Shao Yifei will not come back. Bai Yuhan naturally spends most of her time with Wen Yingqian and Qin, although Qin is in her forties, she still looks like she is about thirty years old because of her good skin care, which shows that she looked amazing when she was young.

With Bai Yuhan and Wen Yingqian, they are like their sisters. When I went to see Qin's, she was lying on the chaise longue, a maid beat her legs, and when she heard footsteps, Qin's slowly opened her eyes, and Bai Yuhan and Wen Yingqian had already served morning tea, Qin's first took the tea in Wen Yingqian's hand, very satisfied, and then took the tea in Bai Yuhan's hand, spit it out, and said in disgust: "This tea tastes bad, isn't it not brewed......" She put the tea aside: "In the future, I will also learn hard in tea art." "

She knew that the Qin clan was not easy to contact. Qin Shi looked at Bai Yuhan a little arrogantly, and sneered: "You also have to think carefully about your clothes, like you look more elegant with clothes, come to the General's Mansion to naturally dress decently, it is difficult for you to wear this kind of clothes to be elegant." "I saw Bai Yuhan wearing a blue plain dress, and she didn't dress up carefully, and an ivory white jade hairpin tied her hair." Understood, mother-in-law. Bai Yuhan agreed, but in fact he was a little reluctant. Wen Yingqian looked at Bai Yuhan with some contempt.

Qin Shi squinted his eyes again, and continued: "Also, be generous, don't look so submissive......" Qin Shi obviously didn't like her, because she was soft and weak, remembering that she was a maid in Wen Mansion before, he looked down on her a little and looked down on her birth.

"You have to refer to Qianqian's opinion more in terms of dressing." The Qin family stayed under the support of the maid Chunyu and walked. Qin got up slowly, draped the white mink coat on her body, pinned the silver hairpin in her hair, wore a turquoise forehead in front of her forehead, combed her fallen horse bun, and shook her waist gently when she walked, her figure was still very good, she looked noble and atmospheric, and she was holding a gold and copper hand warmer in one hand.

And Wen Yingqian is wearing a silver gray fox fur, which looks extraordinary. Combing the good-looking bun, surrounded by vermilion and green between the buns, a valuable jade plum blossom is pinned in the hair, which looks very noble and elegant.

Wen Yingqian looked at Bai Yuhan with a look of superiority, and after looking up and down, she hurriedly stepped forward to help Shao's mother, Shao's mother was very satisfied with Wen Yingqian's garden, Huachen saw them leaving, looked at the sullen Bai Yuhan and said: "Madame's temper has always been weird, if you get along with her patiently, she may accept you slowly." "

Bai Yuhan nodded, although he was unhappy in his heart, he also knew that he had to bow his head under the eaves, so he and Huachen followed Wen Yingqian and Shao Mu to enjoy the flowers, the flowers in the garden were very beautiful, the plum in winter was refreshing, and there were some pines and cypresses, and the precious cedar trees looked tall in the cold wind.

"There are not as many plum blossoms in this garden as in the plum garden, the plum blossoms in the plum garden have been growing very well recently, fragrant and fragrant, making people feel happy, mother-in-law, how about we go to pick them then?" Wen Yingqian said flatteringly.

"Yes, that's a good idea." Qin smiled slightly.

Bai Yuhan knew that Wen Yingqian had a good relationship with the Qin family, and he was always unable to interject, only he slowly let the Qin family change his opinion of himself, and for the sake of the general, he could only endure these angers by himself.

And Qin's birthday will come soon, and the operation of the birthday will be completed by Bai Yuhan and Wen Yingqian. Wen Yingqian and Bai Yuhan bought some lanterns and decorations early, and in order to fulfill their filial piety, they also personally selected the ingredients and cooked a few dishes for Shao Yifei's mother.

Bai Yuhan came up with three auspicious names that are "Purple Qi Donglai", "More Than Every Year" and "Full of Gold and Jade", and among the ideas that Bai Yuhan came up with, "Purple Qi Donglai" is mainly mashed with purple potatoes, and then starch is added, wrapped in jujube paste, and made of dim sum, which is her best dish.

"Every Year is more than enough" is cooked with carp, and she has studied cooking fish quite a lot, first putting the fish in a pan and frying it, and then pouring her secret miso soup, adding some shredded green onions and green peppers, which is simply wonderful.

"Golden Jade Full Hall" is a soup made of egg wash and tofu, the tofu is finely cut and soft, and then the egg wash is beaten into it, and at the end of the day, some starch is hooked, and then some steamed meat foam is put in, this taste is simply wonderful.

These are the simplest home-cooked dishes, but to be able to do it well, you must also have good cooking skills, Bai Yuhan is very confident, because he used to cook and eat when he was surviving in the mountains.

In the dishes prepared by Wen Yingqian, the ingredients are more expensive, and a "concubine smile" is made with very rare fresh shrimp in the deep sea and mashed into red "lychees", with cordyceps, which gives people a very beautiful visual feeling.

A "seafood feast" is filled with sea cucumbers, abalone, shark fins, and bird's nest in a pot and slowly boiled until fragrant, and a "Eight Treasures Peach" is a dessert, which is a large peach made from flour, but there are also eight precious ingredients such as fine almonds, raisins, and walnuts...... In addition, Wen Yingqian was specially taught by a palace chef to make it by hand, and it naturally tastes excellent.

When Bai Yuhan and Wen Yingqian brought the dishes they made to the table, Bai Yuhan knew that he had lost. The ingredients are very simple.

Qin Shi saw the dishes made by Bai Yuhan and Wen Yingqian, commented on Wen Yingqian, and smiled with satisfaction: "These dishes of yours are really done with care." He commented on Bai Yuhan: "You don't care about the selection of ingredients in your dishes in the first place, they are all ordinary, but maybe this is what you think is the best thing to entertain people." "

Bai Yuhan heard Qin's meaning, although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, he was not annoyed, and said to Shao Mu in a gentle tone: "You can taste these dishes, they taste delicious." After speaking, he personally sandwiched a piece of carp meat for the Qin clan with a clean chopstick, and respectfully handed it to the Qin clan.

"Forget it, you know, I don't like carp." Qin snorted coldly, waved his hand, and ignored it directly. Bai Yuhan was a little at a loss, his smile suddenly froze on his face, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

After reacting to it, he was lonely and ate the carp meat in his mouth, and Hua Chen looked at all this in his eyes on the side, revealing a distressed gaze.

And when Qin glanced at Wen Yingqian, he instantly smiled, "I'll try the dishes that Qianqian personally made for me." So he elegantly sandwiched a piece with a chopstick, and was very satisfied: "This taste, it's really delicious, Qianqian is really attentive." "

"Really?" Wen Yingqian was also very happy after being praised, and in order to "take into account" Bai Yuhan's face, she also said to the Qin family: "You also taste a piece of my sister's cooking." Qin squinted slightly, showing an arrogant and unreasonable look, and after tasting a piece, she suddenly spit out: "What is this?" So spicy?"

Qin Shi hurriedly drank water and wanted to rinse her mouth, her face immediately turned red, Bai Yuhan hurriedly picked up a piece with chopsticks, and spit it out, impossible, she thought in her heart, she didn't put chili peppers, how could it be so spicy. Could it be that the maid who had just served the dish made the dishes.

Wen Yingqian took the opportunity to warn Bai Yuhan next to her: "Don't you know that your mother-in-law can't eat chili peppers?" You don't know that, do you......"

"I didn't put chili peppers, how can it be spicy?" Bai Yuhan muttered, and hurriedly scooped the soup with a spoon for the Qin family, but was stopped by the Qin family angrily: "You have just used this spoon, how to use it to scoop the soup for me, you don't know this common sense, your family should have taught it." "

Bai Yuhan was shocked by her sharp scolding.

"Mother-in-law, you don't know, she went out when she was very young, so she grew up in the countryside since she was a child, her mother became a nun, and her father didn't care about it, so naturally no one would educate her, and it was really pitiful to think about my sister, and my father didn't care about my mother, so mother-in-law, you should tolerate her." Wen Yingqian's story about Bai Yuhan naturally makes it clear. Everyone cast a look of pity.

"No wonder, it's so pitiful......" Shao Mu sighed.

"I'm not as pitiful as everyone says, my mother has also cultivated me since I was a child, standardized what I should pay attention to as a woman, and taught me the truth of dealing with people, but I was too anxious just now, watching my mother-in-law eat the dishes I made was very spicy, and in a hurry, she used her own spoon to serve soup for you." Hearing them say this, she suddenly became angry and hurriedly argued for herself, she didn't want others to see her as the kind of person they thought they didn't know about manners and etiquette because of this matter.

At this time, a woman who was invited on her birthday was busy relieving Bai Yuhan, she scooped a bowl of tofu soup made by Bai Yuhan for Shao's mother with a clean spoon, and said to Shao's mother: "I just tasted it, I think this dish is the best among these dishes, after eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas, this dish is more appetizing, Yuhan's sister-in-law is attentive." "

Bai Yuhan saw it, and felt that the originally angry heart calmed down all of a sudden, this woman's face is relatively round, her facial features are delicate, and her body is slightly rounded, but she looks good when she laughs, and she feels very hearty and optimistic, she is Shao Yifei's sister Shao Yier, who is already married, and has only recently come to the General's Mansion to sit as a guest, and Shao Yier also tasted Bai Yuhan's carp, she frowned slightly, but quickly covered it with a smile: "This dish is really delicious, the meat of the fish is tender, although the taste is a little spicy, But it's not spicy. "

She tasted the purple potato cake again, and felt that the taste was soft and delicious, and the taste was wonderful, she smiled slightly: "Sister-in-law, I see that you have made these dishes with your heart, you can teach me to cook another day, anyway, idle is idle." "

"My sister lifted me." Bai Yuhan looked into Shao Yi'er's eyes gratefully, and tears almost fell out of her eyes because she was moved in her heart.

"It's not like you don't know, I can't eat chili peppers, and when I eat them, I get a rash on my face...... Hey......" Shao's mother sighed and said helplessly: "In the future, I don't dare to let you cook for me." Shao's mother ate the seafood prepared for her by Wen Yingqian, and said with satisfaction: "Qianqian still understands me, forget it, today is my birthday, and I don't want to make the situation unpleasant, I can't eat this fish, you can eat it for me." "

She ordered indifferently, Bai Yuhan said aggrievedly, and tears flowed out: "Yes......"

Shao Yier smiled slightly: "I also love this dish." So he also picked up the chopsticks and ate them with Bai Yuhan.

Every time he ate a piece of fish, Bai Yuhan felt that his dignity was trampled on once.

She was very grateful to Shao Yier for relieving herself, although the two of them couldn't speak in the end, but Shao Yier gave Bai Yuhan a smile, and the fish was finally finished.

Bai Yuhan never knew why his plate of fish was so spicy, so he questioned Xiaohui, the maid who served the dishes, after the dinner.

Xiaohui saw that Bai Yuhan's lips were red and her eyes were vicious, but she said a little timidly: "It has nothing to do with me, and I don't know why." "

Today's dinner party is really big, Bai Yuhan knew that someone must have deliberately put chili powder in the bowl, Xiaohui suddenly remembered something, so she said to Bai Yuhan: "I remember that the eldest lady came into the kitchen after you finished cooking, and came to see what you cooked." "

Bai Yuhan naturally knew that it was Wen Yingqian who made it bad, she knew that Wen Yingqian did this just to embarrass herself, she knew that Wen Yingqian was full of hatred for herself.