When he was still in Yin, the sky had not yet shown a glimmer of bright light, and the dining room of Qingshuang Yuan was already very noisy, and the chief steward Aunt Lian stood aside, arranging for servants of all sizes to prepare breakfast. The little maids in coarse cloth and green clothes all rolled up their sleeves and squatted next to the huge wooden basin to carefully wash the fresh white fungus, while the other mothers-in-law disemboweled, took out the internal organs, and put them in the sauce of the stoneware urn to marinate them.

Aunt Xu, who was dressed decently and wore a deep coat of Shan Yunjin, appeared in the dining room, Aunt Lian's eyes were sharp, and she immediately greeted her and blessed her body, and said affectionately: "I'm confused, I don't know that Aunt Xu is here, what do you have to say, just call a girl to say it, and come over in person." "Aunt Xu is a celebrity next to the eldest princess, and her status is higher than that of Aunt Li, and the slaves and maids in the palace all scold her.

Aunt Xu smiled and said: "Recently, the eldest princess has a poor appetite, and she only eats one cup of clear soup every day, which is really worrying. Come and see what the delicacies are, lunch can change the taste of the princess. ”

The eldest princess's meal is a top priority in the palace, and even the concubines and imperial doctors in the palace are also worried. The king of Huajun was still worried about this, so he specially sent someone to instruct Aunt Xu to let the cooks make some light and delicious side dishes, and then boil the fine blue stalk rice thoroughly, maybe it can lead the eldest princess to eat half a bowl more.

Aunt Lian nodded again and again, and said respectfully: "That's natural, Aunt Xu always thinks about the eldest princess, and we people also know your mind." You come to our dining room in the East Garden to see what you need, and the slave will definitely do it for you. His eyes looked up and down at the clothes that Aunt Xu was wearing, and when he saw the good needlework embroidered on the deep clothes, he couldn't help but envy the benefits of being an errand boy for the eldest princess.

Aunt Xu was very satisfied with this response, so she ordered: "Last time at the county lord and the banquet, I saw a few fresh and delicious meals, and the eldest princess liked them very much. That dish seems to be made by Zi Ning, she is now a maid in this Qingshuang Garden, and while Master Su has not yet entered the mansion, she can have some free time, so she will let her cook a few more fresh dishes today. ”

When Aunt Lian heard this, the expression on her face suddenly froze, and then she smiled and said, "Why not, the slave will send it to the eldest princess on time." Let's go back first, there are a lot of people here, and it's not good to get your clothes on them. ”

When Aunt Xu heard this, she looked at the floor of the dining room, the dirty blood and animal offal mixed together, the greasy cutting board and the swill bucket full of leftovers, felt that what Aunt Lian said was reasonable, nodded, and went out of the dining room.

Seeing Aunt Xu leave, Aunt Lian put away the smile on her face just now, beckoned to a woman with a double-ring bun and a long face, and said, "Yincicada, you go and invite Miss Zining to come." ”

"Which one is Miss Zining, and who knows her?" replied the silver cicada, half-bowing her head and raising her hand to play with the tassels that drooped from the placket. She was originally the concubine of this Dongyuan, but she was unlucky enough to be found out by Mama Zhu in the palace and relegated to the kitchen to move firewood and wash vegetables.

The most hated thing in Yinciao's heart is Zi Ning, if she didn't want to avenge Mama Yan, she would be a personal maid by the county lord's side, and she wouldn't have to come to Dongyuan to be a maid. Now the maid can't do it, but has become the laughing stock of others, and she is relegated to the kitchen to be a rough maid. Such an encounter made Zi Ning even more hateful.

Aunt Lian's eyebrows were upside down, and she scolded: "You hoof, you have rested these days, and you have actually rested your young lady's sex! asked you to find Miss Zining, but you pushed back and delayed the eldest princess's meal, and the custodian told you to peel off two layers of skin, don't you go find it quickly!"

Hearing her reprimand the silver cicada loudly, several mothers-in-law glanced at each other, hurriedly put down the work in their hands, stuck out their tongues, and hurriedly hid out of the door. When Aunt Lian was angry, it was inevitable that the people who would drag down the entire dining room suffered.

A cook who was washing vegetables in the house hurriedly cleaned her hands, stepped out of the threshold, and said with a smile: "Aunt Lian, don't be angry, how can this girl not know that Miss Zining lives in the front courtyard of our dining room, and she is in the same room as Miss Luhuan." He turned his head to look at the silver cicada, and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't make trouble, you have chosen a concubine before, maybe everyone will let you, but now you are a rough maid who burns the fire, and you can't reach the sky!"

The silver cicada turned around, looked at the cook with his eyes horizontal, pouted and snorted coldly: "Zining's room is not a good thing, and it changes its ways to toss people all day long. I fainted today, Ming'er's body hurts, and this group of women are all following to learn, and we don't stop making trouble, boiling soup and boiling potions, sooner or later, it's a head!"

Two days ago, Yao Er practiced hanging Feiyan and fainted, Zi Ning helped her boil a summer soup, Xianggui was sick for many days and did not get better, and boiled three meals of medicinal soup every day. When the other ladies saw them boiling soup and medicine in the dining room, they also moved all kinds of thoughts, and came over to make soup, nourishing soup, and nourishing soup, and sent them one after another, so that the dining room was overwhelmed.

The silver cicada was noisy, the window of Zining's house was facing the dining room, and he had already heard these words, changed into clean and crisp clothes, went out of the house, bypassed a corridor and entered the backyard, and went directly to the back dining room to see what was going on.

As soon as I walked to the door of the dining room, I saw Aunt Lian's eyes crossed, pointing at the silver cicada and scolding: "The bigger your hooves are, the more unruly they are, so you will quickly offer yourself up and treat yourself as your ancestral grandmother! ”

As soon as she raised her eyes and saw Zi Ning coming, Aunt Lian hurriedly greeted her and said with a smile: "I'm talking so loudly, I must have made a noise to the girl." Zi Ning has often come to the dining room to help people boil medicine recently, and everyone knows that she is a warm-hearted and kind-hearted person, and seeing her outstanding appearance, they think that such a posture will be promoted to a good concubine sooner or later, so they are polite to her.

Zi Ning glanced at the silver cicada, ignored her, turned her head and asked Aunt Lian, "What are you arguing about this early morning?" I seem to have seen Aunt Xu coming just now, I don't know why. ”

Last night, she had a long talk with Xia Wan in the bamboo forest, and after returning to the house, she only slept for two hours, and her spirit was not very good. These days have been so hard, and the whole person is also much thinner and haggard. In her heart, she had been thinking about the fact that the master taught her to practice martial arts, and when she saw that Aunt Xu came early in the morning, she expected that it was related to this matter, so she hurriedly came over to ask.

Aunt Lian hurriedly said the reason, Zi Ning nodded, it turned out that she was cooking some cool side dishes for the eldest princess, which was difficult for her.

The silver cicada stood still, stared at Zi Ning for a moment, pursed her lips, and sneered: "Since you are the concubine of Lord Su, you should go to the house to serve, how did you come to this inferior place to cook? Today is sad, tomorrow is frightened, only those of us who fight the sea and fall, have never been sad, nor have we been frightened? Instead, we let the dining room boil medicine and cook, and we have raised some people who eat for nothing! If you don't pretend to be sick, who knows that you are climbing high branches!"

Zi Ning couldn't help but be very piercing when she heard what she said, glanced at her sideways, and sneered: "If someone else climbs a high branch, you don't like it, then the sparrow has to be able to turn into a phoenix." You have to keep the rules of the day under the hands of the maid, you say we are frivolous, I think you are ten times more frivolous. I used to pinch my pointed head when I was a big girl, but now I have come to wash the vegetables, and I still haven't taken us seriously, your guts are fat!"

The silver cicada blushed through her face, lowered her head and didn't dare to make any more noise, this Dongyuan pays the most attention to rank and humility, if Zi Ning is annoyed, and she is ordered to be beaten to death with a board, she also deserves to be unlucky. Aunt Lian saw that Zi Ning was in a bad mood and spoke very strongly, so she stood aside and smiled.

Zi Ning held her breath in her heart, and scolded in her heart: "It's all caused by last night's 'Pu Liu', and the mood is ruined in the morning, when Lord Su enters the house, this girl will have to cook a few 'amazing' dishes for him to eat, wait and see!"

The silver cicada was bored with herself, so she had to go out to carry firewood. Xiao Cui'er found two hair bands, ran over to help Zi Ning carefully tie the wide sleeves, and then washed her hands, and the people in the dining room had to prepare lunch materials. Zi Ning looked at the nondescript sleeves, bowed her head and said to herself: "If you stay in the dining room often in the future, you have to cut these wide sleeves to be convenient!"

I was full of interest for a while, drew up a list of dishes for lunch, racked my brains to think of the name of the dish, and happily let go of my work. After the kitchen and maid finished the breakfast in Dongyuan, they all gathered around Zining to help, and seeing that it was still early before the lunch time, everyone chatted without it.

Aunt Lian talked about the girls, and suddenly lowered her voice, "Those two girls are ancestors, they are all like this!" stretched out her finger in front of her eyes and tapped hard.

The two concubines she said were Shi Tao and Frost Goose, both of whom were very powerful characters.

Zi Ning remembered that Shuang Yan had suppressed Shi Tao several times, and couldn't help but smile: "They have all been big girls, they have seen some of the world, and it is inevitable to be arrogant, what is it that makes it difficult for you?"

In the past few days, the grandmother has been looser, and from time to time a girl comes to the dining room to make soup, doing this, and asking for that. The kitchen ladies are busy but picky, saying that the dining room is not well served, and scolding and quarrelling occasionally happen.

After a long time of idleness and nothing to do, every day except for hanging Feiyan, is to sing music and play the piano, the girls are bitter in their hearts, and the grandmother does not allow them to leave the Qingshuang Garden one step, so they quarrel with each other and cause trouble for no reason.

Zi Ning listened to the complaints of the people in the dining room, and said: "Such days are still long, and there will be noisy and infighting at the two ends in the next three days, no one has to worry too much, it's just that the wives have nothing to do and pass the free time." ”

Aunt Lian rubbed her hands together and sighed mournfully: "Where are they like Zining girl, they are kind to others, and they speak intimately. The two of them ate sweet and salty, and the red date and lotus seed soup that had just been stewed yesterday was brought over, and the peach girl smashed it over as soon as she flicked her sleeves, scalding Xiao Cui'er's arm full of blisters. ”

Xiao Cui'er was squatting on the ground to light the fire, and when she heard Aunt Lian talk about the burns, she immediately pursed her lips, rolled up her sleeves, and said aggrievedly: "Miss Zining, take a look, this left a bloody mark." ”

Zi Ning saw that she was very hot, and smeared badger oil to relieve the heat, and her arms were still red, and she asked a little puzzled: "Mama nagged women all day long and didn't eat much, they were all middle-grade women, how dare you not restrain yourself, but let the dining room boil soup and bring it into the room to eat?" The frost goose is also slender, and if you drink soup all day, you will gain weight in less than half a month. ”

Aunt Lian said "oops", clapped her hands and said, "Speaking of this, Mama Qing has told me to let the dining room make some tonic soup for them, and no matter how much they eat, they won't grow meat." The tonic soup that was to be eaten was all sent to the room, and Mama Qing acquiesced and let them do whatever they wanted. The day before, I heard that Miss Shitao started beating someone, and the face of the girl who was beaten was bruised and swollen, and Mama Qing didn't scold, isn't it strange?"

Zi Ning remembered that when she first entered the East Garden, Shi Tao secretly gave Mama Qing benefits, and secretly thought: "One stuffed the silver money, and the other turned a blind eye, which is not strange." ”

Just as he was about to speak, a sharp voice behind him said: "Who chews his tongue and speaks ill of me behind his back!"

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