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Chapter 4 Curious

Madam Wang is a servant of the Wang family. Her ancestors served the head of the Wang family for several generations. When Wang Xi's mother got married, there were only two newly bought maids around her. Madam Wang was Wang Xi's grandmother who was selected from dozens of maids of the right age to serve Wang Xi's mother. Later, she got the trust of Wang Xi, so she became a wet nurse for Wang Xi and asked Wang Xi to recognize Wang Xi as her wet brother.

She won't mention it for now. Wang Xi will definitely follow Wang Xi to her husband's house at that time, and at the least, she will become the chief manager who helps Wang Xi manage the dowry. If Wang Xi is more capable, she may become the chief manager of Wang Xi's son in the future.

Wang Xi and their family are master-servant relationships that share honor and disgrace.

This time when he came to the capital, Wang Xi's mother entrusted his daughter's safety to Madam Wang.

When Madam Wang entered the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion, she naturally became very energetic. In a few days, she had to deal with everything that the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion should do. Even if there was any disturbance in the Yongcheng Marquis Mansion, even if she couldn't know it immediately, she would not hide it for long.

When Wang Xi asked the grandmother, Madam Wang immediately laughed warmly and said, "She drank half a bowl of white porridge, half a bun, and a small plate of cold sprouts this morning and rested again. She has not woken up yet."

It is said that the marriage proposal of Hongluo Temple in the suburbs of Beijing is the most effective. Yesterday, the grandmother took Wang Xi to Hongluo Temple, or because the trip was too fast that day, the grandmother felt so tired after returning home. She asked the maid to notify each room early this morning to exempt them from their morning safety.

Wang Xi nodded after hearing this and said, "Send a little maid to see. If the lady has a good appetite, just use the two shads to make soup with fresh tender ginger and give one to the lady. If the lady has a bad appetite, then steam it with Xuanwei ham and spring bamboo shoots delivered by the big shopkeeper two days ago. Then go to the lady's place for dinner together."

Since she entered the mansion, the Grandmad had dinner with Wang Xi every night, and then kept her talking for a while.

Madam Wang smiled and said "Okay" and praised Wang Xi: "If I hadn't gone out this time, I wouldn't have known that the eldest lady is as capable as the eldest lady. The eldest lady, the eldest lady, and the second master would definitely be very happy to see the eldest lady like this."

She was indeed very surprised.

When she was at home, Wang Xi didn't care about anything. She didn't talk about the relationship between the family. This was because the eldest and the eldest brother felt that the eldest daughter would be married sooner or later, and that when she became someone else's wife, she would have to do housework and was willing to spoil her. She had always been worried about what to do after entering the house. Who knew that the eldest daughter was the eldest daughter, with a stern face, and she looked a little similar to the eldest brother, and could suppress people.

Then she presented Wang Xi the recipes that the two cooks had compiled over the past few days.

Two cooks are good at making kimchi and pickled vegetables, and the other is good at making stir-frying dishes.

Madam Wang said, "Do you want to buy someone who is good at making Su-style dim sum?"

Wang Xi likes to eat dim sum, but the dim sum at the Marquis of Yongcheng Mansion is either yellow peas or yellow, the donkey rolls on it and the chrysanthemums are crispy, dry and firewood, and it is not as delicious as the old-fashioned Guishunzhai in Beijing. It is even more incomparable to those Jixiangzhai, which makes Su-style dim sum and Qiaojiashu.

"Okay!" Wang Xi never felt wronged himself, "Then let's buy another cook who makes Su-style snacks and come back."

At that time, I will give you a few plates to each room of the Yongcheng Hou Mansion to let them know what kind of snacks are called.

However, speaking of the people in the Yongcheng Hou Mansion are quite pitiful. The kitchen skills are so poor, I don’t know how they have been through these years.

It is said that when the old marquis was in charge, he was even more "simple" in his home. He could eat as long as the food was hot and the snacks were sweet. He liked to make clothes, and he would make new clothes every year all year round.

Fortunately, her mother married into their family.

There are seven, eight cooks who make Su-style dim sum, five, and six cooks who make Cantonese dim sum.

Speaking of this, she remembered their pastry bag and horseshoe cake. She said another sentence: "Buy another one that can make Cantonese snacks."

Madam Wang responded with a smile and took the two cooks down.

Wang Xi continued to study the patterns of the Princess's Mansion with Bai Zhu.

After a while, Ginkgo came back and said that Wang Xi had already left the mansion to see their shopkeeper in the capital. He also asked Ginkgo to bring her two boxes of hawthorn cakes, saying that he had gone out to drink with a manager from the Marquis of Yongcheng's Mansion yesterday. When he passed by Dashilan, Dongshi City, he saw a bunch of people buying hawthorn cakes around a snack shop. He tasted one piece, which was quite delicious, so he brought two boxes back. If Wang Xi was okay, buy it for her.

Wang Xi took a bite and it was sour and sweet but soft. It was neither too sweet nor too sour, and the taste was pretty good.

She gave a box to ginkgo and others: "This is the best hawthorn cake I have eaten after I entered Beijing."

Ginkgo and others all laughed.

Hong Chu said lively: "Who knows that the woman on the Hou Mansion stove is so bad."

It was really a quarter of an hour before I started talking nonsense.

Ginkgo looked at the red silk and sighed helplessly.

But Bai Zhu was still in the mood to continue to argue with her: "Just say this in front of us, you can't be so casual outside."

"I know!" Hongchou had an instinctive intuition about dangerous things, and she ran away, "I'll go see how lunch is going?"

Atractylodes macrocephala is like ginkgo, showing a helpless smile.

Hongchao Ze met Qingchao who was entering the door. Qingchao hurriedly held up the handful of Hongchao and said, "I'm so panicked, what are you going to do?"

"I'll go and have lunch!" Hong Shu responded vaguely and ran away.

Qingchou shook his head, came in and saluted Wang Xi, and said, "The Grandma's place is preparing lunch alone. I wonder if dinner will still let you go and accompany you."

"Then eat some at noon." Wang Xi was still thinking about who the sword dancer was, and said, "It's time to make a chicken shredded cold noodles."

This was originally a summer breakfast in Shuzhong, but she wanted to eat it, so who would care whether it was breakfast or dinner?

Ginkgos smiled and promised, some went to the kitchen to pass messages, readjust the lunch meal, some helped Wang Xi clean the table, some accompanied Wang Xi to the dining hall, and began to help her remove her makeup and change into regular meal clothes... In a lot of ways, when Wang Xi sat at the table, he clothed the bowls and chopsticks, a bowl of greasy and red mixed with torn chicken shreds, cut into strips of cucumbers, black fungus and other cold noodles, and a small bowl of clear and bright chicken soup sprinkled with green green chopped green onions were brought to Wang Xi.

Wang Xi took a bite and said, "The cucumber in Beijing is not bad."

Qingcao smiled with her lips and after serving her, she had lunch and took another nap. Wang Xi had to stay in the study in the afternoon. They handed the person to Bai Zhu, and then they stepped down and rested.

In the evening, Wang Xi replied, saying that the shopkeeper had asked for a while, and that the major shops did not have the Qianlijing that Wang Xi wanted, but everyone promised to help pay attention and find a solution. The family also sent a letter and asked branches everywhere to help buy it.

Wang Xi nodded, feeling that the afternoon gain was quite big. When he went to the grandma's place, he also said to Ginkgo: "As I told me before, I already know which direction is the northeast and where is the southwest."

"Miss!" Ginkgo sighed in his heart.

Since the second master told the lady that the top of the drawing was facing north, the lady could distinguish between the east, south, west and north. But if someone stood in the yard and the direction of the sun was not obvious, he would still say "this side" or "this side".

The two of them talked all the way, but in just a cup of tea, they arrived at Yuchun Hall where the grandmother lived.

The nanny Shi, the manager in the Madam's house, was waiting at the door.

She immediately came forward and saw Ginkgo holding a food box. The smile in her eyes became stronger and her behavior became more respectful: "The lady hasn't seen her cousin for a day. She is here just thinking about you. Come in!"

He also personally put a curtain on Wang Xi.

Mrs. Hou came over in the morning and talked to the grandma. They already knew that Mrs. Hou had sent two shads to Qingxue Garden. The grandma would certainly not greed for Wang Xi’s two shads, but since Wang Xi entered the mansion, the grandma held her in her mouth and was afraid of melting it, and held it in her hand and was afraid of falling. All her biological granddaughters stood behind. If Wang Xi could think about the grandma, she was a grateful person, wouldn’t it be even more joyful?

Wang Xi went to the east to meet the grandma.

Several maids are setting up tables.

The lady was smiling when she heard the sound. She was even more happy when she saw Wang Xi. She smiled like a flower on her face and said kindly: "Have you had a rest today? Your aunt found a new cook. Today the cook made her specialty of the cook and spicy chicken. Do you see if it suits the taste?"

The Tai Madam is from Baoding and does not eat spicy food.

Wang Xi felt mixed feelings.

Goodness is cause and effect, and she does not want to be too close to the people in the Yongcheng Marquis’ Mansion.

But the old lady's gray hair and turbid eyes made her unable to refuse such kindness.

She coaxed the lady and said, "It must be delicious. I often eat these two dishes at home."

"Is that?" The lady laughed even more happily as she heard this, so she hurriedly asked Wang Xi to sit down and asked her, "Do your mother like to eat these two dishes? Last time you said that your mother can also make kimchi, how could she learn to make kimchi? She didn't like going into the kitchen when she was a child. When I asked the master to teach her and her sister about the stove, she always made excuses and didn't expect that she wouldn't go. She didn't expect that she wouldn't have seen her for more than 20 years...

Or it's not a change in sex.

It was those days when I didn’t know where I was, and I learned to bow my head.

The lady's eyes couldn't help but shine.

Wang Xi sighed secretly and asked the ginkgo to lift the food box, saying, "In the morning, my aunt gave me two sausages, which are rare to be alive. I asked my cook to steam it. You can also taste whether the cook's skills in my room are in line with your appetite."

The grandma stopped thinking about those sad things and kept saying "Okay". The maid with a wink helped put the fish on the table. Madam Shi served next to her and handed her a pair of chopsticks to the grandma.

The lady took a sip with a blue and white porcelain plate and took a bite.

Without salt, the meat keeps the tenderness of the anchovies, Xuanwei’s ham further enhances its deliciousness, and the new fragrance of spring bamboo shoots covers its fishy smell.

This is the most delicious steamed chili fish that Mrs. Tai has ever eaten.
Chapter completed!
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