"Have you asked anyone else?" Yu Xijiao was not surprised. Ning had chosen General Jingyuan's mansion to be in such trouble. Now was the time when she was most likely to take advantage of it. Even if Yu Lanyun didn't come to ask her today, she would
I plan to send someone over to see if everything is okay.
I'm afraid I'll fall into Ning's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain!
"I asked, and they all said they didn't pay much attention to the outsiders. They might have followed someone they knew well into the house." Yu Lanyun knew what Yu Xijiao meant and answered.
She checked specifically afterward and found no trace of Ning's entry, so someone in the mansion must have been there to take care of her.
"Ning has been in charge of the Zhengyuan Marquis Mansion for several years. It was also the time when the house was in its worst decline. Many manpower had been arranged early. There may be many manpower in the manor now that she left behind on purpose."
"Then... is the old lady unsafe?" Yu Lanyun was startled and asked urgently.
"Maybe." Yu Xijiao nodded, remained silent for a moment, and asked, "Have you seen it in the kitchen?"
The old lady and Mrs. Yu are absolutely gone now. It is best for them not to interact with each other. For all the old photos in the house, the missing manpower can be replaced at will. Anyway, there are only a few people now, so there is no need for too much
Many hands in the kitchen.
"Old madam, your medicinal food is here." A woman reported outside. Older people usually either stew some tonic soup or cook some medicinal food.
A maid went out to take someone with her, and a woman came in respectfully with a medicinal meal before entering the door. The faint smell of medicine combined with the fragrance of the food smelled very good.
"The Madam's medicinal food was stewed in the kitchen before. When I left the house, I also prepared a recipe for the old lady. She asked the kitchen to stew some for the old lady every day to replenish her health." Seeing that Yu Xijiao was also attracted by the medicinal food, Yu Lanyun said
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Is there a lot of manpower in the kitchen now? Yu Xijiao nodded and called the woman who delivered the medicinal meals. This manpower was brought by the old lady herself and was not originally from the Zhengyuan Hou Mansion.
When Yu Xijiao asked a question, the old lady asked her mother-in-law to come over and report.
"Third girl, there are not many people in the kitchen now. I heard that there were several times the number of people in the kitchen before. Some went to the second room, some went to the third room. The ones who are left now, and some are assigned to other places.
In this place, I heard that the manpower is very tight everywhere, and the slaves sometimes have to go up and help."
The mother-in-law said.
"Help me, are you always good at it?" Yu Xijiao asked silently for a moment. Since Ning has arrived at Zhengyuan Hou Mansion, she must have made some moves. Now that she can't find her, she will start checking from the old lady's side.
No matter what idea Ning has, it should be impossible to avoid the old lady.
"Occasionally, when I went to the kitchen today, there was only one rough maid in the kitchen, and she couldn't be busy at all. Over there... the madam was also stewing something, and the people in the kitchen didn't know where they were. It was chaotic.
Get together." Seeing Yu Xijiao's interest, the mother-in-law said a few more words.
Although the third girl in front of me is from the Xuanping Hou Mansion, she gets along very well with her old lady and has a noble status, so the mother-in-law naturally respects her.
"Just a rough messenger maid here?" Yu Lanyun was also surprised, stood up suddenly, walked to the old lady, and said with a serious face, "Auntie, wait a moment."
The old lady was about to take medicinal food. When she heard what Yu Lanyun said, she thought of something and her expression immediately changed.
"What was that maid doing at that time? Please explain it carefully." Yu Xi raised her eyelashes slightly and asked.
Seeing them behaving like this, the mother-in-law was also panicked. She didn't dare to hide anything, so she explained everything exactly what happened just now.
When the mother-in-law made herbal meals today, there was really only one maid in the kitchen. In the past, no matter when she went, there were always two or three people. Although there were not many masters in the house, they were all old people.
I eat little but feel hungry from time to time. I can't eat anything too cold. There are always hot snacks in the kitchen.
The mother-in-law went over with the medicinal food, and a rude maid was looking at Mrs. Yu's medicinal food.
The place where medicinal food is stewed is in one place, at a corner. In the past, Mrs. Yu would occasionally go there, and Mrs. Ning himself would also use medicinal food, or stew some tonic soup to drink, in order to avoid being disturbed by the oil fumes from other places.
The medicinal properties, such as stewing, will be skewed to avoid missing the taste and medicinal properties.
The mother-in-law went over to stew. Seeing that the maid had to go to another corner of the kitchen to pickle onions, she went to help pickle the onions for a while. It was only after the two of them talked that they found out that the house was haunted these days, and many people didn't know how to do it at night.
Have a good sleep, there will be nothing going on right now, a few people in the kitchen are also lazy, and I don’t know where to go to take a nap.
After the mother-in-law and the rough maid chatted for a while, a maid next to Mrs. Yu came over and told the mother-in-law that her face was not her face and her nose was not her nose. She seemed to have not seen such a big person and only scolded her.
He gave the maid a few words and told her that she didn't think highly of the medicinal diet. If there was any mistake, she would be questioned.
Then he took the medicinal food and left.
After that, the mother-in-law also left with her own medicinal meal.
There was not much else exchanged between the two times.
It sounds like there is nothing wrong with this except for the servants in the kitchen being lazy. The Zhengyuan Hou Mansion has been uneasy recently. Everyone in the manor knows that, even Yu Lanyun is feeling scared.
"No one else is coming?" Yu Lanyun couldn't help but ask. This matter always felt that it was not that simple, but it didn't seem like there was anything wrong now.
However, after all, she did not dare to let the old lady drink the medicinal food. Yu Lanyun asked a maid to go out to find a cat and fed the cat some medicinal food. The cat seemed to be fine. After waiting for a while, there was no change at all.
Then he breathed a sigh of relief. The medicinal meal was fine and was sent to Mrs. Di again.
"Is Mrs. Yu's medicine still being used?" Yu Xijiao thought for a moment and asked suddenly.
"I'm still using it. It's because the previous injury hasn't healed yet. I ask the doctor to come in from time to time to take a look. The medicine has never been stopped." Yu Lanyun hesitated and said.
"Where was the medicine boiled?"
"It's also over there in the kitchen." Yu Lanyun thought for a while and said.
"Is there a small kitchen in Mrs. Yu's place? Why do you put it in the big kitchen for frying?" Yu Xijiao asked curiously. Mrs. Yu always protected her wealth. In the past, she often cooked in her own place when she was sick or took medicine.
, rarely in large kitchens.
"It's said that Mrs. Yu was injured and in poor health. Her nose was filled with the smell of medicine. Everything she ate felt like medicine. Her body became more and more uncomfortable. So she let it cook here in the kitchen to prevent Mrs. Yu from drinking it after smelling it.
Don't go down." The mother-in-law said angrily, saying that this won't work and that won't work. She was obviously being pretentious on purpose.
Knowing that his old lady was making medicinal meals in the kitchen, this lady came over specifically to argue with her old lady.
"Old madam, please stop taking medicinal meals for the next few days. The people in the kitchen will deliver meals to you. Bring them over to check the situation before eating. Wait for two days." Yu Xijiao thought for a while and said.
I don’t know what Ning’s specific purpose is, so I’ll give it a try first.
"Okay, it's up to you." The old lady agreed readily.
In the next two days, the old lady stopped going to the kitchen to make the medicinal food because the medicinal food was not to her liking. Then she asked the big kitchen to send her a food basket because the old lady was in a bad mood. She stopped going there because the weather was hot.
The old lady is upset. The old lady has been in a bad mood recently, and the people waiting around her are cautious, for fear of being scolded if they are not careful.
For two consecutive days, food baskets were delivered from the big kitchen. The old lady tried the food with a silver needle before eating, and only dared to eat if there was no problem.
On this day, the woman who delivered the food was preparing to go back with the empty food basket. Suddenly she saw the woman who used to go to the big kitchen coming over, and her eyes couldn't help but light up.
He stretched out his hand and tugged on the sleeve of the old lady. This old lady had gone to the kitchen to cook medicinal food from time to time, so she was a relatively familiar person.
The woman in the kitchen pulled the woman beside the old lady out of the yard, hid behind a tree, looked around to see if there was no one, then lowered her voice and asked curiously: "This old lady, how come you haven't been with me recently?"
Seeing you coming over, why don't you people here come to the kitchen to hang out?"
"Our old lady has been in a bad mood recently and is a little angry. She doesn't let us move around freely." The old lady beside the old lady sighed.
The woman in the kitchen became more and more curious: "Why are you in a bad mood after being fine? Didn't you say you were in a good mood before?"
The woman beside the old lady shook her head: "Who knows? The master's thoughts are not something that we servants can guess. Maybe he feels...not in the mood. After all, the house at night... always makes people feel heart-throb."
In fact, it only happened that day, but the more people talk about it, the more mysterious it becomes.
As soon as he said this, the wife of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion shivered, and the smile on her face stiffened: "The old lady may not be too courageous. There is nothing to be afraid of such a thing."
"The old lady has never encountered this kind of thing before. At most, she only heard people talk about it."
"These are all false. I must have heard wrongly. However, the old lady's internal heat problem is a problem, and the medicinal diet cannot be stopped." The mother-in-law of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion rolled her eyes and said.
"The kitchen is busy right now. I'm sorry to go over there to fry." The old woman beside the old lady shied away.
"What's the matter? It was originally my job, but the people around the old lady caught us for being lazy the other time. We were severely punished, and now I feel ashamed just thinking about it."
Very helpless way.
"This..." The person next to the old lady still shook his head, "We have a lot of things here. You will really be too busy when the time comes. It's our fault again. When I was making stew for our old lady, I saw the wife next to her.
The people were very unhappy.”
"Don't worry about them. Some people are like this. They do their own thing and don't let others follow suit. You still have to use the old lady's medicinal diet. You can't end up hurting the old lady's body just because of this or that."
The old lady in the kitchen warmly invited me. After a few words of refusal, the lady beside the old lady did not refuse anymore. She only said that starting tomorrow, the medicinal meals would be rescheduled. It would still be the same time and the same things. I hope the kitchen would take good care of it.
Some, lest she be scolded in the end.
This matter was reported to Yu Xijiao that night. Yu Xijiao was worried about the medicinal food beside the old lady at the time, so she took some specially. When she went back to her house to check, there was indeed nothing wrong with it.
But this time the lady in the big kitchen was very suspicious!
The next day, Yu Xijiao appeared at the old lady of Zhengyuan Hou Mansion again, this time to appreciate bamboos...