The New Year in the Su Mansion is very lively, especially for the servants. www~ Although it is busier than usual, firstly, there are more rewards, there are more delicious food, and thirdly, there are overtime wages. However, people like Yin Ruxing
The maid who was in charge of the house had a very free time at work. She basically wandered around the kitchen of the Meditation House, eating melon and chatting.
The small kitchen of Mosiju is also busier than usual. Most of the guests have gone home. Su Lei has social activities every day, and only breakfast is eaten at home. The small kitchen only needs to prepare meals for the various staff in the east and west courtyards.
That's all. Yin Ruxing used the excuse of being idle. He called himself learning skills in the small kitchen, but in reality he was stealing from his master and learned a lot of skills on the stove.
For example, she can now make a fire very well. She knows how to stew a pot of good soup with the least amount of firewood, knows how to cook rice on a large stove, and knows how to make simple pasta with flour.
It's not easy! Yin Ruxing is making a kind of dry food called "chess cake". This kind of cake is simple to make, has a long shelf life, and will not go bad after half a year.
"This cake is usually not made in the big kitchens in the house. So I can tinker with it here." Gan Jiu's sister-in-law gave her instructions on how to make the noodles, "Second Master will always take it with him when he travels far away. This thing is convenient.
As long as there is hot water in your mouth, you can tear it in and soak it and it will become soft. A hot bowl will make you hungry. We make it here, add sesame oil, and it is softer than the ones outside. The one fresh out of the oven is the most fragrant. "
Yin Ruxing can be considered a good cook in modern times. But there are certain conditions. For example, cooking is inseparable from a rice cooker, and making a fire is inseparable from a gas stove. Chicken, duck, and fish are all made from supermarket vegetables, dumpling wrappers, and wonton wrappers.
And besides buying noodles from the market, she didn’t know where else to get them. In front of everyone in the small kitchen, she really didn’t dare to say that she knew how to cook.
She also proposed making "chess cakes". It is easy to learn, and the most important thing is that you can take a lot of it back after making it. Wrap it in a clean white cloth, and wrap it with a layer of coarse green cloth outside. Yin Ruxing will
The dry food reserve she collected for the first time was hidden in an earthen jar and sealed.
The Su family's New Year's celebrations were busy until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. When Su Lei fulfilled his promise and took Yin Ruxing to ride horses in the countryside, it was already after the twentieth day of the first lunar month.
"It's so lively during the Chinese New Year here." Yin Ruxing was wrapped in a thick fur cloak and a hood on her head. Her snow-white face was flushed by the cold wind of early spring. Going horseback riding at this time of year is not a pleasant experience.
thing.
Su Lei was wearing a dark mink fur coat, and the cold wind that hit his face seemed to have no effect on him, as if he was walking leisurely in the spring. He shook the reins in his hands gently, and was very interested in this topic: "What? What about your hometown?"
Isn’t it exciting during the Chinese New Year?”
"You don't know?" Yin Ruxing looked at him first. He shook his head: "She never told me."
Yin Ruxing smiled and said: "It can't be said that it's not lively, it's definitely livelier than usual. But compared with your place, it's far behind. For example, many of our semi-finished foods can be bought from the store, which is very easy.
Don’t do it yourself.”
"A store?" Su Lei was startled for a moment, then suddenly realized: "It's a store. Are the goods sold in your store different from those sold here?"
Yin Ruxing thought for a while: "The major categories of food, clothing, housing, transportation and entertainment remain unchanged. ~ Mainly the types of goods, so to speak. For example, food, our supermarket there is a very large store. Generally there are three floors, and the food will be
It is specially placed on the first floor and is divided into freshly made, frozen, semi-processed and sealed packaging categories. Many things prepared in the house during the Chinese New Year, such as bacon, ham, fish balls, glutinous rice balls, dumplings, steamed buns, and siomai, can all be purchased in the store.
Buy it."
She talked nonchalantly, without any hint of flattery. She just recalled some past events in her hometown and compared the differences in customs between the two places. He listened with interest, without any ambiguity. She just wanted to know more about the life of her disappeared sweetheart.
environment.
They both decided that they were the ones who belonged to each other, and they didn't have any yearning for each other. The conversation between the two was frank, just like ordinary classmates on a university campus.
In addition to strolling in the countryside, Yin Ruxing also asked if he could take her to go shopping on the streets. She had not been on the streets since she came to Tianyuan State. Su Lei graciously agreed and would take her there sometimes when he had time.
Sometimes maids and servants were arranged to escort them. More than a month passed like this. Yin Ruxing wore a veil and visited almost every street in Jiangcheng. He also visited the countryside in every direction in the suburbs. The love between the two
Getting along with her has changed from being awkward and awkward at the beginning to being comfortable and casual. Su Lei feels that, minus the awkward appearance, Yin Ruxing is still a very good woman.
This kind of harmony is different in the eyes of others.
The report Su Chen received was that they got along very well. He also heard that the relationship had improved significantly from teaching horse riding, and he suddenly felt that certain arrangements were more worthwhile.
Su Lei couldn't laugh or cry at his brother's question: "Brother, you are mistaken. It was just a normal chat. I didn't mean that."
Su Chen didn't believe a word of it. How can men and women have a normal conversation? Either there is a matter between men and women, or there is an interest. The servants in the family naturally have no interests to talk about, so it is obvious that it is a matter between men and women. I identified the second brother
If you refuse to admit it, you are just being stubborn.
Su Lei cannot be blamed for this beautiful misunderstanding. Su Chen's judgment is actually correct. Yin Ruxing is indeed doing it for profit. But no one in the house would think so. Even the Liu family and other female relatives think that Yin Ruxing is doing it for profit.
, the ultimate goal is also to develop into a matter between men and women. The result is the same.
So Su Lei unknowingly discovered that everyone in the house thought that Miss Ru'er had an affair with him and would become a concubine sooner or later. He couldn't help but be wary, and ignored Yin Ruxing for several days.
This kind of capricious change in temperature was within Yin Ruxing's expectation.
She was not in a hurry, and took things step by step. Without the manpower arranged by Su Lei, she no longer left the house. She went to school every day to read in Chisi Hall, and in the afternoon she went back to the meditation room to practice calligraphy. In the evening, she went to the racecourse to ride horses. She had free time.
I went to the small kitchen to learn a few tricks, and my life was smooth.
Nominally, she was the maid in charge of the house. In fact, when Su Lei met guests in the west courtyard room, most of the time he was served by his servant Lu Feng. The reason was very embarrassing. The problem was her appearance. She also tried
She served tea and water to the visitors, but when they saw her face, they were dumbfounded. Then they were flattered and their movements became stiff. They didn't dare to move their eyes. They all thought that Su Lei had arranged for the family members of Hongxiu Tianxiang to serve them tea.
In terms of etiquette, it's a big deal.
After going back and forth, Su Lei discovered the problem. Yin Ruxing's appearance and the specialness of the waiter were combined. No one believed that they were innocent. Even if they knew that they were innocent now, they didn't think they would continue to be innocent. Su Lei wanted to reduce the number of people who were innocent.
Trouble, when visitors come, Yin Ruxing won't be allowed to come out to serve.
Yin Ruxing didn't have this ambition either. She discovered another problem.
So far, she has learned almost all the writing, has a general understanding of Tianyuan's customs, and has mastered the basics of cooking. At least she will not starve to death after going out. There is no problem with riding horses. So besides the most important free identity, the rest is a knowledge of the geographical terrain.
Understanding, understanding of simple herbal knowledge, and enough martial arts to protect yourself.
The last item was too difficult to ignore for the time being. She dug out a few mountain geography books in the main room and decided to copy them while reading. It would be better if she could find a map and make a copy.
Speaking of maps, she remembered something and took out a few pieces of paper with simple lines drawn on them. Thanks to the geography class provided by the nine-year compulsory education, she used her strong memory to draw some city street maps piecemeal.
She took out a piece of white cloth, half a dry steamed bun and a charcoal pen. She roughly calculated the proportions, laid out the paper, and drew the most original map on the white cloth based on the lines.
Drawing a map is not easy. Firstly, she does not have the correct rulers and measurement units. She can only roughly deduce the directions and distances of the streets. Secondly, only a deliberately built imperial city will have all streets horizontally and vertically, symmetrical from north to south.
Jiangcheng is obviously not. There are many errors when integrated as a whole. These are all difficulties.
It would be great if I could record a bird’s eye view of the whole city from a high altitude.