[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

On the tenth day after leaving with the Japanese Mission, Liu Mei received a notification from the system, knowing that she had officially been promoted to another level.

In the past ten days, a lot of things happened - firstly, the old concubine who had been ill for a long time in the palace passed away, and all imperial orders were entrusted to the court attendant class according to the system of nobility.The sage decreed to the world: all noble families are not allowed to have banquets and music within one year, and common people are not allowed to marry within three months.

In the two mansions, Jia's mother, Mrs. Xing Wang, and You's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have to go to the court with their shifts to sacrifice every day.It so happened that at this time Sister Feng mobilized and gave birth to a baby boy. Although the baby was born prematurely, the imperial doctor said that both mother and baby were safe and that there would be no problem.

Because of such a major event, no one in the two mansions is in charge of it. Jia Mu and Xing Wang and others agreed to report You's birth and stay in the two mansions as directors. They also solemnly entrusted Aunt Xue to take care of them in the garden. Aunt Xue had to move as well. Come into the garden and live in Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

There are also changes in the personnel affairs in the mansion.

First, Mother Liu was transferred to the big kitchen, but she was in charge of Sister Feng's diet. To put it bluntly, she made confinement meals and helped Sister Feng to recuperate her body.

As soon as Mother Liu left, Liu Mei had to bring a few wives to prop up the small kitchen in the garden.Her share is still in the Yihong Courtyard, and the rewards from Mother Jia are also sent by Yuanyang every month. In order to compensate the mother and daughter of the Liu family, Sister Feng allocated another person to Liu Mei.

Liu Mei: Does this count as an upgrade?

It seems so—there has never been a little girl of her age in the mansion who manages a kitchen and eats three people at a time.

But Liu Mei was not particularly happy either.

Just before Mother Liu was transferred to the big kitchen, she went to check on Mother Liu quietly, wanting to ask her if she would like to seek the grace from above and leave Jia's mansion.Mother Liu asked her where she wanted to go, she dawdled, and only said "Prince Zhongshun's Mansion".

But Mother Liu thought about it all of a sudden: "What's the matter, Mei'er, everyone said that if you are right, you will never turn back, and the Qian family made a good marriage proposal that day, and it was from the family you rejected...Why, seeing the Qian family now When you are working as an errand in the Prince's Mansion, do you think of Haoer from the Qian family?"

Liu Mei quickly shook her hands: Isn't that the case at all!

Mother Liu saw Liu Mei clarified, looked at Liu Mei suspiciously, looked at her for a while, until Liu Mei felt a little hairy behind her back, forced a smile and asked: "Mother, is there a flower on my face?"

Mother Liu stepped forward and pulled Liu Mei's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Mei'er...you, don't try to hide it from mother—"

"After your elder sister talked about Second Grandma Yun last time, Mother also paid attention to it. It's not bad that you and Second Grandma Yun are good friends, but you do often run out, and you spend a long time when you go out..." Mother Liu The newly promoted "Second Grandma Yun" in the mouth is Xiaohong, and Liu Mei's "it takes a long time to go out" refers to the time when she went to the palace to cook puffer fish last time.

"So, Mei'er, do you have a date outside?" Mother Liu asked softly, and Liu Mei's face turned red all of a sudden, and then immediately faded to pink.

Seeing Liu Mei like this, Mother Liu felt more confident.

"Who is it from Prince Zhongshun's mansion? A servant? A concierge? Or a cook in the mansion?" Liu's mother's imagination was a little limited, and she always circled around the servants in the high gate compound.

"Oh my God," Mother Liu saw her daughter shaking her head and denied all of them, she patted her heart and exclaimed in surprise: "Could it be that your lover is the steward of the Prince's Mansion?"

Seeing her mother being so startled, Liu Mei shook her head desperately, thinking in her heart, if one day, Mother finds out about her relationship with Shi Qing, wouldn't it be even more frightening?

But Mother Liu was very solemn, stretched out her hand, pressed Liu Mei's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Mei'er, you must think clearly. In this world, when a man and a woman marry, what is important is the right marriage. Your parents are not up to date, but The servants in the family's mansion have caused you to be so beautiful and capable, but you are only a servant girl born in the family."

"If you want a man to treat you well forever, you have to understand what he's thinking. If the man's identity is too far from yours, and you don't understand his mind, that man may just play with you for a while. That's all. A woman can only choose this one time in her life. If she chooses right, she can live comfortably for the rest of her life; Boiling..."

"Mei'er, you are my mother's good girl. I think I can't understand what you are thinking, and I don't know how you have learned so many dishes by yourself... But mother doesn't want to watch you make mistakes. ..."

Liu Mei was quite moved when she heard her mother's heartfelt words, but she still had to cover up her words, "Mother, if it wasn't...not going to someone else's house, but our family begged for grace and came from the mansion. Let it out and set up your own house?"

You can't just watch your parents sink with Jia's house like this!

Mother Liu thought for a while, then hesitated and said: "Our family... your sisters don't have any brothers, if you two sisters are married, and it's just me and your father... it's better to stay in the house and make a living. "

Liu Mei also knows that being a servant in the mansion means gaining qualifications, the longer she stays, the more decent she will be, and she will be happy when she is like Lai Shangrong and Wu Jinxiao; but when she thinks about the future of Jia's mansion, she still wants to persuade her Persuading my mother - "Mother..."

Unexpectedly, Mother Liu has her own ideas, "We can discuss these matters when your father comes back in half a year. Now your mother just got a job with Lian Er|grandma's. With today's decency, now is the time when grandma needs mother, and mother must not lose the chain at this time."

Liu Mei knew her own mother's temperament, and Liu's mother knew how to repay her kindness. If she asked Sister Feng for kindness at this time, the whole family would be released from the house, and the possibility was almost zero.

In this way, we really can only wait until Father Liu comes back half a year later.

Liu Mei sighed, and turned around to receive "good" news—her sister, Liu Wu'er, came to the garden as an errand.

Wu'er entered Yihong Courtyard, which everyone wanted to enter, and the person who recommended her was... Fangguan.

Because of the filial piety of the country, the families of officials and eunuchs, all the actors and actresses raised in the mansion will not be sent away.In the early years, Jia's family bought twelve girls from Gusu for family visits in Yuanchun. They were supposed to be dismissed. Seven or eight of them had nowhere to go, so they lived in the Grand View Garden and acted as servant girls.As one of them, Fangguan entered Yihong Courtyard.

Yihong Courtyard happened to drive away Zhui'er and Si'er at once last time, and should have added another person to take care of them.Fangguan originally had a good relationship with Wu'er when he was in Lixiangyuan, but now he took advantage of Baoyu's presence and casually said something, strongly recommending Wu'er, saying that Wu'er is quiet, smart, and looks like Qingwen. There are some similarities.

Baoyu was very satisfied when he heard that, and since Wu'er and Liu Mei were sisters, he nodded immediately.Xiren felt that it would be good to follow Baoyu's wishes in these matters, so he didn't say anything. He just exchanged a word with Lin Zhixiao's family, and Wu'er entered the garden that day.

So Liu Wu'er tried hard before, trying to squeeze out her sister and work as an errand in Yihong Courtyard by herself, but it was always unsuccessful.Now that she didn't do anything, she was hit by a big pie falling from the sky, and her whole body was dizzy, feeling a little unreal.

Liu Mei was very busy with her work - she directed the women in the small kitchen to prepare lunch for the whole garden, and she took two women, carrying food boxes, to cook the food in the Yihong Courtyard. Send it for the sake of it, and stop by to see how Wu'er is settling down.

When she arrived at Yihong Courtyard, everyone in the courtyard was very excited, and everyone came out to visit the newcomers, just like when she entered Jiangyunxuan.

Fangguan was acquainted, and after only walking around, he had already chatted with Xiren Sheyue and other servant girls, chirping non-stop as soon as he entered the yard.Wu'er was relatively quiet.

But I don't know that Wu'er's appearance makes Xiren feel more at ease; in addition, Xiren still remembers Liu Mei swearing there, saying that those "treasures, gold, silver, treasures, heavenly kings, and emperors" will never marry, thinking that this kind of awareness The same goes for Liu Wu'er—therefore Xiren's attitude towards Fangguan and Wu'er immediately showed a difference. Fangguan's skirt is much better than Jia's.The ones given to Wu'er are slightly inferior in quality and quantity.

So the little maids in Yihong courtyard all went to envy Fangguan.When Wu'er saw her, she couldn't help but feel lonely.

Liu Mei looked at it coldly, didn't say anything, just took the mother-in-law together and took out everyone's lunch.

The food box she personally carried was for Baoyu.There are two layers in the food box, the upper layer contains four kinds of stir-fried vegetables, most of which are vegetarian.On the bottom floor is a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup. The bamboo shoots were broken from the bamboo forest in the shade of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The juice is very fragrant.

When Baoyu saw the ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup, he hurried up to take a sip and said, "It's so hot!"

Liu Mei narrowed her eyes and looked at Baoyu. She originally thought that Baoyu should praise "good soup".

Xiren smiled and said, "It's not that there are no other meat dishes, it's just that they are big meat. The second master is so greedy just for a bowl of soup." As he said, he picked up the soup bowl and blew lightly twice. , Don’t overturn your head and call Fang Guan, “You also learn to serve the second master a little bit more, and don’t blow the saliva.”

Liu Mei pretended not to see it at the side - it was such a big deal, Xiren wanted to treat it as an errand and hand it over to Fang Guan.It happened that others looked at Fangguan with envy and jealousy, as if she had gained face in front of Baoyu after she got such an errand.

Fangguan was blowing, when suddenly a woman ran in, smiling all over her face, pointing to Fangguan and saying to Baoyu, "She is not mature, she beats the bowl carefully, let me blow it!" To take the bowl from Fang Guan.

Qingwen immediately raised her beautiful eyebrows and scolded loudly: "Go out, even if she beats the bowl, it's not your turn to blow it."

Xiren also said: "Which mother is this, why did you come to our place? Why didn't anyone stop you outside?"

The maids outside answered, saying that she was Fang Guan's godmother. "Big Sister Hua, we are going to kick him out. He only said he wanted to go out, but who knows, he ran in and stretched his hands and mouth?"

Seeing that his godmother made a fool of himself, Fang Guan couldn't hold back, his face was red and white at times, he was extremely embarrassed.

However, Liu Mei secretly had doubts: Baoyu was inside the house, and there were cloth curtains hanging on the door. How could the old woman outside see Fangguan blowing soup to Baoyu?

She turned her head away, just as she saw Liu Wu'er standing by the door, seeing Liu Mei's gaze sweeping over, Wu'er took a step to the side without a trace.