[Red Mansion] Marrying a wife like jade

Hearing that the fifth prince complained to him, Shen Yue didn't put down his pen: "If you don't stay in the official department, then change to another place. If it's not possible, it's not bad to go to study with the second prince."

The fifth prince looked like you were teasing me, and he picked up the tea sullenly, knowing that Shen Yue was upset that he was disturbing him to express his heartfelt feelings to Daiyu, so he decided to calm down, or wait for Shen Yue to finish writing the letter before talking to him. discuss in depth.

Shen Yue had nothing to do with the indulgent fifth prince, and said impatiently after writing the letter: "Fifth prince, you have been in charge of the official department for such a long time, and you won't even tell which department this official is most afraid of. Are you clear?"

As soon as Shen Yue opened his mouth, the fifth prince's eyes lit up, and after he finished speaking, the fifth prince's eyes were already glaring, completely ignoring the sarcasm in Shen Yue's words, he stood up and bowed to Shen Yue : "Thank you, Mr. Shen."

"I told the fifth prince earlier that this is the Ministry of Officials, which is in charge of the performance appraisal of officials all over the world. I am also one of the officials. By doing this, the fifth prince is thinking that I will be poor in the performance appraisal this year?"

The fifth prince smiled wretchedly: "Mr. Shen, don't worry, I let the little eunuch watch outside, and no one saw it. You came up with such a good idea, how can I not thank you. Don't worry, don't worry, tomorrow I will let the princess Go to see my sister's pregnancy, and if my sister does not give birth, she will not be allowed to return home."

Are you going to help Daiyu conceive, or are you going to torment her?Shen Yue gave the fifth prince a direct look, but his eyes became confused, and he murmured: "If my grades are really bad this year, the sage shouldn't use me?" Can he go home and spend time with his wife? ?

The fifth prince really wanted Shen Yue to give up his heart, unless the Minister of the Ministry of Officials also wanted to get out of the capital like Cheng Qian, otherwise he would have to give Shen Yue an excellent rating with his eyes closed.But he didn't dare to say this, for fear of retaliation when he wanted to ask Shen Yue for an idea in the future.

There is a precedent for this, and the unlucky one is the fifth prince's brother, the sixth prince: a few days ago, Shen Yue had a fight with the sixth prince because of which book to print first, although the sixth prince did not hold back Shen Yue in the end, But he also said some harsh words to Shen Yue.

Shen Yue was afraid of this, so he went to see Jinjin directly, and told him that the household department still had a lot to do, but for this to be done, someone with a high status had to come forward, so that they could be overwhelmed.

Nowadays, he still attaches great importance to his own money bag. When Shen Yue said this, he didn't even think about whether what he said was feasible. Let him quickly say what he should do.As for those of high status, isn't the Sixth Prince still in the household department?Whose status can be more valuable than the prince?

What Shen Yue wants is this sentence——If you don’t hunt him down, you will become Lin Ruhai—he said to the present that the state treasury owes money, and the money owed by the courtiers has already been returned to the state treasury, but some places have Is it time to make up for the shortfall?

Now nodded sharply, yes, a few years ago, some places reported either floods or droughts. Later, when the sixth prince went to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Shen Yue gave him advice and asked him to pay attention to whether the drought and flood conditions in neighboring places were consistent. A large number of false reports of disasters were discovered.The court naturally wants to make these places pay the tax money, but where can it be paid in a short time?It can only be hung on the deficit.

In the past few years, no one dared to make false reports about the disaster, but no local official was willing to take the initiative to make up for the shortfall.That is to say, the national treasury has received more and more items in the past few years, and there is no shortage of silver to use it now, otherwise Shen Yue would not need to remind me, and I would have thought of this silver a long time ago.

Shen Yue stepped out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the sixth prince was called into the Hall of Mental Cultivation to take on such a hard job. How many princes would not know who made it bad?One by one stood in a circle and watched the sixth prince's joke: Well, you still dare to talk harshly to Shen Yue, why don't you go to heaven?

With the lessons learned from the sixth prince, how dare the fifth prince provoke Shen Yue?I took the initiative to act as a messenger, handing Shen Yue the letter to Daiyu to my follower Shuangping, and went to the Inspector's Office to borrow someone.This shows the benefits of a long cooperation time. As soon as Shen Yue reminded the Fifth Prince's officials which department they were most afraid of, he immediately thought of the Inspectorate.

In this inspectorate, there are a lot of censors who specialize in picking people's faults. When there is nothing to do, you have to see who wears the official robes when they go to court, and whether they bow their heads respectfully when walking. Now let them participate. The assessment of officials happens to be professional counterparts and people make the best use of them.

The imperial censors didn't call a single call, so they directly lent the censors, and also lent them out of other people's notebooks for a year in a friendly manner for reference.Du Yushi has his own considerations:

He was named and criticized several times at the current court meeting, which made him restrain the censors under him from chasing rumors.But the censors don't want to make people think that they are eating nothing at the critical moment of checking the redundant staff, and they will have to double the participation.

But who among the officials dares to raise their tails now?The censors can only continue to speculate.If this continues, Du Yushi can foresee that he will be publicly reprimanded by the saint again.Now the fifth prince came to borrow people, took them away, and took them all away.

The officials who were assessed were dumbfounded. This censor is ruthless. He usually coughs when he goes to court. Maybe someone will write it down with a small notebook. Let this group of people assess, it can be a good review there's a few?

Others are dumbfounded and not in Shen Yue's care. What he hopes most now is that the censors will not be merciful to him, and boldly find his own faults. It is best to give himself a bad rating, and the saint will let him go back to his house to think about his mistakes, and he will be perfect up.

With such a good wish, in order to create an excuse for the censors, Shen Yue swaggered away from work in front of a group of censors.But he heard that Liushunzhai had a new kind of dim sum, he had to buy it back for Yu'er to try, to see if she liked it.

For the dim sum that Shen Yue personally lined up to buy back, Daiyu liked it in her heart, and said honestly: "It's too dry, too hard."

Shen Yue saw that Daiyu picked up the dim sum excitedly, and after taking a bite, Shen Yue grimaced, took it from her hand in distress, took a bite, and spit it out.What famous store produces it, and it sells so hotly? Is it bullying the people in Beijing that they haven't eaten good food?

Brother Ai lined up for a long time to buy this for himself, and Daiyu felt a little embarrassed: "Since I'm pregnant, my taste has also become picky. I usually feel that I don't like eating, but it's not that the snacks are bad."

"It's not good, it's not good," Shen Yue firmly felt that his wife was right: "I'll make you some soft snacks after I think about it."

Daiyu looked at him amusedly: "Forget it, last time a bowl of noodles drew so many stories, if brother Ai makes dim sum again, I'm afraid that other gentlemen and lords will block the gate of Shen's residence and wait to beat you."

Shen Yue didn't care, and while touching Daiyu's flat belly, he smiled and said, "It would be nice if it was a daughter, and there are more like Yu'er, so I can watch Yu'er grow up little by little."

Daiyu had another thought: "Let's still be a boy, it would be nice to have a daughter after the next baby, and have an older brother to protect her." She said that she looked at Shen Yue tenderly.Shen Yue also kept a close relationship with her.

This kind of scene can be seen at least two or three times a day, and the girls have already seen the strangeness, bowed their heads and finished their own things, and then went out quietly-now grandma doesn't vomit, and the wife herself feels that the uncle is staying with grandma Turn a blind eye and close one eye, so that they don't get caught in it and wait to be scolded.

However, Shen Yue took the matter of making dim sum to heart, thinking that there must be an oven for making dim sum, but in this era there is no electricity, so he can only do it in his own way.Fortunately, more and more recipes were collected by the Hanlin Academy, which actually led him to find the method of earthen oven.

Just when everyone thought that Shen Yue would return to the Hanlin Academy to compile books, he took the recipe for making earthen ovens and skipped work early.But this time he didn't go back to the Shen Mansion, but went to a small house that he had built in his early years.

There were already people coming and going in and out of the house carrying earth and picking bricks, and Zhang Yi was watching from the side.Seeing Shen Yue approaching, he smiled and stepped forward to make a thousand calls: "Just ask Shuang'an and the others to come and take a look at this idea. Why do you need to run by yourself?"

Shen Yue also laughed: "But you feel that you have lost your identity by letting you, the fifth-rank official, stare at you personally?"

Zhang Yi didn't dare, for he could be promoted again, Zhang Yi knew who to praise.Don't just ask him to watch the craftsmen work, even let him do it himself, Zhang Yi will not hesitate.

Compared with the recipe with vague descriptions, it was very modified and tested several times before this clay oven was completed.Shen Yue immediately started chasing people away, making food for his wife himself, it's one thing for others to talk about it, but quite another for people to visit.

However, Shen Yue still asked Shuang'an to bring a cook over to help him, and started with the simplest pumpkin pie, and finally he was satisfied, and Shuang'an and the cook could no longer eat any more.

"Do you remember this method?" Shen Yue asked the cook.

Although the stomach is a little full, the cook still knows that she has taken advantage of it today: "Remember, how much pumpkin, how much glutinous rice flour, how much sugar, and how long to bake, the servant will remember. It's just..." Said He murmured a little.

Shen Yue looked at her puzzled: "What's wrong?"

The cook listened to his question, and boldly said: "My servant feels that although the taste is not bad when it is cold, it tastes better when it is freshly baked. Why don't you build an oven in the mansion. In this way, wives, grandma You can eat hot."

The idea is a good one, but the reason why Shen Yue came here to experiment quietly is to try out a few more dim sum recipes, so as to change Daiyu's taste from time to time.But if this thing is built in the mansion, if I make too many tricks at once, it will be hard to explain the source of this recipe.

Shen Yue returned to the mansion with the cook and some snacks noncommittal. Hearing that Daiyu was talking to Mrs. Fang in the main room, she came straight to the main room.Seeing the food box in his hand, Fang felt it was funny: "It's good that you have this kind of heart, but Yu'er can't make up too much, otherwise she will suffer in the future."

The truth is that, Shen Yue couldn't help wanting to raise Daiyu better, and smiled at Mrs. Fang: "Today's new dim sum, my wife has a taste of it." As he said, he picked it up from the food box with his own hands. He took out the plate.

A scent of sweetness came out the moment the plate was taken out of the food box, and a dozen or so round dim sums were neatly stacked on the fine white porcelain plate, and a few grains were sprinkled on top of the golden dim sum. White sesame, looks very attractive.

Fang Shi was not too polite, he directly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. He felt the aroma was strong, it melted in the mouth without any residue, it was slightly sweet but not greasy, so he couldn't help but take another bite.Seeing that she was eating sweetly, Daiyu also picked up a piece and put it in her mouth, narrowing her eyes slightly, which made Shen Yue feel extremely cute.

"Which store is this from? You don't need to queue up tomorrow, I'll send someone to buy it." Fang ate one piece of dim sum, then stretched his hand to the plate to take the second piece.Daiyu also nodded, swallowing her mouth before saying: "What Madam said is that Brother Ai always returns early, so I'm afraid it will attract people's gossip."

Shen Yue was a little proud: "You only say that it's good or not?"

Is this not tasty?Both Fang and Daiyu looked at him with contempt.Shen Yue raised his head even more proudly: "You can't buy this pumpkin cake, but my wife is kind enough to praise me, it won't be difficult to get it again tomorrow."

"Smell, no matter which shop produces such good dim sum, it will definitely sell well. If you don't tell me, I'll ask someone to inquire about it tomorrow and I'll find out. It's the new one made by the royal chef in the palace. Yu'er wants to eat it. The empress will also be sent by someone. Unless you made it yourself..." When Fang said this, her eyes widened in surprise, and she felt that she might have told the truth.

"Brother Ai?" Daiyu and Fang Shi also thought of the same thing, and the two women looked at Shen Yue with piercing eyes.

Shen Yue had already sat down comfortably, and even raised his legs: "Madam, do you still want to eat other snacks? After I try a few more times, it's not difficult to change it."

Fang's finger pointed at the eldest son, his voice trembling: "You, you boy. Put away the snacks and let the master know, no amount of boards are enough for you."

"Okay, why should I beat him?" Shen Ren, who had just left the office, heard his wife slandering him, and said as he entered the door: "Since I was a child, you can see that I beat him? What is so fragrant?"

Seeing the snacks on the table, he washed his hands and took a piece. He felt that it was a little too sweet, but he finished it and said to Fang: "I'm afraid you women like this snack, so you don't have to hide it. It's just for one piece." Dim sum, I don't have to hit him either."

Fang Shi and Daiyu looked at each other, and they both automatically turned their eyes to the pattern on the carpet, and let Shen Yue explain to Shen Ren.Shen Yue was really speechless to these two women, this is the real mother and daughter-in-law, and he didn't care about his own life at the critical moment.

"Master doesn't think this snack is appetizing, I'll let someone take it down." Shen Yue also trembled with a smile.Shen Ren felt something was wrong: "Where did this snack come from?"

Shen Yue had no choice but to accept his fate: "I tried to make it, thinking of changing the taste for my wife and Yu'er."

Shen Ren's eyes are almost killing people. If you make a bowl of noodles, I have to go to a restaurant to learn how to cook small dishes for a few days before I can compare you.What kind of snacks are you doing again? You are sincerely doing right with me, aren't you?

Facing the gaze that could pierce people's hearts, Shen Yue smiled flatteringly, begging for mercy, and never dared to smile again next time.Knowing son Mo Ruofu, Shen Ren understands that if he can come up with such a snack today, he will have other snacks waiting for him to see tomorrow. He said angrily, "Big men don't want to make meritorious deeds, but only think about these kitchen things." , are you going to open a restaurant by yourself?"

At this time, Shen Yueduo was well-behaved. Standing in front of Shen Ren, he automatically bent his waist like a shrimp: "My son also came up with this idea because he saw that Yu'er had lost his appetite these days. Tomorrow, someone will come to our house." There is also an oven in the house, and my wife and Yu'er can bake whatever they want by themselves, and eat and play with it." Compared with my own life, the source of the dim sum recipe is not so important.

When mentioning the daughter-in-law, he brought out the unborn grandson. Shen Yi didn't come up, and waved to the eldest son directly: "Go away, send fifty big characters over today for me to read."

Fang didn't intercede for the eldest son, so what's the matter with writing fifty big characters? If he becomes an official, he can't be punished by Lao Tzu?As Shen Ren said, he has never touched any of his sons. Punishment is his ultimate means of punishment.

Daiyu looked at her father-in-law with some embarrassment: "Master, did I take this snack back to the yard?" To save you from getting angry.

Fang said with a smile, "Leave me two yuan anyway." Shen Ren wanted to laugh when he said that, but when he saw the eldest son, he became angry and said, "I still don't hold the plate for your wife."

Shen Yue really wanted to ask his own father, did the girl raised by the family watch the master serve the dishes himself?But he didn't dare to offend the angry Shen Ren, he swallowed his anger and retreated together with Daiyu.

"Brother Ai, can I really bake dim sum by myself?" Daiyu asked excitedly.Shen Yue complained a little: "Yu'er, I want to write fifty big characters." Daiyu nodded: "I heard what the master said. Brother dear, do you have a recipe for this dim sum you baked? Is it only the oven can make it? Come out?" The little face is full of excitement, and it means to try it right away.

Shen Yue remained silent in resignation.Now that he knows that Daiyu is Shen Ren and Fang's biological daughter-in-law, he just wants to ask if he remembers that he is her biological husband.

Daiyu would not answer such a boring question, but before she fell asleep, she reminded Shen Yue with dim eyes: "Brother Ai, remember to ask someone to set up the oven early tomorrow, let's set it up in our yard."

Shen Yue made great efforts to tidy up this yard, in order to have a view in all seasons, Shen Yue couldn't think of where to build the clay oven, so he had to call the old lady over to discuss it.

What kind of brains does Nanny Gu have? After hearing Shen Yue's words, she already had an idea: "It's for making food, and it's just built in the small kitchen. Anyway, the small kitchen is just for making soup for grandma, and I don't use it very much on weekdays. Come, let's go to a stove, I think there is enough space."

Others have been stupid for three years, but Shen Yue felt that since his daughter-in-law was pregnant, he had already shown signs of being stupid, and he didn't even think about such a simple thing.Fortunately, Nanny Gu is considerate: "Don't worry, uncle, I'll invite grandma to the main courtyard tomorrow morning, so that grandma won't smell the dust, and I won't let anyone bump into grandma."

Shen Yue could only nod his head: "I don't have enough brains right now, please mention me more if you have something to do." Nanny Gu laughed, not ashamed to tell my little master that whenever you encounter grandma, you will Rarely is he not stupid.

Here, Daiyu and Fang Shi have acquired new toys, they not only tried them one by one according to the recipes Shen Yue came up with, but also created new ones by themselves from time to time.They are also generous, if the two mothers think it is delicious, they will send a copy to the Zhong'an Hou Mansion, the old house and the queen in the palace.

In a few days, everything that should be known has been known, and Xiao Shen Hanlin has made something new, which can bake delicious snacks.For a while, people who lined up came to Shen's house to see the strange things, and asked for those dim sum recipes.

What other people can know, if you have tasted the snacks that Daiyu sent to the palace today, how can you not know?He said harshly to the queen: "I go down to the office early every day, so it's to make snacks for my daughter-in-law. If I don't find him some work this time, he thinks there's nothing I can do about him."

The queen picked up a piece of chiffon cake for herself, savoring it carefully, watching where she was gritting her teeth.Then I heard the present suddenly ask myself: "Do you want me to have someone serve you a cup of tea?"

The queen replied subconsciously: "This snack is soft and not greasy, not dry, and it doesn't hurt if you don't drink tea." After speaking, she realized later that she thought she was acting too much and had nothing to do with her.

She wanted to describe it, but the queen felt that she had nothing to describe, and it was not the first time she came here to scold Shen Yue. This righteous daughter was not recognized by herself, and she couldn't take advantage of her son-in-law. .

I also thought of this now, and bitterly picked up a piece of dim sum to take a bite: "What kind of food has never been seen before, it makes everyone crazy." Take another job.

Who would have thought that this dim sum would feel soft and soft after entering the mouth, and just like what the queen said, it is just slightly sweet, and there is only some aftertaste left when savoring it carefully, now I can't help but nod: "Where can I send it to the queen mother?"

The queen suppressed a smile and said: "Yu'er is considerate, not only with the queen mother, but also with her three younger sisters, no one is left behind."

Now I can't help but say: "She is still pregnant, she is tired after doing so much."

The queen's eyes widened when she heard this, but wisely she only agreed with the current tone: "It was her mother-in-law who watched people make it, and the one that the saint tasted yesterday was caught by Yu'er herself." Yes." After speaking, he laughed again: "I don't know if it will last for a few days, and it makes me want to build such an oven."

"It's such a difficult task." Now that the queen is the mother of the country, this small idea should be satisfied: "Let your son-in-law do it for you, if it is a little later, I will ask him to reward him."

The queen curled her lips inwardly, and rewarded the board, which is almost the same as rewarding others for a meal together.

The princes and concubines don’t have the rule that the queen can’t leave the palace, and these sisters can’t wait to grow up in the Shen’s mansion—although they have built that oven in their own home, but the recipe is not as good as Daiyu’s here, even eating alone It's not as sweet as everyone rushing to eat together.

They also know that Fang is afraid that they will be uncomfortable if they always go to the house.Every time you come, you have to send someone to ask Mr. Fang to make sure you don't care about yourself and just mind your own business.But Mrs. Fang has to meet the princes and concubines respectfully, and it is in accordance with the rules to say a few words with them before retiring, and it will be too much for a long time.

What's more terrible is the three princesses in the palace. I heard that the sisters-in-law can go to Sister Yuer's house every day to try to bake new snacks. visit her.

The queen herself heard what the first princess said, and she was very jealous, and thinking that the princesses and Daiyu were very friendly, she agreed to their request.As a result, if there is one, there will be two. The princesses come to beg within a few days, and come to beg again within two days.The queen has always been ready to ask, but Shen Yue will not do it.