girl strategy

Chapter 43 All the way west, big kitchen!
There was no one to stop them in the brocade courtyard, and Luo Chuchen and the three came out smoothly. They rushed all the way, passed through the small garden, turned around the west corridor, and the three came to the northwest corner of Anlinghou's mansion.

"Where is this place, girl? Where did we come from?" Danqing asked pantingly as he wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling hot all the way.

"Oh, this is the big kitchen of the Marquis of Anling's Mansion, so our meals should be served here!" Luo Chuchen replied softly.

"...But, I saw that there is also a small kitchen in the Jinyuan Garden? The one next to our house is still smoking during dinner, and I can already smell the fragrance!" Milu wrinkled her nose and smashed it. Tongue Road.

"It's for dim sum and ordinary food." Luo Chuchen walked back while walking forward, "The Anlinghou's mansion has no separate families, although each courtyard has a small kitchen, but it's not a public flower. Xiao, it’s all done by each house. There are many concubines in Zhuijin Courtyard, how can Mrs. Pei be willing to spend money to support them...Three meals a day are delivered by the big kitchen. The kitchen is only for Pei Shi and Luo Chufen!"

"Oh, that's it, it's not for us, I smell the food is quite delicious!" Milu muttered in a low voice with regret.

"Don't say it's useless, hurry up and follow the girl!" Dan Qing turned his elbow. It turned out that Luo Chuchen walked away by himself when Mi Lu was regretting!

"Oh, girl, wait for me!" Milu yelled hastily.

The two ran a few steps in a hurry and caught up with Luo Chuchen. Danqing grinned and asked, "Girl, what are you doing in the big kitchen? Are you getting dinner? Then why do you come here in person? Can you show me the way?" , no matter who I am or Milu, I can come! Even if they don’t give it, can’t we just pay some money?”

She said, annoyed again, with a slight complaint in her mouth, "Aunt Yu and Aunt Liu are really too. Since they have checked the layout of the Anling Marquis Mansion, why did they only tell the girl? Let's talk about it, too. Lest you have to take the lead in everything!"

Obviously, Danqing pushed Luo Chuchen's familiarity with the inside story of the Anling Marquis Mansion to Yuru and Xiangliu, thinking that they had checked it in advance.

"Take silver? Hehe, Danqing, let me teach you how to be a good boy. With our identities, if we only hold silver in the Marquis of Anling's mansion, we might not be able to exchange even a green onion from the big kitchen!" Luo Chuchen sneered.

"How could it be? I heard from Aunt Yu that in a noble household, the things in the big kitchen are all from the business, and they don't occupy the share of each room, so everyone's ration is full, Aunt Liu said. Yes, a young lady from the earl's family has two chickens, two ducks, three fish, two catties of meat, and seasonal vegetables for each meal. A dish to eat!"

Milu showed envy, and exaggeratedly waved his hands and said: "My God, I said at the time, a delicate young lady has to have a big belly to eat so much food, I'm afraid she can't even be a strong man Then Aunt Liu laughed at me, saying that I didn't understand anything, where did the lady get those things, most of them were withheld by the woman in charge of the kitchen, or used by herself, or sold..."

"How can we not get meals with money? There are so many things left in the big kitchen, even the poor servant girl, with one or two hundred dollars, can secretly order three or two dishes." !” Milu pursed her lips and retorted dissatisfied.

"...I thought you could only eat, but I didn't expect to know a lot!" Luo Chuchen laughed, seeing Milu's dissatisfied face, he quickly comforted him, and then explained: "Milu, what do you say?" In the next mansion, or for anyone in the Anlinghou mansion, if you go to the big kitchen with money, you will get a meal. Even if you want something like abalone and bear's paw , as long as you give enough money, you can get it.”

"It's just that for others, the three of us can't do it!" She pointed to Milu, and called Danqing again: "Danqing, listen carefully to what I said, and it's important to us in the future. Life in Linghou Mansion is helpful..."

"Hey, girl, tell me, I'm listening!" Danqing nodded quickly.

"Okay, then listen carefully." Luo Chuchen walked slowly and said seriously: "There are two generations in the Marquis of Anling's mansion today, and there are more than 20 masters, and the servants probably count. Three, five hundred."

"The person in charge of the Marquis of Anling's Mansion is of course Elder Luo Jinwen. He works in the cabinet and is usually very busy. He basically doesn't care about the affairs of the juniors in the mansion. He and his stepwife Xu have two sons and a daughter. He and his concubine, Aunt Wu, also have two sons, both of whom are not in official positions now, but are only studying, and they are not married, so they are not considered adults... Oh, by the way, he also has an aunt named Liu who also gave birth to a daughter, girl She is second in the ranking, but she is already married."

"As for the second master Luo Jinzhang, it is my father, a junior official of the seventh rank, who is also away from home every day. We all know his situation very well. He has three sons and one daughter with Mrs. Pei. Except for the eldest son who is married, the other two They are all unmarried and have no concubines, as for the daughter, it is Luo Chufen."

"As for the third master, Luo Jinyan, he is a military commander in the Fifth North Battalion of Central Beijing. He works in the Fifth North Battalion except for three times a month. He and his wife, Mrs. Zhou, have a son and a daughter. It's big."

"In addition, the last Marquis of Anling, the father of these three, Mrs. Luo, is still alive, but he is not in good health. He has been recuperating in his hometown in Anling in the south of the Yangtze River for many years. It seems that he has not been back to the capital for seven or eight years! "

"There has been a saying since ancient times: men rule the outside and women rule the house. This Anling Marquis Mansion is naturally in charge of the female relatives. There is only one young mistress of the younger generation, so it doesn't matter. Let's just talk about the wife's generation."

"It stands to reason that Mrs. Luo and Mrs. Xu should be in charge of the back house of Anlinghou's mansion. It's just that Mrs. Luo has never cared about such trivial matters. After Luo Jinwen married his wife, she stopped interfering in the inner house. Waiting Mrs. Xu, she is the second wife, and there is a "sister" in front of her who needs her to be a concubine. She is a little guilty. Moreover, she is not strong, and she is a bit greedy and stingy. Although she holds real power in name, But actually..."

"In the entire Anling Marquis Mansion, it's not bad if she can grasp three points!"

"As for the third wife, Mrs. Zhou, she is the youngest daughter-in-law, and she has a relatively cold personality. The third master has been away for a long time, so she is not affected by the government's power, and only manages her own yard."

"So..." Luo Chuchen glanced at Dan Qing and Mi Lu fascinatedly, and concluded: "The actual person in charge of the back house of the Marquis of Anling's Mansion is my aunt, Mrs. Pei!"

"She is in charge of the inner house in the Marquis of Anling's mansion. Of course, the big kitchen is also within the scope of the back house. If others go, one or two hundred dollars can get you good food! But, as long as she I have specially ordered that, even if we have one or two hundred taels of silver, no one dares to give us food!"

"It's... so! Why is Mrs. Pei so powerful?" Dan Qing muttered: "Then what should we do? What's the use of the girl finding a big kitchen?"

Obviously, knowing that Pei Shi is so powerful, Dan Qing was a little scared.

"What's the matter? Let's make a fuss if it's a big deal. She doesn't give the girl food, and she doesn't care where she goes!" Milu yelled, she was more innocent, she didn't think as much as Danqing, and she wasn't too scared.

"How can I do that? You made trouble when you first entered the mansion, isn't it waiting to be hated?" Dan Qing hurriedly spat at her, "Stop pretending to be a girl... Is it so easy for you to treat it like this? Let's make trouble, Pei The second wife only needs to say that the big kitchen forgot, or that the delivery was late in a hurry, at most, the woman in charge will be punished, so what's the problem with her?... But our girl's reputation is rotten! "

"That's it..." Milu scratched her head and said: This is so profound and complicated, with her IQ, she probably really can't figure it out! !
"Then what are we here for?" She asked with a blank expression.

"Uh~~~" Dan Qing was also dazed!

"Girl?" The two turned around together, and Qi Qi cast their eyes on Luo Chuchen.

"...Well, what, today the girl will teach you how to overwhelm Mrs. Pei without causing trouble!" Luo Chuchen smiled slightly, looked at the big kitchen close at hand, and said confidently and meaningfully : "Sometimes, it's a good thing that there are too many women in a mansion."

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The big kitchen is located in the northwest corner of Anlinghou's Mansion. It is a rather large courtyard. After all, it is in charge of the food for three to 500 people brought by the master. Even the place is too small.

In the large kitchen, there are about a dozen chefs in charge, and more than 30 rough envoys who burn the fire and wash the vegetables, totaling more than [-] people.These people, except for the eight or nine who were singled out to serve as rough envoys for the servants, the rest were all serving the masters of the houses.

Now at this time, the dinner everywhere has been used up, and the people in the big kitchen have cleaned up all the pots and pans, leaving only a little soup and various snacks nestled on the fire to be watched by someone...that is In case the masters are hungry at night, it is used as supper.

After everything was done, it seemed to be quiet, the stewards of the big kitchen and the chefs in charge of the spoons directed the little maids to carry rice for the fire and prepare things for tomorrow morning, and they snuggled up to the fire by themselves, cracking sunflower seeds, Gossiping on the side.

"I said Tianlai family, isn't there a new one in your yard today... Ah, that one? I heard from the second son who guarded the gate that he entered through the side door at noon outside. Why don't you see you prepare more meals?" ?" A young daughter-in-law sitting on a chair with her legs up, raised her brows and asked maliciously.

This young daughter-in-law is in charge of the meals in Xu's courtyard, and because she is taking care of the meals in the long room, she considers herself superior, and is a little arrogant towards the chef in charge of the second room, especially the one in charge of the second room.

——I always feel like I stole her limelight.

The "Tianlai family" she mentioned was the master chef who was in charge of the second room's meals. She was originally served by Mrs. Pei's side, and she was her dowry maid. Before she was married, she was called Shuangtong.

When Mrs. Pei got married, she took eight dowry maids with her, six of them were Luo Jinzhang's housekeepers. Now the dead one is dead, and the other is Bisu, who is good-looking and literate. She was proposed by a scholar outside the mansion.As for Shuangtong, she has an ordinary appearance (Luo Jinzhang doesn't like her, and she can't talk about it), and she doesn't have any special skills (no one asks for it from outsiders). Seeing the age of marriage, Pei decided to marry her to Ma Nanny's son - Ma Tianlai.

So everyone called her 'Heavenly Home'.

She manages the big kitchen for Mrs. Pei, and she can be regarded as a very powerful servant in Anlinghou's mansion, and because of this, the young daughter-in-law dislikes her.

"Gao Shun's family, what you said is wrong. The young masters in the mansion came back from the academy today, and the kitchen is so busy. How can I have the time to care about that person who doesn't know the name?" Tian Lai's family sneered. , she has a small nose and small eyes, and her smile is somewhat funny, but she doesn't care, she just leans against the cabinet and eats melon seeds.

"Why don't you know your surname? She is a lady with a name and a surname, and she has entered the rankings! If you dare to starve her, you are not afraid of her coming to trouble you?" There is an honest woman who can't understand the meaning of this. The truth is, I only want to make friends with Tianlai's family, so I persuaded her, "You are a slave, and she is a young lady, so don't offend too much, we are lowly and lowly, after all, we are no better than those masters."

"Bah, what kind of master is she? She hasn't even entered the ancestry tree, but the second lady is kind enough to raise her up like an autumn wind!" The Tianlai family's small eyes stared, and they sternly spat: "Offend me!" What about her? I want to see how she dares to trouble me!!"

It's a pity that before the words were finished, a little maid hurriedly ran outside. When she saw them, she didn't salute, but shouted anxiously, "It's not good, it's not good, someone from outside is calling!"

"What?" Tianlai's family was startled, stood up abruptly, ran out, and shouted: "I'm going to go and see, who the hell is killing me!" Said, while running out the door go.

The rest of the people in the room watched her disappear, and then... you look at me, I look at you, with a hidden smile in their eyes, they followed behind leisurely, and went out to watch the fun!
(End of this chapter)