Food purchasing is actually very easy to get started. Each part has a fixed store. Someone will deliver fresh meat, raw fish, vegetables, fruits and other food every day. Liu Yun only needs to go there often to take a look.
The manager of the kitchen is conscientious. After all, food has always been the most important aspect for wealthy families, and no one dares to be lazy.
Liuyun didn't dare to relax because she understood that meal shopping was the easiest to get started and the easiest to get into trouble. In the past, Qianlan often said that many foods cannot be eaten together. In mild cases, food poisoning and diarrhea can occur, and in severe cases, even fainting and coma.
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But in many cases, the more worried you are, the more likely things will go wrong.
She had just come out of the accounting room that day when she saw Wan Qing running over with a solemn face and whispered: "Miss Su Wan has been vomiting and having diarrhea after lunch. Now she has passed out. The doctor just arrived and said
It may be a food problem, Madam and the others are at Miss Su's place, asking you to come over quickly."
"What did Su Wan eat for lunch?" A strange color flashed across Liu Yun's face, and he walked calmly towards Su Yuan with Wan Qing.
"When I woke up in the morning, I didn't have a good appetite, so I ate some fish fillet porridge. I didn't go to the front yard to eat at noon. She said she wanted to drink pigeon soup, so her girl went to the kitchen and sent a message to her to stew pigeon soup. At noon,
After eating, I was fine. After sleeping for more than an hour, I woke up and started vomiting." Wan Qing said quickly, "If there is really something wrong with what I ate at noon, it probably wasn't pigeons. It was probably put in the soup.
The medicinal materials are stewed together. Miss Su is not in good health, so when making soup for her, she will add some medicinal materials to make a soup similar to a medicinal diet."
"Medicine?" Liu Yun frowned, slightly guessing in his heart.
While they were talking, they had arrived at Su Yuan. Su Wan was lying on the bed with a bloodless face, while several other ladies stood beside her worriedly. The doctor was taking her pulse. The atmosphere in the room was very solemn.
"Aunt Lan..." Liuyun stepped forward to greet the ladies, and then asked about Su Wan's situation, "What's wrong with sister Su Wan? The maid told me it was a problem with the medicinal diet?"
Liu Yun's sudden grab made several ladies who wanted to accuse her speechless. No one expected that she would not shy away from asking the key questions as soon as she opened her mouth.
"The doctor said it might be a food problem, and he's still checking." Ling Lan glanced at Liu Yun, and she naturally believed in this wife. Looking at the gloating in Bai Ruoyan's eyes, she knew that this matter was not serious.
simple.
"I have been in charge of purchasing ingredients for so long, but I have never encountered any mistakes. Now it is good. This young man has been in charge of purchasing ingredients for less than a week, and he has made such a big waste. I don't know if he understands?"
Bai Ruoyan raised her eyebrows coldly, indicating something.
"Don't rush to a conclusion. It may not be the food. Su Wan's girl said she felt unwell in the morning." Ling Lan is not trying to help Liu Yun, but now Liu Yun is her daughter-in-law.
She asked Liu Yun to be responsible for purchasing ingredients again. If something happened to her this time, she, the head of the house, would not be able to escape her involvement.
Bai Ruoyan smiled coldly and said in a harsh tone: "You will know immediately if there is a food problem. I am afraid that Sister Lan cannot handle it impartially. Although Liuyun is the daughter-in-law of our Hou family, if it is really her problem,
It cannot be tolerated easily.”
Compared to Mrs. Bai Bian's aggressiveness, Shangguan Lurong seemed much gentler. She just said lightly: "It's too early to discuss everything now. It's best to wait until the doctor makes a diagnosis."
Liu Yun noticed a few malicious glances and frowned slightly. It seemed that this incident was most definitely directed at her.
After a while, the doctor finally confirmed the diagnosis. He went to the table and wrote a prescription, and then said: "The lady must have mistakenly eaten a medicinal material called Liu Ginseng. The lady has been afraid of catching a cold recently, and the wind and cold have always prevailed.
It hurts the spleen and stomach, and the cold nature of Liu Ginseng hurts the stomach. It is only after the lady accidentally eats it that she will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea. In fact, it is due to the imbalance of the spleen and stomach."
Liu Shen? Liu Yun frowned, why had she never heard of this name?
"What is Liu Ginseng?" Ling Lan had never heard of this name and asked in confusion.
"Willow ginseng is a kind of dried herbal plant. It looks very similar to blood ginseng, but its efficacy is completely different." The doctor paused, looked at the lady's ugly face, and then said, "Nian
In the past, the mistress of a family used willow ginseng instead of blood ginseng to make soup. The taste was almost the same, but... the price of willow ginseng was only one-tenth of the price of blood ginseng."
Everyone understood the next words without the doctor having to say it.
The maid took the doctor out of the room, and then the lady turned her attention to Liu Yun. She would never believe that Liu Yun was just for a little money. How could the daughter of the Mu family be short of money?
"Lihua, go and call the storekeeper and the kitchen steward." The eldest lady gave the order, and her personal maid Lihua immediately went to find the two stewards.
Su Wan was still unconscious, and no one else spoke. Liu Yun stood beside her without saying a word. She quickly calculated in her mind whether this matter would be a blessing or a curse for her, but she hadn't figured it out yet.
At that time, the warehouse manager Lin and the kitchen manager Xu had already arrived.
The two of them knew the purpose of the eldest lady calling them here, so they both knelt on the ground and listened to the eldest lady's question.
"Reporting to Madam, our house has always used blood ginseng and never used Liu ginseng. The latest batch of blood ginseng arrived the day before yesterday. A snow lotus also arrived that day. The servant and the young lady inspected the goods separately.
So when the blood ginseng arrives, only the young lady should be there." The warehouse manager spoke in an orderly manner without any ambiguity.
"Replying to Madam, Miss Su's girl did come to the kitchen yesterday and asked the cook to help her make pigeon soup. She also said she had brought some fresh velvet antlers and blood ginseng. She said that Miss Su had been in poor health these days and needed to take a good supplement.
The servant was preparing dinner in the kitchen at that time, so he saw the cook putting deer antlers and blood ginseng into the soup." The kitchen steward answered equally well-founded.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a drama that had been arranged long ago, and Liu Yun did not defend himself. If he could take advantage of the situation and withdraw himself from the power struggle between the wives, it would be a blessing in disguise.
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But Ling Lan was resentful at this time. She knew she couldn't blame Liu Yun. She had just arrived at the Hou Mansion and her foundation was unstable. Bai Ruoyan had released her power but at the same time set a trap. Liu Yun was naturally unable to guard against it.
, but even so, she was still extremely depressed.
"Liu Yun, your supervision was not strict, which caused Su Wan to accidentally eat ginseng. I will deduct three months of silver from you and spend a day in front of the wall in the ancestral hall." After Ling Lan finished speaking, she looked at Bai Ruoyan again, "Sister Yan.
, it seems that you still have to take over the purchase of this stall first, Liu Yun is young and has no eyesight after all, you can teach her personally when she matures."
This matter was just covered up in this way, and Bai Ruoyan got what she wanted. She knew in her heart that Ling Lan was determined to protect her shortcomings, so she didn't make any more fuss, and no one on her side would really punish Liu Yun.
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However, Ling Lan's complete defeat this time was a shame to her, and this shame was brought to her by her daughter-in-law. She believed that the tacit understanding between them would become less and less, and she, the side wife, would
Just sit back and watch the show with peace of mind.