Song Heng wanted to have breakfast in Qiushi Courtyard, so it was natural that this small amount of food was not enough, so he asked Qiu Ju to go to the kitchen to bring some food.
However, Song Heng also had a very unpleasant breakfast because he found that the food that was coming later had completely different tastes from what his wife had eaten at the beginning.
After the meal, Qiu Ju put away the bowls and chopsticks and brewed a pot of green tea.
"Have you remembered something, madam?" Song Heng put down the teacup in his hand and looked at Shen Wan and asked.
Shen Wan raised her hand and rubbed her temples and said, "Occasionally, some pictures flash through my mind."
"What kind of picture?" Song Heng asked.
"It seems to be a scene of me carrying a big bag on the pier." Shen Wan said, looking at Song Heng pretending to be confused and asked, "Am I not the general's wife? How can I carry a big bag on the pier?"
Song Heng replied with a guilty look on his face, "I wasn't there at that time. The general was forced to conscript soldiers, so in order for my mother and children not to starve to death, you went to the dock to carry big bags in exchange for rice."
"So, that's it!" Shen Wan lowered her head and raised her lips sarcastically.
The two sat together and talked for a while before Song Heng left.
After Song Heng left, Shen Wan used her memory to find the money box hidden under the bed.
In the money box were ten ingots of fifty two kinds of silver and fifty taels of broken silver. Song Heng's monthly salary was one hundred and twenty taels. It was the land rewarded by the emperor when he was made a general in the early years. Song Heng bought it for those warriors. The brothers who died in the battlefield or injured their arms or legs were paid for pensions. The General's Mansion has no other income, so these 120 taels of silver are needed to support the more than 50 people in the General's Mansion. Moreover, Song Ziyu is here again She was going to get married in two years and had to save a dowry, so the original owner became stingy and frugal, so he saved more than five hundred taels of silver.
In this book, the dowry saved for Song Ziyu was nothing. Shen Wan felt that it was a pity to use the money for the dowry of the little white-eyed wolf, so she decided to keep the money and spend it herself.
Shen Wan took out ten taels of silver from the box and then put the box back to its original place.
"Autumn Ju"
"Hey" Qiu Ju, who was cleaning the yard, put down the broom and entered the house.
"What are your orders, madam?"
Shen Wan said, "When you take the money, you go out to buy some rice, noodles, meat, vegetables, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. When you come back, we will cook separately in the small kitchen in the courtyard."
Since it doesn't matter if she eats the pig trotters herself in the future! She doesn't want to abuse her stomach. Besides, there is a small kitchen in the courtyard, but she has never used it.
"Why?" Qiu Ju blurted out. Madam, who has always been frugal, suddenly thought of firing alone!
Shen Wan rolled her eyes and said, "Because the food cooked in the kitchen is so unpalatable, I'm afraid that if I continue to eat it, I will become thinner and thinner."
Qiu Ju also ate some today. The leftover dishes that Madam and the General had eaten in the morning were the two dishes prepared for Madam. Yes, they were a bit more unpalatable. She saw that the General also ate those two dishes this morning. He must have also I found out but didn't say anything.
"My slave, go now." Qiu Ju stretched out her hands and took the silver.
Qiu Ju went out, and Shen Wan had nothing to do, so she walked around the mansion. Although the servants and soldiers in the mansion saluted her when they saw her, there was no respectful look on their faces.
After walking around to admire the ancient garden architecture, Shen Wan returned to Qiushi Courtyard. After a while, Qiu Ju came back carrying a basket of ingredients. Qiu Ju first tidied up the small kitchen and then Then she put away the things she had bought. When she was done, it was noon because she didn't have time to make lunch, so Qiu Ju went to the big kitchen to get some food.
For lunch, there is crispy duck, fried pork with ginger, stir-fried soybean sprouts, loofah meatball soup and a cup of ginseng chicken soup. The dishes are much richer than before.
After Qiu Ju put the food on the table, Shen Wan was quite surprised. Although she didn't know how it tasted yet, this dish was pretty good, both in color and aroma.
Shen Wan sat down and tasted it and found that the taste was very good, and the ginseng chicken soup was also very fragrant and rich. Could it be that Song Heng had gone to talk to the people in the kitchen?
"Qiu Ju, you just went to get the food and you were the one in the kitchen. What's the difference in attitude?" Shen Wan asked, looking at Qiu Ju who was standing aside to wait.
Qiu Ju said, "It's much better!"
In the past, everyone in the kitchen ignored her, but now they were very respectful to her and the food they served was very good.
"The slave thinks it's OK, so the general went to talk to the people in the kitchen privately." Otherwise, the people in the kitchen wouldn't have changed like this.
Shen Wan asked again, "What changes will be made to the kitchen staff?"
Qiu Ju thought for a while and said, "There is no change, everyone is here!"
It seemed that the food in the kitchen was not good enough to eat. Even though Song Zhutizi privately told the people in the kitchen that the food had become better. However, the person who was told about it was still in the kitchen! Yes, she had a grudge. What should I do if I add spices to her meals?
No, she thinks too bad about people because people's hearts are inherently bad.
After lunch, Shen Wan took a nap and then went to the kitchen to take a look. She saw Qiu Ju coming back from buying cucumbers, and she sliced the cucumbers and put it on her face under Qiu Ju's surprised eyes.