Although I had already guessed his extraordinary status after being reminded by my wife, I really didn’t expect him to be so extraordinary. The old man’s home wasn’t very eye-catching either.
The girl looked stunned, and her parents outside were already dumbfounded.
My dear, no one in Jiangzhou Prefecture would dare to offend even the lowest servant from such a family.
The Cheng family is different from the Zhang family, and being a maid is different from being a cook.
A girl can't be a cook for a lifetime, but a cook can be a cook for a lifetime.
Those good cooks raised by wealthy families have a high status in the family, and they can also rent them out. It is extremely shameful to hire a good cook and prepare a good banquet.
Not to mention the rewards received.
The girl's parents outside the door can no longer sit down.
If my daughter goes to such a family, even if my own family is not lucky enough to go with her, they will still be blessed endlessly in the Cheng family.
"Of course I am willing." The old woman couldn't help but kowtow and shouted happily, "Thank you sir and madam for caring about me. Thank you madam for caring about me."
On the other hand, he simply knelt forward and reached out to push the girl who was still in a daze.
"Thank you quickly, Master and Madam. When you get there, be nice and don't embarrass Master and Madam, and don't forget your last name." She shouted in a low voice.
The girl was pushed forward and fell forward, holding her hands on the ground in a panic.
"Master, madam, slave..." she said in a trembling voice.
"Okay, don't say those words. After you pass, stick to your duties. From now on, you will be a member of the Zhang family. Don't worry about the Cheng family anymore." Master Cheng said.
"No, Master." The girl said hurriedly and kowtowed, "Slave, you can't go."
There was silence in the room, and Master Cheng and his wife were a little surprised.
What?
"You damn girl, what are you talking about? This is not the time for you to act pretentious. Just listen to what the master and his wife say." The old woman pushed the girl hard again and shouted.
"Mom, you don't know, don't talk nonsense." The girl turned around anxiously and said, then looked at Master Cheng Er and his wife, "Master and Madam, I don't have any skills. These slaves were taught by my wife, so I don't dare to go.
You are showing off your humiliation in front of the old man."
Here it is again…
Mrs. Cheng Er was in a daze.
This, this is not made by me, my wife taught me...
The girl kowtowing in front of her seemed to have changed into the girl she once was, with a generally panicked expression and generally... talking nonsense.
"Do you think your surname is Zhou?" Mrs. Cheng asked with a sneer.
The girl looked up in confusion.
"I called you here to tell you that you will go to Mrs. Zhang's house tomorrow. I didn't come to ask you if you would like to go." Mrs. Cheng Er said, looking at her condescendingly.
In the evening, Guanzhu Sun and the child hurried to the Taiping Palace.
"What? Miss Banqin hasn't come back yet?" she asked.
The Taoist nun guarding the door nodded nervously.
"It's almost dark, why haven't you come back yet?" she said.
"Didn't you say you were going to the city to deliver mooncakes to my father-in-law? I guess he should be back long ago." Guanzhu Sun said, rubbing her hands anxiously, "You call a few senior sisters to go to the city to welcome him."
The Taoist nun responded and walked away quickly, while Sun Guanzhu led the child into Cheng Jiaoniang's yard.
When I entered the door, I saw Cheng Jiaoniang standing on the porch, looking up at the sky.
"Madam." Sun Guanzhu hurriedly saluted and shouted, "Miss Banqin may have gone a long way to buy groceries and hasn't come back yet."
Cheng Jiaoniang retracted her gaze and looked at her.
"No," she said, "She won't be back tonight."
Guanzhu Sun was stunned for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"It turns out that the lady knows where she is going, she scared me to death." She said, calling the boy to call the senior sisters back.
Cheng Jiaoniang didn't say anything, she just raised her head and continued to look at the sky.
Guanzhu Sun has seen her like this every time he has been here, and he can't help but be a little puzzled.
"Madam, what are you looking at?" She couldn't help but look too.
The sun is setting in the west, and the autumn twilight is thick.
"Look at the sky." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
"My God, what's there to see?" Sun Guanzhu asked.
"It's nothing." Cheng Jiaoniang said, looking away, "It's just that I seemed to like watching it in the past."
before?
Guanzhu Sun was a little confused. Then he saw that Cheng Jiaoniang had turned inward. Although this woman was not a fool, she was always a little weird and different from ordinary people. Guanzhu Sun hurriedly followed her.
"Madam, Miss Banqin is not here, what do you want to eat? I'll let them do it," she said.
"Okay." Cheng Jiaoniang said, holding the table and sitting down on the mat, "I want to eat steamed pork with lotus root, mushrooms and lilies, Qibao vegetarian porridge, and manchurian cakes."
What, what, what? Master Sun was confused. Do you want anything to eat?
This heart-stopping name sounds as dizzying as the music of heaven.
My dear, what does this lady do every day?
"Madam, Madam." Sun Guanzhu shouted hurriedly, looking at the woman who had already sat down with a bit of embarrassment, "I, I don't know how to do it."
"No." Cheng Jiaoniang raised her head and looked at her, "You can learn. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, and food first are the simplest and easiest things."
This is what food, clothing, housing and transportation mean?
Sun Guanzhu seemed to understand but not quite.
When the sky got bright, two Taoist nuns hurriedly walked out of Xuanmiao Temple.
"I said I should stay there, but Master is still worried and insists on guarding it by himself."
"Where did Miss Banqin go? I didn't say a word."
"That's right. Although we don't care about her coming or going, that lady is an idiot. She just left her without saying anything."
"Last night's meal was so exhausting that my arms were still sore from pounding the meat and vegetables."
"What you're doing is just steaming it. I'm going to have trouble making biscuits."
"But it's really delicious. Rich people really know how to eat. How did you come up with it..."
"Go quickly, I don't know what weird things we are going to eat in the morning."
The two of them were talking and walking, and when they were about to climb the mountain, they saw a group of people in front of them.
"What a bad luck. It's only been a few days and there's been another change?"
"Hey, I'm not unlucky this time. That Qingmei is lucky."
"Yes, she is not unlucky, but we are unlucky and have to serve this fool."
"Hey, if you think about it, then Qingmei got this opportunity by following this silly girl, so coming here is not unlucky?"
Two of the girls were laughing and talking in a low voice.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the group turned their heads to look.
"Good man." The two Taoist nuns saluted.
The group of people ignored it, turned around and continued moving forward.
The two Taoist nuns looked at each other, said nothing, and followed slowly behind.
Soon the group arrived in front of the Taiping Palace. A child in front of the door looked around and was a little dazed when he saw this group of people. When he saw the two Taoist nuns behind him, he came over happily.
"Is Sister Banqin back?" she asked hurriedly.
"You haven't come back yet?" the two Taoist nuns asked back.
After hearing this conversation, the group of people came over.
"Ban Qin?" One of the steward-looking men looked at the three of them and said, "She won't come back."
The two girls in the yard looked around with a bit of disdain, and murmured together from time to time.
"These are the two new girls." The steward said, looking at Guanzhu Sun in front of him.
Guanzhu Sun and the disciples behind him looked surprised.
"What about Miss Banqin?" Sun Guanzhu asked.
"Her, I sent her to Mrs. Zhang's house," the steward said, with a hint of pride.
Slaves at home are objects that can be disposed of at any time. It is normal to sell them or give them to each other.
Guanzhu Sun was silent, feeling a little sad in his heart.
"You must recognize that old lady Zhang, Ban Qin said that she met her here and likes to eat her cooking. It's such a stroke of luck that she can climb such a high tree here..." the steward continued.
After being stunned for a moment, Guanzhu Sun and others suddenly realized.
"It's the old man who is suffering from hunger disease!"
"Great, it must be the old man who wants to leave Sister Banqin."
"As I said before, Sister Banqin is out of trouble this time."
"Sister Banqin must be very surprised."
The long-hidden expectations of the Taoist nuns came true, and they couldn't help but smile and talk about it, and curiously asked who the old man Zhang was.
The servants in the Cheng family were all envious of this girl's good fortune. They inquired very clearly and were happy to chat.
Now the two girls exaggerated the identity of Mrs. Zhang, and the Taoist nuns who listened cheered and thanked Tianzun one after another.
The master of Dusun Temple looked stunned.
"Then, she just left like this?" She murmured, "What should I do, madam?"
"Didn't we assign two more girls?" The steward said impatiently when he heard this. He shook his clothes and looked at the sky, "Okay, it's time for me to leave. I'll leave this to Fairy Aunt for you to worry about."
"
Guanzhu Sun quickly stopped him.
"You should tell my wife personally about this kind of thing," she said, "I am an outsider after all."
It can be seen that the master and servant have a very good relationship. She cannot do such an offending thing, let alone the woman who is offended.
The manager laughed and said this to a fool. Can she understand?
"If you understand, if you understand, come with me." Guanzhu Sun urged, walking towards the inner courtyard first.
The steward had no choice but to take two girls with him. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw a girl in plain robe sitting under the tree in front of her. Her long hair hung down her waist, and she was drawing on the ground with a branch in her hand.
"Madam." Sun Guanzhu shouted respectfully.
Is this the silly girl? The steward and the two girls looked at her curiously. When they heard the call, the lady raised her head.
"Madam, this is a member of the family who has something to report." Sun Guanzhu said, pointing behind him.
She didn't hear anyone's voice for a long time. She hurriedly turned around, only to see the steward and the two girls dumbfounded.
It's a pity that such a good-looking person is actually a born idiot.
The steward felt grateful in his heart and was reminded that Guanzhu Sun was born again.
"Madam, these are the two new girls sent by the master and his wife." He came back to his senses and said loudly with some pity, while pointing at the two girls behind him.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him without saying anything.
This fool's previous girl was called Banqin. Perhaps in her limited mind, this name was the most familiar to her, so after the original girl left, the new girl was also called Banqin, and the steward had an idea.
"Banqin, they are all Banqin." He said loudly.
Cheng Jiaoniang's lips curled up and she smiled.
"Okay." She said, "Banqin."
In the city, outside the gate of Zhang's house, the steward glared at the girl next to him.
"Don't cry." He shouted in a low voice, with a hint of warning, "Don't turn a good thing into a bad thing, think about your parents."
The girl bit her lower lip, held back the tears in her eyes, and lowered her head.
The door opened, and the concierge looked in with some caution.
"I'm from the Cheng Mansion. The master asked me to..." the steward said respectfully with a smile.
Before he finished speaking, the concierge was about to close the door.
"Hey, come here to see someone off, come here to see someone off, husband, don't close the door in a hurry." The steward hurriedly pushed the door open and shouted to the girl, "Come here quickly."
The girl stepped forward quickly, but the concierge suddenly let go of her hand when she saw it clearly. The steward stumbled and fell in. Looking at the concierge who looked like a debt collector just now, he smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.
"Miss Banqin, it's you who's here. What's the matter? I'm just trying to nag you."
Mrs. Zhang put down the tea bowl and looked at the steward and the girl standing in front of him.
"I learned that the old master is alone here, and this girl happens to have some cooking skills, so our master sent her to serve him." The steward said respectfully.
After saying that, he looked at the girl.
"Slave, I don't know, the old master is... a lot of collisions." The girl kowtowed and said tremblingly.
Mrs. Zhang smiled and nodded.
"Ignorance is not guilty. Besides, you didn't hit me, and you were my savior." He smiled, "Are you willing to stay here and be a cook?"
"Actually, I'm not a slave..." The girl trembled and wanted to speak, but the steward coughed. The girl didn't dare to say anything anymore and lowered her head and remained silent.
This girl was yelling at home that she didn't know what to do because her mother taught her, and she still yelled when she came here. Doesn't it mean she was unwilling to come?
Mrs. Zhang didn't pay attention and took a sip of tea with a smile.
"If you turn this marriage into a feud with me, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"You ungrateful hooves, I have raised you for nothing. This will cost the life of the whole family, and they will not be able to survive..."
The girl's ears echoed with Master Cheng's angry shouts and her parents' cries. She bit her lower lip and swallowed back her tears.
"Slave, I am willing." She lowered her head and replied.
When night fell, no one was seen running towards the foot of the mountain. It seemed that they would not come.
Guanzhu Sun turned back from the door and sighed softly.
"No way, no way." She said.
"Master, what are you looking at? Have you been looking at it for a long time?" the child asked in confusion.
"Nothing." Sun Guanzhu said, stepping in, "It's getting late, I'm going to see my wife."
There has been no interruption for a day. Either the master is guarding by himself or two Taoist nuns are guarding him. Why do we still have to go at night? Aren't there two girls?
The child was puzzled, but followed him anyway.
In the yard, two new girls were sitting in a small pavilion, talking and laughing, and knocking melon seeds all over the ground. On the other side of the kitchen, two Taoist nuns were holding a tray.
"I'll do it." Guanzhu Sun said hurriedly, reaching out to take it.
"Master, let's do it." The Taoist nuns gave in humbly.
The girl over there chuckled.
"How about we go?" A man said with a smile, but showed no intention of getting up.
"Let them go and take our family's offerings. Isn't that what they are doing?" the other one said with a smile.
Guanzhu Sun just pretended not to hear and opened the door.
"Madam, the porridge is ready," she said.
Cheng Jiaoniang put down the book in her hand and sat upright.
"Thank you." She said.
"Don't dare, I should." Guanzhu Sun smiled, knelt down, put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, "Madam, please."
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at her, her mouth curved.
"Xiangu, do you have a name?" she asked suddenly.
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Four thousand words updated, no more tonight. (To be continued)
