Chapter 53 A Bowl of Soup
Mu Junyan sat in the study room reviewing the files handed over by the Ministry of War.
Dong Mo was serving on the side and noticed that his master had not turned a page for almost two quarters of an hour. He thought it must be a very important page.
He poured a cup of hot tea gently: "Master, would you like to have a cup of tea and rest first?"
Mu Junyan put down the file, picked up the tea, and glanced at the three plates of snacks on the coffee table.
A plate of lotus seed cakes, a plate of peach blossom wine, and a plate of lifelike green flower-shaped tea cakes.
Mu Junyan narrowed his eyes slightly.
That night, Gu Huan sat in his arms, looking up with a smiling face, and said to him in a sweet voice: "Master, I will make snacks for you every day from now on."
…The next day, her fiancé’s cousin showed up looking for her.
He gave one thousand taels at once.
Where's his snack?
No trace.
Mu Junyan felt a little blocked in his heart. He drank a sip of hot tea and picked up a piece of peach blossom wine to taste it.
Not too sweet, yet refreshingly fragrant.
Just like when she doesn’t smile, she is as cold and pure as a solitary snow lotus.
Try another piece of lotus seed cake.
The lotus petals bloomed, as beautiful and charming as her smile.
Then he picked up a patterned green snack.
The skin is soft and the filling is sweet, it tastes great in the mouth, and Mu Junyan can actually taste a bit of her tenderness and smoothness.
He said slowly, "It's OK, but it has too much sugar."
He knew how to respect and please the old lady and forgot his promise to him.
The little fox who wins people's hearts!
Dong Mo's eyes rolled and he said, "Master, I will go and get dinner."
"Um."
Dong Mo first went straight to the manager's office in the front yard, whispered a few words to Zhou Chunyu, and then went to the kitchen.
Zhou Chunyu turned around and went to Yayun Pavilion.
When Zhou Zhilan saw her brother coming, she hurried out and asked in surprise, "Brother, why are you here?"
Zhou Chunyu whispered a few words to her and then left.
Gu Hua looked at Zhou Zhilan who was trying not to laugh, and asked curiously, "What's so happy about that?"
Zhou Zhilan smiled and said, "My brother said that life in the army is hard and we don't have much good food to eat. It's rare that the master likes the snacks you make. He asked you to do the hard work. You should make some snacks for the master when you are free. The old lady likes sweets. The master should eat something lighter with less sugar."
Gu Huan was surprised.
Did Mu Junyan eat the snacks made by the old lady at her place?
If he wanted to eat, why didn't Dong Mo just say it directly? Why was he beating around the bush and waiting for others to ask him to make snacks for him?
Gu Huan suddenly remembered...
That day, when I was in his arms, I said I wanted to make some snacks for him.
My heart was moved and my face turned red.
This is a good sign.
"Well, after dinner, I'll go to the kitchen and make one or two midnight snacks for the master."
"Okay." Zhou Zhilan smiled mysteriously.
Gu Huan's face turned red again.
She calculated.
Tonight... find an opportunity to bring up the matter of Aunt Pei's child exchange, and ask the Duke to send someone to help her.
…
When Dong Mo went to the kitchen, he happened to see Yinzhi and a maid there. Yinzhi was putting a bowl of stew into Gu Wanru's food box.
"Aunt Yin, why are you here to get dinner in person?"
Dong Mo was very curious.
Since she became an aunt, she has rarely appeared in public.
Yinzhi glanced at him with an unnatural expression: "No, the young lady cooked a bowl of tonic for the master and Miss Gu... Second Miss, I came to take a look. Are you serving the master? It's just right, you take this bowl."
Yinzhi pointed to a stew pot.
"yes."
Dong Mo looked at the three pots of stew on the table and couldn't help feeling curious.
When the young lady stewed tonic food for herself and the young master, she would usually add a bowl for the master as well.
As for whether the master eats it or not, it depends on his mood.
But the young lady had never stewed it for Miss Huan.
Is this... becoming kind?
"Different ingredients?" Dong Mo curiously moved closer and lifted the lid of the other bowl.
Yinzhi hurriedly held it down: "These are all precious herbs that the young lady bought with her own money to replenish qi and blood. They are stewed with squab. The recipe is the same. Put this bowl in the food box, don't take the wrong one."
They are all the same, how could I take the wrong one?
"oh."
Dong Mo thought her expression was strange, but didn't think much about it.
"Dong Mo, this is the master's food box. Just put a bowl of stew in it."
The kitchen manager personally packed the master's dinner box and handed it over.
"Hey, what a coincidence, Dong Mo is here too."
Donghua's crisp voice came.
Dong Mo was just about to take the stew pot that Yinzhi pointed to him, but when he heard this, he turned around and grinned.
"Oh, everyone is here today. Aunt Yin is here too."
Because of Gu Huan, Donghua disliked Aunt Yin and the Young Madam. She couldn't even behave politely when she saw them and just sighed.
"Madam Yin is a noble lady, why is she doing the work of servants? Could it be that she still can't forget her status as a servant?"
Yinzhi looked unhappy, but she held back and said nothing.
Donghua was puzzled. Yinzhi's eyes had always been on the top of her head, and she wished she could be the young lady's mouthpiece.
Now that you've climbed into the young master's bed, why has your personality changed?
Donghua thought of the loss her daughter had suffered, and couldn't help but continue to sarcastically say, "Oh, by the way, you are still a slave now."
Yinzhi has always boasted that her status is higher than that of ordinary slaves and she is used to bullying Gu Huan. Now that she is humiliated in public by Gu Huan's maid, she immediately cannot help herself.
"Then you have to respectfully address me as Auntie. My status is higher than yours! Today, I will teach you what respect and inferiority mean on behalf of your master!"
After saying that, he rushed forward and raised his hand to slap Donghua.
Donghua turned her face away, but unexpectedly, the slap landed on the face of Dongqing who was standing nearby and trying to stop the fight.
With a crisp sound, Dongqing's left cheek immediately became red and swollen.
When Donghua saw her sisters being beaten, she became furious and rolled up her sleeves to fight.
Yinzhi missed Donghua with her slap and raised her hand again, but someone grabbed her wrist tightly.
"Dong Mo, you dare to attack me!"
Yinzhi glared at him, his face ashen.
Dong Mo pushed her away without any hesitation: "Yinzhi, don't go too far. This is a kitchen. If you ruin the masters' meals and delay their meals, can you bear the consequences?"
Yinzhi's chest heaved with anger and she was filled with rage.
The entire Duke's Mansion looked down upon the Young Madam and her, and she was forced to replace the bitch and become Mu An's concubine. Her beloved cousin must be in great pain.
But she couldn't even step out of the house, and it was difficult for her to see her cousin. The painful and depressed mood she had been feeling these days surged up like crazy.
Yinzhi couldn't bear it anymore, so she grabbed an empty plate and smashed it on Donghua's head.
Donghua was not a pushover either. She waved her arm to block the attack, and the plate fell to the ground with a bang, breaking into pieces.
"Hey, you bastards are here to cause trouble! This plate costs three hundred coins, who will pay for it? If you want to fight, go ahead and fight. If you destroy my kitchen, I will report you to the master and sell all of you."
The kitchen manager became furious and started cursing.
"Hurry up and take the masters' food boxes and get out!"
Yinzhi glanced at them fiercely.
When she turned around, she saw that the maid who came with her had already packed the food box.
Yinzhi's face changed slightly, and she came over and asked in a low voice, "Did you take the wrong one?"
"Yes, I did what my aunt said."
Yinzhi breathed a sigh of relief. Not wanting to cause any more trouble, she said hastily, "Let them take Gu Huan's. We'll go."
Yinzhi carried Mu An's food box, and the maid carried Gu Wanru's food box and left.
The maid was a second-class maid from the Gu family. After Yinzhi became a concubine, she was assigned to serve Yinzhi.
Yinzhi has a bad temper and acts like a serious master all day long, which she is not happy about and is not very dedicated to.
Yinzhi personally put a bowl into Gu Wanru's food box, and placed the other two stew pots together, asking her to put one bowl into the young master's food box, and to bring the other bowl back to Gu Huan.
When Yinzhi was beating someone, the maid turned around and found that the bowl of food given to the young master was put into the master's food box by the kitchen manager.
She thought it was the same ingredients anyway, so she didn't care and took the bowl that was supposed to be for the master and put it into the young master's food box.
Donghua looked at Yinzhi's back and said, "Bah! What the hell is that?"
Dong Mo carried the master's food box and said sternly, "Okay, hurry up and deliver the food before it gets cold. This is stewed for Miss Huan. It would be a waste if you don't take it. Take it away."
Donghua also knew that she shouldn't fight in the kitchen, so she asked the kitchen manager to pay her compensation. She and Dongqing quickly picked up Gu Huan and Zhou Zhilan's lunch boxes and followed Dong Mo.
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