Ding Dusai sipped his millet porridge and asked, "Sir, why is the food you cook always so delicious?"
“It’s because I have a hard life.”
"A miserable life?" Ding Dusai was surprised.
Zhang Shixun jokingly said, "I'm destined to cook for you for decades in this life. Do you think it's hard?"
Feng Yinu burst out laughing.
Ding Dusai blushed and glared at him, "Sir, you..."
Halfway through his words, he heard someone outside the door yelling, "I'm starving! You guys didn't even invite me to dinner? How disrespectful!"
When the three of them looked up, they saw Gao Yanei stepping into the main hall.
"Young Master, have some conscience when you speak." Zhang Shixun glared at him. "I called you outside your door after I finished cooking, but you slept like a pig."
"You called me?"
"No, I called the pig, and it grunted twice and went back to sleep."
The two girls lowered their heads and laughed secretly.
Gao Yanei ignored him and stared at the food on the table, feeling even hungrier.
Zhang Shixun drank the remaining rice porridge in his bowl in one gulp and said to him, "Look at what you have done... I've left some rice for you. There are fried eggs on a plate next to the stove, and there's rice porridge in the pot. Help yourself."
When Gao Yanei heard this, he ran to the kitchen.
Ding Dusai asked with a smile: "Sir, he is the son of a noble, aren't you afraid that his father will come after you?"
"Your husband is not stupid. He certainly wouldn't say that to his father in front of him." Zhang Shixun patted his stomach with a smile and said contentedly, "Home-cooked meals are still more comfortable."
Feng Yinu glanced at him secretly and said with a smile: "Master Zhang, being with you always makes people laugh."
Ding Dusai said, "Yinu, you are wrong. He appears to be cheerful on the surface, but he is actually a bad person at heart."
"What? He is bad?" Feng Yi Nucai didn't believe it.
"You don't know, when I first saw him, he acted so startled that I almost fainted."
Zhang Shixun wanted to laugh and thought to himself: What do you mean you almost fainted? You really fainted, okay?
"Saisai, is everything you said true?" Feng Yinu was skeptical. She looked at Zhang Shixun, then at Ding Dusai, and shook her head, "I don't believe it."
"Believe it or not." Ding Dusai glared at Zhang Shixun fiercely. Thinking of that stormy night, a hint of sweetness rose in his heart.
"Master Zhang, is what Saisai said true?" Feng Yinu turned around and asked him.
Zhang Shixun glanced at Ding Dusai and said hesitantly, "Saisai said that... ahem! It's not really wrong..."
"What do you mean 'not wrong'?" Ding Dusai interrupted him and said coquettishly, "I clearly didn't say anything wrong about you! Don't deny it."
"Okay! You are telling the truth, I surrender." Zhang Shixun raised his hands.
Seeing his funny look, Ding Dusai couldn't help but giggle.
Feng Yinu was confused and was about to ask for more details when Gao Yanei walked in.
"Brother! I'm done." Gao Yanei patted his stomach. "Eight fried eggs and two bowls of rice porridge, just right."
"What?" Zhang Shixun opened his eyes wide, pointed at him and asked, "Have you eaten all eight fried eggs?"
"yes!"
"To call you a pig is an understatement. Those fried eggs were meant for the three of you, and you ate them all by yourself."
"The three of us?"
"I was thinking of leaving four for you, and two each for Senior Five and Senior Six."
"Leave nothing for them!" Gao Yanei glared, "Who are they? Leaving a bowl of porridge for them is already a sign of respect for them."
Zhang Shixun wanted to kick him twice, but then he thought, this was the Song Dynasty after all, and the concept of hierarchy was deeply rooted in people's bones, and the hierarchy could not be crossed.
Gao Yanei received this kind of education since he was a child, so we cannot expect too much from him.
"Yanei, even though they are of humble status, you cannot treat them like this."
Zhang Shixun stood up and went to the kitchen to fry a few more eggs for them.
"Master Zhang, you have such a kind heart! You don't discriminate against people of low status at all." Feng Yinu said sincerely as she stood outside the kitchen. "Those of us who sing and perform are publicly admired, but secretly, those people treat us as worthless, even like the women in brothels."
Zhang Shixun was silent. Not to mention this era, even in later generations, there were people who called entertainers in the entertainment industry "actors".
"Madam Feng, I, Gao Chengzong, don't look down on you." Gao Yanei looked at Feng Yinu with lustful eyes and said with a playful smile, "If the two of us only had eight egg pancakes, I would definitely not eat them all. I would at least leave half for you... Hehe! If you want to get married, you might as well consider me. I will definitely..."
Zhang Shixun glared at him fiercely, "Shut up!"
"Oh!" Gao Yanei also looked at Zhang Shixun with a sidelong glance and asked, "Madam Feng is not your woman, why are you protecting her?"
"I can't stand your gossiping about women, that's all." Zhang Shixun stood up, shook his sleeves, and walked out of the main hall with a stern face. He walked to the door of Gao Wu and Gao Liu's wing room and shouted, "If you two lazy bastards don't get out of here, I'll give you ten military sticks each and you won't show any mercy!"
The two people in the room had actually woken up long ago. When they heard Zhang Shixun shouting outside, they hurriedly got up and opened the door in dishevel. Gao Wu nodded and bowed, saying, "Military Commander, please give me your orders."
"What orders!" Zhang Shixun kicked him. "It's so late and you're still sleeping in... Hurry up and wash your face and eat. After dinner, clean the snow in the yard."
Gao Liu said, "Military Commander, it's still snowing. Wait until it stops..."
Before he could finish his words, he was kicked hard on the buttocks. Zhang Shixun said, "Your meal for today is gone. You can only eat after the snow stops."
"Military Commander, I..."
"roll!"
Gao Liu stood there with a sad face, watching Gao Wu walk into the kitchen.
"They are my followers. If anyone needs to take care of them, I should be the one to do it. Why do you have the right to take care of them?" Gao Yanei said as he walked out of the main hall. He was very angry because Zhang Shixun had just retorted to him.
"What's wrong with your followers? Disciplining them is for your own good... What? Are you dissatisfied?" Zhang Shixun rolled up his sleeves and waved, "Come on! Let's have a fight."
Gao Yanei shrank his neck and said, "I won't provoke a big beast like you."
Wang Dong is here.
He was not wearing a fu hat. His half-bald hair had grown to a foot long and was casually hanging down. His eyes were hazy, as if he had just crawled out of bed.
Zhang Shixun looked at him, frowned, and asked, "Why do you look like this? You didn't even wash your face."
Wang Dong said angrily, "Don't mention it. This idiot came to my house early in the morning and made a fuss, saying he wanted to see you."
"Ox nose? Taoist?" Zhang Shixun was surprised. He had never had any contact with Taoists.
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