Chapter 44 Wedding Cat
After Jiang Xinyu and the other maids left, she suddenly thought of a question.
Although she knows that it is okay to eat it this way, she probably doesn't think the kitchen would dare to cook it that way for her.
The ginseng at that time was a genuine wild variety, and a small ginseng root could cause a normal person to have a nosebleed.
Xiao Yuan certainly has plenty of century-old ginseng here, but it is unlikely that he can make soup for her all at once.
No, she had to go and watch over it, to make sure the chef didn't come back and give her two radishes to fool her.
However, Jiang Xinyu did not go directly to the kitchen. Instead, she asked the maid to lead the way to the warehouse where medicinal herbs were stored.
The maid was a little embarrassed.
The governor did not instruct her to let the lady be the housekeeper, so she really did not dare to take the lady directly to the warehouse.
Especially for imported things like medicinal materials, if they are contaminated with something that shouldn't be, and it turns out that the master suffers, she can't bear it.
But the interaction between the governor and his wife seemed quite intimate. This was the legitimate mistress of the house. If she didn't bring him over, would she be beaten and kicked out?
Jiang Xinyu didn't get a response, so she turned around to look at the maid. Seeing that she looked like she was about to cry, she was confused.
"Don't you know the way to the warehouse?
It can’t be that... you don’t want to take me with you.
I said, after all, I am Xiao Yuan’s legitimate wife, do you have to be so wary of me?”
The maid was so frightened that she knelt down and kowtowed, "Madam, please calm down. I... I really don't dare to make decisions without orders.
Otherwise, I'll go ask the butler first.
The key to the warehouse is also with the housekeeper. Even if I take you there, we won’t be able to get in.”
Jiang Xinyu waved her hands impatiently, "Forget it, forget it, hurry up.
Don't say I'm making things difficult for you. I won't look at Xiao Yuan's warehouse anymore, but I can look at my own dowry."
The little maid nodded quickly and led Jiang Xinyu back to the courtyard where she originally lived.
Jiang Xinyu's dowry was quite large, and it took up three warehouses alone. Without the master's order, those things were not moved and were just placed there in the order of the list.
Jiang Xinyu quickly found the medicine box, but was troubled again when she opened it.
This thing is the easiest to tamper with. What if Liu added some ingredients to it?
After thinking about it, Jiang Xinyu decided to ask someone to call a doctor, or two more, to identify these medicinal herbs first.
You should not have the intention to harm others, but you must always be on guard against others. Now her life is so comfortable with good food and drink and someone to serve her. She doesn't want to die without any reason.
Now that Xiao Yuan's storehouse could not be accessed and she did not dare to use her own herbs, Jiang Xinyu called a maid over and asked her to go to the kitchen and tell the chef not to cut the ginseng when cooking ginseng soup but to use the whole root.
She just didn't believe it. She couldn't tell the whole thing apart after it was cut into pieces.
There shouldn't be a radish that looks like ginseng in this world. This is a weird operation that no one can do. The chef was speechless for a while.
How come their governor's new wife is even more elaborate than the empress in the palace? She doesn't allow anyone to cut the whole ginseng root when stewing it. Is she planning to eat herself to death so that she can find him to make trouble for her?
What kind of hatred and grudge is that? Why is it so difficult for him to spend his old age in peace?
The master chef of the Xiao family was originally a chef in the palace, but he nearly lost his life because of being implicated in the secret affairs of the harem.
Later, his leg was broken and he lost his job. When he was being driven out of the palace, he was met by Xiao Yuan and brought to his house.
Chef Lao Yu was extremely loyal to Xiao Yuan, but unfortunately the governor was usually too busy to come back for meals, which caused his good cooking skills to go unappreciated.
But ever since his wife came along, this old chef has shown unprecedented enthusiasm. Seeing his food being eaten up is like finding a soulmate.
But medicinal herbs are not the same as food after all. Ten old hens stewed with three wild ginsengs is something even an elephant would not be able to tolerate.
If he really finds out something wrong with the governor's new daughter-in-law, wouldn't that be repaying kindness with enmity?
But the lady was determined to eat him and he dared not disobey her. He could only hope that the butler would bring the governor back as soon as possible.
Anyway, it would take quite a while to stew the soup, so he would just make it first. In case the governor came and didn't allow them to eat it, he would just add more water to dilute it and share it with everyone.
After Jiang Xinyu sent someone to find a doctor to check the herbs, she went to look through the other dowry boxes and unconsciously started to talk about conspiracy.
Don't those palace fighting novels often contain things like silk threads soaked in safflower water and fabrics dyed with musk? Could it be that the things Liu bought for her were also filled with additives?
I don’t know if there is an old nanny who is an expert in palace fighting in the mansion. She feels unsafe in everything now.
She is not afraid of anything related to pregnancy, as she has no plans to have a baby anyway, but it would be troublesome if something disfigures her or is poisonous.
In fact, this guy was worrying too much. Liu wanted to pass these dowries to Jiang Wanqiu intact. It was impossible for her to fumigate the fabrics with safflower musk.
They were eager for Jiang Xinyu to get pregnant and have a baby as soon as possible. Once the baby was born, she, who was occupying the dowry, could die, and Jiang Wanqiu could quickly marry in to fill the vacancy.
If they still don't have children, the other party will be worried. It's not legitimate, and they won't get much benefit even if Jiang Xinyu dies.
Xiao Yuan's mansion must not be a remote place, and several doctors were invited to his house in a short while.
When the doctors first heard that the Governor's Mansion had invited doctors, their legs were spinning with fear. They were not relieved until they heard that the Governor was not there and it was his wife who asked them to identify the herbs.
The housekeeper had no idea what the new lady was up to, so he followed along when she brought the doctor over.
The experienced doctors checked all the herbs one by one and actually found some problems.
The problem was discovered with the ginseng bird's nest, which Jiang Xinyu cared about the most.
It's not that they've been poisoned, it's just that these are old stuff that have been re-contaminated. They look almost the same as new, but in fact they have lost their medicinal properties due to their age.
Bird's nest has no nourishing effect. Ginseng is the worst because it is used to save lives.
Normally it is fine to take it as a tonic, but it will be a big problem if you encounter a difficult birth or serious injury and need to save your life.
This kind of situation is not uncommon in large mansions. After all, they are all valuable stuff. The rotten ones can't even be used to make new ones. When some people need to save face and the other party doesn't understand much, they can use this kind of thing to fool them.
But they didn't expect that such a good-looking but useless thing would come out from the Governor's Mansion. They also didn't know which adult was so stubborn as to give Governor Xiao such a small gift.
After Jiang Xinyu understood what was going on, she asked the housekeeper to give the money and send the person away. She also asked the maid to put the garbage away separately and wait to take it back with her when she returned home tomorrow.
She knew that Mrs. Liu couldn't stand seeing her do well, and the plump ginseng and the whole bowl of official swallows that she displayed when she was showing off her wedding dowry brought her a good reputation.
The result was that they passed off inferior products as good ones, waiting to cheat her in the future.
Haha, such good things should be given to her cheap father as a filial piety. She is not worthy of it.
But in this case, she really would have no supplements to use, and she didn't know whether Xiao Yuan's ginseng was rich or not. If it was not rich, she should go to the pharmacy to buy some as soon as possible.
She has a great demand for this thing. If she could get the supply, she wouldn't have to be a useless glutton every day.
Although the food is converted into energy once eaten and does not cause any burden to her stomach, chewing it all the time will still hurt her cheeks.
Being gluttonous is one thing, but continuing to eat after satisfying the gluttony is not a very pleasant experience.
The reason why she was eating happily now was entirely because of her good cooking skills and the delicious food, plus she had apocalyptic hunger syndrome.
But no matter how delicious something is, if you eat too much of it, it will become greasy, and it will be hard to bear once the freshness wears off.
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