Chapter 137 Response
A good night's sleep.
The next morning, the sunlight shone into the house through the window, as if broken gold was scattered all over the ground.
Chen Tang sat on the bed and stretched. Outside, Ginkgo and Qiu Tong brought a copper basin into the room to help Chen Tang get up. Ginkgo stepped forward and said, "Miss, it was still dark today. The second master also fainted in the ancestral hall and was carried back."
It was unlikely that the father would calm down after being punished by kneeling, as the person would usually faint from kneeling and be carried back.
Thinking of the second wife's plot against his elder brother, Chen Tang felt that it was too easy for the second wife to faint on her knees. He hoped that Chunlan, who was trapped in the brothel in Wangzhou, could testify that her mother had indeed given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, so that Chen Ying could be sent back to the second wife and she could be forced to move out of Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion completely.
If you harm the second wife's descendants, even if the old lady protects the second wife, this family will still be divided.
Chen Tang lifted the quilt, got out of bed, put on her skirt with the help of Ginkgo and Qiu Tong, and after washing up, the maid brought her breakfast.
Standing up from the dressing table, Chen Tang walked towards the table. Ginkgo saw the food on the table and asked, "Why is there only millet porridge and vegetables for breakfast today?"
The maid said, "The main kitchen only sent these. They said there was a problem with the flour for steaming buns and steamed buns today. It was too salty, so they didn't send any."
My father just asked the Fourth Madam to take charge of the household yesterday, and today something went wrong in the kitchen. This was clearly a show of power to the Fourth Madam.
Chen Tang's eyes swept across the table, and he went out without even sitting down. Ginkgo said, "Miss, don't you want to eat?"
"Go to Songhetang."
Ginkgo hurried to follow.
Shen Tang went to pay his respects without having breakfast, and when he arrived, the old lady had just sat down and was about to have breakfast, which the old lady ate was cooked in the small kitchen, just like usual.
Seeing Chen Tang coming so early, the old lady asked, "Have you eaten?"
Chen Tang shook his head. "Today, there was a problem with the flour in the main kitchen, so they only sent millet porridge and vegetables. I didn't like it, so I thought that nothing would happen here, so I came to eat here."
The old lady frowned and told Mother Wang, "Add a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and go to the big kitchen to see what's going on."
The maid brought the bowls and chopsticks, and Chen Tang sat down next to the old lady. She rarely accompanied the old lady for breakfast. The old lady picked up a shrimp dumpling for Chen Tang and said, "Eat more."
Chen Tang nodded obediently. The old lady thought that the grandson she had been longing for was found by Chen Tang, and her heart became more tender and her face became more kind.
Chen Tang also picked up a vegetarian bun for the old lady, "Grandma, eat more too."
The old lady didn’t have much appetite at first, but with Chen Tang’s company, her appetite improved a lot, and she even ate half a bowl of porridge more than usual.
Putting down the chopsticks and rinsing his mouth, Chen Tang helped the old lady sit on the small couch. After a while, Madam Wang came back, along with Madam Li, the head of the kitchen. Madam Li explained to the old lady in fear and trepidation, "I don't know which maid in the kitchen was clumsy and knocked the salt jar into the flour. Today's buns are too salty to eat, so we didn't send them to the second young lady..."
"I will definitely find that clumsy maid out."
There had never been such a mistake in the big kitchen before. As soon as the fourth wife took over the kitchen, something went wrong. Could it be simply explained away by clumsiness?
Either he was deliberately causing trouble for the Fourth Wife and asking her to give up her power as housekeeper, or he was deliberately trying to make her unhappy.
Regardless of the purpose, Chen Tang would not indulge them. "The kitchen has to steam hundreds of buns at least every day. Even if a maid accidentally knocked over the salt jar, it's impossible for all the flour to be salty, right?"
"The big kitchen only eats one bag of flour a day?"
Shen Tang's voice was clear, but sharp.
Mother Li was speechless when asked. The big kitchen consumed at least two bags of flour every day. The maid accidentally knocked over the salt jar. It was okay to destroy one bag of flour, but it was unacceptable to destroy two bags.
Madam Li said stiffly, "It's not that there's a problem with the flour. It's just that the kitchen always prioritizes the masters of the mansion. The fillings for the masters' buns are different from those for the servants. We're afraid that the second young lady will feel treated poorly, so..."
Are you afraid that she will feel treated poorly, so you just treat her poorly to the end?
He didn't even find a good excuse to lie, and he threw it at her. Chen Tang said coldly, "For so many years, the buns I eat are no different from those eaten by the maids. Who did you send those buns with separate fillings to?"
Telling a lie requires countless lies to cover it up. Chen Tang found a loophole, and while Mother Li was busy filling that hole, Chen Tang found a new one.
Mother Li hesitated, and Chen Tang laughed, "Mother Li, can't you tell me? There are many maids and servants in the big kitchen. Do you need me to send someone to ask?"
By asking this question, I learned that the kitchen has been preparing special meals for the eldest girl over the years. The buns that the eldest girl eats have their own fillings and are ten times more delicious than those for the second girl.
It was precisely because of the careful care of the big kitchen staff that Chen Xi's appetite was developed and her tolerance for food was extremely low.
Chen Tang's eyes darkened, and Madam Li's knees weakened, and she knelt down with a plop. "I am the Second Madam's servant. Yesterday, the Marquis asked the Fourth Madam to manage the household, and the servants in the kitchen were discussing whether the Fourth Madam wanted to remove me and replace me with her own people. I was cautious, but I couldn't guard against it. Today's flour was still tampered with. I know that the Second Madam is the apple of the Marquis' eye, so how dare I treat her poorly in terms of food? Please understand, Madam."
What a bad guy who complains first.
Not only did he take advantage of her and make her unhappy with the food, he also turned around and bit the Fourth Madam, making people suspect that such a clumsy trick of today's flour accident was made by the Fourth Madam in order to replace her as the head kitchen manager.
This cunning slave!
If she was asked to dodge today, she would not even call herself Chen Tang!
Chen Tang ordered the maid in the room, "Call the mother who manages the small kitchen."
The maid didn't know what Chen Tang asked the mother who managed the small kitchen in Songhe Hall to do. She glanced at Mother Wang, who nodded, and the maid hurried to call someone.
Soon, Madam Xu, the kitchen manager, came over and asked in confusion, "Second Miss, are you looking for me?"
Chen Tang asked, "Can Mother Xu prepare Grandma's breakfast within a quarter of an hour when all the kneaded flour for breakfast cannot be used?"
Mother Xu, "......???"
What kind of problem is this?
Any maid in the small kitchen can do it.
Mother Xu didn't think much about it and listed more than a dozen dishes that could be made without kneading the dough.
Chen Tang looked at Mother Li, "Mother Li's ability to respond is too poor. I don't have to eat steamed buns, pancakes and shrimp balls are also fine. If they are delivered to Qingyi Garden in time, they will not delay my breakfast. Even if it is a quarter of an hour late, I am not unreasonable. But Mother Li chose to do nothing and only sent millet porridge and vegetables. I think it will be the same whether there is a mother like you in charge in the kitchen or not."
Mother Li's face turned pale because all her excuses were made powerless by Mother Xu. She failed to help the Second Wife to control the Second Girl, and instead fell into a pit herself and couldn't get out.
The old lady knew that the kitchen was deliberately neglecting Chen Tang, so she said, "As a housekeeper, what's the point of having you here if you don't have the ability to respond to situations? Give him thirty strokes of the cane and send him back to the farm."
Mother Li's face turned pale. She knelt down and said, "Madam, please calm down. I know I was wrong..."
Chen Tang said coldly, "Cover your mouth and drag him out."
When the fourth wife heard the news and rushed over, she saw the two old women dragging Madam Li out, pressing her on a bench, and then beating her with a stick.
The fourth wife was a little dazed by the beating. She walked in and bowed to the old lady. The old lady looked at her and said, "Mother Li was not in charge of the kitchen properly, so I fired her. You should arrange for someone capable to take over the kitchen."
The fourth wife, "......???"
The head kitchen manager was sent away. The old lady didn't arrange her own people but asked her to arrange others instead. What is the old lady trying to do?
Aren’t you planning to let the Second Wife take over the household affairs of the Marquis’ Mansion in the future?
Chen Tang said, "The household of the Marquis' Mansion is not just the main kitchen. Second Aunt has been in charge of the household for so many years, and all the managers are people Second Aunt trusts. Fourth Aunt may not be used to ordering them around, so if she is not satisfied with them, she will replace them."
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