The Wen family was furious!
Her relationship with Jiang Shuwan was one of ebb and flow, like a boat sailing against the current.
The better Jiang Shuwan is, the worse she is.
For a moment, Wen was so angry that she couldn't eat.
With the New Year holidays approaching, the household was busy with various preparations and gift-giving activities, leaving Madam Wen both busy and exhausted, and unable to eat.
His body grew thinner and thinner, and his once plump and compassionate face became sunken, revealing a hint of meanness. His temper also worsened.
This caused the head maid, the storeroom maid, and all the servants and attendants to tremble with fear, as if walking on thin ice.
Their lives are absolutely miserable!
kitchen.
The housekeeper, Li Gui's wife, was also very frustrated.
Snow was falling heavily outside, and the air was bitterly cold; many places were as cold as iceboxes.
The kitchen was always warm with a stove fire burning, but Li Guijia leaned against the door, gazing at the desolate snow-covered landscape outside, feeling utterly cold inside.
Jiang Shuwan has recently become incredibly popular, and as a servant in Jiang Shuwan's faction, she was naturally delighted.
But seeing those girls learning to read and write didn't make her happy.
She also wanted to learn to read.
"Hey, isn't this Li Gui's house? What are you doing leaning against the door in this freezing weather?"
A sarcastic voice rang in my ears.
Li Guijia turned around and saw his subordinate, the deputy head of the kitchen.
"Wang Dasheng's family, what brings you here?"
Li Gui's wife never gave her a kind look.
Wang Dasheng's wife was a servant of the Wen family. The two worked together in the kitchen for more than ten years and fought for more than ten years.
At this moment, Wang Dasheng's wife, wearing a bright gold hairpin and waving a red handkerchief, walked over with a strange and sarcastic air, and there was a smear of oil on the corner of her mouth.
It's obvious they ate without wiping their mouths.
"The kitchen isn't your territory, why can't I come here!"
Wang Dasheng said irritably that her position was not as high as Li Gui's, but her tone was quite impolite.
The deputy manager is causing trouble again!
The maids and cooks in the kitchen scattered immediately upon seeing her hostile demeanor, making various excuses to slip away.
The deputy steward was part of the wife's dowry; they couldn't afford to offend her.
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Li Guijia snorted coldly and ignored her, but Wang Dasheng's wife forced her aside from the door and followed Li Guijia's gaze.
"So you were looking in the direction of the young mistress's courtyard..."
Wang Dasheng's family member had a meaningful look on their face, with a hint of mockery at the corner of their mouth.
"You're so attached to the young mistress?"
"Are you so eager to go to the young mistress's courtyard to pay your respects, or to learn to read?"
Li Guijia's face immediately darkened when his secret was exposed.
"Did I hit the nail on the head?"
"If you want to learn to read, then go ahead. The young mistress values you so much and has given you so many rewards. It's just about learning to read. Whether you're herding one sheep or two, it doesn't matter if you're one more or not. Oh, wait, that's not right!"
"Only the maids in the young mistress's courtyard are qualified to read."
"You! You didn't!"
Seeing that Li Gui's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Wang Dasheng's family immediately burst into arrogant laughter.
"I advise you to give up on this idea as soon as possible. You're so blind to the situation that you actually sided with the young mistress. Don't forget that the mistress is in charge now."
"Even if the young mistress agrees to let you learn to read, if the madam won't let you go, there's nothing the young mistress can do!"
Li Guijia clenched his fists immediately, his face turning red.
She knew, of course, that the mistress would never allow her to learn to read in the young mistress's courtyard, so she didn't ask the young mistress for permission.
"You overestimating yourself!"
"You want to learn to read? You want to surpass me? You're dreaming!"
After finishing his speech, Wang Dasheng walked away triumphantly, waving his red handkerchief.
"Accept your fate!"
"You'll be trampled under me for the rest of your life!"
Li Guijia felt even more distressed.
She was the best cook in the household, the head of the kitchen, and Wang Dasheng's boss.
However, she couldn't control Wang Dasheng's family at all, and they often had to beg her.
Because Wang Dasheng's family was literate, they managed all the kitchen supplies and inventory.
For example, with the Lunar New Year approaching, kitchens are starting to stock up on ingredients for the holiday.
The Marquis's residence has over a hundred dishes for just one New Year's Eve dinner, requiring hundreds or even thousands of ingredients and seasonings.
The amount of these ingredients in stock and how much to order are both complex and enormous.
Moreover, every transaction must be recorded to facilitate the mistress's auditing and reconciliation.
Wang Dasheng's family manages this area, and whenever she needs ingredients for cooking, she has to ask Wang Dasheng's family.
If the warehouse has it, give it to her; otherwise, Wang Dasheng's family will negotiate with the purchasing manager to buy it.
It can be said that she was completely inseparable from Wang Dasheng's family.
Wang Dasheng's family also understood this principle, so over the years, they had never taken her, their immediate superior, seriously.
They always addressed her by her first name, in a sarcastic and disrespectful manner, showing absolutely no respect.
He also kept urging his wife to take her place.
Fortunately, she has been careful and cautious all these years, and has never been caught making a mistake.
In addition, her cooking suited the old lady's taste, otherwise Wang Dasheng's family would have taken her place long ago.
Even so, her position as manager was extremely precarious.
They are at risk of being replaced at any time.
Of course, if she was replaced by a culinary expert, she would accept her defeat wholeheartedly.
Wang Dasheng's family is indeed an amateur; not only is their cooking terrible, but they also steal food from each other.
If she hadn't been literate and hadn't been part of the wife's dowry, she wouldn't even have had the position of a deputy housekeeper.
An outsider actually wants to be the head chef.
This is absolutely outrageous!
If only she could read, she wouldn't need to know too many words, just the names of the ingredients and seasonings.
Then she will no longer be constrained by Wang Dasheng's family.
Wang Dasheng's family member's nose is not a nose, and his eyes are not eyes.
She's such a useless head of the kitchen!
Li Guijia clutched his chest, feeling utterly pathetic and worthless.
She was heartbroken.
Just then, a low-ranking maid with her hair styled in a bun cheerfully walked into the kitchen from outside.
Li Guijia was immediately stung by the smile on her face.
The lowly maid was named Fang Xiaonv, and she was Granny Fang's daughter.
They were all on Jiang Shuwan's side, so they were colleagues.
But Li Gui's wife felt extremely superior to them, and this sense of superiority did not change even after Granny Fang started working in Jiang Shuwan's courtyard.
After all, Granny Fang was just a doorman, while Granny Fang was the head of the kitchen. Granny Fang couldn't even come close to Granny Fang's status and abilities.
Therefore, she always acted superior to the Fang family and didn't really take them seriously.
Only because of Jiang Shuwan's sake, the other party's family was more polite, and their youngest daughter was also taken extra care of.
She was the one who transferred Fang Xiaonv from the vegetable-washing girl in the freezing cold to the kitchen fire-stoking girl.
For this, Granny Fang specially gave her two packets of pastries.
Li Gui's family was very pleased, and the other family members also felt genuinely closer to them.
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