【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

At dinner time that day, Wang Xifeng arranged for Yuanyang to prepare some exquisite side dishes to whet Jia's appetite. Recently, because of the hot weather, Jia's mother always said that she had no appetite. Wang Xifeng found a book called "Song Banquet" and studied some different cooking methods.

There were several brightly colored delicacies on the table: one plate was an orange made into a flower-shaped cup, filled with peeled crab meat and crab roe that had been mixed with other ingredients and served cold.

There was also a plate with chicken legs skewered on bamboo sticks, wrapped in perilla leaves, smeared with a layer of honey, and grilled over fire. It tasted like charcoal and was very novel.

The rice is made by squeezing the juice of fresh purple sweet potatoes and mixing it with glutinous rice and steaming it into purple rice.

The soup is Liaoshen soup, which is made using the traditional method of medicinal diet. It has the effect of medicinal diet, but you can't taste any medicinal flavor. It can be considered a waste of effort.

The dessert was osmanthus sesame paste made using the traditional Beijing method.

Just as Grandmother Jia was about to take her seat and hadn't started eating yet, Li Wan arranged for someone to bring over two dishes.

One dish is fresh grilled eel, and the other is Dahongpao crispy shrimp.

Just as the dishes were placed on the table, Jia She's people came to deliver two dishes: one was squid rolled in squid sticks, and the other was sweet potatoes with pineapple buds.

Seeing that the table was full of dishes again, Jia's mother felt that it was not as fresh and unique as before, so she had to tell Yuanyang:

"Give the pineapple sweet potato to Brother Zhen's wife. I have purple rice to eat today. These two dishes are both potatoes. If I eat too much, I'm afraid I won't be able to digest them."

Then he said to Zijuan, "Give the Dahongpao Crispy Shrimp to Baoyu. I've had that dish before, it's a little numbing, and Baoyu likes spicy dishes."

Since Lin Pin'er went abroad, Zijuan was transferred back to serve Lady Jia and continued to be responsible for Lady Jia's diet therapy and nutritious meals. She only occasionally had time to go to the garden to take care of Lin Pin'er's flowers, birds, fish and insects.

After hearing this, she quickly agreed. She just wanted to visit Lin Pin'er's yard today. She took the dishes, put them in the lunch box, and rushed to the garden.

The garden here is much quieter now. At the end of last year, Jia Tanchun moved to the school dormitory. She only comes back to stay in the yard for a day or two on weekends.

After Lin Pin'er went abroad, Jia Xichun also transferred to a high school with boarding facilities. Now she is in her third year of high school and will probably live on campus in college. She turned the yard here into a studio and only came back occasionally to paint.

Jia Yingchun and Li Wan have been living in the same courtyard, but they have been having some conflicts recently. It seems that Jia Yingchun had some problems at work, and Li Wan disliked the problems with her account keeping. Jia Yingchun is currently being suspended and investigated by Li Wan.

Zijuan unknowingly walked to the gate of Lin Pin'er's yard, tiptoed to look into the yard, and heard the sound of the parrot flapping its wings. Then she changed her mind and walked towards Baoyu's yard, thinking of delivering the food box first and then seeing the parrot.

Unexpectedly, it was Sheyue who opened the door. She opened the door enthusiastically and when she saw it was Zijuan, she welcomed her into the yard.

Zijuan walked in with a smile on her face, but unexpectedly she stopped halfway. It turned out that Xiren was cutting banana leaves in the center of the yard.

"Why are you doing this?" Zijuan was puzzled.

"Master Bao wanted it. He said they were waiting for banana leaf snacks to be made over there, so I have to rush over as soon as I finish cutting them!" Xiren kept nagging while cutting, with an unhappy look on her face.

"Where is that over there?" Zijuan didn't understand what she meant.

"It's Miss Su's teahouse."

Zijuan suddenly realized: "Then your second master must not be at home?" After asking, she raised the food box in her hand and said: "This is the food that the ancestor asked to be sent."

After hearing this, Xiren got down from the chair she was standing on, put down the scissors in her hand, and welcomed Zijuan into the house.

"I wonder what dishes the ancestor sent?" Xiren asked as she walked.

“Da Hong Pao Crispy Shrimp.”

"Then we can only leave it there. He hasn't eaten in this yard recently. He always eats in that teahouse."

Zijuan smiled and said, "That's easy. Cut the banana leaves and give them to me. I'll deliver the vegetables to you. You don't have to do anything."

Xiren shook her head and quickly poured tea for Zijuan: "You don't know the habits of Miss Su. Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month, she must be a vegetarian. If you bring this dish over, it will be an eyesore to her."

Zijuan had no choice but to give up: "Then I will just hand it over to you and I won't say much when I return. Just tell the Second Master that you will serve him food when he comes back, and I have nothing else to do with it."

Xiren nodded: "That's what I mean, thank you for your hard work!"

Zijuan stood up and was about to leave.

"Have some tea before you go!"

"No, I'm in a hurry to go to Miss Lin's yard to see the parrot." Zijuan said and went out.

Zijuan opened the door with her fingerprint, and after entering the yard, she first found a broom and dustpan behind the door and swept up the dust and fallen leaves on the ground.

As soon as I entered the inner courtyard, I heard the music of the music box. I guess it was the young master of the Li family who came here. He was the only one in the courtyard who wound up the music box every time he came.

Sure enough, the parrot had been fed and the hermit crab inside had been replaced with salt water. Zijuan found a small rag and wiped everywhere before going back to report.

Who knew that it would keep everyone awake all night.

It turned out that Lady Jia felt unwell that night, and Zijuan quickly cooked a detoxifying soup for her to drink. However, she could not hold on any longer and was sent to the hospital. Naturally, the whole family had to accompany her.

Naturally, Grandmother Jia couldn't stand the torture of gastric lavage, so she just used decoction to induce vomiting, causing her to vomit out everything she had eaten that night, and then gave her an intravenous drip to reduce inflammation.

The hospital was quite busy that night, filled with people suffering from stomach upsets and the sound of groans could be heard one after another in the emergency room.

The Guanyuan was sealed off the next day because it turned out that there was a problem with a new batch of eels.

Jia She was now in the meeting room, slamming the table in anger: "How did you keep the order? How could a batch of problematic eels be imported? Do you know that the biggest fear in the catering industry is that the ingredients have problems?"

Madam Xing also scolded Li Wan, "You usually love to inspect and check, but how come you didn't find any problems with the goods you bought? I was wondering, why did you abandon our supplier and arrange the purchases by you, and in the end you found a batch of eels with problems? You are really capable!"

Mrs. Wang said, "This is not the time to talk about this. We should first discuss how to solve the problem."

Jia She said angrily, "I want to see how you two solve this problem. People who come to eat here are either rich or noble. The medical expenses alone will kill you, and there are also various lost wages, mental damages...! How to solve this problem in the end and how to unblock it are all problems."

Mrs. Xing also said, "Whoever brought in this batch of goods is responsible for it!"