The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Seeing the sincerity in Wang Guizhi's eyes, Jia's mother felt that she was a great help. What's more, she didn't ask for benefits by telling such news at all. It seemed that she was wholeheartedly for Jia's family, "You tell me."

"I asked someone to take an inventory of all the things in our kitchen. If there are any accounts that do not match, then those who are corrupt will be punished. If they don't even want to match the accounts, then I don't know how much they have taken. This day and night It’s hard to guard against house thieves, I thought, in the past, they could do whatever they wanted, instead of ordering what we wanted to eat.” She took out a booklet, on which she neatly drew the Breakfast and dinner snack menus, there are names for each meal of the day, and one of them is a sample of a week's menu written by what she wants to eat.

Mother Jia asked Yiren to fetch reading glasses and put them on. She looked carefully and smiled, "You monkey, you have such an idea. Good!" She herself ordered whatever she wanted, and she also brought some I have never touched the dishes, after all, from time to time, the children would like to bring some good dishes to her, and she would definitely not be able to finish them all by herself.Her stipulations almost included those of the big girls living in Rongqing Hall.Although it is not stated explicitly, the meals for the maids in each house are already included.Just at this point, I'm afraid it will save a fortune.

No major changes were made, and Mother Jia nodded.

"There are only a few people in our Jia family. I'm going to settle down in this way. What do you think? Your rule is three soups and twelve dishes per meal. My lord, two soups and ten dishes. The eldest wife and I, two soups." Eight dishes, and children, two soups and six dishes. Order this order every seven days according to your own wishes. There are six kinds of dim sum every day, and everyone is the same. After all, dim sum is made together. It’s not too good to kill anyone. If you have something to treat during the period, it’s not too late to pay the money yourself.”

Everything works from top to bottom. If they make changes here, it will be easy to change them in the kitchen below. "As soon as the menu comes out, we probably have a good idea of ​​the expenses. Compared with the previous amount of silver, we will give them extra rewards when everyone eats well, or save and distribute it to each household. What do you think?"

"I'm just like you. I'm old. How can I eat so much? You can try it for a few months. If you can really save money, tell me how much you have before planning." Jia Mu said, this idea is good, especially If a young daughter-in-law is ruled by those old godmothers, she will always have to spend money to eat what she wants.

"That won't work. It's right to show filial piety to you. Wouldn't it be just right if you can't eat and reward others?" Because in the future, the second master who is next to you should not think about taking the master's share casually, Wang Guizhi said with a smile.

"You want to have a rule to restrain them, so let's do it like this." Jia Mu affirmed, "I will support you whatever you want to do."

Hearing these words, Wang Guizhi felt warm in her heart. No matter what, she was encouraged when she was working hard, which felt good.

Mother Jia thought for a while, and seeing that Wang Guizhi had missed someone, she thought that it was inconvenient for her to mention it, so she took the initiative to say, "As for the aunts, there are only four dishes for one soup, and six kinds of desserts. If you are charming, just like your wife." Remember what you said, this item has become a rule."

"Yes!"

Wang Guizhi was slightly embarrassed, she forgot about the unique products at this time, and said with a dry smile, "Don't worry, old lady, no matter what they do, I will take care of them and I will never let them have nothing to eat, unless they really don't know how to repent and break the law Otherwise, I won’t kick anyone out.” This is her guarantee to the old lady, and she also wants to turn them into her own “employees”.

He really is a kind person!Saying such words is telling her that she will not let others be close, and she will not turn against the old servant and deny anyone.

Jia Mu said, "I'm not worried about you doing things, so go ahead and do it boldly."

"Yes, I will take care of this matter today. I will ask them to make their own banquet menu for you to taste first. This is the dedication of the kitchen to you as promised at the beginning. Who do you want to invite to accompany you?" with you?"

Wang Guizhi made up his mind and cut through the mess quickly.

Just do what you say, it seems that she really didn't plan to make a fuss, Jia's mother was more relieved, she hoped to calm things down.

"No, I'll just spend my life on my own." The men are busy taking back the chief manager of Jinling's sacrificial field and the prime minister of family studies to lure the clansmen, and let those who want to fight for wealth and honor, but are afraid of causing trouble, take them back to their hometowns.I'm also afraid that if things really come to fruition, they will be settled by Qiuhou, and some important things will also be cleaned up, so why would she want to mobilize them.She has been annoyed by other people recently, and she doesn't want to entertain them.It would be good if some little girls talked.But these people will come as soon as she calls anyone, so she doesn't have to bother her daughter-in-law.

"Then I'll go to the kitchen." Wang Guizhi stood up and said.

Jia Mu said, "Let them take you there in a soft sedan chair. There's a lot of greasy smoke there, so be careful not to slip your feet. Yiren, Siren, you two follow!" Let her eldest girl stand beside Mrs. Wang, then The meaning is very clear.She is on Mrs. Wang's side.

Sure enough, Wang Guizhi only sat in the soft sedan chair, and passed on the order board of Jia Mu and himself and Yuan Chun to Li Gunian and others first.

"I thought you were all sensible, but it turned out to be such a joke. The Buddha was angered by you. Don't you know that there is still the Eighteenth Arhat Precepts Hall waiting. Now that the accounts have been checked, how many deficits are there? Which one of you will do it yourself How much, who knows in their own mind. I will not ask one by one, I have to take it back quietly, and I will not pursue it. But if someone does not make up, everyone should not want to buy anything other than green vegetables things, don’t think about the beautiful thing of not taking the public’s money for nothing.” She looked around and saw that they were all listening with their heads down, “No matter what you took, fill in the ledger for me first, and I will Talk to you. Do you understand?"

"clear."

Everyone is weak, and no one feels sorry for the money they put in their pockets, but everyone knows that this is the wife's real anger. I heard that the master was so angry that he beat his wife. If it weren't for the plaster, the wife's My face is swollen.

"This is the menu for me and the old lady and girls these days, just follow what we wrote." The eldest lady has been in Ningguo Mansion recently, and she has nothing to do with Jia She, and she eats in her own yard. Her hands don't stretch that far.But she had asked Zhou Rui's family to tell Mrs. Li about it.And Jia Zheng, her face froze for a moment, she wasn't sure what he meant, but since the old lady agreed and he was always filial, he probably wouldn't go against her, right?

Seeing that they were all in a daze, Wang Guizhi didn't care what they were thinking. Anyway, some people would not be able to eat at that time, so naturally some people would make trouble.

"Li Guyian, Feng Dao, Aunt Qin, have you prepared your menu?" Wang Guizhi directly reached out and asked them for something.

Li Guyian and Feng Dao had already prepared it, and immediately handed it over to Caixia respectfully, but Aunt Qin was really dumbfounded, she said in a daze, "Didn't you say..." She thought it was yellow!The result is not yellow!

"Tomorrow morning at the latest, draw up the menu. In the future, you will look at the portion size and make it for the old lady alone. Three people will present at the same time. There are a total of twelve dishes. Whoever spends a lot of money will take 2000 taels of silver for the old lady’s birthday banquet. I’m still saying the same thing, do you understand?”

The three of them couldn't help laughing, "Understood, I understand!" Since it was agreed to be 2000 taels, then of course they couldn't use the things in the kitchen anymore, they understood.

"Let's go back to the house for dinner." Wang Guizhi was not very tired, but he should have a look, too gentle, they would not get nervous and take things seriously.

"Father, what about the menu? Hurry up and take it out. My brother and I are going to buy vegetables. We will have a table with the old lady the day after tomorrow!" Li Lian rubbed his hands in excitement. If it's cheating or cheating, if it can't be used, she just doesn't use it.It doesn't matter what you want to do, just set the menu for the masters, and you can see how much it costs at a glance. If you imagine that you just randomly opened the bill and stole it from your own home that day, it's not so easy.

Li Gunian took out the menu from his sleeve and handed it to him, he was a little lost in thought, the wife's actions seemed to be reforming and eliminating evil in the mansion.

Feng Dao didn't have so many sons and grandsons to help, so he went directly to buy Zheng Hua, touched him with his arm, "I'll leave it to you."

Zheng Hua took the order with his hands, "You have to work harder, or you will lose a lot of money in vain."

"Go, don't touch my bad luck. I don't know who will come out on top. Besides, it's an honor to ask the old lady to taste it." Feng Dao also thought that the wife would treat those who listened to her badly, " Let me tell you, there is absolutely no compensation."

"I'll go out and do it in a while, and I promise to buy you the freshest and most suitable one."

Aunt Qin was more straightforward. She went back to the kitchen and did what she was supposed to do. When she went back to the house, she found her sour and talented husband-in-law, and asked him to quickly copy a copy of the menu, which was to be handed over to his wife. .I packed a few things from the house and went back to my mother's house.Her old man is still very tough now, she can burn meat, so naturally she has to start with what she is best at.

Snakes have their own way of snakes, and rats have their own way of rats. It is unknown who will come out on top!Aunt Qin has never felt that she is so motivated.

Halfway down the road, Wang Guizhi asked Caiyun, "Do you know where the master is?" Jia Zhu is her son, and he would definitely not tear her down, not to mention Li Wan, who was very obedient in front of her.Only Jia Zheng wants to ask the last question.

"My master is sleeping in Mengpo during his fast break."

Meng Po Zhai is on the right side of the wing of Rongxi Hall, and the kitchen is also set up on the east side of the main hall. It would be convenient to go there this way.Wang Guizhi hesitated, wondering if he should go to the study to find Jia Zheng.Mrs. Wang had never done such a thing before. Whatever she wanted to say, she would let the maids pass on the word, or wait until Jia Zheng came to her room to say it.

But Jia Zheng's temper is like this, he is not happy and borrowed her as a man, she is also asking for something from him, and even let the maids pass on the message, what if he ignores it?

As soon as she closed her eyes, she said to Caiyun, "You can ask someone to ask if there is anything the master can do. Is it convenient for me to go?"

"Hey!" This is the wife taking the initiative to show her favor to the master!Caiyun ran away happily.