Hearing that Xiaomei was not accompanying Miss, the sense of crisis in Cherry's heart finally let go. She wiped away the tears from her face and asked, "Miss, did you give Xiaomei's name too? It's also the word next to the wooden letter." Woolen cloth!"
When Cherry and the others were promoted to be big maids, Miss Please bestowed names on them. Yu Xiaocao felt that her name was a tenacious and unyielding plant, so she named her girl after the plant, namely: cherry, loquat, willow and sycamore, two fruits and two trees. It seems that every name is taller than Xiaocao...
Yu Xiaocao denied her guess: "No, her name is Xiaomei... You two must be tired after riding in the carriage for so long! Take a good rest today and be mentally prepared, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow you will have to wait Get busy!"
Yang Liu crisply said: "Miss, do you want us to help you cook stewed vegetables? Although the servant girl learned a few dishes from you when I was in the general's mansion, the handmaid's skills are far inferior to yours. , Maid will study very hard!!"
Cherry seemed to be on a collision course with Xiaomei, staring at her like an aggressive little hedgehog. She thought for a while, and said: "This servant knows nothing about cooking, so I don't want to get involved in the back kitchen. The servant is usually in charge of the monthly regulations and four seasons clothes in the young lady's courtyard. It is not difficult for the servant to settle accounts. Help at the pickle shop!"
Yu Xiaocao didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that Xiaomei is still a novice, so it's good to let Cherry help her. He agreed to Cherry's request.
Before dinner, the business of Yuji's two stores entered the peak period again. With Mei Ziniang helping to look after the four stoves, Yu Caifeng became much lighter. Seeing that Liu Yan'er was so busy in the store that she didn't touch the floor, she also came to the stewed vegetable shop to help.
The business of the pickle shop is not as good as that of the braised vegetable shop. There was also an endless stream of people who came to buy pickles. Some weighed half a catty, and others weighed one catty. Xiaomei was a little flustered at first, but later she became more proficient in weighing pickles, and her abacus crackled.
However, there was a joiner next to her who always told the amount of money before she could calculate the result with the abacus. This person is Cherry.
Yu Xiaocao's plan is to let Huang Xiaomei practice for a few days, and after she can support the pickle shop's business, she will let go. I have been paying attention to her arithmetic level just now. Although Huang Xiaomei's verbal calculation ability is a bit weak, she is very proficient in abacus and rarely makes mistakes. After some more practice, Xiaocao will be able to get out of the store and be busy with other things.
But Cherry, the girl, seemed to be trying to make things difficult for Huang Xiaomei, relying on the fact that she had learned mental arithmetic from the young lady for a few days, she always refused to give Huang Xiaomei a chance to practice her abacus. After coming down several times, Huang Xiaomei was very angry. She could see that this maid, who was dressed more fancy than the young lady, was targeting herself!
"What exactly do you want?" Taking advantage of the empty time in the store, Huang Xiaomei turned around and looked at Cherry fixedly, and asked a little angrily.
Cherry looked innocent: "What's the matter with me? I stayed in the store to help, and the lady agreed! You are so slow in making calculations, and there are so many people in the store, what's wrong with me helping you settle the accounts?"
"If you really want to help, you can help to weigh pickles and collect money... I admit that I am not as fast as you in calculating accounts, but after all, I am just new to business, and the principle that hard work makes up for one's weakness and practice makes perfect, do you understand?" Huang Xiaomei I almost couldn't help but want to scratch her pretending face. She did it on purpose, it must be! !
Cherry raised her eyebrows, as if the angrier Xiaomei was, the happier she was, and said a little arrogantly: "I'm sorry, sister, I didn't bring my old clothes. These clothes were just made by the mansion this autumn. Dirty, going out with the lady in the future, wouldn't it embarrass the lady? So, I can only stand far away, and I am too embarrassed to stand there, so I can help you settle the score. Who knows that you don't appreciate it! Really Treat him like a donkey’s liver and lungs!!”
In terms of verbal disputes, where is Huang Xiaomei's opponent? All of a sudden, his face was flushed with anger, his eyes were full of water, he gritted his teeth stubbornly, and glared at Cherry angrily.
Cherry pretentiously covered her small mouth with a handkerchief, pretended to be surprised, and said, "Oh! I was kind enough to help, but I offended you instead? You won't complain in front of the lady, right? Although the time I spent with the lady It's not long, but it's much better than you, a girl who has just been bought and hasn't had time to be trained! Tell me, Miss, does she believe in you or me?"
"I'll believe whoever is right!" Yu Xiaocao and Yang Liu walked in with a little difficulty carrying a big jar. After replacing the jar that originally contained the spicy fermented bean curd, she raised her eyes to see the expressions of the two people in the store, and said something lightly.
Yang Liu looked at Cherry with an expression of "What's wrong with you again?" Cherry gave her a dark look, and said to Yu Xiaocao with a smile: "Miss, this servant is helping Sister Xiaomei to settle accounts. She may be afraid that this servant will take the credit, so she is a little unhappy. Miss, this servant argued with her a few words, which made everyone feel uncomfortable. I made you cry. Please punish me!"
Huang Xiaomei's chest heaved heavily, and she screamed: "That's not the case!! Miss asked me to practice abacus and arithmetic more, she did the calculations in her head, and always told me the answer before I figured it out. Come out! She did it on purpose!!"
Cherry looked surprised and said: "Oh! Just now I saw that there were many people waiting, and I was afraid that the guests would wait for a long time, so I settled the score for you. It really has no other meaning!! Besides, if you don't tell me, how would I know that the lady is cultivating What about your arithmetic skills?" There was still an expression of "why didn't you say it sooner" on his face.
Yu Xiaocao gave Cherry a helpless look, and said, "Usually you are quite open-minded and generous, why did you get into a fight with Xiaomei today?"
When Cherry heard this, her eyes turned red and her voice choked up: "Miss, you have a newcomer around you, so you don't need slaves anymore?"
"Why do you think so? Didn't I tell you? Xiaomei will be in charge of the pickle shop in the future, so she doesn't have any conflict of interest with you? Cherry, you, Yang Liu, and the others are my personal servant girls! What? Is it a 'personal' maid? It means that wherever I go in the future, you will follow me! You and my younger sister, one is in charge of my food and daily life, and the other is helping our family take care of the business. Each has its own authority. What is there to compete for favor with? of?"
Although Yu Xiaocao's body is not yet twelve years old, but the soul inside adds up to more than thirty, can she not see through the thoughts of a teenage girl like Cherry
Hearing what the lady said, the cherry noodles were slightly hot, and she looked at Huang Xiaomei embarrassedly with a blushing face, lowered her head and said softly: "Xiaomei, I was wrong just now. I apologize to you! Guests will come later, you Just settle the accounts and collect the money, I'll weigh the pickles!"
Huang Xiaomei was not unreasonable, she finally understood the reason why Cherry targeted her, it was because she was afraid that she would win her favor. Huang Xiaomei smiled brightly and said, "It's okay to talk about it! If you're not busy, sister Cherry will help me check if it's right. If you're busy, you'll help collect the money and change. Your clothes It’s so beautiful, if you put soy sauce on it, you won’t be able to wash it off!”
Cherry shook her head and said, "It's okay! Miss, do you still have that blouse on Miss Biao's body? This servant will change into that one to help. This time it's really helping!"
The store was full of staff, and Yu Xiaocao was finally released. Under Yang Liu's strong request, she taught the studious big maid a few good dishes in the small kitchen in the front yard. In the evening, the dishes on the tables of the master and servant of the Yu family were much richer.
In the evening of the next day, Yu Xiaocao took out the chickens and ducks that had been killed in the ice cellar, thawed them, and marinated them overnight. On the morning of the prefect's wife's birthday the next day, she specially got up early to direct the two girls to prepare the ingredients for the birthday peach cake.
Yes, she was going to make peach cakes for dessert for every table at the birthday banquet. He also brought his uncle Liu Hu and cousin Liu Junping over to work as coolies. There is no way, pointing at the three little girls to make cream, the arms will be broken.
In summer and autumn, during the busy farming season, Yu Xiaocao made a lot of canned peaches, canned strawberries, rose jam, strawberry jam and other snacks. When I came to Fucheng, I also brought a lot of them to the toothbrush festival. It can be used at this time.
The cake is baked into a round shape with a wide bottom and a narrow top. Use a knife to cut horizontally into two-finger-thick slices. Spread a layer of pickled peaches and strawberries in each slice. Spread cream on the outside to make a birthday peach shape. Brush the tips with rose or strawberry jam. Cream stained with spinach juice underneath the peaches, squeezed into leaf shapes. A beautiful and delicious birthday peach is finished.
In the backyard of the magistrate's yamen, the guests greeted each other, talking and laughing. Just when the magistrate and the magistrate's wife greeted the male and female guests to sit down and prepared to start the banquet. The steward of the mansion hurried over and whispered a few words to the magistrate.
The magistrate's eyes suddenly brightened, and the smile on his face grew wider. He ordered a few words to the steward, stood up and said to the guests: "This time, Madam celebrates her birthday. I originally planned to be at the Zhenxiu Restaurant. I would like to invite all relatives and friends to have a lively time. It's impossible to imagine that the business of Zhenxiu Restaurant is too good. There are so many tables. The old man deeply regrets that the reception is not good enough."
Whether it was the male guests or the female guests separated by a few screens, they responded one after another, saying that the magistrate is being polite.
The smile on Zhifu Ning's face remained undiminished, he raised his voice, and continued: "I have a little friend who is as good at making roast duck and chicken as at Zhenxiu Restaurant. It's a pity that the restaurant she opened serves roast duck and chicken every day. It is limited to ten pieces. I believe many old friends know about this, right?"
Most of the people who came to congratulate the magistrate were people from Fucheng. Naturally, I heard that the magistrate went to congratulate the opening of the Yuji Braised Vegetables shop opposite. Unexpectedly, the owner of the shop is so important to the magistrate.
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Cleaning up the shrimp today, squatting for a long time, and typing for a few hours, my back hurts badly. It feels like my waist is completely useless!