"This little friend, knowing that Zhuojing is celebrating his birthday today, cooked roasted chicken and roasted duck for us, and added it to our dishes. It is said that he also prepared a very unique birthday peach for us to taste as dessert."
While talking, the butler came in with a bunch of servants from the mansion, carrying roast duck and chicken. The rich fragrance instantly filled the entire courtyard. Yu Xiaocao specially prepared some more. After serving roast duck and roast chicken on every table, how many were left!
The roast duck and roast chicken are obviously just out of the pan, and they are steaming. Freshly roasted roast duck, the skin is crispy, the meat is tender, and the taste is even better! The skin of the roast chicken is fragrant and tender, the bones are soft, and it melts in the mouth, conquering everyone's taste buds. No matter on the banquet table of male or female guests, these two dishes must be the first to see the bottom.
The meal was almost finished, and the butler brought people to offer birthday peaches. Shoutao is lifelike and looks very attractive. Cherry was wearing her new pink dress, standing gracefully in front of the magistrate's wife, with a smile like a flower, and said crisply: "Our young lady learned that my wife is celebrating her birthday today, so she made birthday peaches with her own hands. I wish my lady good fortune forever, and my life is better than Nanshan!"
"Hey, who is this girl, she looks so handsome and energetic! Why do I look at this girl, does she look familiar?" The roast duck and chicken just now made Mrs. Zhifu more face in front of her girlfriends and relatives. This fresh birthday peach added a lot of color to her birthday banquet. Happily, he praised Cherry a few words.
Cherry advances and retreats with restraint, and her smile is just right: "Thank you for your praise, madam, this servant is a girl from General Zhaoyong's mansion, and now she is serving our girl!"
The girl from General Zhaoyong's residence? General Fang's adopted daughter? Madam Zhifu suddenly realized that when General Fang's eldest son was one year old, she was also invited. Fangfu's first birthday banquet, the most outstanding thing is the last dessert, which is as tall as a person and has several floors. Not only is the shape unique and beautiful, but the taste is also a must. There are so many time-honored dim sum shops in Beijing, but none of them can make such delicious dishes.
It's a pity that there are too many people and too little cake, and each person is only given a small piece. Before the magistrate's wife had time to taste the taste, it was gone. It is said that this cake was made by the adopted daughter of General Fang herself. The master chef of the most famous Daohua Village pastry shop in the capital, heard about the cream cake, went to the general's mansion to ask to meet the adopted daughter of General Fang, but unfortunately she had left the capital and disappeared without a trace!
Speaking of the cakes in Daohua Village, everyone in Beijing knows about them. It is a time-honored pastry. It is said that the master chef is the descendant of the pastry chef of the previous dynasty. When the emperor was young, he liked to go out of the palace in micro clothes and go to Daohua Village to buy pastries. The pastries in Daohua Village are as popular as the dishes in Zhenxiu Restaurant.
The master chef of Daohua Village has a strange personality, and there are many famous nobles in Beijing who order cakes from him. Whether he accepts or not depends entirely on his mood, even if he holds a thousand pieces of gold, he will not take a second look at someone who has no eyesight. However, he had registered in front of the emperor, and every month Chief Executive Su would go out of the palace to buy pastries for the emperor in person, so even a high-ranking official would not dare to do anything to him!
He actually went to visit the little girl who can make cakes in person, which shows that this adopted daughter of General Fang has merit in making pastries.
The maid who presented the birthday peaches in front of her claimed to be the daughter of General Fang, so does it mean that these birthday peaches were made by the pastry wizard who was also highly respected by the master chef of Miandaoxiang Village? Madam Zhifu is full of expectations!
"Your lady took the trouble, I will definitely thank her in person some other day!" The magistrate asked his valet to reward Cherry with a solid silver bracelet. Cherry took it, said a few auspicious words, and then left.
One birthday peach cake was distributed to each table. Madam Zhifu asked someone to pick up a knife, and personally divided the longevity peach cake at her table into small pieces, and distributed them to the ladies. The orange peaches and red strawberries inside made the cake more layered.
"It's delicious! I've never eaten such a delicious pastry when I grow up!" Tong Zhijia's daughter is relatively innocent. After tasting it, she couldn't wait to express her feelings and admired it from the bottom of her heart.
"The taste is dense and melts in the mouth, and the fruit inside is even more brilliant. Even the Daoxiang Village in Beijing may not be able to make such delicious pastries!" Mrs. Tongpan was born in the Taifu's residence. Although she is only a concubine, her knowledge is not ordinary. Other women can reach it. She has said so, which shows that this longevity peach cake does have merits.
Hearing the compliments from all the wives and ladies, the magistrate's wife felt that her face was quite bright. Unexpectedly, the husband looked at the face of the county prince, and the shop that was half sold and half given away was actually bought by General Zhaoyong's beloved adopted daughter. Yu Kee Braised Vegetables? yes! At the first birthday party, Mrs. Fang introduced her adoptive daughter, who was surnamed Yu. Why did she only think of it now
Madam Zhifu couldn't help but share with all the ladies and ladies that the birthday cake she tasted when she attended the first birthday banquet of General Zhaoyong's family was made by the same person as the birthday cake in terms of shape and taste. Tong San's wife also responded, saying that General Fang's adopted daughter is not only a master at making pastries, but also quite proficient in medical skills. The empress's little prince was seriously ill, and it was this woman who rescued him. The herbal diet she made has adjusted Princess Jing's body well...
There are only a few screens between the male and female guests. Listening to the "gossip" from the female guest, each has their own little thoughts in their hearts. To be able to attract the attention of the Empress and Princess Jing, this person is definitely not ordinary, he can only befriend and not offend!
In the next few days, Yu Xiaocao would always receive some greetings or invitations for no apparent reason. Except for the magistrate's wife, she had no acquaintance, let alone acquaintance. After dealing with cherries and willows a few times, it became even more inexplicable—these officials, officials, ladies, and rich businessmen's wives, why did they all use poles to befriend her? She was nothing more than a peasant girl who lived by her craft.
After coming down several times, Yu Xiaocao was very disturbed. Fortunately, after having Huang Dahui's family, both the back hall and the store are gradually on track. After a lot of experience, Huang Xiaomei was able to support the pickle shop business on her own. Yu Xiaocao took the two maidservants back to Dongshan Village.
Ever since she was hit by cherries last time, Huang Xiaomei has worked hard to practice her mental arithmetic skills. Now she can tell the amount of money that customers need to pay almost without using an abacus. Only for relatively large purchases can she occasionally use the abacus . Cherry watched for a few days and found that Huang Xiaomei had already made zero mistakes.
Cherry and Xiaomei, it can be said that they don't know each other, they have become good sisters who talk about everything. Cherry saw that Xiaomei had almost nothing to sell except for the two sets of clothes bought by Miss Nahui when she just entered the store. So I gave her some clothes I made in the mansion last year.
Mrs. Fang is more generous to her servants, and adds two sets of clothes to the maids and women every season. Especially the big maids, they often follow the master's side, representing the face of the master, no matter the fabric, style or color of the clothes, they can be sold in most families in Beijing.
When Cherry first arrived, Xiaomei thought she was the daughter of a family in Fucheng! Every piece of her clothes from last year was at least 80% new, and it wouldn't drop in price at all when given away. Xiaomei was very happy, and kept saying that she had never worn such beautiful clothes when she was so old!
Yu Xiaocao went back to Dongshan Village to live for a while in order to avoid those inexplicable officials' wives and misses. At this time, the cold winter came without warning.
In early winter, a heavy snow whitened the mountains and plains, and the elderly and children who were weaker were caught off guard and fell ill. Yu Xiaocao became busy.
Since Dr. You found his grandnephew and lived in Dongshan Village for a period of time, he decided to go back to his roots, said goodbye to the villagers of Dongshan Village, and left. As Doctor You's "direct disciple", Yu Xiaocao became the only person in Dongshan Village who knew medical skills.
However, at this time, people’s families are not very well-off, especially after the disaster year, and those with minor illnesses and disasters do not go to the doctor, and they pass it by carrying it. I really couldn't resist it, so I borrowed a carriage and horse to take it to the medical clinic in the town. Few people think of Yu Xiaocao's medical skills.
This time, the weather changed suddenly, and Lao Yu was also caught. Fever, headache, general discomfort, coughing so hard to breathe. At first, he thought that he would be fine after drinking some ginger soup and sweating after suffering from a bit of wind and cold. Who knew that within two days, I would not be able to get out of bed.
Yu Xiaocao picked up several herbal medicines for wind and cold from her small medicine box, decocted them with Lingshi water, and gave her grandfather a few doses, and the symptoms soon eased. Three days had passed, and old Yu went to the foot of the mountain to collect firewood again. Old Yu is a restless man, and he feels uncomfortable if he is not allowed to work. Winter came, the weather suddenly turned cold, and the firewood reserves at home were insufficient, so he carried a basket every day and went to the foot of the West Mountain to collect firewood.
While walking around in the evening, Lao Yu turned his head into his elder brother's house. As soon as you enter the door, you can smell the strong smell of soup and medicine. After asking, I found out that his elder brother Yu Lichun was also not spared from the cold snap, and his symptoms were similar to his. After drinking the medicine for five days, there was still not much improvement.
And Yu Jiang's little daughter, who is just over one year old, also has a fever. Poor little girl who is so small, she is fed several bowls of bitter medicine every day, and her voice is hoarse from crying. Many times, even if the medicine was down, the little girl would vomit out nothing left, her whole body would be listless, she would sleep more often than wake up, and the doctors invited from the town would shake their heads and say they were not optimistic.
After taking care of the old and the young, Yu Jiang lost a lot of weight in less than a week. In the past two years, he has made a lot of money with his second brother, and he doesn't feel sorry for money. At the moment when his father and daughter fell ill, he went to the town to invite a doctor to come over, and took more than a dozen taels of money for medicine, but still nothing. improvement.
Yu Jiang's eldest sister got the news and came to visit her father. After asking about the symptoms, she immediately burst into tears. She said that the old Han in her village is not as old as her father, and also has a persistent high fever, and she is too tired to get out of bed. His sons and daughters are also filial, they invited a doctor to take medicine, spent a lot of money, but eventually they disappeared. Seeing her father with a haggard face, Sister Yu Jiang couldn't help crying.