Zhang Shou asked Ah Liu to bring in some food, but left it for Qi Liang. As for himself, he would certainly not feel wronged.
Now that there are so many noble children coming to study, he has specially set up a bamboo house in Cuiyun Room as a small kitchen. In order to satisfy the appetite of the master, each of the noble children has a good cook who can also serve as a part-time cook. The most common thing they do every day is to send all kinds of delicious dishes to him and Zhu Ying.
The intention to please him as a gentleman was fake; the intention to please Zhu Ying, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhao’s mansion was real.
That evening, Qi Liang went home quietly with an empty lunch box. In the Shuibobuxing Restaurant, Zhan Jin, as usual, smiled and brought a large three-layered lunch box to Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying.
"The cook who delivered the meal today had a bruised face and nose. It seemed that he had a fight with someone in order to deliver the meal. He secretly gave me a jade pendant and begged me to tell the master that his young master would be here soon."
Zhang Shou saw Liu Yin, who had followed him in, was busy placing the dishes in the food box on the small square table. He smiled and asked, "Who is the young master he is talking about?"
Zhan Jin immediately chuckled mischievously: "There are so many cooks. If he came here in his original state, I would still remember him. But he has been beaten into a pig's head. How can I recognize him? Since I can't recognize him, I naturally don't know who his young master is!"
"I actually picked up a jade pendant for nothing!" Zhu Ying couldn't help but laugh so hard that her body shook. "You are such a bad girl!"
"Miss, it's just a worthless thing. You can probably buy two with one tael of silver!" Zhan Jin said as he spread his palm in front of Zhang Shou, and then said with disgust, "Sir, look at the quality of this!"
Zhang Shou couldn't help laughing and crying when he saw the master and maid laughing and not forgetting to bring him along. At this moment, Liu Yin drove Zhan Jin away with a smile and put a small plate in front of him. It was the braised pig's trotter that he had moved his chopsticks for a few more times. He could only raise his hand quickly to indicate that he didn't need to be served.
After he finished the meal as quickly as possible without looking away, he began to think about how to hint to Zhu Ying and the other three to go back.
But before he could say anything, Zhu Ying stood up and smiled at him triumphantly: "They came here for me before, but if they come secretly to ask for advice and I catch them, it will not only be the face that is lost, but also the substance! I will tell Zhu Hong or Zhu Yu to go back and quietly wait nearby just in case. Now I will take Zhan Jin and Liu Yin back first!"
"Wait until tomorrow, and I'll come back to ask you what good ideas you gave to others!"
Seeing the young lady leave as soon as she said she would, Zhang Shou couldn't help but smile: "Aren't you afraid that I will use your tiger skin as a banner?"
"That's fine too!" Zhu Ying smiled with her eyebrows curved, not taking it seriously at all, "Originally, I used your name to bring these people here, and now you use my name to perfunctorily deal with them, so at least I didn't get into trouble."
Seeing that Zhan Jin and Liu Yin had also packed up their food boxes and were ready to follow Zhu Ying, the three masters and maids did not drag their feet at all. Zhang Shou just felt that their free and easy temperament was really to his liking, but then he smiled to himself.
Today he said that others had nothing, but he was actually talking about himself, but the eldest lady seemed not to hear it at all!