Chapter 122

The next day, Da Fang and San Fang each held a chicken, prepared two kilograms of pork and went into the city.

When we arrived in the city, we found the gentry's house again.

Just at the door, Wang Mudan was surprised: "God, this is really a big family. There are two small stone lions in front of the door. Look at the high wall courtyard. This is the yard, isn't it? Our yard is built with fences. People here are built with real bricks and black tiles."

Chen Ju also stood stunned, and then said, "sister-in-law, this pearl is really well married. Do you think she doesn't want to talk to our poor relatives?"

"No, we are a family. We break bones and connect tendons. How can we say we don't recognize it?" Wang Mudan said.

Then Xiao Tieshu knocked on the door first. After a while, a servant came out and asked who he was looking for. Xiao Tieshu said he was looking for Xiao Baozhu.

"Xiao Baozhu?" The servant didn't think of this man for a moment and a half.

"She married in a while ago to be your young master's concubine." Xiao Tieshu reminded me with a smile.

The servant remembered this and looked contemptuously at the mention of Xiao Baozhu: "Oh, you're talking about that. What are you doing with her?"

"I'm her uncle, and behind them are her third uncle and third aunt, as well as her great aunt." Xiao Tieshu road.

When the servant saw a group of people standing behind him, and these people were carrying two chickens and a small piece of pork, he asked, "visiting relatives?"

"Yes, yes, we haven't seen Baozhu for a long time. When she married, we didn't know and didn't give her any congratulatory gifts, so now bring her two chickens to make up..."

Before Xiao Tieshu finished speaking, the door closed with a bang.

The Xiao family were stunned.

I have no idea what's going on.

When the servant closed the door, he ran to tell housekeeper Wang that the Xiao family had come to see Xiao Baozhu, and asked if he could bring it in.

Housekeeper Wang has worked in the Wang family for so long and has contacted many people. He doesn't need to see what routines everyone has.

Hum, there are some people who want to climb up relatives and relatives. Don't they want to see Xiao Baozhu? Let Xiao Baozhu go out and meet him.

……

The Xiao family are still waiting outside the door. They don't know whether to go back or continue to wait.

Wang Mudan still said, "Why are these people like this? Can they hang us here without saying a word, as if we were beggars?"

Chen Ju said, "we're not beggars. Our men still work in the Yamen. Speaking of family wealth, it's much better than ordinary villagers. We don't beg. Why don't we want to see us?"

They all dressed up specially today. Wang Mudan also turned out the dress she wore when she got married. Although the dress was too small and squeezed out all the meat, the more it was, the richer it became.

Chen Ju is also. In order to look young, she specially inserted a lot of chrysanthemums in her head. Now every head is chrysanthemum.

After waiting for a while, the door opened again, and their group was immediately full of hope.

Just now, the servant asked, "you want to see Xiao Baozhu, don't you? Come with me."

The Xiao family looked at each other, and then they were full of joy.

Finally, I can go into Wang's house to see Xiao Baozhu!

I was about to enter through the gate, but the servant banged and closed the gate again.

"..." the Xiao family didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd.

Although the servant closed the door, he also closed himself outside the door. Then he said to the Xiao family, "come with me."

Is this... Not going through the gate?

Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu have been in the city for a long time. They know the rules of big families: big families receive guests. If they are distinguished guests of the host's family, of course, they enter through the gate and get a personal interview from the host's family.

But if the door is not equal, the guest must enter through the small door behind. Those who enter through the back door may not be able to see the master of the house.

Sure enough, I walked around and came to an alley. There was an iron door behind the alley, where Xiao Baozhu was waiting.

Xiao Baozhu was surprised to see his uncle and third uncle. Why are these people here?

The servant took the two chickens and pork from Wang Mudan and Chen Ju and said, "if you want to talk, hurry up, Xiao Baozhu. You only have a quarter of an hour. Don't miss your life."

Xiao Baozhu nodded and carefully said, "I see!"

The Xiao family were stunned at this scene.

Isn't Baozhu a young grandmother in this family? Why listen to a servant? Aren't you a concubine? Is the concubine status here so low?

"Uncle, uncle, aunt, aunt, why are you here?" Xiao Baozhu asked.

Wang Mudan couldn't help it at first. She asked, "Oh, Baozhu, you... We heard that you married into a big family, so we came to see you, but why do you seem to have no position here? What are you doing in there? Aren't you a concubine? There's nothing like you here? You have to listen to a servant."

Xiao Baozhu couldn't help smiling bitterly when she heard her intention: "big aunt, third aunt, I'm not a concubine in there. I'm just a servant. I'm sorry to waste your time."

It also lost two chickens and two kilograms of pork.

Chen Ju asked, "but why do you want to be a servant? Isn't your sister-in-law a restaurant in the city? Why don't you make so much money? You have to be a servant?"

Xiao Baozhu smiled bitterly again: "maybe this is life, uncle and uncle. I know you may have heard some rumors that I really live well here and want to climb relatives, but I don't have the ability to disappoint you."

Xiao Tieshu was also very disappointed. Look at Baozhu's forced appearance. She didn't have the spirit when she saw her last time. She did rough work in it.

Xiao Tieshu asked, "you don't have the ability now. Do you have the ability in the future?"

Xiao Baozhu said, "who knows? In short, Baozhu is here to thank everyone for looking up to me. Things in the future are not necessarily!"

With that, Xiao Baozhu returned to the iron gate, closed the door again, and finally bowed: "Baozhu is leaving. Please go slowly, uncle and uncle."

……

On the way back to the yard from the back door, Xiao Baozhu encountered a lot of ridicule and ridicule. Some people even deliberately spoke loudly:

"Those people in her family really thought she was a young grandmother here."

"Hum, what you can't see is lost."

"Maybe people really just want to see her?"

"Come on, it's really so good. We should take her back to avoid suffering here. Now the young master and the young grandmother love each other very much, and the young master won't look at her. She can only be a servant here all her life."

“……”

Xiao Baozhu only felt pain in her heart.

Back in the yard, the maid asked her to wash her clothes. She said that she had been replaced by the young grandmother. Xiao Baozhu couldn't help washing her clothes. She was washing her clothes and saw Qin Qingqing coming out of the house.

Qin Qingqing came from home with a servant girl named Xiaocui. Xiaocui is lively and good at dealing with people. No, she heard about Xiao Baozhu in the past two days and touched the details of Xiao Baozhu to the sky. Xiaocui's protector said "bah" when she met Xiao Baozhu.

Now Xiaocui came out with Qin Qingqing, and then "bah" again: "some people think that they can get the young master's pity by luring the young master with dirty means. Unexpectedly, they beat themselves into the door. The young master didn't even look at her, but she still didn't go. It's really cheap."

Xiao Baozhu almost tore up the clothes in his hand.

She quickly turned over and continued washing as if nothing had happened.

Qin Qingqing said to Xiaocui, "Xiaocui, don't say such words. We are all sisters. Don't offend others."

"Sister? Miss, are you confused? Who wants to be a sister with someone like her? You like it, but I don't."

Qin Qingqing said, "not you, but me and her, me and her, maybe we will be sisters in the future."

"There will never be such a day!"

"It's hard to say now."

Xiao Baozhu looked up at Qin Qingqing, and Qin Qingqing smiled at her.

The eyes didn't ridicule Xiao Baozhu. They were gentle and virtuous. They were as beautiful as a fairy.

Xiao Baozhu didn't dare to look like that. He soon turned his face back and continued to wash clothes.

……

"Xiao family food".

That day, a middle-aged man came to the restaurant. Li Hongmei went to entertain him, but the middle-aged man didn't eat when he came in. He just said he came to find the cook here.

"What are you doing?" Li Hongmei asked.

"Are you the boss here?"

"I'm the boss's mother-in-law." Li Hongmei said.

Then the middle-aged man claimed to be a member of the chamber of Commerce. He said that he heard that the cook here had given a wedding banquet, received constant praise, and had good knife skills. I hope she will go to the provincial capital to participate in a cooking competition if she is free.

Although this dynasty is not a prosperous era, it is not an era of war and famine. People can still live a good life, so there are many folk activities, such as cooking competition, embroidery competition, calligraphy competition, and poetry competition.

The middle-aged man didn't see ye Xiaoxian at last. He only left an invitation to Ye Xiaoxian and said that if she wanted to participate, she could take the invitation to the provincial capital to sign up.

In the kitchen, ye Xiaoxian was busy cooking. Seeing the invitation, she was not interested, so she threw it aside.

It was not until the evening that she brought the invitation and read the rules carefully.

I've been here for a long time. Now I can read and write traditional characters. After reading it, she felt that she could actually attend it to expand her contacts and learn more about local dishes.

There are four or five days before the competition. In order to go to the provincial capital, ye Xiaoxian has been grasping the cooking skills of Li Hongmei and a Xian so that they can replace her.

This time to the provincial capital, ye Xiaoxian is going to take ah Wu. First, ah Wu is a man and can act as a bodyguard. Second, she can fight her.

But the day before departure, xiaobaoshan came back. As soon as xiaobaoshan heard that ye Xiaoxian was going to the provincial capital, he immediately said he would go with her.