Blissful Days After Widowhood Chapter 8: Meng Shuangshuang

Seeing the hostess coming, Aunt Zhao hurriedly pretended to look like she just got off the stove: "Madam, why are you here? The meal will be ready soon."

"What did you do, why is it so delicious?"

"Fried pork with cabbage and stewed radish bone soup."

Tang Xueqin probed and looked at the dish that had just been fried. The green vegetables were green, the meat was thin and tender, and full of juice. It was completely different from before, and she couldn't help but wonder, "You didn't make this, right?"

Aunt Zhao scratched her head embarrassedly, and laughed: "Boss, don't blame the slaves for being lazy, it's really Miss Ning who offered to cook, but the slaves couldn't persuade them..."

Tang Xueqin was noncommittal, but looked at Ning Xi with a mild smile: "Let's see if the master is back, let's have dinner when you come back!"

"Yes!" Aunt Zhao was delighted in her heart. This is what she meant by agreeing to let Ning Xi cook. After that, it will be much easier, and this girl Ning looks really good at craftsmanship, and the fragrance just came together. , her saliva almost didn't flow out. Usually, she waits for the host to finish her meal first and then eats the rest. This time, she doesn't know how much is left. Aunt Zhao swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Mother, it's really delicious." Ning Shaotong moved his chopsticks like flying, and quickly stuffed the slices of meat into his mouth, "I've never eaten such delicious meat before."

Ning Wenhao also smiled and said, "I didn't expect Xi'er to learn this skill."

Ning Xi smiled lightly: "If you do more, you will." When the tube bone soup cools down a little, pick up one for Ning Shaotong to eat, and teach him to **** out the marrow inside first, then five claws. Jinlong grabbed the tube bone and tore off the muscle outside the bone to eat.

Whether it is the bone marrow in the bone or the muscle outside, it is salty and sweet, and it is extremely delicious! This kind of salty and sweet seems to be the inherent flavor of the bones. The soup is neither bland nor salty, just right, and has a rich taste. This is the beauty of marinating the bones first. will be greatly discounted.

"Since you know how to cook, you should also cook the meals for the inn guests in the future. The guests have long said that the food in the inn is not good." Tang Xueqin said.

Although Ning Xi was a little surprised, he happily agreed. Since he was under someone else's control, of course he had to do something.

The family was eating with relish, and even Tang Xueqin, who had always eaten less, added an unprecedented bowl of rice when a sudden knock on the door was heard.

As soon as Aunt Zhao opened the door bolt, the door was pushed open with force, and a young man dressed as a son came in, probing around and sniffing fiercely: "What delicious food!"

Aunt Zhao recognized that this was a customer in the store in front, and said politely: "This young man, this is the inner house, all women and children, and do not greet customers."

The young man said dissatisfiedly: "Since there is such a good cook, why is the food in the store in front of me as bad as pig food?"

Aunt Zhao, who is in charge of cooking "pig food" every day, is unhappy: "This dish is made by the niece of our boss. How can you go to work for the big men like you, such a good-looking girl?"

"Can't I pay for the money? Don't talk nonsense, what do you eat today, still make me a portion!" After that, he took out a small piece of silver and slapped it on the table.

Ning Xi looked at this young man, her skin was snow-white, her facial features were meticulous, and even her exposed hands were white, tender and smooth. Looking at her neck, she had no Adam's apple at all. Knowing what other people think, she doesn't believe that they won't see such an obvious woman disguised as a man.

Before she could say anything, Tang Xueqin smiled and picked up the money on the table: "Master, please wait a moment. Ningxi, let's cook."

Ning Xi, who originally thought that it had nothing to do with cooking, suddenly became unhappy. As a famous chef in her previous life, how could she have been ordered like this: "This soup can't be simmered in two hours, and it's still here. There are ready-made, why don't you just take it?"

I didn't expect this to be a nonchalant: "That's fine!" Immediately, he took the bowls and chopsticks handed over by Aunt Zhao and ate it politely, "Well, yes, it tastes so good, I'm so old I've never eaten something so delicious!"

After taking a few more bites, I suddenly remembered something: "I won't eat those cauldrons in front of you in the future, I'll just pack a meal with you, how much is a day?"

Tang Xueqin took out the abacus and "crackled" for a while: "If you eat three meals a day here, it will count as 80 yuan!"

The man thought for a while: "Deal!" Suddenly, he was a little embarrassed and said, "The piece of silver I gave you just now should have a lot of money. You can calculate it for me, can it be worth a few days?"

Tang Xueqin reluctantly took out the money she had just tucked in from her belt, and while looking for the stamp, muttered, "What kind of uncle can you pretend to be without money!"

Of course those who can come to stay in their small and run-down inn are not rich people, so when Ningxi appeared in the large kitchen of the inn in the afternoon to cook dinner for the guests, the man named Meng You The guests came here again looking for incense, knowing that Ning Xi was the chef who cooks delicious food, he couldn't help but shouted at the disadvantage: "If I knew earlier that the chef has also changed here, I wouldn't spend the 80 yuan a day. ."

Ningxi had no choice but to comfort her: "I promise to help you cook more delicious food by yourself every day. Besides, don't you feel uncomfortable eating with a bunch of big men every day as a girl?" Yes, when we eat, we adopt the surrounding meal system. Ten people are at a table. The big buckets of rice and big pots of vegetables are just put on the table to eat. The people who live here are all rough people. They squatted on the bench and ate their shoes. Some liked to talk while they were eating, and there were others who snorted like a pig. They were all reincarnated by hungry ghosts.

Meng also thinks about it again, the meal a few days ago really made her sick, eh, not right: "How do you know I'm a girl's family! Why, am I acting very different?"

Ningxi told her that anyone with eyes can see it, Meng sighed again: "That's no way, it's inconvenient for a girl to walk outside!"

"Then why don't you go to a better inn? At least be safe."

Sighed again: "Actually, I don't have much money on my body. A good inn costs two or three hundred cents a day, so where can I afford it?"

Ning Xi suddenly had a good impression of this foodie girl who was reluctant to live but rather to eat.

The two of them got acquainted with each other slowly. Meng You, a girl who lived in a crowd of men, talked to Ning Xi when she was depressed. Before she knew it, she poured beans into a bamboo tube and told Ning Xi about her own affairs.

It turned out that her original name was Meng Shuangshuang, Lishui Renshi. She is now sixteen years old. She had a good family background when she was a child, but when she was eight years old, a change happened in her family. Meng Shuangshuang was bought by a large family and became a little maid in their young master's house. During the day and night, he gradually developed feelings for the young master.

But Meng Shuangshuang is a strong man who doesn't want to be a concubine at the mercy of others, and the young master also has a lot of affection for her and vowed not to marry her. Naturally, the relationship between the two could not be accepted by the young master's family, so the two agreed to run away.

The young master helped her forge her identity and arranged the route to Yunhai City, so she hired a carriage to let her set off first, and made an appointment to meet in Yunhai City within a month.

But now, she has been waiting for him in Yunhai City for more than 20 days, and there is not much left of the entanglement on her body, so she has no choice but to transfer from the Yunlai Inn, which has a better environment, to the Ningjia Inn to continue waiting.

"Then what if he doesn't come and you run out of entanglements?"

"Then go find some work and wait while you work! He promised me that he would definitely come." Meng Shuangshuang said indifferently.

Well, Ning Xi admits that foodies have an optimistic heart.

After waiting for more than ten days, Meng Shuangshuang ran to the city gate every day to look around. After a long time, even the soldiers guarding the city gate knew him. One of them was a city soldier named Wang Dafu who gave him back She has brought delicious food several times, and every time she talks to her, she blushes and stutters. When she came back to talk to Ning Xi, Ning Xi suspected that others had taken a fancy to her.

Ningxi had no intention of overhearing the guests chatting in the courtyard one day. He heard that a new merchant came from Lishui, so he hurried to the city gate and called Meng Shuangshuang back.

"This eldest brother, have you heard of the Chengbei Jiang family in Lishui?" Meng Shuangshuang asked the merchant expectantly.

"Of course I've heard of it. We Lishui people don't know the Jiang family in Chengbei!"

"Have you heard what happened to their house recently?"

"Isn't it a happy event for the eldest young master of the Jiang family!"

"What, the eldest young master of the Jiang family is married?" Meng Shuangshuang grabbed his arm in surprise.

The merchant retracted his arm dissatisfied, and carefully straightened the folds on the top: "You are the same person, what does it have to do with you when they get married? It's never up to you! Let me tell you, Jiang Jiada The young master chose the eldest lady of the Luo family, who is a match made in heaven! The scene that day was really red makeup, I have never seen a more beautiful marriage than this in my life!"

"Impossible! He said he wouldn't marry anyone but me, he said he would come to me, you liars, I don't believe it!" Meng Shuangshuang shouted loudly.

"What's the matter with you, you have to ask yourself again, but you don't believe it! I lied to you, what good is it, if you don't believe it, you can ask anyone else, as long as it comes from Lishui, There's no one who doesn't know about it."

"You lie!" Meng Shuangshuang rushed up to hit someone.

Ningxi didn't expect her to be so aggressive, so she hurriedly stepped forward to pull her away: "Don't worry, let's slowly investigate the truth about the eldest young master of the Jiang family. Now go back to the room and talk about it."

"I'm not going, I'm going back to him, I'm going to tell him face to face!"

Ning Xi is not as strong as her, and she is about to be rushed out by her. In a hurry, he grabs the rolling pin next to him and knocks it down on Meng Shuangshuang's head. Meng Shuangshuang falls to the ground without saying a word. .