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One of the doctors who came to see Jiang Yangui at the mansion today was a Fengfu doctor and the other was a military doctor, and this matter still reached Liu's ears.

She murmured to the woman in charge in her yard: "It seems that the third master is quite popular with the king of Liaonan here in Xizhou, otherwise, the dignified palace can sell her face as a cousin of the Chu family?"

The woman in charge picked Liu's favorite and said, "No, we all rely on the third master."

Mrs. Liu felt bad when she thought that she would have to take care of the oil bottle siblings in the future, "It's also the third younger sibling who left early. If the third younger sibling is still there, how can the third master be allowed to meddle in these nosy things. The siblings feel that now With the support of the old lady, they didn't regard themselves as outsiders at all. They didn't even think about it. They used the name of the third master to ask to go to other people's palaces. They spent all their favors so early. What would they do if something happened in the future? "

"This human face, use it once and use it thinly, and naturally use it wisely. I don't even know what to say about her! She really has the same temperament as her mother, and she only wants to be comfortable in everything, regardless of other people's life or death. .”

"What sin did I do? I have been married to the Chu family for so many years, serving my parents-in-law and my husband. In the early years, I had to please my sister-in-law everywhere. Now my sister-in-law has thrown a pair of children here. I didn't take care of them at all. I'm afraid that my parents-in-law will think that I have treated them harshly. If I am more cruel, I will follow the example of my second younger siblings and ask for a letter to go back to my mother's house!"

The woman in charge quickly persuaded her: "Madam, don't think so. The second lady left without a son, and she has nothing to look forward to. You not only have two young ladies, but the young master also followed Master Chengmao to practice in Yongzhou. The third master He is capable, and no matter what happens in the future, his future will not be bad. The young master and young master Chengmao are on good terms. You are different from the second lady. You have something to look forward to. If you leave, with the old lady's eccentricity, the two I don't know how much this young lady has suffered!"

Mrs. Liu didn't speak any more, but wept secretly.

Facing this calamity, the eldest and second wife of the Chu family kept complaining about Mrs. Jiang and her third wife, but they dared not say a word in front of Chu Changping. They did not dare to offend Chu Changping at all. Yes, aside from other things, when it comes to the marriage of their children, they still have to rely on Chu Changping to get to know better people.

No matter how much Mrs. Liu complained in private, there were still two elders of the Chu family standing above her. No matter what she said, she was still an eldest aunt, so she still had to do superficial tricks.

She asked the woman in charge in the yard to pick some body-replenishing herbs and send them to Jiang Yangui's yard.

***

Through these two days of getting along, Jiang Yanyi has already figured out Liu's temperament. This eldest aunt has shallow eyelids and a lot of thoughts. Vicious, that's out of the question.

Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and those who drag their children along naturally have to plan for their own children.From the very beginning, Jiang Yanyi never thought that everyone in the Chu family would treat their siblings like Chu Changping, and he didn't take Liu's little thoughts at ease.

Now she only hopes that Jiang Yangui's leg injury will heal soon. What he injured was the kneecap. The level of medical treatment in ancient times was limited, and there was no way to perform surgery. The doctors said that even if his leg is healed, I'm afraid it won't be as good in the future. Row.

Maybe it was because he had been lying on the bed for a long time, but Jiang Yanyi found that his younger brother's appetite was very small, and compared with his peers, his figure was too thin.

She has been cooking medicinal meals for Feng Shuo for so long, so she probably knows what ingredients are nourishing.

Jiang Yangui injured his leg, so he needs to drink more bone broth.

When decocting the medicine for Jiang Yangui, Jiang Yanyi ordered his servants to buy fresh pig bones and come back.

The Chu family is still under the leadership of the Liu family, but the servants in the house are only those brought over from the capital, all the yards are short of manpower, and the kitchen is also a mess.After she finished the "medicine", she turned around and asked, only to find out that no one bought it at all, and everyone in the kitchen had their own excuses and excuses.

Jiang Yanyi knew that with Liu's temper, if she beat the kitchen staff now, Liu would probably think that she was overstepping her role and it would be heard by Mrs. Chu. Neglecting their siblings, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have to create a estrangement again.

Jiang Yanyi doesn't care about Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Chu is so old, she really can't bear to see her worrying about these trivial matters. If this matter becomes serious, Uncle Chu will have to quarrel with Mrs. Chu again later, which is sad Still her old man.

After some consideration, Jiang Yanyi told Jiang Yangui that she went back to the shop to have a look, and on the way she bought a big pork bone to make soup.

Now the store's business has basically stabilized. When she went back, the store was full of seats. The old scholar was talking about storytelling, and the two didn't bother to say hello.But when Qiukui saw Jiang Yanyi going back, she cried for a while, fearing that she would stop coming to the store after returning to Chu's house, so Jiang Yanyi comforted her, saying that she was staying at Chu's house temporarily.

Aunt Guo and Chef Yao were both busy on the stove and couldn't leave. Jiang Yanyi greeted them and asked them to continue working while he went to make bone soup.

There is a lot of blood in the bones. After washing, put it in a pot with cold water. At the same time, put ginger cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, heat it slowly and then blanch the water again, so that all the blood can be boiled out, and excess fat can be removed. When the soup is boiled, The boiled bone broth will not be too greasy.

Jiang Yanyi put the processed pork bones in a casserole, filled a large pot of water, threw a few slices of ginger and stewed the scallions together.

When boiling pork bone soup, you must add enough water from the beginning. If you add water in the middle, the taste of the soup will not be so strong.In order to fully dissolve the calcium in the pork bones into the soup, she also added a little vinegar.

Jiang Yangui's injury is suitable for eating light food. Jiang Yanyi didn't even add condiments such as fennel and star anise, just to cook out the original flavor of bone broth.

Chef Yao saw that she was preoccupied, and thought that there were always so many not-so-glamorous things in the rich family's house, so he deliberately said some funny things, and brought the topic to the store to make her happy, "Shopkeeper, if you When I come back a few days later, I am afraid that this shop will be called Lao Yao. The soup recipe you gave is obviously made of those ingredients, but the diners in the shop don’t buy it, insisting that it is not the same taste as before! "

Jiang Yanyi was peeling the lotus root skin, and said with a smile, "Master Yao, don't make fun of me by saying these things. These days are thanks to you and Aunt Guo."

Seeing that she was in a better mood, Chef Yao continued: "Let me tell you the truth, I really don't know how to make dim sum, and many customers have already complained and asked why our shop doesn't sell dim sum. "

Jiang Yanyi said: "Now the Chu family can't leave, I have to deal with that side before I can take care of the store."

Chef Yao nodded: "Filial piety comes first, and the shopkeeper is a filial person."

Jiang Yanyi just smiled and didn't answer. He changed the subject and asked, "By the way, where does the old man live now?"

Since the old scholar was in danger last time, he didn't dare to live in the south of the city, so he rented a house elsewhere.

Jiang Yanyi had previously planned to take Jiang Yangui to live with her, but her shop had a lot of diners during the day and was very noisy, Jiang Yangui had better rest, she wanted to find him a more comfortable place to live.

He lives in the Chu family, and his heart is heavy after all.However, if the two of them move out of the Chu family, the old lady may have to work hard.After all, when they moved out, Mrs. Chu might feel that she did not take good care of them and made them feel wronged in the Chu family.

The entanglements involved made Jiang Yanyi feel dizzy just thinking about it.

Hearing her question, Chef Yao shook the cauldron and said, "Old Xiucai rented a house near my house. Our location is not good, so it doesn't cost much. If you want to see the house, Master, you might as well ask Fang Yazi."

The old scholar had worked with Chef Yao before, and he was considered an old acquaintance. Now the old scholar goes home with him every day, which can be regarded as saving Yang Xiu, Bing and Shao a lot of trouble.

Jiang Yanyi nodded: "I'll ask someone later."

The storefront of this old store looks really small now, Jiang Yanyi plans to build a bigger store, and it would be good to keep people living here.

She washed the peeled lotus root, cut it into sections and cooked it together in a casserole. When the lid was lifted, the aroma of bone broth wafted out of it was already very attractive.

Taking advantage of the time to cook the soup, after the old scholar finished his second storytelling today, during the break, Jiang Yanyi told him the stories behind the Red Mansion and the Three Kingdoms, and the old scholar could just sort out and polish it .

The soup in a casserole had been boiled for nearly two hours. The pork bones Jiang Yanyi bought contained stick bones, and the bone marrow inside had probably been boiled. The bone soup was thick and white, with a delicious aroma.The lean meat on the bone will fall off with a slight touch of chopsticks. The meat is delicate and tender, not at all firewood.

The lotus root is also boiled so soft that it can be divided into two halves with a light poke with a wooden chopstick. Because the lotus root has a high starch content, it tastes thick and thick.

She put a spoonful of salt, and then put the lotus root bone soup into the soup pot.The bone broth salt should be put in at the end of the pot, so as to ensure the tenderness of the meat to the greatest extent. If the salt is put in early, the water in the meat will be lost too quickly.

A casserole of bone soup was full, and only two soup cups were filled after it was boiled. Jiang Yan thought that he would just give Jiang Yangui and the old lady a cup each.

***

Jiang Yangui has always had a bad appetite, but he drank all the bone broth tonight.

He was able to eat, Jiang Yanyi was also happy, and asked him: "What do you want to eat tomorrow, I will make it for you."

The fresh and thick bone soup was warmed from the throat to the stomach. Jiang Yangui sweated thinly on his forehead because of eating. His beautiful eyes looked at Jiang Yanyi's hand holding the spoon. Those hands used to be white and tender, but now they are I often work in the kitchen, and it seems that it is not as tender as before.

When she held the spoon, her five fingers were tucked together.

But Jiang Yangui remembered his elder sister's habit of holding a spoon, her little finger would always be slightly raised.

An indescribable cold swept over his body, and he asked hoarsely, "Sister, when did you learn how to make soup?"

His address to her subtly changed from "Sister" to "Sister".

Jiang Yanyi didn't notice that Chu Changping had already asked about her cooking skills before, and she said: "After arriving in the military camp, I worked as a cook in the Huotou camp for a while, and I worshiped a cook on the stove as my master. My antique The soup shop can be opened thanks to the help of his old man."

Jiang Yangui didn't know what he was thinking, he looked into Jiang Yanyi's calm and clear eyes, "Sister, you are a little different from before."

His elder sister has the same temperament as his mother, arrogant, impatient and stubborn, and sometimes does a lot of stupid things.

The person standing in front of him now looks like his elder sister, but he feels strange in his bones.

His elder sister is not so calm in doing things. She is obviously the elder sister, but in fact, he takes care of her more.

After losing his mother, it was his elder sister who supported him all the way to Xizhou.But after these two days of getting along, he couldn't find any trace of his elder sister in the person in front of him.

It was as if... there was a new person in this body.

As long as Jiang Yangui thinks of such a possibility, his whole body will feel like an ice cellar.

Jiang Yanyi also became vigilant when he asked that question, but she didn't show it at all, she just said sadly: "Yangui, if I live like before, I'm afraid you won't be able to see me now."

These words broke Jiang Yangui's doubts, and his eyes turned red almost instantly.

Jiang Yanyi said: "People have to grow up. Sometimes we have to grind away some edges and corners in order to live better."

Jiang Yangui slowly raised his head, his face was somewhat similar to Jiang Yanyi's, the corners of his eyes were red with tears, this look on a man was so delicate and evil: "Sister, one day, I will make you look like you used to Live as freely as you want, without being in awe of anyone."

Jiang Yanyi patted his head: "Okay, sister is waiting for that day."

After finally comforting the sensitive and fragile young man, Jiang Yanyi left Jiang Yangui's yard and let out a soft breath.

***

When I went to pay my respects to Mrs. Chu the next day, the old lady took Jiang Yanyi's hand and kept praising her for making good bone broth last night.

Mrs. Liu was listening with her two daughters, feeling really uncomfortable. When Jiang Yanyi asked for the bone soup to be delivered yesterday, she was serving in front of the old lady, so she naturally saw the deliciously boiled lotus root bone soup.

She was not resentful, Jiang Yanyi used to be a pampered person, she had never been in the kitchen a few times, and it has only been a long time since she was in Xizhou, Liu would not believe anything she could cook such a thick and fragrant soup.

When she was a girl, she seldom went into the kitchen. After marrying as a "wife", in order to please her in-laws and win over her husband, she had to learn how to cook. Liu asked herself that she couldn't make soup with such good taste .

Liu also thinks that Jiang Yanyi's store was opened by Chu Changping for her, after all, the shop assistants are people around Chu Changping.

Jiang Yanyi went back to the store yesterday, and brought two cups of bone soup, which was obviously made by the cook in the store. In order to win the favor of the old lady, she even had the nerve to say that she made it herself!

Mrs. Liu glanced at her two daughters, the eldest daughter was wandering off, and the younger daughter swallowed several times when the old lady said the taste of the bone broth.

Liu's heart is even more blocked, these two silly daughters of hers really don't know how to invite pets at all!

She thought that Mrs. Chu always cared for Jiang Yanyi's siblings, but she rarely cared about her two children, and she felt even more aggrieved.

Her mouth was quicker than her heart, and she still had a smile on her face, "I heard that Ah Yi opened an antique soup shop, and I went to the shop to cook bone soup yesterday? When I was in the capital, I wanted Shubao to learn how to make pastries and stoves. All the masters in the school have taught her for a long time, but it is a pity that Shubao is not talented, if I can have one or two tenths of Ah Yi, I will be content."

Mrs. Liu's words sounded like exaggeration, but there were knives buried everywhere.

She said that Chu Shubao had been learning how to make pastries for a long time, and that Jiang Yanyi brought that soup back from an antique soup shop, but she was saying that Jiang Yanyi probably didn't make that soup.

Although Mrs. Chu loves Jiang Yanyi very much, if she knows that Jiang Yanyi claims that other people's soup is made by herself in order to compete for favor, Mrs. Chu will feel a little bit cold. She doesn't want her child to go astray in such things.

Sure enough, Mrs. Chu's smile was not as obvious as before, but she still didn't say no to Jiang Yanyi, she just said to Mrs. Liu, "Shubao showed me the embroidery yesterday. You have taught the children well."

Mrs. Liu got a compliment from Mrs. Chu on Chu Shubao, and she immediately became elated.

But she didn't want to give Jiang Yanyi a step down so easily, and said with a smile: "I saw that the soup yesterday was really delicious. Since Ah Yi has such a good skill, I will teach my aunt to make soup for my mother." Drink and do your best to be filial."

Liu thought she was smart, but her thoughts were all written on her face. Jiang Yanyi didn't expect that she would miss her even when she made a soup.

She originally wanted to honor Mrs. Chu, but Mrs. Chu misunderstood what Mrs. Liu said, and Jiang Yanyi felt uncomfortable.

She said bluntly: "I'm not very skilled, but if my aunt wants to learn, let's make bone soup at noon."

Mrs. Chu was someone who had been there before, and she knew what Liu's words meant, but she heard Jiang Yanyi so readily agreed, and felt that the soup should be made by her granddaughter.

In fact, even if Jiang Yanyi didn't make the soup last night, she wouldn't blame her granddaughter. After all, Jiang Yanyi's sister and brother are lonely, and they are not at ease in trying to please her like this. They feel that they have no one to rely on.

She glanced at Mrs. Liu, then smiled and said to Jiang Yanyi: "It seems that my old lady has a good lunch again!"

Mrs. Chu's glance made Liu's face a little embarrassed.

She also suddenly had no idea, Jiang Yanyi agreed so simply, could it be that she really made the soup herself?