Chapter 6: Punishing the Cook
After going out, the pomegranate came back with a basket. Before it was brought out, you could smell the bad smell of rice. As for the plate of fried kidney beans, you could use chopsticks to scoop it a few times. Gu Xiangyi put down the chopsticks before he even tasted them.
"What's wrong, girl, is this dish not right?" asked Pomegranate.
She has been suffering for too long, and the leftovers and rotten rice is poured into her stomach every day. She can't even imagine what those delicacies taste like. But Gu Xiangyi is different. She is a noble lady in the family, so where have she eaten such foolish things?
"The kidney beans have not yet been born." Gu Xiangyi looked at the plate of kidney beans and his face was cold: "It seems that I really had a good start yesterday."
"What does it mean, girl?"
Looking at the pomegranate with a slightly round face, Gu Xiangyi sighed secretly and said, "The kidney beans that have not yet grown are poisonous."
"The lambs in the kitchen dare to treat girls like this!" Pomegranate's face turned red with anger.
The kitchen has been neglecting Gu Xiangyi for a day or two. Looking at the entire Gu family, no one except pomegranates regards Gu Xiangyi as the master. He has brought any bad rice on weekdays, but this is the first time this has not yet grown kidney beans.
I'm afraid it was the eldest lady who ordered that if Gu Xiangyi fell ill, the family would never let her die in the mansion to eliminate bad luck. So if you can fool food, just as long as you don't starve, you can kill someone. But yesterday, Gu Xiangyi made a big fuss in Raoxiangyuan, and the eldest lady was obviously furious.
It goes without saying who ordered the kitchen to make things difficult for He Yinju.
"If I endure such a small thing, they might not have to use anything to slap me." Gu Xiangyi stood up and said, "Let's go to the kitchen."
The pomegranate quickly stopped him.
Like her, a maid who came to the kitchen, was ridiculed by sarcastic words. If the girl went there, the old fried dough sticks with slim mouths in the kitchen might say so badly. Pomegranate didn't want her to go over and listen to others' ridicule.
But Gu Xiangyi thought thoroughly. If he made concessions in diet today, I am afraid that someone would dare to put horse manure on a plate tomorrow. If he shouldn't give in, Gu Xiangyi would step on her feet tightly, and no one would bully her!
The large kitchen in the house is equivalent to the soul of the whole family. Everyone performs their own duties when they enter the house and is busy.
"Who made my breakfast today?" Gu Xiangyi slapped the empty cutting board with a palm, and the loud noise immediately attracted the attention of many people.
The kitchen manager, Manager Ding, stood up lazily from the rocking chair, squinted his eyes and looked at the person he saw. Seeing that it was Miss Six, he couldn't help but sneer.
"The wind is not small today, and it actually blows the Sixth Girl into our kitchen."
"It seems that everyone in this house dares to come over and step on me." Gu Xiangyi asked coldly, "Who is the one who made me breakfast today?"
Before coming, Gu Xiangyi asked about the pomegranate place briefly. Now Manager Ding in the kitchen is the dowry of the eldest lady.
Manager Ding's smile on the corner of his mouth was very strong, but the smile seemed like a thief and looked very vulgar.
A fat chef with big ears came over, and Manager Ding said, "It's him, the old man in our uncle's mansion for more than ten years."
Gu Xiangyi walked up to the chef and asked, "Did you cook today's breakfast?"
The chef's contempt when he spoke made Manager D very satisfied: "Miss Six thought it was delicious, did she come to give me a reward?"
"No, it's a reward." Gu Xiangyi's smile on his face was gentle, but he raised his hand and slapped him suddenly, which made a red slap on his fat, oily face. Pomegranate was shocked and clearly saw that the flesh on his face was trembling.
Manager Ding was also very surprised.
"What are you doing!" Manager Ding asked angrily.
Gu Xiangyi slowly turned his head and saw Manager Ding on the opposite side with a hideous face, as if he was about to eat her: "This chef is not suitable for being a bad guy. If you can't care about my diet like this, I'm afraid you won't take good care of other masters."
Zhou's mother sent a message for the eldest wife, asking the kitchen to move, and not making Gu Xiangyi too proud. Unexpectedly, Gu Xiangyi is not the same as the one who can control him. The slap was so fierce that even Manager Ding felt a pain in his face.
"He has been in our uncle's mansion for more than ten years and has never made any mistakes. Sister Six, please don't label people randomly!"
Seeing Gu Xiangyi nodding slightly, the pomegranate took out the plate of fried kidney beans from the basket and placed it on the cutting board beside it.
"So what if you don't have the stuff cooked? Even the eldest lady can't say a word to me!" The beaten cook pointed at Gu Xiangyi and scolded: "You little bastard, be careful that the eldest lady will blow it out for you!"
Pomegranate's face turned red with a harsh scolding.
Gu Xiangyi said in a light tone: "Madam is your backer?"
"You don't care!" The chef roared with a heavy flesh on his face, reached out and pulled the pomegranate blocking the middle aside, almost knocking her down.
He raised his wrist slowly, and Gu Xiangyi looked at the chef and said, "Since you are willing to fool people, I will help you, and you must make it back and forth."
The pain on the chef's face had not yet subsided: "What do you mean?"
Gu Xiangyi smiled faintly, just like the calmness when slapping him, but the movements in his hands were not as simple as her smile. The dishes on the plate were directly raised to the chef's face.
"You little hoof!" Manager Ding raised his hand and was about to beat him.
But when Manager Ding stopped, he didn't dare to take action when he saw the person outside the door.
"Big...Big Grandma!"
Gu Fei's eyebrows were raised and stared at Manager Ding. Gu Xiangyi followed him and recognized the person. Zhongyi Bo Gu Hengjun's eldest sister and Gu Xiangyi's aunt.
The older generation of the Gu family went there early. As the elder sister, Gu Fei took the whole family alone, so that the Gu family could not lose their share in the powerful circle in Beijing.
Even now that he is married, no one dares to say a word about the Gu family. Who doesn’t know that the elder sister of the Gu family is not easy to mess with? One of the two younger brothers is trained to become military generals and the other is trained to become civil servants. Gu Fei’s contribution here is not enough to be finished in just a few words.
"I haven't come back for a while. Do you servants dare to treat my niece like this?"
As soon as Gu Fei said that, Manager Ding was so scared that he didn't dare to raise his head. He knelt on the ground and reimbursed repeatedly: "Grandma misunderstood, how dare I..."
"The wife in the family is really not like that. She has forced the concubine's daughter to no avail. If Sister Xiang is fine, I will never finish it with Mrs. Fu! And you who serve others dare to stumbling on Sister Xiang. If one of them calculates the other, get out of the house and weigh it yourself."
Manager Ding's sweat broke a lot of money, and he didn't even have any extra nonsense, and he didn't dare to explain or blame him.
Gu Xiangyi hurriedly bowed: "Xiangyi has met her aunt."
"Good boy, get up quickly." Gu Fei frowned and looked at her: "It's so pitiful. Why did I lose so much weight than I did last time when I came back? It must be these servants who are doing bad things. I must beat the board hard in a while!"
Manager Ding turned to Gu Fei's direction with his knees and kowtowed violently.
Seeing that his girl's backer had returned, Pomegranate immediately knelt on the ground and said in tears: "Please give me a way out! The kitchen has sent food that has not been cut off this morning. This is to poison the girl! The girl has come back from the gates of hell, and she has not invited a doctor in the mansion to see her until now. If this continues, the girl will be killed!"
Hearing these, Gu Fei frowned and looked at Manager Ding, picked up the kitchen knife on the cutting board and threw it on the ground. The loud noise made everyone in the kitchen tremble.
"No matter which wife you are, no matter which wife you are promoted, this uncle's mansion always has my share of talking! Get out and get the punishment! If there is such a thing, you can choose for yourself!"
Gu Xiangyi was very puzzled. Why was this aunt so kind to her?
"Don't be afraid if your aunt is here." Gu Fei held Gu Xiangyi's little face in both hands, looked at the marks on her neck with distress, and turned around and left the kitchen.
Fu Zhirong just learned that her elder sister-in-law was back, and she was so scared that she couldn't hold the tea cup. Just when she was about to find a way, she saw Gu Fei bringing Gu Xiangyi into Raoxiangyuan.
"Go and find the official!" Fu Zhirong ordered Zhou's mother.
Chapter completed!