Gu Wen let the maid help her straight into the kitchen.
The two small stoves were both on fire, the pot on top was gurgling and steaming, a strong fragrance emanated from it, and a number of items skewered with bamboo sticks were placed in the basin next to it.
“What have you made?”
Gu Wen couldn’t resist walking over.
Gu Yi was drooling over the pot and turned around at the sound of his voice before he saw Gu Wen coming, proudly showing off, “Little girl is making spicy skewers for me.”
Spicy skewers?
Only then did Gu Wen see that, in addition to the pots by the stove, there were quite a few skewers in the two pots. She had never seen anyone eating like this before, and moved forward curiously again, “Is it good?”
“It’s especially delicious.”
Gu Wen was sceptical, after all, the skewers were raw and looked like they had neither salt nor oil, so how could they be tasty?
Song Wangyue had already taken chopsticks and chucked a few skewers out of the pot, put them on a plate and handed them to Gu Yi.
Gu Yi couldn’t wait to pick one up and put it in his mouth, taking a bite of the vegetables, the spicy taste filled his mouth.
“Delicious.”
Gu Wen swallowed a little.
“Does second sister want to try it? It’s got bone broth and it’s not spicy.”
Song Wangyue asked.
“Have two skewers.”
Song Wangyue chucked two skewers onto a plate and gave them to her.
With just one bite, Gu Wen’s eyes lit up with a swish, by this month, she felt that everything she ate was delicious, but she was also a bit tired of eating those meals often, although this spicy skewer did not look upscale, it was delicious to eat.
“Second sister, delicious, right?”
Gu Yi asked as she ate.
Gu Wen nodded “It’s delicious.”
“For the sake of you being my own sister, the friendly price, one tael of silver a piece.”
Gu Wen, ……
gave him a fierce white look, finished the rest in a few bites, and put the plate on the stove.
Song Wan Yue thought she was angry and would not eat, just to say that she was joking with her, Gu Wen had already taken out a hundred taels of silver and slapped it on Gu Yi’s head, “Just a hundred taels, no more.”
Gu Yi smiled and took the silver ticket down and put it in his sleeve.
“One hundred taels is enough, second sister go sit in the dining room, I will personally bring you whatever you want to eat.”
It was a September day, but with two stoves burning in the kitchen and pots on all the time, it was indeed a bit hot.
Gu Wen let the maid help her to go to the dining room.
“Remember, I want to eat all these in the pot.”
……
Over in the kitchen, Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi had used most of the ingredients they wanted to use at noon, and seeing as it was almost noon and the master’s meal was still not ready, the kitchen steward had someone hurry up and re-buy the ingredients, and he himself hurriedly went to the main courtyard.
“Master and Madam, most of the ingredients in the kitchen have been made into spicy skewers by Miss Song, and they have all been brought to the young master’s courtyard, I have asked someone to buy more ingredients, so I am afraid that lunch today will be a little late.”
Master Gu waved his hand and told him to leave, “I wonder what the spicy skewers made by that girl from the Song family are?”
Mrs Gu was also curious, knowing that there were quite a few ingredients in the kitchen every day, “Why don’t I go and see?”
“Go ahead.”
As soon as Mrs Gu stepped into Gu Yi’s courtyard, she smelt the strong fragrance, and although she did not sniff as greedily as Gu Wen, she could not help but quicken her pace. Before she reached the door of the kitchen room, she saw Gu Yi coming out with a plate containing many skewers.
“Mother.”
Gu Yi saw her too and called out.
Mrs Gu walked forward, “You are ……”
“Oh, second sister is eating at my place, I’ll bring it over to her.”
Mrs. Gu was incredibly relieved.
Gu Yi was still several years younger than Gu Wen, and it was always the two older sisters who took care of him; now he was finally old enough to know how to take care of his sister.
“Mother, do you want to go in and eat some too?”
“I ……”
Mrs. Gu wanted to say no, this looked like something for children to eat.
“You should eat some, this is specially made for us by Yue’er, you just don’t come, I will go and call you and father to come over.”
The words Mrs Gu wanted to say she wouldn’t eat turned into a good word.
Gu Yi instantly beamed with joy and said as she accompanied Mrs Gu towards the dining room, “It’s not easy to make these spicy skewers, little girl has to be at the stove all the time.”
Mrs Gu paused for a moment, wondering if she should go over and take a look, after all, her family was eating in the dining room while the Song family’s maid was guarding the stove.
Gu Yi seemed to have understood her thoughts, “You’d better not go, you’ll be distracted by the little girl greeting you and not getting burned again.”
Mrs Gu dismissed the idea of going over and walked into the dining room to see Gu Wen eating, and the table in front of her already had a number of bamboo sticks on it.
“Mother.”
Gu Wen couldn’t even care to get up and curtsy as she ate, “Come over and eat, it’s delicious.”
Although the Gu family was not a big family, it was still a respectable family, and the three children they raised knew how to be polite, but this was the first time she had seen Gu Wen eat so unimpressively.
“Mother eat.”
Gu Yi personally took a skewer and handed it to Madam Gu, who took it and took a bite just like Gu Wen, her eyes also lit up.
“What does Mother think?”
“Delicious.”
Gu Yi pushed the plate he had just brought towards her, “It’s delicious Mother eat more, I’ll call Father to come over, we’ll have this for lunch.”
Mrs Gu couldn’t stop eating a little and nodded her head.
“Then …… little girl has worked so hard, does mother have to show it?”
Mrs. Gu didn’t understand what he meant for a moment, “What?”
“It’s for you to give money ……”
Gu Wen pointed to the bamboo sticks in front of her, “One tael of silver a piece.”
Madam Gu, ……
glared at Gu Yi with tears and laughter, “Mother doesn’t have any silver, ask your father for it.”
“Okay.”
Gu Yi really got up and headed out, and Madam Gu didn’t call out to him. You brat! He had just gotten married and had forgotten his mother, but he was so good that he had just gotten married and had already started screwing his mother.
Gu Yi smiled and went to the main courtyard, “Father, Mother asked me to call you over for spicy skewers.”
Master Gu also wanted to see what kind of food this spicy skewer was, and stood up ready to go over.
Gu Yi held out his hand towards him, “My mother said it’s not easy for the little girl to make spicy skewers, so she asked you to give a thousand taels of silver.”
Master Gu did not doubt it and took a thousand taels of silver to him, and after arriving at his courtyard, he went straight to the dining hall.
Madam Gu swallowed the food in her mouth, “Master, have you given that brat the silver yet?”
“Yes, I gave a thousand taels as you said.”
Mrs. Gu, ……
……
Wei the shopkeeper came over with a sad face in a carriage to deliver the account books.
He wanted to wait for the young master and Miss Song to go over and ask her what she had to offer, but he hadn’t seen them for several days in a row, so he took the opportunity to come over today to deliver the account books, thinking he could ask the young master to take him to the Song family.
