Chapter 1247 Fang Zi
But if it’s not iced, how can it whet your appetite?
It tastes just like sour plum paste.
Mrs. Zhuo still ordered the kitchen to make a large pot of sour plum soup and sent it to the Chu Mansion while it was still hot. The maid who sent it over told the housekeeper of the Chu Mansion, "My princess and the princess told me that this sour plum soup should be chilled." It’s delicious, but the old lady can’t eat it iced. It needs to be cooled and chilled with well water before giving it to the old lady.”
After being chilled with well water, the taste is not as good as if it had been chilled, but it's not bad either. This is what Xia Zihan came up with later.
The sour plum soup was delivered an hour before dinner. After drinking the sour plum soup, Mrs. Zeng felt that her appetite was better. She ate an extra half bowl of porridge in the evening. The maid who happily waited on her came to Prince Anjun's Mansion the next day to bring the sour plum soup to her. I'm going to make a recipe for sour plum soup.
Every cook in a wealthy family will have some special delicacies. Madam Zhan from Prince Anjun’s Mansion is the new dim sum cook in the past two years. Mrs. Zhuo specially hired someone from the south to specialize in making dim sum. Madam Zhan’s skills There are a lot of good recipes in it. This sour plum soup is made differently from others and tastes great. It is a craft passed down from generation to generation in her family.
This is not something that should be passed down to others. However, when the maid next to Zeng came to ask for it, Mrs. Zhan did not dare to refuse, so she taught it to others like this... This is a craft that her family has not passed down from generation to generation, and it has been used by her family to support her family for generations. One of several recipes.
She couldn't bear to teach him like this.
Just when Mrs. Zhan was in trouble, Chu Qing floated in with a banknote and said with a smile, "The princess knows that this is a recipe that is not passed down to others in your family. However, the old lady is old and loves to eat." If you don’t teach the old lady’s maid to make the sour plum soup you made, then you will have to work hard yourself and make one for the old lady every day.”
"Instead of going to such trouble and selling this recipe, the princess will not embarrass you. The princess said that you must have more than one recipe to support your family. The princess will buy this one and leave the rest to you. You yourself will not have much impact on your support for your family, and the princess has already paid a high price for this money.”
With that said, he handed the banknote to Mrs. Zhan.
Mrs. Zhan, who was not happy at first, agreed without saying a word when she saw the two hundred taels of silver note.
You know, ordinary gourmet recipes can only be sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver. Now, the princess is paying ten times the price to buy her a recipe. If she still doesn't agree, then she is a fool.
Not only was it a small matter to lose a windfall, but offending the princess was a big deal. Moreover, as the princess said, she had many such good recipes in her hand. Selling one would not affect her future livelihood. , and the most important thing is that the person who came to buy the prescription was the old lady’s maid. The person who bought the prescription was just making it for the old lady to eat, not selling it on the street to make a profit.
Therefore, if you sell this recipe, you will not only get a sum of money, but also please the princess, so why not do it.
Mrs. Zhan wrote the prescription to the maid, and the maid came to kowtow to Xia Zihan to express her gratitude.
"This is my filial piety to my grandmother. Why are you kowtowing? Get up quickly." After saying that, Xia Zihan smiled and asked Chu Qing to help the maid up and sit down. Then she asked some about Zeng's situation and learned that Zeng Xia Zihan was very happy last night when she drank half a bowl of porridge more than usual.
After the maid left, Xia Zihan told Chu Qing, "Go and tell Chu Lin and ask her to send someone to the street to find some good food recipes, preferably appetizing ones."
She was worried that if the old lady ate sour plum soup a few more times, she would lose her appetite again after eating enough.
Xia Zihan would find some more in advance, and when the time came, he would cook them differently for the old lady to eat.
Maybe it's because she's getting older, or maybe she's really unable to do what she wants. This year, Zeng's body and bones are getting worse and worse. If Xia Zihan and Doctor Bai hadn't brought her medicinal materials from time to time, she might not have been able to survive this summer.
In the previous life, Mrs. Zeng passed away when Xia Zihan was fifteen years old, but in this life, Xia Zihan had to use all the treasures from heaven and earth to save her life and let her live for ten more years.
But in the past year, especially this year, Mrs. Zeng has become older and older. Every time Xia Zihan sees her, she feels very sad and reluctant to leave her. She clearly knew that there would come a time when people grow old, but she just couldn't bear to let her grandmother go like this.
She desperately wanted to keep her, always sending a lot of natural materials and treasures to Chu Mansion, just to make her grandmother eat more and live longer.
At the same time, she would persuade herself in her heart, Xia Zihan, you were born again and kept your grandmother for ten more years. That's enough. You can't drag your grandmother with you anymore.
However, she couldn't bear it, she just couldn't bear it.
In fact, she had known for a long time that her grandmother had been thinking about her grandfather and had long wanted to find her grandfather. If she had not accepted Chu Yuexi as the heir of the Chu family, she would also marry Chu Yuexi and teach her great-grandson. Her grandmother I was afraid that she would have left her long ago and gone to find her grandfather.
Just like in the previous life.
As soon as she got haircut, her grandmother couldn't wait to leave her alone and go to find her grandfather, leaving her alone in the world, experiencing the ruthlessness and coldness of life and the harshness of the world.
Now, Chu Yuexi is valued by the emperor, has a good future, is smart and upbeat, and has given birth to three sons to the Chu family in one breath. The Chu family has the care of the emperor and the second prince's palace, so nothing will happen to her grandmother. I wanted to leave them behind and go find my grandfather again.
Grandma will grow old quickly only if she misses her grandfather.
Xia Zihan felt helpless when she thought of Zeng's body.
There is nothing wrong with the body, but I am aging quickly, unable to eat, and unable to sleep. This is a heart disease, and heart disease is the most difficult to treat.
Let her find the rarest treasures in the world, but I'm afraid she won't be able to save her grandmother this time.
Xia Zihan's heart ached at the thought of Mrs. Zeng leaving.
This day would come sooner or later, and she had already been prepared for it. But when this day really came, her heart still couldn't bear to part with it, and it still hurt.
After seeing off the maid, Xia Zihan got up to find Mrs. Zhuo, and made an appointment with Mrs. Zhuo to go to Chu Mansion to visit Mrs. Zeng the next day.
Mrs. Zhuo said to her thoughtfully, "Mom, I know that the old lady has been suffering from poor health recently. You are thinking about it in your heart. Instead of running around in such a hot day, why don't you move to Chu Mansion to stay for a few more days and take better care of the old lady?" .”
Xia Zihan's eyes turned red instantly, and she choked with sobs, "Thank you, mother."
She has been to Chu Mansion many times in the past six months, more times than any married daughter-in-law has returned to her parents' home.
She originally wanted to stay in the Chu Mansion and take care of her grandmother nearby, but after all, she was the daughter-in-law of the Chu family. Even if she was favored by her father-in-law and mother-in-law, she could not be arrogant and abandon her son to live in her parents' house without returning. Home.
Fortunately, Mrs. Zhuo is considerate.
(End of chapter)