I was a queen in ancient times, no, a maid!

Cheng Yu was busy in the small kitchen, and Zhang Yuanjie was squatting at the door waiting.

When he turned around, Cheng Yu saw that he was still there. He looked honest and didn't have any bad intentions.

It just so happened that the first meat patty in the hot pot was burnt, and she had no time to eat it, so she gave it to Zhang Yuanjie.

"Will you eat the burnt cake?"

"eat."

Zhang Yuanjie reached out to take it and got burned.

But he still grinned and took a bite happily. When he put it in his mouth, he was immediately surprised by the taste of the meat pie.

It is full of freshness and fragrance, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The meat inside is very tender and fragrant, not greasy, and a little crispy.

"There's lotus root in it..." Zhang Yuanjie said in a low voice.

He even opened it and took a look.

When Cheng Yu heard his words, a slight smile appeared on his lips, and he actually tasted it.

When Mother Wang came over yawning, Cheng Yu had already made two meat patties and two lasagnas.

The porridge was ready, and the rest was left to Mother Wang and Madam Li.

"Mother Wang, the waiter has delivered the food. I used some meat to make meat patties and thousand-layer cakes for you. You can make the porridge. I'm going to the big kitchen now."

Mother Wang responded, "Just go ahead, I'll take care of the rest."

"You really care about me. You got up so early to make breakfast for me."

Cheng Yu didn't say anything, but just quickly washed her hands and took off her apron.

"I have to go now."

Cheng Yu left after he finished speaking. There were now more sounds of people talking and working in the yard.

Mother Wang was talking to the vegetable delivery man.

"Mother Wang, I'll give you this extra bone today. When I come again in the future, I will definitely bring more gifts to honor you, Mother Wang."

Mother Wang was naturally smiling since she had received the benefit. At this moment, she had not thought about the little thoughts of Zhang, the delivery man. She just thought that Zhang, the delivery man, wanted to give her something to please her, the mother in charge.

***

Cheng Yu hurried to the big kitchen, thinking that since she arrived neither too early nor too late, there shouldn't be anything wrong. But when she arrived, she saw that there were only two maids in the big kitchen. Judging from their clothes and appearance, she didn't need to ask them, and she knew they were of low status.

After she went there, she didn't take the initiative to do it. After waiting for two quarters of an hour, she heard more and more noises outside the door. She thought that the maids in the old lady's room and the eldest lady's room had come.

"My wife doesn't have a good appetite today. We can't serve the steamed buns we ate yesterday."

"Mother Li, Mother Li, my eldest sister wants to eat fried sesame balls. We need to make them this morning. It would be better if we put some stuffing in the sesame balls."

"My dear, you want to eat seafood porridge. The kitchen has prepared it..."

These are all called out in public. The old lady, the first lady, the eldest daughter of the Lu family's main branch, and their husband are all the real masters.

For example, concubines and aunts, if they wanted to eat something, they had to go to the big kitchen to get their share. However, they didn't dare to ask for whatever they wanted. Instead, the big kitchen prepared the food according to the Lu family's needs.

It is good to have both meat and vegetarian dishes.

If they think the food is too plain, that's fine. You can pay privately and ask the people in the kitchen to cook what you want. That's not impossible.

But no one wants to pay attention to this illegitimate child, especially when he is not yet capable.

There is no extra money to spend on food.

When Qiuwen came, she scanned the large kitchen.

Cheng Yu raised his hand and said, "Miss Qiu Wen, I came here a little earlier and was waiting for you. I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the things in the kitchen. I don't know what to use. I'm waiting for you to arrange it..."

Qiu Wen looked at Cheng Yu with a smile on her face. No matter if it was hypocritical or not, at least she was smiling.

"Miss Yu'er, you've come really early. The old lady's early rising time is 15:00, so you don't have to come too early."

The first quarter of the morning, if calculated according to modern time, is a little after seven o'clock.

Cheng Yu nodded meekly and said yes.

Qiu Wen asked Cheng Yu what he had prepared this morning.

Cheng Yu said, the old lady has a poor appetite, so you just follow her example and make something that can whet her appetite.

If you want to eat sauerkraut fish, you have to wait until lunch. Who would eat sauerkraut fish in the morning?

If you have a poor appetite, you can eat something light. Vegetable porridge with some good side dishes will also be fine. In addition, she prepared vegetable pancakes, which are made by chopping some vegetables, adding a little flour and eggs, and frying them into pancakes.

After finishing all these, Cheng Yu made some flatbreads and steamed them. She stir-fried spicy and sour potato shreds, fried eggs, and prepared her own secret sauce.

Cheng Yu took out the steamed pancakes, rolled three pancakes, and put some shredded potatoes and a fried egg, or a fried pork chop and a fried egg in them.

There were three burritos on a plate.

On another plate was the vegetable pancakes made by Cheng Yu.

She made some vegetable porridge with some vegetables and a few whole shrimps.

Mother Li in the big kitchen prepared eight-treasure lotus seed porridge and black rice and red dates health porridge according to her usual meals, but they were all sweet, and Cheng Yu happened to have prepared salty porridge.

After Cheng Yu finished making it, Qiu Wen brought it over and didn't even let Cheng Yu go over.

Cheng Yu was too lazy to run errands.

How could she go back to the small kitchen to eat after the meal was ready in the big kitchen? Coincidentally, the big pot of rice was also ready in the big kitchen. She was working in the kitchen, so she was close to the food and had the most access to it. Therefore, she first filled a bowl of porridge and took a steamed bun.

As for the food, it is a big pot dish.

The leftovers from yesterday, including cabbage leaves, other vegetable leaves, bean curd sheets and black fungus, as well as the minced meat or pork skin from making meat buns for the master, were all fried and thrown into the pot.

After the big pot of food is fried, serve it directly in a large bowl.

However, the two mothers in charge each took out a bowl and scooped some out.

The rest of the people were squatting on the ground, scrambling to eat.

They would even fight over who got a bigger piece of meat. This noisy environment gave Cheng Yu a headache.

She did not fight or argue, but stood at the door with the bowl in her hand and started eating with the white steamed buns.

Suddenly there was a piece of fat in the bowl.

Cheng Yu looked up and saw a tall and strong woman with an apron tied around her waist. The woman was tall and strong, and looked like someone who was not someone to be trifled with.

"You must be Miss Yu'er from Lan Garden, right? If you don't fight for anything, you won't even be able to eat any vegetables, let alone meat."

Cheng Yu hesitated before whispering, "I don't like eating meat..."

Nonsense, it’s not that she doesn’t like meat, it’s that she doesn’t like the white slices of meat.

Suddenly, a woman next to her said in a mocking tone: "Hehua, stop trying to please her. You are such a fool. She is from Lanyuan. How can a lady from Lanyuan let her maid down?"

The face of the girl called Lotus visibly turned worse.

"You are disgusted with the meat I gave you..."

"No, I'm just thanking you for your kindness to me. Lotus, don't listen to what others say. You've been kind to me, and I'll remember it."