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

Zhao Rulan ate a soup dumpling, half an egg pancake, and some eight-treasure dishes. There were five neatly arranged steamed buns in a basket, but she didn't eat any of them.

I ate some shredded chicken porridge, but didn't eat the eight-treasure porridge.

"Egg-filled pancakes are good, they can be often served on the table. And the golden pancakes, make some tomorrow."

Cheng Yu hurried forward and said, "My lady likes it. I will get up and make it tomorrow morning."

The golden thread cake is delicious and Cheng Yu likes it too. It is a traditional Gansu pastry. The freshly made cake has a crispy skin and soft filling. It has a fragrant noodle aroma and a richer flavor with the addition of some condiments.

After Zhao Rulan finished her meal, she sent Sujuan and Xianglian away.

Although Sujuan and Xianglian had become servants of the Second Master, they still lived in a small courtyard in the Orchid Garden. Each of them had a room. At night, they had to go to the Second Master's courtyard to serve him.

After all, the face has just been opened, and it still needs to be served.

Besides, if they were not allowed to serve Lu Zhaowen, why would Zhao Rulan go to the trouble of taking a concubine?

Zhao Rulan told them that if she became pregnant with a child, she would be promoted to concubine.

Sujuan and Xianglian were naturally happy.

Sujuan was happy as she had already been favored once. As soon as she came out of the mistress's room, she went to find Mother Wang.

Mother Wang looked at her granddaughter with a smile on her face.

Mother Wang gave birth to her eldest son at the age of fourteen, and had her eldest grandson when she was in her thirties or forties.

Sujuan is sixteen years old this year, and Mother Wang is only about forty-five years old.

In addition, she works in the kitchen all day and never goes out to be exposed to the wind, rain or sun, so her skin is relatively firm and she looks much younger than the village women outside.

She hurriedly pulled her granddaughter into the house and asked her some questions.

Although Mother Wang is the manager of the kitchen, she seldom visits the mistress. In other words, she will be called to her side if a dish she cooks pleases the mistress, but the number of times she does so is very few.

Naturally, her status is not as high as that of a maid like Dingxiang who is with the mistress all day long.

Dingxiang and Ziwei are Zhao Rulan's personal maids. They grew up together and were bought and raised by her side since they were young. They were brought in as dowry and served as maids. In the future, they will also need a nanny.

If Zhao Rulan gave birth to a daughter in the future, when her daughter grew up to seven or eight years old, Zhao Rulan, as a mother, would train a nanny and arrange dowry maids for her daughter.

As for the dowry, it has to be prepared since childhood.

When Zhao Rulan got married, her mother prepared a complete dowry for her, from large items like a double bed to small items like a pair of chopsticks.

Even the coffin was made of wood prepared by her mother's family.

The dowry was enough to fill a fairly large farm. The remaining dowry was left on the farm, so it would be convenient for her to take it when she needed it in the future.

Mother Wang asked Sujuan about her condition.

Su Juan had an uncontrollable smile on her face.

"Don't worry, Grandma. I remember everything you taught me."

"Second Master wasn't very nice to me, but he wasn't disgusted with me either. Unlike Xianglian, Second Master didn't even look at her."

"Don't worry about Xianglian. You need to hurry up and get pregnant so that you can improve your status. What the mistress said must be true. Now that you are a concubine, you must not forget your family. Our whole family depends on you."

Sujuan didn't feel tired, but was full of energy.

"Don't worry, if I really become successful, I won't ignore our family."

"I want to eat something good these days, grandma, please make some for me. The egg-filled pancakes made by Yu'er are really delicious, grandma, please ask her to make one for me too."

Sujuan used to work with Ziwei in the sewing room. Since she didn't serve Zhao Rulan, she naturally didn't know what to eat or drink.

But today she was right there, and she saw clearly what Zhao Rulan ate.

Not to mention the exquisite presentation, just the aroma is enough to make you salivate.

In the past, she felt that the food and drinks her grandmother took from the small kitchen were very good things. But today, when she got close to the mistress, she really saw that was the life a real person should live.

She was only thinking about giving birth to the Second Master's child as soon as possible, so that she could be considered half a master in the Lu family in the future and could make her own requests for food and drink.

Now the Wang family relies entirely on Sujuan.

Mother Wang would naturally meet her request.

Mother Wang said a few words to her granddaughter and went to the small kitchen to wait for Cheng Yu to come.

After serving Zhao Rulan dinner, Dingxiang called Cheng Yu to stay in the side room for a while. The mistress finished her breakfast and wanted to go for a walk outside. Then Mother Zhang came over, accompanied by four maids, plus Xiangling, and they were also a group of people.

In the past, at this time of year, Dingxiang was the most free and could find time to eat something.

Now people's meal time is half an hour later than their masters'.

There was still a lot of breakfast left over from Zhao Rulan's breakfast, all clean and tidy. Ding Xiang saw that the steamed buns and eight-treasure porridge were untouched, so she called Cheng Yu over.

"Bring it to the small kitchen and eat it yourself or share it."

Cheng Yu thought the steamed buns were really good, but he didn't dare eat them in the mistress's house.

After listening to Ding Xiang's words, she took the steamed buns and eight-treasure porridge away, and the rest was taken away by the people in the kitchen.

Dingxiang asked the people below to clean up the remaining food and distribute it or send it to the small kitchen.

Zhao Rulan was a person who attached great importance to rules. All meals were served in small bowls. Moreover, she ate alone, so she ate little and left a lot, which benefited the people below her.

Lu Zhaowen only came occasionally and ate a lot. Every time he came, the people cleaning up the food would look at the few remaining rice crumbs and say, "Now that the Second Master is here, there's nothing left for anyone to eat."

Cheng Yu took the steamed buns and went to the small kitchen, and Ding Xiang, who was assigned to wait for him, followed him.

"Yu'er, from now on you will also be a second-class maid. If you are unwilling to do something, just say it directly. There is no reason for the people in the snack room to control you."

The person Dingxiang was talking about was Mother Wang.

Mother Wang didn't dare to offend Cheng Yu openly, but she was always meddling in Cheng Yu's affairs.

"Sister Ding Xiang, I remember this."

"There's no one around here right now, so just eat a steamed bun." Cheng Yu picked up a steamed bun and handed it to Ding Xiang.

The bottom of the siomai is covered with oil paper, which is clean and hygienic.

"You eat too. Don't wait until you get to the kitchenette, where they'll be gone again."

Cheng Yu laughed.

The skin of this steamed dumpling is thin and the meat is rich, with a strong meaty aroma. Only the best ingredients are used, so how can the food be bad?

Zhao Rulan doesn't like eating steamed dumplings because she is pregnant now and her appetite has changed, so she can't eat anything too greasy.

But Cheng Yu and Ding Xiang were not very fat, so they naturally enjoyed eating steamed buns.

Dingxiang finished her meal and drank some eight-treasure porridge before going to the front yard to work. Cheng Yu stayed in the small kitchen to work.

On the surface, she was promoted to a second-class maid, but now the mistress had a poor appetite, so she still mainly cooked and received the monthly salary of a second-class maid.

But she only needs to cook for the mistress, and she doesn't have to take care of the rest.