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

Due to the shortage of oxen for draft, beef is rarely sold on the market. Even if it is sold, it is only slaughtered and supplied to some wealthy families.

Beef is rarely eaten, so mutton has become the preferred meat of wealthy families. On the contrary, pork is not the first choice of wealthy families, and even when buying pork, they will choose the best meat from the pig.

When Mother Wang went out to buy, she carefully selected a piece of top-quality pork belly and did not choose anything else. However, she did buy half a mutton. The mutton was of excellent quality and had no smell. After being cooked, it was particularly delicious.

It can be used to make soup base for pasta.

In addition to pork belly, Mother Wang also bought some large bones, which are used to make soup, as well as pig's trotters, elbows, and other parts of meat. It's not that she doesn't buy them, but she buys them according to today's meal.

This was the first time Cheng Yu followed out, mainly to check out the price.

After looking at the prices, she thought that when she got the chance to go out in the future, she would definitely buy some pig's trotters to cook.

After the pig's trotters are cooked in sauce, they are roasted again in the oven and sprinkled with cumin and chili powder. They taste fragrant and delicious.

She just took a look today and didn't buy anything.

After buying the things, Mother Wang paid the money and just had someone deliver them to the back door of the Lu family.

Mother Wang likes to go out shopping the most. While shopping, she can also have a glass of wine and a plate of fennel beans. Before leaving, she also bought herself a braised chicken in sauce.

However, Mother Wang also bought a meat pie for Cheng Yu and Taozi respectively.

This meat pie costs two cents each.

If it is a leek pie, it will be cheaper, only one penny each.

Cheng Yu and Taozi finished the meat patties in their hands in a few bites, and then busied themselves with carrying some not-too-heavy ingredients that were needed immediately, and returned to the Lu family.

Orchid garden, small kitchen.

Cheng Yu asked Zhu'er to bring the spices she bought to the servants' room, and she hurried to prepare the meal for the second wife today.

There is mutton today, and Cheng Yu thought that he could make pot stickers with mutton filling, bake some multi-grain pancakes, and add some side dishes, and let the second lady eat it while rolling the multi-grain pancakes. As for the soup, it would be best if it was mutton soup.

Without waiting for Cheng Yu to deliver the things he specially bought to Madam Li.

Dingxiang came to tell him that her husband would also be having dinner in her room this morning, so she should prepare more food.

"Madam Li, the Second Master prefers to eat roasted lamb, sprinkle some chili powder on it before serving. You are good at making this, so I'll have to trouble you with this dish."

Madam Li nodded, "Of course."

"Yu'er, just follow your preparations. What do you want to cook as the staple food? Tell me and I'll ask if the mistress wants to eat it. This morning, the mistress vomited badly. The kitchen cooked red dates and snow lotus porridge. The mistress ate half a bowl and vomited it all."

Cheng Yu frowned.

But she didn't say anything, because there were other people in the room besides her and Dingxiang.

Mother Wang usually looks honest and decent, but she is actually very loose-mouthed. What she loves to do most is gossiping and she is very good at making groundless accusations.

Cheng Yu had no choice but to say, "We have mutton today, so I want to make pot stickers for the mistress. I'll prepare a few more fillings, mutton filling, pork filling, and two vegetable fillings, so that the mistress can choose what to eat."

Ding Xiang nodded. "If your brain is working well now, you would think of everything very carefully without me telling you."

"Then this morning's meal is all up to you."

"The Second Master is here, I have to go inside to serve, I won't come to the small kitchen."

Cheng Yu was busy sending Ding Xiang to the door, and shouted, "Sister Ding Xiang, I'll take you out."

Dingxiang smiled and said politely, "Why do I need you to send it off?"

When they walked out of the small kitchen, Cheng Yu suddenly said seriously, "Sister Dingxiang, I heard from my grandmother before that pregnant women should not use things with fragrance. You should take a close look at the things around the mistress that have any smell. If you can't make up your mind, ask the doctor privately."

Dingxiang didn't care at first.

Suddenly, she thought of something.

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have remembered it. This morning, my husband came back and gave me a box of incense. He said he bought it outside and it smelled good. He gave it to me to amuse me."

"Of course, the things that my husband sends are the best, but I'd better ask the doctor what kind of incense this is."

Cheng Yu said softly, "Sister Ding Xiang, please ask the doctor in private. We are all mistresses, okay?"

Ding Xiang looked at Cheng Yu with satisfaction in her eyes.

"Yu'er is starting to use her brain. Tell me, what is your purpose?"

Dingxiang could become the maidservant beside Zhao Rulan, so she is definitely not a brainless person.

Cheng Yu also knew that she couldn't hide her purpose, nor was there any need to. She would have to tell it sooner or later. It would be better for her to reveal a little to Ding Xiang now. Maybe if she wanted to escape from slavery in the future, Ding Xiang could help her.

Cheng Yu whispered with a hint of timidity in his eyes, "Sister Ding Xiang, I won't hide it from you. I am really afraid, so I thought that if there is a chance in the future, I would like to get the mistress's mercy and be free."

After Cheng Yu entered the Lu family, because of his appearance, he was seduced by the eldest son of the first wife, Lu Zhaowen's nephew. The child was only sixteen years old, but the fourteen-year-old maid in the house used despicable means to coax the young master of the first wife of the Lu family into deflowering him.

It's like an addiction.

Lu Zhaowen's nephew Lu Tiancheng was attracted by Cheng Yusheng's beauty, especially her breasts that swayed when she moved. Lu Tiancheng went to the wife of the first wife and asked for Cheng Yusheng to serve him in his room.

The wife of the first wife felt that her son was still young, and now there were two children in the house. Those two were relatively honest and well-behaved, so she was not afraid of being controlled by her.

But Cheng Yu is someone close to Zhao Rulan, so it would certainly not be easy for her to take control of the maidservants who came with the dowry in the palace.

She was also afraid that Cheng Yu's body was too charming and would drain her son's body, so she refused.

The first wife couldn't control her son, so she used despicable means on Cheng Yu.

He often caused trouble for her secretly.

Cheng Yu was also afraid.

She was afraid that the first wife would ask her to serve in the eldest young master's room.

She was also afraid that the first wife would find an opportunity to kill her.

She even skipped meals in the hope of reducing the size of the two lumps on her chest, but the end result was that she nearly starved to death, but her figure was still graceful.

There was no way. These were the good resources God had given her, and she couldn't throw them away even if she wanted to.

These are the little secrets hidden in the original owner's heart, and Cheng Yu is also worried.

A beautiful woman is an asset, but for a woman who has no power or influence and nothing, if she is too beautiful, that is a disaster.

So now that she was in the small kitchen, she made herself look ugly.

She wore shabby gray clothes, had her hair simply combed without any flowers in her hair, and did not dress up deliberately. She would tie her chest tightly with a cloth strip every day.

Then they will apply some rouge to make the skin look dull.

When outsiders said that her skin was not as good as before, she smiled and said that she worked in the kitchen all day, exposed to the smoke and fire, and even a fairy would be worn down into a yellow-faced woman.