She Became A Downfall Noble Lady Chapter 337 - 337 336 The Dish Is Not the Problem

Chapter 337: Chapter 336: The Dish Is Not the Problem Chapter 337: Chapter 336: The Dish Is Not the Problem Lady Zhang must have repeated this countless tis, and the family’s grandparents also constantly complained, complaining that they didn’t know how to flock to where benefits lay. Qi Congming knew this well and had explained that he wasn’t unwilling to join in the fun, but rather that he couldn’t break into that circle with his younger brother following him. However, every ti he said this, the adults at ho seed not to hear him, and they would still use the sa words to bla him next ti.

He silently followed his mother back, listening to his younger brother Congwu curse Qi Sanshun along with their mother. “Mom, you don’t know, Brother Sanshun is just a bad egg, even though he’s our own brother. When he gets good stuff, he never gives us a little more. When I tried to take so myself, he scolded and wouldn’t include in his gas.”

Lady Zhang had heard this type of complaint from Qi Congwu many tis before. She agreed with her son. Qi Sanshun, Congwen, and Congwu were brothers from the sa family. When there were good things, of course they should first be given to one’s own brothers before sharing with others. Wasn’t that natural?

“Mom knows, Qi Sanshun just can’t distinguish between kin and others. Let’s ignore him; tomorrow we’ll complain to Great Uncle,” Lady Zhang said as she led her two children back to their own courtyard in the Qi Family Residence.

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Jinrong said that the dinner for the twenty-ninth day of the Chinese New Year should just be a simple al, but no one dared to serve him just that.

After having a simple lunch on the twenty-ninth, Nanny Li, Nanny Jin, and Anshun’s Household started to bustle about preparing dinner.

Although the dinner was not as grand as the one on the evening of the thirtieth, it still consisted of six hot dishes, four cold platters, and a soup.

The Qi family’s days were now comfortable, with plenty of at, eggs, and poultry, and many rare food ingredients sent by Jinrong, so preparing New Year dishes commonly seen on the festival, such as braised pork, Four Happiness atballs, braised ribs, and the like wasn’t a problem.

Beyond at dishes, they also needed to pair with so vegetable dishes. In this era, there were not many off-season vegetables; apart from cabbage, radish, potatoes stored for the winter, there were dried beans, dried vegetables, mushrooms, and such from the villagers’ sumr stocks.

Fortunately, Ye Xinyan had long been worried about not having vegetables to eat in winter. During the sumr and fall, she and a few nannies had dried a good amount of lettuce slices, cucumber slices, and the like, which were sowhat fresh options during this severe winter. Lettuce and cucumbers were not commonly dried by villagers, who probably felt that these vegetables were too expensive and not very filling.

Although it was a rural village in winter with scarce resources, Nanny Liu and the old woman servants in the kitchen did not find it troubleso. There were plenty of ready-made dishes in the house, and they just had to choose a few to pair up nicely. All this was thanks to the Young Lady, who loved to fuss over things when she was free.

In an era with little entertainnt, Ye Xinyan’s greatest hobby in her spare ti was to co up with ideas for the kitchen servants, suggesting various cooking thods based on what was available in the kitchen.

For example, if a large rack of ribs was bought and caught the eye of the Young Lady, she would tell the old woman servants ideas, like trying to make a sweet and sour flavor?

Don’t know how to do it? Why not give it a try? Our house has plenty of vinegar and sugar, so trying should do it.

And then there was a serving of sweet and sour ribs.

The Young Lady would say, how about frying it to see how it tastes? After frying, sprinkle so spices on it, things like chili, black pepper, Sichuan pepper…

The ribs then had many ways to be enjoyed: spicy, stead with glutinous rice, in a stew, to na just a few.

The old woman servants didn’t mind the fuss, as cooking was cooking no matter what, and trying out new soups and dishes added so interest to the task.

These new-fangled dishes were certainly enjoyable for everyday eating, and even more so provided ample options for entertaining His Highness Prince Yu. Making the prince happy was better than anything else.

Jinrong and Jiang Yifan planned to stay at the Qi Family Residence for a few days. Although the Qi Family Courtyard had recently added rows of east and west wing rooms and the old courtyard’s houses had been pulled down to rebuild, the residents of the Qi family were continually increasing. Therefore, currently, the accommodations at the Qi Family Residence were not very spacious.

Jinrong and Jiang Yifan were naturally aware of the Qi family’s accommodation situation, so they didn’t bring many people with them, just two manservants each, and not even a guard, making the party six people in total when they arrived at the Qi family.

In Jinrong’s own words, the Qi family had Guan He and seven bodyguards, which was enough for security.