Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 529 Let Me Come Over to Get Breakfast

Hualei looked at Qian Shi, a little speechless. But then she thought, this is normal, she just found out a few days ago, in fact, in addition to escorts and supervisors like Jiang Yunqi and Pei Rongyu.

Emperor Shengwu also sent a group of secret guards to follow the officials to the north. Protection is one aspect, but supervision is the most important.

Moreover, these secret guards would not show themselves in public. Even if they saw something, they would not tell the person involved. They would just record what they saw and present it directly to Emperor Shengwu's desk after returning.

If the shadow guards in the dark saw Pei Rongyu acting like this and reported it to Emperor Shengwu, it would be difficult for him to get promoted in the future.

Jiang Yunqi didn't dare to be lazy because Rong Jin had told him about this matter. Before leaving Beijing, Lord Pei talked about this matter with Rong Jin and Rong Yu in the study.

Logically, it was normal for Qian not to know, but Pei Rongyu must have known. How could he make such a mistake?

"Will my second brother arrive at the post station today?" Hua Lei asked. Generally, the escort personnel would travel with their family members, and the distance would be at most half a day.

"We should be able to arrive at 11:00 p.m." Looking at Hua Lei's serious expression, Qian couldn't help but blush and feel guilty. After all, she did not dissuade her husband.

"I understand. I can only make one room available for you. You can give it to your brother and sister-in-law, or you can live there by yourself. If you give it to your brother and sister-in-law, you will stay with Zhenzhu tonight.

As for my second brother, I will ask my husband to take care of him, so don't go back to your room tonight." Hua Lei frowned and said, "Do things well when it's time to do them.

Don't play these tricks. As your second brother's wife, you should hope that he can live a good life in the future, right? If you don't want to suffer this hardship, you shouldn't have agreed to follow grandfather to Mobei. "

Hua Lei is now a fifth-rank doctor. From a public perspective, even the official positions of Rong Jin and Jiang Yunqi are not as high as Hua Lei's, not to mention Pei Rongyu who doesn't have an official position yet.

From a personal point of view, she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and it is reasonable for her to say a few words to Qian, the younger sister-in-law. However, Qian does not think so.

She returned to the carriage with the maid in a bad mood.

Mrs. Qian, who had been waiting in the carriage and was getting a little impatient, looked a little bad when she saw her sister-in-law coming back, thinking that she had not gotten the room.

After Qian told her that Hualei could only vacate one room, and that Qian had to stay in the same room with Zhenzhu for the night, and asked Pei Rongyu not to return to her room.

Although she felt that Hua Lei's behavior was not generous enough, she did not have any other thoughts. After all, she only cared about whether she and her husband had a room to live in.

As for this illegitimate sister-in-law, even if she couldn't spend a night with Zhenzhu, Qian should give the vacated room to her legitimate brother and sister-in-law.

After all, it has been a custom since ancient times for a concubine to give way to his legitimate brother. Without her legitimate brother and sister-in-law, she, a concubine's daughter, has her own room.

So, she immediately ordered the maids around her to move her and her husband's belongings into the post station. Looking at her sister-in-law who didn't even say a polite word, Qian pursed her lips.

Helplessly, Qiu He and the others moved some of the clothes they needed to Zhenzhu's room. After sleeping in the carriage for several days in a row, his body, which had not been well rested, could not bear it any longer.

Rong Jin returned to the post station at the beginning of the evening hour. Today's harvest was not much, only seven or eight wild rabbits and pheasants were hunted. After handing the wild animals to Sister He Hua, Rong Jin returned to his room.

After changing into the robe, Hualei told Rong Jin about Rong Yu being lazy on duty. Rong Jin frowned after hearing this. It seemed that Rong Yu had learned bad things from his brother-in-law.

The second son of the Qian family did not have any great abilities, but because he was a legitimate son and his grandfather was a third-rank official, he was assigned to work as a seventh-rank warehouse keeper in the Construction Department under the Ministry of Works. He usually did his work in a sloppy manner.

That night, Rong Jin waited for Pei Rongyu outside the post station in the middle of the night. It was unknown what Rong Jin said to Pei Rongyu. That night, Pei Rongyu obediently worked all night and did not come back until he handed over to the new round of personnel.

However, when preparing breakfast in the morning, Hualei had another incident.

In the morning, after several days of continuous rain, the rain finally stopped. Because of the good rest, Hualei also got up early and watched Sister Lotus and others prepare breakfast.

Because the food at the post station was quite heavy these days, Hualei asked Sister Hehua to prepare some light meals and some pancakes first.

Pancakes are a common Chinese noodle dish, but as a southerner, Hualei rarely eats pancakes. But Rongjin and Zhenzhu seem to like them very much.

Take the flour out of the carriage, put it in a basin, add an appropriate amount of salt, gradually add warm water, and stir with chopsticks until flocs are formed.

Then knead the dough into a smooth and soft dough with your hands, and let the kneaded dough rest for a while to make it softer. Because the weather is hot, the dough will be ready after a quarter of an hour.

Divide the dough into several small pieces. Use a rolling pin to roll the small pieces into round cakes of appropriate thickness. During the rolling process, sprinkle some dry flour between the dough and the rolling pin to prevent sticking.

Then evenly apply a layer of cooking oil on the rolled dough and sprinkle with an appropriate amount of salt. This step can make the pancake more fragrant and help to form a layered texture.

Roll up the oiled dough from one side until it is in a tube shape, then roll it into a round shape. Then use a rolling pin to gently roll it out to form the final pancake shape.

After preheating the pan, put the rolled pancakes in. Slowly fry over medium-low heat, turning them over as needed to ensure that the pancakes are evenly heated, until both sides are golden brown.

When both sides of the pancake are golden brown, it is ready to be taken out of the pan. You can use a wooden spatula to gently tap the edges of the pancake to make it softer and more layered.

The pancakes have a natural wheat aroma, and the taste is salty, soft and chewy. In addition to the pancakes, Hualei also used salted egg yolks to make minced meat porridge. He took out a lot of side dishes and added fermented bean curd, and it was almost a breakfast.

As they were in a hurry to leave, Hua Lei didn't want to sell any, so she didn't make much more. Just when the group was about to sit down to eat, a maidservant beside Qian came over with a few maids, one of whom was Qiu He.

"Good morning, Madam. Madam asked me to come and get breakfast." The old woman in her forties bowed and said.

Hua Lei was stunned, because Qian had always lived and ate with her sister-in-law from her natal family. Moreover, after Qian returned from her room yesterday, she did not ask the maid to come over and say that they would eat together today, so she really had not prepared anything.