readytorunbook Chapter 137 Response
Chapter 137 Response
A good night's sleep.
The next morning, sunlight shone into the house through the window, as if broken gold was scattered all over the floor.
Shen Tang sat on the bed and stretched. Outside, Ginkgo and Qiutong brought a copper basin into the room to help Shen Tang get up. Ginkgo came forward and said, "Miss, before dawn today, the second master also fainted in the ancestral hall and was carried back."
It is unlikely that the father will calm down after being punished by kneeling. In most cases, the patient will faint from kneeling and be carried back.
Thinking of the second wife's plot against his elder brother, Shen Tang felt that kneeling down and fainting was too easy for the second wife. He hoped that Chunlan, who was trapped in the brothel in Wangzhou, could testify that her mother had indeed given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, so that Shen Xi could be sent back to the second wife and forced to move out of Pingyuan Marquis Mansion completely.
If you harm the second wife's descendants, even if the old lady protects the second wife, this family will still be divided.
Shen Tang lifted the quilt, got out of bed, put on her skirt with the help of Ginkgo and Qiu Tong, and after washing up, the maid brought her breakfast.
Shen Tang stood up from the dressing table and walked towards the table. Ginkgo saw the food on the table and asked, "Why is there only millet porridge and vegetables for breakfast today?"
The maid said, "The main kitchen only sent these. They said there was a problem with the flour for steaming buns and steamed buns today. It was too salty, so they didn't send any."
My father just asked the Fourth Madam to be the housekeeper yesterday, and today something went wrong in the kitchen. This was clearly a way to intimidate the Fourth Madam.
Shen Tang glanced across the table and left without even sitting down. Ginkgo asked, "Miss, don't you want to eat?"
"Go to Songhetang."
Ginkgo hurried to catch up.
Shen Tang went to pay his respects without having breakfast. When he arrived, the old lady had just sat down and was about to have breakfast. The old lady ate the food prepared in the small kitchen, just like usual.
Seeing Shen Tang coming so early, the old lady asked, "Have you eaten?"
Shen Tang shook his head. "Today, there was a problem with the flour in the main kitchen, so they only sent millet porridge and vegetables. I didn't like it, so I thought Grandma would be fine, so I came to eat here."
The old lady frowned and ordered Mother Wang, "Add another pair of bowls and chopsticks, and go to the main kitchen to see what's going on."
The maid brought the bowls and chopsticks, and Shen Tang sat down next to the old lady. She rarely ate breakfast with the old lady. The old lady picked up a shrimp dumpling and handed it to Shen Tang, "Eat more."
Shen Tang nodded obediently. The old lady thought that the grandson she had been longing for day and night was found by Shen Tang, and her heart was filled with more pity, and her face looked more kind.
Shen Tang also picked up a vegetarian bun for the old lady, "Grandma, eat more too."
The old lady originally had no appetite, but with Shen Tang's company, her appetite improved a lot, and she even ate half a bowl of porridge more than usual.
Putting down the chopsticks and rinsing his mouth, Shen Tang helped the old lady sit on the small couch. After a short rest, Madam Wang came back, along with Madam Li, the head kitchen manager. Madam Li terrifiedly explained to the old lady, "Some maid in the kitchen was clumsy and knocked the salt jar over into the flour. Today's buns are so salty that I can't eat them. That's why I didn't send any to the second young lady..."
"I will definitely find that clumsy maid."
There had never been such a mistake in the kitchen before. As soon as the fourth wife took over the kitchen, something went wrong. Could it be simply explained away as clumsiness?
Either he was deliberately causing trouble for the Fourth Madam and forcing her to give up her housekeeping power, or he was deliberately trying to make her unhappy.
Regardless of the purpose, Shen Tang would not indulge them. "The kitchen has to steam hundreds of buns at least every day. Even if a maid accidentally knocked over the salt jar, it's impossible for all the flour to be salty, right?"
"The big kitchen only eats one bag of flour a day?"
Shen Tang's voice was clear, but sharp.
Mother Li was speechless when asked. The big kitchen had to consume at least two bags of flour every day. The maid accidentally knocked over the salt jar. It would be fine if one bag of flour was destroyed, but it was unacceptable to destroy two bags.
Madam Li said stubbornly, "It's not that there's a problem with the flour. It's just that the main kitchen always prioritizes the masters of the mansion, and the fillings for the masters' buns are different from those for the servants. We're afraid that the second young lady will feel treated poorly, so..."
Are you afraid that she will feel treated poorly, so you just treat her poorly to the end?
He didn't even find a good excuse to lie, and instead walked right into her trap. Shen Tang said coldly, "For all these years, the buns I eat are no different from the ones the maids eat. Who did you send those buns with specially prepared fillings to?"
Telling a lie requires countless lies to cover it up. Shen Tang found a loophole, and while Mother Li was busy filling that hole, Shen Tang found a new one.
Mother Li hesitated, and Shen Tang laughed, "Mother Li, can't you tell me? There are quite a few maids and servants in the kitchen. Do you need me to send someone to ask?"
By asking this question, I found out that the kitchen had been preparing special meals for the eldest daughter over the years. The buns that the eldest daughter ate had their own fillings and were more than ten times more delicious than those for the second daughter.
It was precisely because of the attentive care of the head kitchen that Shen Xi's appetite was developed and her tolerance for food was extremely low.
Shen Tang's eyes darkened, and Madam Li's knees weakened, and she knelt down with a plop. "I am the Second Madam's servant. Yesterday, the Marquis asked the Fourth Madam to be the housekeeper, and the servants in the main kitchen were discussing whether the Fourth Madam wanted to remove me and replace me with one of her own. I was cautious, but it's hard to guard against it. Today's flour was still tampered with. I know that the Second Madam is the Marquis's jewel in the eye, so how dare I treat her poorly with food? I hope Old Madam will understand."
What a bad guy who complains first.
Not only did he manipulate her over food and make her unhappy, he also turned around and bit the Fourth Madam, which made people suspect that such a clumsy trick of the flour incident today was made by the Fourth Madam in order to replace her as the head kitchen manager.
This cunning slave!
If she was asked to hide today, she wouldn’t even call herself Shen Tang!
Shen Tang ordered the maid in the room, "Call the mother who manages the small kitchen over here."
The maid didn't know what Shen Tang asked the mother who managed the small kitchen in Songhe Hall to do. She glanced at Mother Wang, who nodded, and the maid hurried to call someone.
Soon, Madam Xu, the kitchen manager, came over and asked in confusion, "Second Miss, are you looking for me?"
Shen Tang asked, "Can Madam Xu prepare breakfast for Grandma within a quarter of an hour, even though all the flour kneaded for breakfast cannot be used?"
Mother Xu, “……???”
What kind of problem is this?
Any maid in the small kitchen can do it.
Mother Xu didn't think much about it and listed more than a dozen dishes that could be made without kneading the dough.
Shen Tang looked at Mother Li. "Mother Li's ability to respond is really too poor. I don't really need to eat steamed buns. Pancakes and shrimp balls will also be fine. If they are delivered to Qingyi Garden in time, they won't delay my breakfast. Even if it's just a quarter of an hour late, I'm not unreasonable. But Mother Li chose to do nothing and only sent millet porridge and vegetables. I think it doesn't matter whether you, the mother in charge, are in charge of the kitchen or not."
Mother Li's face turned pale because all her excuses were made powerless by Mother Xu. She failed to help the Second Wife to control the Second Girl, and instead fell into a pit herself and couldn't get out.
The old lady knew that the head chef was deliberately neglecting Shen Tang, so she said, "As a housekeeper, if you don't have the ability to respond to situations, what's the point of coming here? Give him thirty strokes of the cane and send him back to the farm."
Mother Li's face turned pale as she knelt down and said, "Madam, please calm down. I know I was wrong..."
Shen Tang said coldly, "Cover your mouth and drag him out."
When the fourth wife heard the news and rushed over, she saw the two old women dragging Mama Li out, pressing her on a bench, and then beating her with a stick.
The fourth wife was a little stunned by the beating. She walked in and bowed to the old lady. The old lady looked at her and said, "Mother Li is not managing the kitchen properly, so I have sent her away. You should arrange for someone capable to take over the kitchen."
The fourth wife, “…???”
The head kitchen manager was sent away. The old lady didn't arrange her own people, but asked her to arrange others instead. What is the old lady going to do?
Aren’t you planning to let the Second Wife take over the finances of the Marquis’ Mansion in the future?
Shen Tang said, "The household of the Marquis' Mansion is not limited to the main kitchen. Second Aunt has been in charge of the household for so many years, and all the managers are people Second Aunt trusts. Fourth Aunt may not be used to them, so if she is not satisfied with them, she will replace them."