In the kitchen.

Xu Cheng slowly prepared the dishes. Xiao Jing at the door wanted to come in to help several times but was taken away by He's mother. He warned her righteously, "The Supervisor said that the dinner tonight must be prepared by Miss Xu alone. Anyone who helped her was not finished. When you go in, you are not helping Miss Xu, but hurt her."

Xiao Jingqi said: "This is simply an impossible task! The Supervisor is clearly trying to make things difficult..."

"Shh!" He Ma hurriedly covered her mouth, "You can also say the gossip of the Governor? If someone hears this, you will be beaten out of the Governor's Mansion tonight!"

Xiao Jing stopped talking at once. She was sold here by her family. Her parents also counted on her salary in the Governor's Mansion to support the family. She had to stay here. My mother said that many people in their village envied her for being able to work in the Governor's Mansion, and her salary was easy and high.

But Miss Xu is a good person, what should she do?

Xu Cheng had long seen Zhang Ma and Xiao Jing pulling and tugging at the kitchen door, and said with a smile: "I'm fine, just treat it as a vacation and go back!"

Since the dog man asked her to do it alone, of course she could not ask for help.

Fortunately, hot pot only needs to prepare ingredients and make hot pot base and seasonings, which is much simpler than cooking or something.

Anyway, she didn't say she had to cook, so she would prepare a hot pot tonight.

She has seen the ingredients, and the meat and vegetables are very complete. It would be even better if you could buy shrimp. It is near the sea to the east of Guangning City, and there must be seafood on the market.

Zhang's mother and Xiaojing still didn't leave. Although they couldn't help Ms. Xu's work, they could still help me get whatever Ms. Xu needed, especially if they lacked any ingredients, they could also buy them in time.

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Although Pei Xiyan didn't ask someone to help Xu Cheng, she still asked someone to buy what ingredients she lacked. He was also curious about how she would make a sumptuous dish tonight.

If he couldn't do it, he would definitely not spare her easily!

Give her a step, but she just couldn't go down and insisted on quarrel with her?

Overestimate one's ability!

At six o'clock in the evening, Xu Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief when she looked at the rolling soup in the pot. She had been cooking the soup for an afternoon. Although the taste was not as good as a hot pot restaurant she used to eat, it was almost the same.

There are also beef slices, mutton slices that she cut into plates, and the hot pot dipping sauce she made with her memory. Tonight is a big meal!

Xu Cheng placed the same ingredients as the prepared ones on the table, and placed the rest next to them, and you can add them at any time after eating.

After everything was ready, she asked Xiaojing to inform the governor that the dinner was about to start.

Xiao Jing was about to cry, "Miss Xu, this... the table of dishes is raw. If they are poured into the pot, it will be too late to cook, right? Moreover, the concubines are very particular about eating, and they don't like to stew in a pot..."

Xu Cheng patted her on the shoulder, "It's okay, I'm responsible, you go and notify people."

Xiao Jing sighed in his heart, it's over! Miss Xu will definitely suffer tonight.

...

When Pei Xiyan heard that the dinner was ready, she asked uncertainly, "What dishes have you prepared?"

Adjutant Chen reached out and scratched his head, with a feeling of unbearable expression, "Ms. Xu has prepared a table of dishes, a combination of meat and vegetables, but each one is raw."

Pei Xiyan raised her eyebrows, "Is it a raw?"

Adjutant Chen nodded in embarrassment, "Yes, it's all raw, but Miss Xu washed and cut them neatly on the plate, which looked... pleasing to the eye."

Pei Xiyan sneered, "Go and have a look!"

...

When she saw a pot of soup and plates of lettuce on the table, Pei Xiyan's face turned dark and looked at Xu Cheng with her eyebrows raised, "This is what you call ready? How to eat raw?"

The six concubines next to them frowned, and even Aunt Xiang couldn't bear to look at her. It would be strange if the governor was not angry if he didn't get angry even if he made a few cakes! It would be better than this one!

It seems that Sister Xu really didn't lie to her. She really doesn't like the governor! Others try their best to please the governor when encountering such a thing, but she just does something that makes the governor unhappy.

Even if she was willing, she wouldn't be able to help her.

Aunt Rong leaned towards the governor in a coquettish voice and complained in a coquettish voice: "Guizang, how do you eat this? From ancient times to the present, I have never heard of anyone eating raw meat and lettuce, and I don't know what Miss Xu is so content with! She actually burys us like this."

She was hinting that the governor was not so good at the table of dishes prepared by Xu Cheng!

Aunt Mu gently shook the round fan in her hand and didn't say anything.

Aunt Ying glanced at the soup placed in the middle of the table, "This soup smells so good! Could it be that you want to pour all the dishes on the table into a pot and stew it? Also, what is the thing on this plate?"

When she said it was so scented, the others also smelled a strong fragrance and were unconsciously hungry.

Xu Cheng knew that this effect would be. There was no hot pot in this era, so it was normal for everyone not to understand it.

However, through tonight, she met several concubines in the Governor's Mansion. The woman who spoke sarcastically and wore the latest Western-style long skirt was thought to be Aunt Rong, and she was obviously not a good deal.

The concubine who spoke later looked heroic and did not deliberately target her. She seemed to be really curious. She should be Aunt Mu or Aunt Ying.

She was sitting there quietly wearing an old-style jacket and skirt, with a noble and elegant temperament. She should be Aunt Fang. She didn't look like a woman in the governor at all. She had never looked at the governor since she came in and sat down.

Tsk! It must be a woman who was forced to take over by a dog man!

There is also a woman who is not interested in the governor. The expression between the corners of her eyes and eyebrows can be seen that she was once a horn, and Aunt Yun undoubtedly said that she was a horn.

The one who was holding a fan next to Aunt Yun was wearing a simple and low-key cheongsam. She didn't look very beautiful, but she gave people a very comfortable feeling.

She noticed that the other party's eyes occasionally looked at the governor... were unhidden admiration.

Could she be Aunt Mu?

It is said that she is the concubine who has been with the military command for the longest time and is also the one with the best popularity in the mansion. She has a good relationship with every concubine. When the servants in the mansion talk about her, they praise her endlessly.

He can be called Duanshui Master!

Such a concubine with both moral integrity and talent is not the most favored one?

Seeing everyone staring at themselves, some watching the show, some indifferent, and some worrying...

Xu Cheng cleared his throat, "The meal I prepared tonight is called hot pot. The meat and vegetables must be put into the hot pot and then dipped in the seasonings. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I can demonstrate how to eat it, and you can do it as you do."
Chapter completed!