Cai Lian's favorite food on weekdays is the meat made by Cai Wei. Cai Wei has already made five large wooden tubs and stored them in the space. She originally planned to fry some more tofu meatballs, radish meatballs, fish cubes and small crispy meat.
But in the past two months, she was too tired from studying to make down jackets, so she put them away and didn't want to move. Gu Jingzhi became more and more doting on her, and if she didn't want to move, she arranged for the chef of the Longfeng Restaurant that she inherited from her grandmother to make them.
Caiwei De took it a step further and said lazily: "We still need to steam steamed buns, dumplings and steamed buns! We also need to make a few buckets of wowotou to feed your aunt during the exile. Don't forget to add some ingredients to it."
Caiwei's words pleased Gu Jingzhi. He did not reward Jin Ling with the pastries sent from the big kitchen in the past few months. He asked Caiwei to keep them in a separate space, preparing to be exiled to honor Song Wanru.
Gu Jingzhi thought that he could make more wowotou. In his last life, during the late period of exile, food gradually became scarce. The escorting officers withheld food, and many people who were exiled together starved to death. You can feed them steamed buns without any added ingredients, not to win people's hearts, but to save someone's life rather than build a seven-level pagoda.
The six chefs of Longfeng Restaurant worked for ten days in a row. They not only made steamed buns and dumplings, but also twenty pots of rice and more than twenty dishes. Gu Jingzhi specifically asked them to add no sugar to these dishes and make them salty and spicy.
Caiwei even wrote several recipes for later generations in the north, including boiled pork slices. The chefs saw this recipe as a treasure, but they didn't expect that the dish could be so spicy and oily.
After all, professionals are different from Caiwei, an ordinary woman who only knows how to look up her mother. Caiwei and Gu Jingzhi ate the dishes prepared by the experts and swallowed them with ease.
The master and servant ate a large bowl of boiled meat slices, including the meat and vegetables. They didn't even bother to throw away the soup. They soaked the rice and ate it. Caiwei, a small person, actually finished three bowls.
Gu Jingzhi was afraid that she would burst her belly, so he stopped her from adding more food. Caiwei patted her belly and said, "Second Master, you ate six bowls of rice by yourself, and this slave only ate half of yours."
As the future head of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion, Gu Jingzhi's decisions were unconditionally supported by his grandfather, the old Marquis. His father, the current Zhongyong Marquis Gu Huainan, only recited poems and painted paintings every day, enjoying his time and not paying attention to the affairs of the house.
Gu Jingzhi spent a lot of money to build the Gujia Fort in the north. It took more than a year to finally complete it. Most of the nursing staff and their families have been transferred there.
The Gu family has more than 20 shops. Gu Jingzhi only left four or five shops in the capital. Except for Gujiabao in the south of the city and Zhuangzi in the north of the city, the rest of his shops were sold. The capable people include carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers and other craftsmen. Instead of selling them all together, I bought dozens of additional blacksmiths and shipped them to the North together.
Gu Fan and Gu Hu had already gone to the Northland. Gu Fan was responsible for training troops. In addition to the people he brought with him, his men also bought a lot locally. Currently, there are more than 3,000 people participating in the training.
Gu Hu follows Guanshi Jiang in charge of business and all other matters.
Gu Ye and his thirty confidants were responsible for guarding the large warehouse of Zhongyong Hou Mansion, while Gu Nian led his twenty people to not only protect Gu Jingzhi's personal safety, but also to inquire about the goings-on in Prince Xian's Mansion.
On this day, Gu Nian reported that Prince Xian used a carriage transporting swill to secretly transport a large number of weapons and hid them in a secret house in the capital.
Gu Jingzhi fell into deep thought when he heard the news. He didn't know when Prince Xian transported weapons into the capital in his previous life. But according to common sense, there are many people in the capital and it is impossible to prepare weapons a year in advance. Could it be said that he will rebel in advance in this life?
"Gu Nian, tonight you go to the courtyard to check out personally and see where Prince Xian hides his weapons?" Gu Jingzhi ordered after pondering for a moment.
Gu Nian stood in the hall with his head bowed, with an unnatural expression on his face. He hesitated for a moment, then suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "Master, I saw five swill trucks suddenly appear at the gate of the city, and the person escorting them turned out to be He was the second manager of Prince Xian's Mansion, and he felt something was wrong. He followed the five swill carts all the way, jumped on the cart while they were not paying attention, and followed the cart into the mansion."
Gu Nian paused and then said: "Unexpectedly, the car went directly to the rockery in the back garden, and they hid the weapons in the rockery. Gu Nian is guilty, please punish me. I went in to investigate without your order. Gu Nian is willing to lead the military stick, I have no complaints at all, I just ask the master not to kick me out of the house."
The Gu family of the Zhongyong Marquis started with military exploits. For more than a hundred years, they have required military discipline for their servants and bodyguards. They have always maintained strict discipline and are not allowed to act without the master's orders. Those who violate the rules can be beaten with ten army sticks at the least and fifty soldiers at worst. He was driven out of the house with a stick and never used again.
Gu Jingzhi bent down to help Gu Nian up, and said kindly: "Gu Nian, get up quickly! You will not be punished by military orders abroad. The situation was urgent, and you had no choice but to do it. You are not guilty of any crime. Not only should you not be punished, I still have to reward you, so I’ll write down one of your great achievements for now, and I’ll discuss the merits and reward you another day.”
Gu Nian took Gu Jingzhi's hand and stood up, smiling shyly at him, "Thank you, Master!"
Gu Jingzhi clapped his hand and said angrily: "I said that we grew up naked together and are brothers who depend on each other for life and death. You have to call me big brother when no one else is around! Do you remember?"
In his last life, he had four close bodyguards. Gu Hu was smooth, experienced and resourceful. Gu Fan was so skilled in martial arts that he could take the head of an admiral in front of thousands of people. Gu Ye was calm and resolute. He could handle the tasks assigned to him even if they were difficult. Finish. Gu Nian is shy and introverted, doesn't talk much, and is the most gentle with others.
Gu Nian was deeply moved after hearing his master's words. He stared into Gu Jingzhi's eyes and nodded firmly, "Yes, I remember, brother."
"Get ready, let's go to Prince Xian's yard to explore together tonight!" Gu Jingzhi said with a smile.
