Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 530 Get some food

"Aunt Qian, didn't my second sister-in-law say she would eat with us today?" Seeing that Hualei didn't say anything, Zhenzhu spoke.

"This..." Mrs. Qian looked at Zhenzhu, then at Hualei, and said with some difficulty, "What should we do? The Second Madam didn't eat much last night, and the Second Young Master just came back from work, and he is tired and hungry."

"Where are the maids and servants in the Minister's Mansion? Didn't they prepare breakfast? My second brother's wife has been eating with Madam Qian and the others.

I didn't send any maids or servants to tell me yesterday that we would eat together this morning, so I didn't prepare anything." Hua Lei said directly.

"The Second Madam thought that since they met at the post station, the First Madam would ask the maids and old women in the Marquis's Mansion to prepare together." Mrs. Qian looked at the pancakes and salted egg yolk and minced meat porridge in front of Qingqi and Qingping on the small table on the side, her face looking a little ugly.

The second wife of the family hasn't even had her meal yet, but a group of maids and old women have had their meal first. The Marquis's Mansion is really too unruly. As Qian's wet nurse, she must be on the side of her master.

Hua Lei sighed softly. Qian's work was indeed not thoughtful in this matter, but she also did not do it well. If she had sent someone to ask Qian, this would not have happened.

So, Sister Lotus gave some minced meat porridge and pancakes to the old woman Qian to take away. As they were in a hurry to leave, they didn't want to light a fire to cook the missing ones.

So, I asked Qingqiqing to draw a few and solved the problem with the instant noodles and fried rice noodles I brought with me.

After finishing breakfast, Hualei sent Qingqi to ask Qian whether she should continue to go with her sister-in-law from her natal family or go with the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion.

After Qingqi came back and said that Qian was leaving with her sister-in-law from her natal family, Hualei ordered people to pack up all the things and get ready to set off.

Hua Lei's carriage was in the front. Just after they went some distance, Uncle Yu, who was in charge of the carriage for food, came hurriedly and informed Hua Lei that the old woman beside Qian had come again.

Mrs. Qian said that Qian had sent her to get some food from the carriage. Hua Lei thought, "Just take some," so she nodded and agreed.

However, a quarter of an hour later, another groom came trotting over and told Hua Lei that Mrs. Qian wanted to take away all the three ceramic jars of bacon left in the carriage, as well as the seven or eight pheasants and rabbits that Rong Jin had just pickled when he came back from hunting yesterday.

Rong Jin's face had looked a little ugly since Mrs. Qian came to get breakfast. Now, it looked even uglier. Just as he was about to speak, Hua Lei held his hand and stopped him.

At this time, their carriage was parked on the side of the road, and carriages from other aristocratic families in the post station were passing by one after another.

Hua Lei felt that it would be better for Rong Jin not to speak about these trivial matters in the kitchen. After all, it would not be good to be known as someone who was harsh on her cousin.

In fact, according to convention, if Pei Rongyu and Qian went with the carriage of the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion, it would be normal for her to ask the maids and old women to prepare food and accommodation for them. Hua Lei didn't care about the money.

After all, here, family background is very important. Many people have become grandparents, but there are still many who have not separated and live together. It is different from my previous life, when brothers and sisters got married and lived separately.

However, what this old lady Qian did was a bit too much. I don't need these foods, so I can give you some, but if you take them all and leave me with nothing to eat, that's not okay.

After this post station, I don't know how many days it will take to reach the next provincial capital, Leyang Prefecture. You took away all the meat dishes, so do you and your group have to eat vegetarian food every day?

Hualei got off the carriage and walked to the back, and Zhenzhu got off and followed behind. At this time, five or six small pottery jars, three or four pottery jars, and several cloth bags filled with dry goods had been unloaded from the carriage loaded with meat dishes.

Hualei went forward to take a look and burst out laughing. There were three small jars of salted pork, two small jars of freshly pickled pheasants and rabbits, and a ceramic jar of preserved meat.

And a bag full of sausages, which was almost all the meat dishes. Half a bag of dried mushrooms, and most of a bag of dried bean products.

A large amount of various pepper sauces, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and condiments were also brought down. Even several bags of rice and flour were brought down.

This is not just taking a little, this is taking all.

"Mrs. Qian, it was your second brother's wife who asked you to take these." Hua Lei's tone was a little bad, so she stopped calling Aunt Qian and called Mrs. Qian directly.

"Reporting to the First Madam, the Second Madam asked me to bring some ingredients down. We don't have anything to eat in the carriage." Mrs. Qian looked at Hua Lei and answered with her head down, but her tone was not very respectful.

"No more? I remember that my second brother and his wife took quite a lot of things when they left the mansion. If they ate and used normally, they would definitely be able to reach Mobei."

Although Hua Lei didn't know exactly how much Qian had taken, all the ingredients could be taken from the Marquis's mansion, so Madam Pei would be biased.

But it would not be to the extent that she would withhold the food for her grandchildren and granddaughters-in-law. Feng was a greedy person, so it was impossible for her to take less.

I was worried about the lack of ingredients when I counted them earlier because I made a lot of them into ready-made food and sold them. Qian's couldn't sell ready-made food, so normally, there shouldn't be so many missing, and there's still half the way left.

"Didn't the Second Madam come with the Second Young Master and the Second Madam's wife in our Minister's Mansion? So, when we were eating earlier, we took the ingredients from the Second Madam's car." said Mrs. Qian.

So that's what happened. Hualei was speechless. This Qian, who had been accompanying her sister-in-law from her natal family, had used up all the food on her carriage, so now she was asking for more.

"These are all the meat dishes we have in the car. If you take them all away, what will you let us eat? We don't know how many days it will take to get to the next state capital." Hua Lei was a little angry.

But he was in a hurry to get on with his journey and didn't want to continue arguing with this old woman, so he turned around and instructed Uncle Yu beside him.

"Uncle Yu, keep one third of the things on the ground and take the rest away. Hurry up, there is no time to lose." Uncle Yu and several grooms immediately began to tidy up the things quickly.

"Madam, these are not enough..." Mrs. Qian looked at the remaining ingredients on the ground and said unwillingly. She didn't believe that there were no more on the Hualei cart.

This eldest lady came from a small family, so she was petty. What was wrong with the second lady giving her some food? Treating the sister-in-law harshly! Mrs. Qian's face looked a little unhappy.

"What? The son and wife of the Minister's Mansion still need our Zhenbei Marquis Mansion to support them? If so, let your second wife come out and say something, and I will leave the entire truck of food to you." Hua Lei said in a bad tone.

"No, Madam, that's not what I meant..." Mrs. Qian defended.