Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 202 Aunt Lian Makes Trouble in the Kitchen Again

Song Ying opened his mouth wide when he heard this, and he had a further understanding of Aunt Lian's arrogance.

Although Aunt Lian was the concubine of the Fifth Miss's grandfather, she could only be considered half a master. She actually acted like an elder to the Fifth Miss and even dared to beat her openly.

Song Ying sighed.

She had not had much contact with the Fifth Young Lady. Only when she first arrived did she come to remind her to pay attention to the medicinal food prepared by Lady Shun'an County.

Song Ying's impression of her came from the maids and old women, who all said that she was straightforward. Now she finally knew what "straightforward" meant.

Gossiping all the way, the two soon arrived at the temporary kitchen. They heard a woman's sharp voice outside. Without asking, Song Ying guessed that it was someone from Feng Heyuan. He was speechless for the moment. She was making trouble again. She had made such a big mistake, but she didn't feel any guilt at all.

Entering the courtyard, Song Ying immediately saw a woman in a red chest-length skirt among the maids and servants. Her gorgeous dress and hair full of pearls and jade made her very different from the other simple maids and servants.

Seeing her, Chuntao took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Aunt Lian!"

This is Aunt Lian? !

Song Ying could not help but take a closer look at this concubine who had been famous since she entered the mansion, but was disappointed to find that Aunt Lian was not very beautiful and was far inferior to the Princess Shun'an.

Although Princess Shun'an is over fifty years old, she is well maintained and looks like she is in her thirties. She has fair skin and a graceful and elegant temperament. There are few fine lines around the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. Only the fatigue and vicissitudes in her eyes slightly reveal her age.

Aunt Lian had prominent cheekbones, sunken cheeks and loose skin. If she hadn't been dressed so luxuriously, at first glance, one would have thought she was a very domineering old woman.

But her eyes are very beautiful, they are almond-shaped eyes with narrow and upturned corners, which makes her look particularly imposing when she looks at people.

At this moment, she was very angry, she put her hands on her waist and glared at me, which made her even more imposing: "Don't look at me, I don't know what you are up to, you want to starve me to death, no way!

Don’t even mention that I’m still alive. Even if I’m dead and turn into a ghost, I won’t let you go!

If I don’t live in peace, no one else can live in peace either…”

While she was cursing, she looked towards the northeast, which was the direction of the main courtyard, from time to time.

Chun Tao's face flushed when she heard this. She pouted softly and cursed, "What kind of insults are these? Vulgar! Not worthy of being on the table!"

Song Ying had been accustomed to the quarrels between the aunts and the ladies in the village since she was a child. In her opinion, what Aunt Lian said was not even unpleasant. It did not insult his wife, daughter, or ancestors, nor did it involve any body parts. It could even be considered mild.

She glanced at Mother Fang, who was facing Aunt Lian and trying to persuade her with a wry smile, and she didn't intend to go up to trouble Mother Fang, lest she be affected.

He went straight to Chunliu who was a little behind the crowd and said, "Sister Chunliu, let's get the food."

Song Ying wanted to take the food for her and Doctor Lin, while Chuntao wanted to take the food for Princess Shunan.

Chunliu nodded, motioning them to follow her, and then curiously asked Chuntao, "Shouldn't it be Sister Qiuju's turn today? Why is it Sister Qiuju who is here to get the food?"

Chuntao glanced at Song Ying. Song Ying was willing to teach her how to cook medicinal food, so she naturally wanted to return the favor. After hearing the news, she switched jobs with Qiuju, just so that she could tell Song Ying along the way.

Of course, she would not tell these words to outsiders, especially those she was not familiar with, so she said vaguely: "Sister Qiuju has something urgent to do and can't leave."

"So that's how it is. Thank you for your hard work, sisters."

Chun Liu didn't really want to know the answer, he just wanted to take the opportunity to talk to her more and get closer to her.

Chun Tao felt a little guilty and quickly changed the subject: "Why is Aunt Lian here?"

Chunliu looked at the cursing Aunt Lian in the courtyard with disdain and headache, and said, "Hongfu was sold out, Aunt Lian said we wanted to starve her to death and not send her food.

I swear to God, our kitchen is responsible for the meals of an entire family, and it is a temporary kitchen. We are so busy that we don't have time to prepare all the meals. How can we spare someone to deliver meals to her?

Besides, it's only noon now, just a little late, and you come and make a scene, as if you haven't eaten in your entire life."

"Is Hongfu the only maid in Fengheyuan?" Song Ying asked curiously.

Chunliu nodded, "Except for that bitch Hongfu, who else would be willing to serve in Fengheyuan?"

Song Ying was shocked once again. Aunt Lian was so arrogant, but in the end she only had one servant serving her in the courtyard, while Madam Zhu had two little maids serving her.

Her relationship with the Shen family was already very confusing.

"Everyone in the mansion knows Madam Lian's temper. Why didn't they fill in the gaps for her as soon as possible?"

She felt that the masters of the Shen Mansion were really strange. On the one hand, they were very indulgent towards Aunt Lian, to the point of having no bottom line. No matter how big a disaster she caused, she would not be punished.

No matter whether it was a young lady of the grandchildren or the head of the Shen family's backyard, Princess Shun'an had no choice but to be tolerant towards her.

But on the other hand, they looked down on and ignored Aunt Lian. Logically, since they knew Aunt Lian was difficult to deal with, they should have dealt with her first and assigned the maids to serve her early in the morning.

Or someone could be assigned in the kitchen to be responsible for delivering meals to Aunt Lian, just like she was responsible for preparing medicinal food for County Lady Shunan.

No matter how busy the kitchen is, there will be no negligence, and with a dedicated person in charge, if Aunt Lian finds fault, the maid can deal with it, and everyone else can do their own work with peace of mind.

When her thoughts reached this point, she thought of the unscrupulous Hong Fu again. Since the Shen family could sell Hong Fu today, they should have been able to do so in the past. It was possible that Hong Fu's indenture contract was in the hands of County Master Shun'an.

Since I can't touch Aunt Lian, it should be easy to deal with Hong Fu. How can I let her be so arrogant?

If the maid who served Aunt Lian was steady and polite, most of Aunt Lian's antics would stop with her, and people outside would at most sigh about the maid's difficulties.

As long as the Shen family paid the maid a generous monthly salary of two or five taels, the maid would work hard even if she felt the job was hard.

If you pay enough, what's the big deal about serving a tedious master?

With the financial resources of the Shen family, let alone a monthly allowance of 5 taels of silver, they could afford to pay 10 or 20 taels of silver just to give a maid.

Song Ying thought about herself and said that if someone offered her a monthly salary of 20 taels and asked her to serve her master and do his shit and piss, she would be willing to do it.

Even if Aunt Lian is a black-hearted person who abuses the maids, the maids can be given some privileges to circumvent this, such as not being able to obey Aunt Lian's unreasonable orders.