HLnovel Chapter 896 What are you wiping?
Chapter 896 What are you wiping?
No one working at the dock had expected that they would actually have a share of the meat dish today.
Until the cook's big spoon scooped up the meat slices that exuded an enticing aroma, until the thick slices of meat fell into their bowls with a "plop".
Meat......
Fatty and lean pork...
Pork with a greasy aroma...
“It’s really for us to eat!”
"Working for the court really gives you meat to eat!"
Although this may be a benefit on the first day of work, they are truly eating the meat of the court!
This is a very rare thing.
The head cook stood beside the cook with his hands on his hips, and said with his hands in a trumpet shape: "Don't thank the wrong person, everyone. The meat in the bowl today was earned by Lord Shen for us!"
Shen Zheng was hiding in the kitchen, eating her meal. She looked up when she heard this.
It would have been fine if he didn't look up, but as soon as he looked up, he was met with hundreds of fiery gazes.
It's so hot, I feel like it's going to burn.
Unable to bear the heat, Shen Zheng could only wipe her mouth twice, then stood up and walked forward.
Before the laborers could say thank you, she took the lead and said, "Don't thank me, the meat was bought by the two girls outside. There is still money left from buying meat, and the Minister of Revenue will make reasonable arrangements so that everyone can eat some meat every once in a while."
"Two girls outside?"
The laborers looked at each other.
They craned their necks but couldn't see the "girl" anywhere. After thinking for a while, they picked up the bowls solemnly and thanked the people outside the dam.
After dinner, the laborers gathered together and talked in low voices.
"The girl must have come here for Lord Shen, otherwise why would the waiter say that it was Lord Shen who helped us earn the meat?"
"So, what's wrong with women being officials? They speak reasonably and are not arrogant, and they can also consider us ordinary people. I think we should have more female officials in the Great Zhou!"
"Before I met Lord Shen, I thought it was not appropriate for a woman to be an official. After Lord Shen came to the capital, I can only say... our emperor is really good at selecting people."
......
Outside the dam, a large bowl of food was delivered to Ah Wu.
The slices of meat on top of the vegetables are particularly eye-catching.
"Sir..." Ah Wu held the bowl and called Hua Duo, "Is this bowl... brought to the wrong place?"
Hua Duo turned around and the first thing he said was: "I am not a lord, I am the bodyguard of Lord Shen, my last name is Hua."
The second sentence was to answer Ah Wu: "That's right, everyone on the dam will have meat to eat today. The master said that without you, no one would have meat to eat, so you also have a share."
"But this..."
Ah Wu suddenly didn't know what to say.
It was obvious that Miss Xu Yin was more generous, but she felt that the bowl of food in her hand... was even more oppressive.
Maybe it was because the other person was an official, or maybe it was because the other person was always looking at her straight in the eye.
Just as I was thinking about it, Xu Yin came over.
She first glanced at the food curiously, then sneered: "It's just a few slices of meat, what's there to be embarrassed about? Don't forget, this meat was bought with my hairpin, so eat it with confidence."
After she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong.
When she saw Huaduo's empty hands, her heart suddenly began to ache, "Where's mine?"
"What?" Huaduo frowned.
"Where's Taotao and I's food?" She pointed at the bowl, "She didn't forget I'm still here, did she?"
"Who?" Hua Duo asked deliberately, feeling unhappy.
She didn't like her master being called "she" by others.
"It's just... Lord Shen." Xu Yin said dissatisfiedly: "You just said that everyone has a share, but why do I, the one who gave the hairpin, have nothing to eat?"
The look in Huaduo's eyes when he looked at her was full of "sickness".
"The girl just said that she doesn't want to eat the food on the dam. She even thinks that the food on the dam is a disaster and she despises it."
Xu Yin’s mind raced.
It seems that is the case...
"But I'm hungry now and willing to eat," she said.
It doesn’t matter whether you eat it or not, it’s just a bowl of rice.
But the little beggar Awu had all of them, but she did not, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
It was as if... in Shen Zheng's heart, she was not even as good as a beggar.
"Want to eat?" Huaduo asked.
Xu Yin looked at the gray pork and nodded reluctantly, "I want to."
Hua Duo smiled, "No more."
After saying this, she walked towards the dam without looking back.
Xu Yin had never suffered such an injustice before, and her eyes turned red in just a moment.
She pulled Taotao's sleeve and pouted, "What does she mean? Is she deliberately not giving me food?"
Taotao felt a little pain in her head.
My dear little ancestor, Lord Shen said at the beginning that three bowls of rice should be served at noon, but you were so arrogant that you refused them, and now you think they are shortchanging you...
It’s not just one or two days that you’ve been difficult to please!
It's fine to think about it in my heart, but I have to comfort her: "Miss, Guard Hua said there is none, they must have been snatched away by those people. Let's go back to the mansion, your face is sunburned, and if you look back... the master will be heartbroken when he sees you."
"I won't reply!" Xu Yin stared straight at Bashang, "I'm going to wait for her to come out and ask her why she doesn't like me."
"......" Taotao sighed, supported her, and coaxed her like a child: "Then let's go back to sit under the shade of the tree, okay? You can't stay here in the sun all the time."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yin did not move, but stared at Ah Wu who was squatting on the ground.
The other person was taking the meat out of the bowl and putting it into a dirty handkerchief in his arms.
She lowered her head and asked, "Do you want to pack the meat back for your sister to eat?"
Ah Wu nodded, and after a moment asked, "Miss, do you want to eat?"
"......" Xu Yin didn't know how to answer for a moment, "Give it to your sister."
After putting all the meat slices into his arms, Ah Wu put the bowl aside and said to her, "Miss, you can't ride in Lord Shen's carriage if you are like this."
Xu Yin felt the ridicule coming towards her.
Or the ridicule of a little beggar.
She gritted her teeth and asked, "What should I do then, Miss?"
Ah Wu wiped the chopsticks on his clothes and whispered, "If you want, Miss, just listen to me."
Xu Yin looked at her dirty clothes and said after a long pause: "Excuse me for being blunt, but these chopsticks should be cleaner than your clothes."
So what are you rubbing?
......
The work on the dam was finished at Youzheng, and when it was finished, the sun was about to set.
You Fu also rushed back to report at this time.
He said that Ah Wu and her family lived in an abandoned house in the suburbs. There were eight people in her family. Although they were not a real family, they were better than a family.
She and her other six sisters were picked up by their "grandmother", while the other seven sisters were baby girls abandoned in the suburbs.
"Those families must have seen the newborn girls and..." You Fu lowered his head slightly, "then they didn't want them. The sister Ah Wu mentioned, Ah Liu, was thrown directly at their doorstep. Grandma couldn't afford to feed seven girls, so Ah Wu took the initiative to beg outside."