Chapter 40: Providing for Herself (2) (2/2)

Senior Servant Gui saw that Third Young Madam seemed to be giving out a secret recipe again and so she quickly ushered the woman watching the kitchen out.

Chu Lian was already used to their actions. She stood to one side and watched over Mingyan slice the meat, pretending that she didn’t notice anything.

She had only been intending to cook some simple dishes, and other than cooking the meat which required some effort, it would only take an hour inclusive of the time needed to cook the rice.

They wouldn’t let Chu Lian do anything herself, so Xiyan was the one who actually cooked. Although Xiyan was not a stranger to cooking, she didn’t cook often. Adding on the difficulty of cooking the braised pork until the meat turned brown, the braised pork didn’t turn out well as the colour wasn’t ideal.

Although the braised pork looked quite average, it turned out tasting decent.

Since Xiyan could produce something of this quality on her first try, she seemed to possess some talent in cooking.

As they brought the dishes out of the kitchen, the surprise on Xiyan and Senior Servant Gui’s faces took awhile to fade. They didn’t know that food could be cooked this way. Other than boiling, roasting, and steaming, you could actually pan-fry them in such a way. To think that it could turn out looking so tasty!

Chu Lian was long past caring about their reactions, her stomach was rumbling!

“Hurry, I’m hungry! Bring it to the parlour and set up the dishes.”

“Yes, madam.” The servants behind her replied.

The kitchen wasn’t far from the study, on this summer night, there was a cool eastward wind blowing. The kitchen just happened to be upwind of the study.

Laiyue had noticed the movements from the kitchen early on, he had even tiptoed and looked in the direction curiously. Who knew that an extremely enticing aroma would waft along with the breeze after a short moment?