Chapter 576

Noon, Minister's Mansion back house.

Dozens of busy servants and attendants were making final preparations for lunch.

In the kitchen, more than a dozen sturdy cooks were busy.

On the steamer, in the boiling pot, steam was rising.

Maids dressed in white long dresses were holding wooden trays, placing the dishes just scooped out of the pot into them.

With a call from the maid leader, all the maids dressed in white skirts picked up the vermilion lacquer trays in front of them almost at the same time, and under the guidance of the leading maid, walked through the corridor for servants and attendants to the front yard.

The maids were generally around fourteen or fifteen years old.

Their looks were also very delicate, and even their height and body shape were extremely similar.

Black long hair was combed into two simple buns on the top of the head.

Before long, twenty maids carrying wooden vermilion lacquer trays arrived outside the front hall.

Outside the front hall, there were several maids and servants.

The middle-aged chief steward dressed in gray stood in front of the main hall door, followed by a young attendant.

The young attendant was holding a wooden tray with a silver bowl, a pair of silver chopsticks, and a long silver needle.

Whenever a maid carrying dishes walked to the main hall door, the middle-aged steward would pick up the silver needle to test the dishes first, and then pick up the silver bowl and chopsticks to taste a piece.

Only the tasted dishes would be allowed to be carried into the hall by the maids.

"What's your name, why haven't I seen you before?"

The middle-aged steward looked at a maid carrying a steamed fish and suddenly asked.

"Reporting to the Chief Steward, this servant Hong Chan just joined not long ago."

When the maid Hong Chan spoke, her eyes were lowered.

The middle-aged steward turned his head to look at Hong Chan's appearance, then hung a smile on the corner of his mouth and looked her up and down: "Look up."

Hearing this, Hong Chan looked up slightly, her eyes lowered.