Chapter 906 - 905: Seeking Sauce
The making of the mushroom sauce by Old Granny Zhang and her friends wasn’t a big deal, but the aroma drifted to the front and back yards, and even the neighbors could smell it.
The two little boys from Madam Gu’s household were craving it badly, but their family was very strict, so they could only lean over the wall and inhale the fragrance.
Watching this made Madam Gu’s heart ache, so she couldn’t help but laugh and scold, "They say the food from the neighbor’s pot always smells good. We make the same mushroom dishes at home, don’t we? How come I’ve never seen you crave it like this before?"
While saying this, she went inside, grabbed half a basket of eggs, and headed to knock on the Song Family’s door.
When she reached the Song Family’s doorstep, she realized that her two boys were at least decent—they were smelling the aroma from their own wall and hadn’t embarrassed the family by going outside.
Outside the Song Family courtyard wall, a bunch of kids were gathered, biting their fingers and drooling.
Even Old Lady Li from Scholar Gu’s household couldn’t resist and had come running over. She was the first to arrive and was talking to Gu Yu, who opened the door: "What good food are you making? The aroma—it’s unbearable even from my front yard."
Lately, the little maid Gu Yu had been treated well at home, eating and drinking good things, and everyone was kind to her, so she had grown bolder. She softly told Old Lady Li, "Hello Aunt Li, my grandmother is making mushroom sauce!"
Old Lady Li wasn’t a local, and upon encountering this unique fragrance, how could she, as a kitchen maid, sit still?
In recent days, she went out to buy groceries and saw many wild mushrooms from the mountains. She bought quite a few and cooked them at home, but this was her first time hearing about making sauce with them, so she became very interested and eagerly wanted to enter the courtyard.