Guan Chang looked at the delicate and small pastries and couldn't bear to eat them.

She picked one up and looked at it carefully. "I didn't expect Wan's pastries to be so cute. I can't bear to eat them."

Su Wan blushed again upon hearing this and whispered, "If you like it, I'll make it for you next time."

Liu Huan then realized something was wrong. Why did her older sister blush whenever she saw Guan Yu? And Guan Yu, too, looked at the pastries as if he were looking at his lover.

"Brother Guan, why didn't you go to school today?"

Guan Changru said with a heavy heart, "I won't go to school anymore. That school is torture for me. I don't like it at all. I still think doing business is more fun."

"Oh, how old is Guan Yu this year? Does he have a fiancée yet?"

Hearing Liu Huan ask this question, Su Wan nervously clutched the hem of her clothes, her head lowered, seemingly lost in thought.

Guan Chang said, "I'm twenty this year and still don't have a fiancée, but I am indeed at the age to get married."

Hearing this, Su Wan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly returned to the kitchen.

Liu Huan finally realized the strange atmosphere between them, and tentatively asked, "What does Brother Guan think of my sister?"

Guan Chang said with a serious expression, "Sister Wan has a gentle personality and is a very good person." Only after saying that did he smile.

Liu Huan expressed her understanding: "Oh, okay, then you can go back."

"Huh?" Guan Chang didn't know why he was being asked to leave.

Liu Huan smiled mischievously: "Otherwise what? There are three girls in the family. How long are you, an outsider, going to stay?"

Guan Chang felt even more embarrassed by what was said, scratched his head and stood up, "Okay, then I'll go back first. We'll go together again next time we have a day off."

Liu Huan laughed heartily as she watched the people leave. She finally understood why Guan Chang had come, but she would pretend not to know. Only Guan Chang would figure it out and call the matchmaker himself.

On the day Su Yi took a day off, the group prepared early and got ready to go to the estate.

Guan often said that the scenery there was beautiful, and there was a small river nearby, so it was a good place to visit.

Su Wan, her sister-in-law, and Chen Lian shared one carriage, while her elder brother Xiao Shi, Chang Sheng, and Chen Yang shared another.

Su Yi rode in Guan Chang's carriage; he didn't like squeezing in with others.

Zhuangzi is located a few miles away from Qingyang County, beside a small river. It is nestled against the mountains and by the water, with green hills and clear water. The surroundings make one feel much better.

After exchanging greetings with the villagers, they arrived to find a meal already prepared. Accustomed to the rich and heavy meals in the county, the group found the fresh vegetables and fruits incredibly delicious.

The sun was strong at noon, so none of them went out; instead, they rested in their assigned rooms.

When the sun had shifted slightly, the group got up, took their baskets, and went to play in the river.

Xiao Shi, who had been tanned dark from working at the security escort agency, no longer cared about the sun and ran out into the river with his trousers rolled up.

"Wow, the water feels so good, Huanhuan. Do you remember when we went to Grandma's house that year? We were by the river, and my cousin almost drowned."

Liu Huan naturally remembered, but the drought that year took the lives of the two elderly people, and the two families no longer visited each other often.

"Come on, what are you waiting for?"

Liu Huan was about to take off her shoes and go down when Su Yi stopped her, saying, "Don't go, the water is too cold."

Liu Huan wanted to argue, but seeing Su Yi's stern face made her a little scared, and she shrank her neck, not daring to go.

But seeing that neither her sister nor Chen Lian had gone down, she felt much better.

I had no choice but to follow my sister's example, taking out a handkerchief to wash my hands in the water and then wiping them.

Feeling bored with the process, she went to see the chili pepper field. As far as the eye could see, there were only red chilies, and workers were lined up to pick them. Liu Huan wondered what it would look like if a drone were used to see it.

Su Yi didn't linger in the water; he stayed by her side the whole time. When he saw her sigh, he asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Huan said, "It's nothing. I was just thinking about Maocao Village and our family's land."

Su Yi said gently, "We'll go back and visit when we have time later."

Liu Huan hummed in agreement and said nothing more, continuing to watch the workers diligently working.

"Ah, what is this thing?" Chen Yang shouted by the river, apparently stung by something.

Chen Lian and Chang Sheng rushed over anxiously, "Yangyang, what's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Huan ran over and saw that Chen Yang had a hole in his foot from something, and it was bleeding a lot.

Xiao Shi looked frightened: "I got pricked by something, could it be a snake?"

Chen Yang was quite bold; even in that state, he still held the culprit in his hand. "It's this, the red worm. I knew it!"

Liu Huan looked at the red worms in his hand. Weren't those crayfish? How could there be crayfish in such a clear river?

Soon the steward of the manor came over, holding a porcelain medicine bottle in his hand, looking apologetic: "Young masters and ladies, I'm so sorry, but for some reason this year, the ditch next to us is full of red worms. We've already tried to get rid of them several times, and we dealt with them before you came, but somehow they still ended up in the river."

Liu Huan's eyes lit up. "Where is it? Take me to see it."

Some people stayed behind to treat Chen Yang's wounds, while others followed Liu Huan to the edge of the ditch.

The ditch wasn't big, but it was full of silt, with rocks and aquatic plants on the sides, and teeming with crayfish. It was so crowded that it would trigger trypophobia in anyone who saw it.

Su Wan looked uncomfortable, so Guan Chang instinctively stepped in front of her, frowning as he asked, "What happened? Why isn't it finished yet?"

The manager was also helpless; these creatures reproduced so quickly that they were impossible to control.

"Since we can't kill them all, why don't we just eat them?"

Liu Huan's words caused a huge uproar. Everyone stared at her, wondering, "You can eat this?"

Liu Huan smiled awkwardly, "I just thought that since there's too much, we might as well eat it all."

The manager smiled and said, "We've tried making this suggestion before, but the bloodworms are too tough to bite through, and they always end up smelling fishy, ​​so we gave up on it."

This was fantastic news for Liu Huan. "I don't believe it! I'll make it myself and see if it tastes good or not."

She couldn't guarantee that she could make it taste good; she could only say that she wanted to try, just in case she succeeded.

At first, she seemed very clumsy. This was true for catching lobsters and washing them.

Guan Chang called over the servants from the estate to help catch and wash the fish.

Liu Huan didn't plan to remove the heads; she liked the feeling of pecking at the red chili oil stuck to them. While others washed the shrimp, she prepared the seasonings.

She even brought spices for this picnic, so now she has everything she needs.

Thinking of braised dishes and garlic sauce, I chopped up a lot of garlic.

Only after the cleaned crayfish were served did she start stir-frying the seasonings, adding the crayfish and a little wine.

Even the little stone playing in the river could smell the delicious aroma. "Huanhuan must have made a lot of delicious food. Let's go back quickly."

When he returned, he saw two pots of bright red worms in the yard, the ones that had bitten Chen Yang earlier, making his mouth water.