Chapter 390 Reunion with Hongluan

Li Yu is still in the Hundred Flowers Killing.

After sensing the situation within the formation and confirming that Li Yu was not in any danger and would not lose control, Yu Zhiyi returned to her room, sat cross-legged, and absorbed the golden light of merit.

Although she didn't do many good deeds during this period, the golden light of merit she accumulated slowly increased at a rate of five or six rays per day.

This is all thanks to Yi Luan Charity.

There's still a long way to go before breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, and I don't know if these hundreds of golden rays of merit will be enough.

There's no point in dwelling on it.

Absorb and refine, and that's it.

Around dusk, after Yu Zhiyi finished refining the ten golden lights, she opened her eyes and found that it was already dark.

Thinking of the scene yesterday where her mother and younger brother were all waiting for her to eat, she didn't crave too much. After checking on the situation inside Baihuasha again, she headed towards the dining hall.

Upon entering the dining room, she suddenly froze: "Hongluan? When did you arrive?"

Hongluan was sitting at the dining table with her mother, but the table was empty.

Jiang Liuyun sat next to Xiao Qingxuan, leaning over to talk to Hongluan.

The three of them had a very pleasant conversation.

Hongluan smiled and said, "I just arrived. My aunt said you were busy, so I didn't want to bother you."

Yu Zhiyi nodded slightly: "I might be a bit busy during this period. If you need anything, you can let me know in advance, and I will come to see you after I finish my seclusion."

Hongluan keenly sensed that her friend was different.

However, she didn't ask any further questions and smiled, "It's nothing serious. I just came up with a few new dishes recently and brought them over for you to try."

Yu Zhiyi's eyes lit up.

She knew Hongluan's culinary skills; anything that Hongluan would specially send her must be delicious.

Sure enough, when Hongluan opened the insulated food box, a rich aroma wafted out.

Hongluan said, "These are grilled skewers, they've already sold out at the restaurant. We also have spicy tripe skewers and spicy squid."

Besides the skewers, the other two dishes were a bit spicy.

Yu Zhiyi doesn't have any dietary restrictions and used to often eat the spicy dishes made by Hongluan.

Xiao Qingxuan, on the other hand, has been eating very bland food these past few years. When she first tried spicy tripe skewers, she coughed incessantly from the spiciness.

Hongluan hurriedly poured her water.

After a while, Xiao Qingxuan suppressed the urge to cough and laughed heartily, "Delicious!"

She looked at Hongluan with a smile: "Is Miss Hongluan from the Sichuan area?"

Hongluan was taken aback and shook her head: "Auntie, my home is in Suzhou. But I like making friends and have made many friends in the Sichuan region. This recipe is from theirs."

No wonder.

Hongluan asked with interest, "Auntie, have you also eaten Sichuan cuisine?"

Xiao Qingxuan laughed and said, "I went there when I was young. Although it's not as prosperous as the mainland, there's plenty of delicious food. I even ate a kind of sausage that was spicy and numbing, and it went very well with rice. After returning to the Central Plains, I haven't been able to eat it again. I do have friends from Sichuan who make sausage, but unfortunately, the ones made on the mainland don't taste as authentic as those from Sichuan."

Hongluan's eyes lit up: "Auntie has actually been to Sichuan? I've never been there!"

After leaving home, she traveled to many places, but unfortunately, the Sichuan region was too desolate.

Desolation means it's difficult to travel.

This means that all sorts of unexpected events may occur on the road.

She evaded two attempts to take her place and didn't dare go any further in that direction.

After all, nobody knows if the next farmhouse inn she stays at will suddenly produce human flesh char siu buns.

Yu Zhiyi chuckled: "My mother was a famous heroine in the martial arts world. When she was young, she roamed the martial arts world and was good at upholding justice."

Hongluan's eyes lit up even more: "So amazing!?"

She looked at Xiao Qingxuan as if she were looking at the stars in the sky: "I admire female knights the most! If my father hadn't been so old-fashioned, I would have wanted to learn martial arts when I was a child."

She was able to grow up healthy and strong, and acquire so many skills, all thanks to the fact that she was a transmigrator who was born from the womb.

If she were a girl born and raised in this era, given her father's approach to raising children, she would have been spoiled by Yang long ago.

Of course, from her father's perspective, she is the one who has been raised out of line.

but.

Who cares?

The meal was a pleasure for both the host and guests.

After the meal, Xiao Qingxuan took her son away.

Just now at the dinner table, this silly boy kept asking the girl all sorts of questions, mostly about his sister.

It's clear that Hongluan and Jin'er have a very good relationship; Hongluan knows a lot about Jin'er.

But this kid has no sense of judgment.

You can't tell that the girl came to have a private chat with her best friend.

If she hadn't pulled him away, that brat would still have been standing there in the way.

After only Yu Zhiyi and Hongluan were left in the dining room, Hongluan took a sip of tea and smiled, "Your aunt is a very nice person, and your brother is also very interesting. It's clear that your family is very kind."

Yu Zhiyi nodded: "Yes, they are fine."

"Then I'm relieved." Hongluan smiled and said, "Heaven has finally begun to treat you kindly, allowing you to find family who truly love you."

She always thought the Yu family members were crazy.

I knew about the fake heiress situation years ago. If you really care about Yu Zhiyi's fake heiress status, you could just send her away.

They keep people here but don't cherish them properly.

It wasn't until the day Yu Chunyue and his wife revealed their illness on the street that she realized the couple was indeed sick.

He's mentally ill.

Yu Zhiyi didn't want to talk about these things and changed the subject: "Has anything happened during this time?"

Hongluan shook her head: "Yiluan Charity is alright. Several groups of people came to investigate, but apart from a few who wanted to cause trouble, I dealt with them. I didn't bother with the others."

"We've taken in fifteen more people this month: one disabled person, one seriously ill elderly person with no relatives, five baby girls, and five beggars. And three more..."

Hongluan hesitated for a moment.

"how?"

"These three are women from the surrounding area who were raped."

Yu Zhiyi's expression shifted.

Hongluan explained, "You know, these things are not their fault, but the ignorant villagers want to drown them."

Yu Zhiyi tapped the table lightly: "Are all three going to be drowned?"

Hongluan shook her head: "There are two people who are to be drowned. One is an orphan girl whose parents have died and whose family has only three acres of fertile land and a dozen taels of silver left. The one who instigated her to be drowned is her own uncle."

As for the purpose, it goes without saying that it was to seize her family property.

“One of them was the eldest daughter in her family, with three younger sisters and a younger brother. After the incident, her family disliked her for ruining her sisters' reputations, so they wanted to get rid of her so that her sisters' reputations would not be affected.”

Of course, the main reason was to sell these younger sisters for a good price so that the family's son could earn dowry money.

"No one forced the other one to drown her, but she couldn't think straight and wanted to hang herself. I happened to be passing by that day and saw that the girl's expression was not right, so I made an excuse to stay at her house. Sure enough, in the middle of the night, she secretly got up and tried to kill herself."

Yu Zhiyi sighed.

Of the fifteen people they took in, eleven were women.

In addition to the five abandoned infants and three raped women, there are three women who are temporarily unable to support themselves for various reasons.

This world is indeed too unfriendly to women.