Chapter 88 If you're going to fly, you have to take me with you.

"Are you still looking?"

Lin Anyuan's handsome brows furrowed together. He did want to be seen, but not under these circumstances.

It's dirty and tattered, what's there to see?

"Who cares about you? I brought you some clothes, so hurry up and get dressed and come eat."

After Ye Wan finished speaking, she took a few steps forward. Seeing that Lin Anyuan did not react, she came over to support him.

He kept talking, "I must have owed you something in my past life, that's why I'm here to be your slave in this one. Your clothes are over there, do you want me to help you put them on?"

Lin Anyuan sat on the hay and said, "If you want to, it's not impossible. Even if you want to do something else, I don't have the strength to refuse you."

"You wish." Ye Wan turned around, rolling her eyes.

She's not a devil; she wouldn't pounce on someone while injured.

Lin Anyuan's ears were burning, but he changed his inner clothes and put on his outer shirt without changing his expression.

"Let's eat." Ye Wan poured the fish soup from the earthenware pot.

"The fish soup is delicious." Lin Anyuan held up the bowl, and the aroma wafted over.

He lacked food and clothing from a young age. The most delicious thing he remembered was his mother catching small fish, about the width of a finger, in the river and cooking them into fish soup in an earthenware pot. She even picked out the bones from the fish for him to eat.

Now that I think about it, the fish soup seemed fishy.

That's true. There are no seasonings, not even salt. How could it not be fishy?

Ye Wan laughed and said, "Of course it tastes good. That's what you call talent. I'm very talented at cooking."

She really enjoys cooking; making delicious food is a pleasure for her.

Seeing her bright and smug smile, Lin Anyuan gulped down the fish soup and raised an eyebrow, "Do you want to open a restaurant?"

Ye Wan, bored, poked at the ground with a small wooden stick in her hand. "Come on, I can eat by myself. Open a restaurant? You want me to go into the kitchen to cook in this heat? You want me to die of heatstroke? I'll turn into a haggard old woman in a year or two."

She loves cooking, but she doesn't like being a chef.

When a hobby becomes a job, you can't love it anymore, especially in the sweltering summer heat when you still have to work around the stove.

"If you're grateful for saving my life, then cancel my indenture as soon as possible, and buy me a two-courtyard house with ten or eight servants to wait on me..."

As Ye Wan was speaking, she noticed Lin Anyuan staring at her and instinctively said, "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a beauty before?"

"A black beauty?" Lin Anyuan chuckled.

Ye Wan pouted, "My face is painted black, I'm whiter than you."

"You're dreaming. If the indenture is cancelled, you'll just run away. But now we're in the same boat. I have to keep you tied to the wall. If you want to fly, you have to take me with you."

Lin Anyuan looked at Ye Wan with a smile in his eyes.

Ye Wan got up angrily and threw down the firewood in her hand. "Here, the sickle I brought you is over there. Hide it well so the wild boars don't smell it and gouge it out. I'll bring you food again tonight."

What a scoundrel! He can't even say a nice word. All that effort she put into saving him was for nothing.

Lin Anyuan watched her take the earthenware pot away and lie down on the hay. "Just bring more dry food when you come back tonight. Be careful on your way back."

"knew."

Ye Wan couldn't help but glance back at him. Seeing Lin Anyuan looking at her, she quickened her pace and left.

As Lin Anyuan watched her disappearing figure, he recalled seeing the blinding sunlight last night. Was it just his imagination?

Or is she... a fairy?

Lin Anyuan stroked his chin, sat up, looked at the scabbed wounds on his body, and fell into deep thought.

Fairy?

"I'm back."

Ye Wan descended the mountain in one breath, feeling somewhat uncomfortable due to the sweat on her back.

"Mom, are you hungry? I left you a bowl of soup and some flatbread in the kitchen." Daya came out of the kitchen, her sleeves rolled up.

"No need, you can eat. I ate with your father when I delivered the food."

Ye Wan waved her hand. She had already eaten in the space and now just wanted to go back to her room to take a shower and change her clothes.

"Where's Er Ya?"

"mother!"

As soon as I asked, Er Ya came in from the courtyard gate.

"Didn't I tell you to wash the dishes today? Where did you go?" Ye Wan was speechless when she saw that she was wearing a new dress and a velvet flower in her hair.

He's gone out to show off again.

Er Ya immediately ran into the house, saying, "Big sister said she'll wash it."

"You're just trying to cheat us. You and your older sister will take turns washing each day. Once Sanya is old enough to go to the stove, she can wash too."

Ye Wan doesn't indulge them at all in this regard.

She's not some old woman who serves others; there's no reason for her to take on everything.

"Okay." Er Ya pouted; she didn't want to wash the dishes.

Daya spoke up from the side, "Mom, it's okay, I can wash them. It's not much trouble to wash a few dishes."

Even between sisters, accounts should be kept clear. Just because you're the eldest doesn't mean you have to give in to her and not let her do anything.

Daya is too tolerant, which makes her prone to being taken advantage of.

Ye Wan raised them like daughters, and taught them some principles whenever possible.

"Where are you going now?" Before she even got back inside, Er Ya was already running off again.

"Show Hongmei my hair ornaments." Er Ya proudly fiddled with the flowers in her hair.

Da Ya laughed, "You've been back for two days already, haven't you had enough of showing off yet?"

"But I have a box, and if I carry one flower with me every day, that's enough for me to show off for half a month."

Er Ya said, pulling San Ya along, "San Ya, come on, your second sister will take you to play. Staying at home all day will make you a fool."

Before, Sanya had to work and didn't have enough to eat. She was so hungry that she would eat tree leaves and didn't have time to go out and play.

Things are different now; she's the envy of all the girls in the village.

"Mother, we're leaving!" Er Ya pulled San Ya away.

Ye Wan said to Daya, "The weather is getting cooler lately. I'll buy some more fabric later, and I'll trouble you to make a few more clothes."

It's normal for girls to love beauty, and she loves beauty too, but she's afraid of getting into trouble and doesn't dare to dress up. She changes her clothes after she's used them.

"It's not hard work at all," Da Ya said with a smile.

Ye Wan went back to her room, took a shower, changed her clothes, and, feeling extremely tired, went to sleep.

In the village, Er Ya brought San Ya to find Hong Mei.

From afar, I could see her talking to a rather presentable woman dressed in brown.

"Hongmei, do you have guests?" Er Ya asked curiously.

Hongmei was delighted to see Erya. "This isn't a guest of ours, it's a nanny from the Liu family, here to buy maids for the Liu family."

"Oh, Hongmei, are you going?"

"Er Ya, I..."

Er Ya quickly corrected her, "I already told you not to call me Er Ya, my name is Qing Dai, Qing Dai."

The woman looked Er Ya and San Ya up and down, a smile spreading across her face. "Qingdai, what a lovely name. These little girls have even studied? They can read?"

"Of course I've read it."

Er Ya was very proud and pointed at San Ya, saying, "This is my sister. My sister has also been to school."

She wasn't bragging, but among the girls in the village, only the three of them, sisters, were literate and educated.

The woman smiled and said, "That's good. If you can read and write, you'll get ten taels of silver a month if you join the Liu family."

Ten taels? That much?

Er Ya was quite surprised. Was being a maid really that lucrative?

The woman flicked the handkerchief in her hand and looked at the two fair-skinned sisters. "Yes, and you can serve them for only a year. If you don't want to stay after that, you can take the money and go home. You and your sister can both go!"