Chapter 369 Salty

"Yes!" Xiao Shiyi followed the order and walked to stand behind Jiang Yao, as silent as a shadow.

As soon as he came over, Chen Xing and Si Yue, who were sitting, stood up as if they were installed with springs and stood silently behind him.

Time was tight and the task was heavy, so Jiang Yao did not delay and left directly with her three helpers.

Tongniang naturally followed her young lady.

Feng Jing saw that the discussion was almost over and wanted to slip back to sleep, but Xiao Jingfan stopped him again: "Go ask Ji An, he's a medicine man, maybe he knows something about Qianchi Cliff."

"It's already late. Can I ask tomorrow?" Feng Jing was so sleepy that his eyelids drooped like a depressed puppy.

Xiao Jingfan looked up at him, tapping his folding fan on his palm, and said in a soft voice: "The medicine from the Imperial Hospital..."

“I’ll go!”

No doctor can resist the charm of rare medicinal herbs, especially when they are free.

Feng Jing went about his work honestly, with his head down, muttering to himself, but no one could hear what he was mumbling.

Seeing that Xiao Jingfan was so concerned about Qianchi Cliff, Du Qian, who had not received any assignment, wanted to go back and look through the previous intelligence to see if there was any record about Qianchi Cliff.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Jingfan asked him to do another thing.

Xiao Jingfan pulled out a sheet from the confession and handed it to him: "Send someone to this place to rescue Qin Kai's two children and send them safely to his late wife's family home."

"Yes." Du Qian immediately sent someone to do it.

The moonlight is cool and the evening breeze is gentle, making people feel sleepy.

Chu Liuzheng just casually browsed a few pieces of gossip, and when he came to his senses, most of the people in the yard had left.

She has nothing to do.

She secretly glanced at the emperor leaning on his chair and decided to take the initiative to find something to do, such as going to the kitchen to cook some midnight snacks for everyone who stayed up late.

"Where are you going?" Zhou Yuande floated over like a soul and glanced at her sideways.

Chu Liuzheng glanced at his sturdy body, curious about how he could take such light and graceful steps without any knowledge of Qinggong.

Want to learn!

But considering that Eunuch Zhou looked unhappy, she didn't dare to bring it up rashly. She raised a faint smile at the corner of her lips and said, "I want to go to the kitchen and make some wontons for everyone as a midnight snack."

"Someone will do these things." Zhou Yuande wanted to poke her forehead. What's so good about cooking? You have to prioritize!

Seeing Xiao Jingfan stand up and walk into the house, he quickly winked at Chu Liuzheng: "Why don't you follow and serve me?"

Where has all the discernment gone?!

Chu Liuzheng glanced at the moon-white figure and felt that this gentleman probably didn't want to see her right now, so there was no need for her to get close to him and make him angry.

But under Zhou Yuande's stare, she had no choice but to follow.

Then he was locked outside with a bang.

【Luckily, I was far away and didn’t get hit in the face. 】

Chu Liuzheng raised his hand to touch the tip of his nose that was itchy from the wind blowing from the closing door, and turned to look at Zhou Yuande.

You see, it’s not that I don’t want to serve you, it’s that this gentleman won’t let me in.

Zhou Yuande: “…”

He finally realized that Chu Liuzheng was just a piece of wood.

The door is closed and not bolted, so can't you just find a reason to push it open and get in?

The emperor needs to be coaxed!

Seeing Chu Liuzheng's innocent face and no intention of taking the next step, he said angrily: "Go make your wontons!"

[Okay!]

Chu Liuzheng received the order and went to make his own wontons with peace of mind.

She didn't make it too complicated, just made meat wontons.

Seeing that it was almost time, she put the wontons into the pot, prepared the base sauce in a bowl, and when the wontons floated up, she served them out and asked the maid waiting outside to serve them to everyone.

She herself had no appetite and stared at the boiling water for a long time. She turned around and readjusted the base ingredients according to Xiao Jingfan's taste, cooked a bowl of wontons separately, put it in a lunch box, and carried it back to the main courtyard.

The door to the main room was closed, and a dim yellow light shone through the window screens, indicating that the people inside were not asleep.

Zhou Yuande was not guarding the door, he must have gone back to the house to rest.

Chu Liuzheng's plan to deliver the midnight snack fell through. He sighed lightly, picked up the food box, and knocked on the door three times.

"Master, I'm here to bring you some midnight snack."

No one answered, and no one came to open the door.

Chu Liuzheng waited for a moment and knocked twice more.

Still no one responded.

Chu Liuzheng stared at the pattern on the door for a while, thinking that the person inside might not be hungry, so he simply turned around and left.

But before he took two steps, he heard a creaking sound behind him and the door opened.

"Come in."

Listening to this sound like ice, Chu Liuzheng could imagine the ugly expression of the man behind him, and suddenly felt that he was being too nosy.

I won’t starve to death if I skip one or two meals. If I had known this, I would have ignored my professional ethics and not come.

She couldn't help but sigh in her heart again.

Alas, it is so difficult for her as she wants to keep her hard-earned job and satisfy her big boss at the same time!

After entering the room and placing the food box on the table, Chu Liuzheng opened the lid, took out the wontons, and handed over the chopsticks.

Looking at the steam rising from the wonton bowl, she gently reminded: "It's freshly out of the pot, be careful of the heat."

"Hmm." Xiao Jingfan reached out to take the chopsticks, lowered his eyes, picked up a wonton, blew on it lightly, and ate it slowly.

Under the candlelight, the handsome face looked more and more unlike that of an ordinary person.

Chu Liuzheng stood aside. In the past, she would have focused on watching the beauty eat. But now, her eyes were darting around, not looking at the person eating wontons.

I've never heard of this person eating so slowly.

Just as Chu Liuzheng was staring intently at the candle, he suddenly heard a voice, "It's salty."

Her body reacted faster than her brain. She immediately poured him a glass of water and reached out to clear the dishes. "You drink some water first. I'll ask the kitchen to make another bowl and send it to you—"

The words stopped abruptly, and the slender white wrist was encircled by a big hand. The palm was warm and cool, but it was so hot that Chu Liuzheng shivered and subconsciously shook it hard.

But he didn't get rid of it.

A large hand grasped her like a prisoner, and his extremely aggressive gaze moved from her wrist along her arm, passing over her smooth neck, chin, lips, and nose like a dragonfly skimming the water, and fell into those almond-shaped eyes filled with astonishment.

"You--" Chu Liuzheng bit his tongue and tried hard to say something.

Xiao Jingfan shifted his gaze and turned to look at the hand he was holding.

It is worthy of being the ointment carried by the miracle doctor. The effect is quite good. It only leaves a shallow mark on the part that was blistered by the boiling oil.

"Remember to apply the medicine."

"Ah?" Chu Liuzheng was stunned. "Oh."

My heart slowly calmed down, "Okay."

Hearing her agreement, Xiao Jingfan let go of her and signaled her to continue cleaning up the dishes.

Chu Liuzheng pursed his lips, and there seemed to be a lingering cool touch on his wrist.

She cleaned up the dishes neatly, picked up the food box and said softly, "I'll ask the kitchen to make another bowl that's not salty."

"I don't want to eat." Xiao Jingfan stood up and walked towards the inner room, "Go out and close the door."

"Yes." Chu Liuzheng responded.

Although this gentleman looked very unhappy, she still...shouldn't meddle in other people's business.

Back in the kitchen, Chu Liuzheng took out the half bowl of wontons left in the lunch box, sat on the bench, and stared at it with his hands on his cheeks.

“Can you be full just by looking at it without eating it?”

The kitchen was quiet, and the sudden sound startled her. She turned around and looked: "Who?"

"Me, who else could it be?" Feng Jing walked in with an empty bowl and chopsticks and put them in the sink to wash.

Chu Liuzheng stroked his pounding heart. Seeing that he had finished eating, he couldn't help but ask, "Are my wontons too salty tonight?"