Chapter 109 Preparing to Go Back

Jiang Hongyu did not fool Yu Jiaming. After he returned, he made several dishes for him using sweet potatoes, of course, under the guidance of Ye Mingzhu.

The staple food is sweet potato cut into small pieces and placed in rice. The cooked sweet potato rice has light yellow sweet potato pieces hidden under the white rice grains, which looks very beautiful.

Put the washed sweet potatoes in a pot and make steamed sweet potatoes with steamed buns. You can eat them directly. There are also candied sweet potatoes and sweet potato cakes...

These foods he had never seen before were placed on the table. The aroma assaulted Yu Jiaming's sense of smell and taste, causing his saliva to rapidly secrete. He couldn't wait to sit down and urged everyone else to take their seats quickly.

After everyone sat down, he couldn't wait to pick up a piece of crystal clear candied sweet potato and put it in his mouth.

"Hiss...hot..." He grinned and breathed out, but was reluctant to spit it out.

This action made Ye Yun'an laugh. He became much more careful when eating again, but his eyes also lit up.

After eating the candied sweet potatoes, Ye Mingzhu thought Jiang Hongyu was a genius. She only gave him a rough description of the recipe, and he was able to copy it.

He is good at martial arts, good at cooking, and good-looking. If it weren't for exile, it would probably not have been the turn of a little village girl like her to marry such a person.

However, she comes from the modern era and is a DIY jewelry designer, so she's not bad either.

Thinking of this, she realized that she had hardly drawn any drawings in the past few days. When she returned, Sister Lin would probably chase her and ask for the drawings. When she was ready to go back, she decided to go directly back to the village and not stay in the town.

"Boss, that guy, is he awake? He's looking for Mr. Yu." Mo Xing suddenly appeared at the door, with some panic in his eyes.

Before Ye Mingzhu could react, Yu Jiaming had already stood up: "Xiao Wu is awake?"

Mo Xing's head just dropped, and he immediately walked out. After taking two steps, he took a steamed sweet potato and ate it while walking quickly.

Ye Mingzhu shook her head. She didn't expect that Yu Jiaming was such a foodie.

Jiang Hongyu glanced at her, and they both said at the same time: "Eat."

At this time, Yu Jiaming and Xiaowu must have something to say, so it would be best for them to go later.

Yu Jiaming: ...Are you sure you don’t want to finish everything?

In the guest room, Xiao Wu looked at the simple furniture in the room, then looked at Mo Ye who was hiding far away, with a calm face: "Did that little girl go to call for help just now?"

Mo Ye didn't even raise his head, just nodded and said yes softly.

If Xiaowu didn’t have good hearing, he probably wouldn’t be able to hear such a small sound.

"Where is this place? Was it your master who saved us?" Xiao Wu asked again.

Mo Ye whispered again: "Yes."

Just as Xiaowu was about to press on and get more information, Yu Jiaming came running in: "Xiaowu, brother is here."

Mo Ye raised his head slightly and saw Mo Xing behind him. He bowed and walked out.

"Brother Li, where did this come from?" Xiao Wu and Jia Ming approached and asked in a deep voice, "Is this the girl who saved us?"

He remembered the scene when Ye Mingzhu saved them.

"I remember that the baggage was brought back."

Yu Jiaming nodded first, then said with a bad face: "The bundle was retrieved, but except for the seal and clothes, all the banknotes inside were soaked in water and can't be used. By the way, call me Brother Ming from now on."

Xiao Wu's eyes widened. "All the banknotes are soaked in water? What about the gold leaves?"

Yu Jiaming touched his nose and said, "I thought we had silver notes and no use for the gold leaves, so I put them all in the box."

Xiaowu stared at him, speechless. On the way here, he had told him not to bring so many books and pens. But what did he say? A scholar cannot live without books for a day.

He didn't even need to ask. The girl who saved them definitely didn't salvage the box. It was difficult enough to get the luggage out of the sinking ship, and those books were as heavy as stones, so there was no way they could be salvaged.

Ye Mingzhu: ...Are you sure?

Xiao Wu asked weakly, "Brother Li, how much money do we have left?"

"I told you to call me Brother Ming. We don't have any money."

Xiaowu guessed that Brother Ming was a fake name, but what does it mean to have no money?

Yu Jiaming had been feeling a bit guilty, but when Xiao Wu stared at him closely, he became more confident: "The box we brought with us sank into the sea, and the banknotes we had were soaked in water. I gave all the money I had to the boatman before I boarded the boat, so of course I have no money left."

"Where is the jade pendant? You didn't lose it too, did you?" Xiaowu felt that going out with him this time was a wrong choice.

"No, it's just that the ship we were on suddenly sank. I thought it was a little strange, so I wanted to wait for you to wake up, find out, and then go get the money."

Yu Jiaming explained his plan: they would stay here for a few days and wait until everything was OK before leaving. He repeated his name, asking Xiaowu to make sure he didn't call it wrong.

"Yu is a pseudonym? Brother Li, what a crappy name you came up with." Xiao Wu complained.

"It's 'jia' for home and 'ming' for 'reasonable'. You don't understand!" Yu Jiaming shook his head and said embarrassedly that when he was asked about his name, he wanted to come up with a pseudonym, but he said it accidentally and couldn't change it.

"Okay, Brother Ming is Brother Ming," Xiao Wu, who had listened to Yu Jiaming since childhood, accepted it without question. "How many days will we stay here?"

Yu Jiaming said without hesitation: "Wait two more days. I went to the county today and found that the news that the county magistrate had not yet arrived had spread, but there was no sign of unrest in the county."

Xiaowu frowned and didn't say anything for a while.

Yu Jiaming was silent for a moment and then smiled, "Well, if the sky falls, there's someone higher up watching. I'm here. You can rest for another day. This village is nice. It's sparsely populated and simple, but it has a lot of new and interesting things. We can take some back when we go back."

Xiao Wu raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything delicious?"

Yu Jiaming smiled and said, "If you had woken up a little later, I would have eaten it just now."

Jiang Hongyu and Ye Mingzhu happened to walk to the window. Hearing this, they looked at each other. They both knew that the person in the room should have recovered well, otherwise, Yu Jiaming's tone would not be so relaxed.

Xiaowu had already heard the noise outside and made a gesture to Yu Jiaming.

When Ye Mingzhu and the other person entered, Xiaowu had already stood up. When he saw Ye Mingzhu's appearance, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the other party was so young and already married.

Jiang Hongyu sat down next to Xiaowu and noticed the calluses on his hands at a glance, but he just smiled and said, "Just now I heard you guys say you didn't have time to eat. I'll have someone bring some food over first."

Yu Jiaming nodded immediately. He had been hungry for a long time.

Ye Mingzhu walked out with a smile and asked the Mo Xing sisters to bring the food over.

Inside the house, Jiang Hongyu asked about Xiaowu's health.

Xiaowu took the initiative to suggest that he would like to stay for a few more days.

Jiang Hongyu smiled and said it was no problem, then said with a guilty look, "We have some things to do and are about to go home. You two can stay here for a few days without worry."

They have been here for a few days. They have arranged the sweet sticks and sweet potatoes and have nothing else to do. They are a little worried about Aunt Jiang at home, so they plan to go back tomorrow.