Gu Xueting tightened his grip on Shen Yizhi's hand. He actually wanted to marry Zhizhi to someone else?
Pei Qianlin, Zhizhi’s uncle, he took note of it.
"Your father has never thought of marrying you off. He would like to keep you forever. But your uncle's letter reminded us that it is a custom for girls here to get married at the age of fifteen, so we held a ceremony for you on Kunling Island. You said you wanted to go to the imperial capital to take a look at what the place where your mother used to live was like.
"In fact, we all know that you are just wild at heart and can't stay on Kunling Island anymore. Girls can't be kept when they grow up. Although your father and I are reluctant to let you go, we can't stand your nagging, so we let you go. I said I would send you away, but you refused."
Having said that, Zhang Lingche regretted it again and hit Shen Yizhi on the head.
If he had known that she almost lost her life when she went out, he would have detained her on the island at all costs.
Shen Yizhi felt wronged, "Master, I am already a mother, Qingbao and the others are watching me, can you please give me some face?"
Gu Xueting rubbed her forehead with his big hands, looking distressed.
Zhang Lingche rolled his eyes. Even though this girl had lost her memory, her fawning and obedient nature hadn’t changed at all.
"Okay, I've said everything I need to say."
Zhang Lingche had been busy talking and hadn't even taken a few bites of the food when he picked up his chopsticks and reached for a piece of crystal clear and rosy pig's trotter that he had been eyeing for a long time.
The pig's trotter is as soft and tender as tofu, and it's so shaky that you can hardly pick it up. Once you taste it, it melts in your mouth, fatty but not greasy. After taking a sip of wine, it tastes even better.
"Your cooking skills are becoming more and more amazing." He exclaimed.
Shen Yizhi smiled and poured him another glass of wine, "Then you should eat more."
Zhang Lingche paused as he remembered something. "Did you sneak into my medicine garden before?"
"What?"
Zhang Lingche raised his hand and transformed into the appearance of the ferocious beast Xiaohong.
It looks like a leopard, with a red body, three tails, and a jade-like horn on its head.
Shen Yizhi recognized it at first sight. Wasn’t this the strange beast that he had encountered twice in Qingmang Mountain?
"This is the one I raised to look after the herb garden, but you bribed me and brought me into the herb garden. You picked a lot of my spiritual herbs. Did you think I wouldn't mind if I left you a bunch of food to eat?"
Zhang Lingche looked at her with a half-smile.
Shen Yizhi diligently scooped him a bowl of fresh and rich mutton soup and placed it in front of him in a flattering manner, almost feeding him with his own hands.
"Master, actually when I was standing in the herb garden, I remembered something. I know this is your herb garden, and there are many herbs planted by me, right? I didn't want to take them without asking, but you were not here at that time."
Zhang Lingche snorted twice, not really wanting to argue with her. It was no big deal for a disciple to dig a few spiritual herbs from his master. He just wanted to take the opportunity to enjoy more of his master's benefits.
However, since my own apprentice doesn't care, outsiders will have to care about it.
He finished his soup, wiped the corners of his mouth, and looked at Gu Xueting like an elder.
"Xue Ting, right? You first dug up the Yin Yang Flower that I worked so hard to raise, and then you stole the thousand-year-old snow ginseng that I had been waiting for for a long time. Logically, you and Xiao Zhiliao have a close relationship, and as an elder, I shouldn't bother with you. However, these two spiritual herbs are of great importance, so I have to settle this account with you."
Gu Xueting immediately handed over the snow ginseng that had been stored in the jade box. "I have really never seen a Yin Yang Flower. Master, did you misunderstand? As for this snow ginseng, when I arrived, there was no one guarding it. But since Master can use it, I will not be stingy."
Be sincere in attitude.
However, Zhang Lingche didn't understand what he meant. What did "there was no one guarding when I arrived" mean? What did "Master, I won't be stingy with it" mean? Listening to these words, he sounded like the evil master who took advantage of others.
Seeing that Zhang Lingche was about to explode, Shen Yizhi hurriedly took out a basin of water. Inside was a black and white lotus, full of vitality and in full bloom. It was the Yin Yang Flower! "Master, look, is this the Yin Yang Flower you mentioned? Xue Ting didn't take it, I took it."
Zhang Lingche initially thought that she was trying to excuse Gu Xueting, but when he saw that Gu Xueting was also very surprised, he knew that she was not lying.
"What's going on?" He gently touched the petals of the Yin-Yang flower.
Shen Yizhi described in detail how she fell off the cliff, discovered the Yin-Yang Flower, and how Gu Xueting came down, killed the dragon, and brought her up.
Only then did Zhang Lingche realize that he had really misunderstood Gu Xueting all along.
He looked a little uncomfortable. "It seems that I have wronged you. This glass of wine is my apology to you."
He picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Gu Xueting, and they both raised their heads and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking this glass of wine, the atmosphere between the two of them inexplicably eased a lot.
Shen Yizhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"You have taken good care of this Yin-Yang flower. You should continue to take care of it. I will ask you for it later." Zhang Lingche signaled Shen Yizhi to put the flower away.
Then, he left Shen Yizhi aside and pulled Gu Xueting and Luo Yaoyao to drink. The dinner table suddenly became the world of these three men.
"When I first met you, you seemed a little bit off." After a few drinks, Zhang Lingche asked Gu Xueting.
Facing the master who raised Zhizhi, Gu Xueting had nothing to hide and told him that he had been poisoned.
"Demon poison..." Zhang Lingche thought about his condition and suddenly had a shocking guess.
If his guess comes true, things will be difficult.
He drank and suppressed the worries in his heart.
Shen Yizhi collected the empty plates and bowls on the table and added other dishes.
Seeing that the three men were chatting enthusiastically, she felt like she was redundant and simply left the table.
When I turned around, I couldn't see Qing Bao and the other two.
At first she thought the three of them were playing in some room.
After her unremitting feeding, the space inside the Tianzhou has become very spacious, with more than ten rooms of various sizes.
In addition to the kitchen, living room, bedroom and study, there is also a toy room specially designed for Qingbao and the other two.
Shen Yizi walked all the way over, but when he arrived at the toy room, he still couldn't see the three people.
But she still didn't panic. After all, they were on the Tianzhou, which was floating in the air. If Qing Bao and the other two were not on the boat, where else could they be? They were probably hiding in some corner.