Chapter 162 Curiosity Kills the Cat
Cuihua!
These two words felt a bit like a curse, and Gu Xiaoxi felt a little headache.
He deliberately applied some force, causing Ye Lixuan to cry out in pain again.
Ye Lixuan clearly felt that this woman did it on purpose, but he didn't understand why he made her angry?
Is it because I didn’t pick any pears?
Thinking of this, he withdrew his hand, took Cuihua's backpack, and jumped onto the pear tree again.
This time, he became cautious.
Seeing that the other party was trying to show his courtesy, Gu Xiaoxi did not stop him. There were so many pears anyway, so she could take them back and give them to the children to eat. The leftovers could be made into pear paste.
If someone has a cough or is suffering from a sore throat, drinking this can moisten the throat and relieve the heat.
"Be careful, I'm going to go hunting nearby. When the basket is full, put it on the ground and you can continue picking pears. I have other uses for these pears if you can't finish them." She shouted to the tree.
"Okay! Be careful." Ye Lixuan was very happy to do something to help Cuihua.
Gu Xiaoxi went into the nearby woods to dig herbs. After about half an hour, she sprinkled a little bait under a tree, set up the net, and waited for the prey to come to her.
Around noon, she came out of the woods carrying two hares and two pheasants.
She cleaned up the prey and even smeared it with seasoning.
When she came under the pear tree, she saw a lot of picked pears piled on the ground. She went to find some dry firewood to make a fire, put the two rabbits on top and roasted them, then went down the mountain carrying a basket of pears.
Ye Lixuan guessed that Cuihua was probably going to ask her brothers to come up and carry the pears down.
After waiting for a long time, Gu Xiaoxi came back by herself.
He asked curiously, "Aren't your brothers at home?"
"They are going to set up a stall today. Two brothers from the same village are helping at home, but there are several patients to take care of, and your identity is rather special, so I won't ask them to come up." Gu Xiaoxi explained why the brothers didn't come up.
Ye Lixuan nodded in understanding and broke off a piece of rabbit leg meat and gave it to Cuihua.
Gu Xiaoxi ran too fast in the morning and threw two buns into the space. Now she is hungry.
Enjoy the barbecue with relish and ask this guy curiously about what interesting things he encountered during his few days away.
Ye Lixuan picked up a topic at random and ended up talking about Mr. Jiang in the city.
Mr. Jiang used to come from a gangster background. He ran a casino a few years ago, but later for some reason he stopped running the casino and turned to a legitimate industry.
Some people said that he must have found a treasure and became rich overnight, while others said that he changed his career because he did too many bad things when he was young and couldn't even support his two sons.
Strangely enough, since he changed his career, his only son has been sick less often.
However, even though he brought more than a dozen concubines into his backyard, his offspring still died.
Later, after Madam Lian came into the family, she gave birth to a son for him.
Therefore, Mr. Jiang felt that Madam Lian was his lucky star, so he promoted her to be his concubine.
"What a coincidence! I received an emergency call last night. It was Mr. Jiang. She was poisoned by someone and the poison took effect. She almost suffocated." Gu Xiaoxi also shared the gossip about Mr. Jiang with Ye Lixuan.
Emergency, isn’t this a modern word?
Even if this woman is not Gu Xiaoxi, she may be another soul that traveled through time.
Ye Lixuan thought so and said in a very good mood: "That's really a coincidence! If you want to know anything else about him, I can tell you."
Gu Xiaoxi felt very strange. Wasn’t Ye Lixuan very busy?
How do you have time to gossip about Mr. Jiang?
However, curiosity kills the cat, so she didn't ask questions that she shouldn't ask. However, she still asked questions that she wanted to ask.
"I heard that Mr. Jiang has someone in the palace, and even County Magistrate Ma is a little afraid of him," she said.
"Oh! So this county magistrate is a corrupt official?" Ye Lixuan asked.
"Nonsense! How could he be demoted to this godforsaken place when he's a corrupt official?" Gu Xiaoxi shook her head. She believed that even if Ma Weiwei was lying, there was no need for Mr. Chen to lie to her.
Ye Lixuan was obviously a little surprised, because he had not had time to investigate the county magistrate. He just heard that the county magistrate was close to Mr. Jiang, so he suspected that he was a corrupt official!
After all, Mr. Jiang’s past is really not clean.
"You are right, but I do know who is backing Mr. Jiang in the palace.
That man was Mr. Jiang's younger brother, a palace eunuch supervisor, named Jiang Chenghuan. He told Gu Xiaoxi the news.
Being a supervisor in the palace is not an insignificant position, no wonder County Magistrate Ma wanted to give him some face.
Gu Xiaoxi thought about this and nodded: "Don't worry, I won't offend him. When he finds the person who poisoned him, I will help him get rid of the poison.
It's at least one hundred and eighty taels of silver, so don't refuse it."
Ye Lixuan listened to what Gu Xiaoxi said and calculated for her. She had earned quite a bit recently, so he suggested, "Since you have a decent income now, why don't you buy two servants? You won't be that tired!"
"There are quite a few patients at home these days, my brother and sister-in-law have to do business, and my mother is too busy. I just had this idea this morning." Gu Xiaoxi said frankly.
When Ye Lixuan heard this, he had an idea in his mind and lowered his head, afraid that Gu Xiaoxi would see it.
After lunch, Gu Xiaoxi carried the pears down the mountain.
Ye Lixuan couldn't go to Gu Xiaoxi's house, so after carrying the pears down the mountain, he waited in the nearby woods.
Gu Xiaoxi ran back and forth several times and moved all the pears from the big tree back.
After saying goodbye to Ye Lixuan, Gu Xiaoxi returned to the kitchen at home.
Pears should not be kept for too long, because things in the space can be kept fresh, so halfway through, she had secretly transported more than half of them into the space.
Now, she needs to boil the several baskets of pears in the kitchen into pear paste as soon as possible, store some, and sell the rest to increase the family income.
"Xiaoxi, tell me how you want to do this. I will do it for you. Go to sleep now." Chai felt sorry for her daughter and knew that she must not have slept much last night.
Gu Xiaoxi thought this was a good idea, as she could then have a reason to give all the money she earned from the sales to her mother.
So she carefully taught her mother how to make this snow pear paste.
Because there were more people eating at home, Chen Qinian added a lot of new things to the house after he came, including pots and bowls.
Now there are no less than ten pots and pans at home. He is worthy of being the young master of a wealthy family. He is very capable.
After working for a while, the aroma of pear paste wafted out of the kitchen, attracting two greedy people in.
"Aunt, Sister Xiaoxi, what are you cooking? It smells so good." Ma Weiwei swallowed her saliva and moved closer to the stove.
"Besides, I've never seen a lady as greedy as you!" Chen Qinian said with contempt.
Ma Weiwei directly retorted: "I've never seen a young master as delicious as you."
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Gu Xiaoxi called them aside and made a spoonful of pear paste for each of them to taste.
Before the two of them drank the pear paste water, a familiar voice came from outside.
"Gu Ping, you really don't want to live like this anymore, right?" Zhang suddenly shouted at the top of her voice.
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