Chapter 54 Meat is delicious (a long chapter)
After the postmaster was prepared, he asked the postmaster to splash water on all the people who had fallen to the ground to wake them up.
Those who were woken up by the water will be confused and have no idea what happened.
Just now they all drank a bowl of hot ginger soup, and then... and then...
That’s all.
Wait, water on your face?
Are your clothes wet too?
"Who the hell got my cotton-padded jacket wet?"
"This is newly bought. Is this going to kill me?"
"Whoever is doing this, come out now! I'm going to kill him today!"
…
For a while, the post station was filled with all kinds of shouting and cursing, and the faces of the postmasters became increasingly darker.
"Our post station has prepared some hot dishes and soup. If you want any, please sign up now. It's thirty taels of silver per table."
The postmaster had originally planned to sell each table for twenty taels of silver, but just now he changed his mind.
After waiting for a long time, no one responded. The postmaster became angry and said, "Since no one wants to eat, why don't you all go to the stable in the back? We have others to entertain here. Don't ruin our business and spoil other people's appetites."
The crowd, who were originally cursing, suddenly quieted down when they heard the postmaster say that he would drive them to the stable.
Someone said with a flattering look on his face: "Well, let's eat, let's eat. We won't go to the stable. Thirty taels of silver is too expensive. Can you give us a discount?"
The postmaster refused coldly: "That's the price. If you don't want to eat, some people will. If you want to eat, pay quickly. If you don't want to eat, get out of the way and don't block the road!"
"Eat, eat us!"
How can he not eat? He has been hungry for a long time.
It’s so hard to have hot food, you’d be a fool not to eat it. Nothing is more important than having a full stomach!
As he spoke, the man took out a fifty-liang silver note from the sole of his shoe and handed it to the postmaster.
The postmaster was not too bad and even gave me twenty taels of silver.
People kept paying for their meals.
Yang wanted to eat too, but she didn't have a single copper coin on her. Suddenly, she thought of something...
"I remember now. We fainted because we drank the ginger soup your post gave us, and you poured water on us to wake us up. Your post has to compensate us."
"Those who have already paid and are ready to eat have also realized that they should eat it or not. What if it is poisoned?"
Seeing everyone's scrutinizing gazes, Yang became complacent and continued, "Were we drugged at your post station, or were you the ones who drugged us in the first place? I know now. Are you postmasters trying to poison us and seize our money?"
Yang also provoked the anger of the crowd, and they all glared at the postmaster: "Well, I was wondering why he fainted out of nowhere and was splashed with water, his clothes were soaked. It turns out that your postmaster was the one who did it."
"This evil post station is trying to murder us. No, we can't just let this go. We must report it to the police!"
"Yes, we must report it to the police!"
"We are exiled prisoners, not death row prisoners."
The postmaster was not afraid at all about their talk of reporting to the authorities, as long as the two evil spirits from the Xia family left them alone.
The postmaster smiled contemptuously at everyone and pointed at the door of the post station, saying, "Okay, you want to report to the authorities, right? The door is over there, go wherever you want!"
"If we wanted to murder you, why would you stand here and accuse us? Look at your appearance. What is there for us to murder? A bunch of exiles, bah."
One of the postmasters wanted to disgust these people, so he said: "The water for making ginger soup for you was actually one of our brothers' foot washing water. It was poured into the pot by mistake. You are just fainted by the stench!"
Foot washing water?
Did they drink the footbath water?
Suddenly, vomiting sounds were heard inside and outside the inn!
Yang noticed with her sharp eyes that Xia Xing'er and her group were eating the delicious meal as if nothing had happened.
I felt jealous. Why could they eat delicious food while I could only smell the fragrance and swallow my saliva?
"Why are their clothes not wet? Why can they eat such delicious food?"
"Are you in league with them?"
Yang's hysteria was a joke in the eyes of the Xia family and the postmaster.
The person in charge said contemptuously: "Because they didn't drink the ginger soup. I just want to give them good food. So, if you don't accept it, just hold it in!"
The person in charge was already impatient: "Do you want to eat anything else? If so, hurry up. If not, get out of here and go to the stable. Do you really think you are still young masters and young ladies?"
The people who had already paid the silver and were sitting at the dinner table looked at the food on their own table, and then looked at the food on the tables of the Xia family and Xuanyuan Yi.
Suddenly I felt that mine was not fragrant anymore.
On the two tables, there were braised pork elbow, braised lion's head, grilled lamb chops, stir-fried pork intestines, roast chicken, roast duck, and pork rib soup...
On their table were pork stewed with vermicelli, pickled cabbage, shredded potatoes, vegetable pancakes, and stir-fried pork and bamboo shoots...
The difference is too big. “Why should our food be the same as theirs, since our food is different from theirs?”
The postmaster sneered, "That's all. Eat it or not."
Are you kidding? There were two evil spirits and more than thirty men in black with high martial arts skills. These two people took care of them all in less than a quarter of an hour. They have to respect such people, otherwise they will end up like those men in black. These idiots don't know anything and are still nagging here.
Second Master Xia, Third Uncle Xia, and the Xia family members requested three tables in total.
The General's Mansion and the Minister of War's Mansion requested a table, and the Grand Tutor's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion also requested a table each.
The remaining people really have no money and are reluctant to spend it, so they can only eat steamed buns as hard as stones with boiled water.
I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the five tables of food that came later didn’t have any meat slices, let alone minced meat.
On the table, there was a bamboo basket of steamed buns made of white flour, a plate of boiled cabbage, a plate of stewed green vegetables with tofu, and a plate of cold shredded radish...
Mrs. Dong was immediately furious: "We paid thirty taels of silver, and this is all they give us to eat?"
Second Master Xia's face was as black as ink. "This is simply going too far."
Xia Qingyue: "Dad and Mom, I don't want to eat this. I want to eat meat. Why can that bitch Xia Xing'er eat meat? I want to eat this."
After saying that, he started crying.
She was really sad. Before the accident, Xia Xing'er always outshined her in everything. She finally waited for her to divorce and become an abandoned woman, and she could finally hold her head high. But who would have thought that she would be married to Prince Zhennan in the blink of an eye.
She was so angry that she smashed a lot of things in the house. Why did this bitch always have such good luck?
Later, everyone became exiles with the same status. Xuanyuan Yi had to break off the engagement with that bitch, but she was happy for a long time.
Now everyone eats meat, and the postmaster treats them so well.
They spent money but could only eat things that the servants in the mansion had never eaten before.
How am I inferior to that abandoned woman? Why am I so miserable? The more I think about it, the more wronged I feel.
Third Uncle felt bad too. He had wanted to see Xia Chengsheng's family living in poverty and come back to beg them for help.
Now it seems that they are living better after they asked to be expelled from the clan.
This is not a disguised explanation, their choice is right, after throwing away these burdens, they...
No, he refused to admit it.
Old Madam Helian was also feeling uncomfortable. In the past, if Xia Xing'er had anything delicious or drinkable, she would have given it to her, her mother-in-law, first. But now, she didn't even look at her.
Helian Zhi and Ye Qingyu ate the bok choy on the table with expressionless faces. To them, it was acceptable and much better than what was written on the battlefield.
When food and supplies did not arrive in time on the battlefield, they even gnawed on tree bark.
Acceptance is one thing, but feeling jealous in your heart is another?
The tables ahead that had ordered food suddenly felt more balanced and were glad they acted quickly, otherwise they would have had to eat boiled vegetables as well. Although their food was not as good as Xia Xing'er and the others', at least there was meat.
Xia Xing'er didn't care what they thought. Without waiting for the postmaster to reply, she said directly: "We earn our living by our own ability. If you have the ability, you can also ask them to prepare it for you."
She smiled wickedly and said to Second Master Xia and the others, "Look at your Xia clan, there are so many young talents. Do you think they don't have this little bit of ability?"
"I didn't really say that, did I? Oh, I'm so embarrassed for you!"
The faces of the Xia clan members turned from red to black, and they were all very angry, but they had to endure it and not say anything.
Xia Xing'er looked at them with contempt. These people had been supported by the Changxin Marquis Mansion for many years, and finally became a group of ungrateful people.
If there were a few capable people among these people, their lives would definitely not be too bad.
Helian Zhi thought about the argumentative Xia Xing'er, she was so lively, and it felt like she was different, a side of her he had never seen before.
Ye Qingyu looked at the look in Helian Zhi's eyes when he looked at Xia Xing'er, and her heart skipped a beat. "Brother Zhi, are you regretting this? No, I have nothing left. I absolutely cannot lose Brother Zhi. Brother Zhi can only be hers."
She couldn't move Brother Zhi, but she could move Xia Xing'er. As long as she died, Brother Zhi would be hers alone.
She called out in her heart: "System, can you help me kill Xia Xing'er?"
Devouring System: "Host, this system can only devour other people's luck for you, but it cannot help you kill people. Killing is illegal."
Xia Xing'er: Did she hear the conversation between Ye Qingyu and her system?
Ye Qingyu still wants the system to kill her?
Did she want to kill herself?
Yesterday I only knew that Ye Qingyu was bound to a system, but today I can still hear the conversation.
She was about to ask her system what was going on when she heard again: "Then go and devour her luck, and everyone in her family's luck too."
What? Even her family members are not spared.
Devouring System: "Only if you have physical contact with her can I help the host devour her."
Fortunately, this devouring system cannot deprive me of my luck as long as there is no physical contact. It seems that I have to remind my family to avoid being harmed.
Ye Qingyu was a little angry. It was really troublesome. She didn't even know Xia Xing'er, so how could she get in touch with her?
Xia Xing'er called her system in her mind: "Tongzi, I just heard the conversation between Ye Qingyu and her system. What's going on?"
System: "Is Tongzi calling me?"
Xia Xing'er: "Yes, Tongzi is you, and you will be Tongzi from now on."
System: "Okay, as long as the host is happy, you can call it anything."
Xia Xing'er: Am I being a bit of a bully? But she quickly rejected the idea. The system is not a human being, so what she is doing is not bullying people, but bullying the system.
Xia Xing'er: "You will be called Tongzi from now on. Tell me quickly, why can I hear Ye Qingyu talking to her system?"
System: "I don't know what's going on here either."
Xia Xing'er: "Can she hear our conversation? Can her system detect your presence?"
System: "Host, please do not insult this system. This system is a formal system and cannot be compared with those idiot systems.
The host can rest assured that no one and no system can hear our conversation or detect my presence."
Hearing the system say this, Xia Xing'er felt relieved.
Xia Zibo looked at his aunt in a daze: "Aunt, what's wrong with you? Why don't you speak?"
Xia Xing'er quickly came back to her senses and met her nephew's worried eyes. She apologized, "Has our Zibo finished eating? I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now. So I didn't hear you talking. Can you forgive me, Zibo?"
As if to respond to Xia Xing'er's question, he burped.
"Zi Bo didn't blame my aunt. I'm so full."
"Aunt, why don't they eat meat? Meat is so delicious."
Everyone: Is this guy here to hurt us?
Do they not want to eat meat? Is it that there is no meat to eat?
Second Master Xia felt that Xia Zibo was insulting him. He glared at Xia Zibo fiercely and threatened, "You'd better pray that nothing happens to us."
Xia Xing'er: Shouldn't I be the one saying this to you?
Xia Chengsheng said, "You have a dog's heart in your pig's stomach. If we ever need help from you losers, we will kill ourselves first. We will never waste food or air."
Master Xia was so angry that he said: "You...you..." He couldn't say a word for a long time.
At this moment, the postmaster came over and said to Xia Chengsheng, "Master Xia, your donkeys have been fed and the food has been loaded onto your carts. If you want anything else, I'll prepare it for you right away."
Looking at the different attitudes of the postmaster towards them and Xia Chengsheng's family, they were very confused. What happened during the time they fainted?
The Xia family ignored the complicated looks from others and walked out together, young and old.
As he passed by Zhang San, he asked, "Do you want me to be shackled again?"
The shackles were removed by the officials when we arrived at the post station, and we broke the chains ourselves.
Zhang San: "..."
Should he handcuff her or not?
If I am handcuffed, will my head be separated from my neck? If I am not handcuffed, what if I run away?
No matter how you think about it, it feels like this head and neck will separate at any time?
Xia Xing'er stared at Zhang San coldly, her eyes seemed to say: If you dare to say the word "handcuffs", I will make you accompany the men in black.
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