Chapter 272: Stupid girl, ask Emperor Yan to arrange a marriage for you
Seeing her running back, Xie Yanyan asked, "What's in that bundle?"
The girl said, "I don't know what it is. It's very heavy. It might be silver or something."
"Silver? Why don't you take it back?"
"Ah? It's not mine, what should I do with it?"
She was speechless at what the girl said.
Yes, if it's not yours, why would you pick it up? If it's not yours, why would you care about it?
The key point is that this is a pair of grandparents and grandchildren who can't even afford to eat, and they are not tempted by so much silver. This is extremely rare.
Xie Yanyan immediately took a liking to her.
Xie Anfeng and Xie Lingyu carried up two bags of rice and flour, as well as the basket of vegetables, and gave them to the old man.
"Uncle, please accept these things first, and we will send some more later. Thank you for saving my child's life."
The old man shook his hand and said, "Why thank you? I didn't do anything. It was just a small favor."
"But you saved my son's life!"
"That's nothing, just something that happens easily."
Xie Anfeng really liked this old man. While talking to him, he began to pick vegetables and wash rice in preparation for cooking.
The old man asked curiously, "How can you cook?"
Xie Anfeng said: "I fought in a border town before and I could cook. Later, I had children to take care of, so I learned how to cook."
"It's not easy for you either," the old man said in a much softer voice as he picked vegetables with Xie Anfeng.
He picked through the vegetables in the basket and was shocked: "You brought so many delicious vegetables? And meat! And lotus roots. My God, where did you get lotus roots in the middle of winter? Ah, so many green vegetables!"
The girl said, "Grandfather, you all stop doing it and leave it to me!"
She moved very skillfully. She soon got a large basin of snow from outside, boiled water, rubbed her hands vigorously, and began to wash rice and vegetables.
Xie Yanyan didn't do any work, just watched her do it.
He just said, "It's too cold, why not just have a pot?"
The girl knew about the pot, but she was reluctant to eat it because it would be such a waste of food.
Xie Yanyan said: “There are enough dishes, let’s eat the pot.”
The girl thought that the dishes were all Xie Yanyan’s, so if she wanted to eat them, she could just cook them!
The girl was washing vegetables while Xie Yanyan was constantly putting things into the basket.
Xie Anfeng took out bowls of various dishes for the pot, such as tofu, tofu skin, mushrooms, meat rolls, meatballs, crab sticks, etc., and asked the girl to put them in the pot in order.
I didn’t boil the soup base, I just used the ready-made ones.
After a while, the whole house was filled with spicy smell.
The old man drooled and said with a smile: "We haven't tasted such delicacies for a long time."
It is indeed a delicacy from land and sea.
The girl was very skillful and steamed a large pot of white flour buns.
As for the white steamed buns, let alone eating them in the pot, you can finish several of them just by eating the buns.
The old man, Xie Anfeng and Xie Yanyan were all eating from the pot. The girl brought the steamed buns over. The buns were leaning against the rice crust on the edge of the pot and smelled incredibly fragrant.
Xie Yanyan liked this one very much. She would pick half of the bun to eat and break the other half off to give to Xie Anfeng.
While eating, the old man happily said that his surname was Chen, Chen Chengyan, and he had lived in this mountain for most of his life.
He actually wanted to go out, not for himself, but for his granddaughter Chen Ruanruan.
The granddaughter was a good doctor, and whenever there was a market day, the two of them would go down the mountain to treat people and earn a little money to make a living.
Chen Ruanruan has long passed the age of marriage and it is time for her to go down the mountain to find a husband. He is anxious, but does not want to settle for a simple life.
Xie Anfeng didn't respond, so Xie Yanyan asked, "What did you do before? Is there anyone else in the family?"
Old man Chen said: "I have a brother, but I haven't contacted him for many years. Now he is fighting in various small countries. Who knows where he is?"
"So where are you from?"
"Chang'an"
"Why did you come to the mountains? Isn't Chang'an a good place?"
"My family was originally in Chang'an, and we have been practicing medicine for generations. One of our ancestors was a royal doctor in the palace. One of our ancestors made a mistake and was exterminated along with his entire clan. My grandfather escaped because he was practicing medicine outside, but he could never go back to Chang'an."
Chen Chengyan said: "After a long time, I got used to it and didn't want to go back to Chang'an anymore."
Xie Yanyan suddenly thought of someone. Could it be that Chen Chengyan and Chen Xiu were from the same clan?
Chen Ruanruan was her biological granddaughter, but what about her son? Chen Chengyan kept silent about it, so she didn't ask.
Both parties enjoyed the meal very much.
They didn't stay here for long. Before going down the mountain, Xie Anfeng said to Chen Chengyan: "We live in Chang'an now. If the old man wants to go back to Chang'an, please come and find us."
Chen Chengyan didn't intend to trouble them, but Chen Ruanruan asked: "If I want to find you in the future, how can I find you?"
"Chang'an," Xie Yong said, "Go to Xiping Palace to find Xie Yong. My name is Xie Yong."
Chen Chengyan frowned and said, "Why does your name sound so familiar to me?"
"This name may be more common," said Xie Yong.
"Oh, by the way, the King of Xiping, the King of Xiping is called Xie Yong." The old man slapped his thigh, "Are you the King of Xiping?"
Xie Yong nodded.
"Then, he..." Chen Chengyan couldn't do it anymore.
Xie Anfeng said that he was Xie Yong's father, so could he be the emperor of the Jiuzhou Empire?
Xie Anfeng nodded to him and said with a smile: "No matter what our identities are, you saved my son, and you are my eternal benefactor."
They went down the mountain. Chen Chengyan and Chen Ruanruan accompanied them halfway up the mountain, but Xie Anfeng stopped them.
Old man Chen said dejectedly: "I finally found someone I like, and he's a prince!"
They like Xie Yong, but he doesn't like them, right? If the Chen family was still around...
Chen Ruanruan opened her palms to her grandfather: "Grandfather, look!"
"You, where did you get this? Did the prince give it to you?" Old Man Chen was a little annoyed, "You will be looked down upon if you do this, do you know that?"
"Hey, Grandfather, look carefully, it's not given by the prince."
She showed the jade token to her grandfather. It was a jade token with a flying phoenix on the front and the word "Yan" on the back.
"Grandfather, she must be the legendary empress," Chen Ruanruan said, "Emperor Yan gave me a jade token. Grandfather, she likes me! I will go find her and follow her."
Old man Chen said anxiously, "She's a woman, why are you chasing after her? Why don't you ask Emperor Yan to arrange a marriage for you? You stupid girl, you're making me so anxious!"
Chen Ruanruan laughed loudly: "Grandfather, I want to be a female imperial physician, a female physician who specializes in treating women."
"Oh, you're really pissing me off. How old are you? Why don't you get married? Do you want to drive me crazy? As an imperial physician, have you forgotten the ancestral teachings?"
After getting down the mountain, Xie Yanyan immediately put out the carriage, helped Xie Yong onto it, and the family drove to Jingning County first.
They did not reveal their identities, but booked a few rooms and stayed like ordinary guests.
Xie Yanyan urgently needs to resolve the rebellions in Xiliang and Nuguo.
If you don't want to join the Kyushu Empire, just say so earlier! You signed a contract, you have enough food and clothing, and you want to rebel after getting the seeds?
How can it be that cheap!
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