Chapter 11 There are bandits
Song Lingling and Xie Yusheng were so frightened that they trembled and dared not say a word.
After waiting for a while, nothing else happened.
Xie Ning turned on the light again. Song Lingling's face turned pale. "Husband, is there anyone trying to rob us?"
Xie Ning thought about the sound on the roof. It was obviously the sound of a master of Qinggong tapping the tiles with his toes. But he couldn't scare his wife and children, so he said, "I seemed to hear Xie Yun coming up just now."
Song Lingling breathed a sigh of relief. Xie Yunlai, at most he just wanted to get something to eat, it wouldn't be fatal.
"He may have smelled the fragrance. This is the food that my aunt bought for us with great effort, and we won't give it to anyone else." Song Lingling said firmly.
"Well, go to sleep. We have to travel tomorrow."
Xie Ning fooled them and advised them to go to bed early.
Seeing them go to bed, he opened the door again and walked around the yard, but found nothing unusual.
It seems that I was overthinking it?
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Song Lingling went back, and Xie Yanyan packed up and prepared to go to bed.
Jiang Shuang endured for a while, then said angrily: "The Xie family is your root no matter what. You put the hat of unfilial on your head. Don't you care about your reputation?"
"Unfilial? You can say whatever you want, I don't care." Xie Yanyan said coldly, "I want to wait until I marry someone who believes in me and thinks that everything I do is right, otherwise I would rather be an old maid for the rest of my life."
"How can you say such shameless words? The morality of a woman..."
"Shut up, I don't want to hear you."
Xie Yanyan took out disinfectant from the space, applied it to the broken blisters, lay down and went to sleep.
Jiang Shuang had no choice but to sleep depressedly on the other bed.
“Crack~”
The sound of light footsteps reached Xie Yanyan's ears.
He turned on his mental power, scanned quickly, and saw a man in black squatting on the roof.
I was so scared that my heart almost jumped out.
Killer?
Kill her?
The man was less than 10 meters away from him, and Xie Yanyan could see him clearly.
Although she was wearing a mask, she scanned that the person was a woman, a very young woman.
He was not tall, holding a dagger in his hand, and lying on the roof.
After about two quarters of an hour, the room was completely silent. Jiang Shuang was breathing evenly, while Xie Yanyan was completely silent.
The man climbed down from the roof, observed outside the window for a while, pried open the window, and climbed in.
Just then, someone outside the window grabbed the female bandit's ankle and she was stuck on the window.
"There's a thief! Catch the thief!"
The woman tried desperately to get away, but the man who held her leg was very tricky and she couldn't get away.
The innkeeper and the handyman came, holding lanterns, machetes and sticks. The woman became anxious and swung a dagger to attack the man who was holding her.
Jiang Shuang was also awakened and trembled with fear: "What's going on?"
Xie Yanyan: "There is a thief."
The mother and daughter stood at the door and watched the thief being caught. The thief was very skilled in martial arts and did not seem to want to hurt anyone. She fought with the man who pulled her while trying to get away. After a while, both of them disappeared.
After the yard calmed down, Xie Yanyan and Jiang Shuang returned to the house and closed the doors and windows.
He turned around, stunned.
In just a short while, the whole room was in a mess.
On the table, on the bed, under the pillow, especially on Xie Yanyan's coat that was hung on the shelf, the cuffs and pockets were all pulled out.
Damn, what a thief.
After all the fuss, it turned out that the female thief had an accomplice. They only saw the thief outside being caught, but did not expect that it was a diversion.
Or did he come here specifically to steal her?
She grabbed her clothes and couldn't help frowning as she saw a hole in Song Lingling's beautifully patched clothes. Damn it!
Jiang Shuang was a saint, she didn't shout. If there was a thief in the house, if it was a man, who knows how others would put the blame on her and her mother.
The mother and daughter decisively chose to shut up.
The next morning, Zhu Ba came to find Xie Yanyan and wanted to ask her to make the fragrant vegetable porridge he made yesterday.
Xie Yanyan asked him if they could go to the market together to buy ingredients?
Zhu Ba certainly agreed.
Xie Yanyan asked Xie Yong to go to the market with her. She wanted to buy some things and asked Xie Yong to help carry them back.
I bought the ingredients for century egg and lean meat porridge, and happened to see an old farmer selling fresh duck eggs, a big basket, about 60 or so.
Xie Yanyan said to Zhu Ba, "Master Zhu, buy all these duck eggs. I will make you a delicious dish. I'm sure you have never eaten it before."
Zhu Ba was half-believing and half-doubting, but bought them all.
Xie Yanyan walked around again and bought a lot of caustic soda, alkaline noodles and lard, and also bought half a bag of lime.
"Why did you buy so much caustic soda?"
"I want to do something good, Mr. Zhu, don't worry, maybe I can help you earn enough money for your retirement."
"Is this true?" Zhu Ba was tempted. Enough money for retirement? Reselling caustic soda?
Xie Yanyan didn't answer.
After returning to the store, they borrowed the store's stove and Xie Ning helped to light the fire. Zhu Ba stood by and watched Xie Yanyan make century egg, lean meat and vegetable porridge.
She crushed the preserved egg in the space and quickly transferred it to the pot while Zhu Ba was away.
The aroma of this pot of porridge filled the entire inn.
Customers all order this porridge from the store, and the store owner says that it is cooked by the customers themselves, not by the store’s chef.
It was the first time that Li Rong drank such delicious porridge. He drank three large bowls of it in one breath and still felt unsatisfied.
It’s a pity that Liu Mingjie and his friends were such big eaters that when he went to get the fourth bowl, he saw the bottom of the pot.
In order to thank Xie Yanyan for cooking such delicious porridge, Li Rong was very polite and allowed Xie Yanyan to buy 30 buns and millet porridge at the original price in the inn.
There were 30 buns for the 8 people in the second room. Xie Anfeng and Xie Ning ate 5 each, Xie Yong and Xie Lingyu ate 4 each, and Xie Yanyan, Song Lingling, Jiang Shuang and Xie Yusheng each ate 2.
There were four left, and Xie Anfeng gave two to Xie Jinrong. After all, this was his biological father, and Xie Anfeng would not starve him to death.
There are two left, Xie Yanyan turned to the space.
After Xie Yanyan had eaten and drunk his fill, he and Zhu Ba took out the lime powder, alkaline noodles, and salt they had bought, and asked the store owner for some bran.
Wash the purchased duck eggs one by one with salt water and expose them to the sun for an hour.
When she was packing the duck eggs, suddenly a dark shadow appeared beside her, blocking the light. She couldn't ignore it. Xie Yanyan looked up and saw a middle-aged man.
He was wearing a simple green dress, had a thin figure, deep and steady eyes, and a wisp of black beard hanging on his chest. Even though he looked so disheveled, he still gave people a feeling of being as tall and straight as a bamboo.
Xie Yanyan had some impression of him. This was the second master of the Su family who was exiled together with him, Su Moqing, a famous scholar in the Former Qin Dynasty.
He was also exiled to Lingnan due to his family's involvement.
"Miss Xie, can you help me? My child hasn't eaten or drunk anything for two days." Su Moqing was anxious and a little embarrassed.
He had been observing the Xie family's situation for two days, and instead of asking anyone else for help, he asked Xie Yanyan for help.
"benefit?"
"I can be your elder brother's and your younger brother's teacher."
Brother, it’s a great honor to be able to learn from Su Moqing!
Xie Yanyan gave the two buns that had just been transferred to the space to Su Moqing.
Su Moqing thanked him and immediately went back to save the child from starvation.
Xie Yanyan dipped the dried duck eggs in the prepared batter, wrapped them in rice bran, put them in a big-bellied jar, sealed it, and placed it on Zhu Ba's special cooking carriage.
To make the preserved eggs, she crushed the picked caustic soda and green grass to extract the juice, and then mixed the purchased caustic soda and lard and boiled them.
She wants to make soap.
While she was busy, there was a knock on the door. She transferred the semi-finished product to the space and opened the door.
Standing at the door was a tall and straight young man, wearing a gorgeous suit with silver embroidery, with picturesque features and a very handsome appearance.
(End of this chapter)
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