Chapter 14: Flavorful Beef Offal Soup
When they walked out of Huichun Hall, it was still early. Lin Xiaoyue and He Yuan walked on the empty streets and could hardly see any pedestrians. Even the street vendors were only a few scattered around.
Lin Xiaoyue touched her hungry stomach and called out to He Yuan, "I'm hungry. Let's have some breakfast first."
He Yuan didn't eat dinner yesterday, and he was really hungry after a night out. Especially with the tempting aroma of food wafting from the stalls from time to time, he sat down at the nearest stall. "Give me a bowl of vegetarian noodles. Buy whatever you want to eat. I don't have any money!"
Lin Xiaoyue was almost choked to death by He Yuan's words. This guy uses "being poor" as his catchphrase, right?
Since it was the last time anyway, she generously said to the waiter, "A bowl of beef noodles and two poached eggs. This is for the two of us!"
"Okay! Please wait a moment!" The waiter collected the money and left.
He Yuan turned his head away with a dark face, "Don't think I will be grateful to you!"
"Whatever!" Lin Xiaoyue clicked her tongue. This guy was overthinking it again. She just wanted him to die of fullness.
Soon, the waiter came over with two bowls of noodles and a plate of fried eggs. "This is for you, please enjoy your meal."
"Slurp, slurp!" Lin Xiaoyue happily started eating the beef noodles after getting them. Although the beef noodles here were not as delicious as the one she had yesterday, everything tasted delicious when you were hungry.
He Yuan saw Lin Xiaoyue wolfing down her food without any respect for her appearance and asked in confusion, "I heard you were once the most favored concubine in the palace. How come you eat so ungainly? Did the emperor exile you because he couldn't stand the way you ate?"
Lin Xiaoyue, as a soul that traveled through time from modern civilization, is the most uninhibited and freedom-loving person. If she has to act pretentiously just to eat noodles, she might as well not eat at all!
"What's it got to do with you? I eat whatever I want. Even the emperor can't control me. What are you talking about?" After glaring at He Yuan fiercely, she continued to eat.
"Rude!" He Yuan curled his lips, looking very disgusted.
Lin Xiaoyue didn't want to argue with him at first, but the word "rude" still annoyed her. If she didn't teach this man a lesson, he would really think she was afraid of him!
So she put down her chopsticks, turned around and saw the shop owner was cooking beef offal soup, she shouted to the shop owner: "Boss, your beef offal soup smells so good, give me two bowls!"
"Okay! Wait a moment!" the shopkeeper responded happily, then served two bowls.
Things like beef and mutton offal, people who like them really like them, and people who don’t like them really don’t like them!
It just so happened that He Yuan was the one who liked beef offal very much. When he heard that Lin Xiaoyue ordered beef offal soup, he stood up and took a steamed bun from the steamer. At this time, Lin Xiaoyue made a highly concentrated laxative in the space. Because it was highly concentrated, it was so small that it was almost invisible when held in the hand.
The shopkeeper put the beef offal soup on the table, and the laxative between Lin Xiaoyue's fingers popped out and flew into He Yuan's bowl of beef offal soup.
He Yuan had no idea. He sat down with his steamed bun, and then started to drink the beef offal soup in big gulps.
Suddenly, "bang, bang, bang!" Three strange noises like cannons came from behind He Yuan, and a foul stench spread far away. Even the constables not far away stopped and refused to get closer.
Lin Xiaoyue couldn't stand the stench and lay down beside the table, vomiting non-stop. As she vomited, she didn't forget to throw the blame and said, "Ugh! What the hell is going on? Did the owner of Huichuntang drug us? Ugh! My breakfast was wasted, and I'm about to vomit jaundice!"
He Yuan didn't dare to speak now. He held his breath and tried to control his body, but after his stomach twitched for a while, he still excreted uncontrollably. Could it be that the owner of Huichuntang really gave him the medicine?
He was so angry that he stood up and wanted to go to Huichuntang to settle the score with the owner, but the yellow filth flowed down his trouser legs. "Ah! Black-hearted owner of Huichuntang, I will kill you!"
As soon as He Yuan left, the owner of Huichuntang ran to the county government office to file a complaint. The county magistrate had a close relationship with Huichuntang, so he immediately sent the most capable constable in the government office to investigate.
The detectives were originally going to look for people along the way, but He Yuan's words gave him away! Without hesitation, the detectives went up and hit him with a club. He Yuan was weak from diarrhea, so he fell to the ground and passed out.
The closer they got to He Yuan, the worse the smell became. The detectives couldn't find anything to plug their noses with, and their expressions were extremely painful and distorted. They tied him up a few times and dragged him back to the county government office in Furong Town.
After the constables left, Lin Xiaoyue felt very sorry for the store owner. She placed two ingots of silver on the table and said apologetically, "Boss, I want to apologize to you on behalf of my friend. This is to compensate you for your loss."
Although the shopkeeper felt it was unlucky, he still accepted the money because of Lin Xiaoyue's sincerity and said, "It's okay, you can go now."
Lin Xiaoyue turned and looked in the direction of the Furong Town County Government Office. Now she only needed to retrieve one more thing to be free, but before that she planned to bury Jiang Bai first.
Death is like the extinguishing of a light. No matter what, Jiang Bai was quite polite to her before he died, so let him be buried in peace as soon as possible!
Lin Xiaoyue walked over, carried Jiang Bai on her back and left the city. She found a quiet and scenic place in the suburbs, dug a hole, and buried Jiang Bai in it.
"Jiang Bai, this place is nice, just rest in peace! I'm leaving!"
As she said that, she directly activated the treasure hunting function of the space. This time she was not looking for treasures, but to find He Yuan to get the document of her exile. As long as this was destroyed, there would be no evidence at all, unless the Dog Emperor saw her. However, she would not give the Dog Emperor this opportunity!
After the space treasure search was opened, she became invisible and walked back to Furong Town from the suburbs as if she were in an empty place. It was extremely smooth!
Furong Town is much larger than Yanxi Town, so the county government office is also very large, but it is still very easy to find a cell where He Yuan is held, because he is so notorious now!
He Yuan was locked up in the innermost cell. The reason was simple: it was too smelly and the prison boss wanted him to stay away!
Lin Xiaoyue walked to He Yuan's side and found that he was still unconscious, but in order to avoid waking him up, Lin Xiaoyue went back to the space to find some sleeping pills and fed them to him, then tried to kick him with her feet to make sure he would not wake up. Then Lin Xiaoyue squatted on the ground and began to search his body for his exile documents.
These documents were originally held by Jiang Bai, but since Jiang Bai got into trouble, He Yuan hid them on himself, so Lin Xiaoyue found them without much time.
She opened it and took a careful look. It contained not only her exile documents, but also those of those who had escaped, as well as some official documents and badges proving the identities of Jiang Bai and He Yuan. With these things, the county magistrate would at most give him a beating to let the owner of Huichuntang vent his anger. If there were more, the county magistrate would not have the courage to do so.
But what if all these things were gone? Then what would he use to prove that he was a yamen runner from the capital?
Anyway, all the exiled criminals have already run away, and He Yuan has no way to defend himself. Instead of being taken back to the capital and sentenced to death, it is better for him to die here. In this way, she and those exiled criminals can be safe!
So, she put all the things into the space, leaving only the ten gold coins, which she stuffed back into He Yuan's arms.
He Yuan, I have spent so much money on you. Now you exchange your life for my freedom. We are even now. On the road to the underworld, you will have Jiang Bai to accompany you. You won't be lonely.
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