"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Su Hua felt that her brain had completely shut down today. Moreover, the portrait she had seen for the first time was indeed as plump as a black bear spirit, but the one from last night was quite different...
etc!
Black Bear Spirit!
Su Hua's thoughts faltered, and when she looked up abruptly, she saw the man's eyes full of mischief.
Just then, Su Bai's voice came from the kitchen window, "Hua'er, didn't you say you were going to put these fish in the water to make fish scale jelly? Come and take a look, I've rubbed it with coarse salt, is it alright..."
"Yes, I'm coming right away!" Su Hua called out in response.
Seeing this, Xiao Jinhan dared not tease her any longer. He slowly released her hand, took out a dark wooden box from his chest, and placed it in her palm.
"There is a token and two land deeds in here. I heard about the trouble caused by the Qingshui County yamen runners today from my second and third brothers. If you encounter something like this again, just take this token to the Yu family's stronghold."
With this token, you can have them do things for you in all 1,480 counties of the Great Yu Dynasty, as well as in the western Rong and southern border regions.
There are two land deeds, one in Qingshui County and the other in Tangshan Prefecture, both already registered in your name. The shop isn't big, but it's enough to sell some food. You can sell spicy hot pot or something else if you want.
Su Hua stared at the wooden box in her palm, utterly shocked.
The Yu family? She knew that Yu Feng and Yu Yu both had the character "Yu" in their names, but now, the Yu family had strongholds in all 1,480 counties of Dayu, plus the Western Rong and Southern Frontier?
Furthermore, the incident of the constable Gao causing trouble at the hot pot stall only happened in the morning, but by the afternoon he had brought over the land deeds, not only for Qingshui County but also for Tangshan Prefecture, and all of them had been renamed. Even if the government officials worked overtime, they wouldn't be able to do it this quickly.
Who exactly is he?
Before she could gather her thoughts, Xiao Jinhan dropped his serious expression and smiled, "Hurry up and go inside, otherwise, when Aunt Su comes out and sees me, she'll know you were lying..."
"Who's lying?" Su Hua pursed her lips and glared at him, not caring about the Yu family or the land deed for the time being.
He simply stuffed the wooden box into his sleeve and tossed it into his spatial storage.
He picked up the willow syrup and apple branches and headed towards the kitchen.
Halfway there, I paused for a moment. "I'll be making fish scale jelly later. Remember to come and eat it."
Xiao Jinhan's smile deepened, and her lips moved slightly.
The voice that came out was as gentle as an autumn breeze: "Okay."
At this moment, the entire Su family was busy in the kitchen.
The several thousand fish balls made from twenty grass carp and silver carp had sold out completely, and now everyone was even more enthusiastic than the last.
Su Dahu carried a small stool and sat at the door to kill fish. After killing the fish, he handed it to Zhao Shi to remove the fish bones. After removing the fish bones, the fish meat was chopped into fish paste by the brothers Su Erhu and Su Sanhu. Even the two little radish heads, Su Dalang and Su Erlang, were not idle. Each of them was holding a pair of chopsticks and scooping fried tofu puffs from the gradually cooling oil pot.
The sounds of a cleaver slicing against a fish bone, the clanging of someone vigorously chopping fish paste, and the dripping of tofu puffs being scooped from the oil all mingled together.
Until Su Hua approached carrying the bamboo jar.
The sound of the cleaver hitting the fish bone paused, and Su Dahu jumped up from the stool. "Hua'er, how come you got so sunburned in just a short while? Your face is all red!"
Su Hua paused, just about to make up some excuse to get by.
Upon hearing this, the Su family members all turned to look.
The girl's once porcelain-white face was now flushed red, from her forehead to her neck and even her ears, a bright red color that was even redder than shrimp caught in the river and thrown into a pot of oil.
Su Bai stumbled and almost fell to the ground. "Hua'er, what's wrong with you...?"
"Mother, I'm fine. It's just that fair skin is more prone to sunburn." Su Hua immediately stepped forward to support the woman and changed the subject before she could speak. "Mother, didn't you just say that the fish scales and skin have been processed? Where are they? I'll make fish scale jelly."
Yesterday, I gutted twenty grass carp and silver carp, taking only the meat. The remaining heads, bones, tails, scales, and offal filled a large wooden basin.
Su Hua, being a foodie, naturally left all the fish offal behind.
The fish bones were used to make fish bone soup noodles by Su Baishi that morning.
The remaining fish head, tail, offal, and scales are also rare ingredients. The fish head can be used to make chopped chili fish head or fish head tofu soup. The fish tail can be fried over low heat to make spicy fish tail. The offal can be used to make spicy fish offal. The fish scales are the best raw material for making fish scale jelly.
She hadn't eaten fish scale jelly in many years, especially.
Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
Madam Su Bai was not fooled. Instead, she wrung out a wet cloth and applied it to Hua'er's face in the courtyard. "A girl's appearance is of utmost importance. Although Hua'er is beautiful, she still needs to pay more attention to her appearance. From now on, let your three older brothers do these dirty chores. There's no reason for you all to just eat and do nothing."
Su Dahu, Su Erhu, and Su Sanhu glanced silently at the fish basin and fish paste in front of them.
They all responded in unison, "Yes, Mother is right..."
Wooden house three miles away.
Yu Feng stood at the door of the study for who knows how long, until his legs went numb.
But the man beside the table kept holding a book without turning a single page, and the corners of his mouth were turned up in a wide smile, which was several times more outrageous than the silly look he had after Miss Su left last night.
Even the carrier pigeon in my palm couldn't help but flap its wings.
"Whoosh—"
Xiao Jinhan finally came to his senses, his gaze sweeping over the snow-white carrier pigeon in Yu Feng's hand, and the corners of his mouth immediately returned to their normal smile, "Is there news from Elder Xue?"
"Yes." Yu Feng clasped his hands and presented the small bamboo tube he had taken from the pigeon's leg. "Master, Elder Xue said that Yunlian has been obtained and he is bringing Yunlian to find you."
"He brought Yunlian with him?" Xiao Jinhan's brow twitched slightly.
Yu Feng also said with some helplessness, "Yes, Elder Xue said he misses his master..."
Meanwhile, in the center of Shanghe Village, at the Xiao family's residence.
Old Mrs. Xiao still wore a plum blossom hairpin in her hair and a large silver bracelet on her wrist, but she was completely devoid of her former arrogance.
Instead, she stared at the man in front of her with red eyes, "My dear husband, why can't you forget that woman in Kyoto after eighteen years of marriage? Is she really that good? So many years have passed, and you still think about her so much, even going to great lengths to arrange her son's marriage?"
"No matter what Yan'er and I do, will we ever be able to compare to that woman and her child?"
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