Ding Youtian was cooking in the kitchen, Qiaofeng and Da Niu were lighting the fire, and Yue'e, because Jian Ning was not there, went into the kitchen to avoid suspicion. Jian Ning entered the yard and saw her sitting on the porch with her chin in her hand, silently staring at Qiu Ge who was playing with Guo Guo, wondering what she was thinking.
"Aren't you cold sitting here?" She didn't even notice when Jian Ning came in. She looked at him in a daze, completely immersed in her own world.
"Oh, it's not cold." She stood up.
"Where are Jiajia and Yaoyao? Are they in their room or did they go out to play?" Jian Ning looked around but didn't see the two little ones. Just as she was about to call out, Yue'e smiled and said, "They're playing with flower strings in the room. I'll go help you cook."
"No need. We're tired after a day's work. We're just a few people having dinner. You don't need help. I'll do it." Just as Jian Ning finished speaking, Ma Fuquan and Huo Jincheng walked forward.
"How is it, is it done?" Jane Ning asked.
A few days ago, the town government sent officials to take away the bodies of the five assassins. Ma Fuquan also reported to County Magistrate He that the assassins had broken into a farmhouse in broad daylight and committed the crime. Dingxian Village was a village personally designated by the Emperor. After the county government reported the matter to the provincial government overnight, the prefectural governor took it very seriously. At dawn, he and Huo Jincheng went to the governor, who held great military and political power.
Ma Fuquan sent a message to Jian Ning, informing her that the governor had led his troops to surround the branch of the Qi Jue Sect in Dazhou County, and that Ma Fuquan's special arrest team had also participated in the operation.
"Only the captain escaped. The rest were either killed or captured. After interrogation, one of the deputy hall masters said that the man who came claiming to be General Geng was wearing a mask. His height and build were probably the same as the man I saw."
Ma Fuquan said.
"Don't worry, the branch has been destroyed by the government, and they won't revive for a while. I believe people in the martial arts world won't dare to act rashly again." Huo Jincheng also said.
"But we still have to be careful and take precautions. My master and I will stay at the clinic at night so that we can take care of anything if something happens. Also, I'll have Xiang Qian leave for the capital tomorrow to find out if the Seven Absolutes Sect's headquarters has any connection with the imperial court."
Jian Ning nodded, "You haven't eaten yet, right? I'll go cook. You guys sit down for a while."
Without her instructions, Yue'e had already gone to prepare tea. When she entered the kitchen, she saw Ding Youtian breaking off a few peppers with his hands and about to put them into the pot, so she stopped him urgently.
Ding Youtian always cooked like this. To save time, he never cut the ingredients with a knife, but simply broke them into pieces and threw them into the pot. He only cared about frying them, not the taste.
"Put the pot aside first. Go and accompany Brother Ma and the others. I'll do it." Jian Ning took down the apron she had made herself from floral fabric hanging behind the door and tied it on while saying, "How many times have I told you that cutting it into shreds with a knife won't be difficult for you."
These peppers were planted by Jian Ning in the Baicao Room. There were no peppers in this time and space, and she loved spicy food. She originally planted peppers in the Baicao Room to prevent herself from dozing off while on missions.
Ding Youtian doesn't like chili peppers, but he likes spicy flavor in his dishes, especially stir-fried meat with chili peppers. He opened the pot and said, "No matter how beautiful the shreds are, you still have to eat them. You're going to eat them anyway, so I don't care if they look good or not."
"Clothes are fine, and they keep you warm. From now on, I won't bother making you any clothes. Just wrap yourself in the coarse sack to save the good stuff."
Jian Ning tied on her apron, took the knife, and began to cut. When she finished, she turned around and saw Ding Youtian still standing beside her. She raised her eyes and said, "Why are you still standing here? Aren't you going to entertain the guests?"
He smiled slightly. "It's a pleasure to watch you chop vegetables. It's fast and you won't cut your fingers. Brother Ma and the others come here often, so you don't have to accompany them. I'll light the fire."
Ding Youtian drove Da Niu and Qiao Feng away.
The last time he boasted in front of Huo Jincheng, Jian Ning hadn't picked a fight with him. He thought Jian Ning was holding back a big move, waiting to settle the score with him later. But he ended up worrying for a few days, as Jian Ning seemed to have forgotten what happened that day.
However, he still planned to explain so that Jian Ning wouldn't bring it up again one day. "Don't take what I said that day to heart. I was just joking with Huo Jincheng."
"Which day?"
Jane Ning knew what he was talking about, but pretended not to know. She knew he was too concerned about his reputation, a common problem among men. In the past, most of the married male SWAT officers in the team were like this.
She was too lazy to get angry with him over such a trivial matter.
Ding Youtian didn't believe she really didn't remember. "It was the day Huo Jincheng came. I said if you weren't virtuous, I would have kicked you out long ago. I was just bragging. Don't take it to heart."
"What if I insist on worrying about it? What are you going to do?"
Ding Youtian glanced at her sideways, and seeing a smile on her lips, he felt relieved. "You won't, my wife is the most virtuous woman in the world."
He was so happy that he lost himself in the act and even touched her butt while talking.
"Be careful or I'll chop off your dog head and feed it to Guoguo!" Jian Ning waved the kitchen knife in his hand at his head. Guoguo happened to run in and was so shocked that he stood up with his eyeballs almost popping out of his sockets.
Jane Ning burst out laughing.
"You really have a good lackey. Look at its deadly look. It looks like if I really chop you up, it will pounce on me and tear me apart alive."
"Guoguo helped you that day. He's not just my lackey. No, he's not a dog."
"Anyway, you two are both dogs, neither of you is a good person."
Ding Youtian smiled without saying anything. He stood up and fished out a large piece of wind-blown meat from the basin and threw it to Guoguo. It quickly picked it up and looked at him and Jian Ning again, as if to confirm whether they were really okay, before turning around and running away.
As a result, as soon as it ran out of the kitchen door, it was pecked hard on the head by the white-eyebrowed fox, and the piece of meat in its mouth was also robbed by the white-eyebrowed fox.
It was so angry that it barked wildly and chased Baimei around the yard.
Jane Ning could hear the sound of its skull being pecked in the kitchen. It hurt, but she smiled unkindly.
"I will pluck out all the hair of that flat-haired beast sooner or later!" Ding Youtian said fiercely.
"How dare you! I gave you face, didn't I?"
"Just the face won't do. I want both mouths. They're all mine." He chuckled twice. These days, because of the assassin incident, he and Dabao had been sharing a bed, while Jian Ning slept in the west room. He thought that since the Qi Jue Sect had been destroyed, there shouldn't be any more trouble for the time being, so he suggested, "Let's go back to our own room tonight."
Jane Ning was still trying to figure out what he meant by "two mouths." Was it a slip of the tongue or something else? If so, what was it? Suddenly, a thought occurred to her, and her face flushed. Then, hearing him say he was going back to his room to sleep, she spat without a second thought, "Bah, stop dreaming! If you don't pass the exam and come back this year, you won't be able to set foot in this house again!"
"Just be a lone wolf!"
Ding Youtian stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove, poked it with a fire stick, then glanced at Jian Ning and said with a smile, "Are you satisfied with just a scholar's wife?"
"Who said I'm just a scholar? My family now owns half an acre of good farmland. I'd say I'm a landowner."
"By the way, do you have any plans for that half hectare of land?" Jian Ning asked him.
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