Chapter 47
Thus, the turmoil at the Mu residence came to an end.
Xin Yun herself didn't expect that she had actually guessed Mu Yulu's inner conflict.
After Mu Qinhan comforted her, Mu Yulu's illness improved significantly. In addition, the imperial physicians prescribed medicine for her, and the Prince's Mansion sent people to deliver fresh tonics every day. Mu Yulu recovered even faster than Xinyun and Mohe.
After recovering from her illness, she busied herself preparing medicinal meals for Mohe and stewing bone broth for Xinyun.
Xinyun's leg was injured by the guards of the Mu Prince's Mansion. She won't be able to get out of bed for at least ten days to half a month. Even if she can get out of bed, she will need to use crutches for several months.
Every time Xinyun needed her dressing changed, the doctor's eyebrows and beard would furrow into a knot: "Look at this flesh, it's rotten like this, and look at this bone."
"It's only because she's young that she was able to pull through and recover relatively quickly. If she were any older, she might have become disabled."
"Sigh, with injuries like this, even if he doesn't become disabled, he'll inevitably walk with a limp."
Mu Yulu felt incredibly guilty whenever she thought of the doctor's words.
Xin Yun went to the Prince's Mansion to find Mu Qinhan because of her. If she hadn't called out Mu Qinhan's name while she was sick, perhaps Xin Yun wouldn't have suffered this calamity.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel annoyed. Why couldn't she control her mouth? Every time she was sick, she would call out Mu Qinhan's name.
Then she couldn't help but transfer her anger to Mu Qinhan, especially when she learned that the house deeds that Mu Yugang had confiscated had fallen into Mu Qinhan's hands, she was even more furious.
Of course, besides anger, she was also a little worried. These house deeds all had specific location information. Given Mu Qinhan's suspicious nature, would he notice anything amiss?
Besides, there was another practical problem facing her. Originally, she wanted to take advantage of being sent to the manor in the suburbs of the capital to get rid of the surveillance of the people in the manor and find another opportunity to leave. However, after Mu Qinhan made such a fuss in the manor, Mu Yugang would never send her to the manor.
She had no choice but to remain in the crowded and noisy Mu residence.
Now she has no house deed, only a little silver she had saved from fortune telling, which is not enough to support her life after leaving the capital.
The more she thought about it, the more her head ached. It felt as if a fine, invisible net was binding her firmly in the capital.
All her previous efforts were nothing more than futilely flapping her wings within the net; she had never truly escaped its confinement.
When she looks in the mirror, the faint scar on her forehead still frightens her, reminding her that fate is inescapable.
The location and depth of the scar are exactly the same as in her previous life, except that the person who left this scar has changed from Mu Qinhan to her father, Mu Yugang.
This strange coincidence made her very uneasy. The scars from her past life had returned to her in a different form. Was it an indication that even if she had the chance to live again, she would still be unable to avoid the tragedy of fate?
Is it really impossible for humans to fight against fate?
In her confusion and unease, she suddenly thought of the woman named Terukawa Mi in her dream, and the phoenix wings that blotted out the sky, their flames seemingly capable of burning away all the darkness in the world.
Then she was able to calm down and regain some courage from the bottom of her heart.
Although it was just a dream, and she never saw that woman in her dreams again, she did bring her some indescribable power, as if the sea of fire not only brought Zhaochuan back to life, but also dispelled the gloom in Mu Yulu's heart.
A few days later, Mu Yulu's courtyard welcomed an unexpected guest, whose appearance brought her real hope for solving her current predicament.
This person is Qi Zhizhi, who angered her quite a bit during the fortune-telling session some time ago.
Neither she nor her father expected that he would make a special trip to visit her.
At first, Mu Yugang thought that he had come to talk business with him, but he did not expect that the other party was concerned about Mu Yulu's recent situation: "My younger sister is quite close to the eldest daughter of the Mu family. I heard that the eldest daughter of the Mu family has been ill for a long time, and she insisted that I take her to visit her. We have troubled Master Mu."
Mu Yugang waved his hand awkwardly and called a servant to take them to Mu Yulu's courtyard.
When he received Qi Zhizhi's invitation, he thought that the other party must have come to talk to him about business matters, which was why he came to see him in person. He didn't expect that he was just being presumptuous. The other party had just brought his sister to visit Mu Yulu.
But speaking of which, when did Qi Zhizhi's sister become so close to Mu Yulu?
While Mu Yugang was still wondering, Mu Yulu was also full of questions when she saw Qi Zhizhi.
When she saw Qi Zhizhi's younger sister, Qi Zhiqi, jump out from behind him, her confusion deepened.
Qi Zhi Qiu tilted her head to look at Mu Yu Lu, and said in a crisp voice, "So this is the eldest daughter of the Mu family that my brother was willing to use me as a shield to come and visit?"
Mu Yulu glanced at her, then at Qi Zhizhi: "What does this mean?"
Qi Zhi Qiu, acting very familiar, ran over and took Mu Yu Lu's arm: "So what I mean is that my brother spent a lot of money to bribe me so that he could visit you in my name without any pretense of legitimacy."
"You don't know, I'm very hard to bribe, and he really felt the pinch this time." Qi Zhi Qiu was unusually talkative, chattering in Mu Yu Lu's ear: "He's been buying me new clothes and jewelry lately, and that's why I reluctantly agreed."
As she was talking, she suddenly leaned over, raised her hand and pinched Mu Yulu's face: "Your skin is so good. You're so beautiful, I feel a lot of pressure being your sister-in-law."
Mu Yulu couldn't hold back any longer. Just as she was about to speak, Qi Zhizhi interrupted, "You're becoming more and more unruly. How can you say such things so casually?"
Qi Zhi Qiu pouted: "You used me as an excuse to come and visit people, and there's no one else here, so can't I tell the truth?"
Before Mu Yulu could even recover, and before Qi Zhizhi could even open his mouth, Qi Zhiqi's attention had already shifted elsewhere.
She ran to the small stove that had been set up in the yard and looked around curiously: "Why is there a stove in a yard where people live?"
She was so curious that she couldn't resist touching it. "The tools are so plentiful. It's small but complete."
As she spoke, she turned to Mu Yulu and called out, "Sister-in-law, are you a great cook? My family owns a restaurant, may I try your cooking sometime?"
Mu Yulu twitched her lips, turned her head and saw Qi Zhiqi's innocent look, and didn't know what to say, so she turned to Qi Zhizhi and chuckled, "Your sister is really lively."
Qi Zhizhi walked up behind Qi Zhiqi with a stern face, grabbed her by the collar and pulled her over: "This is my last warning to you, don't talk nonsense again."
He said sternly, "You are also a woman, you know how important a woman's reputation is, you must not say such things again."
Qi Zhi Qiu covered her mouth and nodded listlessly.
Mu Yulu quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "There is indeed no one else here. She just said a few words in front of the two of us. It's nothing."
After saying that, she asked Qi Zhi Qiu, "If you want to try my cooking, you can do it tonight. I just don't know if you've had dinner yet, and whether you can still eat?"
Qi Zhi Qiu jumped up and clapped her hands: "I can eat it, I can eat it!"
After hearing Qi Zhizhi cough twice, she said somewhat awkwardly, "We came to visit you because we heard you were sick. We're too kind to trouble you to cook for us."
Qi Zhi Qiu was already beautiful, and now, with her pouting and saying things against her will, she looked even more adorable.
Mu Yulu looked at her and smiled, her eyes almost squinting as she smiled: "It's no trouble at all. I cook very quickly, it won't take long. Besides, I've been sick lately and have been eating medicinal food almost every day, so I'm craving it. Why don't you just eat with me, okay?"
She pointed to the stone table in the courtyard, "But we'll have to eat at that table later, you don't mind, do you?"
Qi Zhi Qiu waved her hands repeatedly, "I don't mind, I don't mind."
She leaned closer and took Mu Yulu's arm, "Sister-in-law... how could I possibly complain about my sister cooking for me?"
Seeing that the two of them had reached a consensus so quickly, Qi Zhizhi didn't say anything more. He sat down in front of the stove to start a fire and instructed Qi Zhiqi to help Mu Yulu.
The chores that Xin Yun and Mo usually do together are all taken care of by the brother and sister.
Qi Zhi Qiu leaned affectionately on Mu Yu Lu's shoulder, "Sister Mu, what delicious food are you going to make for us? I've been helping my father since I was little, and I'm very good at chopping vegetables."
Mu Yulu thought for a moment about the ingredients she could use right away and quickly came up with a menu: "Today we'll have yokan (sweet bean jelly), pig's trotters and tendons, and I'll make you a vegetarian dish at the end."
Qi Zhi Qiu gave a long "hmm": "They all sound like very ordinary dishes..."
Mu Yulu smiled, "But these ordinary dishes taste extraordinary when I make them."
Qi Zhizhi, who was tending the fire nearby, smiled and said, "Miss Mu, are you so confident in your cooking skills?"
Of course I'm confident. If I weren't confident in my skills, how could I attract you, the young master of the No. 1 restaurant in the world? Mu Yulu thought to herself.
She invited the Qi siblings to have dinner here today so that she could show off her skills in front of Qi Zhizhi.
As long as Qi Zhizhi approves of her culinary skills, she will have the opportunity to become a chef at the No. 1 Restaurant in the World.
Yes, working as a chef at the No. 1 Restaurant in the world to earn some wages and experience was the alternative plan that Mu Yulu thought of the day she was reborn.
She knew from her previous life when she worked as an assistant under that famous chef that the World's Number One Restaurant was incredibly wealthy and paid its employees exceptionally high wages.
If she can work at the No.1 Restaurant for a full year, she will definitely be able to save enough money to leave the capital.
She sighed silently to herself, resigned to her fate. She had originally planned to take a shortcut by using information asymmetry to buy and sell property deeds, but now it seemed that this path was not feasible. If she couldn't buy and sell property deeds, she would have no choice but to sell her own labor.
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