I reached out and took Xie Yuancheng's hand. Sometimes his cleverness backfires. Of course, I'm on their side. Why should I sympathize with outsiders?
"You just don't trust me enough. The situation in Linyang today is the result of your hard work. How can we let others ruin it?"
"The fact that you think this way means that my Ying'er likes me more and more. Anyway, whether it's good or bad, you have to accept it all and you're not allowed to change your mind!"
"I know, I have to bring it up every time, it's amazing you remember!"
Xie Yuancheng was relieved this time. He led me through the small courtyard, and at the back, there really was a small kitchen, fully equipped with everything.
"Ying'er, I'll make you some snacks~" Xie Yuancheng, with Bai Chan by his side, led me to the stove to watch.
"What can you cook? I'm a picky eater, so if it doesn't taste good, I won't eat it!"
"Who makes the snacks for you in the mansion? It's me who goes to the kitchen to make them for you, so that you won't be unhappy and refuse to eat all day."
Xie Yuancheng glared at me, and I quickly rubbed his shoulders: "I was just saying, I didn't really think so. The Marquis is the best."
"I'll make you lotus-shaped pastries, with a filling of brown sugar and lotus seeds. They taste pretty good."
"Are you really going to make some desserts?" I saw Xie Yuancheng had already started working, so I went over to join him.
"Ying'er, you can hand things over from the side, the fire is still burning." Xie Yuancheng started kneading the dough. I saw him go into the kitchen before, and I don't know how he was so quick, but I helped pass things over from time to time.
The lotus-shaped pastry he described wasn't very complicated; it only took two incense sticks to make the lotus shape. He also mixed two kinds of flour together, then pressed them into flower-shaped cakes using a mold, which he said were best enjoyed with light tea.
"Isn't it delicious?" Xie Yuancheng asked me happily, propping himself up on his hands. I nodded quickly. I didn't expect the kitchen to be so interesting.
Especially this kind of thing, watching your crush cook for you and helping by handing you things, it's so much fun. We've been in the kitchen for an hour now, and we're not bored at all.
"Senior brother!" Ling Wu's voice rang out as we were talking, along with the sound of footsteps.
He and Lu Fengjun came in and saw the snacks and teapot on the table. They unceremoniously carried their stools in and sat down to eat.
"You two, these are all for Ying'er. Go and make them yourselves." Xie Yuancheng was very unhappy. I've almost finished eating. There's so much, how can I possibly finish it all?
"Yuancheng, give them some to eat, I'm already full." The wind outside is blowing quite hard, I can even hear it. If Xie Yuancheng doesn't calm down soon, he'll turn into a pufferfish.
"Ying'er~" Xie Yuancheng glanced at me, and I quickly changed the subject, asking how their matter was going.
Lingwu ate another flower cake and drank a cup of tea to calm herself down before she began to speak: "They've all been caught. There's something particularly interesting, which is why I came in to tell you all about it."
"What is it? Yuancheng has been busy for a long time, and I was worried that he would get tired. It's good that you've come."
I held Xie Yuancheng's hand to comfort him, but he snorted unhappily. Lingwu had been with Lu Fengjun for a long time, so she wasn't afraid of Xie Yuancheng's attitude. Anyway, Lu Fengjun would take care of it.
"Some of them are men dressed as women, but most of them are elderly, weak, women and children. However, some of the young girls are a bit arrogant and actually claim that they can cure diseases."
Coincidentally, one of the people they had arrested was her relative. She pretended to take pulses, insert acupuncture needles, and prepare medicine. The people around her didn't understand and thought that this young girl was a child bride who had cured her husband's madness, etc.
But they were all stunned for a moment. The person who was still happily playing along with the little girl suddenly died. When I went to check on him, he was already dead. It was because of her haphazard treatment that he died.
Lingwu's tone was full of mockery, but this person was really bold to use her relative's life as a bargaining chip to gain praise. When she grew up, she realized that this was outrageous and that it would be better to send her to the government for punishment.
"She also said that her teacher was a royal physician, what was his name again?" Ling Wu asked Lu Fengjun, but Lu Fengjun shook his head directly. He wouldn't remember such trivial matters, and he had never even heard of that royal physician's name.
"Are you confused by what she said? She also said that a prince took a fancy to her, and for the sake of her man, she pretended to be pitiful and innocent. In the end, the prince didn't want her, etc. She also said that she was good at embroidery. But none of the clothes she wore were embroidered."
Lu Fengjun began to mercilessly criticize, and Ling Wu finally realized what was happening. Xie Yuancheng laughed and said that Ling Wu was being led by the nose by a country bumpkin.
If someone like that could get on the good side of the prince, he would probably cling to him and never let go, so why would he bother coming to Linyang to find the marquis?
"That's true. She's already been exiled. I'll never forget that scene. Those old women were still praising her, practically calling her their savior or a goddess. Who knew she'd end up taking a life?"
"Let bygones be bygones. At least we weren't harmed by her," Lu Fengjun said at the right moment, which immediately made Ling Wu happy.
"You've come at the right time. The kitchen is a mess. Anyone who eats my food is my servant. Go and clean it up."
Xie Yuancheng left a message and pulled me out. Ling Wu and Lu Fengjun must have been looking at each other in bewilderment behind us. Just imagining them cleaning up the kitchen makes me want to laugh.
As soon as we entered the room, the teacher came in. Xie Yuancheng asked him to take a seat, and I sat down to the side to listen to their conversation.
"Everything has been dealt with. A few people who like to try to be clever have also been stopped."
"Teacher, is there something wrong with our city gate? Otherwise, they couldn't have escaped the inspection from the high platform."
"Not entirely." The teacher told him not to worry. This time it wasn't a problem with the city guards, but rather that these people had deliberately crossed the mountains.
"High mountains?" I remembered the high mountains I saw when I saw the giant anaconda: "You can add guardrails and bells on the mountains, or you can make mechanisms on them so that a signal will be sent out whenever someone crosses the mountain."
"Ying'er, do you have a good idea?" Xie Yuancheng winked at me, and I felt a little smug. I told him about the secret sentry.
"What is a hidden sentry?" The teacher hadn't been to 2020 with us and didn't know, so Xie Yuancheng told him about the hidden sentries.
"We can incentivize villagers to help by offering them compensation. The villagers in Linyang are all good people, but some have been temporarily blinded by greed. We will start to keep a close watch on them now."
Xie Yuancheng often boasts that the villagers here are really nice, but most people are easily deceived by the current illusion.
“This method works. We have two very large mountains. Let the Lu family handle the deployment of the mechanism.”
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