Chapter 69 Guests Eat First
It was evening.
The twilight painted the courtyard into a warm yellow.
Diao led the person in tremblingly and spoke politely.
"Look at you, just come if you want to. What are you carrying? It's so cold, why are you running around outside? You are truly a good official who is wholeheartedly serving the people..."
Xue Yongan said nothing, just smiled in response.
It's the kind of polite smile that makes people feel unfamiliar but embarrassed to ask again.
Anyway, Diao felt empty inside - secretly hating the young man for being so cunning and not wanting to give her a chance to show her talents!
She took the things and was too lazy to see them off. She pointed towards the main room and walked towards the kitchen.
"Master, please go in and warm up quickly. You must stay for dinner today!"
Xue Yongan touched his nose.
He never thought about leaving... He just hoped that after dinner, the old lady would be so polite!
Although it was not yet dark, a brazier had already been lit in the house.
In this area, charcoal is hard to buy, and even the county government has a limited share. The Shen family has no power and can only burn firewood.
The sound of "creaking" lingered in my ears.
Inside the house, several children were sitting around the table. One of them was holding a ball of dough and struggling to wrap stuffing into it.
Chen Chunxing dodged the claws extended by Xiao Laosi and put some flour on the tip of his nose with his backhand.
As a result, because of distraction, I used too much force, and the dumplings that were finally forming were suddenly bent into a long strip...
Staring at the indescribable shape, she silently moved it to the plate on her left.
"Does anyone want to eat the dumplings I made myself later?"
Shen Mingqiu covered his mouth in shock, glanced at the plate, and quickly buried his head in his crotch, not daring to make a sound.
Although they all taste the same when you put them in your mouth, whether it looks like gold ingots or dog shit... the difference is really huge.
Shen Zhixia didn't dare to look up and quickly mixed the meat filling into a soup.
She couldn't speak in the first place, so she just pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Even the naive little fourth child suddenly regained his senses at this critical moment.
"guest!"
“Eat first!”
"Where did the guests come from?" Chen Chunxing turned around in confusion, only to find Xue Yongan standing outside the door.
The man seemed to be wrapped in frost as he rushed over without stopping. His shoulders, hair, eyelashes... were all wet with dew.
The whole person looks both embarrassed and energetic.
The pair of dark eyes looking at her were filled with a familiar heat, enough to warm up the room.
"It's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. We're having dumplings today. Can you lend me a cook?" Chen Chunxing joked with a smile.
He stood up, poured some hot water into the copper basin on the shelf, and motioned for him to scrub it first.
Xue Yongan quickly dried his hands and naturally took over Chen Chunxing's position.
When Shen Mingqiu first saw this man, he looked unhappy. After the "ingots" filled the plate, he silently poured a cup of hot tea and placed it in front of Xue Yongan.
People with skills deserve respect... of course, only when eating.
He would never agree to hand his eldest sister over to someone else!
"I'll eat it if I want!" Shen Mingqiu suddenly gritted his teeth and took the plate of dumplings made by Shen Chunxing with trembling hands.
Before I even touched him, I was held down.
Xue Yongan glanced at him while wrapping dumplings, "Guests, eat first."
He was extremely fast. He rolled out the dough, wrapped the stuffing, and then shaped it with just his hands.
"My sister made it, so of course I should eat it..." Shen Mingqiu struggled violently in his heart, and stared at the plate twice, but in the end he couldn't resist and sat back silently.
"Idiot!" Chen Yandong suddenly said something shocking.
Shen Zhixia quickly covered his mouth and patted the table lightly.
"Don't play with that brat at the village head anymore. He hasn't learned the proper way to talk, but he's definitely learned how to curse like a shrew." Shen Mingqiu's face darkened.
"Which bastard?"
People in the north eat dumplings, while people in the south eat glutinous rice balls.
This southerner suddenly came to the north, so Chen Chunxing simply prepared for both.
She took away Chen Yandong who was making cat dumplings, sat down and started making glutinous rice balls.
"It's the home of Granny Jiang at the village entrance... She was the only old lady willing to talk to me when I first arrived in the village..."
Chen Chunxing quickly remembered.
"The one who dared to come over and watch on the day of the autopsy?"
Seeing Shen Mingqiu nod, Shen Chunxing was a little surprised.
This old lady is very interesting...
She was still waiting for the other party to come and find her, but she didn't expect that the two children would play together first.
Thinking about the day of the autopsy, I can't help but think of several recent cases.
While waiting for Xue Yongan to finish the meat filling, Chen Chunxing stopped what he was doing, picked up a plate in one hand, and motioned him to go to the kitchen with him.
When I went out, I happened to meet Diao coming over.
Seeing that the two of them were going to cook dumplings, she didn't think much about it. If it came to cooking skills, all the people in the Shen family together couldn't compare to County Magistrate Xue... I don't know how he, a scholar, learned it!
Bone soup is simmering on the stove.
In the ancient times when nutrition was scarce, Chen Chunxing could only think of this thing. It was not worth much money anyway, and drinking it every now and then was better than nothing.
She squatted in front of the stove, poked inside, and added more firewood.
"Who said it could be resolved within seven days? How many seven days have passed?"
The two had just met and were separated for more than twenty days.
Although she was not angry about it, she still couldn't help teasing him.
After the water boils.
Xue Yongan poured the dumplings into the pot and shrank his neck when he heard this.
"Originally, I should have been able to return within seven days, but unfortunately, something unexpected happened," he explained. "I've already found out that those who came to the narrow village to defraud food were just idle scoundrels from the neighborhood."
The story begins a few months ago.
There was a severe flood in Yuzhou, and the victims were fleeing. Coincidentally, Chiling was recruiting people, so the government issued a notice that anyone who was willing to come and reclaim wasteland could borrow relief food to survive the winter.
However, there were very few people who came to seek refuge.
The court then turned its attention to the exiled criminals, and regardless of whether their crimes were serious or minor, they were all exiled to the north.
So, some people came up with evil ideas.
Villages like Narrow Village, which have a sparse population and are most likely to take in fugitives, become the best targets.
"This isn't the first time that group has done something like this. They've already made plans with the local village chief. Whenever someone is assigned, they just need to send a signal and they'll come over overnight."
"It's not directed at you or me."
Chen Chunxing controlled the fire with his fan, and after hearing the key point, he asked in confusion, "If you are an old hand, how did you get into trouble?"
"This is a bit..." Xue Yongan paused, a smile on his lips, "coincidence."
"The so-called evil spirits in the forest are nothing more than bandits hiding in the mountains."
"This group also set their sights on the relief food, but they originally intended to rob it, but someone unexpectedly delivered it to them...so they decided to play dirty."
Chen Chunxing propped up his chin with his hand, becoming even more confused: "That's not right, the food wasn't taken away either?"
Xue Yongan took something out of his arms and threw it over, "This brings us to the third group..."
What fell into Chen Chunxing's arms was actually a black stone.
Looks very familiar.
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