Chapter 310 The Virtuous Empress Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 9) Ye Yunhua Returns...
When Ye Yunhua returned, she not only brought Lin You braised pork ribs and Longjing shrimp, but also a serving of eight-treasure gourd duck, crispy pigeon, and lotus seed sweet soup.
"This year's new lotus seeds have a more delicate fragrance. Youyou, why don't you try some?" Ye Yunhua's cheerful voice drifted over even before she entered the room.
"I also bought a few lotus flowers. It gets warmer here earlier, so the lotus flowers bloom earlier than in the north. I'll arrange them for you and put them in the house."
The sweet soup is served in a deeper bamboo tube, which is convenient for taking out and is not expensive. It also adds a touch of bamboo fragrance to the soup.
There were four lotus flowers, half fully open and half half open, along with three lotus leaves covered in dew and two lotus pods. Ye Yunhua took two sky-blue vases and arranged the lotus flowers and leaves in a staggered manner.
She placed the vase in a corner of Lin You's room, where the elegant fragrance of lotus blossoms filled the air, making one feel happy just by looking at it.
There was so much food that the two of them couldn't possibly finish it all. Lin You had never hidden her methods from Ye Yunhua; she directly sent a small portion to Xiao Tiandao via express delivery.
Hearing Xiao Tiandao's even more guilty thanks, Lin You roughly understood two things: one was that Xiao Tiandao's part-time worker was so good at receiving packages that he was probably a colleague of hers.
Another thing is his even more guilty tone after eating Ye Yunhua's food, which probably means he really did something to wrong her.
Based on Lin You's experience, most of the incidents that the Quick Transmigration Administration needs to handle are caused by various reasons beyond cause and effect, such as transmigrators in Chu Nanfeng's world, transmigrators in Shen Zechen's world, and so on.
Having been in this world for so long, the only strange thing Lin You has discovered is this excessively lively Little Heavenly Dao.
Now that he had tested the waters a little and confirmed that Ye Yunhua's accident was indeed related to it, Lin You stopped paying attention to Xiao Tiandao's guilty conscience, lest He notice that something was wrong.
The braised pork ribs and Longjing shrimp that Ye Yunhua brought back are dishes that Lin You has been enjoying lately, while the Eight Treasure Gourd Duck is the signature dish of a newly opened restaurant.
First, remove the internal organs from the plump duck, clean it thoroughly, debone it, stuff the duck's belly with marinated ingredients such as glutinous rice, diced ham, diced bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, and dried scallops, seal the opening, and then tie the duck into a gourd shape with rope.
Deep-fry the ingredients until golden brown all over, then steam them until tender. Finally, drizzle with a thickened sauce for seasoning before plating and packaging.
Lin You picked up a piece of duck meat and listened to Ye Yunhua talk about her meeting with Ye Yi'an while she ate.
“He is a very sensible and sensible child. He accepted the things I bought for him and also gave me a gift in return. He personally went to the lotus pond to pick the most elegant lotus flowers. He has a good eye.”
Ye Yunhua didn't know how this kid discovered her love for flowers, but it seemed like he always gave her the perfect flowers.
Lin You expressed high approval of the duck's taste and nodded in agreement with Ye Yunhua's words: "As long as you don't treat it as a responsibility, it's fine to get along naturally. You can give him some help and he can provide you with emotional value. There's no need to be bound by formalities."
Ye Yi'an comes here every morning to deliver things. After delivering for so long, Aunt Li next door, who always gets up early, has seen him several times. After learning the reason, she often persuades Ye Yunhua to adopt him.
Ye Yunhua understood that given the current situation and Ye Yi'an's personality, adopting the child was the best solution, but she still felt somewhat uneasy.
Now, after listening to Lin You's words, Ye Yunhua finally understood that what she needed was "emotional value." She only needed to make herself happy by helping Ye Yi'an, and she didn't need to take on all the burdens of his life.
After Ye Yunhua figured things out, she felt more comfortable with Ye Yi'an. Every day, besides completing the tasks of the "spendthrift system" and spending money to have fun, she would occasionally feed the child.
While Ye Yunhua was taking the pills, Lin You combined the secrets of the cultivation world and martial arts to create several moves that were very suitable for her to practice.
In summary, there are three single-target attacks, three area-of-effect attacks, and one move to retreat and then use a powerful light-foot technique to escape.
The moves were simple and easy to learn. Ye Yunhua learned most of them in just half a day. She even began to doubt whether she had learned a fake martial art.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before Ye Yunhua's extravagant spending began to attract attention.
"Boss, I've checked. This woman with the sword, aside from having some connection with the other woman dressed as a Taoist priest, are both newcomers. They don't have much influence." A thug carrying a stick reported the information.
"I even had a martial arts expert examine her. Her sword-wielding posture is that of an amateur; she probably only knows a few rudimentary skills. The other one, on the other hand, seems like a master, but she hasn't been out with anyone these past two days!" Another henchman, with a blade of grass in his mouth, also shared what he had found out.
Five henchmen surrounded their leader in the middle, discussing their robbery plan. However, the leader, out of consideration for Lin You, only intended to rob her of her money and nothing else.
Judging from this woman's daily spending habits, she's probably not short of money. They only planned to rob her of ten or so taels of silver to avoid being held accountable later.
The boss's plan was quite good. Six slackers surrounded Ye Yunhua, who had just finished practicing her sword and stepped out of the house.
In a somewhat secluded alley, the gang leader, carrying a broken knife, arrogantly raised his chin and sized up Ye Yunhua:
“We brothers won’t make things difficult for you, Madam. But seeing how generous you are, we haven’t had enough to eat for a while. How about you help us out a little? It’s nothing, just ten taels of silver.”
A group of people surrounded her, but Ye Yunhua remained calm and even seemed eager to try. As soon as the people got close, she drew her long sword.
However, after just one move, all six of them collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain, scattered about, clearly having injured their legs and unable to get up.
After confirming her own fighting prowess, Ye Yunhua spent a handful of copper coins to find several strong local villagers to drag the man to the yamen to report to the authorities.
These roadblock robbers are quite welcome when they're caught and handed over to the authorities. After all, what official wouldn't appreciate the immediate results and prestige they bring?
After returning, Ye Yunhua asked Lin You, "This attack only has three moves. What should we do if we can't defeat it within three moves?"
"Well, we have light-footed skills, so if we can't beat them, we can just run away. We're not going to compete for the title of the best in the world, so it's not shameful to run away."
Lin You spoke earnestly, and Ye Yunhua listened attentively. What Lin You didn't tell her was that with her current internal strength and skills honed over sixty years, she was practically invincible in this world of martial arts where fighting was purely based on fists and feet.
Having confirmed that her sword was indeed effective against enemies and possessed considerable power, Ye Yunhua became even more unrestrained. Every day, she would go out to do missions, deliberately omitting the wealth reward, waiting for people to deliver it to her as practice tools.
The tasks in the game are not difficult. In summary, the core idea behind spending money is to spend happily and joyfully.
Using other people's money to make yourself happy is something that's easy to accept, and Ye Yunhua became more and more proficient at her task.
Lin You initially stayed with Ye Yunhua, but after seeing that Ye Yunhua was fine, she gradually began to downplay her presence, using the excuse that she was about to break through in her cultivation and needed to go into seclusion to help Ye Yunhua get used to living alone.
Although she knew that the higher Lin You's cultivation level was, the sooner she would leave, Ye Yunhua still hoped that Lin You could achieve great things rather than keep her with her, so she naturally wouldn't disturb her breakthrough or seclusion.
Ye Yunhua didn't know what a cultivator needed for their practice, but when Lin You appeared and saved her, she mentioned her karma, which was also part of her cultivation.
Does that mean that as long as you live a good life, leisurely spiritual practice is enough to achieve perfect merit?
Ye Yunhua walked along the bluestone path of Jiangnan, holding an oil-paper umbrella painted with lotus flowers. A light drizzle fell, adding a hazy feeling to everything in the world.
She wandered aimlessly, watching the crowds pass by, occasionally greeting familiar shopkeepers, and her heart gradually calmed down.
The past is past, no need to dwell on it. She now has money, time, flowers, friends, and the tranquility of the world. What past could possibly bother you?
Lin You, who was at home, suddenly heard a familiar system notification sound.
[Ding! System: Lin You's current world main quest has been completed.]
[Ding! The current task will not be settled temporarily because the cheat code quest is still active.]
There are two mission progress bars in this world: one is to stop the turmoil in this country, and the other is to find hope for Ye Yunhua to survive.
According to the normal mission process, these two tasks are closely related. The general process is to stop Ye Yunhua from giving up her life, and then let others see her sacrifices and pain, so as to help her regain the affection of her parents, brothers, husband and sons.
Unfortunately, Lin You had a substitute doll, which split the mission into two parts. The mission to stop the national turmoil was completed after the substitute doll perfectly took over Ye Yunhua's identity.
With the Empress alive and well, and two princes under her wing, the eldest prince clearly a prospective crown prince, the Ye family would never be so foolish as to think the Emperor is suspicious of them.
Even if the emperor secretly sowed discord between the empress and the two princes, it was to prevent future interference in politics by maternal relatives and the impact on the state power; he had no intention of destroying the Ye family.
After all, as long as the Ye family has a general who can protect the country, even if he is stationed in the capital, any enemy country in the border region that wants to cause trouble will have to think twice about its own strength.
The current stand-in doll, "Ye Yunhua," is a puppet programmed according to the rules. Her behavior is even more generous and fair than the original, so there is no risk of unrest, and the mission is already at full speed.
The task of finding hope for Ye Yunhua to live had been progressing steadily and slowly ever since Lin You brought her out, until today, when it was completed silently.
I first came to Jiangnan in the third month of spring, and now it is the drizzling rain of summer, just as gentle and lingering, enveloping everything like a light veil.
Ye Yunhua pushed open the courtyard gate. Lin You hadn't been cultivating today; instead, he was sitting under the eaves waiting for her, clearly sensing something.
Seeing her like this, Ye Yunhua couldn't help but smile, her eyes brimming with joy. She must have done the right thing.
"Youyou, wait a while, I want to go to the north to have a look. I heard that in the further north, winter comes very early, water can freeze into ice, water can turn into fog, and houses can be built with ice and snow."
Ye Yunhua stood in the rain and mist, holding an umbrella. The long sword at her waist was no longer just for decoration, and she no longer looked as frail as before.
"It's great. I heard that the ice there is particularly clear and can be made into all kinds of ice sculptures. There are also more candied hawthorns than in other places, as well as frozen pears, which are unique to the north."
Ye Yunhua was quite impressed with Lin You's ability to connect everything to food. After earnestly expressing that she would try it, she continued:
“I bought this house. Although I won’t stay here all the time, I will come back eventually. This is the place where Youyou gave me a second chance at life.”
When Lin You first brought her to Jiangnan, they just randomly chose a courtyard and rented it for a month as a temporary place to stay. Now, after living there for more than three months, she has come to regard this place as her home.
Lin You nodded knowingly, and roughly understood that Ye Yunhua wanted to travel to Northeast China alone and did not intend to take her with her.
"Here you go, it's a map. With this, you'll never get lost." Lin You handed the map she had obtained from Xiaotiandao to Ye Yunhua. It was originally meant for her, and now it was finally being put to good use.
"Will Youyou ever come back to see the misty rain of Jiangnan again?" Ye Yunhua said her farewell very tactfully, but when she looked up, she saw that the other person had a slightly suppressed smile on their face.
"Who told you I'm leaving now? I'm not leaving until you've completed a hundred of those wasteful tasks." Lin You leaned against a pillar under the eaves, amused, watching Ye Yunhua's expression slowly change from feigned ease to shock and delight.
"Oh, Youyou, you're teasing me again. You looked so serious just now, I thought you had accomplished your mission and were about to leave." Ye Yunhua tried to glare at Lin You, but couldn't help herself and smiled, her eyes crinkling with laughter.
Although we are destined to part ways, it's always a good thing to stay a little longer and have time to prepare mentally.
"This task has fifteen days, but you can choose not to do it for now. There's no rush." Lin You was indeed not in a hurry. If her cultivation wasn't sufficient, she wouldn't be able to get promoted even if she went back, so she would still need to stay in her own space to cultivate.
Ye Yunhua had no intention of delaying. "Delay will only lead to complications. Let's finish this first. Youyou, focus on your cultivation. I'll take care of the task for these fifteen days."
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Author's Note: Ah, I can't stay up all night anymore. I'll write the rest tomorrow. It's almost finished, I'll try to finish it in the next few days. [Cat emoji][Cat emoji]
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