Chapter 23 023 V Announcement/Pre-collection "Little Woodcutter Girl in Troubled Times Seeking...
Chapter 23
Meng Yuning held the wild flowers and walked to the protruding platform on the side of the wooden house. She picked up a bamboo tube that Qi Jingyan had cut for her earlier, walked to the spring, filled the bamboo tube with water, then put the bunch of wild flowers in and fiddled with it for a while.
The emerald green bamboo tubes and colorful wild flowers are particularly beautiful.
In the face of beautiful things, the slight unhappiness I had just felt about the house disappeared.
She smiled and picked up the bamboo tube, walked back to the wooden house, placed it on the ground between the two beds, next to her bed, and then went out to cook.
The guards were still gathered together. Seeing Meng Yuning approaching, they quickly made way. Mu Shan asked naively, "Miss Meng, what are you having for lunch?"
Meng Yuning looked at the ingredients, thought about it for a while, decided on today's menu, and then taught everyone how to prepare the ingredients. Everyone started to work together, even Yi'er followed Mu Feng and sat in front of the stove to make a fire.
After an hour of hard work, the meal was ready.
There was a big pot of pheasant stewed with mushrooms, a big pot of wild bamboo shoots and duck stew, braised carp, fried eggs with locust flowers, stir-fried shepherd's purse, and a cold dish of wild garlic. All the pots and pans that could be used were used before the dishes could be put in.
The guards had previously made a long table with the remaining bamboo from building the house, and placed the dishes on it one by one. The guards gathered around, their eyes gleaming green as they drooled.
Meng Yuning, Mu Yun and Mu Feng together packed out a portion of each dish and brought it to the small bamboo table in front of Qi Jingyan.
Meng Yuning turned around and was about to go eat with the guards, but Qi Jingyan said, "Sit down."
Meng Yuning wasn't sure if he was calling her or Yi'er. She turned around and saw Qi Jingyan pointing to the bamboo chair to his right: "Sit down and eat together."
Mu Feng said very considerately, "Miss Meng, please sit down. I'll go get you some rice." Then he ran to the stove, served her a bowl of rice, and brought it back with a pair of chopsticks.
Meng Yuning thanked him, took the bowl and chopsticks, and then sat down on the right side of Qi Jingyan. Yier sat on the high chair that Mu Jiu specially made for him on the left side of Qi Jingyan.
Qi Jingyan picked up his chopsticks, glanced at the dishes on the table, then looked at Meng Yuning: "Are these all home-cooked dishes?"
Meng Yuning didn't know why he kept mentioning home-cooked meals today, but she nodded and said, "I guess so."
Yier took the chopsticks, looked at this dish, then looked at that dish, drooling with greed, but he never picked up the chopsticks, as if he didn't know where to start.
Meng Yuning looked at it with amusement, picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with locust flowers and put it in Yier's bowl: "This is scrambled eggs with locust flowers, Yier, try it."
Yi'er: "Is it that pretty Huahua?"
Meng Yuning nodded: "Yes."
Yi'er picked it up, put it in his mouth and took a bite. His eyes sparkled and he said incoherently, "Good seven."
Meng Yuning smiled: "If it tastes good, eat more."
Seeing Qi Jingyan also looking at her, she picked up another chopstick and put it into his bowl, "Your Highness, try it too."
Qi Jingyan agreed. He took a bite and found the fragrance of the locust flowers and the tender eggs very delicious. He nodded and said, "It tastes good."
Meng Yuning smiled and ate a few mouthfuls of the scrambled eggs with locust flowers. Then she picked up the spoon and scooped a mushroom for each of Yi'er and Qi Jingyan, introducing them enthusiastically: "This mushroom is called milk mushroom. It's delicious."
The two brothers were perfectly obedient, picking up the pieces and taking a bite. The mushrooms and pheasant had been stewed together for nearly half an hour. The milk mushrooms, soaked in the chicken broth, were sweet, tender, and fragrant. Their similar eyes, one large and one small, lit up.
Meng Yuning felt very accomplished and served two more to each of them. Then she took a big spoonful of chicken and mushrooms for herself and started eating.
I had a bowl of porridge in the morning, walked outside for two hours, and came back to cook for another hour. I was starving.
Qi Jingyan saw her wolfing down her food and knew she was hungry, so he said, "Eat by yourself, don't worry about me and Yi'er."
Meng Yuning didn't bother to be polite with him. She nodded, picked up a large piece of braised carp and a piece of bamboo shoots, and buried her head in her meal.
Qi Jingyan ate while taking care of Yier. The two brothers ate very elegantly, but also quickly.
Meng Yuning was full and slowly drank the chicken soup from the bowl. The two brothers also finished the rice in their bowls, and the dishes on the table were all gone.
The CD is the greatest recognition of the chef's cooking skills. Meng Yuning's eyes curved: "Your Highness, this chicken soup and this duck soup are very delicious. You and Yi'er should try them."
Yier pointed with his little hand at the bowl of chicken soup: "Yier wants to drink this." Aning had just filled the soup from this bowl, he saw it, and he wanted to drink the same as Aning.
Qi Jingyan agreed, picked up the spoon, and poured Yier a bowl of chicken soup. Yier picked up his small bowl, imitated Meng Yuning, squinted his eyes, and drank in small sips.
Qi Jingyan glanced to the left and then to the right, and seeing that the two, one big and one small, had the same intoxicated expression, he couldn't help laughing. Then he also scooped a spoonful of chicken soup and drank it slowly.
After the three of them finished drinking the chicken soup, they each took a spoonful of the duck soup.
After eating and drinking her fill, Meng Yuning leaned back on the chair, holding her stomach, not wanting to move.
Yier followed suit and leaned back in the chair, holding her belly.
Qi Jingyan smiled and waved to Mu Feng who was looking over here from a distance. Mu Feng came over with a guard and cleared the table.
The three of them sat for a while. Yi'er yawned and stretched out her hand to Meng Yuning: "Yi'er is sleepy, hold me, An Ning."
Meng Yuning was also sleepy, so she took the opportunity to carry Yi'er back to the house, sat down on her bed with him in her arms, patted him gently, and hummed a little tune softly.
Qi Jingyan was helped in by Mu Yun and Mu Shan. He lay down on the bed and looked quietly at the woman with her back to the light. His stern brows softened unconsciously.
Meng Yuning coaxed Yi'er to sleep, stood up with him in her arms, walked to Qi Jingyan's bed, and prepared to put him on the bed. However, when she bent down, she lost her balance and almost fell on Qi Jingyan, and almost threw Yi'er out.
Qi Jingyan reached out in time, holding her with one hand and Yier with the other, and easily supported them.
Meng Yuning glanced at the big hand on her arm, smiled sheepishly, and whispered, "I slipped. Thank you, Your Highness."
Qi Jingyan nodded in response, then let go of her, reached out to take Yi'er and put her on the bed.
Meng Yuning returned to her bed, took off her shoes, lay down, closed her eyes, and quickly fell asleep.
Qi Jingyan slept well last night and was not sleepy at the moment, so he tilted his head slightly and looked quietly at the woman who was sleeping soundly on the small bed next to him. After looking for a while, he turned his head and looked at the ceiling, and the curve of his mouth slowly disappeared.
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Meng Yuning was tired. She fell asleep and when she opened her eyes again, the sun was almost setting.
Qi Jingyan and Yi'er were no longer in the house. She stayed in bed for a while before getting up and walking out the door. She saw Yi'er feeding the little rabbit. She walked over and played with him for a while before walking to the middle of the yard.
As soon as I saw it, I couldn't help but sigh that there is strength in numbers. All the ingredients I brought back in the morning were processed according to her requirements.
All four grass carps were cleaned, cut in half, coated with salt, and hung on a rack made of bamboo poles. Their surfaces were now dried.
All the extra bamboo shoots were peeled, washed, cut, blanched, and spread out on the bamboo table to dry.
The mushrooms were picked, sliced, and dried in the sun. The remaining bracken and wild garlic were spread out on the ground to dry.
She was thinking that now that they were living in the mountains, they could find food anytime and anywhere. When Qi Jingyan's leg got better, they would set off for Lingnan. By then, they didn't know what the situation would be like on the road, so they should dry some dry goods now so that they could eat them on the way.
Seeing her coming over, Mu Yun walked up to her and asked, "Miss Meng, do you think this is okay?"
Meng Yuning nodded, giving full affirmation: "That's absolutely amazing! You guys have helped me a lot, otherwise I don't know how long I would have managed to do it on my own."
Mu Yun: "Miss Meng is being polite. We are all eating together. How can we ask you to do it all by yourself?"
Meng Yuning's words were just politeness. If the guards didn't take the initiative to help, she would have called them. But she was still very happy to hear Mu Yun say that.
Mu Yun asked again, "Miss Meng, after drying these mountain products, are we going to eat them right away, or keep them for now?"
Meng Yuning then told him her plan, and Mu Yun nodded seriously: "Miss Meng is very thoughtful. Let's have the brothers go out tomorrow and find more."
Meng Yuning nodded and agreed.
The lunch was a little late, but the meal was extremely rich. When it came to dinner, everyone said they were not very hungry, so Meng Yuning cooked a big pot of pheasant mushroom and shepherd's purse porridge. Everyone gathered around the campfire and ate it happily.
After dinner, Qi Jingyan took Yi'er to the yard to enjoy the cool air, and asked Mu Yun to help Meng Yuning fetch water to the wooden house. Meng Yuning bolted the door and took a bath in the dark.
After washing and putting on clothes, I put the clothes I took off aside and planned to wash them during the day tomorrow.
Then she went out to get the two bamboo tubes, ready to fill them with water and pour them out, but was stopped by Qi Jingyan, who asked her to sit next to him.
Mu Yun went in and came out with the wooden barrel. He poured out the water and washed the barrel at the same time.
Qi Jingyan noticed that Meng Yuning was a little embarrassed, so he said, "Now that we are outside, everything is inconvenient. These trivial matters can only be handled by Mu Yun and others. Don't worry about it."
Meng Yuning thought about it and agreed. She would be staying here for a long time, so she couldn't run back and forth ten or twenty times every time to empty the water. So she nodded and said, "Okay."
Afterwards, Meng Yuning gave Yi'er a bath, and then took him outside to play. Mu Yun wiped Qi Jingyan's body.
After the three of them had packed up, Doctor Tang came with the prepared medicine as usual. After Qi Jingyan finished drinking it, he treated his leg.
By the time Doctor Tang left, it was already late, so everyone went to bed.
Meng Yuning slept too much during the day and tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. She looked at Qi Jingyan and saw that he also had his eyes open, so she whispered, "Your Highness?"
Qi Jingyan turned around and looked over.
Meng Yuning stretched out a finger and pointed at his leg: "Is your leg better?"
Qi Jingyan: "Better."
Meng Yuning: "Does it still hurt?"
Qi Jingyan: "It doesn't hurt anymore."
Meng Yuning: "Oh, that's good."
Then neither of them spoke, and the room returned to silence.
After a while, Meng Yuning called him again in a low voice: "Your Highness?"
Qi Jingyan turned around again.
Meng Yuning: "When we get to Lingnan, where will we stay?"
Qi Jingyan was silent for a moment before he said, "It should be Prince Shen's Mansion."
Meng Yuning leaned closer to him, leaning on her arm, her tone full of anticipation: "Then there will be enough rooms by then, so I can sleep in one myself, right?"
Qi Jingyan didn't hesitate: "Yes."
Meng Yuning smiled, clasped her hands together, and bowed to him while lying there: "Thank you, Your Highness. You are so kind."
Qi Jingyan glanced at her for a few seconds and said, "Yeah."
Meng Yuning suddenly remembered something and crawled towards the head of the bed. She reached out and moved the bunch of wild flowers next to her bed towards him: "These flowers are quite fragrant, Your Highness, please smell them."
Qi Jingyan recalled the scene when she snatched the flowers back during the day, and was speechless for a moment.
He finally understood that this girl was not only a flatterer, but also a person who would only use people when they are needed and not when they are not.
He didn't want to speak, but seeing her big black eyes staring at him, waiting for his answer, he nodded.
Meng Yuning smiled after receiving the response, and crawled back to lie down: "Then let's put it here, Your Highness."
Qi Jingyan: “Yeah.”
"Good night, Your Highness."
"good evening."
They both thought that tonight would be another night of sleeping through the night, but who knew that it would suddenly rain heavily in the middle of the night.
There was no window paper on the windows of the wooden house, and the rain flowed into the house without any obstruction, falling directly on Meng Yuning's face. She woke up suddenly and sat up suddenly.
After seeing what was happening, he quickly jumped to the ground and picked up his blanket and bag. He turned around but couldn't find where to put them. He just held them there stupidly, complaining softly, "Oh, why is it raining out of nowhere? How can I sleep now?"
Qi Jingyan stretched out his hand: "Put it over here first."
Meng Yuning didn't expect that he had woken up too, so she hurriedly handed over the things in her hand. Just as she put on her shoes, she heard the low voices of Mu Feng and others talking outside.
"Put it away quickly, don't get it wet."
"And those few fish are almost dried up. Go get them back."
"Mu Shan, go pick the mushrooms."
Meng Yuning turned around and ran out: "Oh no, those mountain products are still hanging out to dry."
Qi Jingyan grabbed her wrist and said, "Don't panic, Mu Feng and the others are collecting them."
Meng Yuning was still a little anxious: "I'll go and lend a hand."
Qi Jingyan didn't let go: "You are weak and you will get sick easily if you get wet."
Meng Yuning couldn't leave. Thinking that what he said made sense, she nodded and said, "I'm not going. Your Highness, please let me go."
He seemed to be holding her wrist lightly, but she struggled twice and couldn't get free.
Qi Jingyan lowered his eyes to look at their hands, then let go.
After a while, it became quiet outside, and it was obvious that the work was done.
Meng Yuning looked at her bed, which was already mostly wet, and the rain outside the window that was getting heavier, and couldn't help but sigh.
Forget it, she won't be able to sleep well tonight.
She looked around, picked up the quilt that she had just placed on Qi Jingyan's bed, walked to the wheelchair in the corner, threw the quilt over herself, sat on the wheelchair, kicked off her shoes, lifted her legs, hugged her legs, and rested her chin on her knees, intending to spend the night like this.
Qi Jingyan looked at the girl curled up in the wheelchair quietly for a long time without saying a word.
She is quite easy-going.
After a while, just when Meng Yuning was beginning to feel drowsy and about to fall asleep, she heard Qi Jingyan speak softly, "A Ning."
Meng Yuning looked up: "Hey."
Qi Jingyan said in a gentle voice: "Come and sleep."
Meng Yuning looked bewildered: "Where should I sleep?"
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The Little Woodcutter's Daily Survival in Troubled Times:
Ye Yunyao traveled through time.
She became a woodcutter who made a living by chopping wood.
At the end of the dynasty, there was chaos and war.
The family was penniless.
Population situation, father died in war, mother died early, extremely bad relatives, skinny child.
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Fortunately, there is a mountain with rich species behind her house.
Seeing his brother and sister-in-law dying of hunger, Ye Yunyao went up the mountain with a hatchet...
Thanks to her efforts, her life became more and more prosperous.
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However, the government issued a notice saying that according to the new wartime policy, if a woman did not marry by the age of 18, the government would force her to marry.
Her uncles and aunts came to her house and told her to get married with peace of mind, and that they would take good care of her brothers and sisters-in-law and property.
Ye Yunyao swung his knife and chopped: Get out!
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After driving away the relatives with ill intentions, Ye Yunyao asked the man who had just handed her the knife, "How about living together?"
The handsome scholar lowered his eyes and said, "You saved my life. I am willing to follow you forever."
After getting married, life became temporarily stable.
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Until that day, when she came back from the mountain with her younger brother and sister-in-law, they saw from afar two groups of people fighting fiercely in their home.
Her son-in-law, who was weak and timid, was now calm and watched the fight in front of the door with his hands behind his back.
It wasn't until a burly man in black smashed her newly bought water tank with a knife that he dodged like a ghost, grabbed the man's neck, and slammed him heavily onto the broken pieces of the water tank...
* Farming/Warmth/Making a Fortune/Raising Children/Politics
*1V1/Double First Love/HE/Sweet/Refreshing
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The Imperial Examination Protagonist's Early Died Wife:
Liu Chengyu transmigrated into an essay about the imperial examination.
She became the male protagonist Mo Xinglan's first wife who died early.
In the book, Mo Xinglan went from being a farmer's son to becoming the top scholar in the imperial examination, entering the imperial court and becoming a powerful official with omnipotent power.
And she was his first wife who died early and whose life could be summed up in just two sentences.
In the book, she despised Mo Xinglan's poor family, broke off the engagement, and ran away with a wealthy businessman from Beijing. However, she didn't know that the wealthy businessman was actually a kidnapper in disguise, and she died accidentally while escaping.
When Liu Chengyu first came here, she was holding the token and blocking Mo Xinglan at the entrance of the academy, wanting to break off the engagement with him...
*1v1/HE/double first love/sweet story
* Imperial Examination/Farming/Food/Warm Daily Life/Family Gossip
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