Chapter 69069 Hurry
Chapter 69
Meng Yuning was amused by the little guy's cute appearance and reached out to touch his head: "Yier, do you want to count your money?"
Yier rubbed his hands: "Yier counts money."
"Okay, let's count them." Meng Yuning took out the purse that Yi'er used to keep her money from the box, poured out the few pieces of silver inside, and counted them out for him one by one: "This is half a tael, and this is five taels."
Yi'er plopped down next to An Ning. As An Ning counted out the silver, he would push it toward himself, explaining the origins of the silver: "This was on the boat. Mu Shan received a reward from his brother, and he gave me half of it."
"This is the five taels that Brother Lingchuan gave me last time."
Meng Yuning was a little shocked. "Wow, our Yi'er is amazing. He even remembers this?"
Yier smiled with his eyes curved: "Yier remembers everything."
Meng Yuning pushed the last piece of silver in front of Yi'er and said, "This one should weigh two taels. Yi'er, do you remember where this came from?"
Yi'er nodded: "There was an old lady selling fruit on the roadside. Aning took Yi'er to buy some. Yi'er helped carry the fruit, and Aning gave the rest to Yi'er."
Meng Yuning was so proud and excited to see that he remembered everything so clearly at such a young age. She picked up the little baby's face and kissed him on both sides: "Yier, you are awesome."
Yi'er was so happy to be kissed that his teeth were showing. He also leaned over and kissed An Ning on both cheeks. Then he moved the silver pieces aside one by one, pointing his fingers as he moved them: "One tael, five taels, two taels, An Ning, Yi'er has eight taels of silver now."
Meng Yuning clapped her hands: "Yes, that's eight taels."
Yier glanced at the golden hairpin on Aning's head, then silently put the three silver coins back into her purse one by one and put them back into the box.
After putting it away, he held up his chubby little face with his two little hands and frowned.
That day, Aning was choosing a hairpin, and Mu Ying helped her pick one with flowers, but Aning picked up the cheapest one and wore it, saying that she didn't want to be too flashy so as not to cause trouble for her brother.
He had asked Aning at that time, and the cheapest gold hairpin cost more than ten taels of silver.
But he only had eight taels of silver and couldn't even afford the cheapest one.
Yi'er was worried: "Oh."
Meng Yuning was just closing the box when she heard the barely audible sigh. She turned to look at Yi'er in disbelief, only to find the little boy with a worried look on his face sighing again, "Ah."
She threw the money box away in amusement, held the baby in her arms, and asked with a smile: "Yier, what's bothering you?"
Yi'er leaned his little head against An Ning's arms: "An Ning, Yi'er is so poor."
It's so funny that a little kid who is only three years old said with a sad face that he is poor.
Meng Yuning couldn't hold it in any longer, she fell on the couch holding Yi'er and laughing: "Hahaha~, my baby Yi'er, hahaha~"
Yi'er, who was rolling around on the couch in An Ning's arms, felt dizzy and dazed. His two little hands tightly hugged An Ning's neck: "An Ning, An Ning, Yi'er is scared."
Meng Yuning let go after hearing this.
Yi'er struggled to get out of her arms, sat down on the side, tilted his head, and looked confused: "A Ning, Yi'er is poor, why are you so happy?"
Upon hearing this, Meng Yuning laughed even louder, and finally fell directly onto the couch, unable to get up.
Seeing that Aning was laughing almost crazy and didn't say anything, Yier shook his head and sat quietly watching.
After sitting for a while, the little butt moved back, away from An Ning.
Although he didn't know why Aning laughed so loudly, he felt that Aning was making fun of him.
Humph! Yier is angry.
As soon as Qi Jingyan returned from the Qingke Hall, he heard Ah Ning's clear and loud laughter coming from the west wing. He couldn't help but laugh along and pointed to the west wing, "Go and take a look."
Mu Yun smiled and agreed, pushing him to the west wing. He pushed the wheelchair into the house along the newly built ramp in front of the door, and then quietly retreated.
Qi Jingyan turned his wheelchair into the north room. When he reached the door, he saw An Ning lying on the bed, laughing so hard that her legs were stretched out.
Yi'er curled up in the corner with his arms folded, watching quietly, with a helpless and somewhat angry look on his face.
Qi Jingyan smiled and asked, "What happened?"
Yi'er looked up and saw his brother coming. He quickly stood up and waved to his brother: "Brother, come quickly."
Meng Yuning turned around when she heard that and saw Qi Jingyan had appeared in the room at some point. She quickly sat up and said with a smile, "Your Highness is back."
Qi Jingyan wheeled his wheelchair to the side of the couch and looked at the two of them with amusement: "What's going on?"
Before Meng Yuning could speak, Yi'er hugged her arms and complained, "Brother, Aning laughed at Yi'er for being poor."
Meng Yuning suppressed her laughter, reached out and hugged the puffy little baby into her arms, and said in a serious tone, "Yier misunderstood. Aning was not making fun of Yier's poverty. Aning just remembered something very interesting."
Yi'er was not so easily fooled and asked, "What's interesting?"
"Uh..." Meng Yuning racked her brains to make up a story, and then she saw Qi Jingyan reach out and hold Yi'er over. "Yier, do you want to buy something?"
Yi'er didn't answer, but just asked: "Brother, how can Yi'er make money?"
A little kid actually wanted to make money. Meng Yuning wanted to laugh again, but seeing that the two brothers were sitting there seriously, she held back her laughter.
Qi Jingyan: "Yier is too young to make money yet."
Yier's face wrinkled into a bun: "Then how can Yier save money?"
Qi Jingyan: "At the end of this month, everyone in the mansion will receive a monthly stipend, including Yi'er."
Yier's two little ears stood up: "How many does Yier have?"
Qi Jingyan: "Ten taels of silver."
Yi'er clapped her hands happily: "That's a lot."
Qi Jingyan smiled and patted his head: "Enough for you to buy candy."
Yi'er didn't respond, and asked again: "Does An Ning have any too?"
Qi Jingyan looked at the girl on the couch and saw that she had sat up straight at some point, her big eyes sparkling, waiting for his answer with eagerness.
Qi Jingyan was amused and remained silent for a moment. Seeing her impatiently moving forward, he said, "A Ning has some too."
Meng Yuning smiled and moved forward: "How much do I have?"
Qi Jingyan: "Fifty taels."
Yi'er stretched out her fingers, counted them, and immediately smiled: "A Ning, you have so much money."
Meng Yuning also nodded, a little excited: "Your Highness, is this too much?"
Qi Jingyan: “Not much.”
The standard monthly salary for the Princess of Daxing Dynasty is fifty taels, but there are many hidden benefits. However, he cannot give it to Aning for the time being, so he can only make up for it later.
Meng Yuning no longer refused and put her hands together before Qi Jingyan, saying, "Thank you, Your Highness. I will respectfully obey your command."
Meng Yuning was still very happy because she had a salary.
It's such a big mansion, and she is in charge of many chores now. When Qi Jingyan gets busy in the future, I'm afraid all the trivial matters in this house will have to be thrown to her to take care of. It would be unreasonable not to pay her a salary for running around like this.
Very good, very good.
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After waking up from a nap, Meng Yuning thought that the guards might want to eat noodles and rice noodles again in the evening, so she took Yi'er, Meng Yin and Meng Yu to the back kitchen.
As soon as she entered the kitchen, she saw two guard brothers kneading dough. She smiled and asked, "What are you planning to eat tonight?"
The guard smiled and replied, "Noodles with vegetables and eggs."
Meng Yuning thought to himself, as expected.
She nodded, looked around the kitchen and said, "We still have two chickens outside. Let's kill them and make chicken noodles. There are so many people here, we can't be without meat all the time. We'll lose the energy to work later."
The guards agreed, and the two guards who were in charge of the fire took their kitchen knives and bowls of chicken blood and ran to the temporary fence in the yard to catch and kill the chickens.
The two of them cleaned the chicken neatly, removed four chicken legs and brought them to Meng Yuning: "Miss Meng, what do you want to cook with these chicken legs?"
Meng Yuning: "Okay, I'll make some shredded chicken legs with scallion oil later, and chop the other two into small pieces to make soup and cook noodles together."
The guard agreed and put the four chicken legs aside.
Meng Yuning first instructed Meng Yu: "The two princes, Dr. Tang, and I will eat rice. Go and steam some rice."
Meng Yu agreed and quickly went to steam rice for four people.
Meng Yuning tied an apron, rolled up her sleeves, and first took out a few yellow gardenias from the jar of seasoning, flattened them and soaked them in water. Then she boiled water in a pot, blanched the chicken legs, and took them out.
Pour gardenia water into a large bowl, add appropriate amount of salt, a little rice wine and oil, put the chicken legs in, roll in seasoning, and marinate for one incense stick.
After marinating, boil water in a pot. When the water boils, put the chicken legs on a plate and steam them for 15 minutes.
While steaming the chicken legs, Meng Yuning also chopped green onions and minced garlic. After they were all chopped, she heated oil in a pan. After the oil was hot, she poured the chopped green onions and minced garlic into the pan and stir-fried them until fragrant. Then she added soy sauce and a little pepper powder, stir-fried for a few times, and the scallion oil sauce was ready. She served it and set it aside.
While the chicken legs were still hot, Meng Yuning went to steam the eggs.
Thinking that Qi Jingyan and Yi'er both liked this dish, she took a large bowl, beat four eggs, added a little salt and stirred them, then added about one and a half times the amount of warm water and continued to stir. After stirring, she used a spoon to skim off the foam on the surface and covered it with a plate as a lid.
Thinking that Dr. Tang also liked to eat it, Meng Yuning asked Meng Yu to take another bowl, beat two eggs, and stir them as well.
When the water in the pot boiled, she put two bowls of eggs, one large and one small, into the pot to steam.
Soon, two bowls of steamed eggs were just out of the pot, and the chicken legs were also steamed over there.
She took the chicken legs out of the pot and set them aside to cool. While doing so, she stir-fried a dish of blanched choy sum.
The choy sum was fried and the chicken legs had cooled down. Meng Yu had already torn off most of the chicken meat. When she had torn all four chicken legs into small pieces, Meng Yuning poured the scallion oil sauce into them and stirred it evenly with chopsticks. A dish of scallion oil shredded chicken legs was ready.
Yi'er ran to the newly built reservoir in the yard that was intended for raising fish to play in the water. Meng Yin stayed by his side to take care of him. Meng Yuning called him, "Yi'er, come and try some vegetables."
But the little fellow squatted by the pool, his hands in the water playing happily, and said without turning his head: "Yier, let's eat together later."
Meng Yuning smiled and agreed, and asked Meng Yu to divide the three dishes into two portions, put them into two food boxes, and put rice in each. One portion was sent to Doctor Tang's yard by the guards.
She asked Meng Yu to carry their portion while she went to pick up Yi'er, who was having so much fun playing in the water that he didn't even want to eat. "Let's go, let's go eat."
When they returned to Yanfu Residence, it was already getting dark. Meng Yuning asked Meng Yu to put the food on the table in the hall, and the three of them sat around the table.
Meng Yuning picked up a piece of chicken thigh for Qi Jingyan and Yi'er respectively: "This is shredded chicken thigh with scallion oil, try it."
In fact, she wanted to say that this was a free-range chicken and the meat was very tender, but when she thought about the fact that in this era, all the chickens were local, she stopped talking.
Yi'er had been having fun before, but now, as he sat at the table and smelled the aroma of the food, he felt hungry. He held the bowl, scooped the piece of chicken into his mouth with a spoon, and chewed it intoxicatedly, shaking his little head: "Delicious, delicious."
Qi Jingyan picked up the meat from the bowl and put it into his mouth. The chicken was tender and smooth, with a strong aroma of green onions. Paired with a mouthful of rice, it tasted more delicious the more he chewed it.
He nodded: "It tastes good."
Meng Yuning stared at him: "Just good?"
Qi Jingyan smiled: "Very good."
"That's pretty good." Meng Yuning was satisfied. She also picked up two pieces with chopsticks and started eating with rice.
The three of them finished a plate of chicken legs, a plate of blanched choy sum, and finally finished the bowl of smooth and tender steamed egg with rice.
After eating and drinking, Meng Yu and Meng Yin cleared the table, and Meng Yuning asked them to go back and eat first. The two agreed and left with their lunch boxes.
The three of them sat in the house for a while, then went out for a walk to cool off. Meng Yuning and Yi'er pushed the wheelchair around in circles in the yard.
Meng Yuning: "Your Highness, there is a large piece of vacant land outside the mansion. I want to reclaim it and grow some fruits and vegetables, and raise some chickens, ducks, geese, etc., so that we can eat them conveniently and don't have to go out to buy them all the time."
"I thought that since the guard brothers are free now, they can go and do it. When you guys are busy later, you can hire some vegetable farmers to take care of it."
Qi Jingyan: "A Ning will make the arrangements."
When Yi'er heard about raising something, she tilted her head back and said, "Aning, Yi'er wants to raise a rabbit, and a dog, a barking puppy."
Meng Yuning: "Okay, raise them all."
Before they had even turned a few circles, they saw Mu Yun approaching quickly. After bowing to the three of them, he reported in an excited tone, "Your Highness, Mu Jiu and Su Yang are back. We're starving, so I sent them to the kitchen to eat first. They'll come back after they're done."
Seeing Mu Yun like this, Qi Jingyan knew that the matter had been settled. He smiled slightly and said, "Go to the Qingke Hall and wait."
Mu Yun agreed, came over to take the wheelchair, and pushed Qi Jingyan out.
Qi Jingyan raised his hand to stop him and looked at Meng Yuning.
He didn't need to say anything, Meng Yuning understood instantly.
She knew that Mu Jiu and Su Yang were going to look for the mountain. This was a big deal. As an outsider, she had to avoid suspicion. She took Yi'er's hand and turned to walk towards the main house: "Your Highness, let's go wash up first."
Seeing the girl turn around and leave in a hurry, Qi Jingyan shook his head and laughed, asking, "An Ning, do you want to go over and listen?"
Meng Yuning was shocked. She turned around and pointed at herself: "Me? Can I go and listen?"
Qi Jingyan actually asked her, the 'Meng family girl', if she wanted to hear such confidential information? Was he a little stupid?
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