"How is it? Is it delicious?"
At lunch time, in the main hall of the Hua family's old house, Hua Qingcheng was looking at her four husbands with anticipation.
Before returning from Pinglan Mountain, Hua Qingcheng also took a rabbit and a pheasant out of the space. After returning to the Hua family's old house, Hua Qingcheng used the freshly picked chili peppers to make spicy rabbit meat, spicy chicken, and home-style spicy stir-fried cabbage.
Due to the limited seasoning, although the taste is not as rich as modern ones, it is already very good here. In the main hall, Hua Qingcheng's four husbands couldn't stop eating with their chopsticks. No one answered Hua Qingcheng's words. After all, if they said one more word, they would eat less.
Hua Qingcheng was shocked to see her husbands devouring three plates of food and a large bowl of rice. Were these the same four people who had previously been content with just a bowl of wild vegetables? The most important thing was, no matter how much they ate, their figures remained the same.
"tasty!"
"Burp~"
Yu Xiaotian's mouth was red from eating, and he suddenly burped, and then his handsome face flushed. Embarrassed, Yu Xiaotian quickly covered his mouth. How embarrassing!
"It tastes great! I didn't expect that red poisonous fruit to taste so good when used to cook!"
Situ Ye was very considerate and gave Hua Qingcheng's dish a thumbs up. The taste was very novel and eye-catching. He felt that it was even better than the dishes made by the chefs in those restaurants.
"It's OK! Just don't eat too much, or you'll get a sore throat."
After Han Yichen finished speaking, he quickly picked up the last piece of rabbit meat on the table and put it into his bowl.
“It’s delicious!”
Mu Lige looked at Hua Qingcheng lovingly, but was thinking in his heart that if this kind of fruit was used to cook dishes for the soldiers in winter, it would be very effective in warding off the cold.
Even though Mu Lige had been working very hard to eat, Hua Qingcheng inexplicably felt that his behavior and eating manners exuded an indescribable elegance. Having previously heard Hua's father describe Mu Lige's miserable past, Hua Qingcheng could only attribute it to his innate temperament.
Since the food had been eaten by the husbands, Hua Qingcheng had to go back to the kitchen to make another bowl of noodles. She never expected that the four husbands who had been submissive to her when she first arrived would now dare to go above her and even forget about her during meals.
"Erlang, where did you buy the tofu you used to cook?"
Hua Qingcheng, who was missing eating Mapo Tofu, remembered that when Si Chengfeng came here last month, Situ Ye made a dish of stuffed tofu that she couldn't tell what it was, so she asked Situ Ye.
Situ Ye: "Tofu? I bought it from the Dongshi tofu stall in the village."
Hua Qingcheng: "Dong Shi?"
Situ Ye: "Yeah, Dong Shi."
Hua Qingcheng: "Is that Dong Shi really ugly?"
Upon hearing this, Situ Ye quickly shook his head and said, "No, Tofu Dongshi is a famous handsome man in our Huaqiao Village. His real name seems to be Hua Wuque. Because of his handsome appearance and his family selling tofu, the villagers called him 'Tofu Dongshi'."
Hua Qingcheng: ...
"My dear wife, don't you even know this story? Dong Shi was a famous handsome man in the history of our Laifeng Kingdom. It is said that he was so beautiful that he could make fish sink to the bottom of their water. It's a pity that he suffered from heart disease and had a tragic fate."
Han Yichen glanced at Hua Qingcheng speechlessly. He had no idea how his wife had studied. She didn't even know the common sense that this child knew. It was such a waste that she had a scholar mother in her family!
Hua Qingcheng: ...
Well, she was just sitting in a well, not knowing much, and had a narrow vision. It seemed that she needed to take more time to read and learn more about the local culture, customs, and practices, otherwise she would make a fool of herself again.
Situ Ye: "Yes, my wife. That Tofu Dongshi Hua Wuque is ranked fourth on the list of handsome men in Huaqiao Village."
"Handsome Men Ranking?"
Is gossip still popular here?
Hua Qingcheng immediately became interested after hearing this and asked casually, "Who are the top three handsome men?"
Situ Ye smiled and said proudly: "The first one is of course the eldest brother, the second one is the third brother, and the third one is the fourth brother."
"What about you?"
"My dear wife, please stop mocking me."
Hua Qingcheng looked at Situ Ye suspiciously. This shouldn't be the case. Her Erlang was so outstanding, how could he not be in the top four? In the end, she could only attribute it to the fact that the people here had a different aesthetic than she did.
After asking about the location of the tofu stall, Hua Qingcheng soon arrived at the Dongshi Tofu Stall in the village. But what was going on with the long line of women queuing in front?
For the sake of Mapo Tofu, Hua Qingcheng gritted her teeth and endured it, walking to the end of the line and joining the queue.
"Tofu Dongshi is so handsome!"
"Who says it isn't?"
"That's right, otherwise why would I come here to buy tofu every day?"
"It doesn't matter if you eat it every day. We eat it every meal at home."
…
After a while, a lot of people lined up behind Hua Qingcheng, and the people in front and behind were chattering and gossiping, which was noisier than five hundred ducks.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, it was finally Hua Qingcheng's turn to buy tofu. The man in front of her was dressed in a coarse blue shirt, with a gentle temperament and a silver hairpin in his hair. His appearance could be considered handsome, but he was definitely not as good as the other men in her family.
"Give me two pieces of soft tofu and two pieces of firm tofu."
"well!"
When Hua Wuque saw the beautiful woman, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised. He didn't expect that the person who came was Hua Qingcheng, who had been making a lot of noise in the village recently. People said things like "the village flower and the second-rate guy", "the gigolo who eats both men and women", "the threshing sister"... Looking at her in person, she didn't seem as bad as the rumors said.
After buying the tofu, Hua Qingcheng turned around and walked back towards the Hua family's old house at the end of the village. When she thought of Hua Wuque wearing a silver hairpin on his head, she felt that the rumors were nothing more than that.
Wait, a hairpin?
How could she have forgotten this?
When she came back from the town, she forgot to give the gifts she bought to her husbands because of the arrival of the uninvited guest Xiao Lengyu.
As soon as she got home, Hua Qingcheng put the tofu in the kitchen and went into the villa to search for it. She found the belt she bought for Situ Ye, the purse she bought for Han Yichen, the hairband and pastries she bought for Yu Xiaotian, but the willow hairpin she bought for Mu Lige was missing.
What's going on?
Hua Qingcheng racked her brains and carefully recalled her itinerary on the tenth day of June. Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat. It seemed that she did not put the wooden hairpin into the space at that time, but kept it close to her body. Could it have fallen into Si Chengfeng's room in Chengfeng Villa?
Although the hairpin was not expensive, it held a special meaning. Hua Qingcheng felt a strange sense of uncertainty. If she didn't find the hairpin and give it to Mu Lige, she would feel guilty towards him. However, if she went directly to Si Chengfeng to ask, she was afraid of hurting his feelings...
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