Situ An was stunned. He looked at the girl in front of him. He never thought that in such a rural place, there would be someone who could call out his name.
"Do you know the Situ family?"
Shen Qingqiu said: "How could I not know? The army sent by the court to reinforce the Gu family, but just like 20 years ago, the Situ family was called a loyal and brave army, but they became the running dogs of the whole court. I wonder if the people of the Situ family will feel ashamed when they see the two words "loyalty and bravery" that were slashed by Emperor Gaozu!"
Situ An drew out his sword and said, "Stop slandering my ancestors!"
Shen Qingqiu smiled coldly, "Since you have done such a thing, why are you still afraid of others slandering you?"
Situ An asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Shen Qingqiu said: "Whether I am talking nonsense or not, you know it very well."
Situ An lowered his eyes, and after a moment his gaze fell on Shen Qingqiu's face again, "Who are you?" He looked at the girl in front of him. Shen Qingqiu was naturally extremely beautiful. Even if she wore a farmer's coarse linen shirt, it couldn't cover up her natural beauty.
Situ An thought again of the Kung Fu she displayed during the day. Of course there are women who know Kung Fu in the world, but there are not many who know Kung Fu and appear in this small border town, and who are so beautiful and look like they come from a wealthy family.
"Mr. Shen?" Situ An asked tentatively.
Shen Qingqiu just looked at him, neither saying yes nor no.
Situ An lowered his head and said, "My lord, there is no need to hide it from me anymore. If it weren't for you, how would you know about the old story between the Gu family and the Situ family?" Everyone in the capital knows that the Gu family was defeated in a battle that year, and eight out of nine sons died on the battlefield. From then on, the reputation of the Gu family for their loyalty and bravery spread.
But few people know that the army sent by the emperor to reinforce the Gu family that year was led by the Situ family.
It was precisely because General Situ was slow to arrive that the Gu family army was attacked from all sides and eventually died tragically on the battlefield.
"I have heard about this matter from my elders since I was a child," Situ An held his wound, "It is true that my Situ family has let down the Gu family, but my father has never thought of betraying the general back then!" If the emperor at that time had not been afraid of the Marquis' Mansion and had not done such a thing as killing the running dog after the rabbit has died, how could their Situ family be so passive.
"My Situ family and the Hou Mansion were originally aristocratic families, but we stopped communicating after this incident. The Hou Mansion lost its eighth son, and my Situ family also lost the most important reputation." Situ An hammered his hands on the ground, "My father also knew that he was ashamed of General Gu back then, and he died of depression not long after returning home."
Shen Qingqiu said coldly: "You are not only ashamed of the Marquis' Mansion back then, but also the tens of millions of people, those who were displaced by the war. That's what you really feel sorry for."
Situ An suppressed his lips and smiled bitterly, "I eat your salary and worry about your worries. Since I and Xiangjun have been stranded here, there is nothing I can't tell Xiangjun. Xiangjun thinks that my Situ family abandoned the Marquis' Mansion because we were greedy for wealth and honor, but if that was true, why would my Situ family be so far away from the capital and stationed at the border?"
Situ An closed his eyes. "This is all my father's atonement for what happened back then. He regretted it a long time ago."
"I would rather let the king down than let the people down." These were his father's last words, and Situ An always kept them in his heart.
Shen Qingqiu also sighed, and Situ An continued: "I heard that the Marquis was in battle this time and was attacked from both sides. I wanted to lead the troops to support him." He smiled bitterly again, "But every family has its own problems..."
Shen Qingqiu was an extremely intelligent person, and seeing his current expression, he naturally guessed, "It was someone from the Situ family who sent someone to assassinate you."
Situ An shook his head. "I am the only legitimate heir of the Situ family. They don't dare to kill me. They just don't want me to help the Marquis."
Shen Qingqiu's face was cold and cold, "It seems that this border is really not peaceful."
The two were about to continue talking when the door was pushed open. Fang Xiaoxiao's round face was slightly excited, "Sister Shen, the pig has been killed, the meat is very fragrant, we saved the first bite for you!" This is the honesty of the country people. The wild boar was hunted by Shen Qingqiu, so the first bite was saved for her no matter what.
Shen Qingqiu, whose mouth had become dull after living here for so long, licked his lips and glanced at Situ An again, "I checked you when you were unconscious. The wounds on your body are not poisonous, but you have lost too much blood and energy. You can't eat wild boar meat for the time being. Sell your sword in a few days, and I will prescribe some medicine for you."
Situ An was stunned when he heard this, and inexplicably grabbed his sword and held it...
However, Shen Qingqiu had already gone out with Fang Xiaoxiao.
On the small table in the inn, their mother Liu Ye'er had already put the broth in the middle. Liu Ye'er's cooking skills were not very good, but the wild boars that grew up in the mountains had a natural fragrance. She only removed the fishy smell, put it in boiling water, and then put it on the pot.
He also picked a lot of fresh young leaves from the ground and placed a large green earthenware jar next to them.
Liu Yeer was embarrassed to speak: "Miss Shen, you are our family's benefactor, and we should treat you well. But you also know that we just moved and we really don't have much. I can only borrow a jar of salt from next door..."
Fang Xiaoxiao and Fang Yuan were also a little embarrassed. Fang Xiaoxiao said quickly, "Sister Shen, don't worry. I will go out to sell embroidery tomorrow. I will always make sure you have good food to eat and heal your injuries."
Fang Yuan also clenched his hands, "Miss Shen, I am strong and healthy, and I will definitely be able to find a carpentry job tomorrow!"
Shen Qingqiu was amused by the family's lofty words, "You talk like I'm a bad person, forcing you to go out to work to support me." Shen Qingqiu shook his head, "You are my lifesavers, I should repay you."
Fang Xiaoxiao and Fang Yuan were about to speak when Shen Qingqiu said, "Even if I didn't say it then, you would have split up, right?"
The brother and sister and Liu Yeer did not deny that their family was always bullied by Lin Meihua from the second house, but they could tolerate everything else, except that they wanted to exchange their lives for silver. Even if they could not get anything, they would leave with nothing and would never use the lives of their relatives to satisfy Lin Meihua's greed that could never be satisfied! "But Sister Shen still helped us," Fang Xiaoxiao still looked at her gratefully, "My brother and mother originally wanted to take me away overnight. If it weren't for Sister Shen, we don't know where we are wandering now. Sister Shen is our lifesaver!"
"Don't people outside always say that a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring of water?"
Fang Xiaoxiao was really a lovely girl who was honest. Shen Qingqiu shook his head and did not want to argue with them about who was the benefactor. After she solved the current predicament and contacted her father, she would repay them.
"Eat quickly, it will get cold soon." Liu Ye'er said quickly.
Seeing Fang Xiaoxiao and Fang Yuan's eyes on the meat on the stone table, they would not move unless he picked up his chopsticks. Shen Qingqiu picked up the chopsticks and dipped them in pepper and salt and took a bite. Without other condiments, this wild boar that naturally feeds on mountain spring water has a special fragrance, and just a little salt makes it a delicacy.
Seeing that Shen Qingqiu had already eaten, the brother and sister also picked up their chopsticks.
After taking just one bite, he couldn't help but praise it: "No wonder those rich gentlemen in the city hire people to hunt wild boars. The meat of wild boars is much more delicious than domestic pigs!"
"You talk as if you've eaten a lot of domestic pigs?" Fang Yuan teased.
Fang Xiaoxiao glared at her angrily.
Shen Qingqiu watched the brother and sister joking around, and then he said, "I've eaten ordinary wild boars before, and although they're a little tougher than domestic pigs, they're still a little dry. This is something I've never tasted before, so I guess there must be something different here that's why you feed the wild boars like this."
Fang Yuan smiled, "Miss Shen is right. Even though our place is poor now, we have produced many great generals who could defeat hundreds of enemies alone!"
“Stop talking, eat quickly.” Liu Yeer saw that the children were only focused on eating and was afraid that the soup would get cold, so she served a bowl of soup to each of them and gave it to Shen Qingqiu first, “Miss Shen, your injuries haven’t healed yet. Eat what you need to replenish what you need. This is the soup I made with pork bones. I heard from the doctor that it is very effective for external injuries.”
Shen Qingqiu naturally would not refuse someone's kindness towards him, so he immediately took the bowl from Liu's hand and was about to drink it all.
But as soon as she put the bowl of soup next to her nose, she smelled something unusual. Her eyes lit up instantly, and she looked up at Liu Ye'er and asked, "Did you make this soup with the wild boar's bones?"
Liu Ye'er didn't understand what he meant. "Yes, there are other bones, but what's wrong with this soup?"
Shen Qingqiu curled her lips and said, "There's nothing wrong with it." Then she drank the bowl of soup in one gulp and wiped her lips afterwards, "Not only is there nothing wrong with it, but it's also a very good thing?" She had searched everywhere for something, but it turned out to be something she had found without any effort. The medicine she used to treat Gu Yanwei was actually right here!
In fact, this medicine is not as precious as other medicines, nor is it the most needed one for treating his illness.
Gu Yanwei's body had long been hollowed out by the poison and was in tatters. Although the antidote she made could remove the poison from his body, it was too potent and his weak body might not be able to handle it. He might have to be paralyzed in bed for a few years before he could slowly recover.
But something in the wild boar soup made her smell a solution.
Thinking of this, Shen Qingqiu asked again: "Is there any more soup?"
Liu Yeer hurriedly said, "There's plenty. If Miss Shen wants to drink more, I'll serve you more!"
Shen Qingqiu thanked him and said, "I'll go by myself." Then he went to the kitchen to get some soup for himself, and then went to the room where Situ An was lying and put the bowl of soup down. "You can't eat the meat, but you can drink some of the soup."
Since Situ An was moved here, he has only eaten some dry food.
It's not that the Fang family siblings treated him badly. They just separated and came here. They searched everywhere but found nothing good. If Shen Qingqiu hadn't hunted wild boars today, they would have to eat wild food for dinner. Situ An practiced martial arts, so he wouldn't be pretentious. He picked up the bowl of soup and drank it all.
Shen Qingqiu sat aside, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, and waited until he finished drinking before asking, "How was it?"
Situ An put down the bowl. It was just a bowl of wild boar soup. Why did Xiangjun ask him how he felt? But after all, it was Shen Qingqiu who asked the question. He asked with some doubt: "Do you feel warm? The soup is also very delicious?"
Shen Qingqiu rolled his eyes. Situ An looked handsome and like a scholar, but in fact he was still a rough man like Tu Jiu. Feeding him such food was like drinking water for a cow - if it was Gu Yanwei, he would definitely notice the difference at the first time.
Thinking of Gu Yanwei, Shen Qingqiu was inexplicably stunned for a moment.
"Country Lord?"
Seeing Shen Qingqiu stop talking, Situ An thought he had said something wrong.
Shen Qingqiu also woke up from his daze and said to Gu Yanwei: "I was rescued by the mother and son of the Fang family. I eat their rice and drink their water. And you were rescued by me. It's not good for you to stay here to recover empty-handed. I will go to the town to pawn your sword tomorrow."
Situ An: ...
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