Chapter 1298 The Daughter Abandoned During Escape (10)
Aunt Ye was a maid hired by Chang Shichu. She was very good at cooking, especially light Cantonese cuisine. Salt-baked chicken was also a kind of Cantonese dish. When she heard that Chang Shichu wanted to eat salt-baked chicken, she killed the two live chickens without saying a word.
So when Wei Yu'an came back from the rice shop, he smelled a strong aroma of chicken, which went straight from his nose to his lungs.
His eyes were surprisingly bright, and even the calmness he pretended to be like Chang Shichu disappeared. He jumped and ran towards the house, shouting as he ran: "Aunt Ye! What delicious food did you make today? It smells so good!"
He had been a beggar for several years and had developed hunger syndrome. The thing he could not stand the most was the smell of various delicacies.
"Xiao An, you're back? The boss bought two chickens and I made salt-baked chicken. We'll have a delicious dinner tonight." Aunt Ye replied with a smile.
Wei Yu'an slipped into the kitchen, took a few deep breaths of the rich aroma, and said happily, "The best thing I did was to follow the head of the family."
Chang Shichu came out of the study and heard what he said. He couldn't help but joked, "I think you think so because Aunt Ye's cooking is delicious, right?"
"How could that be? I really think that my greatest luck is to be favored by you, the master. Otherwise, I, a little beggar, would be starving in Shangzhao City." Wei Yu'an said sincerely.
"Okay, okay, you're the sweetest person." Chang Shichu poked his forehead and asked Aunt Ye, "Can we eat now?"
"It's okay, the food is ready and we can eat it right away." Aunt Ye said quickly.
Chang Shichu ate the freshly baked salt-baked chicken, sighed with satisfaction, and praised: "Aunt Ye, your cooking skills are really amazing!"
Aunt Ye smiled so hard that her teeth showed. "That's right. My grandfather used to be the imperial chef in the palace. I learned a lot from him. I will cook them for the head of the family in the future."
"Then I'll wait." Chang Shichu gnawed on the meaty chicken leg and felt that if he could eat delicious food every day, then living in this chaotic world would be bearable.
Wei Yu'an was eating so much that he couldn't even lift his head. His lips were shiny and greasy, like a hungry wolf cub. Chang Shichu brought a glass of orange juice to him and said, "Don't eat too fast. Be careful not to choke. No one will snatch it from you."
Wei Yu'an quickly swallowed the meat in his mouth, blushing as he took a sip of the orange juice to moisten his throat.
This orange juice is squeezed from the orange juice in Chang Shichu's space. It is sweet and much better than ordinary orange juice. Everyone in my family loves it.
Qing'an City is close to the sea, and many people go fishing for a living. Aunt Ye bought a lot of seafood. The shrimps were as big as an adult man's thumb. After peeling one and dipping it in a little sauce, it was extremely delicious. The meat was chewy and flexible. Chang Shichu had to eat several every time to feel satisfied.
There is also crab porridge, which is sweet and delicious and you will never get tired of it.
Chang Shichu felt that Wei Yu'an was loyal to him, perhaps because the food was so good.
Just when the wheat in the fields outside the city was blooming, the new chief of Qing'an City finally took office. It was said that the new mayor was a scholar from the previous dynasty. Later, when the previous dynasty was over and the new dynasty was established, he found some unknown way to become an official, and slowly climbed to the position of mayor of a city.
However, the new dynasty's regime is not very stable now. Various warlords have ruled different places and are kings. Although they are nominally under the jurisdiction of the central government, most of them are actually hypocritical. Otherwise, the Qing'an City Massacre would not have happened, and Pu Qirui would not have been the only one to bring his team to help collect the killed people so long after it happened.
A new official has three things to do when he takes office, but this had little to do with Chang Shichu. She just occupied unowned land in the suburbs to grow crops and opened a few grain stores in the city. Most of her fame was gained by "killing the chicken to scare the monkey".
But this little bit of reputation was of no importance in the eyes of the superiors, not to mention that she was just a young girl in her teens, which made them even more contemptuous.
So when the new commander took office and hosted a banquet for the families, merchants, and gentry with some status in Ancheng to discuss the important matter of rebuilding Qing'an City, he did not invite Chang Shichu.
"Boss, did you know that the new commander is hosting a banquet for the celebrities of Qing'an City?" Wei Yu'an asked Chang Shichu mysteriously when he returned home one day.
"I know, what's wrong?" Chang Shichu asked.
"Did he invite you?" Wei Yu'an asked again.
"No, it's probably because I'm too insignificant and people just look down on me." Chang Shichu said with a smile. In fact, it's better if they look down on me. She doesn't want to deal with these people because she has a feeling it will be troublesome.
It seems that some businesses need to be restrained, otherwise the bigger the tree, the more wind it attracts. Even if she doesn't provoke others, others will provoke her. Although she is not afraid of all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues, she doesn't want to be troubled.
"It seems that this commander is not very capable." Wei Yu'an said somewhat unhappily.
When Chang Shichu heard what he said, he couldn't help laughing and said, "How do you know that he has no ability?"
“If he really has the ability, then why doesn’t he know what you, the master, have done for the people of Qing’an City? Even if it’s not because of your business, but just because you helped bury the bodies of the people who died in the massacre, you should be invited, right? But he didn’t, isn’t that ignorant?” Wei Yu’an was very upset for Chang Shichu.
Chang Shichu glanced at him and said, "Wei Yu'an, what we value may not be valued by others. I buried the bodies of my murdered compatriots to prevent them from being exposed in the wilderness because I think it is important to let them rest in peace. But other people don't think so. They think that it's none of their business whether the bodies of others are collected or not. Are the bodies of lowly civilians worthy of their attention?"
When Wei Yu'an heard her words, he fell silent. Although he was still young, he had been living on the streets since he was a child and had seen everything. Naturally, he understood what Chang Shichu said. It is said that "the rich enjoy wine and meat while the poor freeze to death on the streets." The upper-class dignitaries would not care about the lives of the lowly common people. Even if the common people died on the streets, they would only be disgusted by the stench and the corpses that bothered them.
"Have the wealthy and powerful merchants appeared in Qing'an City so soon?" Chang Shichu was a little puzzled. "Didn't those wealthy families leave long before the massacre? Could it be that they are back?"
Chang Shichu has been busy with work recently and has neglected the situation in Qing'an City. He doesn't know who has moved there.
Wei Yu'an nodded and said, "I saw servants from wealthy families buying a lot of rice at our rice shop, and many ladies dressed in luxurious clothes went to the jewelry shop next door to buy jewelry. They must be wealthy families."
Chang Shichu was really a little surprised at this moment. Are the upper classes of Qing'an City going to return to their previous life of extravagance and decadence so quickly?
(End of this chapter)
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