Chapter 18 Aunt Sun
According to Qi Yunxi, the mountain where Shen Yunzheng was the king of the mountain was called "Ba Wang Mountain".
But she looked left and right at the map she borrowed from Susong, but couldn't find any Bawang Mountain.
"No," Qi Yunxi frowned, "Yun Zheng's letter was about Bawang Mountain. I remember it very clearly."
"Then we can only search as we go," Shen Xun put away the map, "after all, the direction is the same."
The road ahead was bumpy and difficult to walk on, but Susong asked the officers to urge the prisoners to speed up.
Someone complained, "Sir, this road is too difficult to walk on. How can we walk as fast as before?"
Su Yang sneered, "There are wolves in this area. If you can't reach the next post station before dark, you will be surrounded by wolves!"
The prisoner was startled and stopped complaining, walking faster than anyone else.
Another officer poked him, "Is there really a wolf?"
Su Yang curled his lips, "I just said it casually, who made these people complain after walking a few steps?"
If he were to tell them, it would have been much nicer to just wait comfortably in the capital for the emperor's reward, but his master insisted on volunteering to escort them to Youzhou.
Although I was able to get some money from the prisoners along the way, it was still a very difficult journey with wind, frost, rain and snow.
Despite their best efforts, they still failed to reach the post station before sunset. Su Song ordered them to stay in the wild for one night and had someone make a fire and cook.
At this time, Shen Xun directed several men to take a copper pot from the donkey cart and place it on the fire.
Qi Yunxi sat by the fire, holding his chin and watching Shen Xun tinkering with it for a while, then he smelled a spicy and fragrant aroma wafting from the copper pot.
Not only she smelled it, but everyone present smelled it.
Shen Xun prepared a mushroom soup base and asked Xie Lan and the others to bring down the ingredients she had already placed on the donkey cart.
"This is?"
"It's the Gugu Soup," Prince Hu's eyes sparkled. "But I've eaten Gugu Soup in many places, and I've never tasted anything this fragrant!"
The half-red spicy hot pot was especially delicious. King Hu's forehead was sweating as he ate it, and he kept pouring water into his mouth.
"This meat is delicious, and the vegetables are good too...it's spicy and numbing. Eating it once in winter warms my whole body!"
Those who can't eat spicy food can eat the other half of the mushroom soup pot. As Shen Xun expected, Qi Yunzhou really can't eat spicy food.
Well, not only do overbearing presidents have stomach problems, tyrants do too.
Qi Yunzhou has been eager to try the spicy hot pot, but unfortunately, he was stopped by Shen Xun and others every time.
Shen Xun said disdainfully: "Go away, go to the table with the kids."
Qi Yunzhou: “…”
The prisoners munched on the dry and hard biscuits and salivated at the fragrance in the air. The officers also felt bad. The steamed buns and dried meat were fragrant, but compared with the hot pot, they were like heaven and earth.
Su Yang bit down on the gnashing meat fiercely, "Master, are they being exiled, or are they just going on an outing? They're so relaxed and at ease, I really can't stand it!"
Su Song didn't even raise his head, "Why don't you go and grab it?"
Su Yang is silent.
That woman named Shen Xun could even defeat the master, so wouldn't he be just delivering food to her if he went there?
"That's right," Su Song casually picked up a blade of grass and held it in his mouth. "It's good enough that they can let us escort them to Youzhou. No matter what they do on the way, we should just turn a blind eye."
Su Yang said aggrievedly: "Yes."
Under the intrusion of the fragrance, Zhong Tianci finally couldn't help it.
He and a woman slowly walked behind Zhong Danyue and called her "sister" with a smug look on his face.
Zhong Danyue glanced at them indifferently without responding.
Zhong Tianci suppressed his displeasure and flattered, "Sister, we are a family after all. Even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected. My parents and grandmother are still hungry. Can you..."
Qi Yunzhou glanced at him coldly, "Then I'll break your bones and see if the tendons are even connected!"
He knew that Zhong Danyue was soft-hearted and couldn't say no, so he helped Zhong Danyue solve the problem.
Zhong Tianci shuddered, then managed to hold on and said, "Sister, I'm really at my wit's end, so I came to you for help. You're the kindest person, so please help us."
Zhong Danyue lowered her head, struggling in her heart. A voice told her that she was a kind person and that the Zhong family were her family, so she should give them food.
Another voice said that they were not family members but accomplices, and that nothing could be given to them, otherwise they would be entangled again.
When she was struggling, a pair of warm hands held her.
Zhong Danyue looked up and saw that it was Chen Xun.
Shen Xun took out a whip inlaid with sparkling gems from his bag and handed it to Qi Yunxi.
"Yun Xi, you said before that you can wield a whip. Why don't you show it off? There's a live target right here."
Qi Yunxi stood up with a whip in hand, looking sinister, "Okay!"
Zhong Tianci's face turned pale, and he quickly pushed the woman next to him and said quietly and quickly, "Didn't you say you had a way to get food from Zhong Danyue? Go!"
After saying that, he quickly slipped away.
Qi Yunxi snorted coldly, she put away the whip and said to the woman, "Why don't you leave?"
The woman trembled and said, "I, my concubine, want to say a few words to the young lady."
Zhong Danyue only then noticed the woman, "Auntie Sun?"
Aunt Sun nodded timidly, "Miss, it's me."
"Miss, can you please give me something to eat because I have helped you before?"
Aunt Sun cried, "All the money the master hid was stolen, and he said he wanted to exchange me for food."
Sometimes property is not necessarily an object. Concubines like Aunt Sun can be bought and sold at will.
The Zhong family wanted to eat something good, but they had no money, so it was not impossible for them to sell Aunt Sun to the officials.
"this……"
Zhong Danyue thought of the care Aunt Sun had given her when she was at home. She took out a purse from her sleeve with some small change in it.
When Prince Su attacked the capital, Qi Yunzhou asked someone to take Zhong Danyue away, but time was tight and she didn't take anything with her.
This little bit of change was the monthly allowance that Zhong Danyue saved from the Zhong family.
Zhong Danyue gave the silver and the only silver hairpin she had on her to Aunt Sun, "Aunt Sun, I don't have any food. Please take these things back."
Everything she eats and uses now is given by Chen Xun, so naturally she cannot be generous to others.
Aunt Sun's expression darkened. This little bit of money could only be exchanged for a few steamed buns from the officials. The master would definitely not let her go.
However, Aunt Sun had only given Zhong Danyue a few steamed buns at the beginning, and Zhong Danyue gave her all her money, which was already double repayment for her previous help.
"Thank you, Miss."
Aunt Sun whispered a thank you and went back.
Shen Xun took a look and saw that as soon as Aunt Sun went back, Zhong Tianci snatched the things from her hands and couldn't wait to exchange them with the official.
She turned around and saw that Zhong Danyue's eyes were blank, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"By the way, who among you can cook?"
This question stumped everyone, and Prince Hu was the first to speak: "Sister-in-law, although I, your elder brother, love to eat, I really don't know how to cook."
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