Chapter 306: Staying at Peach Blossom Temple
After chatting with Granny Gu at Peach Blossom Temple for a while, Daohua prepared to leave with Wang Maner: "Granny Gu, Master Weird, I'll come to see you next time."
Granny Gu smiled and nodded: "Be careful on the road."
"Um!"
Daohua took Wang Maner out of the house, and Gu Jian followed them out.
When stepping out of the courtyard, Daohua looked at Gu Jian and said, "Master Weird, the mountain road is not easy to walk on. You must be careful when going up and down the mountain in the future. After all, you are not young anymore."
Hearing these concerned words, Gu Jian's eyes flashed and he said "hmm" expressionlessly.
Gu Jian returned to the house only when he could no longer see Daohua and the other girl. As soon as he entered, he saw his sister eating the dessert that the girl had brought her. Suddenly, his eyes softened.
"You should try it too. I don't know how rice flowers are made, but this dessert is just better than others." Grandma Gu smiled and pushed the dessert aside.
Gu Jian walked forward, picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, savoring it carefully, and nodded: "It's good, sister, if you like it, I will ask that girl to buy some next time."
Granny Gu shook her head in disapproval. "Don't be like that. When someone offers to give something to you, it's out of consideration. If you ask someone to buy it for you, it's like you're the chef. Desserts and other snacks are only for occasional enjoyment."
Gu Jian kept silent with his head down.
However, the next day, Daohua appeared in Taohua An again with Wang Maner.
"You're here again?"
Gu Jian was really surprised when he saw Daohua and his servant.
Wang Maner raised the pottery jar in her hand and said, "My daughter is here to give Granny Gu some pickled pears."
When Granny Gu heard the sound, she slowly walked out of the room.
When Daohua saw this, she quickly went up to her and supported her arm: "Grandma Gu, let's go back to the house and sit down. Don't stand at the door. It's still a little cold now, and there's a wind blowing from the mountain. Don't catch a cold."
Granny Gu didn't refuse and followed Daohua's support back to the house, saying as she walked, "Why did you make another trip, kid? I've been coughing for a long time, there's no need to rush."
Daohua smiled and said, "It's not that I want to run away. I went home and told my grandmother about you. Grandma heard that you coughed frequently, so she insisted that I quickly bring you the snow pear. As a granddaughter, how dare I disobey my grandmother's orders?"
Granny Gu smiled and said, "Thank you, grandma, for your trouble."
After helping Granny Gu sit down, Daohua took the four pottery jars from Wang Maner's hands and said, "This jar is filled with honey. This honey is produced in my garden. Although it is not as good as wild honey, it tastes good."
"This jar is filled with rock sugar."
"These two jars contain pickled pears."
Daohua turned to look at Gu Jian and said, "Master Weird, you must make the rock sugar and honey stewed snow pear for Granny Gu!"
Ordinary rock sugar, honey and snow pears may not be of much use to Grandma Gu’s cough, but the snow pears she brought were pickled from the pears in the space.
Gu Jian hummed, his expression much softer than before.
Worried that Grandma Gu and Gu Jian wouldn’t take it seriously, Daohua thought about it and decided to make a casserole herself.
Half an hour later, Daohua watched Granny Gu drink a bowl of rock sugar, honey and snow pear soup and immediately asked, "How is it?"
Seeing her eager look, Granny Gu burst out laughing: "It tastes quite good."
Gu Jian said unhappily, "I just drank it, how can the effect be so quick? Do you think this is a magic soup?" Although his tone was not very good, there was a smile in his eyes.
“Yes!”
Daohua smiled awkwardly and slapped her forehead. She felt stupid.
Granny Gu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will drink it well."
After that, Daohua sat for a while and then said goodbye to Wang Maner.
When they reached the yard, Gu Jian took the initiative to ask, "Have you read the medical book I gave you?"
Daohua nodded quickly: "Of course I read it, but there are many things I don't quite understand."
Gu Jian coughed twice and said casually, "If you don't understand something, you can ask me."
Daohua was stunned at first, then smiled brightly: "Thank you, Master Weird."
Looking at Daohua and her maid skipping down the mountain, Gu Jian's expression softened a little, and then he shook his head and went back into the house.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid-March.
After more than half a month of rush work, 5,000 acres of wasteland were reclaimed. Qin Xiaoliu also brought several batches of farm manure from the county town and spread it on the land.
During this period, Daohua often ran between Taohua Village and the provincial capital. Now that she started planting yam, she ran even more frequently.
Seeing how tired she was from running, Granny Gu thought for a moment and decided to let her live in Taohua An: "Our east wing has always been empty. If you don't mind, you can live up the mountain with your maid."
Daohua nodded quickly and was about to agree, but then she glanced at Gu Jian beside her.
Gu Jian snorted and turned his head away.
Seeing that he didn't say anything wrong, Daohua smiled and agreed: "Then I will have to disturb Granny Gu and Master Weird for a while."
Others didn't know how to grow yam, so in order to have a good harvest in the fall, she had to keep a close eye on it. Moreover, this batch of yam seeds all came from the space, which she had accumulated for several years and she didn't want them to be wasted.
Daohua still went home that day. Firstly, she had to tell her family, and secondly, she had to prepare some clothes for replacement.
After Daohua left, Granny Gu smiled and said to Gu Jian, "That girl seems quite scared of you."
Gu Jian was speechless: "What do I have to be afraid of? I didn't hit her, and I didn't scold her. What is she afraid of?"
Granny Gu shook her head helplessly: "You should be less stern in the future. After all, you are just a little girl. Sometimes you look sullen, even I am afraid of you."
Gu Jian wanted to retort, but when he thought about how his sister's cough had eased a lot since she drank the pear soup that the girl brought her, and that she could now sleep through the night, he swallowed his words.
Yan Mansion.
After hearing Granny Gu's invitation, Old Lady Yan was silent for a moment and then said, "I'll go with you. It's not good for a girl to stay overnight at someone else's house without her elders around."
Daohua had not thought of this, but when her grandmother followed her, she agreed. Firstly, the peach blossoms on Peach Blossom Mountain had already bloomed, and her grandmother could go there to enjoy the flowers.
Secondly, it was too lonely for Granny Gu and the Strange Monk to stay on the mountain. The Strange Monk would occasionally go down the mountain to go shopping, but Granny Gu always stayed on the mountain. When my grandmother came, she could still talk to her.
Thinking that the food for Grandma Gu and the other girl had to be carried up the mountain by the strange master alone, Daohua thought about it and directly pulled two large carts of food over: one cart of rice, flour, grain and oil, and the other cart of fresh vegetables, fruits and melons.
The next day, seeing that Daohua not only brought her grandmother but also brought a lot of food, Gu Jian didn't know what expression to use to treat her.
Is this guy planning to stay here forever?
(End of this chapter)
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