Chapter 103

After Feng Shuo and Jiang Yanyi exchanged a glance, they quickly lowered the curtains. His carriage was low-profile and parked in an inconspicuous location, so no one noticed it.

Jiang Yanyi also knew that now was not the time to ask Feng Shuo why he came here. After Feng Shuo lowered the curtain, she took Aunt Guo and a waiter to the An Mansion's carriage. She asked the servants of the An Mansion to take Madam An upstairs first, then turned around and told the waiter:

"Go and get a doctor!"

Madam An knew she was embarrassed. When she saw Jiang Yanyi coming, she took off the handkerchief covering her mouth for the sake of decency: "Thank you for your kindness. There is no need to bother." With

a broken front tooth, Madam An now speaks with a lisp. Moreover, this fall not only broke a tooth, but also seemed to have hit her nose badly. Most of the blood on her handkerchief came from the nosebleed.

Mrs. An felt her whole face was numb. When she hit her front teeth, she also injured her tongue. Now her tongue could not be moved. Tears welled up in her eyes. If she had not considered the occasion, she would have cried out in pain.

If she had fallen in Jiang Yanyi's shop, she could still blame Jiang Yanyi's antique soup shop. But this was on the street, she fell from her own carriage, and even if she tried to scam him, she would not have been able to hit Jiang Yanyi's shop. If she

went into the shop in this wolfish state and was seen by the guests attending the banquet, she would lose all her face.

Mrs. An knew very well the virtues of those high-ranking ladies, and she might not know why they were laughing at her behind her back, so when Jiang Yanyi asked her to go into the shop to rest and asked someone to call a doctor, she refused without thinking.

Mrs. An was put into another carriage by the servants of the An family, and she went back to the house with Mrs. An, leaving only Mrs. An to entertain the guests in the restaurant.

Jiang Yanyi took Mrs. An into the store. The news that Mrs. An had fallen was covered up. Except for the people outside who saw it at the time, the guests dining inside did not know that Mrs. An had made such a big mistake.

Madam An wiped her eyes with her handkerchief at the entrance, and said to Jiang Yanyi with a forced smile: "Today's banquet is very thoughtful. I would like to thank the store for inviting the opera troupe and the extra dishes. Please include the money when you settle the bill."

She spoke softly, but her words were very clear.

Jiang Yanyi felt that Madam An was not as incompetent as those women said before.

She said politely: "What are you talking about, Madam? I really appreciate your taking care of our business."

When Madam An returned to the table to greet the female guests, Jiang Yanyi sat back at the counter with a lot of doubts.

Chu Shubao was cracking melon seeds and nudged Jiang Yanyi with her elbow: "I just found out about this. Do you know how the An family's birthday banquet was ruined?"

Jiang Yanyi leaned over: "I'm listening, tell me."

Chu Shubao said with a gossipy look on her face: "Mrs. An wanted to support her niece to be her son's concubine. Madam An seemed to be a soft-hearted person and refused to agree to this matter. Old Lady An was a protective granddaughter-in-law. I don't know if Madam An was really sick from anger or pretending to be sick, but she made Madam An get up early and serve her in the dark for more than half a month."

"Later, Madam An was going to celebrate her birthday. Seeing that Madam An was ill, the old lady asked her granddaughter-in-law to take charge of the banquet. If Madam An could host the birthday banquet successfully, the power of the housekeeper would fall into her hands. Unexpectedly, on the night before Madam An's birthday, a mouse got into the An family kitchen and ruined all the prepared dishes and meat. The An family had no choice but to temporarily outsource the birthday banquet to an outside restaurant."

Jiang Yanyi said, "Could it be that Madam An hired someone to release the mouse?"

Chu Shubao had a schadenfreude on her face: "It's probably her. No wonder she broke her tooth in front of Madam An's carriage. This is really a case of God watching over you!"

Chu Jiabao agreed, "It's a pity that she is a vegetarian, and she even dared to do something on her mother-in-law's birthday."

She looked at Madam An at the table and shook her head repeatedly, "Look at her daughter-in-law, she is so soft-tempered, I don't know how much she must have endured at home."

Jiang Yanyi also looked over there, and quickly retracted her gaze, "This Madam An was able to arrange everything for the birthday banquet on her first time as a housekeeper, and she doesn't seem stupid. But if she doesn't stand up for herself in these household affairs, no one can help her."

There are several famous restaurants in Xizhou, and large banquets must be booked in advance so that the restaurants can buy ingredients and prepare dishes in advance.

Ruyilou has just opened, and although it has a customer base, it is not famous for hosting banquets. Madam An came to them directly because she knew that the antique soup was easy to prepare and that guests could eat it right away when they arrived, rather than sitting and waiting.

With such judgment and decision-making ability, if Madam An was a little tougher, her mother-in-law wouldn't have the chance to make trouble.

Madam An came along because she heard that Ruyi Tower wasn't well-known yet and thought that Madam An wanted to embarrass herself here. She thought that if things got out of hand, Old Madam An would lose face and might not like this granddaughter-in-law anymore.

When the time came, she would be accused of being unfilial and might even be divorced.

Even an outsider like her could see all this, and Madam An herself probably knew what her mother-in-law was thinking.

Chu Shubao sighed and said, "If Madam An had married into an ordinary family, her life might have been easier."

The difference in social status sometimes brings not only differences in upbringing and tolerance, but also differences in ideas and ways of doing things. Madam An was directly promoted to this position. It would not work to use her previous set of rules in a wealthy family.

If you always talk nicely, you will be treated as a soft persimmon. If you want to calm people down, you must show your temper.

The sisters were talking when Aunt Guo came over and said, "There are two girls on the third floor who want to buy rouge."

When Chu Shubao and her sisters heard that there was business, they could not sit still and went upstairs immediately.

Jiang Yanyi laughed and shook her head. She was feeling bored while roasting the charcoal pot and was thinking about bringing the cats from home tomorrow. Suddenly, she saw a tall figure appear in front of the counter.

Looking at Feng Shuo's expressionless face, Jiang Yanyi finally remembered that she had forgotten someone again. She laughed awkwardly and said, "I thought you were just passing by."

Feng Shuo just looked at her without saying anything.

Just when Jiang Yanyi felt her scalp tingling, he said, "I want a private room."

The waiter thought that there was a new customer and hurried over to show Feng Shuo the way.

Jiang Yanyi sat at the counter for a while before going upstairs.

When she entered, she found that the waiter had already brought Feng Shuo a pot of red soup, and all the dishes were served. At a glance, it was all meat, except for two plates of bean sprouts and tofu given away for free when the restaurant opened.

"Why are you free today?" Jiang Yanyi pulled out a stool and sat opposite Feng Shuo.

Feng Shuo was frying a thinly sliced ​​pork belly. He used a wooden chopstick to move the meat slice with distinct textures back and forth in the boiling spicy soup. From time to time, cornel and peppercorns were pushed up by the boiling water.

In the porcelain vase placed on the corner of the table, a branch of winter plum was about to bloom. Because of the mist rising from the pot, a small drop of water condensed on the branch.

Feng Shuo put the frying pork belly into Jiang Yanyi's bowl and did not answer her question directly: "I heard that someone came to cause trouble?"

When he said this, Jiang Yanyi understood.

He came here specially because he heard that someone came to her store to cause trouble.

Jiang Yanyi's resentment that he had concealed the fact that Xing'an Marquis wanted him to marry his daughter disappeared, and he picked up the plum blossom meat in the bowl and ate it. "The troublemaker has been beaten away, thanks to the help of Xing'an Marquis County Lord."

Plum blossom meat is commonly known as old meat slices. After being cooked in the secret hot pot soup, the aroma of the soup base is fully integrated into the meat. The tender taste and the mellow fragrance of the meat slices are really unforgettable.

For Jiang Yanyi, the only flaw is probably that the dogwood is not spicy enough, making this red soup hot pot not authentic enough.

When Feng Shuo heard the words "Xing'an Marquis County Lord", he frowned and said, "The troublemakers are also Xing'an Marquis's people. Are they trying to direct and act in a drama?"

Jiang Yanyi, who was greedy because of a piece of pork belly, was eating the second piece. She said, "I think the Xing'an Marquis County Lord has a pretty straightforward personality."

Feng Shuo glanced at her and said, "No one will write their thoughts on their face."

Jiang Yanyi said in a cold voice, "My Lord, why haven't I heard you say that Xing'an Marquis wants to be your father-in-law?"

Feng Shuo heard the jealousy in her words and said, "He is now my adoptive father."

He recognized Xing'an Marquis County Lord as his adopted sister, which meant that Xing'an Marquis's generation status was also raised by one generation.

Jiang Yanyi was not jealous at first, but when she heard him say that, she couldn't help but chuckle: "After all the twists and turns, Marquis Xing'an still took advantage of you in terms of seniority."

She picked up the pork belly that had been boiled, and found that she didn't have a saucepan, so she dipped it in Feng Shuo's saucepan.

Feng Shuo had just boiled a piece for her, and when he saw Jiang Yanyi put the meat slices in his bowl, he naturally thought that she was boiling it for him. The corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he picked up the chopsticks to enjoy it.

But he saw Jiang Yanyi pick up the meat slices with wooden chopsticks and dip them in the sauce, then pick them up and put them into her own mouth.

Feng Shuo: "...Is it delicious?"

Jiang Yanyi nodded in confusion: "It's delicious."

The corners of someone's mouth that were curled up slowly froze, and in the end, he still boiled the meat himself.

Jiang Yanyi didn't quite understand why this man was fine one second ago, but the next second he acted like someone owed him money.

After eating some meat to fill her stomach, she remembered to ask the main question: "Did Madam An really fall from the front of the car by herself?"

Feng Shuo was outside at the time, which was too much of a coincidence.

Feng Shuo focused on eating the meat: "How would I know?"

It was him who did it, but he just didn't want Jiang Yanyi to know.

Madam An left Ruyi Tower, and her mouth was still dirty. Old lady An was hard of hearing, so she said to the maid with contempt that the Ruyi Tower opened by Jiang Yanyi was no different from those red-light districts. Unfortunately, Feng Shuo heard it and taught her a lesson.

Jiang Yanyi was surprised and said: "Then this is really retribution."

Feng Shuo asked: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yanyi told him about the immoral things Madam An did to her daughter-in-law, and also told him about the entanglement between An Yongyuan and the male and female protagonists in the original book.

On the night when she confessed everything to Feng Shuo, she briefly told Feng Shuo the general direction of the dynasty and the main characters in the original book, but the present world has long been out of line with the plot of the original book, and many things can only be used as reference and prediction.

"I think if Madam An is always well, maybe General An can always be used by you." Jiang Yanyi said.

Feng Shuo seemed to be thinking about something: "Yanyi, do you think there is another person in the world who came here from another world like you?"

Jiang Yanyi held his wooden hand and paused: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

Feng Shuo said: "A month ago, Madam An accidentally fell into the lake, and it was Lu Linyuan who rescued her."

In the original book plot that Jiang Yanyi told, Lu Linyuan and Madam An never met.

Lu Linyuan had been like Jiang Yanyi many times before, as if he could predict some things. Feng Shuo had suspected it long ago, and now the matter of Madam An made him even more suspicious.

Jiang Yanyi ate the hot pot tofu that he had just taken out of the pot without saying a word.

Wasn't it a few days before the Turkic prince escaped from prison a month ago?

Because Madam An was still alive, there was no plot of An Yongyuan imprisoning Jiang Yanxi?

If Lu Linyuan went to rescue Madam An for the purpose of protecting Jiang Yanxi, it seems to make sense.

But if Lu Linyuan was also wearing a mask, then why did he do this for Jiang Yanxi? Moreover, the original book did not write how Madam An died, so how could Lu Linyuan rush to save her?

Jiang Yanyi thought about Lu Linyuan's attitude when she first met him, and said hesitantly: "Lu Linyuan should not be a person from another world like me, but I can give him a try."

Feng Shuo only said two words, "No."

Jiang Yanyi looked at his face that turned sour in an instant, and said with a smile: "Are you still worried that I will have something with him?"

Feng Shuo glanced at her and put a soft and rotten boneless chicken claw in her bowl: "No means no."