Chapter 115

Jiang Yanyi had just experienced a carriage crash not long ago. Although she was frightened by the hidden arrow this time, she was very calm after she recovered.

She glanced at the crowd below. Yang Xiu and Bing Shao, who pretended to be ordinary people, nodded to Jiang Yanyi calmly and held back.

Previously, Jiang Yanyi and his sister were almost hit by a carriage. Yang Xiu and Bing Shao were sent by Chu Changping to protect Jiang Yanyi, but they were not there. The two of them felt very guilty and said they would go back to work for Jiang Yanyi.

This time, Jiang Yanyi came to collect donations, and on the surface, he only brought Huo Jianjia, but Yang Xiu and Bing Shao were watching secretly.

The guards of the wealthy merchants also rushed forward at this time, protecting their masters and hiding in Lai Fu Wine House.

Madam An had never experienced such a dangerous situation before. When she was supported by the maid to stand up, her legs were very weak and her face was pale.

She was sitting next to Jiang Yanyi just now. When the arrow shot at her, her mind went blank and she was completely confused. Now her heart was beating violently, as if it was about to jump out of her throat.

Jiang Yanyi saw that her maid could hardly hold her up, so she hurriedly lent a hand: "Is Madam An okay?"

Madam An's hands were cold, and she reluctantly nodded to Jiang Yanyi: "It's okay."

She was just a bystander and was so scared. Jiang Yanyi, who almost died under the sharp arrow, looked calm. Madam An couldn't help but admire Jiang Yanyi in her heart. A woman who can be favored by the King of Liaoning must have some outstanding qualities.

If it were any other noble lady today, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to be as calm as Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi helped Madam An into the private room that Manager Xu prepared for them alone, and said to the waiter at the door: "Go and get a doctor."

The waiter hurried out to get the doctor.

Although Jiang Yanyi knew that Huo Jianjia was good at martial arts, she was still a little worried. She was also afraid that some wealthy businessmen would have ulterior motives and take this opportunity to send people to steal the donation banknotes. After comforting Madam An Shao, she went out to find Shopkeeper Xu.

Shopkeeper Xu was in a state of panic at the moment. When he met Jiang Yanyi, he almost knelt on the ground and kowtowed, as if a disaster was about to happen: "Shopkeeper Chu, today's accident was really a sudden disaster. If the prince investigates, I hope you can speak for me."

Jiang Yanyi knew that the person who shot the arrow could not have been arranged by Shopkeeper Xu. She asked: "Where is the donation banknote?"

At this time, Shopkeeper Xu would never dare to covet the money again, and hurriedly said: "I locked it in the warehouse. , there are many guys watching, nothing will happen. "

Jiang Yanyi said: "People's hearts are hidden, the money raised today is not a small amount, if someone pretends to be a thief and steals the banknotes, it will be up to Manager Xu to deal with this situation."

Manager Xu is not stupid, as he was able to take the position of the head of the Chamber of Commerce immediately after the fall of the Hu family. He has been dealing with merchants for many years, and he knows who is what kind of person better than Jiang Yanyi. Now that Jiang Yanyi has done this, he also knows that he must not take it lightly. He

bowed deeply to Jiang Yanyi and said: "Thank you, Manager Chu, for your advice. Manager Chu is so kind, Xu will never forget it."

After instructing Manager Xu, Jiang Yanyi turned around and was about to go back to the private room, when he saw that the waiter who had just gone out to ask for a doctor had led a female doctor upstairs.

There are only a few pharmacies on Duhufu Street, and Jiang Yanyi knows almost all the doctors on duty. The female doctor who went upstairs was fat, and Jiang Yanyi had no impression of her. She thought that the female doctor was not a doctor near Duhufu Street, so how could she get here so quickly?

It was probably because of the lessons learned from the previous female itinerant doctor. The female itinerant doctor had never been caught. It

was said that she was proficient in disguise, making it difficult for the officers and soldiers who were searching. Jiang Yanyi was nervous when she saw the female doctor.

She went to the lobby of Laifu Restaurant and took a walk around. Yang Xiu Bing Shao was now dressed as a diner in the lobby. When he saw Jiang Yanyi coming downstairs, he followed her to the backyard without making a sound.

"Boss, is there anything wrong?" Yang Xiu asked.

Jiang Yanyi whispered, "Just now, the waiter from the restaurant brought a female doctor upstairs to see Madam An Shao. I'm worried that she is the female doctor named Fang from the previous dynasty."

They had noticed the female doctor Jiang Yanyi mentioned, but that female doctor was fat and had gray hair. She was obviously an elderly medical woman. There were female relatives in the restaurant who were frightened, so the two did not think much about it. But after hearing what Jiang Yanyi said, they became alert.

Yang Xiu asked, "What should we do?"

Jiang Yanyi said, "It must be aimed at me. If she wants to save Jiang Yanxi, she won't dare to kill me. The previous arrow might be intended to lure Jianjia away."

"Mrs. An is still in the room. Just in case I go up first, you two can pretend to be waiters in the wine house and come in to add tea. Follow my instructions."

Yang Xiu and Bing Shao agreed.

Jiang Yanyi then turned and went upstairs.

In the private room, Mrs. An sat at the eight-immortal table and let the gray-haired doctor feel her pulse.

"Mrs. An was frightened. She just needs to rest for a few days. I'll prescribe a prescription to calm her nerves. Take the medicine a few times and you'll be fine." The doctor's voice was surprisingly kind and calm.

Madam An thanked her and said to Jiang Yanyi, "Miss Chu, you should also let this female doctor take your pulse."

Jiang Yanyi was not sure whether this female doctor was the female itinerant doctor surnamed Fang before entering the house, but after entering the house, she smelled the smell of medicine on her body, which was different from that of ordinary doctors, and basically confirmed it.

As a cook, she may not be good at other things, but her sense of smell and taste are more sensitive than others.

Jiang Yanyi had previously smelled the smell of medicine on the female itinerant doctor when she was scraping for a cold, and it was exactly the same as that on this female doctor.

To prevent the female doctor from noticing, Jiang Yanyi pretended not to know her identity and said, "The arrow didn't hurt me, but there was another murder case in the east of the city. The government officials were delayed there and I don't know when they can come."

She said this deliberately to let the female doctor relax her vigilance. After all, if the government officials came later, she would have more chances and would not go to extremes and fight to the death.

Fang Zhi looked like an old lady in her seventies after she changed her appearance. When she heard that the government officials would come later, her eyes moved slightly. Madam An Shao

was kind-hearted. When she heard that there was another murder case at the end of the year, she couldn't help but sigh.

At this time Fang Zhi said: "I see that the girl does not look very well, with symptoms of yin deficiency and excess fire. I have been practicing medicine for many years and my medical skills are still good. If the girl trusts me, why not let me give her acupuncture?"

Jiang Yanyi thought it would be strange if she trusted him, and declined, "Thank you for your kindness, doctor. It's not convenient when I'm away. I'll ask you to come to my house to take my pulse later."

Fang Zhi asked for acupuncture without hesitation, and Jiang Yanyi's polite refusal left her with no reason to ask again.

Fang Zhi could only smile and agree. When she went to pack her medicine box, she reached for the bamboo tube of incense in the compartment of the medicine box.

"Sir, let me add a pot of hot tea for you!"

At this moment, Yang Xiu came in with a teapot, and Bing Shao followed him with a plate of cakes. Fang Zhi had already touched the bamboo tube of incense. Seeing this, she had to put the incense down first.

Jiang Yanyi watched her silently, and when Yang Xiu and Bing Shao put the things on the table, he gave them a look that

suggested he take action. Before he could react, Yang Xiu turned around and swept Fang Zhi to the ground with a sweeping kick. Before Fang Zhi could react, Bing Shao stepped forward and directly removed both of her hands. Fang Zhi cried out in pain.

Madam An was so frightened that her face turned pale. She stood up from the stool and looked at Jiang Yanyi in shock: "Miss Chu... who is this..."

Jiang Yanyi was relieved to see Fang Zhi was subdued, and said: "This person is a wanted criminal by the government!"

Bing Shao pulled off the human skin mask on Fang Zhi's face. Madam An saw that the wrinkled old lady instantly turned into a middle-aged woman with a fierce face, and she took a step back in fear.

The government officials quickly came over, and Madam An realized that Jiang Yanyi's previous statement about letting the horse hurt people was just a trick to deceive the female doctor.

Jiang Yanyi thought that the people who came were just some minions of the government. When he went to the window and looked, he saw a man with a cold face riding a tall horse, and he was stunned.

Why did he come in person?

A snowflake slowly floated down from the window. Houses were lined up on both sides of the long street. A thick layer of snow accumulated on the eaves. Frost formed on the leafless branches beside the road. From a distance, they looked like jade trees.

Feng Shuo was dressed in armor. His figure was straighter than pine and cypress trees. His face was cold. The dark cloud horse under his crotch, which was half a head taller than ordinary war horses, snorted. The hot air he exhaled formed a white mist in the air.

As if he noticed her gaze, Feng Shuo raised his eyes on horseback and looked over here.

There were more and more flying snowflakes, falling down in large flakes. It was sunny for half a day, but it was snowing again.

Jiang Yanyi saw Feng Shuo retract his gaze, turned off the war horse, and seemed to come directly to the wine house.

Her heart beat fast for no reason.

As Jiang Yanyi expected, a wealthy businessman saw the opportunity brought by the riot in the restaurant and asked someone to pretend to be an accomplice to steal the banknotes raised by the Chamber of Commerce. Fortunately, after Jiang Yanyi's reminder, Manager Xu had moved the banknotes. After

negotiating with Manager Xu and learning that it was Song Lushi from the government office, Feng Shuo went straight upstairs to find Jiang Yanyi.

An Yongyuan looked much more fierce than Feng Shuo, but Madam An dared to punish An Yongyuan to kneel on the washboard, but she didn't dare to look at Feng Shuo for too long. Since Feng Shuo entered the room, she was so angry that she didn't dare to breathe. Seeing

this, Jiang Yanyi thought that since the government officials had come, Madam An could be sent back by the government officials, and her safety would be guaranteed, so he asked Madam An to go back first.

Madam An was more than happy to accept the offer. She left in a hurry with her maid without even saying a few polite words to Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She glanced at Feng Shuo and said, "Look how scared you are."

Taking into account that Yang Xiu and Bing Shao were still in the room, Feng Shuo didn't do anything out of the ordinary. He just glanced at Jiang Yanyi and said, "Why didn't you get scared?"

This didn't sound like a flirt, but Jiang Yanyi felt embarrassed for some reason. She quickly got down to business: "Look who I caught for you!"

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows and looked at the ground. He had never seen a female itinerant doctor, but after examining her, he was very surprised. The former officials in the prison had also asked the painter to paint the portrait of the female itinerant doctor according to her confession. Combining those characteristics, he recognized her at a glance, "The maid of the former empress?"

Fang Zhi spat fiercely, "Traitors and thieves! My Daqi Kingdom is definitely not one that you rats can sit on!"

Feng Shuo sneered, "It's not stable, your Daqi Kingdom has been destroyed for more than ten years."

Fang Zhi's face instantly turned ugly.

Feng Shuo ordered Xing Yao, who was waiting at the door, "Take her away!"

Xing Yao quickly brought the guards into the room and dragged Fang Zhi away. Feng Shuo glanced at Yang Xiu and Bing Shao who were still in the room.

The two pretended not to see his eyes, and stood in the room with their heads down, refusing to leave.

Feng Shuo was a man of his time, so he could guess that this was probably Chu Changping's order. In the end, he just rubbed Jiang Yanyi's head and said, "I'll give you a reward later, but don't take risks again!"

He rushed over from the Xizhou camp because he heard that someone shot an arrow and almost hurt Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi was happy, with a smile on his face, "The military funds I raised are roughly 150,000 taels!"

Feng Shuo didn't expect this number, and he raised his eyebrows in surprise, "You put a knife against their necks to force them to donate?"

If it weren't for the fact that Yang Xiu and Bing Shao were still in the house, Jiang Yanyi would have wanted to pinch the flesh on his arm and twist it hard.

She gritted her teeth and said, "No."

Feng Shuo saw that she was like a cat with its fur standing on end, and a smile appeared on his lips, which was rare and gentle. "Let's go. I will personally take you back."

Jiang Yanyi was afraid that Huo Jianjia would encounter some danger, so she asked Bing Shao to find someone. As soon as she finished speaking, she ran into Huo Jianjia when she went downstairs.

Huo Jianjia was still holding the bloody Guan Gong knife in her hand. No one dared to approach her within ten feet. When they saw her walking in that direction, the onlookers automatically made way for her.

But Huo Jianjia was downcast, with a gloomy face, as if she was a loser who thought she was unlucky.

The first thing she said when she saw Jiang Yanyi was, "Boss, I was too ruthless and forgot to leave anyone alive."

After killing all the people who attacked the noodle shop, Jiang Yanyi said he wanted to leave someone alive, and Huo Jianjia kept this in mind.

Jiang Yanyi didn't expect that she was so upset just because of this, so he comforted her, "It's okay, the mastermind has been caught."

Huo Jianjia's eyes lit up again.

Knowing that the mastermind was the female itinerant doctor who killed her father, Huo Jianjia wanted to chop off her head with a big knife. Jiang Yanyi told her that the government still had to interrogate the female itinerant doctor. Huo Jianjia said in a sullen voice, "Let me chop off her head after the interrogation."

She turned around and returned the Guan Gong knife to the waiter of Lai Fu Restaurant. The waiter took the big knife and looked at the blood stains on it. His legs went weak.

The female itinerant doctor was imprisoned, and part of the military funds were raised. Jiang Yanyi felt that the string in her head that had been tied for several days was suddenly loosened. When

she was in a good mood, she liked to sneak into the kitchen and play drums, asking Huo Jianjia and Qiu Kui what they wanted to eat.

When Huo Jianjia was eating steamed buns and instant noodles in the noodle shop, she often heard Bing Shao say that the firewood pot rice made by Jiang Yanyi was the best. She had been here for a long time and had never tasted the firewood pot rice made by Jiang Yanyi, so she immediately asked for some.

Yang Xiu and Bing Shao would not argue with a little girl. Although Qiu Kuro wanted to eat the rice with pickled intestines, Huo Jianjia was so thin and small that she gave in to her unconsciously. In the end, the dinner was firewood pot rice.

The tender potatoes planted in winter and the green and lovely peas were fried in sesame oil and lard. The potatoes and peas were covered with a layer of light golden oil. The combination of vegetables and animal oil always exuded a particularly tempting aroma.

Jiang Yanyi only added some salt. Some ingredients needed thick red sauce, but the firewood pot rice was authentic when it was eaten in its original flavor. After frying the rice, she added some water to the pot to prevent the potatoes and peas at the bottom from being burnt, and then covered it with the rice that was cooked to 70% done, and poured the mellow rice soup that was previously poured out along the edge of the pot.

The aroma of the rice was almost completely cooked into the rice soup. When using rice soup to cook wood-cooked rice, the aroma of the rice will be more intense after it comes out of the pot, and the fried rice crust will taste better and be easier to stick together. After all, the starch content in rice soup is quite high, but the control of the heat is higher.

To go with the firewood pot rice, Jiang Yanyi also stewed a pork rib soup, adding medicinal ingredients such as Adenophora, Astragalus, Angelica, and Agrocybe aegerita. The pork ribs were stewed until they were soft, and the meat and bones separated with a light touch of chopsticks. The meat was tender and not firewood at all. The soup was fresh, fragrant, mellow, warm and nourishing.

Jiang Yanyi stir-fried the marinated bacon with salted vegetables and garlic sprouts. Before it was out of the pot, a group of people were attracted by the aroma and waited at the door of the kitchen for dinner. The salted vegetables were fried in the oil from the stir-fried bacon, which had a unique flavor. Pick up a spoonful of salted vegetables and eat with rice. Even if you are full, you can still have another half bowl.

Huo Jianjia ate too much at this meal, and finally she could only lie paralyzed beside the stove.

Aunt Guo hurt her hand, so Yang Xiu and Bing Shao very consciously took on the responsibility of cooking.

When there was a rare moment of leisure, Jiang Yanyi read storybooks to the two little girls beside the stove, and Huo Jianjia would occasionally respond to Jiang Yanyi. Qiu Kui, who used to like listening to Jiang Yanyi's stories the most, was now concentrating on sewing shoe soles.

Jiang Yanyi knew that she must have made them for Luo the blacksmith just by looking at the size of the soles.

Thinking that this silly girl would have to get married after the New Year, Jiang Yanyi suddenly felt a little sad like an old mother.

She said to Qiu Kui, "If he dares to treat you badly in the future, you must come back and tell me, don't be a fool and get angry."

The dry firewood on the stove was crackling, Qiu Kui looked up at Jiang Yanyi blankly, her eyes slowly turned red, and she nodded and said okay.

Huo Jianjia held her stomach and changed her position with difficulty, and said coldly, "If he dares to treat you badly, I will chop off his head!"

This successfully scared Qiu Kui so much that she pricked her hand.

She said quickly, "He's very good to me. Every time he comes to see me, he buys me candied figurines or candied haws."

Huo Jianjia said, "My father used to buy me some too."

She glanced at the coarse cloth Qiu Kui used to sew the soles of her shoes and asked, "It's so cold in Xizhou. When you sew the soles of your shoes, you can insert sheepskin inside to keep warm."

When she used to travel around with her father, her father would always ask someone to make a pair of sheepskin boots for her when they came to the northern territories. Thinking of the past, Huo Jianjia's eyes were slightly sad.

Qiu Kui held the needle in her hand and brushed it against her temples before continuing to sew: "The shop only sells whole sheepskin materials, I don't need so much."

The sheepskin used to make clothes is not directly peeled off the sheep, but has to go through many processes. After being processed in this way, the price has increased several times.

Huo Jianjia heard this and said: "The sheepskin scroll is useless anyway, you can cut it off and sew the soles of shoes."

She looked at Jiang Yanyi: "What do you think, boss?"

Qiu Kui also looked at Jiang Yanyi eagerly.

Jiang Yanyi now had no hope for the sheepskin scroll at all, and said: "Take it and use it."

Qiu Kui heard this and hurriedly went to take the sheepskin scroll happily. She drew a shoe pattern with charcoal according to the size of Luo the blacksmith, picked up the scissors and started cutting.

Jiang Yanyi laughed and shook her head. While she was sighing, Qiu Kui, who was cutting the shoe shape with scissors, suddenly asked in surprise: "What is this?"

Jiang Yanyi turned around and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

Qiu Kui brought the parchment scroll to Jiang Yanyi to see: "Huahua, there is something inside!"

Jiang Yanyi was stunned when he saw the partition exposed in the middle of the parchment scroll after it was cut.

No wonder Chi Qing and the others couldn't find the partition by pinching the edge, it turned out to be in the middle.

She took out two palm-sized yellowed drawings from the partition, and looked at them carefully in the light of the fire. She found that there was indeed a map on the drawing, but the handwriting was only the size of sesame seeds.

Now the outside world knows that the treasure map is fake, and no longer focuses on Xizhou. As a result, the treasure map is real!

Jiang Yanyi's heart was pounding. If Feng Shuo secretly sent people to look for the treasure, he would not have to worry about the bandits snatching it away, and he could also quietly build up the military defense of Xizhou