Chapter 167

It was a cool night, Jiang Yanyi was leaning on her elbows to read on the Luohan bed. The evening breeze blew, the candlelight flickered, and her eyelids were already fighting with sleepiness.

Chenyu advised: "Madam, you should take a rest first, and ask the Fifth Young Master tomorrow."

However, before Jiang Yanyi could answer, a voice came from the gate of the courtyard: "The Fifth Young Master is here."

Jiang Yanyi raised her head from the book and looked towards the gate.

There was a lantern hanging at the gate, casting a ball of dim light. Chu Yangui, wearing a snow-blue robe, walked slowly from the cobblestone path towards the main house.

There were no lanterns on the path to the main house. Chu Yangui's figure was still clear at the gate of the courtyard. After entering the gate, he slowly blended into the dark night. Jiang Yanyi could only see a tall and thin black shadow.

As he approached, under the lanterns on the eaves, the black soap-horn boots, the corners of the robe embroidered with curved water patterns, the pale and handsome face... became clear one by one.

His facial features have grown more and more in the past two years. It was a very strange feeling. Looking at this young man, for a moment, Jiang Yanyi actually saw some of Feng Shuo's former shadow in him.

But as Chu Yangui entered the house, his eyebrows curved, and he smiled with two small tiger teeth showing when he called her "Sister", the feeling of being similar to Feng Shuo disappeared.

Jiang Yanyi also laughed, motioned him to sit down, and asked: "You went to a small gathering with some colleagues, why did you come home so late?"

Chu Yangui said: "The Mansion of the Loyal and Brave Marquis asked Bachelor Han to smooth the relationship, and hope to put the illegitimate son

of the mansion into the Hanlin Academy. Bachelor Han invited all colleagues in the Hanlin Academy to a small gathering today, probably to shut us up, and I can't refuse." In the officialdom, it is not uncommon for families to rely on personal connections to find a spare job for their children. Bachelor Han is Chu Yangui's top superior in the Hanlin Academy, and he really can't refuse this dinner today.

Jiang Yanyi asked, "How have you been in the Hanlin Academy these days? Are you getting along well with your colleagues?"

Chu Yangui looked a little helpless: "Sister, I'm in the Hanlin Academy now, not in the academy. Are you still worried that I'll have conflicts with my colleagues?"

When he was studying, he was indeed unlearned and unskilled. He made trouble in the academy all day and offended many people.

Now the officialdom is different from the academy. Even if they are mortal enemies, they still flatter each other with a smile on their faces.

Jiang Yanyi smiled: "It's really been a blink of an eye, you've grown up."

Chu Yangui looked at her, his eyes were deep for a moment, and said: "I hate myself for understanding too late."

Without waiting for Jiang Yanyi to reply, he quickly changed the subject: "Sister, His Majesty is a trustworthy person, I feel relieved if you follow him."

Jiang Yanyi said with a smile: "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

Chu Yangui seemed to want to say something, but held back, and just said: "Sister, I'm happy if you live well."

This silly child.

Jiang Yanyi said: "If you live well, Sister is also happy."

Seeing that it was getting late, Jiang Yanyi said a few words to him, and then urged him to go back and rest.

She did not doubt Chu Yangui's words at all. After all, what she sent out to find out was that Chu Yangui and his colleagues from the Hanlin Academy were feasting in the wine house.

On the second day, Jiang Yanyi had breakfast at the Chu family, then changed into casual clothes and went to inspect her industries in various parts of the capital.

The most prosperous of all the restaurants in Ruyi Tower was of course Ruyi Tower. No matter what time it was, the restaurant was almost always empty. Ruyi Tower in the capital had a rubbing of the "Gudong Gengfu" written by Feng Shuo. The original version was no longer mounted in Xizhou Ruyi Tower, but was privately collected by Jiang Yanyi.

Ruyi Tower retained the entertainment item of storytelling. After she entered the store, she found that the storytellers were not talking about any fashionable storytelling, but about her and Feng Shuo's old relationship.

The storytelling glorified her first encounter with Feng Shuo, saying only that they became acquainted with each other because of the delicious food in Yilou. Later, when Feng Shuo was resisting the foreign enemies of Minghan State, she cleverly transported medicinal materials southward on a cargo ship for emergency assistance. This story was basically known to everyone in the Daxuan Dynasty, but the storyteller narrated it with great emotion, and the diners in the building were still fascinated by it.

When leaving Yilou, Chenyu smiled and said, "No wonder the common people call Yilou the Queen's House." After leaving

the palace, Jiang Yanyi felt much more relaxed. She said, "I haven't seen Qiukui for a long time. Let someone tell the Chu family that I won't go back for lunch at noon. I'll go see Qiukui."

When Qiukui and the blacksmith first arrived in the capital, Jiang Yanyi found a clean house for them to live in. The blacksmith took care of Qiukui until she was out of confinement, and then he went to work at the noodle shop in the capital.

When the carriage stopped outside Qiukui's house, Jiang Yanyi lifted the curtain and saw a lot of pumpkin vines sticking out from the top of the courtyard wall.

Although the people living in this area are not rich, they are also decent families. Most of the plants growing on the walls of every household are red flowers and green trees. The pumpkin vines are quite eye-catching at first glance.

Chenyu went to knock on the door. An old lady answered the door. Seeing that they were dressed in rich clothes, she asked carefully: "Who are you?"

Chenyu asked: "Does Miss Qiukui live here?"

Qiukui's response soon came from the yard: "Who is it?"

Qiukui had a headscarf on her head, her long hair was tied up with two silver hairpins, and she was holding a baby who had just been coaxed to sleep in her arms. When she saw Jiang Yanyi outside the door, her face was full of surprise and a little bit of disbelief. Before she said a word, her eyes were red.

"Huahua?" She walked quickly to the door.

Jiang Yanyi saw Qiukui crying, and she couldn't help but feel a little sour in her nose. This silly girl had spent the most difficult time with her, and she had always regarded Qiukui as half a sister.

After entering the house, Qiukui was holding the child and it was inconvenient for her to make tea, so the old lady poured tea for Jiang Yanyi before leaving.

Jiang Yanyi looked at Qiu Kui's red cheeks because of crying, and smiled, "You are fatter than before, that's good."

Qiu Kui also smiled, "Nursing Xiaobao, eating too much, Brother Yong was afraid that I would be tired, so he bought Lin Ma back. Now I only take care of Xiaobao and don't work, so I got fat."

"It's good that he knows how to love you." Jiang Yanyi looked at the sleeping child in her arms, and was relieved to the point that she felt a little sad. She was sincerely happy for Qiu Kui to have what she has today, and said, "Xiaobao is so good, she looks like you."

Qiu Kui smiled foolishly, "Brother Yong said so too."

Jiang Yanyi said, "I'll hold her."

Qiu Kui handed the child to Jiang Yanyi, because Jiang Yanyi knew how to hold a baby because he had held Chu Nian'an before.

It was a completely different feeling to hold this soft and fluffy baby in his hands than Chu Nian'an, the little fat boy.

Jiang Yanyi asked: "What is the child's full name?"

Qiu Kui tucked the baby in the swaddling clothes and said, "We haven't named the baby yet. Brother Yong said before that Huahua should be named because Huahua has done us a favor. Later, Huahua entered the palace and we were afraid that we would not see her again. Brother Yong planned to ask a fortune teller to name the baby first, but Jianjia said that a cheesy name would make it easier to raise the baby. She named the baby Daman, but Brother Yong thought the name Daman was not nice, so he didn't use it."

Jiang Yanyi was amused by Huo Jianjia's naming. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Manman is also nice. The lovebirds in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are called Manman."

"Manman?" Qiu Kui read it again and said happily, "It sounds nice, Xiaobao's full name is Manman."

Jiang Yanyi asked, "Does Jianjia come here often?"

Qiu Kui nodded, "She said the food cooked by the escort chef is not delicious."

Jiang Yanyi laughed, it seems that Jianjia came here to eat for free.

As he was talking, Qiu Kui seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, Auntie Guo lives behind this alley. She opened a butcher shop and often comes to help me take care of Xiaobao when she is free."

Jiang Yanyi was extremely surprised: "Auntie also lives here?"

On the eve of her entering the palace, Auntie Guo left.

Auntie Guo was originally a maid of the Mu family. Later, because of the protection of Feng Shuo, the brother of the Mu family, she went to work under Feng Shuo, which was also a way to repay her master.

The Mu family was rehabilitated and the world was settled. Aunt Guo said that she was a rough person and could not help Jiang Yanyi in the palace. She wanted to live a more stable life in the rest of her life, so she would not follow her into the palace.

Aunt Guo did not want to accompany her to the palace, and Jiang Yanyi would not force her, but she was still sad in her heart. She prepared a generous banknote and a house for her retirement, but Aunt Guo chose to leave without saying goodbye. She did not even take the banknote and land deed given to her by Jiang Yanyi.

Qiu Kui asked the old woman in the house to go to the butcher shop at the end of the alley to tell Aunt Guo that Jiang Yanyi was here.

Aunt Guo soon came to the door with some pieces of meat.

When Jiang Yanyi saw Aunt Guo again, she was filled with mixed feelings and had a lot to say. In the end, she only said one sentence: "Auntie."

Aunt Guo sighed and said with emotion: "I didn't expect to see the queen again."

Jiang Yanyi was a little sad and asked: "I heard that Auntie opened a butcher shop. Is Yi okay?"

Aunt Guo said: "When my husband was alive, my family ran a butcher shop. I am doing my old business now because I have a dream in my heart."

Jiang Yanyi heard Aunt Guo talk about her husband. Her husband was shot to death by the imperial guards in order to cover Aunt Guo and Chi Qing brothers from leaving the city.

She has been loyal to her master for half her life. In the second half, she just wants to live the ordinary life she and her husband had hoped for.

The master and his servants gathered together, and everything was still the same as in the antique soup shop in Xizhou. Time did not bring any sense of distance.

Jiang Yanyi asked Qiu Kui: "Why are there so many pumpkins planted at the foot of the wall?"

Qiu Kui smiled foolishly and said: "Huahua said that pumpkins are treasures from head to toe. The seeds can be eaten, the buds can be eaten, the flowers can be eaten, and the pumpkins can also be eaten. I can make pumpkin cakes now. Brother Yong and Jianjia both said they are delicious."

Qiu Kui's words took Jiang Yanyi's thoughts far away. When they just came out of the Xizhou camp, she made pumpkin rice. When she and Qiu Kui were eating in the small yard, she pointed to the yard wall and said that pumpkins should be planted in the spring.

She was no longer with Qiu Kui, but Qiu Kui lived according to their past days.

These memories are always distant and clear, which makes Jiang Yanyi feel a lot of emotions.

She turned her head and asked Qiu Kui: "What do you want to eat for lunch?"

This question was very similar to the days when she was in Gudong Geng in Xizhou.

Qiu Kui was stunned for a moment, then said crisply: "I want to eat pumpkin rice made by Huahua." Xiaobao

fell asleep, so she asked the maid to take the child back to the room to sleep, and she rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen to light the fire. Aunt Guo helped Jiang Yanyi, and everything was still the same as before. Chenyu also

went into the kitchen to help. She often saw Jiang Yanyi cooking, but she always felt that Jiang Yanyi was particularly careful this time.

Bing Shao, nominally a front guard, was actually Jiang Yanyi's personal bodyguard. This time he also followed Jiang Yanyi out of the palace. Whatever ingredients Jiang Yanyi wanted to buy, he would go to the street to buy them.

Huo Jianjia heard that Jiang Yanyi had left the palace and came to Qiukui. She left the escort agency and rushed to eat. The blacksmith got the message and went back from the noodle shop to accompany Qiukui. Huo Jianjia

learned that Jiang Yanyi named Qiukui's child Manman, and snorted at the blacksmith twice with great dissatisfaction.

The blacksmith didn't want to provoke this woman who could crush the tiles in his yard with a stomp of her foot. He didn't say anything, but he was muttering in his heart, can the two names Manman and Daman be the same?

Eating hot pot together was the most heartwarming thing. However, Qiu Kuo had to breastfeed her baby, so she couldn't eat anything too spicy. There was no time to make a clear soup hot pot, so Jiang Yanyi directly asked someone to go to Ruyi Tower to bring back a goose hot pot, and also brought a lot of the most popular dishes in the building.

Fearing that the hot pot was too spicy, Jiang Yanyi also used a clay pot to boil crucian carp soup, which also helped Qiu Kuo to produce milk.

Huo Jianjia clamored for braised pork elbows, saying that after leaving Jiang Yanyi, she had never eaten braised pork elbows that she liked. Jiang Yanyi ate three pork elbows in one breath. During the meal, Huo Jianjia snatched one away with a chopstick. When she ate the elbow, the sauce was all over her face, like a wolf snatching food.

The pork skin was stewed until it was soft and chewy. You could bite it off as soon as your teeth touched it. The fat meat attached to the pork skin was not greasy at all. The spices and sauces were completely infused into it, and it was full of mellow flavor. The lean meat was rotten into strands, and it broke into pieces when touched with chopsticks. It had an extremely tender texture.

The red soup and clear soup in the pot were boiling. Everyone used serving chopsticks to eat the dishes, and it was a fiery scene.

Huo Jianjia ate the braised pork elbow with one hand, and fought with Bing Shao with chopsticks in the other hand to grab the meat in the red soup. Fortunately, Yang Xiu was out of the customs again, otherwise the chopsticks of the three of them would have started a fight in the pot.

Okra can't eat spicy food, and stared at them fighting for the meat with her eyes wide open.

The blacksmith dipped the meat in a clear soup pot for her, but in front of the bright red spicy pot, the meat slices in the clear soup looked like vegetarian cabbage.

After Okra swallowed her saliva again, the blacksmith had to pour a bowl of water, took the meat out of the red soup, and rinsed it in boiling water to wash off most of the chili before giving it to Okra.

The two people fighting for the meat once again became three people. Chenyu had never eaten hot pot with them before, so she was restrained at first. In the end, she found that she could only get bean curd skin and lotus root every time. In order to grab the meat, she no longer pretended to be reserved, and rolled up her sleeves to join the army of grabbing meat.

Jiang Yanyi and Feng Shuo were full in the palace after a short meal. Today, watching them wolfing down their food, her appetite increased.

Halfway through the meal, she felt it was a bit spicy, so she scooped a bowl of crucian carp soup. As soon as she took a sip, she couldn't stop vomiting.

The chopsticks were still in the pot, grabbing the meat, and everyone was stunned.

Chenyu hurriedly poured a cup of tea for Jiang Yanyi. Jiang Yanyi drank a few sips of tea before the nausea subsided.

"Huahua is sick?" Qiu Kui looked worried.

Jiang Yanyi touched her forehead and said, "Maybe I'm too tired these days."

Her poor appetite was not just a matter of one or two days. Feng Shuo saw that she was often full after just one bowl, so he thought she was affected by those impeachment memorials, so he asked her to go back to the Chu family to relax.

Jiang Yanyi herself thought so too. She felt uncomfortable when she was making crucian carp soup, but she didn't want to spoil the fun by finally seeing these old friends again. Who knew that she was so uncomfortable that she felt nauseous now.

Chenyu always put Jiang Yanyi's health first and decided to take Jiang Yanyi back to the Chu family.

However, Aunt Guo frowned and looked at Jiang Yanyi for a while, and asked Jiang Yanyi to go inside so that she could take his pulse.

Aunt Guo practiced martial arts and could also read some pulses.

Jiang Yanyi trusted Aunt Guo and agreed immediately.

Aunt Guo held her wrist, concentrated and examined her for a moment, then asked, "How long has it been since your period came, Your Majesty?"

As Jiang Yanyi's maid, Chenyu was particularly concerned about these things, and immediately said, "Your Majesty's period has always been very regular, but it's been three days late this month."

Jiang Yanyi knew this herself, and she just thought that it was because her emotions had been fluctuating greatly during this period, which caused the disorder of her period, and she didn't take it to heart.

Now that Auntie Guo suddenly asked this, she had a vague guess in her heart and asked, "Auntie, how is my pulse?"

Auntie Guo smiled and said, "I feel a happy pulse, but the month is too early, so I can't be sure. After returning to the palace, please ask the imperial physician of the Imperial Hospital to take a closer look at my pulse."

After being diagnosed with a happy pulse, she couldn't stay outside the palace any longer, so Jiang Yanyi returned to the palace that day.

She was afraid that it was just a false joy, so when she ordered people to invite the imperial physician, she also specifically instructed not to leak the news, but Feng Shuo still knew about it.

Feng Shuo left behind a lot of government affairs and went straight to Chengde Palace.

As soon as he entered the palace, he heard the imperial physician congratulating Jiang Yanyi: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty, it's a sign of good fortune."

Feng Shuo strode into the inner hall and said ecstatically: "Reward! A huge reward!"

The imperial physician was startled by his sudden voice, and when he heard Feng Shuo mention reward, he thanked him with a happy face.

"All the palace maids in Chengde Palace have been rewarded!" Feng Shuo said this and walked quickly towards Jiang Yanyi.

The palace maids in the palace knelt on the ground, thanking him one after another.

Feng Shuo sat on the dragon couch and waved his wide sleeves. Chenyu, the imperial physician, and other palace maids in the palace bowed and retreated.

He raised his hand as if he wanted to touch Jiang Yanyi's abdomen, but he didn't dare.

Jiang Yanyi pulled his big hand and pressed it, her lips raised, her eyes smiling softly: "Feng Shuo, we have a child."

Feng Shuo's big hand gently touched her still flat abdomen, as if he wanted to feel whether the one who had his and Jiang Yanyi's blood and life existed.

Jiang Yanyi laughed at him: "It's only been a little over a month, there won't be any movement."

Feng Shuo gently stroked her belly and said: "Don't bother your mother, when you are born, your father will give you the second best everything."

Jiang Yanyi smiled and asked: "What about the best?"

Feng Shuo raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes were gentle: "The best is reserved for you."

Jiang Yanyi felt that this guy was good at saying sweet words, she didn't know if it was because he was telling the truth.

I don't know if it was because she was pregnant, the voices of those who shouted for Feng Shuo to be selected in the court suddenly became quiet.

One day, Feng Shuo accompanied her in Chengde Hall while he was handling memorials. The two of them were so close that they almost had a fight. In the end, Feng Shuo had to go to the bathroom to solve the problem himself. Jiang Yanyi helped to clean up the messy desk and accidentally saw the minister who had impeached her was demoted. When Feng Shuo came back, he talked about it.

Feng Shuo pinched her fair and pink cheeks: "Why, are you afraid that I will become a tyrant who takes revenge on personal enemies?"

Jiang Yanyi was embarrassed to say that she was really a little worried. She didn't want to see Feng Shuo being unfair because of her.

Feng Shuo knew what she was thinking, and showed Jiang Yanyi another memorial: "Even if I want to deal with them, I will openly find fault with them in politics."

The official money used to repair the reservoir was found to be embezzled, and the minister was one of the bribe-takers. This was ironclad evidence.

Jiang Yanyi didn't know that the evidence was obtained because Feng Shuo had leaked the news to Chu Yangui. Chu Yangui took advantage of the dinner at the Hanlin Academy that night to kidnap the minister's son, tortured him to pry open his mouth, and found the accounts of that year to successfully convict him.

Knowing that she had misunderstood, Jiang Yanyi stuck out her tongue and complimented, "Your Majesty is wise and brave."

Feng Shuo curled up the corners of his mouth, rubbed her forehead and said, "Flatterer."

He looked at the memorial in his hand and sighed, "Chi Qing, that kid, asked to go to Xizhou to serve as a captain. Anyway, I feel more at ease with him guarding Xizhou."

When Chi Qing followed him, he was mostly shown in front of the world as a strategist, and few people knew that his martial arts were not inferior to Mu Xuanqing, the son of Wu Hou, who was famous in the capital at that time.

When Chi Qing was going to Xizhou, Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but think of Xie Chuji. It was said that when the Turks attacked Xizhou, she promised Princess Dayue to stay in Dayue for a year to teach Chinese culture in order to get Dayue to send troops to help.

After Feng Shuo ascended the throne, he was moved by her righteousness and made Xie Chuji the Princess of Wenchang.

Xie Chuji opened a school in Dayue country to teach Dayue people to read and write, which is beneficial to the cultural integration of the two countries. Today, Dayue and Daxuan have increasingly close ties, and intermarriage between the two tribes is not uncommon.

Jiang Yanyi sighed: "The descendants of a scholarly family are different. Although Miss Xie is a woman, she is no less capable than a man. It was thanks to her righteousness that Xizhou was able to be preserved. I only hope that God will have mercy on her and not let her love life be bumpy again."

Jiang Yanyi didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said. Even if Xie Chuji let go of the past, she hoped that Xie Chuji could meet someone worthy of entrusting her life to.

But Feng Shuo stared at her for a long time with an unclear meaning, and suddenly said: "I am not bad at learning."

Jiang Yanyi looked at Feng Shuo with a confused look in his eyes.

How did he suddenly bring up his own knowledge?

Feng Shuo was looked at by her confused and puzzled eyes, and he looked away without saying a word, and continued to deal with the memorial.

Just when Jiang Yanyi thought that this inexplicable topic was about to be revealed, he said again: "I also went to the siege of Xizhou."

Jiang Yanyi still didn't understand the purpose of his words, and could only nod blankly: "I know."

Feng Shuo: "There is nothing special about the Shuxiang family."

Jiang Yanyi was stunned for a while, and said with disbelief: "Feng Shuo, you are not jealous of Miss Xie, are you?"

Feng Shuo's face darkened: "Why should I be jealous of her?"

Jiang Yanyi said, "Didn't I just praise Miss Xie a few words?" Feng

Shuo fell silent again.

Jiang Yanyi hugged his arm and shook it gently, "What's wrong with you?"

Feng Shuo rubbed his eyebrows, and when he looked at Jiang Yanyi again, his eyes softened: "."

He couldn't say anything to her after all. When he heard her praise Xie Chuji, he subconsciously thought of Lu Linyuan.

Lu Linyuan was also from a scholarly family, full of knowledge and righteousness, and also made great contributions in the Xizhou disaster.

The jealousy that suddenly surged in his heart made him feel ridiculous.

After Xizhou was pacified, Lu Linyuan made great contributions, but he declined the court's reward and continued to be a teacher in the school. Whether he was not interested in officialdom or did not want to return to the capital, a sad place where things had changed, Feng Shuo did not know, but with his man's intuition, he knew that Jiang Yanyi had something to do with it.

He was frank and calm about everything, but he was always afraid of losing her because he cherished her to the extreme.

But when he lowered his eyes and saw the tenderness in her eyebrows, his restlessness was soothed.

He was a devil roaming around here, and fortunately he met her, and finally lived like a human being.

"Jiang Yanyi." He called her softly.

"Hmm?" Jiang Yanyi leaned on his arm, her bright eyes half raised. The lush green trees and red flowers outside the window were not as beautiful as her.

Feng Shuo leaned over and kissed her lips. He said to her again what he had said on the night he first moved into the palace after she fell asleep: "It is my great fortune to meet you."

Decades have passed in the blink of an eye.

Chengde Palace still looks the same as it did back then, but both Jiang Yanyi and Feng Shuo have gray hair.

Feng Shuo was a good emperor. He worked hard to govern the country during his reign. He spent his whole life to build up the Great Xuan Dynasty and create prosperity, but he also broke down in health.

The imperial doctors who came to Chengde Palace came in batches and left in batches. Jiang Yanyi sat by the bed from beginning to end, holding his old and skinny hand without letting go.

They had not been apart for a single day since he ascended the throne, but now Jiang Yanyi knew that he was leaving.

There was only a little light left in Feng Shuo's old dark gray eyes, and his eyes were fixed on the figure beside the dragon bed. In fact, he could no longer see clearly, but he still stubbornly refused to look away: "Empress, I'm leaving..."

Jiang Yanyi was choked with sobs and couldn't speak. She leaned over and lay down, curled up in his arms, just like before, with her head against his shoulder, her five fingers tightly clasped with his, and her tears soon soaked his clothes.

"Don't cry... You can watch this world for me for a few more years, I... I'll go there first and take care of everything..." He spoke intermittently, with great difficulty.

"Next life, I'll come to find you..."

The temperature held tightly at the fingertips finally cooled down.

The sharp and sorrowful cries and the heavy sound of funeral bells penetrated the palace walls. The wind and snow were raging, and the sky and the earth were white.

The old man on duty in the palace said that the wind and snow this year were heavier than in previous years.

Jiang Yanyi loved cooking more than before. She cooked three meals a day and offered them in front of Feng Shuo's tablet.

The crown prince who had succeeded to the throne was afraid that she would be tired, so he asked her to hand it over to the kitchen. She just shook her head and said, "Your father likes to eat what your mother cooks."

On the same night of the second year after Feng Shuo passed away, Jiang Yanyi also passed away.

When the palace servants went to tuck in the corners of her quilt, they found that her hands and feet were already cold.

She curled up in a corner of the bed, lying on her side, with a smile on her face, as if she was sleeping peacefully in someone's arms.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't remember how many times she woke up from a dream with tears all over her face.

Because she cried so hard, her nose was blocked.

She fumbled to get a tissue from the tissue box on the bedside table and sniffed. Perhaps because the emotions in the dream were still there, her tears couldn't stop flowing.

She died in that world, but woke up in the hospital. Jiang's father and mother cried with joy, and her attending doctor said that it was a miracle that she could wake up.

In the six months since she came back, she tried every possible way to find clues about that world, but it was all in vain.

She had read the novel online, and the female supporting character with the same name and surname as her still died tragically at the beginning. The King of Liaoning, Feng Shuo, never officially appeared in the book, and was still just mentioned in the ending of death in battle, as if she had experienced that unforgettable experience, and it was just an illusion when she was in a car accident.

Jiang Yanyi even saw a psychiatrist for this, and it was obvious that the psychiatrist also thought that it was her imagination.

Jiang Yanyi was once very depressed, and for a while she couldn't tell whether everything in the dream was what she had really experienced in her life.

But every time she dreamed of Feng Shuo, she always burst into tears.

Jiang Yanyi went to the bathroom to wash her face, raised her head to look at herself in the mirror, and tried to curl the corners of her mouth upwards.

The person in the mirror has delicate features and an above-average appearance. If she dresses up properly, she can be considered a beauty.

But there is a world of difference between her and "Jiang Yanyi".

If Feng Shuo also came to this world, he wouldn't be able to recognize her even if they met on the road, right?

The corners of her mouth raised in an arc, with a little more self-mockery.

Even if he couldn't recognize her, it would be good for her to see him again. Jiang Yanyi had expressed this desperate hope more than once.

The alarm clock on the bedside rang, and she went to the store.

No matter how broken she was, she still had to live her life.

She smoothed her messy hair and tied it into a high ponytail. She finally looked more energetic.

The hot pot restaurant that Jiang Yanyi opened was only a dozen minutes away from her home. She bought a bouquet of flowers at a flower shop on the road, and replaced the wilted flowers on the table after arriving at the store.

Jiang's father and mother didn't understand why Jiang Yanyi renovated the previously renovated hot pot restaurant again after being discharged from the hospital, making it retro and ancient.

Fortunately, this city is already an Internet celebrity city, and the retro hot pot restaurant has attracted many Internet celebrities to check in. The

newly renovated hot pot restaurant is very similar to the antique soup shop she opened next to the Duhufu. There is something similar to that world, which makes Jiang Yanyi feel a little comforted.

She practiced calligraphy in that world and did not abandon it. She wrote down the fumu written by Feng Shuo, framed it and hung it on the wall.

Customers who came into the store just thought it was a calligraphy and painting decoration, and few of them tried to find out what was written on it.

Jiang's father and mother had to run the Jianghu Restaurant, so Jiang Yanyi was the only one in charge of the hot pot restaurant. The few employees in the store came at almost ten o'clock, and Jiang Yanyi had already finished cleaning.

There were not many customers in the store at this time before, but because a popular internet celebrity with a lot of fans came to the store to check in some time ago and took photos and posted them online, the number of customers in the store has increased significantly in the past few days.

Several employees came and did their own things. Although the store owner looked like a young girl and she had been seen to lose her temper before, they inexplicably did not dare to approach Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi was typing in new dishes on the computer at the bar. She did not look up when she heard footsteps coming from the door of the store - the clerk knew to greet customers.

However, the footsteps did not go into the store, but came towards the bar, and finally stopped directly in front of her.

"How many people?" Jiang Yanyi thought that they were coming to the bar to order, so she asked out of habit.

When she looked up and saw the familiar handsome face of the man, tears suddenly burst out of her eyes.

Feng Shuo!

The name was stuck in her throat but she couldn't say it out loud.

The stern man standing outside the bar looked at her without blinking, his eyes red, and spoke as if in his memory: "Why are you crying?"

His voice was hoarse and almost trembling, as if he had traveled thousands of miles and finally got the missing corner of his heart back in his palm.

The glass bottle with flowers on the bar was knocked to the ground with a crisp sound. Jiang Yanyi covered her mouth tightly and sobbed like a child: "Feng Shuo..."

He never lied to her, he really came to find her.