Chapter 25 A murder caused by a braised pork elbow...

Jiang Yanyi only had three words in her mind: It's over!

Camp prostitutes are not allowed to leave the barracks without permission. She was caught by this military advisor and she didn't know how to punish her.

She subconsciously wanted to run away, but if she ran away now, wouldn't she be able to clear herself even if she jumped into the Yellow River?

She could only watch Feng Shuo stride towards her.

Feng Shuo was always cold and never smiled. Just watching him walk towards her, Jiang Yanyi felt a lot of psychological pressure.

Feng Shuo glanced at the empty table, and then his eyes fell on the braised pork elbow in her hand.

He frowned, and glanced at Jiang Yanyi's lips, which were stained with sauce from chewing the pork elbow. He then looked at the plate on the table. There was still some minced meat in the plate, which looked quite tempting. He

somehow took a pair of clean chopsticks from the bamboo tube, picked up a small piece of minced meat from the plate, brought it to his mouth, and ate it.

The pork elbow was stewed until soft, with a thick sauce and thin strands of lean meat. It didn't taste dry at all. Perhaps it was because of the sugar added when the sauce was poured, there was a slight sweet aftertaste after the mouth.

Feng Shuo savored the small piece of minced meat, his expression didn't change much, but his heart was filled with shock.

His sense of taste was completely restored!

Feng Shuo stared at the dull face of the young cook, whose eyes were dim and unclear even after wiping the soot.

Jiang Yanyi was so frightened by his reckless behavior that her hair almost stood up. She smelled the alcohol on Feng Shuo and thought he was drunk and crazy, so she was about to move for him with the braised pork elbow in her hand.

Unexpectedly, before she moved half an inch away, the "drunkard" suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Jiang Yanyi thought he wanted the pork elbow in sauce, and quickly handed it to him like a hot potato: "Here, here!"

Feng Shuo: "...Sit down."

He suddenly cooled the air around him, and Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but shudder.

She was sitting on a bench, but she felt as if there were countless steel needles under her butt.

Feng Shuo stared at her for a long time with a dark look in his eyes. He had thousands of doubts in his mind and said, "What did you do to... me?"

Why can he only recover his sense of taste when he is close to her.

Jiang Yanyi was immediately confused when he heard his words.

Could it be that this guy was abandoned by the girl he likes and came here to get drunk?

He deserves it, this pervert has come to this day!

Thinking like this in her heart, she said awkwardly on the surface: "You have recognized the wrong person, I am not the girl who hurt your heart..."

Girl?

Hurt his heart?

What is she talking about?

Feng Shuo's face was ugly, and the aura around him became colder.

Jiang Yanyi felt a chill on her back, fearing that he would break her neck in a drunken impulse, and quickly changed her words: "I am, I am. It's all my fault, I stole your heart..."

The more he spoke, the more outrageous it became.

Feng Shuo's face darkened, and veins on his forehead jumped: "Shut up!"

Jiang Yanyi shut up instantly, and the whole person almost shrank into a quail.

Because of Feng Shuo's cold shout, many diners in the lobby of the restaurant looked over here, but because of his momentum, they didn't dare to look at him for too long, but the noise of eating was all reduced.

The diner at the next table was a chubby girl. She only heard the second half of Jiang Yanyi's sentence and dropped the meatballs she had just picked up on the table in shock. She looked at the two of them secretly with a look of shock.

In public, men are so open?

The girl thought she had discovered some secret, but the handsome young man's face was so gloomy that she was too scared to eat the food. She quickly paid the bill and left.

The waiter, who was busy all the time, also found that Feng Shuo had come downstairs. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurried forward with the teapot: "Sir, let me add some tea for you."

Feng Shuo was originally upset because of his mother's matter, but being angry with Jiang Yanyi made the gloom disappear and he no longer had the heart to drink.

He took a sip of the tea that the waiter had just poured, savoring the bitterness of the tea.

The waiter asked with a smile on his face, "What would you like to eat?"

Feng Shuo had no appetite, and when he saw the shiny and greasy pork elbow in Jiang Yanyi's hand, he said casually, "Just the braised pork elbow."

The waiter hurried to the kitchen to pass on the message.

Jiang Yanyi found that he was talking normally, and wondered if he had sobered up.

She now deeply regretted entering this restaurant. Her heartbeat was like riding a roller coaster while eating. The pork elbow in her hand suddenly lost its fragrance...

She put the half-eaten pork elbow back on the plate, wiped her hands with the silk handkerchief specially prepared for diners in the restaurant, picked up the bags and tried to slip away: "I'm done, enjoy your meal..."

Feng Shuo glanced at her and had no intention of letting her go: "How did you get out of the barracks?"

Without waiting for Jiang Yanyi to answer, he said again: "The chef of Huotouying said that you took sick leave."

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

It's over!

It would be strange if she could leave with such an open question and covert threat.

Was this guy really drunk just now? How did he sober up so quickly?

Jiang Yanyi complained in her heart, half of her buttocks were lifted up and fell back on the bench.

Fearing that it would implicate Chef Li and Tou'er Zhao, she said, "I was so bold that I lied to Master Li, saying that it was cold and I didn't have any thick clothes to wear. I felt a little cold, so I wanted to go out and buy two sets of clothes..."

Feng Shuo glanced at the package she put aside. The package was not tied tightly, revealing the fabric inside. It was indeed clothes.

But it was not worth taking such a big risk for a set of clothes. He then asked, "What is your real purpose of leaving the camp this time?"

Jiang Yanyi showed a bit of sadness on her face, "I want to find my fiancé."

When she forged her household registration before, she used the excuse that she came to Xizhou to find her childhood fiancé, and was taken to the barracks. Now she used this excuse again.

Hearing the word fiancé, Feng Shuo's hand holding the tea paused slightly.

"Sir, the braised pork elbow you ordered is here!" The waiter served the dish attentively.

The freshly cooked pork elbow had a bright red skin and a delicious aroma, but Feng Shuo inexplicably lost his appetite at this moment.

He had checked Jiang Yanyi's identity before, and naturally heard from the barracks leader about her looking for a fiancé.

His tone suddenly became vicious: "Even if he finds one, what can you do? With your identity as a camp prostitute, even if he finds one, he may not want you."

Hearing this, Jiang Yanyi's mouth twitched slightly.

She didn't notice that his tone was wrong, she just felt that this man was really mean. He said that just to step on her sore spot. After all, how many men in the world can accept that their first wife was a camp prostitute.

Since the other party wants to see her sad, she might as well go along with him.

Jiang Yanyi pretended to be distraught, her eyes were misty, as if she was going to shed tears at the next moment.

Feng Shuo saw it, but he became even more irritated.

But she was still looking at him with tears in her eyes, like a rabbit.

Feng Shuo thought that she looked like someone had bullied her.

Then he thought, wasn't it him who bullied her?

For some reason, seeing her look like she was about to cry, Feng Shuo suddenly remembered the belt of her blouse that stretched from her chest to the back of her neck under the moonlight. It

was bright red and slender, like the string that was tied tightly in his brain, extremely fragile.

He suddenly wanted to know, was she also like this when she was in bed, about to cry or not? Or...will cry out loud, looking at him pitifully with a pair of misty eyes...

Feng Shuo was shocked by his own thoughts, and quickly looked away, picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp.

Jiang Yanyi didn't notice that his eyes were not right at all, and continued to belittle her: "I hope the military advisor will be kind and not report me."

Feng Shuo didn't answer her directly, but only asked: "Have you found him?"

"I haven't found him, but I saw a notice at the city gate this morning that the general is kind and wants to let us innocent camp prostitutes go home. So I plan to rent a shop next to the Protectorate, open a restaurant to do some small business, and then slowly look for him."

Hearing Jiang Yanyi's words that she planned to open a small restaurant next to the Protectorate, Feng Shuo's eyes lit up slightly.

But when he heard the second half of the sentence, she said that she was going to look for her fiancé, Feng Shuo felt even more annoyed.

He was about to say something, but Jiang Yanyi suddenly said, "Originally, as a weak woman, I didn't dare to do such business in the market. But I heard that the main street of the Protectorate is where the general lives. People say that the general is mighty and loves the people like his own children. Robbers and thieves dare not do evil in this generation because of his reputation. That's why I chose this place. So..."

Feng Shuo was a little annoyed, but after hearing Jiang Yanyi's compliments, his brows relaxed a little.

The braised pork elbow on the table looked fragrant again. He picked up

the chopsticks, picked up the meat, and put it in his mouth, all in one go.

He said, "Go on."

"So, military advisor, since you can always be by the side of the general, you must be a good person who is observant, knowledgeable, and sympathetic to the people. This time, just pretend that you have never seen me leave the camp... ok?"

Feng Shuo did not answer, and his eyes became more relaxed.

Under Jiang Yanyi's eager gaze, he finished the braised pork elbow on the plate in a few bites, looking quite satisfied.

"Military advisor?"

Jiang Yanyi was about to say something else, but Feng Shuo suddenly said, "Waiter, settle the bill!"

The waiter hurried over, and Feng Shuo didn't wait for him to quote the price, and left a silver ingot, saying, "Let's settle it together."

A silver ingot is ten taels, which is more than enough to pay for the wine. The waiter was surprised and flattered him.

Feng Shuo walked out of the restaurant at a brisk pace, and did not respond even when Jiang Yanyi called him from behind.

Jiang Yanyi's face was almost wrinkled into a bun, and she didn't know what he meant by this.

She chased after him with her bags, and only saw the back of Feng Shuo riding away.

Jiang Yanyi stood there in a daze for a while: "Since I helped to pay for the meal, I think he promised not to report me, right?"

Jiang Yanyi stopped a mule and hurried to meet up with Zhao Tou'er and the others. She followed them back to the Xizhou camp with trepidation, and found that everything was normal, so she put her heart back in her stomach.

The camp prostitutes were still taking a nap in the barracks, but they couldn't sleep today. The amnesty order was issued, and several decent women didn't expect that they could really look forward to this day, and they cried bitterly.

A few of the women who were on good terms with them gathered together to comfort them.

However, most of the women were at a loss. They were truly guilty, and the Huotouying was now recruiting new men in large numbers, so they would be sent away soon.

Qiu Kui was very happy to get the new clothes, but she felt a little sad: "Hua Hua, I am really happy for you to leave here, but I can't bear to leave you. The sugar-fried chestnuts you made are delicious, and the braised pork cakes taste the same as my mother's..."

Jiang Yanyi was not in the barracks in the morning, so he didn't know how the barracks arranged the criminal prostitutes. He asked her: "Did the higher-ups say where you will be sent next?"

Qiu Kui was a dull person, and before she could answer, Chunxiang, who was beaten to the point of being half-dead and unable to get out of bed, suddenly laughed in a sinister way, her voice extremely sharp: "Of course we were sent to do hard labor to wash clothes, which is not as glorious as you, Chef Jiang." Hearing this

, Jiang Yanyi glanced at Chunxiang and said, "You are in this state, and you still don't forget to make trouble for yourself?"

"You..."

Chunxiang was silenced by Jiang Yanyi's words. Jiang Yanyi is no longer the same as before, and she no longer has Liu Cheng as her backer, so she dare not provoke Jiang Yanyi too much.

"Huahua, it's okay. It's better to do hard labor than to be a camp prostitute. If you can come to see me in the future, just bring me a pork cake with preserved vegetables."

Qiu Kui said, her eyes dimmed slightly. She was sold to a brothel by her aunt, and then transferred to this kind of place, becoming a camp prostitute. She had long lost any hope in life.

Seeing this, Jiang Yanyi felt a little depressed, but he didn't know what he could do for her.

At this time, Chunxiang's mocking voice came again: "It's good for you to know, don't think that you can be the same as others by flattering them for a few days. In the end, you can only rot in this hard-working place like me. Unless someone is willing to buy you back to be a slave, but, who would buy a former camp prostitute?"

Chunxiang didn't dare to provoke Jiang Yanyi, and started to mock Qiu Kui.

Anyway, this is a fool, and he doesn't know how to talk back when being scolded.

Qiu Kui listened to Chunxiang's words, his eyes completely dimmed, his hands tightly grasped the corners of his clothes, and he was silent.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't listen any more. She turned around and glared at Chunxiang. Then she walked towards Chunxiang's bed.

Under the stunned gaze of Chunxiang and Qiu Kui, Jiang Yanyi stretched out a finger and poked the torn butt hard.

"Ah!"

Chunxiang howled like a pig being slaughtered. Her face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

"Is it endless? Do you think everyone will tolerate you?"

Jiang Yanyi looked down at Chunxiang lying on the bed. Chunxiang's lips trembled, and she no longer had the arrogance of the past.

Jiang Yanyi just made a gesture of wiping his hands, which scared her immediately: "I don't dare, I never dare again."

There was a bit of pleading in Jiang Yanyi's eyes.

In the big tent.

Chi Qing flipped through the list that Feng Shuo threw at him and marked all the prostitutes who could be released from the barracks.

When he found that the name "Jiang Hua" was also on the list of people leaving the camp, he couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, didn't you say that you would temporarily detain this Jiang Hua in the army on the grounds that her identity could not be verified?"

Feng Shuo raised his head from a pile of official documents and said lightly: "Well, I have changed my mind."

Chi Qing was confused: "Didn't you say that she is very likely a spy? What if she runs away after letting her go?"

Feng Shuo hooked his lips imperceptibly: "It doesn't matter, she is under my nose."

Chi Qing felt that something was wrong, but before he could ask more questions, Xing Yao opened the tent and hurried in: "Master, the scouts reported that something happened in Dingjia Village!"