Chapter 53 The prince felt that he was a little cheated...

Because there was no earthen kiln for roasting lamb, Jiang Yanyi could only build a temporary fire pit in the yard.

The lambs sent by the butcher Ma today were very fat. Even after removing the fur and dirt, one lamb still weighed about 50 kilograms.

Jiang Yanyi cut the meat in the thick part, found a large wooden basin, and mixed fine flour, salt water, eggs, turmeric, and water into a paste-like sauce. The hot sauce she usually used in her shop was dogwood sauce. In order to make the lamb taste better today, she also used the pepper powder that she had not been willing to use since she bought it.

The spiciness of dogwood is lighter than that of pepper, and it lacks the fragrance of pepper, so pepper is extremely expensive on the market. Even wealthy and powerful people will only let the chef use pepper in cooking during festivals or when entertaining guests.

However, although pepper is also a spicy seasoning and has the word "pepper" in its name, it is completely different from chili peppers. Peppercorns look like peppercorns without an open mouth, are white in color, and have much higher requirements for the growing environment than chili peppers.

After Jiang Yanyi mixed the pepper powder into the sauce, she applied the sauce to the whole sheep while sighing with pain: "When my chili peppers grow, pepper will give way to the wise!"

She only bought a little bit, and it was so expensive.

Qiu Kui also followed Jiang Yanyi's example and smeared sauce on the whole lamb. She had been learning cooking from Jiang Yanyi for some time. Jiang Yanyi only found Qiu Kui's unusual stubbornness after he started teaching her.

Basically, the first step to learning cooking is to handle all kinds of ingredients, and knife skills are of course necessary to practice for many years. No matter what Qiu Kui learns, from movements, postures, and even the angle of selecting and cutting vegetables, she has to follow Jiang Yanyi. If she can't do it the same as Jiang Yanyi, she won't learn the next thing.

This also led to her learning very slowly, but her basic skills are very solid.

Jiang Yanyi applied the sauce and rubbed salt into the cut. The sheep was heavy and her foot was injured. If she hung it up with okra, she was afraid that if she was not careful, the whole sheep would fall into the ash pile.

Jiang Yanyi was going to the clothing store next door to ask Uncle Chen to help hang the whole sheep on the rack above the fire pit.

She opened the door and found two people standing outside the store, like door gods.

These two were Chu Changping's confidants. Jiang Yanyi had met them before. She asked, "Why are you two here?"

The two clasped their fists and said, "We are here to protect my cousin on the orders of the Third Master."

Jiang Yanyi found that the neighbors were all looking in. Thinking that she would have to do business on this street in the future, she felt a little uncomfortable and said, "Come in."

The door of her shop was closed, and the two were still standing at the door, which looked strange.

The two hesitated.

Jiang Yanyi said, "I'm roasting a lamb in the yard. The lamb is quite heavy and I can't hang it up. Please help me hang it up."

The two entered the shop, but the door was half open to avoid suspicion and prevent people with ulterior motives from making trouble.

With the help of these two people, the roasted whole lamb was quickly hung above the fire pit. Whenever there was any heavy work, they would rush to do it, and Jiang Yanyi and Qiu Kui felt much more relaxed.

One of the two was called Yang Xiu and the other was called Bing Shao. The former was quite worldly-wise and always spoke at the right time. The latter was like a mute gourd, basically doing things but not talking.

After Jiang Yanyi cut out the lamb to be put into the pot, he blanched the remaining lamb chops, put them into the pot, stewed them with green onions, ginger, star anise, fennel and other seasonings, and cooked them until the bones and meat were separated before picking them up.

The most important step in smoking lamb chops is naturally the smoking process. Considering that the smoke is too great in the kitchen, Jiang Yanyi asked Yang Xiu and Bing Shao to move the big pot outside and set up a tripod in the yard to set up the pot.

The whole lamb roasted above the fire pit has a burnt aroma, and the stewed lamb chops have a strong meaty aroma with a strong smell of mutton.

Yang Xiu and Bing Shao followed Chu Changping from Yongzhou to Xizhou, and then from Xizhou back to the capital, and finally fled all the way to Xizhou. The hot meals were often eaten one after another, and the most eaten was cold and hard dry food. How could they eat these delicacies?

At this moment, just smelling the lamb, my stomach has rumbled several times.

Yang Xiu swallowed and asked, "Cousin, what are you going to cook in this pot?"

In his opinion, the cooked lamb chops were ready to eat.

Jiang Yanyi was busy adding firewood to the fire pit: "Smoke the lamb chops, it will taste better. Please go to the Protectorate to inform your uncle, and then come here to eat. Call everyone who is staying in the inn to come over, it will just solve the problem of the mutton stored in my store." After

hearing what they said, one went to the Protectorate, and the other ran back to the inn to call the rest of the brothers to come together.

The pot was heated up, Jiang Yanyi threw two handfuls of tea leaves into the pot to stir-fry, sprinkled with brown sugar that had been cut early in the morning, and thick smoke instantly rose from the pot. Jiang Yanyi put the grate on it, then spread all the cooked lamb chops in the colander on the grate, covered the pot and simmered for a while.

Thick smoke continued to rise from the edge of the pot, and the air was filled with a sweet smell of burnt food.

Qiu Kui pointed at the pot with some concern and said, "Hua Hua, it's burnt!"

Jiang Yanyi added some firewood to the fire pit, "It's okay, this is how smoked lamb chops are made."

The fire can be turned off after smoking for three minutes. Jiang Yanyi simmered it for a while before opening the lid of the pot. After the sugar smoke rushed out, the lamb chops on the grate were golden yellow, as if they were coated with a layer of sugar, but because they were smoked, the color was more natural and looked more beautiful.

Jiang Yanyi tore off a small piece of meat and tasted it, and nodded with satisfaction: "This is the taste!"

The lamb meat is tender and has been cooked before being boiled in water. The smoking adds a tea fragrance and sweetness. The sweetness of the smoke is just right and will not make people feel greasy.

When she turned around, she saw Qiu Kui staring at her eagerly, swallowing saliva like a puppy that couldn't get a bone. Jiang Yanyi felt distressed and amused, and broke off a lamb chop and handed it to her: "Try it."

The lamb chop was cooked soft, and the flesh and bones separated with a slight touch.

Qiu Kui picked up the lamb chop and started to chew it. It was so delicious that she couldn't bear to take the lamb chop out of her mouth and make a little space to talk. She could only open her black eyes and nod wildly at Jiang Yanyi.

The east wind blew in the evening, and the aroma of smoked lamb chops in the yard drifted towards Feng Mansion.

The servants of Feng Mansion could not help but gasp when they smelled the smell: "What delicious food did the shopkeeper Jiang next door make today? Why does it smell so good?"

Xing Yao walked under the eaves carrying the medicinal food heated up in the kitchen, and looked at the two servants who were talking expressionlessly: "What are you mumbling about?"

"Guard Xing." The two servants saluted and lowered their heads tremblingly.

Xing Yao said: "Go down."

The two servants were relieved and left quickly.

Xing Yao stood there, sniffed, and glanced in the direction of Jiang Yanyi's shop. He couldn't help but say, "It smells so good."

In the study, Feng Shuo, a group of aides, and Chu Changping had just finished discussing important matters. They came out of the study one after another, and they all smelled the sweet and burnt meat aroma and sniffed a few times.

Those who didn't know thought that the chef of Feng's house was preparing dinner, and they praised him a lot.

Chu Changping was the last one to leave. As soon as he walked to the door, he ran into the servant who was waiting outside to pass on a message.

"Master Chu, someone outside the mansion asked you to pass on a message, asking you to go to Jiang's Gudong Soup for dinner later." The servant had a smile on his face.

"Thank you." Chu Changping nodded to the servant. He was originally worried, but when he smelled the fragrance in the air, he actually felt a little hungry.

As soon as Chu Changping left, Xing Yao came in with a food box containing medicinal food: "Master, it's time to eat the medicinal food."

Feng Shuo lost his sense of taste in his early years, so his sense of smell is more sensitive than that of ordinary people. He sat behind the desk and looked at the defense map and asked: "What is she cooking tonight?"

This "she" is naturally referring to Jiang Yanyi.

Xing Yao remembered the smell of meat brought by the wind outside, swallowed his saliva and said: "It seems to be a roasted whole lamb, and smoked lamb chops."

Feng Shuo looked at the medicinal food in front of him, and suddenly lost his appetite.

A dozen of Chu Changping's confidants sat at two tables in Jiang Yanyi's shop. The soup in the copper pot was boiling, so they could have mutton hotpot at any time. On the table were several large plates of roasted whole lamb and lamb chops. They had never eaten such delicious food before, so it was no exaggeration to say that they ate voraciously.

Jiang Yanyi was afraid that she would get sick of eating too much meat, so she grilled some garlic eggplants on the grill.

Chu Changping looked at her skillful flipping skills and suddenly felt that he didn't know this niece anymore.

He said, "Uncle remembers that you couldn't even hold a knife steadily when you were cooking."

Jiang Yanyi also knew that her cooking skills were far inferior to her original self. She said, "When I was in the military camp, I worked as a cook in Huotouying for a while. The chef who cooked on the stove took me in as his apprentice. I thought that if I had a skill, I could always find a job, so I learned these from him."

She did indeed take Chef Li as her teacher, that was true.

Chu Changping heard her casually mention it, but he could imagine how difficult it was for her during that time. The mutton in his mouth was very fragrant, but Chu Changping felt as if he had a piece of coptis root in his mouth, which was very bitter. He said, "Ayi, you have suffered."

Jiang Yanyi put the roasted eggplant on a plate and brought it over. "Uncle, don't say that. I am fine now, right? When I was in the capital, I always I thought the square well I saw in the yard was the sky. Now that I have experienced a lot in Xizhou, I have seen how vast the world is and am no longer bound by the past. I did many wrong things in the past, and some of the punishments were deserved by me, but they harmed Yan Gui..."

If the original body had not plotted to ruin the heroine's innocence, the original body's brother would not have been angered by the emperor and had his legs broken.

She was able to live again by borrowing the original body's body, and she treated the original body's relatives as her own.

Speaking of this topic, the atmosphere is inevitably heavy.

Chu Changping patted Jiang Yanyi on the shoulder: "Some things are not your fault, don't take it all on yourself. Yan Gui is very worried about you. If the Chu family was not under the strict surveillance of the emperor, he would have sent you a letter."

Jiang Yanyi felt her eyes a little moist, she asked: "How is his leg injury?"

"The situation was urgent when I left the capital, and I haven't seen Yan Gui's injury with my own eyes, but I heard that the kneecaps of both his legs were broken, and he probably won't be able to stand up in this lifetime." Chu Changping's voice trembled a little when he said this.

Jiang Yangui was just a teenager, and Minister Jiang always beat and scolded him, while Madam Jiang doted on him. This also led to Jiang Yangui's rebellious character at this age, and he often fought with a group of playboys in the academy.

But there were factions in the court, and the sons of ministers studying in the academy were naturally divided into factions.

Jiang Yangui's leg was broken by another group of playboys, and only the son of a minor official was pushed out as a scapegoat. Outsiders just thought it was a group of young people fighting without knowing the limits, and the matter was just covered up. The one sitting on the dragon throne was still a clean and honest wise ruler.

Chu Changping sighed and said, "Your mother was spoiled by her family when she was a girl, and she has never been able to figure things out even after she got married. If the matter between you and Yan Gui hasn't made her realize it, I plan to take Yan Gui with me and raise her myself after taking them both out of the capital, so that she can be a companion to your cousin Chengmao."

Chu Chengmao is Chu Changping's only son. He refused to marry the princess against the emperor's order, and the first wife he married after three matchmakers and six engagements eventually lost her body during childbirth and passed away within two years.

He raised his only son all these years, and there were no more people around him. The two elders of the Chu family felt sorry for their son, and wanted to persuade him to remarry, but he was away from home all year round, and the two elders could not reach out.

He was both a father and a mother, and he had raised Chu Chengmao very well. Two years ago, Chu Chengmao passed the imperial examination and became the second place. However, Chu Chengmao's temperament was like Chu Changping's, and he later gave up literature and followed the military.

To be fair, the original siblings were not well educated. One was that Minister Jiang neglected to discipline them, and the other was that Madam Jiang spoiled them too much.

Just as Chu Changping said, when Madam Jiang was a girl in the Chu family, she was spoiled because she was a legitimate child and the youngest child in the family. She was spoiled by her parents and brothers. Later, she married Minister Jiang. At that time, Minister Jiang's family was not well-off. She would get angry when she was not satisfied and could go back to her parents' home, and the Jiang family could not do anything about her.

As a brainless and vicious mistress in the original book, Madam Jiang has almost all the characteristics of a brainless and vicious mistress: she is irritable, easily angered, stupid, and cannot tolerate illegitimate children, and she cannot teach her own children well.

Jiang Yanyi heard Chu Changping talk about his future plans and said, "I plan to keep running this antique soup shop. If mother is willing, you can come to my place."

Although Madam Jiang has a thousand faults, she has nothing to say about her two children. However, she herself is not a transparent person, so naturally she cannot teach her children well.

Chu Changping originally thought that Jiang Yanyi's opening of a restaurant was just a temporary measure. Now that he heard Jiang Yanyi say that she wanted to keep it open, he thought she was being polite: "Even if your uncle is incompetent, the money is still enough to buy a yard for you and your daughter and to provide some servants. Why do you have to do this?"

The temperature dropped sharply at night. Jiang Yanyi stretched out her hands and warmed them above the charcoal basin: "Uncle, don't worry. I just want to find something to do. When I'm busy, I won't have any random thoughts and I'll feel at ease."

Chu Changping is an open-minded person. Thinking that his niece has experienced so much, maybe her mood has changed. She doesn't want to be a rich lady who never goes out. He also respects his niece's choice and only said:

"Then it's up to you. Since you insist on continuing to run this restaurant, your uncle will leave a few people to help you. If you want to go out, take them with you. There is no peace in Xizhou City right now."

This was exactly what Jiang Yanyi wanted. She had been thinking about finding two waiters who knew kung fu, and now they had found a way. She said, "Thank you, uncle."

"Silly girl, why are you still saying thank you to your uncle?" Chu Changping shook his head and laughed.

A room full of people were eating when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside the store.

Jiang Yanyi opened the door and saw that the person who came was Fu Xi, the housekeeper of Feng Mansion.

He smiled and said, "The prince asked me to bring some wine."

Several servants behind him held Huadiao wine. Jiang Yanyi took a quick look and saw at least five or six bottles.

Jiang Yanyi thought that the wine might be given for his uncle's sake, so he couldn't refuse it. He stepped aside to let Fuxi in: "Thank you for your trip. Come in and have a seat."

Fuxi smiled and said, "I won't bother you any more."

He motioned to the servant behind him to carry the wine pot into the house.

Chu Changping recognized the voice as the steward of Feng Mansion, so he went forward to exchange a few words.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't think of anything to return the favor, so he went to the backyard to remove a leg of lamb from the roasted whole lamb, picked up a few lamb chops and wrapped them together, and took them out to Fuxi: "A little food is not a sign of respect."

Fuxi took the leg of lamb and lamb chops while being polite, and ended the conversation with Chu Changping in a few words, and left with the servants.

Chu Changping had a lot to say, but was forced to swallow it back. He stood at the door with a subtle look on his face. Why did he feel that the housekeeper of this mansion had been arguing with him for a long time just to wait for Jiang Yanyi to chop the lamb legs and lamb chops and bring them over?

Chu Changping felt that he must have thought too much.

Although the roasted whole lamb and smoked lamb chops were delicious, who was the King of Liaoning? How could he care about these?

He didn't know that at this moment, in the west wing of the Protectorate, which was only separated from Jiang Yanyi's yard by a wall, a certain prince of great wealth was sitting in a pavilion with a bamboo curtain to block the wind, eating lamb chops.

For the next two days, Jiang Yanyi's restaurant was closed. Several families who wanted to eat hotpot sent people to inquire several times, but all returned empty-handed.

Originally, these people didn't care about the dirty water of the Hu family, but now they are somewhat complaining about the Hu family. "

I don't care what you want to do to others, but if you make me hungry, then I will be uncomfortable with you."

The Hu family has had a particularly hard time recently. They received instructions from Governor Xie to bribe three ruffians to ruin the reputation of Jiang Yanyi's antique soup shop and vent their anger.

Unexpectedly, they learned that Jiang Yanyi's shop was closed, and before they had time to be happy, their own flower shop, cloth shop, rouge shop, and silver shop were all closed down.

The Hu family was dumbfounded and rushed to hug Governor Xie's thigh, but Governor Xie was now in a difficult situation and didn't care about them.

Fan Yaonian, who was originally thought to be climbing up the high branch, came to Xizhou with the secret order of the emperor. He did not dare to confront Feng Shuo. Now the whole city of Xizhou is under lockdown, and Fan Yaonian is hiding here and there.

The Hu family had no choice but to spend money to find connections everywhere, but with Feng Shuo in control, the officials who were approached by the Hu family did not dare to accept their gifts. Occasionally, a few officials with good appetites came, but they would not give the Hu family a good face when they thought that there was no mutton antique soup to eat now.

In comparison, Jiang Yanyi's life was much more comfortable. Every day he would bask in the sun in his backyard, play with the parrot, and cook some delicious food for himself when he had nothing to do.

Because of her injured foot, Jiang Yanyi always asked Qiu Kui to help deliver the medicinal food to the Duhufu, and then the concierge would pass it to Feng Shuo.

Today, when Jiang Yanyi got up, she found that her foot was no longer so painful, but she was not very strong when stepping on the ground. Just after she cooked the medicinal food, someone knocked on the door. It was the housekeeper of General Han's house who came to ask Jiang Yanyi to go to their house to help prepare a banquet.

"Today is a day off, and General Han is getting married. We originally wanted to invite Master Li, but we heard that Master Li's old backache has recurred, and he can't come in the military camp. Master Li asked us to come to you, Shopkeeper Jiang." The housekeeper was a kind-looking man, and spoke gently. "The old lady in our mansion also said that the hot pots in your shop are well made. She would be relieved if you, Shopkeeper Jiang, could come to host the banquet."

The news that Jiang Yanyi's hot pot restaurant had closed in the past few days had spread throughout Xizhou City. Chef Li must have heard about it in the military camp and recommended her to host the banquet because she was afraid that she would lose business. By hosting the banquet at Han's mansion this time, she could get to know more powerful people and it would be easier to attract customers in the future.

In this era, the shortcut to becoming famous for chefs is usually to host a banquet at the residence of a high-ranking official. If the food they cook is delicious, word of mouth will spread and their reputation will spread.

Chef Li meant well, and Jiang Yanyi thought that her foot injury had healed a lot, so it was difficult to refuse, so she accepted.

She had wanted to go to Feng's residence in person to deliver the medicinal food today, but now she had to ask Qiu Kui to help take it to the gatekeeper, and she would take Yang Xiu and Bing Shao to Han's residence to host the banquet.

Passing by the pharmacy on the way, Jiang Yanyi bought a lot of medicinal herbs for nourishment, thinking that since it was a general in the barracks getting married, there must be many people in the barracks who would go to congratulate him. If she met someone she knew, she could ask someone to bring the herbs to Chef Li. Feng's

residence.

When Xing Yao presented the medicinal food sent by the concierge to Feng Shuo, Feng Shuo was reading an official document.

Seeing that it was another document sent by Xing Yao, Feng Shuo threw away the document in his hand: "Is her injury not healed yet?"

Xing Yao said: "I think it is not healed yet. If the master cares about Miss Jiang, why not send some supplements?"

Feng Shuo had previously asked people to check the past of Jiang Yanyi and Lu Linyuan. It was a thick stack of papers. After reading every word, Xing Yao felt chilled just thinking about the look on

Feng Shuo's face. He had served Feng Shuo for so many years, and he had never seen him with such an ugly expression.

Feng Shuo was silent. When he thought of her almost obsessive love for Lu Linyuan, and Chu Changping's roar outside the clinic that day, "You are still protecting him", he felt countless black anger rolling in his heart.

He has been avoiding her these days because he is afraid that he will not be able to suppress his jealousy and scare her and push her further away.

Feng Shuo pinched his brows and asked, "Is Han Lubo getting married today?"

Xing Yao said, "Today, the invitation has been sent to the mansion a few days ago."

"For his wedding, the king still has to go there in person." Feng Shuo stood up and picked up the cloak hanging beside him. Xing Yao hurried forward to help him put it on.

Everyone said that Feng Shuo was cruel and violent, but his prestige in the army was unmatched. Privately, he and his generals were also friends who had risked their lives for each other.

Feng Shuo thought as he walked out of the mansion, I should go to the wedding banquet and buy some small things for Jiang Yanyi on the way back.

This is already the limit of lowering his posture.

If she only had Lu Linyuan in her heart, why should he bother himself?

He thought he was being open-minded and could let go, but he didn't see that his face had become frighteningly gloomy, and the servant who was harnessing the carriage at the door had already crossed his legs.

The Han family held a wedding banquet and invited more than one chef. Jiang Yanyi was the only female chef there. She was mainly responsible for stews and soup.

Jiang Yanyi opened her own hot pot restaurant and currently only sells clear soup hot pot. Her soup skills are impeccable. As long as she can control the heat, she is free most of the time. When other chefs are too busy, she can still lend a hand.

The chef of Lai Fu Restaurant was also invited to help. Jiang Yanyi was originally wary of causing conflicts, but the chef of Lai Fu Restaurant was a fat man with a big heart. He spoke quite humorously and wittily, and from time to time he said a few funny things to make everyone in the kitchen laugh.

"I've tried the antique soup in Manager Jiang's shop, it tastes amazing! I went back and told the manager that it was a good thing that Manager Jiang started his own business. If he had come to work as a chef at Lai Fu Restaurant, I'm afraid I would have lost my job!" The chef of Lai Fu Restaurant spoke in a loud voice that could be heard throughout the kitchen.

He was in charge of cooking, flipping the wok with his left hand and the spoon with his right hand, his movements were very clear, and he spoke like a storyteller: "The restaurant shopkeeper said that wouldn't do, he had to quickly invite Shopkeeper Jiang to work in the restaurant. I said, it's too late! He's doing well as a shopkeeper, why didn't he think of coming to be your cook? Give the shopkeeper position to someone else, and see if he will come!"

"The shopkeeper kept silent. Now it's not me who's going to lose my job, it's him!"

These words were obviously exaggerated, but the people in the kitchen still laughed.

Jiang Yanyi said, "Master Yao, please stop teasing me. How can my small shop compare with Lai Fu Restaurant?"

Chef Yao from Lai Fu Restaurant smiled and said, "Your master, Lao Li, and I have been friends for decades. He always said that you have a talent for cooking. Don't be so modest, little girl."

The dinner was more enjoyable than Jiang Yanyi had imagined. Not only did she get to know several famous chefs, she also listened to them complain about their own employers, or talk about the unscrupulous merchants who sold inferior products as good ones when they bought ingredients. There were all kinds of funny stories, and the laughter in the kitchen never stopped.

Jiang Yanyi's foot injury had not yet fully healed, and she felt uncomfortable after standing for a long time. After she finished preparing the stew and soup she was in charge of, she informed the cooks at the stove, said hello to the kitchen manager, and went outside.

The kitchen manager asked her to sit at the table, but Jiang Yanyi didn't even contribute a share of the money, so she was naturally embarrassed to go.

She was going to take a walk outside to see if Zhao Tou'er had come, so that she could ask Zhao Tou'er to give the supplementary herbs to Chef Li.

But maybe there were too many guests in the Han Mansion today, Jiang Yanyi looked for Zhao Tou'er for several times but couldn't find him, nor did she see a familiar face. Her feet ached, and there were too many people for Jiang Yanyi to find a place to sit temporarily, so she could only walk to a quiet place on the ground covered with melon seed shells and peanut shells.

There was red paper on the ground left by firecrackers, which looked very festive.

There is a lake in Hanfu, and a pavilion is built on the lake. Because winter is coming soon, it is very cold here, but no one comes here.

Jiang Yanyi was going to sit in the pavilion, and she limped into the pavilion, only to find that there was someone inside.

It was Lu Linyuan, who had a book covering his face. He was probably tired and was taking a nap on a chair. When Jiang Yanyi looked outside before, the railings blocked her view, and she couldn't see him at all.

Hearing the footsteps, Lu Linyuan seemed to be awakened just now. He took off the book covering his face and sat up in a panic, bowing his hands apologetically: "I am sorry."

When he saw that the person coming was Jiang Yanyi, Lu Linyuan's face became more unnatural.

He had never been rude in front of Jiang Yanyi. The reason why he fell asleep in the pavilion of the Han Mansion today was that the affairs of the government office were too complicated. He couldn't finish all the trivial matters every day by candlelight. He was really too sleepy.

Jiang Yanyi was afraid that he would mistake it for another accidental encounter she had deliberately created, so she explained, "I was on the other side of the lake and saw that there was no one here, so I came over. I didn't know that Master Lu was here, sorry

for disturbing you." She knelt down and bowed, and wanted to leave. Lu Linyuan saw that she was walking with difficulty, and knew that she had an injury on her foot, so he stopped her and said, "You can rest here. I just have something to do in the front yard."

Jiang Yanyi thought that Lu Linyuan's attitude was a little strange. Why did this guy seem to have changed today?

Suddenly, Feng Shuo also arrived at the Han Mansion. He felt that there was a commotion in the front yard, and the housekeeper of the Han Mansion hurriedly led him to the compartment of the flower hall to rest. However, going to the flower hall would just pass by the lake.

Feng Shuo saw from a distance that there seemed to be two figures in the pavilion across the lake, a man and a woman, who seemed to be a young man and a young lady who were taking this opportunity to have a tryst.

He was not interested in these things, and was about to look away after a casual glance, but suddenly he felt that the figure of the woman was somewhat familiar. He took

a closer look, and he saw that she was the little cook who had an injured foot and was so weak that she couldn't even walk a few steps to bring him medicinal food!

And that man was Lu Linyuan!

Feng Shuo's face darkened instantly.