Chapter 65 Before he dies of anger, he should strangle her to death...

Although the news of the war came from the capital, thousands of miles away from Xizhou, people in taverns and teahouses were discussing the matter.

In Jiang Yanyi's shop, the old scholar stopped talking about "Dream of the Red Chamber" and told the diners how Fan Wei killed his way to Yingdu after the rebellion. What kind of barriers he passed and what kind of generals he killed, after being passed here through countless mouths, was a million miles away from the real war situation, but as long as the ending was correct, no matter how outrageous the things that happened in the middle were, people would listen.

At the same time, Feng Shuo's staff often came to the mansion early in the morning these days and discussed until dark before leaving the mansion.

Because of the frequent delays in meetings, the kitchen of Feng Mansion could not figure out the time for the masters to eat. Most of the time, the meals were prepared early, and when the staff finished their meetings, the meals had already been cold. Later, the housekeeper of the palace went directly to Jiang Yanyi's store to buy pots for the staff, which solved this problem. Jiang

Yanyi still prepared medicinal food for Feng Shuo every day, but he was busy in the study all day long, and Jiang Yanyi had no chance to see him. The medicinal food was basically handed over by Xing Yao.

Chu Changping also discussed matters with Feng Shuo's staff, and occasionally came to see Jiang Yanyi, but he had to leave in a hurry before finishing his meal.

When he came to have lunch that day, it was already Shenshi, and the store was free after being busy. Jiang Yanyi wanted to make him a soup pot, but Chu Changping said that they didn't have enough time and just eat something to fill their stomach.

It happened that the medicinal food she made for Feng Shuo today was steamed mutton. From a pharmacological point of view, this dish can strengthen the spleen and muscles, and is very beneficial for those who are weak and afraid of cold.

Jiang Yanyi wanted to make her own mutton soup pot a health-preserving feature, so she specially cooked a big pot. Rich people often pay the most attention to health preservation. This medicinal food sold better than Jiang Yanyi imagined. It was originally planned to sell it all in one day, but now there is not much left in the pot, so Jiang Yanyi gave all the remaining steamed mutton to Chu Changping.

When Chu Changping saw the steamed mutton on the table, he remembered the smell of medicinal food in Feng Shuo's study. He paused holding the wooden chopsticks, remembering the news that Yang Xiu had reported to him before. He glanced at Jiang Yanyi and said hesitantly: "Ayi, this mutton..."

Jiang Yanyi poured him a bowl of soup and put it in front of him, "What's wrong?"

Chu Changping swallowed the words that were on his lips and only said, "This mutton is steamed well."

He wanted to ask her what was going on with the King of Liaoning.

But as an uncle, he didn't know where to start asking about this matter between men and women. After thinking about it, he thought it would be better to wait for Madam Jiang to come to Xizhou and let Madam Jiang ask.

As an uncle, the only thing he could do was to increase his power as soon as possible so that he could support Jiang Yanyi if something really happened.

He was very busy these days, and he managed to do some good things for Feng Shuo, and proved to Feng Shuo's generals that he was not just a name. He showed his ability, and Feng Shuo would assign him troops to win the support of the people.

Chu Changping was worried, and he ate his meal in a hurry. Jiang Yanyi swallowed it without even seeing him chew. She said worriedly, "Why do you have to make this trip if you are in a hurry? If you have something to say, you can just ask someone to tell me."

Chu Changping finished the meal in two mouthfuls, took the cloak handed to him by Yang Xiu, put it on, and took out a handful of silver bills and deeds from his arms and handed them to Jiang Yanyi, "Here are 10,000 taels of silver bills and the deeds of the Hu family. Keep them well. Hu After my house was raided, I bought the house. If you have time, take some people to clean up the house. You can use these banknotes as you like. If you need anything for the house, just buy it yourself. "

Xie Zhizhou colluded with the enemy and let the Turkic prince into Xizhou City. It was the Hu family's caravan that protected the Turkic prince. After Xie Zhizhou was imprisoned, the Hu family was also unable to get rid of the connection. Now all the properties under their name have been sealed by the government.

The house of the Hu family has three entrances and a good location. The price is not cheap.

Jiang Yanyi was stunned and asked, "Why did uncle suddenly buy a house?"

Chu Changping said, "I planned to buy it a long time ago. Now Fan Wei has rebelled, the capital is in chaos, and Prince Xinyang of Yuzhou has also raised his flag..."

Chu Changping paused here, and thinking that Jiang Yanyi didn't understand these court affairs, he stopped talking and said, "The wealthy people in the capital are now fleeing with their families. I can take this opportunity to go back and bring your mother and your grandmother to Xizhou." If

all the Chu family members came here, they would have to buy a big house to accommodate them.

Jiang Yanyi asked hurriedly, "Uncle, when are you leaving?"

Chu Changping said, "I have sent a message to the Chu family in the capital. We will leave as soon as we have arranged everything in Xizhou. It will only take two days."

The confidant outside the door urged him, and Chu Changping reminded him again, "You can open this shop just for fun to kill time. Don't spend too much time on it and make yourself suffer."

Jiang Yanyi knew that he had probably heard about her previous dispute with Lai Fu Restaurant. Reluctant to let her work hard, she said: "I don't need to worry about me. I will go to clean up the house when I have time, and when mother and others come, they can live here directly."

After seeing Chu Changping off, seeing that there were not many customers in the store at this time, Jiang Yanyi asked Aunt Guo and Qiu Kui to look after the store, and took Yang Xiu and Bing Shao to the street to buy some meat to make meat jerky and other food for Chu Changping to eat on the road.

Yang Xiu and Bing Shao had been with Chu Changping through life and death for many years, and knew that if they were on the road, they would only have dry food to eat every day. They were afraid of any accidents when they were out, so as long as they had not finished eating the dry food on them, they rarely ate the food in the inn.

Ma the butcher's butcher shop was doing a good business, and the good meat was often sold out in the afternoon. Jiang Yanyi wanted to make meat jerky, but he didn't like the leftover meat, so he had to go to other butcher shops.

Passing by a meat jerky shop on the way, Jiang Yanyi asked about the price.

"Hey, Manager Jiang, there is no meat jerky that tastes better than the one in my shop in the whole Xizhou City. It's all made from the hind legs of lamb. You are a rare guest, so I will sell it to you at one dollar for two catties. I usually sell it at one dollar and fifty cents!"

Ten dollars is worth one or two taels of silver. So, his dried lamb jerky costs fifty coins per catty.

Jiang Yanyi had to buy several sheep every day for his own store, so he knew the price of fresh mutton very well. The top-quality mutton from Ma the butcher was only 20 wen per pound, and the price of jerky meat was more than doubled. So the boss didn't think he was cheating him.

Jiang Yanyi said, "I want to taste it before I buy it."

"Go ahead! I guarantee you won't find anything wrong with my mutton!" The boss was full of confidence, and he used a knife to cut off a small piece of meat from a one-foot-long piece and handed it to Jiang Yanyi.

Because the meat was naturally dried and only salt was added as seasoning, it was dry and hard in the mouth, which was very testing for the teeth, but it preserved the original flavor of the mutton and had a unique flavor.

The boss was very enthusiastic. Jiang Yanyi didn't want to leave empty-handed after trying the things in the store, so he thought for a while and said, "Give me two pounds."

"Okay!" The boss quickly weighed the dried meat and put an extra piece of dried meat the size of his index finger into the oil paper. He smiled and said, "This is a gift for you."

"Thank you." Jiang Yanyi gave the money.

As soon as the boss packed it, Yang Xiu stepped forward and took it.

Suddenly, a quarrel came from the dry goods shop not far away.

"The sea cucumbers are all bad, and they smell like dirt. Who will eat them if we take them back to cook? Where can we buy them!"

"The store used to get sea cucumbers like this. Master Yao, if you are angry, go back and tell the boss, don't get angry at me. The money the boss gave you is only enough to buy inferior sea cucumbers. If you want to buy high-quality sea cucumbers, you have to pay for it yourself!"

"Damn it, I'm not working in your restaurant anymore. Using such inferior things to cook will ruin my reputation!"

The people arguing were Chef Yao and a strange servant.

Jiang Yanyi frowned: "Is that Master Yao?"

There are only a few famous chefs in Xizhou City, and the owner of the jerky shop also knew Master Yao. When he heard what Jiang Yanyi said, he said, "That's Master Yao who used to cook at Lai Fu Restaurant. I don't know why, but he doesn't work there anymore. He just went to Taihe Restaurant not long ago. Originally, many people who liked Master Yao's cooking skills went to Taihe Restaurant to try it, but after eating, they all said that Master Yao's cooking level is not as good as before."

Chef Yao had never agreed to come to Jiang Yanyi's restaurant. In order not to be annoying, Jiang Yanyi hadn't asked anyone to go to Chef Yao's place for a while. He has been busy recently and didn't know that he had gone to work at Taihe Restaurant.

Chef Yao was so angry at the waiter of Taihe Restaurant that he left with a wave of his sleeves. When he turned around and saw Jiang Yanyi standing across the street, he greeted him with an unnatural look: "Manager Jiang."

The two of them found a teahouse on the street and sat down to drink a cup of tea.

Jiang Yanyi saw that Chef Yao was reserved and said first: "I heard that Master Yao is now in a high position in Taihe Restaurant."

Chef Yao sighed and said: "You are stepping into a dung pit with your eyes open."

Previously, in order to invite Jiang Yanyi to the store, Jiang Yanyi not only asked Chef Li to be a lobbyist, but also sent a lot of gifts to his home. Chef Yao refused because he was afraid that Lai Fu Restaurant would spread rumors.

Now he went to work in another restaurant. He ran into Jiang Yanyi on the street, and he couldn't help feeling embarrassed and ashamed.

Jiang Yanyi behaved calmly and didn't seem to have any grudge against him for not going to the antique soup shop. He asked, "What do you mean?"

Chef Yao said, "The owner of Taihe Building wants to use my specialty as his signature dish, but none of the ingredients purchased from the building are good enough. The dishes made with inferior ingredients are so picky that the dignitaries are picky about them. They really think that people can't taste them! Don't worry that you think I, Yao, am bragging. Since I came to Taihe Building, many regular customers have come to support me. But I feel ashamed of the dishes cooked with the ingredients in his shop! I don't want this job. I, Yao, have been cooking for so many years, I can't lose my reputation at this age."

Not cutting corners is the principle of being a chef.

Jiang Yanyi heard about his encounter and said: "Master Yao, I still say the same old thing. If you are willing to come to my little shop to help me, I will give you double the salary you received at Laifu Restaurant."

After Chef Yao left Laifu Restaurant, many people came to invite him. After careful consideration, he decided to go to Taihe Building, which is second only to Laifu Restaurant in reputation. Unexpectedly, the place looked bright on the outside, but the kitchen was in a mess.

Other restaurants don't even have a shiny shell, and I don't know what the kitchen is like.

Jiang Yanyi is also a cook herself, so she doesn't have as many opportunistic thoughts as a businessman when it comes to cooking. The food cooked in her shop must be made with real ingredients, and she won't encounter such troubles.

This was not the first time she had said this. Her sincerity was obvious. Chef Yao was grateful, but he was afraid of giving Lai Fu Restaurant a chance to criticize him.

He hesitated and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Manager Jiang. I will think about it carefully when I go back and give you an answer later." He had rejected her directly the last few times. Jiang Yanyi knew there was a chance when she heard it. She smiled and said, "I'll wait for your news."

As soon as Chef Yao returned home, he could hear the heartbreaking cry of a child through the courtyard gate.

He pushed the door open and saw the manager of Lai Fu Restaurant sitting in the main hall. His wife was sitting aside. The manager of Lai Fu Restaurant crossed his legs and looked at the shabby house with contempt in his eyes.

When Mrs. Yao saw her husband coming back, she stood up and said, "I'll go and help my mother take her medicine. Dalang, you sit down and talk to the manager of the restaurant."

Chef Yao nodded.

As soon as Madam Yao walked out of the house, the manager of the restaurant said, "Master Yao, the boss has heard about your affairs in Taihe Restaurant. Do you really think that any restaurant can do what Lai Fu did? Now that there is a war in the south, every household is struggling to make ends meet, and the restaurant business is not as good as before. But the boss is a nostalgic person, so he asked me to invite you back."

His tone sounded respectful, but his eyes were full of contempt, and his attitude was quite superior: "You have a family to support, with an 80-year-old mother and a few-year-old child. If you don't go back to work in the restaurant, how will you support this large family?"

He patted Chef Yao on the shoulder, stood up with a smile: "I have said this, Master Yao, think about it carefully."

As soon as the manager of the restaurant left, Chef Yao slammed the table angrily.

Mrs. Yao came out of the main room, holding her little son who had just been coaxed. Seeing him slamming the table angrily, she said coldly: "The medicine prescribed by the doctor is the last one today, and the rice jar is almost empty. I do embroidery all day, and my ten fingers are broken from pinching needles, but I can't make much money!"

Most of the salary that Chef Yao earned from working at Lai Fu Restaurant over the years was spent on medicine and medical treatment for his old mother. The rest was enough to cover the family's expenses if he saved a little.

Now, it was raining cats and dogs. His mother was seriously ill, and asking the doctor to prescribe medicine almost emptied the family's coffers.

Facing his wife's harsh criticism, Chef Yao felt guilty. Thinking of the housekeeper's bad mouth, he became even more annoyed. He just said, "You should focus on taking care of the children and stop doing embroidery. I will find a way to deal with the money."

When Jiang Yanyi returned, she also bought more than ten pounds of fresh pork.

She felt that the meat jerky sold outside was too dry and hard. It was good as a special snack, but it would be a test of her teeth to rely on it to fill her stomach.

After the pot was sold that night, Jiang Yanyi started making meat jerky in the kitchen.

She washed the pork and the fresh mutton left in the store, and cooked the largest pot with okra. After the water in the pot boiled, she added ginger, pepper and fennel, and put all the washed meat into the pot to blanch it to remove the fishy smell.

Aunt Guo had strong hands and helped her stir the pepper, cornel, star anise and fennel for the broth with a stone ladle.

Jiang Yanyi picked up the blanched meat and put it in a colander. After it cooled down, she used a knife to cut the meat into slightly thick slices along the grain direction. If

you don't cut along the grain direction when making meat jerky, it will easily fall apart later and it will be inconvenient to carry.

The meat of pork is not as firm as beef, so she sighed as she cut it: "It's a pity that there is no beef on the market."

Otherwise, you can use beef jerky as dry food, which will make you feel fuller.

Qiu Kui held her face behind the fire pit and asked, "Is beef more delicious?"

Killing cattle is illegal in the Daxuan Dynasty. Except for some powerful people who can taste it, the poor people don't have this blessing.

Jiang Yanyi recalled the taste of beef in her memory, smacked her lips and said, "It smells so good! Red soup hot pot with tripe is even more delicious!"

The pepper seedlings she cultivated in the flower room of Feng Mansion are now blooming. In the near future, she may be able to make a red soup hot pot to satisfy her craving.

"What is tripe?" Qiu Kui asked.

"It's beef tripe, cow offal." Jiang Yanyi replied, but her hands did not slow down at all.

In this era, even wealthy people disdain to eat offal. When Aunt Guo first heard Jiang Yanyi mention beef, she thought she had eaten it at Jiang's house before. Now she heard her mention beef offal again, she couldn't help but feel a little confused, but she didn't say anything.

Qiu Kui was like a questioning baby: "Hua Hua said before that there are three types of soup: hairy soup, milk soup, and clear soup. What is red soup?"

All the meat had been cut. Jiang Yanyi put the broth that Aunt Guo had crushed into the pot to make brine, and then poured the cut meat in and simmered it over low heat. This step was to make the brine taste good.

After ordinary meat jerky is salted, it can be eaten after air-drying. It is very durable. It is too late to wait for the meat to be naturally air-dried before Chu Changping leaves Xizhou. However, Jiang Yanyi has a roasting oven. She can roast out some of the moisture in the meat so that it can be stored for a longer time.

As she was busy, she said: "The soup surface of the red soup is bright red, and it tastes spicy and burns your tongue. When I make it later, you will know what it tastes like."

The meat was salted. Jiang Yanyi cut the skin, fat, tendons and minced the piece of pork hind leg meat that she had reserved before. She wanted to use this piece of meat to make pork jerky.

The production process of pork jerky is much more complicated than that of meat jerky, and it is quite laborious, so Jiang Yanyi only kept a small part of the meat for trial, and most of the meat was made into meat jerky.

The spices used to make the brine just now were not used up, so Jiang Yanyi mixed them into the meat stuffing, added salt and a little ginger and garlic water, and stirred in a clockwise direction. The purpose of adding ginger and garlic water is to remove the fishy smell.

The most important seasoning for pork jerky is fish sauce. In the world where she originally lived, people used it in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in history, but it was called fish sauce at that time, and this seasoning was mostly used in coastal areas

. But Jiang Yanyi didn't see anyone selling fish sauce in the market today. It may be that no one in this world uses this seasoning yet, or it may be that Xizhou is too far from the sea, and in this dynasty with inconvenient transportation and underdeveloped freight, it could not be passed from the coastal areas.

Jiang Yanyi didn't know if not adding fish sauce would have a big impact on the taste of the pork jerky, so she planned to make some to try it first.

If the taste is okay, all the meat fillings can be made into pork jerky. If the taste is not good, it is not a waste to stuff the remaining meat fillings into sausages.

The store needs to bake egg tarts, cakes and the like, so Jiang Yanyi had already gone to the blacksmith to make several iron trays.

She spread a layer of oil paper on the chopping board, scooped a ball of meat fillings and put it on, then covered it with another layer of oil paper. After flattening the meat fillings, she rolled it thin with a rolling pin, tore off the top layer of oil paper, and sprinkled a layer of white sesame seeds on it.

Aunt Guo had never seen such a strange way of making meat, and asked in confusion: "Boss, are you trying to make a new dish?"

This is meat jerky that has been improved by later generations. No one in ancient times had ever gone to such trouble to make it.

Jiang Yanyi nodded in agreement with Auntie Guo: "Let's see how it turns out. If it's okay, we'll have one more specialty dish in our store."

"Are you planning to bake or smoke it?"

Auntie Guo thought that this meat pie might taste similar to roasted sausage slices.

"Bake."

Jiang Yanyi lit a fire in the oven outside, and waited until the upper oven was heated before putting the tray in.

The wood-fired oven is not like the electric oven of later generations. The temperature inside rises slowly. If the meat jerky is put in too early, the temperature will be insufficient and the meat will become soft and difficult to chew. The temperature must be controlled when putting it in.

The common method of making pork jerky is to brush it with honey water. If there is no honey water, you can dip it in sugar water. The main purpose is to make the pork jerky have a salty and sweet taste.

After all, it is made for her own family, and Jiang Yanyi is not short of money now. She generously scooped a spoonful of honey to make honey water, and then took out the tray after baking for a quarter of an hour.

The previous meat filling has turned into a whole brown-red block. The air is filled with the rich meat aroma mixed with sesame aroma, and the aftertaste is endless.

Okra exclaimed: "It smells so good."

It looks delicious too!

Aunt Guo had not expected that the taste of the meat filling after being flattened and baked would be completely different from what she had imagined, and she could not help but admire Jiang Yanyi even more: "The shopkeeper still has many ideas." "

The predecessors planted the trees and the descendants took advantage of the coolness." Jiang Yanyi was embarrassed to take credit, this was a recipe that was continuously improved from generation to generation and passed down to later generations, and it was not her own creation.

Aunt Guo thought she was saying that her cooking skills were all taught by Chef Li, so she didn't think much about what Jiang Yanyi said.

Qiu Kui thought the meat jerky was ready to eat, but saw Jiang Yanyi pick up a homemade small brush, dipped it in honey water, brushed both sides of the golden roasted pork jerky, and put it back into the oven.

Jiang Yanyi turned around and saw her eager look, and said with a smile: "It

will take a while longer to be ready." Qiu Kui nodded, she glanced at the sky, and said to Aunt Guo with some worry: "Aunt, it's getting late. If you don't go back, you won't be able to get home before curfew."

The aroma of meat filled the oven.

Aunt Guo found a stool and sat down: "I have good legs and feet, and my home is nearby, so I'm not in a hurry."

When she smelled the strong meat aroma when it came out of the oven, Jiang Yanyi knew that the pork jerky was very successful.

She took out the tray with a wet towel to protect her hands, cut the jerky into pieces with a knife, handed a piece to Qiu Kui and Aunt Guo, and picked up a piece for herself.

Because it was pressed into chunks from minced meat, the meat was very firm and the seasoning inside was rich. The more you chewed, the more fragrant it became. The salty and spicy taste was mixed with the faint sweetness of honey.

It was the taste of pork jerky in memory!

That night, after Aunt Guo tasted the jerky and went back before curfew, Jiang Yanyi and Qiu Kui worked for a while before they finished making all the jerky and jerky.

Jiang Yanyi still had to make soup, but Qiu Kui couldn't stand it, so Jiang Yanyi asked her to go back to her room and sleep first.

Jiang Yanyi sat behind the stove, hugged her knees and stared at the shaking flames in a daze.

After preparing these dry foods for Chu Changping and his group, she felt more at ease.

Although the war is still far away from Xizhou, she has been very uneasy these days. She is cut off from news in Xizhou and has no idea what is happening in the capital. In the original book, Xizhou City was the first to be in chaos, but now it has become the capital. Many things are different from the book, but will the final ending also change?

According to the plot of the original book, after the heroine leaves the palace, she will first be abused by the second male Lu Linyuan in Xizhou, and then she will be taken to the grassland by the Turkic prince to be a princess. The emperor is furious and the two countries go to war. On the way to snatch the heroine back, they are ambushed and the whole army is wiped out. Only the emperor and the heroine survived. The two of them developed a rapid relationship while recuperating in a village outside the pass.

The story is so ridiculous that the village where the hero and heroine are recuperating is full of people loyal to the royal family of the previous dynasty. They are hiding outside the Great Wall to recuperate and wait for the opportunity to restore the country. In the early stage, the hero and heroine concealed their identities and did not let the people in the village notice. It was not until the heroine was pregnant and unwell that the village doctor diagnosed her pulse and saw the birthmark on her hand and recognized that the heroine was the princess of the previous dynasty.

At this time, everyone in the Daxuan Dynasty thought that the emperor died on the battlefield. The princes raised their flags to compete for the throne. Taking advantage of this wave of internal friction, the Minghan Kingdom in the south invaded again, and the Turkic royal court in the north was also uneasy.

In order to preserve their troops, the princes were unwilling to resist foreign enemies. Even if they formed an alliance to fight against the enemy, they had their own ulterior motives.

When the country was about to collapse, the emperor took the heroine back to the capital to stabilize the situation. The heroine knew her true identity in the village outside the Great Wall, but she just couldn't believe it. After confirming it from Minister Jiang, she learned that her parents were killed by the previous emperor and her family's throne was also taken away by the previous emperor. She collapsed immediately.

On the night of the ceremony of the queen, the heroine applied a strong poison on her lip balm. After the emperor was poisoned, she told him everything in tears and said the most ruthless words. She left the capital under the cover of the righteous men of the previous dynasty, but was still surrounded and killed by the imperial guards. At the critical moment, Minister Jiang brought people to help and died to cover the heroine.

The closest person and the person she loved the most in the world, one died to save her, and the other was killed by her. The great revenge has been taken. The heroine has no more thoughts and no longer cares who will take over the world in the end. She finds a Buddhist temple to practice in seclusion.

The emperor did not die thanks to the protagonist's halo, but the entire Daxuan Dynasty was completely destroyed. The Turks in the north were coming, and the Minghan Kingdom was invading in the south. The various princes fought and surrendered. In the end, when the Turks and Minghan Kingdom attacked the imperial capital, and the surrounding small countries also surrounded it to share a piece of the pie, the Daxuan Dynasty was fragmented and how could it fight?

The emperor had to move the capital to avoid fighting and preserve his strength.

In the original book, only when the emperor missed the heroine, he reported the news to the emperor through his attendants, and then mentioned that the King of Liaoning was dead.

How did he die? Where did he die? There was not a single unnecessary word.

Jiang Yanyi thought about these things and felt her heart suffocate.

Most of the original book was about the tragic love between the hero and heroine, their love and hatred for each other. Too little useful information could be sifted out. As for the direction of these national and family affairs, even if she wanted to change their trajectory, she was not capable enough and had no idea where to start.

When she was squatting behind the stove and sighing, a cold voice suddenly came from above her head:

"Why are you sighing?"

Jiang Yanyi looked up and saw Feng Shuo's delicate and handsome face.

She didn't know when he came, and she didn't even hear his footsteps. Thinking of his death, which was mentioned in passing in the original book, her nose felt sour for no reason.

"Nothing, I just don't like fighting."

When she first came through, she felt that she had picked up a life in vain, and she could live freely without any worries. Now the more things she worries about, the more she cherishes her life. After a long time, year after year, she now understands the preciousness of these two words.

"The war is a thousand eight hundred miles away from Xizhou, what are you afraid of?" Feng Shuo said so, but seeing her eyes red, her brows were still wrinkled unconsciously.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't tell him about her worries, and changed the subject: "How come you have time to come today?"

Feng Shuo said meaningfully: "If you don't come, I'm afraid someone will cry."

Jiang Yanyi originally felt a little sad, and after hearing him say that, she felt a little annoyed and couldn't help but glare at him.

Seeing that she was in a better mood, Feng Shuo said, "Don't worry, there will be no chaos in Xizhou. When your uncle brings your mother and grandfather over, I will ask a matchmaker to propose marriage."

It was not the first time he talked to her about the proposal, but this was the only time that Jiang Yanyi did not feel panicked.

She asked the question that had puzzled her for a long time: "What... do you like about me?"

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

Jiang Yanyi put his hands on his knees and said: "I have always wanted to ask, but I just asked it now. In terms of appearance, I am not stunning. In terms of talent, I have not read many books of poetry. In terms of family background, I am still a dead person in the Jiang family. In the Chu family, I am just a cousin. I am of no help to your hegemony..."

"Why do you think that I value you because of those people?" Feng Shuo interrupted her, his expression did not change, but one could still hear the displeasure in his tone.

Jiang Yanyi was silent for a while, raised his eyes in confusion and said: "Is it because I can cook?"

Feng Shuo: "..."

He was afraid that he would be pissed to death by her sooner or later.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Should I marry any cook who can cook?"

Jiang Yanyi thought about it seriously for a while and denied it for him: "She has to be pretty."

Feng Shuo didn't know whether to be angry or laugh for a moment.

He said, "...Are you bragging?"

Jiang Yanyi said sincerely, "No, this is a realistic analysis."

Feng Shuo: "..."

Before he gets angry to death, he'd better pinch her to death first.

He pinched her cheeks. Jiang Yanyi's face was originally not fleshy, but because of this posture, her cheeks were pinched and bulged, and her pale pink lips pouted, like a pufferfish out of water.

"Well, what are you doing?" She widened her eyes and could hardly speak.

"Because it's you, I like you, do you understand?"