Zhong Cang knelt on one knee and said, "I obey your command!"
The sudden surprise made him extremely excited. He tried to calm himself, but his voice couldn't help but tremble. "Zhong Wei, you take a team of soldiers and accompany me to Li'an City."
Zhong Wei: “Yes!”
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It was winter at the time. Taohua Village was far away from the hustle and bustle, the environment was quiet, and there was no war. Su Qian spent a few days here enjoying a leisurely rural life.
Here, she doesn't have to think about how to complete the mission, how to return to the modern era, or the things that happened between Yan Xuanye and Lu Huan. It's as if she is living in a paradise forgotten by the world.
The weather is getting colder, and there are fewer and fewer animals in the mountains in winter. Zhang Rui no longer goes up the mountain to hunt. Su Qian gives him an idea and asks him to go to the restaurant in Li'an City and make a deal with the owner.
Su Qian cooked a few dishes and gave them to Zhang Rui to try a few times. Zhang Rui thought they were delicious, so Su Qian asked him to take her dishes and recipes to various restaurants to see if anyone was willing to buy her recipes.
Fortunately, before the snow fell, Zhang Rui finally sold a recipe and earned fifty taels of silver.
He carried a bag of silver and bought a bunch of vegetables for the winter and returned to Taohua Village.
When they arrived at the village entrance in the ox cart, Zhang Rui looked up and could faintly see the house not far away. Smoke was rising from the chimney, and he knew that Su Qian was cooking rice.
Zhang Rui was so happy that he almost lost his composure for a moment.
It has been many years since he felt like this, with someone cooking for him and waiting for him to come back.
Although the life between the two people was more like that between a tenant and a landlord, he felt happiness and companionship in it.
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The leader on horseback in the distance stopped his horse, took the telescope handed to him by Zhong Cang, and observed the sparsely populated mountain village. The thousands of cavalrymen behind him waited quietly in place without saying a word.
Lu Huan stared at the small, dilapidated house with his right eye, his eyes gloomy and angry, like the gaze of an owl.
The Li'an City Governor stood uneasily to the side. Even on such a winter day, his back was soaked with sweat. "Your Majesty, that... is Taohua Village."
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