She pulled Zhou back into the house and pushed her to her seat: "I think this table is good enough. You can sit here and eat!"
If others can’t sit down, so be it! Let them be!
Mrs. Hu's emotions were all written on her face. Song Ruqing silently put down her chopsticks and glanced at them.
Seeing everyone coming in, Song Ruqing frowned and looked at Zhong Lizhou: "What's going on outside?"
Tielan entered the room and knelt on one knee to apologize: "Please forgive me, General. I saw that Zhou Yue was dissatisfied and said a few words without thinking... We started fighting!"
After she entered the room, she kept her head down, looking like she was ready to correct her mistakes.
Song Ruqing couldn't scold her in front of so many people, so he just replied with a cold face: "Punish yourself with thirty lashes! If you do this again, all 500 members of the Red Sleeves Army will increase their training by ten kilometers!"
"I accept the punishment!"
Tielan immediately stood up and went to the yard. He took off his armor, put on a thin red shirt, knelt in the yard, and asked his men to whip him.
"Captain Tie, do we really want to fight here?"
Glancing at the many people in the room, his men felt a little reluctant.
"beat!"
Tielan didn't hesitate.
The subordinate holding the whip did not dare to disobey the order and said softly, "Sorry." Then he picked up the whip and whipped Tielan on the back.
The sound of the whip tearing her skin and flesh made Tielan grit her teeth and not scream. One, two, three...
Everyone in the room heard it clearly, and at first Zhou felt very relieved.
But as the muffled groans outside gradually faded, leaving only the cracking sound of the whip, even Ji Fengshou felt a little uneasy: "I think it's better to forget about this matter..."
Zhou nodded in agreement: "Yes, I don't seem to be so angry now."
Song Ruqing shook his head: "Rules are rules. How can we convince people if we change them every day?"
Ji Fengshou glanced at his brother Ji Fengyi, only to see him shaking his head, so he had no choice but to give up.
For a moment, the only sound in the room was the sound of whips coming from outside. After an unknown amount of time, the person outside came in with a serious expression and saluted Song Ruqing: "General, the thirty whips have been completed!"
Song Ruqing then looked at Mr. Huang and said, "Could you please take a look?"
All this time didn't affect Huang Lao's appetite at all. He was enjoying his meal when he pulled out a bottle of wound medicine from his bag and threw it over: "Use this for one night first!"
The person who reported the matter glanced at Song Ruqing and saw that he had no intention of objecting, so he took the medicine and turned to walk out the door.
"It's getting late, I won't bother you any more!"
After whipping him, Song Ruqing said goodbye in a gentle voice, without any displeasure on his face.
Ji Fengyi had never stood up so quickly before: "Then I won't keep you any longer."
He was too lazy to even be polite now, he just wanted to send the person away quickly.
Zhonglizhou sent Song Ruqing to the carriage, and walked over to Ji Changying with a long stride. "Hey Dou, I'll come over to see you tomorrow. Is that convenient for you?"
Ji Changying nodded: "Okay."
After seeing the person off, Ji Fengyi walked all the way back to the courtyard without relaxing his brows at all.
"Father, what are you worried about?" Ji Mingxuan couldn't help asking when he saw his father in a trance.
"They didn't leave the village, but went to the wheat field west of the village." Ji Fengyi was worried.
"Who cares about them? As long as they don't live in our house, we can't stop them even if they sleep on the street!" Ji Fengshou relaxed when he saw them leave.
"Have you ever thought that they really want to stay in the village permanently?" Ji Fengyi glanced at his brother and his hands itched.
Ji Fengshou's eyes widened. "No way? If that's the case, why hasn't anyone in the village heard anything about it?"
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The next day, the village was in an uproar.
Early in the morning, before daybreak, the whole village was filled with the uniform sound of "Hey Ha Hey Ha".
Wait for someone to go out and take a look.
OMG!
I don't know when the village was occupied by a group of soldiers in armor!
At this moment they are running around the village carrying stones.
Xiaotian Village was in an uproar. Aunt Yang kicked the village chief, who was sleeping soundly with his butt sticking out, awake and said, "Wake up! Something big has happened in the village!"
The village chief suddenly turned over and sat up in his sleep: "The barbarians are here again?!"
Aunt Yang pinched her waist and said, "Bah! You're still the village chief? A bunch of outsiders have almost taken over the village, and you're still sleeping with your butt sticking out! I think it's better for you to give up the position and let me take over!"
The village chief's shoulders relaxed when he heard this, and he pulled the quilt over him and was about to lie down again: "What nonsense are you talking about so early in the morning! Get out of here!"
Aunt Yang pulled the quilt off him and said, "What the hell are you doing sleeping? A group of female soldiers have come to the village and occupied our wheat field. Go and find out what's going on!"
The village chief went out to take a look with half belief and half doubt, and saw a group of soldiers carrying a stone behind their backs and running past him with laughter.
His mind suddenly became clear.
After putting on his shoes, he didn't even bother to tidy up his hair and ran to the wheat field to ask someone.
Zhonglizhou had already arrived at the Ji family. He had not slept well the whole night, so he ran here as soon as the Ji family members woke up at dawn.
Ji Changying looked at Zhong Lizhou, whose eyes were dark but extremely bright, and could not say anything to refuse or wait.
“Follow me!”
Ji Changying left behind the horsehair toothbrush that You Tianming had prepared for her and took Zhong Lizhou to her room.
"These are potatoes. These are ripe. Let me pick some up for you to see."
Ji Changying pulled up the mature seedlings that had been prepared long ago, and underneath them was a bunch of yellow potatoes.
"See? A single seedling can produce so much. If the box wasn't big enough, it could produce even more."
Ji Changying took the freshly dug potatoes to the kitchen. Zhong Lizhou followed her the whole time, his eyes fixed on her for not a second.
I watched her skillfully wash and peel the vegetables, cut them into pieces, steam them, and then shred them for stir-fry.
"Okay, try it. This steamed one can be eaten directly like a steamed bun. This way you can eat it like a vegetable and eat it with rice."
Ji Changying pushed both plates of food in front of Zhong Lizhou. He didn't care about etiquette and picked up the chopsticks and put them into his mouth.
The steamed potatoes are very soft and glutinous, and have a sweet aroma even without any seasoning.
The fried potato shreds have a crisp texture with a slight sourness, which is refreshing and relieves greasiness.
Zhonglizhou really couldn't believe that these two things were really dug out and made by Ji Changying under his watch.
"I've never even seen anything like this at a palace banquet! Where on earth did it come from?"
Zhongli Zhou asked seriously.
"I bought this from a traveling merchant. He taught me how to eat it. The rest are all grown there. By the way, your cousin and I looked for it when we went to the grasslands, but unfortunately we didn't find it in the Turkic territory."
Zhonglizhou stood up quickly and turned around on the spot.
"What do you want?" Zhongli Zhou looked at Ji Changying with sharp eyes.
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