Chapter 89

Chapter 89

Hearing that, the peddler quickly nodded. “Of course. I’ll deliver it for you right away and make sure it arrives safe and sound.”

He hadn’t expected this little girl to be from General Ji’s Mansion.

Although the General’s Mansion no longer had a general, everyone was still used to calling it General Ji’s Mansion.

This was especially true for the people who lived in Mobei. They were deeply grateful to the Ji Family Member, and so they held everyone from the General’s Mansion in even greater affection.

Especially now that Old General Ji’s grandson had arrived as well.

They heard he was gravely ill, and that he was the only male heir left in the entire Ji Family.

Yet the moment he arrived, he had solved the great scourge of Wang Hu for the people of Mobei.

Jiang Yunsui wasn’t worried the peddler would fail to deliver the goods. After giving her instructions, she continued strolling through the market.

After that, she bought some peanuts and melon seeds, as well as all kinds of vegetable seeds.

She was going to tidy up the little courtyard of her own house and plant delicious things there.

With her helping them absorb Moonlight Essence, they would definitely grow especially tasty.

Her mushrooms were especially delicious. Hmph, hadn’t Ji Yan’an ended up eating them again anyway?

Grape saplings-brought over by traveling merchants from Tubo. Buy them, buy them.

Peaches, pomegranates, plums, loquats, oranges…

The greedy Little Mushroom bought every kind of fruit tree sapling she saw.

Some had come from the south and had no chance of surviving here at all, but she bought those too.

Whether they could live or not, she would plant them first and worry later.

“Huh? Is this bamboo?”

The peddler was a young man. He said, “That’s right, honored customer. These are bamboo rhizomes we brought from the south. All you need to do is bury them in the soil, and bamboo will grow from them later. I noticed there didn’t seem to be much bamboo around here, so I brought some with me.”

The peddler beside him looked at him with an expression that was hard to describe. “Brother, did it never occur to you why there isn’t any bamboo here?”

The young man looked utterly bewildered. “Isn’t it because bamboo grows really far away, deep in the mountains?”

“What are you thinking? It’s because this place isn’t suited for bamboo to grow at all.”

The young man: “…”

Fine. In any case, he had only brought a few bamboo rhizomes on a whim.

“I’ll take them.”

The very next second, the pretty little child dressed like a small rabbit opened her little mouth and claimed them all.

The young man stared at her, dumbfounded.

“Uh… you heard what that uncle said just now, right?”

Then why was she still buying them?

Jiang Yunsui planted her little hands on her hips and lifted her small chin.

“I just want to challenge the impossible.”

Everyone: “…”

Was this child perhaps a fool?

In the end, Jiang Yunsui returned with a full haul.

Meanwhile, at the Ji Mansion, the things delivered one after another by peddlers nearly piled up and blocked the front gate.

“Young man, these are the saplings bought by a little girl from your residence-the one with her hair done up like rabbit ears. Ten grape saplings, twelve peach saplings, orange saplings…”

The guard at the gate looked completely numb.

There was only one child in the residence. Even if they didn’t describe what she looked like, he would know who it was.

That Little Ancestor had gone out today and bought every fruit tree sapling in the entire market, hadn’t she?

When Ji Yan’an returned from outside, before he even entered the gate, he saw the busy crowd at the entrance.

Nanshu helped him down from the carriage and immediately started shouting.

“What is going on here?”

“Young Master, Jiang Yunsui bought all of this.”

Ji Yan’an glanced at the various things piled up inside the gate and immediately closed his eyes for a moment.

“She’s really treating the Ji Mansion like her own home, isn’t she?”

She was far more at ease here than he was, the actual master of the place.

Nanshu muttered under his breath, “Isn’t that because you indulge her?”
Ji Yan’an said nothing, merely casting Nanshu a cool glance.

Nanshu immediately shut his mouth.

“Why did she buy so many fruit saplings?”

Looking at the various fruit tree saplings piled up on the ground, Ji Yan’an slowly walked over to take a look. When he spotted a certain plant, the corner of his mouth twitched even harder.

“Is this… a banana?”

Nanshu leaned in for a look. “It really is. That Little Unlucky One must have been tricked by someone!”

As they were speaking, Jiang Yunsui came back.

The little basket holding the seeds was in Zuozuo’s mouth. Jiang Yunsui carried a bag of buns, while Youyou also held a basket in his mouth, though his was filled entirely with food.

“Ji Yan’an.”

When she saw him, the little girl hurried over the threshold and trotted toward him.

“You’re back.”

Jiang Yunsui tilted up her little face, her smile soft and bright.

Ji Yan’an reached out and pinched her chubby cheek.

“You’re getting more and more meat on you.”

Jiang Yunsui wriggled her head. With her face being pinched, she couldn’t even eat properly anymore.

“Hmph. You couldn’t grow any meat even if you wanted to.”

Ji Yan’an was just jealous of her.

“Look, I bought all of these. I’m going to plant my little courtyard full, so I’ll always have tasty fruit to eat.”

“Forget the rest. What’s with the banana? Can that thing even survive here? And it already looks dead.”

Jiang Yunsui said, “Oh, let’s just try it.”

Nanshu asked, “Why didn’t you send all this next door? Why send it to the Ji Mansion?”

Jiang Yunsui gave Nanshu a look that clearly said, You’re so dumb. “There’s no one next door. If they delivered it there, who would receive it for me?”

Nanshu: “…”

“Ji Yan’an, can you give me a few people?”

With a bun in her mouth, Jiang Yunsui ran after Ji Yan’an.

“I’ll give you a bun.”

Ji Yan’an wasn’t walking quickly, and with her little short legs pumping, she soon caught up to his side.

It was just that he was far too tall compared to her, so she had to tip her head back to talk to him. It made her neck tired.

“What do you need them for?”

“I need to tidy up my house and my courtyard.”

“There are so many weeds over there, and they’re really tall. The house needs to be cleaned…”

“Oh, right, I need furniture too.”

Her little mouth chattered nonstop. The moment she opened it, she was asking for this and that.

Ji Yan’an said, “Why don’t I just give you the whole Ji Mansion? You might as well move all the furniture in the residence over too.”

He had only meant to tease her, but who knew that in the next second, he would actually see the little girl rub her plump chin and seriously start considering it.

And she thought about it for less than three seconds.

“That could work.”

Ji Yan’an immediately rapped her on the head.

“Ow! Why did you hit me?”

Ji Yan’an looked at her dangerously. “What do you think?”

“If a single piece of furniture in the mansion goes missing, for every piece, you’ll copy one hundred characters for me.”

He had no choice but to warn and threaten her. Otherwise, this Little Unlucky One really would dare to move all the furniture away.

Jiang Yunsui gave an obedient little “oh.”

“I know. I won’t move it, then.”

“But you have to hurry up and find people to turn over the soil for me.”

Ji Yan’an said, “I know.”

There were quite a few idle soldiers in the military camp. Since Ji Yan’an was offering wages, plenty of people were willing to come.

Especially those who were older, or those who had lost arms or legs in battle.

Although they worked a little slowly, they were all very earnest.

The saplings couldn’t be planted yet, so Jiang Yunsui had Ji Si and the others help place them into large basins, then fill them with water.

At night, she crouched beside the various plant saplings soaking in water and absorbed Moonlight Essence.

She worked very hard. After all, tonight she had to share most of the Moonlight Essence with those plants.