Chapter 93
Chapter 93
Perhaps it was true that what one thought about by day, one dreamed of by night. That evening, Jiang Yunsui dreamed of many companions from the forest in her previous life.
She had turned back into that pretty pink mushroom, hopping about beneath a massive banyan tree.
This banyan tree was the oldest and greatest spirit in the mountains.
Beside the Great Banyan Tree stood a Peach Tree, whose blossoms were especially, especially beautiful. Because they were all pink, Little Mushroom liked it very much.
She also loved collecting its peach blossoms.
Gradually, many specks of light appeared around her.
“Little Mushroom.”
The voice seemed to come from somewhere very far away. Little Mushroom turned around and saw the long-tailed tit Tuantuan, the White Giant Deer, a fox, a tiger…
In reality.
Ji Yan’an was jolted awake by Jiang Yunsui’s movements, which looked almost like she was throwing punches.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a certain little child who had twisted herself who-knew-where. At that moment, she was kicking and flailing with both hands and feet.
Her little feet were so bold they were nearly kicking him in the face.
“Hiss…”
Good thing she was still small. If she were a little bigger, wouldn’t he have been kicked right off the bed?
Ji Yan’an sat up and pinched the bridge of his nose, then glanced at the little girl, who had somehow ended up sleeping sideways.
He truly could not understand how one person could go from sleeping at one end of the bed to the other.
With a sigh, he turned her back the right way and placed her head on the pillow.
“Hehehe…”
Jiang Yunsui suddenly started laughing.
“Tuantuan, Aunt Deer, Uncle Tiger…”
Her words were muffled, and Ji Yan’an did not quite catch them.
Who was she calling?
A twelve-year-old boy had his curiosity too, so he leaned closer, wanting to hear more clearly.
“Ji Yan’an!”
At the three words that suddenly popped out, Ji Yan’an raised his brows slightly.
She was actually calling him?
The next second, he heard her mutter, “Big pig trotter, hehehe…”
Ji Yan’an: “…”
He knew it. Jiang Yunsui must have secretly laughed at his hand when it had swollen up from the sting!
After that, Jiang Yunsui made no more noise.
Ji Yan’an went back to sleep as well.
Jiang Yunsui slept until the roosters began crowing at dawn. In her dream, she had been playing with her companions beneath the Great Banyan Tree and the Peach Tree.
Then, in the next moment, all her companions looked at her.
Some of them had turned into humans.
“Little Mushroom, goodbye.”
“You have to live well over there too.”
“Heaven’s Will allowed us to meet you once more in a dream. We’ve organized some memories you might be able to use into Inherited Memories. Keep them safe.”
“Little Mushroom, be a little smarter. Don’t be so foolish anymore. Don’t trust humans too much.”
“Little Mushroom…”
Their many reminders echoed beside her ears.
Jiang Yunsui watched as their figures gradually turned illusory, and she suddenly began to cry.
“Don’t go. Please don’t go.”
She chased after them, but all she caught were a few tiny fragments of light.
The next second, she woke up.
When she opened her eyes, she met Ji Yan’an’s slightly worried gaze.
“Wuu, wuu, wuu… Ji Yan’an, I miss them so much…”
Jiang Yunsui threw herself into his arms and started crying.
“I can’t go home anymore.”
Ji Yan’an’s slender fingers gently patted her back.
“Stop crying. If you want to go home, I’ll go with you one day.”
Jiang Yunsui cried in a muffled voice, “I can’t go back.”
Ji Yan’an did not ask why. He simply stayed quietly by her side.
After she finished crying, seeing how heartbroken she was, Ji Yan’an decided he would not make her exercise or practice writing today. She could take a day off.
Jiang Yunsui’s emotions came quickly and left just as quickly.
By the time they ate, she was no longer sad.
She had already died in her previous life. Now that she was alive, she had to live well.
The moment Jiang Yunsui thought of the Inherited Memories everyone had given her, she could hardly wait to try them out.
Mm. First up had to be the sour plum drink she had been dreaming about.
After finishing her meal, Jiang Yunsui kicked up her little legs and hopped down to the floor in an instant.
“Ji Yan’an, I’m leaving first.”
Ji Yan’an wiped his mouth clean and looked at the energetic little child.
Mm. She was better like this, full of spirit.
“Fat Chef, Fat Chef… I know how to make sour plum drink now! I also know how to make ice!”
Fat Chef was in the middle of making sweet potato glass noodles.
Even though it was his first time, he had plenty of cooking experience. After two tries, he had already figured out the method.
“You came at just the right time. I’ve finished making the noodles from those sweet potatoes. Hurry and have a taste.”
“Wait, what did you just say? Make ice?”
Jiang Yunsui nodded. “That’s right.”
She began counting on her fingers as she recited, “For sour plum drink, you need smoked plums, hawthorn, licorice root, dried tangerine peel, osmanthus flowers, and rock sugar. Honey works too…”
“Hiss… wait, aren’t licorice root and dried tangerine peel medicinal herbs?”
“I don’t have those here.”
“Then we’ll go out and buy them.”
Fat Chef fixed her a bowl of noodles, seasoning them the same way one would prepare minced-meat noodles.
“These sweet potato noodles came out crystal clear. They taste pretty good too. Hurry and try them.”
Jiang Yunsui rubbed her little belly. “But I just got full.”
Still, she could eat a little.
Fat Chef did not mind what she could not finish. In a few bites, he polished off the rest for her.
Then both his eyes gleamed.
“Hahaha… satisfying! Who would’ve thought sweet potatoes could be made into noodles!”
Jiang Yunsui nodded her little head. “Mm-hmm. Once they’re dried in the sun, they can be stored for a long time too.”
With the Inherited Memories everyone had given her, the moment Jiang Yunsui saw the sweet potato noodles, all sorts of ways to eat them surfaced in her mind, along with what they would look like after being sun-dried.
Hearing her words, Fat Chef grew even more excited.
“In that case, we’ll have another kind of food to eat. And this stuff is convenient too. No, I have to make more and send some to the Young Master.”
Jiang Yunsui said, “Fat Chef, come with me to buy the ingredients for sour plum drink first.”
It was so hot, so hot. She wanted sweet-and-sour sour plum drink.
“All right. I’ll first give some instructions and have them make more sweet potato mash to rinse.”
After arranging everything, he followed Jiang Yunsui out.
They found smoked plums and hawthorn, though all of it was dried.
And dried was exactly what Jiang Yunsui needed.
There was no rock sugar. This world had yet to produce rock sugar or white granulated sugar.
But they did run into someone selling honey.
It was a bit expensive, but eating wild honey was also good for the body.
“We also need saltpeter.”
There was no ice in the summer, especially here in Mobei. There was not even an ice cellar.
So the days had been especially hard to endure lately.
Little Mushroom was about to be dried into a mushroom jerky.
After walking only this short distance, she was so hot her tongue was hanging out, and sweat had soaked her body.
So the moment they arrived at Ji Mansion, she immediately urged Fat Chef to head to the kitchen.
The two of them began tinkering with the sour plum drink and the ice.
If sour plum drink was not served cold, half the joy would be gone!
Fat Chef went to simmer the sour plum drink, while Jiang Yunsui set a basin of water in the courtyard and tossed in the small pile of saltpeter they had bought.
Before long, the water gradually began to cool.
Jiang Yunsui touched the side of the basin. As the water temperature inside dropped, her eyes grew brighter and brighter.
After waiting for quite a while, the water finally started to freeze.
“Heavens, the water is freezing!”
Several maids and servants from the kitchen happened to pass by. When they saw the water in the basin gradually turning to ice, their eyes went wide as they cried out in surprise.