Chapter 98

Chapter 98

Jiang Yunsui grabbed the pigeon by the leg while Fat Chef took out what was inside.

A tiny slip of paper.

Fat Chef said, “Oh no. Could the enemy be passing along a message?”

Jiang Yunsui’s little face turned serious.

“Then let’s kill this pigeon!”

Destroy the evidence.

She slurped back her drool. “Is pigeon meat tasty?”

Fat Chef burst out laughing. “Not only is it tasty, it’s nourishing too.”

“Nourishing? Then give it to Ji Yan’an. He needs it.”

Ji Yan’an, who had just walked over in time to hear that: “…”

Two heads huddled together and opened the slip of paper.

It was a tiny piece of paper, and the words on it were tiny too.

“Mission completed.”

Jiang Yunsui scratched her head. “What does that mean?”

Fat Chef shook his head.

Ji Yan’an said, “It’s mine.”

The two people crouching on the ground looked up. Ji Yan’an stood a short distance in front of them, his handsome face completely expressionless.

“Give it to me.”

Fat Chef hurriedly handed the slip over.

He laughed awkwardly. “Heh, so it was yours, Young Master. I was just thinking I ought to hand it over to you.”

Ji Yan’an lowered his eyes and stared at a certain child.

“Kill the pigeon and eat the meat?”

Jiang Yunsui quickly shook her head. “No, no, I didn’t say that!”

How was she supposed to know the pigeon belonged to Ji Yan’an?

In the end, both the cage and the pigeon were taken away by Ji Yan’an.

Jiang Yunsui sighed. “I really do need to raise a chicken.”

“Jiang Yunsui.”

Ji Yan’an, who had reached the doorway, called out. Jiang Yunsui immediately scampered after him.

“I’m coming!”

And so she was called over to practice painting for a while again.

Afterward, she also learned what the words on that slip of paper meant.

Wang Hu, who had been escorted back to the Capital, was dead.

Killed by “mountain bandits.”

Before those mountain bandits killed Wang Hu, they had even shouted things like “corrupt official” and “you deserve to die.”

Once the news reached the Capital, Ji Yan’an could already imagine the emperor’s rage.

Of course they would suspect that those mountain bandits had been arranged by Ji Yan’an, but… did they have evidence?

Mountain bandits were not a tool only those people knew how to use. He could use them too.

As for the Imperial Court sending someone else to manage Beizhen City, Ji Yan’an was no longer afraid.

Because the current Beizhen City, at least in terms of defense, was entirely under his control. Even if someone truly came, they would have to keep their head down under him.

Jiang Yunsui bought two little chicks and put them in the courtyard. The two yellow, fluffy chicks were only a tiny bit bigger than her fist.

The moment she brought them home, she fed them some Imperial Flowing Essence.

Now the two little chicks were full of energy, following at her heels every day.

They clearly treated her as their mother hen.

The only bad thing was that these little things loved pooping far too much.

Ji Yan’an looked at the tiny lump of chicken poop in the study, along with that stink.

His face went dark.

He threw the person and the chickens out together.

“Get out. If you let them in again, you’ll go hold horse stance for me.”

The one person and two chicks dumped at the doorway: “…”

Zuozuo and Youyou followed them out too.

Jiang Yunsui turned back to glance at the angry Ji Yan’an, then crouched down and poked the two little chicks on the head, scolding them.

“I told you not to poop wherever you want. It’s really stinky.”

The two chicks looked at her innocently with their tiny beady eyes.

“Chirp chirp~”

Now she had to teach chicks how to poop.

Jiang Yunsui was stubborn to the bone. After several days of clashing with the chicks, she finally managed to make them learn, more or less, not to poop everywhere.

They would only poop under the trees or in the grass.

The courtyard looked much cleaner than before.

If that still did not work, she would be kicked out of the Front Courtyard.

It was also all thanks to the Imperial Flowing Essence. It made them just a little smarter than other chicks.
Otherwise, it would take even longer-maybe several months-before they finally understood.

That day, while Ji Yan’an was drying her hair, he asked, “I need to make a trip to Liaoyang County. Do you want to come?”

Jiang Yunsui blinked. “Liaoyang County? The county where Uncle Fan is the magistrate?”

“Mm.”

“I want to go!”

“All right. Pack your own luggage tomorrow and get everything you want to bring ready.”

As soon as dawn broke, Jiang Yunsui was hauled out of bed to exercise as usual.

Now that two dogs and two chickens ran along with her, it was not so boring anymore. After a few laps, she was not as tired as before either.

Besides, she could watch Ji Yan’an practice swordsmanship.

Although his body was weak, he still insisted on moving around a little every day.

Even so, Jiang Yunsui was still lazy. Every day, she struggled against the urge not to move.

The moment training was over, she immediately went to find Fat Chef.

“Fat Chef, prepare some tasty little snacks for me. I want to take them to Liaoyang County.”

She could forget anything else, but she absolutely could not forget food.

“Hawthorns!”

She spotted a basket of hawthorns in the kitchen, and her eyes instantly lit up.

“Want candied hawthorn skewers?”

“Yes!”

Fat Chef said, “I’ll make some for you in a bit. These can also be made into hawthorn cakes.”

Jiang Yunsui nodded. “I also want hawthorn sugar balls and fruit leather.”

Fat Chef’s interest was piqued. “Tell me, how are those made?”

The moment Jiang Yunsui thought of hawthorns, all sorts of hawthorn recipes appeared in her mind.

“You remove the seeds from the hawthorns, put them into syrup, and stir-fry them. Keep frying until they get coated in a white sugar crust…”

She spoke rather slowly, and Fat Chef carefully wrote down each method.

“Wait here. Fat Chef will make them for you right now.”

“Do you want fried peanuts and melon seeds too?”

Jiang Yunsui answered in her childish little voice, extra loudly, “Yes!”

“Mushrooms have grown in the courtyard again. I’ll go dig some up for you.”

During this period, so many mushrooms had sprouted that Jiang Yunsui no longer even felt like digging them up.

So, carrying a small hoe, the child found herself some labor.

“Nanmo, you dig them.”

Whether it was Delicious Mushroom or termite mushrooms, they had to be dug out from very deep in the ground. It was exhausting.

She hoped that next time, a kind would grow that could be picked directly.

“Nanmo, help me see if those peaches are ready to eat yet.”

Nanmo looked up and discovered that there really were a few peaches turning red in the middle of the Peach Tree.

“Mm. They are.”

“Then let them grow a little longer. When we go to Liaoyang County, I want to pick them and take them with me.”

There were also pomegranates.

The pomegranates in Cook Chen’s little courtyard were ready to eat too. Jiang Yunsui had gone over plenty of times to feed them a bit of Imperial Flowing Essence.

After calculating all the food she wanted to bring, she finally went to find Nanny Zhou to help pack the clothes she would wear.

Huffing and puffing, she followed beside Nanny Zhou and learned how to fold her own clothes.

But after fussing back and forth, all she did was make more trouble.

Looking at the clothes she had folded into an even bigger mess, Jiang Yunsui scratched her head.

This skirt was way too hard to fold, wasn’t it?

Nanny Zhou said, “I’ll do it. You go prepare something else.”

“Okay. Thank you, Nanny Zhou.”

After thanking her in a sweet, milky voice, Jiang Yunsui crawled under the bed.

Nanny Zhou only looked away for a moment, and when she turned back, she found that a certain child had nothing but her little bottom still sticking out.

Nanny Zhou: “…”

What on earth had she hidden under the bed?

Before long, Jiang Yunsui huffed and puffed as she dragged out a small chest.

When she opened it, it was filled entirely with gold and silver.

Some of it had even been made into the shapes of melon seeds, peanuts, and Little Mushroom. They were rather pretty to look at.

She opened her own purse and grabbed a huge handful of silver melon seed, peanuts, and Little Mushroom pieces to put inside.

“Ah, I forgot to give this to Ji Yan’an.”

Jiang Yunsui took out several little toys woven from grass.