It was already very late, but the lights in the kitchen and house were on. Mei'er yawned and sat next to the stove, looking after the low fire in the stove. The iron pot above was not very hot, and the scallion pancakes were kept hot in it.
"Gu~" There was a thunderous sound, and the little girl rubbed her belly, stared at the scallion pancakes in the pot, pursed her lips, swallowed her saliva, and murmured in a low voice: "It's so late, why hasn't my brother come back yet! Huh!"
, you lied to me again, saying you’d be back soon!”
As soon as she finished speaking, a gust of cold wind blew. The little girl immediately shivered and turned around quickly. The door opened and Jiang Xingchen had walked in.
"I'm sorry, Mei'er, brother, I didn't expect it to take such a long time!" Before the little girl could say anything, Jiang Xingchen had already spoken.
The scene in front of him made him touched and a little distressed. When he entered the yard and smelled the scallion pancakes, he guessed what the little girl was doing. Without asking, Meier must have not eaten and was waiting for her to go home.
"Brother, wash your hands quickly and get ready to eat. The cake is still hot!" Meier pouted, but showed a smile. She did not ask her brother why he came back late, but just urged him to eat quickly.
"It's so late, why don't you eat by yourself?" Jiang Xingchen did not wash his hands, but stepped forward and gently held Mei'er's shoulders.
"I just want to wait for my brother to come home and eat together!" Meier blinked and said naturally.
"Yes!" Jiang Xingchen nodded, turned around and went out to wash his hands. Meier's words seemed to be natural, but they deeply touched him and gave him a deeper sense of belonging to this family.
Scallion pancakes and rice porridge tasted particularly fragrant. Although Jiang Xingchen had already eaten them in Dingbeihou Mansion, seeing the little girl biting into the pancakes with the oily sweetness filling her mouth made her appetite come back again.
He ate it with big mouthfuls.
"Bang!" The kitchen door was pushed open, and the second brother came in like a wind. Ever since he came to take care of Mei'er, he could smell the aroma of scallion pancakes, and he would have been drooling all night. If he hadn't had feelings for the little girl,
He probably couldn't bear the shadow a long time ago. Now that Jiang Xingchen is back, he finally doesn't have to bear it anymore.
There were five cakes in total, and the second brother ate three of them each, and drank two large bowls of porridge before saying goodbye and leaving with satisfaction.
After clearing away the dishes and chopsticks, Jiang Xingchen went to light the fire, while the little girl made water to take a bath. They worked until very late, and then the two of them lay down on the bed.
Mei'er huddled in bed, hugging the baby, with the warm fire bed underneath her. Thinking about the surprises this afternoon, she couldn't fall asleep.
"Brother! What are you going to do when you return to the territory in the future?" The little girl moved a little and came close to Jiang Xingchen.
"Of course it has developed! Our territory will be more prosperous than Hongyuan City in the future, no! It will be more prosperous than the imperial capital... The people in the territory have no worries about food and clothing. They live in high-rise buildings and do not need horse-drawn carriages when going out.
Cars, there are performances that are better than singing and dancing every day... Our territory will become the number one territory in the world in the future. People from the empire, and even from outside the empire, want to move to us. Then Meier will be responsible for managing the people entering and exiting. Look
Those who are not pleasing to the eye will not be allowed to enter..."
Jiang Xingchen originally wanted to coax the little girl, but for some reason, as he spoke, he thought of his hometown, the forest made of steel and concrete, and unconsciously said it.
"What is a high-rise building? Is there really a cart without a horse? How can there be a performance that is better than singing and dancing... Brother is coaxing me again..." Meier said this, but her heart was sweet.
Yes, the feeling of being coaxed by my brother is not enough.
"Haha! You are the only smart one, so go to sleep!"
"Um……"
In the next few days, Jiang Xingchen hardly left home, thinking about how to help Wanrou every day.
"He has heard some ancient music, such as Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night, and fishing boats singing late, but there is no guzheng, and if there is one, he can't play it... He does know a lot of popular songs! But there is also dance, how to express it through dance
...Symphony, Beethoven, Chopin, let's forget it... Will the new knowing array in my mind have any effect..."
For two days in a row, Jiang Xingchen finally tasted Wanrou's feeling of exhaustion. He squatted in the yard, drawing circles with a wooden stick and pulling strands of his hair, but he couldn't think of anything. The only thing he could think of now was
, that is, you can let men perform.
Mei'er also knew her brother's current situation. She had never pestered him to play in the past two days. She just stayed in the house quietly by herself. She would either sit on opposite sides of the doll and play with backgammon for a while, or put together the dynamic Superman puzzle.
Again…
In the evening of that day, there were still two days left before the seven-day period agreed with the seven army commanders. As soon as Jiang Xingchen sent Wanrou away who came to urge her to die, Sun Sanqiang came to the door in a hurry.
"Brother, come with me quickly, or it's too late!" Sun Sanqiang said, stepping forward, grabbing Jiang Xingchen's arm and pulling him out.
"Uh!" Jiang Xingchen was extremely puzzled. He pulled his arm hard and asked, "Why is it too late? Please explain clearly. I can't leave my sister alone at home at night!"
Hearing this, Sun Sanqiang slapped his forehead hard and said quickly: "The news came from my subordinates. Outside the North City Gate, there is a group of mercenaries selling the monster beasts they just killed. Not many people know about it yet. It's late.
It was bought by someone... By the way, bring money, I just came to call you because I didn't have enough money!"
"Monster!" Jiang Xingchen's eyes suddenly lit up. He promised that Wanrou's singing and dancing had not been able to find a clue, so he thought that maybe the third formation could work. Now he needs something containing vitality. If it weren't for medicine
He can't eat randomly, he already wants to try Mei'er's medicine!
"Okay!" Jiang Xingchen nodded, and just as he was about to leave, he looked back at the room.
"It's okay! I asked Qian Feng to guard here!" Sun Sanqiang said again, pulling him out of the door quickly...
When the two arrived at the north of the city, it was completely dark. As soon as they walked out of the city gate, they saw a few torches shining a small patch of light, several carriages parked on the road, and a few people in gorgeous clothes gathered around the roadside. Among them were
Five or six big men with injuries on their bodies, with a bunch of things in front of them.
"One hundred thousand topaz coins, why don't you go and grab it! Even if this rabbit is not small, it is not worth the price. Can you sell it for fifty thousand topaz coins?"
"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. The Rabbit is a third-level monster. Its attack power is comparable to that of a master of the third level of inner energy. The quality of the refined energy contained in its body is also high. If you can't afford it, don't stop blocking it.
Here, I want 60,000 topaz coins!"
"I don't understand. No matter how high the vitality in the rabbit's body is, can you eat it? Can you cook it? There is no chef with this skill in the entire Hongyuan City..."
"Do you care if I eat him alive?"
"If I offer 70,000 yuan, you two will start a fight!"
"I came first, I bought 75,000..."
Jiang Xingchen listened to the quarrel of several people and couldn't help but frown slightly: "Is this rabbit so expensive? It's worth ten of my houses!"
Sun Sanqiang said: "Such a monster is hard to come by, especially for warriors in the realm of inner energy. It may be able to improve their cultivation to a higher level... However, one hundred thousand topaz coins are indeed a bit expensive.
I don’t have that many, that’s why I came to you!”
"It seems that this rabbit is of higher quality than the snow pheasant we ate last time! It should have an effect on the Mingzhi Formation!"
Jiang Xingchen walked up and saw the rabbit on the ground. It looked like a rabbit, but it was frighteningly big. It was as big as a lamb, and it looked like it was at least twenty pounds.
That wasn't the scariest thing. He actually saw two sharp fangs pointing downwards from the rabbit's three-petal mouth, which looked very ferocious.
At this time, the big man setting up the stall suddenly spoke: "If you don't want to buy it, get out of the way. One hundred thousand topaz coins, one copper coin less will not be sold!"
In a word, the several nobles all lost their voices. Although they were angry, they also knew that a mercenary group that could hunt down rabbits would definitely not be easy.
"One hundred thousand yellow crystal coins, I want it!" Jiang Xingchen walked up to him and handed over a ticket number from Imperial Bank.
The big man took the ticket number, looked at it carefully, nodded, put it in his arms, and said: "Deal, you can take it away, Rabbit!"
Jiang Xingchen glanced at a few people strangely. After such a big deal was concluded, the few people didn't have any mood swings.
"Whatever they are doing, just go back and cook it quickly to see if it has any effect on the Mingzhi Formation!" As soon as the thought flashed in his mind, Jiang Xingchen ignored it, packed the rabbit in a bag, and left quickly with Sun Sanqiang.
"Which family did that kid belong to just now? He sold out one hundred thousand topaz coins, and the third son of the Sun family became a follower!" Several nobles who had been arguing earlier looked at Jiang Xingchen's back in confusion, secretly wondering.
Although they were unhappy that the rabbit was snatched away, no one was blind. Didn't they see that the third son of the Sun family was following behind? At least it was a big family like the Mo family and the Zhao family, and they couldn't afford to offend them.
At this time, the mercenaries selling rabbits also packed up their things and left. The nobles looked at each other, snorted at the same time, and each of them stepped away...
Jiang Xingchen returned home in excitement, greeted Meier, and went directly into the kitchen. Then he took out a knife, turned it around a few times between his fingers, and cut it in one go.
Sun Sanqiang stared at Jiang Xingchen in stunned silence, thinking to himself: "Does he really not know how to do martial arts?" This was the first time he saw Jiang Xingchen wielding a knife, and he saw a ray of light flashing continuously, which dazzled his eyes.
Peeling the skin, deboning, chopping stuffing, making dumplings... The meat of the monster contains vitality, and he can't handle the rabbit like a beggar's chicken, so he can only think of this method, try to see if the dough can stop the meat.
The vitality is lost.
When the water was boiling and the dumplings were put into the pot, Jiang Xingchen kept his eyes on the water and gently pulled the bellows in his hand. He had to control the heat to the best and take the dumplings out as soon as they were cooked.
Sun Sanqiang on the side had long been attracted by the aroma and couldn't bear it. He swallowed his saliva and stared at the pot. Today he was anxious to find Jiang Xingchen to buy monsters because he knew that in the entire Hongyuan City, only Jiang Xingchen could do it.
this.
After a while, the dumplings came out of the pan, and Meier had already prepared everything, bowls, vinegar, garlic...
Without even caring about how hot it was, Sun Sanqiang picked up a dumpling and threw it into his mouth. While chewing, he inhaled and shouted: "Smells good!"
Jiang Xingchen ate one dumpling and knew he had succeeded. The heat was just right and the vitality in the meat was not lost.
Then, while he was eating and breathing, a wave of heat rushed into his mind, and the vague awareness gradually became clear.