The woman looked tired, with a shrinking feeling between her eyebrows, and an unsightly scar, as if she had exhausted all her courage by raising her hand to ask the question.
But she also asked the thoughts of all the helpers, and everyone pricked up their ears.
Ming Lanruo looked at her and smiled gently: "Yes, there will be a reward, an extra ten taels of silver and two kilograms of meat."
The reward of ten taels of silver and two kilograms of meat sounds not too much, but if you just go to an ordinary person's house to help cook for one day, it is really a good deal, equivalent to one month's salary of working in a wealthy family.
But that was to go to the Dragon Pond and Tiger's Den of the prefecture, which was a bit useless, and everyone was hesitant.
Ming Lanruo didn't force them, just smiled and turned to leave.
She returned upstairs and turned around to tell Jinghe: "Keep an eye on those people to see who goes out to deliver the news."
Jinghe nodded: "Yes."
In the evening, two people came to see Ming Lanruo, a young man and a middle-aged woman with scars on her face.
They all came to express their willingness to help in the kitchen tomorrow.
When Ming Lanruo told the young man that he had chosen someone, the young man felt uneasy and a little frustrated and left.
Chen Ning held his sword and sneered: "Prefect Tang's people bribed him to drug him last time, but he didn't dare in the end. This time, I don't know what the purpose of Prefect Tang was to bribe him to follow us into the prefect's mansion to cook."
Ming Lanruo said calmly: "No matter what the purpose is, he can't achieve it."
Because her purpose this time was not to choose someone to accompany her to the magistrate's mansion to cook, but... another person who came to sign up.
She looked at the thin and hunched middle-aged woman who walked through the door, and smiled slightly, her eyes like stars, with a dim light of intelligence.
"Ming Fei." The woman bowed humbly and said in a low voice: "The folk woman is quite good at craftsmanship. I am willing to accompany you to the magistrate's residence to prepare dishes."
Minglanruo's soft white fingertips played with the jade beads in her hand: "Your name is Sister Hong, right?"
The woman nodded respectfully. She was dressed in shabby and shabby clothes, like any ordinary homeless peasant woman on the streets: "Yes, your Majesty."
Ming Lanruo smiled: "Sister Hong wants to follow me into the prefect's mansion. Do you want to help me prepare dishes for the prefect, or do you plan to poison or directly assassinate the prefect?"
Sister Hong froze almost visibly, and took two trembling steps back, confused and at a loss: "Mother...what are you talking about? The husband of a commoner woman is seriously ill and needs money, so she wants to follow you to the magistrate's office.
The mansion..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Ning suddenly raised his hand, and the sharp darts flew directly towards Sister Hong with strong murderous intent.
Sister Hong instinctively dodges and dodges the dart straight into the wooden door!
"Dang!" A sharp metallic sound made Sister Hong freeze up.
She shouldn't have dodged a hidden weapon! She was exposed!
She suddenly pulled out the darts with her right hand and threw them hard at Chen Ning, forcing Chen Ning to fight back.
At the same time, he whipped the soft whip around his waist with his left hand and whipped it fiercely towards Ming Lanruo's face!
Although the unrivaled beauty Ming Fei is smart and ruthless, she obviously has no martial arts skills!
But Ming Lanruo only narrowed her starry eyes and chuckled, "Wow, really, she looks so weak and easy to bully."
She suddenly turned slightly, and like a mermaid with slippery hands, she nimbly avoided the fierce whip.
However, the opportunity was lost in one move. Sister Hong knew that it was not good and was about to grab the window and escape.
But Jinghe suddenly jumped up, his fierce swords had blocked her escape route, and he even kicked her hard in the chest.
Sister Hong was kicked to the ground with a bang, and she spat out a mouthful of blood in embarrassment: "Chi!"
When she sat up again, two daggers had quietly stretched out from behind her neck and bit her throat with murderous intent.
Sister Hong's eyes widened slightly: "The magic sword technique?! Who are you, Guan Yuecheng, the chief instructor of the 800,000-strong border army!"
Jing He ignored her at all, his eyes were sinister and bloodthirsty: "Those who are red-blooded and use weapons against their masters will be regarded as traitors and will be killed without mercy!"
This woman actually dared to kill the eldest lady just now!
Sister Hong froze, sneered and spat out bloody spit, and said contemptuously: "When did I, the Northeast Red Blood, recognize anyone other than Xiao Shuai and several generals as my master?!"
"You..." Ming Lanruo raised her eyebrows and was about to speak.
Chen Ning suddenly gestured towards Ming Lanruo, "Stop!"
Sure enough, not long after, there was a knock on the door and the gentle and deep voice of "Qiao Yan": "My dear lady, the hot water prepared for you is ready. It's bathing time, please open the door."
Everyone in the room suddenly froze, and their faces all changed. This chapter has been completed!
