The owner of Fengdu Rice Shop was very quick and delivered 20 shi of grain to Luocheng Pier in just three days. This caught people's attention. Jin Yunlan signed a one-year contract with the grain merchant, paying 20 shi per month.
The portions are delivered in batches.
She had applied for leave from Jinyun College these days, pretending that she was infected with cold and was recuperating at home. Fortunately, her parents at home did not ask about her whereabouts after she had been missing for three days. Perhaps they were already used to it. She returned alone and did not reveal anything.
Whatever the basket is, everything will be fine.
Her mother and younger sister often came from Jialan Hospital to check on her condition. In order to cover up the trauma on her waist, she had to put on a smile.
Seeing her poor complexion, her mother was very worried about her condition and was anxious to ask a doctor to check her pulse. Jin Yunlan could only excuse herself by saying that she was weak due to improper cultivation. Her mother was speechless and just kept talking in the small kitchen.
I'm here to take care of it and want to get more delicious and healthy food for her.
When Yuanyuan came to tell the time, they happened to be visiting Jinyunlan's house. The younger sister Xiuxiu insisted on holding up a spoon to feed her porridge, and she patiently accompanied her sister to enjoy the care of others. She watched the porridge.
When the bowl bottomed out, she said politely: "Mom, I'm a little sleepy and want to take a nap."
Madam understood, and immediately took Xiu Xiu away. When she went out, she saw Yuan Cheng in a hurry, and she reproached worriedly: "You must take good care of the eldest lady. You must be advised when you need to be advised. How can you let her go too far and do something wrong?"
So haggard."
Yuanyuan hurriedly responded: "I understand. But Madam, you also know the young lady's temper. How can I persuade you?"
The lady sighed heavily and took Xiu Xiu to the small kitchen.
When Yuanman saw the two of them walking away, he rushed into Jin Yunlan's boudoir and reported to her the arrival of the food.
She stood up slowly, many things flashing through her mind, "Tonight, you and I will send these grains and other items together..." Her words stopped abruptly, "authentic" is a sensitive word, she had already
She had experienced the feeling of being drowsy. She swallowed hard and looked at the sky outside the window. It was already evening, so she got up and said, "I want to go to the street."
She came to the long street and easily found the mobile stall of candied haws on a stick. She stopped the owner and made a deal. When she was about to leave holding a candied haws on a stick, she suddenly had an idea and turned around.
He gave the boss a piece of silver and took the straw target from his shoulder.
"I want them all."
When dinner was about to be finished, Jinyunlan Mingyuanyuan sent a plate of sugar-coated haws to Jialan Courtyard. It happened that the eldest young master Jinyun Chong was teaching Miss Xiuxiu how to write. Yuanyunlan didn't stay long and left quickly.
When Xiu Xiu saw the snacks coming, she immediately became distracted and began to talk greedily after losing her pen and paper. However, Jin Yunchong stopped her sternly, "You have to concentrate on writing. You are so half-hearted. When will you get rid of your bad handwriting?"
Xiu Xiu was not very happy and her mouth was raised.
The lady came out to speak, "Let Xiuxiu rest for a while, and it won't be too late to write again. It just so happens that you can go to your sister's place to see her. She has been ill recently, and you should also go and see her." She blamed him for his cold temperament.
Meaning.
Jin Yunchong's face suddenly turned gloomy, and he said sarcastically: "Sick? I'm afraid she was just having fun, and didn't know what the world is, and she came back with some inexplicable wounds. She was afraid that her parents would find out, and she couldn't help it, so she lied about the cold."
Before the lady could answer, Xiu Xiu rushed to defend her sister: "Sister is so powerful, how could she be hurt by others? Besides, I never use any high-sounding pretext when I go out. I just go when I want to."
The lady covered her mouth and smiled: "That's right. Lan'er has always been willing to give up face regardless of reputation. Oops! I still have soup simmering on the stove. I'll go take a look. Okay, I have to deliver it to Lan'er later.
." After that, she hurriedly moved to the small kitchen.
Jin Yunchong's face was livid. He turned around and saw his little sister holding the candied haws and eating them with gusto, with a smile on her face. He suddenly became angry and shouted sternly: "Eat whatever you want!" With that, he swiped the plate of candied haws.
go out.
The white porcelain plate suddenly shattered into pieces, and the sweet fruit rolled everywhere.
Xiu Xiu was startled by the piercing scream and stood there at a loss. Her eyes instantly turned red and she burst into tears: "Brother, you are a bad guy! You are a bad guy!"
Jin Yunchong was stunned there, reaching out his hand to comfort but stopped. He stopped talking and never took action. He took a few steps back in despair, turned around and ran away without saying a word.
At midnight, the master and servant quietly left the house.
Jin Yunlan reversely used the Sensing Seal at the foot of Kongshan to arouse Li Zhi's attention.
She said in her mind: "The food has arrived, come and check it quickly."
A voice suddenly came from Li Zhi's mind on the top of the mountain. He immediately noticed it and replied to her in his mind: "Here he comes."
The master and servant waited for a while in a hidden place at the foot of the mountain, and then they saw several people descending from the barrier and quickly entered the tunnel. However, only Li Zhi appeared in front of them in the end.
Jin Yunlan took the time to explain to him what was stored in these large and small packages. Finally, she uprooted the grass target that was temporarily stuck on the ground and handed it to him, "Na."
"What is this?" He frowned, seemingly displeased.
Jin Yunlan replied: "This is the candied haws I promised Qiangwei. I only bought one bunch because I was afraid that the children would fight for it. I simply bought a target for everyone to try. Take it."
Li Zhi took it hesitantly.
Then she took a special baggage from Yuanyuan's arms and stuffed it into his arms. The bitter smell of Chinese medicine hit her face. She explained: "These are some elixirs that can prolong life. Look at it.
Make it happen.”
"Why?" He seemed to be wondering why she did these unnecessary things, it was clearly not part of the deal.
Jin Yunlan smiled naively and said, "Just think of me as nosy."
He stood quietly and looked at her suspiciously.
Jin Yunlan looked at him holding a straw target in one hand and holding a medicine bag in the other. With his serious and unsmiling face, he looked really funny, just like a fortune teller selling fake medicine. Fortunately, his face was really superior, so I'm afraid even if
Knowing that he sells fake medicines, there are probably many people who are willing to be deceived.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing.
Li Zhi said with an unhesitating expression: "Don't think about nonsense. I don't sell fake medicines."
Jin Yunlan subconsciously covered her mouth, forgetting that the heart seal had not yet been released, and all her thoughts would be transmitted to Li Zhi's mind.
"Sorry, sorry. To avoid being noticed by others, we won't stay." After saying that, she untied the heart seal, took Yuanyuan and turned around to leave.
"Wait a minute." Li Zhi opened his mouth and stopped her.
Jin Yunlan turned around and looked at him doubtfully.
"Reach out your hand." He looked calm.
She obediently opened her palm to her, and a bright red pill shaped like a cinnamon flower fell from his fingers into her palm.
"Antidote." He said concisely and concisely.
Only then did she react, and she subconsciously wanted to say thank you, but she felt it was inappropriate. Before she hesitated, Li Zhi turned away.
She stopped lingering and left the place after swallowing the pill.
After the group of people moved the food up the empty mountain, the night was like celebrating the New Year, no, it was more lively than the Chinese New Year.
The adults were busy distributing rice grains, while the children each had a bunch of candied haws in their hands, and their mouths were full of icing sugar.
Li Qiang held up a red hawthorn, tiptoed in front of Li Zhi, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao Zhi, you have been busy all night, why don't you eat one too."
Li Zhi did not refuse. He took the hawthorn and took a bite. The sweet and sour taste immediately invaded his taste buds, causing his slight frown to unfurl.
"Is it sweet?" Li Qiang asked.
Li Zhi nodded: "Sweet."
"This is all thanks to Sister Lan, isn't it?" Li Qiang shrugged her thin shoulders and looked at him with a bright smile,
Just at this moment, Jin Yunlan's call came to his mind.
"Are the children happy?" she asked.
He replied in his mind: "Don't get carried away and activate the heart seal frequently."
"I just want to know the situation. I promise you that I will never open it unless something big happens in the future. Then can you tell me now, are the children happy? If so, I will bring something else next time."
Li Zhi coughed slightly and replied unnaturally: "I'm... happy."
Laughter came from the other end, "That's good, that's good. I know it in my heart. Then I'll withdraw. By the way, greet my aunt for me and thank her for her clothes and hairpin." After saying this, she immediately disappeared from him.
mind.
Li's mother walked out of the house with a happy look on her face. Seeing this lively scene, she couldn't help but sigh: "This empty mountain has not been so lively for a long time. That child is really a warm person." As she said,
She held tightly the prescription hidden under her sleeve that Jin Yunlan had given her alone.
Li Zhi watched quietly without saying a word, but he was filled with emotions. He had not heard such crisp laughter for a long time.
After that, Jin Yunlan was recuperating at home for half a month, during which her father visited her several times. However, he was busy with work and did not have time to say a few words, so he often just came to have a meal with her. The father and daughter exchanged a few words.
, except for a few eye contact, there is nothing else.
Until the day before she submitted her application for return to the hospital to Jinyun College, her father came to visit her again.
During the meal, she told her father that she was going to attend classes at the college tomorrow.
The patriarch nodded and had no objection to her decision. The two of them were eating quietly. He suddenly put down his chopsticks, looked at her intently, and asked: "Lan'er, I have thought carefully about these days as a father. I
It seems that I have never asked for your opinion, but only imposed my own expectations on you. Thinking about it, you will not feel very comfortable. If you really have no intention of joining the clan, your father will no longer force you, and you can live according to your own wishes from now on.
That’s it.”
Hearing this, Jin Yunlan also put down her chopsticks. She turned her head and glanced at the mountains of ancient books and history books on the desk. These days, she stayed at home to recuperate peacefully. She was not wasting her time. She borrowed many historical books from Zhuzhu, trying to
Clues about the grudges between Jinyun and Li can be found from texts from different eras.
However, the result was not satisfactory. In the past half month, she had been seeking a lot of knowledge and read almost all the relevant classics in the bookstore, but she could not find any usable clues.
There are only a few inconspicuous words and phrases about the Li family in Jinyun's recorded and compiled history, which are suspiciously rare, as if this group of people did not exist in the world at all.
She couldn't help but wonder if Jinyun was deliberately covering up some unknown facts.
Perhaps just because of her status as an outsider, she will never be able to know the truth and come into contact with reality.
Her father had invited her to join the clan countless times before, and she had refused countless times on the grounds that she was not interested. However, this time, she answered affirmatively: "No, father, I want to join!"
The clan leader nodded slightly, and the corners of his lips were raised slightly. This chapter has been completed!